The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-03


III 'ht'otu ThiDrry Of how des-
P'lti"iN France is waiting for the
"''''I ddFs 10 come In the sur.
'"iu'lnt ."uu'rN though -- that
-,hl'' countryside NJ tho wandering
Marine. hr little stream wherein
thousands of bodies of American
h"Ns used 90 CLEAN I'm tho crystal
SUNSHINE ~ Ercuch summer as
tneN haih"d ono found winter
pl"WinE In progress everywhere ana
realized tllt those immemoriN
Wh''i irlds through which So many
' our divisions painfully crawlod
'h"Ir way against piulcss German
machine gun fire would soon ho
. rocking gently against the hrccz,s
OF another summer IN that most
gracious portion pf France.
II WAS through NllNors &C Cottcrci
on 'h" niEht OF July 17-1s that our
tlrst and second divisions silently
moved side by side with the Scotch
. Se1forths and tho Moroccans the
troops which NanRln earned tho
reputation Of tho butcher or the
French army the most fearless
devil may-caro outfit Of men who
ever took arms--to the great attack
Tn" Marine salient.
All these towns are lnseparablv
Identified with tho terrain over
which the first and second divisions
mado their memorable advanc"--an
Rnvante wherein witnessed Froncu
tank officers leaning out Of the
apor'urcs of their tanks and begging
tn' oyeroHgcr Americans TO seek
cover from tho terrific German fire.
II is 90 ho remembered that our boys
gave 100 heed 60 this warning. and
that they pushed on. taking their
objective which was some formid-
able heights. they took them.
though. with approximately - per
/ cent casualties. However, it was
the war, and, visiting again those
battle fields, now peaceful and green,
with only n marred chateau here
and there to bctokcn all the daunt-
less courage that went into the
supreme French. British and Ameri-
/ can effort 10 crack the famous Marne
salient. one had n thrilling sense Of
what the American doughboy really
was
OF course no one who lived
through those days in September
1918. whom the great troop move
mont OF the Americans began from
the st. Mihiol sector to the Argonne.
will ever forget that muffled tread
OF feet passing in the nights over
tho cohblod vays Of Nancy. OcCas-
ioDally a bomb would tear omen a
paVpmont but OF this one gets not
the smallest hint today. Even the
once shattered railway station is now
perfeCtIv in trim. and a smart row
Of taxis awaits the traveller.
ST Mihiel the sector Of which was
tho first poiut Of attack for the
American army functioning on it's
own. still showed conspicuously the
ravages of war. wish II were pos
sible TO SUNNY anv Interesting detail
concerning ST. Mihicl itself: as a
matter of fact IL is a city in ruins
and as vet too exhausted to help
itself TO it's feet. The town has been
cleaned nm a great many houses
Matched ia he made inhabitahle but
one feels that tho task Of restoring
the town to what IL once was seems
almost superhuman.
St MihirI Unchanged.
Passing across tho ST Mihiel sec.
tor ono was amazed at the almost
comnIete story one could read from
tho countryside Of our splendid eff
for, between 81. Mihiel and Pont-au-
Nousson. Wire stlii strings every
whore. zig-zaC trenches scar the
landscane. caves in which the Ger.
mans had strongly intrenched them
selves and we're only driven out bv
gas stlll nit the hillsides. the villages
are in ruins in every other village
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