Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-08
German Appeal to
Yark 'es to Quit

| Hun propaSdnGa as Il was practCed
or the hght!nS front, Intended to in;
/ duce the IanNee soldiers In France TO
lay down ihei. arms, IS shown in a
facsimile "doiger' received Saturday
by Mrs II. A. Cole, Of Taylor town
! ship, from her son, Sergeant Eldon E.
| Cole, of Company a, SlSth field signal
! battalion, now stationed at st. Care.
! France.
The original hand bill. dropped from
! u German airyiane over the American
! lines during he closing days Of the
war. vas picned up OCT. Is in the
! Alsace sector by a soldier in Cole 5
! company. Il s a fine example Of the
! art practiced by the Germans to Sc
duce the enemy but perusal Of the
copy sent TO Mrs. Cole will convince
any one in America that there is =
reason" why he Hun propaganda d.
rected at the Yank doug boys failed
of success.
The boche apparently did not know
his enemy, who did not prove as gull
lible as the Hun had anticipated. The
hand bill, headed How to Stop the
War" reads as follows:
DO your part to put an end to the
war. Put an end to your part of 1t.
You can do It, You soldiers; just stop
fighting and :he war viii end of Its
own accord. You are not fighting for
anything anyway What does il mat
ter 10 you who owns Metz or Strass-
burg? You never saw those towns nor
knew the people in them. so whatSdo
you care about them? But there IS
little town back home in the little old
United States you would like to see
and If you keep on fighting here in
the hope of getting LOOK at those old
German tortresses you may never see
home again.
The only way to stop the war is to
stop fighting. That's easy. Just quit
it and slip across (No Mans Land)
and Join the bunch that's taking IT
easy there waiting to be exchanged
and taken home. There is no disgrace
in that. That bunch Of American prts-
oners will be welcomed just as warm
| ~ as you who stick 1t out in these in
! fernal trenches Get wise; get over
the top.
| There Is nothing in the glory OF
! keeping up the war. But think of the
| Increasing taxes you will have TO pay.
! The longer the war lasts the larger
those taxes at home will be. Get wise
and get over.
| All the fine words about glory are
Tommy rot. You haven't any business
! fighting in France You would better
| be fighting the money trust at home
! instead Of fighting FELLOW soldiers in
| gray over here where X doesn't mat
| ter two sticks TO you how the war goes.
/ Your country needs you; your fam
| lily needs you, and you need your life
for something better than being gassed
or shot at deafened by cannon shots,
and rendered unfit physically by the
| miserable life you must live here.
The tales they tell you Of the cruel
! ties Of the German prison camps are
fairy tales. Of course, you may not
like to be prisoner Of war, but any
| thing is better than this internal place
with no hope Of escape except by be-
ing wounded, after which you will only
! De sent back for another mole in your
! body.
| Wake up and stop the war. You
| can IL you pant to- Your government
does not mean to stop the war for
years to come, and the years are go
/ ing 70 be long and dreary You better
come over while the going is good"