“In this drive through the fertile fields and populated country
which had grown dormant under the four years of iron-hand rule of
the Hohenzollern, more than twenty towns were liberated. Hundreds of
men, women, and children, laughing, crying, cheering, greeted the men
as they advanced and entered towns. The yellow, red, and black flags
of Belgium appeared mysteriously from hiding places and swayed in
the breeze. Apples and bottles of wine were resurrected and slipped
down the throats of the boys in olive drab. Up ahead at Heurne, near
Audenarde, the Americans were raising Cain with the Germans, who were
falling back along the river.
[Illustration:
_Drawn by Joseph Cummings Chase._