Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-07
YANKEE TRENCH
RADED IN FOG
Two American Soldiers Killed,
Four Wounded and One Is
Thought To Be Held
Prisoner.
MAKE A SURPRISE ATTACK
Fierce Struggle Results When
German Barrage Lifts and
Sammies and Huns Meet
Hand to Hand.
MAKE A SURPRISE ATTACK

With the American Army in France.
Wednesday,. Jar. 30.-An Amorcan
position on a certain section OF the
French front was 1aided anrina a
heavy fog shortly after daylight this
morning. h attack was nrecesiea Icy
A violent artillery barrase.
Two Americans werc kii!eYl and fu.tr
wounded. One soldier 81 missing and
is believed 10 have been raprn.d by
the enemy.
Casualties have beg: occurring al
most daily for several, DAYS in Mis- sec
tor. 1t Is now permitted u disclose
that all the recent casualties given out
from Washington %occufred in his sec
tor. The deaths We're caused by shell
fire. mostly shrarnei.
a sntper's bullet. He fen in u irench
filled with water aud a!naos: crowned
before he was rescued tN his captain.
Seve'ai OF the wounded had been listed
as accidental wounhinas. Those we're
mostly Wounds in the hands.
1t is certain tina, the ea>.nN Qast:al,
ties fran the AInes;csH cnnaon and ia;a-
chine u fire has Letn as treat or
greater than ours.
Take Advantage Of Fog.
Las, night was fairly 4uic: through
out the American sector. Tho usual
number OF shells came nv.,, doing no
damage and there wee .he customary
sporadic outbursts OF machine gun tir"
from both sides ri points where The
opposing lines are nearest.
Al ~daybreak this morning HE heavy
fog which had beef, rnveioping she
Who'll position and the ccta,try for
miles around for several DAYS became
nearest enemy positions. AT Z o'clock
three muifled reports sounded through
the fog. There were three whistles.
followed quickly by ti.,.e shell, bursts.
The proiectiles eXplotle;. IN tl,roe s,,les
of an American listening posi- just out
side the wire, within 10 fr@! ~ ~ sE-
envy listening; post.
Then "Aeli Broke Loose"
Then he'll hroi;e loose saisl one It
the men there. For Is minutes the en-
envy broke hundreds of hisi, explosive
| 77S around the pos, and thr s,r:ourd-
ing ground. cutting off tho men there.
Two of then. We're Killed in tbs f,cst
few minutes
Another who was At the post told the
correspondent later. as he was laying
OF n cot in a field hospital, that nc
saw four Germans approaching out of
the fog as the barrage lifted. lie
brought his automatic rifle into play
and saw two Of the Germans fall. He
kept on firing until shell splinters hit
him in the head and arm. 1.-The last J
remember in the time before i reached
the hospital" said another wounded
man. lis seein something moving
through The fog. ! determined 10 get
some Germans and pm my rifle to my
shoulder, bat never pulled the trigger
There was Il ~deafening explosion be-
hind me-. Frozen earth, ice, stones and
she'll spiintcrs came my way.
Inspection nf the scene of the raid
showed that The ground was p!oughed
49,. lr t1,a .vflislsirn ff ShN11c
The casualties given out in Washing
tom recently occurred over IL certain
recent period. The dead We're buried
within the sound and range of the guns
One man WAS blown to pieces by d
shell in Il resiiO:ntai headquarters tow,
as he was tnllowina his colonel into q
dug out.
Three met We're killed by n shell
which fEll il, 4 trench. and another dice
of wounds in Il hospital. quite a few
NJ the men sent to hospitals wore
wounded in the upper art of the body
on on the head from %shrapnci.
For military reasons il has beer, in
advisable tn send earlier or other lie
tails.
\. boche she'll the other day strucl
a cook shop in a little town in tn
n area. A cook at that mor,en
was baking a birthday cake for an Of
ficer and was instantly killed.
Seventeen inen in all have heel
wounded recently. but Of these ST
were reported t" have suffered acct
dental injuries.
One Sammy from New York toda
emerged from, the trsuciles with Ii;
feet frozen and vet smiling through hi
mud caked hair. IN het I'll catch III
dickens for getting my feet frosted.
lie said. "Nl,at > become of ALI ,ila
tobacco fund wye read about III tn
newspapers back homo? Fer Gcdfs sal,
give a Teller g t%i;:arct. haven, .isd
smoke IN IL, JAYS.