The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-13

nuts anu 6IOShd0SS VI America.
 "But the men of Company H had another character. They were good Catholics, most of them. No one knows where they got the idea or | who first suggested 1t, but had you | been watching them at dawn on July | Is you would have found that when | they went over the top each one of | the Indians wore something that IS no part of issue regulations looped 1 around his left shoulder strap of his blouse. It was a rosary.
 "In the first days of that battle, the movement was so swift that more than once a small German rear guard and an advance Yank platoon would meet in the forest and fight out then and there a complete and separate battle all their own. So it was with the Indians one afte Gloon, as they were making their way past the bit \ terly worn town of Epieds.
 At the crossroad they saw troops approaching them in columns of squads. The officer in charge caught them in the focus of his field glasses. They were boches-coming on. The Tanks waited, itching to open fire, but bidding their time. Suddenly the boches deserted the road and came at them through the forest. "The lieutenant placed his men along a roadside ditch. He placed | Scotty and his sho-sho beside tree and squarely opposite a narrow wood | land path that opened across the way. | ;rrI, he and the boches were bound either to
 come along 1t or to cross 1t. | "'See that path, Scotty,' said the lieutenant. That's your target. Not
 one of them must cross it.
 "'Yes sir,' said Scotty, and dropped
 beside his gun.
 Then, from the high branches of
 many tree and from many shea-
 ter, the German fire opened, and the
 Yank fire answered.
 "A gray figure darted suddenly into
 the leafy path. He fell.
 Another appeared. He fell.
 There was perhaps ten minutes of that, ana what was left of the Ger
 man party was withdrawing when a
 handful of soldiers scampering along the road They were Germans, but
 they shouted as they ran, Don't
 shoot we're Americanss.'
 For moment, just for the space
 that a breath is held, Scotty thrust his head up to see. From his perch | in some tree a sniper shot him in the , forehead. Another bullet found his . heart. He fell forward, dead, on his gun.
 ,, They had killed him, but the num- Der of their dead that are counted as
 his was thirty.
 Thirty the Indians will tell you and he died on his gum" , The object of the American drive il Lorraine were discussed freely her , yesterday by staff officers. They sa, that while the apparent objective i D the city of Metz, the real objective is:
 First, the iron fields which lie yves and northwest of that city and exten
 into the Grand Duchy of Luxembure The objective is therefore, they sa1
 twinned with that of the drive in up . per France, the purpose of which to push the Germans out of the cos
 regions of Lille and the surroundin country.
 = Second, that while Metz, one of tn . most powerful land fortresses in tn
 world, must eventually be taken, :, can be invested and its value neutra r ized by the continuation of driy A east of 1t and on into Germany. l. is known that, after the capture ,s Metz by the Germans from u "a French in 1870, they began to recol
 
 Ia ed them.
 A Third, the road west of Metz VI m be taken, it was stated by militia ,a expert here, flor the manifest reasC ,r that 1t was by that road that the Ge ht mans found the way easiest in is France in 1870.
 an Fourth, the terrain is in favor
 the easy, even of slow advance of u nv Americans in "the March to Be a. lin."
 lv One of the officials who has be- as near the ground to be traversed wv the American troops said: ly, ''The terrain is exactly like that ve central Pennsylvania. There are -ot mountains, but there are hills, and t he land is 'hilly country
 
 sents difficulties, but no insuperat mt obstacles to the advance of a dett he mined army, and that the arr hy should advance on these lines W te, predetermined.
 lal "It may be emphasized now tr Ith the lines of attack were mapped o ho as they have been, because we kn lat that Germany was vulnerable in | ch direction which she chose as 1 1t easiest for her march into France ent This drive was necessary also be- an almost obvious strategic reas me The German armies north and west vas Rheims are being beaten, but Def 1er there could be complete success rs,' the drive north, the German for ulo on the south should also be driven at retreat"
 It was pointed out by members liet the staff that the scene of the pres me fighting is near that in which the f per. American troops were reported last have been sent into "quiet sectors dge Lorraine" to study trench warfare into is understood, that with the exc boy ton of the troops which have b or placed as reserves for the British sted French and those which are arm brigaded with the French and E ody, fish. the greater part of the one l nch, lion six hundred thousand Ameri soldiers are in the sectors of Al! nen and Lorraine.
 lent Washington. Sent 1a-The Q ugh American offensive with Gen Pc had ing in commend or +he western fr
 IL which is to open ap a new roat ling, Berlin. has haqun not as a reconr