12 THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918. iTHirr AiMMiro i I Milt dHliihllCO. J HUNS' ORDER IN : BREMENIL RAID ,- ,- Ground Dotted With Enemy Dead After German Descent on American ' Positions East of Luneville. With the American Army in France, May 30. The purpose of the Ger . man attack yesterday against the American position near Bremenil, tast of Luneville, was to capture Americans. The determined American resistance, however, ' repulsed the nemy with heavy losses and no Americans were taken prisoners. The Germans attacked at three oolnts, and at one place a group of 14 got into the American trenches. It never went back, , Nine of the 14 Germans were killed, four are prison ers and one is dead of wounds. ; "Capture Americans" Is Order. : The prisoners reported that they were ordered to capture Americans at any cost,' their superiors being tnxious to determine where Ameri can troons are stationed and their oresent hs-htinK strength. At a point west of Bremenil, after a heavy barrage, 5U uerman soldiers attempted to reach the American line. They were in three groups and the two larger ones were held up and then dispersed by the American ma chine sun and rifle fire. Ihe tnira group, consisting of 14 men, man aged by reason of terrain conditions to reach the American trenches and ' jump into them. , . - . Fritizies' Hot Reception. Under' the leadership of a lanky youth, whq was a farmer until he en listed, a group of Americans gave the Germans a hot reception. Bayo- n iLa amI r. ( A lii.,ii.n i(t m flashed white and then red almost as quickly as it takes to tell it and the tnemy party was soon overpowered. During the engagement a big Ger man noncommissioned officer, who di rected the enemy party, stood on a parapet. He raised his arm to hurl ; i grenade at an American soldier; but be never threw it. Another American, mho had come through a severe gas ittack last Monday morning, reached : Uie German with his bayonet The trenade fell from the dying German's aand and exploded harmlessly on the parapet. Terrific Gas Assault. The gas bombardment that pre ceded 'tbe infantry advance by the tnemy began at 12:40 o'clock yesterday morning. The Germans had brought p additional1 eight-inch .projectors to replace those that had been destroyed by the American guns Monday night, ' ind mustard, phosgene and chloride ihells fell by the hundreds on the American positions. In one small area ilone 300 of these arrived. Many of the Americans, as a result, began to uun mic t"cv.is Qiigm gassing mm were harboring a large grudge against the enemy on this account. When the gas shells began to fall there was hardly any wind, making it ' rccutn that the fumes would re main in the localities where the Gcr- ' mans placed them, and the men in the American trenches : hoped the enemy would follow up the . shelling with an infantry attack. '.; Ground Dotted " With Enemy. . The hopes of the resentful defend ers were fully realized and the result completely -sjatisfied the Americans, for in one trench at daybreak this morning lay thVnine dead Germans . who perished in the bayonet attack, while to 1he east, where the men in the trenches had. gone to work with their machine guns, the ground was dotted with gray clad bodies. Many of the machine gunners, still waring their gas masks, stuck to their guns throughout the preliminary bombardment and when they saw the' advancing forms of the Germans just outside the American wire they cut loose with their fire. Uncle Sam's Farm Workers To Harvest Wheat Crops Washington, May 30. Shortage of farm labor to harvest the western wheat crop will be met by a mobile force of workers recruited for. this V purpose, the , federal t employment service today announced.' 1 These workers will start early next month harvesting the winten wheat crop in Oklahoma, then going into Kansas and afterwards moving into the serine wheat xertinn nf th north- west and finally crossing the border and assisting Canadian iarmers- late . in the summer. ; ' 1 Army's Health Good, is v z Surgeon General's Report '.. Washington, May 30. General health conditions throughout home camps continue to be very good, the ' surgeon genral of the army stated to day in his health report for the week mrfincr Uiv 24. Pntirtirn!a nrvi1a extensively at, Camps Travis, Tex.; ;: Dodge, Ia and Gordon, Ga., with measies generally prevalent at all cantonments. Deaths decreased from ; 178 , last week to 161 this week. Three Killed, 20 Hurt When - Train Goes Over High Cliff "Benton Harbor, Mich., May 30. Three members of the crew of a com bination freight and passenger train on the Pere Marquette were killed and a score of passengers injured when the engine jumped the track and fell over an embankment, two miles west of Buchanan. Woman Drowned,. Plants ; Razed in Eastern Flood i Hill, N. II., May 30.