New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1918, Page 6

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COMMENT UNNECE ondon, 11.—The mbed British *hospitals en times between May 13 SARY. June Germans in France and June according to a statement made in House of Commons today by J. T. of the The easualties numbered hepherson, Under Se pr Office. 1. These were as follows: Killed—Ofiicers, 11; othor ranks, ; nursing sisters, 5; Women’s Aux- hry Corps, 8: civilians, 6. Wounded—Officers, (8; other ; nursing sisters, 113 xiliary Corps, 7; civilians, stary ranks, Women's POLAND AND TRELAND. difficult ‘to choose two ntri many analagous nts in their respective histories as The peoples of Both ve since been oppressed and subju- ed. In both countries the spirit revolution has run rife at times. eir peoples are chival- s and their valor has never been Lstioned. Both are of one faith and n of both lands have fought and 4 that Christlanity might survive. which fires t would be with so land and Ireland. h countries were once free. respective Epite innumerable ald the e burning in hearts less bold, both trials have quenched of bples have ever taken an optimistic w of life persistency h which they hope a better state, even in the darkest ments of their histories, has been ir chief overcoming ob- les placed in the way of their ad- cement. True, ects, the two peoples seem to be of ferent dispositions. Whereas the es, because of the Slav element in ir makeup, are inclined at times to evidencel in music, the Irish their proverbial buoyancy of in the hearts the very continued to and asset in in their outward melancholy, as is ir literature e ever displayed theartednes and But deep down the great es of Poland there vears the fervent be that one their ld regain its independence ely fires which ca st have been fanned ath of optimism. And two countries traversing almost allel paths until the r 1914 came and turned the world ide down. Poland and Ireland h continued to strive for the same 1 which has been their mutual aim decades, but the ns they chose attain end diverged ely and constantly ever since the and rit. ma glowed for 120 day country And n burn that long by the very so we see in history their common Ful cataclysm of four years ago. ven hefore Ireland k torn wide open by a revolution- uprising which threatened the life of the country itself and the fion to which it belonged, as well. although usands of Ircland's sons joined the of the country and dered splendid service on the bat- the debacle, after war was declared. brs mothet eld, nevertheless rancor remained the hearts of more thou- ds at home, the result that pw misguided Jeaders who thought and's could be effected ly with Germahy's aid, were able to their standards a fol- ng large enough to constitute no igible factor. As time went on, thought in those men's minds of possibilities of German ,assistance lame an obsession. Satisfied that the end, and en- sed over a cause which scemed to just, they cast ethics the ds, and what at first was only ely directed zeal evolved into nright treachery and treason. To r everlasting credit be it said that reat many true Irishmen refused to e anything to do with those who & plotting against England, and - scorned the offers of material icoral support made by Ger- many with salvation summon means justified to | Rute it many The understanding is baff tries to fathom who conspired when one the of those with many. Did they hope to atfain Home the plot wera sful? Did they Home Rule would if Germany were from the world wau? imagine for a moment th 1vail them one iofa 1t the leade in the Irish rebelion who ploried with | deficient, | CGiermany were not ments how could they close hard facts of historv,- Poland, for instance, their eves to the the history and in the wrongs perpetrated on that coun- try by Germany, how was it for them fo hope for anything ben to their Europe were dominated by the cial to them or country Ho- henzollerns ? Poland, on the other from the very first day of the cast her lot with the Allies. Despite the fact that they had no semblance of self-government, the Poles realized that if ultimate independ- ence were to be it could only be through the downfall of autocracy as represented by Germany and the triumph of democracy as out- lined in the war aims of the Allles. The Poles in what remained of the old kingdom had the wnhappy befell unfortunates blood hand, national secured to them, seen hose who had fate which of their own under the despotic rule of the Hohen- | zollerns and Hapsburgs. The Poles knew full well that they must the fight against the dual tyrants if they | bear a | would not be compelled to Unhappy as thgy were Russian similar yoke