The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-05-16
LEST We FORGET
A Beautiful Picture Of the Sinking Of
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Harry Winslow, a young Ameri-
can millionaire travelling in France,
admires the beautiful Rita Heriot.
favorite soprano Of the Paris Opera
Comique. He asks her to become
his wife. His affection is return.
ed, and their engagement receives
the sanction of Rita's mother.
At the American Club in Paris,
Winslow tells a German acquaint-
ance, Baron Van Bergen, Of his
happiness. Van Bergen. has tried
in vain to win Ruth. His jealous
comment is: "Yes, she is made to
love. But why marry her?' The
two men part in anger.
At the close of her season Rita
returns with her mother to their
little home at Roses-sur Meuse.
War breaks out and the Germans
seize the village. committing ruth
less acts of barbarism. Rita is
taken before the General. She is
ordered to drink the health Of the
Kaiser, but Gashes the glass to the
floor. The General has her locked
in an upper chamber. She is res
cued by one of the guard, Fritz
Muller, symbal-player in the orches-
ira of the Opera Comique. native
of Alsace- Lorraine drafted into the
German army. Rita reaching the
Dutch frontier, proceeds to the
office of an opera impresario.
There she is received as one risen
from the dead.
Rita implores the impresario to
tell her news of Harry, and he as
sures her Harry was bileted as lost
after the Battle Of the Marne.
Rita is inconsoable. At the end
of three months engagement at
the Metropolitan in New York. she
engages passage on the Lusitania
for Europe to find Harry.
Van Bergen also insists he is dead.
He also urges her not to sail saying
the ship will be torpedoed. She
cannot believe the Germans would
order such a wholesale slaughter of
innocent women and children, and
sails. Van Bergen transmits to the
submarine by wireless apparatus
concealed in his apartment, the
command given to him. Rita is
saved from out the mass Of human
ity struggling in the water. Mean
time an opera record of Rita's voice
on a phonograph. reaches Harry's s
camp, and he grieves anew for his
lost love.
The scenes of the Lusitania are
especially thrilling. The sailing.
the vast crowds of friends wishing
bon voyage to the passengers,
flashes of the various activities
and amusements on board ship, are
followed by the launching of the
deadly torpedo from the German
submarine, the filling Of the vessel
with water and the panic and ex.
citment Of the amazed passengers,
who are shown plunging into the
ocean, some swimming to the small
boats, others sinking to the oceasn'
depths.
Van Bergen goes to London.
steals into Rita's boudoir and at
tacks her. With a cord snatched
from a curtain she strangles him.
Then, to erase the horrible scene
from her mind, she goes to the
hospitals to comfort the army's
wounded heroes. Fate at length
leads her to Harry, and she touches
reverently the Croix de Guorre that
is the reward of his valor.
America enters the struggle, and
in the reconstructed towns of
France. little children learn the les
sons of the war, and to revere the
name of Wilson. They recount
frances ravaged cathedrals, the
,exiled Belgians, the treaty of Brus-
sells, the Zeppelin raids, the bomb
ing of school houses. These evil
dences of the nature Of the Hun
must be kept in mind-Lest We
Forget.