Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-18
GERMAN OFFENSIVE
FASTENED TRAINING
Of AMERICAN ARMY
Green Units Are Thrown Into
Battle Instead of Slow
Trench Training-0ur Men
Break Up Big Raid

WITH THE AMERICANS IN
FRANCE. Juue 17.-Germany fastened
the end OF the war with ultimate vic
tory Tor the allies by its third blow OF
the great offensive, ending at the Marine.
This advance caused Americans who
had landed ONLY a few weeks before to
BE- thrown into the battle 1t changed
the American force from pOten;iality
into al immediate, powerful rghting
unit
The fact that the German press now
admits there are 100000 Americans IN
Fra1ce, while saying they are useless
IS the strongest indication that the
German h gin command appreciates the
weight America has placed upon the
scales. The high command is attempt
frs 10 discount TO the German people
rh= importance of the Americans When
the Germans came out OF the trenches,
in o the open. they played into Amer
Ica hands.
Omen fighting. has been the Ameri-
cans game since the Indian wars.
Young. green units huddled into the
Mzrne line without the slightest train
ing ate il up" In two weeks they
have charged from green troops TO vet
e.aus They have met and defeated the
best the Germans have had TO offer.
If the lighting had continued in the
trenches IL would have been weeks, pos
sibIy months. before the same troops
were ct Trench fighting is an intricate
game. the smallest mistake may be
,-stIy. But open fighting is more fitted
TO the Americans nature II gives an
opportunity for the exercise OF initia-
tive
The German stan in eadeavoring 70
force the French TO use up their re-
serves in launching various attacks The
plan was a failure at the Marine because
the Americans took up the fight The
enemy's advance was stopped and they
lost more men than did the French.
In Picardy. in Lorraine. near Verdun.
and at other points held by Americans,
French troops have been relieved for
duty elsewhere. This adds 70 the con-
Germ the Americans undoubtedly are
giving the German staff
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Sunday, June Icy the
Associated Press. In their attack on
Nivray on the TOul sector today the Ger
mans hoped to enter the village and
carry of a large number of prisoners
but the alsrtness of the American ar
riIIery observers completely overturned
the enemy plan. Examination Of the
Germans captured in the fight disclosed
that the enemy planned the raid week
in advance and that the 500 special
troops who took part in it were re-
rehearsed behind the German lines
The enemy plan was to send forward
a large party without preparatory ar
tiiIery fre. This party was TO take up
d position near the American barbed
wire and then send up a signal rocket
for a box barrage TO cover Nivray VIII
LACE and the approaching communica-
ton trenches while the heavier artillery
was 20 lombard the villages in the rear.
American artillery observers saw a
large number of Germans creeping about
in No Mans Land and. thinking they
composed a large working party, the ar
tiIIery signaIIed Tor a barrage.
The American artillery and machine
guns went into action Immediately and
before the enemy bzrrage could get
started had inflicted heavy casualties or
the UNPROTECTED Germans in No Mans
Lind and played havoc with the plans
Tor the TGid-
The original enemy plan was for the
attaching party TO divide into three sec
tyuas and TO enter ivray from three
different directions. only one section
actually reached the outskirts of the
village. but only after y nad been cut
NJ badly by the American barrage fire.
OF these only = small group got into
Nivrey where they were quickly sur
rounded by the Americans and either
captured OF killed Eight prisoners, in
Guiding a lieutenant. remained in the
American hands
\ majority OF the American casual
ties which DO not include any missing.
resulted from the German artillery fire.
Casualties among French civilians Oc-
CURED when a German shell burst near
a church as a procession OF villagers
was emerging from mass Many of the
French wounded were cared for in Amer
ican hospitals
This afternoon the American artillery
opened a rstaliatOry fire against the
area behind the German lines. while the
Germans. apparently angered by the
failure OF the raid. bombarded villages
as Tar as eight miles behind the Amer
lean lines. The whole Toul sector is
now echoiug 20 the heaviest guafire in
many weeks
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