Show PY HU N SIgNAL H N fR NT CAUGHT CA CHT Dl Y Light Flashing in m Window Window Win Win- dow Causes Sentry to Atta Attack k as Spy Works Within American Line By DX Assoc Assoc- Associated Associated Press r cs v if t.- i ITH THE AMERICAN 1 VV ARMY IY IN FRANCE March 1 18 American American intelligence offIcers of of- leers report evi evidence euce leadin leading to the he conclusion that possibly y a spy may nay be at work within the American lines Ines northwest of Toul Early I-arly this morning an American sentI sentry haw saw w flashes lashes of a signal light from a fL window facing acing In the direction of the enemy lines lIns He lie fired through the window and end dashed into the house hous but failed to o f find nd an anyone anyone ne u earlier important Important telephone telephone tele tele- i phone hone wires wires within ln the he American lines were found to fO have been cut An Am American Amican ican patrol last night di- di n ered the enemy n trenches at one endo end fend o of f the sector sector Land and nd penetrated the line some ome distance without difficulty ty Much Much valuable Information was gathered As Ashey s they hey were about about ready to return they th y established contact with the enemy who vho opened fire fire- With a machine gun The Americans jump jumped d to a safe po position l- l ion tion and nd hurled grenades at the enemy enemy enemy ene ene- my gunners silencing the gun RIFLE PROTECTOR Returning to the American side of No Jo Mans Man's Land the raiders brought back jack with them a German rifle breech protected b by a metallic cover over the muzzle nuzzle and a snap clip cover both bothof of which operate quickly and efficiently Officers declared it was the best thing thing- of f the kind they hey had ever seen for protecting rifles The mechanism was was as turn turned d over to the intelligence De Department ariment with a recommendation tHat the he attachment be furnished the the- American troops v Another patrol on the other of the he sector reported that the enemy first line was held strongly While the he raiders were inspecting the Groan Grman Grman Gr- Gr man oan positions the enemy tired fired upon upon them hem several times tunes with rifles and machine machine mahine ma ma- maI I chine hine guns which are unusual at that point Our artillery bombarded effectively billets illets troops and new enemy works at t Lahayville St St. Ba ant the village of ot f Montsec l Richecourt in the Quart Quarto de o Reserve along the Pannes Pannes-Mons rd road oad and a considerable body of troops northwest of They also bat battered bat bitt- to pieces another battery of gas projectors which had been set up up In Ina ina a double line of trenches ENEMY NEMY SHELLS AMERICANS The enemy has shelled various parts of f our positions rather heavily many manyas gas as shells being mixed with high ex- ex x- x plosive ones Some American soldiers who rho happened to be near or Who walked calked through the shelled areas areas' afterward afterward aft aft- erward said there were intimations intimation that hat the enemy wa was try trying n to isolate one ne of our positions with shell shellfire lr The he Visibility was exceptionally goof good today day and the weather was like life sum mer er A great preat number of wagon trains and nd small groups of Germans W were vert ri seen en walking behind the enemy lines Several times during the day the air was tax crowded with airplanes and on onne one ne occasion several enemy machines were ere overheard at the sa same e time Airplanes Airplanes Air Air- planes lanes from front the rear of our lines carrying carrying earring car ear ring American observers maneu maneuvered ered vered to get Into a fight with tha the en nervy enemy machines but they were un un- un successful American antiaircraft guns ung drove off a number of enemy machines ma ma- hines chines hines and kept the others high in the tha air tr American observers succeeded in ac accomplishing accomplishing ac- ac much work which the renit re recent recent re- re cent nit ground haze had haP prevented They stained obtained badly wanted photographs photograph and rid observed certain things back ofie ot of the ie German Cerman lines lines |