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Show AMERICANS VICTORS IN PICAROY BATTLE ATTACK AND CAPTURE TOWN FROM HUNS, TAKING MANY PRISONERS. Germans Lose Heavily in Killed and Wounded, the American Casualties Being Slight, Fight Lasting Only Forty-five Minutes. With the Army in France. American Ameri-can troops on May 28 attacked the village of Cantigny, northeast of Mont-didier, Mont-didier, attaining all their objectives. The German counter-attack was feeble. The American losses were light, but the Americans captured 200 Germans, including two officers. The American attack was along a two kilometer front and it seems to have taken the hard-hitting Americans just about three-quarters of an hour to complete their conquest, which included in-cluded that amount of territory as well as the village of Cantigny an exceptionally short time for such an operation. This remarkably fine showing comes as a fitting companion piece to the brilliant work done by the United States soldiers in repulsing an enemy assault made against them in the same region the previous morning. One American division was attacked at that time, and the gray coats met with a complete reversal at all points. This enemy attack was not a heavy one, however, and was easily dealt with by the Americans, who had the situation situa-tion well in hand at all times. Word of these two victories has added much to the very favorable impression im-pression which the American troops already have created along the British front. It was a foregone conclusion that the Germans would make the newest of the allies along this front the object ob-ject of an attack in an attempt to push them back and thereby create a feeling feel-ing that they had formed a weak link in the defending chain. The general opinion of the way in which these American troops have handled han-dled themselves' in the past few days seems to be summed up in a comment com-ment made to the correspondent by a French officer. "Magnificent!" he exclaimed with delight. "That is the sort of stuff we will give the boche." |