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Show mm Is Dispirited, While jne and Disease j Jarry Civilians. e of Missives Taken n Prisoners Shows Lower Morale. i WILLIAM X EUTLER. i Service Staff Correspondent. Sept. 24. Germany i. weaker weak-er army is clisplriled. Famine K stalk tiiroiigli the land. Clvil- beins .S'adiiy cl ireil UBioned as t. o.'iie of the great world eo:- ,.emark-able first hand picture j (OnJiiions in Germany is con-more con-more than -00 letter? taken an prisoners recently, by one .Cnch armies, which have just e public here. a,l these letters are dated prior t o' the German reverses on f August. They cover a variety jr;f-h:mn3 civilian discontent, t lofses i" man-power of the (.rono.Tiic conditions, scarcity id armament, the morale of the I other points of deepest Interest cnte powers. Into consideration the fact tnat leae letters were written before Preach drlvp, they lend color Jef that the entente has but to 'adlng foot on German soil and ill be ready for a Senator dated peace." , r Fever" Rages. jid again there are letters ad-I ad-I in the field to be taken prison-hpre prison-hpre are numerous references paillBh fever In Germany as lins more than "hnntrer fever." (rom letters hearing on Gcr-aw Gcr-aw losses follow: 8 a coior sergeant wrote: reed Trench have already caused loes." wrote to his brother in the rve division speaking of terrify-whfch terrify-whfch the brother's unit had nine men out of one hundred r In the 45th regiment has dated losses as follows: I, three wounded; May IT. thirty lompanv gassed; May 20, five r wounded; May 21, thirty men fenty lost in a local action: on 'ter a French attack, there were ior sergeant and seven men left 1 first company, and only twenty imself of the second company fifty-three killed, four wounded. 2 near Hoissons, a single shell seventeen and killed three, in-ivo in-ivo company commanders." niversal. teif.cg woman, writing on June nrtl how all the eighteen-year- hHVe gone and how on that had been posted in the, church '2ml regiment's deatl. On July informs a comrade in the 22nrl "June 25 was the worst day of French shoved over heavy stuff m four in the morning until six After fourteen hours' rolling was not much left of us. The .lion on our left had only about red men. r was the only man , All the rest wre taken prls-le prls-le battalion lias been completely . but they won't have us rc- 1 from another Infantry reserve on June 27 states: "There are I SOOO men here, but only those fathers of more than six chil-Ope chil-Ope under 1i! have had to go we don't know where." from Lenterode states. "All n in 1901 must now enroll." BlPHcenl soldier wrote, "It is )lfui whether I shall still he fl you come or leave, for all men are being sent off. JOven lay of convalescents has had one hundred men because the tpanies could not supply any icnts." n in P.oriin on .Tune 13 slated. t now calling up boys of IT. e in lears as they left here, happen when they teach the Are Taken. from a divisional depot read, 1 the. 1 1100 class had lo leave. Pies are taken." lei' of letters speak of wtde-Rth wtde-Rth and sickness through the nph'e due to the Spanish fever le typiiu.s," they term it. A , rannes!att Informs her sons, stories everyone Is 111. and many tools are shut. Spanish Infln-lnc Infln-lnc throughout the poorer I'o you know what it really famine. In order that no one I U'f that It is due to famine they Inish Influenza." Itmicll there Is a letter dated fhlclt says In speaking of so Ills duo to the disease. "All the no longer be burled in the east There alone on Sunday were burials. What will the winter Tile future is very dark." m In Merlin said thai on July 'ere more than 30.l)"i cases of tlie. city. |