Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-16
WHERE ALLIES MEET
. ENEMY OF LIBERTY :
ON SOIL OF FRANCE
Representative Miller, in Address II
House, Gives Personal Dissertations
of Conditions on Battle Front.
Says When Truth Regarding German Atrocities
Classed as Unspeakable, Is Made Knoyn,
World viii Be HOrrifed

Congress was told Friday by one OF
its members who had visited the pat
tie front in France. and who had as
cussed conditions with the war leaders
of the allies and compared notes with
the other members of the house WHO
had made the trip across seas ana up
to the firing line with him, just what
impressions and opinions they brought
back.
Representative Miller of Washington
one of the party of representatives. VINO
unofficially visited the European battle.
front, who made this address to the
House, brought his fellow members into
contact with the real conditions as seen
from the viewpoint of members OF the
legislative body of the United states.
His story, in part, was as follows.
Our little party was met with open
arms and hearts. The hospitality OF
both the British and the French was
unbounded, sincere. simple ana gra-
cious We met and were entertained oy
their leading men at London ana at
Paris. In Belgium that heroic ngure
who will ever live in the hearts OF All
men who admire red blood-kfng Al
We found him in the midst OF the httie
remnant of his kingdom-only twenty
five miles long and barely seven IN
width-not broken, but standing square
to the storms of war, every 1nch OF MS
six feet six a king. This little peace
full community swallowed in the WhirI
of war, the people taken carried away.
but as a high officer said, we Will
fight until the last man Is gone ana
Belgium and the Belgians shall be no
more Grand, bright eyed and grim
he stands with his little army battling
against mighty host. The thunder OF
his cannon forbade sleep the night we
remained in his broken land. but the
roar was mighty; answering and paying
back in coin Of their own those who
had despoiled his people and ravaged
his land. Our visit with him was al
most pathetic.
Arrival in Paris.
After four days in England we left
for France early in the morning OF the
goth of October, arriving at Paris on the
31st in the cold, gray gloom of the morn
ing. No American should visit Paris
without paying tribute to the memory OF
Lafayette. In the little obscure and
walled-in burial tract, in the 1artnest
corner hard against the wall as III to
hide from the public eve. long ere this
forgotten and lost in the years had he
made no fight for freedom, Is the hum
BILE tomb of one of earth's earliest. no
blest champions of liberty. Peace be
unto his rest. Richard Wayne Parker
delivered a beautiful and eloquent trib-
ute after which we placed beautiful
floral wreath upon the modest tomb. LIE
Marquis de Chambrun responding.
American Army Red Cross Hospital
being even greater and more complete
than the wonderful institutions OF Lon
don.
THE French government now claimed
us as it's guests, and with six large mill
tary automobiles in charge of Col. Frank
Parker, United States Army. we were off
for the French front. stopping at V1liars,
Scissors and Rheims. with Chalons sur
Marine at the end of the days run. The
following day we arrived at verdun--the
spot where history must stop and square
her shoulders to bear anew the burden
Of her tragic pages. Verdun. the rock OF
destiny: Verdun. the heroic. the giori-
GUS! Here amid these hills. these passes
on yonder eminence and beyond thun-
dered and still thunder the guns against
which the mightiest assaults OF which
mankind has record were rolled back
again and again like waves beating on
the very shore Of time. The thought,
more the sight, Of this land of tragedy
follows me. When the soldiers Of France
stood like a wall of granite with the
watchword grating through every set
Jaw. They shall not pass here Germany
PAID the dWlui pcbetAeS " hSt ~ >
and the glory of France remains her
own, I cannot speak Of Verdun without
INV mind picturing a myriad of TRACE
dies, history has been written there. and
is being written there even today. which
viii remain long after the names Of the
guiding genius who shaped affairs are.
forgotten in the passing Of years. Say
yerdun' to a French soldier and his
heels come together with. q thump. he
SQUARES his shoulders, stiftens his neck,
and the jaw sets like hinges Of steel. He
feeIs that he has shown the world that
French blood Is the reddest; Of the earth.
He knows better than we that Gravo-
lette. Sedan and Metz Of the war of 70
were not only andeserved but stolen VIC
tories for tho Prussian.