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Show SOLDIER DESCRIBES PRINCE OF WALES AS "BALLY KID" One of the Boys Who Have Just Left School and Have Not Yet Lost Their Drawl. I Boys in Warfare Show Utter Ut-ter Disregard for Measures Meas-ures of Safety. Special CabU to Th Tribune. LONDON. Sept. 1 1. Ben Tfllatt. the Socialist leader, has come back from the trenches with a budget of good stories. Here Is one. Ben was giving a picture of the democracy of the trenches, how the officers offi-cers play pitch and toss with their own men. and Join In other games and sports In the intervals of waiting for an attack at-tack on the enemy. The fine camaraderie which has sprung up between the junior ofTlfers and the TOOTi lias also led to some very free and emphatic criticism, which, however, is redeemed by its good humor. This ia what Ben said: The soldiers have got to like what you would call mothers" boys, nice lads who have barely left school or college, who haven't- forgotten thetr drawh and yet who can face danger and privation with the coolnesB of any old veteran. At the same time, the men don't like the unnecessary risks t.hese youngsters take, and they have indulged in-dulged In more than one grumble on the subject. I remember one afternoon after-noon when some of my own dockers, who were In the trenches outside Tpres, came up to me and said: "Now look here. Ben, you'll have to do something; to get these bally kids from risking themselves too much. Look at that young blighter over there. He goes lookina: for risks. He don't care if he's Killed, but we'll get the blame If he Is! We can't get a bit o' rest looking after him. Jest git him stopped when you gt back, because we can't do anything, a-s the kid will always have his own way. Jest look at him nar!" I did ; then I laughed. "It's all very well for you to laugh, Ben," said a docker he's a coal-heaver coal-heaver at Tilbury when he's out of fjp the army "but he looks for more trouble than we do!" Well, I had to laugh, for the "kid" Is the oldest son of the queen of England and In due time will be King Edward VHL |