Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — Fatalist Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Fatalist Soldiers.

On the British front orders are given out the night before detailing activities that are to take place the following day. The officers then hold a meeting and “trade” places with each other where duty would send them to a spot commanded by one or more of their personal acquaintances. Whether all men fighting on the other side of the ocean believe in fate is a .matter of conjectured However,' one officer who writes home emphatically does. “Again fate has intervened,” he wrote. “Again I have just escaped a miraculous death. As usual, we were ordered to the wenches, and for the fourth time the man I ‘traded’ with has been killed.”