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8 THE STARS AND STRIPES, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919 GERMAN PRISONERS GREEN DIVISIONS PROVED THEIR METTLE IN THE SECOND ARMY?S DRIVE morning gncvillc from St. Hilaire, southwest of it. about three kilometers. Into the "Woevra Page 1 operations with the ultimate purpose of delivered on the morning of the 10th. with, Brigade in support. Early on the Continued from strong pushed out This attack was held up by machine gun plain and look possession of the village BRINGING LIFE TO destroying the enemy?s organizations anil moreover, a'considerably greater front and of the 10th, patrols \u25a0were Second American Army would carry its at- forces from the front line battalions, and a little fire, and preparations were under way to of Dieppe. Confirms; the driving him beyond the existing frontiers the employment of larger than at tack northward toward companies Infantry take Butgnevillc and also Jonvillc, further The Slst U.S. Division, under Longwy. Pre- first contemplated. later two of the SGth command Army would move northeast In the region of Biiey end REGIONS Tenth French enemy?s order of battle and occupied Preny ridge. But to the southeast, at 11 o?clock. of Maj. Gen. Chas. J. Bailey, hold the sec- WAR TORN offensive, was this time the attached and the Hhlnc. liminary to beginning this it At and cast toward the Saar progress through on the left, the 130th Infantry tor, about 13 kilometers In length, from Elx that the First American Army would cpposltc.ithc Second Army was. from north- attempts to from here the Meantime, noth would avoid direct attack upon Metz, stated attacked on the complete the occupation of Ihe region be- west to southeast; Illrd Bavarian, Xlllth enemy's heavy belts of wire wore shattered bad. on the morning of the 10th, to Frcsnos. With the 322nd Infantry Isolated and engulfed be- Hank, Searching French Fields for which would bo tween the Meuse and the Par and the ejec- Landwehr, LXVth Reserve, Vlh by machine gun and artillery lire, and be- and carried all the German trenches from left flank and the 324th on the right remainder of heights the XCIVth. tween them. As regards the tion of the enemy from the of I.andwehr. CCXXIVth and VUlth I,and- fore long the two companies were forced Snulx-en-Woevrc northeast to Marchcvillo it began operations at 8 o?clock on the Fired Alsace between the Meuse north of Verdun and south of the Fitch's Duds They the German line in wehr Divisions of General von ridge, having 40 and had taken the latter village. Two de- morning of the 9th by advancing on both Foret de Woevre, and that it would then Army Group to leave the lost about right of the Tenth Army and the Swiss Army Detachment "C," of the however, artillery conduct operations to drive him beyond the the CCLVth per cent of their numbers. termined Gorman counter-attacks, flanks after an preparation, the Months Ago frontier, that would similarly have to fall of General von Gallwitz. and rivers Thointe and Ciders. The latter oper- Division and the XXXfat and LXXXIVth further to the west, however, the*divi- forced them out of Marchcvillo to its south- center remainingpassive. During that day Rhine because of being out- ation be begun once by the es- hack to the was to at T.andwehr Brigades of General von Hoth- sion mot with better success, the 34th In- ern edge, from which'position two subse- the 322nd took the heavily fortified village tablishment of a fooling on the oast bank Army Group flanked. n-.cr'H XlXth Army, of the - region of Stenay and fantry on Its left taking and holding the quent counter-attacks were repulsed. Be- of Moranvillc,' while the 3241 broke of the Meuse in the of the Duhe of Wurteinburg. REFUGEES AREBACK HOME Bcmbercourt, hills daylight morning the 129th In- through German first and second in- German Divisions Outnumbered Mouzon. At 7 o?clock on the morning of the 10th. stone quarry near in the fore next the Ballou, commanding here fantry relieved the 130th on this part of trenched lines and occupied the woodlands broad general idea of an ;,laJ. Gen. Charles C. Just west of the P.upt dc Mad. from Such was the Eyes Fixed on Itrley the 02nd Division, had his SG.lth Infantry Noire Haic. Both as which, the attacking units pushed on to the Ger- the line. of Los Claire Chencs and Cellars and Temporary Shacks operation, or series of operations, As has been aeon already, all of thc Regiment advance behind a rolling barrage of undoubtedly 4 the east side man wire at Mon Plaisir Farm, within a Without artillery preparation the 3rd attacks