The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1918, Page 12

P _MON DA Y. su P's E MB E R 16, ' Eight Months at the Front With the American Army) First in a Series of Articles Deals with the Turning} Point of the Great War at Chateau- Thierry, | Showing How the Marines and American In-| fantry Divisions Started the Germans Back From: , h the Marne. | By Martin Green (Staf Correspondent of The Evening World.) ' Copyright bs | BE All-American attack inaugurated Jast Thursday morning under the pensonal direction of Gen. Pershing was the natural culmina-! tion of a series of operations conducted by American arms which began in May and extended through June and July. It was, in a senee, | the twin offensive to that which started at daybreak from and above the Villers-Cotterets Forest, below Soissons, on July 18, with this difference: the Soissons offensive was forced | by urgent military necessity and American participa- tion was in the nature of an experiment, while the St, Mihiel offensive was a development in tha science of | attack, The development was made possible by events dating back to May, when the American Army first stepped aut toward tho footlights on the stage of war ! and lined up with the other principals, and moving on to July 18, which date found the soldiers of the United States enjoying their initial spotlight ath in the ! theatre of hostilities before an audience composed of SasEe the world. ‘The situation in France in the lat-!| teau/Thierry sector, The American ter part of May was not encouraging | division which had stopped them at; from an Allied point of view. The|Chateau-Thierry on the second of German armies were preparing for an-| June was still there, and it fell to the other jump from the line at which | lot of this division to stop them again, they had been stopped in Maroh.| ome of the Germans got over the! Paris was under daily bombardment. | Marne east of Chateau-Thierry, but ,, Field Marshal Sir’ Dougias Haig bad | were driven back on July 16 by men) announced that Great Britain was|of the American division operating | standing with her back to the wai!.|with French troops. Further east! France had sent to the front or in the 28th Division, soldiers from Penn- her mobile reserve forces every man | syivania, newly arrived at the front, over eighteen years of age able to| were thrown Into line to stop a Ger- walk. The American foroes, nearly |man advance south of the Marne in fourteen months after the United | the Dormans sector, and they stopped States bad declared war on Germany,| it. The Pennsylvanians had never! had taken part only in trench raid|been in any sort of an engagement engagements, and the French people | before this. They went into the fight looked on our soldiers with a mixture | with the characteristic cheerful ear of hope and distrust. The coal fields |nestness of the American soldier about Bethune—the last of the na-| and came out veterans. While these |’ tion's coal supply stili held by the| actions were in progress on and south French—were within the range of | of the Marne, two regiments, tho 165th heavy German artillery, and France| and 167th, the first from New York contemplated a heatleas winter, Pac. | City, the other from Alabama, stopped ifam and cold feet were prevalent in| the flower of the German Army on the France and England. Plain of Chalons, north of Chalons, on | All at once things began to happen | the Marne, and spoiled a coup which —star-spangied banner ¢hings, as| had been prepared by the Kaiser, who, | | it were. France and Great Britain] from a tall tower behind the German): wore electrified one day by the news| lines, about fifteen miles east of | that a section of an American di-| Rheims, watched his gray-clad vas- vision holding the @ine in Picardy op-|%als march forth in the misty dawn posite Montdidier had, with French|of the 15th of July to dash them- assistance, captured Cantigny in a| selves to pieces against the impreg- surprise night raid, and that the|Nable front of the New York and Americans re holding Cantigny | Alabama boys, Here was event num- agtinst violent counter attacks. This| ber four—this combination of Ameri- was