The sun., 1917-11-12
Not a Person Injured of Our
Force, but German Losses
Are Certain.
SENTRY GIVESWARNING
Barrage Of Artillery and
Machine Gun Fire Stops
Invaders.
EXPLOSIVES LEFT BEHIND
Second Attempt to Catch
Pershing's Men at Relief
Hour Checkmated.
EXPLOSIVES LEFT BEHIND
6rsm q Std1 Correspondent Of THs sux.

PROM Std6 Correspondent Of THB SuN.
Copyright, 1917. oil rioAts reserved.
AMERICAN FRONT IN FRANCE. Nov. II.
Another German attempt to repeat
the recent successful raid against the
American troops has ended in complete
failure. BY prompt and perfect CO.
operation between the American infantry
and artillery. . force Of Germans ssti-
mated to be almost II not quite a. large
- that which entered the American
trenches few days ago was beaten on
and not one Of our men received .
scratch. while It Ia certain that the Ger
mans had losses
The attack was delivered on Thursday
night at q point only a few hundred
yards from the spot where the first
raid Vas made on Saturday. November
3. the objective of the attempt this time
being the platoon Of Americans just to
the left Of the position attacked then.
About $50 O'Clock on Thursday night
pickets In the listening posts. up ahead
on the front line, reported that bodies Of
Germans were moving in No Mans
Land. A moment later the angry bark
OF machine guns broke out and a storm
OF bullets began to sweep over the
American trenches The Germans had
crept up in the dark and placed five ma
chine guns Just beyond the American
barbed wire.
On the instant the platoon commander
dashed to the telephone. which this time
was not broken by shell fire as It had
been in the previous attack. and called
10 the artillery and our own machine
guns. One minute later the American
machine guns opened a heavy fire from
the front and TANKS, enfilading the Ger
man marksmen. Almost Immediately
the American artillery barrage dropped
like a curtain over tho Germans. .
mass Of bursting shells blotting out the
stabb'ng flashes of the German hre and
smothering them.
one of the same Lieutenants who ac-
Quilted themselves so well In the pre-
vious attack hurried through the
trenches and ordered rockets and flares
to light up the lurking places Of the
Germans He also ordered the American
infantry to take position on the firing
step in the trenches. Dim forms could
he glimpsed here and there moving in
the darkness and the men opened
heavy rife fire. while at the same time
men In the listening posts began to
pump bullets from automatic rifles.
Under this storm OF bullets and shells
the Germans retreated hastily toward
their own trenches and were quickly
lost In the darkness, but the American
lookouts are cure they saw some carry
ing others. either dead or wounded. An
American patrol was then sent out and
reported No Mans Land cleared OF
Germans.
Further investigation on the following
morning revealed two large boxes. aban-
doned in their hasty flight by the Ger
mans among the American barbed wire.
which they evidently had intended to
blow up, as they had done before, and
make a sudden dash into the trenches
while forcing the Americans to keep
under cover by their machine gun fire.
They were trying to apply the same
methods as before. except that an artil-
lery barrage was used then. but 1t did
not work this time.
Reports by the lookouts agree that the
force Of the Germans was about 200.
They hoped to catch the Americans
again during the relief. but they made
n decided mistake about that. This in
cldent shows clearer even than before
that with anything like a fair show the
American soldier will not permit the
enemy to put over anything, while the
hot reception he got Is likely to warn
the boche OF the danger Of presuming
on his previous good luck.