Show Americans Dash Across No Mans Man's Land to Enemy Trenches Kill Many Huns HunsBy By International News Service WITH THE TIlE A AMERICAN IEmA AR ARMY tY 1 IN FItA Cg March 11 For H.-For For fully ull a half half- hour American troops early arty today fought a brilliant successful hand to hand combat com coin bat hat with Germans In III trenches on the Toul front fron t Lorraine In time the first lr t largo call raid rate undertaken b by our OUI men since their arrival l In Franco France Supported h by a smashing barrage front from our OUI Me big ht guns un OW they sur surged ed forward across No Mans Man's Land driving tn the German advanced arl limit lino 1 to flight Then the they dashed into th the he enemy's I positions to tn a n depth of moro mono than yards ami aimI cleaned 11 ui iii In hand to hand h fighting they killed mall many Germans and and finally returned laden with trophies and imil hl highly Informative ushers paper and Insignia No prisoners were taken takemi for tor tho reason reulon that there here w re none to take talce Those of tho Germans who hadnot hall hail not taken to In flight ht were 1 In iii their thell dugouts mid killed In man to man niami corn com bats The Time American n batteries commenced their destructive drumfire sprinkling th the Herman positions on a linn lino selected for forthe forthe or the tIme r- r rId raid Id Just after the stand to 10 signal l when the Lime enemy won WM manning the time fire step in his lila front IIII lino Ilo positions Following the custom observed In view of a heavy bombardment tho the enemy evidently evi evl- dently withdrew tho hulk bulk of or his advanced garrison to 10 the rear evading losses Josses In prisoners The American ble blew lanes Janes I through h the nem tI barbed wire and pioneers dashed forward blowing the re remaining ro- ro R to hits r with hell boxes pipes lures pack packed d tight with hl h explosives The They were pro protected by hy our box ox barrage barrage bar bar- rage which cut of off the enemy prevent cut In him from counterattacking the American Amerl n Incursion Our troops crossed the narrow si strip rip of No Mans Man's Land traversed the torn tom wire fields nd tho enemy's shell shattered chat shat red ti-red adva advanced need positions I The They found that a c certain ln number of or German dugouts dugouts dug dug- outs ha had been smashed by direct hits hit and l that their trenches hall had been III Iti many K t shot hOL to pieces by lw our barrage b. Dut But no Germans were cro in evidence After Arter rounding out material that will bo be hoh helpful In determining time the exact char char- Continued on all page pago I I I GEN WOOD MAY LEAD I ARMY CORPS IN fRANCE Continued From Page 1 acter of or the enemy troops occupying that particular position and obtaining other information the Americans returned to their trenches Meanwhile the enemy batteries awoke to a desultory harassing fire but failed to Impede the execution of our raid In any anya a way As this Is cabled Information is comIng coming corning com corn ing in showing that when the Americans had penetrated the Gorman positions to toa toa toa a depth of ot yards they found several ral du dugouts crowded with enemy troops Hand Hond to hand fighting ensued in iii which man many Germans were killed the Americans Amen Ameri cans using their automatics American machine guns kept up an In Indirect Indirect indirect In- In direct fire at the German communication trenches throughout thus preventing re reinforcements ro- ro from coming up Germans occupying a listening post In InNo InNo inNo No Mans Man's Land attempted to fire at the Americans as 38 the tho latter were returning but we annihilated their pos post The raid la lasted ted thirty minutes |