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Show fcnslre and the victorious assault was being delivered by American regulars. Eoth brigades (of the Second division) divi-sion) were pushing steadily forward. In their rapid advance the left of the division had passed the Moroccan division di-vision on our left and put It en echelon. eche-lon. By night we had 3,000 prisoners, 11 batteries of Germany artillery, hundreds hun-dreds of machine guns, and dozens of Mluemverfers, had pushed the enemy before us six miles, and were a mile ahead of the best shock troops In France the fanatical Moslems from Morocco. True American Spirit. But some of the best men America ever produced had watered with their blood those sunny slopes and wooded crests. The losses were heavy, but the effect for the allied cause was worth It all, . even If every member of the division, from the commander to the last recruit, had died that clay. Nothing In all history Is finer than the spirit with which these men went forward, tired, hungry and thirsty and pushed the Germans back. At Gettysburg Gettys-burg when Pickett's charge was falling fall-ing on July 3, 18G3, the high tide of the Confederacy- broke and receded at a little stone wall on the heights, over which few men went. At the very spearhead of the charge was a dead Confederate captain of whom It Is said that on reaching the wall he stood on It for a moment In the withering with-ering Union fire, and turning waved his hat at his men and shouted: "Come on, you 1 Do you want to live forever?" That was the spirit In which the marines, the Ninth and Twenty-third infantry, went toward the Solssons-Chateau-Thlerry road on this 18th of July. 1918. ihowed Way -at 1 Chateau-Thierry Lmerican Divisions Pushed Far Ahead of French i Shock Troops. jrom th War DiAry of MaJ.-Oon. J.mn O. i XIarbord la the Saturday Evening Pout. fejraaSfc HE famous First Moroccan Ujtj. division of the French army f!) h .vras to attack in the cen-jJi'V cen-jJi'V ter; the American First ri3 division, already a day in place, was to attack on its pft ; the American Second division, iurs, on Its right This attack by hree divisions was to push eastward oward the highway which ran from ioissons to Chateau-Thierry, and cut if the great salient which the Germans Ger-mans had made in . the last 'days of lay by their attack between Solssons ind Rhelms, which had been pushed is far south as the Mame, and which liey were now trying to widen. , The Moroccans are the best, shock ind assault troops in France, reserved re-served always for work requiring lash and desperate bravery, and were ividently in this fight not only for heir own fine qualities but to set the )ace for the amusing but unprofes-ilonal unprofes-ilonal Americans, of whom some French staff officers are still apparently appar-ently doubtful. The Moroccans are 'Jorth African Moslems with white ifficers. On the left of the First American Jlvlslon was another French colonial jllvislon, while still another was on Iiur right. Thus we had three French olonlal divisions, the only French roops who wear khaki, and our own wo American divisions. Went Forward With French. Off pouth of us, extending below the Warne wa3- the Sixth French army prepared to conform to our movement on the eighteenth, and to press the Germans on the Marne front. East of the salient and opposite to' us were French and American troops pressing toward us to help pinch off the great salient. Actually the one Moroccan and the two American divisions were to deliver the main nttack and all others were to conform to our move-'ruent, move-'ruent, j Our men In the Second division had had no sleep for two nights, they were to attack over terrain devoid of water except what they carried, and had only their reserve rations. ' The attack began at the appointed hour of 4.35 a. m. It was out of my hands when thy went over the top and there was nothing to do but pray for victory and wait for news. I had told the divisions that wo were side )y plde with the best shock troops in France, and that if we were left behind be-hind or faltered we vered!shonoret ! The division In 3d hours had been i transported from tho Marne to the I neighborhood of Solssons. Severed j fron1 the control of Its responsible it hn1 hppn rrformed. and I ct'Uiiuui"'- 1 upder the most trying conditions, car-rnR car-rnR guch. of Its machine guns ns it hart been able to get to the front, it rnor than Justified the confidence placed In It p.jched Ahead of Moroccans. The dy as clear, bright and hot, nd Its story Is not a long one. Hy two o'clock the division had advanced six kilometers Into the fJennnn llns and had epptnred more than r0 cannon and V.000 prisoners. During the initial fstags of the attack the rear echelons had boon gotten up; the medical contingents nrrhlng were pushed forward nrd established dross-'.ng dross-'.ng stations at point? Indicated In the tttnrlt onler. As the attack advanced, the division headiuarivs were movd to Verte Teuille Ferme, on the eastern edgo of the forest,. whfro the road to Solsona emerges from U. From here stretched eastward the reat undulntlng plain nat slopes Upward to the heights crowned by tha Solssons-Chateau-Thlerry road. XI was St. Privat re--enied The Germans were on the de- 1 |