The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-06-13
32nd Fought Way
To 0urcq Heights
Crazy Artillery Fire Daxsd Germans
In, Attack on Crucial Point
Near River olss
Continued from last week.
HOLDING up Army Front

u 1S1On OF It's own cOTpB ana 10
J fright the seth French Division of tn
right the 59th French Division of tn
LIST Corps. In front Of it, at a distanc
Of about kilometeer down gradua
lopen hill slope, the embankment {
the railroad from Scissors to Cree.
au-Mont cross the divisional secto
nearly at right angles, and about
kiloeter beyond the railroad, in tn
middle of the sector, the solidly-buil
village of Juvigny nestled in the bot
tom of ravine, one of whose woode'
branches extended southwestward to
ward the right flank of the 32nd Divi
sion and the left flank of the 59tl
Division.
| The enemy's position here, to which
he was clinging with all his power
was holding UP the Allied advance
all alone the 10th Army front, and the
32nd Division had beeen brought in
specifically to smash through.
With time for previous reconnais-
sance, the 32nd Division with the
63rd Brigade in front, the 126th In
fantry on it's right and the 125th In
fantry on its left moved forward
early on the morning of the 26th, in
CONJUNCTION with the seth French Div
ision and sized the line of the railroad
where, however, the troops wre SO
exposed to the enemy's raking fire
that eventually resort had to be
had to distribution in great debth,
leaving a few men in shell holes at
the extream front while most OF
them lay back of the hill crest.
Assault Stopped In Tracks
A violent enemy counter-attack
down the branch of the ravine above
mentioned was readily repulsed, and
early the following morning simul-
with the whole 10th Army,
he 32nd Division attacked toward
Juvigny, accompanied by two compan-
es of French tanks and company OF
cavalry, preceded by a 25-minute art
llery preparation and covered by a
olling barrage.
But it was all to no purpose. The
ierman machine gun emplacements
n the ravines were so well covered
hat the artillery fire did them little
amage. On the whole the assault was
topped in it's rtacks and at evening !
he 32nd having suffered severe losses J
ny practically where it had lain in
be morning west of the railroad. |
Indeniably the Germans had scored.
But their defensive success was not
'nglived. During the night of the 20
i, the 63rd Brigade, to the command
which Brig. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy
ad that day succeeded Brig. Gen. L.
. Covell, gave up the front line to
lie 64th Brigade, which went in with
lie 127th Infantry on the right and the
18th on the left. Before noon of the ,
'th, the 59th French Division began !;
fishing ahead slowly against Chav-
ny and the ravines in it's front, and
$3.50 p. m. a general advance of the |
nd Division commenced, the right of s
e of the line pressing northeast c
rough the ravines toward Juvigny,
lille the extreme left was Obliged to
helon back to the railroad grade
keep liaison with the division on :
left. which could not advance
ainst the machine guns ahead of it.
The German counter-attacked vigor- :
sly on the pocket thus delevopled
the division left, but to no avail; .
3 127th Infantry and the right of :
, 128th, slosely supported at every :
p by the artillery and the troops 8
the 63rd Brigade reached the 8
lthern, then the western and fina- =
the northern edges of the village. s
With the place thus surrounded, at :
put z o'clock two reserved comp =
es of the 127th Infantry passed in
it and in the course of about two =
IRIS of hard fighting mopped it up, s
ne 100 prisoners being taken. /:
Crazy American Barraee -
he enemy, who had anticipated an 8
ack from the northwest and arrang- (:
his defense accordingly was surp- !:
ID by the attack from the south {:
IT, and the Americans esca ped /:
ny casualties by reason OF the fact /:
t large preparation Of the mach /:
guns were blanketed in that dir !:
ION. !:
Except on the left the north-and- |:
tn road just east Of Juvigny was =
Z the American front line. Gen. =
In, who now had under his orders :
only the four regiments OF his own :
Artillery Brigade bat also the +:
llery Of the 1st Moroccan Division, /:
he morning opened a terrific art 8
y preparation OF four hours dur I:
a covering all the ground from this
eastward for about three kilome- Il
along the plateau to the village
erny-Sorny.
p. m. the artillery Are. whose Il
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