Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
AMERICANS SINGLE
 OUT GAS STORES
 AND BLOW THEM UP
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 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Tuesday, March 12.-Four groups of German gas projectors, in addition to the group of 200 projectors already reported destroyed, have been discovered and likewise blown to pieces by the American artillery. It is prob- able that German plans for gas attack on comparatively large scale against the American positions northwest of Foul have thus been upset.
 The new groups of projectors were discovered from aerial photographs taken by American observers in French airplanes. The effective action taken against them was due to the quick work of the observers, the intelligence office and the artillerists in turn.
 More Active Than Ever
 The artillery on this front has been more active than ever in the last 15 hours and it's shells also found lodg- ment in a number of ammunition dumps, which were blown up.
 During a retaliatory shelling for an enemy bombardment in which a num- Der of gas shells fell on our battery positions, the American guns silenced certain German batteries by pouring in a fast and extremely accurate fire. Our 7 until the gas shells began to fall, when they put on their masks and manned the guns while thus protected. Some mustard gas shells were mixed with the others that fell and later few of our men walked through this type of gas without their masks on.
 The American artillery also tore great gaps in the enemy wire and leveled various portions of the first and second line trenches, forcing the enemy virtually to abandon them.
 Shoot Some in Trenches Details of the recent raid which have just been developed show that while numbers of Germans were killed by shell fire when the box barrage was in effect and others later by the creep | ing barage, there were also a few of the enemy shot during the time our men were in the trenches. Many Americans among the raiding party of four officers and seventy men did not see a single German soldier.
 All the men in the raid seemed particularly impressd with the way the American barrage worked. Tt worked like a clock" said one soldier, whose home is in Texas. Tt made you feel you could go right on to Berlin behind it. The only trouble about this show was we didn't see enough of Fritz. He must have beat it like a rabbit, because I did not see a single one all the way back to the second line, although some of the other fel- l lows did"
 | No Americans Killed
 The men went in 150 yards on a 100 yard front. None of the Americans ! was killed and none is missing. It is | certain that five Germans were killed | in the fighting.
 Artillery fire of quite a lively char acter also is continuing in the sector east of Luneville. So far as known the Germans have not yet re-occupied their first and second lines there.
 Both the Luneville sector and that of Foul have been much occupied with snipers today, as well as last night. In the former sector one sniper was which he had done fairly effective work.
 One of the American sharpshooters crawled cautiously to a vantage point in No Mans land and opened on him. The second shot hit the German whose body dropped to the enemy wire where it hung the rest of the day.
 DisIodge German Sniper
 Northwest of Foul rifle fire and grenades dislodged a German from a sniper's post in a shell hole and also silenced the enemy in a machine gun emplacement on the front lines who has been annoying our men with bursts of fire. The American machine guns by a cross fire, again drove out the Germans from a number of listening posts.
 l An American aerial observer in a French airplane crossed the German lines this morning at low altitude and used his machine gun effectively on the second line. Other Americans were in the air all day, many of them over German territory. One aerial bat tie is reported The American observer emptied one gun at German plane, but without apparent result as the enemy was hurrying toward the rear II Another machine in which the Ameri- | can observers were manning the guns went up to meet German airplanes which had> crossed the lines, but the Americans failed to get close enough to shoot with any chance of scoring hit
 The Germans are doing much work behind their lines. Additional camou- flage construction is going on there and an exceedingly heavy traffic is in evil dence at many places, especially at night