The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1918, Page 16

Ge: Sarees THURSDAY, The Most Striking Things — dD. I foot MARCH 28, 1918 I Saw on 15 Battle Fronts In the Big World War Thomas Curtin, American War Correspondent, Who Has Seen More of the War Than Any Other Man, Tells Evening World Readers of His Most Impressive Experiences. By D. Thomas Curtin. Part III. VII. Serbia Smitten Down—Nish, February, 1915. CROSSED the Danube into Bulgaria, where the trains were jammed with mobilizing troops, 1 went Into Serbla, and, armed with military and clvil documents, made my way alone and much on t through a nation that had become a pest-house of typhus, There was an ominous lull on the Serbian front, but In the usual routine 1 had seen many a soldier stuff clips of cartridges and crusts of bread into the front of his shirt and go down to the trenches to take the rifle of the man coming out. 1 ' I sat in Nish one night while the moon was shining down on rows of men lying in the cold on filthy straw and dying of fever. All day I had seen rough bullock carts drawing up before gloomy abodes where black ; flags hung limpid Jn the reeking atmosphere, cargoes of dead, then rattled through the streets and across the river to the hillsides up waich the graveyards were creeping visibly. I had known in Germany, That something {s the German belief in the furor téutonicus, a phrase lovingly used in the Fatherland. A majority of Germans, especially the oldechool Junker, are perfectly honest in their expressed belief that power to intimidate the rest of the world te the gospel of success, in 1916, when attacking von Bethmann Hollweg for a “policy too gentle”— “Let Let Uttle nations of Europe, both neutral and belligerent. VIII. Britain’s First Offensive Blow—Behind the British r down is this,” said Col. cons: amount of ammunition as compared with the whole Boor War, what their losses were and what ours Were, and the amount of Terrain we gained yell, ammunition necessary to blast through, means that we are going to be out here and we know we can beat the Germans. know !t wasn't the Germans that beat us. will 1X. Tie are great silent battlefields of the war, but of these none more night. heads together lobby was crowded; from metal junk, stolen from factortes, to an of) ship. from anywhere from San Francisco to Teheran, were playing in the game. “Managers,” with thelr names on office suites, did not even have to read the reduce this business to a minimum, in keeping with what their statesmen Delieved would not antagonise the United States. int Sweden, embargo. fea'e entry dried then as the stuff got into the neutral countries tn excess of pinched requirements there was alway on the other side. Lubeck loc ked like a Swedish port. So did Stettin. In fact, in the first year of the war they were both so Jammed that the German Admiralty felt compelled to open the Kiel Canal for merchant vessela to proceed to Ha At‘er the outbreak of war the average man in the Entente countries and America look @ upon Germany as a great storehouse being emptied by the people within it. Partial replenishment of this storehouse never en: tered their calculations, mis: M was the spouse of a farmer, Joseph They collected their I sat with a group of Serbian officers when one of them asked: “Do you think that the Austrians will come again?” 1 thought they would, and sald so. But the Ser- Dians merely smiled contemptuously. The name of | Austria had no terrors for them, “But do you think that the Germans will come | with them?” There was a pause, and I could see that all present were deeply interested in the question. “I feel almost certain that they will,” I answered, Serbla was tn agony, and I saw an unmistakable cloud pass over the officer's face, “Well, I hope that they will not come, but if they do wo eball try to be ready,” was all he said, But I had seen worlds, In a flash I had the complement of something It was von Graefe whom I heard say in the Reichstag us beware lest the inky pen nullify what the bloody sword has won, us show the world that the furor teutonicus still lives.” I have personally seen the effect of Teutonic Fury on the minds of the Lines, March, 1915. LANDERS and the wounded streaming back from Neuve Chapelle. Some friends in the Old Army and I sat talking after dinner until dawn. No pessimism, just fact-facing. “The whoie thing boiled “By God, the ground did shake. When you der. the length of front and the number of guns we ured and the all I have to say is that modern war, with the amount of guns and for the rest of our natural lives.” “And the strikers at home,” said Capt. “Twenty shells to one, we held on. We felt we'd get our own back some day. Man for man And If things go wrong at home we'll That's the terrible thought.” “Well, let us turn in and be hopeful,” sald the Colonel. “The Russians get moving in the spring.” The Russians did get moving in the spring. Meanwhile the