Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-21 | Page 1 | Yankees in Big Advance

f yii Haig Expresses Warm Appreciation of Gallant Gal-lant Services. YANKS ADVANCE i 1 27th and 30th Divisions Win Adniiration of -British Comrades i WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN FORCES EAST OF LE CATEAU, Sunday, Oct. 20. (By the Associated Press) American forces fighting beside be-side the British armies have made a total advance of thirteen miles in the last six days of battle in this sector. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. commander-in-chief of the British armies ar-mies in France, has issued the following follow-ing letter to the general commanding j the American tr6ops: ' "I wish to .express to you personally and to all olficors and soldiers serv-j serv-j ing under you my warm appreciation t of the very valuable .assistance and I gallant services rendered throughout jthe operations of the Fourth British army. 0 j "Called upon to attack positions of i the greatest strength held by a determined de-termined enemy, all ranks of the i Twenty-Seventh and Thirtieth divisions divis-ions under your bmmand have dis- played an energy, courage and determination deter-mination which has proved irresistible. "It does not need me to tell you that under fighting the last three weeks ou have earned the lasting esteem and admiration of your brother comrades com-rades in whose successes you have so doubly shared."