The Mena weekly star., 1918-06-06
FIND AMERICANS
 HARD TO CAPTURE
Attacked in Three Places in Effort to Take Prisoners ''at Any Cost but Found Rough Going--Gas Made
 Sammies Irritable.

With the American Army in France, Wednesday, May 29-(Delayed) - The purpose of the German attack today against the American positions near Bremenil, east of Luneville, was to capture Americans. The deter mined American resistance, however, repulsed the enemy with heavy losses and no Americans were taken prison CT.
 The Germans attacked at three points and at one place a group of fourteen got into the American trenches. It never went back. Nine of the fourteen Germans were killed; four are prisoners and one is dead of wounds.
 Get Americans at Any Cost.
 The prisoners were reported that they were ordered to capture Ameri- cans at any cost, their superiors being anxious to determine where American troops are stationed and their present fighting strength.
 At point west of Bremenil, after a heavy barrage, fifty German sol- diers attempted to reach the Ameri- can line. They were in three groups and the two larger ones were held up and then dispersed by the American machine gun and rife fire. The third group, consisting of IA men, managed by reason of terrain conditions to reach the American trenches and jump into them.
 A Hot Reception.
 Under the leadership of a lanky youth, who was farmer until he enlisted, group of Americans gave the Germans hot reception. Bayo- nets on the end of American rifles flashed white and then red almost as quickly as it takes to tell it and the enemy party was soon overpowered.
 During the engagement a big Ger man non-commissioned officer, who directed the enemy party, stood on the parapet He raised his arm to hurl grenade at an American soldier but he never threw it. Another Amer ican who had come thru severe gas attack last Monday morning reached the German with his bayonet. The grenade fell from the dying Germans hand and exploded harmlessly on the parapet.
 Gas Famed Sammies' Rage.
 The gas bombardment that preced- ed the infantry advance by the en- emy, began at 12:40 o'clock this morn ing. The Germans had brought up additional S-inch projectors to replace those that had been destroyed by the American guns Monday night, and mustard. phosgene and chloride shells fell by the hundreds on the American positions. In one small area alone 300 of these arrived. Many of tho Americans as a result began to show the result of slight gassing and wer, harboring a large grudge against tn, enemy on this account.
 When the gas shells began to fal 1 there was hardly any wind. making 1 Nettdin tildt tHc luuico WOutu ItI4s@ili in the localities where the German placed them, and the men in tn American trenches hoped the enem. would follow up the smelling with al infantry attack. The hopes of tn | resentful defenders were fully real ized and the result completely satis fled the Americans for, in one trene at daybreak this morning, lay tn nine dead Germans who perished i the bayonet attack, while to the eas where the men in the trenches ha ! gone to work with their machine gun, the ground was dotted with gray-cla bodies
 Many of the machine gunners, sti
 wearing their gas masks, stuck t
 their guns turnout the preliminar
 bombardment and when they saw tn
 advancing forms of the Germnas jus
 outside the American wire they ct loose with thair fire