The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-23

It's no good. Makes my machine gun
jam and break down several times in
every belt of cartridges Pretty near
got killed because of that. What do
my thinking apparatus, his action was
called before I had a chance to reply
Generally, 1 find the English very
uncommunicative toward strangers
/ The country seems to have settled
down to grim determine ton to crush
! Germany if it takes fifty years. Hand
Hold Hengland will do it. you know"
they say to me. What the Henghsh
start to do, they usually carry thru"
Wounded Men Everywhere.
of course I find life in England,
where 1 can understand the lingo. a
I little more interesting than in France.
( One would hardly know, from the end
less crowds in London. that this is
/ war time, but for the wounded Tom
mics everywhere in their blue and
gray hospital uniforms. The theaters
are running as usual to good crowds,
slightly higher in price owing to the
war tax added to the price of tickets
{ The streets at night are, as those of
Paris. all but unlighted-
1t is a curious and wonderful ex-
perience to come out of the theater
at II o'clock into a dimly lighted
| street alive with the theater crowds,
with the hideous cab whistles making
autos sneaking up behind you with
| dimmed lamps
| And of course I enjoy the English
papers, particularly the Daily Mail,
the Times and John Bull. which have
built up fabulous calculations thru
daring attacks at the right time.
The Times is, 1 think, the most
brutally frank paper in the world.
Every day it prints the casualty lists
three thousand to six thousand
ton with stoical heroism. But that is
English, as all the stories from the
front indicate. Whatever may be said
of the English Tommy and his Off
GERS, courage is not wanting. Indeed,
I have come to look upon courage as
Naturally the English papers are full
of wonderful stories of trench heroisrn
and great deal of abuse for Ger
many
Condition Nearly Normal.
Outside of London things are pretty
normal looking. There are fewer
trains, and rates are a little higher
he wants to all right. At Oxford. where
1 stopped one day. all is peaceful look
ing but the sample trenches on the
campus where oxford students pre-
the college is now deserted and will
be until October
Stratford-on-Avon. Shakespeare
! birthplace. seemed to me the most I'M
touched place in England. Here a
tercentenary celebration of Shake
speare's death was going on. with plays
every night by the Ben Greet players
Nothing could have been more beau
tiful or peaceful than this little town
But Liverpool brought me back tc
reality. One must see the endless line
of shipping there to appreciate what
it means for England to have the mas
terry of the seas. The outer harbor is
| simply alive with vessels all the day
! Well, this ends my trip I NIGH
say that 1 am not so rabfdly pro-allS
as 1 was in France. Maybe it's be
/ cause the English have overdone theil
hatred for Germany, or because 1 find
, that the English and the French. pro
fessedly the closest OF allies, are secret
w Jealous of each other. 1 don't know
But somehow. I've about concluded
/ that we Americans are just as well of
out of this war. This affair is. after
all, a European kettle of fish, and
say, let Europe set her own house il
order.