-An aged woman was crowned ana the plants of two mantifarf firmer rftmnsnic twn dwelling' bouses, an electric light and power nouse, a railroad bridge ana a quarter of a mile of railroad track were swept away when a new concrete , mm oam ncre collapsed uast night. : French Frustrate German : . " Air Raid Aimed at Paris " Tans, May 30. An enemy airplane was brought down by French anti- , aircraft guns during an attempted ram on fans last night. None of the . German machineWas able to fly over - the city. A few bombs were dropped fa the suburbs. . , cvf CHAPTER XII. t " Facing the Grim Facts. Up to that time I had thought I knew a good deal about the war I had had much news from my boy. I had talked. I think, to as many re turned soldiers as any man in Britain. I had seen much of the backwash and the wretched aftermath of war. Ah, yes, I thought 1 knew more than most folk did of what war meant 1 But until my tour began, as I see now, easily enough, I knew nothing literally nothing at all! There are towns, and ports in Britain that are military areas. One may not enter them except on busi ness, the urgency of which has neen established to the satislaction ot the military authorities. One must have a permit to live in them, even if they be one s home town, l liese towns are vital to the war and its successful prosecution, " :. r Until one has seen a Briiisn port of embarkation in this war one has no real beginning, even, of a concep tion of the task the war has im posed upon Britain. It was so with me, I know, and since then other men have told me the same thing. There the army begins to pour into the funnel, so to speak, that leads to France and the front. There all sorts of lines are .brought together, all sorts of scattered activities come to a focus. There is incessant activity day and night. - It was fron Folkestone, on the southeast coast, that the Rev. Harry Lauder, M. P. tour was to embark. And we reached Folkestone on June 7, 1917. Folkestone, in time of peace, was one of the greatest of the southern watering places. It is a lovely spot. Great hotels line the Leas, a glorious promenade, long the top of chalk cliffs, that looks out over the channel. In the distance one fancies one may see the coast of France, beyond the blue water. There is green grass everywhere be hind the beach. Folkestone has a miniature harbor, that in time oi peace gave shelter to the fishing fleet and to thexchannel steamers that plied to and from Boulogne, in France. The harbor is guarded by stone jetties. It has been gradually en larged now .so has all Folkestone, for that matter. But 1 am remember ing the town as it was in peace 1 There .was no pleasanter and kind lier resort along that coast. The beach was wonderful and all summer long it attracted bathers and children at play. Bathing machines lined the beach, of course, within the limits of the town: those oueer. old. clumsy looking wagons, with a dressing cabin on wheels, that were drawn up and down according to the tide, so that bathers might enter the water from them directly, lhere, as in most British towns, women bathed at one part of the beach, men at the other, and all in the most decorous and modest of costumes. But at Folkestone, In the old days of peace, about a mile from the town limits, there was another stretch of beach where all the gay folk bathed men and women together. And there, the costumes were such as might be seen at Deauville or Ostend, Etre tat or Trouville. Highly they scan dalized the good folk of Folkestone, to be sure but little was said, and nothing was done, for, after ill, those were the folk who spent the money I They dressed in white tents that gleamed against the sea, and a pretty splash of color they made on a bright day for the soberer folk to go and watch, as they sat on the low chalk cliffs above theml ,. Gone gone f Such days have passed for Folkestone! They will no doubt come again but when? When? June the seventh 1 Folkestone should have been gay for the begin ning' of the onset of summer visitors. Sea bathing should have just have been beginning to be attractive, as the sun warmed the sea and . the beach. Bat when we reached the town war was over all. Men in uni form were everywhere. Warships lay outside the harbor. Khaki and guns, men trudging along, . bearing the burdens of war, motor trucks, rush ing ponderously ' along, carrying ammunition