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Show NEW TOUL ATTACK IS STARTED : BfJUiS I 5nells Fall Thick and J Fast Within American Lines; German Barrage Bar-rage Fire Is Opened at Daybreak; U. S.' Men Continue Shelling; Patrol Pa-trol Parties Active. SAMMIES REPULSE LORRAINE RAIDS General Pershing Reports Re-ports Additional Casualties Cas-ualties of Past Few Days; Includes Five Killed and Sixteen Wounded; Two Accidental Acci-dental Deaths. WITH THS AMERICAN ARMY IN F-'CK.'ilor.das-. Feb- '(By the As-Vt"'-"ateJ Press.) Shells have been failing J th'.ik ar.d fast within the American lines and upon the enemy positions In the sector today. Aside from a bis bar-rase bar-rase which the enemy placed on the American positions at daylight In this neighborhood. r-X'O rrojectiles have been dropped In the vicinity of the terrain occupied oc-cupied by the Americans, mar.y of them upon iosves. The American casualties, hoxever, have fceen extremely light Enemy Shelled. Sunday night the Americans continued to sheii the enemy and put dovn two tarrages on his positions. The infantry activity was confined solely to patrol parties. The Americans searched No Han's lar.d in the snow for the bodies of enemy kiiled in the raiding. None was found, but tho body of one American was discovered In the American Ameri-can wire in front of a listening post. The rcan had on his gas mask. A bullet had passed through his head. Only two cartridges car-tridges remained in liis rifle, which was ''o'jii under his body, and there were other indications that he died fighting. The heavy snow is continuing. FIVE ARE KILLED, SIXTEEN WOUNDED ON FRENCH FRONT WASHINGTON, March 3. General Pershir.g today cabled the war department depart-ment the names of another lieutenant and three more enlisted men killed and five additional men severely wounded on March 1, the day of the German assault on an American trench near Toul. ThiB J brought the total casualties of that date! vtrius far reported to the department to j tree lieutenants and seventeen men Sl, one captain, one lieutenant and fiiX-ix fiiX-ix men severely wounded and ten men fl.-i.tly wounded. The men reported to-ilay to-ilay as killed were: First Lieutenant David K. Summer, Jonesooro, Ga., and Privates Knute Olson, Ol-son, Sstoughton, Wis.; Bruno Sliokowski, Joiiet. 111. and Lloyd Y. Spetz, Bismarck, Severely Hurt. The five men reported severaly wounded wound-ed were Corporal Oliver D. Deanlorff. De-tatiir, De-tatiir, 111., and jrivates Roy J. Collins, Petersburg, 111.; .Frank J. Houle, Ware, liass. ; Giuseppe Kanucchi, 36 Valley e'.reet, fcan Krancisco, and William Knoades. Koquel, Cal. General Pershing also reported that Second Lieutenant John Flenniken, Lynn, ilas., was klietl in action February 27 and that threo privates of a machine gun oartalion were aeverelv wounded February Feb-ruary 2i. They were William H'ass, Wa-trtown, Wa-trtown, Mass.; Roy P. Mftcalf. Irasburg, 't, ai(d Uayrnonil Pease,. Lyndonville, Vt. The names of men who have been slightly wounded in action also were rc-fconel, rc-fconel, as follows: irgeant .Sydney A. Morcncy, St. Johns-t"',r Johns-t"',r Vl-, February 27. Corporal Leslie a. Bean, Poplar Bluffs, lo . February 21. Privates Krncst G. Eowen, Carthage, '"as, and William C. Cisel, ilontgom-trJ. ilontgom-trJ. In.J., February 2?. Kalph J. uean, Littielun, X. II., February Feb-ruary 23. Clarence II. Hill, MirMle,l.oro, Ky., Mr.rch 2, and James W. Patrick, Phoenix, f-, and (ieorge .VL llazelbrook, i'itls-Da;8, i'itls-Da;8, March 3. Accidental Deaths. Cad't Geortre Phillippotcaux, New "rk f'iiVi (j j,.r February 25 as I ho re-,m re-,m '' an aeroplane acL-ldcnt. the war '" -partment wa.s ndvl.Hr-d todav by General I'rsriing. pmaIC Edsv.-ird H. Crane of li, Map., died February 21 from fWni-'bot TDIJlKiM. 1 'i'atK from natural laufcs were 3 -o reported '-'orpcraLj W;,-; Loop, S.nMnfW, Mf''h., ""lurnonia, and Kmem J. Kiu.ler, l'hlla-"eltihia, l'hlla-"eltihia, i-poiied f,-vrr. ,Jrr,'- Willi;,ifi W. S'liliviiM. Hirlilp--Me.. i-,;,r,.i fever: i Wot z: W. Ciild-, Ciild-, I'ro'ser. Wash., ditihl beria ; Charles --ilflf" ' ' N'- ;:' "ealll', Wash.. (Continued on Paso Two.1 ii ATTACK IS STARTED 01 IIS (Continued from Page One.) pneumonia, and Kdward M. Baker, Brat-tleboro, Brat-tleboro, "t., septicaemia. |