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Tin rc::T t:nx:i?ni:z, tiiltjday avtuiiiocu, afhil 11, ion 'J z w5V Hi ' " i hi- hi 5' if. rai -in iHTHETSEHCHE By Private JohnC.McElween (Copyright. 191S, TH INTERNATIONAL NEWS BUREAU, In 15 School St., Boston, Mass.) I "lar men are lighting on with to tlie British. I d.ireay we i!l be struggle. It. a battle in itself to get punished if ever the German, authon- through the mud, so things weren't ex- ! tie.-) get to know, but I'm not going back ! aetly rosy-looking. . to Germany. j , All in the Game. I Suicide Rather Than Return to Firing j Put it was all in. the game, ami we j - line. 'could niily lie there and wait and ! '"ilea are hurried back' from hospi--jure out for ourselves how the olwtaele lals before thev are tit for dutv, and 'would be reduced by the territie artil- il.au Kr.uit- ,1..,..., d,um n j 4T.ii." .f t l.-. li.tn, ! r,l mnn I ,,rr.4 wt fttltTwM the back. 1 had a ense of the kind the other . the bags and wallowed forward to our J objective. It's"" an experience JlcElween Returns to the Front Administering First Aid to the Hun's Empty Stomachs Hew the Funs Fosgbt Aascngst Item selves As Soon As They ; eourage of despair. They know Ger-'dav Were "Fed Up," Thrashing Their Ottxtn m.the Cage One. intne" TokJ ; many eannot win. but .they bom that! -Va battalion made uti of men' who11 to be out Wider that awful shellinc Him the Ftldin Conid Go to Hell So Far as He Was Concerned and That! if they .fight- on the allies will oiiamdrUiad been bronchi back from a hospital, ' bur experience for us even. inl the. ' first-line trenches; What it pvust be for tlve Huns who itself a -After the W-BWas Going to America AnywayWhat the Frititie ToW Himoiig themselves, or the people in allied V was ent Regarding the Affairs in the Fatherland The Brazen Fraud ot Him De- eotries will weary of the war and j They had had not been in an hour before ' have iho steel, as well as the noise, tackment Who Left Their -pilVBox" Under a Red Cross Flag Battlefield Has their governments to make peace i thev earns out aaln. .Some of r them . to contend with ean be better imagined No Honor for the Warriors One They Enter the Thick of lr "You Be- ri ,j,mt believe "anything- of the kind J were crviiisr like women or babies, and ! than described. but our men MiU think It poV."ble, and they' had not he heart to fight. Thej - A Braien Fraud. ' "".'"'' they are emouniged in that "belief by j doctors' a kl they ought never to have I (e piU-box was within sight, and the high command. We are kept in Ig-ibeen discharged from the hospital? t v watching it I aw four Uer- nmnee of what is happening at home. I v "Many, of our men commit " suicide ni under the Ked tWa ' flag ap Letter have ben stopped by the een- rather than return to "the front.- . . Iproaeh it and enter. "Well, I thought, that's all right. got hurt, or they're pre- come So Engrossed in Year Work That Yon Pay More Attention to Bul lets Than if They Were Flies" "After AIL What Can Yon Do?" "Yoate Probably Jast As Safe at the Spot You Are is As if You Shifted to An other, For Yoa Ne?er Know Where the Missiles Art Going to Land So You lost Go Ahead and Chance it, As the Saying is." Aad Besides, You've So Much to Po That You Even F orget Afi About Your cnances ' uescriDcs tne , S(,r . and even wb4a the stoppage i, ,,0t U '"-Of my own comnauY ; I know eight 1 ' . TT.-J.1 J T CWnll TIaI C kail rtifinra i.alml I ... . ...... M . . - J . ..,-:'. I Uiarge er me wiuuhk.i j raroreea an reterence to oad tunes are i who have taken tbi way of e$eapui(r j r-'omebody a a Pill-Pox What is a German Pill-Boi? - , j struck out. v 1 from the horrors of war within tbe last h,Brt - Pnaishmetit for Kutinetrs, j twirnaonUw. In many ca?t they just! ) A Germtn Ofiicer Badly Treated. I That wound of mine not Keep me ; aiut iw scrap we wens mswe uie t xh teaalt is that in the armr we .Bat a finyer or. a hand out of safety awav fntra our dear Fritzies very long. ; .