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Show AMERICANS TAKEN BY THEGERHANS Berlin Reports Capture of 183 Yankees With 25 Ma-chine Ma-chine Guns. BERLIN, via London, April 21. The capture of 183 American prisoners and twenty five machine guns by the Germans Ger-mans is claimed in the official report from headquarters today. The German storm troops, it also is declared, advanced ad-vanced to a depth of two kilometers (about a mile and a quarter) into the American lines at Seicheprey. The Americans, the statement adds, sustained heavy losses. The text of the statement reads: "Between the Oise and the Moselle, lower Saxon battalions attacked the Americans in their positions near Seicheprey. They stormed the place and pressed forward as far as two kilometers into the enemy lines. Minor enemy counter-attacks were repulsed, and strong attempts to attack were held down and frustrated. ' In the. night our siorming troops, after the destruction of enemy works, returned to their lines of departure. The losses of the Americans were extraordinarily ex-traordinarily high. One hundred and eighty -three Americans, including five officers, were taken prisoner and twenty-five machine gunjp were captured. |