The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1918, Page 20

\ \ y FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1918 ‘Wedge’ Tacticsof Germans In the Present Big Battle Costly Failures in Past istory Proves Plan to Split Opposing Armies Usually Brings Defeat, as Shown at Waterloo, Gettysburg and Other Great Battles Where Armies Trying to Drive Wedge Were Crushed, + By Albert Payson Terhune. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Werdy ERMANY’S main effort in the present battle—as every one now knows—is to separate the British and the French Armies; destroy their means of communication, and deal with each, in turn, with- out hindrance from the other. Thousands of Indians Now | In France With Pershing; ax Chiefs Here Boosting W.S.S.|Don White Eagle and Indian Joe in War Costume , THEY’ RE HERE IN NEW YORK DRESSED IN THE PART THEY’ RE PLAYING WHILE DOIN THEIR BIT FOR UNCLE SAM, ACCOMPANIED BY SURE-ENOUGH COWBOYS. Don White Eagle and Na-hoo-a-ta, Wearing War Bonnets 7 and Full of War Spirit, One Back: From Trenches, Tell Why Indians Are Solidly Behind Uncle Sam in Big Fight. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. HE war-whoop of the greatest natural fighter the world has ever known—the American Indian—will be shrilled over the red fields i of France. With a machine gun instead of a tomahawk, with new ‘weapons but the old craft and courage, Sioux, Cheyennes, Apaches ; and the rest of the red tribes are on the warpath for the German, whose a “civilized” warfare, by the way, shocks and disgusts the This scheme is not new. Every detail of it has been tried before. i / so-called tmsasdus Indians. j Many thousand of It has been a favorite trick with many of history's greatest ae 4 \ them are now in France with Pershing, and more Sometimes it has succeeded. Very much oftener it vig faile are only waiting the call to the flag, for which they are | proved as costly and as perilous as it is clever. ‘To choose at random i Ye Fr . , ly afew of many instances: ' ready to fight as valiantly as their hostile fathers ever only ) P el iceig ' to a, iain it 4 | In the beginning of the Waterloo campaign ‘(which changed the | “Two Indian chiefs, while anticipating their sum- story of the world and which Gen, Maurfce compares with the battle fh mons to the trenches, are now in New York doing now raging) Napoleon massed his great army behind a chain ibd ESS" valiant volunteer service in the War Savings Stamps fortresses on the Belgian frontier. Facing him, in a compa Hac Campaign. Almost every afternoon Chief Don White Eagle, a Chey- straight line, were the allied armies led by Wellington and by Blucher. enne of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, does a war dance and Blucher’s army stretched from Liege to Charleroi, Ahern makes a war speech in front of the War Savings Headquarters, at the hee - from Tournai to a one near Charleroi. At Charleroi the two 4 ile Leon Roberts, lariat expert and brother of the fa- allied forces formed their contact. hie reepbel dng 1 price meer “seh i sai ned “It was on Charlerol,” writes Creasy, “that Napoleon vesolved to Rago res ~ Severs : It's worth| features remained immobile, But in level Ms attack, in hopes of severing the two allied armics from each | vopes in” etamp buyers. the incredibly black Indlan eyes was other and thon pursuing his favorite tactics of assailing cach sep- the price of more than one staMP/ji¢ 4 torch of bright, hard, steady arately.” « dust to see Chief Don White Eagle's) hate, as Chief Na-hoo-ata spoke for Napoleon hurled himself at Blucher, who was intrenched at Ligny, $2,000 costume, and if ho wears it| himself and his people. near Charleroi, thrashed Blucher, and then drove straight for Wellington, when he goes over the top the Ger- ‘We Indians are going to fight,” whom he encountered at Waterloo. Then, as now, the British bore the 4 ‘ " he said in short, slow sentences, “for brunt of a terrific attack that all but annihilated them; until, late in the mans te . 5 oi yt i sccag er Ryeead hi the land that was ours. I know what day, Blucher came to the rescue and turned the impending defeat of the Of heart failure before he reaches! 