The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-23

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send the boys cigarets. Not many
at a time, but often. They need
oigarets. It's with a cigaret in his
mouth that the soldier goes over the
! top. If it's night he can't light ii.
| but IL it's daytime it's lit. And, like
as not, when the fighting is over he's
still got that cigaret. People used
to send me 500 or 1000 at a time.
but that was too many; hadn't any
place to carry them. The thing to
do is to send 100 every few days.
About the automatic quality Of
the Nightingale went back to his
earlier subject-"that is where the
value OF the discipline comes in. The
soldier in action hasn't any head.
He's got to be a machine. learned
about discipline, all right was I'M
der Byng.
"Oh, those Canadians! And Byngl
When you think what they've pulled
off.t The Canadians are the most
wonderful lot of troops that have
been in France at all up to now.
There have never been troops like
the Byng boys-they call all the
Canadians Byng boys, he explained.
from the London musical comedy
Byng Boys and the name of the
commander, Byng. There has been
a great deal written and said about
the English making the Canadians
take the worst places. or course
that isn't true, and there are two
reasons why 1t isn't. One Is that
Fritz has 1t in for the Canadians
The other is that when there was
an especially tough job to be done
General Byng always asked the hon.
or OF doing 1t.
"BynE is a wonderful leader. He
has one unvarying rule, and there
is no exception To it--if you lose a
trench you stay until you get IL back
yourself! He is great on discipline,
as every one knows. II was Byng
who said what you often hear quot
cd: Discipline Is self-control re-
duced to a habit It is. all right, in
his army!
AS for the Canadians-well. I'll
tell you one typical thing. One time
last year they sent word from Eng
land that they didn't want any more
officers: wouldn't take any more;
the officers were told that they were
free to leave the army and go about
their business. But do you think
they did? No, sir! They resigned
their commissions as majors and
captains and re-enIisted as prfvatea,
so as to stay in the game"
Lieutenant McCiintock enlisted I'm
the Canadian army as a private, In
October, 1915. In July, 1915, he
reached the front, and was stationed
with his battalion to help in the de-
tense Of a bad corner Of the YpreS
salient. After some hot lighting
there he and his comrades were
transferred to the Somme front.
ut was there that stood in water
up to my knees for seventy-two
hours" he remarked, but the ex-
posture didn't seem to hurt us. The
men are never sick. They are i'm
ocuiated, you see, for everything
under heaven except shell shock!
And the rum ration twice a dav
keeps them from catching cold Don't
make any mistake about that rum
ration. It's an important thing: il
is not a stimuIant, IL is a medicine.
Are the soldiers scared when they
go into battle? OF course they're
scared. IL a man isn't frightened
when he goes under FIRE, It Is be-
cause he lacks intelligence. There
may be soldiers who don't get scar
a ~
never met one Of them yet But.
remember this-there's one thing a
man is more afraid Of than he Is OF
the Germans. and that Is showing
his mates that he's afraid So they
60 over the top together. It's the
elbow-to-elbow influence that does
it."
Sergeant McCllntock, as he was
by that time, was wounded in the
battle Of the Somme in October,
1915, after, as the official commune
cation from the Canadian war ONCE
stated, he had DISPLAYED great
courage and determination during a
raid against the enemy'B trenches
and had rescued several wounded
men at great personal risk" On
the Friday before Christmas, when
he was in bed in the English hospi-
tai to which he had been sent. tbs
king made him q visit He tells the
story Of IL in BEST o. Luck"
cat about 3 o'clock on that after
noon, when we were all having a
good time. one Of the ordsrIies threw
open the door Of the ward and an
nounCed IN a loud voice that his
majesty the king was coming in. We
could not have been more surprised
IL someone had thrown in q Mills
walked I'm, accompanied BY a num-
Der Of aids. They were al IN aer-
vice uniforms, the king having little
In his attire TO distinguish him from
the others. When he nearsd my bed
he turned TO one Of the nurses and
inquired:
rs this the oneg
The nurse nodded. He came and
sat at the side Of the bed and shook
hands with me. He asked as -
what part Of the United States had
come from, how I got my wounds.
and what the nature Of them We're
how was getting along, and what 4
particularly wished done for me.
answered bis questions and said thMt
everything could possibly wish 1Qr
had already been done for me.
II thank you he said. foR nly-
self and my people for your s
vices. Our gratitude cannot be wee
enough toward men who have served
az YOU have
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