Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-10-27
URGENT APPEAL
FOR R ]. new |! RECRUITS R !: .|l 5.
DESPERATE EFFORTS BEING
MADE TO AVOID COMPULSORY
MILITARY SERVICE;
zEPPEllAs j. IN KEEP LONDON u IN DARKNESS |! i
Mrs. Morton, Special Correspond
ent, selieves tha. conscfiption Is "
Inevitable. /
HPPELlNs KEEP LONDON IN DARKNESS
London, otober End. j,

.London s lights must be kept snad
ed. Sky signs, all outside lights fer
advertising or for Illuminating shcp3
fronts, must be extinguished. In
tenstty of inside lighting OF shops
and shop fronts must be reduced to-
q subdued light Bright lights in hO-
tells, flats J, dwelling houses and prem
Uses must be shaded or windo owsi
screened SO that no bright light Is
cast In any direction outside AL
large lighted roof areas mus t8be Gov
cred over. or the Intensity reduced
to ~ minimum. Lighting Of railway
stations, sidings, and goods yards
must be redued. Passengers in rail
way must keep blinds coz
|ering the wind ows. Lights along any
water front must be masked to pre-
vent reflection. Lights Of trains and
omnibuses must not be more than is
snff lciant ITO enable fares to be col
1ected. The use of powerful lamps
on motor and other vehicles Is pro-
hibited. The order applies from sum
set to sunrise n. s3s 4.i S.s
These new and stringent orders are
q part OF the new aerial defense
plans for London inapgurated by Sir:
Percy: Scott, to whom the defense
Of London has been intrusted All
along London has been tagging be;
hind other portions Of the east coast
In her precauti ions against aerial
attacks. Several nights ago we motor
ed thirty miles to Chatham, to con
duct some services with the soldiers,
in the ". M c. A. huts. That as you
know Is also on the east coast but.
much nearer to France Than is Lon
don. Also it is the center Of things
SO to speak. Near; to Woolwich, with
huge arsenals. military canipmsnts
etc. it Is shroude led in darkness as;
those dark streetA wi It'll sosnbr fig-
fufss passing ana rep assn and
some etiues coli Ling, Ii "a nit uncanny
but interesting ii the extreme Our.
motor ride back was even llazmrd GUS,
with the blackness Of the roads, and
the absence Of motor lights and the
stopping when challenged every lit
tie way. Last night the London
streets bore a similar aspect. dark
enough should say to satisfy even
Sir Percy Scott They tell q funny.
story about an old man living at
Hull. ~ One day he looked up to see
a great Zeppelin floating in the air
over his head With sudden and un-
|reasoning terror he commenced VI to.
run. For mile and a half he ran.
never pausing to lcok up or bach, his
ono instinct to flee from the dread
monster. At last unable to run a
step farther he stopped from exhaus-.
tion, only looking up, to see the Yep
pelin still directly above him. SO
ends the story which Is supposed to.
be very amusing one over here. 4.
In d previous, article ] tcld you
about Pierre De Wallens, our little
Belgian soldier. He has been back
in the trenches now for some weeks;
and writes us quite regularly. Per-
maps you can understand how we
watch for the letters, when we know
that any day his life. may be snuff
ed out by q German bullet, or by
Ia bit Of flying shrapnel, or that he
may be asphyx1ated by poisonous
gasses or burned to death by liquid
fire, 4 or be burned alive in his
trench by an exploding shell These
|are only a few of the deaths which
soldiers are meeting these days,a and
1t seems as though new and more ter
rible ones were being invented every
day. The men in the hospitals tell
us OF these dreadful things, how.
when they storm a trench, they
find it mass Of crum6lng earth
and masonry, through Which limbs
and bodies Of men protrude. many
OF them doubtless buried alive. We
know soldier who was buried up to
his waist in the trench in the midst
Of bursting shells, for twelve hours,
and who at that time Of etrcst peril
prayed for deliverance, promising
III $esv>o agop 4
who after his rescue kept the prom
ise he had made. Men back from
the Datrdanelles tell us Of the hor-
rors of landing on the Turkish shore,
where the enemy knows every inch
Of the ground and where nowhere
there as cover and safety They
have also told us of their suffering
in that torrid climate from flies and
foul water. and OF the inadequacy
of the latter, only a half pint in
twenty four hours for each man in
that burning climate. One soldier
back frcm the Dardanelles told me
they left 10000 dead on the Turk
fslr shore after one landing. ID
So we are always glad and reliev-1
ed at receiving letter from one CT
our Belgian soldiers at the front
there are three whom we know,ard
who write regularly to us. In a let
ter from Pierre, dated the ninth Of
September, he thanks us for some
chocolate sent him, and says it is
very good to eat with his bread and
butter in the trenches. The poor Bel
ygian soldiers are not cared for as
arc the others, they do not know
wherc their families are, and cen re-
ceive M LITTLE delicacieS from them.
and there are no state revenues to
provide them with anything but the
barest nccessaries, SO in the trench
es they have but bread and coffee,
and out os the trenches they have
meat twice week. Pierre farther
says, to translate from his rather
ineccurate French: am going to
my rest in two days. and I very CON