The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1918, Page 2

ee / SERENA greeter If German inventior as coined anything beyond Kultur —or as we best’ know it— frightfulness—it is the one phrase, ‘‘The Ladies of Hell,”’ In polite society, busy with its knitting ‘needles, ‘this awesome and rather shocking sobriquet invites a suggestion of Furies; “aod thet is just what the Hun soiugtit to convey. \ 4“The Ladies of Hell,’’ as Fritz walls them, axe the gallaut Scotch. Kitchever referred to them as the grandest soldiers in all the world— ‘the backbone of the kritish army. And Kitchener was on Irishman. Fx ploits ‘of the ‘Ladies of Hell’ have been given little public notice in this war because the British, govern- ‘meat is not given to open praise of jadividual regiments or troops anil ie, pens of the poets are still too ‘busy with other things to draft odes aud epics fi ihe lads of the heativer Given 600,000 to The Cause. But German respect for these t: @itioually noted fighters, @onv h the expression. "‘The Lad ef Hell,’? and tales brought back by Fetursed Canadians disclose with shining ‘vividness the incomparable valor of these kilted laddies fron “It’s the, Ladies’ of He . Scotch Troops advan«: |. valor noted en umany “fields — | Haig’s land figure in noiai ic conflicts—Big aid.to America ia Liberty Lozn Drive. with io ie ‘Hun as ct—Their Kaibies from The bonny land of Marry Lauder and Gen, Haig: has- contributed to the cause since the outbreak of war 600,000 hardy Scots and Canada has given up some 100,000 who once rauntered through Mighland vales and dells. It can be said with safety that there isn’t.an able bodicd Scot of fighting age left in the cities and villages of their native land. And it can also be said that there are thousands of little’ white crosses in Trance that mark the graves of de- parted “Jocks,?? Even greater have been the deeds of the Black Watch, the Seaforth Highlanders, the King’s Qwn Seot- tish and the Argyle and Sutherland , Highlanders iv this war than in the days when Napoleon saw their un- broken fronts: at Waterloo and the Russians theim flapping kilts on the Crimea. Time and again these regi- ments have been feformed; and never once have they emerged from confliét with anything but victory aud. laurels, if Americans Now With Scotch, American soldiers are fighting shoulder to shoulder with these lads “now anit is only well that Ameri- can fathers and mothers whose boys are brigaded with these valiant. war- riors should have.a glimpse of the chaps whom Fritz has so respect- fully dubbed, ‘‘The Ladies of Hell.” From no better source, could this in- In a series. of these tents Canadians told of the valor -of j their kilted conirades and. of the ruthlessness of the Hun. TUESDAY, JUNE. 4,: 1918. formation come than froin the Hips of -Sergt. Harry Boyle, Corporal ‘‘Jock’? Smith and Corporal Leo Pierron, late members of Canadian Scottish ~ regiment: i A i Bi} = Canada ;recently, .minug, logs, “ous Ther: \Camadian « goverament *dent'thetti*to° Akron, ‘Ohio, to i Ft ieoP ‘ Hn Comp: raise, $1,000,000 among its 22,000 kers for the third liberty loan. . These crippled fighters lent such stimulus: by their simple talks thatthe quota set by ‘the Goodrich offigials was, raised in three daya and $250,000 more. \ Secretary McAdoo was s0 elated with the Goodrich efforts that he sent a letter of congratulation to of- the H@ktNBeHty loan would probably exiyste tea Hives of fle’ Goodrich ‘TBI! fnanging, the loan, Dei) on} Anw: element shat | pleased ‘Mr. |Me- oiloifox goo. was thd) aMlatrgemontiwhereby every employe was given ‘an oppor- tunity to say ‘‘yes’’ or ‘‘no’’ toa request for a subscription. The en- thusiasm was such that: no one could actually refuse to turn down a solicitor. Stubbornness A Winning Trait. | Somehow or other when one talked or looked at these veterans of many battles—Smith fell at Vimy Ridge, Pierron lost his leg at Lens after twenty-nine months of fighting and Boyle was wounded in the ‘great Somme offensive—one thought of Scott and of coirns and of Marmion. They personified grit, stubbornness —something that could not be broken, They: were typical ‘Scots. They went methodically. about their . business’ as they went about their fighting, quite certain they would sueceed—with never’ a thought, of failure. An incident reflected this spirit. Someone asked Smith, a veteran of the Boer war also, about the great German offensive in progress, ‘“‘What if they break through?’ asked the questioner, “But what if they don’t??? was the rejoinder of the little Scotch- man, | ay Why. The Germans Can't Break Through. “But what if they dof’? persisted the other. : t “But what if they don’t??? re- peated the. corporal, a grimness showing through the fine scarlet of his cheeks, % But what if theg. don’t! The little Scotchman knew. No avalanche of steel, no_mass of human bodies, no wicked contriv- ance of war could wilt and «rush the courageous will of the Scot! He had seen it express itself too often. “When this war is all over,’ re- markea the little corporal, ‘‘just ask Fritz what he thinks of the Scotch.’? Reference to the laddies of his na- tive heath stirred memories, ‘One day, I remember—it was at Hill 60—yes, Hill 60,’’ he said. ‘‘We had been, fighting night and day. Our rifles would get so hot we would have to-stop firing them. On our right Fritz was putting in an en- filading fire that was. bowling ‘over our boys faster, than the stretcher bearers’ could ‘get them away, We _ Simply, had to dislodge the Germans, _ known to the ‘were. Fetnened fb) ficials.1i Mareover, he indicated that « ‘’ Bayonets Win Where Gunfire Fails, “SA fresh brigade was brought up to take ; the position. It failed. Pretty soon the Sea+ forth Highlanders appeared with fixed bayo- nets... They were ordered to take the position with ‘cold steel.’ They weren’t to hold it others, could do that; they,,.were’ just::ta, -., take it...» ; hotly jor thats “They took it—and just! with their bayo: nets, ‘ S84 ‘And I think of our owi battalion,’?, he continued. ‘‘It was the 53rd,-the Canadian Scottish. Major Gordon’ commanded it. You must know him in'this country—Ralph Con- Aue The man who wrote Black Rock and those other stories? As brave a man as éver lived. :One-night five hundred of us were sent over to take a strip of : Sergt. Harry Boyle of the Cana- dian High- landers; his leg was blown off by. a whiz-bang during the Somme offensive. trench. The artillery had laid down a strong barrage but by some terrible freak it had failed to. cut the barbed wire. / #- pnd They Took tho Trench, "tombe boys reaehed the wire with the ‘Frifzies’”—returned soldiers never speak of the Germans save as Fritz—‘‘ripping out an awful machine gun fire. Men were falling right and left. But do’you think any of those.boys would go back? Not for a moment. They sat right down in the wire and very deliberately cut their way through. ‘And they took the trench.’? There was a moment's silence. “‘How many. survived??? someone asked at length, “‘Forty-five,’? replied the corporal. : e| i ittle Scots. They both have the in- aon ctehIe call Eee tere bea aifferenes in stature. Also a dry wit that never loses its eee in Se ee oe ay ae ii 3 fiercest aroun: re ¥ inece Bit Bact wad aavatsing: to the attack. For reasons best the little Scotchmen were mo orlessindistavor, Corporal “Jock” Smith, of the Canadian Highlanders; his leg was bipwn off by a shell af Vimy Ridge—Corporal Leo Pierron, one of the first “33,000,” ‘lost tis leg'at Lens after twenty-nine months of continuous fighting. MERRIE go The Tale of The Wee Scots. - Every time they entered a trench , the fire step had to be built up—also the parapet. Likewise the relieving battalion had to reconstruct the whole works to suit their height. Ag fortune would have it the wee lads were going into a position just vacated by the Grenadier Guards. All the grenadiers are six feet tall. They make up one of England’s im- perial regiments and are regarded as oue of the Kingdom’s greatest and oldest collection of fighters. ‘(Wire you goin’?’? growled one + of the. grenadiers, “Up to take the position the grenadiers conldn’t take,’ piped a little Scotchman, ‘And they did. Fair play is legendary with the Scot. Strange to say it is something the German doesn’t like. When a Scotchman attacks with a bayonet he singles out his adversary, generally with, ‘Come on, Fritz, let’s go tg.ut; it’s-you or me.’? ’ If Fritz hasn’t his gang he usually ‘beats it.?? : The ‘Germans Learn A Lesson. §cotch troops are one type that Germans will never maltreat. One day Prussians captured a half dozen Scotchmen, stripped them and sent them across No Man’s land to their own lines, As the men reached the center of the death styip, the Germans turned loose their machine guns. The Highlanders in the trenches, without barrage or as much as a shot, went over with one bound with their bayonets and cleaned out every’ Prussian in the opposing trench, ‘The Scotch think well of the Prussians—as fighters; pretty well of the Bavariaus and are filled with compassion for the Saxons. ‘(Were it not for the fact the Prussians mix their non-commis- sioned officers in with the Saxons,’’ said Sergt: Boyle, ‘‘they would do little fighting. The Saxon hates the Prussian and the_Ptussian has ouly contempt for the Saxon;?? This led to a little story, “One night: while’in’a bombing station justin front of our lines,’” said Sergt. Boyle, ‘we were startled, by someone falling in our midst. Ié was a German out on patrol. We. nabbed him and took him’ back $0 -. headquarters. He proved to..be ‘a . Saxon. ‘The officers gave him a g feed and asked him when the relief was coming in and other usetions, He’d Bring ’Em All Over. ‘He gave answers..very readily. So impressed was he with the paach tion he had received he said: % << <Tf you let-me go back and tel? the others how. you have treated me I'll bring the whole battalion over.’ He said the *Prussian of- ficers had told the men it was cer- tain death to ‘be taken by the \ British. If he “hadn’t been ace quainted with our positions we would have taken a chance on him,?? The kilts worn by the Scots have been much jn discussion in this war, At one time the British government seriously considered asking the Highlanders to diseard their plaids— the government, would never order it—bevause of their. conspicuousness, Even though he realized this would decrease the number of cashal ies, the Scot turned down the suggestion flatly, but consented to wear a khaki eglered shield eyer the plaids, ‘Cooties’’, (bedy lice) hav the bane of the Roth «Coote are not very discriminating but they have a special affection for kiltieg. They climb up under the kilts and take refuge under the waist band. It is no uncommon: sight to see a highlander in. the mnidat of battle drép his rifle and begin a hunt for @; yovacious. “‘eootie,’? machine bullets singing and shel around his head the wile ee Baseball Takes With scotch! | American influence is - playing havoe with Scotch pastimes behini the lines, The Scotch are rapid | becoming accomplished in paptads and a short time ago when a High-! land nine defeated an. American’ team the London papers pro imed the fact all over one hal 4 os 3 It is 4 cinch that.after the mar © the crack of the bat’ will be in- many a village in. th thistles and heather, Seas cal *.- de ‘