Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-08

London, April 7.-Some 800 remem'
brances form but part of the reward
that Private A. c. White of the First
Rifle Brigade is getting for being
"the loneliest man in the British ex.
peditionary force"
The trouble started through a pa.
thetic letter written by a patient in
a military hospital near the firing
line and published in a London news.
paper.' It reads:
"Of the many unfortunate soldiers
| have met out here this young Lad
seems most to deserve the title OF
the lonely man. He has not received
a letter or a parcel since he came
out here, because he has no friends.
No one cares enough for him to send
him the slightest word of encourage.
ment.
81 don't mind as a rule ne contid-
ed to me, with a break in his voice,
which belied his words, but when !
see the other chaps with their letters
and parcels full Of things to eat, !
feel -----'
"He did not tell me what he felt,
but l knew. He is here with nerves
and weakness, and they are doing
their best to cure him with pills.
What he needs is not pills, but a lit.
tie human sympathy"
This letter was published some
days ago.
Now comes another letter from the
hospital, which says:
"About $50 people wrote to White
at once, as he got 12O letters and post
cards at n time and 80 packets,
newspapers and parcels followed
Next mail brought 40 letters and
post cards and about 200 packets
papers and parcels.
His companions, whom he once en-
Wed, are helping him read his
mail and also to eat up the delicacies
with which he is swamped. But the
gifts have had the intended effect
They have done far more than pills
to improve Whites condition.
London, April -Four fishermen
who had anchored their boat neal
Deal report a visit from a German
submarine, which scared the quartet
out Of their wits and spoiled the fish
ing for the day.
One of the four men. seated in the
stern of the small boat, first noticed
a considerable disturbance of the wa.
ter just beyond the end Of his fish
pole. He shouted to his companions.
thinking that "a shark or some other
big fish had been entanlgled in his
lines. All four had their eyes glued
to the spot where the water was dis
turbed, when the submarine emerged
only a few yards away. A door II
the top opened and a single head ap
peared for a minute OF two. Then the
head withdrew into the submarine
the door popped shut. and the craft
sank slowly out of sight again.
Not a word was exchanged with the
fishermen, who had been SO alarmed
at the visitors sudden appearance
that they had noe even offered 2
greeting. Their fright was not fallay.
ed by the submarines return to the
depths, and as soon as they regaineo
their senses they Invested themselves
Of their clothes and put on life-pre'
servers, in case their boat. barely
large enough t. boast { sail. was at
tackled. The wind being dead for the
moment, they grasped oars and roWef
with might and main for the shore
where thew informed the lifeguards
Of their fortunate escare.
The submarine had apparently been
resting at the bottom close to their
fishing ground and had come to the
surface for observation purposes be
fore starting off again.
,Ferlin. ,April Count 'ReventloW
in the Tageszaitung. describes q SUD,
marine hunt BY British destroyers:
1.-THE light footed torpedo 1oats
either cruise at definite distances
from each other o. they lie still. bro
servine tho sar,o distances. Each Q,
them, however. exercises all the time
p.