Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-22
YANKEE GUNNERS
BRING DOWN TWO
HUN ARPLANES
Ambulance Men Do Heroic
Service in Battle by Gath
ering Up Wounded
WORK UNDER HEAVY FIRE
Americans Fight Well in Most
Severe Engagement, AL
though Outnumbered
BY associated Press

With the American Army in
France, Sunday, April 31.-Two low
flying German airplanes were
brought down Saturday by American
machine gunners during the German
attack in and about Seicheprey.
northwest of Toul. The machine
gunners who bagged the Germans
had been ordered to retire. but they
remained in their position and
fought effectively against the enemy
aviators.
During the engagement the Ger
mars concentrated their artillery fire
on American telephone and telegraph
wires, which were cut many times.
Couriers were forced to pass through
two or three barrages in order to
maintain communication. In the
meantime men of the Signal Corps,
in face of heavy bombardment, re-
stored the wires almost a. fast as
the enemy shells disrupted them.
Dies For Trcachcry
Ambulance men ventured into No
Mans Land during the thick of the
fight and did heroic work in gath
crinG up wounded. One German who
rad offered to surrender attempted
to explode a bomb on the ground as
three Americans approached him.
the trick and hurled a grenade at the
German. One of the Germans legs
was blown of and he died later, a
prisoner of the men he attempted to
blow up.
A village near the front lines
which the correspondent visited to-
day tells a mute tale of Saturdays
lighting. There are huge shellholes
in the streets and parts OF the church
and other buildings have been blown
eff
The enemy fire became so hot here
thai Salvation Army girls who had
heen serving coffee and doughnuts TO
the Americans were forced to leave.
The girls protested, saying they were
rot afraid of the Germans, and want
ed TO stay in their dugcut, but the
officers did not wish to take the re-
spousibility. AS they left the girls
were cheered by soldiers returning
from the front lines.
Advance in Waves
German forces which attacked the
American positions west OF the Rem
ners forest. northwest of Toul came
across No Mans Land in three waves.
They had been especially trained for
this operation. The Americans, al
though greatly outnumhereu. fnugh.
IoS every lncn OF tne way, giving
ground slowly and pouring a deadly
machine gun, rifle and automatic fire
into the advancing enemy
The German barrage beean just
before sunrise, after heavy bonn
bsrdmeut on the American front srd
real positions in the courst of the
night. In an attempt t. put the
American batteries out OF action, the
Germans used an unrsuslly large
number of gas shells. bat the Amer
ican artillery repliel vigorously,
hufling huad~eds of snells ecToss the
Teuton lines.
counter tarrage Sc: down by the
Americans caught the advancing
Germans and killed a number of
them before they had opportunity to
reach the American trenches.
The Germans entered the shell-torn
village of Seicheprey in the forenoon,
but only remained a short time. be-
ing driven out again by a brilliant
counterattack made by the Amer
lean infantry.
Th. commander Of one unit hold
ing an outpost reported at one stage
Of the attack that his men were
slowly giving ground. but that they
were fighting every inch of the
way