New Britain herald., 1918-04-22
HUNS GET TASTE 0l
 AMERICANS GH
Returned Salvation Army Cad
 Says Teut0n Has Learned Les |

That the German military mac on the Western front is graduallyJ sOrbing a wholesome respect for | Am eriCanS as fighters, is attested
 Raym Ond StarDard, an adjutant
 the war work forces of The Sa tion Army who arrived at an Atla port yesterday after seven mory strenuous work within range of | man guns. Adjutant Starbard col to get 200 new recruits to augllj the forces of trained and hnifor women and men serving the tr1 behind the firing line. |
 'On March 7," said Adjutant Sl bard in making his report to the Vation Army headquarters on VI Fourteenth street, "a certain sect of the American line was subje to unusual pressure from the ,
 man forces, and in the heat of itX one German, evidently more ex2 than his fellows. leaped tQ an
 posed position and in very exec
 English shouted Come on out
 Am erican dogs, and fight" Bel he could leap back to safety ond our men had thrown a hand-gren{ which took off both his legs Tj ensued a fierce encounter iR wlV the Americans accounted for 18d the Germans out of an original in the raiding group. Our men li
 discovered that the German
 leaped out to challenge the Ant jeans and lost first his legs and tj his life, as 8 consequence, was merly a New York city merchN This officer carried a rifle which grabbed out of his hands by men, and I have brought it back Am erica with me. German pris V CTS taken say they have all al planned to terrify the Americans ! lieving they are not real soldiers } have no disposition to fight, but ty admit now that they. have reasoD1 know the Americans are full of fl 5 They know it to their sorrow.
 Tt is quite impossible to desc the inferno over there. Just befl I left giant shell from the q man lines pumped itself down the dirt within 40 feet of 8 salvaa Army hut in which was Captain thur Andrews and some assistas as Had the shell exploded, the hut it's occupants would have been bl1 to atoms, but although it plowedI l ? feet, it did not go off.
 "One particular contingent German troops opposite our men} referred to as The Butchers by Americans, because of their wanI cruelty and brutality. Germa an py oners say these men are instrucl to terrify the Americans, but they really securing an opposite resl For example, the butchers sharY their bayonets to the keenness o3 razor, and they do not impale
 simply thrusting forward. as of They aim to side sWipe and to
 up and down, often disabling or kI ing three men at one sweep. q Am ericanS were quick to find about this, and they have not O become enthusiastic adopts at s swiping and scythe fighting, but md of them are actually shaving thQ selves with their bayonets, so keej have they sharpened them VI grindstones, and upon leather. line of defense in France will bf as good strategy requires, but it \ not break, and you can not intl soldier under the flags of the All who has the slightest doubt but N right and justice will prevail in end, and that Germany will be feated.'
 Adiutant Starbard is Q resident Worcester, Mass, and has been active Salvationist for many yea He is here on a brief trip to recr 200 additional workers for the n ments to augment the present Sal' ton Army force in France. Won of the The Salvation Army past age of 25 years, are eligible, proviq their health and strength permit the work in hand, but no men military age are accepted. The n vation Army has over 10000 or men fighting in the trenches beslq it's war workers behind the lines.