The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-24
LIEUT.. DOVELLE'S
 STIRRING TALK AT REMINGTON SHOP
Officer of French Army Arouses Enthusiasm of
 Munitions Workers.


 Remington Arms Co.'S plant listened | with rapt attention yesterday after noon to an address delivered by Lieut.. | Georges Dovelie, of the French army who has been assigned by his govern l ment to to address the munition workers in the United States and to | impress upon them the important part they are playing in the winning of the | war.
 Lieut.. Dovelle has been in the thick | of the fighting with his light field ar | tillery battery for three and a half years. He. is married and has wife and children, but from the sunny af- ternoon in August, 1914, when he was | summoned from his desk in his place | of business to don a uniform and face | the Hun invader, he has had but two l or three opportunities of seeing his | loved ones, and then for only few | hours.
 | The vast crowd which listened in- tently to every word he uttered were at times moved to enthusiastic acclaim while at others many of them had difficulty in restraining the tears from ] I Is what the hero of three and a hal1 years of war told the workers: "In August of IA, we, the men of 1 France, were called to defend our land from the invasion of the Kaiser S | hordes to fight for what we thought was the freedom of France, to pre- vent the German Emperor from put ting his heavy yoke oH a free people we found that we are fighting to keep this accursed yoke from the necks of the entire world! We were ready to meet his armies should they attempt to enter France but we fool ishly thought that they would come upon us from their own frontier, but no-like a thief and a murderer at heart, he sent them through poor, little, defenseless, heroic Belgium, striking at our back!
 King Albert of the Belgians and his immortal little army made heroic efforts to prevent this wanton and cruel invasion of his country and to the Belgians the world owes the free dom of democratic, f-governing peoples. Poor Belgium! The world will never be able to pay one iota of the deDt they owe ner!
 Personally, I saw three and a half years of this hell called war, and l have seen some sights that probably would be hard for anybody to believe who has not been over there; you have all, no doubt, heard other men tell of their experiences over there, men who could talk good English and knew how to express themselves -men who were good takers and orators. 1 am only a soldier, but l have seen these things, and felt them, and I only wish that I could picture them so that you could understand the real meaning of this awful strug- gle. But when your own boys, your fathers, brothers, sons. husbands and sweethearts come back from over there, they will tell you themselves; but even they won't know it all they have been spared, pxay God, the worst of it-that part which came al the first.
 "1 have stood in the front line trenches, and with my field glasses have seen women and children, French women and children, working in the fields, under guard of German soldiers, armed; they were workiug and for whom? For the Hun, the ravisher of women and children, the murderer of old men and non-com- batants, raising vegetables for those who were devastating their land and homes, killing their husbands, fath' CTS, sons-and if they refused to dc this work in the fields, they were shot , down without compunction! l have seen these things, and my compan' ions have seen them; and we have . seen more terrible sights-Rights tha would make one wonder what manner of fiends the Germans are.
 And then the great( glorious Eng iisil people came into the war-came in because of their belief in the right and because of their real friendship for Belgium and France. l can tel you, we French will never, never never forget the Eng1ist-we are now friends forever! And through theil great efforts and great resources, the unseifsh devotion of their men, we have been able to tide through thi: conflict, in spite of Russia,s defec' ton, and we will-,we must conquer the unspeakable Beast of Berlin!
 T want to speak of the Americans who were in the fight from the be. ginning; when I say that, I mean tha the American Red Cross and the
 American Y, M, c, A-they were there on their missions of mercy ant 5 help from the first iHvasisa. almost of Belgium; and they have won thu everlasting blessings of Belgium anC the forgetting gratitude O l France through their caring for th' sick, wounded and starving people O those countries. Oh, America has
 great place in the sun of our love anC = devotion, and I can assure you tha = we French never forget our beloved 9 friends!
 = And what great joy and reRewet l strength and determination the ad vent of the first American troops il . France brought. Why, we almos l went wild. For we knew nov = that the Americans were actual D ly bearing arms in the fighting, W g were absolutely certain in ultimat
 victory. The sending of supplies an - munitions to us by the American
 kept us going during the terribl
 three years before your actual entr
 into the war, but now with those sup
 plies and munitions and guns stil coming over to us, and your me-
 coming to us in the bargain we vii
 drive the Kaiser and his cohorts int
 the deepest pits of hell!
 About three weeks ago, Lloyd 7 George, the Premier of England, ask ! ed General Foch what he needed ant
 wanted; Foch said Give us ships ( s31i0s Shi0s! And T1oV6- George a sl-