South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-28
WAR VETERAN
REVIEWS HIS
EXPERIENCES
Says Citizens Must All Do
at Least 0ne-hundredth of
What German People are
if Allies are to Win.

II YOU VIII DO only One-nun-
dredth part Of what the German
people are doing we will win this
war, and win it quickly, but if you
neglect or fail to do your part we
Will fail I was not in the trenches
"a hours before / was convinced be-
yond the vestige OF a doubt that
right was on our side, and sooner
or later the side abetted by the
right must surely win"
So spoke Sergt Mai John An
derson, proud possessor of scars of
battle. before a capacity audience
in the high school auditorium We'd
nesday evening.
Sergt. Anderson's career as
fighter commenced when he had
attained the not very mature age of
10. He enlisted with the Royal
Scots. and served in that famous
regiment for nine years. The out
break of the Boer war carried him
TO South Africa. There he became
affiliated with the mountain infan-
try, and received numerous medals
for distinguished service. With the
coming of peace he came to this
country and eventually settled in
Hamilton. Ontario. Can, where he
was employed by the Westinghouse
Electric Co. There his wife and
children are still living.
Member of Fronticrsmen.
Many years before the beginning
of the present war Sergt. Anderson
became = member of the Frontiers
men, an organization of British
fighting men IL all parts Of the
world. including Germany. whose
members pledged themselves to rail-
ly around the British cause in time
of trouble. The English declaration
of war upon Germany was made on
Aug 4th, 1914. There was no hes
itancy on the part Of the Frontiers
men, but their mobilization ma
chinery did not move fast enough
to satisfy the fighting blood Of Sergt
Anderson. When the Princess Pat
regiment sent out a cry for volun-
teers the veteran of the Boer war
threw in his 10; with them, and
was shortly headed for the front.
ITdlSfS OaildnIry Oh Men.
Sergt. Anderson strikingly por-
trayed his approach, entrance, and
privations in the trenches. mo
man with red blood in his veins"
said he, ever received a slap in
the face without handing two back
in return" He praised the gallentry
of his comrades under fire. At in
tervals his speech was punctuated
with a kind word for or an aPpre-
citation of his superior officers. He
told OF his wounds, and the prevari-
cations he practiced upon the med
zeal staff that he might return to
the thick of the fight. Once a shell
exploded near him. a piece of steel
entering his left forearm and break
ing both bones. Within four weeks,
by a clever bit of deception, he was
out Of the hospital, and then after
a two weeks furlough was headed
for the front lines again. He could
not hold a rifle with his left arm
for months but he kept on fighting
and lodging medical men who
would have sent him from the field.
Regiment Nearly Annihilatcd.
A fighter is Sergt. Anderson,
through and through. He looks the
part, bears physical testimony of it.
and acts il still He counts himself
lucky 10 be alive after serving in
the Princess Pat regiment which
was all but annihilated on many diff
ferent occasions.
Sergt. Anderson made direct
appeal to the women to do their
part He styled the allies the
trustees of the democracy OF the
world" He asked the feminine por-
ton of his audience not TO be dis
couraged by the terrible crimes
abroad, not to be chagrined by the
frightfulness of il all, but 10 pitch
in and do everything they can TO
assist their brethren who are now
fighting valia nifty that the demo-
cratic form Of government may sur
vive
The speaker sounded warnings
against the ever present German
PrOpa ganda. He requested all TO
put no value on the stories that
Great Britain is friendly now only
because she can be nothing else.
Henry c. Culbertson, a Hoover
aide. who was in Germany at the
outbreak of the war, told Of the
atrocities of the Huns. He recounted
the terrible crimes perpetrated up
on innocent Belgian and French
women, and he told his listeners
not TO complain Of the sacrifices be-
ing asked Of them.
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