The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-09
British Lieutenant Here To
Help the Red Cross.
He Will Make Speaking TOuI
of the State.
CADGE ROSE FROM RANKS
He Carries Cane That Sold IL
N. Y. for $4,000.
Says Huns Can Never Break
Thru the Line.

This country is so damnably hot
that it is most uncomfortable to me-
said Lieut.. B J. Cadge, of the First
East Lancashire regiment of the Brit
ish army in an interview today. He
was not especially complaining but
was merely making good natured
remark on his impression of the coun-
try.
Lieutenant Cadge came to Kansas
to take part in the 1918 second Red
Cross war fund drive. May 20-27. He
is to speak at numerous meetings over
the state on his experiences in the
trenches and the treatment he re-
ceived at the hands of the Red Cross
nurses and doctors when he was in
an English hospital after receiving
his wound.
Lieutenant-Cadge was wounded at
the battle of Paschendale Ridge dur
ing the third battle of Ypres on Octo-
Der 4, 1917. He has been in the
United States only three weeks and the
news he brings from the front is
fresh.
Huns Cant Break Thru.
When asked his opinion of the prob
able result Of the present German de-
veiopments on the western front.
Lieutenant Cadge said: why they
can never break thru. They may
bend US some more, but that doesn't
hurt-and they can't break thru"
Carries $40, 900 Cane.
Lieutenant Cadges enlisted at the
outbreak of the war in one of the
regiments of the British regular army.
He was promoted thru the various
ranks until he was finally commits
stoned on the field as a lieutenant.
One of the curious things about Lieu
tenant Cadge's dress which has not
been seen on other British officers
who have appeared in Topeka Is a
small yellow bit of cloth sewed on
each sleeve at the shoulder. Lieu
tenant Cadge explained that this
mark is the battalion insignia worn
by troops in battle or anywhere in
the war zone.
1T is a battalion mark" explained
the lieutenant. When troops get
their tin hats on they are without dis
tinguishing marks and are liable to
be lost from their command. So our
battalion was given these little yell
low oblongs to be worn just below
Some of the battalions wear their
marks On their backs. and every bat
TALON has its own distinguishing
mark"
Cadge told of one battalion which
wore a red horseshoe on the back of
the coat. s@ IS seq
Tells OF Experiences.
In speaking or some OF his expert
ences on the firing line. Lieutenant
Cadge spoke in the accepted v.rnac-
ular of the trenches as put out IN the
various books on the war. The battle
of Arras he characterized as good
show" but he declared that the coun-
try around "Wipers"-and that is the
way he pronounced it's damnatly
fiat and it's all mud and water"
I'VE had a good show at Arras."
declared Lieutenant Cadge, but we
had no cover at all. We laid out in
the German barrage for eight hours.
We couldn't stand up and we couldn't
dig trenches All we could do was to
lay down in a country like a duck pond
and watch our comrades go under
all around U.s."
Speaking of his first experience with
being gassed and having it take effect
Cadge said: II was a corporal then,
and 1 was gassed with our own gas.
We were taking a tank of gas up to
the line when a trench mortar hit US
and broke our tank. This was at the
battle Of Loos"
Cadge came to this country as one
of the zoo men who were requested of