The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1917. AMERICANS IN FRANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 22, 20 August 1917, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1917. AMERICANS IN FRANCE.

A Pa)'is correspondent sends to the Lo'udon Daily Chronicle some interesting notes regarding the American Division in France: “The American army in France,” says this correspondent, “makes its own docks, harbours, and roads, and has rebuilt the railway from the port of arrival to its vast training ground inland, and is running Amercian locomotives on it. The toy railways of Europe will be dwarfed* by the real thing. The new army’s activity surprises the Old World. American officers, wishing to acquaint Paris of their arrival, on June 27, attempted to telephone to the capital, hut, on learning that they must wait an hour, they lowered their ships’ ( cables, attached them to the tele- ( phone wires ashore, and sent their message direct. The seriousness of the Americans, and their high efficiency, are already being commented upon. To their student-like attitude,! betokening a desire to benefit by the experience of others, is joined ft deep ( admiration of the British, both for, thoir achievements in the field and their miracle of army organisation • They have ten trained baseball adepts | at bomb-throwing and their airmen are equally adept. On their great new training ground the latest appliances of science have been placed at their disposal. America’s first coiv tingent brought six months food supply hence the fears if the peasants of France lest they would hd eaten out,. are groundless. Preparations' arc i» | progress to envisage an American army of one million men. It is snmU. wonder that Jacques, in the trenches is greatly comforted at the prospect of this gage of early victory. Arne-, vica’s army, which will he autonomous, co-operating with France, is the re-' spouse to Marshal Joffre»s prayer at Washington.” i