The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-06
LIEUTENANT KNOCKED OUT

The young lieutenant in charge of the detachment of Americans started back to 1 the communicating trenches to his imme- diate superior for orders. The barrage knocked him down, but he picked himself up and started off again. He was knocked down second time, but, determined to reach his objective, got up again. A third time he was knocked down and badly shell-shocked and put out of action. Soon after that Germans to the num- Der, according to the report, q rushed to the wire entanglements on each side of the salient, their general objectives barrage in the forefeld having lifted for moment The Germans went into the trenches at several points, They met with stout resistance. Pistols, grenaces, knives and bayonets were freely used. MUCH CONFUSION For many minutes there was consider able confusion in the trenches, the Ger man stalking the Americans, and the Americans stalking the Germans h one section of the trench an American private engaged two Germans with the bayonet. That was the last seen of hlm until after the raid, when dead Ameri- can be found on the spot. Another was killed by blow on the head with a rifle butt from above.
 Some of the Americans, apparently at the beginning of the attack, did not real ize just what was going on One of the wounded, private, said: 'I was stand l ing in a communication trench waiting for orders. I heard a noise back of mo
 and looked around in time to see Ger
 man fire in by direction. I felt a bull let hit my arm.'
 The Germans left the trench as soon as possible, taking their dead and wounded with them.
 LEFT HURRIEDLY An inspection showed. however, that they had abandoned three rifles, num- Der of knives and helmets.
 The raid was evidently carefully planned and American officers admit that it was well executed. As a raid however, there was nothing unusual about it. It was such as is happening all along the line There is reason for be- lieving that the Germans were greatly surprised when they found Americans in the trenches instead of the French. The French general in command of the division, of which the American de- tachment formed a part, expressed ex- treme satisfaction at the action of the Americans, for they fought bravely against numerically superior enemy, the handful of men fighting until they were smothered
 The bodies of the American dead were brought back to divisional headquarters
  wounded are at the base hospitals. The whole American expeditionary forces are thrilled by the fight put up by tneir comrades and all are anxious to Set chance to deal blow.
 Washington, November 5.--Arrange-
 ments for supplying captured Ameri- cans with food and clothing in the German prison camps have been made through the Red Cross, which has a committee in Switzerland to send ra- tions and other necessaries at regular intervals. As the number of Americans ! in German hands increases it may be necessary to make further provision l for them through the Spanish ambas- l sador in Berlin. who is caring for American prisoners in Germany. Other military prisoners have been used on I roads and the fields and presumably the Americans will be treated the same way.
 l Secretary Baker would make no 1 comment today on the capture. The facts made public were all that had ! reached the department, he said, and 1 spoke for themselves. As to treatment of prisoners and reports of brutality Tn the German camps, MT. Bakers only comment was that the United States | was bound by the Geneva conventions and would live up to them so far as 1 any prisoners falling into the Amer I O ran al