The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
DASH OVER
NO MANS LAND
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sergeant shouted:
Get out of the way. Let a man
run who can rum
| The Americans dashed back to their
own trenches, their leggings and pants
/ torn to tatters by the barbed wire en-
| tanglements
with their barrage roaring ahead,
the Sammies started their march
Boulevard at a steady, even strike.
There was no running, The men
marched as though on parade.
They soon began encountering shell
| holes, and several slipped in up to
their hips Their bunkies, with out
stretched hands, aided in pulling them
out.
| The objective of one company was
located in a shell shattered woods,
where nothing but splintered trunks
of trees which raised their Jagged
limbs toward the sky in mass of
debris were visible.
| Then a new noise was heard above
the rumble of the barrage -the roar OF
the exhaust of Boche airplane, as 1T
suddenly appeared above the raiders
and swooped down toward the woods.
The rattle of it's machine gun could
be heard above the other noises as 1t
ing upward could see the faces of the
aviators. The machine gun bullets
clipped through the trees as the in
fantrymen raised their rifles and
banged away at the plane.
Then our barrage became too hot
and the airplane sailed into the sky
and disappeared.
| AS they went over the second line,
c1f IN
| kicked it out of his way. 1t was Ger
man arm. Plastered against the trees
and even hanging from the limbs were
pieces of German flesh, blown there
| by the American artillery. The de-
molition was complete.
All the Sammies returned from their
foray, laughing and good humored.
This afternoon they were resting,
basking in the sun and perched on
the rocks beside the street in shat
tered village.
A former famous (de1eted by cen
sor) said he was proud that 1t was MS
outfit that was in the raid.
Accompanying the company, IN an
airplane, was a colonel. This was
the second time he had gone over the
top. He said he wanted the boys t.
know somebody was with them. HE
went full distance and returned after
the raid was over
The American raid was in retalia
ton for the German raid of March
and four days bombardment.
Although few prisoners were tax
len, the raid was the most successful
to date. The artillery bombardmen'
created terrible havoc in the German
trenches Considerable information
and material were gathered.
The French heaped the highes'
praise ON all the troops engaged
Recommendations were made tha
some receive the croix de guerre.
Americans on List.
OTTAWA, Ont, March 1.-THE fol
lowing Americans were mentioned II
today's Canadian casualty list, ISSUED
by the records Office:
Killed In action:
P. Sullivan, Cambridge, Mass.
IT. F. Murphy, New York.
Gassed:
E. NJ. Lafferty, Peru, III.
Gunner G. R. Robertson, Boston.
Wounded:
w. Laflour, Lynn; Mass.
Determined lncursion.
PARIS, March IL American
TROOPS made a determined incur
SION into the German line in Lor
iraine, it was announced by the
French war office today.
German Official Report.
| BERLIN, (via Londony March IL
German detachments penetrated thu
enemy lines in the Armentieres re
igion northeast of the Mouse anc
brought back several prisoners ant
a number of machine guns, the OH
cfal war Office statement declared to
day.
Turks Make Retreat.
LONDON, March 1.-The Turkish
garrison of Hit retired TWENTY-FIVE
miles after the British took the city
ii was officially announced from thu
Mesopotamian front today.
The Turkish halted at Khan-Bas
'dadi. British aviators dropped bomb!
on the retreating enemy columns, In
ficting heavy casualties.