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...down to the arduous preliminaries of creating a U. S. fighting force which he was confident would deliver the "decisive blow" to Germany in 1919. Question No. 1! where would the A. E. F. take its place in the line? Selected, after long conferences, was a sector east of Verdun in Lorraine. Question No. 2: how would this sector, eventually to hold 1,000,000 men, be supplied from the rear? In answer General Pershing began to map out a Service of Supply which stretched from the Bay of Biscay across all France below Paris almost to the Vosges Mountains...
...Western front fell into three divisions : the northern from the sea southeastward to Soissons before Paris; the centre from Soissons eastward along the Aisne past Reims to Verdun; the eastern from Verdun southeastward to the Swiss border. The British held most of the northern line; the French were in the centre and eastern sector. Also in the eastern sector were U. S. divisions in training. The German attack hit the northern sector first, gouged great salients in it. The 1st Division under General Bullard was despatched to aid the French. On May 28 it engaged in the first small battle...
These successes led directly to the creation of the First U. S. Army which General Pershing commanded (Aug. 10). Immediate preparations were started for its active use. East of Verdun on the southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress...
...FIVE STAR FINAL-Internal workings of a scandal sheet. GIVE ME YESTERDAY-A. A. Milne demonstrates that Success is not much fun. GRAND HOTEL-A striking and ambitious production, depicting a number of lives swept together for a short time in a German hotel. MIRACLE AT VERDUN-What might happen if the eight million War dead rose. ONCE IN A LIFETIME-Hilarious nose-thumbing at moviedom. THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET- Katherine Cornell. THE GREEN PASTURES-If the Lord were a colored preacher; if Gabriel were a Pullman porter. THE SILENT WITNESS-A mystery play which manages to mystify. TOMORROW...
...been bestsellers. He has lived with a Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers in Kurdistan, with voodoo worshipers in Haiti. During the War he served as a private in the French army and was gassed at Verdun. Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...