The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-05-16
CHAPLAIN COULD
NOT SHOOT, But
HE GOT THREE HUNS sY PROXY
IN YESTERDAYS RAID.
DARING WORK OF AMERICANS
Casualty List Given Out From Wash
ngton Today Contains Name Of
One Iowa Boy, Thomas Nc
knIey of Council Bluffs.
fBn Frank j. TAYLOR

with the American Armies IN LOT
raine May 1.-THE Chaplain of a
certain American unit in the Lorraine
sector has accounted for three Huns
by proxy. When the units entered the
trenches the Chaplain addressed men
as follows:
Boys the International laws, say
a Chaplain cannot shoot. But you can
shoot and every time you hit have
your gun notched for the Huns YOU
have accounted for / have nothing
to do with this, but every time you
shoot one for yourself, also shoot
one for me-
Divided Up With Chaplain.
The three privates who conducted
a successful daylight raid yesterday
on German trench got six Germans
between them.
The raiders were John Dismukes of
Nashville, Tennessee and Harry Couch
and John Mccain of Birmingham Ala.
bama.
The three men today appeared be-
fore the chaplain. The first one show
ing his gun stock said:
Chaplain. there are three, one is
for me and two for you"
The second showed his gun stock
and said: One is mine and one is
yours
The third had only one. Captain"
he said. "as am still alive ! will take
this one and get you one later on
Action Was Daring One.
A brief account OF the excursion Of
the three men was received today and
was executed as follows:
The trio determined to get a Ger
man shipper from a strong hold where
he had been endangering the Ameri-
cans They made themselves camou-
flage suits and crossed No Mans
Land Upon their arrival at the strong
hold they found an officer and several
men, The first shot struck the officer
and got three other men. The others
ran up the communication trench.
The three dough boys then re-
treated. When two Of them arrived
at an American trench they discover
ed that their comrade was missing.
They organized rescue party and
found him. Today they are the pride
of the unit.
One Iowa Boy Killed.
Washington, Mas 14.-The names OF
twenty-seven men missing mostly
from New England are included in to-
days casualty list. bringing the total
of those saptured by the Germans at
seicheprey up to almost one hundred.
Today's list also included fourteen
killed in action, seven dead from
wounds. three from disease and TWEEN
ty-one wounded slightly
Among those dead in action was
Thomas Mckinley. of Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
Clock Alarmed Huns.
With the American Army in France,
whole German line guessing and caus-
ed the Germans useless expenditure
of large quantities of machine gun and
rifle ammunition all one night was re-
lated today.
The Americans had been trying for
some time to draw the fire of certain
enemy units.
Leave Fritz to me-" said happy
faced young American, who, putting
an alarm clock under his arm disap
peared into No Mans land under cover
of darkness and fastened the clock to
a wire.
Soon the alarm rang, whereupon the
Germans opened fire. The wire had
been so arranged that the clock con
tnued to ring intermittently and each
time drew violent fire from the enc
my
Meanwhile the Americans rested in
their trenches and enjoyed hearty
laugh.
Ammunition Dump Destroyed.
A big enemy ammunition dump at
Cantigny was fired by the Americans
artillery this morning. At the same
time two fires were started in Mont
didier, followed by numerous explos-
ions.