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DRAMATIC PHASES . BORN OF THE WAR "THEY SHALL NOT PASS!" WACH\VORI> OF VBRDUN. "Lafayette We Are Here'' Gen. Pershing's Utterance on Wreathing Tomb of Great Soldier, Now Famous. New York, Jan. 26.?The war has jmom- dramatic Dhrases, uevciupcu uiuu; slogans, terse epigrams or laconic statements. Looking back over the perspective of four years of fighting, it appears that the majority of these grew out of tense crises in battle or marked historic moments, when the fate of nations hung in the balance. Take, for example the slogan, "They shall not pass." During the tremedous fighting in front of Verdun, when the Germans made their great desperate drive to break n through the French battle lines in 1916, this saying passed from lip to .lip among the French soldiers gathered there in the long drawn battle to check the terrific onslaught of the Germans. How i^ originated is not clear. Some have attributed it to Marshal Joffre, others to Marshal Petain, who was in command of the French fighting forces at Verdun, i Others believe the saying originated i f' * I with the men in the ranks. At any 'v ' ? - * J . -3 n-t/vn f ViO ' event tney aaopiea u <*uu iui muutuc while the Germans vainly threw their j . ' battalions upon the stubbornly defended forts around the French city, I : ? . * the saying, "They shall not pass," became the watchword at Verdun. And they did not pass. "Lafayette, We Are Here." To Americans the sententious utterance of Gen. Pershing when he placed a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette in the Picpus Cemetery; in S Paris, conveyed a significance and an inspiration. "Lafayette, we are here," was all he said, but to the % American as well to to the Frenchman it was better than oratory. It meant to the American. "We are sv>y< here for business, and our business is to fight." It thrilled the hearts of General Pershing's people at home ? and the modesty of it filled them with a glow of satisfaction. ;? - Another dramatic phrase which stirred the patriotism of the Ameri can people was mat annumcu w <?u American commander at Chateau Thierry when he responded to the advice of French commanders to re^ x treat by declaring, "The American flag has been compelled to retire. This is unendurable. We are ^)ing |-i. to counter attack." These statements have been attributed to both Major Gen. Robert L. Bullard and to Major Gen. Omar Bundy. Some observers V . - . ?& - have regarded this incident as the turning point of the waj. From that time the Americans advanced. The victory of Chateau Thierry followed and thereafter the German army rei;. treated. ?' "We Can Start at Once." j?.\ Vice Admiral William S. Sims, JV 1 commanding the American naval r forces in European waters, was askjo v ed when the first Yankee warships ^ arrived in England, early in May, ' 1917,. "When will you be ready for business? He1 replied, "We can start at o^ce; we made our preparations on the way over." of Gen. Gouraud, who, upon entering Strassburg after the liberation of Alsace and Lorraine, declared, "The day of glory has come." Figlit to the End. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, commander-in-chief of the British armies in France, gave utterances to an appeal in addressing his soldiers which stirred a responsive chord in the hearts of the Allied peoples throughout the world. For three weeks the enemy had battered the English lines in a desperate effort to separate them from the French and drive through to the channel ports. Day after day the British had been driven back. On April 13, 1918, Marshal Haig called upon his men for one last effort. "Every position must be held to the last man," he ordered. "There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, THere was a dramatic moment, a > great crisis in the world's history, when Gen. Pershing placed the American army under the command of the then Gen. Foch, who had just been made commander of all the Allied fences, but none of the phrases that Gen. Pershing used were widely quoted as epigramatic. One which has been selected was the words, "Infantry, artillery, avjation, all that we have are yours. Dispose of them as you will." The retort of Major Charles Whit> . tlesey, commander of the "lost battalion" of the American army in the Argonne forest, when the Germans surrounded his isolated command, , and their commander demanded its surrender, was one of the war's historic phrases. "Go to hell," he replied. "The Hour Has Come." V -? The first great battle of the war, the battle that stopped the Germans at the Marne, elicited from the lips of Marshal Joffre the historic words, "The hour has come to advance at all costs; to die where you stand rather than to give way." Gen. (afterward marshal) Petain