Show HUNS HUN fl Hl TO SAVE AV coucY 1 Battlefield One Big Pani Panorama Pan Pan- i orama orama of Fire as Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans Strive to Save j Their Strategic Strategic- Poi Points ts By Dy Associated Press THE AMERICAN WITH v IY ARl IN FRANCE FRANC Aug 31 Between Between the and Wand the I Aisne and far to the southeastward Southeastward Southeast southeast- southeastward ward along the line of the Vesle the battlefield Is one vast panor panorama ma of fire Here at the moment the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans mais arc offering the most desperate resistance since the the issue In this sector sector sector sec sec- tor has a graver bearing than anywhere else along the whole front With General Man Manilas Manila's men already across s the he Allette on either side of tHe village ego of Champs the enemy's hoM holi on Coucy Chateau Chateau le-Chateau 1 i threat threat- ened Chateau le is highly Important Important Important Im Im- Im- Im to the Germans as ts s a distributing distributing ing center for troops falling back from Noyon and those fighting stoutly on the left bank of the Alette t AMERICANS FIGHTING From the crest of the plateau north of Soissons shells can be seen bursting against the German lines American troops In the center are still fighting to clear the difficult en entanglements entanglements entanglements en- en of ravines before them There has hils been no close fighting fighting- in these valleys as yet A philosophic wounded Bounded prisoner was encountered to today today today to- to day in the road near the battlefield He said They told me that tho the Americans murdered their prisoners When asked if he had believed that thatch thatch ch charge r ge he ho an anwer answered wex d t One does noes oes not make nake a t great nation of I out men like that German Gernian troops s attempted to r raid Amerl American an advanced posts In the sector yesterday Their artillery and mine throwing activity had caved In one American dugout burying twelve ve men inca and wounding two of ot th them m slightly before the te enemy made his I attack I IThe I The len en unwounded men men dug thEm them- them 1 j I I solves selves free as aB soon as the artillery fire I stopped They T y drove off oft between j thirty or forty Germans and nd killed at ni least one The body of thi this man marl will willbe be l-e bro In to the American lines lines- for burial as soon as can It be rescued J from the German machine guns which are keeping up a steady fire tire all allaround allaround II around It I |