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WITH THE FRENCH.
AN AMERICAN'S IMPRESSION.
As special correspondent of the New Fork World Mr. Alexander Powell, the author of the following article, had some thrilling experiences in Belgium, which he incorporated in one of the best war books, published under the title of Fighting in Flanders." One of the best-known representatives of the younger school of American journalism, Mr. Powoll has been given exceptional facilities by the French Government to witness the work of the French Army in the field and to glean at first band his own impressions of the magnificent fighting spirit animating all ranks of our Ally's forces.
HEADQUARTERS, 6TH FRENCH ARMY,
Before coming to France I was told that the French were sory stingy with their war. I was told that the only fighting would be permitted to see would be on kinematograph screens. But I found that I had been misinformed. They have been ne generous with their war as a Kentucky colonel is with mint juleps,
Within forty-eight hours after my arrival at the Gare du Nord I had been presented to the President of France on the field of battle: I had seen a French division reviewed within sound of the German guns: I had been taken into a bombarded city, and a French priest had shown me the ruined beauties of his cathedral while German shells were burst ing in adjacent streets; and a battery of the famous "hundred and fives" was turned loose on the German trenches for
my special benefit.
MAGIC YELLOW CAND.
1
Here before me vas's
corps-til the nuts and bolts and springs wore the famous poilus, the boarded ones. and screws which compose what has Their uniforms were not immaculate. become after nine months of teating. They were faded by wind and rain and probably the most efficient fighting sometimes stained with blood. On their machine the world has ever seen. From boots was the mud of the battlefields along what I have seen of the French Army 1 the Alane.
Fresh from the trenches am convinced that it has become a more though they were, they were as pink-cheek. potent weapon than was the Germani ed as athletes and they marched with the Army laat September Moreover, the buoyancy of men in high spirits and human element is not lacking. Instead perfect health of being mere cogs the French soldiers are section of that wall of steel which is encouraged to exort their ingenuity and slowly but, ob, so surely pushing back the to use their brains. And it is the men spiked helmets towards the Rhine.
Hard on the heels of the infantry came with brains who are going to win this
the guns-the famous. war.
When only a short distance in the rear half a dozen batteries of them at a spunk-
sovouty-fives". of the firing line, at a place which for ing trot, well horsed and well quipped. obvious reasons shall be nameless, we left A little space to let the foot and guns set the cars and proceeded on foot down a
out of the way and thoni wo hoard the winding country road which debouched wild, shrill clangour of the cavalry trum quite suddenly into a great saucer-shaped pats pealing the orarge, Over the flse vndley. Its gentle slopes were checkered they came, helmeted giants on gigantio The earth shook boneath their with brown squares of fresh ploughed Porce folds and green once of sprouting grain. gallop. The scarlet breeches of the riders From beyond a rear by ridge came the gleamed fiery in the sunlight; the horas- sullen mutter of artillery, and every now hair plumes of the helmets floated ont and then there appeared against the behind the sword blades hold on high turquoise sky what looked like a patch of formed a forest of glistening steel. cotton-wool but was in reality bursting they went thundering past us they rous shrapuel. The far end of the valley was in their stirrups, and high above the clank Alled with what appeared at first glance of steel and the trample of hoofs rose the to be a low-hanging cloud of grey-blue deep-mouthed rear which has come from mist, but which a wo drew nearer the throats of French cavalry all down. resolved itself into dense masses of troops
the ages:
"Vive la France! Fire to drawn up in review formation-infantry France!" at the loft, cavalry at the right, and guns in the centre. I had heard much of the invisible qualities of the new field uniform of the French Army, but I had heretofors believed it inferior to the Cor man greenish groy. But I have changed my mind. At three hundred yards twelve thousand men could scarcely be dis- tinguished from the landscape. The only colourful sole was struck by the dragoons, who still retain their scarlet breeches and blue tunica and horse-tailed helmets, though the steel of the helmote is now covered with grey linen.
PRESIDENT WHO LOOKS THE PART.
CALM AT THE FRONT, THE COMMON SENSE OF THE AMMUNITION QUESTION.
Ear cor, F... MAUDE, C.B., IN THE * STANDARD."}
As
I do not wish to give the impression, however, that these facilities for flirting
The absence of all attempts on the part with sudden death are handed out pro miscuously to all who apply for them. To
of the Germans to retaliate for the checks obtain me this opportunity to see the
suffered by them at Neuve Chapelle and St Eloi, tatron in conjunction with the French fighting machine in operation re-
cassation of their efforts in the Weevro quired the united influence of a Cabinet
district, affords a very sure indication of Minister, a British Peer, two Ambassa dors, and a scare of newspapers. At three o'clock a rolling cloud of dust the straits to which they are at this wonder if you who will read this over your suddenly appeared on the road from Concat reduced for want of mon on the coffee cups to-morrow morning realise that piègne, and out of it tore a long line of rumours afloat de to the transference of western front, and confirms. the many though the German treuetes can be reach-uilitary cars, travelling at express train large bodies of troops to the Carpathians, ed by motor-car in ninety minutes from pood, all save one in wur conts of The Rue de la Paix it is as impossible for elephant grey. The exception was a low British remain relatively quiescent in If for the moment both French and an unauthorised person to get within slung racer, painted & canary yellow, sound, much less within sight, of them as Tearing at top speed up the valley it their several sectors, it is not necessary to it would be for a tourist to stroll into came to a sudden stop before the centre conjure up bogeye, such as want of Buckingham Palace and have a chat with of the mile-long line of soldiery. A mile ammunition, etc. to account for the
pause in their operations. King George.
