Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1918 — JUST A SAMPLE OF KULTUR. [ARTICLE]

JUST A SAMPLE OF KULTUR.

Father Dhe received Tuesday a letter from France dated September 10, 1918. The letter was written by an old schoolmate of his, the Rev. Father Gonse, pastor of Henin-Sue-Cojuel, a town eight miles east of Aias. In this letter. Father Gonse informs Father Dhe that since February he is back in France after three years of captivity in Germany. This is good news of course but listen to this if you can without cursing the German Kultur. “In October, 1914, the Germane entered my parish after four days of resistance by the Alpin chasseurs. They had become ferocious. They took the mayor and myself and in our presence they burned fifty-two farms. Then they brought us back to town, and before us they set a fire to my church and rectory. “Not satisfied with that they knocked me down with the butt ot their guns and foi’nd great delight in piercing me all around with their bayonets. Finally for two days they kept me exposed to the bullets of our armies. My hair has turned snow white.” It is hard to gorgive. To forget is Do you think the Germans should be permitted to continue thei>r atrocities?—Benton Co. Tribune.