Show HUNS QUIETLY MASS FOR TERRIFIC I. I ONSLAUGHT Suspicious Stillness Leads Allies to Expect Big Offensive By Fred S. S Ferguson United Press Staff Correspondent i I WITH THE AMERICANS l IN May l 24 It It Is the boches boche's move but he apparently is gathering his wind after the recent severe ar artillery artillery artillery ar- ar tillery pounding he received There is no more indication when the offensive will vili begin than hereto hereto- fore German working parties could easily be seen by American observers today and rising dust clouds told of movement in the enemy's Ys rear areas but the guns on both sides were The fhe stillness is in marked marled contrast to the previous constant cannonading II The boche is so zealous in guarding against raids at night that he gives I the impression of being unusually nervous The curving salient around and Cantigny after sunset I is marked by the constant flare of German rockets and flaming flamino onions which light up No M Mans Man's nR Land The latter tatter con consist of a Q string of four balls which float slowly to earth blazing brightly MOON ILLUMINES SCENE A low mist hung In the valleys last night and clouds douds shaded the brilliant moon reducing the favorableness for air bombing I I walked for tor an hour along a road through shell pocked fields without hearing more than a dozen sun gun shots t I heard one burst of shrapnel Then it became peaceful once more The singing of night birds the rasping of nocturnal Insects and the dull lull glimmer gummer glim gum mer of the shaded moon made this road seem like a country lane back home The quit quietness of the past three days i has encouraged n the stout O hearted e I French nc farmers to venture lu out t to work in fields which a few days ago were under terrific shell fire file They toil before a gallery of boche boehe and rench I sausage balloons which float lazily about u in seeming m idleness e but which I th n are watching for 1 the moves that a will mean a new era of ot violent fighting ig tins I |