BOASTFUL YANKEE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 April 1928, Page 11

BOASTFUL YANKEE

SCHOOL HISTORY BOOK. AMERICANS IN THE WAR. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received noon to-day. LONDON, April 20. The “Daily Telegraph’.’ reveals the extraordinary character of an American school book history on the war and quotes a scathing indictment by the Army and Navy Journal at Washington, which carefully examined 107 history books on the part played by the Americans. The journal give the following school book extract as typical: “It is aj wonder that the war lasted fifteen minutes after wo arrived. The Germans were dumbfounded. We took Saint Michael in a few hours. Whole German battalions ,rushed from their dugouts to escape annihilation. We charged across the river yelling like demons and fought twelve hundred thousand men on a piece of ground three to five miles wide, drove them to the Rhineland, gained every abjective, smashed every counter attack, whipped twice our number and demonstrated that an American, with six months training, was more than a match for tli© German veteran. We took the bit in our teeth and nothing could stop us. The enemy gnarled before the Americans at Sols sons and fled. A,t Belleau Wood we opened Foch’s eyes. We used commonsense and did not need an army staff. The tide of battle turned as soon as we arrived.” '