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Show 31111 PLANES Hi ASSAULT Hundreds of .American Aviators Drop Tons of Bombs on Hun Can tonments Near Verdun By Associated Press. WITH THE AMKRICAK KORCES NO RTI I W ESt OF VERIM'N, Ort. 10. Noon. (.moral Pershing' infantry today to-day again went into action on the left wing of the Argonne forest front after ft violent artillery bombardment bom-bardment laat night. The Germans are throwing1 In reserves re-serves on thetr left flank, which now haa been expoaed In the Argonne pocket. The enemy alao is endeavor- Ilng to withdraw his troops at other points so as to restore the line. Aa Ameriran bombing expedition (Consisting of more than 350 machines J yesterday dropped thirty-two tons of explosives on German cantonments In the area between Wavrille and Dam-vlllera. Dam-vlllera. about twelve miles north of Verdun. The American bombing exploit marks one of the high spots In the air fleet operationa of the war. In I ) t'te expedition were more thnn 20 bombing alrplan, 100 pursuit machines ma-chines snd fifty triplanea. The bombing machines were given splendid protection during t he aertat battle which took placa during tha operation. Twelve enemy machines I were destroyed. Only one entente' plans failed to return. ! In addition Ameriran airplanes yea- ' terday destroyed or brought down five i German machines . and one balloon. I They also took a great iiumhar of photographs snd dropped newspapers to the American troops. YANK GUNS BOOM. Tha American artillery on the right wing was active all night. The bombardment bom-bardment met with little reaction on the part of tha Germans. In tha center, the Amerlcsna are holding all the advam-ed positions which they gained yesterday, and are meeting with little enemy activity except ex-cept for a, barrage. Karty this morning the Germane laid down a harassing fire In tha areas to tha rear of tha American positions. During the night, patrols operated preparatory pre-paratory to further artillery action today, to-day, snd this morning the entire front continued to ba fairly activa. |