Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-08

forward to going into that kitcher
every night. 1t was CHEEKY anC
comfortable to sit there in the mut
! ana dirt and sip steaming hot sour
cut of tomato cans used as cups ani
smoke the rottenest cigarets 1 evel
came across, but the finest becaus,
OF their associations.
over Here, July 8, 1918.
You asked me for my feelings to-
wards the Huns. At first we haC
merely a feeling that they were oul
enemies and that they were net re
sponsible for what their officers per
mitted them to do. A very vagu,
feeling which 1 cannot describe, bu
nothing of hatred existed. We woulC
| nave shared OUR last cigaret will
| prisoners. But now the feeling ha.
changed. 1t has changed to feelinl
of hatred and anger even to see pris
oners. They are the most barbar
! ously cruel and fiendish instrument
| OF hell that exist. All chance of be
ing treated right has been destroyed
by their own actions. The Saxons ar,
really fair fighters. They can bt
treated as good sportsmen and if We
had. them to contend with the wal
would be over, but unfortunately tn,
major part of the German army 1.
made up of Prussians and Bavarian.
the most damnably treacherou.
and low down humans that exist
They are hardly human for they are
not even good savages. You can tel
Prussian and a Bavarian easily
They are the round-headed type with
ugly eyes; dirty fighters but afraid
to come over alone; that is why they
come in mass formation over the top
because they must feel the contact
OF their bodies with their fellows tc
give them courage.
They dislike the bayonet extreme
ly and fear it though they are train
ed in its use from boyhood. What
would you think of an enemy who
when given an hour to bury their
dead and bring in their wounded
who lay all over No Mans Land
and hung on the barbed wire, carry
out machine guns in their stretchers
and drop them into shell holes and
other convenient places for outposts ?
They thought they were not seen, but
not machine gunner survived. nor
were they given any more armistices
know of one regiment which nc
longer takes prisoners. Germans who
are unfortunate enough to fall into
this regiments hands are killed, nc
matter whether they pray or weep
for mercy.
1T is all because one day in an at
tack on a certain famous ridge
members of this regiment found one
of their sergeants crucified to a barn
door with German bayonets and was
dying when they found him. In Ger
man dugouts in the front lines have
been found Belgian girls with theiI
throats cut. 1 was in one German
dugout, a massive concrete affair, re.
enforced with steel rails in which a
crucifix had been found with a wire
attached leading to an internal ma.
chine. / was talking with a mar
whose comrade had been. shot in the
back by a German whose wounds
he was attending. The Boche lay
wounded on a stretcher and the jocl
was bandaging him. When he turned
his back to get a pair of scissors the
Hun shot him in the back, needless
/ to say the mans comrade buried the
gun butt in the Germans face. Ir
some cases l have seen some of the
things. So you can see from these
! tales the kind of an enemy we face
and yet no one fears him, for righ
down in his rotten core the average
German is yellow. For my part
would sooner be shot than be taker
into Germany as prisoner. Hi.
pistol bullets are nearly all dunn
dums. Every seventh or tenth ma
chine gun bullet is explosive and hi
bayonet has saw teeth on the bacl
of it."