El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-04
GERMANS EXCEL
APACHE HORRORS
Canadian Soldier Says the
Fighting Men Shield the
Americans From Details.

we who have been in the trenches
saw things that we are going TO take
good care you will never see" de-
cIared private W. Z. Ceilings. 9TH Ca
madam battalion. who lost an arm at
the 1Iessines Ridge fight in January.
1916. to his hearers at luncheon of
war stamp workers held at the Paso
del Norte at noon Tuesday. Mr. Col
lings opened by announcing that he
{ was Just an ordinary and every day
Tommy from the trenches and gave
a graphic account OF the engagement
in which he nearly lost his life, giving
By way of incident several stories OF
+ German atrocities.
Find Babies Hands Nailed.
Things we saw were such that
Apache atrocities Of the old days were
child's play in comparison ] remem-
Der. when in the Messiues fight we
reached the German trenches. we
found tackled on the wall hands OF
Belgian and French babies. with the
word 'souvenie.' over them
In my battalion. every one was y
years old or younger. our officer was
a lad Of 81. The order came the night
of January 16. 1916. that we were to
go over and capture y Germans. We
crossed no mans land and lodged
against the German eutanglements- IL
took US three hours to break through
and then we looked down into the
German trenches
Women Scream in Trenches
Looking down there. we all had
the same thought 1 had visions OF
my three sisters with the dirty hands
OF Huns twined about their necks, and
my only thought was 10 stop that
While we were looking down. we
heard screams Of women. women IN
the trenches They were Belgian and
French women forced TO remain there
with the Huns.
I'm proud TO say that not one of
the Germans in that trench ever wrote
another note home to say what hap
peued TO them. We took - prisoners.
but the rest-it was too dark for US to
tell what we did with them, we re-
ported
BOmb Bursts in Hand.
Coming besS over no mans land,
fell down with bleeding lungs from a
gas attack. While ] lay there an uu-
exploded bomb fell by me- I picked
IL UP TO hurl IL away and it exploded
Two Of my comrades were near and
one Of them, / saw. had his stomach
torn partly away and was badly hurt
otherwise. but I heard him humble.
Are you all an right, boysS The
other was badly injured also and was
asking practically the same thing
1Iy young officer braved no mans
land 10 find out our fate. and he or
dered me to run back 10 our trenches.
I ran. faster than any ball player
ever ran. and lodged against our own
barbed wire
81 was not worried. because knew
our boys would come for US IL was
Red Cross men who came for me and
took me TO the hospital
Amidst Dying Men.
There / heard a doctor say chuck
him in the death ward I went there
Men were dying all around me that
night one. In his dying uellrium,
told MS of his marriage year before
and the birth Of baby boy whom he
would never see. His last words were,
Give my love TO the old gal Tell
her 20 bring the boy up 20 be sol
der SO that MS country may never
fall into the hands of the Hun
Wants Frivolties stopped
Private COllinEe completed his talk
by urging every one 90 forget -the
afternoon tea idea" and never mind
what Mrs. Brown is wearing" but 10
get busy with war stamp, Red Cross
and other patriotic work Never
mind If there is dust on your floor.
rs b. viii be worse thar dust il the
kaiser comes. he said
Quota Can BE Reached.
Mrs A. s. Peatross. secretary OF the
war stamp .LLEEs EANAaLNllH. NLaE
plan for the organization Of neigh
1urhood war stamp societies. 20 cor
respond TO the Industrial societies. Of
which there are now many hundreds
our war stamp quota can be
reached" she said cas- we have never
fallen down on anything yer. With
small bands ct savers purchasing
from neighborhOOd se-retaries. we
viii soon be bringing up the total 20
where i should be- Mrs PeItross Z
pleaded for organization as thorousl
as that of the Red Cross, and for
more attendance at the meetings
Of the community defence councils .
which are in future TO correlate all
war work
Urges Active Canvass.
r. B. Mcdowell. secretary for the
Industrial societies. said 500 or GOO
had already been organized and
about 500 more are being formed. I
Malcolm A. FRASER, publicity mana
aver of the campaign, urged the Wo- /
men workers TO put the energy in T
their canvassins that book agents
use
Chairman a. p. Coles. OF the county
campaign committee, pleaded for elm /
nation of waste and all unnecessary {
expenses. such as vacations. in order +
that more war stamps might be /
bought In order to reach our quota. I
every one who can must buy $1,000 /
worth OF stamps he said Mr.. Coles {
explained that the names of an per-
sons not buying stamps would be sent .
to Washington.
cheers for Coles.
The meeting ended I'm the giving Of /
three cheers for llr. Coles. in recoE-
milton Of his labors i'm the campaign.
Those present were llesdames I
Frank A. Jones, J. %. James. e.. All
Stoddard. A. s. Peatross- j. J.. Ely.
A. A Jones. Fred F. Stevenson. 81 A. J.
Warner. William J. Moran, Henry r. I