Show YANKS N S BLOCKED bC KET V DRIVE IVE ON JN ti PARIS PARI advancing foe FOB had surprise of life when he found americans in line GRAPHIC STORY IN tells of our troops heroic resistance in june held by many OKI cers cera to have saved part paris from hunt huns washington A graphic eyewitness account of tho ho lighting fighting near chateau thierry Th lerry crry in which american divisions including the martno brigade tool took part early in juno june was made inneo public recently by tho the navy department it le a in the form of a long letter from an officer of tho the marines to major ion eral barnett commandant ot of the corps and ami the story told Is of peculiar significance its as in the opinion or of ninny many ceni here it was tile tho stand of 0 f the americans along tills this una line which saved bayed parts paris the name of the writer to Is not disclosed the americans were the line in motor trucks to P rt ilia hard pressed french on june jun a I 1 tile the marine brigade deployed in n support position the battalion coan commanded by maj thomas molcomb hurrying into tho the line us as the men climbed out of the trucks the germans were coming coining an on and june 2 the french dropped back passing through the american lines wo we lind installed ourselves in a house in n ln vote volo chatel a little village between champillon Cham pillon and lucyle lucy le lo bocage cage tho the letter says bays 17 from rom one side we had observation of 0 the north and northeast they conic came out on it a wonderfully clear day in two columns across a wheat field wo we could see tile the two twin brown columns advancing in perfect order until two thirds of the columns we judged wyre were in sight night foa fee slowed up by shrapnel tho the rifle and machine pull gun lire fire WRY incessant tind and overhead shrapnel wits was bursting then th 0 o shrapnel came on the target at each shot the white patches would roll away and wo could see sec that some of tile the columns were still there slowed up and it seemed perfect for them to try then under that deadly fire and a barrage ot of rifle ride and machine gun fire the bocho boche stopped it was wag too much tor for any men that men should pro deliberately and u ue se their sights find and adjust their range he saya buys was beyo beyond ill I 1 their experience per peri lence ence it must have had a telling effect on tile the morale of the biclie it t was something they had not counted on As a matter of fact after pushing back the tha weakened french and theta then running up against a stone wall of defense they were literally up in the nl air and wore more than stopped wo we found that out later from pr prisoners for the germans never knew 9 ji were in the front line when they made that ot at tack they were absolutely mystified at the manner in which the defense stiffened up until illey found that our troops were in line the letter tells in detail of tho the dols of f fighting tant followed it describes n ii daylight charge against a machine gun gain host arid of ic scouting outing raids up to june 0 when the whole brigade swung forward 0 to o straighten out the line this ctet netlon ion resulted in the capture of del bel lanu ill wool wood hit three times still fought foucht on n major Si bleys battit battalion tion of tile sixth regiment led tile way ile here r a with in support the woo woods it s were with enemy machine inoch luo guns that night word came back that Roberti joll with 20 0 men of tile ninety sixth company had taken Boure bouresches Bou reaches breaking a heavy gun eun b armago ta enter mthr tho town robertson 11 witt with nn fin in either cither hand was hit ahto hrco times before ho 10 t would allow himself to bo be token taken to ti tho a rear speaking peaking of individual nets of cry the writer says dunann can a company commander before ho he was inow od ad down liml hall his pipe in his mouth month and was carrying n etlick later ho he adds dental surgeon asborno picked up duncan unit and with n hospital corps wall man had just gained 11 bamo bomo 0 tile shelter wil when 1 en a n shell wiped nil all tareo but private dunlavy killed later alp eap wred an all enemy machine guu gun in n nour bour es clies which lie turned on tile tho foe with great effect while nt at another point young charged a machine gun nt at the point pointon of the bayonet and sont bont at a clip when ilia ho enemy made bindo it n stand nt at fono one polut point in tile woods wood Si bleys bat tallon was withdrawn and for an hour and fifty minutes american amt rlynn arili french batteries ba minered tile the wood ll It with tho ho tenth com company then wont went lit in nud and tile ills first messode was that tile tho wood lind hall been cut to wince mince 1 meat overton lending leading the ilia seventy sixth company tin tilli charged tho the rock plateau killing or capturing every gunner unit und capturing au all tile tho runs guns with few tito the second company lost oft nil its officers and major sibley and hta his adjutant Bal ballamy lomy acore rc ore iced it under fire nud and charged a ma ani chino gun nest at tho the most critical tl tetuo I 1 in n all t tho fi g li n g tio che 1 I wonder de r i it t ever y e r an outfit the letter said went up against a more desperate job stuck to it gamely with out peep tit nt times on short rations rn tlona with men and officers golna oft alk alko files he and I 1 wonder it in till nil our to conr ng I 1 list of gail ti n t d deeds e e d x t tharo h e ro 0 over v er w e r two better betar a t u ailt 0 t lhnn li n n t the h 0 work vo r k ot of gi I 1 ley icy and holcomb nol comb |