The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1918, Page 20

AK \ qe 1 (0 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 Lille, One of Finest Cities | in France Before the War, Long Since Stripped by Foe Commercial Centre Made to Pay Huge “Fines,” Its Factories and Warehouses Looted and 25,000 of Ite Citizens, Mostly Girls, Carried Into Shame- ful Captivity—Germans in Retiring Leave Only Shell of Once Great City. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Coprriaht, 1918, by The Proms Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Wortd), TLLE, which bas been evacuated by the Germans after four years of occupation, is the largest French city which fell into German hands, It is the capital of the Department of the Nord, and before the war had a population of 200,000. In pwhilc bulldings, monu- ments and historical structures it ranks with the most beautiful of the cittes of France, although it was strictly 4 commercial and railroad centre. The despatches state that the Germans fn leaving Lille did not attempt any destruction of property. Pos- ibly the reason was that there was little property left to destroy. The city was badly battered by the Ger- mans before they occupied it in October, 1914, and in 1916 was often shelled by the British in the course of hostilities which surged along the Armentieres front 3, about ten miles to the westward of the city. .In May, ; the Hotel de Ville, one of the finest buildings in Lille, was totally destroyed by fire, and rare books of the value of $100,000 were lost. H It has been estimated by the French Government that the Germans ti before their oceupation of Lille and during the time they were establishing FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 Fighting Tommy Kehoe, England’s Y oungest Soldier, ° A “Veteran” at Sixteen - Signed Up as a Four-Foot-Ten Bugler When the War Began, and Added Three Years to His Age So He Could Carrya Gun—Then His Fighting Adventures Began, as Narrated in His Book “The Fighting Mascot,” the True Story of a Boy Soldier. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing O8, (The Now York Wrening World). ‘cc LMOST on us they were, Oh, never in my worst dreams—and © * A I've had many a bad one since then—have I seen a more dreadful sight than that. Taey came at us out of the dark like fiends from anotaer world, like the pictures I’ve seen of men from Mar for their heads were covered with the most devilish-looking masks that anybody could imagine; masks with huge round eyes and long, piggish snouts. Shells were bursting above them, machine guns were tearing through their ranks and their masks were wnife and ghastly in the light’ of the rockets. Many a time I had thought of what’ \» war would be like, but never had I thought I should... look on such a sight as that = * - “‘Fight or die, Tommy Kehoe! Fight or diel'” That's what the youngest soldier in the trenches, i by" <%ranm ‘8ixteen-year-old Tommy Kehoe of the Fifth King . rewee Liverpool Regiment, the “Fighting Fifth,” told himself when he went over the top for the first time and stood up bravely against the charging Prussian hordes. Using simple, unconsciously vivid boytalk, he has described just Low } he felt in that terrible moment, and what happened to him during all the months of mud and blood in France and Flanders, in his book, “The Fighting Mascot; the True Story of a Boy Soldier.” Views of Historic Lille LARGEST FRENCH CITY TAKEN BY GERMANS NOW RECOVERED BY ALLIES AFTER FOUR YEARS OF ENEMY OCCUPATION Of course the thing about the book |= === their military control wrought damage amounting to $380,000,000. The ; i which bites deepest into the mind of/ be left in a moment or two. But those i Germans also seized vast stores ‘s Tew ond ST RETATABaIC erie sghospirl the reader ts that {t was a boy who|that didn’t fall came on like madmen * f factories, shipped here yrois to Germany tas on gfe: is rot lived the danger and the horror—a|and poured through the lanes where year of their occupation the Germans force: je City of le to pay es aggregating $1,600,000 on the ground that the first German troops to enter the city were fired on by certain of the inhabitants. ‘The German occupation of Lille, one of her chief cities, has alwys) tn» Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bi been and will be @ sore point In| vartar |boy no older, no bigger, than one's own son in high school. many an American youngster, Tommy Kehoe used to huddle up in bed, night