Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-08-07
KEECHEENAIRES'
JOIN BRITISH
AT THE FRONT
.TOmMY ATKINS" FEELS LIKE An
OLD TIMER IN FEAnCE-MCM
OBJECTS 70 TOMMY"
BRITISH REGULAR DID ALL THE
FIGHTING Ar BEGINNING, BUT
TERRiT0aIALS ARE IN.

British ileadq ,~artcrS. France. Aug
The "kcechecndlrcs is the French
peasants call the New Army. have join
eel "Tnmmee Atkecn>" the regular and
the "TcrcetOrais IA the front. Tom
mcc begins 10 feel like the oldest iu-
habitant. BY the way be does not like
IO ~ called Tommy though The world
persists insa word which ~ ~ objection
able a. him as JACKIE" is w the Am
crican blieiacket.
The British regular oil an The igh,
ing Tor the first five months oil The war.
He hal his Joke al the expense Of the
TcrritorialS, who are about The same aS
the American National Guard. when
thew arrived. The trrriturialS thought
that they were made soldiers when the
war broke out; but they were drilled
hr months Jt home before they were
sent to Fran " where they were drilled
some mere ami So ~ digging trenches
behind the line. III the spring they had
heir turn and the Canadians. too.
Don't * d-ownhcartcd, There are
still some Bo-hc> left" the Terrific
rails join The regulars ia saving to the
New Army. Beside the New Army the
TerritorialS feel like a. "A Il men.
Ills kind uf y0u' WEE kn-y that Won
could have killed them an oft if u
mad wanted 10 the kitchcnrr's reply.
Don charge zoo fast; wait FOR IVY
70 catch NJ call the regulars.
Wen wait I'D thc Rhine" answer ihc
New Army.
Well named IL the New Army. III has
brought a new element inth life at the
front. They bear the stamp of long
route marches over English roads and
of the mercilc>s formal training If tht.
drill ground.
On seeing three w four hundred Sol
GierS bathing in y canal thri hruad
chests and Che fine ply If heir muscles
told that ihcr were of the first hundred
Thousand which answered the call Id
arms last August.
If The average Old timer of The trcn-
ch1> had to pam five miles against the
4rcI gp NV Army ma PAW WatII bo
blown half way iud .he New Array man
would trut pass the goal an cl>l
winner. Sitting in ! dugOut under shell
fire n not exercise When men come
ont of the trenches they want ID Sleep
aud edt. The tendency in ia grow fat.
The veterans nre fght-harierrl anl
trench hardened hut not muscle harden
ri. That ill., the reason why the officers
tHr uragc cricket and football and other
sports. n saves me men from druderIl
of compulsory exercise to keep them iu
condition.
Th. cher night when our heard >cmr
soldiers hillrtrl in d barn singing. one
was certain without asking that they
were ihr New ARMY men. The British
regular rarely sing I'm camp on on march
Neither platcd Cr depressed hr plugs
alonr doing his da1. work LAS The New
Army flows i'm he win he ontnumhcrel
bur unchanged.
Those New Army men are singing
we VI Save lhc King" before they lic
DOWN in the straw ror ne night in W.T.
land If France vhi.h NaS al ~ new
AMI strange ta them AMI sd commonplace
4, the veterans. Their fresh Young vo-
tc~ were pheasant tD the ear.
EVERYONE hopes .hcy viii keen nm
singing A mere llrnan did mot know
but that they might bring their bands
At intervals one asks himself, What iS
missing III The British army. anyway?
Then Tx music. NJ course.
III = band were Io start PLAYING in
ihr trenches there would hc 4 >hrapntI
bullet through the drum and j high en-
plo~irc i'm the mouth III The horn m
short order. Bands NAV have nn place
at the front bur that does MT rule ont
the Scotch haepipe. when Won hear
"fhr -llphrll- are Coming" md the
head Df " company mar hing back from
the trenches wei. tUr want Cf other