The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-12-06
N0L0YE FOR
HUN IN HEART
OF SKY PILOT
Chaplain Markley Tells Bis
marck Audience of Treach-
cry of the BOche
THE YANK HAS MADE GOOD
American Soldier Proves Him.
self Finest Fighter in the
World, Says Parson
THE YANK HAS MADE GOOD


and apologize until doomsday and she
can never square herself with the
world for her use Of mustard gas, the
most barbarous and hellish contriv'
ance ever known to warfare" said
Chaplain H. G. Markley of the Second
North Dakota, addressing a large aud
tence at the Bismarck auditorium.
If there were any solf-hearted Hun
sympathtzers in the audience who
hoped the sky pilot of the l16th engl-
neers would say something about ap-
plying the gospel Of brotherly love
and loving ones enemy to the Boches
they were mistaken. With the cries
of the Huns mutilated and tortured
victims still ringing in his ears, Chap
lain Markley's reply TO these prayers
for leniency was the amen to that
brother" with which he capped a dy-
ing Yank's last words: II got ten OF
the devils before they got me-l wish
I could have made it IN even dozen.
Chaplain 'Markley told story. after
story Of the treachery and duplicity
of the Hun. "There was time when
our boys recognized the cry KAN
erad.'" said the chaplain. "That time
is long past. The Huns used to stand
to their guns, pumping lead into our
boys as long as they had a bullet
left, and then. when capture or death
were inevitable, they would throw up
their hands and shout 'Kamerad,
and our boys would kindly gather
them in. Then there came a time
when our boys had outflanked ma
chine-gun battery and after some des-
perate fighting, the Huns came on'
with their hands held over their
heads. crying amerad.' Our boys
ceased firing. Then, as our boys
cleared in on them those upreared
hands moved forward. At the back OF
every Huns hand grenade had been
tied. They wiped out our whole con-
tingent. Since that day no American
soldier has attached any meaning 10
'kamerad'
Chaplain Markley spoke lin glowing
terms of the great work which IS De-
ing done over there by the Red cross
and the Salvation Army. ne urgeu
his hearers to get back OF the Reu
Cross membership drive which opens
December 16, and to make MEMBER
shin in this great mothering organlza-
tion really universal. The army sky
nilot spoke in terms Of the trench ana
camp. the current Yank slang OF the
battling front. When it seemed neces-
sarv TO use a damn or "hell' to en-
Dhasize a point or illustrate STORY
the parson did it so naturally that
the innocent little cuss-word seemed 10
fit in without sacrilege.
Markley's talk was punctuated WIN
interesting little anecdotes OF the
fighting Yanks. Markley told how our
h0ys went in at time when PARIS
seemed doomed and how within three
days they had the Hun turned, "and
they've kept him on the run ever
since" He urged those in his audl-
ence who have lost sons over there
to not be sad, but to understand tnat
these brave boys have written tneir
names in letters of fire and blood IN
the history of the world, where they
will be honored by generations yet un-
horn. He told of his closing hours IN
big base hospital with boys who
were "going west," and said tnat
never in all of the scores OF death
he'd scenes which he witnessed did ne
encounter one Yank who was afraid
to TO- He told of the row upon row
Of little white crosses blossoming IN
French fields marking the graves OF
Yanks who have made the supreme
sacrifice. and Of the tender care
which these graves receive from the
women of France, whose tears Keep
the grass green above the neads OIL
our sleeping boys. ...