HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-9-26, Page 2CHEATING THE
flames heti :almost. eomplet.ely des -
THE GODDESS
troyed of all het• street.ure al eve the sJ„t
l w Iter° lino. •
its ql' Jt
} R ( Again divere were :t below the % s 99
l(f 1 S � eut face. They mead, eeeh , . li en tee FJ
cgs owed tar alto ao
� t
D t ite the. many urjuat sneers at
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the Staff. it is a lamentable fait that'. � ]l R.0 @�
crF we, in di •unction from the Germans, WIND
noel to a le set extent. the l,tau it, ��jlIND AND WAY
eht l •ave tweet Attended our staff 0111-' q•
eere, nem Who, in many cases, had
rward the lifeboat but turnee away, NICKEL .AND THY hecihlER
I probably fearing an enony rune. Ont
y i the sixth day the men suffered the ut-� So Scarce le This Metal That Frag-
4 most r is a'eits � ,
officers of the cutter managed by main The nu+rebant submarine Deutarlt-
g t t t Up t, that lime thel nunts of Shells Are Collected
�a • force to keep the Laue:O. sailors from
return to Crrmany took
t towed i t I is L h her T I elrinkln( : ea water, but that clay they t lane} int her
bur, There, th • moo:oh...M ❑,t. , t:on; e e voted veer , of their life to a pro. La« IL with her Ft (sire() r.,n,tisLFng al-
t,t'C'1C 1S A lith 1'AeTOR !\ WAR, fuene sten;• ;d' •suer, l.ieutrnant- •t• t- RHA'T U-130AT viCTiMS SUFFER couhi nut ,,, r„strained and drank
IIU�S' Burr AIN IS OCi'Tll'L'1"TING :till in the lud,t ::,•r t•nt,pu urn ,.urd y c greedily of it. Tu c0uncqueneti two muni wholly of onkel. 1}. was more
I w•u. • found to ' • o• • •• i•nt t• el. - H as te 1 R.Tleil1 \vin Titlt, incl tt: limn, Ge,n•e•., Atorris, a !!•rent . IN LIFE -BOATS.
I ii d Just at hill t 1 cions than gold to tis+r hailer,
7'Illi Ell'91 1 IRA'T1.S. et ul nt of war and a moct. able Stmt
hail the e,e. cargo., Rebate est --- It 1 11 htul; deemed a two, Every Shell tired Irnnt the. t
.,._., • ,wur'>.leas L,tu �:, ne 1 nil uttrittl;. •Anil `""' ofiiecr, fell in. 1St]! :then ]etuiinr; his. I 1 It[unk every ira,nunl,
the stet„'<h!p i:, new remelt w ".e ^''t From the rclot of 1"tett of I3otlt Gen- battalion of Irish Gnards against the Tiun Pirates Iitne Curd Adrift Then -
;exile r beau, : tl Germ rn mei his cele in a skirmish in site woods of
Hove Been itncoycretl and rubnc:u In. :itr tore which „.r,a"c!"} eral and Private, 'tear Makes e'ille,ta Cottetets. Ile died te gallant drede of Pertains ill Equipped
Sols iia 1 to Battle the Elements.
I. y,n,v.;„> d her t, t•.. Values
nese nasi their lives. • t• 1' i s of en '
tori h e,u,ttto,h• death, (trying as to
A y' 1 ( t o I, ot1
1 _ t 1'alttcs lny°hezt.
e soon atter, ifs' a the e'' 11.
> 111'a>•y'
night, , w ten at • r i e ' • that tea A lav
settee lost, they were picket up.
is to the. Germans a thing of value
L FORDS AT Till? I•`ItoNT !and is picked up or duet Ftp when
found, for the sake of the niches it
Hon' the Royal Engiueets Enable Our: contains. "Damen by thousands are
Army to Cruse Rivers, !employed at, this kind of ::ori<. behind
The Royal Engineers nre often net ingg lines.
