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"JUST BEFORE
THE BAT LE
By Floe. Toll'en; ]],grimed
;;,, them and REVELATION OF A SOLDIER'S
CHAPTER IIT. 1 other alent:s out and
then l will l t Lli: to yr,:l of other
HEART.
"What's the matter With these 1 1:1)1"v5;.” '
:lathes? Son. did no expel ?tie to- , Yp ,,------•
• t e ha. e b td no change of heart
swear party things on a horse?" She said Townsend
litho I ee.
iroppe+l a 1'auntiet:ci hand, on ht i ii?t, ag ht'fullS, t t +;r'! her shoulders into Written by An American Major Just•
along a na i rot, cork t,onar,t the! a light g -•L. -p between his hands. Before An Attack on the
shoulder as he was cel beside tier
ha • ou are -a funny girl! For two
rCn•+eifnl ; of the Small !t•iciltlly bawl,: to glee Intl ,! tl n or say, use. c'ento, I'd writ:' a book. or paint a
He 'Ail Itt,t ser;'lily, :,;ipcireitl.V .'.h picture ',*• the 1'•'']'11 or something
lust
Argonne Forest.
tosay `I al- Of what does a soldier think the
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"I ani tallying about my hatelnhauien, I \.vat\ 1.,u :v on could,' 1 ut I don't nil lit before he goes laic barrio?
not mo! If von e;;,>l� my i Hitt cUtcn ! k u\' \r1i t to write about nor how 1]r the I,uxc:nlbout•g, Paris, is a mast
is most •ti'rkiti • ;n+..•, t \ 0 +^ to 1,.titlt :L pict:u•e and' it i.. so attar
You look adorable! Put Mrs. 1).tvis i eas!cr to h:re the Bari] painted! I to iiic�co of Edoticyrd 1)ntaille entitled
ma'(ts no di:rrinhitlation '.1et�cec',n'n11¢:Il' i!t('0!?t. `!nmethlnr but all the -The 'Oman." It S11g1\'S a long line
riling 1+reeehes a:id 'pant,.' I did„,,, inyemionss hz-•e already been intent- of French cioldiors sleeping near their
think your horse could getthough! ed! \In hair isn't curly enough t.o i c,t a lc, (1 I,zttsi;ets. Sleeping with them
this gate and' it' the mih way Matt.;
get net into +h0 pictures and Babylon are their dogs. in the clouds above
You will have to �al�e him over." = and Nineveh have already been ;.lug is a visicm of a victorious army charg-
Ju=t when they were in mid -:err, ; up by regular archeologists, I ing 1>t`.naat1t the banite:rs, cheering as
Mrs. Da t is appeared on some breath-; ;haven't a telescope or I'd locate a they mete nnward,
less errand and stopped transfiy ed 1 new :=tar, and I do not understand
for one int+rticulate second. Thehh na-'. et'on or I'd' hunt up a third; '<ccndz]r to the painter of d ama-
she yelled frantically: ! milt? or go fishing for old Atlantis. tic scenes, 21(t013" was the thing on
"That there horse is running away I'd write you a :sonnet but the only' the soldier's mind the night before the.
with that boy!" i word 1 knew that rhymes with Rhoda battle.
Townsend paused to explain .1_.rave_ i is soda and 'I cannot think of a it happened that a Missouri soldier
ly.
+`c. DavisD ,vis shaded her eyes with' way to work it in effectively. In- in France wrote to his wife just before
her hand, Staring grimly after • deed, all that's kept me from gettingthe battle after which he was Luo-
- Rhoda. who had followed the drive- j to the top, is not lever Ravin' no rooted from major to lieutenant -colonel
way to the barn and was already blas l: sm*th.n shop. For two more Por gallantry in action. Major J. E.
turning the horse over to a Pavis,1 rents, I'd kiss you but i agree with Rieger, of Iiirlsville, Mo., led into at -
visibly admiring, even at that dis- Hashimura Tontowhen honor comes tack on the Argonne forest ea taliozl
tae. To his keen amusement, Mrs. along too much are not enough. I
Davis did not deign Townsend a also share his belief that honor are of 1,000 men, of which only 400 came
second' glance but proceeded on her noble but inconvenient! Whee-e! out uninjured. A. machine-gun bullet
interrupted errand with a pregnant It's been six years since I have seen broke Major Rieger's field glasses•and-
"Hump!" of contempt. you glowing with wrath! Ili 1 e he was struck by a piece of shrapnel.
