IN SPITE OF ALL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 2

IN SPITE OF ALL

1 For an army that (a) wa<g never raised, (fa) was kept at home to- sup-press*anti-war riots, (c) was torpedoed and sunk on the way across, (d) was too low-spirited to fight when it laaided, (c) starved to death owing to the lack: of supplies that were sunk by the übiquitous. H-hcats, (f) disooivered i^uait it had ho quarrel with the Germans', (g) was captured by a small'patrol, (ih) got. lost in No man's Land, (i) annihilated by a bomb dropped fromi an airplane, (k) gassed out of existence 'by a few clouds of mustaird, (1) soared to death by the sound of its own artillery, (m) cauglEt by a barrag© because it had. no artillery with whicih to reply, (n) wiped out because of its refusal to take precaiUitions against treqich fever, (o) stood up against a wall and shot because, of its insubordination, ■(p) carried off by gout incurred, '.n eating all tin© meat and drinking up all the win© of the French, (q) driven insane Iby letters telling of starvation at home, (r) scattered by an irresistible longing to see the sights, (s) wrecked on it® own railway from the coast, (t) worn' out from marching all the way from tihe coast to the front, owingi to the failure of the American engineers to build a railway, (v) rendered unfit for fighting by indulgence in baseball during drillitimet f (v) ; converted to the ca-us© of tihe Kaiser iby a few proclamations dropped from airplanes, (w) recalled to vote for Wilson on condition of being mustei'etl out with a pension, (x) put in the guardhouse indefinitely because of refusal to do anything except parade on the Champs. "Elysees, (y) given up as hopeless by General Persihing, (z) unaible to fight effectively because it was so large that it got in its own way, our troopa did fairly well yesterday.—"New Wk Post."