The Nenana daily news., 1918-06-01
OUR BOYS UNDER FIRE

German artillery, the overcoming gas-attacks, and the raids in force by German shock troops, Genera
 Pershing's men in the front-line trenches in France remain "calm confident, and implacably resolute, according to a French official who visited them with Premier Clemen. ceau recently, just after they hao brilliantly repelled the heaviest at. tack that had just been hurled against them. This unshaken spirit is dramatically exempl;fied in the dying words of the first West Pointer to fall fighting against Germany Steady, boys, though they out number us ten to one, we can lick 'em." On his return from France our Chief of Staff, Major-Gen. Fey ton C. March, declared our soldiers ready to meet the enemy on his own terms. There is no pessimism at the front" he said; "the boys in the trenches are not worrying" And almost while he spoke German shock troops, attacking our line northwest of Foul after a furious gas and ar tillery preparation, were being driven back to their trenches with heavy losses. Although this trench raid will not even have a name in the history of this stupendous war, re- marks the New York Tribune, ''it will not remain uncelebrated, nor is it without deep military significance both in France and at home" For
 Before the Prussians attacked, our Americans, despite their training and the shadowy patrol encounters of No Mans Land, were raw un- tried troops. Today they are masters of an elaborate and difficult tech nique, and by the outcome of the  fighting prepared by the enemy to his own advantage, superior to him in his own field"
 If this litt.e virtory on the St. Mihiel salient means anything, notes the Philadelphia Press, "it means that the American fighter has adapt ed himself to the modern style of warfare as quickly and as thoroughly as any patriot could hope" 1.-The boys from the United States have been given their first substantial baptism of fire" remarks the Pitts burg Sun, "and they came through the ordeal so valiantly that they have more than justified the faith placed in them by a proud nation" Premier Clemenceau officially de- scribes it as "a very fine success, re- flecting great honor on the tenacity of the American infantry and the accuracy of the artillery fire, which have thus shown they are capable of attaining the maximum effect from the French material which they have adopted"
 Our losses in repulsing this Ger man raid of March 1 are reported as twenty killed and thirty-one wounded. The Germans also cap tured most of a patrol of thirteen which was operating in No Mans Land when the raid began, but they obtained no prisoners from the American trenches. Some of the American dead" We read, "were buried in a cemetery back of the lines during the night while friendly and hostile shells roared overhead"
 In the accounts of this raid cer- tain Illuminating incidents etch them selves on the memory. Thus is an Associated Press dispatch we read:
 During the bombardment, which hardly could have been more terri fife, two men who were concealed in a shell-hole were buried by dirt thrown by another exploding pro- jectile. They shouted for help, and it came quickly. Their comrades left the shelters, from which they were ready to leap into action the moment the attacking infantry appeared, and exhumed the buried soldiers, while