| Show LILLE rl akui r CT U keji 15 T T 7 Y A N ta IN pretty maidens lead in osculation as correspondents enter city PEOPLE EOPLE ARE MAD WITH JOY delirious women surround news newspaper p a men among firby to enter freed city and smother them with kisses meant is as an outburst of gratitude to british by GEORGE T BYE american ilea deual ter Bilt ih front in file r lic early morning NN we L sot set out over uc me south loutch into lille by way of merville estaire and la bas bee ailcie was vm a heavy nilst that woud have prevented tiny any distant view but luckily we pre preyed ged on we caw across sonic homo balloon observers veis who 1 had id descended because they could see nothing artillery was nas forwald for waid tin an encouraging sign racing on oner oer the cobblestone la bassee road we aloyed up lip through il a little village and sw a brigade headquarters in tile the flieth olic mill military tar act of moving were going on to loos a major said gald uc ile ila had heard nothing not liing of lille teo 11 ga ut or t h 1 I 10 loii loiis in AR 1 t which has been filed filea with cirii fi ff 1111 rii nil of said cobit this action on it to recover judgment dis ell cn a V the he marriage arriage in contract here alon J III ib sting between you and mv y cle ir E r E it then n plaintiffs attorney onor rr dress utah rohneld i it i ani CE TO CON contractors CONTRACT 10 e her lua a if safi i hereby given that sealed 6 ap beur pp be leco ived at the residence I 1 a h 11 jensen at 1 monroe lonroe costs altot ed l jalm L pene shouting arning co ing people of din dill nilo lio anted to clamber aboard the car but ne ile Mould nt top stop by following street car tracks we reached loos in a few minutes and ila biad the hie first taste of what was to follow we down to inquire directions ions and a mob ceiner ce ined to rise inn icalla in fit the people fought to reach us and then climbed oer the back and sides of the ear car to embrace and kiss kag us it cring continually hurrah for the Engl english to shirli we ne could only respond in french good day good day boys lead kissing squad some little boys managed to squirm into the back of the car arid and standing on our typewriters gas masks and anensen lunch tried for a monopoly of the kissing for a minute until we pushed them out our hands were and kissed the tommy draing us was half pulled front from his seat by a n hysterical old did lady cuddled him as if lie he ft acre ere a baby nil and cried my dear eat hr ei list boyl lie ile had to wipe her lei tears front crom ills his face when she released lel cased him and the car was kissed please please we must hurry into which way please one tragically happy gill whom I 1 had to seize by the shoulders to keep hor amny aw ay front from rile me finally pointed up the road and said straight away are arc no bodies in they li linc ne gone one site she was wn still talking when the driver frantically twisted ills maxon klaxon an and we began to plow through the jam chich alch had collected far ahead of oc us we finally hacked backed onto a circuitous road which led up to the port des costes tin tile southern sout licin gate galo to lille bere we were to leave the british captain nabo the driver arid car and exercise our ei villan privilege of entering tire city lille ila biad had no notice of german evacuation beyond tile the terr terrific itic explosions tit at six that thai morning when tire the bridges bridge NN ere ilon blon it ill up many sol acis hail had been moved front their billets billeb lit lille homes Ilo however wever it had been th the exper experience lence of four years scars t to 0 it hae ae the city alternately filled wit 1 I 1 germans then suddenly emptied d whim when the explosions had brought tit the people into tile alie street they impressed hy by the complete dl ance of ilie enemy about nine a brave hi abc soul abent into the lie head ter tens ot or tile the in the lie hit laige building of the lie prefecture 4 allce and in found it vacated british flyers over city british airplanes began to ny fly low over the city hut but not it a british tommy wil was in sight after tan tense e minutes of anxious walt waiting three filings happened charles delasalle Dela solle jr a I 1 ranch french aviator tin and 1 I son of the lie ninnor of lille flew over from dunkirk and lighted 0 on n the champs de mars two correspondents I 1 its of the petit Parl slen rind and le matin of paris trudged after a 1 I long wal walk k through the Arment leres gate into lille mellett tin and I 1 entered the port do costes who was first probably AN will ill never lie he settled nor Is it nt at nil that it should be settled except to the lie if we were beaten by n few minutes which ne e dispute all we know we ne lind the only parade a procession ion alint went through the heart of tile the city con cherod e red it nille mile lasted an hour bild included macii thousands of dan dancing ciric und and singing celebrants if we had not been rescued in the place de la in re hc pub lique and in hurried inside the sates or of the prefecture the parade might hae hac ended only when mellott mellett and I 1 had reached tile hie swooning point hundreds encircle car when we vc readied reached tile lie port dc acs postas bilote with its several aisles hundreds of people cattle came running out of the gate a nehei ending stream that tightly encircled our car les Angl aises sont lei ici I 1 vive les ant Angl lal nisel sel was what they shouted sli as they tumbled toward us and we even hear it being taken ill up lit in alarming crescendo on oil tile lie other side of tile the city wall vall As oon coon w as the 1 hissing stained mcl lett ur rendered lil liis face rind hands hand but lit with N fill his mind still on business managed to out of the car I 1 unwisely wi bely established a precedent for lifting up ill anble babies s kissing them thein in the french fashion on oil either cheek giving them a I 1 little spank and tossing back to the first woman in sight this was unwise