New Britain herald., 1918-05-30
AMERICAN bAYONETS
 REPEL FOE RAIDERS
Those Who Reached Our Line
 Eliminated From Warfare CAME TO GET PRISONERS

Party of il Succeeds in Entering De-
 fences But Yankees Maui and Kill
 For.
 With the American Army in France, Wednesday, May 29, (By the Asso- German attack today against the American positions near Bremenil, east of Luneville, was to capture Americans. The determined American resistance, however, repulsed the enemy with heavy losses and no Americans were taken prisoners.
 The Germans attacked at three points and at one point a group of IA got into the American trenches. It never went back. Nine of the four teen Germans were killed; four are prisoners and one is dead of wounds.
 The prisoners reported that they were ordered to capture Americans at any cost, their superiors being anxious to determine where Ameri- can troops are stationed and their present fighting strength.
 At a point west of Bremenl, after a heavy barrage, 50 German soldiers at tempted to reach the American line. They were in three groups and the two larger ones were held up and then disposed of by the American ma chine gun and rifle fire.
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 The third group, consisting of IA men, managed by reason of terrain conditions to reach the American trenches and jump Into them. Under the leadership of a lanky youth, who was farmer until he enlisted, a group of Americans gave the Germans a hot reception. Bayonets on the end of American rifles flashed white and then red almost as quickly as it takes to tell it and the enemy party was soon over- powered.
 During the engagement a big Ger man non on-commissioned officer, who directed the enemy party, stood on a parapet. He raised his arm to hurl a grenade at an American soldier, but he never threw it. Another American, who had come through a severe gas attack last Monday morning, reached the German with his bayonet. The grenade fell from the dying Germans hand and exploded harmlessly on the parapet.
 The gas bombardment that preceded the infantry advance by the enemy began at 12:4O o'clock this morning. The Germans had brought Up addi- tional S-inch projectiles to replace those destroyed by the American guns Monday night, and mustard, phosgene ch fp11 hyr dreds on the American positions. In one small area alone, 300 of these ar rived. Many of the Americans as q result began to show the effects of slight gassing and were harboring d large grudge az sainst the enemy on this account
 When the gas shells began to fall there was hardly any wind, making it certain that the fumes would remain in the localities where the Germans placed them, and the men in the American trenches hoped the enemy would follow up the smelling with an infantry attack.
 The hopes of the resentful defend CTS were fully realized, and the re- suit completely satisfied the Ameri- cans, for in one trench at daybreak this morning lay the nine dead Ger
 
 tack, while to the east, where the men in the trenches had gone to work with their machine guns, the ground was dotted with gray-clad bodies.
 Many of the machine gunners still wearing their gas masks, stuck to their guns throughout the preliminary bom- bardment and when they saw the ad vancing forms of the Germans just outside the American wire they cut loose with their fire.
 The enemy was reported late yes terday to be massing troops behind his lines, in the sector of the Ameri- can attack which resulted in the cap ture of Cantigny. The Germans eff forts thus far to hurl back the Amer jeans have been rather feeble. They .lContinued On Seventh Page).