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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH Sally Sez f (Copyright.H31.lnll countries D3 by the Jew,, North Amertcaa Newspaper Alliance. y Gen. J&Fin World rights nfi ttDne 'jj , CHAPTER XLVI! Continued. As we were leaving the widowed mother of a missing soldier, her only son, came up In great distress and told M. Clemenceau of tier sorrow. He spote tenderly of her patriotic sacri flee, put his arm gently around her and kissed her cheeks, mingling his tears with hers. The pathos of this touched every heart. As General Foch and the others were not arriving until later, 51. Clemenceau and I, driving together, accompanied by Generals Wirbel and Ragueneau In a separate automobile, went to the headquarters of the Eighty-thir- d .division, Major General Glenn commanding, which was billeted at Montigny, 'not far from Chauniont. We fell to discussing the probable situation of the various allied countries and their relative standing after the war, M. Clemenceau went to some length in his conjectures. Thought Britain Finished. "Great Britain Is finished and in my opinion she has seen the zenith of her glory," he said. "What makes you think so, Mr. Frlme Minister?" I asked. "First of all," he replied, "the Immense drain of the war will make it impossible for her to retain commercial supremacy, and, second, the experience of her colonial troops in this war will make their people more Independent and she will lose her ton-tro- l over them." I could not agree with M. Clemen-ceau'- s view and said: "Mr. Prime Minister, I think you are mistaken about the British, and I believe we shall see her fully recover from the effects of the war." Continuing, I asked: "What about France's future?" "Ah ! She will once more be the dominant power in Europe," he replied. "But you do not mention Germany," I reminded him. He replied: "The Germans are a great people, but Germany will not regain her prestige and her influence for generations." Discuss Troop Shipments. Shortly after our return to Chau mont, Generals Foch and Weygand arrived and after lunch we all went Into conference. The continuation of shipments up to one hundred divisions, as already recommended by the prime ministers, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Orlando, formed the basis of French argument. The whole subject was thoroughly discussed, and, considering the then shortage of man power claimed by the French and British, to say nothing of the possible increase of the German armies from Russian sources, the main, question was to get over as many Americans as possible. It was finally agreed that we should propose art eighty-divisioprogram to be completed by April, 1919, and add to It the larger program of one hundred divi sions to be completed by July, 1919. n XLVIII Hospitalization and completion of three corps headquarters and staff organizations occupied my attention the last week of .Tune, 1918. Twelve of our divisions were then either in line or In reserve behind the French, five were in training in rear of the British army. Of those with the French, seven were concentrate' s and In the vicinity of Chateau-Thierrbetween the French front and Paris. The British seemed to think the French unduly nervous about the safe ty of Paris, and that Foch was hold ing a greater proportion of American troops behind the French lines than necessary. They believed there was a strong probability of another attack against their front, and felt General Foch was not paying enough attention to their situation. However, they probably did not realize that a coun teroffensive was contemplated on this front should the occasion present It self. Corps Headquarters Organized. The First corps headquarters, organized in January under MaJ. Gen. Hunter Liggett, with Col. Malin Cralx as chief of staff, had become a smoothly working machine ready for active service anywhere, but events had moved so swiftly there had been no opportunity for the assembly of diWith the increasing size of visions. our army it was evident that a greater number of divisions would be able to take part la operations at earlier dates than we had thought possible. Consequently, the organization of the Second, Third and Fourth corps headquarters was at once completed. The Second corps, Maj. Gen. George Read commanding, with Col. George Slmonds as chief of staff, and a limited number of staff officers, was charged with matters of administration and command pertaining to the divisions behind the British front. The Third corps, temporarily under MaJ. Gen. William M. Wright, Col. Alfred BJoru-stad- , chief of staff, continued to supervise training of divisions serving In the Vosges area. The Fourth corps was temporarily under the corps chief of staff, Col. Stuart Heinlzelman, with headquarters at Toul. By the actual constitution of these corps they were oon to become efficient expecteo1 CHAPTER Villers-Cotteret- including the Scandinavian WNU Pershing enough to handle units in operations. ous effort to get them into their lines. French Hospitals Deficient They planned an attack by the Aus As to hospitals, when our troops be tralians for the Fourth of July and came suddenly engaged in the Cha requested MaJ. Gen. George Bead, com y mander of the Second corps then still region we had to rely largely upon the assistance of the in training, to permit some of the division to French to care for our wounded. At troops of the Thirty-thirtake part though they had given us every assur ance that hospital arrangements foi At first the British suggested four those operations would be complete, companies, but later they wanted the and without question did their best, it number increased to ten. As the use was only through the mobile hospitals of Americans at this time was directly we had organized that we were able contrary to the arrangement, naturally to give our casualties proper attention it did not meet with my approval. In extenuation of the French fail Having learned that such a com bined attack was planned, I spoke to ure to take care of our casualties prop Marshal Haig about it when I saw him erly it must be said that when tiie Germans swept over the Chemin des in Paris July 3. and he entirely agreed with my point of view. It seems that Dames to Chateau-Thierrthe French lost 45,000 beds, included In some of General Bead, afterward, in accordtheir best equipped hospitals. We had ance with my instructions, told Genno hospitals on that front and with eral Rawlinson that I did not want limited transportation found it diffipartly trained troops to participate. cult to supplement the scant French However, our troops had by this time facilities. In fact, the situation as to become fully committed to It Aaccommodations for our lthough the British chief of staff had hospital troops was about to reach a critical consented to leave our troops out, when he learned from Bawlinson that stage. In this connection a cable wns'acto-allit would compel them to defer the opsubmitted by