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John Bowe of Minnesota Throws New
Light on the Part Played
by Americans

ranks and walks OF life, all colors,
ages, professions and religious and
political beliefs, speaking an Ian
guages. they have come from the four
corners Of the globe and are fused In
the crucibie Of discipline"
The legion exacts absolute equality.
Social life is that Of the ancient buc-
cancers Of the Spanish Main" Ed.
"A man Is taken at his face value
No questions asked He does not
swear allegiance to France, but retains
his own individuality. His troubles are
his. He carries them. also his fame,
without advertising. II bad. he con-
ccsis his vices. II good, he bears his
virtues in silence"
Jack Bowe--his Spanish war medals
testify to twas years beyond the
ordinary military age when he en-
listed with the famous corps. He tells
US of few OF his regimental COM
rades. to whom, as to- himself. what is
called military age was neither here
nor there. va,
J" Magyar Aza. son OF the Persian Min
lister to France: Edwin Butcher. the
Swiss sculptor; Marquis de Monies
uu1Ou, WHO leIt inc tTtHCn army pt-
cause his Catholic soul would not per-
NIT him to dismantlet churches: Abel
Djebelis. q Maltese, winner OF the
marathon race between Windsor and
London in 1914: M Valsamss,is, A
Greek: Piechkoff Gorky. Maxim Cor
kys son, who left the legion after his
arm was blown away; Bruno and Pep
PM Garibaldi, both killed ultimately;
Eilyaken. an Egyptian who was at
tending the music conservatoire In
Brussels when the war broke out:
Ben Azef, an Oriental priest who
always wanted water when there was
none: Col. ELLINGTON of the Royal
warwickshire Observation-Disclosures Is
a story in itself, and has been else
where told. He went back to his old
regiment rehabilitated with the Croix
de Guerre and the Medaille Militaire
upon his breast; Said Mousseine and
his two brothers, sons of the Sultan
All of the Grand Camorres: Augustus
st. Gaudens, namesake and cousin or
the American sculptor.
There was also one Seriadis. a
Greek ex-Lieutenant with three dec
orations from the Balkan wars, which
he would not wear because King Con-
stantine's face disfigured them" and
M. Ariel, Turk and n one time dealer
in antiques, seriously wounded on the
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pointed out the peril to them of re-
fusing orders in the presence of the
enemy. They did not would not
work and could not be forced. SO ten
OF the ringleaders were court-mar-
tailed. sentenced to death. blindfolded
shot. Tearing the bandage from his
eyes one cried out:
Long live France. long live the
Allies. but - - the Foreign Legion!'
There were many Russians. They
showed no disposition to yield. You
killed our brothers" said the cheerful
fatalists. Kill us also A sigh OF re-
lief went up when a high Russian ON
ciaI, breast covered with decorations
arrived from Paris and orders came
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puts in his bayonet as the order is
passed down the line to so over on
command. The officers snap out: Five
minutes: three minutes; one minute;
En- Auont' The Colon!als. the Mo-
roccans. the Legionnaires, all mixed
up, arrive at about the same time.
More grenades and more German
prisoners. The first line men keep 60
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and his set jaws, square cut like a
paving block. III
And thus we two Americans, who
had arrived from different directions
each animated by the same idea. sat
down at the jumping off place amid
those unnatural northumberland got
acquainted. He had been ten months
without a furlough. Between the ocr
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ing. German dead lie all about. Ger
man equipment is piled around: We
meet the living enemy. A running
Zouave stops a Boche who goes down
with the Zouave's bayonet in his chest.
The Zouave puts his foot on the man,
pulls out the bayonet and keeps on
with his headlonG rusbI>
Behind the first line, into the newly
made communication trenches, l no.
ticed. where dirt had been thrown to
the bottom OF the trench, that ] was
walking on dead Germans glazed
faces, bristling whiskers, partially
covered with loose dirt, so that their
bodies were not noticed by comrades
going to the front Continued bonn
bardment, more dead. Germans run
ming. equipment strewn everywhere,
black bread, cigars, many casques,
more dead, broken caissons, dead
horses, cannon deserted, their crews
killed. Boche shells in lots of three
lying about in wicker baskets.
Trenches full Of dead; LEGS. arms and
heads sticking out"
blinded with gas, blundered along,
bayonet fxed, finger on trigger,
stumbling over dead and wounded
Germans, humping into sharp corners
Of the trench or into another gas maze
Some one pulled my coat from behind
and I discovered that our men were
going into a cross trench. SO fell In
about the middle Of the company
1T had rained all day. Racing
through the trenches dirt fell into the
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Concluding, Legionnaire Bowe,
wearing his heart upon his sleeve,
meets the unspoken impeachment that
war Is futile and brutalizing:
Love and war go together. War
destroys the body, but love lives on IN
the soul. Love and war have trans.
formed the hitherto seemingly empty
pated fashionable woman into an
angel of mercy. Socialists have devel-
oped into patriots, artisans hare be-
come statesmen, good for nothings are
now heroes misers have grown into
philanthropists.
Business? Yes, and work like ths
DEVIL"
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talked"
I'D rather be hero leaning against
this tree" said Catcoff then in little
old New York leaning against a tele-
pitone pole S.ns to push il insJ- lie
East River"
Yes" agreed Alan Seeger. this is
the life. The only life worth living
is when you are face to face with
death-midway between this world and
the next"
"In the first run to the outlet the
slaughter was terrible. Stretcher
bearers carried a continuous stream of
wounded men with bloody bandages on.
or silent, motionless, pale faced, dirty
clad men whose muddy shoes extended
over the edges OF the stretchers."
my mind flashed over to Madame
Tussauds wax figure exhibition in
London"
1.-TWO Moroccans stopped. One pulled
of his vest and found a blackish red
bruise on his chest His comrade said
1T is nothing, come along The other
fell over, dead"
"At every corner stood calm, square
faced. Observing officers; directing,
commanding. compelling. Where are
such men in civil life2 Why do We
never see them?"
over thS top. The man. alongside
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furiously angry when the magazine
will not work. I grabbed a rife lying
alongside a man I thought dead. He
was very much awake. He quite in
sisted on using his own gun. The
next man was dead and had a new
rifle. I felt better
81 found a large shell hole in the
open eight feet deep and with water
in the bottom. With shovel and pick
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casional roll Of musketry and the rat
tat-tat-tat OF machine gun fire we
watched the pyrotechnic display and
talked"
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ers of the Legion" Trench Etchngs of the Great Wa

