The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-09-19
HUN ARTILLERY
ACTIVE AGAINST
YANKS IN VOSGES
Germans Plan Attack or Expect
One by Americans.
QUIET ON LORRAINE FRONT
Foe Holds Hlndenburg Line and Sends
Out PatroIs-Fails to Resist Mi
nor Movements by Yanks, Who
Consolidate Positions.

With the American Army in the
VOsges, Sept l7.-Artillery activity OF
an intensity to suggest a possible at
tack, or an expected attack, occurred
in the VoSges. II was accompanied by
an extraordinary amount of signaling.
Enemy airplanes were unusually ac-
tive. Ten flew over st. Die and 20
over Gerardmer.
(The Vosges sectors lie approximate
~ 70 miles southeast Of 81. Mhiel on
the Alsace frOntD
U. S. Men Await Attack.
With the American Forces on the
Lorraine Front, Sept 17.-Aside from
slightly increased activity during the
morning the day thus far has been
largely devoted to patrolline by both
sides
The Germans seemingly are holding
the Hlndenburg line, from which they
are sending out patrols, while the
Americans and French, enCamped Il
few miles on this side, continue to
feel out the line by the same method.
(TOday's Berlin statement places the
American line from west 10 east as
running through Fresnes, ST. Hilaire'
IoumOnt. Rembercourt, and RappeS
forest. This forest is two miles south
west Of Pagny, on the MoselIe river)
German infantry has been observed
consolidating positions AT La Chans-
see as If i'm preparation for counter
attack, but none 20 far has developed,
Near this point the enemy is occupy
ing shell holeS.
The German artillery fire is limited
chiefly to guns of the II and 100 MILL
meter calber. but many of the shells
are buds
The Germans also are nctive In con
structlng machine gun nests at va
ruus points of the line.
Intense aerial activity marked the
operations.
The Germans have not resisted
minor movements calculated TO consol-
idate the American line which now has
become firmly fixed
Yanks Shell Metz.
Paris. Sept. 1.-THE battle in Lor-
rnine has entered into its second
phase and thus began an entirely new
chapter Of the whole war, n chapter
which promises to bring the fms of
the world holocaust measurably nearer
II is too early to say that "A Battle
of Metz" has begun. The great Ger
man Lorraine fortress has been, how
ever. under continuous long-range
Smelling all day.
Straightens Out Front.
The American right wing swung for
ward on four-mile front, capturing
two important villages Wiley and
Norroy, thus strengthening out the
front facing the German-LOrraine Dor
der In the center the advance was be-
tween two and three miles on the 80
mile front between the Cote de Lor-
raluc and the Moselle. At some places
the Americans are in contact with the
Germans in the latter'S third line bat
tie positions.
Crush Foe Attack.
The American left smashed the first
German counter-attack attempted since
the offensive began. II was crushed
in it's in,ipicncy, despite the fury with
which the infantry flung itself against
the Yankee positions, ana despite the
profusion Of shells and gas that pre-
pared the thrust.
I'VE repulsed the attack before II
reached our lines" is the way the cor
respondent at the front puts It.
In addition to the two villages, the
Americans cleared out two heayilyde-
Tended woods and captured the great
or part of another