Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-31
AMERICANS LIKE GAME
Cleaning Up No Mans Land is Pleas.
ant Occupation.

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What have you been doing. Jack?'
u "hayburrrr's CHAUFFEUR I'm other
words, Il mule drivcr-inquircd OF a
ShadoYy fosm plodding past him to
| ward the rear.
Been out turning No Mans land
into Gods country. old scout" was
the blithc reply.
IN the dim light b, fore dawn. writes
Il special correspondent OF the New
| York World. ! could barely make out
from m, scat alongside the tcanistcr a
slight bandagc about the phantom's
left arm. | asked him whether he was
much hurt.
| Nav, Just flea bite In the ell
bSw," .hn- alser,ed- scnEnS,ii>4-tfrn;szs-
toward me n face blackened up in the
| way usually affected FOR festivities
over the top. ~ big bush got mr
| with his automatic q half second be-
fore ! got him with IA grenade. The
difference is. all Of mr Is still here cx-
ccpi about two irchcs Of skin. where
as that Guy--w"ll. you'd have to be-
pctuI" puZzl" expert To put him to-
="ih"r again. We'll. 30 long. ] got a
date back at the dressing station"
Killed Four of Enemy.
The wounded man was one Of a doz-
cn Ohio boys who. led by IA sergeant.
had cleaned fully a score OF Germans
ont Of the hamlet OF Anccrvillcrs.
just across from our lines in tn"
Lnn"vill, sector. He was the only
casualty the Americans suffered In
he little engagement that cost the
enemy four killed and at least as
have small hearing on tn" war AZ a
whole. OF course. But /, IL through
them that the commanders operating
in IN" quiet sectors that the command
wants to have kept quiet gauge the
mcttlc Of their men and keep In"
fighting spirit aflame.
How thoroughly our troops In the
trenches east of liaccarat are turning
No Mans Land into Gods country"
is shown by the last three nights ac-
| riviti"s Of "a regiment visited y"stcr-
day. Barely had they completed the
relief Of another American unit going
IN rest hillcts when n patrol Of twenty
men headed by young lieutenant. to
whom the war business IL quite new.
started out for the German lines. by
the time the party reached the Ger
man wire cntanglcments they had
flushed two groups OF the enemy. one
OF three. the other Of six men. and had
seen them fec without firing a shot.
Caught in Ambush.
Slipping through a gap in the wire.
the Americans jumped down into the
German trenches and put three more
enemy parties to rout. still in utter
silence. Remaining in Germany"
long enough TO perform the recon
naissancc duties assigned to them. the
Americans started back to find them
selves ambushed by strong enemy
patrol. which opened fire at point
blank range with automatic rifles. I'm
fortunately for the Germans, their
craftsmanship was poor. while that OF
the Ohioans. who used rifles and gran-
AIDES. was so good that they obliged
the ambushcrs to retire at top speed
after two Of them had been made
prisoners. One OF the Germans was
badly wounded and died soon after
being carried out OF the lines. but the
other was uninjured and was so talk
ative that he had the honor OF being
taken to headquarters in the coIonel's
automobile for interrogation.
The next night another Ohio patrol
crept to the foes parapet and let a
vollcy OF bombs loose on q listening
post, the Americans escaping scott
free themselves. The third night was
the affray in Ancervillers hamlet-not
to he confused with the village OF
Ankerviller, which we hold. On this
occasion the Germans evidently
thought their black faced assailants
were negroes. for one OF our privates.
who understands German. distinctly
heard the cry. american negroes"
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