were renewed on the morning bad the war continued, would above objects up to the crossing of the into the re-entrant salient on Infantry Houses troops drove back the kilometer of Charcy. In the vicinity of Battalion of the 120th and the 2nd and 3rd the 10:h, and at 9'a.m. the 322nd Living Quarters Till have achieved full success before the set- Thointe had been successfully accomplished of the Moselle. The by the Second enemy's outpost line to depths varying these places 21 prisoners wore taken, but Battalions of the 130th were institutingan took Grimaucourt, at 11 reaching Abau- winter weather. That it November 11. On its part, Are Rebuilt ting In of hard Army So conduct from one and one-half to two and one-half prevented co-operation suMlcicntly American was directed tile heavy lire from the farm its attack In with the one on court, on the main road and railroad be- would have achieved success Ik operations, Us line kilometers, occupying the Bois Frehaut, raids find local advance capture by the limited numbers engaged, Butgncville, while the Ist Battalion of the tween Verdun and Etain, where it was in evident from the general .situation at the either on that day or the following 130th was attacking toward Pinthcville, close liaison with the 10th Colonial Division. "First in war. lust in pt-aci!" is ns ap- On November 10 the irlo.se of hostilities. THE BATTLE OF THE WOEVRE morning. of of plicable to Germans, although in a dif- Division, northeast Fresnes. at 11 o'clock. All At 1 p.m. it began its advance on the the Germans had on their whole front from the The 2Sth now under command resistance, 1,300 commander-ln- astride the the points attacked and taken by the 33rd enemy's main line of feront .sense, as to the first vicinity of Fiesnes to the Swiss border of Maj. Gen. William H. Hay, were in the enemy?s main line of of Grimaucourt. southeastern extremity of Dachaussfio Lake, Division meters east chief of an American Armv. And today were resistance and in capturing them, more That night the 322nd Infantry was re- about 2a divisions, of which two only on the left of the fourth Corps, began its thousands of her foi iner warriors are pio- than 150 prisoners were also secured. lieved by the 321st, and the 2nd Battalion in reserve: and the balance in line. These operations with characteristic vigor at 5:30 the Ist Battal- neering in the work of converting the the morning of the 10th by driving its At the hour of the armistice the advance of the 324th was relieved by divisions, most of them, were of Inferior on of the Second American Army had already ion of the 323rd, releasing the rest of the areas the North Sea against the Ilindenburg works in devastated battle from they were now in a right the previous morning, about 58 324th for other uses. The 321st, on the Quality at b*.?-S. and front of Dommartin. Though prevented by taken, since to Swiss border into a semblance of the kilometers of territory. Although morning of the 11th, drove against the two the very low state of moral* 1 and tremcndoiisly intense artillery lire from reaching the vil- square they partial woodlands, Grand Cognon. peaceful aspect presented In 11*11. Moreover, Die Ger- do Dommartin and Murim- the several attacks at that time the and Petit reduced in numbers. lage. the Bois under way had developed the fact that the south of Abaucourt and Ilautccourt. It xr.au and nature effacing farm, southwest of were captured. So rapidly are man high command bad no troops whatever bois it. enemy holding along front with captured them then, moving through 3:30 in the afternoon, following was this and the signs of conflict that before the bars crum- At an ar- strength he could command, these the between them, the Ist Battalion that could be spared from the other tillery preparation, the attack renewed, all the gap tourists of the world, the was attacks were, nevertheless, progressing fa- against Haulecourt. a virtual fortress are lifted for the bling fronts with which to reinforce them. but did not got beyond the edge of the went ftonl in their entirety vorably. As none of even the front line encircled by trendies and wire. It was in lines of the Western On the same front, the Allien had 36 Bois do Dommartin. were yet fully those American divisions engaged the midst of this attack when hostilities will remain only ii: the memories of divisions, of which The center of the division, advancing as- French and American side of the lake, took and as five more divisions were already ceased at 11. who participated in lb" big show.

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