Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — TANKS USED AS SHIELDS [ARTICLE]

TANKS USED AS SHIELDS

Huns Take Refuge Behind Damaged Monsters, But Are Driven Out by Yanks. »> Paris. —Damaged tanks, abandoned by the French when the Germans. . made their late spring drive, were used as shields behind which German machine gunners opposed the Americans at various points between Pi sines and Soissons, according to Corp. Royal Thurver of Reedsburg, Wis. “They got behind these old upturned tanks, a number of which I saw, and tried to hold us up after we ciossed the Vesle,” said Thurver. “But, of course, it was only u question of time until we worked our way around them and then the German machine gunners decided they were through with the war. They Invariably surrendered.” Thurver was shot In the chest and arm from a machine gun behind one of the tanks.