Show F Y ENGINEERS 1 FIGHT WAY TO I OWN LINES t Americans Wander Into Ger German an Position by Mistake Mistake Mistake Mis Mis- take in Dead of Night By Fred S. S Ferguson United Press Staff Correspondent WITH Al AMERICANS NS IN PI CARDY May Fifty 27 Fifty American engineers who got into the German positions by mistake at night fought their way nay back to thI own lines with the Amer Amer- American ican Jean and boche infantry both firing on an them Owing to considerable gaps in the J trenches in some places it is easy to towander wander beyond the American lines after dark For instance a motor truck driver headed through such a agap agap gap drove half haIr way across No Mans Man's and before the rattle of machine guns behind him warned him that he ho hadT had hadT T passed the line I a The cannonading on this front has increased somewhat but it is all quiet compared with a week ago There is increasing activity in patrolling Encounters Encounters Encounters En En- counters are frequent and American patrols constantly are penetrating the German first line The marked effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness of American artillery fire is partially due to excellent work of the American aeroplane service The American flag is now carried daily over the Ameri American an sector by airplane Boches mal make strenuous efforts to bring these machines down So far they have failed and five enemy planes have been brought down in the attempt The liaison of American and French planes is extremely effective Americans Americans Amer Amer- Americans from Chicago Indianapolis l Pittsburg Washington Silver City Ia la and Oxford 0 O ar are working with crack French fliers American aviators re recently recently recently re- re participated in one of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est aerial concentrations Jn tn history Forty bombing and fighting planes after a rendezvous over Montdidier carried more than a score of tons of high explosives over the German lines and dumped them on various military objectives They returned without being being being be be- ing molested Special Memorial day services are being arranged along the whole front Flowers will wili be dropped from airplanes on the fields where Americans died fighting for democracy French fliers will join in honoring the Americ American dead |