Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — SNIPERS EASY PREY [ARTICLE]

SNIPERS EASY PREY

Paris.—When Yankee troops pushed Into Roncheres, Boche snipers got busy from windows and other vantage points. The z Yanks proceeded to get busy with the snipers. Two men who did most effective work in cleaning out the Boche snipers were two Pennsylvania squirrel hunters —Privates Harry Meeks and J. C. Tittertogton. Every time they glimpsed the smallest portion of a Hun they fired, and they seldom missed. It Is estimated that these two men accounted for at least forty Germans. Just about noon they located three snipers in the belfry of a church just under the cross. From this vantage the Boches were picking off American soldiers. Meeks and Titterington got on the job immediately by climbing to the roof of a nearby dwelling. Meeks saw the head'of a Hun fob just a second over the edge of the belfry. The bullet found its mark, leaving only

two snipers. The two Yanks then began a fusillade of bullets, and five minutes later a white flag fluttered from the belfry. Soon the two surviving Huns came down on the jump yelling “kamerad.” A little later a party of Yanks located a machine gun in the belfry of another church. They charged up the stairway into the belfry and cleaned out the nest in short order, killing the Huns.