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Show BEEBIIK " II Hi FLIER I fflJSILE American With Mess Outfit Makes Best of an Oppor-tunity Oppor-tunity to ,Show His Marksmanship. SWOOP OF GERMAN IS GIVEN IMPETUS General Pershing Report phre Progress in Com- munique for Wednesday. Wed-nesday. By the Associated Press. WITH. THE AMERICAN ARilY ON Til 15 AISNE-MARNE FRONT, July 25. An American in a mess outfit brought down a German aviator during the Franco-American offensive south of Sfoissons by shooting- the enemy in the head with a rifle bullet. Commissary wagons were en route to a site back of the lines when the "German "Ger-man swooped down and attacked the wagon train with a machine gun, flying low. The young soldier leaped from a , wagon as the enemy flyer came near and ?hot him. The machine fell near by. A German lieutenant and eighteen men who were captured by the Americans were questioned concerning the remainder remain-der of the battalion. The officer replied: "These eighteen are all that are alive." The lieutenant said the speed of the Americans was the biggest surprise of his army experience. He said the Americans even outclassed the Germans when the latter were attacking the Russians, and added that he was glad to be a prisoner. |