Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-29
From American Big Guns Throwing High Explo- sives at Points Miles
 Away.
TWO GERMAN TRAINS
 WITH SOLDIERS HIT
Only Few of Bache's Left to Tell the Story - Much
 Material Secured.

With the American Forces North. west of Verdun, Sept. 2S.-(By the Associated Press.) .)-High explosive shells from the American big guns are now reaching far beyond the German lines.
 Fires at Brieulles and at other points are attributed to the work of the American gunnerS.
 American engineers are busy close behind the advanced line repairing roads and bridges and preparing way for the movement of artillery and truck trains.
 The congested conditions necessar- fly incident to a rapid advance have been relieved rapidly in the past 12 hours.
 Two Trains Smashed.
 Two trains loaded with German troops were caught by the fire of American batteries as they were en- tering Brieuekes this afternoon The artillerists opened fire soon after tho trains were first sighted by observ- CTS.
 When the shell smoke cleared away only a few of the Germans were in evidence.
 Uefmun ranks ln W0ys
 No German tanks were encountered following the bombardment of the Brieulles region although previously the enemy had a number of these ma chimes in action.
 South of the Mouse in the regiou of .VilOusnes the Americans captured < a large amount of German ammulli- tiOn and supplies.
 The German supply station of var- iOus kinds in the region of Dannes voux from which the enemy was un- al1.e to withdraw his material because of the fire from American long range guns which had the ranges of the bridges across the Meuse At intervals during the day German aviators attacked Americans in this sector with their machine guns but were driven off by the anti-aircraft forces moving with the infantry Attack Repulsed. A counter attack by German infan- try along the elbow of the MeJise. north of Dannevoux was repulsed this morning by the Americans. The assault by the enemy was pre- ceded by feeble artillery prepara- | tiOn. 1 Many Germans were killed in the l operation and a considerable numt0r taken prisoner.
 On the western flank of the Cham- pagne- -Verdun offensive, the French the Hindenburg line. ] From the ArgOnne east of the Meuse the Americans are forcing their way a,%k<. os,
 Slowed Down Little.
 Some ground has been gained near the ArgOnne forest but the American progress Saturday apparently was slowed down some from the first two days,
 l In Tight Place. .', With a 250 mile line afiame over al- most it's entire length, Marshal Foch has the German command in a tight al place. l On each of the four sectors the al- q lies threaten important. bases and Invaluable communicating lines The German command probably will have trouble in placing. it's re- serves to the best advantage as the allies are in position to strike son istiil more sectors if Marshal F0cl thinks necessary. 1. In Macedonia the allies are press. ing the defeated Germans and Bul;
 garians into Bulgaria on the east int< Albania in the west and tOwarx Uskub, on the north.
 Approaching Belgian Border. t The Serbians who are.Rt the apei ' lOf the salient. are moving towart
 Uskub. having taken Veles and IT garrison. N. They are also aprroachin& the Bull } lgarian boFder from east Of tho Var a dar, s1 .sS ssxs 6 $, < staine towsrd tha import J s al!