The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-10
CALM AS.
RAIDERS THROW
DEATH ON CITY,.
SAYS MISS HAYES
Normal Faculty Member,
Veteran of Zepp Raids,
Describes Condition
FLOCK TO COVER
WHEN SHIPS COME
American Firm Gets Into
Front Rank With I'M
munity Offer To All

Miss Maude Hayes, Moorhead
normal teacher, veteran OF several
London air raids, where she spent q
year, detailed to students OF the nor
NAL this morning, her experiences
in England, and she drew a most
graphic recital OF conditions in the
world metropolis when German air
raiders strike.
Miss Hayes only recently returned
from England.
In opening the address, Miss
Hayes said:
Just a few days before school
began this fall, the American liner
on which / was q passenger, sighted
Sandy Hook. We could see the Stars
and Stripes floating in the breeze.
and a thrill Of freedom and safety
came over US all. q feeling OF pride
and JOY came to those OF us who are
American citizens. such as we had
never felt before. have always been
proud of the fact that / am an
American citizen, but have come
back from Europe with a deeper and
fuller realization Of the value Of
that citizenshipR
British Lauded.
Miss Hayes told Of the splendid
courage and patriotism OF the Brit
ish soldiers; OF the service Of those
who are at home. some unit to 60
to war and some too old to go; and
the great service rendered by the
British women. Miss Hayes spent the
year at London. oxford and Dublin.
and she had an opportunity to see
life at it's highest and at its lowest.
The first class in early folk drama
that she attended at Oxford the
professor began his lecture with the
following statement: Il sometimes
think it is a waste OF time and energy
to give so much time to study Of the
past at a time when there Is so
much in the present, but l am aca-
'demic enough, however, to believe
that studying the past is the only
way in which we can learn to inter-
pret things of the present. However,
/ should have very little respect for
a man who had never seen an air.
drome, and who would not ask to see
that on the British Museum"
Young men in the higher colleges
in England are talking and studying
aviation, just as Arthur Johnson
wrote they are doing at Kelley field
in Texas. London is one of the most
interesting cities in the world today.
You see men from all corners of the
world. men who are going to the
front, men who have been sent back
from the front. and their friends and
sweethearts who have come here to
see them. The principal streets in
London are so crowded that the
crowds seem stationary a little
ahead Of one. and 1t seems as though
the only way one could get anywhere
would be to walk on the heads OF
I reached London at night" said
Miss Hayes, "and / thought had
reached the Inferno, and you all
know what that lis the parlor word
for. The clerk at the hotel told me
that the guests would be warned OF
Zeppelin raid, il there was danger.
Searchlights are used to locate the
machines, and warnings are sent
forth. At FIRST the principal stations
of the city receive word. and then
warnings are carried out TO all the
sections or the city. All the lights
are turned of at the main stations.
In the hotel where / lived, when
reached London, all the guests were
told to 20 TO the billiard hall in the
basement during an air raid. There
are 4 thousand rooms in the hotel,
SO you may imagine the numbers or
people who would assemble In this
han when q warning came. We used
to practice putting our clothes on
in the dark, to see If we could put
them on when the lights were turned
of on account OF an air raid. The
billiard hall was lit with three snnaal
candles.
None Are Afraid.
4 asked to have the sound Of the
air machines described to me, and /
was told that IL was like an express
train going over your head, and II
Il true. The sound Is terrible, and
when the guns on the British
Museum were fired all the windows