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Evening star., 1914-11-15

down. but that of the German never
has.
Generally speaking, | think the Eng
lish soldier has been we'll fed" said he.
The English dependence is in bully
beef. just as that of the Teuton is in
sausage. Wherever you come upon an
abandoned campground OF Tommy At
kins you find a deep stratum of empty
cans. The French and Belgian neigh
Dor is apt to feed well on English beef
also. Atkins is generous and some
what improvident beggar. The French
piou- piou depends mostly on wine. Give
him wine and bread and he will go
through any hardship. His spirit i'm
proves if you add to that a little sugar"
But it is the German who is notably
pumped with excellent food. He is an
expert at living upon the countryside,
TOO. although this man says he does not
loot except by way of repriSaI upon a
hed2e-iiring countryside. He pays for
what he gets very largely, even if that
payment is wholly valueless bits of
paper, certifying that German soldier
upon a certain day took the farmer $
hen away.
Evening star., 1914-11-15
HOW COLONEL STIFFENED
COURAGE OF HIS MEN
Flinching First Time Under Fire
French Officer Has Soldiers
Lock Arms.


PARIS. November How an un-
named lieutenant colonel in the French
army stiffened the courage of his men
and his own when they We're about to
charge the enemy for the first time is
told in the Figaro. The colonel wound
ed, but convalescent. is described as re-
lating the anecdote on the train as fol-
lows:
1T was in the course of one of the
numerous battles on our right wing
aoubt to go under fire. The moment
was decisive: the regiment had their
battle formation. and now it was nee
essary. over open ground, to march
straight and resolutely at the enemy.
Their fire was hot. and already had
produced ravages in our ranks 1t was
scourging. / had taken my position
at the head of the regiment and given
the order Forward. but. separated
from their base. my men hesitated. In
turning toward them ! said:
What? You finch? All you will
gain out of this turnabout is death on
the spot without having been of any
use. Attention! Take my arm one of
you. and all of you lock arms, and arm
in arm. gun in hand. well advance.
You'll find that's not SO bad
My word! the idea decided them, and
arm in arm we started forward They
soon got warmed up. and for little
was nearly forced to hold them back
Oh. the brave fellows.'
A lady who was listening said:
TT was fortunate. colonel. that you
yourself We're not afraid Not
madam. if you knew what shivers
went through me. But when | saw
them hesitate l had to set an example.
1 was bluffing."
Evening star., 1914-11-15
GERMAN WAR COOKS
WEAR IRON CROSS
Kaiser Rewards Bravery of
Men Who Carry Food
to Trenches.
SAFETY OF THE ARMY
DEPENDS UPON MEAL S
Sausages and Stew Is Staple Meals
Furnished on Battlefield
English Eat Beef.
special Correspondence of Tie stsr.

SPECIAL Correspondent of Tie Stsg.
LONDON. November 2-rhere isn't
anything heroic about a cook one
simply cannot imagine Il cook in a
soi1ed apron and a mussed white cap,
doing Il deed OF valor. When things
20 wrong one either apprehends a
cook chasing waiter with bread
knife or else giving way to tears But
the German army is full of cooks upon
whose broad, fat breasts dangle the
iron cross. And the iron cross is
conferred for one thing only-for 100
per cent courage.
They've earned it," said the man
who had seen them. They are the
bravest men i'll the kaiser's four mil
lions. I've seen generals salute
greasy. paunchy, sour-looking army
cooks"
The cooks job is TO feed the men of
his company. Each German company
is followed, or preceded, by field
Kitchen on wheels. Sometimes the
fires are kept going while the device
trundles along. The cook stands on
The footboard and thumps his bread.
lie is always the first man up in the
morning and the last to sleep at night
He is held to the strictest account
ability. The Teuton believes in plenty
of food-of a sort. a well fed soldier
Will fight. A hungry one may not.
When the company gets into camp
at night said the man who knows,
the cook is there before it, swearing
at his fires and the second cook, and
turning out quantities of depressing
looking veal stew. which is, neverthe-
less. very good to eat"
When that company goes into the
trenches the cook stays behind. There
is no place for field kitchen in a
Rrrf
trench must he fed. The Teuton insists
that all soldiers must be fed-but es-
pecially the men in the trench. The
others may go hungry, but these must
Evening star., 1914-11-15
VIGOROUS APPEALS
FOR ARMY RECRUITS
England Strives to Complete
Her Force of a Million
Men.
MANY MEDIUMS USED
TO SPUR ENLISTMENTS
Men Answering Country's Call Will
Serve Only for Period
of the War

