The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1918, Page 12

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918 Scout, Night Eye of Army And Hero of No Man’s Land, -Lives Romance Every Hour AWK we WW SL AQY CX QARY \\N ‘as \ AN REY NX ‘ Capt. Knyvett’s War Book, “ ‘Over There’ With the Austral- ians,”’ Tells Story of Scout Who Crawls Even Behind Enemy’s Trenches to Locate Machine Gun Positions and Other Secrets, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HERE are two high lights of romance in modern war, and only two. One of these has been flashed for us, many times, upon the flying fighter, who soars and spies and strikes far above trench mud. Of the other romantic figure in the world war we know much less—and that is why Americans are going to read with a specially vivid interest the late Capt. R. Hugh Knyvett’s story of an Anzac WOMEN ALREADY HAVE GIVEN AN scout, “ ‘Over There’ With the Australians.” | Capt. Knyvett has just made the supreme sacri-! fice, dying of tuberculosis here in New York as the result of the twenty wounds he received from a Ger- 3. man bomb when he was scouting behind the German a y lines at Bapaume. He volunteered at the beginning a of the war and saw three solid years of it, including “ESS? the éntire Gallipoli campaign and the Battle of the Somme. But the most fascinating passages of “‘ ‘Over There’ With the Australians,” the book that was published hardly a week before the au- thor’s death, are those describing the training and the day-and-night life of the scout who crawls through No Man’s Land and even behind the Ines of enemy trenches to locate| | barbed wire, machine-gun positions and other defenses that must be known before the raids over the top. ‘ “I rejoice that I was a scout, and would not exchange my experiences with any,” Capt. Knyvett has set down on the first page of his excel- lently written and intensely interest- ing volume. “Romance bathes the of this dazzles a man for several seconds, and then so many shadows are thrown that I was no more dis- tinct than previously. “He went away, returning a min- ute or two later to have another look. By this time I was feeling quite stiff, but he was quite satisfied that no live man could be there. Had I jumped into a ehell-hole os fear prompted me to do, he would very name, the finger-tips tingle a8/have roused the whole Ine, and a they write it, and there was not in-| bom would likely have got m: ooeeecy | Then Capt. Knyvett took the op- - portunity to climb up the breast- work of sandbags in order to look into the trench. He stubbed his foot on @ pleco of wire, came down with a clatter and started rifles, ma- chine guns and a trench mortar {nto repelling the imagined “raid.” They' poured their fire over his head into No Man's Land, while he calmly marked the position of the nearest machine gun with a plece of white paper from his notebook, When all was quiet he crawled back to his own Hnos, putting another mark on a bush in dead Mne with the gun. Next day the artillery observation officer sighted the bits of paper with his glasses and levelled the German trench for fifty yards, On another occasion Capt. Knyvett and a party of five crawled across No Man's Land on a pitch-black night to capture a German patrol near a gap in their wire and identify the regiments opposing that section of the Allied front. “We waited drawn-out minutes,” the author of “‘Over There’ With the Australians” chronicles, “while the dark smoth- ered us and our thoughts haunted us. We heard the guttural grunt: ings that announced the approach “The scout,” Capt. Knyvett has an-|of our quarry, We let them pass wwered this question, “goes ahead|us and get well away from their on the same grojind that the infan-| trenches, then allently, like hunters try have to travel, and he can bring | stalking wild beasts, we followed frequently enough interesting work to make one even forget to be afraid. My nights in No Man's Land ff added together would total many months.” What does a scout do in modern trench warfare? { ‘back news of exactly what is there. The airmen do not help us much tn determining the condition of the enemy's barbed wire, and nothing is fo fatal for an attack as being held up on the wire. Only by sending out advance scouting parties can a com- mander know whether the wire has been sufficiently destroyed to allow easy passage for his troops. As an attack is always planned to take two or three of the enemy's lines, these scouts have to find out the condition of the wire in front of the @econd or third line trenches as well, “There is other important tnfor- mation that only the scout can ob- tain as when we once found a dum- may trench filled with barbed wire end controlled by machine guns. Had our men gone forward in the attack without the knowledge of this they would have jumped down into it to be m red like rate in a trap. Machine-gun positions are also generally indistinguishable to the airman’s glass or camera. them, When we were close enough to be almost overpowered by the | smell of sauerkraut and sausage mingling with stale sweat, my voice | Tapped out, though muffled by the | thick alr: ‘Hands up!’ There wae |no hesitation in obeying, although there were eight of them and only six of us.” But the Germans balked after |crossing two shell-holes. “Present: | |ly tho disturbance attracted notice from both trenches and there was only one thing to do, The contest was short and sharp; they outnum- bered us, but we went to it with @ will. It was sheer butchery, but [| had rather send a thousand of the! swine down to the fatherland than lose one of my boys.” : | } ‘Phe training for the {mportant and all-demanding service of the scouts ts severe. “It is necessary that they be picked men with’ unusual keen- | ness of observation,” the most dis- | Unguished of them points out. “They are trained for work in the dark by “The trained scout moves very | being made to go through the ordl- | cautiously in No Man's Land,” the writer continues, “with all his senses at high tension. After moving from one shell-hole to the next he lies and listens for a full minute. There ‘was one night when I was making nary soldier's exercises blindfolded. In this way they get the extra senso that a diind man has “We also train them to have com- plete control over their muscles, and among the final tests for first-class a way through the German wire, and | scouts are to remain an hour with- hed my hand up cutt ng @ strand, t showing any movement whatso- when a sentry poked his head over | ever and to take half an hour in get- the top and looked straight at me not three yards away, ting from the prone or lying position I froze in-| to standing upright on thoir fect stantly in that attitude, but he fred} “A black crawling sult is used at 4 shot at me which, of course, went He wide, being aimed in the dark. night with hood and mask, but the most important thing {s to break the then sent up « flare. but the fring ontline of the head. so the hood has | Saity Hak Firewomen patting «Yi out fire at ee War industry Sh ata plane” “thats Central Nour, Lee, if é Policéwomen. / P si Dicde fiend Pidss Ge “Bums Rusk” KXKQ \ a \ AS: mee 4 QQ * England’s Women Police and Fire Patrol SOMETHING WE HAVE NOT SEEN IN THIS COUNTRY. BUT OVER THERE THESE UNIFORMED EXCELLENT ACCOUNT OF THEMSELVES. ERSTE TRAY Te OMIT I yet 4 woman Patrol Conveyin re an accident— they Central Nawi TAs. Two States Have Thus Been Smitten by the Work Epidemic and It Only Takes Forty-Six More to Make It Unanimous—The Little Rhode Island Statelet Insists on Calling a Bum a Bum, No Matter If He Parks His Bunions ina Newport Club—Flat Feet No Claim to Exemption. BY ARTHUR (‘BUGS’) BAER, Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) WNING the first mortgage on a punch tn the nose ts just as funny O a» being @ bum these days, All the State orchestras are playing the “Bum's Rush" in eight colors and pink, First, New Jerscy aimed all her hokies for the exit, and now Rhode Island is knocking the hook wormers for a goal from a different angle. Now @ bum will have nothing to look forward to, He has nothing to look backward to, All he can do 1s to look sideways, The spasmodio part about the hobo erasing cantata is that Rhode Island claims that a bum is a bum, no matter how many whiskers constitute a majority in the Bullshevikt, The bo who stretches two octaves on tho free lunch ts a ho So ts the Newporter with club feet who can't keep his feet out of the club, It 1s against the law in Rhode Island to wear blinders when passing work, ‘The little Statelet wants its citizens to get callouses from working and not from riding in fivvers, Both New Jersey and Rhofe Island are determined to ounce! bum- ming, which procedure seems to automatically eliminate the office of State Weather Forecaster from the tournament, Vice Presidents of the U. 8 A. will also have to keep out of these two States, Male milliners and ukelele players will no longer emboss thetr bunions on the industrious #oil of Rhode Jersey and New Island Tho bum who tries to spend his summer in R, I. will discover that