I dug out enough on the side OF IN.
crater to make dry ground and tried
TO sleep. I was awakened BY ofice,s
who insisted that I 60 into Tho
trenches. ] knew they wanted for
themselves the nice comfortable place
! had constructed. so pretended did
not understand French. They want
away and / tried to sleep but oouId
not. Then 1 remembered I had M,
eaten in twenty-four hours. So I so.koa
bareback in the water at the bottom
OF the shell hole. dined, and wen. 10
sleep in spite OF the rain, the bom.
bardment and the homeless officers"
zone day We made an attack over
the top. We got into another Boch.
ders came to dig down. l noticed
a large shell crater about twenty
yards to the left where half n doz.,
,poilus were lying in comfort below
the earth level and fairly safe.
Craving toward them on m,
stomach with nose on the ground
felt tho earth shake Impossible IA
hear in the never ending cannon roar
looked up, and about eighty or a hun.
dred feet In the air above where the,
had rested, as on a teeter-after going
up, before coming down. saw a num-
Der of blue overcoats. I looked over
the edge Of the shell crater and found
II empty. 4 crawled in and stayed TN
III darkness relieved me-"
~F1naIly the Colonel said TO ser
geant: Here, you take this section
Go over and wake them up No one
was anxious. The rifles of the Bochs
could be seen above their trenches
But Musgrave said: Let's go over and
stir them UP and see what kind Of a
show they will put up
1.-The section went. thirty-five or
forty men. Just two. both Americans
Musgrave and Pavelka, came back"
This IL Paul Pevelka Of New York,
later an aviator of the Lafayette Esca-
driile.
"rhe attack had lasted all night.
All the officers had been killed except
q little squeaky voiced Leutenan,
VINO would not give the order to re-
treat. The dead were in rows by hun
dreds, thick as autumn leaves, each
man on his stomach, face to the foe
It was the seventeenth day Of the al.
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over this top. The man alongside
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
DIVIDEND NOTICES
BRITISH-AMERTCAN
TOBACCO COMPANY LTD.
NOTICE OF DIVIDEND TO HOLDERS OF
ORDINARY AND PREFERENCE SHARE
WARRANTS TO BEARER:
DIVIDEND NOTICES