atter night, and read the big guns had levelled our wires. “One—he wa: six-footer if he was an inoh—ran straight for me with his bayonet out. He crouched and thrust at me—thrust upward. His bayonet France. It ts not only because of the money and property loss inflicted in Lille, but becanse of the treatment of the inhapitants, especially women and girls, that France has felt #0 keenly the presence of the enemy tn the city. Undoubtedly French pubic opinion will unanimously back up the de- “Ten times during the journey we had to undergo medical examinations. The examinations were of the most minute xi them. They seemed to be made for the pleasure There could be no other reason for ind. We had to strip for of the examining officers. freasure Island” and long for the days of Jim Hawkins and Long Jobn Silver, Then came August, 1914, and a world plunged into @ wilder and more thrilling adventure than any romancer, even R, L. S., could dream. In Tommy Kehoe's own naive phrase, “I meant to get into that war, even went over my shoulder, He staggered and fell over my gun. “I had got him! I had got him in the stomach! i “'Twas lucky for me there was no time to think over it or to stand there gaping at the dead Boche hanging over my gun with his masked head doing it ten times, “Our destination was Auvillers-| Forges, and wo were kept there a! months. Our work was gathering in the grain, thrashing it and digging Potatoes. We worked from 6 in the morning until sunset. We were told that we would be paid for our work, And when I got back to Lille I was given 9 francs and 45 centimes for my labor. “Not only did I sleep in a chicken house, but we did not have enough to eat. All the food we had was taken from that supplied by the Belgian Re- et Committee. We were gathering the harvest for Germany and tho Ger- man soldiers, but ouy food was stolen from that sent by America to the Bel- glans. There was ono period when the supplies ceased to arrive at our! village, and during twelve days I lived | on green fruit that 1 picked from the trees and on roots. But I had to work io oe, fields just the same, "The discipline was tron, marched to the fleids and eck “at | night in ranks like soldiers. ‘The least | infraction was punished by a prison; sentence with bread and water, and! for what were considered more serious mands of the French Government for payment for damage done tn Lille to property and people. During Easter Week in, 1916 the German military authorities selsed 25,000 inhabitants of Lille, a majority of them young girls, and sent them to work in the fields in departments of France under German control where Germany was cultivating the crops. ‘This action brought protests not only from France but from many neutral countries including the United States and Spain, but the protests were un- heeded and for six months the 25,000 were compelled to work at raising crops for Germans to eat. Finally, under pressure from neutrals, Ger- many returned to Lille such of the expatriates as had survived. A young girl who was one of the Lille inhabi- tants forced into labor for the Ger- mans reached Paris a year ago and gave the following account of her ex- perience “At 3 o'clock In the morning of Apri! %, 1916, @ guard of ten German sol- Gers knocked at my father's door in though I was too young. It was too s, and there might not be another a ifetime.” So first he signed up as a bugier, although he knew absolutely nothing about the gentle art of bugling. Ap- parently he could not even learn, 1 suspect he did not try too earnestly, gince the job he really wanted was that a rifleman, “It was hard,” he admits, “to convince the Colonel I was big enough, since I weighed only ninet ix pounds and my height was only 4 feet 10, but the more he heard my bugling the more he seemed to like the idea of my carrying a gun.” And, although Tommy Kehoo's fine pore: 7 English mother had taught bim arf what happens to little boys who teil Tigi! $74 as aa its dil he unbiushingly added three AR taut ptt esa Fs WB: 1 Be seh cee os almost touching me, for tt was hor- rible, For a second or two I turned dizzy and sick. But it was fight again or dle, I jerked my rifle back and stumbled over the dead man as he flopped to the ground. “Make for thelr stomachs, Tommy Kehoe! Make for their stomachs!’ [ told myself. ‘Size don’t count. “A fellow was coming for me swings ing his gun above his head ready to strike me with the butt. He fright- ened me. I hadn't counted on that kind of fighting. Just then somebody stuck him from behind with a bayo- net and heefell. “There were more Boches coming and I thought it was all up with us. But as I looked at them again I saw that they were without their rifles and that they were holding thelr hands above their: heads. They were surrendering. The fight was over. “‘Cheero, said Billy Matchett. all over. Come and sing, Mascot, and forget about trouble for a little.’ “Some of the lads came along and crouched down beside us to listen When we had finished old Bonesey pulled me up and pounded me ca good to mi rs to his sixteen in order that he ‘might not be refused as a fighting “man.” Small wonder King George, himsei a father of sons, shook Tommy's hand and told him: “At your age you xbould never have been there, But, it all the men of England sot my boy m0! >| should soon | the back, Lillie. The Sergeant Major in com- Conan we were whipped. The Ge: showed such spirit we “‘I'm thinkin’ the Mascot made nan officers themselves whipped win the war. ood,’ he said.’ ‘The bloomin’ little mand said that the commander of | young iris with thelr ridvr enone after | & ; Lille had demanded a certain number 7 “There were many cases of sickness, and several of the girls died from malnutrition, One gir! who died had her funeral service read by the officer who had whipped her with his riding whip only a few days before.” France will not forget the women of Lille whipped in the flelds by Ger: vers, nor will the people of silent when the time comes nd a reckoning. During all the time the Germans were in Lille the French residents refused to speak to German officers. Germany, how- ever, took over much of the business of the town, importing German women to work In stores they estab- shed. One of the German institu. tions in Lille was a brewery “an — However, that happened | | , ‘tommy had been sent home with three wounds, on account of which he was honorably discharged from the “Judge H. D. C.—Humane Dispenser of the Code” |»: 0st Henry D. Clayton, Judge of the United States District Court, Product of the Old Rea eA South, in a Month Has Made His Courtroom Famous for His Quaint Comments ; counter with the Germans, By George F, Benz. “whopping big men they were, mead yuldet bove me, But as South, Jamaica, the West Indies and|and shoulders ~y ght fasned through D. C.—Humane Dispenser vf about everywhere, I remember one |waited there a tho allay H the Code—Henry D. Clayton. eas hide Obick On chy lhod Ih act of the bantam FOEID OR nad Hl own initials deseribe cold one night and he went over to f the man, Judge of the United States District Court, product of ‘the old shaver got one—right in the stomach, Ain't he the cute little beggar, now” “Bonesey always did have a good word to put in for me. But I didn't need it that night. I had killed my first German and I was as puffed up with pride over it as a lad who's just got his V. C.” ‘The sixteen-year-old kills many an- other Boche, goes with his regiment through the bloody struggie of Ypres, serves his turn with his grown com- rades at night sentry-go and night patrol, is buried alive in a dug-out by an exploding bomb, helps to clean out the enemy squads lurking in ruined Arras; and finally, after being wounded jn head and thigh, clubbed of young giris to work in the fields of the Ardennes, but not enough had ik presented themselves, and he had or- dered a requisition. Among the houses te be searched was my father’s, and I was on the list to go with them.” ‘The girl fainted and was carried away in a fainting condition by the German soldiers, while her father and mother could only look on and sob, Her parents were not even allowed to 6° to the railroad station with her, “I was put in a cattio ear with thirty other girls, The car had not duce the bail bonds in this case to one-half of the previous amount.” “May I say a word?” the Prosecut- ing Attorney asked, “You can say a lot of words, but they won't do you any good, Mr. At- water, I never can convince you. studied their mental workings in the me scarcely bigs! lows scarcely giant my board fence, ripped some of it made good even against those apart and used it for firewood, Pru didn't count bebind 5 u & net, It was quickness that} with a gun-butt and lying out forty- i been cleaned out since it had carried] At the outbreak of the war Lille|S°Uth 4% Tepresented by Montgom- jAfter you have said your say the|Northern neighbor wanted mo to/a bayone: oo. crit, ae tt didm't} eight hours in no mans