AN AMERICAN "FROLIC."

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1919, Page 7

AN AMERICAN "FROLIC."

DISDAIN, FOR. DEA<H. The absolute disdain of the average American for death is aptly shown in the way John 1) Brown, a machine-gun corporal with the 39th Division of the United fetates Army in France, described the drive of the Americans that wiped out the St. Mihiel salient. In a letter to relatives in Kansas City, Corporal Brown said:—"You- should see how splendidly the iboys went into action. It was great. Just like a big frolic. The spirit could not have been beaten. I wonder what the former Kaiser thinks of Uncle Sam's 'green' troops. Many of the Huns were glad to be captured. I heard of a Missourian in a battalion we were supporting capturing a Hun machine-gun and its crew, forcing the Germans to turn .the weapon on their comrades, capturing two more gum and several more prisoners. Another one. caught in a shell-hole, was kept there two hours while, the . fjermana popped away at hi©. . J ,

" 'At last theye Eiado mo i.o mad,' I heard him sa;.y, "I, jumped up and, pulled down on thenv witji my .getting.all flye of/tbem. in (U| jpany shots.' "A Kanean, climbed a tree an 4 Gernjan sniper. '"A German Lilian,. in, the regulation . Him ... jinifonp, , wajj foiled 'manning' a. A German prisoner gave; ,avi , Amenpoa .soidiej. - j a watch. It, exploded, almost blojvmg the Yatvk'a ,haru! oil Tieic was a, <ic~ lonatp? qise- ...I did .not hert*. vrhat . happoned to Fritz, buit; I caitogwess. Thisns but one example iof H«a duplicity and the -way he fights."