Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-23

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(MISS NELL LAUERNERJ
Disqualified only by the traditional
disqualification of sex, and qualified
by every sort of equipment, mental
and hysical. that could even be fmas-
ined as usable in the place she is seek
ing to fill. a Tulsa young woman with
a red hot passion to serve her couh-
trys cause in France is having hard
time getting a commission to do so.
She is Miss Nell Lauerner. stenogra-
pher and office manager for the TIL
State Oil company, who doesn't know
how to run motor ear, but who pro-
poses to learn il possible and then ap-
ply for service in France.
II the prediction OF some pessl- T!
mistically inclined persons, who in
sist that the war will continue unti
everyone who has a desire to serve
his Cor herr country I'm Europe VIII
have that desire gratified. Miss Lauer-
ner may have her opportunity. just
now she is concerned about finding
someone who will volunteer to teach
her to drive a motor car and care Tor
its machinery Being busily engaged
during the day in the gentle practice
of earning her own living, she Is uh,
able to go into a motor car shop ana
learn that way. Therefore she sends
forth her appeal to patriotic motor
list or mechanician for help.
swiftly, like the wind or the whiri-
wind, tanned mustachio-fi figures. ofteh
barefoot, even barebacked. with SIN
eWs of iron, who require only preau
and gunpowder; very sons OF fire' the
adroitest. hastiest, hottest ever seen'
perhaps, since Attila's time.
such phalanxed masses of fighters
did the Carmagnoles ultimately pc
come; but France IAN fearlul FISK
in being obliged to rely on them'
when the process of their transhiuta
ton had barely commenced.
'sThe first events, indeed, of the war
were disastrous and disgraceful 10
France. even beyond what might have
| been expected from the chaotic state
| in which IT found her armies as well
as her government. Their first corps.
four thousand strong, that advanced
from Lille across the frontier came
| suddenly upon far inferior detach-
men, OF the Austrian garrison "a
rournay. Not shot was fired nor
bayonet leveld With one simultane-
Gus cry of panic the French broke
and ran headlong back to Lille, where
they completed the specimen of iii'
subordination which they had given
on the field by numbering their evi
eral and several of their chief officers.
Army Routed.
T. "On the same day another division
| under Biron, mastering ten thousahu
sabres and bayonets, saw few Aus
trian skirmishers accommodating tnc!r
Aposition. The French advanced posts
had scarcely given and received vol
lev. and only a few balls from the
enemy's field pieces had fallen among
the lines, when two regiments Oh
French dragons raised the cry we are
betrayed galloped off. and were to'-
lowed in disgraceful rout by the rest
OF the whole army. Similar panics, or
repulses almost equally discreditabie'
occurred whenever Rochambeau, or
I.ackner. or Lafayette, the earliest
French generals in the war, broush'
their troops into the presence OF the
enemy.
MEANWHILE the allied sovereign,
had gradually collected on the Rhlne
n veteran and finely disciplined army
for the invasion of France, which for
numbers, equipment and martial re-
nown. both of generals and men, was
equal to any that Germany had ever
sent forth to conquer. Their design
was to strike boldly and decisively al
the heart of France, and, penetratins
the country thru the Ardennes, to
proceed to Chalons upon Paris. the
obstacles that lay in their way seemed
INSIGNIFICANT. The disorder and i'm,
becilities of the French armies had
been even augmented by the forced
flight OF Lafayette and a sudden
change Of generals.
Picked Troops
eat the end of July the allied army
L | NIL al oll nrnn y a
tions for .he campaigns, broke VI
from its cantonments. and, marching
from Luxembourg upon Longwy
crossed the French frontier. Sixty
thousand Prussians, trained in the
schools. and many OF them under III,
eve of the great Frederic, heirs of the
glories of the Seven Years war. and
universally esteemed the best troops
In Europe, marched in one column
against the central point or attack
Forty-five thousand Austrians. the
greater part Of whom were picked
troops, supplied two formidable corps
that supported the flanks OF the Prus.
SLAMS There was also powerful pouS
of Hessians; and leasued with the
Germans against the Partisan democ.
racy came $1,000 OF the noblest and
the bravest among the sons Of France
l1r these corps of emigrants. many Of
the highest born of the French nooii
ity, served as rank and file.
"Over this imposing army the al
lied sovereigns placed as generals
s,mo the duke of Brunswick, one o.
the minor reigning princes of Ger
many, q statesman of no mean ability
and who had acquired in the Sever
Years war a military reputation sec
ond only to that of the great Frederi'
himself
"Moving majestically forward. th'
allies appeared before Longwy on tn
Goth OF Angus. and the dispirited gar
rison opened the gates of that fort
ess to them after the first shower o
bombs. On the End of September tn
still more important stronghold o
Verdun capitulated after scarcely thu
shadow of resistance.
f'rrrnswick's superior orce was nov
interposed between Kellermani
q troops On the ier; and the othei
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