Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-02
OPPOSING FLYERS DROP
PATCHES OF HANDB|LLs
German Officer Prisoner SURPRISED
That Submarines Did Not Pre-
vent Landing Of Americans.
cApTivEs WORK on ROADS
Always Look Cold Bccausc They
Quickly Discard Orcrcoats-Buill
Houses for Themselves in Prison
Camps.
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S-rvi"sD
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY WEST
OF TIE MEtSE. November I.--Riva,
"snowstorms" Of the stage variety are
being put on around Nordun by flyers
Tor the allies and tho boche. Our planes
! sc"oi over the cnemy's lines and drop
/ huge patches Of handb:lis. Jerry" ns
Tie bnchn iH called by our mon, comes
bn"H ana "hitnns the ground on tho
allied front with his own dodgers The
air is often filled with Tutoring bits
OF paper in the propaganda duels.
one boche document was evidently
written by chap who has some knOwl-
cage 81 American slang. He referred
high falutin." Another printed both
IN English and German, keeps men
tloninS the new German government"
II is u DIRECT appeal TO N" soldiers. but
suggests that II the war goes on
NOR" French and Belgian cities viii be
destroyed.
In a bunch OF wounded Germans cap
tured Yesterday by Americans was IL
Young officer who spoke excellent Eng
lisn. lie had been eaot through the
wrist, II. expressed surprise at the
arriving back OF the lines. II always
thought the submarines a mistake
, ,te, e., mis- officer. but had believed
Americans from being landed in Europc
In large numbers"
The return Of the cows on farms way
or the soldiers in the trenches at night
when German raiders try 10 pass our
sm,nnE dement's, The wire, fences are
hung with Old tin cans. which make a
terrific rnckct when any one tries TO
get through the wire.
RECEIVE SAME ItATIoNS
AS AMERICAN SOLDIERS
The hrst thing German prisoners are
ailoWed 10 do Is 10 build houses for
, NJ. i,S,,t The americans provide
over night their boche guests throw up
long one-story shelters and quickly
[ahSiorn them into comfortable quar-
lers They get the same ra,ions as
served 10 American soldiers. which are
pett.F man ihey got In their own army.
our soyernmcnt has 10 pay their wages
ine came as tho German government
nag " pay the wages of any American
soldiers they captured. The Germans
get "a" wors, OF this arrangement. as
the American wage scale FOR Tie SOL
hler is several times that OF the
boches Jerry agrees that otherwise
our Treatment OF prisoners in the mat
Yer OF food and quarters. is much bet
ter than ti'" Germ4n system.
onr Prison campo are picked out with
- mlcA care AS are sites for our own
soldiers n" German officer mentioned
aooN" said that he could not have re-
?eiNed more attention. He was Jr. a
hospital tent with "a lot Of others. both
american and German wounded The
Germans Ind been dressed In clean pa
,tihas ana occupied comfortable cots
ne same = tho Yarkc" boys beside
;Een. They w-:c h.ing looked after bv
american hospital doctors
the bnchc officer. asked /: C;crrtan
Sp.aiera tai been told they would be
tlI."h ]: captured BY Americans. said
ne hFd not heard Il, and that any way
hf uplhisd II The story would have had
much erect on MIN Oh account Of too
many Germans having lived; in Amer
lea and know our people
After Icing settled IN prison catnps
~" prisoners nrc taken cut every day
with picks and shDNe!s and set 10 20
ra!r.ng roads American guards stand
guard over them wiki lived bayons,s
Ihey work pretty good" observed
an >nc-icau sentry. Respectfully pri-
Yates. Noncomni ssioned officers are
not SO good an officer said. would
not want any colonel and general II
want any work done"
The German prisoners alway; look
cold, They may be warm enough bu,
they never look II. In nine cases out Of
ten they come in without overcoats
II seems TO be settled principle with
the German to throw away his over
coat h-st IN Il retreat. The d-ab-sray
color OF their uniforms is best OF all
Tor h2hting, but II gives then, q sing
u!a:!y !or!orn appearance when they
40 stripped OF accutermeits and are
Vet and muddy. The frs; thing he
does when he lands in 4 prison cage
IS 10 get out his little clothes brush
aud start cleaning his clothes His sec
ond act Is 10 take of his clothes and
20 through them for eN:raneous ten
ants II Is remarkable fact, but
mighty few attempts 10 escape from
american camps have been made by
German prisoners