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Show BRING DOWN AIRMEN AID TAKE TRENCHES i French Infantry in Valley of Suippe Heroes of Newspaper News-paper Story (Correspondence of the Associated Press ) BAR LE DTJC France Dec 9 The Petit Par s en gives the following ac count of the capture of a Taube a6ro Plane and the trenches commanding the valley of tl e Su ppe The French batteries had been play ing on the German positions all day and the observers reported that the f re of tl e tl ree inchers was prec se and dead uu&eque i. y iue appearance ot a Taube f ying machine over the battery position was no surp se The French gunners were commanded to cease t ring in order not to give a clew to their thereabouts and the Taube sal ed away seeming v ha ng fai ed in its mission It came back again however and after dropping four harm ess bon bs on Sam p gneul It iet fall a few dangerous y c ose to t e French batter es The pos tion had been d scovered and the necessity of bringing the machine down before it cou d get back to the German lines was vita Muskets were a med from every di rect on machine guns we e turned to vard It and even the three Inchers came into act on In a perfect storm of shel an 1 bu ets the Taube was soon n a bal way it made an effort to turn and f y but it was seen t at t had been hard h t it tipped cons derably then ob qued oward the earth a d anded with a hea -y shock in the pain of Agh Icourt The French infantry had Hatched the actioi. from the trenches and the ma cl re had no sooner touched the ground than the ent re line dashed fo ward to capture it The 'aj.ons in fron had a so been look ng o and they came on at double quick to defend the ipach ne around wh ch the two detachments clashed There was an indescrlbab e melee for a few n nutes In wh ch It was impossible to separa e t e rrench and the Germans , The a lator had been Ml ed bv a bu le in the forehead w en he was about to d sengage his maOiine but the Saxons put up so strong a f ght that the issue had become doubtfu when a joyful cry went up from the French infantry The d agoons The dragoons At f u 1 gal op a squad on of French dragoons came n o s ght from Goda wit lances ready they prec p ta ed the nse es into the f ght and put the Saxons to rout The mac Ine was captured but t at was -not enoug for t e infantrj who 1 a ged with the bayonet and took the en ps that ommanded the alley of the bu ppe |