Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-03-13
BLACK WATCH, NOTED
.SCOTCHMEN, STRIKE
TERROR TO GERMANS
DR. PETIT DESCRIBES EFFECT
LADIES FROM HE'LL" HAVE
UPON THEIR FOE--OTTAWA
OFFICER AGAIN UP ON FRONT
LINE

The terrorzation proceeding q rush
OF the Black Watch, Scotlands famed
Ladies' From He'll brigade. and the
effect 1t has upon the Germans is told
in DR., Roswell Pettits latest letter
home IRON somewhere over there. ;
Or Petit says Sam Blithe's article or
what might happen in the Mississippi
Valley "struck him in the chest with
its potent possibilities Of bringing the
war near TO home. He also has some
thing to say of Bochc butchery, But
above all else he says that when the
big show starts in the spring he
knows the Yanks will give a good ac
counting Of themselves and that moth
ing viii stop them His letter follows
February s. 1918.
Dear Father:
Your letter OF Dec 3lst reached
me yesterday and the pictures shoy-
ing the snow storm were very IN
terestine. 1t must have been some
Storm and together with the coal
shortage, conditions must be quite
serious,
have received several packages
OF Ottawa papers during the past
week and was quite interested in
reading several OF my letters to you,
| am sure that have no objection
to you publishing them If they arc
OF general interest | also received
several copies OF the Saturday Even
ing Post. It's all war. war wa"
isn't 1t? When the casualty !! It's
start coming in it will begin TO have
personal interest to those at
home, but | must say that from
what | can gather from the papers
and magazines. the American ,peo
Die are showing wonderful spirit
and | can't help feeling proud that
! am an American When the bis
show starts. probably this Spring.
| know the Nanks viii give good
account Of themselves not at first,
as they haven't been hardened 20
shell fire, but after bit Of season.
ing nothing will stop them. The
French and British think We are
going to be wonders, and / have to
keep putting on the soft pedal al
the time as ! am afraid they are
expecting too much Of us
was in fairly large town se1.
eral days past and sitting in an
officers club reading the Saturday
Evening Post Of Dee. Goth, | believe.
had just finished reading an ar.
tcle by Samuel G, Blythe. called
Der Tag for Us" In this article
he takes authenticated instances of
atrocities in Belgium and northern
France and puts them in Middle
West Omitted States) setting. 1t
hit me right in the chest. ! never
had thought that such II thing
might happen to us at home. but
the better become acquainted via
the facts, the more convinced | am
OF the fact that such a thing miQht
have occurred. 1t recalled con
Yersation | had in Washington vita
Mr. Woefel. head Of the WOetel
Leather Company in Morris. He
told me that twelve years ago he
was in a restaurant in Prussia and
an army officer in making boast to
some of his fellows said. First Eng.
land and then America.
And then | heard the buzz and
hum OF Scotch bag pipes. and look.
ing out the window haw the Black
Watch coming down the street The
very name strikes terror into Ger.
man soul The Black Watch The
Tomnlics speak the words with awe
and reverence and when the Boche
hear it he either runs or throws up
his hands--unless he Is chained to
machine gun The Black Watch is
the licrcest Of the Scotch regiments
and they have made Fritz pay dear.
ly for some Of his atrocities Early
in the war when the Germans We're
so cocky they cruciIed u sergeant