TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT JULY 10, 1919.
U.S. ESTEEM WON BY BRITISH ARMY
style you can get it on the British
■ front," said the dissatisfied hotel
guest.
he told of his service there,
Dispelling of American Prejudice its Greatest of Then
the collapse of the Fifth British
army under Gen. Gough in March,
Work—Comradeship the Test.
. 1918 and gave his explanatioi^f the
I greatest defeat the British-army
ever suffered.
were patriotic enough to come were
found to be all fight.’’
Ail the intelligent class and most
of the ignorant class admitted the
worth of the Colonials, the Scotch
and the Irish. Those who would not
were generally officers who had
been demoted or transferred for In
efficiency or were ignorant officers
Interesting Article Written by Lieut. Moss E. Penn, who was
or enlisted men.
American Hotel Poor.
One man came home praising the
| The American officers’ hotel at Le
with the Thirtieth Division.
Mans was so poor that most of the Colonials and all the British army
Without the British army Germany can understand the satisfying effect Americans went to the hotel De Paris except the English, but during the
would have won the war before of jam. That was one of the (jrst of which was under private control. But conversation recalled a subaltern
America saved it, but his majesty’s many points in favor of the British. if they went to Cala's they went to from London named Coleman and a
expeditionary forces rendered their Their ration was better.
the British officers’ dub, which pre major naired Boxer who,, he declar-
greatest service to the empire by dis
Americans had been told that Eng war tourists will remember as the ed, were tlip "finest fellows he ever
met." Boxer was from up in Mid-
pelling 100 years of ignorance, pre land was hiding behind her colonies. Grand Hotel.
judice and misinformation in the Among the first things to be noticed
Service at the officers’ club was lands. It developed that the Ameri
minds of Americans when Britishers in the British army to which the furnished by the army service corps can's friendship had been won over
and Americans met on the field of Thirtieth wm attached was the large of the British, It was smart and a sociable quart of Scotch. He knew
battle.
number of^pien wearing wound quick, just as was British service "on a number of real Englishmen who
Little enough of the virtues of the stripes, the service chevrons worn parade,” just as it was in a front line were "good fellows”. But naturally
English was said in America before showing three of four years army trench under all trials and in the they w’ere snobs and braggarts and
bullies. He thought that because he
the beginning of the war in 1914. life in France, the stories English face of all difficulties.
From that time until the United veterans would tell of the death of
The Royal Air Force which protec had not met them all, but he did not
States entered the war in 1917 the brothers, cousins and other relatives. ted the Thirtieth division has been know from personal experience that
thousands of German propagandists '
admitted by men in all armies to be he had met a lot of good Englishmen.
England at War,
However, he would not apply his own
and anti-Brltishers denouncing the
Not the colonies alone, but Eng- the-best in action on the western experience to the nation. He just
English and the entente in general
front.
Old
Fritz
admitted
it
by
stay
left nothing but the gullible skeptic land, London, Liverpool, Sussex, the ing on the ground, the best argument let the old prejudices stand, and de
Midlands, the northern counties,
clared his "jolly” English friends
to doubt. The English were the chief
were at war, and today they bear the in favor of the R. A. F. The times were exceptions.
object of criticism because of the
that the Huns appeared over the
scars of war.
Some Americans have come home
popular prejudice against them.
' American lines in an air raid in day
The following story told by an
The public was told how England
light can be counted on the fingers. denouncing the English because of
was starving German women and American lieutenant is one of thou The number of times the R. A. F. of their exclusiveness. One Memphan
sands which were true of the British took the air over the American lines came home and said the British ad
children, told that England w'ould
army during the last year.