inspired his weary troops at Verdun by an order of the day, concluding with the words, "Courage, we will get them." Gen. Foch, commanding the French army in the first batle of the Marne, had been almost overwhelmed by the onward sweep of the German forces. In a memorable message to Joffre he said, "My right is crushed; my left is in retreat; I am attacking I / SMASHED HUN BRIDGE. Wonderful Piece of Work By British Airmen. Think not the soldier of the air confines his activities to bomb dropping, fighting hostile planes and making observations, writes a London correspondent. This is the story of an observer who was dropped, on a moonlight night, near to a bridge behind the German lines, of a pilot who kept a Hun troop train interested while the observer blew up the bridge, and of iU-:- linir linPQ 1P3V lucu 1 etui u iu v??** . ing the German soldiers stranded on the wrong side of the stream. The two airmen assigned to the job flew over the German lines until they arrived at the river. The moon shown brightly. The pilot throttled his engine down and landed on a field near the wood, where the shadows were thickest. The observer alighted ^and creeping close to the wood made his way to the river. Wading waist deep in water he kept i^ the shadow of the bank until he reached the bridge. Meanwhile the pilot had risen and circling above the bridge a few hundred feet above it now drew the attention of the guards at each end, threatening them with machine gun fire as he swooped down then rose again. The troop train drew up and stopped, and soldiers' heads appeared at the windows to see what was happening. The airmen dropped! bombs near the train to make things j more interesting. The observer was at the bridge now. With all possioie naste ne pried out a brick of one of the arches. He inserted a strong explosive charge. Another ' bomb fell from the plane above and the machine gun kept up a fusilade. The observer lighted the fuse to the charge which was to wreck the bridge and made his way back through the water, climbed i?p the bank and ran through the moonlight to the field where he had been landed. The pilot had been watching for him and swooped to the earth again. The observer climbed aboard. The motor started. And as the airplane left the ground there was a flash and a roar and a span of the bridge was blown iilto ruins. The airplane shot into the air and toward the Allied lines and the Huns on the damaged train knew that they had been outwitted again. He Understood. Mis*. Gregory was devoting herself! to the education of the children Ill <t lai ua.cn auu muuuiaiuuua wuu~ try, and there were many, negroes among the small pupils. One small boy, who was inclined to be very lazy, was asked one morning to bring a bucket of yater from the spring. "I ain't ^wine fotch no water," he whined rebelliously. "Oh Peter!" protested the teacher, please don't say that. "Can't you remember anything I have taught you; first person, singular, I am not going; second person, you are not going; third person, he is not going. Plural: First person, we are not going; second person, you are not going; third person, they are not going. Now, Peter, do you understand it perfectly?" "Oh, yes'm, I und'stand," said4he colored boy. "Ain't nobody gwine!" with my center." He did attack and drove a wedge through the German lines that started their retreat to the Aisne. The people of Paris were stunned by the rapidity with which the Germans advanced in their first rush toward the French capital. The railway stations were besieged, but the great majority o? the people knew they must remain. In this tragic moment Gen. Gallieni, military commander of the city, inspired confidence and cheered the faint-hearted with the watchword, "Jusqua bout," or "To the ^ery end." The populace took up the cry and Gallieni, with his army, played a signal part in hurling back the legions of von Kluck at the Marne. No less inspiring, but born of less tragic circumstances, was the saying and believing in the justice of our cause, every one of us must fight to the end." When Vice Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss went- to tell the German commander of the naval terms of the armistice, one of the Teuton admirals said, "It is inadmissable that our fleet should be given up without having been beaten." "It had only to come out, was tne laconic retort of Admiral Wemyss. Later, when the surrendering German warships were escorted by the British fleet into British waters, Vice Admiral Beatty's historic signal, afI 7NE "PAL/DENT A 1 PREPARED EVP 6 I EE PAS A BANK | Accou/vr. Don't you see taken down with s; Is not this a le have MONEY PI] so you can tide thr Should you D! your family helple Bank your : DUTY. 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