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Show FIVE AMERICANS FIGHTTEN1NS Enemy Patrol Leaves Two Dead and Two Wounded in Skirmish. U. S. BOYS UNHURT Germans Prepare for Raid But Automatic Rifles and Machine Ma-chine Guns Stop Them. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Wcdnesd&y, March 6. (By the Associated Press ) An American patrol of five men three nights ago outfought an enemy patrol of ten men. They met in No Man's Land and the Americans opened fire. The Gerjnans replied and for three minutes there 1 was a sharp skirmish. The enemy retreated, re-treated, leaving two dead and two wounded uayarians who were made prisoner. Tno American patrol returned re-turned to its own line without having received a scratch. Officers report that despite the fact that the Germans fired many shells to prepare the way for a raid, not a single sin-gle enemy soldier got into position to carry it out, the American automatic rifles, machine guns and rifles stopping stop-ping the Germans in their tracks. 00 |