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The Brussels Post, 1918-2-14, Page 2T AEL !gin with, no holiday for the poor man,T► But with 24,000 aeroplanes in hue IN rope, with pilots swarming into the in- YItl 1928ctustry, just as young men did int: 19 electrical engineering twenty-five !years ago, and with the added fact - that the new generation will take as ARTElt-TBE-W \.R ACTIVITY "IN naturallyeto travelling by air as the THE AIR. generation after "The Rocket" loco- .!motive oco- 'motive engine did to railway carriage; the problem of cost will solve itself. Beneath These Light Iinuginingy Naturally, the two institutions that most depend on ,peed --the• newspaper There Lurk hints of Possibilities I ee.is and the mails --will be quickest Far from Fantastic,. I to adopt the aeroplane as part of their • MORE[J AR(r Men Prime Needillof Allee. jf,� j pJ Our gas masks have conquered all 0 'HARD A.R FIGHTING four of these, Uui have fer!, (ier- 1$T1 FIGHTING mutts who had suactmtbed to a British gas attack et•en with their own bel - mets affixed. The war has no new We ere the t'ry and the Signal, horrors for us. It may go on for an - We are the Wnt'nin PREDICTED BY A MAN W110 }n the obtaining "status quo," but Vi'hisperin to the: tliu�Cheslt I 6 i' Lurking Dent The Aeroplanes. We are the ],lyes of the Army; We are its Throbbing Thought— We are the Wings of Knowledge High on the breezes caught! KNOWS, whether it lasts one year or five years Wardingot i g UJ n I the Issue will be decided by men old -- guns rather than by the lung expects Collagse of German !loser 1. nl}Icely,' oil internal difficulties in Germany. , '.t'n that end it ev.ioove s us to wage Says Lieut. Naismith of Canadian the war more cne e:teleally day by I, •tfllmrc Corps, � day, increasing oto' efficiency in pro - We are the Midnight Terror; We are the Flash of Light Leading our hoots to battle -- The Spirit of the Fight! We are as bold es eagles— laih systems. Reporters will re- I portion as the enemy s decreases. Diel] Fleet as the raven's wing; When peace begins, the aeroplane gat,! a transcontinenta aeroplane `' The th•et fiseeef. it, the Ganote plan • -we'll dlseipline,l, physically efficient Over both friend and foeman One of a group of business men, will at once show us what it can dee, journey as unemotionally he' now was the defeat at the Menu.. After men- -are the prime need of the allies. Our daring motors sing. which included a judge, recently sail: says W. D1'r('aartnev in London :tin -.lo '' a taxicab ride to a static .. that the unexpected happened se fee :after that guns We and supplies and fixed e ere the Vigil -keepers, "It seems wonderful that GstaIIm y, y Let us each write. .down his forecast i swore, quently that Germany ems fleetly be- determination. With ttle�;e at hue+. we Tireless our Dyes and true; with a Population of but ti8,1100,- It bus done w•oudui•ful 111iugs in woe. 1 of -Flying in toes:, and in ins the come used to it, say; Lieut, Naismith,. shall not have to resort to any chime We are the Wild Destroyers 000, should be able to fight the reef That, at least. is our first thought. facts will he 50 far 1t1 front of tile: DLC". German theory suffered a die--eri('a( hope that the fatherland will'Dt'opping from out the blue! of the world ne she has done;' All But thea di war has spread a fever of forecast that one will have to say: ;estrous upset at Ypres, where raw obligingly explode from within! Spanning the pathles:l heavens, agreed that it was wonderful, Had BLIND IN THE MIDST OF DANGER THE PICK AND SHOVEL BRIGADE PAN -GERMAN MENACE TO THE LA.BOI1 coups (11" 1'llld flltl'I'I:III WORLD'S FREEDOM. EDOM. AIt:1iY. lied Population of Nearly 200,000,0110 Mcmbcn;s of Thio tateresding Depart - With Possibility of 25,000,000 Men For the Field. invention among the men who ;hitt!. "what an unim:rgivative idiot I was!Canadian troupe outfought thele vet- • Following, infinite trails; they studied the matter in air, and though, cvnse(uently, we in lel era) Windier,, despite tot -iia Dllt'1'I:'II 5-.A 1 OMM'L'I(. t 1 1 ,gas anal Cloud, are our Lone Companions, situation would not ha have faster aeroplanes, safer a1•r0-. , every other device that year: of min- — Our playthings, driving hailsl derful, but menacing. planes, and thousands