The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-09

During these eager and tumuliuou5
days the American people are looking
anxiouSly for light upon the character
vi the German people. For several
years public men have insisted that the
kaiser and the war party represented
militnriSn, hut that the good people u
Germany were gentle. Industrious. Kind
and honest But wis iir1cc mas com"
light upon many dark pTuoieihs; NOUS
and lens of thousands OF letters IN"
War journals have been taken from I'M
bodies Of German soldiers lctt lE!nA
upon the batllcticids. l.racr has Drought
All opportunity of tranSlatlnS these
letters and giving them out 10 IN" pit
pl, Thr Following letter WAS touHu On
Il German officer captured by the
Mansbach. July 3rd.
Il have safely received tho twenty .
one parcels. and many thanks Tor lh"i'.
wish YOU could have been here on Sat
urday nj the unpaCking OF the ilFc par
coils. which received tuEclhcr. 10 near
the remarks made, NJ tn" SIGHT ~ tnH
thirty drawers. the p"tlIcoat. me Snli .
Ihr little bonnet and the shirtwaI%t$.
ono could sec that they came from well :
ln-dn people. IL would bc best IL you
could 60 back to such places. YOU might
md more things Everything is uSrlui
10 US. ,.,r,,,n
Here is another letter. given "ul Nv
rho head OF the French high commits
,,poncr. Strphcr Lausanne:
"I;rIe-MitscNau. SaAonE.
Aug. II. iJlA.
Il am very glad that YOU can send ne
the parcels ot linen. for | could use eN'
crytnng. Send me what you can Ia!
there is nothing left here. mop" H""
can send nc thread for stockings. Sc'i"
nothing 10 any one hut me, Tor II" "nr
ti,,LS Of
| have received nothing from my emil
drrn. All the others arc rrcciFilI
things. Times ar" growing haruvr hnu
harder. Couldn't you send me SOM
chocolate Il YOU could lind some. L"ni
with zeal. | would prefer I" e% ihrr'
myself. WIKI my Big sack. l" collect ~
crything that could sec. HAY" !"'
sut some good soap: II you can NM
me some underwear. Srnu II |" NJ"
Anyway send me anything YOU can St"a
scr '''' 0S' MOTHER.
Now the young soldicrs,.t" whom thrS'
.r,r" mothers wrote these irtt"rS hd'
yuincd three hundred and nfiy ihnushnc
iuuses. and left Il nl::--.,n trench m"n
women and children without ROOF. Will
ut bed. without clothing. And yet y"
Jay their mothers, wives an" sweet
carts are crying and pleading TO have
hr arInisticn softcned so that they GU
irrp the locomotives and cars stoiri
hn beds end all their loot. But IN
German women. melted me German
thieves toward loot. TIC liuns ofnI
.nircd or nlIcd with water the Frencl
'"al MINIS, and nov tn at, tn tro fr'n 16
arc beginning In take EHaI, rom th
OMEN and men Shrek that this is con
NUN gIhe war after the war l.. oyer
md the women whine more loudly thai
nr Hun mon themselves. IN 1914 III
Iuns looted Belgium md l. + frn nnS -. %
lrir locomotives. freight cars ana pas
.i,of 10 IL
. reptiles their return. Solf. n" f4rcis'
| minister. has t"l"graphed from 3rri!
that tho German locomotives and car
hav, been worn ont by four years d"
war and TIM, unless they arc allowed I,
keep The locomotives and cars sihi"i
| from thn French and Helginns that III
German people will starve TO death
For sheer !mPudenccr for cunning Hes
and for hypocrisy. con1mrnd me 70 thcs
| Prugs!nns. II seems. therefore. that /
was German criminal who first mur
| asked mercy at the hands Of the cour
| because he was a poor orphan!