GLOOMY FRITZ

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 3

GLOOMY FRITZ

SACKING SHOPS lOR FOOD. DON", June 21. Peutti », oitespindent at French headqu >ttis t 1 tj ltd yest iday : letteis nd di iries tound on dead C imm pi c litis m tht last- offensive li t tint the Oimin d r, despite his \ t i\ is in anvthnik, but a- triumphant 111 d Whit mttit ted the writers was t t v e ei[ tint >t 1 reneh trwns, but the li, jf 1 tenth gioteis shojxs. As t i battle pic o iessid rcmplaints of un e and sh rt 1 tic is giew more freju nt ciupled wit 1 jeitmiids about the toughness of the Erench resistance, the terrible losses, and the receding prospects of relief. One diary describe.* the sacking of villages and 'shops. Referring to a visit to .an abandoned Erench hospital, the writer remarks that the German hospitals cannot compare with them. " Sick and wounded are ten limes bettor treated in the enemy's hospitals than in ours. With them everything is so clean. Dandag-es are made of gauze, whereas with us they are made of paper."' German women not infrequently write to their husbands at the front urging them to steal for them what they arc una hie to buy at home. The German soldiers' description of (lie fighting is not the most cheerful reading. A Prussian infantryman, writing from I.e. Fere on June, vance because the French resisted too strongly. Our losses have become very heavy. Only a few companies are left in my division. It is impossible to count the wciiis-d-ed." A sold-.-- engaged, in the Chat "-an : Thierry sector, Vnt.es: "My battalion was used tip in three days, and has been ; put in reserve. P.efore us are n. stly j Americans. Previously it was British 'and French bb'ohs from Madagascar."