Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-12 | Page 2 | Four Boches Creep up on Americans

FOUR 8BMEEP 1 IIP MMMM French Patrols on Watch Circle Around and Capture Cap-ture the Bunch. Ey NEWTON C. PARKE, Staff Correspondent of International News Service. "Wl T i I THE A MKR1 C A X A RMY I X FRANCE". Nov. 11. The situation generally gener-ally continues normal In the American sector of the wt stern front, according to latest reports. During the last two diiys there has been a steauy downpour of ruin. Today It was colder und the sky was overcast. There were two diversions yesteroa y-Before y-Before dawn a nervous German sentry apparently thought he saw Americana move near the German barbed wire. ?Te signaled for machine j?un fire. For several sev-eral minutes bullet streams from two machine ma-chine puns clipped across No Man's l.anrt. whistling across ihe tops of the American trenchfH, doini; no harm. About the sime time, in another sector, four Germans crept over and becan cnt-tinp cnt-tinp the wires before r'r.e American trenches, planning another raid. French patrols operating the American flank watched the approach of the .Germans, permitted them to reach the wire and then "circled." taking them in the roar and capturing all. Artiliery activity is reported as normal for ti.e past forty-elshi hours. German newspapers received here thus j far make no con, ment upon the appear- j a nee of Americans on the firing line. I printing only the official American communique. com-munique. It is assumed that this is part of the general policy of heliiLlini; the importance im-portance of A merican rarin;ira ion in the war. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FR A NCE. Nov. 11. (By t he Asso-Ma tel T're;-s. General rersliins said to the cor-iespon-leni today: "TrCH'ps and .supplies are arriving in incn-asiiii: iiumhers." Thanks to fi'.e French, rjrltish and American nav ies. he emit uiue;. the s'ib-marine s'ib-marine to date had no: claimed the life of a smele American soldier on the troon ship? bound Tor France The Frem-h officer, of-ficer, he said, w ere c nthusiastb- o - er tiie character, ini el lice nee and esc ernes? of the yoiin? officer-; who are arrivms in FTanee tn . ontinue their inst rn,-1 ion, and the American arm- is proud of them.