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
LONDON, November There are
manifestly concerted and vigorous ap-
peals to complete the recruiting of
Britain's army of 100000 men. With
in the last few days almost every pa
per in London, in its news columns and
editorially, has urged a prompt re-
sponse to the call, one or two OF then
reminding their readers that it is far
better to have volunteer army than
even to consider the possibility of con-
scription.
During the first rush of enlistments
the requirements were raised, most
unusual thing in time of war in any
country. Now they have been restored
to what they were before. The age
limit has been extended. all men being
accented now who are between nine
teen and thirty-eight years old. In the
c.se of former soldiers the limit is
fortv.tiye wears The minimum height
is now five feet four 1nches, except for
former soldiers and certain units for
which special standards are organized
one paper, commenting on this change,
remarks that it is now possible for
men who are no taller than Napoleon to
ioin the army Another journal points
out that very large proportion of the
men in the Japanese ana french armies
would even now be barred from service
in Kitchener's army. During the first
rush in early August men of the height
of five feet three inches were accepted
and on one day there were 1000 men
recruited in London. This week the
daily average of recruits at New Scot
land Yard is about 500, rising on Mon
day, always the best recruiting day, to
over 1000.
Enlist Only for War.
stated that the term "enlisting for
Evening star., 1914-11-15
Mark for Enemy's Bullets.

SO. as the company cannot go TO the
cook the cook goes to the company.
When the meal hour comes he puts
yoke on his shoulders and cooks cap
on his head and warns the second cook
in rumbling Teutonic orations as to
what will happen ii he let's the fires go
out and puts a bucketful of that veal
stew on either end of the yoke and goes
10 his men. Maybe the trench is under
fire Being a trench. il most probably
is. No matter His men are in that
trench and-potztausend- must be
fed
Sometimes the second cook gets his
step right there. Sometimes the appren-
tice cook-the dishwasher the grub muir
derer the university graduate who has
lust learned what to expect when ran
renheit is applied TO spuds-is summoned
from his job of rust!ing fireWood to PICK
up the cooks yoke and refill the spilled
buckets and tramp steadily forward to
the line. Sometimes the supply o as
sistant cooks. even, runs short. But the
men in the trenches always get their
food
That's why so many cooks in the Ger
man army have iron crosses dangling
from their lumpish breasts said the
man who knows. NO drawer men ever
lived. The man in the trench can duck
his head and light his pipe and be rela-
tiyelv safe No fat cook yoked Ia two
as he marches down the trench under
fire But he always marches His men
are always fed. and they are fed on time.
The hero of the German campaign is
the fat cook of the field kitchen.
The man who knows really does know.
He has been along the German battle
line under protection o. headquarters
pass.
Cook Is Always Ready.
Il have heard stories of Germans be
ing reduced to eating grass and beet
roots and turnips, said he. Maybe
here and there lost soldier may have
eaten such ensilage. The German sol
dier who stayed with his company did
not have to- Whatever may have gone
wrong with the German strategy. moth
ing whatever went wrong with the
German commissary. The food is
prett, rough food, from my point of
view; it is sprinkled with large. furi-
Gus sausages, and is built on ii dis
pleasing foundation of stew. but it is
good. filling, sustaining food. And the
soldier always gets it
Even when the trains of wounded
wheel their frightful way to the rear
Il commissariat provision has been made
for them. The German theory is that
a man who is able to eat at all can eat
a sausage. SO soldiers walk along the
platforms with their arms full of sau-
sages. Other soldiers follow with
buckets of water and long dippers.
Each wounded man who can eat is
given a sausage If he cannot eat and
may still get some comfort out of a
sausage he gets 1.-TWO feet long and
is thick as your arm. I've seen dying
nen and dead with these great green
sausages nestled in the crook of their
trmS.
1t is this mans belief based on what
he has heard, that the commissariat of
the allies has from time to time broken
Evening star., 1914-11-15