t1: o' crossing river~,I �It is impossible kn make first-class
to r•onatrurt moms
The men whom vee }:now a; 4114. 41Mlea ut gone, or even rifle I.ulleta,
'r .. tree of
1 ,ate Put Into a 1 s a is s
I � fedi. (t �, umy '„,i! on: � !„ I "The Atlantic Ocean is littered with
sea, v;itlt all it: Detail, of the .,n:tnF; oil rile,- teen! Have. you .vci uon.id ul the all- And none would have been prouder
I1lustery Of the S, 1lfedteFlta. iSL'UTCS of them have sus-
. -nd eomanoe• hee heo„ rot c: .;ell were• emit. public be- the Bri- important role whieh ehtnee. or haz- then be to meet his enc} at -the head of stained their anxious. occupants tms-
-faacinatl Il a
a s]on so strongly bre,l in rise bell, t'sh Government so that the pubic and or lurk call it what you will--- i& , a man. t in n sense his life teletctd ieil
'rom their predicament by a
a P f was was cel, for his long
1„u, :y tiro rnitul of the !:wi:s t tt • u1 war? . '1.11 the t
staff L
of the Briton that h tcrfaoe ever t i,i,•ht
ecufess defeat whole a prnl e -n or the ceorept :beet b tie, Admiralty Sal -
ocean's; depths (*parents lei \--eve l ros. Astonishingo a-, %yore the
firmly dtubeded in his nature• i, ht ;estdt, in these two Meter -wee, It is a
trait that he simply could not. ;e eent tete to :.ter,; ::. the Rime Ceortee :t
the record of his tosses in tee;n.11m; iii i si r ite .ed thou zc; relati•.ely
ley Uernnen submarines t s final, t.- •n unuu+a•,tain That ds why puldicn-
v•h,n hi-- hips had Leer .out to ti > flea •, . "misled, Of the other
tum e f Ilv e•ree a we.' ethat ,nu facts aueh as th oaring; of one risnt
bottom steamship, wb,<e •ars:'o was valu,>d at
round his t 1:., elle shooed i , nre
"u .ally, with, the (logged Ilti r ,tat S15,001-000,uand of another -with
inability' to confess defont: v.•pth teate l,eicbt n board wooth $10,000:000,
Amon in Ids eltareeter so mertell• tbeto is silence. To tell what Was
in• this wa,r, to cos t ,o. t eah .ione to sate them. where they were
means of r r•>verin at 1e.. fru m od sunt.. ar even to tell their names,
vaunt the etncmy 1 . taken from iii nileht wive infer older, on value to
t . r ,c.tin lout the ui, i •, + tin r e,te enemy, and toe;tt B.i!;.ur is not some fickle truddess Fortune wt a nn ()et. 31st by sending m the 2nd : of ships have been .tent to the bottom Flanders, for instance, nes the furtnrut. 1 .
.n the tat t n hand, and. with a turn of hefwriet>
rndne. r+.Ari+:inv that risk. Worcesters to counter-attack at' and their people flet. adrift upon the for misfortunwi to abound m river; Nnty Caledonia, South Pacific, whr:h
a,e;•mn1'sh d :roto.,. - uA tend the wheel spiun:ng round again Ch,luv+lt thus restoring, the broken'ocean, W n my touch on a few • and canals I interpolate the word became the principal source of th_«
What h 1'U T'ilii PEOPLES one of the meet ;Amazing , =atter; �ti
treat state- +,,: n > a front.
1,asses steamshrp, but probably the Royal ]engineers ccrtaiuly el,•,o, :.• , , n tthrnii. ratkel. . he : am rt.
Fiats reeo •nine thin, and testify to the ing should have proves} of infinite 1 ! 1 ,s e t their worth ; 1 armoti . a i'„r w:u•,:)ripa, From $
f 'n the saying: "In i e o Iritiah arms. ! majority of these small derelict craft! pride themselves r 1 „ to 31,E per Dent. is required for hard -
war of the theory i e •"ns.' gal: t 1 I nee the only visible records of OleosI the British Artny. For it meet t4 1
wtu• the unexpected always h, d p- Any le ar Mattes Fatalists.
needlessly sem-Bleed by the ravaging' known that the Resat Engdueers are ening. nil. there is very little nickel
your strategy ower ;o excellent, The first Battle of Ypre; cost us In marine.
thought I "hot stuff," and they ;-luny it to ad-. in Germany and not moth in Norway,
you tactics never so ....irefullythe lives of ttvrt of Out most brilliant c seafarer r has tenured the vantage 'rout there.' futon whose limited deposits the. Krais-
out, trot s never o gallant,
a purr, ,lice, } .Ars w•e assessed--- ugh ' Tlttt. vide t r P
Chalice, Stall 01x1 p II mute evidences of whet the Iiaiso•'sI Among the many ta.,lu; thi-h be et has drawn to the utniosi possible
your troops never so gallant, Ch Dawney anti Charles Fitsflarenee, V.