1... trines nave talked among them: English into a mighty Victory. them. Topping the fine buckskin and| wey, I know the hearts of the That is ono famed instance where the effort to separate two allieq v beads is a headdress of a thousand) chiefs. We fight beside you other forces met with fearful failure, Here is another: * eagle feathers, each one at least three| Americans for America. Burgoyne formed a plan to split in two the armies of George Washy “We will not have a German rule us. We shall kill many Germans in France, There are many thousand of us there now. We are sappers,| feet long and tipped with a blood- red pompon, This war bonnet comes close over the black eyes of Don ‘White Eagle and falls over his shoul- ington, in the Revolution, cutting off the northern from the southern col+ onies and crushing each in turn, Down he marched from ‘Canada, to meet his colleague, Gen, Clinton, at Albany—the point chosen for the driving of the wedge. Before he could reach Albany an American army met fa j felling the trees and mining the and nearly annihilated him, at Saratog@, in one of history’s most decisive ¥i} dere and down his back clear to the|earth, We are snipers, because we batules—a battle that was the turning point of our new-born country’@ ¥ ground. On the crown of bis head|have for shooting the sharp eye and fortunes, i ; steady hand of our fathers. We are Lee, in the Gettysburg campaign, sought to do much the same thing ; earner renege. St were lin the trent tine trenches as had Burgoyne. He manoeuvred to get between the Union “Army. of 4 eer ee ee rer ivealli'Gldetds eepectatty Alara ; the Potomac” and such regular and militia forces of the Union as were eagles ever oer Fic sin ledltheuns "We piorlbeagin ni ped Sergt Indian Joe massed further to the north, and to march on Philadelphia, He coulg M Rr iesinees Calltornio Bill” ans alr of the, plains, to the feel of a ; thus, he hoped, deliver a mortal thrust at the very heart of the North. several other cowboys, well as a| horse between our knees, To lie hour But the militia and such Union regulars as could be rallied to head bim New York musician, Joo Willams, is|/#fter hour in trench mud almost the Sioux Chief Na-hoo-a-ta of the|drives us mad. We want to scream, Pine Ridge Reservation in South Da-| to charge, to kill.” kota, and @ scout with the rank of ever mind,” I consoled. “The , Sergeant, who went through the|chance for killing comes. Are you ; Mexicdn campaign with Pershing.|seing to scalp your’ enemies?” ho makes war speeches, but his self-| “God knows,” the dark young chiof ' chosen special detail is that of sell-|replied, with perfect serfousness. ing War Savings Stamps to pro-|“When we get the chance to fight we f Germans. He too has a ferocious| see red, and it will be especially so feather war bonnet and he can put| after long, stiJl hours in the trenches. on an expression to match, He holds| When I fight I think only of killing *ho record for making every German]! see blood, blood, blood, waiter in a certain hotel not five) “But the Indians of to-day would miles from Forty-second Street buy|be ashamed to fight with the cruelty ‘ ‘at least one War Savings Stamp. of the Germans,” Indian Joe added. “He just shoves the stamps under|“And {n the bloodiest records of our a their noses,” I was told by an admir-| tribes it 1s not written that we did ing onlooker, “and says, ‘Ugh! You/anything as bad as the gas attacks.” 7 i buy stamps!’ They buy! “Yo be tomahawked cleanly is a Indian Joe already has been on the|much easier way to die than lots of western battle front. Also he has|the German methods of warfare,” b been’ scalped—at least his hair has| young Chief Don White Eagle point- & beon lifted. He shows the proof to|cd out to me, “And for everything u anybody who asks him. He wont] we did in our worst wars we had at over on a transport with a lot of|least the justification that we were f horses, Trué to his racial love of alfighting for our land. The Germans £ fight, he {nsisted on being smuggled|are going into another people's land into the front line of trenches “for|and trying to drive them out of it. the experience.” He got the experl-| “I want to kill the Kaiser,” he ence, together with a shrapnel wound | continued with simple candor. “It stretching across the top of his head|I could get him the war would be almost from ear to ear. Before the| about done.” off held him at Gettysburg until the relieving Army of the Potomac could be rushed to tho scene of tho national danger and could drive him back ] into Virginia, A mighty allied army, made up of Prussians and Austrians, invaded France in 1792, to crush and partition the young French Republic which was still weak from the Revolution, The two little armies of France, under Dumouriez, were drawn up among the hills and marches of the | Argonne to oppose the invasion, After capturing Verdun and Longwy, | the Prussian-Austrian host moved forward to annihilate these two Freneh armies, The object was to strike the French at the junction of their