The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-04


July 3.-The enemy artillery this
afternoon increased the intensity of
It's fire in the NauX region. The
crash of exploding shells swelled to d
roar, while the ground and ali
throbbed with the conclusions OF
shells. But the American guns an
swered the German challenge. shot
for shot.
The American gunners, stripped 70
the waist, stood in the gun pits. AMI
on gun emplacements, feeding shells
as fast as they could handle them
into the guns and a steady stream ct
steel explosives swept through space
onto the enemy lines.
At five o'clock this evening the gum
fire showed no signs of abating, the
enemy artillery work. if anything,
evinoing more ferocity than ever. The
American aviators, keeping vigil over
the fighting zone, found the ground
completely obscured at places by the
smoke of the guns ana shells.
Among the captured material thus
far counted are six heavy machine
guns, is light machine guns, 6 trench
anortars. 2 grenade throWers, 200 rifles
one motorcycle machine gun ana
large quantities of ammunition and
equipment.
A heavy counter attack against the
American positions al NauX launched
at one o'clock this morning was re-
pulsed, the enemy losing very heay-
lily. Not a foot OF the ground won by
the Americans in their attack on
Monday night was lost.
The counter attack developed after
the Germans had heavily bombarded
Vaux and Boise de la Roche. The
German troops came over in close for
nation. In some cases whole COM
panies were allowed to approach close
to the American line, when the ma
chine gunners let loose a perfect hail
of bullets, moving down the enemy
ranks and pilng their dead on the
ground over which they were trying
to advance.
The American artillery lent eff
cient aid in completely breaking mp
the enemy attack. which was launch
ed with fresh regiments of storm
troops.
The number OF prisoners taken by
the Americans in the operations near
1ka4ao.. FIs1,;arr,, nyas inprpaCod to-day
without the American infantry operat-
ing except as skirmishers.
German shells have been raining
on the new American positions and
the enemy fire has been answered by
the American guns. The American
line was the target of projectiles OF
all calibres, gas shells being mixed
with high explosive missiles.
The shells have been falling heay-
lily in the areas behind the battle line.
The enemy fire particularly on the
right flank of the new positions at
Vaux, was most intense for hours,
At last reports the American ma
chine gunners we're holding their
ground and repulsing small but des-
perate efforts of the Germans to re-
gain the ground wrested from them.
The Americans are reported to be
well protected by their temporary
trenches and are not exposing them
selves needlessly to the storm of fly
ing steel from the bursting German
shells.
The German loss in killed is un-
known, but prisoners say their orders
were to drive back the Americans at
all costs. They have raid the high
est cost possible, but have failed to
perform the task entrusted to them
From the general conditions along
the battle line it appears that further
attacks by the Germans are likely to-
develop. The Americans, however, are
lust as ready for what is coming as
they we're for what has passed, and
are just as confident as to the out
come.