Evening star., 1918-07-06

wounded soldiers.
| The principal characteristics of tho
latest German war plane follow: -FOUR
engines, 200-horsepower each: spread
of wings. forty-six yards: total length
thirty yards: weight when empty. ten
tons; weight in flight when fully
loaded, hfteen tons: weight Of bombs
that can be carried. two tons; maxi
mum speed, seventy-five to eighty
miles an hour; armament. four ma
chine guns
The reverses suffered by the Ger
mans at Chateau Thierry are not the
first the Prussians have met at this
point When Blucher was triumph
tantIy marching on Paris in 1914 Ma
poleon fell upon him and shattered
+; the second and third Prussian divi-
sions, capturing most OF their artil-
| lery. Napoleon then struck hard at
the enemy in the vicinity OF Chateau
Thierry and compelled Blucher to fall
back with extremely heavy losses
Though hate is supposed to domi-
nate most of the allied. fighting men
arrayed against the Huns. one of the
,, most successful British fiiers does not
entertain this feeling. He fights like
a demon, but here IL the way he puts
it: You ask me to let the devils
have it when I fight. Yes. l always
/ don't think them devils. ! only
scrap because it is my duty. but l do
not think anything bad about the Hun.
He is Just a good chap with very little
CUTS, trying to do his best. Nothing
makes me feel more rotten than to
either them or me. 30 l must do my
best to make 1t case of them"
Berliners go about the business of
amusing themselves with abandon
these days in order that they may for
get their sufferings. A neutral asked
one young girl why she had no In
clination to go home. She said:
"It is so miserable there. My little
brothers and sisters are all hungry.
and there is no fire. Some among
them are crying all the night. Here
1t is at least bright. and one can keep
warm by dancing. And the beer. bad
as it is is something to swallow. 1t
seems to satisfy my craving for nour-
ishing food"
"A cigar goin' to heaven" That's
tho way an American soldier de-
scribed one Of the new model air
planes at the front. Its general ap-
pearance resembles a choice Havana.
Sandy had been out on a foraging
expedition and had returned with a
good fat hen under his arm. He was
about to decapitate 1t for roasting
when another Scotsman interfered.
suggested. cautiously. Leave that
bird till the morning. She micht lay
an egg"
THE privacy of the usual confess
sional has become a memory to me-"
| writes a Catholic chaplain at the
| front II hear men in dugouts, by the
guns. while they are feeding horses;
| in fact, everywhere, and ! like it.
She was one of those dear old ladies'
who evidently meant well, but the
wounded soldier had answered the
| same questions SO many times before.
and he began to lose patience.
! And how did you know you were
saw it In the newspapers" he
| answered, quickly.
! German "sausages'-those queer
| balloons used on the western front
for observation purposes-generally
are protected from anti-aircraft bat
| teries. the shells from which are
Bishop, v. c. man and famous fier
for England. said Of them:
These flaming onions appear to
| consist of about ten balls Of fire and
are shot from some kind of rocket
gun. You can see them coming all the
way from the ground, and they travel
| just too fast to make 1t possible to
onion nearer than a hundred feet Of
| me, but the effect of these balls OF
fre reaching for you is most terri
| fyink, especially the first time you
| have the pleasure of making their
acquaintance"