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Show lYANKEES MUSS UP IRE KAISER'S .PLAN YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS HOLD OWN AGAINST THE PRUSSIAN AND BAVARIAN SHOCK TROOPS. Push Their Lines Forward Through i Deadly Barrage, and When it Comes to Bayonet Work, Huns Acknowledge Acknowl-edge Their Inferiority. Paris. Through a barrage as deadly dead-ly as any the Germans have laid down on any sector for months, the American Ameri-can soldiers, comprising men from the middle west and eastern slates, pushed their line forward a little more on Tuesday. . The American withstood two heavy attacks during the night, and at daylight day-light began their operations, which j left them at night well north of Sergy on the long slopes approaching the heavy- woods beyond Nesles, a little town directly east of Seringes-et-Mesles,- whose retention the Germans bitterly opposed. I It should be a source of the greatest pride to America that her youthful sol-jdiers sol-jdiers were able to hold their own I against the kaiser's best shock troops, j which are the Prussian and Bavarian guards. At Sergy it was the American divisions divi-sions that- met the Fourth Prussian guard division. The result speaks for itself. As told in these dispatches, a part of the German plan was to stand at the north bank of the Ourcq and hold the Americans while the withdrawal with-drawal behind the lines was made more easily. The charge of the Americans Am-ericans across the river, in which they took Seringes. and Sergy and established estab-lished themselves, broke up this part of the German plan. Early Tuesday morning the Americans in Sergy were attacked by the Fourth Prussian division, divi-sion, which arrived only a few hours before the training areas in Lorraine. Overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, the Americans had to withdraw with-draw before the terrific artillery and machine gun fire. But . when the Prussians Prus-sians got into the town the Germany artillery could no longer s'hoot into it. That gave the chance for a man to man hand-to-hand fight, and the Americans Amer-icans grasped the opportunity. They rushed into the village against a withering with-ering fire of the machine guns, placed practically in every building. When the charge was at its height from a building bearing a Red Cross five machine guns spoke with telling effect. But soon the Americans got hand-to-hand with the Prussians. In repayment for the deadly machine gun work, our men got their bayonets into action, and no German was yet known to stand before a bayonet with an Am-, erican behind it. In half an hour they had possession of the town. |