-s;.e oif an invet:gatkm tour. The bad .to stablbb a THt of our own'. I i'th lorn "if fitttina ft wound that y j and ' thus we obtain new of bo-Jr our will keep them to get away to a hos- ii hat we hear Is ter- ! nJtal. The result of tin' is that our notjrible. ! eommaud do not now liermit the bos- time, to time of j pital US to take away men that have rktn, of hungry women and vhildreji : lost a finger or other wounds that dont euigregating in the streets and Iwina ; nuke them unlit to serve. All such It only scratched tw tn:cK pan " " j ue iruuuw i -. . y and tUu we ripht leg. and three days of rev opera-j After the Fritzies were fed 'their .of-1 people are faring. ;..n at an ininmvised ho!ital behind fi.r luvian in reitrrmrh thom fnr the firing line fitted me up again. having fought further' instead of surren J "We are told from Really 1 could hardly keep quiet all : Jering. Sow Frita bail enough of h'w oiaht when tle hospital orderly in- j o;ii)Vrs' buli-ducing, and even our dear! formed me that on the next day l , and iwtient Fr.ti had his limitations ! attacked savagely bv military and no-' eases are treated behind the lines, and wwnkl bejwnitted to return to my j ;,, landing every thing tliat his linn n-j lice, who are afraid to ''refuse to tarry ! yott ean se plenty of men without company. j perior handed to him at the end of bis j-out . work of this kind beeaue they a finger or . thumb. I counted five Wnat a Candid Fritx Told Him. j Ixot. It was a real s,ight, what the in-; know that if they refined they would be c!o.-e to me the day before I came out Bv the wav. Ibat niht the night dianant Fritwe bad done to their -over- sent off to the .western front. That is . of it. The men who. want to make beforr the ararning on which I was due j bearing sap. But we were not going to the punishment for nearly every w-jtwrtaui of being seat away manage to at lie front, batches of Hun prisoners 1 dicidine the FriUie for that. That j riotis offense today. lo-e an arm or leg. j was one offens-e agaitgiHMi manner' "in cases of treukon, such as tu n 1 tiie Friuies had committed for which we ' neetion with the revolts in the army toiild afford to stretch our palms and and navyj they don't carry out the dciith s.u "Here is a shake, old Fritit, do it seat wire t Item selves. They saw it w.edd again, but please do not make so much j bo a waste of Ormau ammunition, poise .while doing lit; next time. You ! a hit h is already scarce enough. Thev jj toW It is against the, interuatiioial law mnl the prisoner on to tbe jwestra to kill your officers.' -i. ! fn.nt, where they are' put into the front .Iu4 before withdrew to my bunk 1 lino trenches. wen? ln;ug)it in. One of hospital otfi rials ordered about .VI of us to go out with sandwiches and coffee and admin ister the "first aid" to the linns' empty sUwnachs. The poor devils! There fmg&t h IbousaBd. in the horde, and the,.ble outfit looked afevrveu. We wwit out with the food, and what Men With One Eye in Firing Line. must know that an attack Is : coming ell the tiomoaritment was sur llicient advertisement of the fact, in all j conscience but what was my sur I prise, a few minutes afterward to see, not four out twenty-tour at Uie very least, emerge again from the concrete fort, and all under the protecting sign. They came out, cool as cool, and trotted off to their own lines iu the most' -brazen and open way. I 'could scarcely believe it at first, but- the evidence of my eyes could not be de nied. It was obvious, of course, Uiat a trick had been 'placed, :i;i ". !'; ! As I say, the Huns must have known an attack was , bpecmij . " y Shirtwaist;-- Sale Friday and Saturday : - ' ' : " . , , - , - i.. In Vails, Silks, Crepe de Chine Crepes. In Plain and Fancy Colors, also beautiful t lot of fancy plaids. Be sure to see window display Friday. ere iu eomniauomg i .. ! j'- . iot ob fvery cruel,: to ferrid OtheA bnb'ir, dctwinmed;, king, Jiu-ii will' gladiv to roJu'V their Igartstk j I .' 41.- .1 i' flor l.orv ' - do ou think the Frit iaies did? Well, they made for us instantly, and we had I S' engge.I'1n conversation with one our bands full in keeping the hungry j the Friuies. This Frit? spoke F.ng Fritzies in line j w'1'' a Yankee twang, and told me Hum Quarrel Among Themselves, j in good old English that so far as he As soon as their stomachs were fillc up with" good British food, the Huns began to quarrel anioni; themselves ami in another instant the Huns were light ing Huns. Vow these Huns would not mind us British privates. So I can to the com pany headquarters and informed an of- vvas concenunl. the war wns over, and the fatherland could go to hell in full '.