Show LOCAL ARTIST GETS LETTER FROM FROMONT FRONT t tA A Captain of German General Staff Staf Claims Success on All AU Al Fields CONFIDENT CONFIDE JT OF VICTORY Asserts Truth of Reverses Suf Suffered teree by Allies Ales Is Kept From World I 1 niHAT HAT th the tho a German I Is meeting T THAT I with far greater success in its Is l cam am against the allies than ha hai been heen reported in II tIm the tie official and that lint Germany Is well well supplied supplied with foodstuffs Is tho the information given wih in tn a a. letter received b by Albert a leter r Salt Sal Lake artist from rom his lila friend friendS Baron Hans Huns V V. a captain o of at present attached to the general staff star of ot the tue German arm army The hotter Ix hi dated d at Lernberg Lember on the leter prisoners prisoners' camp May Ia 13 and amid is as fol tol follows fol- fol lows 4 j My I Dear Friend I I Frimd-I I hope the tho newspapers news news- papers have acquainted you YOI with Wih ou Our wonderful deeds desda dR roth in th the Cast and c in the west ivest west Tho The penetration of or th Russian lines hines In was US ao so tO mar mar- an undertaking that one Is 15 un unable un- un able to Judge of or what strat strategic lc m Im- Im It will wil be for the thc fut rc future i Up UI to date late we have e captured HO prisoners 30 machine guns m and all an aT Immense quantity of or war stores which the Russians have o been accumulating which for mal many montis so so so va vat vast t are mimO th these stores that them on one v cannot adequately op ap- aV S 1 S Pre iress s Reports The reports report that tho Ht Russian for tor for office gives Ies to the time world are real real real-j I ly amusing the they amusing they even contradict real real- the f reports of oC their own 0 general staff They h band and every vel account of oC German vie tor tory a n le lie He and with blaz brazen n II declare themselves s Uy by satisfied with wih conditions and nd claim the situation situa sItua- tion ton unchanged unchanged may may G Gd id keep them in their fools paradise Ha Had tits this thi campaign In Galcia been beel un an n elp envelopIng envelop envelop- In Ing mo em movement n t laa large e nu numbers o of pris otters would not hOt have nave b been en unusual but u tit It was iras entirely n a fron frontal tal attack and so much more r remarkable fo for tha thi great numbers of prisoners tu captured captured and by the wa way it is my lay private oln j Ion ton that when the entire entre facts ar are both hoth the numbers of or prisoners and nd the total losses of the tle Russians will wiil swell ell el 9 to enormous proportions wl Rather Bather droll situations frequently drol arise one arise one In point is th the following The Tho Russians reported with great gusto guto the th lamentable miscarriage of tho the German attempt to envelop en tho the Forty eighth Russian division but I ignored Ig ig- ig nored the fact that the tIme Irony of oC fl fita had hind permitted the capture of o the brave commander of this same division Stay Stay did did i I r sa say Captured Nay ay noth noth- In lug ing so ito o exciting occurred he was aim aim- pl ply taken by guards of th the munitions 3 1 column following the lie troops l After all al ono of ot the most brilliant f single achievements ement vas ivas that of the i Pru Prussian guard j under General l Lct- Lct LIetz- LIetz maln mann There were about men 4 of ot them surrounded by Russian armies i I of ot vastly vasty superior numbers numbers cover corer of ot tho the night ht they dismounted and ond nd leading their horses marched t toward the nw Russian Inc lines attacked and i penetrated them at a the same sanie time tak t lug ing prisoners After burying their dead and caring for Cor the wounded j they continued their march of seventeen seven- seven a i I teen kilometers over oyer stubble fields and I finally Joined tho the main bod body of ot their army It army If l men can cami penetrate the huge hUIe Russian army and capture prisoners while making their tit takes no no nowise wise man to see the resu result t of ot this world war ivar Such courage e an and such determination cnn cn reap only suc- suc ce cess At At the lie Dardanelles the French and I English are suffering serious loss 1053 dead leall not counting the drowned i rind the Turks still