Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-18


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troops have been subject to an extra
ordinarily heavy artillery fire for TN
last twenty-four hours More than 24t
shells which make craters twenty fee
deep and thirty feet in diameter fell
in one section of the line. In anothei
section batteries have been shellet
heavily. More gas Shells have fallen II
both the Toul and Luneville sectors
but the larger number in the former.
More Americans Honored.
By the Associated Press
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Friday. March 15.-Ameri-
can soldiers serving in the sector east
of Luneville have again been honoreG
by the French government for heroic
conduct on the field of battle. Wal
them. Among those thus decorated
were:
Private Elmer McDonough of KEEL
logg, Mimi, attached to a certain
battery of field artillery, who full
filled his mission. carrying dispatches
through q heavy fire, and fell glo-
riously at his post of combat"
Sergt. Raymond Quinlan, St Paul,
MINI; Privates Emile P. Kraft, St
Paul; Charles Danialson, Storm Lake,
inson, Mimi; Walter Smith of Hutch
inson, Mimi; Harvey A. McPeak.
Renwick, Iowa: Floyd r Leseman,
Prescott. Wis; Nicholas McGaugh-
ran, St Paul; John A. Radner. New
Prague, Mimi, soldiers of fine energy
having given proof since the entry
of the line OF great courage under
fire; wounded at their posts of COM
bat"
Infantry units - Corp. Homer
Whited, Bessemer, Ala, struck
down an enemy. who attempted to
Kill him after making to surrender;
Private Amos Teake. Coal Valley,
Ala courageous and well disci-
plined soldier, who aided the French
on patrol to capture two prisoners
Corp. Lewis A. Sinons, Ell Reno,
Okla, and Private A Selix, Union
vile, Iowa, showed GOODNESS and
courage of war-hardened veterans;
seriously wounded in repulsing at
tack"
Trench mortar unit-Sergt. Charles
w Stout of Baltimore, continued
to fire his gun, directing men under
heavy fire"
Corp Russell A YarneI1 of Swarth-
more. Seriously wounded. but re-
manned at his post of combat"
Private James E. Potts, Baltimore,
'mortally wounded while serving his
piece under heavy fire.
Corp. Joseph n. Walker, Baltimore,
and Thomas w Sporner, Baltimore,
continued to fire their pieces under
Violent
Allies Resist Big Shells
By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE Friday, March 15.-The
American troops in the sector east of
Luneville. in conjunction with the
French, are still holding the former
enemy trenches northeast of Badon-
villers although the Germans have
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out with artillery. Shells, most of
them heavy and some of them of the
twelve-inch type, have pounded the
position internationally. but the Ameri-
cans and their allies have held on
Consolidation of the position has
been continued. and the series of OPP
erations in this particular part of the
sector has brought the French lines
up on q front of nearly three miles.
The .parapets have been turned toward
the enemy: dugout entrances have been
changed and new dugouts have been
built to protect the men, Tonight 1t
appeared as If the enemy would aban-
don his attempt to drive out the Amer
leans and French. realizing that this
is an almost hopeless task.
Garry Bodies in Flight.
Ry the Associated Press
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
L =
the American patrols last night en-
countered an enemy patrol in no mans
land in the Touf sector and opened fire.
The Germans fed. carrying with them
several bodies supposed to be Of men
killed or wounded. They were so busy
getting away that there was only fee
BILE return to the American fire, and
none of the American patrol was in
jured.
Two enemy airplanes. flew over the
A l,1ri nj ph
dropping flares as signals. The other
was overhead at a time when the Ger
mans began a barrage which the Amer
lean guns countered. It is not improb-
cate the batteries by the flashes of the
guns. No infantry activity followed
the barrage.
The American artillery continues to
do effective work against the enemy
lines and silenced a battery which was
firing big shells in its direction from a
point in the rear of Sonnard wood
Several other places where activity was
observed also were shelled.
New German troops have entered
the line in front Of the Americans. APP
parently they have been told they are
opposite Americans, because many
times the new arrivals have been seen
observing their opponents curiously
through field glasses This curiosity
has proved disastrous to them ON more
than one occasion. for the American
snfpers are as active as the artillery.
In the intermittent bonn bardments at
various parts of the American sector
considerable numbers of mustard,
phosgene and chlorine shells were
used
American aerial observers In the
rear of the lines have been formed
into a squadron under command of a
French captain. They were over the
lines today, but had no encounters
with enemy machines.
Charles s. Gordon Of Iowa, the first
man wounded in the Luneville sector
has been awarded the cross Of war.
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