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Show II. S. SOLDIERS ARE REMARKABLE Development of Shockheaded Boys Into First Class Soldiers Sol-diers Wonderful. GAME TO THE CORE Many Nations and Languages Not a Streak of Yellow in Bunch and Morale Fine. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday, Nov. 28 (By the Associated Press) The development develop-ment of the men in the first American contingent in France in the science of war was described today as truly remarkable re-markable by the general commanding the division who has been In tho service ser-vice for years. , "I havo been in the army since I was a boy," he said. "During that timo I have observed many American and many foreign soldiers but never in my , life have I seen anything equalling the ! men now here. When my division , j landed we had shock-headed boys' I ! call them shock-headed because they I were just that by the hundreds. They were clerks, mechanics, day laborers, farmer boys, old and young, from j every walk of life. Some spoke Eng-' lish and some did not. There wore ruies, jjoncmians. nussians,. jaws,; , Gentiles. Fui in this short time they ! have all become first class soldiers, energetic to the extreme and have fal-j fal-j len into the ways of army life as I i never thought possible. They are game , to the coro and their one idea Is to j beat the Germans and give ihem a good beating. There is not a streak of yellow in the whole lot and their morale, even in the trenches, is fine. Example of American Grit "Here is an example. One night recently re-cently an officer called for volunteers to go patrolling in No Man's Laud. He asked for twenty men. The whole ' company volunteered on the spot ! Twenty were picked and lampblack was provided for them to put on their bayonets so that the light would not I shine on them. During the blacking one private who had been in the army for four months stopped a moment, turned to a comrade and said. 'Gee, if. I can run this into one of those bodies, I bet he'll get blood poisoning and I ; hope he does.' The boy know the place he was to patrol was extremely dangerous dan-gerous and that ho might be a casualty within thirty minutes. "Another timo I visited the hospital where 1 saw a few of the wounded men. Some of tho men's proudest and most valuable possessions on earth are bullets and pieces of shrapnel which thoughtful surgeons saved for them on extracting. Every man wanted to exhibit ex-hibit tho cause of his wound. Thend thoughts woro all about recovering, rejoining re-joining their regiments and getting a , chance to pay back the enemy in his own coin." |