THE ; OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL!, PORTLAND. SUNDAY HORNING. JANUARY 0. 19X8.
:V0VER -THE TOP" WITH "PATS'"
TOO :MADE WAR'S BIG SLOGAN
Light Infantry
way. X think ha must have remembered ( artillery commenced another bombard-
the unwritten law of the regiment ment which lasted until 1 :S0 o'clock.
DARING GHARG
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Of. 1200 Men Who Comprised
Celebrated Canadian Regi
ment, Only Four Are Left.
"THE PRINCESS PATS".
On Christmas Eve, 1914, a regiment of 1200 men, each a veteran of
England's former colonial wan and almost every one wearing a decoration
bestowed by the king for bravery under fire, inarched rnto the fighting
zone to take over a front line trench in Flanders. '
Of that gallant 1 200 only four are left today, ioa their' feet."
v As "The Princess Pats1 the regiment was known through all Great
Britain. None could take place In its ranks unless he had seen service in
some colonial war and "made his reputation" as a soldier. No private
could hope to become a noncommissioned officer- unless he wpr$ the
kind's medal for some especially brave feat. The Princess Patricia herself
was the regiment's honorary coloneL and when the regiment sailed, at
England's first call for Canada's assistance, the princess-colonel gave "her
boys" a battle flag embroidered by her own hands.
AT ; ST,, J U LI EN AND YPRES
Jfere RankSNjWere Decimated,
I g 'but High Ideall of Regiment
S Inspired Other Recruits to Join
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v By Sergeant Major W. J.
Bramhall
it Pilne Patricia' Canadian IJaht Infantry,
i, writing nndr approval of Major C. B. Whit
ii -Canadian illusion to tna Unitad
th Britiab
Btataa.
T; Copyright!. ltlS. by J. Kaalay
. I: On the evening of December 25. 114,
' t Princess Pats, lieutenant Colonel
Jferquahar, D. S. C, commanding, ate
Its Christmas dinner la billets at a little
Flanders town called Westontre. -We
Lad lust come over from Salisbury 'Plain,
. (tt England, where we bad gone through
the preparatory period demanded by
. Cord Kitchener. "K. of K. had pro
S Minced .us fit for the front long before
my of the other regiments from ver-
at as were passed, but this, of course.
Ivas only fitting for the Prinoess Pats
the readiest.' bravest, most dauntless
liHnch of soldiers over enlisted under
yi flag.
W While we ate ur turkey and martna-
ae underwent our baptism of
Ire! Stray shells fell around u occa
sionally, reminders of the " work we'd
(tone i across-from Canada to do In the
ham of our fair colonel Princess Pa-
1lcla. We hurried the dinner through.
Of we were under orders to "get to
Hark." A soldier hates to hurry through
Mi extra good' dinner. , Perhaps that
Was why wo were "mad from the of-
Ifoer commanding down to the youngest
: . Jiivate, when at last the orders came
( take over the first line trench. 1
tblnk the regiment never got over that
luadness" of Christmas eve at having
. W hurry through a dinner. , Anyway,
as Prlneess Pats made up their minds
feat night never to give up a trench
." lifter they'd taken one, and they never
' lfcVe. That's why there's only four of
rn left. Its a record I doubt any other
. Jxrltlsh regiment possesses.
I J While we participated in a number of
fcl-tions Incident to the taking over of
I hew trench lines and oiir constant ad-
-' Vance toward the Ypres sector, we did
I It get Into serious contact with the
f - permans until after the affair at Pop
l , herrings, near the Tpres sector, wn en
ive lost Colonel Farqubar, the first loss
i among, the officers. Colonel Farquhar
had been Intrusted with a great many
1 personal admonitions as to the care of
' rher boys" by the Princess Pat, and we
i 'looked upon him as the personal re'pre
; tentative of the princess with the regi
ment. That's why we especially loved
I Ij 'Originals "Orer the Top"
; At Popherringe the term ."over .the
I WP" originated. It was the Princess Pat
WJio gave to the colloquialisms of the
' ttar sons this thrilling phrase, trans-
' tatlng as it does the determination of
t L f very British, French and American
soldier In France to get at the Germans
i T it and to hand and clear the road to the
j Jihlne. - . ':-';.'.'
