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Oe Atlanta jlemMOttWa Smimal VOLUME XX. FRENCH GAIN FURTHER PROTECTS COMPIEGNE ENEMY COMMENTS DN EFFECT OF 0. S. OVERSEAS FORCES Bakers Figures Published, but General Ardenne Camou flages Accuracy Quality, Not Quantity Counts, He Says AMSTERDAM. July 11.—(By the Az- , •octated Press.!—Newspapers in Ger many have published the figures re cently given out by Secretary of War , Baker as to the number o* Americans •ent overseas, but heretofore they have practically refrained from making com ment on the subject apart from some sarcastic cap tic n like "American bluff." The only expert military voice heard so far is that of Lieutenant jGeneral von Ardenne, who. In a long article, on Tues day in the Dusseldorf Nachrichten, com- ' forts his German readers with stale • arguments to the effect that he does not j believe the figures and that numbers do not count anyway. He says; "President Wilson recently announced that X.OUO.Mi men were ’under arms. Secretary of War Baker says only TOO.- j 000 now are on the continent, while a French army commander figures that only one-ninth of that number are at the front. “In fact only two or three divisions so far have made their presence fell. The rest has been occupied in building railroads, factories and ammunition de pots. It is, however, no matter of quantity, but quality." Continuing. General Von Ardenne says: “The formation of an American annv operates under far less favorable con ditions regarding the equipment ans armament, proof of this being seen m the drilling of recruits without rifles and guns. The wholesale manufacture of flying machines has produced very small results. "American troops have been mixed with’French and English units, as was shown by the repeated attacks near Chateau Thierry. A million soldiers need, according to Secretary Baker, four million tons. That these are unavail able is shown by the course of the U-boat war and it is also proved that flley ‘ cannot be provided by the build ing Os new ships. America cannot send a reallv imposing force inside of two or three years. Whether they would be morally valuable is doubtful.” General Von Ardenne concludes his article with some alleged statements by American prisoners about the “artifi ciality of American war enthusiasm.” The Hamburger Nachrichten refers to the large percentage of colored troops in the .American army which, the news paper says, gives a poor impression of the rest of the force, because “race <.onscious white Americans generally refuse contact with negroes." raN-GERNIWS’PLEIISEn 81 KUEHLMJNN’S fill Stir Caused in Reichstag by Socialists' Objection to azjuiH uoa LONDON. July 11—The fail of For eign Secretary von Kuehlmann was ar ranged by German army headquarters rend is regarded in Germany as the in troduction of an open par.-German regime under the control of the m-«i- ■ tary leaders. special dispatches from Holland say. It is described as the big gest of a series of pan-Gennan victories and the par.-German newspapers do not d.sgulse their delight over it. Reports of the appointment cf Ad miral von Hintze as foreign secretary are accepted as final by the pan-Germar. papers, which contend that this in volves no change of policy. This con tention. however, as well as the as- j surance that Von Hintze is not a pan-- Germar.. Is false, according to the cor respondent of the Daily Telegraph. Von Hintze Is described by him as a swash buckler and an intimate and creature of Admiral von T:rp.t~ the pan-German leader. Much excitement was caused In the corridors of the retchstag Tuesday by a turner that Von Hintze had been ap pointed foreign secretary. After the So- , clal.’sts hid Inform-*d the president they were not prepared to vote the war credit until they know what foreign policy Von Hintze was go!:*; to pur- ' sue. it was agreed. as & way out of a threatening situation which possibly would result from the majority So cialists joining the minority group, in rejecting the war credit, that the full sitting should be adjourned so that the house could go into comrryttee for a onndentia! discussion. The result of this gathering was that the semi-official announcement of Von Hintze’s appointment took a tentative form, saying merely that he had beer, “named” as Von Kuhlmann's successor. Von Hintze Choice of iiennan General Staff PARIS. July 11.— (Havas Agency.!—: D'xrfsion to accept the resignation of Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann was taken Monday at a conference at Ger man genera! headquarters which was attended by the emperor. Chancellor von Hertling and Admiral von Hintze, says a Zurich despatch to the Matin. The reported appointment of Von Hintze as foreign secretary is consid ered by French papers to be the work , of the German general staff, a chat-’ lenge to the majority In the reii hstag and a deliberate insult to southern Ger- , many. L‘Homme Libre says the mili tary party is stronger in Germany than the diplomats and in overthrowing Von Kuehlmann the militarists show plainly ' that they want war to the end. "and . we must not forget that.” !420,000 GERMANS OPPOSE REVOLT OF ; UKRAINE NATIVES ’ Peasants Have Small Armies i ! Armed With Artillery and, Machine Guns and Are De-: fend i ngV il lages and T renches STOCKHOLM. July 11.