I
"fight to the last Frenchman,” that
can be counted by the days the mitted Americans were good fight-
The lieutenant had borrowed an
ers, “but socially they were ini pos-
thirtieth division was at the front.
she was hiding behind her colonies,
ambulance and chauffeur from 'a
British artillery .either English or sible.” When the Britisher made
denouncing the villified. No nation British officer to
get back to his bil- Australian, protected the American that statement he reflected two of
in the history of man, except Ger let, 10
miles from Amiens. En route infantry throughout the campaigns the characteristics of his race, frank-
many, *has beeh guilty of all the ■ his car
passed a middle.aged British of the Thirtieth, No support could ness and bluntness. There ls no
crimes which were charged to the ‘ officer
walking along that beautiful have been better.
doubt that many Americans who
British.
highway from Amiens to Albert. The
went to France were impossible so
But
in
machine
gunnery
the
Brit-
After two years of anti-British American stopped and' picked up the
ish were supreme, Machine gunners cially. Any observer who has ever
propaganda Americans by the thou- , Britisher.
in the thirtieth division fought with counted the number of drunken
sands were sent to reinforce the
"Where are you going?” queried the British Vickers gun and accord American officers in any first.class
British army, which, like the French the American.
had withstood attacks more tremen • “I am going to Albert to see the ing to British tactics. Many machine cafe from Calais to Nice, heard the
dous and hellish than were believed gra”e of my son,” he replied quietly gun officers were sent to American grammatical blunders made by ig
schools after reaching France, but norant regular army sergeants who
possible before the war began.
j and with a lack of emotion which
Few Americans were pleased with only a soldier can acquire. "He wa> they always returned to the British were given commissions and have
the order that sent them to the Brit-1 killed at his gun in 1916 and I saw front and again took up British tac noted the activities of lieutenants
ish front at the time the order was his grave after that time. I have not tics. First .because British tactics who made $100 a month for the first
time when they got In the army, will
received. Still fewer were pleased been there since the Huns were were adapted to the weapon and be
realize that a lot of overseas officers
with the orders that took them away puched back this summer, 1 am go- cause no one could ever find out
from the British front after they ing up'today to see if they have vio- what instructors in American ma were "impossible” in a good many
chine gun schools were attempting ways. The only trouble was that the
had served a few months on British lated the grave.”
British were so frank it hurt.
to teach.
rations, fighting according to Brit
Then he went into detail about the
The record made by the American
The first test of British sentiment
ish tactics and after learning some, death of his boy as the auto sped
officers on leave will never add any
thing of the British spirit and disci along between the two rows of state in the Thirtieth division came last
September when the division was glory to the record of the A. E. F.
pline.
ly poplars which followed the ro id. ordered out of the Ypres sailent after Any American who went to France
Sammy Meets Tommy.
1 After the boy had been killed this two months’ service. The division and came home without realizing
When Sannny went to Tommy’s aid officer, like thousands of other Eng
had been in or behind British lines any of the improvements we need to
in Flanders he admitted, after over lish fathers, had "come out to France
for two months. It had seen an ex make in ourselves is too narrow to be
coming the prejudice which he bad on his majesty’s service.”
ample of the bulldog tenacity of the improved by either travel or educa
inherited from half a dozen genera
England has not fought? On last Britisher in the ghastly salient in tion.
tions, that Tommy was a "jolly good Nov. 11 she had one man out of every
The returned soldier who could not
Belgium where an army stood sur
chap”. After traveling 3,000 miles three under the age of 60 years In
rounded on three sides and fought realize after service with the British
from home, suffering from the dis some kind of war work. If she has
not to save a stragetic position but that our cousins have been slandered
advantages of a foreign tongue, he not fought why did she stand on the to prevent a pile of brick, Ypres, for a century missed the light that
had at last met a man with whom he same front for four years giving and
shown for his comrades.
from being captured.
could talk, a man of similar ideas, a taking the most tremendous blows
The world for years to come Is to
Where
are
we
going?
Everybody
t
soldier with the same dream of vic recorded in the annals of war?
asked. And nobody answered. There be predominated by the’ English-
tory, though rather low in morale.
: Has England not fought?
I were repprts of Italy, of various sec speaking races. The British Expedi
The average American pictures an
Who defended Ypres? On whose tors on the American front. During tionary Force "performed its greatest
Englishman as a monocled snob, a front were Cambrai, Lille and Amen- the summer many stories of priva service when it revealed the true
boaster of ancestry and a braggart, tieres? Lens, Tournai, Peronne, the tion, of lack of rations and poor com greatness of the British character to
There are some of them, but they, River Somme and the Hindenburg munications had reached the Thir the army from the republic of the
thank heaven, are like that class of Rne shook under the thunder from tieth division from the American west, which will be a partner of im-
Americans pictured just above—they British guns even before America front.
