Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-10-11

VOL. Tx, NO. 8
With Our Soldier add Sailor Boys.
Following is q l. tier to his wife, un-
der date of June z5th. from Lieutenant
Edward Issacs, " o at that time and
probably still is prisoner at Karls-
ruhe, Baden, Germany. The pictures to
which he refers have arrived and are
very good, his mother having one sent
her, also another picture of larger
group Of prisoners
II am still at this camp and do not
know when I shall be transferred to q
permanent camp. This is . sort of de-
tention or sorting camp for oil nation
alifies but some of the officers have
been here over year. The British
Red Cross and the French Red Cross
send certain amount of supplies here
and . few officers form themselves in
to . committee for the purpose Of dis
tributing whatsver they have among
those present. The French committee
received word to look after the Ameri-
cans 20 they have been very kind to
me and have given me necessary food
and clothing. these Red Cross sup
plies are emergency supplies intended
as tide over along those lines. Any
way wrote the Red Cross at Geneva,
Switzerland, and asked them to please
render me assistance until such time as
could receive aid from home. The
Commandsnt here advised me to do
this and he was exceedingly cordial and
we had . pleasant chat.
It is strange how small the world is.
Do you remember Battle, 1910, who
was on the Kansas when I reported af-
tor our honeymoon! Well his brother,
an aviator, just came in and also two
others of our avistors. These are the
first of our Americans have seen but
Of course there are many Canadians
among the British so l haven't felt SO
entirely alone as ! might otherwise
have. Our barracks are fitted for
eight officers each. I have been with
seven Frenchmen but we Americans
will try and join forces.
suppose, dear heart, you will want to
know howl spend my day; here is .
sample: rise in time for 7:30 or 900
o'clock mass. About $50 our orderly
(a.French Poilu) brings us coffee to
our hut which is from the French com
mittee. At 1000 we have roll call in
the central hut used as sa church, bill
lard room, theatre. etc, Then I take
An hours fast walk 70 keep in good
condition. At 1890 we have lunch in
the mess hall. Then in the afternoon
l usually promenade with French
Lieut.. Degrsll who talks English while
I,talk French. He is the French com
mitteeman By the way. Between 4
and 6 We have tea or supper or what
ever you want tocall it, this in our huts
from the food given by the committee.
1t doeen't get dark until HOO 80 we
have : long evening. We usually
promenade around until 7:45 when we
again have muster and then read until
100 when every one must be in his
hut. We have four priests here; FIR.
Fitxmaurice for the English and one
Italian, one French and one Serbian,
no I believe the Serbian has gone. So
we have three masses in the little
chapel every day. Ienjoy that part of
it. FIR. sFitzmsurice is very nice, he
had me over for tea the other day and
last week went to communion after
going to confession to him. A repre-
sentative delegation had our pictures
taken in groups the other day oil ma
tions. l shall send you one next time,
sweetheart provided get mine. You
will notice have my old uniform on;
well, was lucky to have even that for
it was o'clock in the morning and I
often wore only shirt around the ship
ct that time. Did I tell you we were
sitting at breakfast Il had just fin
ished) taking when the three torpe-
does struck us. was on life raft
] Ia the water for about 40 minutes and
then one Of the boats picked US up. A
few minutes later was ordered
aboard the submarine which had re-
rtufned. The captain wanted me TO
point our the senior naval officer and
failing that he told me he would have
to take me prisoner to France. know
that the destroyers picked up the sur
vivors about fifteen or eighteen hours
later but have no way of knowing
how many were lost. hope yen haye
corresponded with Search or some of
the others who were saved and were
with me oil the time. I wonder where
you are, dear heart, and sincerely hope
you are not Worrying but will make the
best Of things. am well but we have
hnon having ar,ch rainv woathAr that