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Under The Camouflage
INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCES AND
OBSERVATIONS OF
LOWELL MELLET
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, -flan. 5 (by mail).—A
newspaper free lance, an Englishman,
came into the office this afternoon
with a story to sell. It was an extract
from a sermon that, he said, is to be
delivered tomorrow by the Rev. J.
Port Newton.
Dr. Newton, who came to the City .
temple recently from an Iowa church,
it seems is to inweigh powerfufly
against the drink evil in London. Ac
cording to the extract of the sermon 1
offered by the free lance he charges
that American soldiers are disgracing
themselves and their uniforms on the
streets of this city. Conditions are so
bad in this respect, he avers, that it
“makes him hate London.”
We told him we could not use the
story and he asked why. We told hint
because it isn't true. Regardless of
that, urged the free lance, it would
be a good story; it certainly would in
terest all America.
We suggested that tfle inference
created by such a story would not only
interest, but would alarm all America
—or, in any event, would alarm the
several thousands of mothers w'ho
happen to have boys in uniform on this
side of the Atlantic. He intimated
that that was scarcely our concern,
that the responsibility rested solely on
Dr. Newton.
not accept that American newspaper
men in London looked at things exactly
that way. We even hazarded a sugges
tion that he wouldn’t find one in Lon
don who would send Dr. Newton’s ser
mon to America, since none of them
would consider it presented a true pic
ture of conditions here.
Most of us are quite familiar with
London’s streets and with the haunts
of the American soldiers who come to
the city. It is our business to be. We
haven’t seen the deplorable situation
outlined by Dr. Newton, not the sol- j
diers staggering in the streets, nor
any of it. We’ve heard, on the other
hand, frequent comments on the exem-t
plary conduct of our soldiers and sail
ors when in the city.
Dr. Newton’s purpose, apparently,
(was to strengthen his argument
against permitting American grain to
come to England to be used for the
manufacture of liquor at a time when ^
every bushel is needed for food. This j
argument scarcely needs the support j
of a misleading statement regarding
the conduct of American soldiers.
These and other things we told the'
surprised news purveyor and he took
his story and wrent away.
Jan. 6. Dr. Newton did deliver the
sermon—or, rather, he offered a spe- I
cial prayer in connection with Inter
cession Day services at the City Tern-'
pie; and it contained the paragraphs'
offered us by the free lance. It can
not be told whether or not the latter
succeeded in selling the story of it to
any American newspaperman.
Jan. 7. There was considerable in
dignation in American circles today,
regarding Dr. Newton’s prayer. Among
those taking issue with the minister’s
inferences were Ambassador Page and
Admiral Sims, both of whom have rea
j son to know conditions here. The form
er does a great deal of looking about
in a quiet way and the question of
temptations placed in the path of
American soldiers is one he has given
a good deal of though to. As for Ad
miral Sims, if he leans in any direc
tion in the matter of the behavior of
his sailors, he leans backward.
LONDON, Jan. 9 (by mail).—To get
to the Bolshevik embassy in London
you take a bus for Edgeware Road,
ride out through Kilburn High Road,
up ShootJLJp Hill and get off at Mill
Lane. Branching off Mill Lane you
find Hillfield Road. You count twen
ty-five doors from the corner then and
the twenty-fith is the residence of the
ambassador, M. Litvinoff.
(Over here when you don't know a
man’s front name you give him the in
itial M., presumably meaning Mon
sieur. Never have seen the ambassa
uor labeieu otherwise. Might have
as ice 1 him, but somehow one hates
to ask an ambassador what his first
name is.)
The residence is the Embassy. The
house is exactly like all the others in
the block and all those facing it from
across the street. They form, in each
case, parts of a solid whole, no space
between each house, though a brief
yard in front where frozen shrubbery
waits for the spring thaw. Two door
bells indicate that each house is oc
cupied by two families, one upstairs
and one down.
You push the bell above the name
“Litvinoff” and a servant comes to
tell that Mr. Litvintoff is not at home.
You ask for Mrs. Litvinoff and are
taken to wait in a little room that ap
pears to be a man's study, there being
books about and a typewriter. Prom
inent among the books is a volume of
Longfellow's poems.
