The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-07-12

front is rapidly becoming a lively place
The advance made to sraghten the line, get pos
session of the woods and get command of points which
trergthen the position Astonishing maps made,
showing the houses certain patoons should capture and
dcang windows into which squads expected TO throw
grenades cellar in the center of the village, which has
the capacity to shelter 100 persons assigned
squad who were expected to guard one end with ma
chine gun and hur grenades into the other thus nsurng
the death Of the soldiers hiding Others gned
to turn machine guns on the covered brook which is
known to be hiding place III case OF emergency.
This uncanny Encouragement, with alternates as
signed to the tasks of destruction death
the Others the climax of American business efficiency
applied to grim The thing rehearsed far as
possible, the taking the keenest interest although
Knowing the difficulties of the undertaking. Corporals
sergeants and ieutenants all had eoored maps showing
the places where their work lay
The stage set in marvellous way and the work of
preparation started at o'clock in the morning. the guns
back of the line throwing shells in the back
teres and all points where damage possible The
magnitude of the commandments will be understood when
it is known that several thousand ordinary Shells several
thousand large and $500 gas shells fired
stanty for twelve hours.
Early in the afternoon Vaux was bombarded as it was
known to be filled with German soldiers The range was
perfect watched with powerful glass and clouds
of dust SCOT and asonal squirt of flame. Later
aerial observer with telescope wrelessed that flames
had broken in many spots Every house in Vaux was
struck at least once.
The bombardment continued There was no cesa-
alton in the shower of heaves the back areas The
countryside echoed to the deep Then the barrage
started shell exploding every Is feet 1t advanced
steadily vertabe curtain of STEEL flame and DEATH It
would have been impossible for any human being to
trate it. Just behind it the Americans in thin skirmish
line went armed with rifles and hand grenades the lat
ter small in number IN comparison The schedule, which
was only the tentative average maneuver called for the
arrival of the soldiers at Vaux at 6:24 p At that min
ute the Americans entered They found the buildings in
ruins, the streets empty
A few dead bodies were lying about The men then
located their destinations and took their places They
covered the brook and cellars here and there They found
the Germans terrified Some fought but quickly
dICn9f aeoH Tho
Casualties nil.
The Germans, frantic with fear eager hold up
their hands and shout "kamerad!
Sweeping through the village and sending back more
than 100 prisoners the advanced toward La Roche
wood which quickly cleared of Germans after close
fighting with grenades and rifles Driving the Germans
from the woods the Americans established positions its
ledge and dug in. There they remain All the time the
men advanced with the precision fatering and
then before hail Of machine gun bullets but recovering
and continuing till the Germans dead, captured
fleeing
In the midst of the carnage the Americans began a
creeping barrage before the retreatng Grmans pulling
closer nsurng the death of the Germans if they contn
ed to run or forcing them to surrender.
At time aerial observers reported squads of Ger
aggregatng hundreds moving toward the front In
santy word flashed to the artillery, which dropped
rain of Shells and the squads wiped out to
This sample of shooting is seldom
Efforts made early by the Germans at few
points to rally and counter attack but they of
Their courage shrank face of the desperate she'll fire
and the resstess advance of the Americans One
of Germans surrounded and surrendered with their
officer, lieutenant quaking group of thirty were
found in cellar IN Vaux eager to get out of the inferno
few insisted on fighting but of those lived though
the Germans outnUmbered the Americans.
The Getman artillery active all the time, bat it
evident Iaany guns put out of action by
heaves late he day. when the locations learned by
the aerial obse wers who boldly lowered directly over the
of battle porng the effects of the bombardn ent
and also the adSf eence of the Americans.
saw the fit + batch of prisoners marched to head
quarters close in sane. There some Poles among
them. All n9smbers OF division, which make
the ninth engaged b the American unit in the Chat
eau Thierry sectionH also saw both Germans and Aus
TRANS.
The Germans said there were 400 soldiers in Vaux in
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