lines, | separate them and then demolish each of the twin armies in turn, The |first part of the plan succeeded, ‘The wedge was driven between the | French lines, and the allles were between the severed armies and Paris. Dumouriez blocked the scheme by a series of rapid manoevres by ite tomy es Se which he reunited the dispersed French armies on a new line of defense. The German-Austrian army dared not attack Paris before disposing of Dumouriez’s troops. The rival forces met at Valmy. All the advantage seemed with the Teutons, Outnumbered as they were, the French were magnificently victorious in the Battle of Valmy, and ended the Teuton State Casualty List It makes dry reading, and it’s like one of those ‘ready to wear” dishes where | MeCtellagh fe the ‘Civil War, tried in like manner to isolate and you “just add water and serve,” but before you write yourself a nice long letter ent sea muse: ine ea wich mene eee pena +, : : no é , id ‘ f 4 9 down your throat with a trick fountain pen try to pronounce ‘‘ Schenectady”’-— plan in the 1914 campaign, which led to the German overthrow at the you may want to put it in your postscript! | Marne. By Arthur (“‘ Bugs”) Baer The Duke of Marlborough, at the Battle of Blenheim, tried the trick ‘ and won the battle by it, Napoleon, in his earlier campaigns, tried tt \ New York Evening World). is @ robustly established fact that you can lead a percheron to the more than once, with brillant success—only to lose his throne and dis freedom at the last by trying it once too often, It is a strategic ruse which has sometimes brought victory, but which has oftener led to utter and ruinous defeat. When it has succeeded, it has almost tnvarlably done so through the element of surprise, When the attacked lines have had @ chance to strengthen or to deliver a powerful Copyright, 1918, by Tho Vross Publis (The hing Co, Stater can app: one of th m- nd trick fountain pens and write self @ nice long letter down lls throat, Live and learn, Live and learn, Old Fashioned Knitting Machine water but you can’t make hin a Prohibitionist, but it is now up to the patients In those twenty clinics to learn to drink water in habit forming quantities, wound healed a bout of typhoid fever came along, and the result is that no German can get Indian Joe's Of course that wish {s not likely to be fulfilled—but what a stroke of Doetic justice if the supreme savage sealplock—there isn't any lock, “I suppose you are permanently of the world might find bis fate at the hands of an American Indian! After the balloting barrage had been lifted, the casualty list showed that Jamestown, Ithaca, Elmira and seventeen burglets had decided to take thelr water without soap, Any travelling man who is sentenced to that territory is warned to either wear his two quart hat or to develop a skyline like a camel, other Schenectady stayed moist, so there Now Helps Hurry Socks to Soldiers ay of knitters who have done so counterstroke, the move has usually failed most disastrously, SLL up in the front rank of the a W ’ sal Aa ee Sade He sepa Jers and sallors during the severe | Medal to American Relief of Belgium winter just past must be placed two Cincinnati sisters, who have to their credit 170 pairs of turned out during their spare | ” “Don' ; pcasion for the barkeeps nat te 0 pla any t Su ressed b the G invalided,” I remarked to him, Don't believe those stories you| ‘1% 2 occasion for the barkeeps in that town to plant geraniums on the time, Their record is a pair of socks completed in forty-seven minutes, } le PP y ermans “What do you mean?” ho asked./may havo heard about the modern| D#> 2AN# # crepe on the third spigot from the Jeft and wear their ching é | MERICA will always have reason to be proud of her work. for the SOM i Both he and Chief Don White Eagle|Indian having lost his fighting| ®t Balt mast. The world was hoping that Schenectady would flop over 7 | relief of stricken Belgium, ‘Those who headed the great under F are graduates of Carlyle University| spirit," Don White Eagle gave me| 9%" 4# there are quite « fow bales of curiosity as to just how the name | taking gave their best en # for the cause of suffering humane : and speak excellent English. @ final, earnest caution. “On the} !