Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1917 — BRITISH HOLD NEW GAINS. [ARTICLE]

BRITISH HOLD NEW GAINS.

Germans Surrender After Shooting Their Own Officer. With the British Armies In France and Belgium, Oct. 20.—Tlie consolidation of the positions won by the allies in Monday’s attack is being rapidly Completed under a bright sun, which is mitigating somewhat the difficulties of the work in the inorasslike ground. Active military fire marked the night in the region east and north of Ypres. When she British troops stormed a redoubt south of Poelcnpelle, 14 German soldiers surrendered and the British found a dead officer with five bullet wounds in his body. The reason for his execution was that the men desired to surrender and he refused to give up his stronghold without a struggle.