Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-03-06
GERMANS MEET FOES FROM AMERICA
AND FIND THEY ARE FIGHTERS
GElsNIA rs ATTACK IN FORCE.
TcI1inic I'onbaiIlnrcnt of L. -
TIInChcS--SammicS on the job.

win TIC american NIHIN III
France. March l.-Amcrican troops
repulscd a strong German attack
this morning in the salient north of
Toul. There were many American
casualties, one Of the killed being u
captain who was graduated from
West Point in 1917.
The raid was a complete failure,
three German prisoners remaining IN
American hands. The ground in
front OF the American trenches was
strcwn with German dead.
A driving wet snow was failing
this morning when the Germans
opened fire on the American salient
with every weapon at their com
mand. Seventy-sevens, heavy shells
and gas shells fell In a perfect whirl-
wind on tho American trenches for
half an hour. At the same time other
enemy shells in great numbers were
dropping on tho American battery
positions.
Germans Let Loose Gns.
The Germans. evidently thinking
that the Americans in this section
having one taste Of gas few days
ago. would fear it now, let loose
great quantities Of poisonous gas,
but the men put OIL their masks and
only n few were affected by 1t. SO
intense was the fire that the woods
back OF the salient were shot to
pieces.
At 6 O'Clock the barrage fire lifted
on the trenches to the right Of the
salient. and Germans numbering 240
came sweeping forward under the
protection Of their fire. They came
forward apparently intending to
make big haul and jumped into
what was LETT of tho trenches, but
there, instead Of the easy time an
ttcipated. found tho Americans all
ready for battle. Fierce hand-to-
hand fighting began.
One American captain rallied men
with rifles and machine guns and
went through the American wire ell
tanglements into No Mans Land and
there waited for the enemy, whom
he expected ITO be driven out by his
comrades In the trenches.
Americans Poured Deadly Fire.
He was right, for soon groups Of
the enemy started back through the
wire entanglements. The Americans
poured in a deadly fire, hut unfortu-
nately the captain was killed during
the fight. He Is the first member Of
or the 1917 class at West Point to
be killed.
While the Americans were in front
OF tho wire cntanglements and i'm
Shell holes, still lighting desperate
ly, the American barrage fire began
sweeping No Mans Land. catching
many running Prussians who had
enough of American methods. The
barrage swept back and forth, MAX
ing sure Of doing all possible dam
age to the foe.
When the enemy had been driven
back out Of the positions, the bodies
of ten German soldiers were found
in the American trenches. Two Ger
man officers were entangled in the
wire and many bodies were in sight.
Eight were visible through the now
storm at one point. The ground was
Uttered with enemy hand grenades,
boxes Of explosives for destroying
dugouts and 'incendiary bombs which
they had no opportunity to use.
They managed, however, to drop
incendiary bombs in two dugouts,
which were destroyed by fire, but no
Americans were i'm them. If the
Germans captured any prisoners,
which 1t is doubtful, there were not
more than two or three possibly
from listening post. or the miss
ing. many probably were buried.
Digging for them now is proceeding
ana others may be accounted for.
Two German Prisoners Wounded,
Two German prisoners were