The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09

German boys as young as 10 and 10
years Of age have been taken prisoners
by American soldiers. according to
Robert Johnson, son Of Mr. and Mrs
John Johnson, 205 North Eleventh
street, who is now in France with a
French Reconstruction unit Johnson
is located at Malabry, six miles out of
Paris.
Some Of the young German soldiers
brought in Paris as captives, he says,
only had three days training before
the ywere sent into action
Four thousand wounded men were
brought into railway station in one
night, Johnson says, after the recent
heavy fighting at the front. The cour-
age shown by these men is remark
able, he states. Many Of them have
been for several days without any
care other than that given at first aid
stations
Johnson was in Paris on Bastile Day
and witnessed the parade led by sol
diers from the front line trenches,
The parade was shown in moving pic
lures three days after the celebration,
and is being shown at an Indianapolis
motion picture house this week.
EiffeI Now Wireless Station.
Following is recent letter received
from Johnson by his parents:
II certainly enjoy receiving letters
from home. Sunday night / had six
letters awaiting me. or course they
were not all written at the same time.
Eyes, the Eiffel Tower is still stand
ing, but it is now used as a wireless
station and you are not allowed to go
up to the top, but l did walk around
1t and under it. Some of the buildings
Of the old Worlds Fair are now used
as schools for the re-education of the
war victims. | may have mentioned
in letter about visiting Napoleon s
Tomb on July A. The building just
north is used as a hospital, but that
day the grounds were open to the pub
lie so We went in. The Court Yard
was filed with all kinds of guns and
cannons now In use in the present
war, or rather the same styles are in
use. They had two French airplanes,
one of which belonged to a famous
French ace whom the French honored,
but who was killed about six months
ago. They also had a German battle
plane and bombing plane and what
was left of Zeppelin. There were
also many German shells and guns
which had been captured.
~ have received all letters up to
date although they do not come in
regular order. We now have a differ
ent address. Instead of 4 Place de la
Concorde, it is Suenne Gabriel The
Red Cross Postofice has changed
buildings IN order to have more room
They were getting so much mail that
they could not handle it very con-
veniently where they were.
Wounded Show Courage.
We have no soldiers here yet, but
we cannot tell when they will come.
Saturday we worked all day fixing
things up and the head nurse said that
there was a lot of red tape to go
through before they can send anyone
out here, for now it is in civil hands,
and 1t has to be turned over to the
military department. We have had
our beds taken from us so we have
to use cots which were furnished US
at Philadelphia. Saturday morning
we were given notice to be moved out
OF our houses within an hour so that
they could be fitted up, so we had to
hurry and pick out house which was
not furnished and move into it. We
have everything handy so that we can
move in few minutes notice.
You can read all you want to but
still not realize the awful conditions
caused by the war. Sunday some of
the fellows were called into Paris to
work at the Cares (railroad station)
taking care of wounded soldiers. They
were sending in train loads of French,
American and German soldiers. 1t
certainly is surprising how much a
man can endure and still live. Some
men had gone for two days without
the first dressing and some for four
days without food and with only the
first field dressing on their wounds.
Some of the boys said that some
German boys were captured from the
infantry. One was only thirteen and
the other fifteen and they had only
been in training three days before
going into the trenches. One machine
gun captured was being fired by a
woman. One fellow said that the
German gunners were chained to their
guns so that they could not leave. He
said that when one shell burst he saw
TIM man on nm In tho air with tho