Show GERMAN TROOPS SLAY AMERICAN Yank Soldiers in Neutral Zone A Attacked by 13 Hun fInn Guards Coblenz Saturday Sept 6 Private Private Madsen of Sacramento CR CRt Cal was wa shot and instantly killed toda today by German soldiers in the neutral zone about a mile mUe from the tho boundary of the Coblens bridgehead Madsen and Private Bert Derl Balsinger of oC the l Eighth Infantry who had been on outpost duty ut were deer hU hunting when thc they encountered ft n. German Garmon patrol pa pa- trot of thirteen soldiers According to the Germans began firing without asking nn an explanation as 05 to why the the two Americans were In the tho neutral l z zone ne told tho the American authorities authorities ties tics that when he and Madsen enc encOuntered un- un the tho Ge Germans he was se tse yards ahead of oC Madsen or r ald Hali he dropped his hili rifle as aa soon as the he saw w tho the Germans who a n t second afterward be began to shoot at Madsen TI The Germans Ger Gere mans contend that Madsen ladien fired tired at thorn thom Balsinger declared lh that t the he Germans fired first and amid that if IC MadSen Madsen Mad Mad- sen n had had fired tired he he did not Ot sec oSee him shoot hoo or hear the tho shot Balsinger was taken prisoner by tho the thoO O Germans Germane and later turned over to tho the Am Amerl American e r i n nn n p provost ro V o s t m marshal arsha 1 Major George CockreM Cockreil and andr brought to Cob- Cob lonz lenz lon Madsen n Ill be ho burled buried in the At American cemetery at I |