South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-11
SAMMIES POUR
INTO FRANCE,
SURPRISE B0CHE
KaiSer'S Men Due For a Jolt
This Summer When Num-
Der of Americans in Bat
tie Becomes Apparent.
BY NEWTON c. PARKE.

b NEW YIN - ANIL.
international News Service.
WITH T II Z AMERICAN
ARMY IN FRANCE, May H.
All France now knows that "the
Yankees are coming" and COM
ing far faster than the misguided
German people can suspect
Since Washington has announced
that troops are cling dispatched TO
his side as rapidly as possible 70
meet any emergency on the western
front. there can be no objection -
saving that certain sections OF
France that seldom saw an Amer
ican are now swarming with khaki
clad youths fresh from American
training camps and that other con
tingents are pouring in i'm such
steady streams that it is difficult to
keep track or them.
All Warmly Welcomed.
In districts that have suddenly
become populated with boys from
the states. American soldiers en-
counter the same warm welcome as
greeted the first arrivals last sum-
ruer. There is an overflow OF af-
lection for the French people and
the Americans lavish francs upon
the shopkeepers as II spending
American money. Among the
french officers our transport diff
cuIties and the tremendous task Of
cfHcering the newly created citizen
army has been we'll understood from
he beginning.
Despite certain utterances by
Americans on this side Of the water,
they know that the army we would
have been able to throw into the
fighting early this year could not
prove an important factor but that
several months would have to pass
before our man power could really
make itself felt in a big way.
French officers did not always ap-
preciate this any more than did
some civilians. who probably spent
the spring months waiting news OF
great American victories and the
anaihilation OF the kaiser's best
armies.
n cannot be denied that there
was some cooling Off in the wild
enthusiasm for everything Ameri-
can and that some questions were
nut by the civilian in the street rs
20 when we were going Ito get
busy"
Reaction Now Passed.
oddly enough this slight reaction
among the French people behind
the lines came at time when the
German press hrst began 10 display
symptoms Of nervousness as TO what
Uncle sam has up his sleeve. But
the reaction has given way 10 an
other and saner feeling of satisfac-
tfon and realization that We are MOI
only coming fast. but are determined
TO see the thing through
The little French village where
The correspondents with the Amer
lean army are Quartered Is quite 9
long motor ride from Gen Perish
+ur-S headouarters While busy
watching troops on several fron''
they are not always i'm as clos'
touch with headquarters as thel
would like 20 be ConseQue 10 +.
diffcuIt 10 learn OF all OF the newl,
arrived orga aizatious in the strean
pouring i'm from America and scat
terms 20 many points OF the map.
am NntoIt t' estimate "ilt4'
many thousand the number of Incl
Sans soldiers here But I am Ger
tain OF This The hoches are Eoin,
70 wake NJ some dne morning tht
summer and get the surprise
their lives frdinE themselves con
frorted bv bOys from Connecticut
Illinois. Cahfor1ia-ln fact boy
rom every part Of our land-ol
several sectors in numbers tha
rronaranda-nurtured German peo
ME never dreamed OF.