! incredible. j know full well. rer"at
my excuse for printing the tr lth. The
| world should know what war OF rc-
| day is
shells fall upon that field ccntinu,i-
| ly," said the eyewitness. 'Th ~ rhe
stencil that arises becomes = phfs'c''
torture.
At night a phosphorescent haz. hoy
ers over it. The places where siei 9
| have fallen during the day are ma"E-
| ed by a more hellish radiance.
Trenches Full of Dead.
The trenches dug by the French 10
English run irregularly across ia"
field" said the witness. Twice these
trenches We're taken by the GermarA
Twice they were driven out. In the,r
turn the French and British tad 10
abandon them.
IF we ever retake those trenches. .
German officer said to me. we need
only turn the earth back upon them to
make grave. They are absolutely
full of dead men. ! mean that literally.
I have seen them"
Wherever the Germans can find to-
bacco 1t is taken for the use of their
men in the guarding trenches. N
would be quite impossible for them -
stay otherwise. At brief intervals
smoke curls into the air from the
leaves over slow fires, so they may
breathe.
II do not believe" said the German
officer to the eyewitness, that any
where in this world has been slaughter
to approach that seen upon this field.
Men have died in this war as they
have never died in any war told In
history. But even to US. hardened 5o|
death, this field is maddening. Sur.lv
devils fought here"
Leaves Their Only Covering.
The eyewitness had been we'll Injured
to horrors before he saw it. He hal
ridden for hundreds of miles along the
battle front, protected by the heao-
quarters staff.
The odor of death is in the .ir
throughout that part of France" sEtd
he. wherever there is wood nen
have crawled into its protection TO lie
in peace. There has been no time 10
afford their poor bodies the last de-
cencies They are rotting under the
clean leaves of the forests"
AS one rides along the road the
breeze creeps down some slight ravine.
or penetrates a wooded valley AL
ways it tells of the grim tragedies o.
weeks before. Men have died literal
ly by the hundreds of thousands. the
truth has not been made known bs
the authorities of either side. Men are
still dying - today, tomorrow over
these putrefying bodies. Perhaps four
line in France. No one precisely
knows. over all is a sickening. abhor.
rent, incredible swarm Of flies
That is the war Of 1914.
Evening star., 1914-11-15
Once and Only Once.

From London Opinion.
Undine-They feed us jolly well at
Nutview, don't you think? We never
have the same dish twice.
Percival-Thats just what i thinks
SO rotten. l could always do a second
go"
Evening star., 1914-11-15

