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Show IN SHEU iLE i Thirteen Hours in Intense Heat ; Before He Is Able to Make Escape. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON I THE VESLE, Aug. IS While the French and American and German heavy guns have been barking at each other across the Vosle, American patrols pa-trols havo been particularly busy endeavoring en-deavoring to keep informed of tho enemy infantry movement and to ascertain as-certain generally what the enemy Is accomplishing. A few daya ago an infantry captain while reconnoitcring, killed at least two Germans and. in order to escape, hid In a shell hole for thirteen hours while the mid-summer sun beat down upon him. Hero Is the captain's official offi-cial report of his experience: "The patrol consisted of myself and two corporals, started at S o'clock in the morning to ascertain whether the Germans had rntired. We encountered a Gorman post in a so'mi -circular hole-There hole-There were eleven of tho enemy there ten of whom were asleep and the other oth-er was on sentry duty. "I shot the sentry. " We then withdrew with-drew and in doing so ran into another post similar to tho first also containing contain-ing about ten Germans. We shot two of them and then went back toward our line. The German began firing, wounding one corporal in the leg, but both corporals reached the American line. I was behind, having stopped to fire on the Germans. I reached a point about sixty yards from them when the fire got too hot so I dropped into a small hollow, pretending to bo wounded. I stayed there for thirteen hours. After dark I crawled back to our own lines. During my return trip to our lines I discovered a third German Ger-man post which wns occupied, apparently, appar-ently, only late at night. All these posts were well supplied with light machine guns, rifles and hand grenades, gre-nades, and the Germans used them well. "At noon, while I ivas hiding in the hollow, a lieutenant look out a party of five to search for me. They did not find me, but crept up to the second German post and threw some bombs into it, inflicting several casualties. I heard a German scream with pain. Tho Germans also threw bombs, wounding one of the lieutenant's party. par-ty. "I requested that our artillery clean out these posts tomorrow." The artillery carried out the work the first thing the next morning. |