—Ukraine is In a state of country-wide revolution, ac cording to dispatches received here to day. The Germans are pouring in rein- ; fordements which now have reached a total of thirty-five divisions (420.000 men). The peasants have several -small ar- | mies of 15.000 to 20,000 each, armed I with artillery and machine guns. These are defending the villages and whole . sections of trenches. The fight Is not of a political charac i ter, but is due chiefly to the surrender of land by the Germans back to the landlords. Homestead sections fifty ■ versts (83 miles) square, have been wiped out completely. This revolution in Ukraine, together \ with the increasing power of the Cxscho- ' Slovaks in the east, necessitating divi ’ sion of considerable German forces, may • account in some measure for delay in resumption of the west front offensive. 73,000 Finnish Workmen Arrested, Deputy Says AMSTERDAM. July xl—oince uie Germans entered Finland. 73,000 work- , men there have been arrested and many 1 lof them have been executed, dr Jared Hugo Haase, leader of the minority so cialists, in a recent speech in the reichs tag, according to a verbatim report pub- ; lished by the Hetvolk. The deputy; also criticized German rule in Livonia and Esthonla. I, After pointing out that those who pro- ; voked civil war in Finland were re- j ' sponsible for the calling in of the Ger- ‘ mans. Deputy Haase said: "The list of those sentenced to death in Finland contains the names of a for- ; mer premier and about fifty Socialist 1 members of parliament, some of whom already have been shot. Owing to the numerous daily executions the town of Sveaborg has been renamed 'Golgotha.' ” The speaker then referred to the sup pression of vernacular newspapers in the provinces of Livona and Esthonia and added: "Fifty persons recently were arrest-1 ed at florpat and German military dic tatorship rules everywhere. A boy, aged ten. was sentenced to a long im prisonment for concealing arms, while ( a fifteen-year-old was sentenced to death for pioking up a manifesto. For a similar offense a woman named Julia Datt was executed.” Deputy Haase then read a letter from a Bolshevik, now under arrest, which said: "Julia Datt is dead, but her last words will live forever, as will the last | maledictions she flung at the German , hangman and oppressors.” White Guards Occupy Town, Cut Communication VOLOGDA. Russia, July 7.—(Sun-, day.) —(By the Associated Press.) — ' White guards have occupied Yaroslav, a torn 173 miles northeast of Moscow. ■ and have cut communications between ’ Moscow and Vologda. Russian Eolshe- | viki forces have been sent in the di rection of Yaroslav. Bolsheviki Hurry Measures ; To Combat Allied Forces STOCKHOLM. July 11.—The Bolshe |vik war commissariat of the northern | region of Russia, following the landing I iof allied troops on the Murman coast, I i ordered hurried war preparations, it was ! ; learned here today. Military units have been ordered • i formed and the workmen and peasants | of the classes of 1896-97 have been call- j ed into service for at least six months. ; Three hundred Serbian and Italian of ficers have been arrested at Archangel upon the order of Premier Lenine, it is reported. American Consul Pool and British Consul Lockardt visited Foreign Minis ter Tchitcherin at Moscow and denied • they had published a secret statement vrgin? allied intervention. Alleged Slacker and Two Officers Wounded In a Pitched Battle i GREENVILLE, Ala.. July 11.—John ; Morgan was probably fatally wounded, j United States Deputy Marshal Robbins I was severely wounded and U. S. Depu- I , ty Marshal J. A. Wall slightly wouni jm! late yesterday when the deputies had a battle with Morgan and his two Tom and Will. The three men were arrested. charged with being slacken:. They are alleged to have re ; fused to respond to a call from their local board t» report for army duty. A squad of soldiers was brought from Montgomery to assist in the capture, after the three men had beaten off the United States deputies. John Morgan J was shot in the battle with the depu- 1 ties. The men surrendered upon the ' arrival of troops. Submarines Are Now Controlled, Declares Admiralty First Lord LONDON, July 11. —“The submarines - are now controlled,” Sir Eric Geddes, i first lord of the admiralty, declared to- j day. in opening the official exhibition of . naval photographs. “Fewer are operating now than for j some time past. The depth charge has , changed the hunters into the hunted.” ' Livestock Ass’n. Formed COLUMBUS. Ga., July 11.