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Show of the Americans, as a result, hegan to show the effects of slight gassing and were harboring a large grudge against the enemy on this account. Deluge of Gas. When the gas shells began to fall there was hardly any wind, making it certain that the fumes would remain in the localities where the Germans placed them, and the men in the American trenches hoped the enemy would follow up the shelling with an infantry attack. at-tack. The hopes of the resentful defenders were fully realized and the result completely com-pletely satisfied the Americans, for In one trench at daybreak this morning lay the nine dead Germans who perished In the bayonet attack, while to the east, where the men in the trenches had gone to work with their machine guns, the ground was dotted with gray-clad bodies. Many of the machine gunners, still wearing their gas masks, stuck to their guns throughout the preliminary bombardment, bom-bardment, and when they saw the advancing ad-vancing forms of the Germans just outside out-side the American wdre they cut loose with their fire. PURPOSE OF HUN ASSAULT WAS TO TAKE PRISONERS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wednesday, May 29. (By the Associated Press) The purpose of the German attack today against the American Ameri-can positions near . Bremenll, east of Luneville, was to capture Americans. The determined American resistance, however, how-ever, repulsed the enemy with heavy losses, and no Americans were taken prisoner. The Germans attacked at three points, and at one place a group of fourteen got into the American trenches. It never went back. Nine of the fourteen Germans Ger-mans were killed, four are prisoners and one is dead of wounds. The prisoners reported that they were ordered to capture Americans at any cost, their superiors Deing anxious to determine de-termine where American troops are stationed sta-tioned and their present fighting strength. At a point west of Bremenil, after a heavy barrage, fifty German soldiers attempted at-tempted to reach the American line. They were in three groups and the two larger ones were held up and then dispersed dis-persed by the American machine gun and rifle fire. The third group, consisting of fourteen men, managed, by reason of terrain conditions, to reach the American Ameri-can trenches and jump into them. Met Hot Reception. Under the leadership of a lanky youth, who was a farmer until he enlisted, a group of Americans gave the Germans a hot reception. Bayonets on the end of American rifles flashed white and then red almost as quickly as it takes to tell it and the enemy party was soon overpowered. over-powered. During the engagement a big German non-commissioned officer, who directed the enemy party, stood on a-( parapet. He raised his arm to hurl a grenade at an American soldier, but he never threw it. Another American, who had come through a a severe gas attack at-tack last Monday morning, reached the German with his bayonet. The grenade fell from the dying German's hand and , exploded harmlessly on the parapet. The gas bombardment that preceded I the infantry advance, by the enemy began be-gan at 12:40 o'clock this morning. The Germans had brought up additional eight-inch eight-inch projectors to replace those that had been destroyed by the American guns Mondav night, and mustard, phosgene and chloride shells fell by the hundreds on the American positions. In one small area alone 300 of these arrived. Many |
