Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — U.S. MEN KILLED BY AERIAL BOMBS [ARTICLE]

U.S. MEN KILLED BY AERIAL BOMBS

American Engineers Die in Town Behind the Brirlsh Front. THANKS PERSHING FOR AID Field Marshal Tells of Receiving a Report from General Byng Praising Conduct of the Yankees. With the American Army in France, Dec. 14. —A number of American railway engineers have been killed by German aerial bombs in a town somewhere behind the British front. Details are not yet known. It Is now permitted to announce that 1 a German bomb fell In a street in a town through which American troops were passing. Pieces of the bomb shattered the windows of a hobse in which there were officers, showering them with glass, but hurting no one. Two American soldiers have died tn hospital from gunshot wounds. Haig Thanks Pershing for Aid. General Pershing has received this 1 letter from Field Marshal Haig: “My Dear General Pershing: I have much pleasure in forwarding herewith for your information a copy of a report submitted to me by General Byng, commanding the Third British army, on the gallant conduct of companies of railway engineers of the United States army in and near Gouzeaucourt on the 30th of November. “I desire to express to you my thanks and those of the British forces' engaged for the prompt and valuable assistance rendered, and I trust that you will be good enough to convey to these gallant men how much we all appreciate their prompt and soldierly readiness to assist in what was for a time a difficult situation. “I much regret the losses suffered by these companies. “Yours very truly, “D. HAIG.” Two Engineers Wounded. General Pershing reported the names of two engineers wounded In action December 10, presumably in the Cambral battle. They are: Elmer 0. Bryn, private, severely wounded; father, Harold Bryn, Brooklyn, Nl Y, Isadora Kanner, private, slightly wounded; father, Morris Kanner, New York city. The death of Clyde A. Kobllntz, private in infantry, December 3, of myocarditis and pneumonia, also was reported. Ills father is Philip Koblentz, Long Bottom, O.