The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-06
HIGH TRIBUTE qra
PAID YANKEES
BY FRENCHMEN
Official Report of Com
mander de Goutte
Praises the Dash and
Bravery of American
Officers and Men.

WASHINGTON-High tribute to
the magnificent audacity" of an
American division, probably the
twenty-sixth New England, is paid
in an officila report from the com
mander of the French army in which
the Americans are attached.
| ''On July TO-" the report said. Sin
order to hold Montihiers and the
Petret wood, severe blows were de-
livered by the French troops on the
left. In order to relieve them, the
Americans in the evening delivered
a fanking movement, which fully
succeeded. With magnificent aud
acity they rushed forward with a
single bound, up to the level of
Etrepilly, the Gonottrie farm and
Laval Mardier.
1t was most sudden attack, which
disclosed all the American fearless
ness. In spite of the severe barrage
and machine gun emplacements in
which the enemy were sheltering,
two kilometers in depth were gained.
They also captured three cannon, a
large type Minewerfer, and machine
guns. Bebides, 200 prisoners fell in
to the hands of the Americans.
De Goutte Praises Yankees
II could not have done better I'M
der the circumstances with the best
troops" declared the French general
de Goutte, upon hearing of the sue
cess of the allies. "The enemy then
found themselves in such a precari-
GUS position that they had to begin
retreat"
Telling of the work of the, Ameri-
can division on July %, when it took
the woods north of Epieda, the report
says:
"The Germans counter attacked
with great energy, but they learned
to their cost the meaning of Ameri-
can tenacity. Impeded the first
time in their maneuver, the Ameri-
cans took the out skirts of the wood |
on July "a, went straight into it and |
seized whole company of German
prisoners, and continued their ad-
vance with such fury that towards
3 p. m. they had reached the out
skirts of the forest of Fere, and the
same evening they had gained the
Fere en- Tardenois to the -aulgonne
road.
Thus the American division had
in six days realized at certain points
a gain of territiry of TT kilometers
in depth, fighting day and night with
out respite and giving proof of the
finest military virtues. All their
were carried out
with perfect regularity on the right
and left, as well as in the interior
Of the division itself. Discipline
which filled the Germans with SUPP
prise and admiration animated the +
attack in these sections. They |
marched with officers at their side
md With closed ranks, exactly like
French units. /
Enemy Prisoners Admire Bravery
"The enemy prisoners could not
get over it. We scarcely see those I
Who are commanding they declared ,
o the Americans. You are lucky. k
You are like the French, who have
llways got their officers in front of 6
hem to lead them into battle. {
The report says the same harmony q
s shown between the French and q
American high command, and that c
he American division commander
Turing the operations described c
ever spared himself, but with board i
Jews, precise orders and practical +
nind, treated the problems that pre- c
ented themselves with mastery of e
he situation that cost the enemy
ear. Ii
''The days of July Is to July 25," a
he report concludes, "offers fresh s
nd striking proof Of what the en- il
ente of the United States and France a
an do on military grounds