Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-11-22 | Page 1 | Stories in Hun Soldier Diaries

Men for Special Detail Drafted and Escorted to Duty at Rifle Point. OTHERS IN MUTINY Refuse to Obey Orders and Captain Threatens to Shoot One Man in Every Four. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. Nov. 7 (Mail) Illustrations Illustra-tions of the changing attitude of many German soldiers towards the war are contained in captured diaries. Describing Describ-ing Uie departure of draft men from. a depot town, the author of one diary writes: "First battalion is to supply draft of ninety-nine men. To conduct them to station 300 men are detailed, some with rifles ,to escort draft, others to act as pickets. Is it not a scandal that our boys in field gray are led out into the field to light and give their lives for the fatherland like criminals to the hangman, or worse, like cattle to the ' slaughter?" Another diary related how the men of the company refused to obey tho orders of their lieutenant and only did so whon tho captain declared he would , have one man In every four shot unless un-less the orders were- obeyed.