Neutrals Wait and See-—Stockholm, August,1915,, important than Sweden, The Grand Hotel at Stockholm, comfort- able, palatial, luxurious, was turned into a stock exchange over Telephones tingled in the various rooms, groups of men put their ehind locked doors; messengers darted to and fro; the keen-eyed, soft-volced men contracted to buy anything Neutrals, garnered papers and letters that they signed. Germany wanted material from over the seas. The Allies sought to Britain fought Germany he great silent battlefield of the neutral north and the embargo Hats of srway and Denmark grew with each successive month, Then the agents from the Fatherland tried every device to beat the Streams became dribbles—but the dribbles went in until Amer up at the source ‘The methods in Holland and Switzerland differed tn detail, but as long some one to outwit the frontier patrols I associated with smugglers in Scandinavia and I saw the delivery Irs. That {s where they made one of their greatest takes in under-estimating German ability to hold out. (To Be Con’ nued Saturday in The » Evening World) $5 ae a Bee Price of One Wife ARY ANN THOMPSON was the| ‘The auction commenced at noon on last wife to be sold at public | the apy a day, Thompson placing auction in England, the *|his wife in a large oaken chalr with ¢ place at Carlisle in 1832, She|a rope around her neck, He pointed out her faults and her good qualities | Thompson, and had been married |to the assembled throng, There wero | about three years when her husband | few bidders, but at length she wag decided to sell her on the auction| "knocked down" to Henry Mears, who | block. This old practice, although it peid Pier y A sbiilings end a Now. ‘ : nen | fOUndland dog, Mrs. Thompson went never had legal sanction, had been) away contentedly with her new scat | follov in rural sections of England | and is suid to have lived happily for centuries, with bia, , 8 a8 Pet SN ath FR TRE eR NRA: LONG DISTANCE AIRPLANES, HE SAYS, Lieut. Roberts Tells How Germans Might Bomb New York » CONVOYED BY SUBMARINES AND GUIDED BY SPIES, COULD MAKE ds ee ON THIS c thes AND BY oy LAND ON JERSEY MEADOWS. snes Fe GERMAN ARRAS” ON NeW YORE CirTr 1S LIKELY é BapADWwav boESNT 4A ; Know We ARE { AT War Lieur €.M,. ROBERTS” GERMAN SUEAAG AES COULD. Pittie: OP AMPERE. at EBSA GERMANS Couto) LAND FOR. PETROL on SIGNAL FROM MEADOW FIRES Facts Not Worth Knowing The Tearful Fate of the Starving Moth That Was Tossed Into Eva Tanguay’s Stage Costume Is One of Them—Then There’s the Answer to the Puzzling Query, Where Do Revolving Doors Spend the Summer? That’s Another —But There’s Some Good Advice, Really Worth Knowing, and Here It Is: Never Carry a Bundle by the String Nor Fold an Aquarium. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Conyright, 1018, by the Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Brenjng World,) T’S @ well known fact not worth knowing that the meanest trick you I can play on @ starving moth {s to toss him in Eva Tanguay's stage wardrobe, ing, such as this: There are millions of other tacts not worth know- Tt 1s dangerous to fold an aquarium or to carry @ bundle by the string, The famous blurpptx flea of Souse Woofamia rides tandem on two dows, and If it loses one of the dogs it grieves itself to death because It isn't stylish any more. Another fact not Knowing 1s that Robinson Crusoe was fortunate to discover Friday's footsteps instead of Tuesday's footprints, If he had apprehended Tuesday's he wouldn't have had any dinner, for Tuesday is meatiess, If he had violated the Food Commish’s order they would have gummed up his works by closing the island up for ten Tues- days. Of course, Robinson might have smugled a steak into his vest and then flatwheeled around with a vegetarian expression on his chin, but it's a tough job biking the iood Commish, Another fact {9 that even if Canada is our ally tt is a hazardous excursion trying to pass @ Canadian dime on a Mongolian laundry obauffeur, Everybody should stick to his element, mashed potatoes, but it is no good in soup. argument to make faces over the telephone, After making some derogatory worth A fork 1s all right for It doesn't help you in an remark about your wife's temper you will find that arnica is very good in removing bruises from the shins, All Korean coins haye holes in the middle, which makes the Korean financial system the best ventilated in the world. fill a buzz saw’s teeth when the buzz saw 1s touring, ‘Time will cure snoring, but it's got to be daytime, Natives in the Jazzbo Peninsula wear nothing but horse collars and folding doors, If a Jassbuvian likes his vest loose he wears a horse collar, If he admires his clothing tight he wears a folding door. A pickpocket was discharged by a Bronx Judge although he was caught trying to adopt another citizen's watch, Never try to Live and learn, The pocket picker said he was merely moving the watch up an hour and saving daylight. A