The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . them iip by thousands, wasgoing on relentlessly. It had imperative for theGermans to reinforce their line in the west, not only withboys of the Class of 1918, but with veterans dischargedfrom hospitals and fit for service. The immediate after-eliect of the French success was aGerman retirement early in November along a fifteen-mile front to the Ailette. The best elements in the CrownPrinces army had lost the greater part of their effectives,and
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . them iip by thousands, wasgoing on relentlessly. It had imperative for theGermans to reinforce their line in the west, not only withboys of the Class of 1918, but with veterans dischargedfrom hospitals and fit for service. The immediate after-eliect of the French success was aGerman retirement early in November along a fifteen-mile front to the Ailette. The best elements in the CrownPrinces army had lost the greater part of their effectives,and were compelled to go to the rear to reconstitute theirdiminished ranks. On the crest of the Chemin-des-Damesthey had suffered daily and nightly ap. incessant enfiladingfire from guns wrested from the Prussian Guards duringthe battle of Malmaison. They, accordingly, retired to thenorthej-n side of the Ailette. With the approach of winter, a ch^tachment of Americaninfantrymen in the ^erdun neighborhood was attacked infront-line trenches by a much superior force of Germans. Cutoff from relief by heavy barrage in their rear they fought 192. IV—192 FLANDERS, TifALlMAISON, VERDIJN, AND CAMBRAI gallantly until overwhelmed by numbers. In the trenchesthe fighting was hand to hand, brief but fierce. ThreeAmericans were killed and four wounded. The raid wascarried out against members of the second American con-tingent, who had entered their trenches for training buthad been in only a few days. Before dawn the Germansshelled vigorously the barbed-wire front of the trenches, anddropt high explosives of large caliber. A heavy artillery-fire was then directed at all adjacent territory, includingthe passage leading up to the trenches, thereby forming aneffective barrage in the rear as well as front. Germans tothe number of 210 rushed through breaches and wire-entanglements on each side of the salient, and after theirbarrage in the fore-field was lifted, went into the trencheswhere pistols, g
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