of fighting men stiffened to attention, e
As I have often pointed out, there are mile of rifle harrels formed a hedge of But when the Ministry of War has final-burnished steel; the drums gave the long viewing the situation in Franco as
more ways of killing a ant than one, and ly issued you the little yellow card which, roll and the thirteen ruffles, the colours so far as this war is concerned, is the swept the ground, the hands hurst into whole, there are so many openings for the equivalent of Aladdin's lamp and the the splendid strains of the Marseillais next move in the game (the precise magic carpet put together, and you have and a little man, grey-moustached, grey-relative value of which can only be become for the time being a guest of the bearded, inclined to stoutness but with judged by the men on the spot), that wo nation, your path is everywhere made the unmistakable carriage of a soldier, may be quite certain that the present smooth before you. I was ciceroned by a walked briskly down the motionless Hoes, pension of activity has a definitel Staff captain in a beautiful sky-blue I was having the unique privilege of motive behind it, and has not been im
posed on us by external considerations of uniform, and other officers in equally seeing a President of France reviewing a swart uniforms were waiting to explain French Army almost within sight of the any sort.
It was under almost parallel of men who are now (at the several head- things in the various divisions through invader.
It must be remembered that the type. which we passed. We travelled by motor- sircumstances that, upwards of half a car, with a pilot car ahead and a baggage contury ago, another President of another quarters, cast and west) directing the car behind, and we went so fast that it mighty Republic reviewed another Army military operations is one entirely unlike took two people to tell about it: one to
which was also fighting the battles of those who manufacture political opiniony and another civilisation.
to serve their shout, Here they come!..
own personal ends in peac So, complete were the There they go!
President Poincaré is by no means an they are not in the habit of losing their He is the only honds if things should not go as satis arrangements for our comfort that in the easy man to describe. little inn of the Golden Apple at Villers-French President within my memory who These Staff men of the Allied Armies
factorily as they might desire. Cotterets, where we stopped for Junch, looks the part of a ruler. In his person we found the table decorated with flowers are centred, as it were, the aspirations of knew, long before war was declared, that as though for a banquet and a menu which France, for he is a native of Lorraine dangers lurked in the nations behind them began with lobster and ended with He was a captain of Alpine Chasseurs in rather than in the enemy at their front. liqueurs. As we ate, the window panes his younger days, and shows the result nicled to the detonation of German of his military training in bis erect unthings in their own country to be very For years past they all had expected vigorous bearing. In France they will Leaving Paris, white and beautiful in tell you that the President is but the much worse than, as a matter of fact, thos the spring sunshine, behind us, we tore figurehead of the Ship of State, and that have been, for we all expected to have to down the historic highway which still politically he does not count, but this light Germany single-handed, and were bears the name of the Route de Flandre. President looks to me more like the helms morally prepared for catastrophes in the The houses of the city thinned and dis- man, and, unless I am greatly mistaken, field that might have driver as back to appeared, and we came to open fields, he counts very much indeed. Were you to the last ditch and involved us in civil across which writhed like monstrous see him apart from oficial surroundings dissensions of the order of the Commune- yellow serpents the zigzag lines trenches. The whole countryside from the Sou might well take him, with his air of at least, Aispe straight-away to the walls of Paris 8 and authority, for a great employ er or a captain of industry. Deduct is one vast network of trenches and twenty years from Audrew Carnegie and barbed wire entanglements, and even in give him a military bearing and you will the improbable event of the enemy break have as good an idea as I can give you ing through the present line he would be of the appearance of the wartime Presa no better off than before. Since this war dent of France. began I have become something of a con- noisseur when it comes to trenches, and if there are any more ingeniously design
As for ourselves, the most hopeful never ed ones than thes the French have built
expected Sea Power to get in its work I should like to see them. The fields between the trenches were being ploughed jacket buttoned to the neck suggesting the under the year, which is not yet com- me and the riding breeches and polished pleted. But all of us believed in victory by women driving sleek white oxen, but leggings the other. At his right walked at long last, because we knew the pyscho the furrows were scarcely ever straight, M. Millerand, the Minister of War, and logy of our enemies and the inherent for every few yards they would turn aside at his left General commanding the weakness of the Pan-Germanic theories,
At best we hoped to fight in allianco to avoid a turf-covered mound surmount-th Army, while behind trailed a bril
liant Staff in uniforms of blue and green with one Power; but none dreamed that.
CANNOR,
ed by a rude cross and a scarlet képi.
ONE VAST CEMETERY.
of
We
**A CITIZEN ARMY.” He wore a most curious dark blue uni. form which was neither naval nor mili. tary, the Bat-topped yachting cap and
sion.
