The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-26
'YALE-PRINCETON
HOLD WAR JUBILEE
Reception for Prof. Emery
Turns Into Great Patri-
otto Meeting.
MEN FROM FRONT TALK
Rollicking American Soldiers
Put Spirit Into Tired Vet
Grams of France.

It may have been because the war
: is over and American and allied pris-
oners are being repatriated that. Yale
and Princeton men In a mass meeting
at the Yale Club last night exhibited
, more enthusiasm over the actual ex-
ploits of the men in khaki and blue
than they did in the experiences OF
semI-cIvilian prisoners OF war since
returned from Germany.
The affair was a reception 20 Major
Henry C. Emery. formerly a Yale pro-
fessor, once a chairman Of the United
| States Tariff Board and latterly repre-
sentative In Russia % the Guaranty
| Trust Company. and other Yale ard
Princeton men from the front.
| Major Emery's experiences as Il
prisoner OF war in Germany and his
| observations OF conditions in the in
terror Of Germany during the months
before America entered the war were
heard with intense interest. But the
short, rapid fire descriptions OF what
the American army and navy actually
did to help win the war after Amer
lea went in reused the most enthusi-
asm. Particularly did the graphic de-
scriptions OF American morale in the
navy and the army by Seaman H W.
| Buxton, Princeton, "a. lately a men,
Der Of Vice-Adm!ral Sims's destroyer
command, aroused the audience.
what the Troops Sang.
One typical incident that Seaman
| Buxton described occurred when he lay
| convalescent in g hospital II Bor-
deaux. It's best told in his own way.
~ was lying fairly comfortable when
I heard a lot OF men marching past.
II was a steady tramp OF feet and l
knew that there were at least 5000
men passed that hospital window. I
couldn't see them. but this Is what
they were singing as they marched
f, toward Paris. the front ard they knew
not what, oh boy. oh Joy, where do
we so from here7' That was their
| spirit"
Then this Seaman Buxton told OF n
! wounded American soldier having
conversation with n pal lately re-
| turned from the front. A poilu came
up with the information that things
| at the front were going along pretty
| well, whereupon the wounded Yankee
| remarked with the utmost noncha-
lance. That's good. because ! can't be
| coming back every ten years or. SO to
| straishten out a mess Ike this"
President Arthur T. Hadley OF Yale
| introduced Buxton as Lieut.. Buxton.
| hut later admitted his error, although
he put all the blame on Secretary
Daniels. who, he said. should have
| made him a Lieutenant IL he didn't.
Seaman Buxton was for fifteen months
| in the convoy service with the Ameri-
can destroyers, and here are a few of
| tho Incidents OF that service Ms he de-
scribed them hast night in a way that
the censor has not heretofore per-
| mitted for publication.
"If every atrocity was multiplied
by three you could only get some Idea
OF what the Hun IS capable.
Il have seen life rafts-eight or nine
OF them-fioated from a transport with
men on top and clinging from all sides
| saw two OF these life RATS dead
ahead OF German. submarine that
Ihad sunk their transport. I saw the
submarine cut through these two life
RATS. killing twenty-seven men, when
1t only meant putting the wheel ovsY
ono roint to avoid them.
! We came to the rescue of an Amer
lean transport that had been tor
pedoed. Sitting on n hatchway were
two American sailors. We had nine
teen lines 10 the boat, but we couldn't
, get one to these two boys. Finally one
! fell where one of the boys reached IT,
| without a moments hesitation he
caught u, made 4 fast around the
waist Of his companion and we took
him off. The man we saved had both
legs broken and his comrade knew
that It was the last line he would get
! We were going ahead and couldn't
come back for him, for II we did We
could not have picked up the twenty
seven men in the water ahead. He
knew IL, but he gave the line to his in
Jured shipmate. That. gentlemen. tells
something OF the spirit OF American
| naval morale"
Major Emery, who was informed at
Gutenberg. Tuchel and DantziR after
vain effort to reach America from
Petrograd by way OF Finland and
| Stockholm, told Of the slow conversion
of German belief toward Americas at
| titude In the war.