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Show Sees Germans Mowed Down as British and French Gradually Grad-ually Give Ground. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 26 The first eyewitness eye-witness story of the .great German drive against tho British to reach tho American front was told today by Captain Cap-tain William Vint, R. F. A., formerly a mining man in Nevada and California, Califor-nia, who is about to visit America. He just arrived from England, traversed the battle zone and was in Paris while it was bombarded by the "mystery gun." "I heard it estimated," Captain Vint told American officers, "that every British soldier engaged on the front attacked by the Germans accounted for four Germans. "The British artillerymen and machine ma-chine gunners, as well as the riflemen, rifle-men, fired weapons until the barrels were too liot to shoot, or the water designed de-signed for cooling boiled, or until munitions gave out. "But the enemy advanced in such dense masses it was impossible to kill all. The Germans sprang many surprises sur-prises in addition to the long-range gun that bombarded Paris. Tho intensity in-tensity of the bombardment which drenched the British positions in preparation prep-aration for the drive was new and deadly. It cut the' barbed wire and leveled tho British trenches. "However, our (British) gunners worked for hours, despite tho handicap of the gas masks which they had to kepp on to protect them from the new gas the enemy spread. Our infantrymen infantry-men sacrificed themselves heroically, doffing their masks until they fell dead. Without the masks they were able to shoot faster into the thick advancing ad-vancing enemy. "Sheer weight of men and metal caused the breach in the British lines. It is Impossible to conceive the tremendous tre-mendous number of troops engaged and tho density of the bombardment. I traversed the rear zone and found preparations under way for organizing defenses there. "Fortunately, we were prepared for this affair, having evacuated our field I - n i it i I 1 1 U U ' ' I i ii ill ' i hospitals in readiness to receive the wounded arriving from the scene of the terrible combat. "I found that Paris -was becoming accustomed to the long-range bombardment, bom-bardment, which continued for three days when I was there. The people were gradually losing all fear of the monster missiles, as the walls of these shells are so thick and they contain only such a small amount of high explosive ex-plosive that It is impossible to cause great detonation or inflict much damage dam-age with them." oo |