Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-05
Violent Argonne Attack of En-
emy With Artillery and Ma
chine Guns Only Spurred
Yankees On to Victory.
GET PRISONERS FROM
FIFTEEN DIVISIONS
Huns Shell Town at Night and
Help Americans Kill Off
What Few Germans Re-
NAMED Hidden in Houses,
(By Lincoln Eyre.)
Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing Co.

(The New York World)
Especial cable to the World and Albu-
querque Journal)
With the American Forces in
France, Sept. S0-Flung back behind
his last prepared lines of defense and
forced to fight in the open, the enemy
since Friday has sought to stay our
advance on the Argonne front with
every means at his disposal.
The Americans have advanced in
the teeth of the most violent artillery
and machine gun barrages hey have
ever faced. The capture of trenches
IN and around Epinonville and IVORY,
ana the advance beyond, amounted to
storming of small Gibraltars. Rear
guards of the German forces remained
~ aSsass stiiu speGEffy pofstftfcteu
dugouts and well-hidden galleries of
reinforced concrete. and fought on
with a valor worthy Of better cause.
Their artillery, which had been fee
BILE, sprang into being again with re-
newed vlgor, and Pershing's men ad-
vanced over continuous downpour
of high explosives, which necessarily
retarded but failed to halt their prog
. ress.
Took Foe by Surprise.
Orders were issued to artillery COM
manders to realign their batteries for
death firing, and this maneuver was
being carried out when the Americans
opened their attack.
Many of the foes guns were being
transferred to fresh emplacements and
could not reply to the first salvoes
from our guns.
The early comparative scarcity of
man power and machine guns among
the German front line units was over
come on the night of the 2Sth, when
fresh German divisions were rushed
forward in motor trucks. One of the
units then brought up was the IA
nous Prussian guard division that
fought against the American marines
at Belleau wood last June. There are
now two guard divisions opposing us
in this struggle.
The enemy has thrown every re-
serve battalion into the fray, thus in
creasing the number of machine guns
at his disposal. Among the increasingly
number of prisoners we have taken
are men from fifteen different divi- |
sions
Some of the hardest fighting of the
offensive thus far came in the valleyl
iloi invest VI V FdfeTIieS, running from
Charpentry to Cheppy, and at Mont
faucon. The Germans counter at
tackled fiercely, and heavily shelled
the whole country southwark from
Charpentry. We retaliated by drench- /
ing Charpentry with high explosives,
after which troops from Pennsylvania |
swept into the town. The enemy's ma
chine gun rear guard savagely con-
tested their advance, but after hours
of hand-toha fighting, in which
tanks assisted, Charpentry was COM
pletely ours. Our patrols then rushed
on to the north despite determined
enemy fire.
Other contingents of Americans
meanwhile were moving up the ra-
vines from Cheppy, captured the
town of Vesy and dug Themselves in
on Hill 21S, also under heavy fire.
Establishment of the American
lines on solid basis in the vicinity of |
Montblainville and Very and the ad-
vance meantime by General Gou-
raud's army further west put the Ger
mans in Grurie wood in perilous po-
sition.
This part of the Argonne forest
formed sharp salient in their front
and they were brought face to face
with the risk of being badly pinched
or of Withdrawing swiftly from the
pocket. General Liggett foresaw This
eventuality and refrained from assail-
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