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Show AMERICANS VICTORS ' IN PIGARDY BATTLE ATTACK AND CAPTURE TOWN FROM HUNS, TAKING MANY PRISONERS. Germans Lose Heavily in Killed and Wounded, the American Casualties Being Slight, Fight Lasting Only Forty-five Minutes. With the Army in France. American Ameri-can troops on May 2S attacked the village of Cantigny, northeast of Montdidier, Mont-didier, attaining all their objectives. The German counter-attack was feeble. The. American losses were light, but the Americans captured 20O Germans, including two officers. The American attack was along a two kilometer front and it seems to have taken the hard-hitting Americans just about three-quarters of an hour to complete their conquest, which Included In-cluded that amount of territory as well as the village of Cantignv an e exceptionally short time for such an s operation. a This remarkably fine showing comes s as a fitting companion piece to the - brilliant work done by the United i States soldiers in repulsing an enemy t assault made against them in the same region the previous morning. One - American division was attacked at that i time, and the gray coats met with a : complete reversal at all points. Thw enemy attack was not a heavy one, however, and was easily dealt with 1 by the Americans, who had the situa-: situa-: tion well in hand at all times. Word of these two victories has added much to the very favorable impression im-pression which the American troops already have created along the British front. It was a loregone conclusion that the Germans would make the newest of the allies along this front the object ob-ject of an attack in an attempt to push them back and thereby create a feeling feel-ing that they had formed a weak link in the defending chain. |