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Show YANKEES BRING DOWNGERMANS Machine Gunners Stick to Post Until Two Low-flying Aviators Avi-ators Are Bagged. 1 WITH TnE AMERICAN ARMY IN 1 FRANCE. Sunday. April 21 (By the 1 Associated Press.) Two low -flying German airplanes were brought down 1 Saturday by American machine gun-t gun-t ners during the German attack in ami ! about Seicheprey. northwest of Toul. I The machine gunners who bagged the Germans had been ordered to retire, 1 but they remained in their position and fought effectively against the. enemy en-emy aviators. i During the engagement the Germans l concentrated tluir artillery fire on the a American telephone and telegraph : wires which were cut many times. 3 Couriers were torccd to pass through , two or three barrages in order to maintain communication In t lie mean- time, the men of the signal corps, 1 many of them smoking cigarettes in 3 face of a heavy bombardment, restored I iii,.. win - almost as fast as the enemy - shells disrupted them. Venture Into No Man's Land. 9 Ambulanee men ventured into No - Man's land during the thick of the r lisht and did heroic work in gather- - ng up wounded One Gorman, who rj had offered to surrender, attempted to a I explode a bomb on the ground as three 1 Americans approached him. Another 'soldior discovered the trick and hurled a grenade at the German. One of the!! German's legs was blown off and he died later, a prisoner of the men he : attempted to blow up. village near the fronl lines which the correspondent visited today tells a mute tale of Saturday's fighting There are huge shell holes in the streets and parts of the church and other buildings have been blown off. I The enemv fire became so hot here l that Salvation Army girls who had been serving coffee and doughnuts to the Americans were forced to leave. The girls protested saying they were not afraid of the Germans and wanted to stay in their dugout, but the officers did not wish to take the responsibility. As they left, the girls were cheered by-soldiers by-soldiers returning from the front lines. Blancett. Union, Cal. H Died of wounds: S. P. Snapp, Syd- , aey, O. H Died Frances Miller (nursing sister). sis-ter). Belleville, N. J. H 111: P. Hall, Carroll. Ia. Wounded: A. Patmore, Seattle. Wash.; B. Johnson. Minneapolis; H R. Hesaler, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; W. Mc- j Dougal. Oakland, Ca,; T. Hallet. Los Angeles, Cal.; G. Miller, Defiance. O.; I J. Law, Detroit; J Wallace, Liberty, Miss.; II. M. Brouse. Ely. Nev , G. E. Simpson, Detroit; R. H. Hill, Los Angeles. I Cancel report missing: J. P. Bent, Bellefonte. Pa. I The list contains 65 names. |