Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1917 — Kipling Made "Tommy Atkina." [ARTICLE]

Kipling Made "Tommy Atkina."

Rudyard Kipling has Written an American story, “Captains Courageous.” Kipling made “Tommy Atkina.* Sir George Younghusband,; who has been In the British service for forty years, declares that nobody ever heard of “Tommy” until Kipling made Private Mulvaney and the other two of the “Soldiers Three” talk about him. He says that he had asked Innumerable old British officers if they ever heard of “Tommy Atkins” before Kipling wrote about him, and tbeyall agree that they never did.