HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-11-14, Page 7to Europe, with which communica- The first mountain gun in use was a a ive r aa.ns ':." an en- t,} the t err pt�r pout fin Admiral, evho, however, when the
aten-pounder. This, though used in gine should ±t1n. "Thi ttonble weal ' 3 en, in the King was not present, during the
Attracted German Soldiers, tion is now difficult if not dmposaible' action bya battery at Gallipoli may "And about. fi thamt n�1 Why it eeventatnth
Therefore, although the crop was now be regarded as obsolete. To -day shoulcln t;' eeicl my friar ?. Th t tam -
bee
` ineuc Son cell." century, usually .flew the
While Lieut. Pat O'Brien was mak saved, the glowers were confronted "Alai if t:hc=e lied -"noelt ewe. at) royal standard,
we have two kinds of mountain guns ale n l h' 1 1
feetented by gaping craters does and our efforts have undoubtedly s wr y "But why lank for a s eek instead '.o,. r 3 ,i
feet across made byaerial torpedoes } saved the situation, to judge by the wondered at, for the real home of. our 3 ± P^ " Tt t t..: rot t r c'e^r,ing?' like a harder all around the anchor'
p = mountain artilleryis in India—away o£ something else'. And ;hz, other <,z,.,,,.tivl" �i,.e c. „un •:cn•lesp but touching it nowhere except v,^here
ar a IeOtiles from the largest Eng- noilus. flourishing condition of the orange trouble might it be?" The trouble 1 through b p
i;:] x.a : 1 cannon, The port of Zee- T� and lemon groves all over the country. up in the fastnesses of the North- man waves his hand ma e.t} t'ty, e" veal n^n . ni lv c as " it passed the ring, and it was,
orug.i made a striking picture in THF. FASCINATING: SAUSAGE Most of the crop however is exported West Frontier. "Ther ref e ] "13 r f Yen h i l fuer,} n weal snarl- of course, the flag of the Lord High
Why the Shop Window in Belgium
7EEBRUGGE GUNS
LIKE GIBRALTER
Mr••-.
;iii'UO MI( BPS Ob' BIG GUNS LEFT
IN GERMAN RETREAT
Allies Are Astounded That Port So
Defended Could Have Been So
Successfully Blocked.
I visited Zeebrugge on Oct. 24, the
scene of one of the moat audacious
exploits in the war's history, says a
war. correspondent. ,Along the coast
from Blanlcenbrughuthe sand hills
spreading the , road from the beach
were honeycombed with battery posi-
tions succeeding one another abso-
- lutely without interval. There must
have been hundreds of guns, varying
:Deem six to twelve inch, and tons of
big shells still left by the Germans,
Everywhere one could see long muz-
zie•; turned seaward,
As Zeebrugge drew near the gun
ernplaeements in many places were
adit,ns had been killed; recently by a
Particularly atrocious trick. They
heard a cat squalling in the cellar
a el, going down, found ire pinned
under a boned. They then indeed the
board and a mine blew them to
Pieces."
Wonderful British Feat.
As we stood in the bows of the
ship, scarcely an arm's length from
the canal wall, the captain asked:
"Have you seen the batteries along
the coast? The place is a regular
Gibraltar,- • When I realize what we
were up against It is a perfect marvel
that we were not blown out of the
water, every manjaek of us, The
Germans must have been panic-
stricken to miss such targets. Not
only these fillips were run right up
here, but a youngster on a patrol boat
actually took of the crews of this
vessel and the Intrepid. Ile deserved
to have the Victoria Cross awarded
to him if ever a mortal did."
A French officer of the famous
"Blue Devils" with whom I talked
later paid a supreme tribute to Bri-
tish valor ill this characteristic
phrase:
"It is incredible to think that such
a feat could be accomplished hi the
face of such strength of defence."
The men who did that were res
BRITISH WORK
IN PALESTINE
SHORTAGE OP FUEL, SERIOUS
PROBLEM, 18 SOLVED
Cities of the Holy Land Restored to
Peace and happiness, Normal
Life Resumed.
