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THE CANTEEN REFUGE IN FRANCE
TUESDAY, JULY 23ED. 1918,
IN A SINN FEIN TOWNSHIP
DAY AND NIGHT.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH.]
KEEPING IN TOUCH EVERYDAY INCIDENT IN
GREAT BATTLE.
BY HINRY ARNOLD.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIE WILLIAM REES-DAVIES, EC)];
ARMED ROBORRY ON A JUNK.
BY, MARJORIE GRANT COOK]. The Canteen-Refuge in France, as a human warmth all its own. It is not quite like any other canteen because the are children in it, as well as soldiers and not at first sight distinguishable, but the rear of a wood, and halted. The sun was an armed robbery at Tai Long, Mira Bays
civilians. The laughter of a child soar ing high and delicious above the grown-up voices is in itself an irresistibly element of cheerfulness. The soldiers love their "p'tits frères," the small boys who envy them their blue coats, and beg to try on their steel helmets, and the refugee baby in her mother's arms is often captured for a few minute petting by the home-sick pere de famille, far from his own little
ones.
The Canteen-Refuga is a refuge for the boneless who have had to flee before the
Germans, or who have lost their means
The onibus of the Central Hotel was
cheerful add man with the name on his cap opened the door of a dingy carringe with Imperial Hotel in ancient letters along its side. It was explained to me that the name had been changed lately, and there had not been time to repaint it; int the odd-man's cap can hardly have been less than eight years old. We slowly rolled out of the station yard, drawn by a winter coated horse which had depressed spine, but also that unmis takable touch of ancestry that all horses in Ireland seem to possess
I said 115
The battalion took up a position in
hot, on their tin hats, and gas masks concruled their faces. -
Lau Lum were indicted for committing Li Taun, Li Tanng, Tang, Ki, and
on June 7th
The following were the jury:—Mesare, A. I Alves, F. X. de Silva, W. F. Stone, Cahemad, M. Baptista, L. Hynd- man, and A. H. Abbas.
Mr. G. H. Wakeman (Crown Soliciter). prosecuted.
The prisoners were unde fended.
The colonel wiped his goggles, looked down as he moved off through the woad at his watch, and signalled his men to lie with the intention of finding out for him- self the "tactical situation," which to him was exceedingly obscure. near and to his left rear, opened up with A brigado of 18-pounders, somewhere a suddenness that made him start, as The Crown Solicitor stated that "the their shells screamed overhead. These four prisoners were charged with com indications were enough. He raced back to his battalion, gave his orders, and mitting an armed robbery on a junk in moved off to the right, towards the valley the waters of the Colony The robbery. -a valley of cloudy venom, reeking of took place at about 10 a.m. on June 7th.
of support because of them, as well as much to the driver when we stopped. His death, flecked with flame, a valley of Complainant's junk was sailing from
The battalion changed direction, keep
the wood, and then they sat down while complainant and his fokis, who im ing under the tip of the crest, meeting a stream of wounded French making for anchor, the barrage shrieked above them into the mediately obeyed the order. valley beyond. A solitary French oficer,
The four
blue eyes twinkled as he answered Sureying steel the line of a German barrage canteen for soldiers on leave, and a place that never did his father any harm," af gas and high-explosive, killing the Hongkong in the direction of Sai Yun where the almost destitute may come to pondering upon which I turned in to
wounded, re-killing the dend
Chun wben be fed and warned.
two long
boats ap The firs. canteen of the sort sprang into
moct that unfailing and spontaneous
peared and ordered the junk ・to· declared ar. Some ladies took care of ever lack. The hotel formed nearly on existence. Paris on the day that France courtesy which the innkeepers of Ireland
Revolvers were levelled at a little group of terrified women and end of the market square of Donaghy children her destitute by the mobilization, a small town newise remarkable except feeding and lodging them in one room, that it had the reputation of being the Next day they collected a few frames in centre of Sinn Feinism in what had re- dazed, wounded, appeared, was question prisoners clambered on to the junk and order to buy necessities with which to cently inherited the honour of being the waved his hand towards the opposite then threatened the occupants with knives make their protegées a little more commost rebellious county in all Ireland, now side of the valley, shrugged his shoulders and revolvers. fortable, and found that the original that Clare had been turned into a peaco as he turned to the front, and disappear another beat, after which the robbers They were driven into aumber Wus increasing moment byful and prosperous district by the brutal cd. The colonel grasped the situation. monicat. They turned no one away. Anglo-Saxon soldiery There was no sign "Wait, 10y friend. We will find a place of trouble: Indeed, the waiter at my for you, they
they assured ench anxious solitary luncheon said he could not under mather.
