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Show OUR OWN MARINES DRIVE BACK HIS AMERICANS WHISTLE, SING AND CHEER AS THEY GO OVEa THE TOP. Men Fight Like Tigers, Pressing Germans Ger-mans So Hard That New Divisions Have Been Thrown Into Battle in Endeavor to Stop Americans. Paris. The U. S. marines, aided by the French on either flank, have retaken re-taken commanding positions northwest of Chateau Thierry. They have taken many prisoners and now hold highly important ground. The Americans have been pressing the Germans so hard that the enemy has been forced to throw three new-divisions new-divisions of his best troops in the line during the last three days. The Americans are like tigers. Theii-cominanders Theii-cominanders have all they can do to hold the men back. Even the wounded are enthusiastic and eager to fight. They are proud of their wounds. general who visited a field dressing station said he was elated by the sight. Sing as They Go Over the Top. The Americans sang and whistled "Yankee Doodle," and cheered as they went over the top. They made their way swiftly through the German dead that lay strewn in No Man's Land. In addition to prisoners, the Ameri-ans Ameri-ans captured ten machine guns. Th German prisoners said they had not been fed for four days, owing to the deadly fire from the French and American guns, which prevented th-bringing th-bringing up of supplies. These Germans were without helmets. hel-mets. They were tired of the war. They had been told that the British opposed them, as their commanders were afraid to let them know that it was the Americans. The Germans were cleared out nf Veuilly wood also by the American-, whose guns were thundering against tne enemy. The fiercest fighting was in progress at last reports near Torcy. which lies about two and a half miles east of Veuilly. Cleaned Out Uhlans. The French attack Thursday morning morn-ing was to straighten out the American Ameri-can line and it was a brilliant performance. per-formance. In this they were assisted by the American forces. American infantry in-fantry cleaned out one group of thirty-five thirty-five Uhlans, who were mounted. "Don't let one escape," shouted a big American. All but one were killed; he was captured. Americans Fighting Furiously. On Tuesday the Americans faced a Saxon division; on Wednesday a guard division ; Thursday a crack Prussian division and also a battalion of famous fa-mous Jaeger sharpshooters. The Americans caught one scouting party of eight sharpshooters and killed them all. Soon after the attack Thursday morning, the Americans carried hi!! 142 (about two-thirds of a mile south of Torcy), the highest point in this vicinity, and swept on and stopped at the foot iu a wheat field on the other side, where they raked the Germans Ger-mans with machine guns. One entire enemy machine gun company was almost al-most annihilated. The Germans had donned Frenm uniforms, but the Americans, forewarned, fore-warned, poured volleys of fire int" them. One German soldier had thirty-two thirty-two wounds. Among those capture;! were two officers. The wounded Germans were hurried to hospitals and given quick treatment. treat-ment. Some of the Germans said they had been told that the Americans were net trained, but that they had found the Americans could shoot. |