Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-04
C0EUR De LEON
WOULD NOT KNOW
ROUEN Of TODAY
Ancient French City Complete
y AngIiCized by Influence
of Tommy Atkins and His
Own Special Ways,

teas smoked tiSH. roast beef. BOXING
matches, cricket. golf. corncd beef,
marmalade, pickles. Tommy Atkins
and the salvation Army have "a COM
pleted the Angheizing of Rouen that
Richard the lIou-hearted himself
would scarcely recoenize ii.
Since the second week of tho war
the streets have been fun of khaki
and from that time ON the English
nnguage has encroaChed until French
is rarely heard excepting i'm the cufes
..ou, n.licn Tommy Atkins is eNclud-
ed by order of the general Even the
official communicate Is more English
than French IN Rouen Ask a news
hoy for paper ana he Will inquire
Daily Mail2 Telegraph Tines"
Here and there boy has French
paper but seems To consider 10 scarce
ly worth mentionine
II anyone has 81 building or am
apartment to let he adyertses Il i'm
English, and IL Is promptly taken OF
tcers, subalterns and priyates of the
auxiliary service lodge In town, while
the fighting Tommics are camped
Just outside The censor forbids
mention of the number and dsere-
ton allows nothing more than the
hint that there are enough of them
TO make town OF hundred and
twenty thousand French population
appear TO be English.
Scene Is Changed.
Rouen was the second English base
In France after Havre. a was aban-
doned for Nantes during the march
of the Germans toward Paris hut
since the battle Of the Marine the
quays along the Seine where coal was
formerly king, with wine as queen
are lined with piles of cases contain
ing crackers, cheese mArmalade.
corned beef ana other essentials of
British soldiers fare Where there
are no cases there are flocks Of sheep
and goats freshly arrived from the
slopes Of the Himalayas TO feed the
Indian corps. Quiet crowds of
French people watch the arrival and
unloading of supply ships with about
the same curiosity as that with which
English tourists watched the move
ment of vast cargoes of wine before
they owned the town When the
Saint Patrick and Saint Andrews, and
the Saint George steam into port these
crowds watch the ambulances bring
ing wounded to the dock and as the
hospital ships drop down the river
wave them a feeling adieu.
Here we take English money" Is
announced in some places. necessar-
ily for English copper and silver cir
culate quite as freely as French
money. Freely Is the word for in
the early days of the Occupation
the English were accused of throw
ing money out Of the window Their
expenditures were heavy but gradual
~ the people of ROuen have learned
that though the war office pays lib
orally, it is not without counting.
Tommy Atkins relations with the
French population have become ia
miliar if not cordial. he did many
things in the beginning to raise diff
cultes. The side" brought by Eng
fish officers particularly caused
amazement, but that wears off and
the men of the eXpeditionary corps
have found many ways of dispelling
first impressions. Two hundred OF
them saved the bulk Of the contents
of 2 big warehouse destroyed by fire
and were thanked in official order
by the French general commanding
the district. on Sunday afternoon
many a Tommy may be seen show
ing the camp to a French family, gen
orally taking charge Of younger mem
bers He is not always sober and rs
often over gallant, Kitcheners orders
Notwithstanding, and he is so con-
spicuous that every peccadillo is mag
nitied several times, but while pass
ing for a terrible charmer,' Tommy
conducts himself generally 50 as to
do credit To the AnglO-SaXOn race
and is regarded as a Jolly good fell
low
The Young Mems Christian associ-
alton cooperating with the salvation
Army is trying TO keep Tommy
straight It's headquarters are the
cid "Folies Bergere' where instead
Of girls and liquors there are now
hygiene drinks and high moral liter
ature.
The organization Of repose and
pleasure in the British camp aston
ishes the French people. There is a
circus tent requisitioned for the
troops where there are moving pic
lures, acrobatic performances and
shooting galleries, where the soldiers
exercise their Workmanship on the
of German soldier as
target. There is no social lie in
Rouen for the Officers. Everyone il
too occupied in hospital or relief
work. Some are even scandaiized
that at certain times in some quart
ers the town has the aspect of a city
of pleasure for just outside In the
cemetery there are -four
hundred mounds, reminders OF more
serious things There is d British sol
der under each mound with tri-cOlor
oockades attached 10 the cross or
stone above and flowers constantly
renewed by the French people of