St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-01-12
why He was Reprimanded.

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does not like to see.
i We'll the first time it was like this.
We were supposed to be engaged in
nice, civilized warfare and, even after
the Huns had done the most awful
| things we were under the strictest
orders to stick to Hoyle. Lord Bryce
made fine speech in Parliament
against reprisals and the Government
adopted his policy and the officers
passed stern words down the line and
if any chap broke over the line he was
| in bad You can imagine how strict
| they were when I tell you that for four
successive days the Germans banged
away at our ambulances with particu-
| lar relish and we stood there and let
/ them gather up their wounded and
never pulled trigger. But the time
came when my pal, as fine young
Englishman as God ever made, got
his along with a dozen or more Others
but was still able to wave that he was
| only wounded. Two of my boys were
just lifting him into the ambulance
when all three men were shot to
pieces. Then 1 bided my time, which
was not long in coming. A score or
| so of Germans lay writhing in a heap
after futile assault and got the
range for my contemporaries and
waited. Sure enough in twenty min
uteS or so out came an ambulance
with / guess a dozen soldiers as non
chalantly as you please and feeling
SAFE DIS d CLOCK, as Lnoy naQ every Ted-
son to feel. They got their wounded
aboard and were just starting back
when 1 blew the whole damned lot to
hell and gone. OF course, 1 got it in
the neck at headquarters the next
morning, but they let our ambulanceS
alone after that
And the second time?
'@That was different. You know, sir.
1 love my Tommies; by God, / love 'em
and that's all there is of it; and it
l. l. - -
leave 'em to take in a new battery.
Well. anyhow, it was a beastly little
scrimmage at best, but what do you
suppose those scoundrels did? Why,
God damn 'em, they-but, say, did
you ever see a body mangled by re-
versed bullets? No? Well, don't;
that's all L have to say. Seven of my
boys went in a heap and we were in
a bad way when some fresh lads came
up and gave 'em the steel. When it
was over we had twenty-four white
feathers on our hands quite ready to
slip over tonice, comfortable quarters
around here and receive bouquets and
chewing-gum from Lord Haldane's
friends And, mind you, they were my
prisoners. We found the reversed
bullets in their guns all right, remem-
Der that. Well, 1 took one glance at
that sickening mass at my feet and
looked into the eyes of my boys and
they looked into mine. I didn't want
chances were better than theirs any
way. All had them do was to stand
those twenty-fOur up in a row and
then, one after another and without
any particular hurry, dropped every
man in his tracks dead as door-nail.
Oh, it's war all right ....
How He Was Ceased"
How was he hurt?
Just plain stupid, that's all. was
where L ought not to have been and
got the gas. When / came to or part
ly to [ found myself alongside husky
Hun, who was in bad way, too. But
he could still use his rifle and he
Whacked me over the head a few
times rather feebly and then gathered
jaw out of business. That was good
luck for me for 1 guess it was the
pain that brought me around. Any
how l got his gun away from him
after some maneuVering and wriggled
up on my knees and pinned him to
the ground through the throat. That
was the last 1 knew till 1 heard in a
confused sort of way somebody say
American and 1 opened my eyes and
found myself on cot with two of my
Tommies standing there and one of
them saying to the nurse 'Tike good
care of i'm, miss, e amt too proud to
fight So long as God let's me live I
shall never hear words as sweet as
you may as we'll know and 1 swear to
you 1 speak for every fellow from
America in the bunch. There are just
two men in the world 1 should have
liked to have in line with those TWEEN
ty-four. One is the Kaiser and-well
never mind who the other isl
So we learned what this war is.
Cabinet Minister'S Views.
Colonel Harvey talked with one of
the foremost Cabinet Minister'S and
his record of the conversation holds
much food for thought:
The Cabinet Minister stood before
the fireplace in his inner office late in
the afternoon, slipping his tea and
chatting with a staff officer who had
just returned from Rome. They were
awaiting the arrival from the War
Once of panoramic photographs, il
Illustrating the advances of the Italian
army. Meanwhile the conversation
continued after a desultory fashion
respecting the broader aspects of the
military situation until the Minister
manifested slight Impotence, to the
obvious discomfort of the General.
rs lateness on the part of the War
ONCE so much of novelty % the
American caller inquired.
The Minister smiled, grimaced and
ScoWled all in one expression and
was about to make reply when the dis
patch-box arrived. Due scrutiny of
the photographs ensued and the officer
went out into the rain.
WELL" asked the Minister, leaning
back and stretching his legs towards
the fire, what do you make of it all?"
The visitor remarked that he had
come to ask, not to answer, questions.
Il suppose unused the Minister.
you find some dissatisfaction here
with the general attitude of your
Government?
Yes was the reply, but the COM
plainings seem rather vague and hard
ly convincing"
II know. Mutual understanding is
not readily attained when one people
is in the stress of mighty conflict and
undergoing innumerable personal
tragedies while the other is far re-
moved at peace and PROSPEROUS"
THAT is 1.-THE difficulty of COM
prehension by the one of the raal
meaning of such a war and by the
other of the effect of geographical
aloofness inducing a sense of security"
Always The Lusitania.