Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-24
'In what wave were your"
He Led The First Wave.

He Led The First Wave. "The general was in the first wave carrying that bamboo riding crop on the dresser there,' said Maj. w. H. Woolworth, who was the generals bri- gade adjutant. And they were mighty thin waves, too. There wasn't much left of the brigade, but they waded right ill"
 "I think 1 told enough to make it clear the general said. "We got our orders and we carried them out"
 "The brigade was under fire all the time,' Mai. Woolworth continued. "The Germans-they were the Prus- sian Guards, the kaiser's own. the fin est shock troops in the German army, too-could see the outfit, and they were pouring in shell all the time. Two officers were killed by one shell while the general was explaining the plan of attack to them".
 My then brigade adjutant, Maj. John HI. Wills, was killed beside me in that advance Gen. Buck said. "The shell that killed him knocked me down.
 i Did you lead the troops into the town?" was 3sked.
 "No,' Gen. Buck said: "I stayed on the edge of the twon and received what was left of the Prussian uGards.l One German officer was mad as thunder. He said that the rest of the famous Prussian Guard had with drawn when they saw us coming on, and left him with battalian to take his chances"
 Gen. Buck went to France with the First American Division. He left New York June 12. 1917, and arrived in France uJne 26. He was in the Amer ican sector north of Foul until two days after the German offensive open- ed March 21. IN
 Then he was sent to the Cantigny sector, the tip of the Ereat German drive. There he captured and held Cantigny. He remained >there until July 1. "The Americans had the morael on the Boche," he said, after the ear ly raids in November, when we took prisoners I heard one of our men in the Cantigny sector, when some pri- soners were being taken to the rear say, And is that what we've been afraid of?' And that exclamation meant a lot!
 "We never hoped to have 10000 men a day for four months land in France. And right there was where we fooled the kaiser and the great general staff. The arrival of the Amer jeans in force at the time they arrived won this war. I was right there al the front for seven months without let-up, and I know. It is pretty big etc ,1t f, v1,o1 hrrf yt yS frlpn
 And too much credit cannot be giV- en' the people at home who backed BERZY-LE-SEC HERO-TWO -- --- up their fighting men so solidly and to the navieS of Great Britain and the United States and the other allies whc kept the U-bOats in check.
 Turning Point of War. "The real turning point of the Wal was the counter offensive of Gen Foch on July IS. The gradual pre- paration for this offensive was o1 tremendous significance. Had the al lies not been prepared. for an ohen, sive the Germans would have taker Paris in four days. As 1t was Amer ican troops, rushed to the front b, forced marches, were able to stop tho Germans. There is no doubt in m, mind that the Americans saved Paris Gen. Buck said that when he Jeff the front three weeks ago he left al army that knew it. was victorious. He said that when the hinge of the Ger man line was broken 16 German divis- ions had been used up in d vain at. tempt to obey orders to hold the line at any cost. He said those 16 divisions represented the cream of the Ger man army and the last of its re- serves. Maj. Woolworth said that during Foch's counter offensive. the First di- vision Went further, took more pris- oners, territory and more guns than