Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-17
CHEERS FOR H|NDUj
How Marseilles Greeted Dusky
Troops From India.
Turbaned Warriors Of the Orient
March Like Princes In a Tri-
umphal Parade.
By MALCOLM MAccAskiLL,
Special War Correspondent Of the I'M
ternatlonaI News Service.

Special War correspondent OF inc I'M
ternatlonal News Service.
Marseilles. -This is to tell you. In
the censors good time, which Will be
when they are on the firing line, how
Marseilles waited on the Indians, and
how, in the end, they came.
When / left England was assured
they had then landed, and that
should reach here only after the last
man of them had been hurried to the
front, but a week after | arrived here
we were still waiting and looking
more eagerly every day to see les
Hindous" begin to pass.
We saw everything else. We saw
"Tommies' and "Turcos" fraternizing
with broad and broader grin; we saw
simple soldats" by the dozen score
at the cafe tables along the Cours,
Bellune and down the Cannebiere;
we saw the Senegalese marching
through the streets by the thou-
sands; we saw British naval Of
ficers, magnificent In their physique.
wearing the trim dark blue coat and
brass buttoned white caps; we saw,
officers OF the French navy; we saw
dragons with casque and criniere, and
dragons In field uniform without
either; we saw hussars In sky blue
and hussars In the darker blue tunic
of service we saw officers Of the line,
and of the artillery with red band
running down their trousers; we saw
al grades of French military medical
men with the velvet In their caps that
marks their state; we saw French sail-
ors with red "toori;" we saw Italian
volontaires setting off for Montelimar,
playing the "Marseillaise" and the
Italian national air.
At last one morning the Indians
came.
It was not yet day when the first
line came around. Reveille had not
vet been sounded, but on two of the
vessels, huddled together under avn
ings stretched to shelter the troops
from the heat, were veritable forests
OF forms moving.
They came to the ships sides and
looked toward land In the brown
host we made out, above the turbans
and the dark faces, British flag.
The orderly transports passed In,
taking their appointed places at the
uuays, where General Watkins re-
ceived them and babe them welcome.
Then debarkation began. There
were grizzled veterans, sturdy, square
shouldered and tall and smooth-faced
youths with the demeanor of princes.
As they walked they appeared to be-
In a triumphal procession. Here ON
this turban a bunch of marguerites
nodded, there pink earnacon
bloomed, on this rife fluttered q
tri-color, and In that was stuck a
bunch of flowers. III. ta,fM
All along the line, as the smiling
warriors came, they awoke salvos and
cheers, and women In the balconies
blew kisses and waved their handkerS
chiefs at them. ... ry
called them smiling warriors. but
that is not the word Their faces
we're expanded in delight their dark
skin cleaned and their white teeth
flashed.
The first line of the crowd could
touch them as they passed, and dozi
ems of people stretched forward to
give les Hindous" a good "poignee de
~
MAN." 4.
The Hindus, undaunted, gave bet
ter "poignee de main" than they got,
In the excitement they forgot their.
strength. Some of the giants shook
hands, not wisely, but too we'll, and
every here and there citizen of Mar
settles was seen looking at his limp
hand wonderingly. j
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