Show us U. S. S TROOPS G F ON GERMAN SO sm TED f f Report S Says Americ Americk Have Been Under Fir Firon t I on Swiss Border order 1 By Fred Fre d S. S r- r Ferguson l United Press Staff Correspond WITH THE AMERICAN A AR ARI FRANCE March 0 AmerIcan American t tr training on a new sector nc nea near Swiss border have havo been under K bombardment b by the f three eJa days s t y r This announcement Is accepted accept d' d meaning Americans J probably rob bl ro for foe i first time ma may bo be fighting o on Ge Gen soil BoH The w western stern front for tor a at tin fifty miles north from t the g S' S border Is In German Gelman territory i iwar war department rK at Washington ga f day night a cas casualty of sixteen dead and forty 1 The announcement did no not d deal deal- the time of the tho casualties nori or sectors i The Tho enemy artillery reached a I a-I cendo today and tonight D Despite spite spI tt terrific tho the morale of tJ is excellent JR 1 The Tho American troops in sector the tho same as tho forces on Americans' Americans own front in the St St. M sector have no airplanes of ot t town own jj t The shelling of ot this position f throughout the day and andi cased eased for tor a short interval this this' ning 11 q Two signal corps men themselves b by maintaining comm cation with the rear defens defenses de des the tho fact that telephone wires were I broken A wire was t from one mans man's hands hand b by n n. shell but the Interruption never t ti fa him When Then the shelling finally C cea the they had their repairs completed The bombardment on this sec seal seel dUrin luring during the last two days has three or four times as hot as It ever been on he St. St Mihiel This afternoon a no big shell squarely h on a dugout In which md than thirty men were sheltered TK Ti dashed out and into another dugo only onh to have their new fuge demi i Ish d by a shell a few minutes late Ono One German is known to have have-b killed in a patrol encounter In sector occupied by Americans o T Chemin des Dames front It Is tJ pf ablo the enem enemy suffered other casties cast cas' ties There were no American l lot loa |