and food, messengers on motorcycles, sounding to all traffic that might be ia the way the clam orous summons to clear the path those were the sights we sawl How hopelessly ' confused it all seemed 1 1 could not believe that there was order in the chaos that I saw, But that was because the key to all that bewildering activity was not in my possession. - ? Every man had his appointed task. He was a cog in the greatest machine the world has ever seen. He knew just what he had to do, and how much time had been allowed for the per formance of His task. It was . as sumed he would not fail. The. British army makes that assumption, and it is warranted, v : I , hear praise, even from men who hate the Hun as I hate him, for the superb military, organization of the, German army.' They say the , kaiser's people Tnay well take pride in that. But I say that I am prouder of what Britain and the new British army that has come into be ing since this war began have done than any German has a right toHe! They spent 44 years in making ready for a war they knw they meant, tome day, to fight.! We had riot had. that day I first saw our machine really functioning, as many months for prep aration as they had had years. And yet we were doing our part. We had had to build and prepare while we helped our ally, France, to hold off the gray hord that had swept down so treacherously through Belgium from the north and east It was as if we had organized and trained and equipped a fire brigade while the fire was burning,: and while our first devoted fighters sought to keep it in checlr with water buckets. And they did!- They didl The water buckets-served while the -hose was made, and the mains were laid, and the hydrants set in place, and the trained firemen were made ready to take up tne tasic. : - And, now that I had come to Folkestone, now that I-was seeing the results of all the labor that had been performed, the effect of all the prodigies of organization, I began to know what Lord Kitchener and those who had worked with him had done. Laude ia tfte'Wat? cflftnsrel in crance" Te?7s ffis ZPersoxal experiences on i&e Western -4 COf VRI&HT 1918 System ruled everything at Folke stone. Nothing, it seemed to me, as officers explained as much as they properly could, had been left to chance. Here was order, indeed. In the air above us airplanes flew to and fro. They circled about like great, watchful hawks. They looped and whirled around, butting this way and that circling always. And I knew that, as they flew about out side the harbor the men in them were never off their guard; that they were peering down, watching etfery moment for the first trace of a sub marine that might have trept through the more remote defenses of the chaiu net. Let a submarine appear its shrift would be short, indeed I There, above, waited the airplanes. And on the surface of the sea sinister destroyers darted about as watchful as the flyers above, ready for any emergency that might arise. I have no doubt that submarines of our own lurked below, waiting, too, to do their part. But those, if any there were, I did not see. And one asks no ques tions at a place like Folkestone. I was glad of any information an officer might voluntarily give me. But it was not, for me or any other loyal cnton to put him in the position of hav ing to refuse to answer. Soon a great transport was pointed out. to me, lying beside the Jetty. Gang planks were down, and upNlhem streams of men in khaki moved end lessly. Up they went, in an endless brown river, to disappear into the ship. The whole ship was a .very hive of activity. Not only men were going aboard, but supplies of every sort: boxes of ammunition, stores, food. And I understood, and was presently to see, that beyond her sides there was yie same ordered scene as prevailed on shore. Every man knew his task; the stowing away of everything that was being car ried aboard was being carried out systematically and with the utmost possible economy of time and effort. lhat s the ship you will cross the channel on," I was told. And I re garded her with' new interest. I do not know what part she had been wont to play in time , of peace what useful, pleasant journeys it had been her part to complete. I only knew that she was to carry me to France, and to the place where my heart was and for a long time had been. Me and 2,000 men who were to be of real use over there1 ' . We were nearly-lhe last to go on board. We found the decks swarm ing with men. Ah, the braw laddiesl They smoked and they laughed as they settled themselves for the trip. Never -a one looked as though he might be