Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-06-28

Americans on Stormlng the Bel
leau wood section last night now
mum Der $50, including seven Of
hcers. One of the officers said
the Gei man commanders have
been telling the soldiers tnat the
Germans have landed an army in
America, capturing New York
and are now marching toward
Philadelphia. The Germans also
told that submarines have sunk
between forty and fifty ships in
Long Island Sound.
The Importance of the Ameri-
can advance in Belleau wood is
not indicated by the amount CT
territory captured as that only
amounts approximately to 300
square yards. The new positions
of the Americans, however, domi-
nate the ridge beyond so that
they now hold the upper hand.
Another German officer, AFRO
CANT and sarcastic, Remarked:
I'VE are just starting with the
Americans. We are going to
wipe out whole divisions as if
they were companies"
The German privates were less
arrogant, and apparently were
glad they were captured. One
declared that the Germans were
surprised at the Americans, who
appeared so young, but Tough,
like devils when they got started
Another declared:
"The war will soon be ended.
There are too many Americans
coming to Europe" ..-
This prisoner was a Prussian,
who fought on the Russian front.
He confessed that the Germans
were preparing to attack the
Americans in Belleau wood when
the American troops started their
attack. 1t was surprise affair.
The Americans came one way,
and the German officers tried to
force their men forward the other
way. This prisoner was shot in
the leg Oy his own officer be-
cause he ,hesitated confusedly be-
tween the American guns and
bayOnets. and the pistols in the
hands of the German officers.
Raymond S. Howell, of Barnes
vile, O., who was in the first
line of the advance, describing
the operation, said: 49,.
Eve took up position in the
open wood; there were no trenches
the shells fell around US like
rain. We charged over the rocky
hill, our fellows laughing and
yellinga war whoop We then
came upon a wheat field and
crossed in the face of a wither-
ing shell and machine gun fire,
and drove back the Germans at
the point of the bayonet.
st was a wonderful sight
The Americans never hesitated
and the sound of their whoops
were almost drowned by the Ger
mans cries of "Kamerad.
1.-THE Germans got a few oil
our fellows, but we made them
pay dearly for every one."
Herbert E. BARLEY. of Ada, O.,
told about a wounded American
forcing a big German to lead the
way to the American lines.
When they reached the lines he
said the American said quietly:
"Here's my prisoner" The
German sheepishly nodded and
said yah"
Some idea of the thoroughness
with which the Americans pre-
pared, attack may be cleaned from
the fact that :. they fired approx
mately 5000 high explosives in
one hour. The American gunners
worked so fast, the Germans said
they did not have time to think
The German lines were torn
up and the ground strewn with
German dead and wounded. Two
members of a German hospital
corps were captured.
Machine guns emplacements
which were hidden behind the
the rocks, were charged and cap
tured, while a group of several
Americans captured one machine
gun and twenty Germans in 6
shell hole. The attacking fore,
was a comparatively small on,
but did the work as thoroughly
as one several times as large
might have done.
One of the American wounded