Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-23
AMERICAN GUNS
BUSY z HOURS
Lieutenant of Artillery Keeps Up
Contact; Eight Horses
Shot Under Him.

London. July 23.-IIow an American
battery ON tho bank of the Marine Shcilcd
the Germans for scvcnty-two hours WINE
under fire from enemy guns IS dcSrfib'u
bv Reuters correspondent at French
hcadouarters \ Young lieutenant, after
tolephone wires had been severed, MAIN
tanned communication between the bat
tcry and the infantry. Eight horses were
shot uner him IN making sixteen ttips.
and on the last journey he was wounded
in the knees. The correspondent says
Il pas~cd Yesterday Saturday ON tho
bank of the Marnc with the American
ttoops They were the officers and men
of y battery of American as which had
been in position on bare. exposed
nlatcau above the river, about 1000
wards from the bochc bridges, dUrlUg the
entire week.
"Thcy we're aroused bv terrific artil-
Icrv prcparation on the part ot the en-
ctnv on the night uf july II. The Amcrl-
can battery was IN the open and of the
thirty enemy batteries which had been
identified IN the sector FIVE were con-
ccutratlng their ire on the American
battery. The men had TO turn cut and
omen on the enemy without moment ;
DELAY. They continued to fire, as hard
as they could for Scvcnty-two hours
BATTERY xEvER sIiE>Crp
The Americans were under heavy
shell fire Themselves during the whole
time, but they never relaxed their efforts
for !. momcnt The whole plateau =
rIovcd M bv German shells The Nnorl-
cans who had never been IN n serious
action before, lost both men and horses.
but thu, batter, was never -llcnccd
In the first hour of the homharimont
every tcicphonc uItc ~ the sector Was
c,ti bv German shells and the hattoIN
was lett without mcars of coinmunica-
tinn with tie american infantry IN the
rlver valley below uuch hc had he'd y"
support
"A Young lieutenant volunteered to r.
store the h3I,on Taking hur~c, tC
rod, dow. to the river through th" t'cr-
man harrag,, and hack amt Jlrrg thc
night ralopcd ~iNtccn tunes hctvocn the
battery and the river always under =
terribly heavy ire Eight horses were
shot under INN end on the last journey
be uaS Int II the hncs~
WOUNDED Ms ssf9 ~ tt,ET
"A battery commander told me ho had
the greatest difficulty with tbs slightly
wounded mcn None thcm wanted 4"
leave tin, battlefield AMI tho mrn ordorcd
81 90 away fnr treatment WouId hlcr
themselves Ia nrlcr to aNnd notice.
hoping N this wa, ~ b. able ~ rcwalu
with their comrades Ouc gun the rrcv
of wh.ch had hccu knocked ont hN +
single lug shell. WAS kcpt working hN ne
tclrnhonc mon who realizing what had
hapncncd. dashed ont 81 thor shcltor
and began % man the elln themselves
without orders
8.
was wounded July Is. carly On the t'r~'
day of the offensive ~ tho American
and French troops on the sne-Narnc
front. camo to Paris today lie belonged
10 n regiment which was N immediate
contact with the American troops ilc
lost hls left hand in the fighting lic
said
The fighting Of the Americans was
revelation 10 MS I hcy could hardly
wait until the word was gIven e go
over the top. They seemed impatient Y
get at the bochcs.
When finally the word canc fhoN
lcaped over the trenches. SOME ~ thcn
peeling of thc,r coats after nnnng &
few hundred meters ln the crcar hca'
and fighting IN thcir shirt ~iccHc>
Wishing to honor THE Amoricau tnrcc,
on the Alsnc-Nlaruc front. trH'lal Nan
gin placed = renowned ] rcuch lniautrN
division between two Nmcucan divisions
when tho attack against thc German
began