These were hercio days. In spite of the the roads and ruined the Donaghry race stand why the parish priest bad picketed personal fear and suspense, these. French ladics thought only of others, and their meeting yesterday" so he did. We lost resources and devotion never failed. forty paunda that day so we did. My They prepared food and comforts for the eye fell on a belated poster announcing men sending them off to fight heartened that races would be held at Donaghry on by the assurance that their wives and the previous day, in aid of the Irish Red children would be looked after. They fed Cross Fund, and something made me feel and lodged the poor, cared for the sick a little sick. It was like coming face to comforted the desolate families, welcomed face with a ghost that one had always
fugce.
refused to believe in. Did you go out and help picket the roads I askrit
What else?? Said the man moodily, and he turned away.
the
When
or three score men and women, besides Outside in the square there were two the delightful and immodest children, who have done more to seduce the Judgment of the visitor to Ireland than all the oratory of a fluent and imaginative race.. It was a sunny afternoon, but there was no great business going on, probably everyone was saving himself for the market two days bence.
THERE AND HERE.
They had lost touch with the French At proceeded to a pince in Chinese water any into the enemy would discover the The cargo, which comprised rice, peas, situation, and pour in men to widen the of the valley. Had he divined the crisis?the robbers' boats. An hour or so later, gap. Already his barrage was lifting out kerosene oil, etc., was then transferred to Was he acting?
the men were released, and they made
p
Orders were given. The officers and men were hitching up their packs and their way to Shaukiwan, where the mat- moving off when the colonel saw below ter was reported to the Police. On June him, advancing up the valley, the be 27th one of the folis noticed the prisoners ginning of the Teuton wedge. Machine guns and rifles opened fire, but, oh, for in a boat near Shaukivan and bad them. some artillery on such a target! Still, arrested. the Lattalion itself was busy. From tho
Evidence was then taken, other side austler rattle of fire began and tho wedge stopped dead, though others pressed forward into the storm of tralian battue; but still the German bullets, falling like rabbits in an Aus hordes pressed on.
Suddenly there won the hoarse rour of His Lordship, in sentencing the prison: bayonet charge from the other side of ers to undergo seven years hand labour the valley, answered by a yell from ours each and to receive tewlve strokes with ng the battalion coased firing and “took
the summing up of the evidence by his Lordship the jury returned a un animoys verdict of guilty against all the prisoners.
He was
to stool," charging down on the German the "cat" said they had been found. spear-head. At the same moment guilty on very clear evidence. French and British barrage fell on the shaft of that straining mass of the Gernot going to permit violence to be used mans, guillotining it, as the Allied in towards harmless people.
Had anyone fan tuttered a path for themaives been injured the prisoners would have till they met
had to undergo a very severo penalty indeed.
The divisions on the southern sector remained in touch with our allies.
SENTENCES ON THE WOOD ROAD ROBBERS.
There is a good deal to be said for this
Ilis Honour. Mr. Justice Gomperis refusal, as it means dislocating real time in the centre of Ireland to the extent passed sentence, yesterday, at not of an hour but of an hour and a half. Supreme Court, upon Chin Chun Hig the, something to marvel-at. I have
When it eame the mid-day dinner was Loung, Chan Kwong, Fung Yew Ting
suggested
Thus the first Canteen-Refuge was founded. Similar canteens exist now in every arrondissement in Paris, and in most of the provincial towns, as well as on the Riviera. But the first one holds my allegiance, for it. Was there I worked for many months
dormitories at the top of the house for the children, and could at a pinch
-wo always had three leads to a pillow-accommodate forty infants. Some of the women employed in the kitchen or dormitories whose husbands were fighting and their families with them, and the slept elsewhere in the rambling old build- ing. A number of war-orphans lived per. I leaned out of the window and felt children who were refuge in the insidious charm of Ireland working refugees from the within me. This is one of the intangibibe invaded territory passed through, our hands. Once we had twenty-five chabby complications of Irish government. The island throws a spell over everyone sooner little Alsatians
nothing but Gernien, had nothing else to
*** or later. An odd thing had been told me do to
not a fortnight before by a very dis devised amusements for the babies, taking tinguished member of the Irish Admini them to the Circus or to the Zoo, which stration, and I began to understand what they loved, or perhaps just out to the he meant. He said that he had once and the beloved Guignol-Punch watched a policeman chasing a thief and 3rdy of the gardens, down Grafton-street in Dublin. It was Downstairs were the dormitories of the good hunt," he said, "and every man soldiers. We had afty or more everythere did his best to let the man cacane night. Some were convalescents from A few weeks later he was in London, end
that the King's writ balts in Donaghry and Chu Wa, found guilty of committing hospital, some were discharged tempor.
