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 Bois-de-la-M -Morine, across the Gesnes creek, but the attack was launched without artillery preparation and it got nowhere.
 After Preparation Fire
 The following morning preparation the infantry had smashed through the Bois-de-la-Morine before noon, taking 200 prisoners and many machine guns, and in the Oftefnoon, in the course of hand-to-hand fighting, mopped up also Athe Bois-du- Chene-See, north of it.
 That night the sector was again changed, a brigade of the 91st Divi- sion taking about one kilometer on the left, while the 32nd Division took about one kilometer of the 3rd Divi Ision sector on the right. The same Snight the 57th Field Artillery Bri- gade, which had been supporting first the 79th Division and then the 3rd Division, was returned to the 32nd, it's own division, relieving the 55th Field Artillery Brigade.
 During October 6, and 8 no ad- vance was undertaken, but on the morning of the 9th, attacking with other divisions, the 126th Infantry on the right, supported by tanks, and the 125th Infantry on the left, advanced against the main Kriemhilde-S -Stellung, south and southwest of Romange. The 126th promptly broke through the wire and trenches and reached the out skirts of Romsnge; the 125th, which was confronting the intrenched wood- lands in the Bois-de-Valoup and the rugged slopes of the Cote Dame Marie could not make as much progress but reached the top of Hill 258, the south ernmost spur of the Cote Dame Marie.
 On the rest of the front the attack was stopped in front of the German wire, so that the advanced elements which had pierced it had to drop back and consolidate on that line, though during the day, most of them in the enemy's trenches; The positions thus gained were held and strengthened on the following four days, during which the front was extended by the relief of the brigade of the 91st Divi- x.ion on the left, placing three regi- ( ments of the 32nd Division Infantry on the line.
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 These regiments, the 12Sth Infantry on the right, the 126th in the center tand the 127th on the left, at 5:30 Oclock on the morning of the 14th fol- lowed barrage in making deterniin- ed assault which carried the center through the wire and the right up to the edge of Romange where, assisted by artillery and machine gun concen- trations as needed upon various tar gets, attachments worked their way up the ravine south of the village and out upon the hillside west and north of it into such positions that the en- emy was prevented from escaping over the open ground to the east. The mop ping up of the village netted about 200 prisoners.
 The left which had not progressed rapidly in the morning, persisted, nev- ertheless, in pushing up the ravine on each side of the Cote Dame Marie, pre- ceded by a rapid and accurate artillery fire searching out the sensitive points ahead. In close and often hand-to hand fighting through the under brush and trenches, the 127th Infantry forced it's way by noon to Hill 25S, ie cuALOuAiuCu anu tOOhs
 An irregular and disconnected line now existed from north of Romange to the immediate front of the Cote Dame Marie, and by constant pressure this was gradually strengthened and connected, the reserve regiment, the 125th Infantry, going to reinforce the 128th on the right. Similar tactics, continued through the 18th and 16th, resulted in carrying the front a dis tance of about two hlometers north of Romange.
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