The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-03
Is HUNGER AS
SOLDIERS FEED;
THIS is WAR

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hced FrenchmaA wears. bu,
little nag Of German cayal.
~ on his litter. He took IL sin
nGod and fought for IL with a
o<ker he had been shot twice
loft arm. He's won his right to
~ Whiskers as he pleases. w
ngh at them II we want to after
WON the right TO do 30 by be-
brave Is he was. He groans
MT him onto the car and hi
~ eyes close tightly with pain.
~ bleu." says q man. He
the face OF the Denny-in-the-
nchine. my writing table. The
- y empty. No chocolate comes
u He has lost his big copper
- the bargain. He looks at me
y, says It's = swindle and goes
big white arc lights sputter on
= scene a. only war could pro-
Doldiers. soldiers, everywhere:
children. men. soldiers. SOL
SOLDIER, soldiers. And every
< has q great hunk OF bread. An
On the scene there are four
that strike my notice. the blue
ro1G. the red trousers. the hunks
IA and the absence Of the sound
rco. No one seems TO be using
5Ico. Engines are whistling and
~ thousands Of footballs 10
but that procession Of litters
= pail over all and overwhelms
Where have these men been?
ocories could they tell? What
q horror have they viewed?
oro. IN the night, to the north
whence they came, dead bodies
~ and red are lying In the fields
here are patches OF earth vet
red mud. These men on the lit
Eo the links between No and the
- that lie out there In the cold
@rainload steams away. The
1ncion shifts toward another plat
" Buddenly. i catch q new Inn
10 "a the crowd. It's OF o man
? v1erd grey cap. with q grey bon
1or his head. His face II brown.
[1nore Of his kind and then many
There are hundreds. They are
orOccan and Algerian rifles. the
hope OF worried France.
At from the hot deserts In Afri-
Lore the French nag flies. The
. cape II their overcoat; they re-
] Ne Of the Bedouins OF the pic.
looks. They are being rushed up
- north to help finish the job of
ing the Germans. They seem
cuoIy hungry and thirsty as they
n the train. They rush to one
- q the station where they are
huge chunks or bread. They
~, chatter. chatter. The Iitters
n 30 pail over them. They're not
1ort Of men. Another train
- Ii and men dressed like
~. with the blackest of black
Jump on. and. obeying sharp or
rom their ofIicers. dash for the
supply. They chatter. too, and
and eat their dry bread a. n
~ . meal by the greatest chef In
They are Sengalese, fierce
from the deserts near the
IN equator.
w have no overcoats and they
u, even In the blankets which the
- soldiers dole out to them.
nctice the litters with interest
NIX excitedly about them. To
ne wounded men are only signs
show they are near the firing
Before many more suns rise
l1tk men will be out there on
bekk3edeld killing and dying
~ q race Of killers and here
y. come to fight, side by aide
ID who only q few weeks ago
themselves too civilized and
1ured even to kill In war again
- 1 look, do not notice ths
~ bread and the coIors OF uni
~ the dark savage faces from
11rt zee. scattered in the
women and children. tired
cltfIng on the stone pave
Mir laps the pillows for sleep
md girls. This terrible thing
Ic1 has brought ms all from
<Ise world to fl4is eek
~ Tours has no mercy o.
o1cn . mother and her chill
(ooGereet. the most harm
uc1t blaneIess things IN al
The mothers and childre1