Mr. Casper Whitney eration, he Informed Bead that no from the New York Tribune which was change could be made without orders scathing in its denunciation of our from Field Marshal Haig, who, he said, could not be reached, and so the atmedical department. The censor imtack was carried out, as I learned the mediately informed the medical representatives at my headquarters, and next day. The fact that General Read and his General Ireland, the chief surgeon, re quested an investigation, which was at officers and men were keen to get into the battle went far to excuse him. It once carried out by the chief of the seems needless to add also that the inspector general's corps, General splendid behavior of the troops in the operation was a decided argument In favor of leniency. This division also afterward displayed the same eagerness to get at the enemy in several engagements during the trying days of the teau-Thierr- y y Re- production In whole or in part prohibited.) Service tinned this belief and who gave the exact hour fixed for the attack, which the folthey said was to take place lowing morning. Our Third division, still in line south beof the Marne, faced the enemy Chateau Thierry, and tween Jatilgonne which, as we and the Twenty-sixth- , have seen, had relieved the Second, held a sector between Torcy and Vaux. Twenty-eight- h Infantry elements of the were south of the Marne, servon ing with the two French divisions either side of the Third: the entire Forty-seconoccupied a support position behind Gouraud's front; the First division was north of Meaux. and the Second and Fourth were in reserve d near Chateau Thierry. Surprise for the Enemy. The German offensive was launched on the early morning of July 15, as surexpected, but it was met with a General down by put prise barrage Gouraud's artillery half an hour before the start. The Germans' attack formations were thrown into confusion and their force seriously weakened to begin with. By evening, thanks to the strong resistance they encountered, the situation in that immediate sector was not unfavorable. division became Our engaged and sustained relatively heavy losses. Its conduct on the first and succeeding days brought high praise from the French army commander. Farther west the enemy crossed the Marne. penetrating in one place as far as five miles. He struck our Third division, which was posted along the river, in a determined attempt to force . crossing between Mezy and Varennes, and the fighting became intense, some units of the .Thirtieth and Thirty-eightregiments holding this front beforced hack. The stubbornness of ing CHAPTER XLIX their resistance, however, brolte up A number of our divisions were attack as a whole, and the Gerthe quite prepared to engage in any conmans retired to the north hank. templated offensive and their location Thirty-eightDistinguishes Itself. at the moment lent hope for the early On this occasion a single regiment formation of one and probably two enof the Third division (Col. U. G. tire corps of Americans. Thirty-eighth- ) wrote one Liggett's First corps had taken its place in line July 4, with the Second of the most brilliant pages in our mildivision (Harbord), relieved on the itary annals. It prevented the crossing 10th by the Twenty-sixt(Edwards), at certain points on its front, while on and a French division under its direceither flank the Germans who had tion. The corps staff had been shaken gained a footing pressed forward. Our down to the routine of its work and men, firing In three directions, met the German attack with counterattacks at had become in every respect an efficient group, performing its functions critical points, and succeeded in throwwith the confidence and precision ing two German divisions into comworthy of the more experienced staffs plete confusion. of the allied armies. Men from three different enemy diDuring an inspection trip July 12 to visions were captured by the Third in the headquarters of the First corps the fighting of this day. By noon of had lunch with General Harbord at the sixteenth the attacks against its Nanteuil-sur-Marnwhere his division line came to a halt. was resting. He told of a marine in The Germans were stopped to the his division who had captured seventy east of Rlieims by Gouraud's Fourth . five German prisoners army with but slight gains, whiie to Germans Attack Again. the southwest they got across the Referring again to my diary: Marne and made some progress toChauniont, Wednesday, July 17, ward Kpernay. The failure of the at1918. Another German attack tack in Champagne and the relatively broke Monday. Our Forty second, slight gains to which the Germans and the part of the Twenty-eightwere held to the west of Rhelms on Third, became engaged. The latthe first day materially heartened the ter counterattacked and captured allies. fiflO prisoners. Advised Foch that Although there were some ten divithe Thirty-seconand Twenty-nintsions of the enemy remaining south of divisions are available at the Marne, the very evident conclusion, once. judging from the results of the followFive other divisions have been ing two days and the losses he had Situation placed at his disposal. suffered, was that he would he unable yesterday more favorable for to continue the offensive. allies. General Bullard assigned Now that the allied armies were no to Third corps and General Wright in Jeopardy it seemed opportune longer to Fifth. to push the formation of our own The intelligence services of all the near Chateau Thierry for use allied armies had been exerting every army the Marne salient in the against to the endeavor discover enemy's plans, I had frequently urged. with the result that for some days It The outlook for the allies had almost certain his that next appeared since the crisis of move would be directed toward the changed materially early June. The enemy had been held southeast, on the right and left of In his most recent attacks and his Kheims. On the eve ing of July I I a losses were presumably very great. French raiding party from General He was losing the advantage of Gouraud's Fourth army, then holding that part of the line including Rheijii. numbers and his superiority was pass- luckily captured prisoners who con (TO HE Forty-secon- h Meuse-Argonn- 'i Not Afraid of Gas. Brewster. Mr. Whitney was asked to be present at all the hearings, and when the actual facts were brought out, showing the efficiency of the medi eal department, he was most apologetic and thereafter was an enthusiastic supporter of the wisdom of the censorship. Fourth of July Observance. The Fourth of July found me In Chanmont. The French people there never missed an opportunity to show their pleasure at having us In their midst and their appreciation of our aid to the cause. The principal ceremony ot the day was a reception to the officers of my headquarters by the local French officials, both civic and military, and the prominent citizens at the Hotel de VII le. 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