more cera- i\()TED :11 I.1 COR. 1 tiaristic planning had prepared. Au- t,rd at A0111010015015 of Brl<ish cavy a When Berlin directed planes than w e -.boil, have had with :other prop in the theory collapsed in in the 1 re,.ett Struggle, Continents are out 11ay);rounds, glory to begin ()Pesti ]Maier Libby Heaths Honor Roll in 1 Criss•crossed, deftly planned; • out the goad of war, yet war has War. Irons, where we repulsed fourteen at- So (lunch misunderstanding tf naval 191.1, it had not 0,8,000, rowed the activities of the aeroplane: L'ayal Flying Corps• • tacks in une ,lay. with a lugs to the dtltie' exists and so mucic inexcusable And high o'er the drifting mazes, 1.10,500.000 population 1 so severely that only the specialists • adverse criticism is made upon the ape Star -fields have wee scanned! An .American by firth, Major Fru! Germans of ;u,t(Ihl r,. !0,000 roan. lowestofficial t' t could he expected to forecast what will, parent Lack of initiative and offensive We are the I' leet Forerunners P crick Libby heads the honor list in the Still More War. 1 0f the cannon's crushing blew— happen when it is discharged from the British Royal Flying Corps. becomiug, by the British navy that it may be The Toma:ties of Flame we loosen armies and set free for the life, in- thereby the hero of 1 ngland and C'an- Now the; have settled ,erne dogged- well to reproduce the sL 1 mon( of the Speak through the ons below! stead of the death, of man, !ada, the province from which he en- ly clwuglr 1 1ast 11 oua 11 1h y' can. pre,ident of the British Naval Spec ,i3tg high and lonely', .'1 Week -End Jaunt. listed, Like many other famous avilt- Twvo (1101 air's 1 war 1•de De nee ex: League tet the 1.0 Inning of the year, Gleaming. :Incl white and free, For example: in the day after the tors, he worked his way into aviation Pectcd wit k Recognizing the impossibility of os - U eircui of ., routes. He was a me- certainty. files= 1111. m etotiae tall` ,.assn a((0(8(1. 1 nowledge of the eau- \Vc are the F umpire's Fearless Soul, war, so to speak, a London newspaper y t t T Guarding the, linod and seal might --probably will—send a come- chattier in the English ordnance. de-. with Russia fail utterly Germany will ditions affecting, naval warfare—out- When the Potsdam c ondent by aeroplane to write of tartnleut when he stole into the ob- nave in a very short •time a striilger side of those immediately responsible : —Bert Beeman. held in July, 1914, far tshanksgiving at the Holy City; and he server's seat in an airplane for a trial,' army on the western front thin she, for the direction of naval policy—the! --" the date of opening might call at Roma on the way back Within his first month of the trial pe- 114` mah:tained there any time hither- head of the league, the Duke of Bue THE ONLY PLACE. Turkey and Bulgaria we • and spend an hour or two in Paris, and riot} he brought down a German plane.to. That means the urge W( necessity (deuch, declares that ill-informed cam-' part of the Pan-Germa telegraph news from both; and arrive and ewe thereafter obtained his comeof mors fighting niers to meet them. meat elilmld be earnestly deprecated, Where a Mao Can Be At Peace With they are to -day. They at his Hampstead home refreshed by mission as a second lieutenant. In the '111111.,;menting n( he, men power ••lt may be asserted," he acids, "that His Conscience, war presumably on the his short w•ee! ud holiday, ' next ten weeks he tumbled ten Hurls 0(1 the must. hotly cant t1 hattic with the exception of a negligible min- and ordered by Berlin. Or, we will say that a Birmingham out of the sky and was front is about the null• adw.1,-age that. cavity the public opinion of the whole This letter from a Methodist mint- y g given the Mill- 1 P seers son appears in the Methodist Enslavement of firm wants to be first to push the sale cal'. Cross at Buckiughanm Palace by. the Fauns will hoa.f Uenc firth. They empire is solidly behind the feet." are permanently cell Wed b allied etre' Magazine, says a London weekly. He Thanks to ,years of p of pocket flash -lamps in Bagdad. Its Bing George himself. P" P= y Whist have been the necnmpli`h was in Australia when war broke out. traveller will jump otY by aeroplane, 1 He is now flight commander as the ttIlere supernnrity. Arad