hammer away auay at them 1 My situation Is progression progressing n 01 own progress j too too w well ll In fact tac when I I think of ot m my mi brother officers rs at tile tho th front but front but tein being a member of at t the jen- jen en en- craB eral st staff f I have little opportunity to for appearing on the firing lne line It I is amusing to read tho the Inquiries coming from th the United states r v ard In Ing the tho foo food question Just think think two two of us enjoyed queston a dinner at al Berlins Berlin's fashionable restaurant which consisted of two bottles of porter two 1 steaks vegetables and an extra order of mushrooms with a a total cost o or of In Limburg wh where re I nm om temporarily temporarily tem tem- ter stalon station d I pa pay 27 cents for tor R P. 1 splendidly prepared dinner consisting Of ot soup meat meat vegetables desert and and- coffee Poor starving German Germany Regarding the sinking of the Lusi Lusi- J tania two American women well wen acquainted ac- ac with Germany German and German Germa people who are not blinded b by r hat hate Jealousy jealous or 01 English lies les have commented comment comment- ed as follows It perfectly wonderful about the lie 7 writes one ona and I 1 am highly elated over the Lusitania Inci Incident Inc dent sa says g tho the other Both are native born Americans without a drop of ot German Ger Cerman man blood in their veins I IWo Wo We re regret ret here hero that Italy Hah docs does not loin the allies for Cor now that we are Bre at atIt at It we ml might ht as well wel lIck Ick Italy along alon with the lie thE rest Iest Will pm you YOI be surprised to hear that we still have havo countless numbers lumbers of reserves sti at our disposal h June 7 1 1915 1916 T r left lef my m ni Jeter letter open so that 1 9 1 l' l might add n a few wOlds words but but- the tho I elapsing has been greater greater than I cx cx- p You over O there loire In the tho stateS tate do you hl hoar hear ar tho the echo of or tho the blows we WO J Wet we are arc Inflicting upon the Russians have taken prisoners a aIng during dur- dur dur 1 In Ing the tho last few fw weeks weeks re In four Cour days soon days soon Galcia will sill wi be frea trea freed of the enemy The t deeds eds of ot our our br e br soldiers are almost superhuman Our IT U boats at the Dardanelles wJ doubtless force the tho enemy enem warships t I lo jj t leave and amid when that Is accomplish h D I. I nr nf o 1 1 Confident Tho Halam Italians have ha at last Joined the allies aHles their action acton cause caused no excite excite- ment Our people accepted their tf on n- n trance tranco into the war with a calmness lh that t was far tar more effective wih titan than pro r tests Absolute confidence In the result t tot of ot tho the war un ito unyielding determine determine- ton to win are arc sentiments stronger than ever O before In iii German hearts harts Our barracks army camps and oth othet r buildings s are Bre not hot nearl nearly t hou house e our newl newly neily trained troops our stores are We c p produce dal dally daily s such ch an Immense Immen e number of at artler ar- ar shells that It would stun ou were I to toll tell tol you the figure Poor blinded France Is total ruined rimmed and Is forced to resort to l J ma nal Inal actions in order to keep the facts from Crom the people French prisoners prisoner Of t war who are aro unfit for tor service and hn have C been sent back to France arc are not allowed reIa relatives rel reI- to communicate with their a th In iii any wa way but aro are wih kept under under- guard guar by the government gO This brutal precaution Is taken so 50 that tho the real t. t facts faett may not lot reach tho time populaCe i through the the men who have hac been at tho the front and and know kno how France Franco has hiss brought ht herself to verge of ruin foeher for foe fot e her false falso English friend This Timis ConIton condition con Con- Iton hat has bat b been en brought to the lie notice of ot German army authorities b by inquiries In In- made mado mato b by French mothers mothel's trying to locate lost sons on i Somis who while prisoners of the tho J mans lall had hd bee i corresponding regularly regular regular- ly Iy with wih relatives but bul to bi b. bej swallowed up and lost after the ex cha change age HANS ANS |