Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-19
OURBOYS HURL BACK
BOCHE At fRAVtLLE
Go Forward Despite Heavy Bonn
bardment and RepuIsc
Raid Of Foe.

With the American Army in Lorraine,
Aug. 10 The Americans gained more
ground nj Frapelle early Yesterday despite
a total of 800 shells dropped by The
enemy on the village and = raid by forty
FIVE Germans. which was repIlsed by the
American artillery and automatic rife
fire
In the Woevre an American patrol
had lively engagement One American,
wounded in nine places, heroically carricd
wounded comradc 20 safety
with the American Army on the
Veale Front, Aug 1.-THE Americans
started Sunday by putting over a large
number Of shells north Of the Vcsle, the
German heavy guns replying until after
daylight During the dav the French
and Americans averaged two shells to
the enemy's one
American patrols on Saturday night
made excursions at various points, going
rs far az the enemy'E barbed wire and
trenches ON the hills but they did not
encounter any German infantry.
4 few days ago an infantry Captain,
when accommodating, killed at fewest
two Germans, and, in order n escape,
hid IN a shellhole for thirteen hours while
the midsummer sun beat down upon
him Here is the Captains official
report of his experience
The patrol, consisting Of myself and
two Corporals, started at = O'Clock in the
morning 10 ascertain whether the Ger
mans had retired We encountered a
German post in serni-circuiar hole
| There were eleven of the enemy there
ten of whom were asleep, and the ofhrr
was on sentry duty
Il shot the sentry We thcn with
drew and in dong so ran INTO another
post similar to the first. also containing
about ten Germans. We shot two of them
and then ran back toward gIr line The
Germans began firing, wounding ono
Corporal in the leg, but both Corporals
reached the American line
Il was behind, having stopped ~ fire
On the Germans ! reached point about
sixty wards from them when their FIRE
got too hot, 50 dropped into 2 small
hollow, pretending 70 be wounded
! stayed there for thirteen hours After
dark I crawled back 70 our own lines
During my return trip IN our lines !
discovered q third German post, which
was occupied, apparently, only late at
night All these posts were we'll su Piled
with light machine guns, rifles, and hand
grenades, and the Germans used them
we'll
at noon, while was hidden ~ the
hollow, 4 scutenant took out a party Of
five 10 search for me. They did not find
me. but crept up to the second German
post and threw some bombs into It,
lnflicting several casualties heard a
German scream with pam The Germans
also threw bombs, woundIng one Of the
iesttenants' party.
II request that our artillery clean ont
! these posts tomorrow.
The artillery carried ont the work The
! first thing the next morning
| The Americans who have dug IN along
the Vesle continually are being harassed
| bv the German artillery and gas pro-
/ lectiles The Germans made a VICIOUS
] gas attack Saturday afternoon aimed ~
/ those Americans who are situated on the
| north side of the Nesle They used ar
/ tIlerv first and then followed the FIRE of
! their guns with gusts Of mustard and
'sneeze' gas.
/ These attacks have not met with anv
| apparent success, and the Germans evI-
4 IDENTIFY are aware If the fact This
/ IS indicated by their having sent over four
/ airplanes which bv wireless or other
/ means endeavored to direct the firing Of
/ their noxious fumes so hat hey would
/ be more effective.
The Americans have protective meas
uros against gas attacks worked down q
/ such a system that the fumes are not
! bothering them materially. On one
/ occasion the Americans wore gas masks
! and continued working on a bridge which
/ the engineers were building across the
+ NeSIe notUi thStauding the gas
Anti-aircraft guns and shrapnel drov,
/ off the enemy aviators who were trying
to point out locations for attack by enemy
guns, and finally the gas shells ceased
falling.