The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-02-07
ESCAPED UNDER
RAIN OF SHELLS
sAMMIEs CUT OFF BY OWN BAR
RAGE FIRE, GET BACK.
ENGLISH REPULSE ALL RAIDS
Huns Give False. Reports Prize
Court Condemns seizures-ItaL
ians Suffer From Raids-Enemy
Loses Many Planes.
(By j. w. Pegler.)

(By j. w. Pegler.)
With the American Armies in the
French Field, Feb. 6.-Facing death
from their own artillery, handful of
American Sammies, trapped by the
American barrage near the Boche
trenches, finally gained their way
back in safety to the American lines.
Sometimes it is necessary to sac
rifice few to save many, as was so
In this case. This mere handful of
Sammies were out over the lines in
vestigating the damage done to their
lines by the Germans in the Sunday
night barrage and raids.
An American rocket signaled from
this agitating sector was calling for
barrage. The signalling of the
rocket started the enemy, in the fir
ing of the shells.
The Sammies were determined
that they would make it back to their
trenches in safety. And spreading
out. in extended formation they did
manage to make it back to their
trenches going through the great ter
rain of shells before the enemy could
get them. All along the way they
found refuge from the exploding
shells which fell about them in dug
outs, made by the previous shells
over No Mans Land.
Not a Man Lost.
Dodging, ducking and doing every
thing in their power, they finally sue
ceeded in getting through the rain
of shells which was falling and got
over their Darapets into their own
trenches.
Then the expected German attack
which followed the signalling Of the
American rockets for barrage failed
to develop This probably was due
to the prompt action and precision of
the American barrage.
All that day the American artillery
was in fierce action. The machine
guns clattered away along the whole
American sector and the enemy re-
turned it's quota of bombs and gren-
AIDES.
Enemy Raids RepuIsed.
London, Feb. 6.-An attempt by
the enemy to raid positions of the
British in the neighborhood of Mari
court and Avion was repulsed Field
Marshal Haig asserted in his mes
sage from the British front today.
A few German prisoners were tok-
en- by the British! There was mutual
artillerying in the vicinity of Hardi-
court and Lens throughout this
morning.
No Truth In Hun Report.
London, Feb. 6.-Referring to
German wireless statement quoting
the Frankfurter Zeitung as report
ing that on Dec. 20, large British
warship, accompanied by torpedo
boat chasers, ran into a mine and
sank in the Firth of Forth, the Brit
ish admiralty says:
There is no truth in this state
ment, nor has there occurred an in
cident on which a rumor to this eff
leCt Couiu NC UdSeu'
Three Ships Are Condemned.
London, Feb. 6.-The prize court
has condemned the steamers Kanka-
kee, Hooking and Genesee, owned by
the American Transatlantic compa-
ny, which were seized in 113, while
flying the American flag.
The president of the court con-
demned the vessels on the ground
that, though nominally American
owned, they were really German
owned and that the claimant COM
pany was only covering name for
Hugo SHINES, director of the German
Woermann Shipping company.
More Fighting in Italy.
An Italian Army Headquarters in
Northern Italy. Feb. 6.--Padua was
again terrorized last night by contin-
uous air raids. Several houses were
damaged but there were few casual.
ties.
~ Italian ayiators brought down four
enemy machines, and the British got
eight at various points, where aerial
battles are being fought without
cessation.
(By j. w. T. Mason)
American objcctives
New York, Feb. 6-The capture oil
Metz and the bending back Of the
German lines will be the first object