Show WHEN THE YANKS MEUSE STRUCK ON American Doughboys Faced Three Fortified Defense Systems NOTHING COULD STOP THEM Int Interesting Description of One of theLast theLast the theLast Last Big Fights In Which Pershing's Troops Were Engaged With the UH First American Array Arrn- Three fortified defensive defensive- systems guarded the German positions between between between be be- tween the Argonne and the Mouse Ieuse when tIle the Americans burst through them The advanced line the enemy's old line the his lois Intermediate line ran a kilometer or two behind It it according to the configuration of the terrain hills streams und and woods and was vas called culled the tue Volker Behind that ran his main reserve line of defense the a n continuation of the Brunhilde Brun Brun- hilde which runs through Champagne At their thell first bound the Attacking n I tacking waves n of swept over the then two WO vo fortified zones with their moor wire barbed entanglements cut to pieces b by tIme the preliminary III bombardment bombard ment and in several points the they pen pen- the which pivoted pl In the l Meuse lre- lre Ieuse sector on ucon The three hour artillery preparation and amid o'clock in th the tia had driven the enemy to his i deepest dugouts and the advanced as us- Fault tault troops cic veLe In the trenches trenches' throwing g gas ga bombs and grenades down the thc stairways s Into the und under underground r- r ground bombproof shelters before the Bodies Boches could get et upstairs Reducing Strongholds Between the three different lines of or positions the time Bodies had hind Installed series of strong points machine ma machine machine ma ma- chine gun nests sometimes In concrete and steel pillboxes boxes or else merely nIel set In strong stion natural commanding com coin manding positions The advanced waves of storming I troops going forward for In open order artier their n way between the time stron strong points often h by worming along for con con- distances on their stomachs or by crawling on hands and knees l i p through thorough woods or along ravines rn Ar- Ar rI in the roar reni- of ill these e positions t hey thiv established contact with one anther an an- o ther Hiler and proc proceeded el ed forward l leaving In il 1 the in Ia snipers to work their way back O Othe on art and pick rear of ot the strong points many ninnY In the Boche machine gunners cases succeeding ln It was the Job of the machine mn- mn waves of f assault w with th their light chine guns goons and their little trench ch mor mortars two wheeled tars mounted on light hauled to tp reduce carts by ly man power Hower without t tIme the th these se strong with or aid of oC artillery tanks or airplanes entirely en entirely entirely en en- were v The post most ost advanced waves safe from the machine gun POsitions positions positions po po- sed them as the once they pa passed Bodies usually could not work their their the emplacement em era- rear gt guns goons ns toward their own with whim placement having ha been heen flanks a n view to firing ahead or on the only Furthermore re if It the time fired tired toward to the rear the they would reveal re veal their presence to the tile succeeding ing attacking waves WH which would put Jut them out omit of action before the they could swing sving around again Why Casualties Are Light waves the time attacking It Is because e went forward deployed In extended of ot tire lire formation and behind a 1 curtain of bursting bursting shells a b barrage e that casualties among attacking troops were so 50 much much lighter than anyone anYOne any anY- one unfamiliar with these tactics might Ima Imagine l The Tue doughboys s 's passed w i- i VII h Was n a hive of machine n nests l in gun their dr advance ance toward NanU Nan- Nan U and and It was Vas not Un- Un day y after octer the town practically hud had bc been surrounded that t the last enemy resistance wa was Wa crushed there Ater Alter After penetrating well be beyond ond Mont Mont- U CI g on either cither side American pat pa- pa t trois ts of twos and thre threes three's s began begun to reconnoitre the town and ami the tile chateau I Wl l h stands on on a tent like ridge com com- n landing tm th the plum plain in all directions Tho e patrols which filch entered from the north from behind worked their way through thOrough the ruins of shell sho shell shattered I ho Houses rl right ht up uil to thy front of the t town rn where the they sniped the thie German l machine gunners In the backs as they w were e firing firing on A American III a patrols adv ad nd v Cli g Cr from m Cul y P Prisoners were taken from the deep dugouts 50 and GOI below the time ruined town two doys ays after the time Americans had themselves d In the town a. a |