—To pro mote and encourage the raising of bet ter live stock, poultry and farm prod ucts. and to perfect a good system of • marketing in this section, the Georgia- Alabama Live Stock association was formed here a few days ago and tem porary officers named. It is announced I that permanent organization is to be ■ effected at a big mass meeting of farm- ; ; ers and live estock men at the Muscogee j i county courthouse Saturday morning at I 10 o'clock. Full Associated Press Service THIS SHOULD HELP! gjfiWsSfiiSl D/I>S'-a- week w/Bm ■ k Law $i jar. '•<" T ' ■■J? \ J? / : if) / 7/ ■- 1 HfIbLWNR .'BHa I t -,1 .Mw BRITISH MASTERY IN AIR CANNOT BE QUESTIONED NOW English Bombing Squadrons ln- ; creasingly Effective Anti- 1 Aircraft Guns Brought to High Degree of Perfection: WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 10.—(By the Associated Press).—Superiority in the air. clean cut and unquestionable, rests with the British flying men today. There have been periods in times past when it seemed that a very slight addition of strength to either one side or the other might tip the balance temporarily, but no such period exists now. British air men are supreme Not only have the king’s flyers been maintaining a decided upper hand in the intense fighting in the air. but the work of British bombing squadrons has far exceeded that of the enemy in vigor and results. In the more spectacular field of operations, aerial fighting, the British lave hounded hostile pilots un til the greater part of their battles have occurred east of the German lines, and in numerous engagements, staged every day when the weather permitted, great numbers of hostile machines have I been destroyed. One British aviator: alone has sent 25 crashing to the earth in the last few months and others ot | his comrades are not far behind in their total. The work of bombing squadrons has been growing steadily and the British have been reaching further and further into German back areas in search of military objectives. There has been no let-up. Day and night, squadrons of British planes have kept up an almost rndless bombardment of important po- ‘ sitions and their accuracy in bomb dropping is testified to in scores of: photographs of destructive hits. Not only have railways, airdromes and other vital objectives been effectually bombed, but the loss of life among i German troops in concentration camps has been exceedingly heavy. Captured documents bear testimony to this and ! prisoners admit it. The British have consistently con- : ducted their raids from an exceedingly low height, sometimes coming down to within fifty feet of the ground to loose ( bombs. The Germans, on the other hand, seldc-n venture below 10,000 feet because of their fear of the British 1 ar.ti-a'rcraf t def-mres which have .reach-i ed a state of perfection never before achieved. The difference in the accu racy of the two services in bomb drop ping thus has an obvious explanation The straight shooting of British bomb ers is exemplified by the work of one pilot who attacked two German trains near Hermies the other day. He oh-. tained a direct hit on the first train i and then blew up the track in front of I it. Diving on another train nearby, ■ he knocked two trucks off the track with explosives. Having stalled these trains, ho proceeded to rake them viciously with his machine gun. Incidentally, he opened fire with his machine gun nn seven other trains shortly afterwards with good results. There have been few infantry battles of late on the British front ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1918. SCHOOL TAX BILL IS POSTPONED BY HOUSE ■ Members Are Absent Arrang ing for the Funeral of Senator Weaver On account of the absence of several members of the house, due to their ap pointment on the committee to arrange for the funeral of the late Senator W. H. Weaver, consideration of the Elder local school tax bill was postponed un til Friday morning by a vote of the house on Thursday. It was recommended that the meas ure be brought up for consideration when the members of this committee are in attendance as they are vitally interested in the bill. A house conference committee com prising Representatives Culpepper, of Meriwether, and Bale, of Floyd, was ap pointed by the speaker to meet with the senate conference committee to consid er the age of consent bill passed in the senate on Wednesday. Lacking three votes of a constitu tional majority a bill introduced by the Meriwether delegation setting aside the I first Friday in December to be observed | as Temperance day in the schools of the i state failed of passage. The vote was ! 