Coming hack, three minutes later good now! Take off your hat, dear, He cominancled the Second Battalion.
with an apron full of vegetables, she and make yourself at home. I'll 139th Regiment, Thirty-fifth Division,
-stopped. definatly as Townsend greet- rustle up some c:d'er. It is parti- A 3;. r., in the Argonne battle.
ed her: cularly good this year and it has not
"Wait. a minute, Mrs. Davis. I want turned, notwithstandingUncle Before the Battle.
you to meet Miss Brookes."
Rhoda was corning toward them in
a progress much hindered by a
family of collie puppies whose adora-
ble clumsiness accentuated her lithe
grace. She had pulled off her gloves,,i red mailed it to his wife in Iiu=k-
dwas having a , • tug of war with •t longing in his clear limy eyes
txuct]on of one of the gloves. One ously near tears andshe knew that Front Lines, Oct. 21, 1918.
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Aaron's insinuations not very long Just before the great battle In which
ago." his battalion was destined to suffer
He was gone some little time, dor- so severely, and which action caused
ing which Rhoda. sat staring into the
apple -wood fire, trying to decide his promotion by General Pershing on
which aha r•esented more,
an the frank the battlefield, Major Mager wrote
or his this
a
humorous pup, to the imminent des- merry self-possession. She was peril- 1 ville:
woolly assailant cane dragging her Townsend's delayed return was ow -
whip to Townsend. Three others ing to his perception of that fact.
were doing their best to try out some When he did return, as he poured a
new teeth on the lustrous soft Leath-, glass of the cool amber cider, he
er of her boots, She had confessed I said easily:
to twenty-eight years to the Dun -1 "I think your director.. would do The groping through rain and black-
kard preacher and the Traceys less I well to take a course in :.agriculture gess, made doubly so by -dense forest.
than an hour before but bad she! or perhaps have his scenario :writer was done and now, concealed in the
omitted the eight it would have hest' do it. In your last release there forest of the Argonne by day, the
described her as she frolicked with 1 were some of the most aarmy of attack quietly rested.
absurd blond -
the blundering collie pups. 1 ers. It really surprised -me, for The order of battle was handed me
She turned laughing eyes to her your company o;. corporation or
host and his housekeeper, to surprise I whatever they tali themselves, poses and I read it to my assembled battal-
emused love -light in one pair of eyes I as the best!" ion. The day for which the long
; Ikofilec 31 " in the He set the pitthe ''en the mantel training, danger and hardships had
ted his glass, -'smiling down at been.incurret3 had come at last. We
r quizzically. -were to attack the hill where- 40,000
"I'tn immensely proud that you go French soldiers had fallen in defeat
to see me—in pictures. You Nevar two yeal•s before: but death was there;
wrote. I did not know. I—I often
—wondered," She lifted her glass artillery, machine guns, mines, wire,
in response. trenches, tunnels, a mighty stronghold.
I think it is wonderfully kind of you "Had you communicated that 'won- We were to he ably supported. I told
to get dinner for me, to -day. Mr. der' to me, I should have been glad, my men all.
Townsend tells me you are a surpass- to set your—curiosity—at rest. I The order was received in silence;
ingly good cook and I am looking was under the impression that you their faces took on a determined look,
forward to a real treat. I warn you never wanted to sea or hear of me gilt no fear was there. I noticed them
that I have a vast hunger."
Mrs. Davis afterward admitted
•
whatRhd' said t
Just Before the Battle
The long, long night marches had
ended, the dragging of weary feet
through mud and debris was over.
eel . �e e
erse f' shaking hands with Rhoda,
who, not waiting for the formality
of Townsend''s introduction, was say-
ing:
"Mrs. Davis, I am Rhoda Brookes.
r•
1•
F•
a
h'
again."