-ocd. After the war be was goin to AmerK-a, and sjiend t!ie rest of his lif-i in hating the Prussians. It is in Him f ne Hate I v. il! t'.'il you it is in the nature of tli- Hun, he must hate, and unless he Chained to Machine Guns. Sometimes they are chained to mu chiue guns, but as a rule there is no i!i od to take pains of that sort. Death lin!s you soon enough where the Brit ish guns are. "I:i the army in Flanders the men are continually refusing to tiht on. The l'ight 1 was captured we were out w'li i :-ntrol. We foturd t'at we cot Id not ;irry out the ta-k g'ven us. It was far too ri'kv because of the wav the trit- "TJie iirii-e lli.it men will nuv for ! perfectly well that an attack immunity from service is going up. ! batt ing, and, : ialwfagtWfeetIy well, ? First it was a linger, then a hand, an j tdo, : from bitr j of . tl,at wC.: C arm next, now, where the, commanding s would carry tliat pilI-fMx, just as we'.S officer is very strict which is the same thing ive nn eve or a le? for the chance of : Bill how being invalided out of the army. Ah! the Ked Cross! -Yon can't always be certain of that, They IhmI sent down that, party , of however, for I have seen men with one " four knowing that they would not be fired on by us, und then, with that sacred sipi as (heir protection, they had got the big majority of the fort's inmates clear away,- leaving only one or two die-iards to work their infer nal machine-guns when our boya went THE ?;.,' , . ' A SjeciiiSiillil eye employed in the fighting zone. I suppo-e it will be necessary to lose both eyes very soon to make certain of being released from service." Now i lint is I lie whole story. The common ordinary Fritzies are generally GILMER BROS. CO. VJSrWWYVWWiVUVWrW fii-er htat he Fritzies,, were (crapping j w hating Munething or somobody he. is j '.-h were watching, so we had to give ; Xw just to prv. tliat- I will happy. lh.umht if the ror a he mil nv. amongst themselves, and that the pre captain with a whip in hi hand rt-he.l to the ette with me. but b'lieve me f1r fTPI tP P 'fr,.v reaclifd the HMflMPVlt'nf'hV Vrft'iies were sepa rated like a bunch of torn cats, who OikOOOr-Oikct iuherstW.v1tilj1ft,)n7i:WI)tltLin. m you de and got a bucket of never point lilimli - m hat wjir oiit!m.k,'ifor' Ucr- monient he ioiiked as if 'le were eoU jtiifj'lito a ttinpW".' but lie o'liitrnlfi-d liiipself .within pffhrt, tml mattered alter a tew ibmmits or ! ,t up. He knew -At if we went, back I auoUwr exncrietxe of mine. I am again i . . . .... ... - i tvitli the t.!ry ot failure, we would W i. t - - . : puf on to ,oni; nire . dnpgrtus work ; thai wotilil Ih- as -.'isid n d?itth sfn i , . ' ! tenee. human ln'ings like you and I. They are ; over. L'ood und some of them I found very i Pill-Box Captured, But Few Huns, got.d. but wb.en thev become officers they j Uiat was coming it pretty low seem to turn. Huns instantly. ! down. But it is only part and parcel. you ' after all, of their idea of fighting. JTo doubt they thought it rather smart, but 'i had adifferetit opinion; and I' was oiify sorry there n'as Wo officer be- ' i-ide nie'af'the1 trtoiiitnit ' to wltn'ess titer ...t-.-.Ii. - ' t -i m i' Kit. i 'i . coiii uatn tnrown irom a water from a back kitchen window. ; il't4 sirc to win. 'e have liecftum clever. e nave tone too lar, and d:ut jyWi eonspqueni'e,!( now ""'We talked it over and decided tluil we wiinld trv to reach the nearest Bnt- T1k officer in it at first but -ii po-.t to surrender. g; ttipj! ahead o! my story,, but never pjitl this. b a good omr, wid I must tell -It,, . .Th.,jtroiil(!e with, lue Fritz is tliat lie is, toj o'cdiciit ,to Jtis officer. ,, Listen tf This One, Jij,t previous to one, oft oir big at- tieular pillbox was. Probably it was blown to bits. I shall never forget the last trip I made. The going up to t)ie f'rotit'line was all right ba,r the nud. 'What mud, and. what a task getting, thrdugh it. and out of it! ,. , . 