You MILITARY COMMANDMENTS ADVICE GIVEN BY TWO GREAT GENERALS TO THEIR MEN Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy. You have to perform a task which will need your courage, your energy, and your patience. Remember that the honor of the British army depends on your individual conduct. It will be your duty not only to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire, but also to maintain the most friendly relations with those whom you are helping in this struggle. The operations in which you will be engaged will, for the most part, take place in a friendly country, and you can do your own country no better service than in showing yourself in France and Belgium in the true character of a British soldier by being invariably courteous, considerate, and kind. Never do anything likely to injure or destroy property, and always look upon rioting as a disgraceful act. You are sure to meet with a welcome and to be trusted. Your conduct must justify that welcome and that trust. Your duty cannot be done unless your health is sound, so keep constantly on your guard against any excesses. In this new experience you may find temptation both in wine and women. You must entirely resist both temptations, and, while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy. Do your duty bravely. Fear God and honor the King. Marshal Foch KE EEP your eyes and ears ready and your mouth in the safety-notch, for it is your soldierly duty to see and hear clearly, but as a rule you should be heard mainly in the sentry challenges or the charging cheer. 2. Obey orders first, and, if still alive, kick afterward if you have been wronged. 3. Keep your arms and equipment clean and in good order; treat your animals fairly and kindly and your motor or other machine as though it belonged to you and was the only one in the world. Do not waste your ammunition, your gas, your food, your time, nor your opportunity. 4. Never try to fire an empty gun nor at an empty trench, but when you shoot, shoot to kill, and forget not that at close quarters a bayonet beats a bullet. 5. Tell the truth squarely, face the music, and take your punishment like a man; for a good soldier won't lie; he doesn't sulk, and is no squealer. 6. Be merciful to the women of your foe and shame them not, for you are a man; pity and shield the children in your captured territory, for you were once a helpless child. 7. Bear in mind that the enemy is your enemy and the enemy of humanity until he is killed or captured; then he is your dear brother or fellow soldier beaten or ashamed, whom you should no further humiliate. 8. Do your best to keep your head clear and cool, your body clean and comfortable, and your feet in good condition, for you think with your head, fight with your body, and march with your feet. 9. Be of good cheer and high courage; shirk neither work nor danger; suffer in silence, and cheer the comrades at your side with a smile. 10. Dread defeat, but not wounds; fear dishonor, but not death, and die game; and whatever the task, remember the motto of the division, "It Shall Be Done." "EVEN LITTLE CHILDREN" A Story of the Sufferings, Bravery, and Patriotism of Europe's Children in War-time scattered and gone, the fathers killed or wounded; many of the mothers dead, killed by shells or by overwork; the children are being cared for in Calais and other neighboring towns. HOW THE "WAR BABIES' CRADLE" BEGAN When the first bombardment came an old priest took a last look at the flaming ruins of his church and little house, and began his sad journey to Calais. He had gone only a little way when he came upon a pitiful group, a young woman lying dead by the roadside and a tiny girl crouched by her side, sobbing with fright. The priest recognized little Luzanne Bughe. Her mother had been ill with pneumonia when the firing began, but had managed to pick up her little daughter and stagger out, in a blind effort to escape. She did not get far, for she was hit by a fragment of shell and killed instantly. The priest The horrors of the Great War have been told many times, but actual photos of the suffering of women and children were comparatively rare. This British official photo, taken in 1918, shows the refugees getting away from the fighting area. Once they found a small boy of ten carrying his little sister, who had been wounded. And so, with a constantly growing band of homeless, frightened, hungry children, the priest kept on his way. Late in the afternoon they arrived at a cross-road shrine, where they found three nuns praying. They were only too glad to join their fortunes with those of the priest and his children. After walking many days, suffering terribly from fatigue and hunger, they finally came to a deserted convent at enough to escape. Chauny, a town of eleven thousand people, was mined by the enemy; there was a roar, a crash, clouds of dust, and Chauny had disappeared. Many who survived the explosion had further horrors before them for the Germans, in this case, carried off 8,000 people as slaves. The separation of families was one of the cruelest blows the Germans inflicted, and it seems quite deliberate, for in many towns they destroyed all the civilian records for that sole purpose. Fleeing from the Horrors of War Who knows what happened to all the little refugees of the war? Many, of course, died, but many thousands were cared for by kind people in every country. What terrible stories the survivors will be able to tell when they grow up! The Germans photographed the inhabitants of Northern France so as to keep a record of the women and children. weight had to wait. The various relief organizations founded many colonies for these little refugees, and by their thorough system many families have been open fire. It recalled too vividly the sight of their homes and villages in flames. But in time, under the tender care and wise treatment they received |