It is Artillery meets of the British fleet? The ter- Best rush of the Gar ma and when he lands In that romantic' result of his 1 tllin_ the famous `*Red that is lighting the present tear. The rhtory of the British Empire has been At first his duty was not clear. Ile chine 1.10necl it far int city he will be able to present the ex- ' Hun," who was his twenty-second big guru and the bayonet are the two wrote from I for Enemy to u held inviolate from enemy invasion, y y 1 n P 1 Lines of (•omntunicntion between all the "Adelaide, December 2, 1914. miters of Haroun-el-Raschid, if any !victim. This "Red Hun" was a vert- agencies that deplete enemy man toe_ promptly enslaved. en I have seen men who have been theatres of war have been maintained, It makes me feel ill when T. read were overrun, and their survive, with a copy of the "Arabian omous assailant during the early of so many oi' our risen bein Smashed Nights" boil 'ht in Corporation Street morning hours before dawn. Swoop- two years in the treuches without fir- and protection for the transport of g into the slave gangs an • g p g p- up. If one were only doing something, Here is u sample of th the day before, ing low in his racing plane, he would ing their rifles, more than 13,000.000 men from port rhoulrl feel a lot better. I feel I have to secure labor. It is 1 to Wert has been provided, in addition When you talk of flying, it is aifn- :play his machine gun among sleeping British Barrage Superior. (tun it0(l horses, 30,,000.01(0 tons of no right to be going along so egiietly Austro -German proelem cult to be serious without being , soldiers, over hospitals, and through when so many fellows are giving their but a few weeks ago: thought frivolous. I remember when barracks, causing great commotion. When an attack i being repulsed munitions and war supplies and 53, - No allied airmen could catch him so the machine guns are exceedingly ef- 000,000 tons of oil have been conveyed all, but it is not at all clear to mo "Every citizen must o Ml, Grahame -White was preparing what I ought to do. If I could clearly re ulation; all workmen for his London -Manchester flight, and fast was his sinister scarlet plane, fcctuve. But the true -small arm and landed for the allied armies, and see my duty I would willingly do it,' g I had to hire a fast motor car to fol- 1 Major Libby went aloft every morning the infantry rifle --has been of less use the ocean carriage of 140,000,000 torts y g y over fifteen years of a • low him, one of the most imaginative :for two weeks and awaited his corn- in this war than in any other fought of food has been guarded by the fleet. It was not long before he saw that in the fields every day g These are great aehievem'ants and his country needed him. In 1915 hs' eluded, from 4 o'clock i • men in the motor business picked me ing. One day at dawn hi patience in the last two centuries. L1 each resigned his position on the Australian out a road -racer, but said: "You.won't was rewarded, and, diving from a c'nmpany^sever o• eight "snipers"still proof positive of the enormous and rails as aCivfl engineer, and at his until $.o'clock in the ev Be - need tp take it more than three miles 5,000 -feet elevation, he caught the use the rifle. bat most. of the men hat- controlling valve of sea power. Be- y g "Lazy workmen nten will b 6 tie with bombe and Uayom t:. The shies all this the ((errnan flax' has been own expense came to England, and in the work and watche out of London. That's further than . 'Red Hun" in his fatal machine gun joined the Officers' Training Corps, After the harvest they the aeroplane willgo." fire, mode of attack and defense evolved in driven from the sea, the blockade of P Having secured his commission he oned for six months a three years of fighting makes the light Germany has completely stopped her Looking Ahead. :POTABLE TOASTS OF BRII'41' artillery --that is, the type 1epre +ant- ocean going commerce, and on one went to France, and is now a captain clay be given nothing b To -day some of us are sit deeply in- , ed by the famous !