Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-01
WORLD WIDE PRAISE
FOR YANK SOLDIERS
COUNTY BOYS ON FAM
Gus MARCH OF OCCUPATION
Captain Buffers Tells of Experiences
on Way to Rhine-Soldiers are
Well Treated by Germans

Walfordingen, Luxembourg, Nov. 80.
Dear Mr. Munson: At present YOU
will note by my heading that we are
on the way to the Rhine. The coun-
try is lovely and prosperous and we
are well received. We expect to know
in few days just what sort of re-
ception we will get when we are actu-
ally in German territory. Today |
was up to the little river that is the
boundry between Luxenburg and Ger
many. The news that comes over the
line is that the Germans are anxious
to see us and that they will be kind
and give us a fair reception at least.
The American soldier is a great spend
er. They need the money and | sus-
pect that American gold will win
many favors for our troops ON the
journey.
The boys of Viroqua are all doing
well. We hope to come home some
of these days in a body. How long
it will be no one can say at present.
We think next spring about April or
May For one thing we are all thank
full and that is that the actual fighting
is over and that we are away from
the desolation and danger and back
where we can live in houses rather
than in dug outs and mud Best re-
CARDS. The subjoined article from the
Paris edition of the New York Her
aid of November %, explains itself
CHAS. f. BUFFERS
Gallant 32nd Has Fought Thirty
German "Crack" Divisions. 1t Has
Fought on Five Fronts and Never
Yielded a Yard of Ground.
When the American Army of oc-
cupation started on its march toward
the Rhine on November 18th, one of
our crack Divisions, the Thirty Sec
ond, was celebrating an anniversary.
Just six months before, this Division
first planted the American Flag on
German soil i'm Alsace. On May 10th,
Wisconsin and Michigan men came UNI
der enemy shell fire and from that
date to November 18th the Division
has outranged the Bosche guns. Only
ten days after its turn in the trenches
the Thirty-Second chased the Bosche
from the Ourcq to the Vesle. Then
it went to a sector north of Scissors
and stormed the Juvigny Plateau,
fighting side by side with the heroic
'poilus" of General Mangin. After
that victory with the French it had
rest of ten days before getting ready
for the final drive. The American
army's scrap north of Verdun was but
three days old when the gallant Thirty
Second went in and for the next three
weeks the Wisconsin and Michigan
boys battled the Bosche for the Kriem-
hide Stelling. 1t was they who final
ly broke through the key position of
"la Dame Marie" from which they
then pushed on TO Freya Stellung,
pushing the Bosehe gunners out of
wood They carried the
line up to the point where the final at
tack on November LIST, was launched,
and followed in support of the divis-
ions which crossed the Mouse at Dun
and captured Stenay. In the last few
days of the war. the Thirty Second
went into the line in the Mense bridge
head sector and with the French were
in the midst of an attack when the
armistice stopped the fighting.
During the war the Division was
fought on five fronts, Alsace, the Yes
lie, Scissors, Argonne and the Meuse--
has fought thirty of Germany's best
Divisions, among them the Prussian
Guards. 1t has never yielded a yard
of ground to the enemy's counter-at-
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