"LET US LOOK AT OUR ALLIES."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 5 October 1917, Page 8

"LET US LOOK AT OUR ALLIES."

A SUGGESTION PROM CHICAGO. The Chicago Herald, which has done excellent work for the Allies, recently made the following suggestion, under the heading 'Let us look at our Allies" The "Kilties," made a hit in Chicago. Everybody loved the "Lady from Hell," even if the Highland Laddie 'did come from Canadu. They were a fine exhibit as to the kind of pals witn- whom Uncle <Sam's boys will fight in Flanders. Why not' make the exhibit complete? Let us have a squadron of the Irish Guards (you can, guess what the Band would play), a battalion of the Welsh Fusifiers with theii- go.it mascot inarching ahead of the drum-major, a company of the ; heroic Black Watch with pipes wailing Lochaber, a couple of hundred Tommy Atkins (what a pity the red coat has gone to the scrap heap), a contingent of hefty Anzacs from Australia and New Zealand and a group of our fighting cousins from' across the northern, border. '

But when the parade marches down '.Michigan avenue what do you think •will happen, when half a regiment of stern-faced heroic Poilus in their hori-wm-blue uniforms goes by? Cheers? There never has been, or ever will .1/6 again, such a volcanic blast in Chicago as that which would greet this handful of men who fought at Verdun. Tears? Yes, and they will honour those who shed them. Would not we like Rome of the Italian mountaineers who hive been at grips with Austria on the Oloud-capped mountain tops for a year and a-half?. We would. Off would come every hat when a battalion of the heroic Belgian army stepped out, with their long swinging stride, for they would typify a nation crucified. We do not* know whether it would be possible to lasso enough of the flying itussTans to make an exhibit, but seriously who could not play hookie from business to gaze. on a squadron of Cossacks? The "Kilties" were hors •d'oeuvre. They whet our appetite for the "entire menu. Let us have it. Including a tank.