The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-08
SAYS GERMAN SHOT
10 U. s. PRISONERS
Member Of Old Goth Tells of
Murder of Comrades by
Officer.
ENRAGED AT REPULSE
ENRAGED AT REPULSF
Asserts Enemy Is Shooting
Over Fever Gcrms-Other Isl
Local Casualties.

Local CaSudltleS.
How a German officer ordered the
.,ootinr of ten defenceless American
nrisoneis-all members of the 1S5th In
f.n,ry Ithe Fighting Sixty-ninth') lis
told In q letter from Private Albert w.
Bovker Of Company II, reported In yes
terdays casualty list as having been
killed July 10.
The letter was received here by his
,,.ters Mrs. Emily Blake and Miss May
povker Of 146 West l01st street. with
whom he had lived, and arrived shortly
b.tore the news of his Ceath.
~ will tell you of some OF my ex-
n.rIences as a soldier in France, fight
,ns under the old Stars and Stripes"
he wrote. you at home do not know
OF the brutality OF the German Hun. I
am going, to relate an instance which
shows the color OF the Huns and their
idea OF war
sixty Held on 1000 Germans.
"On one occasion sixty Of our men
held I, 900 Germans from attacking us In
an outpost The way that We were
placed the German commander evidently
thought that he had run into full
regiment Of American soldiers But he
MANAGED to capture some ten of us, and
when he learned that there were only
sixty Americans engaged in the de-
fens.ve he took the captured men to
heahqus rters. where he ordered wine be
opered.
"Iie told our men they were so smart
he was going to show them how smart
he could be in an emergency. With each
glass of wine he drank he ordered one
Of our men shot. This Is only one Of
the brutalties of the damnable Hun.
II have been laid UP for the past few
weeks with fever. or as we call II
the Hun fever The Germans are
shooting some kind of a germ across
our line. II we are unlucky enough to
come in contact with these germs we
are generally laid up from two to four
weeks
I'VE do not do very much in the day
time but keep out Of sight in our dug
outs Most OF the fighting Is done at
night. During the day we listen to the
airplane battles overhead. The feats Of
the avators are really wonderful. We
manage to get in a little baseball oc-
cas,onally. 1t is our one great pleasure
and makes me think Of the good old
ganns have seen at the Polo Grounds.
you should never kick about large
mosquitoes, because they are only in
fants to the ones over here. They look
Ike large horsefy and, believe me.
they have some sting
Lieut.. Frank j. Mcconnell. 21, OF Bat
terry f. Seventh Field Artillery. was
killed in action July %. according to a
War Department telegram sent his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Mcconnell
sos Chestnut street. Richmond Hill. yes
terday. They are spending their vaca-
ton at the Thousand Islands and the
telegram was forwarded to them there
wns Princeton Sophomore.
Lieut.. Mcconnell was n sophomore at
Princeton when he left college to enter
the Plattsburg Training Camp last year.
He was commissioned as a provisional
Second Lieutenant upon his graduation
and intended to remain In the army
after the war. He went to France jan
uary Is and spent three months in a
French artillery school. A recent letter
told Of his escape from injury when a
German shell exploded in a dugout
where he was resting.
He attended Public School 90 at
Richmond Hill, the Richmond Hill High
School. jamaica High School and Poly
technic Preparatory School. He was a
member OF the freshman rowing crew at
iIIttlUn WdS Wcil hUOWH as n tcH
MS player. His father is in the build
ing supply business in East New York
and the family is prominent socially in
Richmond HILL
Private Carl T. Wetz, "a. son of Mr..
and Mrs William Wetz OF 1000 Forest
avenue, The Bronx. reported in yester-
days casualty list as having been killed
IN action, has been mentioned three
lines In casualty reports since he has
been In France. On June 20 he was
reported missing In action. Seven days
later his family was overjoyed at the
receipt Of a telegram saying he had re-
ported for duty again. Then came the
announcement OF his death. He was a
member Of Company II. Twenty-eighth
Infantry. and had been four years In
the service. HIS father was born In
Germany
Private william s. Drake. Company
c, Sixth Engineers. killed in action July
10, was a son of Mr.. and Mrs. James 8.
Drake OF 430 Quincy street. Brooklyn.
When he enlisted before the war he lived
in 81 Eldert street He was the first
man In his block TO Join the army. Pri-
vats Drake made his last visit home on
Thanksgiving day wearing an expert
marksman's badge. He was born and
educated in Brooklyn.
News OF the death in action July Is
Of Private Rudolph Rabinowitz. Ma
chine Gun Company OF the Thirtieth In
fantry was received yesterday by his
brother. William Rabinowitz. 2s19 Mer-
maid avenue. Brooklyn. He was a B. X.
T, conductor before being drafted. and
went 10 France with the first quota OF
drafted men. In letter written July 3
he expressed confidence in an allied VIC
tory and that he would come through
unscathed.
Dead Germans Heaped Up High.
Mrs. May Haggerty OF 922 Fulton
street, Brooklyn. received a letter yes
'erday from her son. Private Hugh Hag-
gerry OF Company +. 165th Infantry,
saying he had been slightly wounded and
was being taken excellent care of by
American Red Cross nurses. 1t came
only ten minutes before, the arrival of a
telegram from the War Department an.
nounc!ng that he had been severely
wounded in a later engagement. He Is
graduate of Public School %. Brook.
yn' and of the Euclid Business School
In describing the action where he re-
erlVed his first wound Hsggerty wrote
IT was terrible day for the Germans
They attacked US about o'clock and we
yOst heaped them UP dozen high
Fnere were a number OF our boys
wounded and killed, but the number did
not compare with that of the Germans
Their dead were heaped 80 high they
could not advance. The French and
american soldiers drove them back, and
lster we occupied what had been theiI
nrst line"
Private Joseph simons, reported a.