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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAX OCTOBER 21, 1918
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GERMANS CONSCRIPT
8000 GIRLS OF LILLE
Terror Held Hearts of Inhabitants Four Years Many
Tales of Horror Revealed to Deliverers Russian
Prisoners Treated Like Dogs
Special Cable to Liening Public Ledger
Corvrioht, 111, tv .Vrio York Timta Co.
With the llrUlnh ,rmlr In France,
Oct. 21.
To po Into Lille was us good as any
thing that ban Lome to a man who hud
seen four years of war, nnd, I am Bind
that I lime lhcd to bco the liberation
of that city. I saw the Joy of thousands
of people who during nil those four'
jears he suffered tragic things, unfor
gettable uutragis to their liberty and
spirit, and hae dwelt under a. dark
spell of fear and liae waited month
after month, year after yeur, with a
faith that sometimes weakened, lull
ncer died, for the rescue that has now
tonio to them.
It seems a miracle to them, now that
It has come sudcleni, and they fill their
streets like people In a. dream, hugging
their gladness, jet almost afraid thai
It Is unreal and that they tnus wake
hrmIii to find the swarms of Held i?r.i
men about them and guns In their gir
dens and the Herman law hard upon
them. 1 went Into Lille Friday morn
ing cry early, but the streets weio
already thronged with people, with well
dressed women nnd children and men
of nil ages In black coats Mich as one
sees outside the war zone, anil neer
before this within such close sound of
the guns
IJ PHILIP GIBUS
kept In the cltndol for tun hIeIiIm he.
fore lcilng, with little food, nnd when
they were assembled their sisters and
Kuuiem waiseu wui) them as rnr in
nllowed, weeping and crying, and the
bo) s and men tried In aln to hide
llulr own tears, and It was a breaking
oi nenris.
Itnlibril I. III? nf Mnrliliirrj
.More than two jchts ago a (lermnn
commission lslted Lille and all the
machinery was rcmoc! from the gnat
icmiic inciories winch made the wenltl
of the lt. With tint of IloubaW and
lourcolng, inllllons of pmindV worth
of nmclilnerv was lakin, and what rould
not be taken was smashed It was a
ddlheiite phn to kill the Industry of
nortbctii Kriinir. A thousind times to
day I mo heard thco words1
.Monsieur, thov
BRUGES GAY AS ALLIES ENTER CITY
Their
Burglicrg Raise
juitl Sing
Wuy to Tippcrnry"'
"It's u Long,
Hats
Loii!?
Gratitude for PetUerance
Ihej opened their arms In great em
braces of gratitude and loc for tlio-n
who hac helped to rccuo them from
their bondage, anil I mw the Joy of ast
crowds, and the light In thousands of
ecs was like sunlight about one, and
In a fiw' hours one made hundreds of
friends who thfmt gifts Into one's hinds
nnd poured out their emotion In words
of utter simplicity and truth, and
thanked one poor IndMduil as though
he were all the army and had done this
thing iiltvnc.
It was overwhelming and uplifting
Before one had gone far up the first
tuentie of Lille one was surrounded by
a great crowd A lad broke through
the ring and, clasping both binds, s.ild
'I embrace jou for the gladness ou
hae brought us "
Hlio kissed one on bcth checks and
It -was the signal for general embraces.
Pretty girls came forwatd and offer
ed their cheeks, and small bos pushed
through to kiss t he men bending down
to them, and old men put their hands on
one's shoulders nnd touched ones fnce
with their grizzled mustaches, and moth
ers held up their children tc be kissed
Children walked hand In hand with
me for a llttlo way as If they bad
known mo for years and talked all the
time of their gladness because the fie r
mans had gone. Then othtr children
took their places and other groups g alt
ered nnd one was cloted In by new
ciowds who seized one's bands and
rrled: i
'Welcome' Welcome' Long, live
i:nglaud!"
Dut manv times In the crowds I
heard Kngllsh olces, nnd ladles came
forward a llttlo and the groups parted
so that we might talk They had been
caught In Lille when the (Sermans came
and bad suffered this four cars' agony.
"We h.ie longed for this das," said
onc-of them, "and now It Is like a
dream. We can hardly lullei' that all
thoso gray men hae gono and that we
ha free."