92 to 27. The budget bill, introduced by Mr. Pace, of Sumter, providing for the es tablishment of the budget system in financing the state departments, -will probably be made a special order for Thursday of next week. A request to this effect was filed Thursday morning with the rules committee. By vote of the house on a motion by I Mr. Jones, of Coweta, all speeches on the floor of the house during the re mainder of the present session will be limited to thirty minutes each. John H. Mock, of Albany, was sworn in Thursday morning by Justice Marcus : W. Beck, of the state supreme court to serve as representative from Dougherty I county, succeeding W. H. Burt, now in the military service. A feature of Thursday morning’s ses sion was the introduction by Represen tative John Y. Smith, of Fulton, of three i bills intended to impose greater re strictions on parties litigating in-the di : vorce court. These measures were drawn along lines suggested by Judge W. D. Ellis, of the Fulton superior court. The Fulton delegation also introduced a bill removing the limitations on coun cilmen and aidermen of the city of At lanta, so that these officials may be elected to succeed themselves as often as the voters desire. By a vote of 119 to 0 the house passed I a bill by Mr. McCall, of Brooks, to pay i pensions of SIOO per year to Confeder i ate veterans wounded in service or who . contracted disease during the war. Ef forts were made to eliminate veterans owning more than SIO,OOO worth of property, but this attempt was inef fectual. Action on the measure introduced by Mr. Ayers, of Jackson, to provide for the election of superior court judges by the voters of their respective circuits SENATE WETS TRY TO DEFER ACTION ON PROHIBITION , Try to Call Up Wire Resolu tion Following Defeat of Ruling That Amendment Was Out of Order WASHINGTON, July 11.—In a final desperate effort to stave off war-time prohibition, senate wets today planned to call up the wire control resolution. By keeping this before the senate con tinually until disposed of. they hope to persuade senate leaders to recess for the summer, leaving prohibition undis posed of. A second move, counted on to be more effective, is the sounding of a warning that war-time prohibition, suddenly im posed, will ruin banks holding liquor obligations, and seriously interfere with the raising of war revenues under the new’ tax bill. Senator Simmons, chairman of the fi nance committee, is to present figures showing that more than half a billion would be required to get out of bond the 170,000,000 gallons of whisky now on hand. The tax on this is $3.20 a I gallon. Simmons will argue that it would be I impossible to get the money necessary j for withdrawal of this liquor. He will point out that many banks are heavily loaded with warehouse receipts and notes, against which they have loaned , large sums to distillers, wholesale gro cers and druggists, to pay floor taxes. Unless the banks are given time to re i lieve themselves of this paper they will fail, Simmons will warn. He will submit figures showing how prohibition will reduce the national revenues at a time when the need is for every dollar that can be raised, even at the expense of people’s clothing. Upon the showing thus made, Sim mons is being urged to ask that the senate allow the finance committee to | work out a plan for gradual reduction of the revenues, and for safeguard banks. If this is agreed to, it would mean postponement of prohibition for a period considerably longer than the five months provided for in the amendment now pending. If proponents o fthe telegraph resolu tion are able to force consideration ot that measure, Simmons will hold his arguments and figures in reserve, for t use when needed. Drys claimed today that all doubt 1 that prohibition is certain, so far as the senate is concerned, was removed by the vote late yesterday on the ruling of Senator Saulsbury that the prohibi -1 tion amendment was out of order. Some i known drys voted to sustain the chair, ' and even with these men arrayed against them, the drys won by a vote I of 36 to 33, and Saulsbury’s ruling was overturned. instead of by the state at large, as at present, was postponed until Friday ' morning because of the impossibility of securing a constitutional majority, al though practically all the members pres ent favored the bill. MASKED BANDITS SHOOT UP AND ROB PASSENGER TRAIN ————— : Posse of 200 Men Surrounds Woods Near Kansas Town. Three Persons on Train Are I Wounded by Daring Robbers PAOLA, Kan.. July 11.