New Britain herald., 1917-11-05
German Raiding Party Visit
 American Trench, Killing
 Three, Wounding Others. While Some Are Capturcda
RAIN OF ENEMY FIRE 2 STOPS ASSISTANCE
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Enemy Was Protected by Heaa Barrage Fire As They Advance Across No Mans Land and EngnEc the American Soldiers-InvaSltn Forces Greatly Superior in Numtl To Our Boys. M Washington, Nov 5.-Amerio1 troops of the overseas expedition forces have experienced their IT real clash with the enemy. ssssI In the early dawn of SaturdAn German raiding party swept over parapet of a trench occupied bYs American company and, after 2 nd-to-hand encounter retired M their own earthworks. with 1 3 pti4 CTS. General Pershing's firfA patches, announced at the war d11 E ment early today, reported that t Americans were killed, i've wpur and twelve captured in the epRl ment. s... < X Protected by a heavy barra&e the Germans advanced across Mans Land and stormed the M ican salient. Cut off from rein21 ments by the rain of German it is thought the defenders obliged to meet a force greatly su3 for in numbers. With the excel. of one German captured. nothtn known of the extent of the ene1 losses.' g ss3s yssS1 The first fragmentary details IT no mention of the location or the but Berlin despatches indicate tl1& was near the Rhine Marne cAnakz the section defended by the cf princes forces. X The official casualty list of tho. es in their first clash follows:
 Killed. A
 Private Thomas r. Enright, Ell Mrs. Mary Irwin. Pittsburgh.
 Private James B. .slsreahant nfot Mrs. Alice DQdd, EvanspIlle. Ind.
 Private Msrfor D 1fay.s 2sK k6 ls vey D. Hay, Glidden, Iowa.
 Wounded.
 Private John J. Smith, lorotarIas
 
 Private Charles J. Hopkins, brot James w. Hopkins, Stanton. T1
 Private George L. Box. fatt James L. Box. Altus, Okla. Private Homer Givcns. father. liam F. Gitens. -Cloverdale.. Ala. Private Charles r. Orr,- qa4t Mrs. Sarah Regnell. Lyons, ,Kne.
 Captured or Missing.
 Sergeant Edgar M. Halyhufton. ther, George B. Halyburton, 4f Point, N. C..
 Corporal Nicholas l., Mulhall. m. er Mrs. Bridget Mulhall, Jersay q N. J.
 Corporal Edwin H. Haines, moth Mrs. Elizabeth Haines, Woodw Okla. l.,.. f5ss..S
 Private Herchel Godfrey. fat1si William c. Oberst. Chicago, Ills.
 Private Vernon M Kendall, fatl Sam Kendall, Roll. Okla. Private William F. Grigsby, mothl Mrs. Lizzie Grigsby, Louisville, Ky.s
 Private Frank B. McDougal, fatla> R. L. McDougal, Maryville, Mo. NJ Private Daniel B. Gallagher, fathe Neil Gallagher, Blockton, Ala. A
 Private John F. Lester, father, W4 liam Lester, Tutwiier, Miss. sssl Private Harry Langhman, Ada Langhman, Chicago. Private Dewey D. Kern, moth Mrs. Eva Hilton, Collins. Iowa.
 Private Reckon. cannot identified. .-1J . Ss The list was accompanied by following statement: Il 'The war department has recA a despatch from the commanl general of the American expedfti0X forces, which states that before 77 light November. 3 a salient occ{ for instruction by company W American infantry was raided by 0l mans. The enemy put down hoNl barrage fire. cutting off the sailo from the rest of the line. Our ina1 were 3 killed. wounded and captured or missing. The cneYnS losses are not known. One wound German was taken prisoner" s