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Show GREAT DARING OF YANKEES CHEERS ALLIEDF1GHTERS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday. June 5 (By; the Associated Press.) Many Amen-, jean officers and privates showed great daring and fortitude in withstandlnc the German attacks along the Marne at Chateau -Thierry and Jaulgonne. Captain John R. Mendenhall of New Rochelle, N. Y., went without sleep for three days and remained steadily at the head of his company during that time. Corporal Jules Mangold, of Mc Donald. Pa. was sent out to investigate investi-gate German snipers under a heavy tin- frrnn tho m 11 r :i n line Hi- tniind the snipers, pointed them cut to his comrades and the Germans fired no more. French War Cross Awarded. The first French war cross awarded for bravery In the present battle was given to Lieutenant Walter R. Flam-mery Flam-mery of Pittsburg who swam across tho Marne and rescued a wounded French soldier Lieutenant John Bis-sell Bis-sell of Pittsburg has been cited for the French war cross for leading his machine ma-chine gun command to the north side of the Marne In an attempt to stop the German attack. Captain George Wak-erine, Wak-erine, the French liaison officer with the American unit, stood by the Americans Am-ericans in the thick of the fight, encouraging en-couraging and cheering them. The Americans, he said, showed moM won dt rful fighting spirit and were Jolly, L-veo laughing and joklim while a perfect per-fect hell raged around them. |