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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1919-01-23, Page 2'A 4 • • ' ••• P.OTHA HALED AS HERO BY BRITS! KAN TO WHOM THE EMPIRE IS GREATLY INDEBTED South African Prime Minister, Gen: Louis Botha, Won Victory Over Germans and Rebels. Great Britain cannot possibly too greatly honor General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, says a London correspondent Few of our generals—he is a full general in the British army—have placed us under a greater obligation in this war than the man who, seventeen years ago, at the head of the Boer forces, defied the might of British arms for three long years. It is not easy to sum up his achievements without appearing to err on the side of extravagance. He fought the first successful cam- paign of the His conquest of German Southwest Africa, was • triumph of organization over the dint culties of nature. The campaign was a masterpiece of rapidity and effici- ency. He took a force of from 40,000 to 50.000 men over sandy wastes of water ss country at a speed that seemed almost incredible. In less then a week he had covered .more than 124 miles. His infantry -marched 250 miles over that hot and thirsty coun- try on the -heels of the cavalry and reached (Ravi only three days be- hind the horsemen. When he set out upon that com- paign Botha was fifty-one and a sick man. He has been a sick man for years. He has only recently left a bed of sickness in South Africa. The rigors of the Boer War have left him with an enfeebled constitution. But one e-onld never think- so, to look at at him. He is more than six feet in height When I lad saw him his weight was more than 250 pounds. His comparatively sedentary life as Prime Minister, after his three years In the saddle after the Boer War, thickened hm considerably. But his bulk is not ungainly. It is'well 'dis- tributed on that gigantic frame. cm"- He boo boon assail4 on ell sides with the utmost bitterness. the embers of rebellion have smoulder' d all the time. He has had to reconcile Interests apparently irreconcilable. Some of his own countrymen have de- nounced him as a "IChakl," an "Eng- lishman"—both terms of horrible re- proach. A section • of the British population has attacked him as a raci- alist. He has had labor troubles which developed into .anarchy and bloodshed. The cosmopolitan nature of a large part of the South African population has not lessened his diffi- culties during the war. And all the time he has had the ever-present native problem to deal with in its many phases. Through it all he has never wavered ME PRISONER NAMMTORTURERS MORE LIGHT ON GERMAN TREATMENT OF CAPTIVES 111111..111111 Definite Accusations Made Against Prison Commanders --Some Ter- rible Indictments. Fresh light was thrown recently on the abominable treatment by the Ger- mans of French prisoners in the de- finite accusations of M. A. H. Bezies, who was interned in several camps even momentarily from his duty. The Empire owes him a debt of grafi de and was an eyewitness of German which it can never repay. It may fin atrocities. He says: ter our political pride, to attribute the "I accuse Dr. Karl Hoede of having -I with water so that they will not loyalty of.South Africa to the wisdom starved for four months Frenchmen I wither. Now get some ice and crush of Campbell -Bannerman in granting treated at the lazaret of the Kaserne this into -small fragments using it to her selfgovernment. But here is one at Zerbst, in Anhalt. accuse him of fill up the glass funnel. At the same two-Okirda ossionbed to the typhus through lack of care.'' The accusers ask: "Are these crimes to be left unpunished?" SIMPLE PERFUME MAKING How to Capture the Fragrance From Highly Scented Flowers. Few people know how easy it is tQ capture the fragrance of real flowers. The first step in the plan is to secure a glass funnel. The small end of this instead of opening should be drawn out to a fine point. Some means must be adopted to maintain the funnel in an upright position. Any kinds of highly scented flowers, such as roses, may be gathered; these should be in fresh condition as, just before opening, the fragrance is 'at its best. Place these in a vase filled ll Motorcycle chains gradually wear A few days ago I. had an interest - Battery Logic. Motorcycle Chains, And lengthen with use. As this ing conversation with the battery ex - stretching occurs it becomes neces- pert who looks after the make of sary to adjust them, to keep them at battery with which