Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-08
IN THE ST. MIHIEL SALIENT
Personal Gllmpses Of the Territory
Taken From Germany
Joy OF The RELEASED fRENCHMEN
Germans Had Told the People That
All Americans Who Had Tried to
Come Over Had Been Sunk In the
Sea-Also Had Been Told That Par
is Was No More.

Come over 7do Deem oo'H '' N
sea-Also Had Been Told That Par
is Was No More.
4 few days ago 1t was German
y,,nurh,Id. now IL Is AN old curiosity
shop and many and strange things
ara. disrOvrrahc in the old curiosity
shop of the ~. Mihicl salient" re-
marks :: N"w York Times correspond =
cn,. odd human material. no less than
prculiar mechanical devices. fell int"
th" hands of the American troops who
pinrh,d that salient out with record
ncatn"SS and dispatch.
Among the mechanical curiositi"s
are mentioned whole batteries of
make believe artillery, stOv"pipc ana
logs Is,intcd in camnuflagc designs
mounted in former German positions.
threatening the former American lines
Iapi.r-maCh, mOrtars HAY" been haul
,.d ont of the old entertainments.
Anothcr. and more remarkable evil
d"uc, of the "n"ny's ing"nuity-and
possiIl" imrov"rishmrntS Of materials
-Iis an imitation tank. Il bizarre con-
struction which the Times correspond
"nr dubs Il Trojan horse OF the west
"rn front:
Il is - wooden tank equipped inside
with nothing sav" eight handlc-hars
hy which it could bc propelled. II was
found abandoned no great distance
from Thiaurourt
American shell fire had sadly ruined
II. but nevertheless it was still an clo-
umrnt witness To what il must have
meant to TN" Germans to give zap the
vast supplies nf every kind that they
v.cr" compelled 10y the Americans In
tn" course of recent operations to sur
render.
'Th" same correspondent tells this
story of an american battery that
turned up where no American battery
was supposed To he:
Yesterday our Observers saw II bat
terry in action near the front line
which was NOT on our records. Tho
puzzled commander sent out dctach-
mcnt to investigate. They found that
seven doughboys. moppinG up tho
woods. had come upon battery OF
German as with piles Of ammunition
They had turned them around. and
not knowing how to get ranges or any
thing of the sort. were just shooting
them northward. They explained that
they were shooting into Germany. and
that satisfied them.
That general bombardment OF Ger
many would have struck sympathetic
chords in the bosom Of = French boy,
aged IL. years, whom - American
correspondent met in st. Mihiel. soon
after the little city had become French
soil again. The youngster was bedeck-
cd with tricolor cockadcs and carried
one of the many French fiaSs that APP
p,,arcd from nowhere rs soon rs the
dctcstcd Boche disappeared. He gave
this genuinely INSIDE" story of one
phase OF the big event:
we heard the Guns very loud on
Wednesday night. Thursday morning
they came much nearer and the Bochcs
were running away. That evening
none OF them we've left in town.
I'm the afternoon climbed mp into
the gaITct Of q house on the hillside
with my father. and through his glass
es we could sec the French troops.
wanted to cheer. but father wouldn't
let me. for fear that the Boches might
hear Before II was dark "" could see
the blue uniforms quite close on 81
Jeremy hill (southwCst OF the town.,
and on Friday morning at o'clock
they were i'm the streets. Then wv
could cheer all we liked. and we did
Every one got out the flags that We
had hidden for four years and hung
them from the windows. And my lit
tie sister gave bunch of flowers To q
French captain, and hr kissed her in
front of everybody. We were very
happy. especially as we'd spent all
night in the cellars because every one
was afraid there would bc fighting
and the town would he hit by shells s.
Further east. both To the north and
south. pcrshing's men and guns had
broken down the sides OF the salient
releasing the little city on the Meuse:
the victory was theirs and was 50 rec
ognizcd by the townspcoplc. even
first Ia set foot in ~. Mihiel's streets.
The cables have carried the story OF
French girl who. in the course OF
that first night after the launching OF
the American attack. made her way
through two harrages To bring news OF
German doings TO the american dcliv-
ers. Another story. Il bitter one, is
that of French mother who fell TO
her knees TO pray for American victory
as the olivc-drnb rank advanced. and
was killed by q German soldier who
overheard her prayer.
This view of the battlefield after
the victory Is given in dispatch from
a correspondent OF the New York
Evening sun:
Groups OF our burial detachmentS
with orange and red tags Of cloth
pinned upon their shoulders for idcn-
titication were dragging forth the in
animate forms OF Germans and sadly
slowing them away for eternity. SOW
ing the surface with mute memorials
OF another nations misled efforts.
Other groups of Dixie negroes from
the labor regiments and OF white men
from the pioneer and engineer rCgt-
ments were filling in with stone and
earth huge shell holes in the roadway
and rapidly throwing bridges over the
places where a series OF trenches had
stretched across the highways.
Two long lines Of conveys choked
the roads ammunition and supplies
were going forward. and empty trucks
were returning. while along the greer
carpet OF grass on either side trudg-
ed doughboys two abreast, some sing.
ing others chatting. details going into
the forward positions TO relieve theil