Mrs. Litvinoff proves to be a woman
of about eighteen years, in appearance.
Bobbed hair, coal black, increasing her
seeming youthfulness. A striking Rus
sian type you would tell yourself, if
you didn’t happen to know she is an
English girl, niece to Sir Sidney Low.
It is hard to reconcile her with the
role of an ambassador’s wife. But then
it is also hard to conceive of this slen
der lady as the author of ''Growing
Pains,” and “The Questing Beast,”
two books that made a sensation a few
years ago. Mrs. Litvinoff is the same
Ivy Low, author, who quit literature
cold after her first sensation and took
up housekeeping as the wife of a
young Russian clerk in one of the
Brtish government’s offices—the pres
ent ambassador.
She doesn’t know when M. Litvin
off will be at home.
Next time you go you get as far as
the front door and are permitted to
see the baby kicking his heels in a
high-chair in the same little room at
the end of the hall, while Mrs. Lit
vinoff tells you again that her hus
band isn't home. An she doesn’t know
when he will be.
The third time you get as far as the
doorstep. The servant tells you the
same things Mrs. Litvinoff told you
before.
ii unuumcs uppareiu uiai seeing tne
Bolshevik ambassador is no easier
than it used to be to see the British
ambassador in Washington in the days
before Bernstorff’s sit-down-and-have
a-cigar system had compelled a change
of attitude on the part of the B. A.
But the ambassador when you do
find him—downtown—isn’t at all a
difficult sort of person. He is pleas
ant and unassuming. His manner is
so natural and unaffected you feel
sure he has not changed any since
last week when he was a very private
citizen. An average sized man with
the look of one who has spent most of
his years in an office and become soft
physically from lack of exercise, he
w'ould go unnoted in any large crowd.
He has little resemblance to most Rus
sians one meets. His eyes and hair
are brown and so were the clothes he
wore today.
There was nothing chilling in his
manner,_but he carried an awful chill
in his mind. Like every other Ameri
can in London 1 was feeling enthusias
tic about the President’s speech and
was full of confidence regarding its
effect on the Bolsheviks.
What about it?" I asked Litvinoff.
That’s were I got the chill.
“The question,” he said, “is will it
help?”
He was ^afraid it would not help.
Why? Because it was a “war speech”
and wrhat was needed was a peace
speech. However, he did concede that
in the event the German peace-makers
failed to agree with the Russian peace
formula Russia might fight.
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In Holland they are proceeding to
kill one million of their dairy cattle
because they cannot get sufficient food
fo^ them. A somewhat similar situa
tion exists in Denmark.
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ROYAL C. JOHNSON
Congressman Royal C. Johnson of
Aberdeen, S. D., h^s enlisted as a
private in the regular army and is
stationed at Camp Meade. He has not
resigned his seat in congress.
Pfhey Keep Out the Cold.
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FAMOUS RAGING TOWN
REVIVED BY INDUSTRY
GLOUCESTER, N. J., Eeb. 28 (by
mail).—From a somnolent country
town to one of the most active cen
ters of the government’s shipbuilding
industry on the Delaware river sums
up the transformation which has been
wrought here by the war. The swish
of shad nets, which had been Glouces
ter’s main activity since the passing
of its famous race track twenty-five
years ago, has given away to the ring
of the electric riveter.
Uncle Sam’s participation in the
war was the signal for Gloucester's
reawkening even after the shad, which
used to seek its shores, had deserted
the nearby river channel. Two big
shipyards, completed about that time
by Norwegian interests, were im
mediately commandeered by the
United States government. They are
now turning out ships for the mer
chant fleet, thirty-five per cent of
which has been contracted for in Del
aware shipyards.
Hundreds of prosperous workmen
in need of housing occomodations
caused a boom in Gloucester real es
tate. Weather-beaten taverns, facing
the wide river, were renovated and a
frontier-like air of prosperity now per
meates the town. Officials here be
lieve Gloucester will rapidly resume
its former importance and prosperity.
Many active German officers are in
terned here and are daily witnesses of
the work in the shipyards nearby.
Most of the prisoners are marine of
ficers.
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