An American doctor at Lille took me
Into his house, where I sat In his prctt
alnn nnd drank a glass of wlno with
him nnrt u his secret cupboird, when
ho had hidden his hras ornaments from
the enemy, wlio hid dtlermlncd that
eM-ry scrap of brass In LTlle should be
taken. In these apartments, as elegant
as any In lxmdon or Paris, or a thou
sand miles remote from the wnr, though
only a mile or two. t heard man) things
of CJerman brutality and fJerman op
pression and the tragedy of the be
sieged city,
Then there was an Kngllsh clergy
man, who for four jears had minis
tered to the Hngllsh wounded and re
cited praers oer tho Hngllsh dead
Mr. Moore Is his name, and his house
keeper Is Miss llrowne, of Hexcrlej.
In Yorkshire, and his cat H called
Bunny, nnd he has people In Kngland
Who will bo glad to hear after all this
time that the clergman and the house
keeper and the cat hao survived the
ordeal of war.
I wonder If any nf the sentries In tho
trenches of Chapelle Armentleres ever
established spiritual contact with that
city 'full of human j earnings as .he
.stared over tho parapet and saw through
the mists the tall chimneys of Lille.
Women lay awake, as they told me
today, nnd cried out: i
"When will the Kngllsh come? '
Children wept themselves to Bleep as
their mothers told mo this morning, be.
cause another day had passed and the
Hngllsh had not come.
"Wo had so long to wait for you, very
lontr," said many of these people today.
Conirrlpte-d 8000 Girls
After the first terror of the (ierman
occupation and tho first nagging of
law which regulated all their lives, for
bade them to be out in the streets atitr
t o'clock In tho evening, and shut
them up In their houses like naught)
children at " In the afternoon when
the Qerman commandant was annojed
with some complaint, one of their worst
days came when. Just before 1 .'aster.
1916, 8000,)oung women of Lille were
forcibly seized and sent away to work
In the fields, hundreds of miles from
their homes.
Itiwas a reign of terror for every girl
In LJJIe and for their pnrents Different
quarters in the town were chosen for the
conscription of girls, and machine guns
were posted at each end of the street,
and families were ordered to gather In
doorways, when the Cicrman otlicers
came around and made arbitrary choice,
saying to one girl, "You," and to an
other. "YouT" and then ordered their
men to take them.
Mr. Moore, a clergyman, told me that
some girls whom he knew were dragged
out of their beds nnd carried scream
ing away. They were girls In all con
ditions of life, and a joungr one whom
I met today told me that she was
chosen but escaped by threatening to
kill herself rather than go, for It was to
be a life of misery and horror to any
girl of decent Instincts ,
One of them who was taken and spent
six months In this forced labor, toM
me that she had no change of linen all
that time and slept on a truss of straw
In an old barn, at first with men who
were put Into the same barn with them
and then only with women.
They never had enough to eat In the
early days, though the food was bet
ter laler, and many of these girls fell
111 from hunger, and their brothers, who
were also taken, suffered
More unspeakable things happened
and there Is no forgiveness In the hearts
of thosp who .Buffered them.
That was tho first exodus from Lille,
and the second happened twelve dava
later, When lz.ooo men una boys were
sent away further Into the German
-lines so that their labor should not be
given ,to the Allies.
