Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — GET SEVENTEEN ENEMY PLANES [ARTICLE]

GET SEVENTEEN ENEMY PLANES

Allied Aviators Score Heavily on Teuton Airplanes Saturday. London, February 17.—Great aerial activity on Saturday is the subject of an official report issued tonight concerning the operations of British airmen. The statement says: “Fourteen German machines were brought down and seven others were disabled, while British anti-aircraft guns shot down two other machines, while the seventeenth airplane accounted for during the day landed near a British airdrome. Five British air machines are missing.’’ Berne, February 17.—The latest dispatches received here indicate that Germany Intends sending troops to the Ukraine there to occupy important points under pretext of establishing order. With the American Army iu France, Saturday, February 16. —An American field hospital in a town within our lines apparently was tha target for a German airplane which flew over it last night, and dropped several unusually heavy bombs. The hospital, in which were a number of sick and wounded officers and men, was the building nearest the places where the German airmen dropped two different sets->of bombs. Fortunately none of the missies reached their mark, although the hospital patients and residents of the town were severely shaken by the explosions. American anti-air-craft guns engaged the enemy, but without success. The hospital probably will be moved to a less dangerous spot. ,

With the American Army tn France, Feb. 17. —An American patrol having passed the first line of German entanglements and approached the second line Ikst night was suddenly cut off by a current of electricity along the first wire line. Instead of attempting an immediate return to their trenches, which would have meant certain death from electrocution, or machine guns, the Americans clung close to the earth, and, later, when the electricity was cut off, returned in safety to their positions.