East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-23

and love the real character OF the
French woman, is what the commit
tee plans AS yet it has not made
public what will be its method Of
campaigning. but it has established
permanent headquarters and invited
not only the women Of France. but
French women in every country in
the world to join in the crusade.
The French authorities are having
a great deal less difficulty In locat-
ing German spies than they are in
finding small boys who persist in
running away from home and joining
the troops at the front Recently
the number who have gone to save
'la patrie'' has become so great. that
special guards have been placed to all
the depots to prevent their departure.
One Of the latest to elude these
and presumably to reach the front
where he has not yet been located is
12-year-old Edmond Lioret, who liv-
ed in the Rue de FubIalnes at Meaux.
He went to revenge himself on the
"Boches'' for having wounded his
brother. The note he left to his
mother reads:
Mamma: 1t Is not worth tho
while to try and find me. as l have
gone to the front. Remember that
a Frenchman must always die for
France. l have gone to revenge Le-
on. Adieu.'
NJ Valery-Radot, son in law OF
Pasteur. has just opened a hospital
al Reuilly for soldiers rendered blind
during the present war. The number
of these is declared to be far greater
than any one up to the present mo-
ment has supposed.
Aside from hundreds of cases of
blindness brought about through di-
rect injury to the eyes, IL has been
found that even more cases develop
in an indirect way. These come from
fragments of bursting shells which
strike the soldiers at the base of the
spinal column. The injury to the
nerves there brings about blindness.
1t is especially this class OF cases
that NJ. Valery- -Radot will undertake
to provide for at his hospital He
already has ESQ cases.
Those for whom a cure cannot be
effected will be taught an oceupa-
ton and positions found for them
where they will be self-supporting.
PARIS, April 9.-CBy Mail to New
York. The story Of bloodless vic
tory in which a French territorial
lieutenant by clever strategy took ia
German prisoners single handec
comes to Paris today from the Ar
gonne. NJ Gatel, a French profess
Gor OF German at Voiron, before he
for his brilliant coup Ga
tells excellent German lead him to
with German soldiers In the
arenches not thirty yards away from
the French trenches in the Argonne
forest. Hearing one day that the
Germans had been without bread for
many hours he walked boldly out OF
his own trench and up to the Ger
man stronghold. Introducing himself
the lieutenant offered pity that his
enemies had nothing TO eat and con-
cluded By inviting the men 10 come
to the French trenches and partake
of a good meal. One hundred and
fourteen Germans crawled out Of the
trench and followed him to a barn
in the rear OF the French trench
where he fed them and gave them
wine. But with the meal over, Gatel
smilingly announced to his guests
that he was keeping them prisoners
"in their own interest. because In
France they would be sure Of good
food and lodging"
In the meantime other French sol-
diers had surrounded the "banquet
halr and resistance was useless.
This incident and gailantry in the
trenches later won the lieutenant his
An active campaign has just been
begun by the Natlnal Council o.
French Women 10 take advantage OF
the temporary measures enacted as
mere war precautions 70 end for all
time the sale OF absyuthe In France
The council has just applied % par.
lament demanding that the present
war regulations not only prohlbitiug
the sale OF absynthe but limiting the
sala OF ALCOHOLIC drink of All kInaa