the old they under regime, preferred it a thousand times to the | And un- Teuton domination the world that they derstood was right which wrong in this world conflict, the Poles recruited and organized an army of their own in France, where their brave soldiers are now fighting shoulder with American those of the other Allied ignominy to of prove to which side and to troops and countries. Tt is not yet ton late for Ireland and Irishmen to redeem themselves. Until conspiracies were “entered into with shoulder ‘the world's greatest eneny, there W not a spot on Erin’s glorious escutch- eon. But that can be removed, oblit- erated forever, if those are still at home will only follow the example of their heroic brethren already in France, where, together with the no- ble sohs of Poland, they are fighting to the death that democracy may live. LABOR The American TFederaion of Labor has just cause for pride in fthe glow- ing compliments paid it by President ‘Wilson in a telegram from Washing- ton to St. Paul where the annual con- vention of the Federation is conven- ing. President Wilson the following to President Gompers: Please convey to the 38th an- nual convention of the American Federation of Labor my congrat- ulations on the patriot 1pport which the members of yvour or- ganization have given to the war prozram of the nation in the past vear, not only in the trenches and on the battlefield where so many of vour younger men now are in uniform, but equally in the fac- tories and shipyards and work- shops of the country where the army is supported and supplied by the local industry of your skilled craftsmen. telegraphed This is a splendtd tribute from the | that | Tt appreciates head of the nation. iz clear the Administration the part orzanized labor is playing in the prosecution of the war. Incidentally the above message constitutes telegrajjn of one longest which has ever hme to our notice. 1t | contains eighty-five words and still the sentence is perfectly balanced . BACK YARDS. At a meeting of the board of fire | commissioners last evening the state- | ment was made that about 50 per | cent. of the property owners in New Rritain display a tendency to main- taining their property in a clean, sanitary condition. ter with the other 50 per cent.? Th official who reported on his inspection of back yard and tenement condi- tions stated that satisfactory results cannot be obtained until the short- | away | age of men and teams to haul dirt and refuse is overcome. This is a matier of no little mom- ent. It has to do with the health of the community and the prevention of fires. We trust that it the attention it deserves. GERMAN LOGIC. As an example of how logical Ger- minds | to emerge vietorious | of | view of | possible | i has | war, | to Hve | the | sentence | What is the mat- | will receive MONUMENT BNOUGH. Wh I shall fail ground There may | away. | What holier Than hill ‘s clay 1pon my battle rest-—nor carry me could in these days of France to hold a sol stuip Over my Lead fo mark my age and name:; a cross of wooden This very ground is monument enongh! 11 fame Deep in wish of show or outward 1he hearts of fellow country- immortal sepulchre shalt | Greater (1 king What ma scatter have sea And loved that sir in all the tomhs of ancient er where my dust n shall e country over her——dying with a heart RAY now GAUGER, FACTS AND FANCIES. The o writers reel iife days.—Epri have ahead field to go of real Daily some ep Tite News to these The judgment of Sam Wexler as to weather conditions can At all times be relied upon. Tn his palmy da used to be an umbrella mender. kansas Tom Cat. The restaurant s of Paris have given it up see no chance cooking Hind favorite Yew Haven ourvier. Journal- Mr. Mcadoo insists on hav- ‘es at railroad stations who call ont the departure of rains so that the public can catch the naines. then indeed will come the real test of gov- ernment ownership.— Raleigh News and Observer. Rule 4144— for two person en it is necessary to change seats in a canoe, run the 10e to the bank and let one of the occupants step out on dry land.—Rochester Herald. Hundreds of small business men have paid more to lawyers and expert { accountan tor advice about their Federal t than they paid to the Government—New York Commercial. bondholders, ones!—De- “bloated" of patriotic No more but millions | troit Free Pre If enemy agents are circulating ly- | ing reports to discourage enlistments |in the navy, ememy submarines are doing everything possible to counter- act the effect of the.lies. ew York ‘World. an stout These are days when to be American one must have & heart. incinnati Times-Star.