. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. forward, hundreds of them, watched by the Amer-ican secretary of war, Newton D. Baker, who wasvisiting the front at the time on a tour of the top and seven miles into the enemys Unewent the doughboys on sl 20 mile front, capturinga dozen villages and 8,000 prisoners in one day. Hammer Enemy Six Weeks. Till Nov. 11 the Americans kept hammering theenemy on this line, advancing one day, then waitinga day or two, until the heavy artillery could bebrought up and roads made passable, then advanc-ing again. The Germans had
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. forward, hundreds of them, watched by the Amer-ican secretary of war, Newton D. Baker, who wasvisiting the front at the time on a tour of the top and seven miles into the enemys Unewent the doughboys on sl 20 mile front, capturinga dozen villages and 8,000 prisoners in one day. Hammer Enemy Six Weeks. Till Nov. 11 the Americans kept hammering theenemy on this line, advancing one day, then waitinga day or two, until the heavy artillery could bebrought up and roads made passable, then advanc-ing again. The Germans had built two formidabledefence lines in this section, calling one the Kriem-hilde and the other, four miles further north, theFreja. The enemy believed these defenses ofbarbed wire, concrete, trenches, dugouts, machinegun nests and pillboxes impregnable. They mere-ly delayed the Americans awhile. Then the Germans brought up more troops, thin-ning their defenses elsewhere to prevent the Amer-icans breaking through. The reinforcements didnot stop the advance and
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