Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1918 — GERMANS FINALLY WAKE UP [ARTICLE]

GERMANS FINALLY WAKE UP

Wi> Prisoners at Camp Sherman Convinced War Lost, Chillicothe, 0., Dec. 23.—Finally convinced news of Germany’s defeat is authentic and not “a pack of English lies.” German prisoners of war at Camp’ Sherman have stripped the navy buttons thclr which they have worn since internment. The prisoners wore taken offDeftnan vessels at the beginning of, the war. They declined to believe first reports of Germany’s defeat.