Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-14

sponsise audiencel'' declared Rev.
 Reginald ]. J. Watt, British army I chaplain, after he had spoken for an | inspiring, thrilling hour in Slater hall, Wednesday morning, to the pupils of Norwich Fres Academy and 6 few of their friends. Father Watt tad been
 a speaker at Jewett City !he previ-
 company with Henry A.. Tirrell, the beloved principal of the Academy, at
 whose invitation he was brought to
 Norwich by his host of the previous
 night Rev. John J. McCabe, rector of 1 St. Mary's church. Among ais inter- ested auditors Wednesday was Fran
 cis !. Leaves1s, president Of the Acad- l efnr trustees Leonard Q. smith, of the
 trustees board, Rev. W. II. Kennedy,
 of St. Mary's, Greenevilie, one of the most ardent Of the four minute speak
 CTS, Rev. Uric o. Bel1eross, of Taft vile, who has done so much to arouse 1 interest in the War Drive among the French residents Of Eastern Connec- tiett, Rev. F. R. S. DssSrreault, of
 occum, Campaign Chairmar, James L. Case, Of the Norwich division War
 Drive work, John M. Lee, chairman of 1 the publicity committee. Thomas H. Becliley and Otto D. wnlf, of the War
 Drive teams, and several others
 1 Father Watt, who at 3s, has crowd 1 cd the experiences Of a life time into his over fotfr years service as army 1 chaplain and soldier, spoke to the
 Academy pupils principally as to Vic- tory Girls and Boys, setting before them their responsibility to adopt er- cry form of seif-sacriffce in order to
 provide for tic American army in the l field. The irnpr essionabla nblage | TP tYTH IA taA n 1 applause and cheers and tears and
 smiles by what had gone before, real 1 ized the new obligations resting upon every true American when Father | Watt declared that the women and ] children of England have been hun- l sry for over year, are hungry now, 1 in fact, denying themselves that their
 soldiers might have food, which, through the sacrifices of those at home the army has never lacked.
 Up to now, the American army, which tho speaker pronounced the best fed, best equipped and best disciplined 1 in the world, has been cherished by loyal France. among people anxious to 6o sll possible for their allies from over the sea. to make them feel at home. to put them in effect, in the place 1 of their own sons and brothers away
 on tile front lines Now, however, the ! American boys are destined 10 go for ] ward into Germany. under conditions altogether different, among those who 1 hate them, ard it must be years be- 1 fore the army can return. The atroc- 1 itieS of the Germans, the speaker said | in ringing eloquence, have made them ! the most despicable racs OH the face of the earth. The conditions which the American army must meet are certain to be trying and ser ious, con- | sequei1tly Father Watt laid great stress 1 backing for the army on the part of those at home.
 ] Rapidly and graphically the chap 1 lain, who explained that he is a l Scotchman, narrated the events in I which he had participated. beginning ! with the first battle Of Ypres. He was on the staff of an English college I when the war broke out, and as a ] Catholic prie!;t was ordered on resu- 1 latioo work CT the mission, and was 1 the first English army chaplain sent | to France. That was but four years ago, in 1915, when the boys in the school were about like the Academy boys. When. short time ago, he re- visited the school not one boy was 1 left all had gone to fight, to do man S
 
 their young lives in the great cause of democracy and humanity.
 1 Those soldiers who wet,I first to the front discovered in short season that war is Hell as was the experience at 1 tho first battle of Ypree. Chaplain 1 Watt narrated the herois1n of the 1 Seventh British Division which tried 1 to relieve Ostend Even in their memorable hike back. the cverburden- ed soldiers helped carry tho habies for the weari4d women in the civilian l tf1fN3ng accom- panying the army; and all through the ehaplatT1's wonderful story cropped out little incidents and ] anecdotes proving the sturdy, stalinch, 1 heartening character of the typical l Tommy of whom Britain is so fond and so proud, the professional soldier who knows hts job. which ie to die. if ! need be. How this division fought was simply and directly told in the story of the fighting at grips with the advancing German guardsmen, 1 through Seven days and seven nights | In the t1iscon1forts Of the trench, with | out sleep an1 with veey little food. | Here the bravery of the medical corps 1 was an inspiration, the men tearing the crosses off their sleeves that they might enter the gap and fli the plac- | seventh day the whole battalion was left there dead. The realistic de-
 scription of the onceFr1inS German host and the manner in which it was met
 and vancuisl1ed melted round after round of applause.
 1 No better reason for the success-if
 ever any American project succeeded l-of the United War Work Drive now on could be quoted than were Father 1 Watts burning words. as he referred to the Belgian scrap of paper witch per4idious Germany ignored, and the scrap of paper which meant so little
 to undependabie Austria. Only on Monday of rhe present week has Ger many signed another scrap of paper. 1t is for the American army to see to l it that the terms of this, too, are not violated and ignored: Germany is not a country to be dealt with, but chas tised, claimed the speaker. Ii will be
 many a day before conditions are sucf1 that the American army can return te these shores.
 Bitter were his denunciaticns of thai German vile which has an along sought to create dissensioii in the Brit ish empire by endeavoring to set the Irish against their English brethren tThat this scheme has failed except is g few uninportant instances is demon strated by the fact that from the Limited Kingdom, not counting the big distant dependencies of the British lEmpire 7,o00 600 soldiers have gone te the front At present America has over ia,e6e,000 soldiers in France. Britain has EDh1~ied at least half that number tThere are now no young men in Eng lland, One sees in the cities soldiers be- tween 45 and 50, soldiers in the blue fhospitAl uniform which is SO honpred but these are all. There could be nc ] "a ato;e{y,e, fheyga at Mondays peace news