The Robesonian., 1918-11-07
WRITING ON THE RUN.
Crown Prince Willie Writes His Papa
About the Terrible Americans.

The following, taken from a news
paper in France and sent to relatives
by Nevada doughboy who is fighting
in France, is going the rounds of the
newspapers:
everywhere in France,
Gail The Time,
"Dear Papa: I am writing on der
run, as der brave and glorious SOL
diers under my command have not
seen der Rhine for so long dot they
hafe started back dat way, and. OF
course, | am going NIT dem. O!l, Pap,
dere has been some offel dings nap
pened here in France. First | start
ed in my big offensive which was to
crush de fool American but dey knows
SO little about military tactnics cat
they will not be crushed just like
want dem. | sent my men. IN der
fight in big waves and ven dey got to
de Americans dey all said boo as
loud as dey could holler. Veil, &C
cording to vot you have always told
r,c. de Americans have turned and
runned like blazes. But vat do you
Tnk? Den7 fool Americans don't
know anything about war, and instead
of running de odder way, dey came
right towards us. Some of dem was
singing about: We Won't come back
till it's over, over dere," or some odder
foolish song, and some of dem was
laffing like fools. Dey are SO ignor-
ant. But dey are offel reckles NIT
dere guns, and ven dey come towards
us it was dat my men took notion
dey wanted to go back to de dear old
Rhine. We don't like de little dirty
Marne river anyhow. And, Oh pap,
dem Americans use such otfel Ian
guage Dey know noting about kul-
tur. And dey blaspheme, too. Vat
you dink dey said right in front Of
my face? One big husky from blaze
dey call Missouri, he said oh, pap,
/ hate to tell you vat an offel ting he
said, ITO hell nit de Kaiser! Did you
ever hear anything so offel: l didn't
tink anybody would say such an offel
ting. 1t made me so mad l wouldn't
stand and hear such an offel ting, so
turned around and run mitt de odder
boys. Vas l right? Vat? And, oh,
pap, you know dem breastplates vot
you sent us-can you send some to
put on our backs? You know We are
going de odder way now and breast
plates are no good, for the cowardiy
Americans are shooting us right IN
der back. Some of our boys took Off
der breastplates and put dem behind
but de fool Americans are playing
Der Star Spangled Banner NIT ma
chine guns on dem plates. Can you
help US?
"You remember in your speech yor
said nothing could stand before the
Brave German Soldiers. Oh, paper,
don't believe desc ignorant Americans
ever read your speech, for dey run at
ter US like we was lot of rabbits
Vot you tink of dot? Can't you sen(
dem some of your speeches right e.
way? They don't know how terrible
we are. Can't you have my army bacl
to Belgium where We Won all ou
glory?
"My men can vip all de vimmen AM
children vot dem Belgians can brint
UP. But desc Americans are SO roug]
and ignorant. We can't make dem un
derstand that We are de greatest sol
diers On earth and ven We try to SIM
Deutschland Uber Allies dey laugh
like lot Of monkeys. But We ar
getting de best of der Americans. '
can out-run dem. Papa, if we Wer
not the best fighters on earth we sur
are de hest runners. Nobody can kee
I'D NIT US when we dink Of der dea
old Rhine and my army never did din
SO much cf dot dear Marne and Meus:
"Lat re me know RIGHT away vot
do by "otUrn pOstoffice.
"CLOWN PRINCE WILLIE"