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MICHELIN ILLUSTRATED GUIDES
TO THE BATTLEFIELDS (1914-1918)
THE AMERICANS
IN THE
GREAT WAR
VOLUME II.
THE BATTLE OF SAINT MIHIEL
(ST. MIHIEL, PONT-à-MOUSSON, METZ.)
MICHELIN & Cie., CLERMONT=FERRAND
MICHELIN TYRE Co. Ltd., 81 Fulham Road, LONDON, S. W.
MICHELIN TIRE Co., MILLTOWN, N. J., U. S. A.
The Michelin Wheel
BEST of all detachable wheels
because the least complicated
Elegant
It embellishes even the finest coachwork.
Simple
It is detachable at the hub and fixed by six bolts only.
Strong
The only wheel which held out on all fronts during the war.
Practical
Can be replaced in 3 minutes by anybody and cleaned still quicker.
It prolongs the life of tires by cooling them.
AND THE CHEAPEST
THE “TOURING CLUB DE FRANCE”
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WHAT IS IT? WHAT ARE ITS USES?
The “Touring Club de France” (founded in 1890), is at the present time the largest Touring Association in the whole world. Its principal aim is to introduce France—admirable country and one of the loveliest on earth—to French people themselves and to foreigners.
It seeks to develop travel in all its forms—on foot, on horseback, on bicycle, in carriage, motor, yacht, or railway, and soon in aeroplane.
Every member of the Association receives a badge and an identity ticket free of charge, also the “Revue Mensuelle” every month.
Members have also the benefit of special prices in a certain number of affiliated hotels; and this holds good for the purchase of guide-books and Staff (Etat-major) maps, as well as those of the “Ministère de l’Intérieur,” the T. C. F., etc. They may insert notices regarding the sale or purchase of travelling requisites in the “Revue” (1 fr. per line). The “Comité des Contentieux” is ready to give them counsel with regard to travelling, and 3,000 delegates in all the principal towns are able to give them advice and information about the curiosities of art or of nature in the neighborhood, as well as concerning the roads, hotels, motor-agents, garages, etc.
Members are accorded free passage across the frontier for a bicycle or motor-bicycle. For a motor-car the Association gives a “Triptyque” ensuring free passage through the “douane,” etc.
ONE TRAVELS BEST IN FRANCE WHEN A MEMBER
OF THE “TOURING CLUB DE FRANCE”
IN MEMORY
OF THE MICHELIN WORKMEN AND EMPLOYEES WHO
DIED GLORIOUSLY FOR THEIR COUNTRY
THE AMERICANS
IN THE
GREAT WAR
VOLUME II.
THE BATTLE OF ST. MIHIEL
(ST. MIHIEL, PONT-À-MOUSSON, METZ.)
Published by
Michelin & Cie, Clermont-Ferrand, (France)
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Copyright, 1920, by Michelin & Cie
All rights of translation, adaptation or reproduction (in part or whole), reserved
in all countries.
FOREWORD
THE ST. MIHIEL VICTORY, SEPTEMBER, 1918
The world already knows of the undying glory achieved in the Great War by the American Soldiers, but perhaps less is known about the historic ground over which they fought.
The purpose of the present volume is more to describe, for the benefit of the tourist, that section of France where the battle of Saint-Mihiel raged, than to dwell on the splendid achievements of the brave troops from across the seas, who took that ancient stronghold, and thus opened the way to Metz.
At the same time it is fitting to remind the reader that at Saint-Mihiel the Americans liberated over 150 square miles of French territory; took over 15,000 German prisoners, and captured upwards of 200 guns.
President Poincaré, in a message to President Wilson, expressed in the following words, the feelings of France regarding the glorious achievements of the American troops: “I congratulate you, Mr. President, on a victory which has been completed so brilliantly. General Pershing’s magnificent divisions have just liberated with admirable dash, cities and villages of Lorraine which have been groaning for years under the yoke of the enemy. I express the warmest thanks of France to the people of the United States.”
Marshal Foch, also, expressed the greatest possible admiration for the way the American troops fought their way to the great victory at Saint-Mihiel. In describing the battle Marshal Foch said: “This was where the Americans for the first time showed their worth. This is where we were able to judge of these admirable soldiers, strong in body and valiant in soul. In one swoop they reduced the famous salient, which during so long we did not know how to approach.”
In closing this brief introduction the publisher wishes to say that it would have been an easy matter to fill the pages following with many high-sounding phrases and verbose descriptions, but it has been thought better to adhere to the facts (they speak for themselves), and to furnish the tourist as briefly as possible with an historically correct account of the great victory of Saint-Mihiel.