my car is sup - a proper tension. Now a chain rare- plied. He remarked: ly stretches the same amount i"We battery men get so that w throughout itslength. Almost al - e can tell in genreal a man's character - ways one part of it wears more than another. So, n tighlening it, turn the chain all the way around the sprockets until it is in the first posi- tion before considering the job com- plete. Otherwise, in one position the tension may be proper while in another it may be stretched almoist to the breaking point, thereby put- •-• GERMANS SIIOWN IN TRUE CHARACTER DEFEAT REVEALED THE REAL NATURE OF THE HUN. The Whole German Nation is Utterly Deficient In Moral Fibre— Merely Brutal Thugs. From the viewpoint of a psycholo- gist, the German mind is showing the from his battery. The man who is same imperfections in defeat which it naturally careful is the one whom we exhibited so conspicuously while the see every month. He runs up to the war was in active progress, says Jas. door and has us test his battery, and E. Lough, Professor of Psychology in 'nine times out of ten goes away with New York University. We now see a clean bill of health. His battery that the, last four and a half years is always. filled, and, since the leve neve i fluctuates, we know that it is filled regularly. have given us a perfectly clear impres- sion 4 of the German character in cer- tain aspects. 4% solid concrete fact for grateful rem- barbarous treatment of in our wounded time place some receptacle under the:l tg a lot of unnecessary wear and ings. It is almost supeOuous to re- time for is visit, e wi come o "Sometimes, before the regular embrance—the loyalty of South Africa natives, by torturing them when prob- fennel. Sprinkle salt to the British Empire has been large- ing their wounds, and seeking to make then move the flowers a ththeeicfeuindl --strain upon the sprocket and bear- II, • • h d wn character is a lack of moral fibre._ The most striking of this . ly due to the personal influence of them renounce their French nation - one man,Louis Botha. ality. "I accuse the camp commander at CHINA'S GREAT PAST Zossen, nee; Berlin, of having during six monthsarved thousands of Al-apan, Peru, and Mexico Also Had too loose may work even more harin.i time to adjust the long chain of my s At the en o Y , gerian and Tunisian prisoners, and by the ice. The ethereal odor of the ; bo .store his car, he brings it in Ancient Civilizations. flowers combines with this liquid 1 once got careless and did not take g°1 -ng of making them run for from two to Thousands of years ago—long be- four hours with a sack of fifty pounds which slowly trickles down by drops • • • to renew the insulation in the spring. and stores it with us, giving orders -After a while it -will be seen that soon loosens, the vict:in of m which throughout history all nations - the moisture from the atmosphere is then months If normal ase or ewwoeual dr and when we ask him why, we learn pl * th t omething is ong like all persons, have looked up to as a supreme attribute.Telefe_Germams into close proximity. mark that an extremely tight -chain On the other Isiand, having a c • hainithat he has been using his hydro- meter syringe as regularly as he has brutal thugs. From the broad viewpoint of hu - condensed on the outside of the fun-"Icause. have shown themselvee to -be merely. nel, the surface of which is chilled ' d the battery with water. ifr ea h • fille manity, sorm might have hoped that they woulrhave continued to fight and defend their territory, at least until they had lost as, much territory fore the great -western nations of to- of sand on their backs with the object machine. s a result, after flapping, into the receptacle. V'hen a suffi- more or lss advanced civilizations the Turkish army. . . ' of 'mi.?. alcohol.jammed between the sprocket and tory "Ifo%1,ieerhiasuil•eudnnaitngthheissaecaaer tt ihnrloeugeh , heroic qualities if they had possessed day, long before even Greek or Ro- of making them renounce their qual- cient quantity is secured this may be up and down for a few days, it jump_ I as, they took from France. This wootd the w inter he generally ha his b aht •• , The mixture should ed off the rear -wheel sprocket and ' have given them a chance to show man ‘vere heard f ---there v,. -ere ity" of French subjects iiiiil an 'Bat in mixed ;with fabout an eouar quantity for example, had grown into a stable . keep for an indefinite time. In this tore Ate spokes loose from the hub , has the rest of the machine overhaul - on both sides of the Pacific, China, then be placed in bottles, when it will them. The ap 111 pa ng evidence of the hub, tearing out a dozen spokes. It Worked 13 Hours at a Stretch.ed for the opening of the next season. I lack of the finer moral qualities fn Mongolian kingdom perhaps 4,000 "I accuse Commander Stralkowo, of way:all kinds of flower perfume may drive wheel "Occasionally we run up against greatestease. the st:ngy man. He is the one who tinct loss to all of us as human bein practically a whole people is a dis- be captured with the and my negligence cest me a new, CROWN JEWELS NOW IN TOWER place the short engine chain, always to re..1 gives his battery good care. but is penny-wise and pound-foolish an • d human race has been degraded by the • When it becomes necessary We cannot escape the feeling that the ment on the French in his camp. In - a camp in Poland, with inflicting, years before the beginning of our during 1918, in defiance of all inter - era. "A Chinese author writes: "Thera national agreements, inhuman treat - is no existing nation in the world that has a larger past than China. Ste has seen the rise and fall of the an- cient Egyptian dynasties; the exten- sian of the Persian „empire; the con- quest of Alexander; the irresistible advance of the Roman legions; the deluge of the Teutonic hordes from were o ce o o wor o a severe nature from 5 o'clock in the were not paraded back. rn fact, th- but also the large clutch sprocket. tery in pretty bad shape. He has have had a chastening effect on most the north; and the birth of all the morning until six in the evening, removal was so informal and quiet The long chain of course will out- entirely forgotten it. He recognizes peoples, but no such effect has been nations of modern Europe. that -no one, perhaps, who saw a wear several ' engine chains, but whenl-the fault--as--his own, and has it fixed visible in them. The Japanese also, a /people com- without having the right to sit down couple of automoblles containing four replaced should have new sprockets.I'up without throwing the blame on' The flight of the Kaiser is an indi- the poor old battery."—J. R. gs. January, 1918, he created a discip- f time the chain is worn. out, the small wa!, By when he neglects it, hoping in t to save a few cents. large a proportion of the population his During the War -They-Were Kept geta engine sprocket. evidence that ia Central Europe so • la worn sprocket will use up a new the one \silo will run in every week totally bereft of this essential virtue. Crown Jewels have been brought out chain very quickly. At the end of / to have his battery tested for a It is plain that the Germans are un- linary, squad called Erziehungs Com- sprocicet is pretty well used up and ; Then we have the impulsive man,, of what we call the civilized world is Vault at Windsor Castle. pagnie for men returning from work ' e • with whom their masters were dis- pleased. For three weeks our Frenchrrof their wartime hiding place and re- the third engine chain it is well to month or so, then let it go for sev- able to see themselves as others seo • - turned to the Tower of London. They replace not only the engine sprocket eral months and come in witlyhis bat- them. Thele recent experiences would pounded of various elements, but for a moment, and having as their army men disguised as civilians sus- / —W.C. cation of their type of mind. Think chiefly Mongolian and Malayan, sole food soup made of cattle beet . stood at the beginning of our era on end pounded bones. pecteds that they were carrying $30,- . _ — of the number of rulers who have died 000.000 worth •of jewelry. ^ • Crosses. SUBS ALWAYS- IN DANGER. „ at the heads pt their armies, making a high plane of civilization, and even si41 accuse Colonel Strelkowo of hay- A peep into one of the cars would ' a last desperate. hopeless, but never- ' the less heroic stand. But this man Southwest Alrica for the British fen- guish them to -day. . of their rifles arid _with bayonets that it contained the Fteiperial Stat ? ' On crosses white , and bare, Thought tFoi:netleodn:ytoFrEiennedms.y-and Are ; stand. and share in the fate or his Fields • runs away; he ha3 not the fibre to • Then away to the east in Central Frenchmen whom he considered lazy. Crown. Nor would he have guessed ' But' One who watches over them One of the greatest perils to allied : people.. • ' pire he took the field to quell a rebel- I and South America civilization - "I accuse Feldwebel-Lieutenants A crown of thorns did