New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1917, Page 5

ARMY OF ENGLAND\ G ided Capital By Son Jobn Redmond Estimates -Their Number at About 326,000 Dublin, Ieb. at a luncheon 16.—In a letter read to the officers of the Irish Canadian Rangers on their visit here, John Redmond quoted statistics to show the large number of Irish- men who had enlisted in the outside of the Irish regiments. Irish leader said: “From Ireland itself, according to the latest offictal figures, 173,772 Irishmen are serving in the navy and army, representing all classes and creeds among our people. “From careful inquiries made through the churches in the north of Ireland and Scotland, from the casu- alty lists, and from other sources, the calculation has been made on high authority that at least 150,000 sons of the Irish race, most of them born in Ireland itself, have joined the col- ors. “In Great Britain it is a pathetic circumstance that these men are al- most forgotten except when their names appear in the casualty lists of non-Irish regiments. Some of the Irish papers have for a considerable time past been publishing day by day special casualty lists under the head- ing “Irish Casualties in British Reg- iments.” Mr. Redmond wag unable to per- sonally greet the Rangers, being con- fined to his home partly through ill- ness and the shock of his daughter's death in New Yo!;k. KHATTAHS MAKE EAGER. FIGHTERS Are Dandies Too—and As for the Ladies— British Headquarters in | Mesopo- tamia, Feb. 16.—The Khattaks are the dandies of the Indian army. They are like the Celts of the British army, army, reckless, generous, improvi- dent, mercurtal, altogether a friendly and responsive sort of people, but with the queer kink that one finds in all Pathans, that primitive sensitive point of honor or shame which puz- zles the psychologist. The Khattaks kept their spirits up gll through the hot weather. They are too lively sometimes. As soon as the drum and oboe sound they start cat-calling and make their work fly. The Khattaks are as responsive to the oboe as the Highlanders to the bag- pipe, but they are more demonstra- tive. It is a good thing to be near when the Khattak rifles leave camp. At the first sound of the drum and cboe they break into a wild treble shriek, tailing off, perhaps, with the balbala, the Pathan imitation of the gurgling of the camel. These tribesmen are easily excited. seldom dispirited, and if so, only for a short time. Their eagerness is army The NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1917. MANY IRISHMEN IN“ J;ehall, fifimd Representatfve, sometimes a positive danger during at attack. At Sheik Saad it was dif- ficult to hold the Khattak company tack while the regiment on their left wus coming up; they were all for going ahead and breaking the line; and in the end it was a premature sortie of the Khattaks that precipitat- ed the assault. Old Shere Khan, a typical Khattak, the other day killed right inside the regimental lines a rival for his wife's a tions, #nd he could not have done anything else. The man’s offense car- ried its own sentence in the minds of all decent-thinking Khattaks. Before the deed the subadar-major begged the adjutant to get the rival. Sher Gul, well away before the night; therwise he said there would ba trouble but the adjutant could not look into the case wuntil the next morning. In the meantime, to safe- guard Sher Gul, he' told the subador 1o see that twenty stout men slept around his bed. The subadar made it fifty but to no avail. At one in the morning the adjutant was called out quietly to see the remains of Sher Gul. His head was lying on the cdge of the bed a hatchet imrbeded in the skull. He had been ¥illed with fifty men sleep- ing round him. They had all slept Jike the dead, and nobody had heard “the blow. There was no evidence gainst Shere Khan whatever; public opinion was on his side “Zam, /Zan and Zar”"—land, women and gold—according to the Persian proverb are at the bottom of all out- rage and with filne Khattaks out of ten, it is Zan. The Khattak thinks no end of his personal appearance. He dresses to kill, and loves to go and parade in the bazar in his gala kit. He will spend hours over his tollet peering at himself in the glass all the while without a trace of self-consciousness, though his neighbors may be almos: as interested in the performance as he. Then, with his nair neatly oiled and traim to the level of the lobe of his ear, he will stride fores in hs flowery walstcoat of plum color or maroon velvet with golden braid, spotless white baggy trousers a flower behind his ear, a red handker- chief in his pocket, a cane in his hand and for headgear a high Kohat lung- jplack witl yellow and crimson ends, and a kule. covered with gold. Every Khattak is a bit of a blood. Ts his country a showy exterior be- tokens the gallant in both senses of the word. A woman of parts will not Jook at a man unless he has served in the army or is at ieast somcthing of a bucaneer. ) Representative Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota is totally blind and is sometimes guided about the national capital by his son, Thomas D. Schall, Jr., a boy of five, The photograph shows the two just after completing a 2,400 mile trip from Minneapolis to ‘Washington. © Representative Schall is a progressive in politics and is serving his first term, and he was re- elected in November. He lost his sight in 1907 by an electric shock, but has continued the practice of law. COM. TODD NOW | HAS CHARGE OF NAVY WIRELESS | had not heard of any dispatches he- ing sent to Germany by radio concern- | ing the action of United States cus- | toms authorities, and he doubted that !any such information had been sent. Commander Todd is one of the best known of the yvounger army officers and was formerly executive officer of the Wyoming, which was the flagship of the Atlantic fleet until recently, when the Pennsylvania took her place. JAPAN TO FRANCE. ~ Tokio, Feb. 16.—Japan has officiai- ly informed France of her adherence to the resolutions adopted at the eco- nomic conference at Paris last sum- mer, held by the powers making up the Entente. It is expected that Ja- pan will place the resolutions in op- erations by adopting regulations framed to meet her particular com- mercial sitlation. KNEW MANY CRIMINALS. Superintendent of Whitechapel Tleld This Distinction. London, Feh. 16.—John Mulvaney, superintendent of the Whitechapel di- rision of the London police, who hus t died at the London hospital, was | ! known as the “Father of the Force.” Probably no man knew so much of i the inner criminal life of London. 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