The Mena weekly star., 1918-09-05
HUNS BEWILDERED
 BY THE TANK RUSH
Carried Of Their Feet, Officers and Privates Are Easily Made Prison ers-one Man Got 250 After
 Being Himself Taken.

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 had taken prisoners by fifties and
 hundreds, the Yankees in the first
 days of the great Allied counter of
 fensive took prisoners by thousands.
 Before their part of the drive had run its first twelve hours, while the hip-hip hooray of the first rush was still iii full exultant swing, thousands of boches were trudging solemnly to the rear of the American lines.
 When the story of this offensive comes to be written in full, 1t shall be told of one banner regiment of in fantry that it alone captured 2,250 Germans in forty-eight hours. They were taken in such numbers that at times they had to be dispatchtd to the rear mIgnarded
 The rush was so swift and so unex- pected that high commanders within the forces of the enemy were caught aefnre they couM make a discreet withdrawal. Majors abounded in the Fankee nets, and the captains and
 ieutenants captured were too many ao mention. And there were better shan majors though, naturally enough, the higher you go the fewer.
 You can never make a safe judg- ment as to the morale of an army from tht morale of prisoners, Tor when any man falls into the hands of the enemy he feels as tho the world were coming to an end. So it IS quite humanly comprehensible that when the mighty Count Won Wendell gave stately recognition of the fact that those Americans had surrounded him, he radiated the impression that the WI had either come to an end there gy or might as we'll stop gracefully in- stead of petering out.
 Refuge in a Quarry.
 The count, who was formerly aid 1 de-camp of Grown Prince Rupprecht i of Bavaria. and whom we found as a lieutenant colonel, commanding the Third Bavarian Infantry, had taken !, refuge in a quarry along with two hu1dred Germans of various ranks. ! His cave was surrounded early in the day and the unswerving Yankee in- I, fantry passed by, leaving only enough to guard the entrance to the quarry asd take occasional pot shots into it. All day the invested two hundred held out, and then toward sundown they surrendered. They did not come out shouting "Kamerad, kameradl" Not they. They surrendered in the good eld-fashioued way, which IS almost forgotten is this death-or-glory war. !,
 At sundown the count sent out 9 white flag, and with it formal note of surrender This was gravely re- ceivcd snd answered, and little later the count emerged, followed by an imposing company. He seemed little offended at something. Possibly he was faintly surprised not to find Gen eral Pershing waiting outside on a milk white charger Certainly he was vocal with indignation because no mo- tor ear awaited him.
 Ffiie American officers expressed their regret--nay, their grief -- that none was available, and the last seen in that ueighborhood of the former aid of the Crown Prince Rupprecht, he was hiking with the rest of the two hundred--hiking fifteen kilomet- CTS to the rear.
 Many such caves and quarries are to be found in the contested country side, between the Aisne and the 0uroq. One had many guns on many tiers. 1t had ammunition and food to serve regiment, and it had hunks for 1000 men
 It was in deep, inaccessible dugout shat one high German commander was found-the one the Yankee regiment concerned in his capture believes to have been major general. Certainly thirty-fve men guarded him is if he were very precious to the German army, and he was whirled away in a motor car to high French headquar- ters as if he might have information important enough to seek without a raoment's waste of time.
 Diminutive Big Man.
 But no prisoner captured was more impressive than the bag of two hun dred and fifty boches. including eight officers. whose meek and painless sur render was negotiated on the first day by a single Yankee sergeant. The sergeant is only five feet high and his name is Hercules.
 Sergt. Hercules Korgis is a Greek by birth He was in the Greek war that preceded the present explosion of Europe, and he was gay with many medals whe1 he went to America and settled down in West Lynn, Mass, in the restaurant business. He enlisted the first crack out of the box and showed himself one of those small put terrible fighters which regiment treasures.
 In the first morning of the advance Sergeant Korgis was shot thru the i, neck by German machine gun and, thus wounded. he was taken prisoner. He was borne of into an easily de- fended. we'll munitioned little ravine, where q whole German company lay, unnoticed by the Yankees who swept by them and far beyond. As the day wore cn these Germans says that they were trapped. but they also saw that they could make their captors pay a heavy price for their final submission.
 Sergeant Korgis, who, like most restaurateurs. speaks a smattering of half dozen languages, drew on all the German he knew for an eloquent aarangGe that carried the day. Early