She made a little face at him and
resealed the discussion of the lapses
from things as they are, in the photo
later; all wore smiles, for the hour of
that itwas no. Rhoda sato a vindication had conte; soon was heard
won lieu over. She insisted it was the songs about mother, short stanzas
"just e n•.ethin in her voce and in play in question, a discussion which of baby songs, cradle rhymes, lullabies
her cos es and the way sh , 1101 i my lasted to the dessert of a surprising- of mother. 11lanly voices, harsh, mi-
".: i 1. 1 cc.:iai'e. she wae:,'t a bit ly good dinner presently announced trebled, unmusical, became sweet with
;rice I had her sized- up." by Mrs. Davis. melody; each his own heart's deepest
'1'0w eetre1's face gave no bed of (To be cotttirnied.) longing was giving expression. Wire,
his !el:,ht ni lihor]a's power it. over. - = sister, friend—all forgotten — just
cone) that most difficult of all hex- RECEIVED NEWS IN SIX MINUTES.
mother. Then, as the truth came to
tiers, provincial prejudice. i s had them that some might not return, long-
di.w't't.l i; c att, ntion of the pui\p a:; When the British Empire Learned forgotten songs of religion, learned in
to ]ening :oriel 00.nhod ii�`h:e01y to 1te That War Was Declared.
listening as IIx], Davis modulated days gone by, were heard—songs of
We: required Duly six minutes to in- the Lord. And mingled together were
My lands, Mies Br(]c,+.e13! Yau form the British Empire that England
the notes of love and protection of
gine men awful stare, coir,' over was at war oil the night of August 4, mother and Jesus ---all others were
that: fenw azar-a-ti\•ay! I thought 1514 says Lord Harcourt, who was
r you uaS Nein' run off with. And T '
r thought Nati was some i,oy1 I de- then -Colonial Secretary.
flare 1 did! I didn't get a. right "Ori that unforgettable night," he
.stood look at you, the way that horse said to the Empire Parliamentary As -
Was • 2ilnp:ng around. It looks like sociatiou, eI was in the cabinet room,
tempting I'rov de11 e, to do tate things Downing Street, with a few colleagues.
-o'1 du! I've seen you in the pictures Our eyes were on the clock, our
but I elways thought there was some thoughts on one subject only; but
► trust to in I must be stein' to my • there was a feeble effort to direct our
Minidtbaking.
Tracedon' atieI red trycto hlave ike conversation to other natters. We
senetlair ' you ,;art rat'" were waiting for a reply, which we
forgotten.
During Battle and After.
Later I beard those same voices
uying
ack
. Cs not a gamble, but a sure thing that
you are getting the greatest possible
TWO BIIIION
DAMAGE TO POLAND
DURING iTS OCCUPATION BY THg•
GERMANS.
industrial Life is Extinct and Ravaged
4
Country Will Have Herd Struggle
to Start Again.,
]?ohne} was ettr•ipeee of all rnaterittle
Quality aiabty and, Value to the limit SI ys':U.`' and machinery during the Germanernlan
expenditure'i
cupation which ended. on November i i,
• w �a . s a4On that day a few tboneenc' so1c11Prs
R
E .IG1G HUNS
a-I�
.BatiT
AL LS BEFORE
---; of the Polish Legions, aided by the
lotion le" 'U'at:.') .V disarmed more.
are all poverty stricken and bear on than
20,000 f,t.lxaau soldiers who had
their hollow faces the traces of end -
.arranged a revolt against their own.
less suffering. They carry with them officers.
all their earthly possessions--l,i.eycler'
till food and till tr:iophano \\ 1res
(without rubber tires), peranibulators removed. enio\'ed fly the Germans. All itT-
handcarts, the children grasping some dustrial plants were robbed mail dis-
cherished toy, an aged woman kerne mantled, with the result that Pulite()
TERIRORIZE,D THE STRASBOURG on a stretcher ---and move on in a
will have a hard job to sial t in again
CITIZENS TO THE LAS'i' never-ending strea]n ou.t of fire slta- ,,yen if flan
and poUtieul cored•.'