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the Di-
rectors have declared Second Interim div-
dend on the Ordinary Shares for the year
from the lst October, 1918, to 30th Sep
ternber, 1919, of 6so (being Is. 22-5d per
on the 3lst March, 1919.
Holders of Share Warrants to Bearer for
Ordinary Shares will be entitled TO be paid
the said Interim Dividend on or after the said
3lst day of March, 1919, at the Office of the
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 33 Lom-
bard Street, London, E. c. 3. Coupon No. II
must be left for examination at the Office of
the said Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
80 Lombard Street, London, E. c. 3, three
clear business days Excluding Saturday, be-
fore payment is made.
NOTICE Is ALSO GIVEN that the Dirsc
tors have declared dividend at the rate of
Sc per annum on the Preference Shares for
the half year from the lst October, 1918, to
3lss March, 1919. The said dividend Cess
British Income Tax at the rate of 6s in the
s., that is to say l-5d. per share net, is
payable on the 3lst March, 1919. Holders
Of Share Warrants to Bearer for Preference
shares will be entitled to he paid the said
dividend on or after the said 3Ist March.
1919, at the Office of the National Provincial
& Union Bank of England, Ltd., Savoy Court.
Strand, London, W. c. 2 Coupon No. 81
must be left for examination at the Office of
the said National Provincial & Union Bank
Of England, Ltd, Savoy Court, Strand, W. C..
2, three clear business days Excluding Sat-
urday) before payment is made.
Dated 5th March, 1919.
BY Order, A. M. RICHARDS, Secretary.
Westminster House, 7, MiIibank, London.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Record of Stock and Bond Averages
Copyright 1919. New York Tribune nc>


Prices turned sharply upward the market Yesterday I'm
leadership the steel the whole
Improvement At times the market developed great buoyancy and gains
the close IN she standard
on larger scale than preceding this total of
approxmating $4,000 shares.
Speculative interest upon States Steel common
SOCK Inc annual report of the will be
reports that the showing would be figures have
already been made pubic the corporation
caused heavy buying Of the stock After
the afternoon PA points IN to o9s pot
chem Steel gained 23s Republic Iron and Steel Stee
Is, Cruclble Steel 9s and Lackawanna
Motor and Cow
as rising a points TO l61 a Sudebaker Kelly
Tire 49, Maxwell Motors and Fisher Body
There further heavy speculative buvnp Of certain f +b ~
ad equipment shares notably American Baldwin Loco
American Steel Foundres
ochs shared in the upurn American Smn and pa
fonda leading. Railway issues quiet
The bond market with prices hold;ng firm, Tho ~
Loan issues closed fractionay higher
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Corn Another sharp break occurred
in the corn market and at the low point
of the day values were down 61sc to
1&c from the high point Of the move
ment, which was the high of the sea
son. on Wednesday, There was heavy
general liquidation and sentiment was
again influenced by free offers of
Argentine corn. A cargo of about
zoo o0o bushels of Argentine corn was
soid here at si.35 c. i, +. New York for
April shipment. Country offers were
larger and anterior cash markets were
quoted from to s cents lower than on
Thursday. a sharp decline in the rye
and barley markets had n bearish in
fluencc and there was some intimation
that exporters were having difficulties
IN securing tonnage Rcccipts at
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
INDIANA pIrr LINE CoMpANy