"I went when my poor boj was
Wild u lady tins morning, lla
jp0p HW pMUfnt ana WW a cnild In
nro robin rs Thev
stole ever)thlug we had worth anything
10 mem, our urass. our metal of all
l.liids. our linen, e locks driperles They
even took the bells out nf our churches,
and that Is why there arc no bells
ringing todny becaiiso t(f ur dillver
mice "
Among the worst e rueltlcs done bv
the Hermans wis their treitincnt of
tho British prisoners I'roin Mr Moore,
tho elergjmun, and fiom the Amer
ican elector nnd from other witnesses
I heard dreadful things or the prls
oners sufferings Mist of them were
kept In the citadel nt Mouse nbiireeul
outside the clt . nnd from that pi ice
wero drafted to dls tremhe Theie
wero about son of tliem thrre at ii
time, and It was nld b.v Mr Muoio
to bo a Hlnrlt Hole of Calcutta 'Ihey
were itluujn half starved so tint they
Were almost too weak to wilk
'I looked Into joiiiir faces, raid the
clergviiMii, "and thought 'I shall be
called lo burj )ou In a d i) or two '
Trench women sniucKl.d lire id lo
them at great lUk of Imprisonment, and
sometimes old Herman Liiidstiirm whom
tliev met turned their heads awa and
encouraged this in disobedience to or
ders The sick and wounded were tend
ed by .Sisters of Charllv uinl I'rench
(idler who walled on them and saw
frightful things without illnihlng
iiecausc or tlulr eoiitngi' the treat
ment of Ilrltlsh olllcers was muili bet
ter tit in that of the inch and espc
clall) whin thrj were dead did the
eninv take the trouble) to give them
mllltarv honors Hut for the living
men who were pilvato soldiers this
Imprisonment was torture
One does not wish nt this st ige of
the war lo rtlr up paislou and desire
for leveugo Cod knows there Is no
need of that, but these things must lie
written in hlslor), anil I write them
now. knowing their truth In this city
of Lille I have heard n thousand things
of traged), even In one day's visit
W hen the Kinpernr Tame
In tho hearts of the people there arc
thousands of other memories Ono
scene that was described to me had the
Herman Hmperor ns Its central oh irac
ttr He came to Lille In April Inst,
when the Herman onVnslvo in Hinders
was In full force and they had t ikeu
Kcinme!
Prom fi In the morning until 'J l,r, In
the nflcrnoeii soldiers were diawn up
In the strcels. awaiting the mm who
s)mbollzed the might of He man arms
and is now bearing the burden of all Its
e rimes When he pissed at last on his
wnv to Kenimel there wns only ono coin
pinv of Herman soldiers who cheered
him with mechnnlcil "Hoch' lloch!"
All others maintained dead sllenee, nnd
the Kalsej passed dewn their lines with
Klonni) lonkH on bis wu lo Kemincl Hill
Those were the worst das for the peo
ple of Lille, anil during the last offen
sive In flinders, when the British lost
Armentleres and ICemniel and the Brit
ish arm) was but a thin line, holding
back the tide
'We gave oinselvis up for lost,"
some of the people told m 'It Mull
ed that all our faith and all our pi
tlence had been in vain We cried out
to Hod in despair, but that lasted only
a little while We steeled ourselves
again and said 'Pinnce nnd Hiigland
ennnot he beaten. We must win In the
end ' And our men he Iped us Your pris
oners were brought thiough our directs
mudd), exhausted, and covered with
blood, some of them, but they belli their
heads high, so pruudlv, oh, so pioudlv,
und some of them said ns the) pissed,
It's all right, we shall have Hum )et.
we shall eoine back on them' Then wo
said. "If the bovs speak like that, after
all the) have suffered, we must not loo
heart," and we wero comforted."
Treated IliiiMmni I Ike l)n
Worse even thm the treatment of
British prisoners wus thit of the ltus
slans 'Oh, they were treated llko
dogs." said one girl, und many other
people told me so
Two hundred and fort) British sol
diers He burled In Lille, but, 2000 Her
mans He burled there, too
'Once when I wus bur)ing three of
our men," said Air Moore, "a Herman
jiastor was bur)lng ecvcnty-slx of his
own sei'dlers Tho number of their
dead appalled them, und ns )eur b)
)eai their losses piled up und still there
was no i ml and no victor), even u.o
braggarts were sllejnccd, and gloom toeik
possession of them all The most arro
gant changed their tone, and In these
Inst da)s It was eusy to see uercat writ
ten on the Herman faces, and man) of
the men made no secret of It,"
The American elector was friendly
with a )oung Herman who had an Hng
llsh mother and was a nice felloiy. und
It was he who brought tiillnea of strange
tilings about lo happen.
It was past midnight on KcptcinTier
30 that the doctor heard u ringing at
his door bell He went down, frighten
ed, us some sudden summons like that
wns always frightening, und opened the
door nnd saw his friend.
'What arc ou doing ut this hour7"
ho asked The )oung Herman wns white
nnd haggard.