•french '75's"- of UC(a&lou only has the Garman High in the R,I'..'s. His conscience 'MIS at water. Lazy women wil terested in wondering whether the Robert Burns, Sir Francis Drake, and paramount importance. Barrage fire Seas Fleet dared to challenge a sea rust, He felt he had chosen file right 'work and after the bar next aeroplane will drop a bomb on , to be effective oust he heavy and sus- actio]. A:: the immediate result, even wVay'' ceive six months' impris our hats that we are possibly as seep- , Queen Elizabeth Honored. "1915, Somewhere in France. I children will be punishe • mined Our advantage in this re- though it was not a complete result of that about the future of flying as was Next to the toast of "The Bing," specs has been reflected in the 11,1' e i ibis the German fleet was forced to "This is the only place a man can The commandant resery that mistaken gentleman. But let which is drunk every night in ever of our trench storming operations, run front the zone of conflict; with be in at the present tune to be at punish lazy workmen every reader put on paper to -day a military and naval officers' mess, probe The German Uuragm is not compo- moor serimiC losses, and retire 51 ullt- peace with his conscience; and how -.lashes daily, prophecy of what flying will be in ably the most toasted man in the' aIle to Hors i'or effectiveness fo th' ingly behind fhe protect}un of its ever much one longs to stay in Eng- I 1928—when the war ought to be over world is Robert Burns, the poet,'reason that (01010uy has 1)011110 sof- shoe gnus and 1711111 fields. Finally, land, one derives great satisfaction! —and if he locks up that prophecy. to Tjlere are Burns Clubs in every nook flcient guns no' shells. The barrage the eemques1. of German colonies the from the feeling that a duty is being I read it ten years hence, he will, no and corner of the earth, and Score itself, as a distinct development of leer!, around was the direct applica- done.' matter what the altitude of his image keep them up even on the battlefield, tvu has attained are tion of sea power to military opera - tensity latest message has a noble in-! inatiot, blush for shame at hi:- fail- and whenever they foregather "the the present g• , markable of teemey, It can cover al -,tions. HeVO, indeed, is a marvellous tensity of conviction and iwes a true ore, immortal memory -" is toasted. most any kind of a situation. Bar recce d of achievements, even though picture of the inward thoughts of a Any fool --I include myself—can see One of the quaintest toasts is the rages reg airing the isolation, of broadly skmtchmd and freed of illi- i'emesentative man. How proud our that the City of London mail of four one and only of the Two Pins Club.' g 1i country is of such sons! p.m. will be deliverer! in Paris offices The name of the chill, which is all squares, triangles art, depressed ayes! i urinating details. "1917, France. have all been effectively utilized, ; "I have sect a the same night. Aman told me the equestrian one, is derived from Turpin BIRDS ARE BORN FIGHTERS. gain to -day the price • meet Have by no Mem; 0 "Cushy" Job,- The 1oh: The Labor Cops of the British Army is the outcome of experience. Prier to February, 1917, labor. was supplied by a few battalions with full eonplemonts of office's, The military authorities, fully alive to the urgent ner•es icy of having move and more with care, the labor, but, at the same Lime aware ve looked won- that the creation of fresh units on battalion lines would mean enormous Al, trio -Hun- extra chargee in the veer of officers' ono, lily 28, salaries, formed what are known as 100, but at least Labor ('ompanies, 500 strong, under ,ehind it, The command 01' u major m captain, with Ave^ estimate e of the Taut.moic four lieutenants KS' platoon command - Germany 15 as follows: ars. These, again, w'cr' rrotgaulizc,i, Germany , 68,000,001( 1111111 now form the Labor' (tarps. Austria-Hungary , „:. 52,000,000 Bulgaria . 