Is BrondWay. NeW York. March 81 1919
dividend of two dollars per share has
been declared on the Capital Stock of shis
Company. payable May g. 1919. 10 stock
holders OF record at the close OF business
April -. 1912
Al communications regarding payment
or change Of address should be sent 10 the
undersigned not later thar May s. 1919
GEORGE cHESEBko' Secretary
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Sugar and Coffee

Sugar.@The United States Sugar
Equalization Board has approved of
the refners' charge of 1850, f. o. b. in
bond, on refined sugar sold in lots of
less than 1000 tons for export to neu-
tral countries. This advance is al
lowed to Offset the cost of lighterage
This action has caused more or less
dissatisfaction in the export trade, as
it is claimed it is a discrimination in
favor of large buyers
Coffee Futures.-The market yester-
day experienced the dullest day since
Continued on page sorenteen
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
, IL S t e II a II c e
Cereals

Wheat.-There are numerous incon-
sistencies in the wheat position which
the, trade is having difficulty in de-
cipherlng. Recent reports by the De-
partment Of Agriculture have indicat-
ed about three times as much wheat
IN the country as year ago. not count
ing the supplies on the farms and in
private warehouses, but while farm
supplies are thought to be quite liberal.
mills are still paying high premiums
for cash wheat to grind.
Statistics would seem to show that
there should be carry-oyer Of close
to 100, 100000 bushels at the end Of
the present season, and this ~ hard
10 Justify IN view Of the tight cash
markets.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Livestock, Meats. Provisions

Following arc yesterday's prices. compared with
those OF a year Eso.
esterdsv year aso
Live stesls. fa.s 10
prime. 100 III IA so Gsia.7a ss2l5 IsIa25
Dressed beef sides.
- ..,.......... 20 q rs - 70 ian
:. 'c ,rInr. loo u 1900 q laoo 1900 q 2loo
Dressed ycals, city
H. ..-.....' - @ % 20 a 81
I've cw,7 luq ID 900 q 1900 z so q
prime. 100 Ii. 1900 @ 1000 1865 a -
i,r.sssd ,,... mn,'nn ID .'s % - Ia q .25
10 .....,.,.-..'. 50 @ 80 2. % "a
Hogs. 100 lb 1875 a9 1880 1885 d 1890
con. Ii .,-.,'. ..s.@ 2e4 2sasQ .ass,
Mess beef. hh 80 50 og : 90 Ga 81 90
Mrss po,s hel 1s.co g $500 $3.50 saoo
100 III -, 2a.so q 2s.ao ,72s q lo.so
----- -------
Bids ard offers and additional
financial ne1cs ~on page scucnfccn.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
READING COMPANY
General Oliice, Reading Terp,i

Fhiladelphia, March "a 1919
The Hoard of Directors has declared
from IN" net earnings Il quarterly Dividend
OF one Per cent. Gss) the Second Pre-
rtrrvd stock Of the Company. To- he paid
on April 10. 1919. 10 stockholders OF recori
Checks viii be mated to stoclxholdars VII
have nled dividend orders With Tho Trsss ~
uref' JAf Y. HARE. Secretary.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Office of the United Gas Improvement Co
y. w. Cor. Broad and Arch Streets.