mortable Britian In the upbuilding
are getting fewer every day.
had seIrt her victorious thousands
of
a worn-weary world, and which
i
Stay With British
When the Thirtieth American di- lnt0 the great drive for victory,
by
custom, tradition, law, tongue
So when the American front was
vision went to the British front in
The British empire sent 8,000,000
and blood is bound to the British
announced
as
a
probable
destination
June, 1918, they found themselves men to battle on seven battle fronts.
empire for decades to come.
hailed as the men who must save the Australia, with a smaller population there came a protest of “we don’t
want to go there. We want to stay
war.
that the state of New York, and Can
Notice of Sale of Real Property by
“It is up to yot^.’’ That statement ada with her 10,000,000 or 12,000,- with the British.”
Executrix.
—
|
The
anti
British
spirit
of
two
was made by every British officer 00O, could not have furnished them.
met from Paris to Ypres. Not much Ireland, pouting like a spoiled, child, months before, the schooling of the
Notice Is hereby given, that the
German propagandist, the native
of a boastful spirit about that.
would not furnish them.
undersigned, as Executrix of the last
prejudice
was
dying.
The
doughboy
No one asked anyone who he was
The bulk of the British army was
will and testament of W. J. Clemens,
back in the states, how much money English. Scotland bled herself white who had spent the summer at Ypres, deceased, in pursuance of. an order
which
was
just
around
the
corner
his family had' or what college his but the Scotch are not numerous.
of the Circuit Court of the State of
father was graduated from. The What were at the front from Scot from hell, had learned one thing— Oregon, for the County of Multnom
that
the
British
would
get
the
nmn
British asked only one question— land made a record that but few
ah sitting in Probate, which order
"What do you know about fighting have equaled and none can ever sur in the front line something to eat, a was made and entered on the ¡Kith
little
pure
water
and
even
send
him
and can you fight?” They soon learn pass. But London sent a million, and
day of June, 1919, will, on Friday,
ed that the American could, and that Manchester, Birmingham and other his mail.
the 25th day of July, 1919, at the
iere'rcpresentedin
I
The
Brltl
«
h
are
raB
*
te
”
at
keepinS
fact pleased the British just as well English centers w____ _ __________
i up communications. Nothing means hour of ten (10:00) o’clock a.m. of
as the Americans.
equal proportions.
so much to the man at the front, said day, at the oSfice of Clemens,
Officers of the Thirtieth division
No English institution reflects its nothing can more vitally effect the White & Colman, in room No. 200
argued by the hour over the good true characteristics more clearly
in the Stevens building in the City
and bad qualities of the British sol than the British army. It reveals fate of an army. A graveled high-’ of Portland, Multnomah County,
way
waj
kept
in
perfect
order
at
dier. When the Thirtieth first went English bluntness as many self-sat-
Oregon, ahd thereafter until said
to Flanders front the British had but isfied American lieutenants who Ypres up to the gates of the city, property be sold, offer for sale at
though
the
last
few
miles
were
un
few friends. But gradually t<he Amer have crossed with veteran British
private eale the following described
icans became familiar with British '■aptaius can remember. The British der shell fire and often hit. Tele real pioperty belonging to said es
phone
lines
ran
to
the
most
impor
tactics, began to understand the ’ army demanded service and got it.
tate, viz:
Britisher himself,
and through Got it from its own ranks and got it tant centers in the salient. Aid sta
All of Lots numbered Twenty-
their common language made a from the Americans who were allied tions were numerous and well pro nine (29) and Sixty-Eight (68), and
tected.
The
system
of
evacuation
of
friend or two. In two months the with them.
i
the North Half (N’/4) of Lots num
American was trying to drink all the . Americans excel in many things, wounded was perfect. Ask the man bered Twenty-eight (28) and Sixty-
who
was
wounded
in
the
Argonne
hospitable Britisher’s Scotch and. de- but _ ln ________
building the American expe
nine (69), in Block
Numbered
mandlng tea himself at 4;
‘ 30 p.m., ditionary forces many things were Forest how long it took him to get thirty-r.ine (39) in Bayocean Park,
out.
just as much as the man who^had . overlooked which would have added
Tillamook County, Oregon.
