The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-30
GERMANS LEFT ONLY
 MACHINE GUNNERS BEHIND
Light French Tanks We're Used 10 Good Advantage Hunting Out One Machine Gun Nest After Anothen-- New Pattern Guns of the Germans We're Captured in the Advance.

With the American Army in France | Aug. 29.-AcCompanied by a fleet o tanks and covered by a heavy artil- ! lery barrage the Americans swept for
 ward early today against the German ! lines that slowly ard reluctantly fel
 back over Juyigny plateau. The littlC loperation carried out yesterday by ths
 French and Americans had been mere Fly preparatory to the attack which
 began at seven o'clock this morning.
 The l1ink had been taken out of the line yesterday. but no determined er- fort was made to advance to any ex- tent,
 The firing was continuous throughout
 the night on both sides, the German guns being especially active The rain
 of the early evening ceased before the ground had been converted into mud,
 so when the order was given today, the men moved forward unimpeded.
 The German positions were shelleI most vigorously by heavy guns, nor
 tars and light pieces, firing almost
 point blank, as we'll as by long range
 naval guns, which searched the po-
 sitions far and near. Up over the
 plateau the infantry men went toward
 Juvigny and across the little railroad running north and south. The Ger
 mans immediately began to employ
 the tactics of similar retreats leaY- ing their rear defended by a line of
 machine guns hidden behind every
 clump of brush, promontory and woods Only a few detachments of infantry
 were left, the enemy again adopting measures calculated to save the most
 men possible.
 From Couronne woods and another little wood standing like sentinels be-
 tween Juvigny and the American lines, the German guns delivered a deadly cross fire Juvigny is only q village but located on the side of hill, 1t offered a peculiar opportunity for de- fense until the advancing forces moved into positions from which they were able to make it untenable. The resistance then stopped, the Germans
 retiring further east into more brok en ground
 The frontage assigned to the Amer jeans was less than two miles. Thar part in which Juylgny is located, was the scene of dramatic tank drive. Under the cover of artillery the light French tanks fitted along both sides of the path mp to the little place, smashing down one machine gun nest after another, iE spite Of the employ ment by the Germans Of their new tank gun, sort of super-Mauser This gun is virtually identical with the Mauser except that it fires a bullet a little more than half an inch in diameter This, it Is calculated can pierce the tank and possibly injura some vital part of the engine. But in | the path of the advancing machines there now lie broken or smashed in | the earth scores of those guns. There is unquestioned mastery of
 the air by the allies along this front It has been misty this morning and there was little effective aerial work and practically none by the Germans , Only a few prisoners are reported as | yet, the Germans apparently seeing tc lit that only machine gun crews should be sacrificed.
 All the skill of General von Schwer- in. commanding the seventh guard division is being exercised to hold back the Americans at their point in the line north of Soissons and save