his summer ty counter- felt and unspendable, The Jerseyite who has hinges on his neck from several peaks and corners, A hu-| Salute the dauntless, gallant, mod- man head on the sky-lipe in these|est historian of the “eyes of the hoods appears like a large lump of who has but now “gone dirt, and should the scout chance to ! move suddenly while in such a post ‘Over Th With the Austral- tion, the likelihood ts he would be Airt in 4 eacond or 40.” fans ner'a Bona fa published by Charles Serib- | | | | | | | | { | dodging work will get a chance to see how a form-fitting Jail cell hangs across the elbows, The patriot who regards labor and @ bead on the brow as allen enemies will have a Jai! house draped around his chin and the key ted to a rabbit. H Pluribus Workus 1s the motto tor Rhode Island, Long may she wave, It requires only forty-six more States to make {t unanimous. It the epidemio of workitis spreads smoked glasses on, T From tho star spe one-piece bathing suits no bo will be safe without © world 4s getting harder to look at every day, 1 sardine cans on Coney Island's shore to the on California's bottle-covered etrand, from the blind tigers of glorious New Orleans to the uttermost northern prune in Maine's last boarding house—the U, 8. A. will be one big clinic of work. No one is to be exempt from the work draft, Having a wife de- pendent on you will be no excuse for loafing, Near-sightedness will be no alibi, ‘The Government will make carpet beaters out of the astlg- matio hokies, Elven a flat-eyed bo should be able to hit a carpet with @ bass fiddle, Flat feet will be no claim for exemption and every wite in the works wil 1 soon be hanging out a service etar indicating that he has an herotc hubby who is dashing across no lazy man’s land In @ barrage of work And aa tho girls have inherited the vote, they are also entitled to work, The flapper who used to shake a mean set of red heels up on the blonde side of Fifth Avenue will now wear the powder on her nose very close to the grindstone, The chicken who used to twirl a merry elhow on the piano will goon be ohaperoning a debutante pick and shovel in one of our better clans ditches, What ts soup for the goose is also consomme for the goose's husband, Work is work, no matter how many wrinkles there are in a plato of spaghett!, Chasing the ouckoos up an hour hasn't changed the map ot work 40% “Stop Thief” and“ Fire” Cries | Now Answered by Women In England’s War Service | MONDAY, APRIL 22, Women Police and Firewomen, Now in Active Service in England, Already Have Proved by Deeds of Hero- ism and Efficient Work Their Fitness to Don Uniforms. By Helen H. Hoffman ‘ (Gpectal Correspondent of The Brening World.) ] ONDON, April 10—How would you like to be a lady fire patrol? I thought the question was put in jest, for of all the special and other kind of rights that the New York Suffragist has been asking for, I never knew her to aspire to the job of putting out fires. The idea of a woman doing a fireman’s work was so unique that I dismissed it as being quite absurd. A few days later 1 met her! Young, good looking, strong and capable, is England’s firewoman, And I forgot to add one important quality, heroic to the last degree. Her brother, Tommy, in the trenches, is proud of her, for he has heard stories of the great bravery shown by her under most trying circugn- stances, and this sort of courage is appreciated by the men behind the guns, Unifke her girl wears long trousers, 4 H : The who’ land's uniformed women. i The distingui buttons, a police whistle, which she| carrjes in the upper left-hand pocket of her coat, and a fremen’s little red | axe smartly tucked in tho broad | leather belt, which is worn outside the coat. | I was going over a big war indus- | trial plant one afternoon where for | the most part I had seen women| workers, Crossing a road, my at-| tention was attracted to two figures | in the distance. | Well, I thought, after all, they find | malo for employment necessary some of tho work at the plant I mentioned this to my guide, | There had been a slight shower, and the fire girls wore long rubber | $ coats with the collars turned up. $| “Oh, they are women,” hastily corrected the woman guide Wo passed to other interests and then to tea at the company's restau- rant. Shortly after, tour of the fire| girls came in. Quietly and with as much dignity as though they were| sitting down to a tea in a fashionable drawing room, the fire ladies gently draped their rubber coats over the backs of chairs and took thelr places | at the little tea