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Show vJ S Pershing's Men Repulse Three Attempts to Penetrate Their Lines After Being Deluged With Deadly Vapors. BLOODY DEFEAT FOR THE GERMANS Boys in Khaki Go for the Enemy With Knive and Bayonets; Those Who Escape Death Made Prisoners. By International News Service. BEBLIN, via LONDON, May 29. "West of Montdidier, during a V.local advance, the enemy penetrat-ed penetrat-ed Cantigny," says a war office announcement. The above is official German admission ad-mission of yesterday's smashing blow inflicted by the Americans. It is significant that this time the Gorman office does not refer to the i , Americans, but merely says "the enemy." - WITH THIS AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 29. (By the Associate Press.) The enemy launched another . heavy gas attack against our troops In the Jjuneville sector early this morning and attempted to reach our line in three places. They were repulsed with comparatively com-paratively heavy losses. The first attack, made two kilometers southwest of Premenil, broke down under the hot machine gun fire from the American Ameri-can trenches, the Germans retreating. Both the Americans and Germans fought in gas masks. Soon afterward the enemy put down a heavy barrage a kilometer to the west and fourteen Germans managed to penetrate pene-trate a t re nub in which the Americans on Monday were subjected to a gas attach at-tach and who were fighting mad. Tho Americans emerged from their dugouts and hand-to-hand fighting, which Vv Was kl0aV f'' -,le Germans, ensued, the Americans going for the enemy with I jBknives and bayonets. ?I'lio Germans lias been ordered to take J i n sonera at any cost, but they failed to get any. The American losses were insignificant. The enemy lost all the fourteen men who penetrated tho American position nine having been killed, one having died of wounds and four having been made prisoner. AMERICANS GREET THE TEUTONS WITH HURRICANE FIRE LONDON, May 29. German troops who counter-attacked last night against the AmerlcaXs who captured Cantigny, west of Montdidier, were repulsed with heavy losses, reports Renter's correspondent at the British army headquarters today. The enemy counter-attack on the new Americans was met by the allied gunners With a hurricane of fire. Waves of Ger- nian infantrymen were stopped dead and thrown back, leaving- large numbers ot killed or wounded on the ground. PERSHING'S MEN CONSOLIDATE THE POSITIONS TAKEN WASHINGTON, May 29. Consolidation of positions taken yesterday by the Americans In' the Cantigny salient and L tii'1 repulse of renewed counter-attacks is fhioniiced in General Pershing's even in-; tniminiqne issued tonight hy the war f wpartmetit. H also tells of the repulse Jtiilgiil oC tlirco raids In Lorraine, in (Continued, on Page Two.) YANKEES ID HUNS FIGHT IIM GAS MASKS (Continued from Page One.) which several prisoners were taken and a number of the enemy killed. The dispatch follows: In the Cantlgny salient we have consolidated our positions in spite of heavy artillery and machine gun fire. Renewed counter-attacks broke down under our fire. In Lorraine we repulsed three raids during the night, taking several prisoners" pris-oners" and killing a number of the enemy. en-emy. There and in the Woevre the artillery of both sides has been continuously con-tinuously active. It is established that on May 27 our aviators shot down two hostile machines instead of one, as reported. |