The sun., 1919-03-22
MAURICE PAYS HIGH
TRIBUTE TO 9TH
British General Tells How
Yanks Revived Spirit of
Battered Britishers.

Major-Gen. Organ and the members
Of his staff were guests OF honor AT
reception at the Bankers Club yesterday
given by the board OF governors and at
tended by most OF the men prominent In
the financial district. The General and
his stafr for half an hour shook hands
with bankers as they filed past. Fol-
lowing the reception they were the guests
Of the club at luncheon. at which
MaJor-Gen. Organ expressed gratitude
for the help and cooperation OF the Brit
lsh troops
Major-Gen. Maurice, former Director
Of Military Operations OF the British
General STAFF, told OF the remarkable
wave OF enthusiasm which followed the
entrance OF Organs fresh troops into
the battle.
"I first saw Reads Second Corps.
which was composed OF the Twenty sew
enth and Thirtieth divisions. on their
march up to the line In Flanders he
said. AT a halt In the march a dough-
boy. weary with the weight of his pack.
flung himself down at my feet and looked
UP at me and said, Say, boss. It's a durn
long way to this war OF yours, I want to
get to It and get quit of the dirty busi-
ness
How Americans Helped.
the American soldiers who came to US at
tho time when our men were stale after
the buffetings they had received In the
spring. One OF our Generals who saw
Reads corps very soon after Il went into
the line said to me. DO you know, Maui
rice, 1 have Just seen some men who
liked the Ypres salient
II don't know whether can convey
10 you New Workers. all that that i'm
plies. Our army had blocked the read
to Calais In the Ypres salient in 1914.
They had to abandon the ridges there to
the enemy after the hrst dastardly Ger
man gas attack that overwhelmed the
French troops on our left. For three
years they held on to the salient, shot
at In flank and rear from the heights
which surrounded them.
AT the end OF 1917 they won back
the ridges at enormous cost, after three
months of fierce struggle, only to have
10 abandon them again when the Ger
mans drove in our lines further to the
south.
by the summer OF 1918 Ypres had
become a name OF Ill omen TO the British
army, and TO md men alongside them
to whom Ypres or any other part OF the
front was all one, who were keen to
fight anywhere and everywhere. rad a
tremendous moral influence on our
troops. It changed British grit and de-
| termination into British enthusiasm. and
the British army Will never forget that
struck Decisive Blow.
When tho tide turned It fell to the
Fourth British Army to strike the deci-
sive blow In the decisive battle of the
world war, and the Twenty seventh and
Thirtieth divisions took a great and
! important part in that decisive attack
upon the vast defences OF the linden
burg line. The deeds OF the Twenty
seventh Division are linked for all time
with the deeds OF the Fourth British
Army. and upon the battlefield has been
sealed a bond OF friendship which. as
hope and believe. is beyond the power
OF man to lessen in the future"
Others who attended the reception
were BriG. Gen. Shanks, Gen. Thomas
H. Barry. Col. Norman Thwaites q the
| British army, Major-Gen. Appleton,
former Governor Whitman. r. A. C.
Smith. Commissioner William H. Ed
| wards. ex-senator James A O'Go-man,
Jacob Schiff, Rear Admiral Nathaniel
r. Usher. Finley Shepard. Martin Vogel.
John b. Stanchneld, Oscar s. Stratus, f..
H. Outerbridso and Commander Wood