South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-28
MRS. PEAT BRINGS
WAR MESSAGE
: TO SOUTH BEND
Wife of Famous Canadian
Soldier Tells How Allied
Sisters Stand Up Superb
Iy Under All Strains.


no matter how great the service
there is nothing in all the world
that can equal what our boys and
your boys and the boys OF France
are giving out there, said Mrs.
Harold Peat in an eloquent and
stirring address at the Eiks' tenn
pie on Tuesday night Mrs. Peat
% is the wife OF Private Peat, the in
trepid Canadian soldier
II you ask a man what he en-
listed for. ne will tell you for king.
and flag. and country. but after he
has gone 10 the first trench and
YOU ask MIN what he went over the
top for. he will say for mother
And when. he says that lac means
for every woman back here. For
every woman is a potential mother
and II Is for her honor and her
glory and her safety as such that
he has given the life
The spirit Of the women of
France is superb. There are no
words that can describe IT, Their
endurance and perseverance and
courage and fortitude is beyond be-
lief"
Mrs Peat told a touching story
Of an old French lady who had seen
her husband killed before her eyes,
her daughter. taken prisoner and
carried off 10 Germany and her sons
both lost at the front Her con-
dition was a pitiful one. The town
Ina which the little family had lived
had been completely devastated but
the poor little French woman could
not be persuaded 10 leave the cellar
OF the old home. She could not
bear to leave ii. Finally she found
comfort in the thought that the
mothers Of the British soldiers
would have liked TO follow the bod
les of their sons 10 their last rest
ing place. She secured permission
from the French government 10 fol-
low the bodies Of the dead British
soldiers and at every funeral she
dropped a bit of myrtle or ever
green in the open grave-''for his
mother"
Spikes PrO-German Stories.
People OF America. I have one
plea TO bring 70 you above all 9TH
ers-to disbelieve the malicious sto-
ries that are being circulated con-
corning the Red Cross and its sale
OF the garments which have been
made for distribution among the
hospitals and in the trenches. There
are stories being circulated that your
the war will ruin them There is
not man that goes over but will
como back "A better man than when
he went overseas And the women
back home must be the wall. the
spiritual wall on which the men can
lean. We must feed them so that
they can keep up the fight for there
must not be a peace now for IL would
Zoe nothing but German peace and
there must he no peace until there
is a victory and the victory must be
ours
a soldier was brought into the
hospital where my sister was a
nurse. He had been frightfuHy
vourded His right leg had been
snot away and ne was i'm a fearful
condition Ny sister asked him
where his overccat was. He would
not answer and il was found that
ne had laid il over the dead body
of his comrade because he looked
so cold lying alone out there
How British Women Keep Up.
Everywhere I go. ] am asked
how the women Of France and the
women OF Britain can keep it up.
The simplest answer to such a
mighty question is this They kill
ed our men With gas They muir
dered them, coldbloodedly. If they
had fought their night on the square
we would fight against them We
held them off with one hand and
prepared with the other When the
war broke out. il meant a single line
Of British soldiers and a single line
OF French soldiers 10 10 lines OF
Germans. IL meant one gun OF ours
TO q dozen OF theirs Not long
ago 7 was amazed myself at the
strength of a girl working IN a mu-
nitions factory lifting shells onto
a truck I asked her how she stood
g. She clenched her fists and look