The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-07

our men. l am satisfied the real rea-
son was concern lest the American
troops would somewhow him the glory
of the soldiers who were joined with
them, just as through anything could
dim the luster of the soldiers of Bel
GUM, and France, and Great Britain,
and our other allies and the glory
Iof the tremendous sacrifice in life
and treasure that they made and their
Iheroism throughout four long years.
But our military authorities we're
firm. They knew that the policy of
|, the allies would make of American
linen merely replacement units They
insisted upon a sector and they OBJ
itained it. Should they fail, on them
would thus rest the responsibility
i Should they succeed, nothing could
rob them of proper recognition. How
we'll the soldiers of America succeed
ed is told in the stories of Belleau
Woods, Chateau Thierry, Argonne
Forest, and by the steady, definite,
forced retirement toward Berlin of the
German army from a region that the
German forces had occupied snice the
early days of the war in 1914. Most
of our fighting was in this region,
most of our sacrifices were here made,
uOSl Ol OuI SuCCcSS is mere u0llutu.
Americas Losses.
In this war, Americas loss in killed
and deaths from wounds and disease
was about $4,000 men, her wounded
nearly 100000, and missing about 49,
600. Our forces captured between
10000 and $4,000 German soldiers and
more than 600 officers of the German
army.
may indicate in part the awful ex-
perience of our men and the He'll of
War through which they joined. Elut |
I cannot tell it as it was. l canuot |
tell of the life in front of mo Mans |
Land" Il cannot tell of life in the
trenches. The first place our party |
reached where American boys had |
fought was Lucy on the western part
Of the American sector. Here in the
first cemetery we saw | counted 104 |
graves But we went on. We passed
cemetery after cemetery, 100, 200, 500
American soldiers with markers at
the heads of the graves upon which
he numbers indicating the name Of
he soldier and also the colors of cur
At Belleau Woods we again
Jaw something of what our boys had
zone through. We tramped over the
HIS, over smell nOleS, ana logs ana ,
lebris. Here trees stood naked as
keletons. snags completely trimmed
" shell fire. Other trees were cut
alf in two and yet stood, while others
lad fallen, cut down by the awful !,
ire from German or American can
on Here was a lone grave with a /,
ough stake and the name of an Amer l
IAN boy upon it. Here was another
rave and on a stake over it was the
otation that two German soldiers :
Tere buried there. They had been
iven burial by our own soldiers. Here ;
7as shell hole and the fragments of ! !
Of soldier and we knew the
acrifice that had been made, and that
ome soldiers had reached the "Port
{ Missing Men" At this point 1t is
tanned that cemetery for American a
,1diers will be maintained. We went n
q. we visited the region about Chat n
We visited and tramped n
lie Forest of the Argonne. 1t is the O
ame story, a wrecked and mined A
,untry, shell holes like vast craters, r.
again smaller shell holes like fox N
arks upon the earth, trenches, en- c.
nglements, barren trees stripped of