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Show AMERICANS TIKE OVER uLuiun ur THEJ.ME Military Censor at the Front Finally Permits the Announcement to Be Made That General Pershing's Forces Are I Now Actively Engaged in War. BOOM OF GUNS IS CONTINUOUS Two of Our Boys Are W ounded by Snipers Early Saturday Morning; Morn-ing; Battles in the Air Enliven the Scene; Prisoners Located in the German Camps. WITH THE AMERICAN AHMT ! LN FRANCE, Feb. 3 fBy tie Associated As-sociated Press.) A German barrage, j ira at sundown last night opened i the heaviest bombardment of many 1 days along the American sector, the American artillery replying shell for shell as the firing of the heavy . guns spread along several kilometers kilome-ters of front. Two Americans were killed and nine wounded during the bombardment bombard-ment and one suffered shell shock. VTlTH THE AlfERICA-N AEMT IN FRANCE, Saturday, Feb. 2. (By the Associated As-sociated Press. American troops now are occupying- a sector of the Lorraine front in France. This announcement is permitted by the military . censor. The correspondents permanently accredited ac-credited to the American army have teen informed, that they may proceed to virtually vir-tually any point within the zone of fire, except the trenches, without escort ar.d without spectal permission. Arrange -ments were made today whereby newspapermen news-papermen may proceed to any brigade headquarters a tew kilometers behind the trench s after first reporting their presence pres-ence within the zone to the headquarters headquar-ters of the divi-don of which the brigade is a part. Unless there is some occurrence occur-rence which . makes it Inadvisa bie in the opinion cf the brigade commander for correspondents to move nearer the front they may walk from his quarters to regimental regi-mental headquarters behind the lines. Within Easy Range. Since ail roads immediately behind the front are within easy German gun rar.ee and undar German observation, not more th-m two correspondents may move for-v for-v ard tosret her. They must wear era 3 mashs in aiert position and helm-.ts. New; - aprmen must obtain special rer-mjs-siou to visit the trenches and must be accompanied by an escorting officer. The fa-t that American troops were- in the trenches in Lorraine was revealed bv the German war office three months ax. At that lime, according to an official German finnouncement. the Americans w-re on the front at the Rhine-Mama canal, which1 intersects the battle line near the German border, due east o' Nancy. This announcement was rrad in the official report from Berlin of the first German raid on the American positions, posi-tions, in which three Americans were killed, five wounded and twelve captured. cap-tured. American Line. , The eastern end of the battle line In France and Belgium rums through French ar. i German L-orraine. Frei'ch Lorraine, m which is the American Amer-ican sector, is inc'uded-in the cnari-m-:'.ts of Meusp. the ca;iwi of which is Vorc -in ; Meurthe-e c-Moseiiv. whese capital cap-ital is Nincy. and Vosses. with the capital cap-ital at Lpimi'. The lencth of the front in Frcr.-h Lorraine is ah-jt :.o miiea. This section of the battle !ir.e extends into t ;e Meue from the Marne near St-Menehoui-I, ar.d runs eastward to the north of Verdun, south to St. Mihip'i ard east to the German border. There it turns to th southeast, ard almost parallels paral-lels the hord-r the vicimry of Leintrv. Below Leir.try it ci:t z:to. a section of German sofh past Eadonvilier art noue.s and to the ea?-t of St. Die, and again c r c s se s the Germ;-n border at a point west o: Coimar. T: e remainder of the lire to the Swiss boundary is in Germany. Since the cattle o? Verdun there has been no fight.r.s of great importance along this iron t. For the most part ft runs 1 1" r l; z h h : s h a : . i broken count ry . Sir-'.-e the present battle line was established estab-lished e'-t-lv in the war there has been comr a ra lively little activity on the front to tho cast o: the Ve:d n sector, the nature of the eour.tr- mihins largo operations op-erations imrw-cti :ab.e. AMERICAN SECTOR RESOUNDS WITH BOOM OF GUNS WITH THE AMERICAN" ASMT IX F?.ANr i. Sa:::rda- Feb. 2. (3j- th issor'ad Presi.i i r.e ho'.e American (Continued on Page T-wo.) AMERICANS DGGUPY SECTOR OFMLi: ',,m- the boom of cans slightly this "nl,nstf rdav cleared A shift of the V , hsbl"ered aer-away aer-away the mist wh h to " seV.. ial operations and other act in e eral days. A number of battie Were fought by rati o tl.ng F h this afternoon, in one '"sWe German ?riOT?odcreoV.Ca eVnie" fhe American -tmery a,d sniper, a, so have he-come he-come '"""''"f'Lffc behind lhe enem" tions. , . |