Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1915 — War Rations. [ARTICLE]

War Rations.

"It was shortage of supplies that caused the Germans to retreat from the Marne,” said Prof. Heinrich Siegel at the German-American chamber of commerce in New York. “I know a story to confirm that —a story, confirming, too, the German lightheartedness under difficulties. “An American correspondent said, in Paris, to a German infantryman, wounded at the Marne: “ ‘These new hairy rawhide knapsacks —do,you Germans like them? " ‘Do, we UM them?’ the wounded German infantryman answered.‘Why, with pepper and salt and a dash of onion we just dote on them.’ “r-’St. Louis Globe-Democrat.