Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — YANKS EAT HUN VEGETABLES [ARTICLE]

YANKS EAT HUN VEGETABLES

Invaders Cultivate French Gardens, and, Victorious Americans Gather Crops. With the American Army in France. —Vegetables planted by the French, cultivated by the Germans and gathered by the Americans were served at many American soldiers’ messes during the first two weeks of August, after the district south of Fismes 'and the Vefele had been cleared of Germans. When the Americans advanced north of the Ufarne, they encountered many vegetable tracts in which beans, lettuce, carrots, potatoes and various other garden truck was merely awaiting Its turn at the table. They had been planted by the French before the Germans came, and the German soldiers had done an excellent job of cultivating the gardens In anticipation of enough vegetables to supply them all summer. / ' > ,