I ? HThose, of, course, were the eardays
l t y the .war. I Each day brought new; sur
! irises to the British and the Canadians,
:-vttt result of the long preparation for
war on the part of the Germans. One
I Morning, scarcely two hours after we
; had moved Into a front line trench after
f a few days of rest behind the line, an
officer came over from headquarters so
; , excited that he trembled as he reported
1 te our colonel that the airplanes had
' discovered piat the Germans were
Snapping Wa heard of "sap
' tins"." which means burrowing up closs
I though to the enemy trench to put in s
: mine, explode it, and besides tearing
' . ' .tf&wn a hundred yards or. so of trench.
Ctuse numerous fatalities. But' so far
t too Germans had not sprung that de
vice upon our lines.
. wP-y soma means our Intelligence staff
. . nad learned that the sappers had
i worasa cioss to our trench, it was
f?sred tat any minute might see the
ilrth on tip, spread to the skline like
bursting rocket, lifting with it hun
dreds of our brave boys. The officer
; irom headquarters had rushed madly
cross tho open behind the trench to
tnaks, his report to Colonel Farquharr
who never stayed behind the line,- but
f talked up and down the trench with
"never to givs. no- what you've rot," He
turned to his staff officer and Issued
an order in low tones. - Tho men stand
ing near him knew what was coming.
In aa Instant tho whole regiment knew.
Every, man tightened bis belt, looked to
bis ammunition, ..patted his rifle , and
fixed his bayonet Off icera shook bands
wun cacn other silently soma or them
threw their arms around the neck of a
chum, ' butt there was no word passed
between them. Each officer took his
place with his- men, their faces eager.
though drawn, as they crouched to creep
For the third time, then, they pounded
us with artillery, bringing Into play light
guns that rained shells wtth the patter,
patter of a rainstorm. 8o Intense was
this fire that every communication with
headquarters - was .- completely ' cat ' off.
One after the other conoomi and men
tried to get through with messages to
the headquarters staff telling the oondi
tion the Pats were in. with little ammu
nition left and no machine runs, yet with
the whole force of the German attack to
bear. As fast as they -went out these
boys were killed. Amour them were
MAKING TYPHOID VACCINE
alons the trench to their proper com-1 men who were known to Lrd Roberts,
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panies.
It takes a paragraph or many mln-
utes perhaps, to tell how the Pats pre-1
pared, but it really took them only a I
minute or two. An officer standing near
the. colonel set off a hand rocket and
every man .leaped from the trench Into
No Man's Land.
The first to leave the trench was
Colonel Farquhar himself. In the very
teeth of the belching trench guns of
the Germans, but a few yards away, the
colonel straightened himself, waved his
swagger stick and shouted: "Come on,
Pats we're going over the top !" v
The Pats . went over over the top
but our brave colonel, first to start,
was left behind dead ! The Germans
Sot, him even while the regiment was
responding with a mighty cheer to that
new battle cry of the Pats : "Come on
we're going over the topi" !
Trench Is Taken
We took the German trench with a
rush, after a fierce tussle hand-to-hand.
The reektess charge was such a surprise
and so spectacular to the Germans they
were half stunned when we swooped
down upon them that Is. ' those of us
who got across No Man's Land. There
were only 700 of the regiment left when
we counted up. -
Sergeant Major Koas, one of the most
battle-scarred veterans of the 'regiment.
vthose breast was covered with medals
and orders won in the South African j
campaign, was killed trying to carry the
colonel's body Into the German trench
In the footsteps of the regiment, so the
colonel might at least follow his men.
Sergeant Patterson, a gallant noncom
missioned officer, won a lieutenancy In
that dash for the conspicuous gallantry
with which he carried wounded com
rades out of the raking of the machine
guns into the captured trench to safety.
It was not an Important action, and
had little bearing upon the situation in
that zone, except to teach the Germans
a lesson and increase the morale of the
British and Canadians. But Colonel
Farquhar's. phrase, "Over the top,"
echoed down the line to Verdun and
back home, where it has become the
war cry of all the armies in the field.
Lieutenant Colonel Buller succeeded
to the command of the regiment. True
their commander in the Boer war. by
their first names, endeared to him by
some astounding feat of bravery. Many
of them already had won the Victoria
cross.
At last Corporal Ooodwjn. who had
won his medal at Mafeking. got throuph.
