nounced the subscription of the chief executive the house went wild with cheering a total of 50,000 was sub scribed before the intermission was over pershing men go over the top repulse raid and chase germans back to first line trenches with the american army in france april b on the front northwest of toul friday night the germans attempted two raids but both were repulsed american infantrymen went over the top on the second occasion and pursued the germans from their first line trenches into the support trenches details of the action were made public in the following official re port : the enemy raided our trenches at two points the first attack was repulsed easily in the second the enemy was allowed to reach our wireentanglements then our fire opened and a moment later the american infantrymen rushed out in attack driving back the foe the pursuit was continued until the first enemy trenches were emptied and the germans had been driven back to their support trenches enemy artillery activity was i followed by extremely active shell ing by our heavy artillery which silenced two enemy batteries americans in heavy artillery exchange by bert ford staff correspondent of the interna tional news service with the american army in the toul sector april b the attack on the american outpost by a german patrol started the liveliest artillery exchange that has taken place in the sector northwest of toul in many weeks a sentry sighted several cronching figures in no man's land and hiÃŸ