Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1914-10-29
CHEERS FOR H|NDUS
How MarSeiIes Greeted DuSky
Troops From India.
1urbaned Warriors of the Orient
March Like Princes In a Trl.
umphaI Parade.
BY MALCOLM MAcCASklLL,
Special War Correspondent of the In
ternationaI News Service.


Special War Correspondent Of the In
ternationaI News Service.
arseiles.--This is to tell you, in
the censors good time, which will be
when they are on the firing line, how
Marselles 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 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 Senegaese 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 tunio
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.
1t was not yet day when the first
line came around. Reveille had not
yet 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, a British flag.
The orderly transports passed In,
taking their appointed places at the
Quays, 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 bunch of marguerites
nodded, there pink carnation
bloomed, on this rifle fluttered a
tri-color, and in that was stuck
bunch Of flowers.
All along the line, as the smiling
warriors came, they awoke salvos and
cheers, and women in the balconies
blew kisses and waved their handker-
chiefs at them.
! called them smiling warriors, but
that Is not the word Their faces
were 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 doz-
ems of people stretched forward to
give les Hindous" good "poignee de
main"
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 well, and
every here and there citizen of Mar.
settles was seen looking at his limp
hand wonderingly.