Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — German Shells More Frequent Over Americans. [ARTICLE]

German Shells More Frequent Over Americans.

—With the American Army in France Nov. 4.—Notwithstanding the rainy weather on Friday night and early Saturday, the German batteries again displayed a little more activity than normal on the part of the French line occupied by the American troops. German shells were distributed impartially among the trenches, the American batteries replying in the same fashion. 'the enemy is using both high explosive and shrapnel in sending occasional reminders of the war toward the American trenches. Reports reaching headquarters, however, are that the bombardmept could in no sense be considered “lively” merely being 9. departure from the normal state of quiet at night on that particular section. A high officer in the United States army on Saturday afternoon talked with the commandant of the first battalions visiting the trenches and obtained their statements of their experiences. It is believed that the information thus bbtamed will prbveinvaluable in the training of new contingents for their turn at the front.