The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1918, Page 16

\ \ es WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, “The Ladies From Hel” Name First Given to Kilties | The “Ladies” Take Few Prisoners Since They Saw Foe's Machine Guns Mow Down Their Helpless Comrades Heroes of Lille Started Vain Charge as Though They Were Going on Parade. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall : OW the kilted Scotch soldiers of the Allies fairly won their Ger- , H man name of “Ladies from Hell,’ how the Black Watch i charged at Lille as dauntlessly and immortally as the Light ; Brigade itself, and why, since Lille, the Scottish take few pr ners—| it fs this hitherto unsung saga of the Sc hich R ton gives to us in his tense, vivid, exciting narrative | of the Great War, “Ladies from Hell.” The Battle of the Marne sent Mr. Pinkerton into the thinned ranks of the famous London Scottish, | where he remained in active service until in a trench} raid a German shell severely wounded him and just} missed burying him alive. Meanwhile he had seen| and shared in much of the hottest fighting of the| war. He was an eyewitness of the charge of the! Fight Hundred a at Lille, which in its initial blunder, its dedicated heroism, its appalling fatality, is simply a repetition of the Tennyson-told story of the “noble Six Hundred,” familiar to every schoolboy. The Eight Hundred were the men pie ot the worlddamous Black Watch. They, like the London Scottish, lay | in the trenches of Lille, in what Mr. | ing back. Yes, sure enough, twenty | Pinkerton calls “the agony of wait-| five or thirty of them, divested of all| ing under fire.” Ten minutes eS were running beck ward us. pee temo ont Soe the charge Get! wnaiind chen you could hear the| London Scottish, a messenger brought | crack of a German machine gun go- ; a countermand. What happened next/ing into action. Like pigeons at a i Mr. Pinkerton tells us in “Ladies |Digeon shoot, they were trapped, tut From Hell:” without half the chance of escape that “After delivering bis order he (the ‘wo give the bird. On across that flee- Brigadier’s runner) was off to stop ing Une of heroes traversed that Ger the Black Watch, man machine gun. One by one the “But he never reached them, A cry | %°Y8 dropped until not one remained, | went up ¢rom down the trench. ‘The | KULTUR! Black Watch were going over alone,| “OUF men at first were dazed; they They were as cool a@ on home pa didn't believe their own eyes. It was rade. There was no shouting or yell- impossible barbarism. Thirty men ing, just a clean, collected string of | titled to all the scant privileges of men at doublequick, rifles at their war had been shot down like gutter | sides, bounding across no man’s land, doga Then, as the reality broke tn | “There is something awful in euch upon us, @ cry went up, and a do-| ® sight—elght hundred men headed |™®"4 to go over and avenge that| for sure destruction, and with no|*>°leale murder.” chance to help them, The charge of More than one hour of vengeance the Black Watch was a mistake; they | *™e for the London Scottish, though hal failed to receive the oounter- fot that day, Pinkerton describes mand, At some place betwoen us his own hour, with grim particular. and them the despatch bearer had ity In a later chapter of “Ladies From fallen, and eight hundred men went Hl” In the trenches, a few ktlo- with him, metres from Bethune, he was one of ' “It was perhaps seven or eigne | twelve who volunteered for a night ‘ hundred yards from our trenches tol raid on @ party of German snipers the German jine, nearly halt a mile, | | hidden tn a ruined farm house mid- ané@ over this space went the ‘Ladies | ‘way between the German and Allied i From Hell,’ as the Germans call the |!!"¢* ' Scottishers, Before reaching the house five of “That day, tt ta estimated, the Ger.| ‘2° party were downed dy the mens bed @ machine gun for every | "Pet? OF by @ machine gun they five yards of front. A’machine guy |2Md With them. When tho seven re- can pour out 61x hundred to six hun- maining Scottish burst into the bar- dred and fitty bullets per minute, 1t|"cMded Bocho headquarters tn the Was tnto this hail of steel that our | (PPC? sory they were met with the Eraats, the Giack Wales, piseaes. vaual chorus of “Kamerad! Kame- “A bush fell over our-lines, Halt.