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Show AMERICAN CAPTURES GERMAN. Discovered Near Trenches, Is Shot and Dies in Hospital. Paris. The first German prisoner of war taken by the. American expeditionary expedi-tionary forces died Monday in an American field hospital, having been shot when he encountered an American patrol iu No Man's Land in front of the American trenches. He, with another German, was discovered dis-covered Saturday night by the patrol and was called upon to halt. The Germans Ger-mans ran ; the patrol fired and one of the enemy was hit. The prisoner was removed to a field hospital, where the combined efforts of several surgeons failed to save his life. |