les gros obus américains bombardaient . . . Metz. In the

autumn of 19 18 the American army began an advance on Metz,

the dty in French Lorraine annexed to Germany in 1871, and now reunited to the mother country.

3. I'Aigonne, the hilly and wooded country extending between Verdun and the Champagne. Very fierce fighting took place in Argonne during the first three years of the war. The American army resumed the fighting there in the autumn of 191 8.