Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Amreican Casualties to Be Part of Daily News Now. [ARTICLE]

Amreican Casualties to Be Part of Daily News Now.

Lafayette Journal. American soldiers are now prisoners of Germany, and other American troopers have been slain upon the battlefields of France. Henceforth such news will be a part of the daily press dispatches, but the first announcement will bring the greatest shock and should serve to unite the people as nothing else can do. It is a case of on for all and all for one and very loyal citizen should rally to the support of the government in this hour. Whatever the task that you can perform, do it cheerfully and at once. At last Germany is convinced that American troops are opposing them. German newspapers gloat over the capture of these men and in this way break the news to their own readers whom they have constantly deceived as to the part the United States was taking in the war. Heretofore all German prisoners taken by the allies have expressed ignorance of the fact that Upited States soldiers were in France. But the thing that hurts most is the fact that these prisoners will be subjected to the utmost barbarity as a lesson to us for our temerity in daring to enter the war. It is a well knoyvn fact that German hatred against England prompts the most flagrant abuse of British soldiers who are captured, while the French are treated with greater consideration. But we may depend upon it that no mercy will be shown to our men and this knowledge should spur the country to greater endeavor to endthewarasquickly as possible.