Show BOCHES SCREAM IN TERROR AS YANKEES THRUST BA BAYONETS By Fred Fed S. S Ferguson U United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE AMERICANS IN PI PI- I CARDY May l 29 American American troops I I charged to the capture of Cantigny yelling Now were we're in Germany Lets Let's wallop hell out of ot them and go goon goon goon on to Berlin Back at headquarters when the boys went over officers waited anxIously anxiously anxiously for news of the attack After Atter forty five minutes of fierce fighting a voice came over the field telephone Hello This is Cantigny And headquarters knew the AmerIcans Americans Americans Amer Amer- had taken one of the most important important important im im- im- im towns on the Amiens front and had won their biggest victory of the war to date I IThe The repot report came from a signal corps captain Wire carriers ignoring the I German counter barrage followed I American infantry and French tanks in the attack When Cantigny fell the field Held telephone station was ready for I justness ss GERMANS SUCCUMB sUCCUMBs The attack to took k pla place c over a front of more than a mile Within forty- forty five rive minutes after the infantry had gone rone over Cantigny the chateau and anti I several hundred yards of German second second sec see ond line trenches were American territory ter ter- ter- ter The regiment sent back prisoners including ing five e officers After crossing the enemy trenches it was a a. game of hunting the boche machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns A corporal attacked an an enemy machine gun crew of four menThe men The corporal was wounded five times but he killed three boches and captured captured cap cap- tuned the fourth lIe He carried off the machine gun on his shoulder until his wounds forced him to lay it down BOCHES SKULK The boches hid in the grass in rye fields in dugouts dugouts anywhere anywhere where there was the slightest est cover Then came the work with bayonets grenades and flame throwers Thirty Germans were incinerated in one dugout dugout dugout dug dug- out when they fired on the Americans after crying kamerad Big cellars in Cantigny where it was possible to conceal a a. hundred troops were were completely smashed by American artillery Enemy losses were probably the heaviest in these pits of death The Germans ran toward S the AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- leans In groups of ten and twenty from dugouts or ort t when they were cornered In hand to hand fighting the AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- leans used the weapon they have hav learned to love the love the bayonet bayonet and and the boches squealed like pigs when they faced the cold steel stE POLYGLOT MESS Prisoners were a a. polyglot t mess mes ranging from boys of ot 18 or 19 to men of 45 45 All were suffering from shell shock shock- a result of the tremendous bombardment which preceded the tho as as- sault French officers gave the highest I praise to the offensive spirit of ot the Americans Not only did they show no hesitation in the assault but their officers experienced considerable difficulty difficulty dif dlf- dif dif- in holding them back The first question asked by wounded soldiers arriving at nt the hospital was wan always as to when they would be able to return to the line EAGER TO FIGHT If It anything more like this is coming coming coming com com- ing off I dont don't want to miss It it ex explained explained ex- ex one I After the first arrivals the doctors were extremely wary in handling the patients until they had examined their pockets They found the majority of them had hand grenades grenad s 's tucked all 1 over them When Then four grenades were pulled from the hip pockets of ot orie one of the boys he drawled drawled- Great ball game this morning Doc Doe All the Americans rehearsed the at attack attack at- at tack in the rear of ot the lines s but many of them said that when they saw the foolish looking tanks actually waddling across across the shell holes they had to laugh Sometimes they thought the tanks weren't going fast enough so they ran ahead of th them m. m Lieutenant Wood of Oakland Cat Cal said he had the greatest difficulty in holding his men back Wood was was slightly sUg wounded but Is one of ot the most enthusiastic men in France |