He fell to the ground at the foot of the
sentries outside headquarters. Jin could
only gasp his message : "The Pats are
going fast hurry up," when he died. In
an Instant word was rushed for the
King's Royal Rifled and the. King's Own
Shropeshlre Light Infantry, crack regi
ments that had not yet gone Into action,
to go to our assistance. We heard them
singing Tipperary" above the sound
of the shells and the whang of the ma
chine guns as they came down the road.
They brought ammunition and such
machine guns as they had succeeded in
lugging across the field, and took over
th rlrht rf nn, trvnrti allnwincr uhut
was left of us to concentrate at the left, t
We set the machine guns up Just in time
to face with them another German at
tack. We kept the machine guns going until
every man in the three regiments who
could manipulate one of them had been
killed at the gun stock. As long aswe
had ammunition for our rifles and the
hand grenades the re-enforcing regi
ments had brought us we kept heart
i and our faces to the enemy. We held
them off until nightfall, when the fire
from the German artillery slackenel,
and the Germans gave up for tho day
their 12-hour attempt to dislodge us.
Then when we had rested a bit we took
count of the 'regiment.
Only 147, bat Tbty Held
Twenty-one officers and 780 noncom
missioned officers and men had faced
the first German attack that morning.
When we called 4he roll that evening
only four officers and 143 noncommis
sioned officers and men responded. But
the Pats had the trench that was what
counted
After Ypres Marshal French reviewed
what was left of the Canadian division
only 4000 men of the original 40,000.
When the flag that was embroidered by
the Princess Pat went by, with less than
a company left to march behind it, Mar
shal French and his generals, with them
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RAILROAU PROJECTS
IN OREGON SEEKING
FEDERAL APPROVAL "
Grants Pass, Burns and Florence
Commercial Clubs Address
Director General McAdoo.
Filling ampuls with finished vaccine
to th tvi of th eninneia of th T.t immortal Joffre, took off their caps
he took his lace at the head of his When the review was over a staff of
men whenever there was any dangerous 1 fi.";?r came down from headquarters
work to do. 'If he had remained . t a iuraa.su iu iuajw nwiiuion udun,
The army medical school at Wash
ington was turning out 3000 quarts ot
typhoid vaccine a month at the time
the national army was collecting in the
various cantonments. The cost of th..-i
monthly output in the material alone, not
to mention labor, equipment and over
head, is Jt 50,000. Its commercial value
U five or six times this amount.
Miliary regulations- require that all
typhoid vaccine supplied the army,
navy and marine corps must be rnado
at tho army medical school. Four men.
specialists In this branch of science
and super-careful in clVanllnees and
accuracy, do the bulk of the work.
Kvery step of the manufacture is
J guarded with the utmost care.
Lieutenant Big Soled Fellow
n t at s at si
He Boasts Biggest Feet m Army
Washington. l. C. Jan. 15. Three
propositions for the construction of
railroads In Orwoti have now teen pre
sented to Ilrvtor oral of lUu'roads
McAdoo. Ti: latent hro'ieht to his t
tentlon is one cricitiatniK with the
Grants I'aas Chatnlx-r of Commerce.
transmitted through l.-.irohMiittil-
lfaaley.
The construction njuse.ted under 111
plan is for a Zo-mile xtenion T Ui
California e Oregm Coant railroad
from Waters Crek. to Waldo, to lp
a' section of country said to be rich
in chrome ore. und with 0.0')"a feet
of Port Orford cedar tributary tX k.
Harney Valley Seele Ileceenltlna'
The Burns Commercial club and oilier
I astern Oregon Interests have aaked
consideration for a line to connect
Burns lth Crane, on the plea that
thle would open large agricultural
area in the Harney valley.
The Florence Commercial club wants
a three-mile road built to Cushman.
whereupon, it is stated, a shipyard u 111
be built and new wooden shins can be
put. on the ways.
KdwarU Chamber, asalant to I1
rector General McAdoo. has manifested
some Interest in the Burns to Crane
line, having asked for details or the
plan for financing the road. Probably
this ts due to the fact that the Burnt
Commercial club has Intimated that it
could present a feasible plan for con
struction. riaanclng nig Problem
If the government Itself be expected
to furnish the money, it l.i probable that
all the plans of railroad building will
have to wait. So far the problem of
the government has been to get motive
power and cars enough to move ton
nage, that Is offered and urgently
needed.
regimental headquarters when we went
into action he might still be alive. In
stead he quickly followed Colonel Far
quhar to whatever especial billet may i
be set aside in the hereafter for officers
whose deaths bring tears to the eyes
of their men.