the Food Controller's edict never put its arity
or permanently from the army and saw much the same incident, except that foot there. Beef in vast helpings and as an armed robbery on May 10th at Wood looking for work, others on their ordinary all the difference between the two coun
everyone helped the policeman. It was many of them as you wished.
Three Road. cix days leave. They got coffee and bread tries in two short scenes, be said, and.
loaves of bread were on the table to bo It will be remembered that the sentences the early morning lunch at eleven, indeed, it seemed illuminating But from as everybody liked. Butter was - and dinner at six. The food was good what illuminated me still more, was his heaped in a lordly glass dish, and a half were postponed pending medical examina- and plentiful, and there was as much comment, after a moment's pause.
cheese stood waiting for attack, The tion of the prisoners, as His Honour variety as possible, beer, and fruit and stew bread and the carious thing is that in London waiter apologized because there was no
was strongly of opinion that corporal for. dinner. The goldiers and canteen children shared Dublin with the thief
sympathised with the policeman and in that this was another grievance against punishment should be inflicted.
marmalade his gloomy tone suggested big dining-room, and the casuals, poor fession like that. From a man who is not
It is a con- the British Government. The cooking Yesterday, His Honour sentenced the of the quarter, and refugees, another only distinguished, but absolutely loyalm getting a glass of whisky at any time prisoner to five years' hard inbour
was of the best, and there was no difficulty roon that seated sixty people, and was and a notable in both capitals, which throughout the day, and, as I really and twelve strokes with the birch; the often filled three times over for a meal. throws the best light upon the Irish im believe, throughout the night also.
The helpers on the same shift-distrisse. Morals are said to be a question burrices,
who served the food and of latitade; eight degrees of longitude
second and third prisoners to five years" veuser who waited at table-worked alter makes a chasm between English and Irish thing happened.
It was at midnight that the strange hard labour each and ten strokes with nate weeks among the soldiers and the standards of law and order. The Har The streets had been silent and empty for
There was no moon the cat." The fourth prisoner, who The first room was perhaps the dings Commission allowed itself in very tore popular
The naughtiness the true and very next aphorism when it re-ing feet could be heard in the distance to six years hard labour
en four or more when the sound of march.
was found medically unft, was sentenend endearing smile of the poilu were very the
"Irishmen, no doubt, appreciate The column was a small one, and it passed attractive. The ladies did the housekeep to have an inveterate prejudice against again, but almost is the last man vanish- ing and two of the girls wont at six the punishment of disorder." o'clock every morning to market at les
ed behind the corner of the chapel a now Halles. All supplies-excepting milk and thin black line that stands between Ire another side and tramped quickly beneath Lo Ho Sang, who was found guilty of
A Royal Irish constable one of thạ and a larger contingent came in
from break-were given to the canteen, and the land and what the Cardinal described as my windows. market people were always generons with chaos stood at the farther end of the 120 strong
This must have been forging a mortgage deed, and also their fish and fruit and vegetables. As little square In this land of eternal lending four had reached the church two
and before its soliciting a forged document. it was Paris, the prettiest serveuse was wayside talk no one spoke to him other bodies had made their appearance neually the most successful beggar, and could imagine that his wife at her shop in the square from different directions, allowed time till Monday, at his own Prisoner, at the previous hearing, wan came back with a bunch of Bowers for ping and his children at their school wore The men kept their dressing well and herself added to her war-levy.
the grisly lesson-that In the refugees' room, those who could in Ireland it is best to be on the side of marched in absolute silence; they also request, to dispose of some property he afford it paid four sous for a meal, and the majority; and again I felt the chill she touch take as little noise as pos- possessed in the New Territories in order
sible, though they knew their presence was "out" department where of the gray Irish under world. those who preferred it could buy food to those who know Ireland from books or of whom moved out with them, a tiny the woman he had defrauded.