I
I But the Thirtieth division moved.
spent his life in London.
to the efficiency of the army, would
Said sale to be for cash, one-fourth
Fearful of Its destination, It left the
have decreased "red tape” and made
( % ) of the purchase price to be
British Efficiency Perfect,
railhead in a war.torn Belgian town
No army in the world has ever it more Impressive in the eyes of Eu for. the south. After a day of travel paid at the time of sale, and the re
ropeans
if
methods
from
the
British
mainder upon the confirmation of
etfi-
organized
and
run
on
so
been
the division stopped between Cam
cient a basis as was the British army or other veteran armies had been brai & St. Quentin. Of all places Cam the sale by the Circuit Court.
This notice is publishehd by order
during the last year of the war. borrowed. The first staff officer who brai and St. Quentin! Two of the
Previous to that time no American establishes the British system in the bloodiest spots in France where of Hon. George Tazwell, Circuit
can
— not t,here. 1 American army will do more for the British and German armies bad been Judge sitting in Probate Department
can juubv
judge, , ao
as ..v
he was
on the 20th day of June, 1919.
When the Americans went to Flan- j military branch of the governjm®nt shot to pieces.
Mary M. Clemens, Ex
ders "Blighty” was living on half ' than any general who commanded a
| But the division still was on the
ecutrix of the last will
rations, but the English .soldier in 'division throughout the war.
Many improvements would have British front. Friends were made
and testament of W.
France had a-plenty, He had more
Clemens, deceased.
come
in the. A. E. F. had it been in quickly. The doughboy met the Aus
eastern
than the Americans on the
tralian, tall, rough, unkempt, but First publication June 26, 1919.
section of the front, the soldiers France as long as the B. E. F. was in
big-hearted and a dare-devil fighter.
from the nation which the English the field. But things were not mov- He quickly became the friend of the Last publication July 24, 1919.
themselves were i largely dependent ing very rapidly when the war closed, American. His artillery supported
The Americans did not seem to be
upon for food.
Administrator’s Notice to Creditors.
| i the infantry brigades in their smash-
The fact still remains one of the able to make improvements.
One
day
two
American
leiutenants
ing
of
the
Hindenburg
line.
He
fol-
Notice is hereby given, that the
paradoxes of the war. But its answer
is ln British efficiency and system. met ln an American officers’ hotel in lowed the Carolinians and Tennes- County Court of the State of Oregon,
In 1918 there was an American ma Le Mans, which had been established seas to the River Celle. His barrages for Tillamook county, has appointed
chine gun school near Langres, in by an American division stationed in were perfect and his devotion to du- the undersigned administrator of the
ty exemplary.
Eastern France, where there was so tliat area.
estate of Fritz Buhrow, deceased,
An orderly came in and served a I The minority force, which still was and any and all persons having
little to eat at the officers’ mess that
those who depended upon*it for food poorly prepared meal in’ his shirt holding out with its anti-Angllcism, claims against .-aid estate are hereby
lived in discomfort. The mess for en sleeves. His shirt was not fresh, his now admitted that the Australians required to present the same, to
listed men was ju.4t as bad. There breeches were dirty. He placed the were "all right”. They also admitted gether with the proper vouchers
was no sugar, often no salt, never meal on the table and walked away. that the Scotch were all right " therefore, to the administrator at
“Well this is a rotten meal,” grow They knew that the Canadians were the office of the Sheriff of Tilla
any butter.
The Thirtieth Division students led the first as he began eating a "all right” because they came from mook County, at Tillamook City, Ore
went direct from there to the British meal of the same rations he could get North America. Nobody doubted that gon, on or before six months from
argument. They had been told that the date of, this notice.
lines east of Calais. The first thing at his own company kitchen.
“If you want a good meal go to the the South Africans were "all right"
found in their rations whs jam.
Dated June 12, 1919.
the
South African
W. L. Campbey, admin
Sweets had been virtually unheard of British officers' hotel at Calais,” re particularly
Scotch', though Americans never
istrator of the Estate of
in the American sector. Any person plied the man across the table.
"If you want anything in military fought with them. The few Irish who I
Fritz Buhrow, deceased.
knowing a soldier’s taste for sweets
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