Immediately after we had gone over
the top for the first time the Germans
began to search us out with their big
one of the four officers left, with this
message :
"Tell the Pats General French pre
sents his compliments to them and con
veys the gratitude of the king and of
Princess Patricia."
We went through Tpres and down to
the Somme. New faces came into the
regiment and new officers came down
from headquarters to take command.
batteries. Our airplanes could not locate 1 n'w "Jen wer Wtss Pats
the big guns for some time, and in the " ... i L Z , 7 ' ' 1
meantime the fire-foot shells of the big Ith riot thfc8 .old-f-eS,,mfTl!"t.e !Plrlt
German field guns fell among us like ! -A through to fffe last by the cor-
hailstones. One by one our regimental ; Pral su,ard that waa ot JLhe Cv"ack
officers paid the toll. Colonel Buller . V, I , ,
himself went out to a "listening station" l .thlhll , dKa'". ' the Pat-
the location of the hidden '."" " """ " '"T7"'C'''
company of snipers which d urine the i z ' V , , -I V. 7
day persistently picked off every man !? iilen m.hat
who raised his head above the trench, J! f- ' JID
-m-r MnBe.l-4A. ffha .nr 1 s-ovaa w avu .
vauoiiisj us AHBk.i.i j ,M3UAabaw j 1 1 w
Camp LewU. Jan. 19. (I. N. 6.)
While he takes no particular pride in
the possession of the largest feet In
the cantonment First Lieutenant H. C.
Force, in charge of the casualty office
here, is of the modest opinion that he
has the largest feet in the United
States army. He wears a ahoe which
In size is 16 and which in length is
14 Inches.
Ever since he was a sophomore In
high school the lieutenant has been
obliged to have his shoes made becauso
at that time his feet outgrew the sises
which were made by shoe manufactur
ers. They now cost 15 a pair.
When he went to Harvard his size-
six feet four and three' eight inches
won him a pla.ee on th eleven and one
of his most prized iKseK6ions is the
"H" granted all men who played
against Pennsylvania, lie was in the
1S02 eleven when size and an ability
to buck the line were more to U de
aired tnan a knowledge of the fine
points of the gair.e. He modestly ad
mits that his feet had a lot to do with
the winning of the Pennsylvania, game
where he won his letter.
Lieutenant Force, before he went to
the second training camp at the Pre
sidio, was an attorney In H'-attl. "wl ere
he has practiced ever since graduating
from Harvard. He weighs 25 pountia
Widowed Mother for
Her Son's Enlistment
Japan Is Building
Number of Ships
Toklo, Jan. 19. Japan Is able to .build
250 ships a year, their tonnage totaling
1,000,000, according to a government
statement. The shipbuilding business of
Japan has had an unprecedented growth
since the beginning of the war. and on
September 1 there were 11 J shipbuild
ing slips owned by 42 firms, besides 24
slips which are building and will be
ready before the end of the year. These
facilities are more than three times aa
great as at the beginning of the war.
Each slip Is capable of turning out a
ship of more than 1000 tonnage In less
than a year.
Denver. Colo.. Jan. 13. Although wid
owed and In straitened circumstances.
Mrs. Clara Doss Burrows, one of the
few living descendants of the famous
Adams family, urged her only eon. Karl
Gardner Doss, to enlUt for service in
Uncle Sam's forces.
The young roan is now at the Mare
Island marine corps training station.
Young Doss's great-grandfather, Eli
jah Adams, waa among the leaders of
the Mohawks, who staged the historic
"tea party" In Boston harbor just prior
to the P.evolutlonery war. Ills r rand
father, Gardner Adams, was a cousin
of President John Wulncy Adarna, and
fought In the United State navy
throughout the war of 1812. The boy's
uncle, another John Quincy Adama,
brother of Mrs. Burrows, was with the
Union forces in- the Civil war.
his men throughout their occupancy of
the firing line. ' ' v
Headquarters expected the colonel to
open up with machine gun fire to cover
while the regiment slipped bak through
traverses and across the open space to
the second line, thus leaving an empty
trench for the Germans' to mine. - The
officer ;-who - brought the - information
suggested that the colonel hurry the
evacuation, for, he said, "the devils are
ready any minute to blow the whole
regiment to kingdom come."
