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Show YANKEES I KEEP IIP I MORALE American Spirit and En-! terprise Aids at Critical Criti-cal Moment. MOW DOWN ENEMY Fresh Troops Regularly Arriving at Difficult Points. LONDON, June 6 The behavior of the American troops at Chateau Thierry Thier-ry has demonstrated more than-anything that has yet happened on iho American front the splendid initiative and enterprise with which the American Ameri-can army in endowed and nothing has aroused the keener enthusiasm of the commander, says the Daily Mail correspondent corre-spondent with the American army in France. He quotes an unnamed French general as saying that the American spirit and enterprise at a critical moment mo-ment served to maintain tho morale of the French troops around Chateau Thierry. American Machine Gun Fire. Among the incidents of tbe engagement, engage-ment, the correspondent mentions, is the steadiness and persistence of the American machine sun fire in the streets of Chateau Thierry. Company-after Company-after company of the enemy, marching four abreast repeatedly tried to advance ad-vance but recoiled sorely shattered be-fore be-fore the fire of the American gunners. The streets were strewn with German dead and wounded and the American officers estimated they inflict at least lone casualties W hen a bridce across , the Marne was blown up, the corre-I corre-I spondent adds, tho Americans were left on the northern bank with the enemy In front of them and the river : at their backs. Carrying their guns, the I Americans descended to the lower I banks of the river and, under enemy machine gun and artillery fire, succeeded suc-ceeded in reaching the next bridge. The correspondent predicts that much will be heard of the deeds of ih? Americans in the next few days and adds Fresh Troopa Flow In. "American troops fresh from the United States continue to arrive with regularity and in numbers more than sufficient to Justify renewed confidence In the ultimate triumph of the entente. Tho Americans at this moment are distributed over a very wide front indeed. in-deed. "In some sectors entire American divisions form a unit, holding a certain extent of line while elsewhere they are brigaded with Fronch and British regiments. In the Luneville and Toul I sectors the Americans hold very difficult dif-ficult salients dominated in tho Toul sector completely dommai.d by the German artiller) on Montsec by the 'enemy Tho Germans have been drenching these positions wtih gas but ; the Americans stood firm and won the ready appreciation of all observers." |