Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1918 — ENJOYED SIGHT OF CROWDS [ARTICLE]

ENJOYED SIGHT OF CROWDS

British Soldier, Home on Leave, Avers That Even to See’White People / Is a Luxury. The man who thinks he has the loneliest job In all war was recently on leave, in London. There he was spending all his walking hours, walking the streets and looking at the crowds. Three years ago he was a cog in London’s commercial machine. Then ha-went to Gallipoli. Now he is at*

tached to the Sudanese army near the Abyssinian and Belglnn-Codgo frontiers. He is the only Englishman in an area of 200 miles and node of the native troops In his command speak English. He has a smattering of Arabic and his only conversation Is in that language. Some of his men, who, he says, are fine soldiers, were enemies not many years ago. In an interview reported by the Manchester Guardian he remarked that the very sight of crowds was a luxury after his experience. His

chief diversion In Africa is playing “patience,” although this is diversified: by incidental lion hunting and the cas, uul chance of shooting other big game. None the less he could say that while “the loneliness gets on my nerves occasionally, on the whole I like the Job ti and we get some Jolly little scraps which are not reported In the newspapers. Still I should welcome the society of a war correspondent or two. Which possibly goes to show that even in the desert the newspaper has its uses.