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Show s AMERICANS I HUNS NEAR Fighting Continues Active Ac-tive Around the Positions Posi-tions Recently Captured Cap-tured by Yankees and in the Lorraine Sector. TEUTONIC WAVES ARE BROKEN DOWN Boys in Khaki Subject-- Subject-- ed to Almost Continuous Contin-uous Attacks Since nj They Stormed Their Way Into Enemy Line. WASHINGTON, May 30.-Com-plete repulse of further enemy at- tacks upon the new American positions posi-tions near Cantigny is announced In General Pershing's evening communique com-munique issued tonight at the war department. Fighting continues active ac-tive around Cantigny and in Lorraine. Lor-raine. The dispatch follows: "The enemy has been again completely repulsed by artillery fire and infantry action in attack against our new positions near Cantigny. Can-tigny. Artillery fighting continues active there and in Lorraine, where c it includes the use of gas shells. There is nothing else of importance . to report." By the Associated Press. WITH TUB BRITISH IN FRANCE, May 30. Another strongenemy counterattack counter-attack against the American troops in the Cantigny sector, west of Montdidier, seems to have met with a complete repulse, re-pulse, according to a brief report from the south. , The Americans evidently have been subjected to almost continuous attacks since they stormed their way into Cantigny. Can-tigny. In every case the enemy's waves have been broken against the stone-wall resistance of the Americans. This latest German assault appears to have been the heaviest the Teutons yet have essayed in their attempt to evict the overseas men from the village of :iv Cantigny. ySANTIGNY BATTLE fly RAISES SPIRITS OF BRITISH PEOPLE LONDON, May 30. Commenting on the capture of Cantigny by the Americans, the Evening News says: Bravo! Bravo! the young Americans! Ameri-cans! Nothing In today's battle narrative nar-rative from the front is more exhilarating ex-hilarating than the account of their tight at Cantigny. It was clean-cut from beginning to end, like one of their countrymen's short stories, and the short story of Cantigny is going to extend into a full-length novel, which Will write the doom of the kaiser and kaiserism. We expected it. Wo have seen those young Americans in London and merely to glance at them was to know that they are conquerors and brothers In that great Anglo-Saxon-Latin compact which will bring down the diabolical Prussian Idol, with its poisons and calculated infamies, to enthrone chivalrous humanity again. They do not swagger and they have no war Illusions. They havo done their first job with swift precision, pre-cision, characteristic of the United States, and Cantigny will one day be repeated a thousand fold. On that day the kaiser's crown will go to the allied museum. PERSHING'S MEN , GAIN VICTORY AT V VERY SMALL COST ev 8HINGTON May 30. The second for of t'enoral Pershing's communique taf jjay29 announces the failure of the (Continued on Page Four.) AMERICAN TROOPS REPULSE THE HUNS (Continued from Page One.) enemy to break through the American lines. A raiding party of about fifty men, it uaj-R. was repulsed, with a loss of ten dead and four wounded. American casualties cas-ualties were light. On May 27, the communique said, Lieutenants Lieu-tenants Fisher, Curtis. Buford and Mc-Lanahan, Mc-Lanahan, on patrol duty In the St. Mihlel region, encountered enemy machines ma-chines at 4000 meters. One of these was downed. Defeat of an enemy airplane reported In the communique for May 28 is credited cred-ited to Lieutenant Rickenbacker and Lieutenant Harobteton and not. to Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Rickenbiuk.T and Lieutenant Campbell, as previously reported. Details of Attacks. ' The text follows: Section D L. i3t night, in Lorraine, Lor-raine, the enemy was again active against our troop;. There was again considerable shelling with gas, but the results obtained were small. Protected by an artillery barrage a raiding party of about fifty men attempted at-tempted to surround one of our advanced ad-vanced posts. The attempt was a complete failure, the enemy losing ten dead and four wounded. Of these, some were killed In bayonet fighting! In this case, also, our casualties were light. During the night two other attacks on our lines were prevented pre-vented by our barrage and machine gun fire, the enemy failing to penetrate pene-trate our wires. In the late afternoon of May 27, Lieutenants Fisher, Curtis, Buford and McLanahan, flying at 4000 meters, me-ters, on patrol duty, encountered two hostile planes In the region of St. Mihiel. In the fighting which ensued, en-sued, one of the hostile planes broke into flames and fell. Credit for bringing down the airplane air-plane reported in yesterday's communique com-munique is given to Lieutenant Rickenbacker Rick-enbacker and Lieutenant Hambleton and not to Lieutenant Rickenbacker and Lieutenant Campbell, as reported. re-ported. This morning an English aviator, returning from a bombing expedition-, was wounded in the arm. He was chased by two enemy machines. Lieutenant Campbell drove the hostile airplanes off, enabling the English aviator to return to his airdrome safely. |