U-boats have lane and are likely to fall these men are those• ofd .ter-, ni extent.
that rapacious ,slice, is always lurk- C, Like Geor:e Morris, Hugh Dag•-'.
intd ready to lay F i continue to do now that the Huns are' means wherehy the Hon would lila. Not until lga5 was nickel seen or
ing in tis background P nay fell at the head of. his regiment,: waging soba neons tyarfat,e from sides to progress, and cvnstruc•tun m••:rn:, lutntru in quantity anywhere in the
you a scurvy trick, says a British a Knowing that his g q p gt't”
en Lis, life Guards. . >; to side of theenerth Atlantic. I whereby the "New C'ontompliblee” world, though thbtgs had been thinly
officer. And, of the other bund, wh old regiment was short of ofiirers, he In the last eighteen months, since will progress. !Plated with it by electrolyzing n sul-
things ]onli their blackest, when the . lasitcd on leaving; the Staff and going' the U-boats have been operating well' First of all, it i; necessary to knu:a phone of the metal. 13ut m that. year
enemy surrounds ,you on all side:. 1metc to them, and was killed almost outside the regular cordon of vessels that there are such things as rites Joseph Wharton, a i'hiledclphixn, rli+
,ag ee since
with the rear 'mm^ddatt•ly• Chutles FitzClarenee,' patrolling. about the British Isles and in areas where the Hun WKS, and is, u'overed a process slur obtaining; it in
has lona since tensed, maybe tltth the man who tented the tide at Ypres! ' the coast of Freice, :eores and scores and shall be getting his medicine. the mass from ores et Gap, Pa,
11 t ke C •int deposits it • later found in
L1•:S Ob' CI'Sfi7A in. your favor. j ; u f the a ca o
ln< ofthe1st Division -was shot inm f the ca •es but the :viii Serve to c'iniaforhme” Li•cause ;emetimn+. at tt'orld's supply of nickel. liuL in 180.;
`i'ithmtt this element f i }t f, } •s later whilst h f certain periods of heti career, tom
achiev n - t u: the t it all 1"t• Statement of the Allies' Attitude
than ewlt e•. Inc :. tr rid a hats
slime.iturtin.. 1. 1111,, tl lettiei h Ad-. 'I owned the Ruesian Nation.
mirelty he raised frcns r depths • The following iaratinn by. the
41', cargo tot.hiva and h nrklilt Government to the Peoples of
cot,tied in r e Cerin tneee r 1,.t rt sia" has he.en published by the
thud: of t} freight. they •..reied..B>•}kd;l, I>u•oaesentaiiyes at 1'l:ulicns-
Crn 0 pc , ut1.h nortreno e f the 'a t - 1.. Ith rmnnsk, and Archangel:
gee; sero ruined le their long' don- ' 'ottr Allies - have not forgotten
nierxion, but rine giant :team hip torn you. -file remember all the services
from her tl l I'M' i l'''''''-'
.vltir.t :our heroic armies rcnmierncl us
w u ft. lis he 1 been ale 1- Ft with •n the early years of the war. file
northand o •tl nil rt ,,ter,' 0.000 ,esti are coming ee friends to help yon to
every pen. y's t+e, of tba- 1t et save rnurseles from dd:memberment
recorcr ]. tor'. lit;cce i•1 -Aces: enol destruction at the hands of Ger-
rai ed an,l' a S1.i1,0,lo noa cargo re- many, who is trying to enslave your
eo:er:ed. .people and to rise the great resources
Rescuing a Tanker, of your country for their own ends.
".Bnt we wish solemnly- to assure
Cine o ri :c 1a r td -en y: t' "f e!ou that, while our troops are enter-
emereme ree,,trr. b.fc, tis was”.ng Russia to assist veto in your
slue would -n+ have been ncctanted its
struggle against Germany, we shall
of greet value. for she n•,; the c- not main One foot of your territory.
d..pieel t ni(e:•. But to the.con. , We deplore the civil war that divides
tiers that heel prevai:ed me•., 1it14 you and the internal dissensions that
was a precious adjur m to the facilitate the German plans of con-
shepreat aupp3y flee' needed by Great, „nest. But we have no intention of
-Britain to maintain adt.rnate fuel imposing en Russia any political
stares for -hips of the /levy. When system. The destinies of Russia are
this tanker, the name of which is:.'
withheld, of course, Data room' t., h., in the hands of the Russian people. It
in dames aur'. ell hat n tn± l wreck,' 1 for them, and them alone, to
decide their form of Government and
o chance I u se h y e . a vastly ]m,er yield boom to be
the night n cn cove. show something of the chances in av-
,} g do -
my" does not appreciate rives are ill, rived from fabulously r"u•h "re bodies
As an army declines to wade }n the Sudbury ddztriet t•f Ontario,
through a river and get its feat wet, tvhinh previously had been worked
or to swim over to the other side, for copper,
means have to be found wherewith Since then nickel has gone down
the army may progress. greatly in price, the market quotation
One of the Royal Engineers' meth- being now about forty rents a pound.
ods of river -fording, brings in the pon- It le the only metal that has not eky-
toon, which (,official informetinn from rocketed since the war be, an—prob-
the ottatyl merely light a},bause rslt Govm
frameworkdictlof anis affair, anda is ht mlidly not ec:vish itthe tollbecomeifiternerexpennent-
be used only as a temporary bridge. sive.