wear. submarines during the war was at - lion among his fellow countrymen, , . . . • that the piece of rough, heavy, red , World's Champion Quitters. waxed and waned, reaching its high -1 Goebel and Muller, of Zerbst camp, of cloth he was seeing covered the royal tack by friendly destroyers, A sub - African forces. and the redoubtable Incan empires, the -latter, of which Frenchmen in huts with Russians cov- . • diamond. Insignificant -looking boxes * or angels day and night when sighted by the ships of any allied been defeated and that -an English - ,---. . to his 'people with the Kaiser, had Quelled a Rebellion. then exhibited the excleatic tenden-' ing more than fifty times ordered. Nave revealea a cardboard hatbox, The moon shines down on Flanders' cies and adaptiveness which distin- sentinels to strike with the butt ends but the peeper wouldn't have known Before he 'went to conquer German King, corresponding in his relations nation, and it was up 'to the submarine to,show recognition signals if she was taken to .ignoiminious flight. Popular not German. But if it was a destroyer indignation at his cowardice would that sighted the submersible she was have known no bounds. Yet, though always making for the little craft by the censorship has been removed in the time the recognition signals could Germany, no one there appears to have be shown k, sli ht hitch in ettin was an extremely interesting examp e Christiaan de Wet, the famous gueril- of despotic socialism. . la leader of the Boer War. That is a story all compact of romance—too ered with vermin and suffering from and parcels were the other crowns, e givethcharge to Watchandkeep Asiatic typhus, with the publicly coronets, orbs and the rest of the ; Them ever in their sight. avowed design of procuring their royal'regalia. deatti.' So not forgotten shall they be, The guards were two army officers Who died that we might live, "I accuse Colonel Baron von Wacht- and two non-commissioned officers. Who gladly gave their lives for us— nen were his trusted friends, old a tried comrades of tehe battlefield. Boi Characteristics of Natives of Small holz; of Sprottau camp. in Silesia, of The officers wore silk' hats • and frock Gave all they had to give. stealing the parcels of French prison- coats and the noncommissioned officers . • uttered one word in criticism of the ' Ors and having them loaded into his black overcoats and derbies. The moon still shines on Flanders' up, a 'flag or firing a rocket would car before our very eyes. I accuse this Windsor Castle, about 25 miles ' ' Fields, mean the submarine would he forced Kaiser's course. rt seems to them A promise given by these savage same colonel of having in defiance of from London, became the repository ' On crosses white as snow, to seek safety beneatlp the surface. The Germans tribes is never broken. --If a stranger natural, to us abhorent:' q the regulations and agrements con- of the jewels soon after German air- But whiter are the, souls of those Probably the last attack of this sort uittees of all time, eats of theirfood, even though he be are the champion cerning prisoners of war signed in craft began to bomb the metropolis. Whom God and Christ doth know. was made by .American destroyers and it excites no special emotion in on them that the Kaiser has quit also. To the psychologist not only the actions of a nation but the people's viewpoints of that action are an indi- cation of mental characteristics. No long to be told here. Both of these - HIS WORD IS HIS BOND European State. Notwithstanding his barbaric cus- toms, an Albanians word is his bond. fel a victim to German wiles—Beyers because (I think) he was a knave; De Wet front an inverted sense of chiv- alry. Any one who 'knows South Africa intimately will.,be able to appreciate the difficulties of Botha's position when the rebellion broke out. Lord Harcourt, who was colonial secretary at the time, has just told us that half the country's store of rifles and am- munition was taken by the rebels through treachery. and that for six- teen days it was "touch and go" in South Africa. 