the first American advance, It| A" activities, was small in military effect, but im-| The situation had changed for the| mense in moral effect. “At last,” said| better in two months, but was still the French people, “the Americans are|far from satisfactory. The German for 1918, by The Prem Publishing Go, (The York Evening Warld), ' Knitted wool golf costume, of belf material. AWW SW) ‘AY \ \ \ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1918 How an American Woman Opened the First Canteen For Our Soldiers in France “A Fall of Fringe” MODELS NOW BEING SHOWN EVIDENCE THE POPULARITY OF FRINGE AS A CONSPICUOUS FEATURE OF FALL FROCKS AND COATS wift Fernald, Chicago Society Woman, Daughter of Millionaire L. F. Swift, Tells How She and Mrs. Herbert T. J. Crean, Daughter of Gen. B. G. Nicholson, Went to France to Help Open for U. S. Marines Canteen Which Mrs. Fernald Directed. Rose chiffon velvet evening wrap with deep fringe to match, collars and cuffs of silver fox. fall playing, with fringe — MRS SWIFT FERNALD “CREAN. | tinue our work there, and open By Helen H. Hoffman. | club house for the boys. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, “We carried on this work for four (The Now York Evening World.) months under the Red Cross, but the ARIS, Aug. 30,—Out at the big | American Fund for French Wounded military hospital at Neuilly, now | CoMtributed at the same time, gen- | erously to our supplies of chocolate, devoted to the care of the] cigarettes and comfort bags for the Ameri wounded, @ young private | soldiers," explained Mrs. Fernald. muttered a few words as his eyes| “With Father Brady assisting, we found two rooms in an old house in the villa a kitchen, and a bij - A few minutes before he had been | ting room, PAC bate ceukanons opened with returning consciousness. This doesn't sound very rolled from the operating room and | magnificent for a club house, but even deposited in a clean white bed in the| With such small quarters ‘we man- : aged to provide a coinfortable pla surgical ward. |for the boys where they could wri For the first time in weeks he had] jetters and have hot been, there in the room,| cold nights and smoke cigarettes,” outside the zono of shelifire and the| | “With considerable dithc ulty we tle of guns, as he lay stil _| were able to negotiate a piano from rattle of guns, as he lay still and un-| 4 neighboring town, which proved one conscious while the surgeons ex-| of the most enjoyable features of the tracted a piece of shrapnel from his} club. left leg. chocolat on © weather was pretty cold out ate te blue| there during these club months, but A trim looking nurse in pale blue) the sitting room had a big old fash- and white cap and apron approached | joned fireplace, and the boys carried a neighboring cot. | wood enough to keep !t comfortable. “Just a oe Lah the prvate: reg Maite eee Wetiored iets The nurse turned al | said Mrs. Fernald. “Often when we ‘Ain't you the person that run the! had the time, Mrs. Crean and I darned canteen at —— last winter?” the boys’ socks and their gloves, and For the fraction of a minute the|the wool helmets they wore. » looked into the bright, smiling| “There was only one hotel in the purvericoked naib town, a small old fashioned house, face of her new patient, and a swift on fo! Ww vere Mrs. Crean and I were t accommodations. There wa owed with amile of recogni “Oh, you're ‘Smithy,’ aren't am heat, and such a thing 2 | bath tub was unheard of. At first our 8, 1 re ber how you toted water Se eiieevolate for the ‘club mem. | CUr&K® failed us a bit. “The prospect to make chocolate for the ‘cl Was not especially alluring, and to 5 bers." pass a winter under such conditions, Frock of navy satin meteor The ward did not seem so strange , more than once at the beginning ‘ : atte gat Seinituy. und he our career there we wondered if which fringe arrangement atter that, and , we would be abie to do it. was evacuated a few weeks later, w is a notable feature. | “But we soon became go interested pronounced one of the most cheerful] in our work that a few discomforts of patients. In this range, new! were passed over lightly, The food 1) We had was pretty