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Show AMERICAN DASH I FINEST1N FIGHT I Go After Boches Like Bull- dogs German Troops Flee H or Surrender. U PARIS, July 21. "The finest thing !.H of the combat was the dash of tho H Americans," writes Lieutenant Entray- ' H gues, tho special correspondent at the H fronL for the Temps. "It was a fino H thing to see those grand fellows, with H thicr tunics thrown off and their shirt H sleeves rolled up above their elbows, H wading tho rivers with the water to 1 H their shoulders and throwing them- , H selves on the bocho like bulldogs. , H "Any one who has seen such a sight j H knows what the American army is H good for, Henceforth and to the end of H the war. At the sight of these men, l magnificent in their youth, physical IH force, good temper and dash, the Ger- H man fled 'with every leg" or surren- iH dered without awaiting the order to jH throw away their arms and take off their suspenders, which is t,he first thing a prisoner is told to do in order H that he may be compelled to keep his hands employed and out of mischief. H "The Germans hurried toward our H lines gripping their trousers, haggard :H and mad with terror. iH "Would that every mother in France who has lost a son in the war could .H havo seen that epic sight They would H have seen themselves revenged and it H would have been some consolation to ( them in their sorrow." H |