Fuel has been, and still is to a
certain extent, a serious problem in
Palestine. Especially has the situa-
tion been acute in connection with
the orange industry, which normally
is one of the mainstays of the Jerusa-
em Sanjak. Most of the groves are
readiness with which, without any
diaplay of forces they do the requests
Of the authorities. The whole of the
population of Palestina is indeed
wholeheartedly. pro -British, Thlc is
equally true of all communities, which
have openly welcomed the.British oc-
cupation as a release from the Turk-
ish bondage tenders -which they had
sufheired,
The eost of the edtninlsteatlon and
of the regeneration of the countiy is
at present being financed from army
lunch!. No funds were available when
we entered Palestine—the Turks had is very interesting,
emptied all the eoftere—no taxes so
far have been collected from the peo- h
pie, and everything that has been
taken has been paid for in hard cash t
—somewhat of a contrast to the h•
practice of the Germans in occupied
enemy territory,
JTHEBRITISH
ijLE71 ADMIRALTYFLAG
•
tl
A REG FLAG WITH A GOLD OE
YELLOW ANCHOR
Locating Ignition Troubles, tributor. I dLsconneet the distributor
end of the cable from toil to distri-
Speaking of ignition trouble, says a buter and hold it close to seine part of
car owner, a conversation I overheard the engine eel as to ground the spark.
"How is it A space of about an eighth of an inch
you always lay your is about right. 1 r'.oce the switch and
and right en the trouble every time )rove the spark lever back and forth
you go after it?" said my friend to to interrupt the'primary current." Ile
he repair man who was working over did this while he was speaking.
f$, cam• "No spark! 1f there had been, the
"But I dont always find it immedi- trouble would have been ju the di•tri-
1 a -ely." hater, As there is no el arlt I must
"In the majority of caees you do, 13.17 at the cirrult breaker or inter -
watered bete wells by means of and in the other rases after a fee ins- Fly nzev ;c• 'n. si.ark lever.
pampa, all German, it may be added, MOUNTAIN GUNS notes search. My engine leftz:sea 1 we; ran mare tl i '� n' ape:t f.; :t .cse.:.
and all worked by oil fuel, There -_ '—" run at this instant. I am going to No o-parlc jrmp:, alts 1=+c., when
was a dearth 'of petroleum in the aloe of British -Artitlury in the give you ten minute, to get it =tatted. ,1"..1.1•!
• ;,••> 0 en
country and the industry was threat-Campaignl. y break. 11 ..1.1• P
Y Against the Turk. Jud jn' £rpm 'vh I h• r ,. , . • ,_,:..
When the King l on Board the iloyal
Standard Fioats from the Main,
'With Admiralty a1- the Fore..
It bus Leen stated generally in the.
press that the aedzftiralty flag flown
by !lir Eric Geddes, First Lord of
the Admiralty, on visiting the U.S. -
recentiy, has never previously been
flown out of "British home waters."
The accuracy of the statement is
questionable Yen der Velde's famous
yid ere of the, Naseby bringing Chas.
II. over from Holland shows the royal
standard at the main, the unien at
g g i' u e see 1 yen r 1 to trh tl m 2 rz the mizzen, the ensign at the steric '
ened with disaster. One of the first Probably few people at home aredonrevionsly that is a ii!•era.i .alto•✓ Z•; •;t r we ret a good .r a Thi, and the achniralty flag at the fore.
