Arizona republican., 1918-03-04
MACHINE GUNS IF AMERICANS ROUT
 TEUT0N|C FORCES
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN Saturday, March 2.-(By the Associated Press.)-A plan of attack. including a map of the American posi- tions, indicating every dugout, which was removed from the body of the Prussian captain who led the assault upon the sector northwest of Toul, shows how completely the Germans prepare their raids-if, in fact. this was but simple raid not having as its ultimate object the retention of a DOT tion of the salient.
 The map goes into such detail as to show every machine gun emplaeement every trench and every depression in the ground within the American lines. At the bottoom there is simply line drawn, labeled ''our front line" Along this line are five shaded portions. each marked nest"
 Four rehearsals were held for the attack and the troops who made it were specially picked from new arriv- als of fresh troops in the sector. They were told that the Americans were in front of them.
 After the artillery had nearly levelled the American positions the Germans started from their nests, each of which contained forty infantrymen, one lieu tenant and three pioneers to precede the infantry and five to follow it. The two groups upon the American extreme rlght went around this flank and the group upon the extreme left carried out similar movement there.
 The two groups in the center had planned to attack directly, but the American defense changed all the plans. When they were met by the heavy machine gun fire from the Americans lines they saw it would bs impossible to gain a footing there changed their direction and followed the other groups around the flank. The duty of the pioneers preceding the in- iantry was to clear up any wire that had not been broken by the artillery while the pioneers who followed carried large quantities of explosives for the purpose of cleaning up the dugouts. ollicial reports of the interrogatior or the prisoners taken by the Ameri. cans show that all of them did not be. lleve Germany would win the war. One ot the men told the intelligence officers ne presumed that the Americans, like tne Germans, did not want to fight but nao to' The officers quickly changed sne Germans viewpoint by informing nm that all or the troops in the at lacked positions were volunteers.
 One prisoner, whose home is in Ger. man Lorraine, said he thought in, iatherland would lose the war. but h, hoped not. He knew nothing abou Americans except that they were ii the war, the German newspapers no printing much upon the subject h, sdlu. and being slow in reaching th, lront lines because of mail congestion
 Inls prisoner said he was convince, that the recent strikes in German, were caused by desire for peace. add ing that all Germany wanted the wa lo ehu. lie was certain an offensiv was coming, but he did not believe i would be launched before April 1.
 None of the prisoners had seen an German tanks, they said. All of finer added they were glad to have bee taken prisoners, especially by th Amerlcans, because they believed the would be we'll treated.
 The prisoners accounts showed ina the sector opposite the American posi 2 eloh was commanded by General Stal7 man. The correspondent talked with doze oi tne American wounded in their hos pitai cots. Every one of them wa
 anXious to tell of some deed of hero ism or other performed by his fe lows, but displayed great modestv rt
 gardlng his own exploits. One yout whose home is near Savannah. Ga ar who looked to be not more than
 years old. told this story:
 was in the front line when
 seemed like every shell in the wor
 started coming our way. One bur
 near where I was.
 "A piece hit a fellow on the oth,
 side of men who came from Texa
 The corporal picked him up in h
 arms and started with him for a frs
 aid station in the midst of a perfe
 shower of dirt and mud which W; , being kicked up. I don't know wheth
 he ever got there or not.
 By that time I got into a machil gun emplacement with another co
 poral whose home is in Missouri, lea
 ing my rifle outside. Things got
 hot we decided to try to get to a ste n shelter at the end of a trench.
 "The corporal went first, but a ft n feet away shell exploded, almost . him, and killed him. I stepped out a v saw that my rifle had been blown l, pieces. This left me defenseless, so :, started in another direction, hoping a find a rifle Or pistol, because I kn, t the Germans would be around 500
 About the same time a piece of sh hit me on the left side. and down z went. A sergeant yelled an order IL me to go to a first-aid- station. e As l was approaching the stati g in the rear of two stretcher- beari II teams who were proceeding, bent 0, n to escape, if possible, the flying pic = of shell, a shell pumped down on y of the station and exploded and wiz l. it out A piece of rock hit me in " head. When I woke up some stretcl
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