"I must tell )ou a strunge secret,"
tie said In a whisper. I promised
to let )ou know when to leave. In case
Lille were abandoned by us and there
was risk of bombardment. That time
has come. Tonight 15,000 men are
leaving Llllo and Is u little while It
will bo evneuated."
People Cheer Belgian Cav
alry and the. Old Bell Adds
Its Peals to Joyons Acclaim
ii) philip cinns
(nntlmifd from Ine One
wept becuuso their hearts had over
brimmed. As nt Lille nnd noubalx ami Tour
colng, so In Bruges, everybody spoke
.i little Kngllsh, oven the children, be
cause tltry h.ul been lenrnlnK for four
i.uh until this diy should come.
They gathried mound, ull speaking
together, nil telling of tho things they
had suffered, nil p i"islomte ncalnst
the rue my, who had been haul with
them, who Imd tubbed them, Imprison
ed them, oylingrd their liberties und
their homes
"They tore the paper off my wall tn
light their tires." said Count von elen
Steen I
"They forced our ounK girls to
work In tho llelds," said n Flemish
I ulv.
"Thcv stole ever) thing," said hun
ilieds of people
"Their Is hardly u man 111 Biuges
who his not b"on lit prifriii'
Belgian Children Prattle,
in Tongue Invader Taught
Willi the Allies In Belgium, Utt.
31. Many of the smill children,
cspeclill) in Ostein! use Herman ns
their own langu ige Tho enemy
iippaiently went out of his way to
tench his tongue to these children.
The only money to be found In
Ostend iit.d other liberated Belgian
titles Is Ucrmin
falrtl
smld the
old Burgomelslor. VlJirt elo Bocume.
'Thev urc. pIks." said n ounjr nun.
But iibovo nil this Mime of Indig
nation theic was gladness, because thn
evil spell had been bioken that eiy
innrnltiK und tho cjicitiv had gone.
We elrove round Bruges with u
swaiin of bo)s llko flics on our cm,
and us we drove they sine patriotic
songs nnd the uowds eheeird again.
I stood while a group of eiUlburgliors
i. lived tiller lints nnd sang: "It's n
Lous, Lous Way to Tlpperar)" from
one end tn the other nnd while nil.
othei crowd scrimbled to get mv
sliouldt r bidets I wns nil Hiigllsh
m in In klrikl. und that wilt good
enough for them though I hud done
nothing to help them except to write
fecblo words
flO.OOO HrquMllntK bv Toe
The noble old burgonielster, Vl7.irt de
Bocirme told ine the hard facts of the
fierm in oceinntloii of Bruges The) had
60(101) requisitions put upon tlieni, so
that the) hid to deliver up property to
the viluo of $10110,000 Thev took nil
the wine of Bruges at the nominal price
of fort) one rents a bottle
The) made four tcparatc dennnds for
evervthlng made of copper nnd paid
nothing for It The) destrnjed nil the
mae bluer) in tho greit works of Li
BrURioiso where "JBOO workmen were
emploved
The) put upon the town fantastic
expenses, as when th ) furnlslie'd u
rest house for Herman olllerrs at the
cost to Bruges of tie trl) J3000, and
m nlo a winter garden with marble
bilhs, like thoso lit Pompeii, at a cost
of J10.000, the onl) result being that
one Herniui bishop had one bath there
and no one else
Before leaving, the f!rm,iiiM assem
bled all the brtvs and men between tho
igrs of i-eicntem and lift) and sent
them off to Hlient 'I he) respected
houses occupied b) their owners, but
stripped unoccupied houses of all their
furnltuic and pictures and valuables
Count an e'en bteen told mo tint
the enemy began the evacuation of
Bruges a fortnight ago. removing all
material of war. and wero In a state
of excitement and depression with the
consciousness of defeat.
The last Hcrm in soldiers remained In
Bruges until the earl) hours of Satur
d ly morning and fort) -six of them were
billeted at u ninvint mar Aseliioock,
ii suburb 'of Bulges, until 1'30 or 2
o'clock
I went there to sec an Hngllsh lady
who his been living with the.fe nuns
since the beginning of the war, when,
llku them, she wns caught bv the Her
man Invasion When I came Into the
gaiden I seemed an apinr Hot: to her,
liecnuse tho fierm ins hid gmo such a
short time ago Her rv i f astonish
ment brought all the nuns Into the
garden, In their black and while dresses.
