Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-30
.F0EATTACKS
HURLEDBACk
AT CANTIGNY
Americans Repulse Ger
mans Counters Blows
One After Another.

With the British Army in
France, May 30.-(By the As
sOciated Press). - Another
strong counter attack against
the American troops in the
Cantigny sector west of Mont
dfdier, seems to have met with
complete repuIse, according
to brief report from the
south.
The Americans evidently
have been subjected to almost
continuous attacks since they
stOrmed their way into Can
tigny. In every case the en-
emy's waves have been broken
against the stone wall resist
ance of the Americans.
Washington, May 30. - The
second section of General
Pershing'S cOmmunique for
May 20 announces the failure
of the enemy to break through
the American lines. A raiding
party of about fifty men, it
saps, was repulsed with a loss
of ten dead and four wounded.
American casualties were light.
Three counter attacks made by
the Germans TO retake the terrain
which they had lost in Picardy on
Monday broke down in the face of
the American artillery fire and the
fire of our infantrymen. All the
ground won by the Americans on
Monday remains in their possess
sion.
Beat Luneville Attack.
The enemy launched another
heavy gas attack against our troops
in the Luneville sector early this
morning and attempted to reach
our line at three places. They were
repulsed with comparatively heavy
losses.
The first attack, made two kilo-
metres southwest of Premenil,
broke down under the hot machine
gun fire from the American
Both the Americans and Germans
fought in gas masks.
Soon afterward the enemy put
down a heavy barrage a kilometre
to the west and IA Germans man
aged to penetrate a trench in which
the Americans on Monday were sub
jected to gas attack and who were
fighting mad.
Want to Capture YOulss.
With the American Army in
France, Wednesday, May 20. (By
the Associated Press) The pur-
pose of the German attack today
against the American positions
near Bremenil, east of Luneville.
was to capture Americans. The de-
termined American resistance,
however. repulsed the enemy with
heavy losses and no Americans
were taken prisoners.
The Germans attacked at three
points and at one place a group of
II got into the American trenches.
1t never went back. Nine of the
IA Germans were killed; four are
prisoners and one is dead of
wounds.
The prisoners reported that they
were ordered to capture Americans
at any cost, their superiors being
anxious to determine where Amer
lean troops are stationed and their
present fighting strength.
At a point west of Bremenil,
after a heavy barrage, so German
soldiers attempted to reach the
line. They were in
three groups and the two larger
ones were held up and then dis
persed by the American machine
and rife fire. The third group,
of IA men, managed by
reason of terrain conditions, to
reach the American trenches and
jump into them.
Give Huns Hot Reception.
Under the leadership of a lanky
youth, who was a farmer until he
enlisted, a group of Americans
gave the Germans a hot reception.
on the end of American
rifles flashed white and then red
almost as quickly as it takes to
tell it and the enemy party was
soon overpowered.
During the engagement a big
German n-commissioned officer,
who directed the enemy party,
stood on a parapet He raised his
arm to hurl a grenade at an Amer
lean soldier but he never threw It.
Another American, who had come
through a severe gas attack last
Monday morning, reached the Ger
IGan with his bayonet. The gre
lade fell from the dying German
hand and exploded harmlessly Oh
the parapet.