Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — HELP GERMANS TO FIGHT FIRE [ARTICLE]

HELP GERMANS TO FIGHT FIRE

West Pointers and American Doughboys Go to Aid of Moravian Colony. Coblenz, Germany.—Two hundred officers who recently were graduated from West Point military academy, joined hands with hundreds of American doughboys and civilians in fighting a fire which threatened to destroy the Moravian colony, an ancient order of religious workers at the Neuwied headquarters of the First division. The West Pointers, who are on a tour of the battlefields and the occupied area, were attending a dance given in their honor when the fire was discovered just after midnight. The flames got beyond the control of the German firemen and the West Pointers and The doughboys were summoned by Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, chief df staff of the division, to aid in quenching them. The-Americans fought the fire until daylight, when it was brought under coiitroL The blaxe was confined to one block.