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Show YANKEES WIN. Americans have not done much fight ing in a year of war, but what they have done has been done well. We arc just on the eve. of extensive participation participa-tion in the contest and it is a good augury au-gury that in the first battle of magnitude magni-tude our soldiers have been victorious. In fact, we have not yet met With a defeat. de-feat. . Our army, which is stationed west of Montdidier, at the very apex of the Hun's Picardy drive, has taken the village vil-lage of Cantigny by an advance on a front of about a mile and a half and has repelled several counter-attacks. The capture of 200 Germans would indicate indi-cate that the enemy lost between 600 and 800 men. It was a triumph, we may be sure, which the Germans did not anticipate. They have been speculating for some time on what our "lightning-trained" soldiers would do when they met the German boys who have been in military mili-tary training practically all their lives. The battle for Cantigny is the answer. Doubtless we shall suffer some hard blows in a, hard-hitting war. Some day we shall hear of a reverse which will make us sad, but we know now that our boys are well enough trained so that they can fight on equal terms with the best-trained German troops. |