Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — The German Way. [ARTICLE]

The German Way.

I remember one day having passed through a small fanning village very badly burned and shattered, not by shells, but by explosions from Inside the houses. I was just about to ask my officer why so punished, when, as we came outside, my attention was attracted to a conspicuous little flat-topped hill, with its level summit quite clear of the low woods that covered the hill’s sides. The top had been cleared and smoothed so that it could be planted In grain, and it stood out a vivid and beautiful green, in contrast with the dark treecovered slopes. I spoke of the hill and its conspicuous top to my officer. “Yes,” he replied angrily, “the last French spy to be landed from an airplane was put down right here on that flat top. We could not catch him. We think he hid In this village.” My unuttered question about the village was already answered.—-Vernon Kellogg In Atlantic.