Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — RIDES WITH DEATH [ARTICLE]

RIDES WITH DEATH

Bearer of War Dispatches in Con* stant Peril. Letter From French Soldier Relates Narrow Escapes of Friend Who Makes Frequent Trips to the Trenches. New York. —The danger undergone by a messenger carrying dispatches from the war office to the front is told in a letter received by Robert Stovold of this city from his brother in the French army. The letter says, in part: “George and the duke -are also in the army now as interpreters. They are with General French and the English army all of the time. Harry is engaged to take officers with dispatches from the war office to the front three and four times a week. He sees George often*, “Three times a week George has to take dispatches up to the firing line. This is a pretty risky job and he has had several narrow escapes. Once he had to Jump out of his automobile and lie down for several hours while shells and bullets went whistling by over him. Another time as he was driving along with his automobile some Germans hiding in the woods fired at him. Fortunately they missed him, but several of the bullets struck the automobile. “Another time a shell burst twenty yards from him, but by a miracle he Was not touched. He was enveloped in smoke, however, the fumes of the shell making him feel sick and giddy. George, however, seems to think it great sport. “Harry Colliard in the trenches also has been in some of the thickest of the fighting. He is fighting there day and night. Although he has been in many of the bayonet charges, he has bo far escaped unscathed. Let’s hope it will always be thus. Bob’s brother has not been so fortunate. He was wounded in the head by shrapnel and picked up on the battlefield insensible. He found himself in the hospital when he recovered. He is nearly well now, though, and hopes to return soon to have another smack at those Germans. “What a terrible war this is, Bob. Several of my very dear friends have been killed, a few others wounded and one is now a prisoner in Germany. If it were not for the wonderful fighting of the English we would have suffered more. But by the time you get this letter you will be reading that the Germans are in full retreat.” After relating the sufferings of the wounded and the hardships undergone the writer closes with the words, “I should just like to have the job of shooting that kaiser.”

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