| Show N H ON f 3 arm r fA j jf I A f I I I 5 OUR SOLDIERS 5 5 Vl i Tho correspondent nt ot of the Times rimes of India writing of the march to tells us that the American army urmy orm was to the British a II special source of wonder r He lIe says sa saOn On occasions we are felt tIto take takeoff takeoff off oft our hats to every American soldier we saw HaW on other othar occasions the tine army seemed to us no more sore that than a mob of tramps The Tho Americans an told me nr believe bello that the unit la is the theman themar mar man not lIot the time section S nor the time company nor the regiment They therefore i en encourage n courage COUIlle Individualism In and encourage e It to what men brought nought up on European military traditions must consider an extraordinary and extravagant length When Uncle Sams force started from Tien feln every man was provided with a n great coat blanket haversack water bottle bot lie spare socks shunts shirts boots and w so forth When the reached Pekin halt half the time men mien car vied nothing more than their rilles rifles am ammunition bolts bolta and water They Th hind had even thrown away awny their tunics The retreating Chinese army arm left lert be behind hind tangible evidences of ot Its ThA victorious Americans left behind I similar evidences el of ot their march The j road to 10 Pekin Is strewn with wilh i tunics racks marked with tin th i mystic letters U S A If there I Is am is I among the tho American 1 I n nIt r rII It II Is time the aristocracy of ot the tho clean V t man who carried a razor was looked up I Ito to with reverence I It t was teas good form to set get et Ir c ii i I 1 but hut there were lu s who looked mum Ilk I I f II wild I I poets lighting then men Tl Tb r hair hung In long curies on their hul shul tern ders anti strayed Into Inlo their ey eyes I I think If It there had been beon no tight lI ht rg nil the tho foreign orel n observers o would bar hav h hone bargone gone Bone one back to their homos with a vr r poor opinion of ot the of ot thu American troops troop Luckily for Cur i and his ilia soldier there thre w me s 5 f lighting fighting When you Oll see an Ann ri private advancing under tire fire you Into In hr IlY to think there la lEI In th tin il Id that the fighting unit of ot the time future the Individual lie Ho and hl hie TI nr 1 make for tor a common obJective n a t UK Ps stiff trained soldiers hut but like lib stalking n a prey pray Their eyes time the lithe bodies swing forward Th Tine it C murder and deadly Intentness in cv et 1 movement When the time American cana t i Jil i lies Ics down to lire fire he does m so with Ith mention Intention of ot killing 1 somebody M 1 troops roo s fire not lIot nt rat the tho enemy hut bit t In lh ih direction of ot tho the enemy Not Nol so s th Ih American j The Time Americans In ht battle have lave a jno most t reckless courage e At l they expo ex I themselves with a strange contempt of ot death An n will take dunce no European would onto care to take The held Add battery balter was vas as generally to be found In places laces whore where nobody read In la l Ie tUc would have dared to put It General Chaffee e and his staff stilt always rode rude wh where r the ti enemy enem was most likely to se see 8 and boot bont at them Young and Y need correspondents corr wore sore warned by older uhlee ulI I hands nut to 10 go during action near ar prominent buildings large largo graves or orthe orthe 1 n the American staff Time Tim h and Americans were the theer I very er bet bent of or friends In fact tact drinks were handy which was not often of ot often ten there ther was WAR great reat rea t talk of ot the 1110 h Saxon alliance We Ve were ne not nol let Into till all the secrets of the war tsar but there tile I Itle were tle times tunes n when hem differences arose be lie between tween time the th various generals and awl on onn such J occasions there IB is reason renson to believe the tha t Americans nl always nys supported the lint Brit BritIsh Ish One Une who overheard him hiam told m me that once onre when the Americans sent 1 over oer to aselee malting making some request the latter exclaimed Certain Certainly ly 1 lathing we can do Is too good for forthe forthe the Americans I 1 cannot tell you OU how much we owe OW to them r A J |
