Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-03
Tells of Atrocities

CHS Oh AtEOClucS
r. l.. Bohn Of Lime Ridge, has re-
ceived a letter from his son, a copy
of which was sent by DR.. w. L. Bible
to Attorney B. C. Bentley. It fol
lows:
Dear Father and All at home:
| will answer your letter today and
expect that this one will get to you
in about a month, or about the time
the next Liberty Loan starts. 1t is
these things that interest us so much
these days and what we hear from
home makes all the difference in the
world. This is such great war that
a person, even one over here cannot
realize the bigness of it, but as one
stays here and sees and thinks, he
soon sees the reasons Of it and the
objects for which we are fighting.
They are plain, once you see these
sections of France. The war can only
end in victory to the allies, for what
Germany has done must never be re-
peated and she must make good to
those she has wronged. The entry
of America into the war has brought a
lions of men has brought ON spirit
that makes victory sure thing. The
French have taken new heart and the
English push on more determined
than ever. The Yanks play Won
derful part in this new war, that
spells Germans doom.
Sometimes | believe if the people
back home wonder if their little vii
lage and it's efforts count. Let me
tell you a few things. The bahdages
made in our own state and very like
ly in the small places have been used
on our own boys, and the part that
the Red Cross has played is great.
1t extends it's great help to the boys
just when they need it, and many
hours, days and months of suffering
are prevented because a little band
age supplied by the Red Cross was on
hand at the right time. Then too, |
have seen Reedsburg canned peas
served in this very hospital to our
boys from our own town. This thing
struck me as how every place does
it's bit, and how important this bit is
when you are here where you can
hear the guns night and day, and food
and supplies mean so much to our
wounded boys.
Our boys are fighting as veterans,
and do things that cause admiration
on the part of the French. The
French say they have done things
that French officers would not ask Of
their own men. | have followed the
ground won back from the Boche by
our own boys from home, and | tell
YOU | think a whole lot of this fact;
to think that boys l know have had a
work They are not stopping, but 60
ing forward, going without food on
account of the big advance, hours Of
hell of all sorts, but in the end,-a big
piece of France regained and Wis
consin boys giving their best. The
Germans are on their way back to
the Rhine, and the Yanks are going
to be pushers.
Now we all watch with big interest
of the events back home and right
now we watch the American people
back us to the limit in everything.
We are happy when we hear of big
crops, lots of ships and big, success
full loans. 1t is our life blood and we
know there will be no effort spared
to hustle this war to close with a
peace for the world, not for the Ger
man military powers.
| have seen a little girl with both
hands cut off, an old man who had
been harnessed to a cart, apple trees
cut to destroy them, homes blown to
pieces to Salty beasts. and our hos
pital bombed by Boche aviators, and
| know that with this next liberty
loan all of these things will be for
ever prevented by its tremendous
success, as the bigger the effort, the
bigger the crushing power to be
turned on the kaiser
So / want the people in our little
town to know that we watch with in
terest, you will do your share and
willingly and never mind US, we are
on our way to the Rhine SO let every
one give to the next loan. 1t will