The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-04-20


| II win be noted that the British
ships did not count the odds against
them. They didn't hesitate to engage
two armored cruisers, and after
sinking one and putting the other to
flight they promptly engaged four
Turkish destroyers and a cruiser.
Nor do they take any particular
credit for doing SO. They simply
record the fact that they at once
engaged the enemy.
The traditions of Sir Richard
Grenville and the Revenge" are still
alive in the British navy.
Writing in The Manitoba Free
Press OF Winnipeg, a correspondent
who signs himself s. G. Bland has
an interesting column which appears
occasionally, and which he calls
Notes and impressions OF a traveller
in the United States.
1t gives Americans q chance to see
themselves as others see them, and
the picture is most complimentary on
the whole. Here is an interesting
excerpt telling Of his Baltimore
visit:
said the soldiers swarm. Twelve
thousands Of them have marched from
Camp Meade, near Washington, to
hold a big parade in Baltimore, be
received by the President on the
anniversary Of the entrance OF the
United States into the war, and help
to augment the third Liberty Loan.
The column marched at quick march
IA abreast, and there were few and
brief halts, but it took an hour and a
half to pass. 1t marched the whole
Ave miles through solid banks oe
humanity almost concealed by tlags.
There was no doubt OF the enthusi-
asm Of the city. The streets were all
afiutter with flags. It was the great
est parade Baltimore had seen since
the Civil war. Fut there was little
cheering as far as ! could notice, a
good deal OF clapping and hats off
when the flag passed, fitting .grane
more common, / am afraid, on this
side of the line than on ours. The
regiment, thought, that got most
applause was the S6sth infantry, a
colored regiment, the largest, and
tallest, and "huskiest." aud a Cana
dian veteran told me, in his judg-
ment, the smartest. None held its
lines straighter in the dificult evolu-
-
volving wheel around the Washington
monument. It was interesting to note
that some companies changed front
and made the circle in echelon forina-
tion. Others. among which was the
colored regiment, wheeled around al
most as rigid and straight as the
spokes Of wheel. The papers all
made special mention Of this s6Sth
and their gigantic and brilliant drum
major.
It was gallant and iSindling spec
taele despite its sadness. And even
my Canadian heart was thrilled when
one Of the bands played my Mary
land" If any OF the old memories Of
estrangement still live, this war will
bury them.
Here, again, was impressed with |
the absence Of any strangeness. If |
half a dozen Canadian battallons had |
been mixed up with these and in the
same uniform / don't think / could |
have told which was which. The |
u. s. uniform is a little different. |
CATERS instead OF puttees, the soft |
hats, the bronze buttons and badges,
and the complete absence of leather.
except in the boots. The belts and
cartridge pouches are OF some
coarsely woven stuff.
Perhaps an un-Canadian feature
was an impromptu concert near me
during a halt by a company OF the
316th. One number was.
You're in the army now,
You're not behind the plough;
You'll never get rich by digging a
ditch
You're in the army now"
AS I look at the manly, clean,
wholesome faces OF these "Sammies,
feel they will fulfill the noble and
generous prophecy Of Secretary Ian
sing that the hope of the Omitted
States was to gain place, not above
the place Canada had won, but side
oy side with 1T Il r