The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-30
THE HUN Is
NOT GOING TO
GET THROUGH
Lieut.. Hector MacQuarrie, of H.
M. Royal Artillery Says
The Line Will Hold
BRINGS MESSAGEOF CHEER
ScOtchman Fresh From the Bat.
tlefrOnt Dwells on Optimis-
tic Side of Struggle p

The Hun is not going TO get
through. We held the Germans when
they outnllmbered us ten to one. They
are not going to- break through. When
we were weak and they were strong
we can afford to retreat. to fight what
is known as !; rear-guard action. And
our men are fresh and strong, and
the Germans are tired, and one OF
these days, before very long believe
you are going to hear some very good
news from over there-l know it,
So Lieut.. Hector MacQuarrie Of Fl.
NJ. Royal Artillery opened an address
at the Auditorium last evening which
never will be forgotten by the 1900
who heard 1t. For, the five hundred
who were turned away there will be
only the printed word-they will lose
the magic Of the canny Scotch lads
unusual delivery; his enthusiasm and
spontanity; his effewescing good hum
or and cheerfulness; his OPTIMISM
above all his sublime confident that
right is might; that the allies are in
vincible; that they must and will tri-
umph.
NracQuarrie devoted little time to re-
Wiling or belittling the Hun; he spoke
not at all OF atrocities, except to say
that the soldiers in the ranks, except
victims knew little of them. He de-
clared his belief that there is little
power of these atrOcity tales. The
thing to remember, said the speaker,
is not that we are fighting AN auto
cracy-WE ARE FIGHTING AUTO"
CRAZY.
Bismarck MAN Talks.
Lieut.. MacQuarries talk was pre-
coded by brief statement from Sergt.
Fred G. Havelock Of the Princess
Pats, one Of our own. Very hand
some and manly in his Canadian uni
form, Sergt. Havelock talked with his
audience, rather than to them. He ad-
vised Bismarck fathers and mothers
and brothers and sisters and wives
and sweethearts and sons and daught-
. tiers Of soldiers over there not to
worry about their physical condition.
He described the soldier of. the allies
as we'll fed we'll clothed, we'll quart
cred. eve have plenty to eat; plenty
of clean clothes; fresh underwear.
We come out of the trenches dirty, it
is true, but there Is always bath
and fresh clean things. Never has a
soldier been so cared for and looked
after. So, when your hoy becomes a
trife dispirited and writes home that
his dinner didn't suit him, or that
there was not enough of it, don't Wor'
nv. If he doesn't have enough for
one meal, he'll get double for the next
to make up for it,. Your boysare be-
ing given the very best treatment in
the world. Always remember that"
A Big Proposition.
In part, Lieut. MacQuarrie said:
To-day your country and mine,
France, Italy, Portugal and the rest OF
us. are up against big proposition
that of licking the German. To the
people of America twelve months ago
the lob did not seem particularly
difficult one You Americans are such
optimists. When Uncle Sam decided
to fight Germany, to you people 1t
seemed the war was about Over;your
boys would 60 to France and they'd
soon teach the Germans good lesson.
The Kaiser must be crazy--of course
he'll be whipped-now that our boys
are on the job But the affair has not
gone so quickly as you had thought
if would. Uncle Sam has been in the
war for nearly a year now, and the
news that has come from the front
has not been good news. Today you
folks realize that the proposition is a
big one. t.'
&"Whcn a group of business men
seek to carry off a scheme, they take
the necessary steps to understand one
another as we'll as possible. mat
simplifies matters. So today it is es'
sential that the American people
should understand the British people
for these two nations are bound to-
gether tighter than they have ever
been before, Upon the strength OF
this tie depends the final outcome OF
the war. / am not going to talk about
France 1t is not necessary to urge
America to trust Frenchman. All
Americans have grteful remembrance
of a rt",-headed French nobleman who
came across the ocean to help their
ancestors in 1916 Every American
knows the name Of Lafayette. Your
history books, with a strange lack OF
'humour, and a stranger lack or &C.
curacy. have informed your children
for generations that the British peo
ME have always ben the one enemy
Of the American people. That, to put
it,sently,, is A DAMN. LIE! The col
onists merely fought George III ana
i few other luna tics. The British
people were fightingas much for free
dom as were the colonists. Burke
and Pitt were fighting for the colon
lists in parliament. British people
won the independence for the colonies
for you were all Bi'itons then. SO our
historians claim George Washington
victory as a British triumph. SO the
children of the British aremy are
taught about George Washington, ano
they get his hoplessly >mixed VIII
Moses and the prophets.
Our Unpreparedness.
SDeaking of our unpreparedness II
general. Lieut.. MacQuarrie told Of
his own experience; Of how he Sc
out for Portugal few days before
war broke, confident Germany never
would dare to declare war on Grea
britain; how, when war was declared
lIflby| kteat Britain he rushed back t
ittEngiand. hurrying for fear the wal
would be over before he returned.
I'VE had been out about two o.