Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-26
EIGHT To ONE WAS
ODDS AGAINST j. s.
TROOPS IN BATTLE
Action at Seicheprey Shows I'm
daunted Courage and Valor OF
American Troops Under
Furious Fire.
PRIEST SERVED IN BATTERY
ny Associated Press 10 Evcry Evening

Hy Associated Press 10 Evcry Evening
With the American Army IN France,
Thursday. April y Two American sol
dierq, wounded in the engagement around
Seicheprev last Saturday were found alive
today in a dugolt IN No Man Land.
The dugout had been badly smashed by
German shell re and how the men man
aged t0 keep alive IN the rain and Wnd
and under continuous German bombard-
mcnts. physicians say s little short of
miraculous
Another soldier. Raymond Demuneky,
of New Haven, Conn, was buried ailYe
for three DAYS when he crawled 20 tie
surface Denunskv was born IN Russia
but had hccn naturalllnd lie was found
hy American Red Cross stretcher bearer,
who went out into No Man Land tins
morning The Germans fred on the Rcd
Cross flag. but the <tretcher bearers kept
waving IT and the enemy fire stopped
EIGHT To ONE AGAINST AMERICANS
The American troops IL The ~cichcprey
fight additional details show we're out
numbered in some instances, eight 70 ono
The latest advicca arc that the American
casualties arc much under tho first estl-
mates.
f5dward jacques. 4 New Fla ven boy.
E4fEI ttlt correspondent ~ FftA7 ttiF - ~
Americans who IT one time we're nearly
surrounded nv 81 least 800 German.
French troops came 10 tbcIr .psslstanc'
SAID Jacques Wh1 added
We got IN 6ne with the Frenchnen
I1hey had been training ts 50 1t seemed
like they wfro orr own fellows W.
certainly made i hot for the Crermans
AMERICANS t.SDER eARK4GE
TA.-I-.oa,. e
vile, Mass Who now lies wounded 10 ,
hospital sud he and his men mad charge
If two Stokes guns Thew we're Isolated
for II minutes in an enerny barrage and
were unable 10 signal the American lines.
Dckman was wounded but kept ponnng
a hot ire INTO the German attacking
waves and broke up the formation tie
and his men etIred only when thei gn
became iammed
Machine gun Parker. who manned
q gun bY himself. was asked by ms SUI
per7or officer st one stage Of the engage
rnent whether he could hold the line lie
replied that he could. unless KILLED .ad
he did.
PRIEST AIDS Gus CREW
Father William J. Farrell Of West New
ton, Mass. q reglmentaI chaplain. proved
such 4 good fighter that 3 high officer
offered him . commission IN ms command.
Father Farrell who ven % the assist Z
anee Of a battery when four of the Amerl-
c4n gunners we're killed, carried up am
uunltion and helped the crew TO keep tie
gun working tie w;4s wounded slightiH
RAYMOND Connor of New Haven. .
SANITARY squad runner, was one Of elgAt
men captured by the Germans VINO -
capped and went - Seicheprey Ihcy
took charge III the first AID station there
until doctor arrived Connor then went
10 the rear and organized new squad.
returned - the front ana WAo wounded
Propaganda balloons winch nave been
falling on the American hnes since Tues
day indicate the Germans sti4 are try
ing to undermine the French morale
The pamphlets dropped contain car
toonS. poems and articles Al aimed
against England and the Englsh.
N DAsHING TRENCH RAID.
American troops on Sunday made a
successful trench raid near the heights Of
the Aleuse, III the vicinity OF saux Les
PalaIneIx on the front below Eerdun,
nine miles north Of II MihelI Their
French comrades hardSscJ he enemy in
the same way at a nuAbcr Of places in
Lorraine and IN the osgcs
The sector along which the Germans
made their heavy attack against the
Americans yesterday Is IN very broken,
hIlly country. about l. miles eastward
Of the important It. Mlhiel salient, on
the road between st Pizier and Metz.
fhe town Of Seicheprey Is surrounded by
hills about 500 feet high The line OF
- Allies passes 1000 Yards north Of
s heprcy @nd = lew hIndscd yards from
4e edge OF .,euneres wood. The Ger
mans were able To seize his wood ana a
strip Of ground 1000 Yards long and half
"a nile wide lying u the west OF The
wood on Saturday morning and the At
tack on the An.elic II sector IN the "
eiujty of SeichepFcy vas a sequel 10 tins
action