Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1918 — FEAR HUNS WILL BE SCALPED [ARTICLE]

FEAR HUNS WILL BE SCALPED

Wife of German Prisoner Asks If the King of America Is Also Indian. London. —Letters from relatives and friends in Germany of U-boat crews interned in the United States are beginning to arrive in London. They throw little light on Internal conditions in Germany, but some are very amusing, as showing the appalling ignorance of the mass of Germans regarding the United States. One letter froin the wife of a prisoner says: “We hope you will soon return. You are certainly to be sympathized with. We are always prhying with our deepest feeling that you may not be eaten up by Indians or hanged by cowboys with lassoo ropes. “If they should wish to scalp you, you should first make appeal to the king of America. 1* he also an Indian?”