Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-25
BEDTENlNT NASH
q GRIPS AUDIENCE
In a Thrilling Story Of Personal
Experience With the Prus-
sian Guards In Interest
Of the Victory Loan

One Of the greatest war talks given
BY a returned soldier was made by
Lieutenant Nash, q Canadian Infan-
tryman, at Library hall last night
On account Of 80 many things going
on the crowd was not large but those
who did 90 heard one Of the strang-
est stories 70 be brought out Of
France.
OF slender build and slightly Grip
pled in one leg due to shrapnel
wounds, minus the sight Of one eye
lost in q gas attack, Lieut.. Nash pee
sents 70 his audience specimen OF
young manhood after It has gone thru
three years of trench warfare. Like
all soldiers who saw intensive fighting,
he Ii very nervous and Is visibly af-
fected by shortage Of breath, prob
ably due to the action Of poison gas
pn his lungs.
Sergeant Twente, late returned also
from France where he saw duty IN
the medical department, introduced
the speaker who at once launched into
q vigorous explanation Of the condi-
tiOns under which the first Canadians
taught against the Prussian Guards.
He told at length of their fight at
Ypres where twenty thousand Cam
adams withstood one hundred and
fifty thousand Germans until the lit
tie handful of Allied fighters num-
bered but about four thousand; by us
ing pure American bluff and surprise
methods the Germans were held on
until the English soldiers could get
to their places and relieve them. This
is all history that we have read time
and again but when it comes from the
lips of one who has gone over the top
in those very battles, who has been
gassed and shot almost to pieces and
still lives and can stand before you
and tell the story, somehow it grips
one and you want to get your old gun
and follow him back over there and
70 over the top. The boys who didn't
20 for some reason or other will be
envious in years to come Of such won
derful manhood exemplified in this
strong young man from the far north.
Lieut.. Nash told Of the listening
posts" their human properties and
the terrible "first time" to 60 out
alone, there between death on either
side with darkness all around and no
friend close by.
Speaking as one Of them, he plead
that we at home will interpret right
" the things our boys did over there;
they will come back nervous and not
the boys who went away blithe and
gay; many of them will carry the
scars of battle and all Of them will be
older and much wiser and they will be
men, not boys any longer.
He plead that we throw of our pro-
Gemanism If any still Turks in our
midst and come out fOur-square for
America and for all that she stands
for. The war he says is not won un-
less we convince the German military
party, which is still undefeated, that
we mean TO stamp it out and the on
" way 10 convince them is to put over
the great Victory drive which is now
just starting.
A purse was made mp and presented
to Lieut.. Nash who is out giving his
time 70 the Allied governments in be-
half Of the Loan drive. His work
takes him over q good part Of Kan
sas, then 10 Chicago and on to New
York TO finish the campaign.
Our duty Is just as much to the
Government and the boys now as it
was a year ago and the fellow who
hasn't time to assist in the drive, or
the fellow who declines to buy bonds
Is just as much q Stacker as the con-
scientious ObjectOrs who refused to
work or fight.
Baxter Springs cannot afford TO
have It said she failed after the fight
wa sOver; this is no time to drop our
support and we must not do 80 until
every dOughbOy is safely home, and
as the Lieutenant said, 'back in his