BY Major Warner A. Ross DEDICATED TO THE American Colored Soldier WARNER A. ROSS, Publisher 7367 North Clark St. CHICAGO Copyright 1920 by Warner A. Ross...

You have done me this honor tonight because you know that I was the commander of a wonderful fighting Infantry Battalion composed entirely (myself excepted) of American colored officers and colored men. You know, too, that for some time, during the Great World War, we were in the very front lines of that magnificent wave of determined Allies in France who held and at last swept back the fiendish forces of autocracy and tyranny and made it possible for liberty loving people to continue their slow

History will concern itself as nearly as possible with facts . Relative to the World War the world believes and will believe what is stated by those who were in supreme authority and by those whose business it is dispassionately—mercilessly to ascertain and state the truth. Statements or accounts to the contrary, or that do not coincide, are merely ridiculous and can not stand. Commonplace, every-day occurrences, occurrences that had no unusual bearing on anything of special importance, occurren