Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-28
STORIES OF THE WAR
Murder Traps For the unMarN.


 (By Raymond Carroll With the Amer
 ican Army to London Tines)
 New murder traps have been set by the Germans to catch unwary Ameri- cans in the towns and cities from which the enemy has been driven. On the floors in the houses were found glass bulbs, also bladders, full of phos- gene gas, to poison our men when en- tering. Other deposits of the same gas were left in tiny bags under hel- mets, as the Germans know that sou venir collecting is a passion of Ameri cans.
 The captain who led the advance patrol of 30 American soldiers into a captured town saw in the dining room of a small hotel 8 loaf of bread uDon the table, with a knife sticking in 1t. Suspecting a snare. he called upon a German prisoner just captured t0 withdraw the knife. The effect was q violent exHIosion. A small bomb laii been left within the loaf of bread but only the prisoner was injured. WheE | the captain first reached the hotel @ German officer came out, speaking eX- cellent English, and said that he de- sired to surrender. The American | pulled out his revolver and jumped back barely in time to escape a rain | of bullets from an enemy machine-gun hidden under an adjacent cellar door and operated by arrangement with the German officer.
 i A curious discovery in the operating 1 room of a hospital left by the enemy was some little rolls of crepe paper i which the Germans have been usiEg 1 for dressing wounds. showing that they have little cloth left. We alsc discovered that some burned bits o1 | harness left behind, instead of lea ther, were made from composite paper and hemp Machine guns, which have
 practically supplanted rifles with tht Germans, are undoubtedly the bane o
 the overseas soldier, yet the Americans
 throw themselves against the bernie ious weapons with almost superhuma
 audacity. These Kugelspritze, set III 1T. rocky nests, clunps of bushes, O along ridges commanding fields of rn
 cut grain. are handled by an expert
 enced enemy, who keeps his presence
 of mind and offers the most desperat
 type of resistance before his opponent
 can come to hand to- hand conflicts
 where the superiority of the fresh ant
 well-fed American troops always man ifests itself.
 In successive relays the victoriou
 Franco Americans from north an
 northwest of Chateau -Thierry hay
 pressed forward until the lines nos
 press upon the north bank of tn Fcsle, patrols having crossed tn stream The Vesle cannot be forde like the Ourq, having an average widt
 Of 50 to 75 feet, below deep-cut bank: Your corresp spondent reached the edg of the ancient town of Fismes, levelie fat by artillery fire, with the sam , hardy lumber Jack who had take : their first bite of triumph over the enc my back at Cierges, their subsequer f 1 special chain of progress with tn French on the right and other Ameri
 cans on the left including the captur
 of Bellevue Farm, Hill 230, Rudd 6 Farm. and the towns of Chauner, Y Coulonges, Conan, DraVegny and < { Giles. Their particular path in til 7 drive had a depth of F 1-2 miles IcGntinuous fighting lasting four day f and nights, and they went at one pc N riod for 4S hours without cooked ra . tions. Buddy Farm Mas a particu:: ' interest, having been the field hea6 q quarters only week ago of Prin( e Eitel Friedrich. the son of the Raise : One captain led his men shouti: = Let us go in smiling during the figl 0 at close quarters at Hill 230. A SC 2 geant, with a rifle in one hand and e trench knife in the other, stood like Q Roman gladiator over huge Gerrns e he had beaten to his knees. His liel L. tenant said: When I reached him
 looked for a moment as if the Germs was done for. He was begging f t mercy, and the sergeant was cursil Ie him in his own language for followil x, the kaiser. We have many boys T German American ancestry in O u ranks. They are splendid men V D. need prisoners during an advance is as to get the positions of nachin Ii gun nests farther on. The biz Ge