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Show crowning achievement of your service abroad?" he was asked. "Cutting the German lines at Sedan on November 6." i da iiirti n. uiuie umiuuii. operation j than cutting the Hindenburg line?" I "Cutting the Hindenburg line was a J start toward cutting the line at Sedan. It 1 was hard to tell what might have he-come he-come of it under different circumstances. It followed the final effort of the Germans Ger-mans to force their way through, but their armies were beaten before they started." "General, will you say a few words about Marshal Foch?" "Marshal Foch," he replied appreciatively, appreci-atively, "is a very great strategist." A question was asked as to his impressions im-pressions xipon his departure for France twenty-seven months ago and his return, to which he replied: "When we left the day was focgy. We could not sse the Statue of Liberty. There were no helis rinering; no whistles (except fo horns ) blowing, and no ships gaily decked. Why, there is as much difference between our departure and home-coming as between midnight and noondav. "I anticipated while on the other side some kind of welcome upon our return home, but nothing I thought then could ci'inl mv impress'ons today. I find difficulty dif-ficulty in f xpre.-sint: my sentiments, but I suppose ii's the way New York always does things." In conclusion, he was asked whether he purposed appearing before the house , military affairs comnitt.ee. in answer to1 which he said he had not been invited. j PERSHING ASSERTS VICTORY AT SEDAN BEST ACHIEVEMENT NFW YORK. Sept. 8. "The American I 'doughboy" is the finest soldier in the I world, and It didn't take the Germans long to find it out." declared General i Pershing in an Interview granted newspaper news-paper men today. "We boasted a little, probably, of the peculiar qualities of the American fighting fight-ing man, but his aggressiveness, initiative and devotion as a member of the American Amer-ican expeditionary forces give us every right to boast and to be proud of him," the commander said. "I suppose it is because of the way the American boy is raised, due to the fact that he is encouraged to develop his initiative initi-ative and that he feels at any crisis of his life that he is master of his own des-tinv." des-tinv." The interview, brought about in the hope that the general might he willing to express his views upop such subjects as : the league of nations, the situation in Fat rope and in Mexico, what he intended doing when he entered civil life, when he expected to retire from the army, and similar questions, was preceded by a cen-eral cen-eral handshaking and a remark by Gen- ' eral Pershing that all si:ch topics were "taboo." "I am still on duty." he said. "I; js a pleasant duty, but yen,- strenuous." The general had just finished luncheon aftr a little rrst t refresh himself after the arduous hours of the morning. "General, yhat do you consider the |