The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-09-04
|KAlSER'S PEACE
TALK NO GOOD
Harry Evans Says Boys Over There
Will Not Listen to Peace Terms
From Kaiser Bill.
u. s. DETERMINATION PLEAsEs
European Allies at Last Understand
the Yanks and Our Ways Have
Taken Possession There
BY H. c. EVANS.

GENOA, ITALY, July 22-Uncondi.
tional surrender Grants terms
nothing else will satisfy Americas
! fighting men in Europe.
For a week I have been with a GER
l. tain American regiment, the first to
arrive in Italy. The regiment is un.
loading and assembling supplies Just
iarrived from home, preparing to move
to the Austro-Italian front.
/ am taking off ships Y. M. G.. A.
supplies, also just arrived, loading
them on freight cars and shipping
them to the front, where other Y men
are establishing huts and tents and
Icanteens against the arrival OF our
troops.
This particular regiment was one
of the first modified in the United
States. 1t is composed of young men
who volunteered at colleges. Ames
furnished SO and there were others
from Iowa City, Grinnell and Sioux
City They expected immediate SER
vice in France, and have spent the
fourteen months since modified in
intensive training and fretting over
the delay in getting into action.
Yesterday some Italian officers WIS.,
|ited our camp. During the converse
ton one of them expressed the belief
that now there are so many fighting
men from America on the line the
kaiser will offer some reasonable
terms of peace.
Boys Puzzle the Italians.
ITO hell with the kaiser's TERMS"
exclaimed Capt. Harper Of Denver,
we're not here to listen to any peace
terms the kaiser may offer. Well
make our own terms, and they'll be
unconditional surrender! We've never
fought war on land that we didn't
capture the enemy's army and that's
what We'll do in this war;"
The Italian officers were perplexed.
They withdrew and conferred
among themselves for few moments.
Many of our officers and men had
gathered around. Our militant cap
tain, supported by other U. S. officers,
some of whom outranked him, stated
that we can mobilize an army equal
in numbers to thearmies of all the
fighting nations in Europe; that while
we entered the war to help restore
IAC Vi 1Ioly Gnu oCl blcb Gnu
Belgium and France, we also entered
it to destroy the military power of
Germany, to conquer her, to make her
submit to the standards of cfiliza-
ton and keep her agreements with
other nations-in short, to disarm her
that in the future other nations may
live and develop their own ideals in
peace. How can this be done y ex-
claimed the captain, chow except to
conquer and capture the Germany
army? That's why we came, that will
we do"
And then those Italian officers stood
at attention, shouted, waived their
caps and shouted:
"Vive la Americans!"
U. S. Determination Pleases.
This determination of the Ameri-
can army is at last understood by our
European allies and it has sunk into
their souls and taken possession of
them. With its accomplishment they
sense such peace in Europe as has
never been known.
AS an example of the splendid spir.
it of the American troops L give an
example: Word was received that a
ship load of their supplies had ar
rived at a port seventy miles down the
coast. Captain Harper took a squad
of the men by rail to this port. The
ship was in dock. The men took off
a train of trucks and automobiles, as
sembled them and loaded them. The
contents of the ship were
loaded on a freight train At 4 O'clock
p. m. we started to drive the truck