dow into the sunlight, from tlhcr lion- hens were of the best, observere
---- rots of internment camp into a coup- I)ise nssin the t cni,uusic situation in
Alsatians Deelare Life Was Made ti•y which is France ante nacre, to Poland, fataniell-1 t triuwslci, director
the accompaniment of Bantle; and the of tete t'armirrcial Bank, of tertreaw,
Undesirable During the Four . waving of flags and with a joy which;t•, id to the correi+potul('r1t :
Years of the War. is immense and clentonstr�.tive• "It will take nearly $2,0(}0,000,000 to
f British Prisoners Return. , <tpeir 1110 damage done in the Geruinl!
. Mixed with .the motley crowd are occupation land to pin 1113 on our feet
Alsatian • soldiers in German held properly marl to develop our great
gray and, saddest of all, British sol- natural resources Our oil preclude
The following rough notes of a
four days -stay -in Strasbourg, -in the
.early part of December, have been
forwarded by a correspondent who cdier:i, singly and in little groups; return [,00,000,000 marks annually and
signs himself E. A. S.: come of their old khaki tunics, with we aro rich in coal and salt mines, pot -
The taking over of the administra- German trousers and German caps, asl1, foi•est.s and agricultural pratitre'ts.
tion of Strasbourg by the •French has nearly all -in rags, and hollow-cheeked ' '•At the present time the economic
been completed with remarkable and hungry. There were 20 degrees situation is costfneed because Russian
speed and efficiency. The last Ger- of frost, but not one hacl any pver- rubles, Austrian crowns and Gorman
inane soldiers were leaving the town coat. I evas the first British officer marks are in circulation. The merles
as French cavalry entered it. Up to they had seen for months or years, are a heritage of the German occupa-
the last the Germans behaved in the and they were delighted, for it made 1 tion. In April, 1917, the Germans is -
usual German way, trying to .terror -them think that home was near at sued 2,000,000,000 marks which they
ize the civilian population by the ' hand. Most of these men had been called Polish marks. The issue. •eras
senseless discharge of rifles and re- allowed -by the Germans to escape I tirade through a special bank with 'he
volvers in the air during the night and they had been simply turned j announcement that after two years
'preceding the occupation. • adrift to find their way back, without ' Polish marks should be redeemed by
I spoke during my four days' staygood or proper clothing. In due course German marks. By this srbemc isle
in Strasbourg with scores of Alsa- they came to the bridge and joined German Reiehsbank was not colnpel-
tians, who. were unanimous in declar- the throng of returning refugees. led to issue extra money and, there-
ing that life in Strasbourg was un- More than 300-' walked in in two days. fore, did not injure its own credit.
bearable during over four years of
__--.,------ "At the same time the Germans re -
war. Denunciations on the slightest Safe Paths Over the Sea. fused to accept the ruby as legal ten -
pretext were followed by forcible re- ,,Britannia rules the waves"—no idle der. The Austrians t,crc.pted the ruble
moval to Germany, where most of boast in Russia and Galiutt 121d also intro
-
boast;
have remained ever since. It Necessity's her plea— dated the crown. 'CiTcrc:tfter all sorts
must be remembered, however, that Herrule must reach frau coast to fur- of complications melee, with no one
there is to -day -a very large purely
German• population in the town esti-
mated by the latest returns to be
crit 65,000: The Alsatians seem to
be getting a little of their own back
on these and their position is not an
enviable one. By a decree of the
French no purely German household,
business premises, or German room
was allowed to display a tricolor or
bunting or any form of decoration,
and as all Alsatians vied with one
another hi their display of patriotic
ardor the contrast was very marked
and-. ithe German inhabitants made
very noticeable by his lack of national
emblems.
Alsatians Sing "Marsellaise."
