The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-25

battered their way toward Paris,
was held by the Americans. 1t was
the Chateau Thierry sector. Many
things that occurred there will be
recorded in history to the eternal
glory Of American boys who were re-
ceiving their first baptism Of fire.
Here's one:
French and American troops were
sorely harrassed by a nest Of ma
chine guns in the woods and were
ordered to clean them out. The Ger.
man artillery located them and did
terrific damage. Added to this was
the terrific fire. Of the enemy ma
chine guns. The casualties were
frightful, so frightful in fact, that
French officers ordered a retreat. The
Americans refused to retreat.
1--WE were directed to clean out
those machine guns,v exclaimed one
OF our officers, "and we're going to
do it," -
And they did. They fought their
way to the guns through carnage
of bursting shrapnel. No matter how
many of them fell, the rest went on.
But one of our men of squad
charging gun reached it, but he
took it, bayonetting the last German.
Twenty guns were captured.
While the battle ragged our men
were coming overseas at the rate OF
100000 month. Those in training
camps in France and England were
moved to the front.
Foch Tries Offensive. =
Foch now knew they could walk.
He decided on an offensive. On a
certain day he issued an order to the
French troops not to retreat foot
farther. For short time the two
armies stood immovable. 1t was a
terrific impact Of infantry against in.
fantry, footman against footman.
Then Foch moved up his fresh re-
serves, tens of thousands of Ameri.
cans among them. Result-A sue
cessful offensive on both fronts-the
Huns thrown back more than twenty
miles, $50 French towns and villages
liberated over thousand big guns,
ten thousand machine guns, millions
of rounds of ammunition and seventy
thousand prisoners captured.
And the Americans made that
possible! Against them were hurled
the crack troops Of Germany-and
they went on! There are five divi-
sions of the Prussian guards. They
are to the kaiser what the old guard
was to Napoleon. Two of these divi.
sions were sent against the Ameri.
cans-and the Americans went on.
There are but four divisions of the
Prussian guards now, and one of them
needs mending! .......s
Favor Open Fighting.
Fight? Courage? You ought to
hear our boys damn the trench, the
she'll holes and other hiding places
that hamper mans movements. and
make dihicult and : ineffective the
handling Of guns. Our Yankee boys
stand up boldly because In, the posi-
ton they can pour their fire into
the enemy with deadlier aim.
And just as our men who landed
at the French Atlantic ports and
went up to the Marne and helped
the French hurl the foe, baffled and
beaten; back from Paris, just as they
crossed. the channel and joined the
English in the great offensive before
Amien, they are moving to that
Austro-Italian line that stretches
from the Alps to the Adriatic sea.
They are coming by rail from France
and by water across the Mediterran.
can. Every day the movements Of
men and supplies northward goes
on. Gradually we are moving to face
the Austrians in Italy as we did the
Germans in France. Against our com.
ing Italian, British and French troops
are bravely holding the line as the
French and British held it in France.
@ of for the Front.
And. undoubtedly when we are as
ready in Italy as we are in France,
the Austrians will recoil before our
army as the Germans have already
done. gr..
Our boys are imbued with the same
spirit here as in France. Certain
troops here. left for the front today
and we gave them farewell party
at the Y. M. C. A headquarters last
night They boys, who were leaving,
have jazz" band. Now IL you've
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education is incomplete Its made up
of about every known musical instru'
ment. It's a lot of fun. For two
hours we had an uproarious time
and at the end. the national airs. The
boys sang every song as. a hallelujah
I was with them at early dawn this
morning. Just as the sun showed its
red bulk above the Apennine noun.
tains their train pulled out. They left
singing, "And we won't come back till
it's over, over here"
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