| Show owed bowed Way Vay at Chateau Chateau- Chateau Thierry Thierry t rican mean Divisions Pushed Far Ahead of French Shock Troops La a U War or of MJ Jam Ja Jame i 1 O O. O In ID Ihl Saturday Jall Evening po Poet t. t HE famous Scat First Mor Moroccan division of the French rench army 1 was to attack ottA-k In the center center cen cen- ter the American First division already a day in place woe was to attack on Its Us the American Second division t on Its right This attack by divisions was to push eastward aid the highway which ran from eons to Chateau Thierry Thierry and cut the treat great salient which the Gerhad Gerhad Geru Ger- Ger u a had made in the last days of ot their nn 01 n attach between 1 7 F by u I U u u Rheims which bad been pushed I tar far south as lIS the Marne Morne and which n 7 1 were now trying to widen The he Moroccans are the tho best shock i d assault troops In France re- re ref d always for tor w work rk requiring h sh and aDd desperate bravery and ond were dently In this fight not only for tor forIr Ir own o fine qualities but to set the thee there re e for tor the tie amusing but flat nal Americans of 01 whom some net Deb staff officers are are still l 11 1 doubtful The Time Moroccans arc tiro rth fth African Moslems with white CHI elS CHIn n a the left of 01 the First American ulon was another French colonial Won ton while still Jun another was on right fight Thus Thu Thuve we ve we had three reach French onto Dalai divisions the tho only French Frenchi ps i wh who wear khaki arid and our bur own American divisions r Went Forward With French I f Ii Loath of or us extending below the thee e WILl was the Sixth French army ared red to 10 conform to our movement mo the elg eighteenth and to press the theon natal on the Murno Marna front East the sallent and opposite to us UI were rh ch i oDd and American troops pre pressing mat I us UI to tu help off oft the great greut put lent dent Actually the tine ine Moroccan J d 4 the tw two tae American divisions were WE're the main attack and alli nilIS all nil allera era IS i were to lo conform to our mover movel move- move r l Oar men In the Second division had bad towi d 4 so no 1 deep wp for two nights the they were WE're attack alark over terrain devoid of water t what they Curried carried and had f Mr their reserve O rations PM The attack began belan at the appointed 4 of 01 4 a a. a tn m. m it was out of ot my adl when men they Ihy went over r the top t i there was nothing to do but pray I 7 and wait for tor news I had d 4 the Me i divisions that w we were Ild side t tide with the best shock troops Inn in to n end and nd that If It w we were left bt ben be be- n d or faltered wc we wore were dishonored n divisIon In ln M hours had bad been Ported rom from tin the Marne to thin thA of ot Colson Severed tb the control of its responsible Gander It hud had been reformed null and r the Ibe most trying car r. at C rh V ot of Ito t machine guns ml as nR It tin n n able to get et to the front it wj than Justifier justified the confidence In nit it Pulled Ahead of Moroccans clear r bright and hot e a 0 ob story is III is not a lon tong long one flyt tty fly y yI t I ork the bud advanced u 14 ed ad 1 Into Inlo the thi merman German tine lines captured more mort than 50 00 na lIa and a d 20 0 prisoners During h 0 Blog ac acs s of or th that th attack the theral eton hail born ral gotten otten up op the lab forward 0 arriving w were re ell IUM J II I ro d dress dress- I d t o 5 l at l Indicated In the tho thon tb manta lark attack n l the i-I i Were moved mo to Verte 4 to on n the e eastern n ei-n e edge of or off orr r f h b re the U rand to ons Nu m mt It From it f here hwe stretched t ml tit he treat undulating plain n 1 to th by No i or The ro road roH e 5 n u It ii wn 1011 l St Privat Pr toe to- to ns were on the de de' t and ond the victorious assault was being delivered by AI American regulars Bot r brigades of ot the Second division divi storm sion were pushing steadily forward In their rapid advance the left of ot the division hud hind passed the Moroccan division dl di vision on our left and oDd put It en eche eche- lon Ion Dy By night we had prisoners 11 it batteries of Germany artillery hundreds hundreds hun of machine guns gun and dozens of ot had pushed the enemy before U us six Fix miles mUt's and were vere a mile ahead of ot the best shock troops In France the France the fanatical Moslems from Morocco True American Spirit But Dut some of or the best men Inca America I ever produced had hod watered with their blood those sunny slopes dopes and and wooded crests The losses were heavy but tho the effect for tor the allied cause was wu worth It all even If It every member of ot the division from the commander to the last recruit had bad died that day clay Nothing in nil all history is Ie finer than the spirit with which th these thew e men went forward tired hungry nn and thirsty t and pushed the Germans back At Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- burg when charge barge was failing fallIng taU fall Ing on July 3 the high tide of the Confederacy broke and receded at ata ata a n little stone wall on th the heights over which few men went At the very spearhead of ot the time charge was a d dead l d Confederate captain of ot whom it Is said sold that on reaching the wan wall he stood on it for tor n a moment in the withering withering with with- ering ring Union Unton fire and turnIng his lint hat at his hla men and shouted Como Come on you ou I 1 1 Do you want wont to live forever forever That was OS the spirit in inthe which the marines the Ninth l' and Twenty third Infantry went toward the Thierry road on this of ot Jul July 1018 2015 |
