Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — 'Almost Perfect’ [ARTICLE]

'Almost Perfect’

With The American Army Tn France, Feb. I.—The French commander of a sausage balloon squadron. who was artillery officer at Verdun during the heaviest firing and in the Somme offensive, declared today that the work of certain American batteries at the front as “almost perfect.” He was particularly pleased with the work done by the Amercian guns in firing on a German position in a wood, which he observed from a balloon.