So wonderfully quick and skilful are Up to now all the Canadian ores
our Royal Engineers that a bridge of have been shipped in the forte of a
this description, fifty feet long, ran eoneentrate ( mixture of iron, set -
be sot up in a quarter of an hour. !, phur, nickel and copper) to I3tayonne,
A solid support is fixed firmly on N. J., to be refined. But huge righting
each side of the river or canal, and pleats are ne•w being erected le Can -
the planks fixed securely to the lat.' n•la to handle this industry.
ter.
This is one means of erecting ei.pon-1 THE PRESENT-DAY BOYONET
toon. Another is; arranged on a much , _
different scale, and involves the use of Employed R'ith the Rule by All the
trestles. Fighting Nations.
' This type of bridge is used for'
shallow -running streams. The tres- The arms of the infantryman of
ties are arranged in the form of an all nations are the rifle. ---and the bay -
M, and reach from one. Lank to the ; met. Despite the progress of mech-
other. Loge are lashed across the entail inventions and all the hnprove-
two inner forks of the trestle, and the melts in weapons, thee oldest wea-
"path" laid across them, The "path-;pon of all --the spear or pike ---for
way" consists of two horizontal spat's, that is what a bayonet really is --r. -
tvitich are lashed to the tops of the mains the best for close -quarter fight -
trestles. ing.
By these means the estimable Royal • Most nations use a long, single -
Engineers prepare the way for the edged blade, but there is a wide var-
coming of those brave men who are iation in the preciss length deemed
ready to lay clown their lives for the; most suitable, for Oho design of the
cause of Old England, bayonet is regulated ht the length,
weight, and poise of the rifle to which
ANOTHER "LADY OF THE 1.Ampe it is to be attacked. Thus the Bri-
_ ; tish bayonet is longer than the Ger-
An Interesting Anecdote About Sir man to cempansate for the het ter
Eric Geddes. barrel of the Britte t trifle, The
French rifle ott the other !rand et
In one of the French newspapers a, longer than either the nri!i=li or tho
charming story is told concerning the' German, yet its beyen^t is also
First Lord of the Admiralty. it longer. it has no cntthnct edges, but
seeems that late one evening in Nov- is simply a slender diamond sectioned
ember last a military motor broke stiletto of special steel. Thie lte•ht-
down in a small village in the depart- ness and length makes the French
ment of the Seine -et -Oise. Tho rifle and bayonet a very dangerous
chauffeur set about putting matters weapon to encounter, and •tires it an
right, and while he was so engaged' advantage of longer reach over the
a tiny mite approached, crying in shorter blade or sword type bayonet
her little hand an electric torch, She of. the Germans.
obligingly held it in a position which: it was in 1047 that Puysegur intro -
greatly helped the chauffeur. During duced at the siege of Ypres the idea
this time an officer was seated in the, of a short detereer earole eet in a
motor, and the following conversation wooden plug which could be inserted
took place between the little lady and in the muzzle fo the Duetted, thus
himself: 'don
it to a piece. Tits invent-
"W1tat is your name?” • tion hailed from Bayonne whence the
"cNenette, sir.” !tome "bayonet," which has ever
"How old are you ?" since been applied to all white weep -
"Six years" ons used in combination with a fire -
"I have a little boy of your age In arm,
my country," The early bayonets were usually
The repairs finished, the motor de- 'triangular in sertion and fluted with
Parted. Sir Eric Geddes—for that blood grooves, designed .to inflict a
was the officer in the motor—crossed serious and disabling welled. In
to England. Quite recently Sir Eric wrenching the weapon clear, however,
what a dreery hnsiness of butt tett ,leading battalion nil Guards to txlce .