in a way because it tit nt li hundreds undred of mothers clio wanted their offspring kissed rind spanked by the bogus great englishman and undoubtedly re resulted bulted in many delf delirious rious mothers extricating themselves from the mob only to find themselves lit in pos possession assion of a strange infant for in the excitement of the moment I 1 could take no responsibility for making correct returns kissed by swarm of maids yet it showed that I 1 had a family heart and while I 1 was paralyzed by the sea of bables surging purging up to me ine ninny many of them back for a second go no doubt still there nas as tile the satisfaction of seeing that among the babies were the flowers of lille the prettiest mademoiselles mellett lit in the meantime was nas struggling with a sn rill of bugoni housemaids house maids who ilio wore were bussing 1 him four arid and five tit at a time in fact lie had till all the la harsce mud kissed off on one ear car I 1 remember ills tussles with the stout girls quite distinctly and the recollection always 1111 ays lashea upon rile me when ila ho happens liap pens to mention my gracion ness to the bearded gentlemen for gods sake climb out or we are lost shouted mellett so I 1 permitted several of my illy lissome beauties to assist rile me dismount collected a few fen wann osculation and with tareo of tho the hollest holiest on cither arm arin surge fr forward vard the crowd gave way with a shout mid arid tumbled back through tile the gate ahead of us us its the heralds of conr procession ce sIon seeing alint it was unwise for mellett arid in me to be too distantly separated I 1 iiii unhooked hooked two of tile the girls all Is and mallett Af ellett took the arm rm of the lie one between us mile berthe Du Dubai bauts its by the way france never made eat cm prettier than tile mile berthe everybody wanted two kisses the enormity of what i was as ahead of us ill was not realized until ne c were through the sate gate our heralds were i shouting tire the are coming wac upon wave of men women and children bore down upon us and at times there were collisions that must have hurt everybody wanted at least beust two mci kisses and a handshake the dear old ladies of lille had the highest average going tit at the rate of TO 70 in fit a po possible sIble the younger women and I 1 am not referring to mel letts contingent wanted to do tile the tiling thing tenderly and gently and as a result often got only a little bump against my nose noe or ear the second kiss nrc fire or ricocheting to one of my illy ANin winsome some escort the only trouble with the escort was that they could not tell us eliere wo ne wanted to go we just staggered on pushed and pulled tit at from all dl directions ions som sometimes ethues almost car cai ned down by tit the weight of some ome wildly joyous person who would at ua its throw thron both aims around our necks ana kiss it us rapturously rapt As we ne were entering rue ittle ICs des we aicard a booming voice call out can I 1 help jut juit ju it a minute while I 1 get through these blink blinking ing girls lie ile AN was anas as 11 augustu auguste a belgian tailor form forin oily cily of london because lie was sixty four years na old ld the germans lind not licit foicey him to ne ile lind had kept ills son hidden for four years but lie he said tile the little fool insisted finally on ell getting out ant and lind been seized and taken aw away a Y b by Y it thy lit germans when they deported all tit th able manhood even v youths coutlis out lis in mid teens shortly before tile the evacuation M introduced us tu to M P fernand ernand lia lichius lille of the general electric company of schenectady N Y will vou ou smack take us through smack the main streets smack to the maor smack and buck buch smack to our car smack we begged between kisses the two turned about nebout and hiked deiy fast to the mob A way opened for us its and we started all went nent well for two iiii minutes then a fresh battalion of kisses went over tile the top ani and cut M Han claus off from till nil communication with us we never saw him again ribbons badges rosettes we now began to be entwined with red white and blue and many badges and ro cates were pinned to us we also sot got bun bundles clies of 0 red NN white bilte and blue paper flowers there was nas nothing amorous about the kisses they were given by old arid and poling oung to the good I 1 english one trini trim mademoiselle in ill my lily retinue 11 L assed sed rile once for the allies once for england once for myself and once for m wife note I 1 nin am not adal adding ng this to square myself at home tills till title hue and accurate history of oe the grout great oll oc cension must mus t ho be complete in ill all details what happened to the als kissers ers after they had biad battered their way into our parade and finally got within II kissing Ing rench reach they aliey formed in lines fifteen it abreast and danced or stain stamped ped 1111 tell 1 I or behind us singing hinging the marseillaise Marseil Marelli laise alse when we got baek back to our car wo we found it indistinguishable lit in the mob the british captain had two mo habits on oil either knee arid and he sat at so they were nero bete between ejI hlin and the kissers the driver had given up fighting a long time ago rind and quite miserably hung over ills his seat in a limp position within reach of short or tall for him it wa was I 1 i more L 11 lic erful to give than to receive the brne brave british deliverers 0 of f L lille ille lator later did get P tremendous ov ovation a from froin the lie CRY city we 0 o saw 11 few sentries when c e returned there ha having their gun guns held by girls ail and being lie be decked with garIn garlands tid and red fed with cakes W we saw other Toni commies tommies having hiela lr guns and packs carried by lille gills it is it a pity that lie first spon pon outburst of gratitude to the british should have been centered on oil two I 1 wo yank correspondents |
