Show LILLE KISSING ORGY WA W A war PICTURED BY YANK pretty maidens lead in osculation as correspondents enter city PEOPLE ARE MAD WITH JOY delirious women surround nejapa per men among firby to enter freed city and smother them with kisses meant as an outburst Out burat of gratitude I 1 to british cly by GEORGE T BYE american Amet ican headquarters british front li iii clio early morning wo love set out over tte te south route into lille by way of gerville and la bus bits sec there ana we a a heavy mist that would have prevented tiny ny distio nt alow but luckily wo we pressed on we callip across some balloon observers who ind descended because they could see beg nothing artillery was moving forward tin nn encouraging sign racing on over the iha filu na cobblestone la basseo rood road we slowed allowed up through a little village bild a brigade headquarters in fit tile the military net act of moving were going on to loos a major said bald ile he had heard nothing of lille beyond it a report that british patrols had established themselves beyond the city willing to take any chance our map showed lonato be a suburb immediately connected with lille and we hurried on in great tion A military order forbidding entry by troops would not apply to correspondents we were roused enough to declare wo we would swim canals and walk vatic miles allea for the chance to penetrate francos frances fifth metropolis even if we had to dodge enemy outposts the british engineers already load had a pontoon bridge across the canal at it and at indiscreet speed yc ive clattered over it there were some esome shouting crying people of harbour din aho vho wanted to dumber clamber aboard the car but we stop dy y following street car tracks we reached loos in a few minutes and bad the first taste of what was to follow we slowed down to inquire directions dt ions long and a mob seemed to rise in tile the street people fought to reach us and then climbed over tile the bock back and sides of the car to embrace and kiss us crying continually hurrah for the english H I 1 to which wo we could only respond in french good clod good dayl day boys lead kissing squad 0 some little boys managed to squirm into the bock back of the car and standing on our typewriters gas gar masks and anonsen lunch tried for a monopoly of the kissing for a minute until wo we pushed them out our hands were elded and kissed Is tile the tommy driving us ins was halt pulled from froin ilia his seat by a hysterical ild aid lady who cuddled him as it if lie he it a baby and cried my dear hit ebia boyl boy I 1 he had to td wipe her tears front from ills his foco face wp when sho she ro released leased him film and the tar car was kissed please please wo we must hurry into allo 1110 which way please one tragically happy girl whom I 1 hold had to seize by the shoulders to keep hor her away from me dually pointed up the tha road and said straight away there are no bodies boches in lille they nave have gone she was still talking when the driver frantically colly twisted his klaxon and wo we began to plow through the jam jain which load kad collected far ahead of us we finally backed onto a circuitous toad road which led up to tile the port dos postas the southern gate to lille lien here we were e to leave the british captain also the driver and car and exercise our civilian privilege of entering the city lille had had no notice of german evacuation beyond tile ho ter terrific rifle explosions nt at six that morning when tho bridges were blown up lip tinny many soldiers had been moved from their billets in lille homes however it lintl lind ivell been tile experience of four years to ive the city alternately filled with then lien suddenly emptied when tile tho explosions bad brought the people into the streets streeta they hey were impressed by y the complete disappear ilice of the enemy eneany about little a n bravo soul went into tho of tho the in tile tho large building of the prefecture of nud and found it vacated british flyers over city chiy british airplanes began to lly fly low over tile tho city but not hot tommy was in eight bight after tense minutes of anxious walting waltine three things cli Chi 1 tries irlea Dela delasalle solle jr a french tor and son of tho the mayor of lille flow over from dunkirk and lighted 0 on I 1 tile tho champs do mars two correspondents I 1 of tho the petit and lo le matin of paris trudged after it long walk through the Armenti eres gate gat e into lille mellett and I 1 entered the port de dc posies who was frat first probably vill never be settled nor Is it nt at nil all important that it should sh be settled bottled except to tile entrants if wo we were beaten by a fed tul minutes which wo we dispute wo we kank ye 6 had tho the only parade ft procession that went through tho the heart of tho the city covered it mile lasted tin nn hour and included many thousands of dancing and singing flinging celebrants if wo we bad not been rescued lit in the place to do la in lie ile pub lIque and hurried inside tile gans of the prefecture tile tho parade might have ended only when If mellett ellett and I 1 had reached the lie swooning point hundreds encircle car when wo we reached tho the port des rows with its several tr afflic hundreds of people canic running out of tile tho gate a never ending that tightly encircled our car los Angl alses sont tell lall vivo les leg ans what they shouted ns nil they tumbled toward us and we even heard it being taken up in alarming crescendo on the other side of tho the city wall As soon n no tho the kissing started mellott surrendered hla his face and hands but with ills his mind still on business managed to slide out of the ear I 1 unwisely established a precedent for lifting up bables babies kissing them in tile french fashion on either cheek giving them ghetu it a little