—A posse of 200 men today was patroling the banks j of the Marais de Cygne river near here ! awaiting the signal to rush a large patch ' of timber in which it was believed were hiding a dozen men who late last night field up a southbound Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train at Koch sid ing, just south of Paola, shot three per sons, looted the express and mail cars ! and made their escape. I The posse is composed of members of 1 the county Anti-Horse associa ■ tion and home guards from. Osawatomie j and is led by county and railroad of ! ficlals. The possemen were called to i gether within an hour after news of i the robbery became known and imme ! diately started in pursuit of the fleeing | bandits who left the scene of the hold !up in automobiles. A report reaching I here early today was that the bandits, ! closely pursued by the possemen, aban- I doned their cars and took refuge in the timber which affords an excellent .hiding place. Details of the robbery, In which two of the train crew and a woman passen i gere were wounded by bullets from the bandits’ guns, as related by railway employes, seem to indicate the robbers “shot up” the train to terrorize the pas sengers and crew. No attempt was made to rob the passengers. The train was flagged as it was back ing’from Koch siding, and the bandits j swarmed about the engine, forcing the ; engineer fireman at the point of revolvers back into the smoking car. The doors of the smoking and day coaches were locked and several of the robbers ran up and down the aisles shooting into the floor and through the roof, stray bullets from their guns strik ing Fireman R. E. Carter in the ankle and C. T. Witcher, the train auditor, in the thigh. Others of the bandits boarded the mail and express cars, uncoupled them from the rest of the train and with their own men at the engine throt tle ran out to the main line and backed north. As they passed the standing coaches they fired into the windows and it was then that Mrs. L. D. Williams, of AchilleJ Okla., was wounded. A mile north of the siding the mall and express cars were stopped and the robbers proceeded to rifle them, throw ing the express safe from the car and breaking It open. They are said to have taken a quantity of registered mail. The sum of money taken from the mail bags could not be estimated. According to the express messenger and mall clerks, who also were forced into the smoking car with the engine crew, there was not a large amount of money in either car. When the two cars had been stripped of valuables the bandits fled in motor cars, which had either been left near by or brought up by confederates. Mem bers of the train crew started for this city and found the engine and two cars deserted. They ran back to the coaches, coupled up the train and proceeded with the wounded to Parsons, Kan. The bandits are described as young men, al though all were masked. Their fa miliarity with the train schedule and their handling of the engine and detach ed cars was the feature that attracted the attention of railroad men, as it. was taken to indicate at least some of them, j had had railroad experience. One of the ! masked men was reported to have warned a companion: "Don’t shoot that man; that’s Jake Darkes.” Darkes was a brakeman on the train SHtlflT-LllOllLim BILL IIETOED Bl WILSDN I I Government Control of All Such Roads Not in Public ; ♦ Interest WASHINGTON, July 11. —The presl- . dent today vetoed the short line railway i bill which would put under government ‘ supervision and control all lines operat- ’ ing in the country. In his message sent * to the senate, the president called atten- : tion to the fact that there were more than 1,700 such lines in t,he country, : many of which were built and are con- i trolled by various private business in- , terests. Gen. Pershing .Awards Fifteen More Crosses WASHINGTON. July 11.—Fifteen ‘ officers and men cf the infantry were cited by General Pershing in today's of ficial communique for acts of gallant- . ry and awarded distinguished service; crosses. The citations were quoted in ' the communique and show the actions tn which the men participated to have I been fought April 10. 12 and 13. Those awarded crosses were: Second i Lieutenant Aller. K. Dexter, Sergeants ■ John J. Courtney and Lee P. T. Jacques, and Privates William R. Davis, Joseph i J. Cannon, Elmer L. Lane, Alfred P. | Lee. Charles Marino, Kenneth B. Page, , Charlie M. Dodge. Walter J. McCann and Glen Hill. Crosses awarded post ! humously were to Corporal Russell 11. 1 Hoyt and Privates Joseph R. Blair and : Howard P. Fitzgerald. Insurance Solicitors In Nonessential Class Ht’PON. S. D. July 11.—All able-bod- , ied men engaged in selling insurance are placed in the class of non-essential industries by the South Dakota Coun- | cil of Defense in a supplemental order i to its “work or fight” regulations is- i sued yesterday. NUMBER 83. VILUGE. MILW J STATION MID FM GIVEN JIP BY HUNS i Germans Heavily Bombard British Lines East of Amiens. Haig Improves Positions East of Villers-Brettoneux j WASHINGTON, July 11.