Few of known to the constabulary, three or four to raise enough money to repsy $200 to carry away. One of the valuable activi- from a visit of observation see this sub- black group between two large companies.
ptor
18 And
THE NIGHT'S DOINGS.
gaiety of the children, the gratitude, the maintenance of order, but they appear ghostliks through the square and out
there was an
FORGING A DOCUMENT.
His Honour also passed sentence on
tics of the canteca was an employment terranean life. Only a few miles from With them came a few women equipped Yesterday he informed His Honour
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their house forced and searched by masked beside the standenek in the middle of the prisoner, who bad a previona conviction We were always fast and lunch we cut thick sandwiches keeper dare expostulate with truant Sinn
shop-square of bread and meat for the men who were Fein assistants in broad daylight the outside the town, and paraded in bata hard labour.
The various columns met in a field just against him for larceny, to three years" going back to the Front. In the afternoon farms are visited and shotguns surren-lion formation. The church clock struck there might be a treat for the children, dered at once to Sina Fein patrics for eleven, and at once the leading company in the evening perhaps homesick and cry fear lest a boycotting order should be marched off back through the town, leav ing babies to visit in bed end comfort made against the
them The Government ing Every Sunday afternoon there was a con encourages the beventi: it has most pracat the cattle-pen in the square, at the a guardat a little bridge, The artists of Paris are as gentically endorsed the Sinn Fein methods, erous as the market people Nothing of When a farm has remained uncultivated railway bridge, and at every important ORDERS ISSUED BY ME, F. O, JENKIN, C.D.E. effort or goodwill is withheld from these because of a boycott it is denounced and miles of Donaghry. Other columns had crossing and bridge within four who are suffering so much to preserve the temporarily confiscated by the Govern done the same thing in other directions, Orders have been sent to the respective freedom of the world."
ment and the boycotters themselves cccupation of it!
and at two o'clock the township was hemselves, pirt in and
picketed within and without by men who The waiter came and leaned out of the carried their day's rations and remained window beside me in a friendly way. He on guard till sunrise on the following waved his napkin to a friend. I'll morning. This is an exact account of interwise to his mouth. We will township. I have called Donaghry, and
Inter
he said,
his hand what happened one Saturday night at the the other, and walked on.
asked that the mancavre his been repeated in scores of other townships. I have no doubt but it was to his mind inexplicable that lock you looked at my watch and whatever, iter locked a tired min soldiers were again and again called upon never left the square below as he answered. arst mags also gives was in the place. The Band will play at the Club on Fri- in this fourth year of the war their heroic said. You'll have to be quick
half-past one already." The waiter's gaze morning, fur bad ho not attended the
Waiter
next to face overwhelming superiority of num. That's English t'oime." It was
he wonder- borg, when their great courage, and, o thought, their fine leadership, did not contemptuously said, but there was a Par there is no such precise bureau avail them. At any rate they had this, faint trace of a challenge. the best tonic, that the war had brought the Irish are not going to have their time possession that which Sim
possesses nor and this is again one of about, the aplendid
solidity of the Er crushed under the heel of the English the difficulties that have cropped up pire, and an inspiring reunion of the tyrant Church, and shop and farm kapt cently-are secrets so well kept from the passed for mitos reigns on being English-speaking world, which great
the old time. The railway, the post office, authorities. The officer in charge of the and glorious Britain would always be end the constaublary kept summer time constabulary said the night's work had the Mother Country and the home and the hotel as a compromise had both
a very serious side to it. I did not ak (Cheers.).
(Continued as foot of next Column.) him what in was but I could guess.
Sir Hamar Greenwood, M.P., speaking at the Rayal Colonial
and there would be days of depression-head who hears tid dinner was.
there must be in a war of this magnitude
One
ed what not
Of course,
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