Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-30
WOMEN Modified
NOW IN ENGLAND
Omaha Woman Gets Most In
teresting Letter from Rela-
tive on British Isle.
MILLION MEN TO FRANCE

I War conditions in England are
graphically pictured in letter Mrs.
D. R. Mills, 128 South Thirty-eighth
street, has received from her sister,
Mrs. Albert w. Swain, wife of the
American consul at Southampton.
The Swalms formerly lived in Des
MONIES, where Colonel Swain owned
the Register and Leader. Mrs. Swain
is writer and well-known suffrage
lecturer. No hope for peace seemed
apparent there when the letter was
written, December 9.
The military authorities recently
took over the Anchorage, the, beauti-
full home of the Swalms, for billeting
soldiers. Over us men and officers
are now being housed in the sixteen
room home. Women are being mobi-
lized as well as the men, she writes,
for work in the munitions factories.
Heavy Food Restrictions.
Food restrictions are very great.
Only two pounds of sugar may be
bought at one time and white flour
cannot be sold at all. Food prices
are mounting from day to day.
There is no such thing as Christ
mas celebration here, this year, with
100000 more men crossing to France
this month, with hundreds of wounded
German prisoners of war arriving al
most daily, with loss and suffering and
cruel anxiety on every hand There
is no joy, though there is unbounded
confidence and hope.
"a most poignant scene yesterday
was the arrivafhere of squad of in
sane prisoners, the result of gun shock
and gas. They were creatures abso-
lutely stunned. Albert questioned
some of them, Where did you come
FROM Where have you been?'
Where are you now? What have you
been doing? What has happened to
your
"I don't know, was the answer to
all.
| ALBERT pushed some OF their heads
from one side to the other and they
simply held them in that position as
if they had been machinery. 1t is
terrible to see the suffering we have
seen amongst the British Tommies,
as well as the prisoners OF war
Lectures on Civil War.
| Colonel Swain gave lecture on
the civil war at the Young Mems
Christian association hut in the big
common camp, illustrated by lantern
islides. The scenes of our battlefelds
strewn with dead and dying would
have been painful at any time, but in
the midst of the shocking scenes and
experience Of this war. in which
everything is in so colossal scale,
they were positively tame. When
you think Of millions Of dead. mere
thousands are not worth talking
about, a.r- ...
"A great many OF the men just
starting for the front talked to me
after the lecture. Not one but
showed the deep impression of the
seriousness OF his adventure. though
all were full of courage and resolu-
tion. The spirit of the men has been
fine all the way through. This ap-
plies to all alike, think, on both
sides, and one cannot but wonder at
it sometimes when 1T means to SO
many of them disaster.
Everyone has unbounded hope in
the new government because every
one looks upon Lloyd George as the
embodiment of the war spirit oil
Britain, and we shall see probably a
far more vigorous prosecution of the
war in the near future, but nothing
but miracle will make the war end
soon, Even the beginning of the
end is not vet apparent she writes