The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31


English newspapers-wh is to show
the Germans that you cant brighten us
one would think that British phlegm
was undsturbed that the population of
the Hartlepools, going the public house
keeper one better looked on imperturb-
ably at buildings torn into bits and
neighbors killed before their eyes
Though Yorkshire people are about the
most phlegmatic of the phlegmatic Brit
ish. | think too well of them to believe
that they were not scared. They aren't
wooden images. They are human.
Many admit that they were scared,
some stiff, some frantic Ohcse always
get reputation for coolnes>D They
We're scared If for no other reason than
that they feared for those near and
dear to them. But they didn't get hys-
terical. They We're too Yorkshire Brit
ish for that.
II they had been in Rheims or Sois-
s"ns or Antwerp they would have
known what to do. They would have
made, as the rector did. for the cellar
or better still. they would have taken
the reverse side of a building from
which the shells were coming.
I'VE laugh about It now-some people
did look so ridiculous" said one man
II must have, myself When the first
shell went over | went down on ali
fours. I thought ia been knocked
down, though ,hat shell was 200 feet
overhead"
No wonder! A ~ inch shell make.
| the noise of a train gone free of tn,
| track through the air at ninety miles al
hour.
1--WE stayed in the house, said {
workman's wife, fright in the kitchen
1t was the Germans, we says, and that.
all But when some SCOT come down
the chimney we stood in the back door.
She laid particular stress on the SCOT
When SCOT came down the kitchen
chimney 1t was time for her retrea
from Mons. Three houses away a MAJ
and his wife We're both killed.
II made up my mind you'd as likely
be hit one place as another" said an oil,
man, land / sat right down in my chat
by the window. l. wasn't going to lie
| the Germans scare me when / was get
ting so rheumatic and old l couldn'
stand on my legs"
II took the children and started 70
Mrs. Deakin's next door" said anothe
woman. land Mrs Deakin she starte,
at the same time and we met and w
| just stood there our children aroun,
us, and wrung our hands and prayed
II don't know what did just wen
out In the street where the others wer
and did what they did till it was over.
"a funny thing was a man who KEEP
| crying, Keep COOL! and every time
shell would go screaming over he,
double up and put his hands TO hi
stomach said another man. "Thos
shells did sound like they was scoopin
all your flesh of your bones. Then tina
man d take his hands off his stOmac
and wave them up and down and say
Keep COOL till the next she'll came"
He was just acting the part h
thought he ought to act. Human natur
does work out under shell fire. We.
there were lots of funny things. Yo
remember in pictures and you can't te
how far apart the pictures were or wha
happened between. Funny-yes, funny
If you could forget some Of the picture!
There was little girl running in tn
street and a great crash came aroun
her-and she was gone.
No one person out of a thousan
could tell how long the thing Taste
until 1t was officially reported. Guesse
were anywhere from five minutes I
two hours Really, ii was about ha
an hour. But how We're they to kno'
that this terrific power, loosed with tn
suddenness of a volcano blowing II
head of, was ever going to end when
kept on with such a deadly, undiminsf
ing regularity? Would the German