Show m. m GAS BOMB THAT MEWS LIKE CAT CATI I WARNS BRITISH SH TO DON MASKS i I I Mother Easy Because Her Boy Is Only a Driver Drier and in No Danger S Sees es Hir Him 1 in Somme Battle Screen as as Unknown Hero Rescuing Wounded Wound d From FromI I No Mans Land I I By MARY BOYLE BOYL BO OREILLY REILLY I By The Telegrams Telegram's Special Ne News Nes Service Serried I LONDON Dec 2 London London today I J perhaps perhaps' erl aps' aps half way through the war that will impoverish Europe Is richer by relationships that come of a common sorrow Neighbors long strangers have learned to concern themselves with each oth others other's rs r's lives s. s a s The mother of a soldier read react his letter letter let let- ter aloud in the bus and nobody pretended pretended pre pre- tended not to listen i r rAs As we settled to sleep Joe whispered whis whispered whis- whis whispered Hush Theres' Theres a cat Everyone listened 1 For 01 cats warn us of lots of things things advances advances and enemy aircraft and gas So we turned out into the black dark iMy i f My word they cant all be dubs exclaimed Joe Here Puss Puss Listen Listen Lis Lis- ten fellows Again we heard the loud Joud mewing of a cat Next minute an artillery officer raced along the trench Run Bun men masks for everyone everyone he ordered The Germans are using a I I Y rr 4 S 4 II l I If I m r r. r M k ui u i tr r r I P l I II new kind of gas shell It spreads it its own warning by mewing like a cat S C S Waiting in queues to buy tickets fo for r the Somme film w we talked of the ti- ti fight from which the shuddering shuddering- sound of bombardment thunders across Kent daily Ive I've come up up to London from Foul Foul- Foulridge ridge village to see this film it teems seems like ike one ones one's s duty to do so explained the little Ittle old woman feeling again for the shilling within her glove Im Mrs 1 Spencer a widow My bo boy bov F I I SS I Is Ie s e tsu j 1 I- I ss sl W it Tom Is over there Thank God he is only a driver Im I'm glad and thankful that Tom Toms s is no hero She smiled smiled through a mist of tears as the queue filed into the theatre Onto the screen flashed a stirring foreword Near Hamel Beaumont-Hamel the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans set snipers to pick off the wound wound- ed Stretcher bearers were ordered not to risk rescue that might sacrifice several lives possibly t to td save one In spite of this command an unknown hero finding the cry for help from the the- I wounded more than he c went into No Mans Man's Land h in inIght light Ight again and again until saved twenty men meal oj I. I An instant and the name was there thereat peering across t the toward a comrade he hoped to Slowly very slowly he crawled crawl the death zone crept figure raised it and sta return His face drawn but fined ined looked straight at the OK audi Tom cried the little ol What are you doing out tHere |