Golden Lads

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Gleason Arthur. Golden Lads

Golden Lads

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INTRODUCTION

By Theodore Roosevelt

THE CONQUERORS

THE SPY

PEASANTS' COTTAGES BURNED BY GERMANS

THE HOME OF A GERMAN SPY NEAR COXYDE BAINS, BELGIUM

THE ATROCITY

THE GREEN PASS, USED ONLY BY SOLDIERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BELGIAN ARMY

CHURCH IN TERMONDE WHICH THE WRITER SAW

BALLAD OF THE GERMANS

THE STEAM ROLLER

MY EXPERIENCE WITH BAEDEKER

GOLDEN LADS

THE PLAY-BOYS OF BRITTANY

LES FUSILIERS MARINS

SAILORS LIFTING A WOUNDED COMRADE INTO THE MOTOR-AMBULANCE

"ENCHANTED CIGARETTES"

DOOR CHALKED BY THE GERMANS

WAS IT REAL?

STREET FIGHTING IN ALOST

"CHANTONS, BELGES! CHANTONS!"

BELGIAN OFFICER ON THE LAST STRIP OF HIS COUNTRY

A BELGIAN BOY SOLDIER IN THE UNIFORM OF THE FIRST ARMY WHICH SERVED AT LIEGE AND NAMUR

BELGIANS IN THEIR NEW KHAKI UNIFORM. IN PRAISE OF WHICH THEY WROTE A SONG

EN KHAKI

FLIES: A FANTASY

WOMEN UNDER FIRE

BRETON SAILORS READY FOR THEIR NOON MEAL IN A VILLAGE UNDER DAILY SHELL FIRE

HOW WAR SEEMS TO A WOMAN

(By Mrs. Arthur Gleason)

SLEEPING QUARTERS FOR BELGIAN SOLDIERS

BELGIAN SOLDIERS TELEPHONING TO AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN THE APPROACH OF A GERMAN TAUBE

POSTCARDS SKETCHED AND BLOCKED BY A BELGIAN WORKMAN, A. VAN DOORNE

LES TRAVAILLEURS DE LA GUERRE

LA VALSE DES OBUS

There is little value in telling of suffering unless something can be done about it. So I close this book with an appeal for help in a worthy work. REMAKING FRANCE

THE END. FOOTNOTES

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Arthur Gleason, Helen Hayes Gleason

Published by Good Press, 2019

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After becoming proficient in that kind of betrayal the officers found it only a slight wrench to pass on to the wholesale murder of the people whose bread they had eaten and whom they had tricked. The treachery explains the atrocity. It is worth while to repeat and emphasize this point. Many persons have asked me, "How do you account for these terrible acts of mutilation?" The answer is, what the Germans did suddenly by flame and bayonet is only a continuation of what they have done for years by poison.

Here follows the testimony of a man whom I know, Doctor George Sarton, of the University of Ghent:

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