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  2. "TRUE TO THE AMERICAN PURPOSE AND IDEALS."

    Details of the Americans' first experience of actual warfare in France show thai the Germans first barraged the trenches, which formed a salient, and cut off a group of Americans. A raid followed, the Americans being attacked by a much superior force of German shock troops. They fought gallantly and fiercely hand-to-hand, until they were overwhelmed by force of numbers. Three were killed, five wounded, and twelve captured. Two French officers, instructing the Americans, were also killed. The Germans lost a number, whom they carried off the field. The Americans fought with clubbed guns, bayonets, knives, entrenching spades, and even with their hands. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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