cisely what it says, and that men Will
be discharged when the war is over
with all convenient speed" 1t is also
advertised that married mei or widow
ers with children will be accepted, and
that if at the time of enlistment a re-
cruit signs the necessary form, Separa-
tion allowance under army conditions
is iSSuable at once to the wife and in
certain circumstances to other depend
ents.
The advertising for recruits increases
in volume and variety. Buses, street
cars and almost every motor car in
London contain placards urging men to
enlist. Posters appear on billhoards
and in empty shop windows. Such land
marks as the Nelson monument in
Trafalgar Square and the Mansion
House are decorated with more impos-
ing and artistic admonitions with the
same aim. Even hotels and theaters
are making a brave show of patriotism
with printed notices around the build
ings at a height where it is difficult to
avoid reading them ITO arms, Your
country needs you! Rally round the
flag" and other stirring meSsa ges in
bold type inviting diners and theater-
goers to put away luxury and amuse-
ment and follow the flag.
Suggestions Are Made.
There is no note of inability to raise
100000 men in any of the editorial
articles of this week. but there are
many suggestions of how recruiting
can be expedited and many as to the
comfort of the recruits For example,
the Chronicle today suggests that at
the Christmas season arrangements
should be made for recruits to visit
their homes. Ito which some number
of them may never pay another Christ
mas visit" 1t suggests that they should
be promised free railway transporta-
tion for the purpose, since there are
men in camp at Aldershot whose homes
are in Cornwall. Wales, Scotland and
Ireland, and since the government alb
solutely guarantees the earnings of
the railways during war time, that
there ought to be no difficulty about
arranging it.
The Country Needs Men, the leader
in the Times of today, enumerates the
terrible losses Germany has endured
without flinching. expressing doubt
whether the reproof of German
socialist paper for saying that the total
losses of the Germans amounted to
1900 men was JUSTIFIED.
All Calls Have Been Met
The paper says that every call for re-
cruits in England has been met, that
the war office has had all the recruits
with which it was able to deal. and
that the difficulties attending early en-
listments have been to great extent
overcome. Concluding its appeal the
Times says:
Again the call for both men and
officers goes forth and no gentleman
in England. now abed.' who is able to
bear arms should ignore it. We are
glad to know that there is already a
fresh rush to the recruiting office, but !
we still shall need more men, and yet |
more, and more again, if we are to |
crush the menace which has too long |
brooded over Europe, and to win peace !
and happiness for those who will come |
after us. England has never asked for |
her sons in vain. We do not think she |
will ask in vain today"
Evening star., 1914-11-15

them. Four times in all the two armies
charged and recharged across that
level plain. There is not shelter enough
upon it for a hen"
In the end the artillery of b. IN sides
came up in force. The plain remained
debatab Bile ground. On the northern line
roughly speaking-the Germans in
trenched themselves. On the southern
line the French and English dug new
trenches Neither side would retire an !
neither side could advance. There is not
a minute by day or night that firing
across that wrul mile is not going on
at some point Shells aimed at the
trenches are continually falling in it.
Carpeted With the Dead.
Through the glasses The ground
seemed carpeted with the dead said
the eyewitness. The Greenish gray of
The German uniform and lhe khaki Vf the
English and the brilliant reds and blues
of the French We're mingled in n frightful
fellowship. There were rods where the
dead were piled and heaped upon each
other. Again there would be little
space of bare ground
Both sides had had enough after the
final charge. They dared not try again.
They only waited. doggedy. in their
trenches. ready to hurl the others back
if an attack was made.
AT first the German officers told the
witness. "a procession OF wounded men
lirnped from the field in either direction
FIJI ng was continuous Through our
glasses we could see companies of the
poor WretcheS start toward the safety of
the wood. Under pitiless fire they fell
by ones and. twos. Few reached their
own lines.
The Red Cross bearers were not per-
mitted to go upon that fatal field. Neither
German nor French nor British could
rescue their injured. During the days a
might here and there be seen
in that litter Of misery. But no sound
came If they cried the thunder of the
guns. the staccato rattle of the mitrai
leuSes drowned their voices. But at
night the firing usually died down. The
cooling air seemed to revive those dy
ing creatures on that awful mile.
Dying Men Call at Night.
Each night we could hear them call
ing said the German officer, sadly.
Each night the cries became ever The
voices became weaker After the fourth
night we heard them no more
Now - today - yesterday-the battling
armies face each other over that carpet
If horror. There has been no attempt on
has asked for an armistice. This war is
the only war ever fought in the
world in which neither side asks or gran S
A truce. The sun and rain beat down
upon those poor. unburied bodies. Let
his sentence. told by the shuddering
give the story:
The corpses have burst their clothes"
1t was at a distance of five miles |
i've miles-that the witness first be- |
,ame aware of this bivouac of the un-
,uried dead. He became faint and ill. |
20 one knows the number of thousands |
II dead men there. All that is known
s that over the segment of a circle, i
five miles long and a mile
vide, they lie elbow to elbow and head
o head. On either side their living
mates glare lividly across that field
oward the intrenched enemy. Quarter
$ neither asked nor given.
That this is nauseating, abhorrent,
Evening star., 1914-11-15
DEAD MEN CARPET
F|VE-M|LEF|
World Never Before Presented
Battle Scenes to Equal
Present Ones.
NO TRUCES ARE GRANTED
FOR BURYING THE SLAIN
Lie for Weeks Where They Have
Fallen, While Comrades Shoot
Over Them.
BY HERBERT COREY.

