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Show r. PfliriGAHE GIVES PHAISE TO FEAT . OFUA W Premier Is Speaker at Reconstruction Celebra- - tion for War Town Aided Aid-ed by Gift of American " HATTOXCHATTEIe Department of the Meuae, Franca, Sept It (Br 'A. P.) Premier Polncare, at the celebration today of Hattonchat-terg Hattonchat-terg reconstruction with American ' money, aketched the memorable work of the American army In clearing lha St. Mlhlel eallent. !n - which thla town nr.. hen the " Amerlean attach waa launched In September. Hit. The forty houeee composing the village have been rebuilt and tho church and abbey restored with funde aupplled by Mlae Bella Skinner of Holyoke, Mxae., a b rente medallion of whom haa been placed la the town hall entrance. . . . Speaking at the luncheon, which waa one of the fraturea of th cole-ration. cole-ration. Premier Polncare de-acrlbed de-acrlbed how the Oermane had occupied oc-cupied the helghta of the Meuae during the teat phaee of the battle of the Marne when those helghta had been almost denuded or rrencn forces. For four yeare, he recalled, no newg had come to tha root of France from the village of Hatton-chattel. Hatton-chattel. well within the Meuee aal-lent. aal-lent. The captive town of St. Mlhlel Ml-hlel could atlll bo seen from the French line, but nothing behind It "Until September, lfls, the St. Vthiel salient remained In the fleeh of our unfortunate country Ilka a poleoned thorn." continued tho premier. "Tho high command often hoped to be able to extract the poison, but the necessary forces ' were lacking. It was only during the last two weeks of the war that tha operatlone at St. Mlhlel, often studied, but alwaya postponed, could bo resumed and brilliantly executed by the American army." Premier Polncare deeerlbed how the enemy wae drlvsn off. leaving 400 prlsonera, 4M gung and 71 machine guna, quantitlea of muni-tlona muni-tlona and railway material In tha hanne of the victors. "The victory waa complete." added the premier, "upon the eplea-did eplea-did work of General Pershing s magnificent dlvlaton." |