The sun., 1918-09-17
PERSHING HAILED AS
MIHIEL DELIVERER
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C0HttHhcd from FVSl fuUe.
been living in a cave with this amin al
and my sixteen-year-oldg grandson. whom
the beast oppressors have sent TO Ger
many"
French soldier was pushing II
wheelbarrow In which were q large
ormulu clock, two mirrors and bum
ale of clothing An elderly woman fol-
lowed leading his horse, for the soldier
was a cavalryman. He had come upon
the woman near headquarters. where as
orderly he was attached to the French
liaison officer. She was his aunt. whom
he had not seen for six years. An
American General who witnessed the
reunion gave the soldier ten days leave
to enable him to take his relative to her
sister.
A little boy was carrying a box con-
tanning two rabbits. He told us he had
walked sixteen miles without breakfast,
whereupon an American soldier near by
produced a large cake Of chocolate from
mis- pocket
I noticed but one baby in the entire
line. All the children were years
old or more. One farmer said the Ger
mans had told him the submarines had
sunk all the ships that had started with
American troops. A woman with tear
paths worn under her watery eyes said
The Germans had said the French were
doomed. the people were starved and
diseased
One actually wearied OF saying sc
many times Bon Jour- | have never
seen a people so happy as these were
when they met our troops upon the road
side. Their actions made US feel what
IN personal sense our entry into the
war meant.
"Donovau Hard to Hold"
skirted at some speed the villages Of
Pannes, Thaucourt, Benny and st. Be
mott for the German artillery from dis
ant ridges was Smelling into shamblei
what buildings they had not burned be
lore they were driven out by our ad
sance combat waves on the previous
lay. Down on the stubble slopes ant
over the forest tree tops were Nisibl,
puffs of white that indicated our ad
RANGED positions.
Major William y. Donovan Of Buffalo
twice wounded In the fighting on thu
ourcq north of Chateau Thierry but re
covered. put wrinkles of worry upon tn
forehead OF "A certain Major -Genera
who complained that Donovan is hare
% hold"
Heavy stuff was coming into Benny
eaving great gashes In the street, but
olive drab clad boy. Then came tn
silence of the enemy artillery and W
knew that our guns at last had foun,
Them.
In the advanced positions OF the "divi
sion of attack" some of the member
old a remarkable story 1t seems tina
At 9 O'Clock on Wednesday night tw
soldiers of our advanced patrol wer
captured by the enemy. 1t was not diff
&C., Ry,Ji ba
our men carried extra ammunition an
:wo days reserve rations to surmis
hat the Americans were about to at
Jack. At G o'clock on Thursday morn
ing we captured the very sergeant VIII
lad taken our boys. He admitted tina
NTH twenty men he had got them, an
lpon him was found an order from Tn
,orps commander for the Withdrawal
lated at IL 80 O'Clock on Wednesda
llght, showing how quickly informatio
Is utilized in modern warfare.
where Lines Were Joined.
From st. Benoit wen: on to Wig
neulles after skirting around Hattonvill
and getting a wonderful view of IN
whole military operations from Hattor
shatel a town perched like an eagle
nest upon the crest of sharp nosed hill
The guns were roaring on beyond
Above was the unceasing hum of ali
craft, With patches of smoke indicatin
he first great press of American avia
tors in French machines.
In Nigneulles, one kilometer to tn
south where the junction had bee
made between our troops from III
northwest and those that drove up froi
the south. I found the commander
the advanced units of an American div
rion that had bludgeOned their wa
down from Mouilly. These names sho
how the st. Mihiel salient was cut o
BY our strategy as n sharp knife passt
through butter.
This unit had staTted at o'cloc
Thursday morning after heavy artiller
preparation, and almost immedatel
Bumped into the Thirteenth Landwei
Division and the Thirty-sixth Austrt
Hungarian Division The men of bot
surrendered when they had no machr
kun protection before them. We too
prisoners all the way to the Bots de
Montague, which we reached at o'cloc
In the evening OF the first day.
Drove in Through Woods.
Is Orders came to push on 10 Vigneulle
Two methods were up for choice
scatter through the woods in IA
shaped formation or to drive In brazen
right down to the main highws
through the woods ana the clearir
beyond for the intervening Ave mile
The latter course was selected F'lanl
era we're put out upon the sides OF Il
marching column at "A distance Of 2,
TO 900 yards. as well as both advan,
pnd rear guards.
The head OF the column reached vi
heulles at :i5 O'Clock on Friday NOR
ing and the entire unit was In the tow
At 5 o'clock. Capt, Harry l., KImmel
Washington. d. C.. was the command
Or the other Joining unit which took
all the Germans who had not previous
fed from the encrcled area. His ur
reached the upper edge OF Nonsa
Wood. located about two miles belo
yisneulles. at . o'clock on Thursdi
night
Vigneules was smoking In ruins VIII
entered the town. It's once orna
City Hail. with its beautiful colum
broken, was souvenir OF the Germi
temperament