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Show Two American Divisions Perform Per-form Remarkable Deeds in the Champagne Sector. PRAISED BY FRENCH I Young Soldiers Go Into Heavy Action for First Time and Achieve Success. j WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTHWEST OF RPIEIMS. Wednesday. Wednes-day. Oct. 10 (By the Associated Press) Perhaps tho most glorious page of American military history in this war has been just concluded in the Champagne Cham-pagne battle in which two divisions of United Slates . troops tho Second and the Thirty-Sixth have done their Inadequately heralded part of forcing back tho German hordes facing the famous city of Rheims. The work of the Americans was more notable because one of the American divisions the 30th entered the terrific battle at an important point. Although new to fighting and ' without ever having heard shell fire ! before, the division withstood the most bitter Gorman counter-attacks without with-out flinching. The efforts of the two units were so noteworthy that they were praised publicly in an order issued is-sued by General Naul, in command of the Twenty-First French army corps. with which the Americans' were brigaded. bri-gaded. The general said: "On October 3 the Second American division, having arrived during tho night in the sector of tho Twenty-First Twenty-First army corps, attacked the fortified crest of Blanc Mont and captured it in a few hours despite the desperate resistance of the enemy. In tho following fol-lowing days it made an extended advance ad-vance on the slopes to the north. "The Thirty-Sixth division, a recent formation and as yet incompletely organized, or-ganized, was ordered into tho line on the night' of October 6-7 to relieve, under un-der conditions particularly delicnte, the Second division aad lo dislodge the enemy from the crests north of St. Etlenne and throw hlin back to the Aisnc. Although being under fire for the first time, the young soldiers of General Smith, rivalling in their combative com-bative spirit and tenacity the old and valient regiments of General Lejuno, accomplished all the tasks set for them. Aviators in 35 Combats WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, OcL 19. (By th,e Associated Press) During the American bombing raid the pursuit airplanes engaged in 35 combats and of the dozen German machines brought down two fell behind the American lines. One German machine was set on fire. Another enemy airplano was smashed to tho ground, 1h,e pilot and machine gunner saving themselves by parachutes. They were captured by Belgian infantry. The morning American patrol airplanes air-planes engaged in fourteen combats. The aviators reported that six German Ger-man machines had been brought down within tho German lines. nn |