Show r rA A YANKS K HU to lA HJ BY 0 STORM Machine Guns Wither Attackers Bayonet Charge Then Sends Foe in Hasty Flight By Bert Ford International News Service Staff o Correspondent WITH THE TUE AMERICAN w ARMY AT TIlE THE MARNE June 14 The The steady progress of the Americans in the sector of Belleau wood and anti Bouresches has cut cut the Chateau Villers Thierry-Villers Cot- Cot railway y line which was previously previously previously pre pre- in German hands Information obtained from German prisoners one Prussian captain in particular as well as from oth other r sources shows that the German at attack attack attack at- at tack yesterday was vas an Imposing op op- op 1 I PICKED MEN ATTACK Specially trained storm troops who had been carefully rehearsed were brought up from General von Belows Below's division to participate in itt th th assault and the men were under ord orders s to Inflict in inflict In- In a decisive defeat upon the AmerIcans AmerIcans Americans Amer Amer- as it was wag recognized that their morale and confidence had been in infinitely infinitely in- in finitely raised by their continued successful successful successful suc suc- progress The enemy found the Americans In I strong natural positions s but the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- 1 mans were bountifully supplied with I machine guns and flame projectors Artillery in adjoining sectors was ws wi-s wi Ordered or ordered ordered Or- Or dered to concentrate a destructive fire for Lor several hours The Germans Germans' were found to be carrying carrying car car- six days' days rations and a tremendous tremendous dous amount of machine gun ammu ammu- They had figured on storming Belleau w wood wod od and Bouresches digging in there and holding to the positions until they were consolidated with the theold theold theold old lines ARTILLERY BLASTS GROUND Krupp guns were moved up to support support support sup sup- port the operation The attack was utterly crushed at Belleau wood French and American n artillery blasted the tIle ground beneath the feet f et of ot the attackers The Germans lost very heavily not only from the cannon fire but from the continuous blasts from the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean machine guns To the eastward the Germans succeeded in debouching from the Bouresches railway station penetrating along a sunken road After American machine gunners had poured in a withering fire the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean infantry debouched from the ruins of Bouresches village and swept the station at the point of tf the bayo bayo- net Many German bodies were found along the road transfixed with the cold steel Not a single American was bayoneted ABANDON GUNS AND RUN German machine gunners abandoned abandoned aban aban- their weapons and fled lInnen 1 squads threw down their mine throwers and took to their heels rushing rushing rushing rush rush- ing across the field that bordered the road Later they were rounded up there Throughout the day German batteries batteries bat bat- teries maintained a harassing drum drumfire drumfire drumfire fire against the American positions It was exasperating but a complete failure failure failure fail fail- ure so far as results were concerned |