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Show ram UNIT RIPS IllLliiE Critical Task Assigned . Americans Is Joyously Accepted and City of Rheims I. Now Freed By Fred S. Fergu$on United Pre Staff Cerraepondent. RHEIMS, Oct. 8, Night. The Utely tower, of the Rhcim. cathedral .tood out proudly, duapite their lean, again.t the myriad colored autumn ky thin ereninr free one more. To the eastward th Americana and French atlll ajreated ainldat th dual and toll of battle In on of th moat drmmatie movementa of th war. which ha liberated the martyr city. The taak - aaalgned to a famoua Amerloan dl-i dl-i vlalon meant a blow which even the alllea viewed aa extremely difficult. BLOW CRUMBLES LINK. - America's arm waa swung back. The Blow fell and the lln crumbled. Th Germane hurled In fresh dlvl- lona, violently counter attacking the Americana on the right and left flanke. But the doughboya held, the German powerful poeitlona etningling, remained flanked and the battl waa won. ' Th Huna draggnd their defeated ' arnilaa backward. i INSPIRING DEEDS. - Th story of th Americana' part In th battl la one of clear sighted. Inspiring In-spiring leadership and undying fighting by the oest American blood. Congratulations Congratu-lations continue to pour Into the division, divi-sion, which already had made history at Chauteau Thierry and fetolaeona. In i a general order as the men went Into battl tn oommander. after calling attention at-tention to the greatest battles In hia-tory hia-tory and their effect on th world's progreaa, said: "Owing to Its worldwldjreputatlon for skill and valor, th division has been selected by th enmmander In chief of th allies as his special re-serva. re-serva. Th hour tc mov forward naa now cnifie. I am confident our dlvlaion will plero th enemy s line and. again gloriously defeat the Hun." KAISER'S PETS MAULED. ' Th dlvlaion more than fulfilled ex-peotKtior.a ex-peotKtior.a After smashing th bach positions an entire crack German regiment regi-ment was captured. On boch dlvlaion dlvl-aion waa chewed up and a second, known as th "Kaiser Wllhelm Grouser Meek ten btrga,"- was thrown Into disorder. Th Americans fought day and night without siren. . Officers said (hey sea rely understood how th men could go farther, but when they were called to attack after two data of almoat causeless fighting, they leaped forward. A eonioral brought In eight prisoners sfter th lln wus established near wt. KHann. BOCHE IS PEPR0VED. Machine guns on th flank poured an enfilading fir Into th American poet- 'OTl 9 ts"HBt"'9(tt9&4i afiOllslI llBlnSatsify" POU KtV- A I lru tenant who cloth had bn noorly shot off, took a corporal and ovn ran, crod n op a fild and icitiitd up th nt. . Reporting to headquarters th corporal cor-poral said: - "No boch can shoot th clothes off my lieutenant and jrt away with It. Thy got th and mor will b right In." , |