The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . the Bellejoyeuse farm. On October 30,2,000 high explosive and gun shells fell in the vi-cinity of Fresnes. One of the divisional patrols cap-tured five prisoners. November 1—The troops of the 1st army capturedClery-le-Grand. North of Ancreville they took fifty-three additional prisoners and continued their ad-vance into the Bois de Bantheville. During thenight of November 1-2 the troops of the 37th di-vision consolidated their positions and effected acrossing of the River Scheldt, confronted by enemymachine gun
The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war . the Bellejoyeuse farm. On October 30,2,000 high explosive and gun shells fell in the vi-cinity of Fresnes. One of the divisional patrols cap-tured five prisoners. November 1—The troops of the 1st army capturedClery-le-Grand. North of Ancreville they took fifty-three additional prisoners and continued their ad-vance into the Bois de Bantheville. During thenight of November 1-2 the troops of the 37th di-vision consolidated their positions and effected acrossing of the River Scheldt, confronted by enemymachine gun and rifle fire. The 91st division, sup-ported by artillery and machine gun fire, rapidly ad-vanced over six kilometers in spite of enemy artil-lery and machine gun fire. The enemy was drivenfrom the west bank of the Scheldt and at noon theheights northwest of Audenarde were taken. November 2—On the evening of November 2 thetroops of the 78th division drove the enemy fromthe Bois des Loges and closely followed his 92d division, in spite of machine gun resistance,. French thanking their liberators from German oppressors. AMERICAS PART IN THE WAR 277
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