Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1916 — Soldiers Noisy Dreamers. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers Noisy Dreamers.

Landladies of London lodging houses near by the railroad terminals such as Victoria and Waterloo are becoming diffident about taking Jn soldiers Just back from the front, particularly those who have participated in the fighting around Loos. The landladies say the poor soldiers fight the terrible battles over again in their sleep and the shrieks and hysteria are enough to shake the strongest nerves. Many of the men who took part in the engagement are afflicted with the most horrible of dreams and somnambulistically slash and kill, to the terror of all the other lodgers. Figures are unobtainable, but the cases of nervous breakdowns during the last few weeks have reached a high figure. Eveir officers have been affected, and men who have stood up under the strain since the early days of the war say that the sights during the recent offensive are too terrible for mention.