things we did was to arrange with aware even of the existence of Bri- ante; 1j'hat particular cletuil ora you she: that h th l+cirss a.'e a::.n; but The admiralty flag of that day was,
Egypt for the immediate importation tts}t mountain artillery, says an Eng- Iookmg fur now?" „ tl:s z cur'r, .{ to esn't ren v'ltite the as• now, a rad flag with a gold .or
of autflcieut oil to work these pumps;iter. 'ibis is hardl to be I am trying to get a ar!-• a -•:i' 1," yellow inches haying a cable twisted
the bright, midday sunshine. Just at
m right of the little group of hotels
and villas that formed the town be -
re se i[IV Clole—its entrance tom- gwith the problem of the disposal of
':i muf d on a betters of six-inch guns inir, .his way aciross Belgium aum in his
,;:i11 i+!.titct—but after running out effort to escape from ins German {.heir produce. Here the army came
A hundred yards into the sea it curves captors he had occasion to hide for to the rescue. In many places it sup--
:,nrtliu-ard for half a mile parallel
with the shore, thus malting a shel-
.ererl harbor in front of the mouth of
'.he Bruges Canal, which enters the
between •ten two long pieiC some six
t ,no,ed :verde north of the town.
Sunlrt:n Ships in Harbor.
Til, title was low and the wrecks
sur .len ::hips stood high out of the
water, ('lose against the mole and
ncarl-; at the end was the Brussels, for example, a .. P soon as the critical agricultural and
and beyotvl tt unknown vessels. Near- other side of the street. All day long economic m period has been traversed
i t o1'c meet was a dredger, sunk by German soldiers passed in front of .economic
daylight is even
the house and I noticed that virtual y
several days in a deserted Belgium plied wheeled transport to carry the
house. In his interesting book, Out- fruit from the fields, and the export
witting the Hun, he deseri'oes an am- quantum has to a great extent been
using incident*that occurred while he absorbed by the troops, who pure
was there. chased in large quantities, and to
Although I enffered greatly from whom an orange ration is now being
hunger while occupying; this house, he issued.
says, there were one or two things Benefit of British Rule. -
I observed through the keyhole or Steps are being taken to save and
from the windows that made me ltel in a similar manner other in -
laugh. From the keyhole I could see, Ilustries threatened with disaster. As
sho window on the
the Ge1.1Uane. Then exactly off the
enc} of the canal was the wreck of
the !Retie, the old British -'warship
peo-
every one of them stopped in front of now making its appearance—the n -
this store window and lookers in. Oc- plc will begin to reap the full the
cial benei}t of the presence of the
emelt wee sunk in the famous attack. casionally a soldier one duty bent British forces, which aro. already
Iiereeel the still smoldering timbers would hurry past; but I think n ,British
largo sums locally.
cf the burned pier I could distinguish out of ten of them were sufficiently pet i f course, locally.
for the
ether Bvuish ships, the Iphigenia and interested to spend at least a minute,
the Intrepal, long' battered masses of and some of them three or four min- ordinary staff of an army in the field
tvvi• led, reeler iron- rites, -gazing at whatever was being to deal with the vast detail involved
Stad4eple there came the rat -a -tat exhibited in that window. I noticed, by administrative and economic work,
at machi:'0 guile from a flotilla of however, that it failed •to attract the and a special organization, the pro-
mntor launches grouped off the end Belgians.. visional military administration, is
a,1 the mole, and n moment later .an I could not help vi•ondering what under the direction of Major-General
encrmoni column of mud and nater could be in that window, and after - Sir Arthur Money; and -contr is all
ream a hundred feet in the air, fol- puzzling my brains•for a while on the _. the occupied • territory in Pa
.lowed by an ear-splitting explosion problem, I came to the conclusion It is under those auspices that the
as- the bullets fired one df the many that the shop must be a bookshop and work already achieved has been done.
minee brat lac, formed a barrage Re that the window contained German Experts are busy investigating the
agricultural situation, the • fiscal
question, the educational require-
ments, public security, including the
prisons, the complicated question of
judicial organization, and pious foun-
dations. •Slowly but surely an organ-
ized administration is being built up,
the harbor. There was a fort yard I laughed so loud that I was afraid despite the lack of local officers and
rents in the mole, tarn by the expiocian for the moment that I bad attracted the difficulty of obtaining competent
of. British submarine crammed to the attention of the neighbors, but I men from outside. Already there is
i'1d hatches with trinitrotoluni and could not help it. The window was on every side abundant evidence of
iiriven headlong against the break.. filled with huge quantities of Ger- the fruits of this activity.
man sausage. The store. was ataut- • Condition. of Jerusalem.
the nlrtbern end of the harbor,
1' v-a}k,�d as far as possible along
the mole. After twenty-five yards
he tcdid concrete wall, twenty feet
high sed thirty feet across, gave way
to the timbers of wooden pier work,
oi:der which the tide swept right up
magazines, which, naturally enough,
woulel be of the greatest interest to
the Germans hitt of none at all to
the Belgians.
