Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
Little Stories
Of
The Great War
BY HERBERT COREY.

best story of the war. BRUSH naval e
man told the other day of trawler e
working up the channel toward port e
In the stern of the little vessel stood =
a fisherman holding something firmly f
by a boathook The trawler approach E
ed an anchored cruiser. An officer look e
ing over the stern of the cruiser was .
| suddenly stricken with horror. The =
point of the fsherman's boathook was +.
| fastened in a German mine-one of =
/ the venomous mines furnished with p
! horns. If a vessel grazes horn the =
mine explodes. /.
| "Gggggg- awaaay from here, =
] clamored the officer. when he saw this. e
| 'Doooon't you know-dam fool-blow =
! up cruiser =
The fisherman turned a broad. red .
face reassuringly on the burbling naval =
| man. =
Don't be afraid" said he, I've .
knocked its bloody 'orns off with a e
| boat-ook, sir =
| Charles omessa, who recently return .
| ed from Russia. believes the crisis IN =
! which Kerensky recently resigned only =
| to have his resignation refused. was OF !.
greater Importance than the world now =
| realizes. When he said goodbye to =
/ kerensky the latter said these highly =
significant words: e
| .'If YOU learn some day of my resfg- =
| nation or of my fall from power, tell e
| yourself that the day of my death and e
| that of my country is near. Z.
i Omessa's admiration for kerensky is =
| unbounded on one occasion two of =
| the latters most trusted aids, worn out -
! by the constant fight, and feeling them =
{, selves unab bic to continue as witnesses =
! of the spectacle of their chiefs power =
! lessness and of his declining health and =
| influence. begged permission to go to =
! France to enter the military service E
| there:
Co" said Kerensky. without bitter .
| ness. You are not equal to the task =
| of fighting the enemies within and =
without simultaneously. For me, l re- E
main here. =
| There is a Gordon Campbell who is e
the mystery man of the British navy. E
/ He has been given the u. S. @. and the =
| V C, and now he has five silver bars =
| on his ribbons. But not word of eN- E
| PLANTATION has ever appeared in the otii- E
cial gazette. His name and his new =
| honors have been printed and that is e
| all. =
/ The explanation is that he is en- .
! gagged in U-boat trapping. The stories =
/ told of his exploits are intensely inter =
| esting and amusing, but must not be =
i repeated as yet In a general way ii =
may be said that he is almost absurdly =
without fear, and that the devices by =
1 which he catches the Hun are immense =
| ly clever -
| He came in the other day from n E
| cruise" said a navy man. "One-third of E
his crew on strike. They said they e
4 would never put to sea again with =
such an absolute mailman. =
/ THE remaining two-thirds said they =
! would not put to sea with any one =
| else" =
/ Some of the Canadians report n new =
/ German gas which is worse than any =
of the gases that have gone before. This E
one cannot be detected by sight or .
| scent according to those that have suf- z
| fered from it. Four hours after the gas =
/ has been launched by the enamy-this =
period seems to be fixed by guess-the e
| men who have been exposed it sud =
denly go blind. No other effect is pro- E
/ duced so far as is known.
/ Apart from the absolutely hellish ma e
| ture of this device, which has for it's e
! sole purpose the destruction of the e
| sight, the great danger is that the men, E
| not being warned of its presence, do e
| not put on their masks until 1t is too =
| late. 1t is not known as yet whether =
the injury to the sight is permanent. IL
The story rests as yet upon the state e
| ment of the men engaged, and has not E
/ been officially sanctioned.
Find Canadian in town on permits =.
| sion and the chances are YOU will find F
| him Jingling with souvenirs. The men =
OF Canada have almost a mania fer .
| gathering mementos of the war 1t e
was Canadian who is responsible for e
the following witticism:
The English said he, fight for .
| honor. the French for glory and the E
| Canadians for souvenirs"
| A little Canadian came to town the e
6ther day to enjoy his leave, granted .
c.
ton. But he wasn't happy |.
= fought for twentyfour cussed f
hours straight on end said he "and .
then Boche shell put me out When E
l woke up the battle was all over E
and hadn't got single souvenir" f.
NJ. Georges Clemenceau, the war-like e
old editor and politician. gave two col =
umns of his paper the other day to an f
explanation that the political situation .
remains absolutely unchanged =
| i have not talked with any poli- =
| tlclan about this fact he added AT =
ter half century's experience in poll e
ties l find that it is useless to talk .
with politicians. They only repeat /.
| themselves" e
The French call the sensor "Anas- .
TASTE. and Anatasie is as much under e
IRE as she ever has been. Some one dug E
up story the other day of a man who E
wrote a letter home from the east anf: /.
headed it by quotation from the + atin e
classics After elaboration the censor e
struck it out The writer's conclusion 6
is: =
"Anastasie always strikes out the .
things which fall in two categories .
These are: =
First. the things she compreherds. =
Second, the things she docs not go e
prehend" ~ =
The "crise du pain'-or the crisis of =.
bread-remains lively topic in the E
french papers The war bread of .
france is dark, but I have found II on =
tirely wholesome. 1t is certainly an .w =
cellent article compared to the bread f
the Germans eat. But some of the French =
edltors do not find that war bread is =
at all necessary to France. Therefore =
they resent being compelled to eat II =
one OF them recalled the historic anec- =
h h1.G Oh 'he man who sought to train e
nus morse TO live on straw a day Inst =
as ne had succeeded in his endea yor tbe =
patient beast died. 2
,a theretore he suggests that NJ VOL .
iette- our minister of rcStrictioper =
practlce on himself the hcstrictinns he =