Phlladelph March u. 1919
The Directors have this day declared
quarterly dividend of per cent Isl per
share.) pay Bile April Is. 1919 TO stock
holders or record at the close Of business
March il. l9i9 Chccks win be mailed
/ w. MORRIS. Treasures.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
CROCkER-WHEELER co.
.Amperc. New .yer.c


A meeting on March Goth 1919 the
Directors declared the regular quarterly
dividend Of q e on the Preferred aud 2f-
on the Common Stock for the quarter end
ing March 3lst, 1919, payable April 18th
1919. TO stockholders Of record on April
sth, lsls. l.. LANG. Secretary
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
lex dividend.
Curb Market

Note. The Tribune assumes no responsl-
bility for the accuracy or authenticity OF curb
market quotations. transactions and prices
yesterday were as follows:
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Bonds

Following is complete record of all
transactions in bonds on the New York
Stock Exchange yesterday:
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Comm odities

primary points were slightly larger.
and on the whole conditions appeared
somewhat more bearish. although total
stocks at terminal markets seemed
pitifuliy small.
Yesterdays Previous yep
Oats, Nc. yellow si'7el4 si7sl4 cioseS
March .~......... ~ 1.5s Closed Closed
J'ay SaIy ........ 1.s2s i4S az Closed
Oats.-The market for oats was
lower in sympathy with corn and
under liquidation. prompted by fur
ther decline in the Canadian markets,
where there was said to be very poor
outlet for the cash vrticle. Outside
interests were small and the trade WAS
rather disposed 70 take bearish view
OF the liberal stocks and the poor ex-
port demand.
Yesterdays Previous sear
ON New n York aht. so5g S. S'ess casss nso
Chicago:
March '........... .sfs4 Closed
May .,............ .621s .e4l Closed
july .............. .o1l2 .63 Closed
Rye.-Market weak
Yesterday Previous Year
CASH sW No. OK West s7s si07s siso oso closed lose
Flour and Mea.-Quoratons were:
Yesterdays Previous Year
New York close. close. ago.
Flour. Mimi,
Cornmeal. yell 4oo@42o 4.oo@42o Closed
Rye -four, ch eo59e. so e.o5 a g. so Closed
Bran. l00-lb
sacks 4S.uO G5.CU Closed
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Unit of trade on this echange, 10 shares ]
Transactions and prices yesterday for the
r,orc octivo eharea fol1nu
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Tea

While there is a general distributing
business being done in tea the trade
is not as large as is usually the case
at this time OF the year. The trade
expects an increase in the near future
More attention is being attracted by
the Ceylon teas.
Quotations in cents a pound for lots
of 80 and 100 packages follow Odd
lots ruled l cent a pound higher:
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Yesterdays Transactions Unlisted Stocks

AT % quoted dollars share dollars
""'e' on ast regular
/ BASED only on transactions shares " ~
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Liverpool cables.-Spot cotton in
more demand; middling, 40 points
higher at i57Sd good middling, 9
points higher at 19.54d. Sales. 1000,
American 1000. Imports. 5000. all
American. Futures opened steady at
20 70 30 points higher. Closed barely
steady al an advance of IL to 80 points
March, l6.87d; April, l612d; May,
i4.6ld; June, 14.31d; July, 14.02d; Au-
gust, I3.T4d; September, l3.45d.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

NOuthern Spot markets .olI0W: Cal
weston steady. so points lower at
1925; sales 400 baleo. New Orleans
steady, unchanged at 2625; sales : $50
bales. Mobile nominal, unchanged at
25.75; sales nil. Savannah dull, un-
changed at &c; sales 250 bales Nor
folk quiet, unchanged at 25c; sales S74
bales. Baltimore nominal, unchanged
at &c; sales nil. Augusta quiet, l3
Memphis steady, unchanged at 26.75;
sales 2,400 bales. St. Louis quiet, un-
changed at 27c; sales nil Houston
steady, unchanged at 25.75; sales 1.478
bales. Little Rock quiet, unchanged at
26.75; sizes 491 bales.
The weekend statistics of the New
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Bonds
Consolidated Exchange

fsell cents per share
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

This wk Vast vr
Weeks into sight. ....... 15e ,604 14e145
Into sight to date 1862, 1862 10, ,48e, 1873
Gen visible supply ...... 5,365,748 476O, ,373
Visible supply American. 3, ,746 ,74S 3 ,4s4 1873
Increase in gen visible. 3O8 ,613 2355
Increase visible Amer ~12,3S7 2O355
Spinners tax Am for wk. 1885, 145 266
Takings Amer to date. 7,613,374 1854 SIS
*Decrease
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RELUCTANT JUROR
REBUKED BY COURT
Plea Of Business as Excuse
From Service Fails to
Avail Talesman.

