The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-04-10
WORLD ARMY
FIGHTS HUNS
Harry c. Evans Describes Remarkable
Scenes az Men Flock to France
From Al Sections Of Globe
BUSY SCENE As VESSELS UNLOAD
Food Conditions in France Superior to
Those in Gern7any-Allies Are
Defyine the Submarines.
(By H. G. Evans. !

TAhl0, MdTcH if-1 6SteEudy
stood at a French port and saw ships
come in from the sea-ships bringing
fighting crusades from North and
South America, from India and Afri-
ca, from Asia, from the Orient, from
the islands of the sea. Fighting men
from the four corners of the earth are
converging on France.
Every day they come by the thous-
ands. Within two hours l saw landed
American soldiers, sailors, aviators.
carpenters and mechanics; dusky war
riors from India and Algeria; Poland
ers from many countries; Scandinav-
ians, stalwart descendants Of the old
Vikings; Russians who know that Ger.
many is gripping their country with
bands of slavery, and who are denied
opportunity to fight ON their own from
tiers; Frenchmen and Britishers who
have been abroad and are returning
to. their home land to take up arms.
These men every one viriIe
fighting machine, come individual.
ly, in groups, in army units. Ev-
cry day, almost every hour, SINH
lier sights have even witnessed
for months at all French ports-
and will be witnessed in the
months to come until the military
force Of Germany is broken.
No Parallel in History.
There is no parallel in history for
this movement of men. The only
ventures of the crusaders in the days
of chivalry and the massing OF the
Pilgrims to Mecca. There is this diff
ference! however: With the crusa.
ders and the Pilgrims went the old
and the halt, the women and children.
Every one coming to France today
is selected man, selected for his
physical prOwess, for his strength. for
his ability to shoot, for that courage
which enables him to put the bayOnet
to the uses for which it was made.
This conveyance on France OF the
virile manhood of the world means
but one thing-Germany cannot es-
cape the wrath Of an enraged civiliza.
ton!
Over the Top.
With the armies of fighting. men
come an army of servers. nunarmeQ,
soldiers, who will stand, behind the
men behind the gun and ,by his side.
They will do for the boys in the
trenches. the things that officers can
not do, that governments cannot do.
These servers are the representatives
of the Young Mems Christian AssO.
citation. They have learned that to
serve is to save. The ypropose that
when our boys 60 clean over the top
they shall go over the top clean. 1t
is an unselfish service the like of
which the world has not known.
And only the Master shall praise us,
and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money,
and no one shall work for fame.
But each for the JOY of the working.
and each. IN his separate star.
Shall draw the Thing as lie sees it,
for the God of Things as They Are"
There are other armies of men 60
ing down to the sea in ships from
the seaports OF the globe. They are
who are enlptying the
granares of the world into France
The harvest OF the husbandmen. the
iron. the copper and petrol from the
four corners 81 the earth. from Green
lands icy mountains, from lndia's cor.
al strand" are pouring into France.
Hamburg a Dead One.
Four years ago Hamburg, Germany,
was Europe's greatest seaport. More
of the products OF the world were
bought to Hamburg for distribution
than to any other European port. and
more of Europe's exports were shipped
from Hamburg than from any other
harbor in Europe. Two years ago
was in Hamburg. 1t was as lifeless as
a country village III Iowa on rainy
Sunday afternoon.
Every sea going ship in the great
harbor was anchored fast, and had
been since the war began. Not for
eign vessel sailed the waters of the
Hamburg harbor. Only fishing smacks