Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-01-02
Ike VAR LIGHTLY
Indus CheerfulIy Patient Under
All Circumstances.
Complains That Prussian Soldiers
Neck Is Too Fat for Strangling--
Meet Old Comrades in
Arms.

Lond0n--A correspondent of the
Times, who signs himself An Anglo.
Indian, contributes the following.
"0ne would not have recognized the
,ired, war-wcrn crew who came
IN yesterday in hail of pelting sleet,
dost OF them were sitting up in their
DIS chatting and laughing; pears, ap.
1es, cigarettes, chocolate and war pic
heir sides A hot scrub-doWn and the
| bling and massage of the head, which
| he Indian loves, had altered the color
If life to them. A Mussulman from
| he khy Der whom | had seen lifted
IN the day before on the shoulders OF
| TWO orderlies his face pitted with the
debris thrown up by shell, was ly-
lg back peacefully smoking a Gig
arctic.
Il found the Dogras and Gurkhas
together. Theyshad come from the
same part OF the field,
How We're you hit?' | asked one.
by pataka, sahib.'
"A crackers! At first | did not UNI
derstand. A pataka is the cracker
which is thrown about the streets
when the religious professions pass
III the bazaar
N bomb he explained.
1T slowly daWned on me that the
man thus lightly dismissed Jack
johnson or a Black Maria. The
war is not like the war in old times,
ne added regretfully.
Some of the wounded had not seen
he Germans. Those who had did not
speak respectfully of them One man
who had come to grips with a fat
Prussian complained that he could not
get the fingers of both hands round
his opponents throat. They are
not bony men, he added, But this
would mean less resistance to the
kukri. While he was struggling and
rolling on the ground he was shot
point-blank through the lung and the
| bullet had come out through his shoul.
! der
Another man told me how his com.
Dany and another were enfiladed by
machine gun fire in the trenches and
lost all their British officers. A
hayildar got the men together and led
them b elk in the dark to the line be-
hind They had been badly pounded
and felt a little lost and uncertain
where they would find themselves,
| By a piece of good fortune they hit
on the trenches of the Seaforths. The
Highlanders and Gurkhas are cid COM
rades in arms.
There was a story in the ward OF
a wounded havildar who fell into the
hands of Good Samaritan. The Ger
man officer spoke to him in Hindu
stani asking him the number of his
regiment and where he came from.
lie bound up his wounds, gave him a
drink and brought him a bundle OF
straw to support his head.
"The Gurkha as a rule is direct and
| matter Vi IdGl, llOlC hIClCoSSN Al
physical than abstract affairs, as when
he complains of the thickness of the
Germans neck. But one meets a
more Dumasesque type sometimes
among the Sikhs and Mohammedans.
asked a Pathan how many OF the en-
envy he had killed
"a great many he said: one can
not count
Ode Souza, a delicate, cultured
| youth, who was laid up with a slight
attack of pneumonia, gave me vivid
picture of life in the trenches. The
German trenches were not two hun
bred yards from his own, and he lay
awake at night listening to their
accordions and concertinas. He seemed
rather to like the music. One morn
ing they hoisted up huge placard on
a pole with the inscription in large
! letters:
"Holy War.
"Tndians Fight on Our Side.