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Show oo AMERfflSFACE . Bringing Up Artillery and Stores Under Almost Insurmountable In-surmountable Difficulties and Fighting Furiously. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY "NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Sunday, "Sept. 29. The 'American problem In I bringing up artillery stores and other supplies, and supporting troops also has tended to slow up the drive. West of the Aisne satisfactory progress pro-gress was made today by the British and French, while slight advances were made also at nearly every other point of the line from the Aisne to the Meusc The Germans attacked heavily at a score of points, but the most vigorous vig-orous counter-attacks was against the hill north of Ivoiry. There they concentrated con-centrated a heavy artillery Are and under the cover of this and the support sup-port of machine guns, dense masses of infantry were thrown forward. For a great part of the day the enemy endeavored en-deavored to break down the American defense at this point and wave after wave of German troops were thrown bnck with heavy loss. The German guns shelved with high explosives the road extending toward Montaucon. This made It more difficult to bring up supplies but it did not stop I lift wnrlf I Toward the eastern part of the American sector the Americans were subjected to a strong machine gun fire supplemented by an artillery bombardment bom-bardment from the north and from across the Mouse. Working Way Northward. On the western flank the Americans worked their way steadily northward along the Argonne foresL The men had had the job of clearlng outthis region w-ere faced by scores of machine gun nests and snipers as well as bv shell fire While meeting heavy counter-attacks and Increased resistance by the enemy the Americans did not confine their operations wholly to the defensive. defen-sive. American attacks reached the enemy lines at various points and always al-ways with success, although at times the gains were slight. Soft Ground Hinders Tanks. Tanks again assisted in the fighting, but their efficiency was lessened on account of the rain -softened ground. Wherever there was a footing, however, how-ever, the tanks advanced almost at will, not because fhc"Cnemy ran, but because he was unable to stop the tanks. In one small area near a wood, the German machine gunnerVstuck to their pieces until they were annihilated. annihilat-ed. They ceased firing only whdn, the tanks were upon them, literally grading grad-ing them and their guns into the" mud:-At mud:-At Montfaucon the German artillerv appeared to indulge in a diversion of rather limited militarv purpose It was discovered finally thai all -Hie shells were directed at one building for several sev-eral hours where the Germans hnd maintained an observa v with a high powered telescope in the "building. It was reported in the lo- -a. that the German crown prince had used the telescope to watch the operations about Verdun. It was assumed the tou,nicj, juiuiiucn io aestroy the telescope. tele-scope. "vv On entering MontfatTcon the Amerl-Icans Amerl-Icans found a German hospital- in-sgood j condition. Great stores of bandages' and other supplios wero found and they have been put to American uses |