1917 and 1918, cocealed from the They were placed in a thick-walled an enemy, he is sacred for 24 hours For mothers, all your boys are there, fterwards. visits of the Swiss doctors and com- stone vault. He gathered them all in; missions during the first six months - - Hope for the future of Albania lies And safe within the fold they are, of 1918 300 cases of tubercuiosis in FIRST USE OF COFFEE in the fact that the Albanian, though Cleansed each from every sin. Sprottau camp. I hold him respon- a warrior and a man who prefers to sible, with the chief doctor of the Berries Were Brought to Venice.in For He who gave His only Son go always armed, is, unlike the Mon- tenegrin, a hard worker. Among his hospital, of the death of these un- . the Year 1591. Can surely understand barren mountains he is a first-rate ' happy men—they are guilty of the / That they laid down their lives for u, shepherd, and, where he has the op- death of 5,000 of the Allies lying in The orditaary coffee plant is a native And for their native land. General Roues, prnmptly. Milk the portunitv. a skilful agriculturist. T e ' S tt C t ." I of Abyssinia, and as such was used as - field against his own countrymen. He Albanian of the towns excels as an 1 Story of EscaPed Officer. a beverage, both in wild and cuiti- Oh! moon, shine en ill r la iiucTS vated state, from time immemorial. Fields 3 - It was carried into Arabia about the And touch each cross with peace; _beginning af the fifteenth century. And let them quietly sleep on From Arabia it was carried to all Whose souls have found release. eaeved swiftly, as is his wont. Rebel- ling soon turned to root. Beyers, fleeing before him: perished ignomin- artificer, armorer, and maker of fine stuffs. The Albanian zarfs, or coffee- cuerholders, of silver filigree are cele- ously while swiming his horse across brated all over the Near East for their beautiful workmanship. ,..'eThere are no schools in Albania except those established by Italian. and Austrian monks as a part of the political propaganda of those powers. empire to which he swore loyalty at Italy and Austria for ye*rs have been the Peace Conference at Vereeniging. exerting every effort to curry favor But he had sacrificed lifelnnie friend- with the natives, a fact which has ships. Many of his best and oldest been apparent even to the rough friends drew apart from him. And ad- tribesmen. The North Albanian may ditional rancor was introduced int.° be entirely uneducated, a barbarian South African politics, already suffi- and at heart a brigand, but he is cer- ciently embittered through schism tainly no fool. Although he has al- waysconsidered both Italy and Aus- tria equally his enemy, he fought valiantly .by the side of the Itai'ians a flooded river. De Wet, whose elu- sive tactics had defeated our best British cavalry leaders for three years, was taken prisoner. Botha had kept his pledge to the and other causes. Never Wavered in Loyalte. Followed thee German South west in driving out the Austrians. Africa campaign, with • wits which _—. are now history. Botha retained to Using bean cake as a basis, a con - his old post and carried on as Pre.nier cern in Japan has begun the menu - while his inseparable friend and lieu- facture of an imitation celluloid that tenant, Smuts, vent first; to conquer also can he uped as a substitute for German East Africa and liter ta Lon- !lacquer, artificial leather And rubber don to assist in the War Caoinet. 1 and as a water and heat resisting Botha's position !las been no sine- i building material. . An- officer Who escaped from Wit- tenberg camp, on the Elbe, states: "In 1917 a typhus epidemic broke out in the camp. The commander parts of the Mohammedan world by immediately had the huts ringed with the Mecca pilgrims, who found it a lofty palisades and ordered the Ger- hapy substitute for the alcoholic bev- man attendants to quit, In their erages forbidden by the Koran. The stead a few French doctors, with a very small supply of medicines, were installed. Posts were established twenty yards distant from the pali- sading, which was strengthened with concrete. Daily food was supplied to the immured by shooting it down an inclined plane. -The food was so scanty that when one of us died we would hide the corpse under the mat- tress arid only declare the death some days later so as to get his share of food. Burials were carried out in the camp for fear of contagion. Imagine the ravages of the epidemic! Vainly the French doctors repeated demands' for medicines, especially serum. Fin- ally they were forbidden to Communi- cate with the outside. The Witten- berg contingent was decimated in a few days., I consider that more than Not Delivered Yet. "Naturally," said the minister, "I first authentic mention of it by a take a deep interest in this force at Salonica. Are you aware, Mrs. X., European was by a German physician and traveler on his return from a that these Salonicans are the Thes- tour through Syria in 1573. It was salonians to whom St. Paul sent a brought to eVnice by a physician in letter ?" 