Daily British Whig (1850), 16 Apr 1918, p. 11

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ia THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, APRIL-16, 1918. Indian Sappers in Mesopotamia--Watching the Germans a h ou Porn Ei CrlRLY 23 JE kp ers ey Sng ax a ! ' " (1) With the Troops in Mesopotamia--Indjan sappers building a bridge across the Rez Canal. (2) 4 British Western Front in France--Part of a British regiment at work in the trenches. (3) Watching the Germans--A British look-out party in France, .in a small trench between the lines. The periscope seen at the end of the trench ° is roughly covered with sacking to disguise it from the enemy, ; (4) An cfficer and some men of an English Toginten in France handling barbed.wire in a ench. (5) A marksman of an English regiment leav- . ing his post in the trenches to go on duty. (6) Serbian Colonels on & visit to the Western Front watching a test of liquid.fire. : (7) On Western Front--A soldier of an Eng- lish regiment whose duty it is to warn his com. rades of the approach of enemy poison-gas. (8) Preparing a big British for action on the Western Front drive. ov (9) W. H. Boswell, who is mentioned in the story. : " # §# age Dramatic - Ocean Greeting s OUGH a mere land lubber his children ask, "Father, what the call of the sea was t0o|did you do in the great war,"' he : strong for W. H. Boswell, of | will point with pride to the glass the Passenger Dept. C. P. R.,| encased collar and say, "Son, that Charing Cross, London, Eng-|was my collar, worn by Capt. land, and when he joined up he Kendall, of Dr. Crippen and decided to follow the footsteps of | 'Empress of Ireland' fame, whom - his Viking ancestors. He followed | I helped to save from a watery a period of training at ome of grave when the 'Calgarian' went Britain's great naval bases and down in March, 1918." * then he was was postedito a patrol| Captain Kendall, by the way, bet%and found his sea legs. That has had many adventurous ex- patrol boat has proved a friend in| periences since the war broke out need for many of the passengers: --on the English Channel dodg- and erews went adrift on the ing submarines while he brought ocean's wide expanse by the hor-sacross refugees to England from rible Hun, and when the "Cal| Belgium, in the North Sea on de- garian"' was sunk she picked up!coy ships--perhaps the most dan- one of her boats with survivors. |gerous service of all--and more One of the first to come aboard recently in transport work. such was Commander Kendall, the as that which culminated in the navigating officer, and a hearty | affair of the "Calgarian.'"' At greeting took place between the present he is saying nothing. re- gaBant C. P. O. S. captain and the membering the warning of Job: erstwhile C. P. R. "Round the!*'Oh that mine adversary had world rate éxpert" which resulted - written a book," but at the end of in the latter loaning the former a the war any book he wrote would clean collar, on the understanding make those of Jules Vorne seem that it would be returned to him, | tame by comparison, 80 that when in the days to come; a

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy