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Show GIRL ASKS BROTHER TO SLAY RUSSIANS Soldier Replies by Describing Horrors of Warfare on Eastern Battle Front. Special Cable to The Tribune, BERLIN, Sept. 4. The Vossiche Zeltung quotes a letter from a soldier to his little sister, who had written to him asking him to ' kill a lot of Russians," and "to gain a new victory In order to cheer us up." He writes: "Kill a lot of Russians'" You have not seen them lying about those poor dead, with their singularly solemn sol-emn faces. You have not seen the battle which preceded, and the bad wounds which so many of my friends got In trying to kill a lot of them. You do not think of the fact that those dead men had parents, brothers and sisters, whom they loved. And you have not seen the borrowing borrow-ing destruction of the villages and towns how the poor hunted-down population Is running away, leaving everything they had behind them to be consumed by the flames. And then, remember, we are not fighting In order to cheer you up we are not lying about In the open air day and night, starved and suffering suf-fering from wounds and home sickness. sick-ness. In order that you at home may be cheerful at the tea or beer table. "We are fighting and bearing this terrible wretchedness in order that you may be spared the horrors of war and that Germany's future may be bright. |