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Show BETTER ENTRENCHED THAN THEGERMANS WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE. May 9 (By the Associated Press.) Except for artillery firing and patrolling there is little new in Picar-dy. Picar-dy. Every day ihe Americans become stronger. Apparently they are better entrenched than ihe Germans, who are being continually harassed day and night. Despite the enemy's heavy expenditure ex-penditure in gas, he has obtained no advantage in this sector, the Americans Ameri-cans discounting his every' move. The weather has been unsettled for several days prevent iDC much infantry activity. There have been several encounters. en-counters. One of the American patrols Tues-I Tues-I day night encountered an enemy working party. They shot the sentinel and rushed the enemy, but later retired, retir-ed, owing to the superiority in num bers the Germans had over them A letter, freshly written, found on the body of a German killed by the Americans in Picardy, discloses the effectiveness of the American fire against the enemy and ihe difficulties the German-; are having in bringing up supplies. The letter follows: "Here we lie in a village which has been completely demolished by artil-lerv artil-lerv Are. The village is near Mont-dldler. Mont-dldler. "We dare not show ourselves. We live in the cellar. We have to go and get our food at night. The last night I went out with a detail which brought back food. "We got a direct hit. A shell hit our party, which killed some men and wounded several. I hope we will soon be taken from the western army." |