1591. It is referred to irt 1621 by Mrs. X. looked up. "Well, he may Burton in his "Anatomy of Melan- have written there; I'm not saying he choly," as follows: "The Turks have didn't. But I'm sorry for him if he • a drink called coffee, so named from sent parcels. I sent two tomy boy a berry black as soot and as bitter, months since, and they haven't been which they sip hot because they find • by experience that that kind of drink, so used, helpeth digestion and pro - Give W.S.S. as Gifts. moteth Elifterity." The first coffee house established in One or more War Savings Stamps London was in 1652. Coffee was heard would make a very appropriate gift. of in France in 1658, and became fash- Not only are they real money. but ionable in Paris in 1669. There is' a they will undoubtedly have the effect whole lot of interesting information of starting the person to whom they in regard to coffee which space will a •o given on the way of systematic not permit to be given here. ! saving. delivered yet." 331WIMirCiFIATC* 1:71m 'IE fl. a new British submarine of -a large type. She 'Was. 'being tested when stetted by the destroyers and they Thule for her full speed. Something happened to the signal system and the underwater vessel submerged as depthone in Germany apparently had a chargebegan to tear up the water. word to say in reprobation of the dis- S ' One charge shook heruntil the crew graotful yielding of a great fleet 'with - thought she was doomed. out firing a shot. The submarine was constructed to Before the war the Germans had pretty well concealed, their true na- tional character by making a display of, many admirable minor qualities. Amongthese were their love of music 3,000 feet and ite.was found she was - dive 320 feet., hut that was forgotten as charge after charge exploded near by. Finally she struck bottom at not badly 'damaged. She was keptton the bottom until her commander was certain the destroyers had gone. Then she wasCautiously brought to the sur - "She don't need any more testing face. after that experience," the commander reported to the officer in charge of the submarine base. The Ubiquitous Fan. Fans are put to all sorts of curious uses in Japan. At wrestling and fencing matches the umpire always uses a large fan, and the various mo- tions of this fan constitute a language which the combatants understand perfectly and to which they pay prompt attention. The servant -girl has a flat fan made of rouzh paper to blow the .charcoal fires with or to use as a dust pan: the farmer has a strong fan to winnow his grain. An- other variety is made of waterproof paper, -which can__be: dipped in water, and creates great _vooiness by evap- oration. and their industrial efficiency.. They had succeeded also in establishing a reputation for scholarship, which we now know was based largely on bor- rowed capital. These things were conspicuously placed before us, and blinded us to German defects. The truth has at last burst upon us, and there is no mistaking it. GABRIEL D'ANNUNZIO Italy's Greatest Airman is Also Poet and Dramatist. Major Gabriel d'Annunzio, the leader of the Italian airmen, is a most extraordinary personality. Fa- mous before the war as poet and dramatist, ,as the creator of a new Italian literature, he has affected the language of his country more {profoundly than any.. one I ince Dante; a notable figure in society, much discussed . for his luxur?bus tastes, he stepped .into the forefront of the battle as a soldier when over 50 years old. Since then he has fettled exploit to exploit, stealing into enemy ports in small craft at night to torpedo battleships, carrying out the longest and "most dangerous air raids. He now regularly commands a, squadron of picked young airmen. He is the great embodiment of the spirit of Italy to -day. Flritish Dead in Gallipoli. Should not immediate steps bet - en to arrange with the Turkish Gov- ernment for the transfer to the Iftit- ish Empire of the rights' of owner- ship over Sulva Bay and the other cemeteries of the gallant British and Dominion troops who fell in Gallipoli.? asks a writer in the London Evening kitanderd. The cost of acquiring „the Dardanelles battlefields- cerinet -be ex= cessive, and it will he a consolation to the relatives of the dead. heroes that thir remains mingle not with. alien but with British soil, to be re- garded as sacred forevse to' their memories. • • 1 • .1"