Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1914 — DIED FOR THE FATHERLAND [ARTICLE]

DIED FOR THE FATHERLAND

Germans Fear God and Nothing Else, ■' Is Epitaph on Trench of Dead. v New York.—“ Germans fear God and nothing else.” This was the epitaph printed and tacked on a board at the head of a long trench of German dead, which was read on the battlefield at Saarburg by Gustav Voelker of Brooklyn. Voelker, who Is an American citizen, and who was visiting relatives In Alsace-Lorraine at the outbreak of the war, was a passenger aboard the Holland America line steamship Ryndam, in port today from Rotterdam. “Many of those killed In battle were unburled when my cousin, Lieutenant Oscar Jung of the flying corps, took me over the battlefield In an auto,” said Voelker. "The Germans had fought the French under overwhelming odds and had beaten them. Those of the fatherland who fell —and they were many— only this stem epitaph to mark their grave.**