sorry to be there. They were leaving behind them all the good thincs. all the pleasant things, ot life as, in time of peace, every one of them had learned to live it and to know it. Long, long since had the last illusion faded of the old days when war had seemed a thing . of pomp and circumstance and glory. They knew well, those boys, what it was they faced. Hard, grinding work they could look forward to do ing; such work as few of therrr had ever known in the. old days. Death and wounds the? could reckon unon as the portion of just about so many of them. There would-be bitter cold. later, in the trenches, and mud. and Standing for hours in icy mud and water. There would be hard fare, and scanty, sometimes, when things went wrong. There would be gas attacks, and the bursting of shells about them with all sorts of poisons in them. Al ways there ' would be the deadliest perils of these perilous days. But they sang as they set out upon the great adventure of their lives. They smiled and laughed. They cheered me, so that the tears started from my eyes, when they saw me, and they called me the gayest of gay greetings, though they knew that I was going only for a little while, and that many of them had set foot on British soil fon the last time. The steady babble of their voices came to our ears, and they swarmed below us like ants as they disposed, themselves about the decks and made the most of the scanty space that was allowed for them. The trip was to be short, of course; there were too few ships. and the problems of convoy were too . 1 . . . 'LI. . . 1 . ,L. great to maxe u possiDie xo maice inc voyage a comfortable one. It was a case of getting them over as might best be arranged. , ' , ' , ' A word of command Vang out and was passed around by officers and non- coms. - . ... "Life belts must be put on before the ship sails l", t t , ' N That simple order brought home the grim facts of war at that moment as scarcely anything else could have done. Here was a grim warning of the peril that lurked outside. Every where men were scurrying to obey I among the rest. The order applied as much to us civilians as it did to any of the soldiers. And my belt did not fit, and was hard, extremely hard, for me to don. I could no manage it at aU by myself, but Adam and Hogge had had an easier time with theirs, and they came to my help. Amongst us CASOARETS BEST -IF CONSTIPATED -, ' They liven your liver and bowels and you feel fine i again Don't stay headachy, bilious with breath bad and stomach sour" Zone &tghtitt6 Stonf- f, , , , we got mine on, and Hogge' stood off, and looked at me, andmiled." "An extraordinary effect. Harry!" he said, with a smile. "I declare it gives you the most charming embon point!" ' I had jny doubts about the use of t!.e word charming. I know that I should not have cared to have anyone judge of my looks from a picture taken as I looked then, had one been taken. ' ' 1 But it was not a time for such thoughts. For a civilian, especially, and one not used to journeys in such times as these, there is a thrill and a foiemnity about the, donning of a life preserver. I felt that I was, in deed, it might; be, taking a isk in making this journey, and it was an awsome thought that I, too, might have seen my native land for the last time, and I said a real goodby to those whom I had left behind me. Now we cast off, and began to move, and a thrill ran through me such as I had never knoiVn before in all my life. I went to the rail as we turned our nose toward the-open sea. A destroyer was .ahead, another was beside us, others rode steadily alorvg on cither side. It was the most reas suring of sights to see them. They looked so business like, so capable. I could not imagine a Hun submarine as able to evade their watchfulness. And moreover, there were .the watch ful man birds above us, the circling airplanes, that could make out so much better than could any lookout on a ship, the first trace of the pres ence cf a tin fish., No I was not afraid! . I trusted in the British navy, which has guarded the sea lane so well thatnot a m,an had lost his life as the result of a Hun attack, al though many millions had gone back and forth to France since the begin ning of the war. x I did not stay with my own party. I preferred to move about among the soldiers. I was deeply interested in them, as Ihave always been. And I wanted to make friends among them and see how they felt. "Lor' lumme it's old 'Arry Lau der 1" said- one cockney. "God bless, you, 'Arry many's the time I've sung with you in the alls. It s good to see you with us!" And so I was greeted everywhere. Man