New-York tribune., 1918-07-29

be entertainment. "You are not to
blame, of course" he told them, "but there
be entertainment"
Here were 1000 men not under control
of the Kaiser" Wilson said to us. "Some
of them had lived with US twenty or thirty
years ago and had almost forgotten their
mother tongue. Yet no sooner was I out Of
their sight that day than they began to
sing and cheer and rejoice over the locs
of the Lusitania. That made me conclude
that at the earliest possible time we should
hand that camp over to the government"
This was done and out of that incident
grew the seamen's boycott, which now
stands at something over five years and
lengthens every time U-boat sinks ship
W7HEN you learn that there are eighty
w miles of standard gauge railroad
in one plant you begin to have a healthy
respect for the size of that plant One of
Britan's largest munition plants has that
amount of trackage.
This same plant employs $500 women
and 5000 men. These workers are on duty
nine hours per day, though two hours taken
out for lunch and rest periods leaves an
actual working time of seven hours per
day.
The greater part of this work army is
housed in hostels, bungalows and other quar-
ters built by the government
In the plant kitchen more than $4,000
meals per day are cooked for the workers.
The plant bakery turns out something over
$4,000 pounds of bread per day.
This whole plant, housing feeding recre-
alton and ALL is under control Of the Min
istry of Munitions. There are two movie
theatres, in of which we saw movies
of our own pilgrimage through England
There is a laundry that handles 5000 rough
dry" pieces daily. There are tea and
coffee rooms, recreation rooms, clubs
everything that adds to the pleasure of
life. And, to complete the circle of "every-
thing" the Ministry of Munitions raises
pigs here to avoid loss of waste from the
kitchens.
4 T A CERTAIN point where we stopped
- for day or two British soldiers did
sentry go in front of our establishment con-
stantly stood watching two of these lads
pacing back and forth, like clock pendu-
lums. They met and came to attention
dS all O1IlCeT came QOWH lnc TOdO. O0e sem
try, evidently to the army, asked his
comrade: "What's this one comng?"
"S'ute, you damn fool. That's general"
the whispered response.
The "slute" was forthcoming with
promptness.
NHAT happens TO individuals in the
w Allies armies when they are guilty
of misconduct is illustrated with force by
an incident told me by captain | shall
not say which army he belonged to, be-
cause his department was typical of Allied
conduct and specifying the nationality Of
his service would gain nothing.
II was out with two men seeing that
dugouts were all clear of enemy soldiers"
he said. II found one dugout occupied by
German Red Cross unit I posted one
man there to guard it and passed on. I
had just got out of sight when | heard an
explosion. I knew what it meant and
turned back on the run. My guard couldn't
stand it to remain there. He was obsessed
with the idea that he wanted to get along
and see what was going on elsewhere He
had fired a grenade into that dugout OF
course, I shot him on the spot"
Hunnshness gets no foothold this
side of the line And when an individual
goes wrong retribution is swift and merci-
less.