good and nourish world into which he had been ushere utd \hieadl and at helped to make 1 tol > Gghting.” Here was event mumber| line from Soissons to Chateau-Thierry % sata abe bis bi he had met some one he had known |iN& and that helped to make up toe F one, \ was intact. Pagis was oui under bom =| scribed as a pivot blow. The base of | which attended the passage of Ameri-| shown their fighting ability and the| after the infantry and tanks startea|4"4_ one whe ba tanee | bs [ilmmed #0 Bush td i UNTRIED AMERICAN TROOPS|DArdment by the long distance guD-/the pivot was at Torcy, close by the |can soldiers across the Ourcy and the| YUurth of July colebration in #rance| ahead in the shadowy light of early; proved not only for “Smithy” but for] | “Wheneser 1 was cold and uncoms : HALT GERMAN ADVANCE, The French inteMigence system re-| Belloau Woods, the outer end was at | Veslo. had eatabliabed that the Breach peu: dawn, ‘The horses were brought up| hundreds of his comrades in the mow) (ya ag | RRL et te boa a 7 Germany launched the great May ad- | Ported that the Germans were bulld~/a point about eleven miles southwest | Coincidental with our advance on| adopted the Yankeo soldier aa a uemn-| ‘Thehistory of the wat, In relation | £ameus Marine Corps a happy Ae-| can stand it, we should be able to g@ Et yan on Paris, crossing the Aisne and |!ns concrete emplacements along the by west of, Soissons, An American|the westerly side of the salient Mng-| ber of the French family—the highest | to active participation in’ the field on] @aintance indeed, ; Bi AAO Raa pire, Crone and Tee 3 the Cheinin-des-Dames and sweeping | Faiiroad line between Chateau-Thierry| division held the base of the pivot, lish and Colonial forces, aided by a| CoMPliment within the gift of France| the part of the American forces, will| This young woinan Who proved her- | caine xo accustomed to this iife | toward the Mame with astonishing| and Solssons with the design of plant-| then came a French division, then an small unit of Ttallan troops, attacked | Here, Fomained to be testal the necessarily begin to take form from self so efficient « canteen director. | ceG Mind with the exception of @ b) speed. On June 2 this advance was |!ns cannon from which t inch sbells| American division, then a French di-| the casterly edge of the sulient below | planned surprise attack. Marshai| pass through the events of May and ond later ieee i OF & eye ie few light colds we did not suffer any 4 halted at Chateau-Thierry by an|could be thrown into Paris and the) vision, then an American division,| Rheims, The German high commaad| och and Gen. Pershing selected for | June on the Marne and in Cham-|eoigitny in rance und how is proving | {yew ands in fact. to-day 1 be ‘American division which had just| suburbs of the city. That the infor-|then a French division—the M¢ thus found its army facing Paris and | the trial the two divisions whish had| Pagne, and setually start off froMt herself an equally olficient nurs Jence Beit oe oe tie experts ; ge soon sinpadl (a i ci Se seen the longest service in training. | the counter offensive attack of July| herself an caulily ellen tn Hite ne taken its place in line, None of the| mation about the concrete empla cans—and then, holding the extreme | the Marne subjected to pressure in|" probably no great offensive in the| 18 That was the beginning of the|Neuilly, | * M Sets, Switt of| q When the marines went into the officers and men of this division ex-|ment# was accurate was established | eft and the end of the pivot line, an| three places, below Soissons, below| war since the Tormation of the “taxi- |¢nd for these reasons: daughter of Millionaire Ly Fy BWI Ol} Geld, where thoy did such wonderful cept those who had seen service in| later. The brief outline of prevailing] American division, To the left of this | Rheims and on the frontal line along | cab army" which turned the rmais|WHAT IT WILL MEAN IN HIS-|- agin Pa iar ah WORKAE | aeheln y revently, we gave up the the Philippines had ever heard an | conditions embraced In this paragraph [last American division was a French | the Marne, On tho westerly side of the | Back from the gates, of Paris in the TORY OF U. 8. ARMS. which included Mra, Fernald, repro. | Clip Quo.” sald Mra. Fernald. : % cutumn of 1 n so speeds . 