AMERICANS AT THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1698, 14 April 1917, Page 2

AMERICANS AT THE WAR.

IN an article on American lighters in France, written at the request of the American Press Association, Lord NorthclilTe says: —“The Americans in the British and French armies enlisted in divers Avays in the first feAV months of the Avar. Many came to England direct and entered the British Army. Those avlio Avere resident in Europe at the outbreak of the war formed a union with the British residents in Franco, and joined (he French, Others came over later and entered the flying services, Avherc they have done splendid Avork. Early in the Avar, during the battle of the Marne, I Avas billeted Avith a number of our despatch-riders, and was much surprised to find that the particular company with Avhom I Avas spending the night Avere mainly from (he United States. It is almost, impossible to estimate (he numbers of Americans in these two armies, but, including those engaged in the noble

work of tho Amorioiin iinilmhuioo in Paris and its numerous automobile convoys, il has boon estimated at quite a sufficient number to have made (lie American language, American music, and Boston baked beans familiar. If you take a. map of the United States and go up and down the American line in France, you will Hud no city, great or small, which has not sent a Hying man, a bomber, an artilleryman, a sniper, or despatch-rider to help to destroy Prussian despotism. 1 put one question to a score of those whose mothers were not ashamed to raise them to be soldiers, i asked them why they had come. The reply of the American in Prance is the same every time, whether you meet him with the Canadian Army, the British Army, or the French Army. They all say words to this ettect; ‘The sort of thing that has been going on in Europe as the result of the horrible organised savagery of the Prussians has got to be stopped. We want to stop it before it reaches our own country. V\ e have come over here to do it, and thank God we know that we are helping to do it and that it is to be thoroughly done.’ ”