Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-03-07
ARE We AWAKE ON the war.
Wounded British Officer Declares Allies
Alone Saved America From Raw.
ages Of the Hun.

VOL Ohs ooiu' SoPooh DUNH
Fallon of tie British army, who
spoke to a crowded house at the
Lyric Theatre last Wednesday
morning. We in America had
leen going along in our easy,
loose way for so many years and
paying no attention to world al
fairs that it is hard tor us to un-
derstand how the problems Of
Europe can SO vitality affect us.
Germany has been taking advan-
tage OF our condition here all
these years, said Captain Fallon,
and had definitely planned to
profit thereby. After overrun-
nlng Europe the Huns fully in.
tended to invade America and
make US pay for all the cost CT
the war and for the years ofprep-
arion so expensive to the Kali
ser'sarmies. Belgium and France
woke up in time to save the world
however, said the British fighter.
IF it hadn't been for the Allies
you in America would haye got
what Belgium got" he declared.
1t is foolish, he said, for any of us
to think that Germany couIl not
easily have invaded and overrun
this nation if the Allies had not
stopped then-.
"You ought to 80 down on
y 'ur knees and thank God for
the real leople who saved you
from being blown to hell" He
t)ld how he and his men came all
the way from Australia, ten thous
and miles from the fight to help
save humanity. 10000 men were
expected from that country, but
now already 100000 have gone,
not drafted, he said, but every
man a volunteer. "We have lost
100000 men fighting for you"
Captain Fallon then turned to
a description of the fighting
methods Of. the Germans. "We
are dealing with scientific brutes,
and not with human b, ings as we
understand the word, said Cap.
tain Fallon. He told how his
own men had gone out under a
flag OF truce at evening to succor
and bring in their wounded, and
how the Germans, who had rec.
ognizel and answered the flag,
lei, down in the front line and un-
covered a hell OF machinegun fire
that obllterat'd the rescuingpar-
ty. The next morning the Ger
mans had behealed all the Brit.
i'h wounded and impaled their
heads on bayonets. At another
time the captain and a sergeant
came Il pom a German trench
which contained six wounded men
who cried "kamelad" and beg
ged for help. lie sent down the
sergeant into the dugout to give
them first aid and they murdered
him. The next time his men
came upon such a trench and the
Germans again cried for help
they, inquired how many was
down there. When the Germans
answered six, the British replied,
well here comes a couple souve-
n'ers. Divide them between YOU
and they. tossed over two bombs.
The intrepid little, Irishlnan
who will go through life with his
rlght hand useless and fourteen
other scars upon.bis body, told
of the awful task before the first
British troops who went into tie
battle. They were outnumbered
four to one, bnt they kept the
Germans back BY giving their
lives. Captain Fallen went into
one attack with 900 men and
AZ officers. He was the only Off.
Ger to return and but forty seven
men came back with him. Now
the thing is changed, he said,
and the Allies have as luany men
as the Germans. He warned a.
galnst any pessimism, saying "if
they couldn't beat us in 1914
When We We're oulnurh\erpd four
tO one, how can thew hona +