The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-01-03
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1919.
GROWN PRINCE WILLIE" AD-
DRESSES LETTER TO
HIS DAD.

An interesting letter, which explains
itself as a take-off on the crown prince
Of Germany, appeared recently in a
Summerville, Mo-, paper, and has been
submitted to US for publication. In it
the crown prince is purported voicing
protest to the kaiser against Amer
lean activities at the rear of the Ger
man army.
On the run,
Somewhere in France.
Dear Papa:
I am writing on the run, as the
brave and glorious soldiers under my
command have not seen the Rhine for
80 long that the have started back that
way, and of course am going nit
them. Oh! Dere has ben some aw-
full dings happened here in France.
First ! started in my big offensive,
which was to crush the Americans, but
dey know so little about military tao
tics dat they will not be crushed like
want EN-.
sent my men in der fight in big
waves, and when dey got to the Amer
leans dey all say boo" as loud as dey
can holler Veil according to vat you
hat always told me, de Americans dey
should haf turned and run like blaz-
es.
But vat do you tink? y
Dem fool Americans don't know
anything about war, and instead Of
running de odder way, dey came right
toward us. Some of dem was singing
something about, "Ve won't come back
till it's over over there" or some od-
der foolish songs, and some of dem
laffing like fools. Dey are so ignor-
ant.But dey're awful reckless nit dere
guns, and ven dey come toward us, it
was den den dat my men took a no
tion to 60 back to de dear old Rhine.
We don't like de little old dirty
Marne river anyhow. And oh papa,
dem Americans use such awful Ian
guage Dey know nothing Of culture,
and say such offel things right before
as. And dey talk blasphemy, too.
Vat you tink dey said right in front Of
my face? One big husky, from
place dey calls Kansas, he said-Oh,
papa, hate to tell you vat an offel
ting he said-but ! can't help it, he
said "To hell nit der kaiser!" Did
you ever hear any ding so offel? I
didn't tink anybody would say such
of'el tings. It made me so mad.
/ wouldn't stand and hear such an
offel ting, so l turned and run mid de
odder boys. Vas I right. Vat?
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 de 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 "Dc Star Spangled Banner"
NIT machine guns on dem plates.
Can't you help us?
You remember in your speech you
said nothing could stand before de
brave German soldiers? Oh, papa,
don't believe desc ignorant Amer
leans ever read your speech, for dey
run after us just like We was a lot Of
rabbits. Vot you tink of dot? Can't
you send dem some Of your speeches
right away? Dey don't know how
terrible we are.
Can't you move my army back to
Belgium, we're we Won all our glory?
Ny men can vip all de vimmen and
children vot dem Belgiums can bring
up. But desc Americans are so rough
and ignorant. We can't make dem un-
derstand dot we are the greatest SOL
diers on earth. And ven we try to
sing Deutschland Uber Allies" dey
laugh like lot of monkeys.
But We are getting the best of de
Americans. We can out-run dem, pa
pa. II we are not the best fighters
on earth, we are sure the best run
ners. Nobody can keep up nit US ven