No News l-rnnl Outride nrht
The) hid suffered miserable things
these ladles of charlt), who had not
known the eruclty of life beforo this
war 'lhelr food had been poor und
searce and thev were surrounded b)
the roar of gunfire and bombs nnd had
narrowly escaptd death not once or
twice, hut man) times
When the British airmen used to
bomb the docks of Bruges almost every
night and elay for months the nolso was
frightful nnd 200 civillms in and around
Bruges were killed b) bomb splinters
and anti-aircraft shells
Not onto In all those four )ears illd
any limn or woman In Ilrugi's get nn)
news of the outside worm, nor any let
ter from an) relative or frlcnel, nor any
knowledge of life or death among those
the) loved outside
It vi as hard to bear Their many
traitidles I cannot write of rtow,
but tho retneinbiance of these things
was drowned In the Hood of Joy over
whelming tho heart of Bruges
The old belfr) was pealing out In tile
deep tones which used to mingle with
my dreams when 1 sta)ed heie In my
boyhood and as I left the city the
people were cheering the Belgian cav
air) on their wav lo chase the enemy
further out of Belgium
At Ostend there are 25 000 out of
45,000 people still living In the town,
and all of them were r..&Hd on the
sea front when Sir Robert Keyes landed
from his llagahlp When he went on
shore In a motor launch, which put
off from a destro)er with the King and
Queep of the Belgians, the) were greeted
with nverw helming eninusiasm.
The last Herinins left Ostend ut 0
o'clock last Thursd ly morning, hut they
still had machine guns on the outskirts
of the town near the gas factory nnd the
port was still within range of the Her
man guns when the King and Queen
landed 'and went through the streets.
The King and Queeh were so closely
pressed by cheering crowds, eager to
touch them and to kiss their hands that
they could hardl) move.
The gallant old Vindictive lies aslant
across the mole and the eneni), before
Germans Placed Machine
Guns in Streets Before
Conscripting the Women and
Girls
Many Went Mad and Uieir
Shrieks Mingled With the
Wailing of Parents
"RAINBOWS" WIN
GLORY IN A YEAR
42d Division, Which Left
U.S. October 17. 1917,
Hat, Great Record
WAS IN MANY BATTLES
leaving, rank three more vessels, In
cluding a mall st-imer and a dredger.
In order lo block up the falrwn), but
theie Is still room for small craft to
pass
(Intend I llllo llalnnnfil
The town Is but little damaged, and
the hotels, like the Continent il and the
Savoy and the Ph ire and the Ureal
Kursaal, so familiar to tourists before
the war, lire still standing All the har
bor works', like the INtnude or mole
nnd Hie seafiont, have been tlaborately
orgmlzed for defensive purposes The
mole ItBelf Is one of a v ist scries of
dugouts, tommiinlcatlon trenches and
tunnels, and theie are loncrcte block
houses ull tlm wiv between the Kursaal
nnd the Hotel dit I'lnre Cone rite
chellers nnd defuses were made right
through the Hotel Continent il
The Hermans hid n sudden pinle that
the British Intended Ii 'ding with t inks
and flat-bottom birgis during the bittla
of I'lmders, an lilei tint was perh ips
not Bltogellur wide of the mark, and
they prepare il ver) lite In tint day an
astounding s)slem of nutl tank defuses
to frustrate this possibility
Then a few weeks ago the Heriuiu
forces "it Ostend s iw themselves threat
ened b) the menace of the Alllul ad
vinie, and prep ireil In desperite b iste
for flight Their reil panic began on
October I when thev begin an org)
of destruition nnd removal of the works
upon whleli they had spent )cars of
labor at enormous eost le r the pur
poses of their sublimit! w erf ire
Ostend was their m liu subinirlne
bise, and they built enormous work
