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S Troops in Fight Mem Meni- Members hers bers of New Units in Battle Line Yankee Takes Hun HUll P Prisoner r i s 0 on 11 e er r Single-handed Single FRENCH WELCOME ACCESSION TO FRONT It- It Positions Taken Up to Music 1 of Roaring Guns Friendly and Hostile Gen Pershing Forwards For Casualty L List Lis i s t tUh With Uh Ue the American Array Army In France Kroner l el Ieh 2 On On the American etor of or foul Toul ul night ht and day enemy projectiles projectile are fall I u lh Ih Ilir done has licen heen Aou American artillerymen artillery- artillery men luen were ere re wounded Ou Our gums Runn un replied t to 10 the enem enemy with hellM for one nc ne Shells Sheila dropped on n n. party part of aeve evea ea k il mil ln nt ti tiiu iu it wire Ire Ire eo entangle entangle- 1 ji i tvr o nU r t f t 1 rJ today a ii small enemy en m party to raid our lines linen ll and was nUN driven off ocr by In rifle nail DUll machine Kim gun IO fire A trench mortar projectile fell tell fellon fellon on one of or our trenches today killin kill kill- in lug lua IT aud Rud wounding four tour W the Die Americans in France YV Feb cb 22 In In a a. a patrol fight Americans from froni units under instruction instruction I tion in 1 he famous Chemin des- des Dames sector killed one German nUll anil captured another One Am American was slightly wound wounded tl This is is the first time it i has lIns been permitted to reveal cal the tile fact that new nc American units have ha entered catered the line The troops have been there for tor some sometime sometime time lime suffering sll slight ht casualties but their presence lr gence was kept k pt secret ecret until it it was yas certain tain the enemy knew the they were there No 0 D Details Detail of or Fight Details of oC tIle the patrol fight are as aslet asyet yet let el unavailable beyond the unofficial report that tho the prisoner taken was captured bv by a young American from one of the Now New England England England Eng Eng- land states state who llO curing the engagement engage engage- ment dropped Into a sh shell hole on top of a German hiding there and later brou brought hl him ilni In Thc The American forces entered the line Une lineon on one olle o of the darkest of nights through a shell pitted region dotted with shell shell- wrecked towns town The he French general snell-I snell commanding the the sector a hero of the Manic greeted them as comra comrades es In I arms and amid kissed the American flag Throughout hout their period of service in inthe Inthe the line lino these troops have displayed I great reat ca eagerness ernes to establish a record equal oual to or better than that of the troops holding the sector northwest of To foul Toul u I The rue orders for them to leave their billets came caine suddenly a few tew weeks ago abo The troops entrained and rode to the tile rail head nearest the position into which tile the they were going Tile Tho They knew whither they were bound and welcomed the opportunity to start the work worl of ot fighting the Germans Welcomed by French The The- units as the they detrained were core re received received re- re b by the French general commanding corn com com commanding manding the tile sector who l kissed the tho flag reverently rc and amid then addressed the themen men saying that he held them in time the same arno regard ns S his own soldiers and that thal the they were brothers In arms fighting fighting fight fight- ing InS for the thc same samo great cause lie warned them to be cautious cautions In ill dealing with the time enemy over O the distant hills The French soldiers he lie said were skillful In hunting these wild beasts and were glad of oC the opportunity to pass along all the they know knew to their comrades He lIe recognized that tho they were coura courageous and anxious to test themselves against the tile enemy mom but advised ad that they go slow glow at first rho Tho troops made mato a n long march to the tho line lInc singing at Intervals to help the lie feet move O faster aster and lighten the carrying The They passed load the they thecIe were cIe through h mile after mile of such shell scarred red desolate ground and through a number of great piles jules of stoves and debris which once were villages now lOW without without with with- out a single le house left leCt standing The Tile scenes of destruction on such a largo large sc scale scle le Impressed ed the Americans American deeply and man many of them expressed the hope that that- they the would oUid soon Boon be bc able to help punish the tue perpetrators The Tho troops marched in and took up ip their positions without a hitch to the tho music of the roaring roaring- both friend friendly and amid hostile their flashes ire fro Continued on Page 2 Z I I IT U. U Q S. S Tl TROOPERS IN N PATROL FIGHT I Continued From Page I. I l stabbing tho the blackness of ot the night first here herc and then there as asfar far as the thc eye ero could see Troops Hunky Specimens Specimen n On this occasion slon on as as on previous oc occasions occasions oc- oc when American troops reached liter front the they were warmly welcomed L by their by their French comrades comrade An Au Ame American general with these troops had not been In tho the field two hours when the enemy enem dropped dr a number number num num- ber Ier of ot six Inch shells close b by him It wd bras was tho the generals general's first experience under fire Ire but ho continued his work ork coolly remarking that he lie was no more nervous than h he thought he would berho be rho troops In this sector Bector are virtually vir vir- fr all husky specimens and there arc are man many six-footers six amonG them Thc They come come from Crom a cold coM climate and quickly adapted themselves to the field conditions at this season Tho Tito reserve reser units are quart quartered red In Inthe Inthe inthe the theIline Iline Aisne quarries nearby which are arc aret twenty t went feet teet underground round and on one of which is capable of or sheltering |