Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-20
FEED THE HUN? CERTAINLY,

To the Editor 0t the Herald:
have no patience with americans VINO
would refuse B listen 10 the plea ~ the
Germans - be fed bv their conQuerors
Certainly they should be fed by Us, and
rhev should get Just what they themselves
consider is proper iood. nOuushlng anu
sufficient Luckily, the Germans them
selves have gone on record N MS mat
ter and have shown what they believe -
be sufficient raUoning IOr men. tliled
with klnuness ana a desire 10 take the best
III care 81 yhelr prisoners Of war, rhe treT-
mans gave nen food nearly every DAY
ana Inns IL would De only Just ana
proper Tor u 10 give the Germans Ioou
nov -0I the same hlnd and n lke guam
Titles.
Any american citizen worthy 81 Jhe
name wilt surely not hegrtrdge ms snare
oi he following daInt!es Tor tle Ger
mans. al oi them being exactly what he
English. French Belgian, Italian, Rus
sian and american prisoners of war re-
eeIEed from the Germans IN the prison
camps according D orlciai reports.
Here are some oi the thlngs / believe
americans should give up IN order mar
ne Germans should have sufficient touL
il their present distress
AcoUns for making coffee substitute
Let americans ioregO tneir -hare o
storn, s0 that the poor Germans may
have ther coffee in The mornings.
Sawdust TO help out in the making %
bread No true American VIII enter
protest against letting the Germans
have sawdust IN moderate quantities
Tor bread making,
Boiled water On page 5 ID the Re-
port on the Treatment BY the Germans
81 Prisoners II War TaGen During hc
Spring Offensive oi 1918. published by
he British government, .appears tAe
following.
We had starvation diet, iying pr4c-
tlcAly ia bread and water, and he
Sour was 1o stronger than boiled water
Don't ct is BE- harl hearted. let Az give
Ip Sufficient boiled water every day -
that the Germans uay haye tht same
klud oi uuunShing soap they gave ~ me
pr-ouers ot war
And herr X rh, e>t,uon, * au -,nL-
b-n prisoner rho escaped .ruu. ly Get-
man nrl>ou cage ~a'onc Nhcra 300
British and holt 500 Portuguese were
confined
Thc fr~t +hsuE il Thv myrru- nr -ul
Nind III as-ucal. jor dungr kul oi
-rg,y a. hoi~eic~h ec Coaf , mr4t. hr
latfer vas guJ'l uncaanie Sometimes
instead Nr J0t some ycrN b.3tk klnu
of fish, fuii Nd ammenA and -alt and
UNBEATABLE Oitcu wc got uo tct. When
wr dd Nc GOT 4 small pIcye y, bologna
sausage about thc size of hJ.i q crown
and 4 quarter of sn inrh thick ana
sometimes. though rarely a small ea-
spoonful Of kind oi apple leily
Iet uS all make up our minds - Civ, ip
ol.r horseAcSh and goats meat ana u-
noniAted ana ,iltrd black fish ana tInr
bit NJ sausage and small ieaspoouiul Il. a
KAMA ~ apple icllv that he noor ,fa.v-
mg Germans may feast and bv mcrry
surety they would ASH nothing p, ttyr h,I,
thcv thought proper % give their prison
ers II was good enough for thc English-
men Ind Frenrhmcn ana Bglgans and
Americans. Il will be good enough for he
Germans Their tastes may be a little
peculiar but with that We haze nothing
to do Ii they like soup mo stronger thsn
| boiled water Il Is their concern They
must have thought ii very good and
nourishng, 81 surely thev would not have
given ID to prisoners ~ war That Goc,
without SAVING. n. N. x.
New Work CitN, Nov. IA. 1915. New
| York Herald