5,500,000 Armed With Shovels. Turkey 21,1110,000 !! The O,C, company is, of course, on officer of considerable military experi- 140,500,000 mice. The subalterns are usually what (inference. was is termed "technical" officers, many deciding of with previous military knowledge, A of hostilities, largo numlber have been wounded ear - re as much a her in the war, and deemed unfit for nie Empire as further work in the line itself, but entered the capable of work close to it. The cont. days assigned panics are worked under what are I called Groups, perhaps eight or more Nations. being commanded by a Colonel 0,C. Nations. I Group, the units being often spread reparation the over a large area. The whole corps is n military ma- controlled by a Director of Labor, (Ta- o enemy terri- der him are Assistant Directors (A.D. tabons were L.), and Deputy Assistant Director Little nation; (D,A.D.L.), - people driven In what are known as "bal'k" areas d put to work. will be found "colored" labor com- e means taken polies. In the "forward" areas none aken from an but white labor is employed. The Brit- ation 01 Italy ish companies are composed of men ' who are not of Class "A, • but who bey our labor hove been passed for other -duty, such and children as manual labor, or garrison duty ge must work abroad, Labor companies are not , Sunday in- armed, but are well drilled and dis- n the morning ciplined. In the writer's company ening. were a large number of mon -who had e accompanied been wounded earlier in the war, but d by Germans: who were with foe further fighting will be impris- service, nd every third At Dead of Night. • ut bread and As was only natural, there was 1 be obliged to • great confusion at first, because men vest will re - who were skilled in various trades, but on by be Lazyd g. who had never done "navvy" work, s lir right to were sent out. This has h.,en gradu- ally rectified, and skilled workmen are with twenty now engaged in their proper vocations. In this commection "Employment" Pan -German Menace. !Companies --which act as Military T,a- AVithmlt counting Armenian., and bo•Exchanges—are now in operation, Syrians, over 48,000,0!10 people have. and are proving veru successful. been enslaved and made to work for Most of the labor in "fvrmrard" areas the conquerors beyond the limits of is used in road -making, repairing, and human endurance, Thus untold thou- maintenance, and in laying and main - sed from un- twining light ra!l w•ay,,, of which Wpm - fact for military service. Many on- fact network covers the whole.length slaved mel ore even being forced of the battle front; but the Labor into the ranks. From the first, Ger- Corps is available for every sort of many's man power has been not 38,• , manual work, as required, 000,000 but, close to 200,000,000, with Labor companies are constantly on 0 men for the the move. The hours of work are !fixed, but when urgency demands, ieh we once shifts work night and day. Latterly, ed by the war when the enemy has taken to shelling Uncompleted, the areas behind the line, much work uf5cimit to shako exposed to fire has had to be done by ations. Close night, in order to avoid casualties, ar and it will do- Tt•must not be thought for one too- t aro, of iron, meat that because a man le fn a labor unit at the Front, that he has a MOMENT. "cushy" job. True, he may not be un- der trifle or machine gun fire continu- ally, but he comes in for his full share tg Over the of shell fire. eking. •A Fine Record. tees the quer- ! Where possible, labor" companies are clue! fighting ito'a in huts far the winter. It was actions upas a very different proposition earlier in leve popular the war. Dug -ants in what were once woods, autcl in ruined tillages swarm- ing• with rats, were their quarters, with often nine utiles to fetch rations over shell -devastated roarir. Tho heed. ships endured by labor mer when the organization was far frons perfort, were quite as bad as those of their comrades in the line; but their spirit overcame it all, their work being done with a will that earned the unstinted praise of the Commander -in -Chief, who was confident that his communt- 1•1itten0 would be kept open, and that road and railways would be pushed up close of the heels of our advancing troops, The maintenance of a hartago tile, being aid b Wren who had the proud - other day, between his two lunch sand- wiches, of another ntan who had bought land in a certain place by the. East Coast, to be held as an aero- drome for the aeroplane service be- tween the North of England and Pet- rograd; and, later. for the New York - Petrograd mail, Ten years ago I should have said that the most intelligent thing he could do with the ',and would be to build a lunatic asylum on it and live in it. The Question of fares,• To toll the truth, 1 have not much faith