war weal.' he! If the gunners, for or of our own people who may be
up a position for an attack to be del- i similarly circumstanced, and illustrate
Instance, could eliminate all •"ssi- !r ivered the next morning. He was a'what the sturdy seafarer, undaunted
!ditty of error in their shooting—that '; soldier. intuitive, energetic, and by odds, can do,
element of error due t0 weather eon -,superbly braveand he had had a fair)
ditions and the wear of the gun-- I,.hane to display the immense talents 1 A Terrible Experience
which makes every gun or howitzer he possessed. 1 The Ansonia of the Cunard Line
shoot differently—they could make One day Major-General Jahn Gough, I was torpedoed on May 30 when 1,170
their artillery harraoe simply anni-
hilating. It would only require a sim- ! thief of Steil' to Sir Douglas Haig• miles distant from England, The
s ho was then commanding the est i survivors of the one boat known to
pew mnthematt; at calettlation to plant I
a shell on every sentare foot of the Army, motored out to visit his old have been picked up were adrift on
t bombarded, But t e regiment, the Rifle Brigade, evhich' the Atlantic for nine days. The
position to be was in the line somewhere in the' only woman aboard the ship among
day, thanks to this strong strain of I tieighborhood of Laventie, if d rem !the twenty-two persons saved thus
chance in war, what do we see? After
clays of incessant bombardment we I ember rightly. He left the car some.; describes in part their experience:
distance from the approach to the 1 "We were put on an allowance of
find belts of barbed 'wire still uncut, 1teenches, As he was getting out ofltwo tablespoonfuls of water and half
or machine gun nests barking out 'the car a chance bullet, believed to be • a biscuit three times a day, and on
their defiance of the most carefully 1 ricochet, eomtng from heaven' Friday night we had taken our last
knows where, struck and mortally bink of water and eaten all the bis -
wounded this most able Staff Officer. ; cults. The captain sighted lane}
It was a bitter strolce of Fate. The I that night but could not make it on
snot where he was wounded was sup -1 account of the strong tido. The ex -
and executed artillery preparation.
Be Ready to Die.
The element of chance is so strong-
ly marked in war that anybody who
has fought at the Front inevitably be- prised to be absolutely safe, and heposure was very trying and the men
conies a fatalist, "If the bullet or was the only casualty. I got sore feet and hands from con -
shell bears your name," says the old No wonder war makes fatalist's of'. tinually baiting out the salt water.
soldier, "you're for it. What's the men: !Some of them had their limbs =put-
' use o'worryin'? Give us a fag, send"
---
Julian Grenfell, who, in addition to PERISCOPE HARD TO DTTECT
being a gallant Englishman, was a —
great poet, expressed the same
tuhd}ng shout to the v ater^_ of the
m
to find a solution for their social probe! thought in his wonderful verses,
Enolielt C•n, emel, with lease eremites , "Into Battle":
rising from her hold, the.l- e.
of ainok' "Peoples of Russia} Your very."Through joy and blindness he shall
Salvage t`nrl,s went out to her, toot: •existence as an independett nation is know,
nne gnod loos- and then summoned a at stake. The liberties you have wen Not caring mucin to know that still
destroyer. .4t the request cf. the Sal- in the Revolution are threatened with Nor lead nor shell shall reach stint,
ye^,•e Cotes the destreyer fired two ext}ortien by the iron hand of Ger- so
rhtlls tee, tine derelict and };:at all of many. Rally round the banner of That it be not the Destined Will."
ated after we arrived in England."
The troopship Dwinsk, under char-
ter to the American Government, was
Ont). One and One -Half inches Thick' torpedoed on her return trip to the
and Appears Momentarily- I United States on June 18, 700 miles
from the American coast. Of seven
If the popular conception of thel lifeboats which put off from the doom -
periscope and the manner in which 1 ed craft six were picked up at varying
At is brought to the surface and low- I intervals and. landed at Potts, on this
crud :were accurate, chasing submar-t ewe% Three had their occupants
ince would lee a much easier task titan I landed at Shelburne, Nova Scotia; the
American destroyer commanders have; people in another were carried Snto
her 11111 beneath the wave;. freedom and independent that we, The "happy warrior," the "beloved }aid out for them. They do not see a, Hampton Roads by the rescuing Yes -
who are still your Allies, are raising', captain," the fearless' and idolized PjPe four or five inches in diameter, eel; twenty more were saved at sea
shallow •cater, Just. as =eon as it in your midst and secure the triumphs leader of his men is struck down; the with lenses at the top swishing; and talcen to Norfolk, Va., and a sixth
was rro:;pnnb!y certain that the bre of these two .treat principles, without indifferent officer is spared. The man through the water or dlsappearing . boatload was rescued none too soon
had beer tt,,,.mehed divere t • ." 'opt whir+ there ran be no looting peace ' who revels in life, who boasts that during the rather slow process of sub- and put ashore at Bermuda.
