Show showed way at chateau thierry american divisions pushed far ahead of french shock troops arom the wr we r diary of at lajan laj maj an jamet 0 Itar bord ln in the saturday evening pot post HE famous first moroccan division of tile the french army was to attack in tile the center the american first division already a day in place was waa to attack on its ita left thy the american second davist 0 n ours ouis on its right tills this attack by three divisions was to push eastward toward the highway which ran from yol SOls to chateau and cut off tile tho great salient which tile the germans hud had ninde made in the last days of may by their attack between soissons Sols I 1 sons 0 11 S und Illie rhelma lills which had been push pushed e 1 I ns as far south couth no aa the marne nud and which ch they were ivere now trying to widen tile tho moroccans cans aro are the best shock anti assault troops in france reserved for work requiring dash und ond desperate bravery anti and were ivl dently in tills this fight not only for their own title tine qualities but to set tile the pace for the but flonni americans americana of whom some brench stuff cers are still antly doubtful tile the moroccans cans tire north korth african Alo moslems with white dal cers on tho the left of the first american ill vision ans another french fionch colonial JIVIs lon willie still another was on oil lur right thus we had three french colonial dIvIs divisions lons the only r renell french droops troops who wear khaki and our own two Anie rican divis divisions tons went forward with french off south of us extending below the iric Ir nc was the eith brench army prepared to conform to our movement on tin the eighteenth and to press the on oil lilt marne front east of tile salient lint and opposite to ug were french mid and american troops pressing toward us to help pinch off nit tile the great In Ilent the moroccan mid nil tile two to american divisions were to deliver the alie inurn attack and nil all others were to conform to our movement our men in the second division hat had hod had no sleep for two nights they to over terrain dovold devoid or water except what they curried carried and had find only thrle reserve rations the attack begun nt at the appointed poInted up hour of 45 a in it was out of my lint lintie Iq when they went over the top and there was nothing to in but bat pray for victor victory y and walt for news I 1 lintl hah told the divisions division i that we were side by side ride with the best shock troops in ili Frn rice bild that eliat if wo we wore were left behind or faltered we ive were dishonored the division in ili 50 26 hours bours had been tr transported ini ported from the marne to the of sols olsons ons severed from the control of its iti com commander it lint lanil been rv renamed ormel nn and under tinder the alie most trying try aff conditions cir rong such of its puns guns as it hail ha been able to get to the front it mot moti i than Jus justified tined the confidence vinced placed in it P pushed ahead of moroccans cans tile the fqy diy was clear bright fand hot nd its ita enry story Is not lint ft a ions on one by two oclo k tile the division hll had sir ic into the gernian lines and had more than 50 cannon minnii and pr honeiN during the initial stages of the the benr echelons hild had been gotten iii ap the conting rits w arriving 1 were pushed forward elrd established dross ing n stations nt indicated in the he attack order As AF tho the attack tiel ad adva inen the division hend quart irs rs were nvere moved to verte feuille fernia on the eastern castern edge dge of tile lie forest the road to Sols rolins sons er nerges from it from li here ore stretched the reat crent undulating hat to tin the heights crowned by the Suta sons thierry rond road it wits ana st privat ro eased the Gern ians were on the de and tile the victorious assault was being delivered Jelly ered by american regulars iloth both brigades of tile the second division were selu pushing stolidity steadily forward in their rapid advance the left of the division lind had passed tile tha division on oil our left and put input it en echelon by night we had prisoners 11 batteries of Ger runny artillery hundreds of machine guns and dozens of had pushed the enemy before us na elx miles and were a rolle mile ahead of the best shock troops in france the fanatical Blos moslems lems from morocco truo true american spirit hat but some of the best beat 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 wag worth it till nil even it if every member of tile the division from the commander to the last recruit had died that lay day nothing in ili nit all history lg is finer than the spirit with which these men went forward tired hungry and thirsty and pushed the germans lern ians back at gettysburg when IlIc picketts ketts charge was falling on july 3 1803 the high tide of the lie confederacy broke and receded at a little stone wall ivall on tile the heights over which few wen men went vent at tho the very pen of the charge was a dead 8 confederate of whom hom it la Is sold bold that on reaching the wall lie ha stood on it for a moment in tile the withering union fire and turning waved his hh lint rit nt his men and shouted comp come on oil you I 1 do you brint to live forever that ans the spirit in which tho the marines the ninth and twenty third infantry went toward tile lie sols soissons gotis thierry road on tills this of july 1918 |