There was, however, not the slight-
est disorder or ill feeling on the part
of the Alsatians, who sang the "Mar-
seillaise" all day with a strong Ger-
man accent and were immensely am-
used at the more youthful members of
the French army, both officers and
men, who walked to the Rhine in
order to spit just once into it. This
harmless pastime seemed to fill the
Alsatian gamin with delight. Not a
single policeman was visible, and the
French military carried out all their
administrative duties with wonderful
when iu the attarle; not now the soft tact and discretion.
voice of song, hut the shout of combat A remarkable sight was that of the mighty roar! The voice of tho French ponos walking about with Al..
people is not tine voice of Tod, but the satian soldiers in German uniforms.
mighty voice of soldier men. Seeing These latter filled the streets and
before them those who had pillaged were mostly deserters from the Ger-
ald murdered aid burned and en- man army or had ben allowed to re -
slaved, they became as rile avengers turn over the Rhine, the Germans
having no more use for them. Hardly
any of these youths could speak any-
thing but German, but they were de-
termined on every occasion to show
their love for France by plastering
themselves with red, white and blue.
The most curious and at the same
time the most pathetic sight in Stras-
bourg was on the Rhine Bridge, which
is the dividing line between Alsace
and Germany. The bridge is ten
minutes drive from the centre of the
town. The one bank is held by the
French and the other by the Ger-
mans, and the centre of the bridge is
a sort of No Man's Land. The Ger-
mans allow no one to cross to their
side, and threaten every officer with
immediate arrest if he crosses the
When she hhed di appcarend, Town- knew full well would never cornu], to of God and spoke with His voice and
send laughed. our ultimatum to Berlin, acted with His power. Never will 1
"You win! With Mrs, Davis to "When liig Bensstruck11:30-•-•mid- forget their look, their voice! We
stick up for you and Uncle Aaron to night in Berlin ---we left the room swept everything before us, capturing
justify you and with Mrs. Tracey's knowing that the British Empire was and wounding and killing the enemy
sanction, you will be able to snake in the face of artillery and machine
guns worked with desperate speed.
I heard voices again, now subdued --
my life a sore distress all the remain-
der of your visit to your parents!"
":Wards"
at war.
"I crossed to the colonial office to
send a war telegram to the whole of
"You know quite well, Rhoda, that the British Empire. I asked the cul -
1 have had no change of heart either tial in charge of that duty .how long
as to you or the farm. Then Why,it would take, He said''about sixmin-
not be satisfied to leave me to myutes.'
carefully cultivated content?" "i asked him to return to my room
Followed by the romping pink- + when he had done his work. In seven
tongued puppies, they walked slowly' minutes he was back and before morn -
to the house. Rhoda made no reply; ing I received an acknowledgment of
and avoidedthe his war
atyes .p 'ch lay telegram from every single colonial
newing Tnsug df war the .porch protectorate,and even islet in the Pa-
ne Townsend to hold the door open. Entering, oifzc. •
she turned to ask in a low voice:
"You would rather I had not
"I 'would rather you had come --to
A „
"So the grim machinery of war be-
gan revolving in perfect order and
with perfect preparation because,
more than two years previously, an in-
-ydividua.l warliaok had been prepared
Don't let's go over that, Ward. I by the colonial committee of clefense
roti]] tiling you have other, more in- for every :.Ingle protectorate and. is
-
hate
talents that. fanning: I
]hate your burying yourself here. If land. It was at that moment locked
farnung were all you 00111d do, it in the safe of ea+1r Government or
w 1:1 be different. She paused, commissioner lead tlil-y knew at once
eenee7eier, his face with troubled what to do."
el;+ 'let as he waited in ;silence, she
r., -.:•:.-,I. "Oh, I know that a sue--- The women of Iceland recently
e. a fre.mer is as rare as rubies c-elobr,cted the this'd year of their
+ , net have stureede••i'. Bat
vw ti.,„ -talent. malt! Get your erfranr3tisetnOilt
they were of mother and Jesus still.
I heard the wounded—not a cry, just
a song, strong for mother as the
wounded one felt the earth strong be-
neath him, but a sort of farewell to
her who bore ]hint and a clinging to an
unseen ]handl of power as life slowly
slipped away.