« fu rooms for 1334 Vt. “Two well gentlemen or from the war work S are to the effect that the democrats are thwarted by the wicked republicans, and that the re- publicans are thwarted by the wick- ed demart Paterson Press-Giuard- ian. hir ts How interesting would be to jearn who ses to camps all the country” to two men masguerading as clergymen and rrested s spies at Camp Mills!— New York Sun ve ove “Tollar-Chasing” Americans. (Windsor ((Can.) Record. German junkers thought the Ameri- cans were too engrossed in dollar ing to accept \lienge of war fare. The Americans 1ld stand for anything and even if the. did enfer the arena their e wouldn't amount | to much. That the reasoning of the ruling powers in G Never The to the forts many was a greater mads Americans ha ed money tune of billions in financing the En- tente countries. have supplied tre- mendoug quantitics of munitions, have rendered material aid with their na have helped to feed Britain, France and Belgium, and now have an army | of 2,000,000 on the ern front or on the way there. Canadians don’t United States is doing | stand ready to accor the ecredit he de: malke the world free for democracy, | We don’t like reflect we wonld be today without the timely aid example of T'r Sam’s And when the Germans there will Thera wes what the now. We le Sam to ask to rves in ning to where | war efforts. licked about the hanors. enougzh all of Uncle jealons {on their are be no will be glory time det quarrel for hes h. King Georg: (From the Flon King George has rdered suit of If His Majc { to come over here in the new tozs he | would meet numerous chaps who used to be ahle to buy a suit for 315, | but who now have to pav ahr 3 | Clothiv arer than it ns 315 ciothes sty were man officials are, we quote the fol- | lowing from an article in the Cologme | Gazette by Captain von Kuehlwetter “America will not be able to do v much against U-boat attacks be- E have not had much exper- ience.” Just a month ago this same Ger- man nav expert (?) bemoaned the fact that U-boats could not American transports because the lat- ter are so splendidly convoved. Captain, how do you get that wayv? attack to serve; They enlisted June 5 enlist June 28 to save. we | Irish (Baltir American parents Rlood, ore Star.) are fighting Fei the hovs the ovs from loys Trish who ers who as cat's-paws In the interests of Teutonic { intrizue, are lend Follow (From the The conscientious time of it | Barnegat Marne. ng the War York reader has a keeping one eye on the and the other the w Sun.) one j had held off 12,000 Germans! army | } mothered AT 75 FRENCHMEN HOLD OFF 12,000 GERMANS it That Is Typical of the “Blue Devils” Now in U. S. il June 11.—A | of tha “Blue of whom have ashington, D, C. triking pen picture Deviis” of France, some arrived in ommunication graphic society Adams, the America to the from Harriet Chalmers and cen in a National Gee noted traveler w commu ciety in the form of a war geography | bulletin, as follow | “‘Gerbeviller, the bare skeleton of a town in the Toul sector, where the Americans are hold share of the Western battle is the Pompefi of France peii was wrecked by | 1t of God: this town by hu- To reach the most spectral | in all Frane we crossed ch will flame in history, the chasseurs “We have an ecial interest in the Chasseurs, for they have been training our American boys at the front No | of France are picturesque sunburnt, fierv-eved men of | he \lpine and Pyrenean heights, who have left the stain of their loyal blood on every frontier they have touched. The Germans call them ‘the blue devils, and say they can run faster than the chamois, but it is the Boche | who runs when they his way. They are a merry, care-free lot. I heard a story of one who fired in a kneeling positlon instead of lying flat on the ground. When asked i fellov by he was so fool- hard ined that he had a | hottle of wine in his pocket and it | had no cork. The Immortal Seventy-Five, “During the battle of Lorraine, 75 chasseurs were posted at the bridge which leads to Gerbeviller. As the German column hove in sight they tore up the pavement, threw breast works across the bridge, and stationed their machine guns, This was in the | early morning. At 4 that afternoon a longe chasseur fired the last round of ammunition and slipped away to join his companions, 51 of whom had sur- vived. For eight hours 75 Frenchmen their o bridge wt the one held by as come Angered into fury by the machine auns, which had held them so long at bay, the Prussians entered the town, firing and burning every house they Like many French towns, was built on one long with lanes leading from ark walls stand. Oil was poured Into the cellars to make more of a blaze, If the people remained in the houses, so much the better ‘The refuzees have crept back. On