The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-04
Gives a Vivid and ORA
matte Story of War
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it. but I'm ashamed Of the Sim Fem
ers. Home Rule Is alright, but this
Is the wrong time to squabble over 1t.
England goes on the theory that
those who are not with me ara
against me and those who are not
lighting with Englano and America
against the Hun, are fighting against
u But the Irish are great fighters,
and the Hun breads this 36th regi-
ment, for it never takes a prisoner.
Some of you may ask me about
the atrocities. Nothing is bad enough
TO say about the Hun he does every
thing they say he does, and much that
isn't told. After the Huns had taken
village from the Canadians, and tho
Canadians recaptured it, they found
some Of their man who had been cap
tured in the first attack, crucified in
the village. They don't take any more
prisoners either.
The Germans have taken British
prisoners. British medical officers, and
corralled them like cattle. They have
shipped them in cattle cars, so tight
ly packed they couldn't move, with
no place for the wounded to lie down.
and have even refused to let British
doctors captured as prisoners. treat
wouned captured with him. Herded
together in this way, typhus devel-
opes. and the Hun lets them die on,
without attention, and the dead lie
packed in the cars with the living
prisoners.
But when the British capture Ger
man prisoners, If he is wounded ne
gets the same treatment that the
Tommy gets. l do not mean that he
is taken first. or that a British soldier
is foI 81
put a German on, but he gets the
same treatment that the British them
selves get, and 1 will swear to that,
for l have seen them.
This is simply part Of the British
idea of playing the game. They OBJ
serve the rules, as though it was some
sports contest. The British play fair,
and contrary to the idea long-ac-
cepted in this country. gained through
Life, Puck and Judg., as well as
some actors, the Britisher has a sense
of humor, as keen as any In the
world, and that is one reason why they
are going win. The Bairnesfather
cartons show the true spirit of the
British Army. They are men who
can see the humor in their own diff
culties, they can laugh at themselves.
and anything else in the world. And
they will win
DR.. Kennedy then gave an extreme
ly interesting description of the Bat
tie of Cambria, the "Cambrai Show"
as the British call it, and detailed the
tank mobilization which preceded it.
He described the British tanks, which
were used for the first time in great
numbers in that stroke, and asserted
that the drive was not the failure
Parliament and English newspapers
said it was, but that whine the British
fell back into more tenable positions,
they made net gain of considerable
ground, and captured many prisoners.
Then I want to tell you, and i'm
press 1t upon you firmly, that the Hun
isn't starving and isn't going to
starve. Their morale Is good and
we must realize that we are up
against the greatest fighting machine
in the world, one that has been in
preparation for forty of fifty years |
Before I left Liverpool a British |
officer who took part in the hghtine
in the first few days of the present
drive. told me that when the Huns |
came over they were favored by |
weather conditions, and that he was
with an artillery unit when the attack |
started. He said that the range was |
given say, 5000 yard, then $1,000 then
the guns swept down the men who
advanced solidly, moved them down |,
like grass, but they walked over the |
dead and into the lannon's mouth |
There can be no question about their
morale.
I'VE must get 1t into our head that |
America must win the war 1t is n 1
serious business. 1t is not the fool
fsh 'springing of million men 20 /
arms that William j. Bryan, and |
other pacif1cists were talking about not
long ago. 1t is not the shouting and |
waving of flags. That Rah, Rah, /
stuff is fine for theatres, but it don,
win wars"
In concluding his address. DR.. Ken
nedy said that when he left England /
that he promised himself that when
ever he spoke he would always re- Il
cite, what he considered the greatest
war poem ever written, a Zero Hour"