Gunnison news-champion., 1918-04-12
TWO NOTED sOLDIEas
THRILLING ADDRESS By
Enthssiasaie Andieace b >TSesa
Over the Top" By SerBeast
Lawry in His TAN

Those who heard Sergeant Major
Lawry and Captain franklin Ballou
speak on Tuesday night ut the Meth
odist church were given . treat they
will long remember.
Sergeant Major Lawry took tie
audience "over the tor with him In
his stirring descriptiohs Of the war
fare he has actually experisnced.
Such . speaker. one Who has bee11r h
the midst Of It al, II what we have I'll
been anxious to hear.
vividly he described the terrible gas
attacks made by the Germans and
told Of their horrible effects. He conn
pared the conditions in America with
those across the waters and pictured
for his audience the way those broth
ers, sons, husbands, and dear friends
were fighting in the trenches; the way
In which they must sleep, wrapped in
. rubber sheet with one or two blan-
kets about them.
to the work of the medical corps and
praised them highly for the wonder
full things they are doing.
"They> never fail to be on deck
ministering to their wounded COM
baucs,, nc ssAus wen III tne tnlCk Ol
the fighting. In his impressive man
ner he told Of q Zeppelin raid, which
took place while he was in London.
and Of the hundreds Of women and
little children who were killed. II
thought, as l looked at them," he said,
"if America could see this she would
truly realize that we are in war and
that we must wake up." Then he ex-
planned a little about trench warfare
and hand TO hand fighting. "There,
thank God" said Sergeant Major
Lawry, "the Hun met his superior"
Besides the ordinary hardships that
confront q soldier, he told Of the NUM-
erouA other things that added to their
discomfort, ss for instance, the "coot-
ies", or lice, and the trench rats.
In speaking Of the accomplishment
Of the British navy, he said ut has
sent $4,000 Canadians to France
without the loss Of . single life. It
has transported to different parts Of
the world since the war began 1000
900 men and has lost less than 5000
men and il has driven Germany from
the top Of the ocean and made her
come out underneath like fish."
The splendid spirit and honor Of 4
soldier was portrayed thruout hid
talk. which he concluded by saying,
I'VE VIII Mt Be satisfied uptH IL,
Kaiser noes tie stars and feelS the
stripes waving Ger old Berlin"
Captain Ballou delivered an excel
lent oratien n regular machine-guu
style. He put before his audience
plain, bare facts and backed every
statement up with q proof. He told
Of the three different times the Kai-
sers navyInen have backed down ID
fore the navies of United States and
Great Britain. "But this IN the fourth
and last time," he said.
Captain Ballou is veteran Of the
sh-Americant war but refused
TO tell Of his service. Il seemed so
slight in comparison to what his COM
rades from Canada had experienced
The Captain told what japan had
done for US and what she was willing
vet to do.
7 He told Of the way the person, who
had sent his money to go "over the |
top" with the boys, would feel when
they all came home and he had done
his duty this way.
In plain figures, he showed how
utterly impossible It was for the war
to end within ct least from two to
i've years. "Let US not pray for
Peace but Victory. he said, because
thru Victory is the only way we can
have really permanent Peace"
These two excellent speakers, sent |
out in the interests Of the Third Lib |
erty Loan, inspired every American
citizen in the large audience with such |
, feeling Of Patriotism that they can
mot TAIL 10. do their duty in the great
which begins-this week.
Both men left on Wednesday fori
nontrose, where they expected to give
lectures that night