THE ALLIANCE HERALD
MIUTQEY NOTES
A letter from Brigadier General
Lord, director of finance of the war
department, explaining delay In pay
ing wounded and nick soldier, was
received Friday by Chairman Sherley
of tve house appropriations commit
tee and read as follows.
' With but few except Ions," said
the letter, "the enlisted men who
have been returned In this country
Without service records and without
any other papers witch contained a
statement of their accounts, thereby
making It impossible to determine
what pay. If any, was due to them.
"There has been no lack of effort
on the part of the war department to
effect payment at lenst in part to the
patlente returning from overseas, bn
it is apparent that full payment ea.fi
be made to these men only by accept
ing their own statements as to l
date to which they were last paid
he said, adding that this had been
done In some instances while in other
partial payments are being made so
the men will not be without funds.
Genera) Lord said an officer has
been sent to West Baden, Ind., to in.
etlgate the complaint that many sol
diers are there without funds due to
them. It was complaint that led to
criticism yesterday in the house.
A dispatch from Washington says
that definite plans for the organisa
tion of the war department and the
general staff, embodying the exper
ience gainer during the war, soon
will be ready for presentation to con
gress. The project will not include
however, any proposal of a general
military policy for the country, as
that question will be held in abeyance
until after the peace conference at
Paris. Gereral staff officials are giv
ing attention now to the preparation
of a bill for the permanent reorgani
sation of the staff Itself. It Is under,
stood that strong inducements soon
will be laid before Secretary Baker
for the abolishing of the old bureau
systems and for the centrali.lng of
both authority and responsibility for
the entire military establishment In
the general staff.
Instructions for the preparation for
surh plans were issued by General
lit) rob. when the armistice jvltii (i-r-B
any was Binned. During the war the
emergency authority of the Overman
bill had proved sufficient to enable
General M;irch to t rect the staff
machinery as it now stands.
Secretary Baker's approval of an
effort to WlitS into law a staff bill
which will perfect and perpetuate the
central control General Marc-: lu.s
crested Is generally expected as of
ficers recall his Interpretation of a
clause of the national defense act
which might essly have been read
ss subordinating the staff to the statu
tory bureau of the. 'Jepartment. Mr.
Itlaf then Hided to const' H) 111'
law as leaving the op' 01 "with him
vi 1 jmIc that construt ti n c a . !
Bill' of s pfl supreme
Ge March has ltu:4' I that
lhi i. Mnent of nv techu.eal
ar. s i.i ihe nrvice dtll'lM IM present
war would necessitate provisions for
the co-ordlnaied control and expan
sion of these thru the general statf
organisation. It Is expected, therefore
that the forthcoming bill will clearly
define the status of such arms as the
air service and the tunk corps. Tne
chief member of the general staff
Similarly, the present distribution of
the functions formerly vested In the
quartermaster general, chief of or
dinance and adjutant general will be
COB iFM ad and centralised in the staff
While the reorganization of the
army itself Will be deferred until the
outcome of the l'arls conference Is
known, many aspects of tf subject
are being studied by general staff of
ficers. The staff already has asser1el
its virtually unanimous adherence to
the universal training Idea. Shoul
the peace conference arrive at a de
cision which would sharply limit mil
tary establishments, however, off i
say It might easly be that univei
training machinery would be entirely
too cumbersome for the size of Hi
army the United States was to ma
tain.
!!
Not hln stirs the blood more than
the recital of the bravery of allied
prisoners while in the hands of the
brutal, cruel German officers. Here
is one from a Londan daily paper:
"I will break your proud British
hearts!" so vowed the brutal com
mandant of a German prison ramp.
He never succeeded. He broke the
bodies of the British prisoners; he
compelled them by torture and starva
tlon to do his bidding: but he never
succeeded in breaking their hearts or
quelling the proud British spirit of
his helpless captives.
From escaped and repatriated pris
oners I have heard stories of the do
ings of some of these gallant lads,
stories which make the blood rac
faster, bring a lump to the throat and
sometimes tears to your eyes.
There was a little Cockney lad of
the old army (even now it would not
be wise to mention his regiment) or
whom I havee been told. He had the
heart or a lion, and his perky defiance
of his German gaolers heartened the
whole camp. He was starved, beaten,
and imprisoned but as soon as he had
sufficient strength he came up smiling
again. Onco, when he was set to work
planting potatoes to feed Germans,
this lad secretly emptied his bag of
seed potatoes, refilled it with stones,
and went solemnly along the "rows"
sowing stones!
s oi
II Is greatest achievement , however
was when, with a gang of other pris
oners, he was set to work on the rSll
j way, OnWof his tasks being to clean
I out and refill (he grease boxes-- on
goods trains. Along came 11 train one
day loaded With explosives, and the
Thnradaj, December 19, 1918
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little Londoner set to work. He
cleaned out the grease boxes and re
filled them with ssnd! The result
was that, after the train had journey
ed a few miles nearer to the front the
exles became heated, a Are broak out
and the whole train blew up. The
Germans never knew the cause of
that "disaster."
At another camp, where sailors as
well as soldiers were Imprisoned, the
authorities ordered a flagstaff to be
erected outside the wire, and some of
the sailor prisoners vers set to w
In the snow to rig this up. When it
was finished a furled flag was hoisted
to be "broken" by a full-blown fj
man general on the kaisers birthday
When this great day arrived troops
formed a hollow square outside the
barbed wire, while Inside the British
prisoners were lined up and ordered
to stand to attention to salute the
German flag. A band played "Deutsch
land uber Alles" and "Die Wacht am
Kheln," the German general advanc
ed and broke the flag which fluttered
free In the wind. An then the pris
oners did spring to attention and a
full-throated cheer burst from them
-for the flag was the Union Jack!
A sailor engaged on the work of
rigging the flagstaff had wound his
ship's flag round his body before
jumping overboard when his ship was
torpedoed, and he had managed by
some means to substitute the free flag
of Britain for the German ensign.
It may seem strange to say so but
it is true that the prisoners "have
deserved well of their country."
London Daily Mall.
Our boys have done their part; now
it is for you to do yours.
A
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At the old SftJfad Mercantile Co. Building
The place to buy y&ur winter stock of choice eating
applet ; it reasonable prices.
Washiiljfton Box Apples
BALDWIN'. J $3m
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HOMESTEAD LANDS FOR
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
The Government is ?oing to help these boys to secure a homestead
Great bodies of fine grass-covered agricultural and grazing lands in
section allotments will bo available for entry, on the most favorable
terms, by honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. Government irri
gated lands, a valuable prize, will be part of the National bounty.
Thousands of our young men who have been drawn by war into
an out-door life will never go back to indoor salaried jobs.
12,000 acres of the finest Government-irrigated lands at Deaver,
Wyo., are expected soon to be opened for entry, with perpetual water
rights almost a gift. You should interest yourself at once, so by the
time yur boy returns, you can inform him as to just what the Govern
ment proposes to do. 1 am employed by the
Burlington to inform and aid you along these
lines. Get in touch with me.
S. B. HOWARD, Agricultural Agent.
1004 Farnam Street. Omaha, Nebr.
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