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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-5-9, Page 3WAR'S POMP THING OF THE PAST CAMPFIRES, GLITTER OP OFFI- CERS' UNIFORIYIS. Blare of Bands Remain Only in Fic- tion, But Heroism Is Same As of Old. The pomp and pageantry of war fast aro disappearing, a The clays are gone when a "thin red line," advancing with colors flying and bayonets gleaming', presented the en- emy with easy cannon fodder, In the first place, the resplendent uniform has been discarded by all belligerents for one of sombre, incon- enicuous hue. The reason is obvious .—the human target is delineated with dangerous distinctneas when bright colors are worn. For almost' the same reason bayonets are no longer burn- ished, A raiding party, lurking in No Man's Land, cannot afford to have its presence betrayed by the gleam of light from a star shell on a polished piece of steel. Moreover, the regimental standards usually are left at headquarters. A color sergeant probably would find himself in a difficult position if con- fronted with the necessity of fighting off an enemy and keeping the flag waving at the same time. Bands Stay in Dugouts. The blare of bandsusually has been associated with memorable ad- vances of troops, but the musicians now can be convinced very easily that trench concerts might prove un- healthy. There still remains, how- ever, the skirl of the bagpipes. The general of the lace -encumbered uniform and flowing hat plumes has passed out with the horsehair sofa period, so far as field service is con- cerned. A Continental warrior, clad in a blue coat with buff facings and wearing a perilously balanced three- eorneree hat, compares but poorly in apparent efficiency with the trim fighting men of to -day. The garb of the modern soldier is developed along strictly utilitarian lines. The dull khaki tone blends into the landscape at a distance and the protecting "tin hat" or steel helmets is worn in trench warfare. The civilian, however, still finds room for mystification in endeavoring to flnd why the bluejackets still wear the halo-like hat and broad -bottomed trousers, apparent survivals from the days of the frigate. No narrative of a heroic charge in wars of bygone days was complete without a picture of an officer leading his men with sword in hand. Now, it isn't done. The man with a sword readily is distinguished by the enemy as an officer—and as such a desirable target for rifle and machine gun fire, Campfire in Fiction Only. In American Civil War days, andas recently as the Spanish War, soldiers and officers were represented as ga- thering nightly about the campfire. In history and fiction descriptions are not Tacking of the anxious officers who studied out plans for the morrow's campaign by the flickering blaze. Campfires in France, if built at all, are located deep down in a dugout, as their presence above ground would serve admirably as a range -finder for the foe's artillery. But the element .of individual and mass gallantry nevertheless still sur- vives—and to a greater extent. As long as history lives men will re- member the stand of the French at Verdun, English tenacity at the Somme, the wild recklessness el the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, the sacri- fice of the Anzacs at Gallipoli, and the proverbial courage of the Irish, who, it is said, charged into a withering fire at Loos, .ticking a football before them. WHAT IS GAS GANGRENE? Has Nothing to do With Poison Gas Used in War. So much has been written and print- ed about poisonous war gases that the new and horrible disease known as "gas gangrene" is supposed by most persons to be caused by exposure to gas clouds or emanations from gas ehells. At the same time—reading about the gas gangrene bacilli that do such ' frightful work—they are puzzled to imagine how bacterial germs come to be associated with war gases. And no wonder. But the matter is easily explained; for war gasea and gas gangrene have nothing whatever to do with one another. Both are de- stroyers of human life, and that is their solo relation. Gas gangrene, happily, is a disease virtually unknown in America. The germ that causes it (if existent in the New World) i o s so rare a s to d no mischief. But in France and Belgium, it abounds in the soil. The fighting men in those countries are constantly in contact with the soil. Their clothing and skins harbor the bacilli. Hence, when they are wound- ed, the germs are very likely to in- fect the wound, and, as a result, a virulent form of gangrene rapidly de- velops, Suppose the case of a leg thus in- forted. The bacilli multiply at a tee mendous rate, and generate is gas. If a bullet or shell fragment has made a puncture gas eseapes from the bole, 'Iles if if amputated, may contain so much gas that it will float in water:! In such a case death 'loon folloWs. d U R F O R E F R T H E R' a'�t dsfN lens pars a"" ►;k 9 PURGATIVE Wal -EA whfoiz !Nelms out the intestines and ensures normal bowel nation wattout causing -elle, cramps or discomfort, On Bale everywhere: 26 cents the bottle, RiGA PURGATIVE WATER CO, MONTREAL. HUNS ARE LIKE THUGS OF INDIA SAYS RUDYARD KIPLING IN A RECENT ADDRESS. Germans Taught From Birth to Re- gard Crime as Legitimate Means of Serving Fatherland. Rudyard Kipling says that the atrocities committed under the Ger- man policy of frightfulness were, paralled to some extent a century ago among the people of India, only on a smaller scale. In an address recently in the English town of Folkstone, which has been bombarded from the air several times, the author told his audience that the nations of the earth have banded together to down the Kaiser and his minions just as the Indian Government had to take meas- ures to wipe out Thugs, Suggestions of peace, Kipling as- serted, originate among Boche agents and confederates who are active not only in England but in every other country with which Germany is at war. Compromise, he said, would mean nothing less than defeat and ,'n?thing we may have to endure now will weigh one featherweight compared with what we shall suffer if we fail." The Thugs of India. "One hundred years ago there was a large and highly organized eomnm- nity in India which lived by assassina- tion and robbery," continued Kipling, "They were educated to it from their infancy; they followed it as a profes- sion and it also was their religion. They were called Thugs. "Their method was to disguise themselves as pilgrims or travellers or merchants and to join with parties moving about India, They got into the confidence of their victims, found out what they had on them and in due time—after weeks or months of ac- mnuntance—they killed them by giv- ing them poisoned food—sweetmeats for choice—or by strangling them from behind as they sat over the fire of an evening. Then they stripped the corpse of all valuables, threw it down a well or buried it and went on to the next job. "At last things got so bad that the Government of India had to interfere and after many years in tracking down and hanging up the actual mur- derers and imprisoning their spies and confederates, who included persons in Powers of the world that have not been bullied or bribed to keep out of ft have been forced to join us in one international department to make an end of German international Thuggeo, for the reason that if it is not ended life on this planet becomes insupport- able for human beings. Even now there are people in England who find it hard to realize that the Hun has been educated by the State from his birth to look upon assassination and robbery, embellished with every treachery and abomination that the mind of man can laboriously thiuk out, as a perfectly legitimate means to the national ends of his country. "He is not shocked by these things. He has been taught that it is his busi- ness to perform them, his duty to sup- port them and his religion to justify them, They are, and for a long time past have been, as legitimate in his eyes as the ballot in the eyes of an Englishman. "This, remember, was as true of the German in 1914 as it is now. People who have been brought up to make or- ganized evil in every form their su- preme god because they believe evil will pay them are not going to change their belief till it is proved that evil does not pay. So far the Hun believes that evil has paid him in the past and will pay him better in the future, He has had a good start. "Like the Thug the Hun knew ex- actly what he meant to do before he opened his campaign against mankind. As we have proof now, his poisoned sweetmeats and knotted towels were prepared years beforehand and his spies had given him the fullest infor- mation about all the people he in- tended to attach, Right in German Eyes. "So he is doing what is right in his own eyes. He thought out the hell he wished to create; he built it up seri- ously and scientifically evith his best hands and brains; he breathed into it his own spirit that it might grow with his needs; and at the hour he judged best he let it loose on a world that till then had believed there were limits beyond which men born of woman dared not sin. "Nine -tenths of the atrocities Ger- many has committed have not been made public. I think this is a mis- take. But one gets hint of them here and there—Folkestone has had more than a hint. For instance, we were told the other day that 14,000 non- combatalits, men, women and children, had been drowned, burned or blown to pieces since the war began. "But we have no conception—and till the veil is lifted after the war we all ranks of society, it put an end to shall have no conception—of the range the whole business of Thuggee. and system of these atrocities. Least "The world has progressed sines of all we shall realize, as they realize that day. By present standards of in Belgium and occupied France just crime those Thugs were ineffective across the river, the cold, organized amateurs. They did not mutilate or i miseries which Germany has laid upon ons at ave fllen inte defile the bodies of the dead; they dill her handstthat she might break their not torture or rape or enslave people; bodies and defile their souls. This is they did not kill children for fun and they did not burn villages. They merely killed and robbed in an unob- trusive way as a matter of education, duty and religion, under the patronage of their goddess, Kali the Destroyer, One International Department. "At the present moment all the I -sem•- - At the Factories—A' actoriesria Where Postum is Made great numbers of the high -waged, skilled em- ployes buy and drink POSTUM A tribute, if you please, -to honest materials and sanitary eurroundings in manufacture; but best of all a preference based on true knowledge of its healthfulness and attractive flavor. "There's a Reason" •-Ant Grocers. part of the German creed. "What understanding is possible with a breed that has worked for and brought about these things? And as long as the Germans are left with any excuse for thinking that such things pay can any peace be made with them in tvhich men can trust? None. "For it is the peculiar essence of German culture—which is the German religion—that it is Germany's moral duty to break every tie, every Teethe - ton, that binds man to fellow man if she thinks it will pay. Therefore, all mankind are against her. Therefore, all mankind must be against her till she learns that no race can make its way or break its way outside the borders of humanity," GULLS AS FOOD FOR MAN. In Iceland Gull Flesh Forms/Frincipal Winter Duet. "The flesh of gulls," says one of the best-known "Encyclopaedias," "is rank and course." So it is. You have only to shoot a gull and cook it to find that this is the case, and that as a dinner dish it is a complete failure. Yet in Iceland gull flesh is one of the principal winter foods of the peo- ple, There, in early summer, when the cliff's swarm with nesting gulls, parties are organized aitd men are let down over the lofty precipice by ropes. They catch young gyills, which are as fat as butter, and send them up to the top in sacks. The moment ithey reach the top the birds are skinned. A great cauldron of boiling water is ready, and into this the bodies are -dipped and held for a few seconds. This completely does away with the fishy taste, and the birds are then taken home and hung in smoke until they are thoroughly dried, When winter comes they are cooked and eaten, and are as delicate as any ehielten or game bird but far more fat and nourishing. This epring it ie expected that steps will be along the English coast to secure a good supply of young gulls, which will be treated in the Icelandic fashion. flashionA 1 The Weekly A dainty little dress for a dainty lit- tle girl. McCall Pattern No, 8170, ChiId's Dress. In G eines, 0 menthe to 6 years. Price, 10 cents. 61114 tf,1r - yckETT ssei?e eee,.. ^T vitt THE Lit"I'LE DUCHESS. Story of a Victim of Wer's Cruel Experiences. The mascot of the First French Foreign Legion, says Mr. Sterling Ming, is a little girl nine or ten years old, wiry, plain -featured, with deep- pathefle USE BRITISH BOOTS. U.S. Soldiers Find Remo product Too Light far Battlefield. American soldiers In Europe ere wearing Britiab boots. The boots provided by the military authorities have proved too light for the rough battlefields of the war zone, British army boots are of great strength and heavily ironed. They will stand heavy wear and tear and are specially designed for the stones, mud and damp of the battlefield. The specifications for the boote sup - dunk eyes, high, wrinkled forehead I plied to the American forces have had and a severe expression. The sol- I to be modified and strengthened. tilers found her guarded by an aged !Meanwhile pending the arrival of the deerhound in a shell -torn part of 1 new pattern the American Expedition - northern France that had recently ary Fomes will wear the British article. been held by the Germans. As she was apparently deaf and dumb from The British military authorities the shock of her experiences, she was have placed 1,000,000 pairs of boots at unable to give any information about their disposal and can supply further herself or where she came from. Some millions of pairs if necessary, There of the men declared her to be a peas- are ample resources to meet all new ant child; but others insisted that she demands, and the present issue has was a child of birth and title, tort been produced without the factories from some northern chateau. working overtime. "She eats like a lady," said cite. 4 "Let us see what she will do with. a There are two kinds of tea; ordin- napkin." ary tea and Salada. Salads is more Somehow they managed to get half economical since it takes so much less a dozen napkins, and luncheon was to make a satisfying infusion. spread on the ground. The Little Duchess, as the soldiers called her, New Law Enforced looked indifferently at the napkin be- Several restaurant men who have side her plate, and then, without haste either willfully or innocently ignored or curiosity, placed It in her lap. Then one of the men tucked his under his chin and another tied his" about his neck. In two minutes they noticed that the Little Duchess had tied hers round her neck. "It was the tact of a lady," said one group of men. "Not to correct an- other or be different in small matters when you sit at his table shows that you are well-born." Then they tried her in the drawing - room of a ruined chateau. One of them led her to the sofa; the child did not stop there but seated herself com- posedly on a battered ottoman. "That settles it! Children in old French families are taught to sit upon such stools ie. the presence of their elders," "But no," was the reply. "In Bos hernia well -brought -up children seek a stool when they sit in the presence of their elders." Then a Frenchman motioned the little girl to the old piano. She sat on the piano stool, perplexed, troub- led, wrinkling her forehead. The hulking legionaires held their breath. What strain of effort might there be to remember an elusive something, "► sweet and peaceful, far offthrough a purgatory of confusion, fright, blood, / hunger, loneliness and awful explo- There is quite a vogue for the dress cions that had hurt her poor head) that ties on. McCall Pattern No. Or had they merely set before a poor 7901. Ladies' Tie -On House Dress. peasant child an impossible task? In 3 sizes, small, medium and Marge. One of the men started to rescue Price, 20 cents. her, but at that moment the child's These patterns may be obtained hands reached the keyboard, and she struck a chord, a single chord, but a true one. "That's enough for to -day!" they cried, and they all piled out of the gutted chateau into the springtime from your local McCall dealer, or from the McOall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. LEMON JUICE IS FRECKLE REmovesee sunlight, laughing and petting the Little Duchess. Girls! Make this cheap beauty lotion Since then the little girl has re- : to clear and whiten your skin• t turned several times to the piano and _— has played bits of tuneful exercises. Squeeze the juice of two lemons Of course she proved not to be deaf into a bottle containing three ounces and dumb at all, Her condition was of orchard white, 'shake well, and you the result of the terrible artillery con - have a quarter pint of the best freckle cussions and the nerve-racicing scenes and tan lotion, and complexion beauti- through which she had paseeed. She fier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin be- comes, Yes! It is harmless. A Great Lone Land. The biggest and lonest land on the globe is Siberia, of which at the pre - is learning to talk again, aided by the rough legionaires, and sometimes she learns ten new words in a morning; but the men will not let her be "push- ed" too rapidly. Ask for PAinard'e ana talcs no other. Climbing cutworms may eat out the buds on young or newly -set trees, if you don't watch out. A little paper "fence" around each tree trunk— three inches high and not touching the trunk—will prevent such damage. Or use poisoned bait. This paper - sent moment there is so much talk. fence idea also works nicely as a pro - Anyone who would set about its con- tection for cabbage and other plants quest by invasion would find the task set in the field. a herculean one, for it contains near- ly five million square miles, and is about forty-five times as big as the British Isles! In these vast spaces there is a popn- Iation less than London contains by a couple of millions, and there are hun- dreds of thousands of square miles of territory where no human being is to be seen, The mighty rivers of Siberia are almost rendered useless by the fact that they flow mostly into the Aretic Ocean, and. their lower courses are ice -bound during the greater part of the year, and their mouths are at all times very difficult of access. Arc. tic Siberia is a vast country in itself, but very inhospitable. Nevertheless, under progressive government, it could:, like the Great North-West of Canada, be opened u p and largely cul- tivated, and there ought to be a great future for colonists if ever the condi- tions are brought under more enlight- ened influences. Siberia, it is said, is destined to be the granary of the world; and the opening of the railway across its en- tire breadth has certainly done much to develop its resources, y %Kinard's rdetbnent Lttntberman's Friend. 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