An impressive lecture on citizenship
and the obligations as we'll as privileges
It lncurs was delivered by Justice Dugro
In Supreme Court yesterday to tales
man who sought to evade jury service.
Fred G. Heumann Of S29 West 135th
street was called for examination as to
his qualifications to sit in damage suit.
He said he was 25 years of age. natural
citizen and a resident of New York
county for four years but asked to be
excused, as he was secretary OF several
mercantile concerns with offices in
William street and his business required
an his time.
where did you vote at the last cleo
ton % asked Justice Dugro.
II did not VOTE" responded the tales
man.
Where have you voted since coming
Of age?" asked the court. to which Heu-
mann replied that he has never voted.
, although. he said, he registered couple
Of times when required by the Govern
inent since the war.
Then. very apparently, you are one
OF the men who expects others to run
the country for you while you proba bly,
occasionally criticise the Government
and yet make no move to improve con-
ditions.' said Justice Dugro. "It is the
euty of the citizens of a democracy 10
bear their share in the government OF
the country and help elect the men they
want to hold office. There are also other
duties, and serving on jury when called
Is one OF them. You may take you seat
in the box"
Heumann did.
The sun., 1919-02-19
5000 THREATEN
SHOE STRIKE HERE
Workers Demand Increase
and 48 Hour Week.

A strike OF $4,000 skilled workers en-
ployed in the eighty-five shoe factories
in Manhattan and Brooklyn IL threat
ened as n result OF refusal yesterday by
the employers to grant demands for in
creased wages. asserted to amount in
some instances to so per cent and for
forty-eight hour week. The factories
turn out high grade. shoes and their ag-
gregate output Ia 90, 600 pairs day.
According TO a statenent yesterday by
Raymond r. Morse at the Shoe Manu-
faeturers Board OF Trade. ca Flatbush
avenue, Brooklyn, frequent wage adj
vances were made during the war to
NEE. the Increased cost of living, aud
skilled workers are now earning from
s35 to $50 a week. The increase now
asked for would. 30 Mr. Morse declared
,throw the retail selling price too high
fer the average consumer"
1.-THE manufacturers believe" says the
abatement that the net result would be
q serious restriction in consumption
causing unemployment and decrease in
aggregate earnings instead of an in
crease. The manufacturers have offered
to let the question be settled by impair
tiai arbitrators, as well as the demand
for forty-eight hour week. but the
employees have 40 far declind TO arbi-
trate."
The sun., 1919-02-19
STOPPANI RELEASED
BY PAROLE BOARD
NeW York Broker and Others
Win at First Meeting.

Joseph H. Stoppani. former member
OF the stock brokerage firm OF Stoppan nj
& Hotchkiss, who was sent to Sing Sing
prison in February. 1918, 10 serve a two
year sentence for MISUNDERSTANDING
s5etS entrusted to him by John +.
Smith OF Brooklyn TO buy steel stocks.
was released yesterday by the State
Board of Parole, which held It's first SEES,
sion since the appointment OF Charles
r, Rattigan as superintendent of prisons.
Stoppani was convicted May !, 1916. bur
fought the case through the higher
courts. Six months was taken from his
sentence under the prisoners compensa-
ton law.
George Hodson, right hand man OF
former Warden Thomas Mott Osborne
who failed TO win freedom from the
board at its last session after GOV.
Whitman had committed his sentence
was released lie has served fourteen
Of twenty year sentence for second
degree murder in Erie county.
Other convicts paroled yesterday were
Charles Partridge OF New York who was
found TO he $4,000 short In his ac-
counts OF the estate he was administer.
ing. and William Magec who has served
nine years for mansaughter.