Evening star., 1914-11-27
boy Of 16FOUGHT
IN SEVEN BATTLES
Wounded Fisher Boy Returning
= to France to Resume Old
Avocation.
| WARNED HIS COMMANDER
OF GERMAN APPROACH
Saw Kilometer of Teutonic Dead
in Position Killed by Deadly
Explosives Gas.


s,,o,., ,,r-.,,,,,sn.. a, Tho Star
20.
LONDON. Novenoe H-An example
OF the spirit of youns France In the
war came nv way today. II was a boy
80 .,x..a, n,,o hoa haen in saven
VI siAe". ~"o i'"N
oaetles' hao oeen "ounoeo' 'aheh "
hospital In Arras, shelled out or II oy
the Germans, and, after many other ad-
vantures u,.. In +ha Erancb nasaenper
% "
sh'p AhiraA uahtauhe' "hieh ~Ae WI
pedoed In the channel by German
submarine, rescued by the queen. TAX
en- to England. spent a week In London
- -; 80, . r 1J,s srs. ,dsa
"no NV" - 'h W '@heo. Ai'" M
diering and that now he would go back
to his trade as a fisher boy. That, how
ever did NOT seem IN he his f,nal idea
a. =. t.i,,.a a.ai, ~ 1.,,in. hack to
his regiment.
III TOW % 'ne ia tau cane Inc 20 10 DO e.an soiI rsh.r.
how and then worked with a gardener.
At the beginning of the war the horse
and cart he was working were com.
h.ahoeeEeo' ts. anu ne Sis vas. W s ,.,iister'
Stores A. vauyraaucours the horse
was wounded when he was conveying
rifles to the front. He then took, or
lowed a regiment and demanded to be
q soldier.
II am a soldieri I am a soldier! Be-
hold INV rade and cartridges! Give me
a kenii" he cried He was made a sol.
dierHbayonet. kepi and all-in the 18th
Rse,nsant nS ;nfantrw
One Of his first adventures was when
his comnanv silent in harm with the
Garrm.n" sun " S nan, ortaida | in tbe ninhf
snd saw an antomohils annroschinr.
,nhich ha ha,;eved 70 he C;erman Ne
80 - ~ farmhorse 1ybsre the com
noandsnt vas WOKE him mn. rot cursed
&c ht. ,,a;1s hot whsn theS sound IL
aur ms pains, pu. d.,a,na tm y,a aoa h,,e,as
was IeaI SefHah ausace .ne oue.s
were couhoeu, the aoops a.tua
ana tne SelmAhs were ioio oeT ~ e.ia . =, .
no was ~San9eu 1an naa- h;., r,ho
could speak French, but ne did not
wish TO speak to MIN.
p.-,, o,,...., 80 a.,,,.,,
ooy OpAnioA VI 0efAA0ns'
MOI. ~. ho,, sa,d ,h., tnev hod sncb
niahs' lhe ooy saio lHae 'neS hao ouSn
and that they had great vulgar eyes,
ana looked as II tney had notning TO 90
pu. eating some ne SAID were AFRAID
sn9 some NOT AFRAID. iney were very
fiiIerv Ibomt the Enelish. he said that
they were very good soldiers, very good
soldiers. but they had. oh! such jolly
gooo tnings 70 eat ana gooo places TO
sleep IN. ne nao seen the lnolans.
Wnom ne cailed tres pon guerrlere: ne
utu not Gail .nen. soIaiers, put inststso q
tnat tney were Warriors; ABOUT ms
own nation ne SAID that they had threo
very good generals put not all the or
ncerS were good.
,,... nc ne ,Iousht nis
nead OF the attacK as tney dld. II was
StIange 20 near All tnls from tnis small.
oIlsnt ooy, Win an eAeraorolnarily e6.
plesI,Se h;ah s ra alu t. sose on ms coat
t.ITin. sho,,t ~ aIu harrn-a ~ MN. H. sis.s
.nch e. Lt,o,,.ter ~ casman au S"a =
s;ttinS ond aNan sts,I;,1 ,-ith thata
s.,.sse .,,So ~, VII tne
eSnIos;ra IL G,.s .nins rTaoi. ~
France. but What he Iouid aftarwar I'd
do was in the hands of God. The one
thing he did not Iike in Ene,end was
Alexandra PALACE 1the hiv rIsss noIace
where refugees have heen housed1 and
he was NOT sure if he loved Ali the PEI
eians.
Germans Face Bayonet.
Private Cain, who IL back. wounded.
tells of the fighting he saw in France
His regiment marched on a village
c.ll.d I...cina. IN.
'o"aro ehe Vliiage' ana ne got piece
OF she'll on the arm. There were 900 Of
the Royal Irish advancing, and after
ward when the roll was called only
hfty-hve answered.
The battle lasted from 10 o'clock in
was desperate. The Germans used
effect. His experience was tha+ thauah
some of the Germans might waver be-
. .Sae tne payonet' the majority stood
fire ia genara,,H eoo,,rat l. iheir rine
I'VE had to retire from the trenches :.
he continued. owing to the shell fire.
!. II, was SUNDAY evening. and the people
M .m were reciting the rosary in the
NIIHse cnurch were disturbed by the
eHei!s' "nlch burst over them. Some
ot tne cnurches We're taken away.
Aooue mile from the village the Ger
mains posted battery close to a
chuicn, ana the British were Obliged
10 TO sneil ~. A remarka bic circumstance
IN connection win the demolition or
the cnurch was that not one OF the
sacred images was destroyed.
As TO the JACK Johnson, the name
given TO the German smell, ne SAID, Its