The Washington herald., 1918-10-03
C. .-ans Bombard Ameri-
can Positions West of
Meuse River.
REPORT BY PERSHING
Hundred Heavy Tank Guns
Captured by Yanks
During Week.
RICKENBACKER DOWNS PLANE
Enemy Reverses Continue as Yanks
Bolt Forward Over Broad
Front.

T The War Department tonight
received the following commu-
nique from Gen. Pershing, com
manding the American Expedi-
tionary Forces in France:
"No. I4I. Except for heavy
shelling and machine-gun fire
west of the Meuse and at other
points held by our troops, moth
ing Of unusual importance has oc-
CURED during the day. A partial
count of the material captured
during the past week shows Izo
guns of all caliber, $50 trench
mortars, 100 heavy tank guns,
thousands of artillery shells and
hundreds of thousands of rounds
of small arms ammunition"
Germans Drop Barrsse.
With the American First Army
West Of the Meuse, Oct. THE Ger
mans violently bombsrded and bar
ragged our lines between the Mo-
selle and the Meuse, between $50
and 7:so this morning.
The Americans replied with eff
cacious counter battery fire. No in
fantry attacks had developed up to
noon.
Lieut.. Pilot jaime. Meissner. of
Brooklyn, n. Y. observed some Ger
man tanks moving southwark from
Roma gne toward Cierges. It is be d.
lieved the enemy, nervously on the
lookout for our next move, feared
an attack by ~, and that he started
his terrific shelling with the Idea
of breaking IL up.
Last night American patrols entered
wood north of Natillois. They found
, machine gun strong point at Made
line Farm and encountered strong
enemy forces in the Bois Mont Rebau.
American scouts raided German
trench north Of Gesnes.
Rickenbacker Downs n~achen.
Eddie Rickenbacker searched be-
tween the Argonne and Verdun for a
German captive balloon after dark
yesterday, but all had been hauled
down upon hearing his motors. He
finally discovered a 'drachen" ma
chine near Mars-la-T in the Mo-
selle region and sent II crashing to
earth in flames.
Captain Observers n. A. Ord. of
California, and Strout.- former Yale
quarter back, saw four Americans
capture seventy-five Germans north
of Varennes. The doughboys rounded
up the enemy force, shooting several
who attempted to run away. They
brought in the whole lot in a long file.
A single American corps captured
two Russian 4-inch guns, a battery OF
Krupp field guns, sixtytwo heavy ma
chine guns, three howitZers. sixty
railroad cars. eight anti-tank guns.
three captive balloons, a number of
motor trucks and ten anti-aircraft
guns.
Capt. Shirley. OF Fort Worth. Tex.
= JIsg psInldeo 'pIsTua usD 10 spIB
DOZEN German stragglers Thursday
morning Immediately after our ad-
vance while examining the front-line
positions. The Germans were trying
to fn6 their way to their own lines
when Shirley spotted them.
Aviator GaiIIard Downed.
Lieut.. Aviator Palmer Gaillard, Of
Mobile, Ala, was shot down but not
hurt, in No Mans LAM, where he
lay all day long in a shell hole. He
regained the American trenches and
while he was walking to the rear
with two doughboys a shell wounded
both, but did not touch him. Gail
lard was cut of in Montfaucon for
eight hours while the Germans bonn
barded the village. He rejoined his
squadron three days later.
Lieut.. LamPing, q former automo-
bile dealer. Of Sea tile, Wash, led
one of our storm companies at
Epionville. partially surrounding
Montfaucon on the opening mornin"
OF the attack. Lampins says orr
artillery fire practically paralyzed
the Germans, but the Teuton ma
chine gunners offered stiff resist
ance. He describes the '1eap-frog-
ging" of the Americans through tfe
French, cutting the barbed wire
and assembling for attack In No
Mans Land, where they waited for
the zero hour" IS one OF the finest
feats Of the whole drive.
ut shows said he, that the Ger
mans were surprised. II they had
shelled us, packed like sardines in
the open as we were, they would
have inflicted havy Losses. But they
never fired. We were all ready to
jump into their trenches when the
zero hour arrived"
Lamping is a graduate Of an Off
GERS training camp.