The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
ARROGANCE OF HUN
 IN OCCUPIED AREA
 GROWS MORE ACUTE
|Sergt. Harold Mandy Tells of Clashes Between Amer
 ican Soldiers and Ger man BOlsheviki.

That the arrogance of the German delegates to the peace conference has spread to the German people in the oc- cupied area is evidenced by recent letter received from Sergt Harold Mandy of the Fourth division, army of ccupation, who is stationed at Aun- lernach, town on the Rhine about F niles from Coblenz
 Sergeant Mandy who was formerly on the staff of The Age-Herald, states hat there has been frequent clashes between the American soldiers and the German bolsheviki, and that the boys ire impatient to invade Germany, to even up with the squareheads."
 The letter from the sergeant is dated June 4, and is officially censored The etter in part follows:
 The outfit am with has been over lere nearly IS months and has par icipated in some of the hardest fights )n the front. They have taken just IS much as they are going to stand for rom these 'sauareheads and some of
 hese nights there is going to be q
 reak out and freefor-all killing,
 or they are all sore on the way the Germans have acted.
 "ShouId the Germans fail to
 sign the peace treaty, we are un-
 der orders to advance 100 kflomc-
 ters further into Germany. and
 if these orders nre received the
 boys swear they will kill every Dutchman in sight, and they hope there will be no signing of an ur- msstice this time.
 Since the German delegates at tEe peace conference have acted so arro- gantly, the people here have become more bold, for they haven't yet real ized that they have been defeated. and every now and then they start some thing, and generally in the American area, for they shave learned that the French and British won't take damn thing from them.
 We are still having considerable trouble with the Germans, especially the bolsheviki element. and severa .lashes have occurred between ou1 boys and the people here. Last Sat urday night they started out to raise a disturbance but our officers got or to it, and about two minutes after the call to arms was sounded, the whole bunch was rounded up and are now 1T | the brig awaiting trial
 q know that I Lave no right to l say how things over here should l be run. hut for the past two or | three months we have had more or | less trouble with the UeT"ahs' i The French and British don't have 1 any trouble, for on one occasion 1 they opened fire on the peace dis l turbers with a machine gun. killed l nearly 100. and since that time they have had no further trouble, and the boIshevikis have kept quiet. l "All we do is to arrest them, pu them in the brig, feed them bette | than they have been fed since the wa | began. give them light sentence an turn them out. and in few week they start over again.
 "Since Saturday night the bolshe
 yilsis have gone on a strike. seyera
 factories have been closed, and tn
 railroad trains have stopped runnlns
 sunday afternoon there was fieh
 between some Germans and rev
 American soldiers in whicr tbree tf~r
 mans and one American were killAi
 and one American badly cut up. Whe
 these facts became known 1t was Q
 that the officers, military police an guards could do to keep our boys frof starting a free-f all-fight."