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!^?-=---__=?___J^^J^_ MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918 * ? ? ?two<W" ??? ?~ *- - I ^c^
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Americans Block German Plan to Split Line;
Foe Admits Retreat; British Gain Ground
Earthquake
Levels Towns
In California
Hemet and San Jacinto
Are Reported Practi?
cally Destroyed
Shocks Are Felt in
Utah and Arizona
Southern Part of Golden
State Shaken; Many
Persons Hurt
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. April 21.?All j
of Southern California and part of |
?Vestern Arizona and Utah were!
?haken to-day at 3:32 p. m. by an
.irthquakc which.-wrecked virtually!
ill buildings and residences in Hemet
Mid San Jacinto, two inland towns
forty-five miles southeast of Riverside,
Cal., and caused minor property dam
ige in practically every town and city.
One man, Frank E. Darnell, of this
city, was trampled to death in a panic
tt Santa Monica. A woman was in?
jured by falling from a second story
sindow at San Jacinto, and a number
?{persons were injured there and else?
where, none seriouslv. Three men en?
tombed in a magnesite mine tunnel
near Hemet probably were saved by
fellow workers, who drove an air shaft
to them and were expected to dig them
ont before morning.
Shock Greatest Inland
The severity of the shock seemed
greatest inland, but it was distinctly
apparent at nearly every point over
California south from a line from Bar
ttow to the coast, and in some parts of
Arizona, although no damage was re?
ported there.
In Los Angeles and vicinity the dam?
age was apparent mainly in broken
windows. Hundreds of large plate
giass windows hero were shattered.
Several large buildings showed cracks
or bulges, but the extent of such dam?
age to buildings could not be definitely
ascertained.
Homes all over Southern California
?ere shaken, dishes rattled, furniture
moved, and in many places the shock
?is such as to cause the occupants to
?'-cate hastily.
In Arizona the shock was reported to
-Te extended as far cast as Seligman
*?d Milford, in Utah.
Worst Shock in Years
A*. San Bernardino the qtiake was
aid by old residents to be the worst
? years. Scores of plateglas3 Win?
dows were broken, 100 feet of brick
"-11 from one low building fell into
'he street and cracks were broken in
-?veral other walls.
There was a panic at the ballgrounds,
?here a game was in progress, and one
?"-n was hurt in the rush to escape.
Another, running out of a theatre into
??e street, was struck by a passing
?-tomobile and seriously injured.
Riverside suffered a shock of sim
???r intensity. Ornaments were
?aaken from the court house cornice
"?d windows smashed.
At Banning, the front of the Odd
?-Hows building fell out, striking two
>-toraobiles which had just been va?
ried by their passengers.
The tremor wa:. first reported from
Barstow at 3:30 p. m., and apparent
I moved east and south from that |
.-int. It became most severe in the
?eraet and San Jacinto section and
??rther north about San Bernardino.
Two Shocks at Los Angeles
-owing on toward the coast, the
?-mor did ?light damage at Whitticr
*** other intervening points and then
^ek Los Anjreles at 3:32 p. m., there
**??*? two shocks. They were estl*
**te_ at 10 seconds and 30 (seconds
?th.
In the city the earthquake broke a
1 ?ber o? laeffb piateglas? windows
***<* buildings. There, was almost!
j*}?? in the numerous theatre? and I
??: ?? picture houses, and one woman,
*T ?B ? WBB 8lr***:'- on the head1
J*a ?ron fire e?cape, lowered from i
^T* M she stepped from a theatre I
75 ?--trance.
J** City Hal! stands two inches from,
__??f-?ra buit(li-*_- The tremor
,??*?* them togeth?.! and crushed oiT
-* and ?tone dust, as well as grind
?"?an outside pip* jn.o the walls.
?uLtrl? c,t. J*? there was a panic
CVk Pr"-on_r? whcn glass crashed \
%i ?5* upp??r window?* Bricks fell
*_#i u /?????? into the street. AI
5. S fi ^ "??'-Century Club was :
?ti. ^ tn ih* "Id Normal Centre,
??? ??tf'-r? of the city. The chande* '
t.,1_y'.' *"d a panic was narrowly I
i? nr y. -? band Pi*y?n_ "Mv Court- !
At ?I* ' r-*e*."
