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. There These along the southeast sembled or rapidlyarriving in the rear areas 18 were In line and IS in reserve. Haumont and the railroad beyond It, ad- will remain spots lure and there, marked of quality that ready to strengthen and extend the general TVbat One Outfit Did divisions were all Intrinsically vancing approximately two kilometers the army front, a few more by and uiuoiielnd ruins al- high During night troops concen- attack along Infantry and inoiinmeiils. from fair to excellent, all wen* in clay. the were days would have sulliced to shatter the On the other Hank the 323rd war. penetrating the the 224th icady designated as mementoes of the fairly well up to trated here with a view to enemy?s limited powers of resistance. In the co-operating battalions of spirits and all were enemy?s position morning. They had similarly the same hour, it will be possible to trace the lines next the fighting, so far as it was carried, the were in action at But strength, In measure of numbers alone ex- gained another kilometer and were up to having advanced in spite of severe losses as they stood at certain dates only on the Second Army suffered 1,330 casualties, of ex- ceeding their opponents probably several the wire in front of the Bois de Bonseil by the 33rd Division, from machine guns and gas and high was suspended. whom 614' were lost of the map. they were undrr when, at 11 o?clock, fighting - plosive shell until the 3rd ISattalion tunes over. That once 28th, co- the remainder being about equally divided Dur- West of the lake the left of the the 7th, 28th and 92nd Divisions, 321th was in the Bois do Manheulles. On way they would have carried everything attack 33rd Divi- between days of battle the Wire anil Trenches operating with the of the while ofllcers and 178 enlisted ing its two and one-half there was no doubt whatever sion, forward through the Bois de seven men Division, which had been in France prisoners war. before them flushed captured enemy. Slst Thousands of Get man of Haudrouvillcs lias and the Bois de Hara- were from the less than three months and had never- before (heir at the time of the signing of the armistice. working under the direction of .tineil- villcrs and took the farm of Hautes ,lour- engaged in an offensive, had advanced from Hut It Is just as well to recall the blunt French Co-operation on Left can, French or English captors, have been naux, so that on the morning of the llth two to five and one-half kilometers on its facts now, several months after the close of the whole of Bnchanssfie Bake was' in the While the Second American Army whole long-front, had released the villages at work since the signing of the armistice was Germans attempt to possession developing major offensive, ot Manheulles, Blanzoo, Moranville, Griin- wiping out hostilities, when the of the Americans. a the Second clearing up tin? ruins and tin* Corps, by any Abaucourt, nearly to the impression that Colonial on its left, did not nucourt and taken 100 won; tin? convoy tin* world en- old defensive works. Tin: roads in Sard?s Push in Wocvre Plain means remain idle, but co-operated vigor- prisoners and lost 40 oilicors ami 930 result when lighting o ased their armies woro. forward of the listed men in casualties. Indeed, in their /irsl to icccivo their attention. iho had been intended in the, original ously with the movements .omc mysterious sense. still "unbeaten As 20th and 33rd U.S. Divisions on its flanks. brief operations the Slat and the 7th and j H vrilable boulevard for hundreds of nrrny plans, this 33rd Division, of the Soven- is on li the 9th and the 11th ot November, 92nd Divisions of the Second Army, which was The Plain truth that November moving toward Con- Between kilometers through tin; heart of what toonth French Corps, the 10th Coloniid Division, joining the 20th were practically as now tooffensive employ- thoir armies wore squarely in Iho pnlli of Mans over the level farming lands of the once the Western front. U.S. near Bczonvillo and extending thence ment. vied with the more experienced divi- annihilating avalanche, and that it »as AVoovro plain on the inarching flank of the have an southward about kilometers to Kix, sions in courage and tenacity and proved Hundreds of miles of trenches been Army?s attack, made the most de- seven tin* Interposition of the; armistice alone Second against vigorous