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Show BUSH FIGHTING German Machine Guns Placed at Every Vantage Point on the Hills. INFANTRY GROW WEARY: Not Only Facing French Ar-' lillery But German Shells I That Fall Short. WITH THE FRENCH ARM V IN FRANCE, Aug. 30. (Noon.) Machine Ma-chine guns have been placed on every ev-ery point of vantage by the Germans and the struggle between Humbert's troops and German forces, has become be-come a scries of bush fighting. The enemy's machine guns arc carefully concealed along paths leading up the hills- They are capable of holding up a large force and oblige assaulting troops to dodge and surround the cm-placements cm-placements It has been found that artillery ar-tillery preparation, however Intense, never reaches all of them. French soldiers after their experience experi-ence in Thlescourt forest, are becoming becom-ing familiar with this Indian stylo of fighting, while tho German machine gunners, left behind so that the infantry in-fantry might retire with greator security se-curity are becoming, weary of their task. When taken prisoner they complain com-plain that they alone have been sacrificed sac-rificed and they have been obliged not only to faco the French but have been under fire of their own artillery, shells from the rear falling on the positions po-sitions they have been left to hold This happened yesterday at Noyon and seemed to be happening today. Shells from the German heavy ar tlllery were falling short all around Mount Simeon and others were falling in Noyon. These heavy German guns have been withdrawn a considerable distance, since the day before yesterday. yester-day. No sound of their firing can bo heard and shells arrive in tho vicinity of Noyon south as if they were nearly near-ly spent. Noyon has suffered little from shell fire so far. The French purposely shared the town preferring to take the position at the point of the bayonet rather than destroy historic his-toric monuments. The enemy has boasted he would destroy tho city and the work has begun. It will, In all probability, remain unfinished for the present fighting mood of the French troops promises further changes m tho situation that will oblige the ene my again to take his heavy guns fur ther back. |