in the Transatlantic aeroplane liner even now, But when I recall what Bleriot did, what the gallant Latham just missed doing, in crossing•: the Channel, and how there were re pee- , plc who said the "Daily Mail" ought to be asked why !t. encouraged sur -I tide, because uo etude trip was pos-i sible, I think that in 1928, after all, 1 it may be easy to ; ee ' c.: Yore: dur- ing a weeks lease, The fares, of coal's, ;10(11,1 ht heavy I at first. But the l';uir,peat, and i American Governments will have to' subsidize the flying likens Iii eeally at the beginning. and p_olably• they will, in the end, maintain „bean Stale leas-' songer services, to upplenl:re_the 'freight -carrying aeroplane. lines run' by private conn i''ll firm:: A few year.: ago T pcestaiie,i 11por1 myself to spoil n ho, -- !o,Ii tat' by rushing throts+ •,-retl,t places in, France, Belgium. 1I llao G,•^many, , the Austrian 111 0 in .cul ; t eland' —a meet itubt roti• and c r. r ;athlg performance in tvid h th se ,f lug gage alone seenlc<i 10 I, :,],o l a rail-' lion pounds sterling, 0' more. Bal: when the aeroplane holo .,y i will, us, a restless man might easily turn up, at his office after lbrec weeks and chat attractively abc,ul what he had - seen at Copenhagen, the Orkneys, Marseilles, Cairn, Naples, Bordeaux, 1.St. Ives, Galway, A wfeendland, Chi.. eago, Panama, ands -where he had :3 ' i.. refreshing hot bath at the aerodrome : - totel after the August heat of the ' omeward Atlantictrip---C --Croydon. Nothing is Umpaseible, I Is it not obvious that as soon as the I e year is over the tourist companies will mn us round the coast in aeroplanes retty much as they did through the i hlands or Devonshire i) g 1 coaches? The air c rr. la.- will f u r n wtlbe,o tr t ho- . n • ted is "To Turpin s daring and Gil- requires speed and accuracy on the, Feathered Tribes Are More Warlike est, reddest blood an the world in their pin's respectability:' Part of the gun erewvs.u; n the enlen ]ban is Generally Supposed, veins—row upon row and line after a possibility of 20,000,00 The Mayor and Corporation of Ply- lations one eighteen po n der to tw ty-five yards is the basic unit. flits . Birds, generally speaking are much line of the little wooden crosses—a lit- field, tooth drink to the memory of Sir tie body of nurses and doctors walked Pan -Germany, at wh Francis Drake every year, not be- gun wvlll fire foul• rounds per =mite more war hlre than most people sup- with me and a brother officer. It was smiled, has been unmask on an average. Sometimes it acceler- pose. Many of the -feathered tribes a beautiful night. The sisters in blue as a hideous reality. cause he beat the Armada and was otos this g the first Englishman to sail around Pace somewhat. The effect are horn fighters. - and the rest of us he khaki. We stop- yet its strength is s the globe, but because he first brought of a good barrage fire is to inclose a ' Take tete common domestic chicken, ped and looked at the crosses as one of the world to its found water to the old borough. This to the' certain area more securely from inter-' for example. It is a fierce scrapper.the nurses said, 'How sublime, how our eyes a little long ancient and solemn toast: "May the Terence by enemy reinforcements than Thh the rl rooster will fight a} pathetic, and yet how grand and glori- minate the world wit! descendants of him who brought wa- if it were hemmed in by a wall of most to the death for supremacy over ous.'• Men sleeping there, con- r - I Harveyized steel. I any rival that contests his authority. 1`I{l, MOST TRYING ter never want wine." A rather am- biguous toast, truly. It might do for British superiority in this depart-' Cock fighting is even to this day a ,fed for a glorious idea. I would tree- — teetotallers! meat has been particularly galling to popular sport in many countries. I - Tlne common pigeon, though credited cher ft were my fate than to be in hSuspense Preceding Gott In the famous old hall of Gray's Inn captured Germs] officers who have; softest job, and the possessor of the Top is Nerve -Ra only one toast f; proposed. It is, "The seen the earlier days of the wear, when: with a e.itle disposition, is highly largest amount of war profits in Eng - glorious and pious and immortal me- German military hold the