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Show ; Americans Uosiapported Enter Trenches and j Bring Back Much Material WITH THE AMERICAN AH MY IN M HIANCE, Monday, March 11. (By ' the Associated Press.) An American j raiding party entered the German ; trenches along the Toul sector at 6 , o'clock this morning after an artillery i bombardment of 45 minutes and ' brought back much material and in- .formation but captured no prisoners. ' It was the first raid undertaken by ' the Americans without the aid of the 1 French. j Raid Highly Successful. The raid was highly successful as J the enemy withdrew many men from h 'the front line when the bombardment i indicated that a raid might follow. : The raiders reported that American ; gunfire had created destruction in the : German positions and had torn gaps 1i 'in the enemy barbed wire entanglc,-:; entanglc,-:; ments. The German batteries came j into action but accomplished nothing toward disturbing the progress of. the jj raid. The Americans entered the enemy 'trenches behind one side of a "box" i Ibarrage which formed in front of them. V They found numerous Germans hiding in the dugouts. In the hand-to-hand j 'fighting which followed a number of ,' the enemy were killed and wounded and left in the trenches. Americans Search for Germans. Going far beyond their objective the (raiders penetrated the German line i (three hundred vnrrls. A ffw fiirhfs rlp- 'teloped on the way but the Germans trere driven off. The Americans failed f to find more of the Germans, who had ;been withdrawn hurriedly from the 'front line, although they searched for 4 .them. f In the hand-to-hand fighting the j Americans used their autombatic pis- Hols and rifles. During the raid the American machine guns placed a bar- rage in the enemy back areas in order ) to prevent a counter-attack. The Americans fought so fast and Mdid their work so well that the medi-( medi-( leal men who accompanied them had Hittle to do. Ever' American who left j i the front line returned, j Enemy Quickly Silenced. On their way back the Americans i (encountered a German listening post j bich fired at them. In less time than t takes to tell it, the Germans in the ipost were silenced. Tne Americans reached their own , lines without one German shell having Ifallen anywhere near them for it w.as jail over so quickly the German batteries bat-teries did not have a good chance to get Into action. The Americans were ; inside the enemy lines for fifteen min-- min-- -lutes. Review of War Situation, i American troops again have raided 4 successfully German positions. This 'i J,"111110 rM was made in the sector I nohwest of Toul, where the Amerl-!i Amerl-!i nans hold a long line. Also, they made ; e effort alone and penetrated the ' !n front lines for 300 yards with-i with-i t help from their French brothers ; to. arms. ' After an artillery bombardment of V L m'.nules and behind a barrage the IV iin C'ncan raIders'went Into the enemy "r.s and brought back much nmtc-"t nmtc-"t and information.' Most of the i rLl113' apparently expecting the 5 S:1 had retircd to the rear lines. 7 Hn S Was SOme hand-to-hand fight-lhn fight-lhn iever' wIth Germans who had 15 ' IW r v ln tho dueouts and a num- i - Th these were killed and wounded. ; ' Hoi r rlcans ret"rned without tho ? " mrn,, a man- having spent fifteen WWnutes within the enemy lines. t pi Gcman Attackc Increasing. ii for hore on the western front the V S!n raids are becoming more 1 U? and stronger. Heavy bom - I (to hrn ? s now Precede each attempt , tho t0 Uie entente positions, but ' ' lorcft ?y, hns not stacked in great M Will aUnou6h an engagement of 5 dslanLDrPOrtlOUS probabl-v Is llot far '! II ari?tn,fe.Ypres sector in Flanders and ' J and 1 entlercs, between Ypros '. m out nv5ras' .tho Germans have carried " 1 the ?!?MBJ0caI efforts. At all points lil08s5 5h rePulsed the enemy with "iB'Wvn lrmau artillery also has I 9 ihe J n U8y nt various points along ' 1 Qcen in0" t een Ypres and St. ', 1 (VerHnn , Champagne, northwest of JfMl eWun and north of St. Mihiel the French have checked strong Gorman raiding attempts. Question Before Soviets. Whether to ratify the German peace terms is the question before tho All-Russian All-Russian congTess of Soviets which meets in Moscow today. Press dispatches dis-patches from Petrograd in the past few days have touched but lightly on the probable decision the congress will take. If it is still controlled by Premier Pre-mier Lenine, the congress probably will agree to tho German harsh terms. President Assures Russia. President Wilson in a message to the Russian people, to be delivered to the congress, assures them of American Ameri-can sympathy and American support in restoring complete sovereignty and independence in-dependence to democratic Russia, The president does not attempt to sway the judgment of the congress with regard to peace. Some support is given recent rumors that many of the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki were prepared to refuse the German terms by tho resignations from the Lenine government of Foreign For-eign Minister Trotzky and Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki commander-in-chief. Today, also, has been set for the convening of the German relchstag In Berlin to vote on the ratification of tho treaty with Russia. Sixty A'rplanes Raid Paris. Sixty German airplanes descended on Paris Monday night and dropped bombs. One of the raiders was brought down in flames by the defenders de-fenders and its crew captured. The raid lasted three hours. A number of buildings wcro destroyed, or set on' fire. Tho population of tho French capital sustained casualties but final reports are lacking. Germans Suffer Severely. PARIS, March 12. "Heavy artillery firing occurred in front ' of La Pom-pelle Pom-pelle and in the region of Avocourt," says today's official communication. "In Lorraine wo ropulsed a strong raid in the region of Moncel. The enemy suffered severe losses and left ten prisoners, including one officer, in our handSr "On the remaindor of the front the night was calm." , |