Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-17
CALAIS CITIZENS NICKNAME SIGNAL
 MOURNFUL MARY
Distress Warning Becomes Common Occurrence and Populace M o k Whistle Populance Mock Whistle While Seeking Safety.
(Correspondence Associated Press)

(Ccrrespondence Associated Press)
 SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. Feb. 26.-"M "Mournful Mary" is the soldiers which warns the populations of Calais that enemy aircraft are approaching. The persistent attention which the Germans pay to this port is testified by the fact that over large area the town entirely lacks glass, while almost every house has its specially strength ened and sand-bagged dugout. At pres ent a small army of workmen is dig ging industriously in several of the squares and small parks of the town, constructing public shelters which are absolutely essential if the town is to continue in existence at all.
 The Germans can raid the town con- fortably between dinner and supper. and, if they choose, can go back and fetch another load of bombs and try again in the evening. As for night bombing. the town is so easily found that not even a moon is necessary any reasonably fine night will do.
 One night it was raided for five hours continuously, and on the follow ing night it received 100 bombs. An officer who spent 24 hours there ell route to England wrote to a friend:
 ''The hotel where I intended to stay lost it's last window last night, so I put up at another hotel which still boasts few panes of glass. I arrived in town a little before noon. and at noon precisely Morunful Mary began her days performance. We naturally looked up toward the heavens. and, sure enough, there were nine enemy airplanes advancing in formation as if on parade. They dropped their bombs around the town and were then driven away by British machines.
 Things were quiet until towards the end of the afternoon, when Mourn ful Mary suddenly interrupted our dinner. The man l was with took me to tis house. which he shared with a Belgian colonel and his family. We groped our way down two aiehts of cellar stairs into a small and air less chamber. strongly sandbagged and protected with beams. We sat there in the dark for an hour. when suddenly the electric lights went on, indicating that the danger was over. &1S Oo(h lO firing was plainly audible.
 q had just got to my room when Mournful Mary again broke forth. decided to stay where I was this time. Outside my window I could plainly hear that ominous and penetrating hum of aircraft propellers, and pres ently there came a 'crash-crash.' The windows rattled and the walls shook Then there were six more similar ex- plosions, but mot so near Then si- lence. and presently the lights went or again.
 "I began to undress and was just ready for bed when there came ten appalling crashes, mingled with the smashing of glass. This time Mournful Mary had been outwitted, but she made up for lost time by a series of blasts immediately after the explo- sions were over. There was silence again; the lights went on; got into bed. Then crashes again; very loud humming; then lights on again. de- cided there was little chance of get ting a nights sleep in this town, so got out a book and tried to read in bed.
 ut SOl in my book than out went the lights and. there was another visitatiOn-an exact repetition of the previous one. This time Mournful Mary and the bombs coincided exactly. There were two more visits before daybreak. be- sides two false alarms by Mournful Mary"
 It is in this town that a famous group of statuary stands as a record of the heroism of the city's burghers in the fourteenth century. Besides this group of statuary there now stands the wreck of a captured Gotha. down. cd by anti-aircraft fire while bombing the city. After the war the citizens plan to erect a replica of it in marble. dedicated to those who have gone through the ordeals of the past few months.