Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-04-26
DESCRIPTION OF MFUSE- -ARCONNE
 BATTLE WHICH BROKE HUNS BACK

Brieulles- -Nantillois road in the nar- row valley of the brook of Wassieu, with the object of bringing the left up parallel to the right, which still rested on the north edge of the Bols- de- Brieulles.
 The 5Sth, supported by the 59th, at tackled diagonally across the rolling ridges from the creek valley, made good progress from the start, pushed through the Bois-de-Fays against strong machine gun opposition, cross ing the wagon road between Brieulleh and Cunel, and, traversing the small woods north of that road, enteredlth Bois- de-Foret.
 This advance of something over three kilometers carried the front practically through the kllemhllde- Stellung positions, but the S0th Div ision,s son the left, had not been able to take the dominating crest of the Bols- de-Ogons which, based like an outwork on the Ferme Madeline center ot resistance, lay about one-half kllo- meter southwest of the Bois-de-tays.
 The forces that had reached the Bois- de Foret were, therefore, drawn back about kilometer and the line consolidated in the ravine, or Fond de-Ville aux Bois, on the north edge of the Bois-de-Fays, with the 59th In fantry protecting both Hanks of the salient thus formed; on the right, to the Bois-de- -Brieulles, where it con nected with the 47th Infantry of its own division; on the left, to the south ern edge of the Bois-de- -Ogons, where it had Jason with the 80th Division.
 The position was obviously dan gerous one, and, although the Sth Di- vision finally took the Bois-de- -Ogons on the 5th, after desperate fighting, the salient of the Bois-de-Fays was still pronounced, and the Germans made several violent counter-attacks to recapture it between October and 9.
 Brieulles village and the trenches south of it, too strong to be taken by direct assault, still stood, and the plan was to turn them by pushing through the Kriemhilde-S -Stellung further west. Late on the afternoon of the 9th, the 39th Infantry, being in the front line in the Frod-de- aux Bois another attack was launched, in conjunction with the 80th Division.
 The underbruSh in front was very dense and it had, moreover, been sat- urated with gas by the Germans, obliging the advancing troops to wear their masks. Suffering from these difficulties and under heavy fire, the units, became separated in the twilight and the attack was totally repulsed.
 Undismayed next morning the same troops, with those of the 5th Corps divisions further to the left, resumed
 the attack behind a/barrage, a and at
 noon were through the small woods
 north of the Drieulles-C -Cunel road. In
 the ofternoon they once more reached
 the Bois-de- Foret, only to find it again
 impossible to hold, and dropped back
 to the small woods for the night.
 Patrols on Crest of Hill 299
 Pushing on, however, with grim de-
 termination during the 11th, they fin.
 ally conquered the Bois-de-Foret, and at evening even had patrols on the open crest of Hill ,299, nearly a halt
 kilometer north of it. But this time
 Brieulles was almost surrounded on the south, west and north, but, though
 on the south the enemy had abandon. ed part of the Teton trench, which was occupied by the 47th Infantry on Oct ober 10, he still held the village, from
 which he could at any time escape across the Mouse. On the morning of the 18th, the 8tt , Brigade, which had taken the Bois-de Foret, was relieved there by the 4tt
 Infantry, of the 3rd Division. The 7tt Brigade, on the right, continued tt occupy its positions without attacking
 until October 19, when it was relieved
 on the line Mouse river-Bois-de-la Cote-le e-Moret-Teton trench-Bois-de Pays, by the 9th Brigade, of the 3rc Division. In its three weeks of harc front line fighting, the 4th Division had lost 4,603 officers and men.
 . Having experienced brief perioc of rest from the evening of September 2S to that of October 8, the SOth Di vision went in again that night or a marrow front of less than two kilo
 meters along the road extending cas- and west through the north edge o1 , Nantillois, with the special object o1 carrying the strong point of the Bois de-Ogons, the 4th Division attacking i at the same moment on the right ant the 3rd Division on the left.
 Advancing in columns of battalion: with 317th Infantry on the right, tht 3l8th on the left, and one battalion of the 313th Field Artillery assigned ! as accompanying artillery, the 8Otl Division, against a whitening artiller! and machine gun fire from front ant .. Hanks, drove orthwest kilometer anc a half across two ravines and an in tervening ridge until it attained tht
 southern edge of the Bois-de-Ogons
 beyond which it could not go, although renewed attack, assisted by tanks was made about 5:30 p. m.
 ' To North End of Woods
 At 5:30 o'clock on the morning o1 :, the 9th, the struggle was resumed anc continued all day, the divisional artil , lery and also the 238th Regiment o- l, Eronch artillarU aSSiStinu Finally