Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — WHEN PASSION TAKES HOLD [ARTICLE]

WHEN PASSION TAKES HOLD

Terrible Spectable When Fury Supplants Dull CoM*age in the Soldi*. Paris.—The following scene was described by an officer who took part in its “For long hours the soldiers have lain in sodden burrows exposed to terrible fire. Nerves are unstrung, tempers on edge. At last they are upon the enemy; they can now prove their valor with cold steel. At last it is man to man. “Suddenly the sound of loud and continuous laughter is heard. One of the soldiers has passed the border of

restraint. He is transformed, a very figure of destruction; it is no longer dull courage, but a blaze of fury that sweeps the ranks of the enemy like a fire. “Machine guns have no reply to such zeal of passion; no machine conceived could oppose this living flood of wrath. The sound of that terrible laughte will ring in my ears as long as I live.”