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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
3
An officer in the German engineers corps recounts invasion of Belgium, brutal frontline fighting, executions by court martial, looting, and mistreatment of civilians. He recalls a mass battle at Donchery, fears of death, and the Meuse crossing during the early phase of the war.
The story describes German pioneers laying pontoon bridges across the Meuse while facing French gunfire. The next installment promises a vivid description of this perilous undertaking.
The Bridge of Sighs connects the ducal Palace to the public prison in Venice and dates from the late sixteenth century. It lacks romantic political tales, aside from Antonio Foscari, and earned its name from local pity for criminals.
In the new American army many officers with Yale College roots honor Wrexham in North Wales as a personal link. It recalls that Thomas Yale, buried there, helped inaugurate Yale as a great seat of American learning and that ivy from his grave was later sent to Professor Phelps in London to plant near the college building.
The article reports on a massive US manpower plan with 90,000 American troops landing in France in early May and a goal to reach up to four million by year’s end. It details the draft expansion, including “fight or work” enforcement, and notes ship production, grain deliveries to Belgium and France, and Allied operations on the Western Front amid German efforts to reorganize. It also covers Sinn Fein arrests in Ireland, rail reorganization by McAdoo, and various war-front developments including air and ground actions across Europe.
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