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Show YANKEES COULD FIGHT, BUT FAILED IN COOKING PARIS. Sept. 14 (By The Associated Associ-ated Press.) The American doughboy dough-boy reed not take off his hat to any soldier of any armies engaged In th greut war There were some as good as he, but none betler " Thus spoke General Marie Kmile I Fa voile, of the French army, who j used in the counter offensive against the Germans alongside the French troops, seven American divisions, He was talking before his department for tile United Stales where he is to represent rep-resent the French army at the convention con-vention of the American Legion In C'lcv eland "The Americans were simply magnificent, mag-nificent, " he continued, "us a matter of fact, some were hrave to such an extent as one might call It rashness.' Magnificent: Marvelous, as General Gen-eral rjayolte kept repeating. "Your soldiers were not only men as regards re-gards courage, but also in endurance md Unfailing gOOd humor. But there was one branch In which they were deficient, and It was one of the most important. They could not cook, or they were too busy fighting to bother about such trifles as cooking " , The general will be accompanied to th. i alted States by Lieutenant Col- i I one! Reipiln. a member of Marshal Foch's mission to America, and also Lieutenant Soublran. his Interpreter. This will be the general's first visit to the United States. |