The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-20

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grotesque angle nnd-+oh yes part Of
two walls all that remain of a famous
cathedral W. IA
"oh well that s only brick and stone
isn't 1t All right! t'i
"Bowed down with ceaseless toll
dirty, disheyelled--there Is an ox.like
old woman tilling the soil actually
blowing right behind our trenches and
there Is shell hole in the ground she
plowed yesterday. She really ought not
to be allowed in that danger; why the
soldiers even there take TO the trenches,
The Boche lombard continuously that
section. 3
."Whatl move that old woman You
try it. That's her land. She's the
last---the very last--of a farming fam
lily of twenty six people, except for
little Pierre. They We titled that land
for ages-happily and contentedly-
then the Boche came. Five sons killed
at Verdun alone, one missi1g in Salon
ika--children and women of the farm
shelled and killed. Some died Of grief
and some of exposure. Finally, only
her left and little Pierre. He's in
school at A-----s. oh, but Pierre must
keep up the family, Monsieur, and
some one must work for him to be edu-
Gated well, she explains Who better
tian,an sldIwohiah y Nothing left to her
nobody oh yes, monsieur, the work
is hard because one has not been &C.
customed to it, bet of course it's for
La France and Pierre. And yes, just
one other thing, monsieur, the joy, the
happiness, monsieur; to see the loathe-
some, cruel, barbarous invader out Of
France. Dieul Bar Dieu! an for the
sight of them in thousands dying the
slow death-the terrible gas death-to
see them butchered, cut limb from limb,
fringed into little pieces by the sud-
den she'll. All to see them painfully,
slowly, ever, ever so slowly die u
thousand deaths, each one. That 5 the
heaven for poor old woman, monsieur,
who has seen ali her own family die
likewise. You Anglais, France trusts
in you. You won't desert her, Mon
sieur.'. t&.r'... ... .".
viii stick and Die
"'By Christ! No. Not while one drop
of English blood still runs. Wen
stick and die and stick and die, il may
be, in still millions more and still for
years and years more. But-just as
surely as the sun will rise and set, so
surely viii those thousands of homeless
Belgians be repatriated and just so
surely will Northern France be titled
again by the now farmer refugees and
just so surely will the invaders pay
compensation for it all to the utter
most cent. That's what England is
fighting for--and Franee-and Russia
and all the Allies, and, by God! it's
something worth fighting for and if you
could see the externally, sad, despairing,
haunted, terror.stricken faces on the
women and children here, you d fight
too and so would every American.
When America Awakens
"And they are too, by the thousands
in the Canadian and English and
French armies, and they re suffering
and enduring and dying just in the
same way as the rest of the Allies.
How my heart goes out TO them, be-
cause they're the sheet anchor of the
spirit of all good Americanism, and
how the blood will fash and the heart
leap when the news comes that the U.
s., too, is in the arena actively, and
before the whole world, fighting for
right and decency and for the avenging
Of the many American men, women
and children slaughtered without
a ehance--and for justice for these
heRTtbroken French and Belgians.
20 by this time every man, woman
and child in England, almost the whole
Empire, is being nationalized willingly
for service for England. It's wonder;
full, the marvellous spirit displayed by
all. And the boys in the trenches say,
TO encourage each other, well, anyway,
the last ten years will be easier than
the first fyel' y s..
4" Well, cheery-o and kind remem-
branees TO The Advertiser and all
friends. I'm looking forward eagerly
to seeing you all again. Your TREND,
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