The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-02
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struggle. The men dEs in, advancing one line after another. The soldiers were strung out in open order, offering as slight a mark as possible. bue the machine guns had done their work. They had slowed up the attack.
 The men who had jump their line forward in a remarkably lief interval Thursday were forced to accept the sit uation and to dig and crawl and fight their way forward; but neither they. their company, nor field leaders appeared to doubt the result
 From their hastily dug pits to shell holes and to abandoned trenches some of them again dug in. Other men scram- bled over the ground while the E fn1an artillery continued it's ineffective ire
 Two miles to the rear of the lighting Infantry was an American commanding officer and his staff. intent not only on wrestling valued positions from the en- emy, but on saving the maximum num- Der of his own men. Fully realizing ths probable efficacy of the German artillery and machine guns it was planned to en- circle the objective.
 An order was given to the artillery to cease firing on that region because of the advanced positions which the infan- try had been asked to take.
 The principal nearby support position for the Germans in Juvigny was the hil. to the north. On it was concealed num- bers of machine guns, but the Amer can left wing succeeded in worming 4 line between them and from the other side there had been sent forward to a line beyond the objective another lot or troops. who cafne into contact with the first detachments at a point almost ai- rectly to the east of the objective
 FIELD FLOWED BY SHELLS
 Literally thousands of German shells had been blowing the field but little in- reference was afforded to the thin lines that closed about that place. Heavy clouds had appeared and Just apou' nishtfall the only aviation that was ef- fective was that of the allies ana that only for the purpose of recording the movement of troops.
 The visibility grew worse and sole German aviator, who appeared for a bilet moment. evidently rendered an inaccu- rate report. for shortly after his momen- tarv appearence there began falling. Q thn astonishment of the Americans and ao,,btless to the defenders of the town German shells.
 once the enveloping movement had heen consummated the little place was taken by assault There had been sent forward another attacking party Tn the direction where the enemy was expect ed. but they succeeded in spite of a terrible fire from machine guns. lhe nlan was for them to arrive from the west at the same time as other troops a anpeared from the east and to close In Tn the west at the same time other troops appeared from the west to close in.,i
 PASSED THROUGH BARRAGE
 nocitinnS thEV had passed through a machine sun barrage into old trenches that had been in service since 1914 and through them to the Courronne woods Again they were subjected to griling flre' hut they Kept on until they were at the edge of the village and 10 min utes later they took a hand in mop ping up.
 There was not a great amount of hand o-hand fighting, however. Ihe defending force appeared to recognize inc futilitv of further resistance, al- though the Germans had fought win spirit and efficiency up to that nm ute.
 Meanwhile, the remainder Of the line advanced to positions and united With the French on the left and right, Ger man dead and wounded and freshiy made shell holes marked the path CT the American advance. Littie n the way of stores. however, was ieft DE hind by the Germans. There was one big gun in the woods, scores of ma- chine guns and quantities of ammuni- ton, but it was evident the German command had anticipated repulse and had removed most of the supplies from the endangered zone. \ feW or these same machine guns with the captured ammunition was used on the Germans today.
 KILLED BY OWN SHELLS
 The German loops who were killed and maimed by their own armys shell had been taken to the rear and were heinz escorted down into an old quarry. a cave that might house lVoo men That particular cave had been used as a division headquarters by the Germans.
 A shell landed exactly at the en- trance at the very instant when 1t was crowded with German prisoners who were to be kept there for few hours. It was at 5:3o o'clock this morning. The Germans. who were nothing more than boys were thrown into mangled piles by the explosion. Many of them, recovering from the shock, actually cursed their own countrymen for what they regarded as punishment. They believed their gum. had fired on them in retaliation for having surrendered.
 One of the young men wanted to know how soon he would sail for New York. He said he understood all pris- oners were being sent to America.
 The extraordinary grit displayed by the American wounded has aroused comment in the dressing stations at the advanced positions. One young man from Milwaukee. wAo was brought in with IA wounds from shrapnel and machine guns. anxiously asked when he would be able to get back into the trenches.
 The commanding officer of the French army today sent to the Ameri- cans his personal congratulations on their gallantry at Juvigny which, by order of the officer commanding the American division, will be read wher- ever possible to the troops whether in reserve or in the line.
 An incident of the arrival of pris- oners at the rear was halt of dc- tachment at a spot where graves were dental, but the men were fully COIL vinced that they had been brought there to die and there to be buried
 LARGE NUMBER WOUNDED
 In the dressing stations today the number of German wounded was faI greater than the American. The long range fire of the Germans today did not result in very many casualties The German dead is out of proportion to the number of Americans killed
 Helmets and other equipment marked the bath of the enemy retirs- ment, while some of the trenches and dugouts and other places which had been used as cover were filled witt bodies dressed in field gray. Dead