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     The First Pursuit Group was to specialize against enemy low flying airplanes, protect our infantry liaison and observation airplanes, and attack hostile balloons on the front Chatillon-Sous-les-Cotes---Melzicourt. 
    
     The employment of army artillery and army corps aviation was to be governed by the plane of employment of the army artillery and army corps. It was necessary that they protect themselves to some extent from hostile machines which had broken through our pursuit aviation and every favorable opportunity was to be seized to attack enemy troops on the ground after completion of their general mission. Our army observation was to continue to fulfill the mission previously alloted it. 

     For the exploitation of the attack and the attack on the second combined army objective, the same general plan was to govern as during the preceding period, modified according to the situation after the first attack. 
 
     The French night bombardment was to attack different objectives throughout the battlefield, rail-heads and bridges over the Meuse as far as and including Lumes. 

  [strikethrough][/strikethrough] The Army Reconnaissance was to cover the lines where the enemy was organizing fresh centers of resistance, points of supply, and direction of movement of reinforcements or withdrawal. 

     The Army Corps and the Army Artillery Aviation were to continue the same general missions, except that greater importance was to be given to infantry liaison work. The airplanes were to bring in information direct to the Infantry (to the divisions, regiments and even battalions on the front line). More attention