New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1928, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1928 Y re the official moment of the | larmistice arrived. But the penalty Did Canadian General Waste fin s B S e Lives to Win Glory In War? "/ "titcr Sir Arthur, denying indignantly that anything like this was the case. |is suing in order to c'sar his own Battle of Mons Being Refought in Court as Sir Arthur ame and the name of the Canadian Currie Seeks to Clear Name. ral staff. | The town is full of ex-service men, | drawn here as witnesses or as nter- | csted spectators. Hotel lobbis and |smoking 1ooms buzz with reminis- cences of old days. Names like | Vimy Ridge, Hill 104, Arlcux and { 'renoy pop up in every conversation. | The testimony, too, has been of | the same kind. A Luge map of Mons and its environs has hung in the courtroom. Officers, non-coms and former privates have taken the wit- | ness stand, traced on the map the | movements of troops in November, 1918, told where the battalion of the Princess Pats entered the town, | pointed out where the Black Watch |Joineq forces with them, described | {the last entry of Edmontons famous 49th battalion. Lieut. Albert J. Kelly, acout and {intelligence officer of the Princess | | Pats, was a witness whose testimony | will do for a sample. He was called by Sir Arthur's counsel, who sought to prove that the taking of Mons had been attend- , not by the | y the British | | ommand. told how the Pats had made [ their way into Mons in the early | | morning.” Mis plain, matter of fact | ative made the old days live n; for the moment one could see |the stooped, laden figurcs making ir way in detachments across als and past the remalns of shat- 5, looking for the ma- chine gun nests that they knew were | | hidden ahead. | Frank Regan, defense counsel, {tricd to get Licut. Kelly to tell just | how severe a fight the Germans put up. Kelly callcd it @ ‘“rearguard | action.” i | ver mind that. Was it a stiff | | resista asked Regan. | | Ken red up. | "It you had been advancing {against it you would have thought | | No “Civllized War” 1 | A little later the leutenant was ex- . | plaining how the German retreat, in | | the last days, had become almost & | rout, so that the pursulng Canadians | {had to travel fast and often got out | | of touch with one another. It was impossibls, he sa preserve a | regular line of le at that time. “It was not roin a civilized | " asked Regan. | y8s tace darkened. i do not know what civilized war he replied. | ! - Willlam A. Gratitey, former- 'y of the Black Watch, was another witness. He told of crecping into | Mons in the dead of night, with the !city silent and apparently deserted. Ile told of sending detachments | tiirough the town; of a machine gun | nest that was found and bombed; of discovery that the town had | scen evacuated, and the consequent | reassembling of the Canadians in the center of the town. His company had suffered two men killed and 10 | wounded, he said, Wwho brought the <uit; William produced the suit for damages. that vance that the armistice | e signed: but Sir Arthur, | : took the stand, insists he | notified of the pending | on of hostilltles until after 6 | on the morning of November | yast fortnight in a small courtroom 191 in this Ontavio town tice. Here is an extract from the | 11— fore it took effect. | The occasion s a law hel | cditorial | Up to that time, «id, the German | action for $ at IS A5 a0 ovent which might | resistance had been stiff, despite the | an obseur Yort H Arthur tllowed to pass into ! fact that the Germans were in re- | | regretted rather | treat, | re was much | All of Canada is arouscd by this -lea re are corrcspondents | not | e rom all over the Dominfon. words of testimony from fo diers, who have made real ng vanished alarms and excurgions of i 3, former win- decade ago. 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