The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-03-21
SPY DISCOVERED
IN YANK LINES
Sentry Fires at Signals, But
Searchers Fail to Find
informant of Ger
mans.

Sunday, March 17.-American intelli-
gence officers report evidence leading
to the conclusion that possibly spy
may. be at work within the American
lines northwest of Toul. Early this
morning an American sentry saw
flashes of a signal light from window
facing in the direction OF the enemy
lines He fired through the window
to find anyone. "
phone wires within the American lines
We're found to have been cut.
An American patrol last night entered
the enemy trenches at one end Of the
sector and penetrated them for some
distance without difficulty Much
valuable information was gathered AS
they We're about ready to return. they
established contact with the enemy,
who opened fire with machine gun.
The Americans jumped to a safe posi-
ton and hurled grenades at the enemy
gunners, silencing the gun.
Like Hun Protectors.
Returning to the American side Of
No Mans Land the raiders brought
back with them a German rifle breech,
protected by metallic cover over the
muzzle and a snap clip cover both of
which operated quickly and efficient
~. Officers declared it was the best
thing of the kind they had ever seen
for protecting rifles. The mechanism
was turned over to the intelligence de-
partment with a recommendation that
the attachment be furnished the Amer
lean troops.
At,n tbnr
the sector reported that the enemy first
line was held strongly. While the
raiders were inspecting the German
positions. the enemy fired upon them
several times with rifles and machine
guns, which are unusual at that point
lombard Rear Positions.
Our artillery bombarded effectively
billets, troops and new enemy works at
Lahayville, st. Baussant, the village of
Montsec, Richie court, in the Quart De
Reserve, along the Pannes-Monsard
road, and a considerable body OF troops
northwest of Buxieres. They also bat
tered to pieces another battery Of gas
which had been set up in a double line
of. trenches.
The enemy has shelled various parts
of positions rather heavily many gas
shells being mixed with high explosive
ones. Some American soldiers who hap
pened to be near or who walked through
the shelled areas afterward said there
were limitations that the enemy was
trying to isolate one Of our positions
with shell fire. The visibility was ex-
ceptionally good today and the weather
was like summer. A great number of
wagon trains and small groups Of Ger
mans We're seen walking behind the en-
envy lines.
Several times during the day the air
was crowded with airplanes. and on one
occasion several machines were over
head at the same time. Airplanes from
the rear of our lines carrying American
! observers unanswered to get into a
they We're unsuccessful. American anti
aircraft guns drove off a number Of
enemy machines and kept the others
high in the air
Airpianes Do Good Work.
comprising much work which the re-
cent ground haze had prevented They
obtained badly wanted photographs and
observed certain things back of the
German lines.
American troops in the Luneville Sec
tor have been subjected to fairly heavy
bombardments during the past "a hours,
but have been giving the enemy as
much as received. Patrols at two points
established contact with the enemy last
night and early this morning. After
brief firing the Germans retired.
| American soldiers are still holding the
| Mecklenburg trench, taken two days
| ago, and which it is now permitted to
name. The anti-aircraft guns east Of
/ Luneville were extremely busy today in
driving off enemy airplanes.
NEM ENct ANnEpe AcrIuc