BETTER THAN EXPECTED.
The French Staff were quite ready to see the tide of invasion roll over them, as far as the Loire in the west, and down to Lyons in the cast, before the ebb began to make the Russians would not have finched for the loss of Warsaw, not ever if the spirit of revolution had appeared again behind them as it did during the Manchurian campaign.
comparison;
But we did not expect miracles, and it would, under the circumstances, have been On no less than a miracle had nothing in the shape of labour troubles or other crises arisen to retard the joint progress of the Allies.
THE STRENGTH OF FRANCE.
For half a hundred miles this portion and grey and khaki and scarlet. After in fact we should be fighting with no fewer passing down the lines the President took than five natibus for the common aim and of France is one vast cemetery, whirled through villages whose main his stand in front of the grouped end; and accustomed as we had all been streets are lined with the broken, blacken standarde, and a down officers and men to facing the greater imagined evils, the Date ed shells of what had once been buildings. who were to be decorated for gallantry prescot ones are hardly to be felt in still, we cannot, being At once I felt at home, for with this sort in action ranged themselves before him. 2 pm.
of thing I had grown only too familiar terping forward he pinned to the breast human, help chating at such delaying
causes as undoubtedly exist. in Belgium. But there the Germans were of each man the coveted bit of ribbon and 29.77 either careless or in a hurry, for they had enamel and kissed him on either cheek, 80 E6
left many houses standing. In Belgium while the troops presented arms and the they made a macro finished job of it. massed bands played the anthem. South WSW Nothing better illustrates the implicit general principles I should think that the confidence which the French people have President would rebel at having to kiss in their Army and its ultimate success so many men, even though they are berote than the fact that in all of these towns and have been freshly shaved for the coca
However, nothing that the most stable of through which we passed the people are
As the picturesque ceremony was com pessimists has dared to suggest is or bard at work rebuilding their shattered homes, though the strokes of their ham pleted an aide-de-camp came running could be, suficient in itself to keep back the slow and relentless advance of our toward the group of Staff officers wi mers are echoed by the boom of German whom I was standing The President common cause France alone, as her gans. They would not do this, you may desires to meet Mr. Powell," he said. A official resumé has fully established, pos be sure, if they apprehended that there was a chance, even a slight chance, of the monkut later. I found myself, grasping a sesses ample power, as represented by men, Germans coming back again-To-me there firm hand and looking into a pair of guns, and munitions, to turn the Germans is something approaching the sublime in kindly but wonderfully penetrating grout of her territory when the moment for...
It was the first time since the their departure arrives. these impoverished peasants-turning. with stout hearts and smiling faces to the beginning of the war, I believe, that Pre rebuilding of their homes and the retillig sident Poincaré has received a representa of their fields. To these patient, teilwortive of the Press.
"These men, who are about to pass men and women I lift my hat in respect and admiration. They, no less than their before us, Monsieur Powell," he said. are not of our first line. They are all sons and husbands and brothers in the trenches, are fighting the battles of Territorials; that is, men above thirt
eight years of age. But they are fresh As we drew nearer to the firing line the from the trenches, they have sen much bft in traditional scarlet trousers and képis still fighting, they are all veterans. You will worn by the second-line ane gave way to find no finer soldiers anywhere. But you shall see and judge them for yourself. the new service uniform of bluish grey, and remember, please, that these are moi
Every There were soldiers everywhere. town and hamlet through which we passed professional soldiers, but members of was alive with them. The highways were veritable citizen Army," choked with troops of all arms-dragoons
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eyes.
THE WALL OF STEEL.
with their steel helmets linen-covered, Topping a rise, they awept down upon Zouaves in baggy red breeches, Spahius in line of clume-a moving cloud of in turbans and Senegalese in tarbooshes, bluish grey under shifting, shimmering Chasseurs d'Afrique in sky blue and scar slanting lines of steel. Company afte 33 let, infantry of the line in all the shad's company,
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Russia, clearly, is playing with the resistance opposed to her, and even if our own Army expended its last round to morrow, the pressure of our Sea Power would remain: imperturbable, relentless decisive, it is worth all that has ever been claimed for it
It is certainly not to our credit that shortage of ammunition: should have occurred, but in other directions we have done so much more than one dared to expect that our Allies will make due allowance for our internal difficulties.
We shall overcome them in good time, and the immense Army we shall then possess in the field will form a useful intact reserve when the final struggle must be fought out to the bitted ond.
In the meantime the weather is fighting In Lower Alsace quite On our side regiment after regiment unprecedented rains have caused the ris
of blue that can be produced by dres or brigade after brigade swept past, busiing of the rivers, and almost all the huge by the weather, mile-long strings of motor neslike as a trip-hammer, resistless as a entrenchments thrown up by the Germans transports, field batteries, ambulances steam roller, moving with mechanical south of Colmar have been flooded out, with staring red crosses painted on their precision to the exaltant strains of the the plaire for miles round being aft. at
trains, balicon march of the "Sembre et Meuse." These least under water. canyes covers, pontoon