after man crowded around me to shake hands. It brought a lump into my throat to bt greeted so, and it made me more than, ever glad that the military authorities had been able Hthen through a sterilized pipe line to glass-lined tanks in a cool cellar for aging. Made Milwaukee X to ee tht'u wiy to grant fay equest. It confirmed my belief that I was going where I might be really useful to the men who were ready and will ing to make the greatest of all sac rifices in the cause so close to all our hearts ' When I first went aboard the transport I picked up a little gold stripe. It was one of those men wear who have been wounded, as a badge of honor. I hoped I might be able to find the' man who had lost it, and re turn it to him. But none of them claimed it, and I have kept it to this 4ay, ai a souvenir of that voyage. It was easy for them to know me. I wore my kilt and tny cap, and my knife in my stocking, as I have always done, on the stage, and nearly always off it as well. And so they recognized me without difficulty. And never a one called me anything but Harry ex cept when it was 'Arry! I think I would be much affronted if ever a British soldier called me Mr. Lauder. I don't know because not one of them eVer did, and I hope none ever will! They told me that there were men from the Highlands om board, and I went, looking for them, and found them after a time, though going about that ship, so crowded she was, was no easy mater. They were Gordon Highlanders, mostly, I found,- and they were glad- to see me, and made me welcome, and I had a pipe with them, and a good talk. Many of them were going back after having been at home, recuperat ing from wounds. And'they and the new' men too were all eager and anxious to be put there and at work. "Gie us a chance at the Huns it's all we're asking," said one of a new draft. 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Ahm. but I was proud that day of Wie British navy! It is a great task that it has performed, and nobly it has done it. And it was proud and glad I was again when we sighted land, as we soon did, and I know that I was gazing for the first time since Ha a Fnklp A sterilized line carries it to automatic, filling machines containing sterilized, bot tles, thence to Pasteur ization. This insures absolute purity. the worth - beverage, is g o od, and good for you. It is healthful it is nour ishing. It has i the wonder ful hop aroma. It is .nonr intoxicating Try it. On sale wherever soft drinks .are sold. Order a ease from i war h?d been declared, upon jhe shores of our great ally France. It was the great day and the proud day and the happy day tor mel I was near the realizing of an old dream I " d often had. I was with the soldiers who had my love and my devotion, and I was coming to France the France that every Scotchman learns to love at his mother j breast A, stir ran through the men Or ders began to fly, and I went back to my place and my party. Soon we would be4 ashore, and I would be in the way of beginning the work I had come to do. ' ENEMY RAIDERS FAIL TO SMASHi .AMERICAN LINE V-- ' Washington, May 30. The second section of General Parshing's com munique for May 29, announces the failure of the enemy to break through the American lines. A raiding party of about 50 men, it says, was repulsed with a loss of ten dead and four wounded. American casualties were light. ' On May 27. the communique said, Lieutenants Fisher, Curtis, Buford and McLanahan, on patrol duty in the St. Mihiel v region, encountered enemy machines at 4,000 meters. One of these was downed. Defeat of an enemy airplane report ed in the communique for May 23 is credited to Lieutenant Rickenbacher and Lieutenant Hambleton, and not to Lieutenant Rickenbacher and Lieu tenant Campbell, as previously re ported. Coal Men Pledge Efforts Tn Increase Production Philadelphia, May 30. Members of the National Coal association in clos ing session of its convention . today pledged themselves to subordinate all other things to . the production of coal; to continue their support of the United States fuel administrator in his effort to increase output and to aid the president to crush despotism and to make the world a safe place to live in. Air Instructor Dies After j Terrific Crash in Plane Fort Worth Tex., May 30. Lieu tenant P. G. Mihleder, instructor at Taliaferro field, died this morning from injuries received Wednesday aft ernoon, when his machine crashed to the earth. Lieutenant Buckus, who was with him at the time, escaped with a few scratches.; Allies to Buy Remainder . 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