shops and sheds tn the basins ind dinks
for the accommodation and icpilrtng
of thes undersea craft They hid
thousands of men engaged tluii and
masses of to ichlnery and plants, ami It
was In these works that all their hopes
lay of reducing the British empire lo
Impotence bv ruthless submarine ac
tlvlt)
The Ilnvnt Air Service, as II was then
before the am ilgamatlou Into the lto)al
Air Porce did n great de il lo sm ish
theso ambitions by ctisehss bombing
1'oe ltrnmvrd Marhlnerv
But for all that there wai still a
mass or valuable, machlner) In these
works and on October 1 gangs of Uer
m in inirlnis were emploved to remove
it nnd to destrov what thev could not
get awa) Por two da)S tills aetlvlt)
went on while large numbers of troops
were evacuated from the town and only
reir guirds wero left
Vow bv the Belgian capture of Blank
enberghe, Zeibrucge, nnd Kuoike which
tod iv gives buck all of the coast up to
the Hutch frontier, tint Heiinans have
lost their list e h Hire of n ivnl suctess,
and the'r driani of g lining the channel
ports of Prince his been shattered, like
man) other false elreams which for a
little while seemed In touch with rcalit)
llrltUli llurrv l'ne ltrtrrnt
Meanwhile, southward on the British
front the troops continue, not without
hard ftaritlnR. to hasten the enemy re
treat from the big cities long held In
bondage They are now we 1.1 bejond
Tout rolng and ItoubaW, those two big
inanufni luring towns so closely linked
up with LHIe The) weie the e ist
Yorks and other troops of the Ihlrt)-
Hrst division, who took Tourcolng and
nr now pushing out to villages be) nnd
Mousecron, Pottlgnles. and Pst.inpuls
toward the Siheldt, which conies down
through Hhent
Man) Cerium soldiers have hidden
thiniselves In the liberated towns, pre
ferring to surrender rather thin go on
lighting I saw some of thoso captured
like this In Bruges and In Ostend
There Is no Herman proclamation ask
ing Belg'un ilvlllaus to denounce de
serters to the Allied troops, and the')
say thit In order to make things eisv
with President Wilson It his been de
cided to avoid the bombardment of
towns with large populations, though this
does not appl) to the villages which arc
now being shelled by the client) so that
some civilians havo been killed during
the last two da)S
1.1 fo in lloubaK and Tourcolng was
as hard as In Lille There are in my
rich manufacturers in these towns ami I
among them n number of Yorkshire and '
Lancashire business men with great In-.
uuniiiiri niii.il ,11 Ml 1 wo.li.vt USU1I, l ll
had a cotton mill employing nearly
2000 workpeople beforo It was stripped
of all Its machlner) by the eneni)
tood could be bad by those with
money enough to pa) for It, 12 50 for
a pound of butter, and everything on
tho same scale But many poor people,
I am told, died of starvation and there
was general miser)
At Lille, I was told by distinguished
citizens that seven out of .evei) ten
men had been In prison at tome time
or other ' for refusing to pay fines or
for other crimes against Herman op
pression." In Tourcolng It was ns bad,
and Mr. Illchardsoii, the maitufacturer
whom 1 have mentioned, was actuall)
taken as a hostage and imprisoned six
weeks In Herniany for the fantastic rea
son that tho Prench had shelled Ale-
aiidrcttn. Kor that 'reason, ulso. Ilou.
i.iiv i.n.i ir. a ii nno of 150 000 francs
Tho same tragic scenes ns In LI le
happened when the Hermans made the
conscription of women In Tourcolng and
Houbalx With machine guns poted
In tho streets and Herman otlicers mak
ing an arbitrary choice of the joutic
women anil girls for foreeel labor In
fields far from their homes, this seizing
of girls was elonc at night without
nreiioiiM warning, and the dark horror
of It made the girls go mad and their .