^* "?fita Moni?;?, ft ?(.??{de town ncav ,
?* * *?*?**-. wa* or? th. municipal'
?tj^wl on ?mh? Pane, Col. /, j
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French Children
To Adopt Orphan
Of U. S. Soldier
PARIS, April 21.?Sr-hool chil?
dren in the 12th Ward of the
Paris suburb of Bercy, one of
the poorer quarters of the city,
wishing to express gratitude for
what Americans have done for
French orphans, have decided to
adopt the first American child
whose father has been killed in
battle and to pay 50 centimes
(approximately 10 cents) a day
to the child for two years.
Berlin Plotting
To Force Holland
Into War, Is Charge
LONDON, April 22.?According to
"The Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam
correspondent, a plot is being hatched
in Berlin deliberately designed to
compel Holland to participate in the
war.
Holland, he says, may be faced in
the course of the next few weeks, or
perhaps days, with the most serious
perils she has encountered since the
outbreak of hostilities. The facts
have not yet been made public and
cannot be stated, but the correspond?
ent has reason to believe that the Ger?
man government has already made, or
is about to make, demands, which, if
pressed, would force The Netherlands
to enter the war on one side or the
other.
The writer intimate? that the Ger?
mans' first move has been made in the
attempt to find a pretext tor complaint
that Holland departed from neutrality
by acquiescing in the Entente's de?
mands for her mercantile fleete.
Tam^to
Back Bissell
For Governor
Programme Framed at
Conference With Upstate
Men in Washington
Herbert P. Bissell, of Buffalo, Su-;
preme Court justice, will head the
Democratic ticket next fall if the pro?
gramme agreed upon after a series of
conferences between upstate Democrat?
ic leaders and representatives of Tam?
many Hall, held last week at Wash?
ington, is carried out.
The result of these conferences was
learned last night from two of the men
who participated in them. One is a
prominent upstate loader.
The conferences were held at the
request of Tammany Hali, which sent
Senator James A. Foley, personal rep?
resentative of Charles F. Murphy, to
present Tammany's claims.
Senator Foley was told that all the
upstate Democrats wanted was for
Tammany to keep its hands off the
nomination for Governor; that upstate
wanted it and was entitled to it, and ?
that under no circumstances would up-1
state stand for any New York City ?
man, least of all William Randolph
Hearst, i
After a dozen possibilities had been
talked over Senator Foley and other
Tammany men joined with the upstate
leaders in agreeing to back Justice Bis?
sell if the upstate leaders who are
nursing other booms would get behind
him.
The advisability of putting a woman
on the state ticket, cither as Secretary I
of State ?or as State Treasurer, also was j
discussed, but it was agreed that this ]
question could be disposed of better :
after the head of the ticket had b.een
chosen. . i
The up-state Democrats will meet in |
Syracuse to-morrow. Tammany leaders j
suggest that if a candidate is agreed
upon at this meeting a conference of I
New York City Democra'tic leaders will
be called. After they have talked over
the situation they propose to hold a
general pow-wow at the state-wide con?
ference which State Chairman Edward j
S. Harris plans to hold in Saratoga |
next July. ;
Many Tammany men are fearful that <
the Syracuse conference may develop
into a revolt against Tammany Hall.
Some up-state men are inclined to hold
Tammany responsible for Mayor Hy
lan's espousal of Hearst for Governor,
and fear that Hearst's influence, backed
by the patronage-power wielded by
Mavor Hylan, may force t-he local or?
ganization 'to throw its weight behind
Hearst. ,, _ ,
When upstate leaders were told Tarn- j
many would support any candidate with
an unassailable record, Hudson Valley
representatives asked if Supreme Court
Justice Henrv V. Borst, of Amsterdam,
would fit into that category. They
were informed that he would.
BelgiumlF?ieTwith
German Wounded |
AMSTERDAM, April 21. The streams
of wounded German, from France and
Flanders, ?ay? the frontier correspond?
ent of the ?"ielegraaf." continuo so
great that all the hospital-, monaster
?es. convents and school? not only In ?
Bruaaels but in many towns south ol .
the Bciffisn capital are filled to over-]
flowing The Germana bave even rcqui- ,
sitioned private houses for hospitals.