% Pronounced. As a method of propulvion for motor vehicles gasoline } | tty without thought : “You must stay in America instead |reservations there may be a few red] AM Sicohol cheated to pieces, and as a means of propelling power for | of praise or reward, \ of going back to tho front,” I eluci-|men trying to dodge service, but T1]| tnsves Water has em both stopped cold. We have never yet lamped @ | But the Belgians ‘ dated. warrant there are many times that| 74 With bir auxiliary tank filled with alcohol who could say Scheneo- i were grateful and \ “No!” Indian Joe exclaimed in bis|number of white slackers. ‘The ol| t##¥ #84 ™ke Dis tongue hit on all eix cylinders, 5 in 1914, to show soft, rich, guttural tones. “I go|fght that was in the first Amertcans Damp “ort Jervis has only Shawangunk Mountain between it and their appreciation, back. I wait only for the call, which|{s in thelr descendants today, ang} oY Midd/stown, and Port Jervisites are hoping that nobody makes « a medal was struck. may come any day. I want to go|they'll do as much killing in khaki molehill out of thelr mountain, Reports from that sector state that the As soon as this J back and kill the Germans.” ay thetr fathers did in blankets end| Middletown pioneers and sappers are tunnelling Shawangunk Moun- came to the atten- The traditionally stolid Indian|war paint,” ain and expect to drink dinner in Port Jervis by Christmas tion of tho Ger- : sah Gloverswille went dry and Belgium will send over a relief ship. mang they ordered Johnstown also voted dry, but everybody escaped, the work suppressed and confiscated the medals already engraved, A few, ‘ 4 ° When the voting for Binghamton indicated that the town had fallen escaped, however, and one has reached this count, " « na 1 caped, ever, and as reached this country, Its ob x ; unday ports In Merrie England to the camels, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house, but throats were mented with the profiles of Belgium's King and Queen, ahah ML ¢ 'H agitation for Sunday base- mitted under the direction of this; something else again, “The Little Brown Jug” was played, and pa- Grain and Destitute Belgium, represented by a family group, appear om Ai ball in New York recalls tho|Elispbethan promoter included “the| triotio Binghamtonera sobbed dampishly as the liquid notes of their tho reverse side, Tho illustration 4s reprinted from Popular Mechaniem fact that the first reference to prebictind with the standard, the} mational anthem were blared forth by’an orchestra of forty spigots. ’ | eae —— : Sits é Waensey sports in England 1s perhaps Resins with the broad arrow, the However, tho stuff they drink in teacups on the Southern Pacifio | Mi ' z Ei lesdiaines’ ino epécial Usenee petted el re anore (Uriah the| may still be captured in tho twenty dry hamlets and egglets on a doc- | itout! 3 granted by Queen Elizabeth, under} men, the yunsing ¢ ” Se leaping for! tors prescription. Pharmacists will carry a complete assortment of \ HE pretty young German girl! “You have vanilla or you bave chocs a dete of April 28, 1560, ‘This Hoense|iing, the throwing of the sledge ony) *ountain pens filled PO DYE AR | WhO Brendel YOR SHS /HOGN | Olate, opt h , , of the alec r i | n e : an| * percatited “John Seconton, poulter, |tne pitching weeny te setae and! The fountain pen stunt was first launched in Georgia rey | mee in in the drug store w oat I want plain soda without syrep,te dren , ) e > dry t pepe sear . }accustomed to serving patrons whol interrupte the Raving four amall children, and fallon| thorities were advised by Good Queen| State went #0 dry that the fishes got all dusty from walking in the [his speed 4s made Possible by the use of the old fashioned kntiting ma-|4i1 hot know thelr own rainds and her} Yen tegen customer tentity, dato decay, to have some plays and| Ress to attond the games with “four| "vers The old boys would pur ® yard of Beevola, which is ju- | chine, the picture of which is re 1 here, by permission, from Popular bat t of thought was hard to change. | on, pnaullly replied the: yours ve , 7 ncealed : weed Lb h i 1 , by pe y abit of tho as hard to change.| woman, “but wat an 0 or poe. severe! Bundays Or five discreet and substantial men"| Venile beer. Concealed between his third and fourth chins would be a | Mechanics, For twenty years it haa | ie in tho attic, but when the) “pjain soda," said a man of genor-|want him m dant Kind | vrai ; Mlef, Kpmfort and|to keep the peace and prevent dis.| fountain pen loaded with grain alcohol. A few calisthenics with the |pppeal went out for knitted things for cys in the army and nayy {tloug proportions, as he entere ‘ f ; DONS VARA ae qustentation,” Tn po boys in a ous prop a ntered bus-|mitout chocolat M Fos © Sumigy to be pers order, z 4 pen and the juvenile beer would be old enough to vote, Any Now York dusted off gud hus aluce done yeoman service, 7 nite ~ — 4tingl, Mili wantaag or a ” . eslesoreasn entire seesnennnanansrannnsssis vanuvanenenennannn TT 4