'i ..... i i i. i; i.i . .And ye.t, despitp alk.purys went i (Mi iti if nn miiiR'. with rtflos, fitiit lifivO- j Wt: had the satisfaction "of Icarrtinj; '' : ; . ' . " .1 ,. '.. . . i:; " nets, stung high, and jests on tjitirlips. V that War ikftervmrdii, bull inktead' of I'-J'' !'1, ,''.:' ' J'-' vL.. .ha t'u;ty. waf agaiftt flheii ,h t n .Jth : uhh and j wo-igare ourselves tacks O'-T hit, we,t up, to the, froht line? the WrW or so 'of' prisoners 'iwe! -ought j trenches, lt.ws to be. a fi"ht for Hai-' to -hiff ndV e: eorrld "cWlvhart- ci ;;:ne!Vi"ivi1-H? wore in iarnest he-fell, boxes,, and.fropi, th.e. nature of'- the? htfndfullf 'ws' got ttii-fod tdW tip 7 STound we knew it would lie '9tif.j-';lctMm babbii(:ta:acbif4Utff t (baSnoat n.ib ui .mo. Idn't call it a , rad.. ih1 way we bad (to jgo, pve.r, j Almost frt -eTy art ii, was Knce-uecu in sians i, -i i. ti . , .,i i,. t -,! , y.Tnira, we ,ij. plunged, HtrraUy ploughed, our way, helping each other as best we could until reached the front-line trenches. Into these wo .scrambled, and ( then settled down to wait be first act in tbe drama which was- to unfold itself. Tdiet first act, of course, was the ar tiljery, Bnd needless ' to ' sa'jr, it was great success. , n. . ill !M ' it I' ' Kll'lS ' li ' u Throng ormuts. ;Qpr epwbvl,,ffifjultiea,(an when tlie boys w,et .pVtf-Pf hd to jfoHow.,Vhem,UDft,t JP; 1 (Ttf U outinued,Kv ir- . ' " ' , vf 1 - . 1 t : :r. - " '" " . -w -i.il.... - . . !., .. . . m. ? : - , . , 7- 1 1 !l -1;, "! r-frfc--- 1 ,', - 11 1 ' ' l?iT i2J5Jingof theBoa Directors of the Retail Merchants, Association of High Point Wednesday it was voted to EXTEND the PERIOD DURING WHICH S THE CITY MIGHT PAY UP AND PRESERVE THEIR CREPIT RATING. IT VAS UNAIMOUSLY VOTED TO GIVE CREDIT CUSTOMERS THROUGH - , MoEoa (7 9 A r OT I 1 l o pay their accounts or to make such arrangements as will satisfy the merchants that the intention is to pay. It had hcen the intention of the merchants to put the re cently Passed resolution calling for the payment of all accounts by the tenth of trmbnUi 'm' effect after yesterday but it was found that several people could Hot pay vai i the 15th and rather an work a hardship on these customers and wuse tiiem tolose their rating, the period was extended. Til SI Eensaon n llPf?! KS?S& lhat are not aid on or before April 15 will be made known to every member o f the association and further credit denied him. CREDIT CUSTOMERS MUST EITHER PAY OR MAKE SATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENTS by that time-the regulation concerns EVERY person who buys on an ac count. I he merchants are forced to .pay cash for the goods they sell and must have prompt payment from customers. The enforcement of the regulation inthe future 00 ?ei, fcSSK f 'a,Vsiactcry arrangement is nothing but a measure of SELF-PROTECTION to the following merchants, MEMBERS OF THE RETAIL MER CHANTS' ASSOCIATION OF HIGH POINT: - . ; .r Allen's Department Store V. W. Idol & Co. Wood Brothers E. K. Ingram Lashmit Shoo Store Matton Drug Co. J.M.Hedrick W. C. Beavans T. J. Steed Dixie Milling Co. Gilmer Brothers Co. Amos Furniture Co. J. A. Clinard Thacker's Ring Drug Co. S. H. Kress & Co. N. H, Silver Co. C. B. Mattocks Co. High Point Hardware Co. McLellan Stores Co. Eugene H. Jarrett Mi3s Venetia Smith Cannon-Fetzer Co. Efird's Department Store Joe Levine S. Robinowitz ' J. E.Perryman P. H. Johnson High Point Milling Co. D. I. Brooks & Son E. C. McLeod S.F.Brown High Point Steam Laundry Mechanicsville Supply Co. W. T. Parker J. E Jester Ed. Wills A. Robertson J. C. Kivett Greer & Taylor A. N. Greer D, A. Fowler F. P. Conrad , , W. V. Evans J. H. Vestal M. T. Choplin P. L. Culler V. D.Poor . B. Vardell H.D. Merritt J. W. Montgomery A. H. Idol . J. M. Farlow ; , Fowler & Pickett D. Rones & Son Atlantic Store, Inc. Blair-Hoskins Co. Beeson Hardware Co. Siceloff Hardware Co. L. C. Stevenson & Bro. J. R. Barton 'Elm Street Grocery Co. Dr F. Lbpp - , Arctic Ice & Coal Co. Z. M. Sillman ' J. E. Woollen William Evans ' Capital Grocery fo. Green Drug Co. Lewis Brothers ; Shelton Brothers - People's House Furnishing Co. W.T. Justice Henderson & Foustr : : J. W. Sechrest & Son -W. W. Ellington : ; ' C. Dunbar W.H.Gurley v Till tail MeFelminiftsAss TT TT o il ; TTi . o ,' 6 CKCKTlTTX STi VT1 nvtiti (Tir
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