Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — HUNS POLISH YANKS’ SHOES [ARTICLE]

HUNS POLISH YANKS’ SHOES

Yankee Signal Corps Officer Saya Americans Are Curiosity to Germans. Philadelphia. The Germans are now polishing the shoes of the Americans,who formerly did that themselves, says a letter from Lieut. Frank H. Blythe to his father. Describing the march Into Germany, he said: “We are sort of a curiosity to the .inhabitants, and they have much fear that we will leave them to the mercy of the French and English.” The lieutenant has been overseas for i a year with the Four Hundred and I Fifth telegraph battalion and was slightly gassed once. ?■• —•—