land, is } its last load of cattle, and wo hs was a fortress of the first class, en. |r: Ala, ex-Congressman and father Pecce OLEH RT EREDREN TI lRrOREGRTR REL thsumnt ce tie rosie a | oausees an aure of i. i sifhped ‘back to “mighty” ‘ana’ ine gush the filth outside before we Uirely surrounded by great defenaive| of the Clayton act, and purveyor The bell in City Hall Park told of |Prayer and all that about ‘Lead us|then it was all Olt tT Vat atmost | member, of sixteen! ' find @ place te sit on the floor, Thore| military engineer of the seventenen | Cf Justice to women who marry janother Liberty bond sol not into temptatiom I figured Ia] “Pven UMN i ing were mowing| ‘The Fighting Mascot” ts published were five hundred men and wor century. But the fate of Liege and| ‘0 Scldiore and get allotments | An Itallan was arraignea Qefore | been leading that darky into tempta. jup to Us IO 1 oy a4 ie none could | by Dodd, Mead & Co, the train, ali in cattle cars, Namur and other great fortified cen-|fm both, raincoat makers accuse! him the same day, charged with | tion by having a board fence, so next | them down ppeariy ail the care the men and Wo-|ieeson’ ‘and oe “thet Cane e e of fraud: ardent would-be citisens falsifying his first citizenship papers, |@a@y I bought me a wire one, Sore- | ——— men were mixed together. When we hed LI fy rmans ap-|who falsify their papers, conscien- proached Lille, a little more than two months after the war broke out, he evacuated the city in the hope of saving it from destruction, thing lead you into temptation, What was it?" “Heroin,” said the culprit, Letters from a@ priest, a doctor and | a druggist told of his good reputation, and it was testified he had erred only reached our destination the men and women had to live together prom! tious objectors who refuse to register, freight car thieves, violators of the Liberty Bonds Teach People How to Buy Well as How to. Save ship regulations, ‘Russian c a 5 as ously, sleeping in the samc room or|Tiiis was the centre of th gensorship A Hb credo in hig keen desire to become an| “What's heroin?” asked the Judge: TILL, circumstances to sell their Liberty © lsle| Reds,” Bolsheviki, and sunc.y “de.n ‘Isn't that what Turks use?’ a J, HEMP stabie, or wherever it might be. thread industry. In its mills were * wh strue the Bill of Right | American. u LEXANDER J. 4 of Di-|Bonds that they can always do so “L slept in a chicken house with| Manufactured all sorts of tabring | £2018" who con Sone “Any man who can get a priest,| He told the prisoner he would send ‘Chairman of the Boar at about what they paid for them. A half a dozen other girls and as many| &PY of them famous for their qual. | license to fracture the Constitu- doctor and druggist to vouch for him must be all right,” the Judge held, “T will fine the accused $10. The prisoner wildly waved to a friend in the audience to come hither with the money, “It you haven't the epizinctorum ra rect Company, ity, Other manufactures were chem- feals, oils, white lead, sugar, machin. , locomotives, military stores and niture, These industries, with the exception of such as were operated by the Germans, have been almost completely destroyed him to Atlanta Penitentiary to get cured, “If you go there,” he ex- plained, “you will have good books to read, see fine baseball games and they put out a wonderfal bill of fare. If I was to go into one of these fancy places in New York and get the same ‘ors of the Guaranty ‘Trust believes that there is @ Jue, sreat educational value, “s fnvestment value, in Liberty Bou ‘or the small investor, er erybody knows that the best and safest se- majority of the so-called securities they have been accustomed to buy generally have no market val at all, or, if they have, It is way below what the investor pays for them. “Having learned this lesson, the people never again can be by some promoter or advertisement to tion, His somewhat ponderous form oc cupies the bench in Room No, 331, old Post Office Building, He has been sitting there for more than a month, with one notable exception—two aveoks ago, When the Jury com)‘ained it was men. To one of the girls who com- plained a German Lieutenant said: “Mademoiselle, you should be proud, You belong now to the famous 6th Corps, which is commanded py! ree JUpse. HENRY’ bs 8: ans > Liberty sna t with their hard earned ms Bonds are they | Pa? money : * “Your Honor,” he pleaded, “there! 