Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-21
KAG:E HIGHT.

With the American N,a,y 4,
France, Nov. 81. (By the Associated
Press )--Yhe AMERICAN artlll@r. ANA
infantry at the front are dry once
more. the rain having ceased for
several days.
The correspondents visiting the i'm
mediate front through the courtesy
OF the French staff, found that the
Americans had taken advantage of
the srainless weather and were deVot-
Ing sall their energies to changing
"GHrmans into Casualties" as they
pufsit.
Thsey are on their toes every minute
and are not letting a single oppor-
! tuney slip to drop a she'll or to>send
machine gun and rife bullets where
the enemy is seen. or where he even
is suspected OF being.
s They Like the Life.
There is no doubt that the men
like5$the life they are living. They
are as cool and methodical as IL they
had BEEN doing nothing erse than
fighting throughout their lives. )
The line group in the first line
trenches had just, sat down to their
salmon sandwiches and coffee when
they jumped up and u loose with
who were discovered hanging out
clothes on a wire In a battered viii
lage. They saw the enemy dive for
like rabbits, and then they went
on with their meal as il nothing had
happened.
& See German Trenches.
From the first line trenches, which
are on a hill, the German first line
can.fbe seen clearly4between 500 and
1000 yards away. There was some
thitg in the German first line once
which will never go back to Ger
mary. ,It>is. a woody dog, which de-
Land and bounded into an American
trench one dark night, recently. It
licked the hand of an American
"doughboy'' andl3was promptly fed
wilma piece of white bread and a
handful Of salmon. He was there
upon adopted and, now roams all
around the trenches and even walks
baEbed wire ehtanglements as If there
wetv no war.
MI He's N~aturalized Now.
;sThis pup" said one of the SOL
diets. lis a naturalized American, and
there is no hyphen about him. He
haA&entirely Forgotten all his Boche
connections. ! hope he gets a chance
to bite the kaiser"
AZ the correspondents approached
theStrenth lines, oyer the shell pitted
ground, the enemy started breaking
ing lasted but a brief time and
stopped as suddenly as 1t began. I'm
mediately afterward, came detona-
tons from the rear and the whiz of
shells overhead as the American bat
teries got into action. Then smoke
pufls suddenly began appearing over
theg.German trenches. The infantry
m ~ IL eco Ar- NE--S~
Land while the firing was going on,
butssas soon as it was over, they ap-
peared to forget all about II.
Rats the Chief Worry.
In a nearby dugout, the men OF
duty had not ever heard the racket.
Their principal worry seemed to be
rats.
One occupant Of the dugout ex-
planned that there was sleeping room
in It for 38 men In that twelve cats
were kept in it. Cats were every
blankets and some providing in dark
corners Of stalking their prey.
The men all appeared to be in the
bestasof health, although during the
recent wet and cold weather several
mon in this unit had contracted
trench feet" and colds.
While the sun was going down be-
nina inc Hliis ana tne was
coming on swiftly scarcely a shot wa.
freA. Just as the sun passed below
the horizon. however, the German
battaries opened up on one Of the
American battery positions with q
hot fire, the high explosives bursting
with the regularity of the clock tick
about one every second. The bonn
bardment lasted a couple Of minutes
ands!then ended abruptly. Immediate.
~ the American batteries retaltated
flashes of crange-colored flame stab.
bling the night. The detonations-
some heavy and some light-contin.
ued for some time with as ~>mucf
speed as. the Germans had shown
Then the ''straffng'' and the answer
-being4everIthe- artillery settled dowr
far fho NIGHT of ,,cual ouiot