The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 06, 1919, Page 6, Image 6
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
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with the men in the ranks. At any
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while the Germans vainly threw their j
. ' battalions upon the stubbornly defended
forts around the French city,
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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
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?& - 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."
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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
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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
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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
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