palm, They; combative. In fact, few birds are more land„ Frequently one eneoun mory of Queen Elizabeth," Seeing Inc good artillery fighter's. 1111 a rule. quarrelsome, more given to picking tion: "What please a that Bacon and Burleigh were bench- And the rank WIC! file Of the beetles 011011 theli' weaker neighbors. The HUN DEATH-TRAPS. makes the greatest ex ars of Gray's, there is no wonder that stand up to it well, Probably they find swacn is a desperate duelist, and can one's coolness?" I bel Elizabeth treated the Ino very well their natural stolidity a real eeeot uu. deny"tremanlous blows with its and showed it, membetW mutat favor.del' the neve-racking ordeal of a sus- (t'1ngs,- _.. t'11 1 ___ sone ,om1 r,(rr1melt, Cumming Devices to Catch the Unwary opinion accepts actually " Diimy biros are skillful )oxers-- Soldier, the top as the zenith 0 endeavor, says a Canadi VERSATILE ('LOCKS. It is not probable that there will be thele• wing i as out bond, tutderstand<1 Not the least among the tricks of Asa matter of fact --an — any sudden dramatic Brash of German bong modified :arms, Thus the pigeon the trade now being taught newly re- will attest thief—the sits Dinrvels of Invention Are Some of the Power, The ling will nal be miraeu,; a cards with one wring and strokes will enuited soldiers by the French and ing the actual going is lonely penetrated all at ,etre as some i the other• !English is that of avoiding death nerve -reeking. "going over f war time an lieuteuant. ( any soldier poise graced - the more World's Timepieces. alleged military experts have profess- Dr. FredericALucas says that A. y'" traps in captured trenches, which have There is nothing spent Most people acre well content with a ed to believe. Neither is it likely that there are geese in Africa that have, been proven by experience to be so preparations for a bay clock that tells them the correct time, we can rid Flatelers of the invader in P111101111 pscullarly armed, one of the: disastrous to the occupiers. I They are rehearsed beh although occasionally an old grand- any other was than by Mattering 11; him -wrest hunts being c0p11011- with a 1 In fact, there 3s more real danger carefully arranged as t father's clock will also tell the phases backto the Rhine :;lap by step. alaar11 ''Pur' .1inners a'e reua'kable, to men in advancing to occupy aban- made knovtr to the co of the moon;. but Paris possesses a • for the ",ptn•s an their wings, which in Win Only by Fighting:- once. s Telae: increase in size at the , cloned trenches, dugouts and cellars beforehand, Almost inv clock which not only tells the time so P than there is on the actual battlefield.' occur just before dawn well that it rimes not vary more than Cavalry unit are ready fro Lhe. I c"r}13)5 seesaw!, `u %i•, to he uacful for For instance, a device of which the! few minutes before gni the hundredth part of a seconcl a year, push if such a flaw in the 'Teuton lime itghting• Germans are fond is to arrange one: the meet awing experien but also marks the year, month, and actually develope, Ilia the invade,} The most formidablm of, spm -winged I of the highs steps leading down to a • have at the front, day of the week, The pendulum forms soil in all likelihood en11 he won back i11 ,l: ai 1. tela South Alnoncan I dugout so that when an allied soldier, i Casualties during the a barometer of singular accuracy, and by a proir!.;is of attrition w'hte(1 wrests . '1•e1'C•Ime r:4," They have two spurs ; 1,,oing flown to explore the interior,' are not heavy. I hello?it indicates the time in twelve of the the 'emendfrnrn the enemy mile byioft each wing, one short, the other an Mope upon it a stop -cock is released, lessee for one regiment chief cities of the won It eae•h city , mile, t he.;c can iuhtan. talc, no arc- 1 ugly, att'i'c -sided, s11111(0 like blade, from which flows a stream of poison Vimy Ridge were only 2 having its own dial. count of the unespectc•d in German in- 1tlul,ft a', sharp as a needle, It could heavy losses are entailed 1 I p'as, its weight; carrying it down. into Y In the year 18£10 a cheek wee brought ternal pillows, but the element of the; doubtless be driven clear through a 1ha interior and gradually overcoming; emy trench is taken. TU out of a shed at Hampton Court Pad- unexpected