The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-31
FORCED TO SER RYICE, DESERTED
|" HUN ARMY, n 0W YANK SOLDIER
Relatives Fighting for Kaiser
Captured Made to Work Un-
der Sergeant Eisch in Prison
Camp.
U. S. NOn-Com. Hopes to ''Pound
Sense Into Heads" of German
Officers Who Once Command.
ed Him.
N K. A. Special to The Tribune.

N &. A. Special to The Tribune.
Paris, France.-This is the remark
able record Of Sergeant Andrew Eisch,
an American who used to be a Ger.
man:
Born in Germany p years ago.
Emigrated 10 America 12 years ago;
lived at 240 River street, Menasha
Wis.
Forced into the German army dur
ing a visit to Germany IN 1913; sent
to subdue Africans in German col.
only; deserted and returned to Amer
lea.
Entered Chicago Institute of Tech
nolOgy: instantly volunteered in Unit
ed States army when America declar-
ed war on his hated Fatherland.
Sergeant Eisch has two brothers in
the United States navy. They also
were born in Germany. Six other
Americans of German birth are in
Sergeant Eisch's battalion.
Fight for Adopted Land.
"lll tell you why l, a German by
birth and former soldier in the
kaiser's army. am fighting against
Germany" he said. Its the same rea-
sons my brothers have and the rea
son the six other Germans In my bat
TALON have.
''lt's because We knew that if the
United States had not gone into the
war within five years from now the
Germans would be half way across
America Eventually the United
States would have beaten them. but
the loss Of life and property in our
adonted land would have been ter.
rible." = # ,- p
Sergeant Eisch complains because
his officers. won't let him get into the
front-line trenches. It isn't because
he or the other erstwhile Germans are
not trusted, but because the officers
realize the terrible fate that would be
visited upon the German-born Yanks
were they to fall into the hands Of
the Boches. 4 f'@.. =.
Horrors Of Fatheriand. "a
Captured German soldiers have
told me Of the horrible moral condi.
tions in Germany" the sergeant said.
'Thay say it is violation Of the law
for woman, whether married or not,
to refuse the attentions of any sol.
der! ~
"The soldiers think that sort Of
thing is all right. They don't stop to
think that the German command is
taking every ungodly means possible
to rebuild it's manpower for another
war. They think it's all right be-
cause it's the law The law OF might
is the only law German knows.
We've got to pound sense into people
like that" -s-r. .'r y ~. 't..p. IS.
Chief among the HUNS into whom
Sergeant Eisch wants to pound
sense" are three lieutenants who bull
lied him when he was in the German
army. He plans to do the pounding
with his automatic revolver.
One of Eisch's uncles, a private In
the German army, was brought in
iwhta gang of prisoners the Ameri
cans took at Scissors. And in the
American victory at Saint Hihiel two
of his cousins. also German privates,
were placed in a working gang under
him. -. ...a
|, "They told me what would happen
to me If the Germans captured me-
the sergeant smiled, "but that didn't
bother me. I made them work. tell
you! I got their photographs and sent
them home to the folks in America,
just to let them know that were
pounding sense into the fool branch
Of the family that didn't have brains
enough to get out of Germany