Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — THOMAS COX GOING TO HELP BRITON [ARTICLE]

THOMAS COX GOING TO HELP BRITON

The following is taken from the Chicago Daily Tribune: A forestate of what service in the British artillery is like was given to the squad of British recruits who left Chicago yesterday when the United States marine corps truck, which carries a four inch gun, bore them to the train to Canada, leading a long parade of volunteers for Canada. At intervals the gun boomed and the recruits nearly fell off the truck in escaping the powder and smoke. I nthe center of the group on the truck were two British veterans, Major T. J. Robinson of Cincinnati, now an inspector of munitions, who wore the ribbons of the khedive star, the gueen’s medal, the king’s medal, and two other service medals, and Thomas W. Cox, who wore two service medals and was going back to fight for Britian again against the Huns. “I have seen the Turks, whose methods were those the Germans are using now, impale babes on their bayonets,” said Major Robinson at the British Canadian recruiting mission. . “Now, lam using eighteen years’ experience in the royal field artillery inspecting shells for Uncle Sam.”