AUSTRALIAN’S
APPRECIATION
OF AMERICANS
LONDON, July 4 ((Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Austra
lian and American soldiers are “full
blood brothers,” is the opinion of
Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash,
commander-in-chief of the Australian
forces in the war, because the Ameri
cans were never placed In any posi
tion, nor called upon to perform any
duty when, as the general expressed
it in an Independence day speech
here, they did not “deliver the
goods.”
General Monasli said he first
reached this conclusion in the early
dawn of the Fourth of July, 1918,
when for the first time Australian
troops, fighting side by side with the
Americans in the Somne sector, won
the battle of Hamel and gave to the
allied arms the first success they
had achieved since the Germans be
gan their memorable advance on
March 21.
“This battle wras the turning point
of the war,” said General Monash.
“It was a brilliant and unqualified
success, and its effect upon the
morale, both of the enemy and of our
own men, was electric and startling.
It became the model of all subse
quent achievements in France, and it
paved the way for the great counter
offensive in August.”
The American troops engaged, the
general said, were 1,000 men from
the Thirty-third division, commanded
by General John Bell. The Thirty
third division was then undergoing
training. General Monash said he
had asked and obtained permission
to employ 1,000 of the Americans in
the battle of Hamel, but on the eve
of the battle the permission was-with
drawn. i
I passed a strenuous and exciting
period of two hours,” continued Gen
eral Monash. “So far as I could
learn the order originated in some
misunderstanding at American gen
eral headquarters as to the state of
preparedness for battle of this divi
sion.
“I could not afford to have my bat
tle plans ruined at the last moment
by the withdrawal of a large fraction
of my assaulting infantry, so I went
to my army commander and delivered
an ultimatum. If the Americans
were not allowed to remain in the
order of battle, then the battle in the
morning would be off. Unless a de
cision was given by 6 o’clock that
night the battle would go on with the
Americans in it as planned. We man
aged to intercept the commander-in
chief and he gave the order, ‘Carry
on.’
“Those 1,000 Americans covered
themselves with glory, and I can pay
them no greater compliment than by
saying that from that day Australian
veterans took them to heir hearts as
full-blood brothers.”
General Monash declared that the
131st American regiment of the
Thirty-third division, in company
with the Thirteenth Australian bri
gade, “fought a most gallant and suc
cessful series of actions which re
sulted in the capture of Chipilly
Spur,” when the great counter-offen
sive was launched by Australians
and Canadians in the Somne sector
on August 8, 1918. “This,” he said,
“made secure my left flank, thereby
enabling me to get astride of the
valley of the Somne and hunt the
enemy clean out of it for twenty
miles.”
General Monash had under his com
mand in the closing days of the war
the whole Second American army
corps, more than 60,000 men of the
Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth Ameri
can divisions. This army, he said,
overthrew the Hindenberg defense
system at its “most strongly defend
ed point.” The share of the Ameri
can divisions in these operations was
characterized by General Monash as
“probably the greatest single Ameri
can feat of arms achieved in the |
whole war.” The operations were
completed on October 5, he said, and
it was on that night that “the Ger
mans threw up the sponge and de
clared their willingness to make
peace on our own terms.”
“I have been asked over and over
again to express my opinion of the
American troops,” General Monash
continued. “I am not going to be so
foolish as to attempt to do so here
and now; I’m only going to say in
your own expressive vernacular that
at all times and in every place where
I have used them, the American
troops ‘delivered the goods.’
“You may well believe that this
close association in war of such
large bodies of Australians and Amer
icans has erected a very real and
lasting friendship between our two
democracies. The foundations of
that friendship had already been laid
many years before by the visit of the
American battle fleet to Australia.
“ I can assure you that Australia
attaches much importance to secur
ing and maintaining the friendship of
America. We look upon the United
States as our big brother in the Pa
cific, and if any one of you has re
flected on the problems of the Pacific,
which are going to arise in the fu
ture, he will know what I mean by
that observation.’
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