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Show IIS BH HEW LINE OF 1 Four Forests' Cleaned ; Out and Machine Gun Nests Destroyed in Big -Advance by Americans By Fred S. Ferguton j ,4'-:' J press Staff Crrspondnt. VtVITII THE AMERICAN r W . ARMIES ' W FRANCE, Oct. 25. The American have won important new auccesaea on both aide of the Meuse. Attacking, on. a, two-mil front eaal of th river yesterday, they cleaned uui fuur wuum wiiii'M wct tmuil" with machine gun noats and now ar within a mila and a halt of th Important Im-portant village of Damvlllera. CAPTURE FARM. a Another attack carried out simultaneously simul-taneously northwest of llanthevllle resulted In th capture of Orand Carr farm (a mile and a quarter northwest of the village). In the Aln.rsvlll region tnortheaat ! of Bantlievlll) the Americans, at- ( tacking on both aldaa of tha Andon I brook, drove Into tha Freva Btellung. the new defense Una which tha Oer- roans have eatabllshed. I WORK WITH FRENCH. FrenclL troops cooperated with thai Americana In the operations east of th aleuse. Unusually heavy machine gun realatanc waa encountered and overcome. After losing Orand Carre farm the hochea wr forced to retreat through a ravin which Waa dominated by our artillery. They lost heavily. EAT WAY INTO DEFENSE. Th AmTlca-ttacka now- hava i developed Into a constant gnawing proceea. Their poaltlona ar constantly constant-ly Improved by taking hllla, woods or farms and forcing th enemy back steadily by continuous pressure. Kacb attack, which la preceded by heavy artillery preparation, la really an isolated battle, but as soon aa the infantry movee forward th units to ths right and left of tha attacking fore mov up to maintain liaison,; overcoming any resistance they encounter. en-counter. Vb0Y8 USED TO KILL STRIKERS. Bocbe ."Bolsheviks" taken prlaoner i-aV; ired hat boy of 14 and IS man-ntflS man-ntflS machine gun hav ahot down striker In Hamburg and other Ger man citlc. Tesplte th misty weather. American Ameri-can airmen were up In great fore yesterday. They noountrd a new squadron of hostile plane, painted a bright red. Shortening of the lln In Klanders has enabled tha boch to send additional fliera agalnat the Americana, who have ahot down T per cent of tha total enemy- plane on th west front In recent weeks. FOE FLIE8 AT NIGHT. German bombing squadrona are becoming be-coming morn active ar nlghrin tha American rear areas. Our purault plane fight these off. and our bombing bomb-ing aqusdrons mak life mlterabe for th boch. Lieutenant Benson fined hundreds of round of machine gun bulleta Into an enemy train and bombed two town during on flight. |