New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-02
y. S. Strategy
Defeats Foes
Picked Troops
Germans Hurled Back From
Juvigny Position They
Were Ordered to Hold
By Wilbur Forrest
Especial Cable to The Tribune)

(SpeCt0t CGbte TO The IT1bune)
The New York Triblne)
WITH AMERICAN TROOPS NORTH
OF SOlSSONS, Aug 81 (Delayed).-
Facing absolutely fresh German troops
hurriedly brought from reserve posi-
tions north of Noyon, American forces
in foot-by-foot struggle under ter
rife machine gun and artillery resis-
tance completed the capture of
strongly held stone quarry at the vii
lage of Juvigny to-day.
The battle was conducted under the
sternest conditions Of warfare, and is
one of the most admirable illustra-
tions of American fighting ability yet
shown in the war.
Two German divisions opposed the
same American unit within three days.
The first, the 7th Prussian Division,
terribly drubbed, was hastily with
drawn and replaced by the 223d Di-
vision on Friday. This division not
only suffered the heaviest losses in the
last twentyfour hours, according to
prisoners statements, but was unable
to hold the line which it had been
ordered to hold at all costs.
Ready to Push On
The Americans early to-day, after
the conquest of Juvigny and goodly
slice of territory to the eastward in
the direction of the Bethune- Scissors
Road, are again ready for a continu-
ance of the action, which the enemy
undoubtedly is not so we'll prepared to
receive. The enemy again, however, is
throwing fresh reserve elements into
his line, according to information re-
ceived as this is being written, in a
dugout within a short distance of
Juvigny.
At $3.50 a. M, two hours ago, heavy
German shell-one of hundreds that
were thrown in this area during the
night-landed in the midst of 189 pris-
oners captured at Juvigny and gath
cred here on their way to the rear
after having been interrogated. A few
American soldiers guarding the group
narrowly escaped the fragments of the
missile, whose powerful explosion
hurled men and rocks in every direc-
tion, killing six outright and wounding
twenty-t three.
An American officer and the Tribune
correspondent, who were asleep with
in twenty yards Of the explosion,
awakened, first heard the screams of
the wounded "Feldgrauen," and as they
hurriedly reached the scene and were
able to see through the smoke discov-
cred the prisoners scattering in every
direction.
Those able to fee left their own
wounded in panic, to be cared for by
American Red Cross men, while they
scattered down the hillside into brush
and rock gullics. They were rounded
up with the greatest difficulty. Many,
terrorstricken, hoisted their hands
second time when approached, thinking
their own she'll had been the Ameri-
can method Of dealing with prisoners
after they were of no further use to
them.
Others cursed their officers who had
escaped capture by flight originally at
Juvigny, saying the officers knew their
whereabouts and were shelling them
Intentionally. Several score were
found after a search hidden in e small
cave in the hillside, from where they
emerged after being ordered out by
recaptured "Feldwebel."
Meanwhile in the American casualty
station the screams and means of the
German wounded as their injuries
were being dressed were in the sharp
est contrast to the silent stoicism.
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