The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-03
German Crown Prince
Writes Letter to Father,
Kaiser Wilhelm, Describ-
ing Recent Retreat.
AMERICANS ARE VERY ROUGH
They Have No idea of Kultrr and
Were Blasphemous to Say ITO Hell
Nit Der KAISER and Other
Bad Words.

l0du WUIUa
That the German crown prince is
very much Shocked at the un-kultured
condition and lack of propriety of the
American soldiers now working pretty
closely in the rear of his army is evil
denced by this letter which was writ
ten by his royal highness to his au-
gust pap just after he had to skedaddle
across the Hindenburg line a few
weeks ago.
While the crown prince was writing
in his tent fixed up on the safe side
of hill far away from the scene of ac-
tivities, his aide came dashing up and
informed him that those dasted Ameri-
cans were after him again, that it SO
frustrated the prince that he forgot his
letter in his haste to avoid the uncouth
Americans and rushed away as fast as
his charger would carry him. An ire
weren't American picked up the sheet
when the Allied army came and oc-
cupied the ground where the Germans
had been and sent it to the Kenosha
Evening News, which publishes it here
with:
Dear Papa:
/ am writing on der run as der brave
and glorious soldiers under my COM
mand have not seen der Rhine for SO
long dat dey have started back dat
way and of course I am nit dem. Oh,
pap, dere has been some offel dings
happened here in France, first, started
in my big offensive with was to crush
der fool Americans, but dey know SO
little about military tactics dat day
viii not be crushed just like I want EN-.
J, sent my men in der fight in big waves
and ven dey got to der Americans dey
all said "Booo as loud as dey could
holler. Veil according to vat you have
always told me, der Americans hafe
turned and run like blazes. But vat
you tink? Dem fool Americans don It
know anything about war, and instead
of running der odder way, dey come
right towards us. Some of dem vas
singing something about FfVe Won It
Come Back Till it's Over, Over Dere''
or some odder foolish song and some of
dem yer lafing like fools. Dey are so
ignorant. But dey are reckless nit
dere guns, and ven dey come towards
US it vas dat my men took notion dey
wanted to go back to der dear old
Rhine. We don It like der little old
dirty Marine river, anyhow. And oh,
pap, dem Americans use such offel Ian
guage. Dey know nothing Of kultur,
and say such offel dings right before us.
And dey talk blasrhemy too. Vat you
tink dey said right in front of my
facet One big husky from a place dey
call Kenosha, he said - oh, papa, /
hate, I hate to tell you vat an offel ting
he said - but, 7 can t help it; he said
sSTo hell nit der Kaiser2 Did you
ever hear anything so offel? I didn't
tink anybody would say such a offe1
ting. It made me so mad I vouldn 4
stand and hear such a offel ting so /
turned round nit de odder boys. Vas
I righta Vote And, oh papa, you
know dem breast plates vat you send
US = can you send some to put on our
backs? You know We are going de1
odder way now and breast plates are
no good, for de cowardly Americans
are shooting us right in der back.
Some of our boys took off der breast
plates and put 'em behind, but de fool
Americans are playing "Der Star
Spangled Banner NIT machine guns
on dem plates. Can't you help u.s.
You remember in your speech you
said nothing would stand before the
brave German soldiers? Oh, papa,
don It believe desc ignorant Americans
ever read your speech, for dey run af,
ter US just like We vas a lot of rab-
bits. Vot you tink of dotq Can t you
send dem some of your speeches right
always Dey don t know how terrible
We are. Can t you move my army back
to Belgium we're We Won all our glory
My men can vip all de vimmen and
children vot dem Belgians can bring U.s.
But desc Americans are SO rough and
ignorant. We can't make 'em under
stand dot We are de greatest soldiers on
earth, and ven We try to sing "Deutsch-
land Ueber Allies dey laugh like a
lot of monkeys. But We are getting de
best of de Americans. We can out
run dem. Papa, if We are not der best
fighters on earth We are sure der best
RUNNERS. Nobody can keep up nit us
ven We tink of der dear old Rhine.
Your Victorious But Weary Son.