The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-03
DOUBTS TRUTH OF STORY ABOUT TRICK
 PLAYED ON HUNS
To the Editor of The Ase-Herald.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In your issue of this day-October ap-
 under the display caption, "Yankee,s pIay
 Irick on Huns and Take 51 Prisoners :. read with disgust and supreme doubts
 ot its truthfulness story so discreditabie
 to American soldiers that I can't ra-
 frain from saying that sincerely hon. that the story as given is totally r.I.. l hate as ardently as h,man cap ha.. the internal, cruel. treacherous Hups ana would. if in my power, visit upon them rebuke so destructive and deyaa- taung that would forever more he r.. mempered by them as an awful prica pald Tor their savage inhuma nity er nioited Tn the exploitation of their na- tional theory that might is right Rnt
 ardently as I hate the Huns. 1 do most vehemently condemn. If true, the exhibj- ton or treachery of American soldiers IS reiated In the article above referred tn
 nave son now in France fighting
 Tor the highest ideals of human rights. Justice and liberty. But I would rather taat ne and ten hundred thousand other Amercan soldiers should sacrifice their lives in honorable battle, and our cause
 De lost. than that such an example of
 oamnable treachery and stultifying dis play Of moral degeneracy should become precedent for American manhood. Yes.
 verify. l hate. loath and despise lying.
 disguised treachery and dishonesty in
 every form. shape and manner. But lan- suage Is too weak to express my aver sion, contempt and heart sickeninE dis
 gust Of any set of men wearing a sol dler's uniform, who could stoop so low as to put on the camouflage of the holy
 cross of Christian chaplains, and, under the pretense of charity and friendly hos pltahty, violate every principle of hon. faI nv,A
 make prisoner 51 confidtng men, even
 though they be recognized enemies and
 perhaps so abased In German kulture as 10 be themselves incompetent to compre-
 hend the meaning of the words honor and honesty. No matter how low, bestiai
 and dishonest they may be, they are not
 one whit less degraded and unworthy of respect than are any set of men who may
 have condescended to do the dirty "tricN''
 as related
 l for one trust that the story will be investigated by proper military authority and if proven false. that due publicity
 be made of the fact But if the story be verified, then I would for the honor of all Americans have the guilty culprits
 of the dastardly trick of cowardly sub terfuge. dishonorably discharged from tho army and committed to penal servitude for life; and, to make amends proper to the "betrayed" Huns I would have them conducted safely back to their own lines
 and given an officially written and signed apology
 But. In spite of the fact that the dis creditable story comes with the imprima- ture of the Associated Press and is fea- tured on the front page of The Age Herald, I can't help believing 1t Is Of German origin, and nothing more than a wicked islander to cast reflection upon and disparage the character of American soldiers.
 During the civil war there were hun dreds of instances reported of 'Yank and Rebs' meeting between the lines to barter with each other usually coffee and tobacco, and there never was an in- stance in which either Tank or Reb acted the traitor by abusing a cosfidence oi his vis-a-vis. o. T. DOZlER. Birmingham October 30. 1918.