Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-03-28 | Page 6 | President Visits Battlefield

PRESIDENT VISITS BATTLEFIELD Makes Auto Tour of Area in Which Recent Combat Raged. Paris. President Wilson left Sunday morning in an automobile for a tour of the battlefields, visiting the Sois-sons Sois-sons area, where the allies seized the initiative from Hindenburg on July 18 by sending General Mangiu's Tenth .French army to attack the Chateau Thierry salient. The president visited scenes of the American army participation, partici-pation, as the First and Second divisions divis-ions were incorporated in General Mangin's army as shock troops for this offensive, while the Twenty-sixth division struck toward Chateau Thierry Thier-ry and the Third threw back the Germans Ger-mans across the Marne. The president motored oiit the main high road, which was the first day's objective of the First and Second "divisions "di-visions on July 18, which they reached with the French Moroccan division before be-fore noon. The president saw the vast American Ameri-can cemetery near Missy-aux-Rois, where several thousand 'doughboys' and marines are buried. He returned to Paris about S o'clock.