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Show DSOfl BOYSEES HOIS CAPTURED B? THE ALLIED FORCES 1 -i Old men with gray hairs and mere boys of tender age now are constituting the chief sacrifices that a half mad and wholly criminal kaiser is offering upon tho altar of his ambition. Those facts and the added facts that German prisoners are raggedly clad; that they are glad tj oe captured; and that they are astonished when they see American troops on the French front, were the principal features of a letter received yesterday by J. Edward Ed-ward Browning, from his son, Frank Browning,.now with Uncle Sam's aviation avia-tion corps in Europe. The letter discusses dis-cusses conditions that will hearten civilization civ-ilization in its battle against the Hun menace In that it contains assurances fViof l'olror'o mnn -nnwer ia donrfl. dating and that the morale of his hordes is lessening. "We are at the end of our long travels trav-els oversea," says the letter, which was dated 'Somewhere in France' Jan. 12. "And wo all are in good health and splendid spirits. So, please do not worry, on that accounL "I have been into tho war zone. Only a few days ago, I saw tho Allies bring ' back, a group of several hundred Gor- man prisoners. Most of them were old men, with gray hair, and many of them were mere boys boys of tendor age, both classes being too old and too 1 young for war service. They were poorly clothed and all seemed to be 1 glad they had been captured. When passing American troops, they were astonished. Most of them had not learned that American troops had arrived, ar-rived, in Franco." Tho letter also states that "Uncle Sam is giving us ever' possiblo attention," atten-tion," and that the spirits of the Allies and Americans are high nnd conquer-ingly conquer-ingly hopeful. Tho French camps, ho declared, are oven bettor than those at home or in England and that conditions condi-tions are as good as any soldier could desire. ' |