The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-09
FOE TAKES
AMERICAN
PRISONERS
NEAR T0UL
Berlin Reports Capture of
United States Soldiers
Northeast of Big French
Fortress.
.TEUTONS USE DOGS
fBy Associated Press)

The Germans have again raided the
American lines in Lorraine and nave
taken prisoners.
First announcement of the raid
came from Berlin In today's official
statement of the German headguar-
ters. 1t reported the taking of some
American prisoners north of XivrxU
This point on the line is along the
southern edge OF the St. Mihiel salient
about ten miles east of St Mihiel it.
self and near verdun.
The announcement fixes definitely
for the first time the location of the
sector held by the Americans. the
statement previously made by the
American censor in this connection
was that the Americans were estab-
lished northeast of Toul From this
their position somewhere along the
line OF the st. Mihiel salient in Lor-
rafne, southeast OF Verdun, was as
sumed.
German submarines are active
again off the Spanish coast and have
sunk the Spanish steamship, Sepas-
tian of $500 tons bound for New
York and the Italian steamer, Duca
Di Geneva of 1888 tons. The latter
vessel is reported to have been sunk
only a mile off the Spanish beach.
Spain recently protested to Berlin
over the sinking OF one of her coast
wise steamers and the Madrid advices
today forecast another protest in the
Duca Di Geneva case over the inyas-
ion of Spanish territorial waters
DOG WATCHES TRENCHES
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Friday, Feb S.-By The AS
sociated Press.-The Germans are US
ing dogs in their front lines to warn
them Of the approach Of patrols op-
posite the American sector. A Ger
man dog listener" early this norm
ing prevented one Of our patrols from
executing daring stroke. Two cor
porals who were concerned in it have
been mentioned in official reports for
their spirit and GOODNESS.
Accompanied by two privates the
corpora1s left a large patrol in a GER
tain place in an abandoned trench in
No-Man's Land last midnight and
went on to the German lines. They
first found smooth wire barrier
which had been shot to pieces by the
American fire, Fifteen yards further
on they came upon German entsngle-
ments Of wire twenty feet deep, with
four pointed barbs.
Dog Gives Alarm.
The men were inspecting an open
ing in the wire when a dog apparent
~ chained on the other side began to
bark. A duguut door opened quickly
in trench and a gruff voice was
heard to say: tFertig," meaning
ready. Suddenly brilliant rocket
went up and the Americans threw
themselves flat on the ground just as
a machine gun to spit bullets in their
direction A few feet away a heavy
object struck the ground. This was,
found later to be bomb which had
been hurled from the German trench.
The corUporals stayed where they
were for some time and listened to
the German soldiers talk among them
selves. One of the corporals knows
German and speaks it so that what
the Germans said was understood.
After the Germans retired again TO
their dugout the smaller patrol re-
joined the large one, which soon after
was the largest for fifteen or twenty
German shells but no one was hit.
Mumps again has appeared in the
trenches. A number Of soldiers are
afflicted as is one member OF the
corps Of newspaper correspondents.