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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
5
Belgian information centers detail widespread plunder and brutality by German forces. The report describes famine relief efforts, soaring prices, and forced labor, with mass deportations, executions, and arrests across Belgium. It cites Belgian bishops and institutions uniting to resist, while Germans impose harsh courts and reprisals.
Milwaukee officials report Edgar and Arthur Berth twin sons of a Milwauker farmer charged with inflicting injuries on themselves to dodge the draft. One boy is minus a ton the other has lost the talex finger as they claim accidental wood chopping injuries.
Washington reports the Iloret militatre prescribes two to five years imprisonment for maliciously killing a government mule. The 84 page soldier's manual must be carried on duty, with name address and five pages detailing potential crimes and penalties. The Red Cross funds small cases of brown paper cover for these manuals.
An American correspondent chronicles a night in No Man's Land with French and American troops. Gunfire, flares, and shell bursts punctuate the darkness as soldiers patrol, listen for threats, and endure the monotony and danger of trench life. Names of places and units hint at the wider front and the first battles of the European war.
A London report depicts a new criminal type dubbed the Ink squirter and Jack the Peeper. He pranks female bus conductors with poisoned candy, rendering several unconscious yet later recovering. Victims describe a suave, middle aged man who offers chocolate then harms the driver. Police search ongoing but risk remains widespread.
Eight YMCA dugouts along the route to the front have been set up by the National War Work Council. American boys in France can obtain hot coffee and edibles, mail letters, and receive care as they move toward or from the front. The YMCA handles the entire canteen system in France, coordinating with French and American armies.
Denver broker Courtland Dines, a millionaire, has undergone nose and throat surgery to qualify for military service and aviation status with the National Guard. The filing notes he seeks assignment to aviation duties and honors his prior service ambitions.
Eyewitness accounts from a French steamship passenger describe a two hour raid on Paris by sixty Gotha bombers. More than two hundred killed, nine tons of explosives dropped, hospitals hit, public buildings damaged, and one enemy plane reportedly shot down. An ambulance driver alone recovered seventy bodies. The attack, in near blackout conditions, occurred at midnight with anti aircraft fire lighting the sky. The eyewitness claimed a large toll, though official figures varied. Paris residents and officials regarded the raid as a reprisal for French actions over German targets.
Port Royal notes Len A. Scott a three term Tennessee Republican representative and minority floor leader who recently joined the Marine Corps for the war. He secured wartime exemption as a state legislative officer and began preliminary training, known for authoring the test resolution pledging support to President Wilson at the outbreak of war with Germany.
Lloyd Long, 88, who served on the United States steamer De Kalb, says he last saw his sister ten years ago. He traced his brother-in-law Alfred Ward to 1707 LaPorte and recounted tales of serving on a German submarine hunt, claiming De Kalb’s guns sank many U boats and that he earned a sharpshooter medal.
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