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Show AMERICAN BOYS SHELLGERMANS: German Headquarters Behind' Lines Paid Back for Attack- ! ing U. S. Rear Areas. i MIGHTY EXCURSIONS ! Actual Fighting in Trenches Best Way to Train Officers and Men. i WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Thursday. Nov. 22. (By the Associated Press) The enemy artillery ar-tillery firing is more active along" the (Vmerlcan sector. Shells in more than normal number are falling on the rear ireas. No new casualties have resulted. result-ed. In reprisal for the shelling of the :own jn which the American headquarters headquar-ters Is located, during which a shell roll on an American regimental headquarters, head-quarters, American guns sent an equal number of shells into the corresponding correspond-ing Town behind the German lines the next clay. Nightly Excursions Patrolling operations with nightly excursions to the vicinity of the German Ger-man wire defenses, but the Americans have failed to encounter any Germans and no further casualties have been reported. The officers who have served their turn in the trenches with the battalions battal-ions already relieved have held a meeting with the commander of the flrst contingent and discussed their experiences. ex-periences. All agreed that actual training train-ing in the trenches under the fire is the ideal method of acquainting officers of-ficers and soldiers with fighting methods. oo |