The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-05-13
GERMANS PICK
 ON CALAIS AS
 AN EASY MARK

SOhG " I1InI IN CnANOE.- "Mournful Mary" is the soldiers nick. name for the municipal siren which warns the population of Calais that enemy aircraft are approaching. The persistent attention which the Ger. mans pay to this port is testified to by the fact that over large area the town entirely lacks glass, while almost every house has its specially strengthened and sand.bagged dug. out. At preesnt small army of workmen are digging industriously in several of the squares and small parks of the town, constructing pub lie shelters which are absolutely es- sentia if the town is to continue in existence at all.
 The Germans can raid the town comfortably between dinner and SUD- per 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.
 On one night short time ago it was raided for five hours continu- ously, and on the following night it received 100 bombs. An officer who spent twenty.four hours there en- route to England wrote to friend:
 The hotel where intended to stay lost it's last window last night, SO I put up at another hotel which still boasts a few panes of glass. arrived in town a little before noon, and at noon precisely Moufnfui 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 Mournful Mary suddenly interrupted our dinner. The man I was with took me to his house, which he shared with Belgian colonel and his family. We groped our way down two flights of cellar stairs into a small and airless chamber, strong ly sandbagged and protected with beams. We sat there in the dark for an hour, when suddenly the cleo tric lights went on, indicating that the danger was over As went back to my hotel. distant firing was plainly audible.
 T had just got to my room when Mournful Mary again broke forth. decided to stay where l was this time. Outside my window I could plainly hear that ominous and pene- trating hum of aircraft propellors, and presently there came a crash, crash The windows rattled and the walls shook Then there were six more similar explosions, but not so near. Then silence. and presently the lights went on again.
 "I began to undress and was just ready to jump into bed when there came ten appalling crashes, inter- mingled with the smashing of glass. This time Mournful Mary had been outwitted, but she made up for lost time by a ceries of blasts immedi- ately after the explosions were over. There was silence again; the lights went on; 1 got into bed. The crash es again; very loud humming; then lights on again. I decided there was little chance of getting nights sleey n this town, so I got out a book and tried to read in bed.
 But I no more than got interested 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. Beside this group there now stands the wreck of a captured Gotha, downet by anti-aircraft fire while bombins the city. After the war the citi zens plan to erect replica of it 1T marble, dedicated to those who have gone through the ordeals of the pas few months.
 Harry Warren. who made a tril to the Tolovana, is back in town.
 J. s. Taylor. of the fox farm a Mile 52 on the Valdez trail. IS il