-i ! i; si Si ?! it v Ir i tt? m If 'O .) tuitfm -- QflQ PTJ3 QUICK VENGEANCE Gas and Flame Wipe Out Germans Who Employ 'Kamcracl' Deceit GUN lUSES CAPTURED Enemy Trying to Link Up Po sitions Along Kricm f hilcl Line liy the Associated Press With tli American Army Xorlhwett nf Terilon, Oct. 4. When New York troops captured the Milage of Abrl-St. LouIh. they were made victims of an net of German treachery which ha been Invetlcated y army authorities As the N'cw Yorkers swept Into the vlllago a number of Germans came out of their hiding places with uplifted hands and were supposed to Ha.e surrendered When the American came nearer, the Germans ouddenly dropped their hands and, pelzlne hand Krenadcs, threw them with deadly effect, killing and ttoumllns a number of the New York bojs The Biirlor retreated and told the story. Then mora New York troop v.ent forward. They were armed with flame-throwers and pas projectors nnd filled the vIllaRe with flamo and Ras until not a single German escaped. Illc tliins nemorrd Two concrete emplacements for blc Ktms were dlrcoered west of Varcnnes when New York troups advanced alons the eastern eduo of tho ArRonne Forest a few dajs aRo The guns hid been re. moed, but engineers belle", o that they were Austrian SOS's The emplacements were 100 yards apart, and apparently were built more than a jcar ago. A railroad had been built leading up to them, and this en nbled the enemy to remote the guns, ammunition and eerjthlng of alue. Trench and American heavy artillery battered the enemy positions through out the entire region along this front and It N belleed thit the Germans made haste In removing the big guns as jlercWS KlHieiC was rmncndlnff. Ulg guns were scattered through the Arfconnc fprest and from day to day hao been taken by the advancing New' York soldiers. Among them were two ISO's nnd err.U 77's. The forest has been thnrourhy searched for these guns I by tho American troops. Minv of the roads leading from the Argonne forest to Mutitfauoon nnd to , Mulancourt lme I een found to bo Hir , lid lj concrete plllats as a precaution 'against the opetat'on of Allied tanks. At safe dlMann behind thee pillars ' m ll.ftinl; triiti tinrtltlnns limp l.pnti fiimid These In miinv places wore built of con. Crete. The plllnrs haxn all the appear ance of having been built recentlj. In many plncca tho wood frames for hold ing the concreto In place, not nixing bet n remoxed. Thcso concrete positions xxete, for the most part, behind the m.iln line defensive positions, through xvhlch tho Americans broke during the present drlxc. Hy the United Preu Hltli tlio llrltlali ArmlS In I rnnre, Oct. 4. I'rom a hard Kittle, of death Nov Vork high echoed bos told stories of xxounderful exploit". These boxs are reported to hixo ac tually smashed their xvuy through one of tho strongest points of German'H greatest defenso njrtcm Leon I)ixldon, waiter liurr, i oineu Ftudent, aged txxenty ! Arthur GlIis, aged nineteen, of tlrookljn, Krmst altnden, of tho Bronx, and Gedeon Andciaon. Hrookljn. participated In l.i"t rrldaH fight to prepare positions preliminary to the big attack staged Kundn. fJsfMfc'h.-efWrd 'Ih'e officer mtetS to his men that they try to dou. m 'stantly Giovanni ordered the officer to stand aside nnd threatened to kill the first man who attempted to escape. The otllcer then offered to guide Oloxnnnl to the American line, but tho doughboy xxould haxe none of It nnd found the way, turning his party oxer to head quarters. The party xxere Immediately Put to xxork as stretcher-bearer, despite the protest of one xoclferous German xho objected to tho "Indlgnltj" of It, Hnnit-to-llaml 1 lbtlnB New Yoilc troops described fierce hand-to-hand fighting Sunday night. Musses of machine guns, cirofully ciini nudnged, had been hidden so cunningly by the enemy that the first tho dough bos knew of their presence xxas xxhen they opened lire nt close range. pin LEDGER BHILADEWPHIAV FRIDAY; ? OCTOBER 1918" - . ..v - 5 : --f , outguessed tho Germans, howover, and sent three planes to attack lh balloons, but brought tip twenty-four other air planes txxo minutes later The plan worked perfectly. The sexen Fokkers pounced upon the first three Aincilcan planes. Immediately, hoxv exer. the twenty-four other American airplanes descended on tho bodies, hi Ing lug down four e f the Kokkers In flnmi s. The shooting down of these planes has been olllclally I'onfirnied The American airmen then shot down two genuine. German balloons Tddle they chattered gaily about ihelr "eases'' as women will chatter to'saxe themselves from public tears France Is full of such trsglo histories nnd some day xxe shall haxe a new collection relating to St Quentln. There Is now therefore nothing to re port except the condition of tin town and that onlv superficially. The xxestern suburb has been unaxoldnbly damaged by gunfire. Some other portions hnxo been xx recked liv the Germans ny pv booty department" of the German army", profiting by experience, has become slngulniT efficient 81 Quentlit has been stripped of ex cry nrllcle of the least xuluo In scores of houses nnd shops I did not see one, except xxhero tho roof had fallen In, that was not bare to the plnster of the walls nnd the boards of the floor Sometimes a , TS - - mi iii iirtfii j.i 'ii in in I il itn 'i hfifl btrn left nMlAMnM Mw ni tCijLL l --ha'Sw-J tbeso thlexeg had had abundantlmo to I do It, well, and ntetly. Illckenbacker. the latct American ace, reported to ou a series of fires nnd ex shot drxxn one of the German Kokkers. , IlIosons the Htx, during which tlm xxhge Lieutenant toolldgo was credited llienutlfl, Oolleglat.' Church, usually with bringing plane. Abduct People of St. Qucntin Our boxs were dropping all around," said one of tho Amerlchin, 'but they couldn't stop us. Our ciders were to keep til going, and wo went '( onllnue.l from I'ase One A major, unKempi nuu uiiBimcii, im plosion or fire, for what reason Is not urouen smxo or otmr um-Iism mei.iii s 1.... t ii... Unrl.... nt Inst xenp I , been left about, but com rally thu build iiik "an linn PMlllieu cic'lll I'l i.n . . - glnal tiakidncss This linprtsslnn of the scbnllfic swo.p of Milu.ibltM, Including xery humble nrtlcles of fiiinlttirp. Is pnhauctd by tho strange neatness In the nspect of ihe htreels OrcaslonallX' a brick xxall has tumbled iloxxn oxir-runnlng tho pixi ment, and a good number of telegraph wires hue fallen, but the whole town down a balloon nnd al.-,..,, ,., r.ithedrnl. was partially do traced. Tlipso iblnirs nrp unexplained, 1 and I do not think shrapnel explains tho real damage of hundreds of brick 1 houses nnd shops tho shells of xxhlch btand at first sight Intact. Hut ono thing Is unmistakable, 'the bad not slept for forty hours, had lost none of his enthusiasm oxer the con duct rf his men as he described the exploits to correspondents. The fiercest fighting, ho said, took place north of llellincourt, beyond the canyl. The Ger muns and Americans met there In hind-to-hund encounters. The Germain at this point proxed belter flghleis than had been expected, tho major declared, but prox-ed no inacth for the magnificent dash nnd enthusiasm nf the 'X.ntikcis. Tho major attributed the strength of the German resistance at the point td the fact thnt all the enemy comlntnnts xveie machine gunners, xxhu hip regarded as the pick of Hit German unnx till Gie AmerlrMii Arnix Nnrthneftt When the birnice fires censed tin y be-I of rnlun, Oct. 4 (lly I, N S ). An came scinratcd fiorn the rct of their , attempt by the Germans to ".xtnbush" i platoon and found themyelxcs facing n battery of machine-nuns Tho boxs long Imprisonment, or mil where the. now nre. I dwell upon this beciuse It Is part of the penalties of this w r thnt Hrltons nnd Americans hnxo not to bear, and may therefore underestimate. As xo returned to our headquarters we picked up by thn xaslde two stranded Hod Cross purses In i-ome x iy they had nunaged to get to ojon and to find their detrocd homes. xx hence they were bringing hick the onlv lellcs they could find In the lulns, n few old letters, komo toin sheets of music, i champagno glass mlracolously unbioken and 'flowers from tho gardens Town llndl IlnniSRed The family of one of ttasi) gentle women Is held captlxo behind the Ger man lines. The other xxas herself de tained for the first jear of tho war, when Put the spirit of good cheer into your soldier letters KODAK pictures from home will help. auenipi i.y tne uenmiii-.il. .imi.usii ,he ot out tlirotlgli S Itzerland Her UV" . ' . i'' """ "l husband Is now a prisoner In Germany promptly dropped Into a shell hole where they remained for hours t'nder roxer of batllesmoko the xouths found their way to a dugout thirty feet deep nnd i with txxo exits All I'rldi night the bos remained In the shelter of the dugout. Sundiv morn ing they heard the shells of n nexv Amer ican barrage breaking In their xlclnttv nnd presently the xolccs of American troops at the entrance of the tunnel leading to their dugout. 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