table. Quietly they carried on their tea conversation, and I noticed for the firet time that they were young and athletic look- ing, with the ruddy glow of health stamped On their cheeks by the wind and sun and April showers, Throughout the country to-day} women police and women fire patrols are now @ recognized and valuable part of England's great army of| women enrolled in emergency war service. Scores of policewomen are em- ployed in protective work among | women and children; in war indus- tries, where large numbers of women are employed, and in park and rail- way station patrol work, The work of the policewoman in munition factories include search- ing the workers for contraband, |matches, &c., the examination of passes and the orderly conduct of | workers, } A good education and good gen- era! health are the two chief quall- fications for this work. The training, which covers a period of from three lto six weeks, dependent, of course, lon the particulars work the officer) desires to follow, includes attend: | | ance at police courts, the giving and| taking of evidence, instructions in| er, the police officer, who wears a short skirt, the fire le uniform, with tight fitting, short coat and blue cloth cap, sets her a bit apart from the great army of Eng- ng marks of her costume are represented by brass to women and children, first ald prac- tice and patrol work on the London streets, The women police are classified as Sergeants, inspectors and eub-in- spectors, Promotion in rank {s based entirely on tho merit of thelr work The London “bobby” has recelved the policewoman into the ranks of fellowship and has come to regard | her work with interest and respect. The flrewoman has shown equal eMctency in her work, Several months’ experience has proved to the Government that women mako excellent fire patrols; that they are dependable and conscientious in | their duties, and the Government has come to rely upon them for the im- portant work of guarding pieces of valuable property, In all sorts of weather they pa- trol their beats, keenly alert for the slightest cause that may lead to ao cident and place the lives of the workers and the plant in jeopardy. The record of these firewomen shows that many times when they have been called upon to test ther courage in accidents, such as fires and minor explosions, that they calmly and fearlessly faced the sit uation and rendered such service that any brother freman would @ proud of. The women who first qualified for this work shied at the suggestion of wearing trousers, However, their good judgment soon told them that if {t became necessary to cMmb int windows, rescue fainting girls anc thread their way through debr’ caused by fire and accident, tha their work might be greatly inter. fered with by the wearing of skirts Now that they have become recon ciled to the new uniform, the fire girls are unanimous fn putting them selves on record that they prefer it to petticoats, “That ts, onl y for war duty,” they are quick to add, Off duty, the fire girl in appear ance {8 uil that feminine vanity should concern itself with. Fluffy gowns and soft, flower draped hats act as graceful substitutes for the fire girl's uniform when the work day 13 ended. As I later observed these girls off duty, it did not seem to me that in appearance, conversa tion or manner, they had lost that something, which novelists call fem inine ¢ large m, In the execution of | various subjects of the law relating | these new war duties, Germans s an oddity of the world war| | y trade ta flourish | fg. A recent ar @ Revue Sulase d’Export va gives | oq sting view of this situation and also suggests a method by which | lthe Central E ily | have inere | namely, th elry | In the cou the c provoked |by the Euror war we pass from aurr t . 1 mea after a ures forbidd v of few through @ prospe T e d, which te not yet over. In fact, it ts at its natant. Kwarvihine want wells lene Buy Wiislae to Get Gold as there were no abuses, but the time came when jewelry, espectally heavy gold chains without much workman- ship, began to be exported to the Orient. prices Gold (fine) in Swit- zerland 1s valued at about $720 a kilo (2.2 pounds), and in the Orient, or at enna, it is quoted at $2,400 per kdlo. There is there iderable eo profit thetr nerchants. » not all many nto the Cen High these articles, argin which taken to cheek tor tn into orders novemen © flowtr ventres. ‘TM iese or- atino~ rfectly ap- nt authorities res to put @ stom ed for Const ple. The scher as pe 0K T pt te the proceedion, were paid for , «\