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Show OVER THERE AND OVER HERE Over there, a fighting American battalion, cut off from the rest of the Yanks, held out for four days in the Argonne forest, short of ammunition and without supplies. All German attempts at-tempts to dislodge them failed, and at the end of the four days, haggard, exhausted, ex-hausted, but undaunted, they wero relieved. re-lieved. They had subsisted partly on leaves, and they wore so hard pressed that e"ven the wounded had to take , their turns standing guard; but they cheered as they drove back the attackers at-tackers and they held out. Over here, out in Fargo, N. Dak., hundreds of women volunteered for 'fall harvest work. They were mostly indoor workors and they found the strenuous labor a severe strain. But they remembered what their work meant to their boys overseas. They composed 70 per cent of the Fargo ("shock troops" and they held out. |