Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-23
|llIlEES Use GAS
ROUT TEUTONS
lllge. of Shells Falls On
Germans Asleep in
Wood
HREE DEADLY WAVES
American P trolls Employ
Rife and Grenade Fire
With Success
EHREE DEADLY WAVES

With the American Army in France,
May 2s.
4 {, Severe punishment has been inflicted
/ ~ American artillery upon the enemy
1orthwest of Toul but to what extent is
4St yet known. The Americans launched
! y tcrrilc gas attack upon the German
Dositicns and cantonments within the
4<fechamp wood
Many Germans were known 10 be
0eeping in the wood and within a half
hour the American shells. falling In
three waves, had drenched them with
large quantity of poisonous gas.
In lively patrol actions Monday night
and Tuesday morning east of LuneNilIe
German parties twice were defeated by
the Americans, who captured two prison.
An officer and twenty men. while ex-
ploring the area northwest of Ancer-
sillers. east Of Luneville. sighted four
+ enemy patrols and established contact
with one of them. The enemy party.
Numbering sixteen, took up a pos tion in
an unused trench, from which they were
drfven by the rife and grenade firing OF
the Americans. The Germans then were
rushed by the Americans, who took two
prisoners, one so badly wounded that
( he died later. There were no casualties
on the American side
Four hours later an enemy patrol
made bold attempt to rush one of our
ourposts, but was driven off One Ger
mRn was killed and his body was brought
back 10 the American lines for ldentifica-
4 tion
Northwest of Toul an American pa
troll traversed the Apremont-Narnevi
I road and found a high tension cable used
for charging the enemy wire. They cut
the cable and brought back large sec
zion of 1t. Another patrol came on a
German party southwest of Apremont
and sharp fighting resulted. The Amer
\ leans used their pistols. rifles and hand
4 Rrenades effectively, and the Germans
Z were forced to retire.
y A corporal named Kick, from New
England State, carried out a personal
4 patrol late yesterday afternoon. He
crawled to the enemy wire TO investigate
Y what he thought was a periscope and
saw a German step up to the firing
trench. Bullets were exchanged but the
<,American returned safely across No
Mans Land.
Washington's announcement that the
b combined fronts held by the American n
3 4xpeditionary forces in France cover a
greater distance than that held by Bel.
xiun and take third rank has inspired
she men in the American ranks as prob
4 Ably nothing else could.
The announcement was published in
4 7nswspapers reaching the various zones
IN which there are Americans today
and the result is that every one of the
dough boys" is walking just a little
Otraighter. and there is just little more
B fnap IN his salute.
Il Stan and certain other officers have
known the fact for some time, but the
3 average American soldier, billeted in
= some out-of-the-way little French vii.
hge. or living where the shells fly does
not get a chance to know what is going
On outside his own little sphere.
In vague way the men in the line
have known that other Americans have
been scattered along the battlefront
somewhere between Switzerland. and the
sea But none even thought the forces
Of which he was a member were holding
4 section of the line second only to that
held by the French and British