Forty ambulance trains entered the
north station at Brussels daily last
week. Many of thern were made up or
cattU; ears, in wMeb ?here were litters
of straw Un the wounded men.
Bryan Aids
Godsol Fight
For Liberty
Prisoner Tells Why He
Sought His Help in Ex?
tradition Battle
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Appealed for Help
To High Officials
Godsol Declares Foes of
Clemenceau Seek Power
by His Conviction
[Staff Correspondence]
WASHINGTON, April 21.?In the
brownstone district jail, where Guiteau
expiated the murder of President Gar
field, Frank J. Godsol, ex-American, ex
soldier of France and the multi-mil?
lionaire vivant whom Broadway knows
as "Joe," is completing plans for the
legal battle in which he hopes to de?
feat the effort to extradite him to the
sister republic across the sea, and
thereby avoid becoming the principal
in what his friends believe may easily
develop into another Dreyfus case.
His hearing is set for Thursday. By
the end of the week a decision may
be reached. But as the time ap?
proaches it becomes increasingly evi?
dent that there is vastly more too the
/Case than a simple effort to have re?
turned to Paris for punishment a man
who is alleged to have mulcted France
of about $5,000,000 through deception
relative to commissions on contracts
for the sale of army motor trucks.
Bryan, Interested in Prisoner
William J. Bryan is or has been in?
terested in the fate of Godsol, who
. in the twenty years since ho was
tAventy-four, has made more than $10,
000,000. The former Secretary of State
has visited the State Department more
than once in connection with the case,
not as an attorney but apparently as
a friendly adviser of the formed French
soldier, for he refused a check for $2,
000 offered him by Godsol as an hon?
orarium.
Interviews with Secretary Lansing
have been sought. Appeals to be im?
partial and to look under the surface
of things have been made to the At?
torney General of New York State by
Senators, even judges of high courts,
who have been friends of Godsol for
years and are fearful of his fate. I
Godsol himself is apprehensive. Ho |
frankly admitted to-day that he had j
interested Mr. Bryan in his case.
"Why shouldn't 17" he demanded.
"I would ask President Wilson to help i
me if I thought it would do me any
good."
Says He Is Political Pawn
And he told why. He said there was
every indication that a few French
politicians, here and in Paris, had I
seized upon his supposed connection j
with M. Thomas, former Socialist Min?
ister of Munitions, and the fact that |
he drew commissions on army motor I
trucks as vehicles to ride them into
power. He produced clippings from
newspapers of London, Paris, Rome
and other cities in Europe and Amer?
ica to support his declaration that a
deliberate press .campaign was launched
last November _3 a preliminary move
of the political game, in which he in?
sists he is only a pawn to be sacri?
ficed ruthlessly by the foes of M.
Thomas to gain their own ends.
These clippings contained statements
such as that Godsol had been arrested
thirteen times in New York, an asser?
tion since disproved; that he had mur?
dered his wife, whereas he says he was
married for the first time last Decem?
ber in Newark, N. J., and that his con?
tracts with motor manufacturers in
America were illegal.
Answering the latter, he produced
documents to show that France is now
buying motor ti/ucks through his agen?
cy in Paris, although aware that he is
receiving commissions, and that the
army is still using his repair shops, as
it always did, despite the charges pend?
ing here and in Paris.
Was Exonerated of Charges
The clippings also included reports
of debates in the Paris Chamber of
Deputies, attacks upon M. Thomas as
his sponser and upon members of the ]
present Clemenceau government and ;
editorials devoted to "L'Affair? Godsol,"
one of which ? in "L'Eveil" for Decem?
ber 14 concluded with the statement j
that "As fast as the government clears j
Godsol, Tardieu (the present High,
Commissioner of France in the United i
States) accuses him."
"Facing a situation like that," com- !
mented Godsol, "you could hardly
blame a man for not wanting to go to
France, whether guilty or innocent. I
only saw M. Thomas twice in my life."
Then he produced further clippings
and documents to show that he had I
gone to France from New York in No
veniber, 1916, when Lieutenant Mit
taine, a member of the French pur
chasing mission in that city, first mad?
the charge which finally resulted in !
his arrest, sixteen months later. !
