The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-08

The Palladium presents to its read
ers a letter written from Frankfort
on the Main, Germany, by Conrad E.
Coll, a 19-year-old young man, who
was employed at the Starr piano fac
tory until last spring when he return
ed to his fatherland
Coll came to this country a few
years ago. His friends believe that he
will enter the German army and that
the letter he sent The Palladium was
written shortly before he joined the
kaiser's troops.
The letter came via Holland. On the
envelope was the stamp of the Ger
man military department. One says
"Examined;" another Examination
office of the XVIII army corps Frank
fort (Main)." A third read, The SEN
uer of this letter is worthy of conf
dence. The necessity of sending this
letter is recognized"
1t is presumed that Coll showed the
letter, which was written in English,
to the military governor of the city,
and after the latter had read it, enclos-
eL 1t in an envelope and mailed it to
The Palladium.
Coll refers to letter he wrote The
palladium few days prior to sending
the one printed today. 1t is believed
that this letter told Of German army
movements, and for this reason was
COnfiscated by the military authori-
ties. The Palladium did not receive
the communication to which Coll re-
fers. The matter which Coll calls
'telegrams" is interpreted to mean
war news which he has copied from
the German newspapers. The full text
OF the letter is appended.
'Frankfort on Main, VIII, %, IA.
THE Richmond Palladium,
Richmond, Indiana.
81 guess you received my letter
which l wrote to you on the 21st of
August. THE Palladium did not re-
ceive the letter to which Mr.. Coll re-
fers. 1t evidently was held up by the
military censor and may have contain
ed information as to troop move
ments.) Now I'll send you some Ger
man kilograms. This is only the truth
The kilograms are short, but they are
true This is always official news
Sir edward Grey is the man who
made the war. On the second day of
war we took the modern fort of Luet-
itch Uiege lin Belgium. On the 10Th
of August we took Brussels, the capi
tai Of Belgium. The King and his fam
lily and the whole government went to
Antwerp. This fort is the last hope of
the inhabitants of Belgium. If we take
this place. l guess the King and his
family are going to England. In the
battle of Muelhausen Germany near
the Swiss state line, we sent home
the French soldiers over the Vosges.
We took in this battle about 1000
French prisoners, one flag, ten can
non and four machine guns. A few
days before that battle we had a great
victory at Lizards in France, where
we took about 5000 French prisoners
and few cannon.
"The French soldiers had awful
many wounded soldiers and they left
about 1000 Of these poor fellows on
the battle field. Today we had an aw-
full big battle by Metz Metz is the
best fort of Germany on the French
state line). The soldiers fought in
one line about 20 miles long. We made
10000 French prisoners and the bat
tie took two days. We took fifty can
non and plenty Of ammunition. On the
second day the french soldiers were
running back. In this battle there was
fighting about 40.Vv0 to $4,000 soldiers.
The Germans are behind them.
"On the eastern state line, we took
the Russian town CZentochen. Stain
poene nand Kalisch, and the Russian
port for warships, Libau. We took
about 5000 Russians in all this small
battle. Daily hundreds of Russian
(Cossacks) cavalry are coming ,over
the German state line and make them
selves prisoners Of the German SOL
diers. These Russian soldiers told us
that they do not get anything to eat
and they sold their horses for IS a
piece.
Tomorrow I'll write you another
Setter.
yours very truly,
CONRAD e. COLL,
"Frankfort on the Main
Germany"
III you publish this in your paper,
please send me some Of them. En-
CLOSED you'll find some pictures out of
Dome Of the magazines."