Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — MANY QUIT GERMAN ARMY [ARTICLE]

MANY QUIT GERMAN ARMY

Dutch Lieutenant Says Kaiser’s Soldiers Are Tired of War. An Atlantic Port, Sept. 28.—Lieut. Ysubrand de Compenaer of the Dutch flying corps, for more tlianUi year in service on the German frontier patrol, who arrived, told of German army conditions. He said: “The German soldiers are tired of the war. Many are hungry and many haggard. Thousands of German deserters have* crossed the Dutch border, ’ Those in uniform have been allowed their freedom, to work as they pleased. “The emaciated deserters who crossed the frontier just before I left said they were being fed on soup and black bread for breakfast, vegetables and sometimes goulash for the ‘big’ noon meal, and soup and black bread again for supper.”