11; parole you until to-morrow; but |stuff my little old $16 per would dis-| 2°" ‘the world, backed a8 they| for a prettily engraved plece of paper, lhe Flags of the Allied Nations too chilly to do business. Hoe admitted |ts nothing to this case, These young eerie Ee it then sure,” the |appear as quick as a clean shirt in a curly “ine power, wealth and Srnnlst emus Of waleb le Geeatastves 4 ed that “though you gent! oinyine era | co " are Nation,” ions of other persons, who never By T. L. Sanborn The cont of arms conslete of a trie | OnOy there tan't any Poker gene | ea earns crap in & rallrosd) suage ordered. cot ol —. other resources of thls sree! “1 rom [before had bought securities of any angle within a circle, with the it,| men KB ; yard, finished their game and in at- pisinctorum?™ queried the de- 1 Mr. Hemphill, “But aside kind, have learned through their pure i No. 16—NICARAGUA scription “Republica Winey M-\in progress, yet I am getting cold| tempting to get to the street crawled y pepe THE ONLY PEACE FOR GERMANy |S#!¢ “OY stment value, Liberty Bonds) chase of Liberty Bonds how easy it is 4 Neen cia tin Bold lett eet | feet,” and adjourned court until the|over a freight car, That is when| fendant’s attorney. ‘“ ERMAN said — Senators tor Byer tional value for the|to invest their money safely in @ ae : HE republics of Central America| Age rele, On the trlangle/iz| steam was turned on, tiie tara’ Caen’ “Cash,” explained His Honor, (w Thomas, “talks a lot of ar.|D2¥® 9% 8)" vnich is one of their| curity that pays even higher rates of seem fond of blue and white,| displayed a range of mountains’ with| Since that memorable occasion seats | “They threw eraps,” the Judge sug- ward J, Meehan,” rogant nonsense about her|*™4!! Lee and attractive ae A pans, CH several of them using those|the sea on either side, and ‘rising| nave been at @ premium in his court. | gested The clerk called the name, There] reac, the German peace; but in the| MoSt MP more than twice as much as the flags. The national | encircled with a halo of golden Nerh' | ciate anything different, Judge Clay-|tyrant’s power in Europe, and bonds| deputy marshal appeared leading @/ Germany, and that is the peace of| people Who have been in the Hablt of of placing thelr money. nsign of Nica-| while a beautiful rainbow arches 18 ton draws a full house at every sit-|to free men from jail here, Liberty | slim youth with pallid face, He was defeat t habla} putting yet ae in ninety-nine | pai gyrate! ragua has three| ‘he sky over all, ting. bonds," Judge Clayton mused aloud,|charged with petty larceny and} “To Germany the poaco table looks| securities Mar 4, that it is ine (#7) esky ove a A ; onds, ay to sed alo 2 Dre: colonie wijut of a hundred, have just learned, but once bavi horizontal stripes,|. Th merchant ships of Nicaragua| pe bell in City Hall Park was to. |-Then, from the TT eee ais ee Gna | aimee Ot 7 bench, he omit the coat of arms from the fag 4 on| pleaded guilty. 4 Sa atte ir savings | acquired, will’ be slow in givi indemnities and Atlantic ports, but| finitely better to put the 1 ng ube the top and bot-|which they fly, aud in place of the| ins of another Liberty bond sold last|every one in the courtroom to “get “This kindly looking young man,|in the end she will be like the Ped ben ‘a first class soourity se. tabersy sions oF, dollars that would have tom ones blue, the of arms there appear on the| week, When three youtbs, accused of | mad and buy bonds, and the madder| with poetic forehead and sleek hatr|who said to his guest: Bonds, on which the interes. i rn, |been waste a9 Kone away in “wild- white str the words “Dios, b a treigh larceny? I Yt] ‘Will you have a little of this cold | although small compares @ ex- | cat" propositions will be saved in the NICARAGUA = middle one white, leareten,” aveanaes in a at union,|» , attempt to rob @ freight car, were| you get the more bonds you buy. | charged (@ith—petty larceny’ can't eas ae aimant, interest returns promised future, owing to ti » this, last bearing in it# centre the ” ee PRT ee brought to the war, their attorney |Get ‘all het up and buy them,” he | understand it,” said Judge Clayton, 3 oe th ve. man looked around thal tie promoters of “wildcat” stocks, Is| knowledge acquired ’ b the free nations in’ Making @ request for reduction of ball | urged. “We want to lick those Ger-| There's » it of thinge 1 emt um- | tadio a not,’ also sacincote, posane, th the Germens, EET RPT ARS Os EI to @ trassle, I think I'll re-| derstand, Take the darkies F've!Oricans States, | _