Home Titles Atlanta Georgian. Atlanta, Ga. Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. Continued From Page 1, check our men somewhat, but as fast as a blonde head showed it was pick ed off by an American sharpshooter. It was like the old-time Indian fighting, with the men hiding behind trees and stones. A majority of our men were compelled to depend en tirely upon the tall grass and the growing wheat for screening pur poses.
As the wind would flatten the grain and the grass, thus exposing the Americans, the Germans would open up with continuous volleys. The village of Bouresches, three miles northwest of Chateau Thierry, was taken by a company of American marines that had seen action in Haiti.
When the officers of another company were killed or disabled, a young cor poral took command, rallying the men. He led the men in a brilliant charge right up to the muzzles of the German machine guns, where the German gunners were either killed or cap tured.
Fought for Nine Hours. Some of the captured machine guns were afterward turned against the Germans. The fighting during the two American assaults on Thursday lasted nine hours. The first attack began at 3 o'clock in the morning and continued for three hours, while the second started at 5 in the afternoon and lasted for six hours.
In the in terval there was skirmishing. Our men found heaps of German dead as they advanced. Crack Prussian troops massed ma chine guns and one-pounder cannon and made desperate efforts to break up the American attacks, putting down a terrific barrage.
