Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-28
Ry RAYMOND &. r

The general halted again. BE pulled
aside u pair Of vcr:niiion curtains open
;rg istn a fndetl gold painted salon,
woG"e his c:,icc CT staff with two aides
beading cver = nap spread across-n
badly scratched grand PIANO were ar
ranging 70: the ncxs mornings attack.
Calling IL nm told ny our .iaison OH
GERS we viii! have some French les ter
RIFLES touriauX' on our tight. These ter
,itorials move in tonight. Better send
word out to our mer they are French,
although they are in mustard uniforms.
Like as not our friends will give us an
exposed right flank to look after"
Another lMoIrnful sound in the air.
s!o2crE shells say Il requiem mass for
:Ecir victims. This incomer crashed
directly outside the window and buried
ITS ugly brown nose in the soft Garth
alongside a rose bush in bloom. 1t was
u dud. n of those shells which fail to
explode; "a song without Words" the
division wag had said.
"IIumph growlcd the general,
%sauaring back into the large room and
addressing his judge advocate. IF I
stay around here there will be 4 new
G. q. Or :he job. l am short of an
aide. Come along and VIC will talk in
tie csr. I want to look over our first
l;lc positions before dark. Like to
set the days map in my eye. We vii!
crack our whip again before sunup to-
morrow. l want you to get that COW
nrd-I say. yellow to the core"
Burr-r-r-and almost before it takes
to write it the general in his glass case
with olive drab mountings was n cloud
Of canary dust up the new road his
engineers had built in the wake of his
advancing infantry.
1t was still night. Dawn was fast
approaching. You who know wartime
france-France, and this docs not mean
Paris-are probably familiar with the
atter-darks scenes along the great cross
country highways back of the front in
the summer months of 1918, when the
had pierced the French rail-
way ines at several points. Mars pre-
pares in the pitchy ~blackness and either
strikes or hides in the half lights of
early morning. Marshal Foch's magic
skill was as n master of secret move.
mcnt, getting men and materials over
no matter what obstacles into new posi-
tons. ready for sudden and D ected
operations
Gaunt outlines were silhouetted in
the tree bordered road on the south
bank Of the Marine from Meux toward
La Ferte-sous- Jouarre; twelve miles Of
infantry and artillery intertwined with
queues of supply wagons. A mufaed
voice at the head Of the east bound col
unn from a small motorcar gave tn.
command: "Halte! Arbitcz- vous." II
was passed back.
Then ceased the shutting Of feet, in.
dicating the resting of many marchers
There was the clicking of harness re,
laxins from the strain of pulling can
non and heavily loaded vehicles. n,
lights, no talking: a dcathly silence, fo
four years o tswar had nude the veterans
cautious. The hills of the Marine Vale,
hcrcabouts are covered with woods ant
vineyards. A French division was abou
to take cover off the road in the town.
and under the trees away from tn
river for the next twelve hours of day
light. 1t had come from somewhere il
the line west of Paris and was going t,
only the high command knew where
and his wishes had not arrived.
Near the hamlet of Trilport, half
mile from the large town of Mcaux, tn