Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-16
Visit Is Kept Secret While
Even Troops Know
Nothing of 1t.
REVIEWS HIS MEN
Walks Over Scared Battle
fields and Climbs in
Bloody Trenches.
MYTH THE BIRTH ARMY IN

MYTH THE BIRTH ARMY IN
w FRANCE, via London, Aug.
15.-G D. m king George has been
at the front for a week. He left
today for England and his departure
was the first information that the
majority of the troops had of his pres
ence. AS matter of precaution the
visit was kept a secret and there was
no display Of big reviews as on the oc-
casion of his visit last fall.
The king simply went about seeing
all sections of the army at work and
the fields it had won. The flutter
of bit of bunting bearing the royal
coat of arms as a motor car sped
along the road in clouds of dust and
motor truck drivers and passing bat
talions started and looked around ex-
claiming 1.-The king! The prince Of
Wales accompanied the king. The
monarch was dressed in Khaki with
the crossed batons of a field marshal
on his shoulders and the prince wore
the uniform of lieutenent in the
grenadier guards. Neither wore any
decorations.
At one point on the line the king
met Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson, COM
mander of the Fourth army which
General Congreve, whose corps
stormed Montauban and Mamets.
Alighting from his automobile near
Fricourt. the king went into the first
line British trenches from which the
British made their charge. Now L
breast the parapet as my men did,
he said mounting it. He walked across
the old mo Mans Land" and saw the
effects of the British shell fire on
the maze of Notifications and trenches
which the British had wrcsted from
the Germans. Standing on the edge
of a big shell crater, the king looked
with a sailors telescope he was carry
ing across the foreground of desola-
ton toward Pozieres. the Bazentin,
Longueval and Delville woods. He
watched the curls of black smoke
which signified that the German
guns were busy, while nearby him a
battery OF British guns was sending
screaming answers.
Left a Little.
you seem to have missed that" he
said to General Rawlinson, indicating
silver of wall still standing in Ma
metz, but there is nothing that is not
down in La Boissellc as you will see.
your majesty said General Rawlin-
son. I'VE improve as we advance.
Inc klllS ueSCenucu lnlo one VI lllS
deep German dugouts after General
Rawlinson warned him that they had
not ell been cleaned out yet. When
he came back up the steps shifting he
said "it smells pretty strong"
A dramatic moment occurred as
the king was walking across a field
swept by a British charge. He came
to a grave at the bottom of a shell
crater with a cross bearing the in
scription, unknown British soldier"
Both the king and the prince halted
and saluted the cross.
at was sporting of the king to come
here" said one of the soldiers. "and
if Fritz only knew it wouldn't he be-
gin a strafe with his guns? AS 1t is
'Whistlng Percy might be let loose
any minute" "Whistling Percy is
the name for a noisy shell from the
German guns.
In common with all visitors the
king took away some souvenirs in the
shape of empty shell cases and bits
of German equipment.
Sir Douglas Haig as the kings host
told him what was worth seeing dur
ing his visit and then the king laid
out his own program each day.
When the king visited the men of
the Scottish division which had seen
such desperate fighting at Delvlle or
Devils wood" the survivors of the
South Africans gave him the Sulu
war cry. He managed to see some
thing of all kinds of the soldiers fight
ing under the British flag. from the
Scots, English and Irish to the troops
from overseas.