Me underwent an investigation by a ?
military tribunal at that time and was!
exonerated. Me also showed his pass-1
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Continued on Last Paye, Col. 21
Anglo-French
Lines Ready
For New Blow
Reinforced British Prepared
for Attacks in North
and on Somme
Clemenceau Finds
Men in High Spirit
Dozen Isolated Soldiers
Found Dead Had Taken
a Toll of Fifty
[By The Associated Prcssl
j WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 21.? This was the third
day of comparative quiet on the British
I front, but while no further German at
! tacks had materialized up to this after?
noon, it would be unsafe to predict
that Sunday would end as it began.
New enemy moves were expected at
any moment both along the northern
front and in the Somme region. They
may not develop to-day, but they are
written large on the programme of
impending events.
j There is no disposition to quarrel
I with the enemy on account of Friday's
and ?Saturday'3 lull. Time has worked
to the advantage of the Allies, and
their position has continuall grown
better.
In th? northern field, as well as in
the south. French troops have taken
their places beside the British, and the
Allied forces are not unwilling for a
renewal of the crucial conflict of the
war. As a matter of fact, French rein?
forcements have been in the Bailleul
and Kemmcl regions for some days, and
their coming brought new life to the
valiant but dog-tired men who had
been struggling against such great
odds since April 19.
Premier Clemenceau visited the
Allied soldiers this morning and
passed cheering words to them. The
French statesman was greatly pleased
with conditions in the north. He said
so and he looked it. He also was high
in his praise for the magnificent, de?
fence the British made before the ar?
rival of French assistance. He re?
viewed one battle-worn division of
British troops, which finally had been
enabled to leave the line for rest after
the French arrived.
M. Clemenceau appreciated them and
they liked him, as they told him when
they gave three ringing cheers for!
France and for Clemenceau.
Poilus and Tommies Great Friends
The troops and officers of the two,
flags already arc working together as
though they always had been doing the
same, One might have expected diffi?
culties of language, but not so. Some
ungrammatical French is being spoken
on one side and there are certain pe?
culiarities in the English talked by the
other, but between them they are
getting along famously. There is no
hitch in the proceedings. The best part
of it is that they are thoroughly en?
joying the association.
The poilus and Tommies met one
another like long-lost brothers, and
are carrying on like comrades of a
hundred battles. They are fine fel
lows, these French soldiers. The cor- j
respondent watched them as they
passed northward over the British ?
roads, and no more magnificent troops
have been seen on the front than these
clean-cut chaps, who make love to the.
village lassies like courtiers and fight
like devils. It is not amiss to say
that they were welcome when they ar?
rived, for the enemy was pressing the
tired British with tremendous forces.
They came in good time. They got
into action in the region of Kemmel
on the 18th, which was the day of their
arrival, and within a couple of hours
of their advent they performed a gal?
lant feat which won for them the un?
dying gratitude of the Rrifcish division
which was holding the hill.
Little Force Cut Off
The British had a severe time at
Kimmel on April 17. Some of, them
were in the defences on the hill and
others had been drawn up about the
southern base on an elevation and told
that they must hold this line at all
costs. The German hordes swept for?
ward against them in waves, but they
clung to their posts throughout bitter
hours. The positions about Kemmcl
were retained, but a little south of the
hill the Germans pushed in and sur?
rounded Donegal farm, which was being
held by a suhaltern and twelve Tom
mies.
When tlit* French came up on the
18th Donegal was No Man's Land, and
Continued on Next Page, Col. 2
YOU'VE A LONG JOURNEY AHEAD, WILLIAM
Allied Troops
Aid Bolsheviki
Against Finns
British and French Guard
White Sea Coast and
Base at Kern
i Ry Til? Associated Press)
MOSCOW, April 14.?British and
French forces have been landed at
Mourmansk, on the northeast coast of
Kola peninsula, in the Arctic Ocean, to
reinforce a British marine detachment
sent ashore several weeks ago. The
Entente allied troops are cooperating
with Bolshevik forces in protecting the
Mourman coast and the railway against
attacks by Finnish White Guards.
Russian Red Guards also are acting
with British and French troops under
the direction of the Mourman Soviet
War Council, which consists of one
Englishman, one Frenchman and one
Russian.
