New Britain herald., 1917-09-06

Germany has been humbled. From the attitude of German prisoners he thinks the sun of Kaiserdom is set Sting.
 Young Gleed, who will not be 22 years of age until October 22, is we'll known to many in this city where he has lived since he was eight years of age when his parents moved hero from England. In 1915 he felt the lure of the Great War and after giv- ing up his position at the Stanley Works went to Canada where he en- listed in the Sixtieth Battalion of the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. He left New Britain on July 2e, 1915, at o'clock in the morn ing and on arriving at Montreal, Canada, at g o'clock that night went directly to the recruiting office and enlisted. For the first six months he was kept in Canadian training camp awith his command, but since that time has been with the famous fight ing Canadian forces on the British front in Belgium and France. He has been in many of the big battles of the war and has been in army hospitals five times, three times as the result of wounds and once each from trench fever and shell shock. He has seen his tent mate and bosom friend killed by his side in action and has also seen practically his entire regiment cut to pieces bv shell fire and shrapnel from German guns.
 Whole Battalion Cut to Pieces.
 Although the letters written home by Private Gleed contain but little military information, he has informed his parents that he was with his command at the Battle of the. Som -me and at the third battle of Ypres. At the fighting around the city of Lens. where the Canadian troops have been doing such great fighting, he was wounded and is at the pres ent time in French convalescent hospital recovering from these injur- ies. At the battle of Lens, Private ' Gleed writes, his regiment, the 6Oth Montreal, was brought into action and sent into the first line trenches but during their march to their po' sitions two thirds of the entire bat. talion were killed. So few of the original members were left that it was necessary to disband the entire com mand and reassign the survivors a Private Gleed is now assigned to the Fffty-eighth Toronto regiment. The WOunOS WHICH C1tO 4ONc'A IVY AAe~So SNA fered thus far consist of shots In tht leg and a general physical shock a. the result of a huge German shel bursting in the rear of his company 1nasmuch as he was in the last ranl Gleed and his com mrades received thu full force of the terrific concuss1o1 sand he was rendered unconscious fo two days. At another time he wa taken i'll with trench fever and he ha also been in the army hospital suf ferine from trench shoc., which he de scribes as general nervous break down resulting from the terrific strail s of the war.
 In another paragraph of his lette the young soldier says that he ha met numerous Americans, both in tn army and in the surgical department He also says he has met severa United States soldiers.
 Thinks Germany is Weakening.
 Although the Allied army, and par ticularly the Canadian troops ar suffering greatly, their spirit has nev CT beer broken, Gleed writes, and t . man they are determined never t. relax their offensive until German has been decisively defeated. Tha the ultimate defeat of Germany is no
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