8. 5 ald WE aes , L always wanted to be 4 enemy shot fred until they faced the | leads up to event No. b—the turning| division, which had orders to protect | salient and along the Marne front the | asse nbied and leunched, ‘The move: | First—It was the first important of-| sented the fh een alga el te Alp |nurse, and so I turned my attention } Germans on the Marne, but zhey pre- | point of the war the left flank of our division, We | pressure was prepondefaungly Amer-| ments of troops were wccompished | fenslve movement attempted by our] QnRaKE in {tis Sort at mil to this work. T applied at Neuilly and |. vented the enemy from crossing at] AMERICAN-FRENCH OFFENSIVE) Mad in round numbers 105,000 men in| lean at night, ana aithougn there wae ti Pe a, ne a such, | ¢ “Benvious tore g to France last Was eccented as) AN. sary Auras t no an wal | ane , | moonlight, the plan of the Allies to] marked a yoch in the great war, ue 0 fa been actively a0 gind I am a! > do fi Chateau-Thierry, This achievement| LAUNCHED ON 40-MILE FRONT, |!ine and in reserve, und back of the} With the Americans 1 French | (cop. the’ manoeuvres hidden Was DeCause its success permanenily re-|JWY Mrs. Fernald hy Fee ieee, |_Living in cap and gown and canteen was almost entirely lost to public) Event No. 6 was the American-;Whole jine were the wonderful re-|saueezing thelr ri and | aided by the natural formation of the | Moved from the minds of the Allied | Gss0° ee et are ierench Wounded |@iform, Mrs, Fernald, ike former notice at the time, and succeeding, French offensive launched at day-|serves of the French Army. This de-;!tallans pinching their left, and Amer-| country chosen for massing the ate | ATEN and He Allied geen ps any inet C ph |days passed in social pleasures, " events of importance pile& up #0/ light, July 18, on a forty-mile front,|scription applies to the beginning of |icans and French smashing away at! tack between Chatesu-Thierry and) /e ing doubts as to ultimate vic- | [oe onter war Mrs, Fern- | Mo inte spre Ba is ag | lone ena eet clause! ‘ sons, Miles and miles of forests, | AER tne EY ta eames , says, pousth| y rapidly that it was buried in the) between the Aisne and the Marne, and| tie attack. Later the Brith vein front, ther hing le creening dark roads, contributed to} Second-—It was the most important Pk tha aaa tO coeeean|hew gowns or anything in the way * news, but the history of the war will) this event, in respect of American en- | down h and 8 h regiment Germans but re ut It way erecy But with all the natural} Offensive ever undertaken by Amer s» in company with Mrs, |0f personal adornment «ince. coming reveal the part yed by the di deavor, will prove to be the historical] to replace the Freneh reserves behind | t! rst time they had ever been su) uuds the chief factor was rapidity of) /°4n troops on foreign soil, far out- \. Crean, daughter of {{Mto this service for the American i question » Germans had | high the ter str our lines, aid it was (he English and [jected to pressure from all the A movement, because the lines of attack) TAneng in national and jnternationil Nicholson, wh t one| boys. And in addition to the wort vied a " badd aditbieg basi us on 3 cay . A fs sath ‘ r assed right along our front| ®ffect our campaigns in Cuba and th Natloned at Mort sheridan has accomplished, an'l the happl« ; crossed at Chateau-Thierry and gained | French soil. In point of num en-|Scotch who went in after our units, / en the w v front atthe same] ne of battle and-only a short dias | Philippines, the outcome of - which] time was stationed at Fort Shortness ene hag been “able to. spread ‘f Ms ol of the bridges there they could | gaged s immediate mii we |having opened the way and started| and the 5 u Was too pa tance from the German positions. was ‘oregone conclusion. Ss Se ORDER ORI O. nong these boys, whi ‘ control of te br there t Ud gaged and immediate military advan-| having ob a he is y ; Le ET eects m the German positions, Third--Next to the deciaration of} work in the Marine Corps camp, | Aiming battlefields in Hinla tngneee i: have thrown immense forces to the | taxo to be gained the offensive started | the German retreat, retired to recrult| "1 10 he URN U. & UNIT “SHOWS SPEED” IN} war by the United States aguinst Ger. We signed Up to do this Wore aig tMre, Fernald, I have my suapicinny in the direction of Paris astride that| the supreme American effort thus far.