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Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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M. Herriott,the Mayor of Lyons, in christening the bridge, added thatthe city deemed it an honor to link President Wilsonsname with its own and said the bridge would remain as amonument to the unselfish action of the United States inintervening in the war in behalf of endangered humanity.He welcomed the military and diplomatic representativesof the United States and gave the freedom of the city tobronzed American fighters who were present. In marchingacross the bridge with fixt bayonets, these soldiers receiveda tremendous ovation. They were the first American sol-diers the city ever had seen. They were followed by Ital-ians, Serbians, British, African, French and Territorial andForeign Legionary detachments.^^ 6 Principal Sources: The Literary Digest, The Evening Sun, The Outlook,The Times, The Journal of Commerce, N?w York ; The Daily Express, London ;The World, The Tribune, The Sun, New York ; Associated Press dispatches. 208 ON THE WESTERN FRONT Part XVIIFOCHS GREAT VICTORIES 209
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© COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. CLEMENCEAU AND PERSHING LEAVING A RAILWAYSTATION IN FRANCE 210 I GERMANS HELD UP EAST AND WEST OF REIMS-AMERICANS FIGHT AGAIN AT CHATEAU-THIERRY AND ON THE SURMELINRIVER July 15, 1918—July 18, 1918 IN resuming their offensive, the German High Commandat one time apparently had had the stage set in two places—one for a drive against the British, with Abbeville as theirobjective, the other for an attack in the Champagne, aimingat Chalons. Somewhere back of the German lines wereforty-four divisions (660,000 men) of the Kaisers besttroops,—his army of maneuver with which to support thisdrive—a highly mobile and well trained hammer-force re-juvenated after the Aisne attacks. It had taken about fortydays to prepare for another stroke. Forty days fr^m June6 would bring us to July 16 as the date when the attackwould be made. The greatest result for the Kaiser probablywould have been attained by reaching Abbeville and so cut-ting the British army off

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