Finnish White Guards have attacked
the Mourman railway, near Kern, 270
miles south of Mourmansk and 200
miles west of Archangel, but have been
repulsed by the Entente forces. The
Bolshevik and foreign troops are acting
in harmony, and residents along the
White Sea coast appreciate that the
Entente's assistance is saving the dis?
trict from isolation and domination by
the White Guard.
The activities in Manchuria of Gen?
eral Semenoff, the anti-Bolshevik lead?
er, are being linked by the Soviet press
with the Japanese landing at Vladi?
vostok. His operations are denounced
by the newspapers as part of a Japa?
nese plan to invade Siberia, with the
help of China and the connivance of
the Entente allies, who are^alleged to
be supporting at Peking and Harbin
the schemes of Prince Lvoff, a former
Russian Premier, and other refugees,
who, it is alleged, are seeking to estab?
lish an independent government and to
upset the Soviet power.
No previous mention of the fact that
British marines had been sent ashore
in Northern Russia to cooperate with
the Russian Bolshevik troops has been
permitted by the censor. Recently Jap?
anese and British marines were landed
at Vladivostok, the Pacific port of Rus?
sia, but this step was against the
wishes of the Russian Bolshevik gov?
ernment.
In attacking the Russian railroad
near Ketn, on the west coast of the
White Sea, the Finnish White Guard,
which recently has received the sup- ;
pott of the Germans, must have pushed
across the Finnish border and pene?
trated Russian territory for 150 miles
in their efforts to sever communication
by rail with Mourmansk. Archangel is
situated on the cast coast of the White
Sea. 150 miles cast of Kcm.
Foch to Strike in 10 Days,
Says American Observer
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Back From Picardy Front, He Tells How Our
Engineers, Leading Coolies, Filled 2-Mile Breach
in Line for Six Hours and Probably Averted Rout
I AN ATLANTIC PORT, April 21.?
; An American army officer, who saw
the beginning of the present great of?
fensive on the Picardy front from an
I advanced fighting post, returned to
[ day with a vivid first-hand account of
I the battle. He predicted a surprise
I by General Foch within ten days.
The officer, who was acting as an
observer in front line trenches, was
on the spot when a nondescript collec?
tion of warehousemen, Chinese trench
diggers and American engineers threw
itself hastily across a two-mile gap in
the Allied ranks, and for six hours
held at bay the German herdes. This
gallant stand, taken until reinforce?
ments arrived, probably saved the day
in averting a turning movement which
meant utter rout, he said.
"It was a foggy day, as thick as it
i is now," said the officer, whose name
cannot be used. "The Germans were
making a terrific attack all along the
line. I was stationed at the juncture
of the armies of Generals Byng and
Gough, wher the break occurred.
Two-Mile Gap in Line
"General Byng's men held their lines.
j General Gough's forces retired, and
I because of the fog, one did not know
I just where the other was or what it
had done-, There was a two-mile gap,
with absolutely no defence between,
i and the German army would have
poured through if it had not been for
the blundering of a small force of Brit?
ish cavalrymen on scout duty.
"They went forward, past where I
was stationed, riding into the gloom.
It was only a few minutes later when
a number of them came tearing back,
wildly excited and shouting, 'The Ger?
mans are coming! They're right in
back of us!'
"At first we thought they had mis?
taken some of our own men for the
enemy, but when some more horsemen
came straggling back with the same re?
port there was no longer a doubt in
our minds. They had ridden straight
into a German storming force, and
most of them had been taken prisoners
before they knew what had happened.
Americans Stand in Breach
"There were no troops at hand and
there was need for quick action. The
news had spread quickly among the
laborers and engineers back of the line,
and without a moment's hesitation they
organized into a defence body. The Chi?
nese eagerly dropped their trench tools
and snatched un rifles. Led by Amen
i can engineers, they deployed and dug
? themselves in.
"For six hours they kept the great
German army ?t bay. How thew did it
nobody knows, least of al! themselves.
But the fog helped conceal the nature
and numbers of this strange army, and
they held on until French and British
soldiers .relieved them.
"This was the first time the Chinese
had been actually engaged in fighting,
and after their success there was much
jubilation and a great pow-wow of vic?
tory among them. For their good work
they were allowed to retain the ri?es
they used in the emergency, and are
now the proudest Celestials on the face
of the earth."
