The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-09
BRITISH TROOPS
PAY CITY VISIT
ON WAY TO SILL
Nineteen instructors Leave
London Three Weeks Ago,
ALL BRANCHES OF ARMY
Oklahoma CiVanS Fraternize
With Soldiers of Ally,
But there is neither east nor west,
borner nor breed nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to
face, though they come from the
ends Of the earth"

ends Of the earth"
." so VIC Slither COP In ladder
an ooyer thtop an oct inter Nav
Nuns Lud Tomkins-'c wu1 a blight
ed coycy from Eton year or two ago
Tomkins Z ah charge ay Us, and blim-
mee If there aren't han hoificer for
your king An so two minutes after
we'd slipped into the she'll holes a star
shell burst right besideus. An two feet
away wur til Fritz patrol Oh, my
not hart wuI that fight, an neither side
daring tn machines because OF the mix
up. Somehow ! got back to
ours. but it was ONE to blighty for me
an | guess III never get back over
there Oh, WE'LL
Soldier Is a Cockney.
Cockney from the depths OF London.
he was 1t didn't need the tell-talc
"T-28 Rgt, London" on his sleeves and
collar to identity him Every time he
opened his mouth the rolling slang Of
the metropolitan streets betrayed him,
He was only boy. 10. when the war
got him, two years ago, then a reporter
on the Manchester (Eng) Guardian,
The other boy to whom he spoke Of
epochs in ifelcss, detached, uninter-
ested manner was St. Louis shipping
ping clerk before America entered the
war. Now he is~a lieutenant at y
and proud OF Il. But the other Is a
captain at n and has passed through
two years Of death.
Age In Eyes Of Boy.
Either recognized the other as the
stuff from which fighting men are made
and they saluted snappily when they
met here this morning in the Santa Fe
station. One wore the furnished uni
form OF England and the other the Sc
vertly plain khaki Of the United States
Of America Roth were slender and
young but one-the red checked English
boy-had the eyes Of an old man,
Nineteen of them were here today for
little while-nneteen men from out
Of hell--walting for train to take
them to Fort Sill to teach American
boys haw a man con 60 down into
that hades and come back-or stay
down--Smiling
An impromptu reception was held in
the station while these youthful vet
Grams OF the greatest war IN history
waited for their train Only one OF the
men, Captain J +. Price, in command,
looked over Is years old And there
were captains and lieutenants galore
among the boys
Boys Bear Brunt
Most Of the older officers died car
"" said one youngSter who won his
D. {. o. on the Somme Boys are
carrying on with the English flag now" ."
Captain Price is one OF the few sur
yivorS oi the Royal PumiSkillin Fusil-
ierS, the regiment which has been near
" wiped ont several times
The nineteen instructors have been
in this country three weeks They arc
expert, from every kind OF service.
Two Of the officers wore the insignia
OF The Kings Own, one Of England S
crack regiments. Others belonged to
the Artists rifles, made up Of painters
and newspaper men mostly There
were several machine gun commanders.
II was the first time Oklahoma ha,
seen such a group OF English officers
and everywhere they met with a splen-
did reception American soldier boys,
business men and city officials stopped
them on the street, to ask them Of their
experiences. to meet with polite but
firm evasion
English Ours, After All
One grayed veteran OF the Civil war
shook hand, with a Highlander ser
gcant
These French boys" he said, arc
All right and we're for them But after
all, YOU English are OF our flesh and
blood ltS like the gay boy who
chaSeS the chorus star Tor a time hut
always comes home to the common un-
linselled folks for balm, when his heart
is bruised That is the way Of Us with
the French and British"
GIRL DRAWS FINE