—An official dispatch today reports the unchecked advance of Italian troops in Albania, with Berat as an objective. From the | Voyusa, the . Italians have carried all positions to the Semeni in an advance of • approximately 15 miles over a flfty-mile I front. “The Italian left wing aided by cav : airy units,” says the dispatch, “reach ed Fieri protected by British monitors. The Austrian aviation camp was occu pied by our troops, which captured a large quantity of war material. “Meanwhile, our right wing, after vio i lent fighting, conquered the Berat posi tions rock by rock, climbing to the sum- ■ mit, 2,000 meters high. "The actual advance ,was assured the Italian command safe possession ’of 1 Malaoastra on the left and Tomprica. on the right, standing 2,500 meters above the sea and dominating Berat city prop er and the Devoli valley.” NEW YORK, July 11. —(Summary of ; European Cables.) —The French contin ued their jamming tactics last night | on the westerly side of the Marne sa > lient, southwest of Soissons, capturing I the town and railway station of Corey and the farm and Chateau of St. Paul, : south of the town. The gain of ground serves still fur ther to protect the forse of Villers-Cot terets (otherwise called the Retz), which forms a bulwark o fthe defense of Com piegne, the important French base and ’ railway junction, on the east of that* ‘ town. On the British front south of the Somme, Field Marshal Haig’s infantry pushed still farther last night and won an additional holding grotffid east of Villers-Bretonneux, on the ridge which stands as an important eastward de fense of the allied base at Amiens. Raiding operations comprised the ma jor portion of the activities on the re mainder of the allied front. Anticipate Gorman Blow The operation on the French front, resulting in the capture of Corey, gains in interest in that it represents a con tinuation of a series of important local attacks on this front between the Alsne and the Marne, began by General Petain on Sunday. •It is along the line that the allies apparently count It quite prob able that the Germans will resume their offensive. Sunday’s attack took the form of a drive that carried the French line for ward two-thirds of a mile on a two mile front north of the Longpont region in this area. The gain here was ex tended on Tuesday, while during the day of Wednesday the front of opera tions was shifted farther south and the outskirts of Longpont and Corey were reached. During last night, as today’s state ment from Paris shows, the French made good their occupation of Corey and drove in still farther south on the I line for a short distance. New French Front | The net result, together with an earl | ler operation further north late in June when a dangerous salient east of the Laversine ravine which the Germans j created in their June offensive was wip ed out, is that the French front now ' runs In almost a straight line along ' a series of strong positions for a dis tance of approximately twelve miles from the Aisne southward to below i Corey. Between this and the American sector to the south, northwest of Chateau j Thierry, there is still a westward bulge iin the line. The French pressure on j the north and the American on the south, however, seems likely to result in the wiping out of this salient by the continuation of the present entente tac i tics of local plunges in this sector, if the Germans hold off much longer in launching their expected renewed offen- ■ sive. Village of Corey Captured by French PARIS, July 11. —French troops en- I larged their gains between the Aisne ! and the Marne, taking the village of Corey, the war office announced today. “On the borders of the Rettz for est, the French enlarged their gains, taking the village of Corey, the station : tyid castle, and St. Paul farm,” the • communique said. “We captured 50 prisoners, including one officer. "Two raids in the region of Maison- Champagne and Mont Sar.snom netted j 10 prisoners.” Austrians Driven Back On the Asiago Plateau ROME. July 11. —Italian advanced , posts at Comone on the Asiago plateau yesterday drove back Austro-Hungarian : detachments, says tne Italian official ; statement today, reporting military op j erations on the Italian mountain front. I Artillery fire was lively in the Brenta ! valley. On the remainder of the front ‘ there were the usual reconnoitering and I harassing actions. British Positions are Heavily Bombarded LONDON, July 11.—The Germans | again last night bombarded somewhat I heavily the British positions east of j Amiens on both sides of the Somme river, the war office announced today. In a local operation carried out last i night south of the Somme, east of Vil- I lers Bretonneux, the British positions were impro’-ed. says today’s war office announcement. “We improved our positions slightly during the night east of Villers-Breton neux.” the statement said. “Enemy artillery fire was directed at our positions on both sides of the ' Somme. “Our troops made successful raids yesterday noon and during the night near Merris and Festubert (in Flan . tiers), capturing some prisoners and a machine gun.”