Maino voter who swore never to shave until Bryan was elected President died among the Maine pines, He just pined away, The interment was pri« vate and very difficult, as they had to pail fifty-two his whigkers for the palibearers, silver Nes on A PAPIER MACHE figure of an) Monthly, pe distinguished from a flesh-and-| ‘There were no explosions over in New Jersey yesterday and the Jersey commuters stormed the box office demanding that their price of admission be refunded, Unlesg there 1s an explosion to-day the com- muters threaten to attach the gato receipts, but the management 1s attempting to mollify them by Promising a double header, Everything quict along the Bulishevikt front with the single excep- tion that squirrel furs are going to be very fashionable this Haster on Fifth Avenue, There are two Kinds of squirrel furs, pedestrian and Hmousine, The Mmousine squirrel tur ig the more stylish, as you can order your chauffeur to toot the horn scornfully at the pedestrians. What difference does it make if that seventy-mile gun is Austrian, Turkish or German? Every gun speaks the same language. No woman likes @ mole on her skin, but you never saw one who objected to a moleskin scarf, You said it, The proposed bridge across the Hudson from Union Hill to New York was opposed by the Union Hill authorities, whe complain that enough of their population ta eacap- ing now by ferry. A dozen 1s a dozen, whethor It's sardines or whales. You can't save daylight If you have a hole in your pajamas pocket. By tho way, nobody ever solved the reason for a pocket in pajamas, Is it cheaper to buy a flivver retail or by the handful? You don't know, which makes it unanimous, An article like this Is like a bag of peanuts, eating ‘em it is hard to stop, It’s like a a package of Chineso shooting crackers, You can't tell when they're finished, Where do revolving doors spend the summer? Is there a society for furnishing summer outings for revolving doors? If you can tell a worm’s head from his tall, you can do the game with this article, Gong. Decoy Soldier of Basie Mache Once you get started It could be used as a decoy American soldier, which at|to draw the fire of the Germans and fifty yards or more could not|make them expose themselves to the aim of our sharpshooters, or might be plood fighter, has been Invented by|employed to deceive them as to the J. gheridan, Ul, ‘ Burgess, & student officer at Fort number of soldiers holding a partic- says Popular Science ular wench, THURSDAY, M “A Flying Fighter. | ceptible gray thread in the crow-blac! he wears on the side of his head, nor a line in his smooth, round-cheeked, smiling face. He was permanently tnvalided out of the British service, and the Amer- {ean service will not accept him be- | cause his work at the front has put him 20 per cent. below our physical requirements. But he assured me, with a glint of his black eyes, that he expects very soon to enter the French service. He first went over with the Tenth Canadian Infantry in the fall of 1914, although he was born in Duluth, Minn. Lieut. Roberts, you see, cannot be dismissed as an {dle, ignorant alarm- ist. When I asked him why and how we are to expect a German raid, he replied simply: “Why not? sald from The Germans have the beginning, ‘If you Americans enter the war we'll show you! We'll prove that you're no safer than any other enemy.’ I know} that the Germans have planes which will travel forty hours, It's only thirty hours by alr from the south of Ireland to New York. Two or three enémy planes could come over here with plenty of bombs and knock down buildings in New York; then, even {f they hadn't an ounce of pet- rol left, they could glide and land on the ocean, where German submarines could take on their men and leave the planes to their fate, We might find them eventually, but what good would that do us? What defense have we against an air raid? “Or some of the thousands of Ger- man spies here could signal for a safe landing on the Jersey meadows, where the machines could come down and deposit more sples, What's to hinder? If you see a little fire out on the marshes you don’t investigate it, nor anybody else.” Then we spoke about America’s part in the war, for Lieut. Roberts has devoted himself to bringing it home to us in the months since he left England and France, “We can be the deciding factor that will insure victory, but we must | work harder and faster," he said) earnestly. “The trouble is that for many of us the war is still 3,000 miles away. If only we were near enough to hear the reverberations of that unceasing bombardment, if we could see the trainloads of wounded, | mutilated men, if we could talk to men with crutches and empty sleeves in our own streets, if we were put on war rations, if enemy airplanes glided over our cltles—then we would know that {t was our war! “We shall come to the rations; I have no doubt about that. We shall have bread cards and meat cards