shrieks rang down tho streets and even
thoso who had most courage wept bit-1
terl), and a great walling arose from (
mothers unl fathers nnd sisters und
ihlldreii who feared tho worst for tho'c
who we re tikcu
Keen some of tho Herman olllrers
revolted from this order and sild 'Wo
will not do this lllthv work " And soin
of them tin n und liler, when despair
took bold of them, committed sulilde
It Is no wonder that there Is no pir
don In the hearts of Prench women for
other women of tlulr own town who
In weakness In elurnctrr and looseners
of heart, were beguiled Into relation
ship with tho Hermans Trainlo ids or
these women left some of the towns
tint I have tinned because they had
been see n Intlmatels with Cerium olll-
eers and men and vesterd.iy nt the en- I
tnnfo or Bruges, 1 s iw the portrait or
a woman lulled Up and was told th it (
It w is to plllor) her name for her un
faithfulness to pride and race I
'Unit was one of the worst tr.igcdl 1
of war It Is Inevllable among wars
horrors and pitiful Lit ns forget these
things In our genial lov. though inrv
will be remembered while hlfctor) lads
But do not let us forget that while i
niaiiv titles are being liberated and nro
full eif gl nlness. the British soldiers to
whom this Is lnrgelv due are still fir.
lug Herm in gunllre und in ichlne-gun
bullets
IlritlMi still righting
.Simdiv mnrnl'K Ilrltlsh troops of tho
First. Srond mil Third armies ndvanced
on a general lino cast of Courtral,
lloubilx and Pou.il The Kourth Army,
on thn right. In torn h with the Prench,
le also moving forward "against opposi
tion from niuthlne-guti rear guards and
hue tnkni a I irgn ini nitlty ut war ma
terial In l,e Catcall
With them American troops hive ad
vanced with line gallantry and have,
taken minv prisoners
tin the Third Arm) front tin ro w.ui tin i
attack ut J o clock Sunday morning and
i number of prisoners and machine guns
wero taken Around St Python, south
west of Valenciennes, there was hard
lighting
The vlllige of St P)thou was Blub- I
bornl) defended with b irrlcades In the i
streets and machine guns In the houses
On the Second Arm)'s front the British
troops crossid tin Itiicr Lvs and came i
astride the Coiirlral-1 nurmil roul and
aie advancing tow aid ltollei-him south
of Courtral Itself
In ,i riient nicesnge I described how
15,000 people (ill one side of the e anal,
with 50U0 others among the British troops
on the west side, were waiting In their i
cellars, with heavy Are very close to
them, for dellvcranceo from etptiilt)
These people should now be free after
a tirrlble experience of feai and hun
ger nnd agonizing hope, which has list
ed through sevei.il di)s and nights
They have- hid worse times than tho
people In Lille and Tourcolng, Itoubalx
and Bruges, where the eneni) bid not
fought long before his lllght. but now
the), too, will enjo) the best things,
which Is frtedom from hostile rule, and
their th mksfflvliig will go up In that
ehoruswhlch Is truvellng over Belgium!
and northern Prime und is the voice of
the brave peoplo who have suffered four
)ears of tnlser) and now urc glad
Champagne. Chateau-Thierry,
St. Mihiel Salient. Argonne
and Other Names on Roster
tly KDWIN L JAMI.S
Special Cable lo hi riling Public Ledger
Cnrvriohl, J9CS, bj 'ew tor), Tlmrj Co.
