The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26
WOUNDED YANKS
YET TURNING UF
AT SEICHEPREY
Two Wounded Still Alive in No
Mans Land.
Another Found Buried Alive
for Three Days.
YAHKS OUTNUMBERED 8 To |
One Machine Gunner Held Sec
ton of Line Alone.
Germans Sending Propaganda
Balloons Over Line.
Another Found Buried Alive
for Three Days.
YANKS OUTNUMBERED 8 TO |
One Machine Gunner Held Sec
ton of Line Alone.
tBy the Associated Press-J

With the American Army in France,
April 26.-Two American soldiers
wounded in the engagement around
Seicheprey last Saturday were found
alive today in a dugout in No. Mans
Land. The dugout had been badly
smashed by German shell fire and how
the men managed to keep alive in the
rain and mud and under continuous
German commandments. physicians
say is little short of miraculous.
Another soldier, Raymond Demun-
sky of New Haven, Conn. was buried
alive for three days when he crawled
to the surface. Demunsky was born
in Russia but had been naturalized.
He was found by Red Cross stretcher
bearers who went out into No Mans
Land this morning. The Germans
fired on the Red Cross flag but the
streteher bearers kept waving it and
the enemy fire stopped.
The American troops in the Seiche-
prey fight. additional details show,
were outnumbered in some instances
eight to one. The latest advices are
that the American casualties are much
under the first estimates.
Was Surrounded by Huns.
Edward jacques, a. New Haven boy.
told the correspondent he was one of
hundred and fifty Americans who
at one time were almost surrounded
by at least 500 Germans. French
troops came to their assistance said
Jacques who added:
We got on fine with the French
men. They had been training us so it
seemed like they were our own fell
lows We certainly made it hot for
the Germans"
Sergeant John Dickman. formerly a
printer of SomerVille Mass, and who
Is now wounded in a hospital told a
remarkable story. He and his men
had charge of two Stokes guns They
were isolated for twelve minutes in
an enemy barrage and were unable to
signal the American lines. Dickman
was wounded but kept pouring a hot
fire into the German attacking waves
and broke up the formation. He and
his men retired only when their guns
became damned.
Stood Them Off Alone.
Machine gun" Parker, who manned
gun by himself, was asked by his
superior officer at one stage of the
engagement whether he could hold the
hne- He replied that he could unless
killed. and he did.
Father William j. Farrell, of West
Newton. Mass. a regimental chaplain
proved such a good fighter that a high
officer offered him a commission in
his command. Father Farrell went tc
the assistance of a battery when foui
OF the American gunners We're killed
carried up ammunition and helped the
crew to keep the gun working He
was wounded slightly.
Propaganda Being Sent
Raymond Conner of New Haven a
sanitary squad runner. was another
hero. He was one of eight men cap
tured by the Germans who escaped
ard went to Seicheprey They took
charge of the first aid station there
until a doctor arrived. Conner Their
went to the rea- and organized a new
squad, returned to the front and was
wounded.
Propaganda balloons which have
been falling on the American lines
since Tuesday indicate that the Ger
mans are still trying to undermine
the French morale. The pamphlets
dropped contain cartoons, poems and
articles all aimed against England and
the English.