opposition pushed forward that they could have borne their full share filled in l>y tin; Germans and thousands of termined effort and, in consequence, under- work that might have been laid which saved thorn from an overthrow on Already, on from its front lines at the eastern base of of any miles of barbed win? entanglements have went tho most severe lighting. Mouse plateau an average distance of upon them had the war continued. complete and Where New Divisions in Second Amor initi Army Were Advancing When the tho 131st the are aiding In re the field of nattle even more November 9,' two companies of boon removed. TUe fanners overwhelming than that which had alleady Armistice Unite ;d Their Onrush Infantry, on the right, raided and cleared to expedite the work prepare and there and the of lo r ally. Austria- Kpiues and tho Hois tie tin; tin* plow. It) many places overtaken armies river, tin; Voivrolte the l.iois les Hatties land for llunga:\. bi-tween tin: Moselle and Hachaussee Hake near tin; and Hois do Warville, til o?clock on the morning growing fields were further and 9 grain is on the which Tin; the Si com! American toward Gorge and Gharnbley, and prepare and the Cols do Cheininot. east. lOlit this regiment, from the posi- less months ago. offensive of of the within the lines than six French Armies was to he plans for an attack in tin- direction of Hrloy The enemy's resistance, at first slight, thus gained, attacked northeast to- AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Among with which the and the Tenth Fresne.s-Conflsm.s-Hricy. day, -1 tions the main factors inaugurated bv an of the former, along the axis increased later in tin* and- about huger They pene- to upon returning to advance ward tho Hois d'llarviilc. peasants have contend 10, with four divi- Detailed instructions for the Second o?clock in tlie afternoon the Hois de Voiv- center, obliged to tin; unex- In-ginning mm November trated to its but were till their soil are dud shells rind along Army were given by command rette was abandoned, but was again occu- by of the sions in Nn** and five in reserve its operations drop back to its southwestern edge JEWISH WELFARE BOARD grenades below the surface of General The pied at midnight. The attack here was re- following tin; front of f.o kilometers from Kresnes-cn- Bullard on November 0. the resistance encountered. The U.S. ARMV and NAVY' ground. Sometimes the services of pris- owing newed ", a..in, the lllh against lively Woevre to I?ort-sur-Seille. tin; latter place Initial advance, to the small number at on morning tho 131st made an attack on Hitt- are not available. The farmers take gnn opposition, and 3 CLEMENT-MAROT, PARIS oners taring about eight kilometers east of the of troops as yet actually on the ground, artillery and machine HEADQUARTER?: matters into their own hands and start advanced to the north edge Moselle. The advance once started, tin; was to be confined to two brigades, one tlie Itiiatli had ROOMS «rc epen from D o.m. to p-ffl- plowing or spailing. Occasionally the result Divisions, at II o?clock, when OFFICES Ifcnd CJLIJB 10 Tenth Army was. on November 11, to move each from the 2Klh arid the Tlh of the Hois Frehaut is disastrous. hrough hostilities ceased. Tho casualties of the OUGH LE MANS BORDEAUX forward Its ten divisions, to la; later aug- which were to move I the billy coun- PARIS TOURS Near Vic-sur-AlMje, when; the ComitC* tin; regiment had been about 300. On the west corner nun PR 7 nui-: 61 COUOT mented by more, on a UO-kllonieter front try along the Rupt de Mad in direction C CLEMENT* X/A lISBSAI, IRUK ch s iU-gSons Devasb'-s has its Infantry did »?: D?ALSACK- America Ins from I?ort-sur-Sellle to Senom-s. of Gome and Chamldey. hut with, at first, side of tin- Moselle the 307th ABA.BOND UAKOT HUE DU LA LI2UUI l MOKTAUUAN lurttdduaTiers, deal!* and s«-rlous injury have carry projected attack because Till GAZov.ivrnn LOXIItAIN?IS One important difference existed in the only the limited objective of the Miebel not out its r V I resulted from accidents of this nature. One Division, to left, was unable to ST. method of attack to bo employed by the two position of the Illndenhurg lino between Hie Till its J AluvlV £7r, 3 BREST COBLENZ GIEVRES NANTES 1 I NAZAIRB old man. but. just returned from captivity Gharey eastern edge tin* Hois do bold the dominating heights of Teeny. 85 BUB armies. The Second American was to ad- and the of