|"i) Merey!" Writes Mr. Pinkerton way across and only a scant six hun-| ao. Douglas Pinker-| Pore RE 4 NN OREN HS dotted with still or writhing Apis, swam beforo my eyes. | “A cry went up. They were com-| | to} fred of the original eight hundred] piieq: ‘Litio “enonen aera Fe cy yo Jlareggegel Aone. hentia vane showed us a few weeks ago down by . * Lille. You had plenty of time to ery another. Then they came to the for mercy when we were coming dummy trench, some twenty-five or across that last five yards, When thirty yards in front of the German mercy {4 yours to give, you never firet line. This dummy trench was give it. You cut my pal'e throat like filled with barbed wire and a rivulet ‘ “NOBLE 800" BUT MES pom oe WENT ACRO. NO MA S LAND Macha Guns \ EVERY § Yor THE CHARGE OF THE g00 R. D. PINKERTON oF THE “LONDON . SCOTT sH* YENGER MET DEATH ON THE WAY Kade By the German Soldiers Advance of Black Watch Like Charge of Light Brigade AFTER ORDER HAD BEEN COUNTERMANDED D IT WAS “THEIRS BUT TO DO AND DIE.” ug qoa7i \ THE. SCOT TAKING .A TO THE Rescue "PRISONER." SAT ethibine 7 N orchestra of geese may have aved I e, but Uncle Sam y-" has decided that goose squawks and goo eps are something else again, Iver since the Kaiser hopped out of bed on his wrong foot and started goosesteppin lover Rand & MeNally's map, the world has been scratching Itself lik | had been Curned tnto It for the oC: |tenunt” Mercy? soeydnded oUF Liter caston, ‘Two hundred men reached! «with that the bayonets | that trench, two hundred men went | hands got busy, and there won on Into tt, but only one hundred crossed | ony Germans to wear the Ine Mt and dashed on over the last fow |that night. Pret nn eet yards. do not believe elit Sisty of the eight hundred had|*when I aay chat since the battle te reached the German trench. It was|Lille we Scottish have taken few, all over; but no! Their naller 8) any, prisoners The on Surtide| on the German parapet calling for! the German atro ity ts iH fs t fi ‘ help, and he is calling for the Scot-| with fire. ‘The man who can sce 11 tsh, for us! And we had orders to/own pal and comrade ehot dee ae stay! God, man, St was awful! Dur-| cold blood, an we had seen the ‘Ger | j ing those minutes agony I grew) mans shoot do our Black W a old. The signaller had barely fin-|ts not a man if he edn refrain i| ished his message when he was shot | hold back his hand trom ‘i ae down, and we sank back {nto our slaughter e horror of it) “Ladies From Hell" {3 published | | Man's land, | by the Century Compan, / WILD IDEAS CENSOR AT wWoRK Lome DANIELS said at a F OD ADMINISTRATOR HOOY reception I \ ° ‘Some of the ideas su 1 I us for fight 6 a i ! _ : is are exce nt me aga ae : . | me irres t bee h a There's a 5 fancler in ‘ { native town who has great su w the bird. A fa sald, © te yao lak ‘ viously, to him one day ' nave vet { “*You never lose a 5 > How ° : 4 page Je it? Where's your se : i ne “Well, you see," said t a , a hie Joke ready, He | I cross my pigeons w riya Poy Be | *parrot, 80 if they get ik the way * ar, ¥ os 4 pup with permar Tho goosestepping hasn't been confined to the wrong propaga ve a 1 ey 1 news with goose grease, Hut now Uncle Sam ck, the web-fe sw ve to ge tep 1 new Y he s ad & crippled rainspou with w valruses paging a nan mea b 1 by the Liberty ' Of course, 1 ale >m ow 1 hea breeze it require nak ireek ime, but having a mplete set of Liberty m i nutritious than pay Jnstulments on an edition of Hohengollern brand § : the 1 t n nicely ‘ 1 y & vk y an r 1 sm 1, but Amer Will be renegade ‘ w b n of 1 bane? fut @ 7 1 ’ 1 ' i When " a k of ad up ¢ us I 1 r pangled jazzbo chow T who sub | ¢ 1 ereatte h A eat ne | A 1 ve Der A y ov r h | tf ‘ wid ‘ fricadelier Utter German Measles Have Been Deleted by the Censor and Are Now Liberty Measles Sent to the Patriotic Laundry and All Nicely Cleaned and Ironed Into Liberty Cabbage Noodles Are No Longer Noodles, but Star-Spangled Jazzbos. By Arthur (‘‘Bugs”) Baer Moving the | Menu Up an Hour Sauerkraut Has Been ; |it, say, four months from now WEDNESDAY, 3 1918 = hee MAY 1, “I Haven't Got the Money” Weakest of All Excuses For Liberty Bond Slacker |All of Us Make Sacrifices to Keep Up Appearances, but Manp » | Shrink From a Test of Patriotism That Touches Our Pocketbooks—How th the Clerk’ e Bank Cashier Cured 8 Poverty. By William Hamilton Osborne (of the Vigilantes). 