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Show ENEMY HAD MAP ' Of FRONT LINES German Who Attacked Americans Ameri-cans Had Thoroughly Rehearsed Re-hearsed Their Movements. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Saturday, March 2. A plan of attack, Including a map of tho American positions indicating every dug-out, which was removed from the body of tho Prussian captain who led the recent assault upon tho soctor northwest of Toul, shows how completely com-pletely the Germans prepare their raids If, in fact this was but a simple sim-ple raid not having as its ultimate object ob-ject the retention of a portion of tho salient Tho map goes into such detail as to show every machine guns emplacement, emplace-ment, every trench and every depression depres-sion in the ground within tho American Ameri-can linos. At the bottom there is simply sim-ply a line drawn, labelled, "Our front lino." Along this line are five shaded portions, each marked "Nest." Four rehearsals were held for tho attack at-tack and the troops who mado It were spooially picked from new arrivals of fresh troops in tho sector. They wero told that the, Americans were in front of them. After nrtillery had nearly levelled the American position, the Germans started out from their nests, each of which contained forty Infantrymen, ono lieutenant and three pioneers to precede tho infantry and fivo to follow fol-low It. The two groups upon tho American extreme right went around this flank and the group upon tho extreme ex-treme left carried out a similar movement move-ment there. The two groups in the center had planned to attack directly, but tho American defense changed all the plans when they were met by the heavy machine gun fire from tho American lines they saw it would be impossible to gain a footing thero, changed their direction and followed the other groups around tho flank. The duty of the pioneers, preceding tho infantry, in-fantry, was to clean up any wire that had not been broken by the artillery while the pioneers who followed carried car-ried large quantities of explosives for the purpose of cleaning up the dug-uots. dug-uots. Official l-eports of the interrogation of the prisoners taken by tho Americans Ameri-cans show that all of them did not believe be-lieve Germany would win the war. One of tho nion told tho Intelligence officer offi-cer ho presumed that the Americans, like tho Germaus, did not want to fight but had to. The officers quickly changed the German's viewpoint by informing him that all of the troops In the attacked positions were volunteers. Ono prisoner, whose home is In German Ger-man Lorraine, said he thought the Fatherland would loso the war, but ho hoped not. He knew nothing about Americans except that they were in the war, tho Gorman newspapers not printing much upon tho subject, he said, and boing slow in reaching the front lines because of mail congestion. conges-tion. This prisoner said he was convinced that the recent strikes In Germany were caused by a desire for peace, adding add-ing that all Germany wanted the war to end. He was certain that an offensive of-fensive was coming, but did not believe be-lieve it would be launched before April 1. None of the prisoners had seen any German tanks, they said. All of them added they were glad to have been taken prisoner, especially by tho Americans, Amer-icans, because they believed they would bo well treated. The prisoners' accounts showed that tho sector opposite tho American position posi-tion was commanded by General Stalz-mann. Stalz-mann. Talked With Wounded. Tho correspondent talked with a dozen of tho American wounded in their hospital cots. Every one of them was anxious to toll of some deed of heroism or other performed by his fellows, fel-lows, but displayed great modesty regarding re-garding his own exploits. Ono youth whose home Is near Savannah, Ga,, and who looked to be not moro than 18 years old, told this story: "I was In tho front line when it seemed like every shell In the world started .coming our way. Ono burst near whore I was. "A pleco hit a fellow on tho other side of me who came from Texas. Tho corporal picked him up in his arms and started with him for a first aid station In the midst of a perfect shower show-er of dirt and mud which was being kicked up. I don't know whether ho ever got there or not. Tried for Shelter. "By that time I got Into a machine-gun machine-gun emplacement with another corporal, cor-poral, whose home Is In Missouri, leaving leav-ing my rifle outside. Things got so hot wo decided to try to get to a stool shelter at the ond of a trench. "Tho corporal went first, but a few feet away a shell exploded almost on him and killed him. I stepped out and saw that my rifle had been blown to pieces. This left mo defenseless, so I startod in another direction, hoping to find a rifle or a pistol, because I know the Germans would be around soon. About tho same time a piece of sholl hit mo on tho left side and down I went. A sergeant yelled an order for mo to go to a first aid station. sta-tion. "I was Just approaching the statipn in the rear of two stretcher bearing teams who were proceeding bent oyer, to escape if possiblo, the flying pieceB of sholl, when a Bholl plumped down on top of tho atation, exploded, and wiped it out. A piece of rock hit me in the head. Whon I woke up some stretcher bearer had me, hauling me over tho shell holeB. Praised Red Cross. 'Tvo suro got to hand it to these men with the Rod Cross on their arms! They all worked like dogs in that hell out there. They seemed to havo but ono idea to do their work and apparently cared nothing for their own livos while doing it" In this connection it may be said that thero are a certain number of men who woar tho Red Cross whoso names, are on tho casualty list. All tho infantrymen asked questions regarding tho fate of their comrades. Keen distress was displayed by all the men of the company commanded by the ofllcer who was killed. Ono of them said: i "Ho was a flno officer and, believe me, he took care of his men. Any one 3 of tho company's would -have gone 1 through bell at his order. Wo will.payj Fritz for that if wo haven't already done so." A Kansas man who was In the fight said the last ho saw of the ofllcer he was kneeling alongaide a spitting ma-chinegun ma-chinegun and blazing away at tho Germans Ger-mans with his own automatic pistol. "I saw him fall flat," added the private. The ofllcer was killed by a gunshot wound In the chest. All tho American dead now have been buried in a llttlo graveyard a few hundred yards from tho spot where they fclL The German bodies also have been collected and buried nearby. |