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Show WILL BREAK LINE OF HUNS, PERSHING SAYS General Commanding American Army in France Sends Assurance of Ultimate Victory. ! NEW YORK, Dec. 15. The American ; army in France has no misgivings regarding re-garding the ultimate victory of the entente en-tente allies, was the message sent by General Pershing to the people at home, through Charles W. Whitehair. secretary of the Cornell Y. M. C. A., who has just returned from the Krench and other European Eu-ropean battle fronts. Mr. Whitehall-, who was the principal speaker today at a luncheon of the .Life Underwriter's' Association of New York, said that just before leaving France General Pershing asked him to preach one doctrine when lie got back to America. That was that the entente allies, including includ-ing the American soldiers, were a unit in the belief that they would eventually "break through" the German lines in France. Here is the message General Pershing asked Mr. Whitehair to deliver: "You must go back home and dispose of that doctrine that we can't break through the German lines. We can break through them with a hurmn wedge, and we will. Tell everybody you meet of our determination to win." i |