The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-05-16
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LIKE An inferno
Yankee Guns Make Night Hide
GUS Along P1cardy Sector
Boches Attempt
No Raids.
BY FRED s. FERGUSON,
United Press Staff Core pondeni

Onlfou Ffeo0 starr CorreSPondent.
With the Americans IN Picardy. May
IS. Tonight in Picardy the doors Of
he'll seemed literally opened. screech
ing demons of death. filled the air.
Pounding guns Jared the earth as II
all the evil forces below were endeav-
eoring to break through, The flare OF
the guns and the flash and roar of
bursting shells appeared like great
fires sweeping the rolling fields.
With the setting of the sun there
was no rest. Then wagons loaded with
Ammunition and supplies started Tor
the front. Patrols crept across No
! Mans land. The artillery turned night
into time OF terror and punishment
The United Press billet is just back
Of the front. Apple trees are in bloom
everywhere. Lilacs and daisies grow
outside the door. At dusk a nightingale
fperched near the window and started
I it's evening song. But beyond the 1iIacs
and daisies and over the nightingale's
song Numbered the song of war.
II you have over noticed sheet light
ming in hot sky on a summers night
multiply it's intensity hundreds of times
and you'll have a picture of this Ameri-
can German artillery duel as it flashes
against the heavens. Imagine huge
blast furnace doors thrown open at
very frequent intervals. That is how
the flickering glare of the cannonade
Illuminated the sky tonight as the
larger guns let go.
Amid gigantic explosions houses
roll as though shaken by a great
hand, doors flew open, windows ratified
Violently, furniture quivered. As the
American heavies fired, the departing
shells could be heard on their way to
the German lines Each shell sounded
like an express train leaving the rail-
halt at Gernir.n stations o.
Two adt.tiunala 'Sni'd,ngs were ie-
molished s. Cant. tssiy last right. Amer
lean batteries kert the enemy under
heavy bombardment.
Such artillery activity as this starts
every night at dusk and continues until
after midnight. Then there is a respite
until Q or 3 o'clock in the morning
when the cannonade is resumed and
lasts until dawn.
| German shells arch through the air
with swish and a whine, bur the
American fire is far heavier. The
Americans are continuing to repu]se
attempted German raids
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE.
London, May 1.-THE hostile artil-
lery was active during the night in the
Somme valley and Albert sectors, also
between LOGON and the forest of
| Nieppe, Flanders front, says. todays
war office statement.
| Paris, May -. Active artillery
| fighting in Picardy on both sides of
! the Avre river is reported in today's
official statement.
The statement follows:
/ Our artillery and the enemys We're
active at certain points along the front
north and south OF the Avre.
'In Lorraine a French detachment
penetrated the German lines north of
Nomenys and brought back 20 prisoners.
J In the region of ST. Del a raid was
broken UP by our fire.
elsewhere the night passed in quiet"
! SIX MEN TO THE YARD.
Paris, May 14.--General Ganiers, os
the French general staff, announced to
day that information showed 40 Ger
man divisions (480,000 mem, between
the Labassee canal and Ypres. or six
men to every yard.
The same ratio. he said, is main
! tanned by the Germans between La
Bassee and the Disc.
SINKING NEEDED SHIPPING.
| Amsterdam, May 13.-"After is
months. submarine warfare has not
brought peace any nearer In the
mage that will be needed after the
war Herr Vogthcir, independent So
ciaiist declared in the Reichstag, com
menting on Admiral Won Capelle's
ideclaration that unrestricted submar-
lining is winning the war. 81
STAR GEEAA..sAsss ~ FLYER KILLED.
Amsterdam, May 49, Lieutenant
| Geigel. star Bayarian airman, has
been killed on the western front. ac-
cordfng to the Cologne GazetteA He
! was credited with Is aerial victories s
ADOPT HOUSING BILL.
Washing ton, %. c. May 49, The
conference report on the $6o.00o.0eo;
House was approved today by the