The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-03-22

spoke to her. She had been a
prisoner.
" They have taken my body,
she said. MY soul has fed from
it..
"The poor thing looked at me
and suddenly asked if she had not
seen me before. I said probably
not, as I had not long been in
Europe.
+" But I saw you in Boston,
she replied and named a summer
resort to which [ had once ac-
companied a distinguished party
of foreign visitors. Il am
Madame-.'
"The woman was the wife of
the president Of the Chamber of
Commerce in a captured French
city, a woman who probably had
never done any harder work than
washing tea dishes. The Ger
mans had compelled her, in over
alls, to work with a pick and
shovel.
"When she declared that her
loyalty to France could not be
shaken, she was set to work with
black laborers from German
Africa, a class in comparison with
which the lowest American negro
is a scholar and a gentleman.
cat night she was chained to
the elbow of one of these mon
sters.
"In another atrocity case in
which a thirteen-year old French
girl had been assaulted by Ger
man officer, we made a personal
investigation and found, by a
lucky chance that the officer
named by the girls mother, who
had gotten his meals for him, was
a prisoner in France.
eve interviewed him and
asked if he had been in command
in the town named. He said that
he had. Asked if he had mis-
treated the girl, he coolly replied
that he could not remember, as
there were so many such cases.
envy companion, named Reid,
demanded to fight the officer, but
l reminded him, that we were un-
der oaths to the French govern
ment, and that we could do moth
ing.
either we have to lick Ger
many or Germany would have
licked us before 1920. We are
going over there to finish off the
beast while the finishing is good.
| "The German propagandists
are telling us that we are fight
ing Great Britains battles. That
is one of their greatest arguments.
| 81 looked into this matter the
first thing when got to Europe.
I went right out to see whether
England is doing her share with
regard to the food production as
well as,the fighting.
| 81 found that in the fields Of
England there are 100000 women
at work for the period Of the war.
Thousands more will 60 to work
this year.
"When the women first got
into farm labor, the farmers ac-
cepted them on the ratio Of two
women to do the work of one
farm hand. They have found
that one earnest woman is worth
two farm hands.
Before the war England was
fifth self-sustaining. The wo-
men have increased this to one
third and increased the acreage
100000.
2 eff you see man of military
age on the streets in England, he
will ask to be allowed to explain
why he is not at the front.
"The German propaganda will
, ask you why England is holding
only 118 miles Of the front in
France, while the French hold
, 800 miles.
! "The British are holding the
: line from St. Quentin, France to
J Newport, Belgium. That is the
Hindenburg line. Great Britain
!. is holding the Hindenburg line
, with its forty-seven trenches.
i England has put 5,5OO.OOC
> men into the field. She is fight
ing all the way from the North
:, Sea to Jerusalem. The total mum
: Der of Canadian troops sent te
France is 100000, of IN, saa,. -, 10
! 600 have been killed IT'S lis that that
> action. Australia hSs,ess. But /
600 troops. = my heart
! Germany invaded B Ell hn
with 100000 Of the most
!. perfectly trained troops til {
world has ever seen-the great
green line of devil, hell and men
: ace.
In six weeks the heroic Bel
gian army was cut from 10000 tt
t 1000 men, but they held back tht
d Germans forty-three days, unit
+ Great Britain got in with hel