covin to hair the gems le tee null,: of real liberty for the world. ' no shot can touch him (two men have
tont I,r the destrn:er's stn its, and "peoples of Russia! We want not I heard boast like that, and both are
whet thio w-orit wase ileieeed giant only to stem Gertwin penetration, but now in their graves in France), is
pumps were sunk into the hold to to bring economic relief to your ruin- called upon to make the supreme
clear the teeter that held her down. ed end suffering country. Some sun- sacrifice, while the misanthrope takes
Slowle el arc, feet }n• fent. a little plies we have sent, and there are more every risk in vain,
each day, until after more than- a - to feliow. It is our wit=h to aid the . There is only one rule in life for
r north of later she was t; *aft sulci- development of the industrial and the man who is in a fighting unit at
e ,ently ±•ism: e. the level of the sea tonatural resources of your country, the Front. That is to he ready to
dermit of her beinc towed to port. not to exploit {tom for ourseelves—to die. Then one can safely leave the
Bet the ert•-ldtetted and twisted teen restore the eychanee of goods, to test to Fate. By a merciful dispense -
of her npner works bore little resem- stimulate agriculture, and to enable tion of Providence, the hot blood that graphs and drawings, have been im-; charge of the little craft, desembed
"• seed on many Persons. ! his experience as follows: The sec -
merging a U-boat. Adrift For Ten Days
Instead they see, if they are for-
clays,
tenet° enough,�a slender pipe not; One boatload way adrift eight say ,
more than one and -a half inches in another ten. The boat that was in
diameter shoot• up above the surface the open sea for eight days covered
and disappear' within a feev seconds.', about 000 miles by sailing 'or drifting,
It is the telescopic periscope, that, and in that time worked to the nort:b•
may be operated from a depth of sew; westward until she was within sixty
oral feet. All underwater craft are miles of Seal Island, well off the coast
now equipped with them ratber than of Maine.
the old type which, through photo- I The boatswain's mate, who was in
blance of a ship that was yet to have you to take your rightful place among pulsates in the. veins of man quickens
a career f •is"fvinees. the free nations of the world, to the roar of battle and prevents the
Has Crossed the Ocean. I "Pennies of Russia: Unite with mind from dwelling on the bizarre
The .-. Fre:it. hopelessness of the l us in defence of your liberties. Our hiazards of the day. A man at your
f one desire is to see Russia strong and side cries out sharply. and drops,
task before them didn't deter the Sal- free, and then to retire and watch the twitehing, at your feet; here your
vain? Crops for a moment. They got Russian people work nut its destinies platoon sergeant is blown to pieces
g
e:nc• ,..;,etc••,« t:,.. e,,.o port anti, est m accordance with the freely-expres- by a shell; there you come upon the la in the fact that curingtheir days
of all, examined the oil tanks to find , 1 need raise the periscope only a few ; Y
sed wishes of the people.'
rut if any of the "-linable fuel wase mrhes Above the aur ore. is
still lit for use. To their surprise and
The operation of the periscope is' and day after the Dwinsk was tor -
controlled to a large extent by a very: pedoed I put the crew'on rations of
delicate instrument eyhich denotes to I one biscuit and a small quantity of
the U-boat commander the condition 1 water in the morning and the seine in
of the sea at the surface. If it is ; the evening. When we were picked
comparatively smooth, which en-, up we had hardly any left." .
hances the danger of detection, he' The tragic irony of their situation
body of your beat friend lying dear f If it . ''of drifting they sighted a small
NAVY'S
— ......-_
with his face i the enemy. You see ron:h he must raise the "eye" higher, '• steamer and two sebooners, but the
to 111;11 fall who had seen the old TICE NAVY'S PL<1YGRO1 ND these things without Gods) r fren4ling but be really is in not as great danger' vessels kept at a .safe distance, probe
them, t:}thorn (than}..�odl) wre,tling, u9 if the water was calm because it ably mistalcing the lifeboat for a sub -
tank helf o out to thea Channel
more , Where Britain', Jack Tars Disport 1 problem f 1
than half of the oil teas pumped out
with the
pro, ern o piet.esrinxtrnn• i ye another marine decoy, ]i`inally, however, the
in :Anti rendition raid then expert
1} ip: tS went t week to replace ' T} 1' 1 1 i 1 I idle t' but f 1' heavy sea 1
to /Mild new upper works. j tish Navy. It is very email, being back over the, evont+ of the war in th'r:water pressure, which varies with the: was tossed h the seas like a cork. through the same village halted the come detached and remain in the
In tree than three months. their only about five n ices in length, and spirit of what might have been, B., height and violence of the waves and y motor and asked to see Nenett.e. She body. To prevent this Sir John Moore.
