The Bismarck tribune., 1919-04-12
M0PPING UP YET
TO BE DONE, SAYS
MAI. ]. M, HANLEY
Veteran North Dakota Fighting
Man Home From French
Front Tells Why of Loan
WELL DO IT, SAYS FLYER
Army Aviator Declares All 1t
Requires Is Little Cuts r.
Young Makes Appeal

"This is the mopping up loan,"
Major j. M. naniey informed crowd
of more than 1900 people assembled
at the federal building corner this aft
ernoon to see the war tank and hear
the Victory loan speakers.
"Ih the late war we did not 60 over
the top in Splendid mass formation,
as they did in the Civil war and the
Spanish wal. We sent the men over
in waves. First the boys with the
automatic rifles, firing from the hips
as they ran; and then second wave,
and d third and a fourth, and finally
came the 'moppers up
"The Boches developed habit Of
holing in, waiting until our boys had
passed them and then bobbing up and
shooting them from the rear 1t was
the duty of our 'moppers up to wade
in, drag these rats from their trenches,
and to complete the job. They went
in with bayonets, with automatic re-
volvers, aye, even with their hands
THEY FINISHED THE JOB.
That's what this Victory loan is
for-IT'S TO FINISH THE JOB.
We've gone over the top; we've reach
ed our objective; we've won a glorious
victory and now we've got to finish
the mopping up.
1T is a privilege for me to stand
here and to tell you how proud we
were over there in France to read in
the Paris papers how North Dakota,
time and again, was among the first
states in the union to reach its objec-
tives in these big war drives. We
knew that you were backing us up.
That meant morale.
"One night there came into our lines
a Prussian corporal, deserter from a
German patrol. He was veteran of
four years service; on his. left breast
he wore the Non cross. He told US
that he was a member Of partol of
eight, which had agreed to split into
twos and desert to the enemies. The
others, he sadi, would be in during
the night, and his statement proved
true. 'Why?' we asked him, ARE. you
desetting., a. -.
i: :" = Because he said, we've lost our
morale. They told us first that Amer
ica wouldn't get into the war; and it
did. Then they told US America had
no army and we know now that she
has q million men in France. Then
they told ous America had no NUM-
,tions, and we know that you have
them dumped all the way from the
coast to the front lines. They told us
you wouldn't fight, and we now know
better. They told US that your people
at home wouldn't back you up, and we
know that is a lie, because we have
heard of the billions that have been
poured into the Liberty loans. So
we're through
1T was not alone sending two mill
lion men over to France, it was the
support they received at home that
won the war;" said Major Hanley: He
expressed conviction that Bismarck
and Burleigh county would go over
the top as they had in the past and
that they would "mop up
Got to Do Ii
\ Lieut.. R. G. Browning of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, who was in Paris, driving
an ambulance for the French army
when America declared war on Ger
many, and who Immediately enlisted
in the aviation corps of the national
army, declared an American quality
vulgarly but graphically described as
"guts" had won the war, and that this
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