Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1918 — TAKE 60 HUNS WITHOUT SHOT [ARTICLE]

TAKE 60 HUNS WITHOUT SHOT

Americans Bag Big Bunch of Yellow Barbarians North of Fismes. With the American Army on the Vesle Front —Sixty Prussians have been taken prisoner by the Americans ndar Flsmette, north of Flames, without either side firing a shot The Prussians were machine gunners,, and all that remained of a company which had been in line less than a month. American detachments went out a few nights the location of the machine gun positions having been reported by a prisoner. According to the Americans, the Prussians were waiting to be taken prisoner. ' The intelligence officer who questioned the Prussians asserted that they nearly all had agreed to surrender If the slightest opportunity arose. The Americans who took the prisoners do not claim any credit for the capture, declaring that the Prussians virtually deserted their posts.