Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — GUNS’ ROAR DRIVES MEN MAD [ARTICLE]

GUNS’ ROAR DRIVES MEN MAD

Soldiers Go at Each Other With Bayonets or Rush for Each Other’s Throats.

Washington, D. C. —Europe’s war Is converting hundreds of men Into raving maniacs, according to Maj. J. J. Dickinson of the State department, who recently saw fighting in th* trenches near Soissons. "They don’t fire at each other,” he said, "but the din of artillery directed at the covered trenches is positively maddening. Now and then I saw men jump out of the trenches and go af* each other with bayonets or in a mad rush for each others' throats. “From my position from trenches a little behind the actual firing line I saw hundreds of men brought back. They did not seem to be wounded. They were screaming, raving maniacs, driven Insane by that maddening roar of artillery overhead.”