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S Soldiers Made Good I Always Says Australian John Monash Who Led Yanks in Bat Battle Baale e Says AmerI Americans Amer Amer- t jeans ieans and His ills People Will Wil 1 operate Co-operate Against Any I S Menace In Pacific t. t I J London July 4 Correspondence lof of tho Associated 1 Press Au Australian I tind r nd American soldiers are nrc Cu blood full blood brothers in tho opinion of cst L Cen aen Sir John Monash in commander of oC the tho Australian forces n the ther I war 1 r because the Americans were noer noVer nov nov- er placed in any position nor called to perform an any lut luty sluty when i a ngI I tho general It In an m Independence Inde day ar speech here tonight they luey Uld dId not deliver deli the goods t General l Monash s said iid ho nr first l this conclusion In the early dawn dwon of oC tho the Fourth of or Jul July 1913 1915 when for the first time lime Australian tr ops fighting side by side with the Americans in the Somme sector won tho battlo battle of or Hamel and gave tho the al alI allied at- at I lI lied d. d arms the first success they had hart achieved Ichie since Ince the Germans began beran their memorable advance nd on March 21 1 p This battle battlo was the turning of oC the tho war Vir said ald General Monash It It was wasa f A. A brilliant a and anil mt unqualified success And its effect upon the morale both of or orho ho enemy and of or our oWn o men men was electric and startling lJ It became the model of oC all subsequent achievements in France and It paved the way for forthe fort t the c great counteroffensive in August Demand Yank Support 10 American troops engaged the general said caId were 1000 men from the tho theS S third thirty division commanded b by Gen John Dell Bell The thirty third di division dl- dl vision Islon was W then undergoing training General 1 Monash remarked that ho hI had s1 CU cd and obtained r to ni- ni plu 1000 of or the Americans 1 in the batS battle bat bat- S tie tle of It but on the eve evo of or tho the f battle tlC permission was withdrawn n f t I p l plIed passed a strenuous and exciting period of or two hours hOUM continued General Geu- Geu eral Monash So far Car as I could learn the thc order originated in lit somo some misunderstanding misun misun- at American general l aa an to the state slate of or PreParedness preparedness pre pre- for battle attle of ot this division I 1 could not afford to have In my hat bat tb lIo plans ruined at tho the last moment i b by the thc withdrawal nf or a largo large fraction ot of my assaulting Infantry so l went Yent I Ito to tn my army commander and delivered I Ir r nn an ultimatum I If It the Americans I lot ot all allowed to remain n In tho the order of It b then lh the battle in the morning Would he e otC oft Unless a decision was wali given b by C G o'clock that night the battie battle battle bat bat- tle tie would go so on with the Americans in It as planned We Ye managed to in intercept In- In the commander In chief and ho gave ga the order Carry on T Two To yo Nations Nation Become Th Those so 1000 Americans covered themselves with glory glor and I can cIn pay them no greater compliment than by saying saing that from that day on our Australian Aus Aus- tr n veterans took tool them to their hearts as full blood 1 brothers General Monash declared that the tho American regiment of or the tho division in company with the Australian brigade fought a most gallant nt and successful series of or ac ac- ac actions actions lions which resulted in the capture of Chipilly Spur when the great counteroffensive e was launched b by Australians and Canadians in the Somme sector on Au August 8 S 1913 1918 This he said made secure my left flank lank thereby enabling me mc to get bet astride of oC tho valley alIey aile of ot the tho Somme and hunt the enemy clean out of It for twenty miles mlle General Monash had under his command corn com man mand in the cl closing days of or the thc war warth th whole Second American arm army corps more than men of or the ith and American dh divisions This army arm he said overthrew the tho defense system at its most strongly defended point Tho The I I share of oC the American divisions in these operations was characterized by y General Monash at as probably the greatest single sinS American feat cat of arms achieved in the whole war The op operations op op- orations were completed on October 5 I he hc said ald and It was wC on that night that I tho the Germans threw up the sponge pon e I and declared their willingness to make makepeace makepeace makepeace I peace on our own terms vj Delivered Good GOOdR GOOdRI I have havo been asked over and over overa a again aln to lo express m my opinion of the American troops troops- General Monash continued I 1 shall not be so foolish as 05 to attempt to do so hero here and now nov I shall hall only in say your our own expressive express express- ive hc vernacular that at all times and andIn andIn In iii ever every place where I have used them the tho American troops delivered dell the goods You may well believe e that this close association in w war r of such largo bodies of or A and Americans Americans Amer Amer- leans ha has erected a real and find lasting friendship between our two democracies cies The Thc foundations o of that friendship friendship friendship friend friend- ship had already been laid many man years ar before boore by the visit of the American battle fleet Jeet to Australia I can assure ure you OU that Australia a attaches at attaches at- at t- t much Importance to securing nn and maintaining the friendship of or America We Ve look upon the United States Slates as our big bl brother In tho the Pacific Pa Pa- cUle and nd If any anyone one of ot you OU has reflected re- re on the problems lems that will arise in tho Pacific ho will wil know leno what I mean mca t by that observation |