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Show YANKEES MUSS UP THE KAISER S PLAN YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS HOLD OWN AGAINST THE PRUSSIAN AND BAVARIAN SHOCK TROOPS. Push Their Lines Forward Through Deadly Barrage, and When it Comes to Bayonet Work, Huns Acknowledge Acknowl-edge Their Inferiority. Paris. Through a barrage as deadly dead-ly as any the Germans have laid down on any sector for months, the Ameri-cun Ameri-cun soldiers, comprising men from the middle west and eastern states, pushed their line forward a little more on Tuesday. The American withstood two heavy attacks during the night, and at daylight day-light began their operations, which left them at night well north of Sergy on the long slopes approaching the heavy woods beyond Nesles. a little town directly east of Seringes-et-Nesles, whose retention the Germans bitterly opposed. It should he a source of the greatest pride to America that her youthful soldiers sol-diers were able to hold their own against the kaiser's best shock troops, which are the Prussian and Bavarian guards. At Sergy it was the American divisions divi-sions that met the Fourth Prussian guard division. The result-speaks for itself. As told in these dispatches, a I part of the German plan was to stand j at the north bank of the Ourcq and J hold the Americans while the withdrawal with-drawal behind the lines was made more easily. The charge of the Americans Am-ericans across theriver, in which they took Seringes and Sergy and established estab-lished themselves, broke up this part of the German plan. Early Tuesday morning the Americans In Sergy were attacked by the Fourth Prussian division, divi-sion, which arrived only a few hours Uefore the training areas in Lorraine. s Overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, the Americans had to withdraw with-draw before the terrific artillery and machine gun fire. But when the Prussians Prus-sians got into the town the Germany artillery could no longer shoot into it. That gave the chance for a man to man hand-to-hand fight, and tne Americans Amer-icans grasped the opportunity. They rushed into the village against a withering with-ering fire of the machine guns, placed practically in every building. When the charge was at its height from a building hearing a Red Cross I five machine guns spoke with telling effect. But soon the Americans got hand-to-hand with the Prussians. In repayment for the deadly machine gun work, our men got their bayonets into action, and no German was yet known to stand before a bayonet with an American Am-erican behind it. In half an hour they had possession of the town. |