| ORIGINAL PLANS MISCARRY; Tr rar i aia The speed: @t mobilisution 4s illus. Ripmentous aation in the greatest off Ane ond of Now York, Chap. |thore boys out of her personal bank * Hi On Ju ast a t © experienc one of our! are Hecause if established (a) | so? Ace’ bloodstained, historic stream. Here! Rut the point Had not the| AMERICANS “CARRY ON, | uit Be day el : tor | trated in the exp monce of one Of oUF! that our forces In France form wth {iain for the m sked us to con- |a@ecount h eae seent number two, | Americ Aa alts. mentioned Above de-} ‘The original plan w ty tor the ¢¥0 live tor the. Marne. jet part in the attack. The opders calied P!@ organization capable OF AUD | sree re r — Stopped a ateau-Thierry by an|livered the goods in May, June and| Amer Hivisions and t erocean of opening up a roadway to or the movement of this unit on the 27 cual pa lest tb) tone th a f M S WE as rie Gee tiara guy there would wave taen ce omtoas lain aa ie Litt to noah torware | the th eta einoot und night. preceding” the) amnened, byte Aue: (hat th! Metz, Fortress of Many Sieges, hurled a powerful attack to the west € started last Thursday morning./and cut the German wnd tor the | Thier t \ heels wk for a distance of fifty kilome. | ANT! meric esas fight: ae eres artrwees a ane | eta nase in ao ena atu she Garman in, and fr tyra heathy Dion af | em, approtiating Sry: ane: in| APA an ACN ALG at OER Has Surrendered Only Once rd at a pol orthwest of that} German success in any one of the five, French cavalry sto sweep in thr tho A Army, which 1) over congested roads, Artillery and | {18 Units ond an , met the Marines and the Sth and| mentioned would have seriou . . . n Other American the other branches | (ap 4 * And onges af the and from them it alld man f Because unprey : ; The eaetnay Hage Mie other Dranehes | commands of nations which have been | crmany, which jg now into the hands of the Frenc * : an Tye ¢ hp iy] ve te illed: oftge vA i ee abl yngestion on the roads the {yh iminating teatu Scie?’ utanae She arin ule on af eine ilitary b for tho| ; ened be ADL uns, exist | | 8! ortly atter Freeh cecuplod ithe opped there, but driven back curtain raisers were carefully planned! yrench cavalry was unable to 4 fi t brilliant and im Wore faced, twelve hours in advance | , : j fortress i as defended against ! p ourth—It revivified tho fi fortress in Caesar's reign, and | (5 : ¢ fell Marines to bear the brunt | preliminaries to the big show, wh th ted pende at the tir 5 hed team work durir f starting the attack, with the prob ' ed as at |Charles V., by Francis of Guise, Nae ne ¢ rendezvous a u b ‘i : attacl spirit of the American soldiers whol, s history is only known to have | poleon wanted ePithie great Gebt, and in n- | wa finally ot ma front extend-jappointed for an advance in force Jah start em Of sovering fbirty-one miles of had been engaged in tedious training in a STs an GCAy coon ah LE Ortarea ln Hues at ion of the alo ne of | ing from Fland © French Lor q je and ga s into position to/and trench monotony since last win. | surrendered to an ’ the | s ‘ turops 4 tien of wt y valor the ni fing from Fi ' Li apon the shattered German retreat, | F ned tempos | put down a rolling barrage dn front| hd frenen monuony fineo iat win-lGerman Army in 1870—is boing be- jstrengthened it by a circle of des eau Woods has bee to} ‘he object of the attack of July 18 4 gonsiderabl ulry force, by dint 1 by the British and | of the attacking infantry and tanks, |o¢ the soldiers recently arrived + Gen. Pershing, Its fall is| hed forts, but was not completed Woods of the Marine Brigade was to cut the German line by orc of marching through the w ase | , stopped again carly in Juse| ‘The ground was covered with the| France and on the way and. waiting|°.