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meeting and the procession was more important than its appearance.

Men in uniform watching the German ships come into view vied with one another in identifying them one by one, sometimes with the aid of books and silhouettes, but underneath the momentary excitement of determining whether this ship was the Hindenburg or the Derflinger, there was deep satisfaction that the tedious task of the Navy had been fulfilled.

As the Queen Elizabeth steamed along the lines she was cheered again and again by the men who crowded the decks of the ships she led. The day came to a peculiarly fitting close. An hour before noon the Commander-in-Chief issued the following signal to the fleet. It was received beyond doubt by the Germans: "The German flag will be hauled down at sunset to-day. It will not be hoisted again without permission."

The German ships were flying the German naval flag at the main top. At four o'clock all hands on the Queen Elizabeth were piped aft. They had assembled and were waiting perhaps for a speech, when suddenly the bugle rang out, "Making sunset!" Instantly all turned to the flag and saluted. The next minute cheers for the Commander-in-Chief were called for and given with deafening heartiness. Admiral Beatty acknowledged the tribute with "Thank you," adding, "I always told you they would have to come out."

Then the ship's company went back to their duties. Meantime the Germans in seventy-one ships which lay out of sight in the mist had undergone the mortification of seeing their flag hauled down, perhaps never to be hoisted again.

HOW THE MEUSE WAS CROSSED BY AMERICANS

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HE American crossing of the River Meuse, writes an Associated Press correspondent, will go down in history as a great deed of valor, and the troops who accomplished it will rank as heroes. The work, indeed, was a strategic move of unusual daring. It involved the forcing of a way over the 160-foot river, a halfmile-wide stretch of mud, and a 60-foot canal in the face of a tremendous enemy fire. It also involved swimming by those who knew how and the pulling of others over on ropes. The operation is thus described:

The order to cross the canal came at midafternoon Monday. The troops received their grim instructions under a sun which was shining for the first time in days. The men knew almost as well as their commanders the difficulty of the task and realized how well-nigh impossible its accomplishment would be. Yet they never doubted or hesitated.

The orders were to send over one brigade first, and if it failed to send another, and others one after the other if this became necessary. It was with dash that the Americans tackled the problem. Theoretically they had the choice of crossings anywhere for five miles. Actually they were limited to one point, where twothirds of a mile of mud lay between the river itself and the canal that roughly. parallels the river.

The Germans were too firmly entrenched at all other spots. They had not. protected themselves with trenches here

only because they never dreamed that the Americans would be so daring as to try to negotiate the passage. This was a short distance north of Brieulles.

All the swimmers of the first brigade were first singled out and put in the van It was intended to attack in this way on the theory that the swimmers were less likely to be hit by the Germans owing to the fact that they would be nearly submerged. On the other hand, they could carry with them ropes and other paraphernalia for assisting non-swimmers across. The building of pontoon bridges was put off until at least some American elements had crossed the river.

Notwithstanding some losses and the fact that the swimmers could not defend themselves, many of them reached the east bank of the river with lines which were drawn taut across the stream. Others floated on rafts and collapsible canvas boats. These men had less success than the swimmers, because they were better marks for the enemy's rifles and the boats could easily be sunk by bullets even it their occupants were not hit.

Close to where the swimmers crossed the engineers began to throw over pontoon boats and a tiny foot-bridge. The pontoons were destroyed by the enemy, but the bridge remained intact and added materially to the constantly increasing numbers of men arriving on the west bank of the river. Soon after dark the first brigade was across the first barrier, and more men were ready to make the journey.

The second phase of the perilous undertaking was crossing the kilometer of mud The between the river and the canal. Americans stumbled along through a withering fire by the enemy. Their feet sank into the mud, slowing down the pace to a laborious walk, but they got through with some depletion in their numbers. Then came another gallant achievement:

The next phase constituted the crossing of the narrower but deeper canal, with its sheer sides and the Germans almost at the very top of the eastern edge. The swimmers again got into action and plunged through, notwithstanding the enemy fire, and scrambled to the top. Here the men divided their attention in driving off the enemy and helping non-swimmers across by the same method used at the river. Two bridges finally were laid down by the engineers, greatly facilitating crossings.

These two bridges withstood attempts of the enemy to destroy them and contributed largely to the speed in getting the American troops over.

When the swimmers reached the edge of the canal they could not land without the aid of grappling-hooks, which had to be caught onto the top of the wall edging the canal so that the swimmers could pull themselves up by means of ropes. It would have been a hard enough task for men undisturbed by the enemy's guns, but its accomplishment was almost inconceivably difficult under the violent enemy fire. With two waterways and two-thirds of a mile of mudland successfully passed, the Americans had only the customary fighting, and went to it with no delay and in ever increasing numbers.

The Germans, who apparently had assumed that it was impossible to cross the Meuse, gave way without great resistance before men who could brave their fire, swim two streams, and cross a swamp with almost charmed lives and attack them without pausing for even a moment.