The Hartford republican., 1918-09-13
ALLIED RESPECT
won BY YANKS
American Warriors Prove
Inspiration To Tommy
And Poilu
louisville Herald)

going back to the front when Big
Bertha thumped in my neighborhood
She had never thumped there before
Every new experience is enjoyed by
Americans in France, so ] hurried
down to the boulevard to make the
acquaintance of the ludicrous orge of
the Germans.
A lively Mississippi Valley thunder
storm is ten times more exciting than
Frau Bertha, tho she continues
storming at systematic intervals all
morning and afternoon. The explo-
sion of a Bertha shell at close range
is not nearly so deafening as a thun-
der clap several blocks away.
Partisan life is not affected a trife
by today's bombardment, the longest
to date, excepting thar gentleman
smothered under later in BARRIERS
chair had 10 suffer in discomfort un-
til the coiffeur had gone to his door
to make a gay grimace at the warm
eyed modiste across 1he way.
May BE Offensive.
Maybe new German offensive" &"
suggested Madame Delsol at her cof-
fee house, which is a hangout for
American newspaper men. We waited
eagerly for the afternoon papers. but
they told only of resistance of the
crown princes group of armies on
the Vesle "Then why Big Bertha to-
day?" demands Paris disgustedly
us this tomfoolery, which in the past
HAS had the excuse of being n sort of
threatening signal. taking up time to-
day without purpose?" But for this
unappeased curiosity. Big Bertha did
nothing more than add effervescence
TO the fizz that is the spirit of France.
see that Lloyd George has taken
advantage of American successes in
the field to remind the British people
that If America call out her man
power in the British proportion, she
would have an army of $1,000. 600.
They may not all be needed. Our
kid army and our reinspired allies
will do the trick. The temper of the
\ fighters in half battle. The Yanks.
fresh and exuberant, fully convinced
that there is nothing of the superman
about Hun, are more than a match
for the Kaiser's best units. Divisions
from all parts of America have con-
) quered picked Prussians and Bavar-
ians.
yanks Gain Respect.
If they have had this unbroken sue
cess in the first hurst of their effort.
what will they do in the coming
days of greater experience. greater
strength? l can say that every di-
vision of the Americans is now re-
spected by Tommy and Poilu as storm
troops. Every one in action SO far
has justified description.
The communiques are the best
testimony of the fighting quality of
our Yanks. In addition there is the
effect of Yank exuberance on
British and French. AS a Tommy
said to me, THE British lion and the
French roster have their tails higher
than ever, and its all because the
American eagle is so blooming
cocky"
The rollicking godd hnmor of our
Yanks, and the confidence that they
could stroll on 10 Berlin IL their off,
GERS would not stop them when they
had gained their limited objectives, |
has been a powerful elixir for the
war-scarred heroes with whom they |
have been brigaded Four years of ii |
is coming a bit stiff, as Tommy puts |
II, and we all know that the French |
felt like that year ago. But today !
we are again seeing poilus chalking
up mortal Kaiser and Tommy troop |
trains marked London to Berlin Ex-
press" which is an evident renewal
of the boyish enthusiasm of their first
days of war. AS to prospects. the Ger
mans will be constantly harried on an
parts of the line besides occasional
punches I'm selected spots preparatory,
to the last swift Kick out OF the ring
Discovery of more and more sections
of the German line thinly manned. +
the distribution of pressure at Foch's
direction that prevents any flexible
use of German reserves. the remark
able team work of allied units mixed
together. these are the significant
things. We shall see daylight by fall
BY spring we should be on the high
road to victory. When il will all end
may not depend upon single great
battle. but more upon the gradual
capitalization Of German nerve. The '.
hardest steel will yield under per
sistent pressure. Victory depends up
on the unstinted expansion of effort
to which all the allies are committed. /,
Big Bertha groans de- 4.
spondently again.
!