spank and tossing them back to the first wom woman nn lit in sight eight this was unwise lit in a way because it attracted hundreds hun dreda of 0 mothers who wanted their offspring kissed ond flud spanked by tho the bogus great englishman and undoubtedly resulted in many delirious mothers extricating themselves from the mob only to find themselves yes in possession of astr a str infant tor for in tile tho excitement of the moment I 1 could take no responsibility for making correct returns alred by swarm of maldo maids yet it showed that I 1 had a family heart and while I 1 was paralyzed by the sen sea of babies surging up to me many of them back for a second go 90 no doubt still there was tile satisfaction of seeing that among tho the babies were tho the lowers flowers of lille the prettiest lest mademoiselles lit in tho ilia meantime was struggling with h a swarm of buxom housemaids house maids who were bussing him four and live nt at a time in fact he had all tho the la basseal mud land kissed off one ear car his bis tussles with tho the stout girls quite distinctly and tile recollection always flashes upon me ino whon when bo be happens to mention my to tho bearded gentlemen for saho climb out or wo we are bostl shouted mellott so BO I 1 permitted bitted several of my lissome beti beauties lutleR to assist mo me dismount collected a few warm oscillations an and wui three of tile tho loveliest on either arm surged forward the crowd gave way with a shout and tumbled buck back through tile tho gata attend alx nd of its na its the ho heralds Iter olds of clr pro coisson co islon seeing that it wits unwise for If mellett ellett slid and tile ino to bo be too distantly sm sep abated I 1 unhooked two of 0 tho the girls ond and 31 mellott ollett took tho the arm of the one buo between us mile lille bertho Du Dubi bauts uita by tile way france nover never lundo inside cut ciu prettier than title mile Il erthe everybody wanted two kisses the enormity of what ant was ahead of 0 ais was not hot realized zed until wo we were through tile gate our heralds were shouting tile english are wave upon wave of niell women VO Illon and children boro down upon us its and nt at times there were collisions that must have hurt everybody wanted nt at lenat two kisses anti and n handshake tile lear old ladies indies of had the highest nver ago going nt at the rate of 70 in it possible tho the younger women and I 1 nin ant not referring to not letta contingent wanted to do tho the thing tenderly and gently nud and na as it A ro re suit often rot got only a little bump against my noso nose or ear tho the second kiss missing tire or ricocheting to one ot of my illy winsome escort tho the only trouble with tile escort was that could not lot tell ug its cheo wo wanted to go wo just staggered on pushed anti pulled nt at from tilt nil directions rec tlona ions almost carried down by the alia M weight eight of somo some wildly joyous person who would spring nt at us throw both arms around our necks find and latsil us rapturously As we vio cro entering ruo rue lee doa costes wo nye heard a n booming voice call out can I 1 help just n minute while I 1 get through these blinking girls lie ho was al auguste a belgian tailor formerly of london because ho he was sixty four years 0 old id tile the germans had not liot forced him to work lie ile hod had kept ilia son aon hidden tor rot four years but lie said bold tho the little fool insisted finally on getting out una and hod had been seized and taken away by the germans when they deported till nil tile the able manhood evon even youths in mid ined teens shortly before tho the evacuation lt introduced us to lt M fernand lille of the general electric company of schenectady N r Y will you gillack toke us through smack tho the main streets smack to the mayor smack and tack smack bronck to our car smack wo we begged between ids sell the two turned about and talked very fast to tho the mob A way opened for us mid and wo we started all went well for two minutes then lien a fresh battalion of klames went avei over tile top and cut ut al Ilan claus oft off front from nil all tion with us wo we never saw blia again ribbons badges dada rosettes Roi ettes wo we now begun to be entwined with red white and blue ribbons and ninny many badges and rosettes were pinned to us no wo we also got bunches of red white and blue paper flower there was nothing amorous about the ilia kisses they were given by old alid young to tho the good english ono one win trim in tny my retinue kissed mo me once for the allies once for england once tor for myself and once for my wife note I 1 am not adding uila this to square myself at home this true and accurate hi history of the great oc canton anelon must bo be complete in all details what happened to the kissers after they had battered their way into out our parade and finally got within rench they formed in lines fifteen abreast and danced or stamped ahead or behind us its singing the when wo we got bock back to our car we wa found it ind tali able in tho the mob tho the british captain bad two babies on either knee an and he sat od BO they were between him and tile kissers tho the dri driver verlind had giren up a long time ago and quite miserably hung over its his sent in a limp ilina position reach of short abort or tall tali for him it was more cheerful to give than to receive the bravo british deliverers of lille later did got a tremendous ova tion lion from tile tho city we saw nw a tow fow ben tries when wo nye returned thero there having their guns held by girls and being be decked with garlands and fec with cakes wo we saw other tommie s tutoring haying their guns and packs carried by lille 1111 rs it Is a pity that lie ilia first spon pon outburst of gratitude to the british should have been centered on two yank correspondents |