The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-04-30
COUNTLESS DEEDS OF
HEROISM MARK BATTLE
WORLD KNOWS LITTLE OF THE
TERRIBLE STORY NOW BE-
ING ENACTED IN EUROPE.
MEN FIGHT AND Die, AND
OTHERS TAKE THEIR PLACES
Mind of Mortal Man Or binary
the Titanic Struggle in France,
Let Alone Find Words to Present
It. Life Is Nothing.

the Titanic Struggle in France,
Let Alone Find Words to Present
1t. Life Is Nothing.
History is in the making in north
ern France, where 100000 men
have been fighting night and day for
month to decide whether the ma
tons of the world shall live under
the freedom of democracy or the
despotism of autocracy.
But history and the welfare of ma
tons are things which claim scarce
" single thought from these 3,O00,-
Geo warriors. To them the great
struggle has become a mere battle
for life or death. Kill. kill, kill is
the one thing these battle-dazed hu-
man beings remember. Kill the 9TH
err fellow first, or he'll kill you. The
gray-green ranks of Germans, ever
pressing forward on their foes, know
that if they kill enough Englishmen
and Frenchmen the battle will be
won and Germany will be able to die
tate peace to all the world. The Brit
sh and French, fighting doggedly to
hold these grey-green waves, know
that if they kill enough Germans the
enemy eventually will cease to press
forward and there will be a respite
for the hard-pressed allied armies.
Kill, kill is the one idea in the minds
Of these men that has not become
hay in the midst of that inferno of
noise, blood, suffering, death, passion
and dirt They do not have time to
sleep, let alone time to ponder on the
why and wherefore of that terrible
carnage; they do not have time to
cool their guns, let alone their fight
ing passions. They are just 100000
primitive men, in maelstrom of hell,
doing their best to punish the other
fellow as much as he is Furnishing
them.
Real Story Will Never Be Told.
The titanic battle which has been
raging for a month on a 125-mile
line in northern France, with the
Germans trying to destroy first the
British, then the French armies, and
the allies striving to hold their, line
together and ward off one sledge-
hammer blow after another-this
epoch-making struggle across the At
lantlc has passed all human compre-
henSion. No one is able even to WIS.,
uallze it, to say nothing of finding
suitable language to present this Wis
uallzation to others. History, some
day, will give the result of the terri
bic combat and attempt to outline its
long drawn course, but the real
story will never be written
Heroes by the tens of thousands
have fallen on those blood-sodden
helds of Picardy and Flanders, yet
who is there to tell of the heroism?
What historian, what poet, what
painter can do justice to the death
and Glory Trench" near Givenchy,
where an officer and II brave Lam
cashire men stood off for seven hours
three German battalions-3,Q00 men
and where the last Englishman did
not go down until more than 1000
Germans had been piled dead or
wounded in front of the trench?
There were but twelve men who
knew the story of that trench, and
N-''"S CWClNG NOW he III uIlIldIhcu
graves somewhere on the battlefield.
Mortal man cannot realize, much less
tell, the story of that death and
glory Trench" Multiply this Incl
dent by a thousand, ten thousand, a
hundred thousand, and some concep-
tlon may be gained of the heights to
winch men may rise, the depths to
Which they may descend.
Terrible Slaughter of Men.
Ihree-quarters of a million men
nave fallen in this month of the most
terrible fighting the world has ever
SHOWN. At least quarter of mil
non have been buried where they
zen on the battlefield. More than a
haH million are suffering from the
wounds received. Others are in pris-
on camps. A Dutch merchant who
arrived at The Hague from Germany
last week said that the Germans had
i9sJ 100000 men in the 25 days of
lie battle. half of whom had been
iElled or had died on the battlefield
before they could be given attention.
ms merchant himself saw 80 trains,
e3ch of so freight cars, at Aachen,
11''ed with wounded Prussians and
LaNarlans, all with grievious hurts
mat had been dressed with paper
eeandages which they had worn for
1'e days. The little town of Treves,
neiplum with Q00 b,,ild;,,os bo,,eae