Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-03
[each Bethune Soissons
 Road Following Desper- ate Work of 2 Armies
|pnNT CONSISTED OF 1 NETWORK OF WIRES
he American Corporal
 Captures Single Handed IT German Prisoners

With the American Army in France, bt 2.-By the Associated Press. J. e American troops reached the em- hkments of the Bethune-Soissons kdway late Monday night by liter v cutting their wa through acre er acre of barbed wire-the work 1.-two great armies.
 n gaining the road the Americans Ised over great open places con- Hing of an immense network of he American spearhead east of tigny was driven across the Beth -Soissons roadway by a great ear morning hammer blow and the kericans spread in great semi cir and held their objective.
 h the face of German rSachine gun airplane fire, the Americans be- q powerful night assault from the Phune- e-Soissons roadway, which " had reached late Sunday.
 Then held the roadway until after <, despite machine gun fire from high points ahead and enfiladed by Ehine guns from the south in the ction of Teney-Sorny.
 he attack carried them to the Castille trench, more than half a pmeter east of the roadway.
 Tanks Hold Long Line.
 rom where the DeCastille trench .ses the roadway the Americans a line to the southwest on the skirts of Teny-Sorny.
 barrage proceeded the infantry who crossed the roadway in the ht assault, the artillery succeed m clearing the machine gun nests ad on the hills.
 he chief source of annovance to Americans came from machine Tn the Boise De Beaumont to the inward, where the artillery had diff IVY Tn shooting them cut because Ae dense woods.
 nun Avlat0rs Get Busy.
 oon after the American barrage a, German bombing aviators sea operations, endeavoring to To- sae advancing infantrymen by g ne direction of the German ma gun flashes as guide to the ted targets.
 ne bombing aviators came ont in ssr q numbers than at any time
 Me Americans made their at- north of Soissons.
 addition to the wire entano,e- M tne Americans were compelled .,stcome trench system which aS.pg the hills like canals, having aug by either Ahe French or %sns curing their respective occu- 'ns Of the plateau.
 sergeant a Hero.
 Mcioent of the fighting at Ju- io',s wcurred during a reconnoiter- N " a sergeant. He remem- n nsaell-hole in which there had v,s uslman T m machine gun and made sSisss Ss to s,,1 1t. The sergeant took the ps M ;,a gun and drove out the Ger vs. % nearby quarry. The e,,sss sss placed in postioinn and the \ as wh;s. opened fire on the quarry limascta ia,ca 4 Germans came out of ln Amss,e cave and surrendered. In,ns ,er3can corporal captured 17 n, tren.h ne found them in one end IN Isu. Sn. A squad of his men was hlxhcS S. . not with him. The cor N m., InO speaks German, as do many pti i,iuers to .S of. his organization. suirenasaae S sae occupants of the trench thev Ses' Ses The Germans, think ,ricv, v !. nad been surrounded Inv . ticsn nVfce' did the bidding of the .. ...,11 Artillery is Captured.
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