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Show E inemy Airplanes Bombard Town Inside U. S. Lines ' With Gas Shells and High Explosives. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN R RANCE, Sunday, March 24. (By the A ssociated Press.) Fqr the third con-si con-si cutive day Gorman artillery today bj imbanled heavily with gas shells a c Ttain town within the American 111 ics. Today's bombardment was made iri two periods, each a half hour in e lglh. M.orp gas shells an.d a few hi ;h explosive shells fell on the America Amer-ica ji positions. The weather was .especially suitable toe lay for aorial work and the Germans toe -k advantage pf i,L On pnp portion of the sector fourteen enenjy airplane's cro ssed between noon and 6 o?clock in the evening while' four friendly ones wei 0 over the American lino in tho sain e period. One group of seven end uy machines, apparently on a bom b)ng expedition, was .discovered at mict night and driven off by the rapid fire of American antl -aircraft guns. Ai 1 American patrol has brought in quail tities of valuable papers from tho bodi s of five Germans killed in a shell holo by American artillery fire a te J days ago. Among the papers takpqt from an elderiy Soldier was a letter fr.qm hjs .daughter saying: " e are being fold now that peace will a, urely come in July or August. Everj body was highly elated when tho ne'ws ( )f the Russian peace was received." receiv-ed." Thp entire Anierican contingent from penerals to privates eagerly awaits lews from the British front. All arc con fldent that the Germans eventually even-tually 'ill be defeated severely, even if they tshould strike hard at tjie put-set. put-set. Tbj 3 German offensive is the sole topic or conversation pn the American Ameri-can sept r. Bj-itish official communications communica-tions arc caught by wjrcless operators and new papers are circulating widely and rapid ly along the front. An enej ny airplano early th)s mprn.-ing mprn.-ing cut off its engines at' a great height ov r the American lines northwest north-west of 1 oul and planed dpwjj. Wljifn close to t ic ground "itdropped'a quan- j i ,tity of bombs. Some were of a npw variety which pxpfpdp in mid-aip wjth a blu)sh-red flash' and giye off a .cloud of niustard gas. "fiefng heavier than the air thp mustard gas quickly descended de-scended tqward some of our jsattery positipns and a road. After thp machine disappeared the Gernian gas bombardment' hegan. Another An-other enemy airplane hovered over thp town while the bombardment with gas sheljs was in progress. to - WITH THE AMERIGAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 25. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) .On the Tqu front there was consjdorable artjllery activity activ-ity during the pight. American guns heavjjy shejlp.d th6 .German', front Jine ppstUPns. Eneniy batteries' replied, using many gas he)ls. ater photo: graphs were takep from ajrplaijes of .the damage inflicted by thP Americans! |
