Show S w 5 U IT SOLDIERS S LOOKED WILD POETS New York Sun The special correspondent of the Times Tim of o Ind Inda dt al writing ot of the the march to Pekin tells us that the American army was to the he British a source of wonder He H says On occasions we felt eIt inclined to take takeoff oft off our hats t to every every American soldier we saw on other occasions the army seemed to us no more than thana a mob of tramps The Americans an told me that the lighting fighting unit is the man not nol the section tion nor the corn com company pany nor the Uie regiment They there therefore fore tore individualism m and en eu encourage courage It to what men brought up on traditions s must con consid n n sid sl skier r an extraordinary and extravagant length When Uncle Sams force start started started ed from Tien Tain Tsin Tam every man Wit was pro provided vided with a great coat oat blanket bIa haver hover haversack haversack sack canteen n water ater a tel bottle spare s Q socks shirts beets and so forth When the army anny reached rea hed Pekin half the men car carried ned ried nothing more than their rifles am ammunition ammunition amS belts hORS and water bottles They had even thrown away their tunics The retreating Chinese army anny left be he hind tangible evidences of its flight light The Th victorious Americans Americana left behind similar evidences of their march m The road r f d to Pekin is strewn with blankets tunics haversacks marked with the letters U tX S A If there is aris ads among the American soldiery it is 18 the aristocracy arl tC cracy of the clean A Aman Aman Aman man who carried a razor was looked up to with reverence It wan waa good form to get et your hair haircut haircut cut occasionally occa but there were indi individuals independents who looked more like wild poets than fI fighting men menT Their T hair hung in long lon curls on their shoulders and strayed Into their eyes I think if here had been no fighting all the foreign er observers ob would have gone goRe back to their homes bomes with a very ver poor opinion of the efficiency of th the tn for tor General Chagee and his soldiers there was lighting fighting When you yott y u see an American private advancing under tire lire you begin to think there is something m in the idea that the fighting lighting unit of pie le ie future is the individual He tie H and Itt Ida companions f make for a II common objective not like stiff trained d soldiers butIce bu e anth panthers l ers era stalking a prey pr the yes flash their lithe bodies spring to There is murder and deadly intentness in every movement When men the American soldier lies down to tire lire he does so with the intention of killing somebody Moet fire lire not t the a enemy but t In Jn Inthe Inthe the dI of the e enemy Net Not S Ue American The Americans Amert In battle have a most reckless courage At times timet they expose themselves with a strange con contempt contempt contempt tempt of Q death An officer will take 4 no DO European EUh would woud dare to take tak The field battery was generally to tn be found in places where nobody read remd m in tactics wot d hav ha dard d lo o put it General and a d his 1118 staff taft al at always ways rode where the enemy was ws most likely to see and shoot at them Young and find inexperienced correspondents were warned by older heads not to go 80 dur ing lug an engagement near prominent buildings large graves or the Amen Ameri American can staff The British and Americans were the very best of friends In fact whenever drinks were vere handy which was not of ot ten there was great talk of the Anglo Saxon alliance We Ve were not let into all aU the secrets of the war but there were probably times when differences arose between the various generals and andon andon andon on such occasions there is reason to be lieve the Americans always supported the British h One who overheard him himI I told me that once when w the Americans Americana sent sen over to General Gene tI making I some sonie request th tl latter exclaimed Certainly certainly certa Nothing we e can cn C n I do Is too good for or the Americans American I II cannot tell you how much muth we owe to I them |