a mangled wall I saw the sign: ‘Cafe of the Ruins. A girl in black was Dlac a ‘bunch of wild flowers be- fore the broken image of the Virgin on the wall of what was once a church. Only one buildi in the town the humble little hos- pice shelters, Sister Julie, one of the great heroines ¢f France, “We rang the doorbell ter of Mercy ushered us into a nar- rew hallway, and then into a little sifting room with oilcloth on the table, and a few stiff backed chairs. There was 2 ered organ and an anclent chest and two pictures of religious subjects on the war. I can see every detail even now, for this was the set- ting of the woman who defied the 10le German army. “She sat upright hands crossed--a man past 60 which and a Sis- in her chair with short, plump wo- with bright hazel eyes, and a firm mouth. Sis- whose name hefore she was « perior was Madame Ri rd. has a most authoritative aip Beneath the cape of her black habit gleams the cross of the Legion of Honor, pinned there by the President | of the republie, who, with many 0'}:1(‘3 { dignitarie, made a pilgrimage to this remote village to decorate this old woman, “Sister Julie speaks rapidly, with an | occasional gesture. She told us of the chasseurs—how the first to be wounded were brought to her house She took off the ammunition helts and sent them back by a nun to the bridg When the houses across the street vere fired, she went out to a German officer and said, 'Don’t you dare to burn my house T am caring for the If vou s re myv ho Mogner Amelie wounded the people in it, T will care for your wounded, too. ‘“And she kept her th homeless told word. She population. | T us made me sick with stories sh horvor.” LSON REDRAFTS HORROE DOCTRINE LR (Continued from First Page) the others, on her.’ all sk the others will jump Foundation of World Peace. that is the kind of agre ment that will have to be. the foun tion of the future life of the of world, gentlemen family of nations will narantee to each shall violate of basi the future 7 world, and I m anxious to have of | two continents of a show the | way to the rest of the world as to how { to make a basis for peace “Peace can It 3 can once get Now The have to that no its political ind territorial inte of admit that I tions the whole nation its i able the was eace only come by trust. a situation of then you have got g & little | g NEW BR! TAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1018 INTA' 904 Main Street s TIVE Second Floor Dilthi Building, Hartford’ MILLS’- REPRESENTATIVE 1 i e ; BUY SLATTERY’S SILKS SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE | The quality for the price makes it irresistible. 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CLEARANCE SALE $1.20 | | French Serge l French Serge in mnavy, plum, gray, wisteria, brown, garnet and green, 40 inches. Sold elsewhere $1.25 yard. CLEARANCE SALE 9%5¢ As Mills Repr sentatives We Sell to You Direct permanent pes fRnere one of us owes it a to his own country to plant seeds of trust and of confidence instead of the ds of suspicion and a variety of interest i re, patriotic of eve duty Message to Me Washington June Wilson's address here last T r to a pa of Mexican newspaper editors, which was given out here today for publication in the United ates, is expected to be one of most important war utterances dealt almost wholly with Americanism by agreement amon Pan-Americans and it was obvious t} president took the opportunity to sent back te the Mexican people throush 90 or more re entative newspaper editors a p I message to em- erestedness of the his It parts of the - Princess Satin Princess skirt and dress lengths only, in a good assort- ment of colors, 40-inch. 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Sold else- where $2.50 yard CLEARANCE SALE $1.45 - Prices the Year 'Round. nt’s wish that his spc as it practically Mexican peoyle, »uld he puh- lished in Mexico first id no copies ‘were given out for publication | in this country until today, although | it sent at the same time to the embassies and abroad, | e it seernc heen given reign edi 1 eomments 0 was addressed | mueh to t was legation to have Satins, superior 3 and finish, in great demand for one- piece dresses and skirts# in all the new and wanted colors, white and black, 36 Sold elsewhere NCE SALE A = N 1.60 il ’ Ge'gette 40-inch Figured Georg- ette, fine heavy quality, in Sold elsewhere for $2.50 yard. CLEARANCE SALE all the new designs. Corduroy Velvet Corduroy, 36-inch, white only, wide wale, fast pile, washable. Sold else- where at $1.50 yard. CLEARANCE SALE 95¢ Wholesale at tention of offi atter today not in Amc ] let it come back to the United from Mexico. 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