Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — TOLD TO DESERT, SAYS HUN [ARTICLE]

TOLD TO DESERT, SAYS HUN

Allies’ Boy Prisoner Asserts Mother Urged Him to Surrender at First Chance. New York. —The spirit of American forces overseas has raised the morale of the allied troops to the highest pitch, according to Dr. E. W. Buckley of St Paul, Minn., supreme physician of the Knights of Columbus, who has just returned from a tour of the western front. While there he had Interviews with General Pershing, General Mangin, Premier Clemenceau and other allied leaders. This spirit, Doctor Buckley asserted, was in sharp contrast with the spirit of German prisoners he saw. “One of them could not have been more than fifteen,” he said... “This boy told American officers, his mother had badfcnim surrender at the first opportunlty.”e