The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-10
THE FIGHTING BRITISH


reminded his hearers that the British
had the brunt OF the war for the last
two years
In this he was right with the eX-
ception of the last three months The
British bore q tremendous part in the
the struggle even then, but during
that period every Allied soldier had
his face toward the battle front. A
six.hundred mile battle line through
France bla2cd with the fire Of Allied
guns In that time British, Americans,
French, Helgians, all struck with
great fury While the British were
cutting in around Lille and making
deep pungcs at st Quentin. The
Americans were pushing through the
Argonne, striking with frightful eff
ltfl dl the great llllc-MtlA 5upply
line for the Germans. General GOur-
ard with French fighting force a8I
brave as any of them was at the same
time in the rear Of Soission8 beating
back The last of the German re
serves Far to the north, the Relgiana
reinforced by other allied armies,
were driving the last Of the enemy
from their own country. In that three
months the world saw its greatest
battle line quayer and bend and then
break The British were there, brave
and doPRed as they had been from the
outset, but their friends were on the
lines hurting tons Of steel and iron
into the ranks Of 'demoralized and
broken enemy
American fighting forces tore into
the German defenses that had been
up to the time Of their appearance ON
the battle front supposed to be i'm
pregnable "Old Hickory, the Thir
tieth division, made up Of mountaineGr
troops from North Carolina and Ten
nesscc, smashed the Hndenburg
lines at the first point The Eighty
Second went through the Kimheld-
Stelliung dcfenses with the Rainbow
and some regulars in other American
divisions in the Argonne and halted
in Sedan after reaching the Metz
Lille tganspn 81 atiCall, LislRss4os-tlan enemy.
Along the Champagne front Prussia
lost the flower of her remaining
fighting forces 10 the advancing
Americans.
The British best claim to fame and
glory lies in the resistance of the
furious assaults of March q. 1918
when the former kaiser summoned
the newspaper men of the world to
witness the battle All the German
DCwer was concentrated against the
British and on the onslaught represent
ID the the best fighting effort of
russia In all history no greater
uarshalling of man power had ever
ccured II fell to the British to with
tand it. one whole British army
VAS destroyed in the effort and
md many brave Briton died
defending Flanders Fields, but the
nncmy never reached the sea. At
Mount KENNEL and in the valleys
round. the British administered a
tnging defeat which amounted to a
'tdll III tIlN super vel Hlsih ullNt. ! hb'
jucke so weakened the German
trmies that the great advances of the
Niles from August till November
Glowing became possible
The civilized world will not soon
orgrt how the British fought with
heir back to the wall" That strain
Of two years which fingered in the
mind Of Field Marshall IIaig was
Great Britam's seyerest test Was
, vital period not only for the
British, but Tor all mankind living
inder a flag OF freedom
France hgI held the enemy at Yer
dun after the first battle of the Marine
and was staggering to necessary
rest. The British must hold out
against concentrated fighting forces
If German and Austria, including
these brought from the Russian front
nnti the American forces could come
Hang may well and truly tell the