But thai waa not Colonel Farquhar's
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Men
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minim
Seven Qualified
are in charge of our
Prescription Case
, Mfn of family, training, experience and skill men with an abiding
- interest in their responsible calling, giving to it their sole, undi
- yided and exclusive attention. No interruptions, tkisiness or social,
are permitted to interfere with their task, involving as it does, life
i. and death. Infallible? No but here's -the record:
53 YEARS OF SERVICE to this community and near a million-atid-a-quarter
prescriptions. A constantly growing, steadily ex
panding business fabric, built upon mutual goodwill and confi
dence between public, profession, ourselves and our two-htindred-
:;T and-thirty-eight associates.. v'':- - .;v .
Have we riot a, proper right-to ask you who1 read this, Vto turn.
. lowaru us rur mis- service vwnen me occasion arises?
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MloodardGlkefe'Go- ;1
era caught him creeping back to the
line. We went out to get him' when he
didn't return, and found him clasping In
his hands a photograph of his daughter.
When we buried him Brigadier General
Smith, commandinglhe eightieth bri
gade, of which contingent we were a
part, came down to pin upon his coat
the distinguished service medal, con
ferred by special orders. ;
Beeaptara Key to Tpres
There would have been few of the
regiment left, so fast were . the . German
batteries decimating them, if prepara
tions fo? the. 'battle of Tpres had not
gotten - under way. Then the Germans
moved their . batteries. I
Before Tpres there was 'the battle of
St. Jullen, fought along the Menntn
road. The Germans, especially anxious
to take the city of Tpres, which they
wanted to use as a distributing center.
marched upon the trenches of the
French colonial troops in the Mennln
road sector,- where a salient had been
formed. In mass formation, sacrificing
a hundred thousand men to break the
line. Here they used gas for the first
time In that district . i
The French colonials were driven out,
unable to cope against the tremendous
odds and reckless sacrifices of the Ger
man commanders. The Mennin road
was the Key to Tpres, however, and the
orders came down from Marshal French
to regain the line at all cost. The First
Canadian contingent, 40,000 strong, which
had been distributed close to Festerbert,
was called up.
As the Canadians marched down the
Mennin road they encountered the routed
French colonials, the roads and fields
strewn- with thousands choking to death
from the gas. It seemed as if the very
fields were shrieking and groaning, so
pitiful was the agony of the colonials
who had fallen in their tracks as they
streamed across the open behind their
trenches, staggering till they dropped,
with the terrible gas gripping at their
lungs.-
But the Canadians marched Into ac
tion, laughing with and at each other,
joking and cheering, until some one
began singing "Tipperary." Company
after company of the division took up the
refrain until the whole 40,000, officers,
noncoms and men alike, were singing
with all their might this Cockney march
ing song.
They took hack the trenches mit the
40,000 were .only 18.000 when the casualty
list was read. This was the first big
casualty list sent back to Canada it was
the. Dominion's rirst big "Jolt" 22,000 of
her first 40,000 contingent lost in a Bln-
gle battle. It woke up the nation. But
there was a thrill, too, that went home
with the report of the doings at Mennin
road. When the -battle was over and
the trenches safely In the hands ot the
Canadians, it was the Princess Pats that
were found firmly holding the very apex
of the salient the most dangerous place
of all. ' "When the field marshal reported
back to England there waa one line In
his report that must have touched the
heart of the royal princess "Especial
credit Is due the Princess Patricia's Ca
nadian Light .Infantry for its gallantry
in taking, under heavy odds and -concentrated-
fire, the most advanced line pf
- . ' At Battle of Tpres
We paid heavily, of course, but not so
heavy as the toll of the Princess Pats a
few days later. May 8, when the Ger
mans began the battle of Tpres. At 20
minutes after 6 o'clock on the morning
of the eighth, the Germans began their
desperate attempt to take the city. They
first i concentrated their fire upon' the
apex-of the salient held by the Princess
Pata. They-fired ' at intermissions until
half past nine, when the shelling finally
ceased and they began their frontal at
tack.. -.- ' ; , '-..... ''
' Four regiments .of "Germans marched
; directly upon our position. . but we held
j them oft with machine gun fire, causing
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driven back to their, own trenches their
Wbm wrtUns to or ranlns oa adrartlam
pImm aay im aae ad la .Tea Joornal.
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THE SPIRIT OF '17
By Judge W31i Brown of Chicago
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