Mother, you are honored above the
king, the president, the general, the
great of earth. The song of heroes is
of you. Could you ask more than to dividing line; but from the German
he first and last those whom or? aide there pours, in one uninterrupted
Yourbrty-]11}01 world delights to honor? slaw, .a procession of wretched hum-
anity
nano and that l e ans bound which can only be compared
together in the Iterate life and death,
"Mother, behold thy soft; son, behold with the exodus from Belgium during
thy mother.” the early days of the win'. They are
-_ - mostly Alsatians who, for various
reasons, have been kept in Germany
If Canada is to maintain a large for years or months in durance vile
export trade it will be necessary for and are now returning to homes.
every stockman to maintain the which in many cases have been so -
maximum number of animals on his guestrated and sold un by the Ger-
farm. and to finish his stock before mans, They aro mostly wanie11 and
marketing it, i very- young children or old men. They looser
° thest coast,
Whose paths are on the sea.
Had this Brisish boast been an idle
toast
Where would our race be now?
By Krupp's grim steel 'neath the
Raiser's heel,
Slaves at the Teuton plough.
She early sought and with life -blood
bought
An Empire o'er the wave;
By fleets 'twas won aucl from jealous
Hun
Only her fleets could save,
To her •distant lands and India's
Strand
Her highways are the sea;
The race that outbuilds our Mother-
land
Holds to her wealth the key.
Britannia's need with millions to feed
Is safe paths o'er the sea;
Would you have men of the British
breed
.Ask bread on bended knee?
Would you have then yield old Nep-
tune's shield,
A jeaous foe to please?
They kept in the past with broadside
blast '
Real freedom of the seas.
Has this rule been just as a sacred
trust?
Let subject races say.
At Britannia's call they gave their all,
To save for her "the clay."
So long as she boasts her "far-flung"
coasts,
And her union of the free,
Sho must make sure that the
dare
13y safe paths o'er the sea.
Wash and save your old
pad new ones.
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"First we must establish a tennd
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ernment must have money to mtut it-
self, but it cannot get money without
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is established we will put out foreign
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terials and starting up -factories. it is
even necessary for us to obtain Jeans
in order to buy clothes; also machin-
ery and locomotives. Everything in
the country must be rebuilt along new
lines.
"The Germans transported home all
the machinery from the industrial city
of iialicz and then set fire to the city.
This was one of their great crimes in
1914. They did this although there
was no battle fought there. They
drove out the people by bombing the
city and then robbed it methodically.
"The Germans also requisitioned all
the factories and machinery in Lodz,
which is the Polish. Manchester, with
its vast cotton and woollen mills. In
their entire occupation they continued
to loot Lodz. Even last September
they carried away all the iron pates
and floorings from the factories.
"They stole our vegetables and our
fruits. They took by requisition every-
thing they wanted.
"While they did not rob our banks,
on the third day of time occupation of
Warsaw in 1515, the director of the
Deutsche Bank of Berlin came to me
and demanded my cash balance of
bubles, the surrender of which, he con-
tended, would regulate our debts to
his bank. The Germans did the sante
thing in Roumania after the Treaty of
Bucharest.
"It will take $200,000,000 to rocen-
struct us industrially without counting
the other sums we Thrust spend gradual-
ly 1;,or improving the railways and this
elides and rebuilding houses ruined in.
the course of tho war."
"Bfg Bertha" Left to Rust,
Dismembered and with its war• -wort
Parts already beginning to rust, the big
Bertha, which startled the world bt
long-range fire on Paris last Sprint,
has been left to its fate in an old Gd#di
man artillery yard in West Prussia.
The famous gun Is lying in the open
air, protected from tit(: curious by a
board fence, the Third Army has
learned, Other gusts of largo callbh'Fa
are within the yard, a few German sol-
diers acting as guarde.
"There ;$ no beautifier of cone-,
plexion, or form, or behavior like the
wish to scatter , jooO aromid nee-.
Emeh'son,