Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-18
COLOGNE N TERROR OF AIR
RAID REPRI>ALS nv ALLIES

-, Some time later NC were removed 10
e,9sns w9c.S We AN <Gm ,". q
ite0. Every Ga! queues lined IN
ffsrou7i nc. shops. ou; no; hal: Of those
E'bp Visited Were ever served.
~; lue day got !, change CT talking 10
ac o. ;he guards, and he Was frank
iaVush aaou; the position IN GERMANY
tse principle % IL man Will no;
-c--. ac5;h<C shall ne cat. was being
o->ed n The big ;owns o. Germany
- sep Scpi i!Ge- ;hvy were punished
~ having their rattons cut OF for =
-ar1os- o. daEs, according 10 ihs eno--
!; vas While staying a; Cologne that
] realized 70. the mrs, kline hew much
tAs Germans dread 81: rsp-isalS. One
g. TIE British prisoners. who arrived
2-St November. brought the story that
rg5 people had decided 10 bomb ali Ger
al-n towns IN return for the raids on
= I0ndcn- The story, which was heard
3y ,he guards. soon spread among the
From tina; time onward colesne vas
yere reused from bed in The middle OF
in'ls: 20 o. ali the exciismen; the sky 's.
PAS lit UP by great glare. and a
" Sr.shs o6iss' vas ssEI, TO- eT err
from different paris OF tee town. and
the guards eSuiiiugly told Us mat =
VABrltish airnIan had been brought down
." Ia flames during great raid on tie
-; Mex, day they did not appear so
iuDilant, and by iint OF question
Ing. | got the truth out o: one OF them.
ft What had happened was that one Of
.sEheir own machines had appeared over
6.1oieriouslv seen in that neighborhood,
!. .aud The only officer Entrusted with
habsent tina, might. IL wac treated as
>oWn enemy machine and fired on. /, WAS
6n.y when the fallen ina chinc and tt'
sserew We're picked up next morning on
the outskirts OF the town that tho truth
was discovered. That, however. did no.
80 proven: the enemy issuing to the world
i&tihc lying statement that an allied air
FAD on Cologne had been beaten OH
s.nd one British machine brought down
IN flames.
~ have seen good deai of the
-.trutal.ty which German officers OF L
::Ncrtain type show 70 our prisoners.
- one day | saw party o.: weary men
marched in. The German officer III
'yrhurgc was a brute. He selected the
.i-.eakest OF the men to bully taem
tenant s.. lie could not stand this
ana when the German officer advanced
80 rspeai his t act, stsppsd for;
him. The bully was furious He tried
TO rush at a.. hA .!;,N was l., hei4 back by
G;eihf BY G the SroE o msn and , wla
. rlia. he was challenged TO a duel. Whlch
VAS TO take place next morning behind
->'tuc camp in which we were. s. &C
ren;ed the challenge, though we sus--
y. ijrr;ed ;reachery. 1t Was agreed that I
SHOULD be SIS second. and IN case ~
dirt! work l went TO the meeting place
u!pltJ
When We 90; there the German Of
'i,rcr and his second had arrived. There
..~wcfc three other German officers, and
Hhru protested, il was agreed that
Siie duel should be deferred 70 allow the
attendance OF All equal nurcer of Brit
18Th officers II took place hal! an hour
afterwards. > was wounded, but he
A.i'i; hs man in the chest. ana the Ger
inan bully died that night in the camp
5, lospta!
80. There was Il biz row over this. s.
Ft"as taken before various. zig pots m
the camp and asked 70 explain what
me meant BY fighting and killing GER
aian officer. II $. had been Killed. ii
s""ur'on'. have mattered. AS ii was.
nobody worried about his wound. They
fStErcatcued 10 put him on tria! FOR muir
~ der. but one OF the German officers who
CAD been present u the due! was so
Keen on Insisting that il was Il fair
-,pSht that this IDEA was dropped. In d
Jew days > was removed 10 the Wit
tenberg camp where he contracted
tEphus Through beiu6 housed In quar-
t-ters that had not been tenanted since
81 the great tSpitus outbreak