The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-04-28

that within an appointed time VI
would transport TO France an army o
10000 men, II was asking Us to "liv,
in a fools paradise" it was giving
play to wild and unstable irAgina.
ton il was misleading the Ameri'
can people into belief in impossible.
ties" Yet within the designated tim,
$4,000 American soldiers were landed
at the ports OF our allies
Engineers Fighters
Then il was said that these untested
troops could not be trained in time for
elective combat. Yet il was a unit OF
American army engineers, brigaded
with the British force before Cambria
who threw down their implements and
licked up the oastaway rifles Of their
British comrades, with which they i'm
pcded the desperate attempt OF vcier-
an Prussian divisions to retrieve the
fortunes OF battle. 1t was the "impos-
sible' american army that arrested
the German drive at Chateau Thierry,
first haltlng the Huns and then driving
them back The sorely pressed, but
brave and heroic French. shaken By
four years Of frightful struggle, were
in desperate retreat They told Amer
lean officers that to go forward was
impossible and besought them 10 tusn
back, A few weeks ago in rance
was personally told Of the laconic an
swer Of the American commander to
this appeal. Go back" he exclaimed
why, hell we've just got here. and
my orders are to 20 forward" And
they went forward; and. as President
Wilson in his address to congress SO
pointedly said, from that moment j,
was back, back, ever back for Ger
many" She never thereafter wres,ed
single foot of soil from the allied
armies.
st. Mihiel Reduced.
For four fateful years. nearly. the
dangerous salient at St. Mihier pro-
jected its threatening head into
France, menaeing Verdun from the
flank The Germans could not be
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