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Show llSSil PATROL S DODGES ENEMY ii ; lofficer and Eight Men Dash i Across No Man's Land C I to Safety. t Imonday engagement j flGermans Given Unexpectedly jf Warm Reception by the Re-( Re-( i cently Arrived Americans. ! 1 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN ( TRANCE, "Wednesday, March 6. (By .'tie Associated Press.) An American Ijtrol comprised of one officer and jelsM men -which had been missing : lnce last night in the sector northwest north-west of Toul, suddenly emerged from ia hell hole close to the German lines v today and made a dash across No "iCJan;s Land without a shot being fired ;iat them. !j It was noon when the patrol carried ,ont Us rush to the American line. The ) '. jnen's comrades, looking on, expected h ; Tery second to see them wiped out izi and their safe return was an rift -a'peeable surprise. They explained j; 'that they had lost their way in the II .dark. JJr The enemy artillery has not resumed jjjfili activity. The American guns to- !. Jay effectively shelled the enemy first lines and also a town behind the Ger- man lines where buildings their troops Were using were destroyed. I There was much artillery activity 'ithroughout the day, the American an-jltl-alrcraft batteries driving off a num-'-Iter of enemies. Engagement Monday Night. ': Further dettails of the engagement l'lof Monday night in which American ('troops occupying a new position in M' French Lorraine beat off a German iiralding party, show thatfn sharp fight Itook place in which the Americans, belonging be-longing to a unit among the most re-j re-j cent arrivals in France, gave the Ger-.'Unsns Ger-.'Unsns an unexpectedly warm recep-.'tlon, recep-.'tlon, repulsing them with losses. ' The Americans here, it is revealed, lare In training with French troops as iare those on the Aisue front, north of !(he Chemin des Dames troops. As jyet, only the third American group, llfhat east of SL Mihiel, is holding a se-ctor of its own. ,v The'capture of a Prussian lieutenant j jby an American colonel took place shortly before the Americans entered p2TT positions in Lorraine, the Ameri- can officer getting his man in a Ger-tiaian Ger-tiaian trench, where he had gone with a , Trench raiding parly in search of in-l in-l formation. |