1 HE bank cashier paid Jimmy cozy little cottage on Chat Telford a siort visit in the latter's am Road glad 1 came, Mr, Pain aid Telford, “because | you're ed to a personal explanation about this Liberty Loan, |Now, here's the whole thing in a nutshe I haven't got the cash.” “Oh, yes, you have,” rie imed the cashier; “you only think you haven't.” | No,” protested Jimmy I've got iess than $25 on deposit with our bank, I owe my grocer $40. 1 owe my butcher $60, I ‘haven't paid my last coal bill, I've over my salary for the next jtwo months. It's costing me five more a year to live than I'm gettir and, by gosh, I can’t help it. What am I going to do— {how am | going to do what you want whan I haven't ra the cash? | There's nothing that I want to do s can’t make it. | | “Oh, yes, I can,” smiled the cash- | ter; “I've done {t a good many times 'wetore, and I can do {t now.” He hanged his tone. “When do you {think you'll this first “Now Jimmy) | me The cashier smiled again he sald, “tell me s mee man to man. It's confidential h of the First Loan did 9@ in a position to make payment, Telford?” talking,” “not before the end of you're returned um “Tel hing, How you shoul | tord,” \m der | “Not a dollar,” returned Jimmy; didn’t have the cash.” “How the er much did you subseribe to Second Loan?” | “Not a dollar—-I didn’t have the ash, I'm telling you the truth.” | “And th drives were many months * mused the cashier, \“and you told yourself that, by gosh, when the Third Loan came on, you'd surely subscribe,” ib ane groaned Jimmy, “I was| sure I'd have the mone) | “And now, you're sure you'll have ‘tinued the cashier, “Let me haven't you put a single dollar tn j this rv kid has—Savings Stamp: sald J ) the kid ya, well,” sald Jimmy, , he had to, don't you know. 1 jcouldn’t have kid the who didn't!” “Ah!” — exe grimly; “matt rances—that’s the idea. and the appearan: nobody “the kid med the cashier of keeping up ar know ether y a bond or not, so the urgency doesn’t happen to be there. Have I got the right idea “I tell yo returned Telford, “t} I haven't got the money—and I can't Why, thunder, your own‘bank wouldn't lend me a dollar on my note, You know that. It's just what you say--I'm always behind I can never get ahead,” The bank cashier smiled again ‘Shake, old man,” he sald to Jimmy get the money You can’t get blood out of At > much as what you ask, and yet I a stone.” ing or freezing or who has to foot ft because we haven't got the carfare We're living soft, and we keep up ap pearances. If you get fifty dollars a a nolse like a hun But you don’t fool any- ol anybody. My sal- Telford, when I reek you make dred a week 2 ar, Was a boy there were bank Presidents nsurance company Presidents on my street who made only $5,000 a year—those ied and $100,000. How did they do it Investment—business acumen? Not a bit of it. They lived on half their incomes and soaked away the other balf. ‘They understood the game, We've forgotten something that we never knew—how to save money. Telford, suppose the Govern+ ment should publish in the newspa Now, per the name of every man who hadn't bought a Liberty bond— there'd be a fine scramble, wouldn' there, for bonds? But suppose the , Government went further and had @ sort of ‘excuse me’ column in which it placed the names of men who were d from buying bonds because they couldn't afford it. Gee whiz! we'd before we'd have our naines in that column, wouldn't Now, I made the same stall that you're making—I fooled myself. & sald to myself that next week, next month, I'd buy a bond. I pretended ody that I'd bought a bond, Then I looked the thing in the face, and I knew then that the only essen- tial in my life was to get into this To get into it now. I went e and told my wife just how I The next