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Show YANKEES Specially Trained Huns I From Best in Three I Regiments. I MEET QUICK DEFEAT Americans inflict Severe 1 1 Punishment on Their ill Assailants. I WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN ! FRANCE, Wednesday. April 10. (By the Associated Press.) The Germans attempted an attack against the American Am-erican positions northwest of Toul just before sunrise this morning and were completely repulsed. Two German prisoners said the enemy planned the ; attack with a force of 800 men but : that it was stopped in its full strength by the effective fire cjf the American artillery. H The Americans lost no prisoners. One of the German prisoners died later of wounds. Brilliant Work of Gunners. The attack was the heaviest yet made on an American force. Brilliant work by American gunners dispersed the German infantry before they reached the wire entanglements and those of the enemy who got into the wire were accounted for with machine gun and rifle attack. The German attack came after a violent artillery bombardment of three i ! days. A large number of the enemy are believed to have been killed or wounded during the attack which continued con-tinued for nearly two hours. Seventy-two Hour Bombardment. For seventy -two hours before their effort the Germans had been firing an increasing number of shells at the American positions and making e tensive use of gas shells. At noon yesterday the enemy began a harassing harass-ing fire against one of our strong points and kept it up throughout the night, dropping hundreds of shells of j all calibers on both form and rear positions po-sitions The American artillery replied re-plied vigorously, the men in some batteries bat-teries working with their gas masks on for two or three hours at a stretch About 4 o'clock this morning Ger-(Cont.nued Ger-(Cont.nued on Page 11) 1 ATTACK ON J THE YANKEES o t y (Continued from page 1.) ? ' man infantrymen in the front lrnr sic- ? aaJfr-d Umr batlr-rics for a barrage and ' uartri for the American front line. " Thr American gunners laid a counter- ? ' barrage almost immediately. ? Specially Trained Huns. 2 J The attackers who were especially " trained for this operation, were select-1fi select-1fi fd from the best men in three regi- ! nHnts, They were preceded by shock 1 platooDS. but the American barrage A.E. rd.ught tbcm before they were able to 5 a reach our wire entanglements. 8 $ A terrific fire against the advancing 0 J enemy w.is kept up by the American 1 05 batteries. The Germans probably suf-0 suf-0 1 t'red severe casualties a.s several bod-0 bod-0 0 ies were seen hanging across the barb- 3 0 pJ vrr after the enemy attacked. The 3 1 attack was made in a heavy morning 2 0 mist bui the American gunners did' wonderful work considering the poor 12 l visibility. ihth. As soon a.s the American barrage il it lifted, American inlantry climbed from their shelters and attacked the enemy ; with heavy machine gun and rifle fire driving back those who had not been d:p' r - id h the artillery fire, 10 The attack was followed by a vio-I vio-I lent artillery duel which was still j going cm ai a late hour tonight, -M hell REVIEW OF ALLIED SITUATION. ban American gunners and infantrymen , ifial hnlrlinp' :i rrn i icru hie. swlnr rn Ihp ' u(k I iront in France drove back in disorder , ea Wednesday a strong German at-tiei at-tiei 1 'ark The enemy effort was the heav-e heav-e t it-t yrt made against an American po-Lbfc po-Lbfc sition, but the Germans did not get hi I through the wire entanglements, and 'n suffered numerous casualties. IS 1 After a violent artillery bombard ymt raent for 72 hours during which many jck. hHH shells were used, especially select- d German units moved against the 91 American position under a heavy bar-I bar-I rage fire. The American artillery I checked them at the wire entangle- ments, and machine gun and rifle fire N also was poured into the enemy, who retired, leaving several of their number num-ber hanging on the wire entangle- ments. British Cheer Americans. I On the northern battle front Arneri-can Arneri-can soldiers, the vanguard of a large i force, have joined the British armies, g J General Pershing's men were greeted enthusiastically by the British. Desperate fighting continues unin- rhi SB terrupfedly on a 25-milr front between Glvenchy and Wytschaete with the Germans suffering severe losses for small gains against the strong British defense In two days of heavy engagements, en-gagements, the enemy has not gained a point of strategic importance and the British still dominate the battlefield from the heights of Messines ridge, on the north, and Givenchy on the south. Kaiser Plans to Wipe Out British. Emperor William and the German military leaders in the present offensive, offen-sive, it is reported in dispatches from the battle front, plan the wiping out of the British army It is believed that the Germans are seriously attempting at-tempting by swinging their attacks to the north, to annihilate British resistance. resist-ance. In consequence, further assaults as-saults along the British front and much desperate fighting is expected. Infantry fighting on the Picardy battle front has quieted down momentarily. momen-tarily. The French and German artillery artil-lery fire has been violent north of Montdidier and along the Oise canal, northwest of Soissons. Thern has been no infantry activity on the Loos-Lens-Vimy sector, the connecting link, although al-though the German artillery fire is increasing. in-creasing. In the weekly report of sinkings a drop in be number of submarine victims vic-tims is noted in current reports. Huns Preparing to Sink Transports. It is believed in Washington that the falling off in submarine effectiveness effective-ness is due to the fact that the Germans Ger-mans are diverting their attentoin from merchantmen to transport J. Departures of American troops for Europe, it is said, are now three times as great as heretofore and it is thought the Germans are preparing for a submarine offensive against the 1 troop ships. |