The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-12-13

deaf ones by any manner of means.
There are still enough of them left to
capture hundreds of Germans every
week and they do that just as well as
they die
'Kamerads -
''You'd think from all this talk
about German efficiency that Fritz was
real fghter-but he's not at all.
When it comes to cold steel he usually
throws up his hands and says in Ger
man-Ameriean 'Kamerad! Mercyl'
They re bringing them. behind the
lines all the time-these smiling Teu-
tons glad to suffer the disgrace of cap
ture rather than live longer in the
squalor of the trenches. I saw 5000
of them in one division and motley
crew they were, too. Ten per cent of
them were under sixteen-iust drawn
faced school-boys, underfed and tremb-
ling like leaf when a shell exploded.
Of course there were some VINO were
older, rougher, and sullen. There are
not many like that though. Most of
them are tickled to pieces to be prison
ers because they know it means a bet
ter life and less chance of death.
"The funny thing about it all is this
no matter how badly starved they
are they never blame the Kaiser.
They IL say it was the Crown Prince or
Ludendorf who did it all and risk their
lives to defend Wilhelm He's got
them all buffaloed. They think he's
god or something working night and
day for the good of the German people
and the triumph of German Kultur."
The Gratitude of Prussian.
'tAfter all, - he added with touch
of hatred in his tone, "the Kaiser ism It
half as bad as the privates and officers
in his army. I can t find words bad
| enough to describe them. They re not
human--that's all--if they were they
couldn It do the cold-blooded things
that they re doing every day of the
war.
For example, there was Prussian
officer who was captured by the French
in the first years of the war. He was
rather badly wounded and French
surgeon performed miraculous opera
ton to save his life. He seemed to be
very thankful and was so generally
agreeable that he became the pet of
the prison camp. When the day came
for his discharge from the hospital he
took the surgeon and the nurse by the
hand and looked them straight in the
eye as if he were going to thank them
for what they had done for him.
"But he didn IT, Instead he twisted
their wrists with a little jiu-iitsu
twinge that broke them and muttered
| between his teeth There, damn yors
that's the last operation you III ever
perform -
Under the Union Jack.
"It's things like that that have
made the Canadians the fighters that
they are. The Germans have been so
treacherous and unsportsmanlike that
it has fred the American blood in the
Maple-Leafers and made them ths
gamest soldiers of the war.
''The British Tommy tries hard
enough but he hash It the Epep' to cap.
ture. If he once gets it though-ye
gods, how he can hold to it! So Gen.
eral Haig has worked out plan like
this: he sends the Australians and Can,
| adams over the top and as soon as the
trench is captured he replaces them
h., IL x
last man of 'em takes the count.
They re game alright and they love the
Union Jack, but they some way lack
the aggressive spirit that has made she
Canadians the ground gamers on the
Flanders front.
In passing, the Americans are just
like the Maple-Leafers and I've a
bunch that they will fight the same
kind of battles and win the same or
greater glory. It's in them and it's
bound to come out before the war is
over
The Head Hunters
'EBut the real bloody-men of the
war, he went on with twinkle in
MS eye, are the coonS-I mean the
Singalese soldiers in the French army.
They use knives instead of guns and
all they want is heads-German heads
When they get them they carry them
around with them indefinitely and
string their ears on necklaces. They
never capture or are captured It's
kill or get killed for romance, France,
and freedom"
"That's fine to end with" said.
"Don't say anything more till get
it down just right. It has everything
to commend it for a grand fnale-fan.
tasy, pep and patriotism. I thank
you.
"For what?" he asked suspieiously.
"For the interview" I answered.
It's good for two columns any day
and especially on Monday. Again, /
thank you. ="
With fha+ moe