AMERICA'S VANGUARD.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 68, 30 August 1917, Page 6

AMERICA'S VANGUARD.

SPLENDID YOUNG. MEN. A correspondent in France, without revealing their whereabouts, describes the American Army's vanguard. They remind him of the first contingents of splendid Dominion troops to the new British Army. They are volunteers in the truest sense of the word. There are no men like them on the German whose cause does not attract volunteers. These young Americans are idealists, hating militarism, which isOpposed to all their traditions, and gladly fighting for liberty in this greatest of all wars. "Visiting the villages where they are billeted,'' the correspondent writes, "I was particularly struck with their youth, physical strength, and health. Most of them are splendidly big and strong, a largo proportion being public school men. They are likely to make splendid fighters, being full of dash and spirit, and training for 10 hours daily in the severest practical field tests. The officers display no cocksureness; ,they are orly too anxious to learn from the war-har-dened British and French. They arc approaching war with the humility of learners and enquirers, anxious to "profit by the Allies' wide experience, and so know how America can best play her special part in helping £p win the great victory. Germany will" shortly realise the extent of the blind folly which brought in America."