The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-11
ANGELS APPEARED
TO HOLO BACK
GERMANS Ar MONS
HEAVENLY AGENTS APPEARED
BEFORE ADVANCING GERMANS
AS ALLIES WERE BEING
DRIVEN BACK.

John T. Noble, of James street, {
former resident Of England, some time
ago brought into this Office copy of
small booklet, entitled Real Angels
at Mons, which contains matter Of
such an extraordinary nature that we
know it will be interesting to al Of
our readers and we herewith repro
duce the printed portions Of the book
let. We are sorry that it is impos-
sible for us to reproduce the diagrams
and photos which the booklet 10 illus
trated. The booklet II remarkable in
the nature Of its reading and also
from the fact that it is one Of only
three such books which have ever been
sent across the ocean to this country.
The reading matter in part 10 as fol-
lows:
Real Angels 1t Mons
To readers Of French and Flemish
history and the beautiful story of the
life Of Joan of Arc, the foregoing, of
course, will not seem as impossible a.
it will to those who absolutely refuse
to believe in anything Of this nature.
To the Glory Of God, and the
strengthening of the faith Of those
who read this, is given Of what an hon.
est man saw and experienced in the
month Of August, 1914, in the town Of
Mons in Belgium. His life has been
changed by the solemn experience Of
seeing the Angels Of God who were
sent to help him and hts comrades.
Private j. Easy was Lincolnshire
man, from Eastoft, near the borders Of
Yorkshire. He enlisted in the LIST
Lincolnshires about four years be-
fore present war commenced and has
served with his regiment in India He
hoped to be transferred to munition
work flor by trade he was a moulder)
and still to serve his king and country.
The writer of this booklet, Rev. A.
A. Boldly, vicar Of All Saints, Sunder-
land, has been acting chaplain to for
ces at Monkwearmouth. Fer a time
he was worker among soldiers in
the war zone. for which he held a per-
NIT from the headquarters Of the Brit
ish Expeditionary force. In the
camps in France whilst going about
his duties. he also sought to come
across evidence as to the Angels who
had appeared to help our men, He
was successful in obtaining much cum
ulative evidence from soldiers and
others. This appeared in the press.
He was glad when he found out that
at British camp there was man who
would be willing first hand witness
to the appearance Of the real Angel
Helpers who stopped a German on
rush in the streets Of Mons.
The writer will now qoute from his
notes written in the train as he Jour
neyed homewards.
/ had asked Pie. Easy to obtain
leave to come in from the camp. a walk
of some miles, to meet me at the sta
ton.
When / alighted from the fast train
there were a number Of soldiers and
officers on the platform.
At last I saw a tall soldier in a
khaki overcoat. found that he was
rather deaf on the left side through
shell fire. He had good. honest
face, which you could trust fully. It
was just o'clock and he had not had
any dinner. So said to him:
"We will look for a quiet place,
where you can have some food and we
can talk without interruption.
It was a country town. We found
a quiet upstairs room looking out into
a churchyard.
/ noticed the designs tattooed on my
soldier friends wrists and arms. Eyes,
sir; that was done when / was with
the LIST Battalion (Lincolns) in India"
On his right arm a blue ship in full
sail with the back ground Of an anchor
and on the left snake chasing mon
soon frog.
I'm the reading room Of a great
museum the previous day / had been
studying the town Of Mons in Belgium
II contained about 10000 inhabitants
and had fine cathedral and hotel de
vile. The maps showed boulevards
and streets. It is a compact town,
perhaps a mile across.)
Now we will let Pie Easy tell us of
those two terrible days at Mons:
A Touching Incident.
"The first day we were in Mons
there was pathetic scene. We were
retiring down q main street With
some others l was posted in Belgian
hostelry, whose windows projected, so
that we could fire up the street. There
was . very old grandmother trembling
with fright and her very beautiful
daughter or granddaughter kneeling
near her chair trying to reassure her.
The German shells were hitting the
great buildings and pieces would come
falling down through the air causing
damage. The word was passed round
for us to retire. / was so sorry for
the old lady I would have stayed il
dared, but could not disobey orders.
She stretched out her arms to us be-
seechingly. OF course / did not
know what she was crying out to us.
but we had to leave her, and we retir-
ed down the street and out Of Mons
that day.
I'VE returned through the night, but
the Germans soon had our range, and
next day we were again retiring
through Mons fighting q rearguard
action" It was in another street
now that the barricade was, and here
it was that the angels defended Pie.
Easy and his comrades. They had
been left behind to hold the enemy as
long as possible as their brigade had
retired. They had poor chance Of
life.
"They had made an overlapping
barricade with trees and stones. carts,
ETC., across the street. The houses