Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-19

FRENCH FRONT, Aug. 1S.-The story of the capture of nearly com pany of German troops who were trapped in the Dragons Cave near the famous Chemin Des Danes when the French troops stormed and carried the German position along that historic road, was told to the Associated Press correspondent the other day by Father Py. a Franciscan priest, who, with a doctor, brought the prisoners into the French near lines. Father Py was act ing as stretcher-bearer to one of the most celebrated regiments of the French army, the 152nd infantry.
 The Dragons Cave is near the farm of Hurtebise, or what was farm, for it has now become nothing but heap of bricks, mud and splintered timbers.
 He is a small man, is Father Py, who when >the war broke out was en- gagged in missionary wrok in Brazil. The call of his country brought him back to France, and although he is native of the south of France he vol unteered for service in the ambulance section of the 152nd, regiment from the Vosges. He explained to the cor respondent how on the day of the bat tie he had been detailed to go out and tend to the wounded, but not to ad- vance beyond a certain trench, which was very near the most advanced French line. When he got there he found no one. The French soldiers had gone forward with one bound right in the track of the curtain fire put up by the artillery and had reached the German trenches on the other side of the crest out of sight, with miraculously slight losses. The priest and a companion looked about in search of wounded but could find none Then, thinking under the cir cumstances they were justified in dis obeying orders, they climbed over the top of the trench and went further forward.
 Continues His Advance
 A little further on they saw Ger man running about with his clothes aflame and uttering cries for help, at the same time pointing behind him to a hole in the ground, where two other men were gesticulating. The priest went on thinking to find some more wounded men-perhaps men of his own regiment-but soon he saw they were Germans. At once he raised his cruel fix in the air in the belief it would protect him, and he continued to ad- vance The Germans did not threaten him as he approached and soon he saw they were wounded.
 On arriving at the entrance to what he had believed was a dugout, he found the hole went far into the side of the crest. He entered the Dragons Cave still holding his crucifix before him and shouting "Catholici" Inside he found the hole spread out in all di- rections and that it was full of armed German soldiers. Four or five of them were officers and, under the impres- sion some of them at least would un- derstand French, he called out in that language that he was a Catholic priest anu iildl II lnClS NClC all. wounded there he was prepared to ad- minister the rites of the church.
 One of the officers spoke to him, asking what he was doing there and what was going on outside. He in- formed him the French had made long advance over their heads and had crossed the crest, and that they had better lay down their arms, for they would either be killed or taken prison CTS in any event.
 The officers then held discussion among themselves, at the end of which one of them, with tears streaming down his face, said he supposed they must resign themselves to their fate. but they could only surrender to an officer.
 Sends Note to French
 Father Py scribbled on piece of pa per note to one of the French cap