wort: wee finished and the vessel ural v• c l . , ;o of our }tea+ lea,lers shmvs actual surface eonditious on an. Despite the force of these storms, only was not there; so the First Lord of in 1805 designed a bnyonet socket
its breadth varying ft ..n tw t miles cuttinb tff me , indicator do the sh} one life was lost, the victim being tis° Admiralty left her a hnnclscane fastening :with 'a spring rlfp se float:
mine more put into commission. She to half a mile, It is the playground our most promising srlrlicrs, in lis^it p'
arrived at an American part late to ; of the Grand Fleet. Before the war }dime, Fatcm h.+s dealt us some In one successful fight with a U- washed out of the craft when aparts-
presetlt, together with his card, on it could not be easily removed by tie -
the
slut is once more in regular ser- it was a barren, wind-swept shrew•d]y unkind Lime;; ht thin t:atr. boat it was estimated that the }torr- cularly heavy wavestruck
fora a'which was inscr!bod-�c"fo the little Tltis and the ttinngular ltay-
viee, tarrying An,erienn fuel oil to . P peri-
scope was vis}bee ]els than ten sec- oral of the me e
u �, netts, inhabited by a mere. handful of The British d peditionnry Force ]earl P while by t'neii• dreadful experiences, French lady, Nanette. LiBelo:1;i:Niii),,,,ieeioeoistlioivhi.,tbEte
mained ns standnrclsinLhethe Brttr, €try. Sl' is decorated . onds. It Cama upvery close to a P ,.service untiltis magariuet t. ✓I'n. r ru ,•M peasants, whose quaint squat rot- scarcely landed m Fiunre, etc the destroyer, donhtless agreat cleat and for the better part of the time thesadopted andn spa fit]chertwr h h« } t „ a n tlage It.. i nstagns are dotted here and then oyer creat heat pret€tllinre in those Au est surviviors lived nn' Italf a bispait a'I rofessmshdp of Aviation.
adopted ht liraskli experts to make the hillside. Now, says a Lowson clays, coupled with the wnrk of mobil -rinser than the submarine commander , • ayonet, t}reptedece.aarroflhothe U -},oat's task mnro drflleult and writer, a fuel 18 -hole golf course has ization, snatched away Sir James had recleaned, and when he realized . aaY• The supply o£ water hod al- The stem of $126,000 has been arms, was designed i.n f}t it.
she tarries 18,000 tens +,f nil on every : been made, Rugby, soccer and hockey , Grierson, the commander of the 2nd his peril he attempted to scurry away, ; steamship Rondo camost given old me to their xelaefthe � placed at the disposal of the British' r, _ _�_
trip she makes ,lift€arrl access the! gelds, and near the Y.M.C•.A. but a Cm a. Ise succumbed sudden] to at lint a depth charge was dropped andGovernment by Sir Basil ZaharotF, G.I THE SENSE OF T;1STE
ocean. The official report of her sal- largo boxI stadium capable of seat- cpoplectic stroke in the train which German submarine power decreased 10)winciche 148n °osons sown yvboats;ho abandoned
wcthe
ie II• E„ for the purpose of endowing a
vase states that; the oil recovered, 'ing mono than 10,fiU0 sportators. waa beeiimg hfrn towards that tnat.U° by Due boat I rescued. One beat, corrtadntn tweet Professorship of Aviation, .! Very Acute in Childhood • But Loss
from Ler yvreaked hull amounted to ling
The
little Island, so desolate in field of Mons which he was never des — ge y ; This munificent donation is in sou
more than B,UOtl tons. I one men, has never been accounted for, ' tinuation of donations previouslyv} Keen as Aga Advances.
peace time, has now become. the best tined to see e•
Another Notable Instance. d t 1 1 f J tl f the British h A y M II c e Hutchinson, tis British!
Another vessel found to be in flames miles around. Every afternoon, slur- I would even venture to say, in the naturalist, relates the story of a; When 500 miles fl'm the Irish foundation of Chair's of Aviation at, that the sense of taste in children is
roast f British stea�er, outward the Universities of fleas and Petro-.
in
more saute than in grown-ups.
is difficult for an or.°over on an
Themselves. i Al'aninn Waste.
