Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1918 — How They Took Machine Gung. [ARTICLE]

How They Took Machine Gung.

The average civilian is unable to understand how it Is possible to capture, single-handed, a machine gun, not to mention in many Instances the gun crew besides. However, many such instances are being brought to light through the fighting around Bols de la Brigade de Marine. When the marines were advancing in waves upon the German lines the enemy machine guns had to be taken or the waves would be held up. The woods were crowded with them. There was only one way to take them and that was by a fearless Sergt. James A. Dpcey and Private Raymond B. Van Sickle, both marines, the latter only twenty years of age, took the German machine guns- one by one and killed all of the officers and men who did not abandon their positions. By the dashing act of these two marines their line was enabled to advance. Sergeant Ducey’s mother, Mrs. Ellen Ducey, lives at 141 John street, Washington Courthouse, O.