LONDON, November 1.-lmagine a
perfectly level field, five miles long.
a mile wide. Picture to yourself that
the ends bend together like an un-
strung bow. Carpet that field with dead
men. Try to comprehend that those
men have been three weeks dead. Draw
around that field deep trenches. from
which savage rif1emen face each other
across the CHASTITY charnel patch.
That is war.
My apology for printing this story
from an eyewitness is that we-you
and I-have not as yet visualized this
norror that is going on almost within
reach of our finger tips. We do not
realize the sinking iniquity of it all.
1t has been to us merely that game of
giant chess outlined in the official dis
patches:
pressure is being exercised upon
our center-there is certain Hveliness
upon our right"
Chess With Living Flesh.
We have not quite comprehended
that these generals of the battle line
are not moving blocks of insensate
units here and there. They are dealing
with flesh and blood and agony.
The officers of the German great
headquarters staff let me look upon
this field said the eyewitness. ut
is the crowning horror of the war"
1t is upon the German center. The
French line, stiffened and edged by the
English, had been first in possession.
They had dug in" along a fever chart
sort of line that ran from the edge
IF the wood here well out toward the
center there. The Germans came upon
hem For four days the battle ragged
With varying fortunes.
Twice said the eyewitness, the
Germans carried the French and Eng
ish trenches. Twice the allies regained
Evening star., 1914-11-15

have tight belts. Upon their staying
power may depend the safety of an
Evening star., 1914-11-15
Enlist Only for War.

In the war Office advertisements it is
stated that the term "enlisting for
the duration of the war" means pre-
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-18

A wedding of interest to friends in
this state occurred Wednesday at the
Westminster Presbyterian church in
Minneapolis, when Miss Margaret E.
Austen was united in marriage to
James McGuigan of Fargo. The mar
riage was solemnized by Rev. Bush
nell. pastor Of the church. After an
eastern honeymoon trip, Mr.. and Mrs
McGuigan will be at home to their
McGuigan is assistant treasurer Of the
Northwestern Mutual Savings and
Loan association.
Miss Ora Burrell Of Fargo and DIR.
Kerkhum Of Anamoose, were married
at Minot. They will enjoy a wedding
trip to Milwaukee, Chicago, New
York and other eastern cities.
Mrs. Gilbert Moskau was hostess
yesterday afternoon, when she enter
tatned a company of little folks at
her home on Belmont avenue, in hon
or of the fifth birthday Of her little
son, Milton. The hours We're spent in
playing various games and at o'clock
delicious supper was served. The
dining room. decorations were in red
and white. Sweet peas were used as
white baskets tied with red ribbon
and filled with candies. were the dain-
ty favors at each place. The large
white birthday cake with the lighted
candles was the special feature for
the children. Mrs. Moskau was as
sisted in serving by Mrs. Erickson.
Master Milton was presented with a
number of very nice gifts as souvenirs
of the occasion. Those present were
Pauline Dehman, Gladys Moskau,
Gordon Nordund, Howard Void, Ed
gar and Norris Sonsterud, Ellis Erick-
son, Lester Rohde. Charles Garvin.