Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 2 | Yanks Proud as Line Lengthens

AS ASLINE LINE LENGTHENS Are Stirred by Report That They Now Hold More Than Do Belgians By Associated Pre Press 5 WITH THE TIlE AMERICAN ARMY n r IN jr FRANCE Tuesday Slay May 21 l. 21 Washing Washington's tons ton's announcement that the combined fronts held by the American expeditionary expedition expedition- ary forces forcers In France Francer cover a greater distance distance distance dis dis- tance than tItan that held by Bel Belgium lum and take third rank has Inspired the men In the American arI army Y as probably bl nothinG el else c could w j i The announcement was published in new newspapers papers reaching the various zones In which there thero are arc Americans Americana today and the result Is that ever every one of the tho doughboys dough doughboys boys hoys Is walking Just a little straighter and ana there Is Just a little more snap in I his salute Staff officers and certain other officers off off- cent cers have known the tact fact for some time but the average orae American soldier bil billeted hll- hll In some out of tho wa way little Fren French h village or living where the shells fly I does docs not get set a n. chance to know what Is going on outside his own little sphere In a vague ague way tho the men In the line have known that other Americans have havo been scattered along the tle battle front between Switzerland and the sea But none nOlle even thou thought ht the forces of which he was a a. member were holding holdIng hold- hold Ing a of oC the line lino second only to th held heM by the French and British Tho The an was the solo sole topic of tonight In the dugouts trenches lid Ad d billets billet Tho rho men now arc 1001 looking f I r ward ant to the tho time tune when there may be a 1 announcement the Americans Americans Ameri Amen cans arc tho the place