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Show I j Two-Men Tanks Do Great Work in Late American Offensive WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN'! FRANCE, Sunday, Nov. 3. (By the As- I soclatcd Pross) Two -men tanks.' French-buiU, but manned by Ameri-i cans, played an Important aprt in the offensive of Friday and Saturday. Working with tho infantry, the tanks' captured two villages and several hundred hun-dred prisoners and overcame the resistance re-sistance of, numerous German machine guns. Three platoons of tanks attacked and captured the village of Landres-Et-St. Georges in desperate fighting. One platoon was commanded by; Lieutenant, Lieu-tenant, Churchill Peters, a former Yale Uninversity athlete, and tho other two were in charge of Lieutenant Lloyd Callahan of Casselllon, N. D. In or-der or-der to take the town the tanks had to go through strong barbed, wiro entanglements, en-tanglements, overpower machine gun nests outside and within the village and force their way through the de-bris-strewn streets. One tank officer ; made this report to his superior: "There seemed to be a remarkable willingness on the part of the Germans i to surrender to tanks during .the first i part of the action, but as the attack. wen forward surrendering to the infantry in-fantry became more popular." American Prisoners Badly Mistreated GENEVA. Nov. G American prisoners prison-ers in Germany are being badly mistreated mis-treated in spite of the protests of the American Red Cross. Americans arriving ar-riving at the prison camp at Limburg, Darmstadt and Giessen have their clothes stolen and their boots replaced replac-ed with wooden sabots. The American Ameri-can Red Cross shipped clothing to replace re-place that which was stolen. A protest was made to Major General Gen-eral Friederlch, Inspector of prisoners, but he replied that the equipment of soldiers in captivity is considerable booty. |
