Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-08 | Page 4 | Berlin Writer Tells of Rush by Americans

BERLIN WRITER TELLS OF RUSH BY AMERICANS AMSTERDAM, Oct. 7. The Berlin Tageblatt's correspondent, Hegel er, writing writ-ing from Montmedy, October 1, describes the attack made by the Americans in the Argonne forest during a dense fog. in which American small, fast tanks, like phantoms suddenly coming out of the depths, took part and fell upon the Germans Ger-mans in the rear. . "The result," says the correspondent, "naturally, was wild confusion. They got right Into our artillery positions. Re. fore the fog lifted and that was late in the afternoon we had some anxious hours. Contact between the regiments and with the higher command was broken, except for carrier pigeons and runners, as all wires were down and hellographing was i impossible. "About midday the weather cleared. We found a break-through had failed, but the enemy held the line of Danne-voux-Montfau'-on. Pressing forward be- ynnrl Mnllnrourt, westward, the Americana Amer-icana very nearly raptured th whole of a resrirriBntal stifT. The Ftaff was released re-leased by our counter-attack."