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Show mm take ifjjpii Yankees Smash Through Cuisy Line During Friday's Fri-day's Fig-hting. WITH THK A M 1'J RICA N ARMT NOKTmVV-ST OK VUIUH'N'. Viiday, Sopt. (By The Associated Pros:'.) In yesterday's fighting the infantry overran over-ran the first German position. The enomy flrut attempted to stand on the line running through Cuisy. but the AnierloHTis ju.htd nlieail, Culsy was takou iind detachments press-ed as far as the Fay el farm. lu the perfectly blue sky thure were, as long as dAyliph t lasted, dozens, and soim-timr scores of airplnnos which darted l-aok and forth over the lines and enlaced In during combats above the moving ruin inns. In .spite of statements made by prisoners prison-ers that tho attack was foreseen, it is evule--.it that the enemy had not been nine to inakf adequate preparation to meet it or retire. He lacked reserve is to d( ii'iul the r .ir positions. The American advance already has cut across tlu- only rail connection be l ween the two main railroads coining from t lie north. The ground which has been taken is very important and increases the muprnl-tnde muprnl-tnde ot the victory. From the beginning of the preliminary bom hard me nt until night fail tho weather was almost idenl. Soon after midnight, however, the f-ky clouded and rain was falling to steadily this morning that a staff officer remarked: re-marked: "This is helping the German?." l&Rt evening the German artillery tire became heavier, r.ppareutly indicating that he had retired to his second line of resistance. Shells of big caliber fell with regularity behind the advanced American lines .m the er,emy attempted to silenoe the American batteries and damage the roads. These shells, however, fell almost without with-out exception in woods and fields, and did not impede the American advance. The Germans apparently made a desperate desper-ate eftort to withdraw the heavy artillery captured by the Americans in the region of Dannevoux. but the American artlhVry had severed the German lines of com-! com-! munication. j In this sector north of Dannevoujc In I the great elbow of the Mouse river four 410 millimeter and eight 130 millimeter : pieces were captured. Northwest of JDannevoux the American artillerists were firing upon Brieulk-s and the mod ways to the south and southwest. south-west. To the north the American heavy 1 guns were shelling- Tiosnes and . the 1 bridge crossing the Muse river, j To the northeast the American heavy ; guns had the range of Sivry-sur-Meuse and the river bridge, making U -impossible j for the Germans to withdraw his equip- ment. I In Dannevoux the Americans captured j a laxge amount of German ammunition and also the personal bajtijago ol three German regiments. At various points west of the Meuse the Americans captured many machine guns, trench mortars and small artillery pieces which have not yet been counted. |