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Show GERMANS UNABLE 10 STOPOUR BOYS REGIMENT OF HUNS HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ANNIHILATED BY AMERICANS. Attack by Americans Was So Terrific That They Swept Right Through the Enemy Lines, Capturing Many Prisoners. With the Army in France. An entire en-tire German regiment has been virtually virtu-ally annihilated in the fighting west of Hill 204, according to official information. in-formation. The attack by the Americans on the Vaux positions was so terrific that they swept right through the enemy lines and had their object been to continue the advance, they could have done sT) with the greatest ease, as virtually vir-tually everything before them had been cleared. So great was the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of the men. the officers in some cses had to look sharp to keep them from going beyond the set objectives. ob-jectives. In the fighting west of Yaux the Americans stormed several enemy nests and killed or captured the occupants; oc-cupants; then turned the guns the ' other way, using them effectively i against the enemy rear areas, j The Americans penetrated the en-j en-j emy's lines to a depth of about a kilo-I kilo-I meter and a half on a front of four I kilometers. All day the front line troops had been subjected to n heavy shell fire. They had some shelter in one patch of woods which they occupied, occu-pied, hut those who did not enter the wood have only the protection which they had provided for themselves with their entrenching tools or by taking cover in shell holes. From one crater slightly in advance of the line, but on it, from a technical tech-nical point of view, American soldiers let their comrades know where they were when one of their party leaned over the lip of the crater and waved his helmet. AU the prisoners questioned expressed ex-pressed their relief at being captured. One speaking excellent English said to the correspondent : "Thank the Lord I I'm out of there. The American artillery smoothered us more than once and the infantry men fight us like wild devils without a single fear, but when the fight is finished fin-ished they are gentlemen. One could have killed me, but did not, ami I gave him my iron cross for my thanks." |