be-| fore we are through. “And we ought to begin by shoot- Ing about 2,000 sples,” the American ace added, his smoothly modeled | jaw set. “Then we might get some | war mater!al made. It's a shame to, think of 1,000 of our aviators, the| pick of the world, walting there in| France without an American plane | to fly in! Yet Gen. Wood said this morning that the Liberty motor was not suitable for a fighting plane; dnd| that's what I have asserted ever since I knew about it. It should be lighter in weight and heavier in power. Then there would be speed; less stability, of course; but to fight Ng the alr efficiently you've got to ARCH 28, 1918 Air Raid on New York City Not So Wild a Prophecy, Says Roberts, American Ace Returned Aviator’s Explanation of How Enemy Bombards ment Might Be Accomplished Recalls German Threat Made Regarding United States Entry Into War. ’ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), S New York likely to be treated to a Zeppelin raid almost any night® Are New Yorkers, like the citizens of London and Paris, to see @ storm of bombs from enemy planes fall upon their undefended city® That Is a possibility, in the opinion of Lieut. E, M. Roberts, R. F. Cy who returned from the western theatre of war only last November, and in the three years before that lived through what ie probably the most varied military experience of any American at the front. Z most modest, realistic and interesting of the war books He tells of it,in one of the ” t Before he became an American ace—he hag brought down seven German flyers—he served as @ private in the trenches, as despatch rider, motorcycle scout and Sergeant of a section of motor lorries, His ‘air service included bombing, contact finding, observing, fighting enemy battleplanes and driving off Zeppelins from London. shell-shocked and wounded four times in midair. He has been gassedy Yet there isn’t a pew kK hair showing unde} under the khaki cap make up your mind that @ lot of! - your men must be killed, “They are working hard in Washe ington, but airplanes and ammunie tlon are made outside Washingtom by men who have been in the habit of working eight hours a day ang won't work sixteen hours unles@ they can be shown the necessity or unless the whole country is put un¢ der martial law.” “Perhaps an airplane raid. over the American coast might stir us to greater exertions,” I observed. “Undoubtedly it would have -that effect,” agreed Lieut. Roberts. “We should have no more doubts about {ts being our war. Why, if you go into some of the New York hotels you wouldn't know there was a war in tho world. Everybody ts dining, } drinking, dancing, without a care or / a thought I asked Lieut. Roberts the quese tion we all are asking each other just now—“What will be the ultl- mate effect of the great German ad< vance?” \ “The Germans will not break through,” he declared. “If there were only one chance in a thousand of stopping them, Haig is the mani who would seize that chance, ¥ ¢ know what reserves the Allies have {n guns and men, and I do not bee Neve that the Germans can possibly overcome them. The reason for the great German advance is simply, that they will fight in mass formas tion and sacrifice men, as the Allies will not. But before fall the Allie will make their drive; and if they capture the rail centres of Cambral,y Lille and Laon, the Germans will bq driven across the Rhine, “I don’t underestimate what the Germans are doing,” he annotated, without weakening, his first reassure ance. ‘ “We have lost at least half the ground which cost us a million mew to gain, back in the Somme offensive in 1916, in which I fought. The loss of this ground will cost us from @ quarter to a half million men. On the other hand, a friend of mine had private military advices from Lone |don this morning saying that thé ground over which the Germang have advanced cannot be seen fog their dead, NS “If we can only get them across w@ should have 2,000,000 men in Franc@ this summer to join in the Allie@ drive,” finished Lieut. Roberts, Americans are going to make fights ers of the very best. They're like the good-natured man who's a little slow in getting started, but mighty / mean to stop. For months the Gem mans been promising their! people, ‘We'll be in Parts this spring. have |Tf they don’t get to Paris, they'rd | bound to weaken, The Kaiser would make peace now—he's like the mag who had a bear by the tall and didn’t dare hold on and didn't dare let go—but these German people ard afraid of having their country suba divided, England and France er@ fed up to the teeth with war, & think there's a good chance for @ decision in 1918, Anyway, Germany | hasn't a chance tn the world to win eae REVOLVING HEEL THE LATEST, RO >» heel, held firmly te A pl by & heavy screw, hag been invented with the object of making this part of the shoe weag evenly, It may be loosened with screwdriver and turned whenever begine to run down at the back side,