Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — TEA TAKES WINE’S PLACE [ARTICLE]

TEA TAKES WINE’S PLACE

Champagne’s Vintages Exhausted, French Soldier Writes—Slaughter by Bombs. 4 Paris.—The Temps has received the following letter, written in pencil, from the front: “I have been running across fields from one destroyed village to another in the midst of the odor of corpses which persists, owing to the fact that the graves of those killed in battle were not dug sufficiently deep . “Yesterday we took three villages with the bayonet. “The German companies now average only 95, notwithstanding the re-en-forcements which they have received. They are dying of hunger. Twenty bombs fall on them dally. On an average four persons are killed by each bomb. Where our 75 millimeter shells are well placed they are estimated to account for 30 dead per shell. “All the wine in Champagne has been drunk and we are now reduced to tea. I sleep here and there, whereever I am, and would find It disagreeable to sleep in bed. We eat well and the food is excellent. We are all in the best of spirits.”