I ship to see the small instrument in a j skipper of a Gloucester fishing schoon-
s n n, r . n. t Fere is a rte. a t:; enc -somew tern t is an tr . c ,a; Fuc,, ;n ry Dune - er had the courage to approach
the drim'eged plates in her hull and 1 1• I The instrument is controlled by; The boat that Was adrift ten days tvg&again in France, and on passing it was no unusual thing for it to be -
P very dear to many men of the Bri-, ly interesting, in my opinion, to go Passed through two hurricanes and
A Curious 'Friendship.
Front the Uwe of Death
I made by Sir Basil Zaleatoff for the j Recent experiments seem to Provo
r no er o e ns ance, ; known an most popular place or rt re whole o e Bri s Army--; r, ora e
in alto English Channel waa of British ing both summer and winter, officers whole of tela Alltel Armies there swan noel piste, living on and m a :bound in ballast, was torpedoed last grad, in order to assist in the pro- This may account for their horror of
register. She was of the regulation and men land from ships in the bar- was no man who had a greater, a small piece of ornamental water, bee, month without warning or an Unseen g'r'ass of aviation among the Allies,' disagreeable medicines; they taste
steamship ennstruetaon, nc,1. a tanker, bur, some to play Barnes, others to t n more comprehensive knowledge of the coming friendly. 'Wherever the seven and it is his hoe that the occupants them more intensely,
• U-boat The 1I -boat came to the stir- P
and the ',redeem of sating her from for walks, The chief attraction of a German Army, the German language., went the puce went too, swimming,•face as the freighter was being aban- of the Chairs will' continually °x -
total destruction was greater than in' walk is the tea which one gets at: any or the Germans themselves. If the alongside the bird. When the swan doted and the Hun captain, noticing ng change views.
the case of the American tanker, for of the little cottages or farms, home- weather had been legis fierre, if ---well,' wont ashore, it is not related that the that some of the victims of his attack It is proposed that 1110 Professore all her hull above the' made scones, oat calces, bread and If Fate had been kinder and Groirson pike tried to follow, but it is said that white wounded; called tis° is attack ah It shall be culled "The ofessore
Water line was do flames. She was 'butter and eggs aro the fare, 'The. had snrvived that, fatal train ,journey he waited beside the bank, swimming, alongside wounded;
gave them bandages chip shall
be of Aviation;' aur] aloft
ff
laden with a shipment of munitions' golf -club home, for officer, le the on that baiting August day, might up and down in a forlorn, dietracted and alongside
a but the smoke b d ges It shall b a PltS3f Aviation,"
," the Una-
from the United States and the fire' meeting -place for officers of all ships we not have avoided falling into those, way, m til the swan came hack ages o ,
had matte eta waY itrto the magazines and squadrons, and it is not at all Un- errersof optimism, of under-estitmt- Itwas a subject of some debate ; Preaching vessel scared him away be-, vereity of London, attached to the
where these wets stored. Fxntn time' common for one of thorn to enter and Linn of the strength of stir adversar,Y, whether the swan returned the me I fore other necessary aid could be, Imperial College of science and Tech -
to time she was shaken by exPlosi.ms suddenly find himself confronters by which mere than any other element tachment, until the pike died, and the' given. 'nology.
and then finally the Are i The boats then set their course fort
gained such' ani old friend whop he last saw art have militated against our chances of swan was so overcome with grief, at land, carrying but a email ttllowanesr ' salt for the Fisheries.
\Iteatiway that her hull wee completely' some distant foreign station. success in the field? his less that he pined away unci aeon
'concealed by the smoke. Alewas done' ! A stupid, a wretched pervereity of died also, of biscuits and a meagre supply of wa- Tho Canada stood Board has sue-
, with the tanker, she was deliberately "Only the brave know how to fere rate, deprived ua of other brilliant ter. It was six days before a succor-. ceeded in eocuring a seeonde cargo same seems to be true of the sense
oleo. A coward nets fnre:ave. it is soldiers who were Certainly dowelled Any men with moth-eaten ideas ing veseel aPPeared, On the fifth day of salt from the Mediterranean for of Moll, to whla it is sat cloeely
sent to the bottnm by a British do:, sot l
trnyer, but before this was done the not his /1111"1""
..!ti•ru':- to play et great rale in the world war, :;imply hens to air his opinions, r a ship hove in sight and .headed to- the Nava Scotia'fttaherles, related,
On tine other hand, taste in young
folks is less discriminating. • A small
girl, for instance, may cdelight in
"chocolate bologna," a crude confec-
tion that would Dot appeal to her
palate at all a few years later,
''That taste Is susceptible of educa-
tion is obvious enough; bet•what i4
gains in this way it loses in keenness
with the progress of years. Appar-
ently it beesmes progressively less
acute with advancing age; and the
t.