St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-01-04
MISSLAULER TO
BE HERE ON
JAN. 13

On Monday, January 49, at 8 p,
m, Parkview Theatre, the first OF
the Redpath ChautauQua War Series
Lectures, under the auspices of the
Covington Association of Commerce
and the Knights Of Columbus will be
given.
Miss Marie Lauler will be the first
speaker in the series, which will be
given about a month apart.
Season tickets will be sold for the
entire series at the rate Of $1.00 for
adults, otherwise the general admis-
sion will be fifty cents.
Marie Rose Lauler.
AS long as the memory of the
world endures people will honor the
heroic women Of France and Bel
gium. The outrages visited upon
them by the ravaging Hun, their un-
quenchable spirit in the midst of
overwhelming woes will never be for
gotten.
Marie Rose Lauler was q French
school girl in a Belgian convent when
he war borke out and she tells from
a Womans standpoint the story OF
the German advance through Bel
GUM, tells of the barbairc atrocities
committed upon women, old men and
children and recounts also the story
Of her own Imprisonment by the Ger
mans, her escape and recapture, and
finally how she came to the United
States of WHICH she was and is a
citizen, although at the beginning OF
the war she had never been to Ameri-
ca and could not speak English.
1t would be difficult to imagine a
more damning Indictment OF Ger
many and German "Kultur" than is
found in the story Of this young maid
of France Simply and in words
made charming by the quaintest OF
accents, Marie Rose Lauler recounts
story which incontrovertibly con-
victs the Hun Of the most revolving
barbarism.
1t is wonderful story. This
young French girl, scarcely twenty
years old, tells of the greatest hap
penings almost in all history, tells OF
sorrow and grief and pain and then
right in the midst of it all, with true
Gallic spirit, she gives utterance to
flashes Of wit and humor that tighten
up her recountal and makes one
glimpse something of Sic indomit-
able pluck and courage of her people.
Sergt. Archibald Munro.
After eighteen months of almost
unbelieva bic suffering in German
prison camps, Sergeant Archibald
Munro. one of the first thirty thous-
and of the Canadian troops to fight
on the fields of France, tells his
thrilling and vivid story on the Great
War Series.
Sergeant Munro was wounded at
Ypres. For twenty-four hours he
ay helpless in mo mans land" and
then was captured by the Huns.
He tells us the things about prison
life in Germany which we have all
been wanting to know. From him
we learn from one who has suffered
the vilest of insults and the most in
human tortures at German hands,
lust what the Huns are doing and
have done TO American and allied
prisoners.
Sergeant Munro is a great human
document He is a young man, but
he has lived a life time.
When the history OF the great war
is finally written there will surely be
an absorbing chapter dealing with
the sufferings and heroism off such
men as Sergeant Munro.
EIwood T. Bailey.
Elwood T. Bailey, just back from
six months in France, England and
Italy. comes to tell a story OF per
rcnal experiences involving phase
after phase of the great war. Life
or the transportand in and behind