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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V—368 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES
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LORRAINES TRIBUTE TO AMERICANS Monument erected by popular subscription to three Americans,who were the first to give their lives for the Entente cause They were told exactly where various corps headquarterswere, where each division-commander could be found, andhad their choice of time for making trips to scenes of activi-ties. All this was done three hours before the opening shotwas fired.*^ At the end of the conference the officer said: Gentlemen,it is now midnight; in one hour our artillery begins andat 5 our infantry starts. Just at 1 oclock, when it wasraining hard, thousands of guns began to speak. Five min-utes to 5 came, then four minutes to 5, and then barragewith explosions so fast that one could not distinguish the 6 Cable dispatch from Ruynioud G. Carroll to The Suu (New York). ?,G0 ON THE WESTERN FRONT individual voice of any gun; shells were shriekingtriumphantly. At one minute of 5 came a pause and at 5men started, many thousands all bound north. Smaller gunswere still

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