The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-10-16
FIRE FROM 200 MACHINE
GUNS IS ENCOUNTERED
Job of the Americans Was One of the
Most Stubborn They Have Had to
Deal With-one Position After An
other is Taken Regardless of the
Opposition Offered.

With the American Army Northwest
of Verdun. Oct 15.-(Sl30 p. MIN
the face of the most stubborn resist
pnce conceivable. including literally
hundreds OF machine gun nests, the
Americans advanced again today and
widened the breach in the Kriemhilde
line The Germans heavily sheIled the
center and left center of the American
line and desperate counter attacks
were carrier cut; These counter at
tacks failed.
The Americans captured kill 299 and
penetrated the strong wire defenses
between Iandres-et-St Georges, have
passed ST Juvln.
The American gains in general we're
accomplished through pursuance of the
strategic policy of surrounding the
.objectives rather than storming them
The machine guns filled woods and
heights lying In the path Of the Amer
ican advance were taken for the most
part by going around them on the left
and right joining forces again on the
north side and clearing up the areas
thus eneircled.
Tho days fighting began early when
the center moved forward and encircl-
ed the difficult position at Hill 2SS,
from which a machine gun fire esti-
mated as coming from at least 200
guns concealed in the adjacent woods,
was poured into the Americans The
patrols pushed forward despite the
enemy opposition into the Bantheville
woods.
Hill 2SS was taken early. notwith-
standing a withering machine gun
fire and a deluge of gas shells which
compelled the Americans to fight fer
hours with their gas masks adjust
ed They also encountered vast guam
titles of wire which had not been suf
ficiently cut by tue artillery and faced
an enfilading fire from both sides.
Enfilading fire from both sides. A
big fight ensued for tho strategetic
.Cote-de-Chatillon. which commands
the terrain northward and which was
attacked by the encircline method the
Americans taking the Tineries farm
to the northeast. The farm was taken
under artillery fire by both the Ger
mans and Americans late this after
noon and for a time remained in No
Mans Land
The American advance at this point
involved the capture of I.eNIansard'
farm and liberation through the wire
guarding the Somme- e-Rance-Landres
road The opposition against the
right center of Americans grew less
in the afternoon so that patrols were
able 10 push northward and eastward
to lain a sure footing in Bantheville
and Bautheville wood
BY late afternoon the center had
advanced q kilometer north of Rom
lagne thence to a point south of Tuil-
leres farm, south of the slope of Cote
Chatillon and north to one ldlometer
south of Iandres-ct- st Georges and
a half kilometer to the south OF St
Georges.
The engineers inspecting Romagne
found it full OF mines and traps The
enemy began his shelhng to cnece
the attack. which now was fully even
with his Kriemhilde position or be-
yond 1t. but could not prevent the
Americans from capturing hill ZAP.
Perhaps the most interesting de-
velopment Of the day was the fact
that the Americans and Germans
foueht with fierceness, stubDorness
and tenacity utterly belying any be
lief that their part in peaoe is a mat
ter OF the near future.
The Americans arJ almost unani-
nous that the GertllAn proposals are
insincere. and the Dshether sincere or
mot, the enemy must be severely pun