day we went out and excu sell our to every pawned our household possessions and bot our bonds,” | “Well,” cried Telford, “how are you golng to get her Jewels back— you going to pay off your ortgage?” * smiled Telford. “Our tree ndous passion to keep up appear will take care of that. We'll and freeze to get back those that's, second nature, And we'll do anything to get that chat “Easy, “I put up the same blooming argu | mortgage off the records in the min Potsdam Chatter from the Tournament has de- |ments myself. A bank cashier has|Court House. That's second nature 18 1 rubber heels on suspicion, That's how they ta got to live like other men—I was al-|too, Now, you just put your name an ts 1918 license will be chartered as bald headed | ways behind. 1 didn't have the cash,|down here. After you've done that r to be patriotic and partly to deseribo the favor, | And all during the three bond drives | you talk It over with your wife~end w © to be ordered under thelr new name of Coney | 1 was selling bonds to other people, | YOU can plank the money down at my nkfurters may be born in unkfurt, but they all |putting up the argument as to w window In the bank any time within nd should be compelled to take out their second they ought to buy, and how they! the next ten days.” . could buy—and I couldn't sell not | Telford planked the money flown anybody ¥ top in a one-armed lun one of ‘em—to myself, 1 was in your|!nside of two days instead of ten, le tran = order his chow in fix. Do you know what we did—my | > WHIGKPAGGKAa - factory wit sore throat, | Wife and 1? We went out and chat CAMOUFLAGE, t waved In red, wh nd blue, and chins might as tle-mortgaged all our furniture and OOD control and other problems nat t |pawned all her jewels—and loaded FY: the war have made a deep tme 4 ta Perris sw | 4p on Liberty bonds, If our friend Pression on all of us, but on ne ; A ith a he Annas F Two | had known It they'd have been scan. /0"° More than Christopher, aged atx, ia vita loaded 4 with their | dalized.” | He had been suffering for several weeks thelr throats, Afbreach of The Hague | It was Jimmy's turn to te earn ut cease eee }cashier by the hand. “Seandalized!" i eaten a ato an. thing to do. You're tho: er tempting, Ari when 4 ke c jessert Admiral’s Cleve er Ruse breds, you Mrs. Telford. You came Ing his favorite pte, he _| “Yes,” proceeded the cashier, “but | was as to explain, He repliea ’ - — vulee returned with Mee met | chink a bit, ‘The thing that surprised | wistfully Lae pal hs Hee unl the Cap, [You #8 that T didn’t have the mone at don't think people with whoop- : Se ee | atari oR meas ae Am I right & courh ought to be allowed to eat 7 Alfred Admiral Exben accepts with pleas- | “Fight,” laughed Jim I sho’ hen it #0 important to save food," an Gavel aft PGi tion for Capt. Mahan | 24¥e sald you had all kinds of coin wi als aU as, a He wishes also to ad | eturned the cashier of PROFITEE Apped pt nike of Blank that as | “nobod nobody in ou RING, Admiral with an 1 Capt. Mahan off the sick Jist,"— | station of life, at an DV Ory want prices to go up ceived to din rybody's Ma money. ‘The whe 1p are \ bas they've gone up in | Sa led hand and foot dy the high cost | jonen of Wier ee Sala Senator =; rye A QUEER EPITAPH laf iiving Weve aidilag on arecit of Washington, ited aha ee Queer epitaph a frequentiy | Ons aA OD 1 heard the other day about k a fe t following really ap-| We're all of us paying for dead |I'rench wine merchant wr ae you couldn't!" | pears in a Saloy yard: “Iilwa-| horees, To all of us the one essential [an fe : nO sald to ¥ I nswe iT I tarklamb, | pt »pearance t beth ts ohard F kiemb, ls keeping up sppearan You here, air, It you won't pay . £|1ow me nef vine you just bought Ad bs ae o bale “Sure,” said Jimm before tho war, at least sera ee United 8 Navy eee iy / fod e send ne He Pie t ik intersaa Now,” went ¢ e ca | © empty bottles,’ E Jan ’ cig haven't any of t the money to ' | tho former patron, +. 1 7 y nantes jinvest in Liberty bonds. tit there | uy Ae "Pa lot, you know, List | dee Weatern-atall ye “"\ten't a mother's sou of us who's wtar aR wence do t get pag Washington 6tas, ay -— wane