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HAERXSBURG TELEGRAPH5H REVOLTDERSPLACEtEDOM FIRSTrld Not to Interfere Death Sentence ifti Is Compromisedftou, Auk. 19.—Held forcourt-martial which willsentence them to death, i soldiers tr.d officers who ned revolt in the Austrian FVbruaxy. have issued two to the Polish people t the world asking them mpromise the freedom of th the idea of securing any of their prospective sen-sording to dispatches re-e to-day by the AssociatedMW.cars and men are a partCol Samuel G. Shartle Named to Attend Berne Conference on PrisonersChambcrsbtirg, Aug. 19.—Colonel Samuel G. Shartle, United States Army, of Welsh Run, has been named as one of the Army officers to meet with the Germans in Berne. Switzerland, in the conference next month relative to prisoners.Colonel Shartle had been for lt;iuite a long time militury attache of the United States at Berlin and speaks German fluently* .ICE CREAM FOB ALMSHOUSEInmates ut the Dauphin county almshouse on Friday and Saturday evenings enjoyed a treat when the Sunshine Society furnished more than twenty gullons of ice cream and two boxes of cakes.TO STUDY ASSESSMENTSCounty Solicitor Philip S. Moyer will leave to-morrow for Wilkes-Barre to s:\idy the system of coal land assessments used in Ltuscrno county. It is likely that an expertminlnr onnii illAUGUST 19, 1918AMERICAN GRIT NEVEREQUALED, WRITES Slt;German Dead Covers Field, Harrisburg Soldi*Mother in Letter Home From the FroiGrim, terrible reality is expressed in the letter from the front writtenby Sergt. Gordon Berkstresser, 15th Field Artillery Supply Company. Second Division, who took part in the great drive in which the Germans were driven back by the successful push of the French and the American armies on the Somme.That Sergeant Berkstresser ha* been in the thickest of the fighting is amply testified by some of the passages in his letter, w'hich described the German and Allied dead remaining on the battle field after the battle.“The roads were Jammed, deadhor.H«s iinri trnrkn nn hnth :/dpn nf IAllied Drive. Vestover the ground tin Man’s land on the r offensive.“Coming up frorrlowing the guns -of cwere just back of iand firing so fast tin not get out of the“On a little furth man lay dead across into No Man’s land.“So fur the tight I thick woods, which torn down by urtilh right is a wheat field you can walk on
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Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Aug 19, 1918
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