Says Foch Has Surprise Ready
The American observer declared that
Generalissimo Foch was biding his
time,- waiting for the enemy to make
one false move.
"Foch is letting the German army
advanceyin one spot," he declared, "un?
til it isvstretched out in the form of a
turkey's' neck. Then he will chop it
off?quick.
"Foch has a reserve army of a mil?
lion men. waiting back of the line. No?
body knows just where they are, but
when the time comes for a counter-of?
fensive, they will be thrown into the
fighting. This force is composed of
French troops, Americans and some
Britishers. You can look for the great
surprise to come from them within the
next ten daysl
"As for the danger of the capture of
Amiens, there is nothing to fear.
Amiensjs nothing but a shell. While
it was "an important railroad centre,
American engineers have built belt line
roads in a semi-circle all about it, so
that ,if it should fall into the hands
of the Germans, there would be noth?
ing but sentimental significance at?
tached to the loss. The railroads would
still be-absolutely in the hands of the
Allies."
Naval Flier Comes Home
Among the passengers was Lieuten?
ant E. O. McDonnell, an American
naval flier, who took part in several
bombing expeditions over Bruges. It
was said that these raids were always
accompanied by spectacular displays of
fireworks, furnished by the German de?
fenders, who would scour the skies
with searchlights and send hundreds
of red and green lights flaming aloft.
The steamship, with these and sev?
enty other passengers, was held up for
hours at a British port by a wireless
message that a U-boat was lurking out?
side and had attacked an incomine
steamer. The vessel finally departed
making a wide detour, and reached this
jort without incident.
Offensive on
Toul Front
Is Nipped by
j U. S. Troops
Berlin Claims Capture
of 183 Prisoners and
25 Machine
Guns
British Improve
Robecq Positions
Ypres Attacks Beaten
Back?Haig's Forces
Gain in Counter
Blows
An ominous pause of German prep?
aration for a third great blow
hung over the West front yester?
day?except on the sector held
by the American troops. Here
I the enemy was frustrated in an
attempt to drive a wedge between
the American and French armies.
Though on a smaller scale the
plan was the same as at Armen
tieres and St. Quentin. It failed
more sigfia.ly! ^
Before the village of Seicheprey
twelve hundred storm troops
threw themselves against a bar?
rier of American bayonets, and in
a battle lasting throughout Sat?
urday night bent the defending
line a little, only to find them?
selves with morning flung back
into their own trenches.
A hundred and eighty-three Ameri?
can prisoners are claimed, includ?
ing five officers, and twenty-five
American machine guns are re?
ported as booty.
The only other infantry fighting on
the whole front consisted of local
engagements, in which the Brit?
ish, counter attacking throughout
; the night and morning, took pris?
oners and machine guns from the
Germans and improved their
/ positions at Robecq, on the south?
west tip of the Armenti?res sa?
lient. German attempts to ad?
vance northeast of Ypres were
smothered in explosives.
Positions Lost in
First Rush Retaken
By Pershing's Men
(By The Associated Ptms)
, WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
I IN FRANCE, April 21.?After the
; heavy German attack of yesterday
! the American main positions re
! mained intact, and this morning
' after a brief bombardment the
I American troops attacked and drove
the enemy out of the old outposts
? which they had gained, thus break?
ing down an offensive which it is
i believed was intended as the be
> ginning of a German plan to sep?
arate the Americans and French.
There was a comparative lull to?
day along the sector northwest of
j Toul. The Americans engaged in
the terrific hand-to-hand fighting
yesterday showed the most daring
bravery, stories of which are al?
ready being recounted.
Artillery Fire Terrific
As indicating ttie violence of the
offensive, French ambulance men,
who went through the famous bat?
tle of Verdun, declared to-day that,
comparatively speaking, the German
artillery fire against the Americans
was heavier than in any single en?
gagement on the Verdun front at
any time.
The German attempt to break
through the American lines in the
Toul sector early Saturday con?
tinued until late at night. The troops
hurled against the Americans came
full of bravado and arrogance, wav?
ing their rifles and shouting like
mad, but they found more than they
bargained for.
Fight Hand to Hand
When the Germans entered Seich?
eprey it was evidently in the belief
that the Americans had gone, but
some of them remained scattered
through the village, and they at