tVllh Hie Amerlrnn lrniv in triinee,
Oet 21
The Forty-second flcaluhnw) Division,
one of the crack units of the inerlian
urni), left the I'ulted States just u
)ear ago On October 18, 1117, Its
iicidipiarterH nnd certain elements or
the division lift America and the re
niilndcr followed on the since edlng d.i)S
This division has been Involved In
all the larger actions In which the
Americans have been engaged After
reaching I'rance, It underwent n period
of training In a back area, and on
April 1 took over a sector In the Lune
vllle region, being th,e first American
division intrusted with a divisional sec
tor. Having heMd for three months an
active but stationary front of fifteen
kilometers, the division was sent to
the Champagne, where, with Oenernl
Houraudn army, It helped meet the
Herman drive or July 15 north of riulp
lies, when Houraud held the fierce Her
man onslaught on tho line from wbhli
It started
From the Champ igne, the Itilnbow
Division wint to the Chateau-Thierry
region, where jt distinguished Itself In
irosslng the Ourcq liver, capturing Ser
g), Serlnges VUlers-Hur-Perc. und Ncs
lis. making u tntul advance of ten
miles Atter receiving replacements the
division went to the Toil I sector, where
It teiok pirt In the reduction or the St
Mlhlel salient b) the first American
nrmv After making nn udvince of
twelve miles the llnlnbovv turned Its sc
tor over to newer troops and caific to
the Argonne sector, where II was as
signed to the toughest Job vet -the
piercing of the Krlemhllil-Steltiing nt Its
apex lu the region of the Cote de Cha
tlllnii, whereIt took 1 1 111 No 288 uftcr
being t6ld it eoulilnt be done
The American division Iiim fought and
tnkeii prisoners from twentv-slx enemy
divisions, including three Prussian Huard
and ono Autrlin division, und also
prisoners from nineteen In
Herman units "Here are i
units, which bitvc met lhe3rortyi
lo their sorrovvt The First Huard,
Huard, Fourth Huard, Tenth, ThhrM
Teventy-elghth, Fortieth, Fortyti
Ffltv-second. Ninety-sixth. lS2dl
201st, 21Gth. 227th, 233d, Fifth LanawHT,
Hlghth Lnndwehr, Tenth LandWdMb
Twenty-first Lnndwehr, Hcventy-sevttrfp,
reserve; Hlxth Bavarlin reserve, Thlrtfs
fifth Austro-Hungarlnn division, aMI
tho following Independent units: Th
Third. Thirtieth. Forty-second, Klfty-r
first, .Sixty-fifth, and Seventy-first Lsmf.
wehr, foot artillery reg'ments, the Klf
teentii Hrsatz artillery battalion, Four
ttcnth Kturm battalion, Sixteenth sharMt
shooter rnnehlne-gun battalion, Fourth
Mlntunwerfer battalion, Slxty-sev enxfr
md Nlnet) -seventh Labor battalions,
7 1 Cth Agricultural battalion, BeventlesHl
timnei Bunging troops, Twenty-second '
Ballwuy section, and Thirteenth LMl ,
wlgsburg regiment.
FINISH BLOCKING OSTEND '
Ho.it Scuttled by Germans Along,
siilc Cruiser Vindictive
It) the Atiocialed I'reit
With the Allien In llrlxliim. Oct. 21. S
Before leaving Ostend the Hermans
siuttltd u large malt boat alongside thet
old British cruiser Vindictive, which
was sunk b) the Hngllsh in the channel
there last Mav, Thev thus mad.
doubl) sure that the channel will be
blocked for a long time
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For Y ML C. A. Service
A recent letter written from London by Mr. Edward
W. Bok, Chairman of The Pennsylvania War Wdrk.
of the Y. M. C. A., reads in part as follows:
"The Y. M. C. A. need here in London and in
England is as follows:
(1) For men of executive ability to
take charge of areas With 100 to
150 secretaries in each;.
(2) For Hut Leaders who can take
charge of a hut with 5 to 8 secre
taries in each;
(3) For practical Construction
Foremen for the erection of new
buildings and the maintenance of
present ones;
(4) For Entertainment Secretaries
of high order;
(5) For regular Secretaries.
The work here in England is fine: much bigger
and finer than we have any idea of. Give my kindest
regards to the Board and tell them that they cannot
work too hard for such a work as the 'Y' is doing."
The same requirements apply in France and Italy, also, with
additional calls for Educators, Business Executives, Expert
Accountants, able men to handle transportation service, experi
enced Auto Mechanics, Chauffeurs and Film Operators.
An "S. O. S." from Russia asks for seventy-five all-around men
for Siberian service.
Our Home Camps are in want of Camp General Secretaries,
Building General Secretaries, Physical Directors, Religious,
Educational, Social, and Assistant Secretaries, to care for the rapid
expansion of camp service, to fill the vacancies caused by trans
ferring experienced men to overseas duties and the expiration
of enlistment of men who must return to their regular vocations.
The Association is four thousand workers short, to meet over
seas demands. Do not think that when actual fighting ceases
our work will stop simultaneously. We shall more seriously
need a very large number of helpers then, and for many months
following, to guide, entertain and serve Our Boys.
Arrange your business for a year's absence,
to meet a calling greater than you have ever
had before, and to do something more for
your America, that has done so much for you.
Telephone, write or call upon
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of the Y. M. C. A.
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