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Show IERIG1S TIE SCBHTIIIS Despite Great Obstacles, Yankees Sweep On in Victorious Drive. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Sept. 27. (By the Associated Press.) Notwithstanding Notwith-standing th resistance, which grew in stubbornness as the day advanced, and despite the almost insuperable obstacles in transport over the shell-torn roads, the Americans yesterday advanced all along the twenty-mile front and captured a score of villages long held by the Germans. Ger-mans. The advance was so fast at points that th artillery, because th gunners feared to continue their operations, ceased firing lest they hit their own troops. All night long artillery, supplies and men moved steadily forward to be ready for the new infantry attacks of this morning. Airplanes circled overhead in the moonlight, shooting tracer bullets at automobiles that stole across the roads in the darkness. Troops steadily marched with almost the feverish activity of daytime. day-time. The German aviators were more daring than usual, flying over the American lines and making persistent attacks on the American balloons. Twice in one sector balloon observers were compelled to jump for their lives and float toward earth in parachutes. The sky was dotted with black and white puffs of exploding shrapnel shrap-nel as ground batteries fired viciously at invading aviators. The almost continuous roar of the artillery ar-tillery was punctuated by th staccato barks of the machine guns as the antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns of the American and French aviators drove off th enemy. |