°e e ne n a ete ie ae baie edi rpe TY action stopped the advance on Par ng the Chateau-Thicrry-Svissons posi ae : by the Americans when the marincs | intelligent and timely aid of various) for the word at home, created a stata | expected 1M & oan Re many Was preparing for war with >, A pemblod behind ou on **=| delivered the first American counter | Preneh truck units bounc 6 | ‘easive competition between the| Mets is the capital of German Lor- | France er the anco- Prussian and France drew a long breat t| road sout Ghisdinn. ti | n nd in the same| of aggres P n the War : M q \ ! ’ s, thus covering | treme left on th ne of July 1% \attack of the war in open fighting, direction, As the horses gave out the| soldiers of the various nations fight ne and 1s situated on the Moselle | War she saw that Metz would probae relief, A French officer com: | the German right flank below the Oise | put the bigh command decided not to again in the middle of July | 75's were unhitched and loaded by|ing Germany and had a strikingly er, The city is entered by ten} tita: FURS. OLY ths Fensh would i mand stated that in his judgment the} and compelling bis immediate with-/send them in, and it was up to the! PY hand tho sith Infantry, | main strength of perspiring Ameri- | evident effect on the morale of all tho] tog erhe fortress is protected by | chain of defonses outelde ot the aley ‘American soldiers in attack wore as| drawal from the saliont bulging to eal irned toward Germany, and it has} can artillerymen and French soldiers | Allied forces geen Eran mune whieh were'l a uses outside of the city, good inn Mtkieeh. | ha - Sees | w aA Baia Wot , R Americans and n to carry | been flowing in that direction ever] on to French trucks. Heavy artillery] In connection with the effect on the|the largest of Krup | Mets is a city of famous churches as the French @ Frenca | ward Paris between the Oise and the on, ‘They reached their objectives h was attached to French trucks and| morale of the forces opposing Qer-| installed after its capture in 1870 by | and cathedrals, many of the Gothia Newspapers devoted columns of space| Marne, Tho m a au naais ea TaTnGnt Hult the German retreat really be-| dragged along the roads. Half an|/many it might be well to call attention | the Germar J style, Althoug? city was moderne 7 to the Ligieau Woods fight. Am wm | ful, as everybody know didn’t had se | gan on Judy 18, When the Ist and 2d) hour before the signal for deginning| to the fact that since the 18th of July} ‘The region where Metz Is situated | iged by the French and Germans, it F; ove cheered in the theatres'| work out ned, ar j ae a a Jermans | Divisions now engaged, as ofticialiy| the attack the 76's and heavies of this|the British have been 100 per cent.|was called Gaul in the time of the | Stil possesses its picturesqu nes we cheered in the kg Out as pia and & tha wit w from © Marne] announced from Washington, in the} unit: w cing @ ed into posi-| successful, the French have been 100) Roman Emperors. Caesar often - jaul, Man f the 1 and and of Paris and other French |i all ove reason may be ex daw July @0) olonuly’ nueened | AGy Si. Mintel. galient—| tion Ds power, ‘The attack had| per cent, succossful, and the Amer-|marked that it was one of the oldest | streets running t same ag in cities. was event number threa, | plained. okie ut 4 Aah dashed for the Soissons-Chateaue | bewu yme of the heavy ar-|icans have been 100 per cent, success-jand most important towns of (iaul, | the days of the Ca an rulers, " sat Saup Amestcan divisions t jby American divisions, and thie with=|aniorry road with the Morocoans he- | n. At that every ful, while, prior to the 18th of July|He saw its great strategical import- | When Metz showed its strength m ed) 4 ook part!drawal ma the beginning of the} u (a was aiding the aga@regate percentage of successjance and fortified it, After Attilaland fideiity years ago it was chrie y ba- ‘in Lhe atlaak, which might be de- series of rear guard ebgagements' While the American foroas jad \ans ten minutes was not nearly so bigh, ‘plundered Mota it went into the hands cened the name ‘La Pucelle.” PERS ARSE LA RAE ORE Tig * 2S SE EE AE EE —“~!