Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 202, 6 June 1919 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919.

U.S. SOLDIER HAS 110 SUPERIOR, SAYS i MAJOR C0MST0CK, BACK FROM FRANCE

! ' - One of Richmond's Interesting mili-j tary figures; Major Paul Comstock, arriTed at hla home in Reeveston last evening after , an absence of nine monthB- In France," Luxemburg, and Germany, Major Comstock is one of the flye officers of that rank from Richmond. Major Comstock arrived at Brest, France, on the twenty-first day of last September and was put on staff duty in the inspection department of the eighty-fourth division. When this division wa3 dissolved he was sent to the inspector-general's department of general headquarters, and while stationed there went up to the extreme left of the western front where he saw active service for two days before

the armistice was signed. Following the signing of the armistice Major Comstock took up work In the St. Mihiel salient with the twenty-eighth division, serving here until the middle of February; then he served as assistant inspector-general of the second array, which insignia he wears. With the dissolution of the second r.rmy on April 15, he became associated with the eightieth division with which division he sailed for the States on May 17, debarking from Brest. "When the armistice was signed," said Major Comstock this morning, the 28th division simply squatted on the front to await developments of peace. The second army acted as a reserve for the third army which was the army of occupation proper. We . had 31 days of rain here, I remember, and conditions were not very pleasant. The American soldiers were living in German dugouts, shacks and In the ruins of the villages, but they were every Inch soldiers. Between themselves theyi did not complain even as

much as they did In letters home. The

American soldier is simply fine. That is all." 1 "I had occasion to make several official reports one of them with regard to the attitude of the men, and I observed the American soldiers for that particular reason under all conditions and at all times and found him hard to beat in spirit and manhood. He has no superior as a fighting man. His conduct as a whole is very wonderful, and conditions existing in the A. E. F. were very good. There was less drinking and less drunkenness in the American army than there had ever before been in any army in the history of

the world. j "The difference in fighting qualities between the American soldiers and theallied is ttiat it is very difficult to restrain the American when he knows where the enemy is. If he knows that the enemy is Just over there he goes after him! "When we went to France the British and French were fighting a war of position. After studying tactics and results General Pershing decided that the war had to be one of movement. That was the difference. The British and French had come to the place

where they felt if they held the line they were doing well. We came in and held the lines, but went farthr and pushed ahead. I do not mean to say that America 'won the war,' but there is no doubt that America with a

theory loosed from the bindings of the

French and English saved the allies.

Wltnout tne allies we would never

have won; without us the allies were

facing defeat.

"The Germans understood this. And

I feel that that is what General Lu-

dendorf had in mind when after he was

put in command of the German army he Issued the. order, that at all times when facing the Americans his men were to stand prepared to withdraw for they never knew what. we .might do. "The enemy did not understand our rifle fire for one thing, and its use at

Soissons and Chateau-Thierry ' came

to them as a distinct shock.

"The Germans, too, were sick of war

and it was not hard to make them

surrender when they got Into a tight

place. -: :--...'.

I observed that most German pris

oners were pretty willing to stay In France where they were Bure of being fed," said Major Comstock, but added that he had noted in Germany no cases of apparent starvation, and that while the people were being fed

on regular rations given out at regular times, they received enough and were not suffering of hunger any

more than 'isolated cases such as exist in America.

"Fuel among the poorer classes seemed scarce," he said. "That, too, is true in France. Fuel is very short there. "As the American army passed over

the Rhine the German children, as the French children had done before them, fell in love with the American soldier. It may be that as a form of propaganda the older people came to treat the Yanks very well, it may be the mere fact of being throw with them while billeting them in their homes, but at any rate the - rules against fraternization were not as rigidly observed after a time." Major Comstock was the first Richmond man to enlist for the world war, having gone Into the reserves in February 1917. He will be honorably discharged in a few days.

SURPASS RECORD OF

WAR, DANIELS URGES NAVAL GRADUATES

(By Associated Press) ANNAPOLIS, Md.f June 6. Secretary Daniel 3, in an address at the graduating exercises at the United States naval Academy today declared

that the closing of hostilities did not

mean the United States navy could "rest on its oars," but that it must

surpass its great war record by a

"greater record in peace."

The 454 members of the graduating

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FRIENDS PASTORS IN CONFERENCE

' Several pastors and elders of the Whitewater Friends Quarterly Meeting gathered in the North A Sertte Friends church Friday morning for an Informal conference on matters pertaining ta their particular work. No business of public interest was taken up, but inner church subjects

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