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Show AMERICANS ARE . ON THEFiRING LIRE TAKE UP POSITION ON FRENCH BATTLE FRONT AND WILL HELP STOP THE HUN. Fighting Men From This Side of Ocean Face Enemy Line, Being Confident Confi-dent They Will Bar Germans From Paris and Amiens. Paris. American troops have taken till positions on the French battle front. Under the French high command, com-mand, in which all ranks have supreme confidence, the American forces face the enemy on the line barring the Germans Ger-mans from Paris and Amiens, where they have been a certain number of days. lue Americans, on entering the line, found their position in a rolling terrain. ter-rain. The artillery was- the first on the line, entering on a dark night, which was made red by the continuous Hashes of friendly and hostile guns. Under a fire, wnich in some cases was rather heavy, the American gunners took up the positions of the French batteries and completed the work of digging in. When the infantry moved in, the tiring was just as intense. In some places our troops, after passing through villages, were raked now and then with, shrapnel. In several instances in-stances they found the trenches shallow, shal-low, while in other cases there were no trenches at all. By this time the positions have been improved greatly and the shell holes connected. The American lines generally are about 200 to 400 yards apart, and the high ground is about, evenly divided. What the future holds for die American Ameri-can forces is, of course, unknown, but the Americans are confident that under un-der the et'iicent French direction, although al-though the tasks ahead may be difficult, diffi-cult, they will give a good account of themselves and strike the boche a blow if opportunity offers. It should be understood that this sector is not especially active in comparison com-parison with others to the north, although al-though it is more active than those the Americans previously bad faced. The artillery firing is heavy and Intermittent, Intermit-tent, the German shells whizzing over the lines Into . towns in certain rear areas. |