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Show ft j I Americans Meet the En- ! einyinHand-to-Hand a Fighting. j I 1 MANY CASUALTIES j German Dead Strew the j Field and Prisoners j Are Taken. ,1 I PARIS, March 1 German troops W : ESDcciall' trained for raiding opera- ! hods attacked tlio American salient 7 I lad night and this morning, but tho Vj Americans maintained their enUro line I everywuere and in addIlion caused i heavy casualties among the enemy. 3 S The Americans also took prisoners on i ( both positions attacked. a ) The foregoing is contained in tho ' ! French official communication .made X -; public tonight 'a i : WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN tj ! FRANCE, March 1. (By the Associat- ! ed Press.) American troops repulsed ; a strong German attack this morning V i in tho salient north of Toul. There l ' were many American casualties, ono II of the killed being a captain who -was ; graduated from West Point in 1917. -! Tho raid "was a complete failure, i three German prisoners remaining in ' American hands. Tho ground in front i of the American trenches was strewn i with German dead. 7; ' A driving wet snow was falling this jr. I morning when the Germans opened fire on the American salient with every y weapon at their command. Seventy - i sevens, heavy shells and gas shells fell j In a perfect whirlwind on the Ameri- ? ; can trenches for half an hour. At the 3; ! 5ame time other enemy shells in great J numbers were dropping on the Amerl- i can batterj' positions. I , Turn on Gas. i The Germans, evidently thinking ' that "the Americans in this section, , having had ono taste of gas a few days i ago, would fear It now, let looso great i quantities of poisonous gas, but tho men put on their masks and only a ! few vero effected by it So intense vzs tho fire that the woods back of r the salient were shot to pieces. i'i ! At 6 o'clock the barrage Are lifted : on the trenches to the right of the sa- ! lient and Germans numbering 210 ; came sweeping forward under the i protection of their fire. They came forward apparently intending to make i a big haul and jumped into what was I left of the trenches, but there, instead 5 of tho easy time anticipated, found J . the Americans all ready for batttle. , Fierce hand-to-hand fighting began. Ono American captain rallied men j with rifles and machine guns and , ent through the American wire en- , tanglements Into No Man's Land and : there waited for tho enemy, whom he cipectcd to be driven out by his com- ! rades in the trenches. . Deadly Fire On Enemy v t He was right, for soon groups of tho j enemy started back through tho wire ! entanglements. The Anted cans poured to a deadly fire, but unfortunately ( Jf6 capta'.n was killed during the fight I ie Is the first member of the 1917 J class at 'West Point to be killed. ! While the Americans were in front i cf lhe wire entanglements and in shell ' holes, still fighting desperately, the American barrage fire began sweep-DS sweep-DS No Man's Land, catching many I running Prussians who had had . enough ot American methods. The barrage swept back and forth, making sare of doing all possible damage to j the foe. I t. en tIie eneray had been driven rack out of the posklo 13. the bodies ten German soldiers wre found in m American trenches. Two German oi'.cers woro entauglcd in the wire 'J many bodies were in sight. Eight we visible througn the snowstorm 5,1 one point. Ground Uttered -he grour.d was ll'.iernd with enemy Jiind grenades, boxes of explosives r destroying dugoiUn and incendiary lorabs which they ha.l no opportunity to use. TJ,ey managed, however, to drop incendiary in-cendiary bombs in two dugouts which I cro destroyed by fire, but no Amerl- ron? Wero in them- I tu0 Germans i )u!uJrBi any Prisoners, which it is lj uoubtful, there were not more than i i Tmi0rhreo Possibly from a listening M SL 0r, lho missing, many probably Jr? bJU1rled- DlBBlng for them now is J Proceeding and others may be account- i i Tfor' I ,Two German prisoners were wound- j ' ran ,tho other was unhurt I ;or a welt on one oC uis hands I Ami 110 struck by a young ' St u soldier ueu he showed J , "Eht after capture. "t i ofSS? ilho Prisoners tho American i 1e IS ave Becured much valuablo Won- 0nesald: f ' ihL I rnot havo a chance to do any- i ' ae i onJ an American jumped onto me and grabbed me by the throat" - Th ,anned Three Weeks. ! for iL Gerans had been preparing i lonESraid.for threo weeks be- I division , hrr Scventy-cighth reservo had S . f Hanover- The prisoners $ ato?laVoins ln theIr Pckets and before tE. T lr,onclies opposite just f sector. Americans took over this VoSji A,mor:lcails lost many killed and I Ccr?cJ,?clVdlns officers- The 1 PaS;DlJ?M th0 ercatest per- Z "gnout the engagement and out- j . fought tho surprised enemy from tho instant contact was established. During the bombardment a town behind be-hind tho American line was heavily shelled and there were some casualties. |