is al frail feaster in it mill Int1n'" !land by a stroke of thebird's any who may not detect the device in roan artillery gots the r powerful w•uif • ; battered trench while we are which had lame lying' there as ' o tory carol ri€;u. time. much lumber for fifty years, and the 4\ a can wain ,.rd,"u by 11lttiug the' "" ''` An expedient often used when the , to dig ourselves in. The authorities, for once, did the ri rht Germain!. ani real o,ificulriee will Surgical Dressings. cedes the dawn b just a t, enemy is preparing to abandon a tract � Y thing, and set the clock going again hardly Lmpe' the kaiser acerous!' leterminehlo folds of gauze of land is to arrange mines with de- so that one may advance and put it where visit.O'S (Taub} see it. enough to en.bl1114 1 flim in the ,•endu't 'For those w01nnl we shall never see. t:nnatnrs, which are actuated the' of darkness and still h It tslls the hour, the month, the day o1 the monthe the position of the atm, the number of days since the begin- ning of the year, the phases of the 8 111), and its age, then hour a:which it crosses the meridian, and the time of high water at London Bridge. Clocks have been 100(1(' within re- cent years which almost solve the nreblent of perpetual motion. A )War ir, the M'idtands owner e c 'el a .ln T whi i has ahead one fifteen , y g e u year without Winding 11p, and he claim•; It will run for• fifty. about onet charge, ind the lines, o time, and mpatty house ariably they Those last ng over 1110 cc a man may charge itself The Oldest Name'. e out actual three. jovial travellers tcre•, dining going over at t,,,-(pthmr at a hotel oto day, when it 00 .nen, Ch: v.ns agreed between theta that which. after art en- aver of them en tl'te GPr- possessed the oldest 11nge of tt:e ' name should be exempt. from paving acro st:rivi`i; tato cost of the dinner er(511 wa; ern - charge pre - The he few minutes, The first traveller said: "My Whine under coves ie Richard Five, and that is ratter 11111 ave rho ad-' you must admit," repulse the The next man replied: "1' go further e enemy must than you, for my name 1v Adam Brown. The third traveller, with a merry twinlcle in his eye, Molt his business card ;from his pocket and showed It to the other two, who read on it these words, "Mr, 13, Ginning," of the. ;car. ' Remember, when your fingers pause, German ., ,, uatpy iia, 0t)eo1 itself I That'every chop of blood to stain hi pelts and nal lop,• espedieet:•, such 'Tine whiteness falls .Cor you and me, as poi:o',itI/t e A and setting teal)! -('are of the price that keeps us free bombs. u.,• tl a l'y(innnig of the '!o scree our own, that keeps us Clean wear tile., 1.1,5 foaurd that most of -1a !From shame that other women know. world's 11a 0111(0/. : 111115 wa(1 w4'it110/ 1 0 saviors we have neva 50011, Alla oaf iaM., their borders. Notlt - Forgive us that we are HO slow: lute 0s rff,.et.i'•c' a.; di British 11,nl: has God -if that blood should ei in vain 'y yet bc,.a devised `,y the Ho,,t a, 'rimy + And we !have let our (0001ent go! bass! ion)! c ;ads *.f gas, e , ceasing --Amelia Josephine Burr. ..- w_.. t i o, r ,,� onuili 1011 f.wt 411,11: , 1 1 , .. , c» •1! 1 ,i••j IAl r. e -hale wheat .Stour is 'Used ea• ('10 neer! less meat, 00 parting of a wire. vantage of daylight to This wire is passed through an eottnter attacks which th acid solution which slowly eats it i)nmadiatelyt naugurate, away, so that it may be weeks before Tho counieii' attach can the explosion occurs. Dugouts which ed, because every succee have been abandoned even for a mat- )takes the first attacker ter of two months and which appear in his noway won ground to be absolutely safe sometimes blow est and most sanguinary up unoxpeetedly, the war has been that r The temptation of trophy -gathering lase of co'mter attar for allied soldiers is well understood lute a£ trenches by the Germans, and many have lost their lives by cunning devices in this p pea roup with p lime. sonSittlit g is an exrellont 1 not be delay ding moment more secure The bitter - fighting of :salting from ks on a given lenty of sca- ineheon dish, At every mai, if necessary, preach thegof osn el 1110 clean plate. late. Delicious muffins a well s w e as griddle cakes can be made with bread crumbs, dried and run through n mead: chopper.