The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-12-24
WAR BRINGS OUT
FIGHTING SPIRIT
OF THE SCOTCH
Men From LoWIands and High.
lands Swarm to Big Gen.
teTS 10 Enlist.
EXILES COME FROM OVERSEAS
Scottish Regiments Win Proud Rec
ord on Fields in rranee-Make
Unequaled Rally 10 Rumble Of
Empires D-um-Edn-
burgh Is Hard tit.
BY D. N. MATHtEsoN.

BY D. m. MATHlESoN.
Ediuburgh.-The Scot In American
exile, who daily ponders over the di-
versaed war news and whose face
turns always 20 The homeland and
particularly the northern part there
ul, where the mountains rise tin they
are lost in the gJssamcr ghreds OF
mist and the sea rolls IN amid the
. thousand inlets OF the western Hebri-
/ des, may well wonder how the up.
heayG ~ the eastern hemisphere is
/ auocihs the lives Of the folks ne has
len behind.
Let mo say at once that over the
length and bre, duh OF Scotland the
war spirit reverbeIated IN a wave OF
| patriotism unparalleled in all the i'm
I perlshable fighting history OF Old
Gaul. Figures available on he eve
OF the last voluntary call to arms by
King George show that Scotsmen laye
mSde an unsquaIed rally to the rum.
bio of the empires rum.
To give a concrete illustration
from the island OF Lewis 80 per cent
of the male population today wear
the kings uniform, mostly in the navy;
tina cities Of Edinburgh, Dundee, Perth,
Inverness and Aberdeen responded,
tii now II is believed not a conscript,
if cOnscription comes, could be Sc.
cured.
Scotland for months has been a vast
armed camp. On thu border there is 3
great camp occupied by the men from
the Lowlands. When saw ;hem they
had been in camp for nine months,
sturdy, well knit fellows, with the
keen, small eyes peculiar to the ma
tives Of the southern part of Scot
land. Away in the west in the farm
ing country of Ayr there are camps
where you meet the long-limbed. lean,
deep-chested men with the quick
gray eyes typical Of the people of
the western seaboard.
Fighting at DardanelIes.
On the Scottish regiments fell the
bulk of the fighting in the Darda-
nelles. 1t was on the regiments who
went out from the capital of the coun-
try that the losses were heaviest, and
today in the city of Edinburgh there
is scarcely a family but mourns T. .
loss of a relative or a friend. The
landing at the Dardanelles has been
written of as one of the wonder pages
in the military history of the world.
Scotsmen are happy ghastly though
the sacrifices were, that to their sons
was apportioned the first effort to get
q footing on the peninsula. From Elan.
ders again are endless stories of
deeds which cover anew the names
of Scottish regiments with luster. OF
the famous Black Watch it is said they
carried their trenches at Loos half
an hour ahead of any other part Of
the British army. This may or may
not be true, but at all events in the
! English papers long accounts have
appeared of the thrilling onrush of
the kilties.
The Royal Scots, the Lowland regi-
ment with which Lord Roseberys
name is associated have won undying
fame at the Dardanei.as. The Cam
sronlans, the regiment largely recruit.
cd from the professional classes of
glasgow, the Kings Own Scottish Bor-
derers, the Fife and Forlar Yeomen,
the Argyll, the Seaforth and the Cor.
ion Highlanders have all thus early
embellished their old lighting rec
brds
Hunger for a Fight.
There are men in these camps who
have been training for IA months. They
are hungering to be sent out. They
represent the best blood in the nation
They are drawn from the middle
classes and the Shire families.
AT a recruiting rally have seen
nothing more wonderful than The Fo!-
nntary assemblage of Scotsmen when
.he flag was unfurled. Instances are
known where ScOtsmen voyaged hun
dreds Of miles on the rivers from the
1ackwoods of Canada. Scotsmen came
from the sheep farms Of Australia.
from the rubber plantations in the
East, from the torrid plains of India
from the golden Rand.
The old Scotsman watched-and
there was a tug at his heart strings
the human river roll endlessly to the
and of home. He heard of his lads
who had crossed the Andes from re.
gions almost unknown and sailed
round Cape Horn, 10000 miles, all at
;heir own expense, to join the line of
battle for their race,
How is life at home in these
times?" may be asked Financially
the people have not felt the pinch.
There is less poverty. should say
than in pre-war times One reason
for this is that the hotsam and ietsam
have been as patriotic as the better
classes and with the liberal separation
allowances made by the government
for the families of men who have en-
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