The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-22

- London does not The contrast
i Is quickly manifest on trip
from London. The train from
Waterloo station reaches the boat at
Southampton at midnight and the pas
sengers must before embarking show
Passports properly v!sed by the French
consulate and permitting the bearers TO
enter France. There are no tourists;
every one who crosses the Channel now
has some urgent reason. on one trip
correspondent of The Sun saw rep
resentatlves Of many British regiments
-Grenad!ers. Coldstreams. Scots Greys.
artillery and fair complement of Red
Cross attendants and nurses.
The deck space usually devoted To
boxes or trunks is filed with motor am
balances. Red Cross supplies and army
equipment From Il leeward corner bits
Of military talk break into your reficc-
tons:
my dear chap. what question:
What regiment am I goin with? AZ
II one ever knew There's only one
thing YOU do know you know. and that
is that you won't Jolly well be sent with
your own regiment"
That's the trouble with pampering
the lower clawscs. YOU know. Ny foot
you know. and cant snug into a trench g
ASKED to he sent home invaded be-
cause he had ddenoids Adenoids, OF
course he had EN- when he was n child
You have 10 have EN- when you're n
child II YOU have 'em at all Sent him
back. though. Weed EN- out. | say
Adenolds. huh"
And so on.
Havre is remembered probably nm
pleasantly, by thousands OF American
tourists who swarmed there in the early
part OF September to take La Touraine
and TO meet the warship Tennessee and
the hotel proprietors have still reflective
smiles which recall that happy time
when fabulous prices were paid for
rooms and premiums were Offered for
beds of straw on the end of a quay.
After that Havre became base OF
operations. was evacuated by the mill
tary and the wounded. and now Is again
centre of army and Red Cross work
But for how long one cannot tell I'VE
may have 70 get out Tomorrow II the
Germans get too near YOU are told
FOR in this war the base of operations
one day Is dead city the next"
After London's streets, where life pur.
sues It's daily round unchanged TO an,
great extent, iiAVre seems to be in a
ierment of energy. Every street IS
alive with troops, coming and going e
the stations. waiting orders and tillinl
n the time Vi. h pronienades. Files OF
gray gun carriages each drawn by O
team OF heavy percherons, pass the
windows OF our Motel on the hue dc
Paris
Through the panorama Of gay color,
ana subdued KHAKI. like a long black
ribbon. n funern' procession now anC
then unrolls It's narrow length, the
hearse covered with msuve bead
wreaths. the carriages filed with mill,
tary uniforms and weeping women.
Glengarry bonnets. Belgian caps
French kepis arc ,ouched one to IN,
other % troops Crs-cross in the mar,
ket place. before the Hotel de vile
with its flower filed garden. or at som,
corner crowded with sightseers, never
weary OF the moving picture daily dis
played.
English mothers, wives and sister,
have come across the Channel To NEE
the men who are invaded here. VIII,
are TO go 10 the front or who have jus
returned aud are on waiting orders
Paris. too. has sent ito contingent. anC
every night at he table d'hotc one see,
pretty anxious fussy and adorinl
women, too proud or anxious 10 eat
watching their companions with un
concealed pride. War correspondent
and photogra pliers. Red Cross helpers
who are finding themselves with foot
and lodging and the trallers who hay,
come. one neither knows why nor cares
make mp busy scene which has b.,
particular features OF interest every
minute
One does not get very far these day
without the letter Of Introduction whicl
breaks down not only the usual barrie
Of British reserve but that OF the sus
picion under which oil foreigners nat
urally rest one particular lette
carried 10 Havre IL IN open sesame I.
the companionshlp of Lady Lethbridge
who has been on the roster of tn
Ostend nursing corps, has returned t,
London since the German occupation O
lha, city and has come back with sup
plies for the Belgian hospital at Calais,
With her "A visit r. made first Of al
10 a big warehouse where the twent
packages that contain warm clOthinp
medical supplies and convalescen, lux
uriea are carefully counted
THAT will keep them a little while,
~ announces as she ticks them Of
painstak but, oh, We do nee
more! These we're sent from the En-
press Club In Dover street"
From the warehouse we drive to IN
Maritime Hospital, which Is one Of Tn
most Interesting sights " the presen
oase' FEW weeks ago II was n du., ,
grimy railroad station where hundred