Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-14
INCREDIBLE THINGS THE USUAL IN WAR
By HERBERT COREY.

1vEW YORK-Not long ago story of some I'M
IN usual interest came over the cables from the
war. after-dinner speaker in club that
night referred to it with laugh:
"Of course" said he "the story is incredible. 1t
made up by some newspaperman."
The only thing incredible about story the
folly of the man would make such a comment
Nothing is incredible in this war Anything may be
true and usually is Stop and think for a moment
England and France and Germany and Belgium and
Italy and Turkey-and distressingly-are at war
According to figures which, reliable at least
recent alone has lost in killed-in killed only
100000 NJ. Longuet French deputy, is author
iy for the statement that Frances total loss in all
of casualties to date 100000. Pretty
nearly every of the 100000 has figured in a
story which ofHce-whitened, table-fattened men
would incredible Here some of them taken
random from my notes.
MY particular hero in this is young Aus
tralan" said Frederick Roy Martin.
Mr. Martin is the editor of the Associated
Press. been stationed in London since the be-
ginning. His friends know him of warm
sympathes. but in victim of maverick
emotion. a profound believer in the value of
facts. The Australian is nineteen Old six feet
two inches tall, intelligent and manly. He
Der of the Inflated Dardanelles force.
the boats carrying landing forces sunk before it
his attempt to reach the shrapnel-lashed
beach. One moment his boat sweeping along under
urge of the The Australian daredevils
Laughing and cheering while the Redeemed sea about
them swarmed' with the bodies of their comrades
There fash" said the Australian. when
I awakened in the hospital
Every other man in that boat was dead. The Aus
traan blinded and he had enemy.
Both his arms and both his legs were gone.
incredible part To this point the narrative has
almost commonplace
HE is cheerful" said Martin. Genuinely cheerful
is making brave plans for his future. When last
saw him engaged in the task of breaking his
family the of his mutilation, a little a time.
When they know have neither legs.
he L will tell them 1 blind. Not until then
They could stand it..
There is the story of the German spy which Dr.
Howard Gilcnreest tells Gilchreest a Texas ply
stefan for a time connected with the Red
Cross service with the English army. One is
to think of the individual German blinded
every other consideration by almost fanatcal
patriotism. This captured in Flanders in the
disguise of peasant. The drumnead court-martial
ordered him shot The English decent their
They asked him if he had a request
"An hour" said he land plenty of good cigarettes
without"
SO that for hour he smoked cigarette after
another and chatted pleasantly with who were
to blindfold rim and shoot him against a sunny
wall. Some one asked him if ne hated England
Not at ALL" said he 81 very England.
This cold business proposition with me. If 1
had succeeded in what tried would on
velvet all the rest of my life. 1t game worth
playing"
cigarette, walked the wall, helped adjust the
who knotted it.
"I might we'll be conventional" said me- calmly
"Hoch der kaiser"
NJ. Frank Febvre, once the doyen of the Coincide
Francois, received letter from poilu the day.