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Show STORY OF FIGHT erjpic American Troops, Co-operating With French, Penetrate Pene-trate Enemy Lines for Several Miles. GERMANS APPEAR IN FRENCH COATb Attempt Made to Deceive Yankee Soldiers; Several Towns Captured From Huns During Night. W ASM r.N'CJTMN, ; July 10. General T'ersh iris's foni in u ni( im for yesterday ririiirmij pr;Hs n:inriH of tho complete SNi-'jf.SM of yatf-nliiv's attacks between I lie Alsne and the Marne 'by comljined American anil French forces. The dispatch foMown: Sec ion A American (roups, ro-operatiiivr ro-operatiiivr with the KreiK'h In ait a t-t;ik t-t;ik on (lie enemy's ponltions between I lie A Is no and the Ma rue, penetrated his lincfi to a depth of several miles, capturing many prisoners and Runs. Section B-On the, nltfht of July 15 to 1 fi, a platoon of our troops op-eratinff op-eratinff east of Tiheims was attacked by a raiding party of twenty-one Germans. Ger-mans. Our men went over the top to meet them and k Hied the entire part y with the bayonet, without loss to themselves. One of bur regiments in this same region reports that a party of Germans, Ger-mans, with French helmets and coats, a 1. 1 e trip ted to penetrate one of our trenches. The leader succeeded In approaching our machine gunner postal post-al a t t Ins nolnt. sa vine that he was l-'rench. When within a short distance dis-tance of the Run, the German threw a grenade which wounded our Runner. Run-ner. The Runner's teammalo seized the Run, turned it on the Germans and put them to fliRht. A not her of our regiments in the same locality reports tha.t an officer ) in French helmet and coat approached an outpost puard, saylnR that he was ' tnklng back a detachment of French from a farther front and requested tho Riiard not to tire. The detachment proved to bv. Germans in French helmets hel-mets and coats. |