Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-26
|yANKS MAKE
RAID ON FOE
NEAR MEUSE
IN Action Below Verdun
Red Gross Rescuing
Americans Fired On.

With the French Army in
rr-.,e. sunday. April IL by
tu. .ssOclaJed Ti'>>-t >-t-Ahei-
zen lroups To-Day uaUe sue
rp~SIul t.encn raIu near TIE
,..v,,S ot me ACuse In Lne NI-
rn,.E OF NauN-Les-I'i- ameIAs
fou the front below NeTdun
nae miles north OI St MIhlell.
1,,.Ir rrencn comrades mar
Used the enemy III the same
VA at a number OF places III
Lorraine and III the Nusges.
The sector along which the Ger
rans made a heavy attacks against
the Americans yesterday is situated
i very broken. hlIIy country,
about seventeen miles eastward OF
,5s inauortaRt ST. MIhieI salient on
The road between ST. Pizeer and
Metz. The town of Seicheprey is
surrounded by hills
With the American Army in
France. Thursday, April 25.-(By
fhe Associated Press. Two Amer
Icsn soldiers wounded in the en-
gsgement 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 under continuous German
bonbardments. physicians say, is
little short Of miraculous.
Red Cross Fired On.
Another soldier. Raymond De-
munsky of New Haven, Conn, was
buried alive Tor three days and he
then crawled to the surface. De-
uunsky was born in Russia but
had been naturaliZed He was found
by American Red Cross stretcher
bearers who went out into No Man S
Ind this morning. The Germans
fred on the Red Cross flag but the
stretcher bearers kept waving il
and the enemy fire stopped.
The American troops in the
Seicheprey fight. additional reports
show. were outnumbered in some
instances by eight TO one. The lat
est adviees are that the american
casualties are much under the first
estimates.
Made Ii Hot for Huns.
Edward Jacques. a New Haven
boy, told the correspondent he was
one Of $50 Americans who at one
time were almost surrounded by a,
least eight hundred Germans.
French troops came 10 their assist
ance, 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
fellows. We certainly made it hot
for the Germans"
Printer is Hero.
Sergeant John A. Dickman. for
merly printer of Somervilie,
Mass, and who is now wounded in
hospital. told remarkabl
story. He and his men had charge
Of two Stokes guns. They were
Isolated for Il minutes in an en-
envy 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 jam
med.
Machine Gun"Parker. who man
LED a gun by himself. was asked
oy MS superior officer at one stage
OF the engagement whether he
could hold the line. He replied that
ne could. Unless killed. and he did.
Minister Good Fighter.
Father william J. Farrell OF
west Newton. Mass. a regimental
CHAPLAIN. proved such a good fight
e that high officer offered him a
commission IN his command.
fafner Farrell went to the assist
shee Of a battery when four Of the
american gun1ers were killed. car
fled up ammunition and helped the
creT to keep the gun working. He
vas wounded slightly.
raymond Connor of New Haven.
sanitary squad runner. was an
o'aer hero. He was one Of eight
Ee1 captured by the Germans who
s9sped end went 10 seicheprey
Laey took charge Of the flrSt aid
rsuon there until a doctor arrived.
soraor then went to ths rchF and
nlzsf q reg squad. returned 70
'-s 'ro1t and was wounded.
Propaganda Balloons Busy.
. PFopagarGa balloons which have
w. va falling ON tho American lines
TFcSdsY. fndtests that the
- az stfti tTyire 10 under
tae FFehr'1 nso7sis. The
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