The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-06

General Edwards described a sector allotted to the Yankees, the identical spot that the French had taken over in 1915. and failed with 9O,0O0 casual ties. T told them we would take 1t easy, and the French took it as a boast We got off two or three hours later than those on the right of the sector, and we fought for F hours. We broke through, and at 8 o'clock that night I was te1egraphing my compliments to General Shelton of the 51st Brigade Headquarters The lO2nd Ambulance made a record for celerity that has never been equallell. IDOn't tell me about combatants and non-conbatants in the army.
 Tt was team play in a fighting di-. vision. They are all the four dtvis- ions I stood about 21O0 yards away from one of the despearte fires on the heights of the Mouse, with the shells coming down pretty uncomfOrtably 1 Looking down I saw the ambulancea runing amidst fires, starting at soul.s and in a record of two hours thew brought the wounded from the bullet to the operating table. There was nothing like it in France. The anlbu- lances went 50 miles an hour, right under shell fire, and when the signal
 was given for them to pass, they rushed like flashes of lightning from the battle field to the hospitals The doctors did marvelups work and so did the engineers, the artillery men, and. they talk about combatants and non Icombatants
 At the Chamber of Commerce the General spoke fin part as follows;
 Il wouldn't give a cent for a cap- tain who couldn't manage his trooDs-
 I'd say dignify yourself. Go out and see which is the best man. By train ing these leaders you got the soul of the division, such as the Yankee divt- sion had. And I'd say to my men If
 you let a Dutchman catch you. don't
 come back, but go. The Boche is a
 professor of my college-he'u teach
 you. Sergeant, if you can't 20 out
 ana parbe that wire on account of a
 Dutchman, I hope he'll get the whole
 of you
 'An American that couldn't lick
 rom i've to ten Dutchmen didn't be-
 long in my division. After the battle
 of Seicheprey I went out and saw a
 tall, handsome, blond lad, a machine
 gunner. I asked him how his con-
 pany had made out, and he replied
 An, never did see men fight so hard in nah life. They outnumbered us
 10 to l, but you see whar the Boches are. Then he turned and asked me ! Are you a Yankee?' I told him was, and he was surprised And you belong to the Yankee outfit?' This } colored son joined the division from ? North Carolina. and did as good work
 as the others"
 Another story of a Greek youth B who displayed the American spirit
 the glory of this country, and the
 right he was fighting for, was alsc . an example of pluck and persistency l The youth was sent out to wipe out z , machine gun nest that was killing of
 the soldiers. In crawling up, he re ceived three bullet holes in his body but he went right along. His rigb
 leg was literally cut off, but he twist ed on his back threw the gun ove, , his left shoulder, dug his left foot in to the mud and killed four Bo. he, that remained in the machine nest The lad died, and General Edward > recommended him for a medal O 9 honor to go to his parents. He sai, = that he was notified yesterday tha T the Department Commander had beer
 ordered to make the decoration. | The Yankee Division was the frs f division completely organized under : the American flag. It was organized f virtually in 24 hours. I got a tele
 gram from my superiors authorizi - me to organize the 26th division, ant g A hours later another order to shil n the men on tho first and 10th of Sep = terber. A few hours later I got :. telegram reading, Are you reasonabl, ;. sure you can do this thing?' It was , = question of empty cargo space in Nev = York and Canada. I answered T an = lnot reasonably sure. am certain
 We did it and we slipped away 6