I resolved that as soon as night
came I Would go out and investigate
the whitlow. When 3 got the answer
e•veter no the night of the attack. The
inll:initanis of Bruges, twelru miles eller shop, and one of the principal I,.spacially is this' noticeable in a
away, were startled by that terrific I things they sold, apnasently, was eau- city like Jerusalem, whey the normal
blast, which dwarfed the roar •of the I siege. The display they made certain- life of the people lies been entirely
bombardment—the heaviest of their ly had .linty of pulling power. It where except for the
from their course, and indirectly it dial/tune, in obtaining domestic coin -
teepee -knee. •
"Pulled" me right across the street. modistes, one would not know that n
'T he (leiman� soon bridged the gap 1 C b When we entered the city
"pulled" nine Germans out of ten fr .;ante '
Historic Wrecks Seen.
The idea of those Germans.• Ding so war is oil,
with 0 .Pier solid enough to bear a interested in that window disulay as its December mist of the shops were
-railroad, but the rush of water to stand in front of the window for closed and it had a clshops cl ainOt-
tltrouglt it was steadily silting up the two, three or four minutes -at .a time fumes. To -day closed shops are more
hsrhox and. rendered it 81131051 use- certainly seemed amusing to me. and
the xxception than the rule. David's
ii[ rough weather, Just whore when J. got hack to the house and street: and the Jaffa Gate have ra-
the further end of the pier rejoins ;fat at the keyhole' again, I Found just ` sumed chair crowded and picturesque
clic • stonework Clic: timbers had been ss mucih interest as before in wrtch- a0PPeat'ance,r mice/and the shopkeepers are
rivnumitecl by the Germans and a ing them stop in their tracks whet exposing for sale goods which were
five -yard hole, over which 'dropped they reached the window of the eau-
thought to he unearthed
nable and which
broken rails, barred further progress, sagas they hart unearthed from the places
We pulled thirty yards up the canal "
where they hal 1115111 from the ut ks. se'eol. the sailors and the fireman,
to where the Iphigenia lay nearly at a The Meeting, Ono signit{cant evidence of the 1114{i;h .trrive
right angles across the channel, Her Gemination is afforded by the condition
man cyst him approvingly y nm the f iccrruptrr pot .t:: het. t i t0 ell About the beginning of the eight-
-3.7 howitzer, firing a twenty -pound went on: �' tenth ranter , certainly by172:1, the
shell up to 6,000 yards; and a 2.75 "The first two are eortm e.. oft an l ed 'p3`.h en them wish y y „
lubrication. I elminated t:t.�=e t„o 1 �hauld ha •e startti m:: `h Lei- design became a `foil anchor, that
field, effective at 5,400 yards and fir- r s they end worked `3zn' *i p 1'0,0 •cart, is, an anchor having the cable twisted
ing u shell of 12 rounds. by cranking by band, The a.an., films!: r, i the } '.,..u> t .. By around the shank ---an abomination in
the eyes of all good seamen. This
type of anchor in still to be seen on .
naval buttons and nn the seal of the
admiralty.
About the begi"ning of the nine
teenth century we find the cable on
either side of the anchor but touching
it at four points alternately above
and below the cross bar and flukes rte
well as passing through the ring.
Does Not Return Salutes. -
The. authority for flying the ad-
miralty flag is to he found in the
"King's Regulations and Admiralty
Instructions.” It reads as followa:
"The Lord High Admiral's flag is to
be worn in ships in which the Lord
High Admiral or the commissioners
for eoeenting the office of Lord High
Admiral are emberked:"
The admiralty flag does not return
salutes from any of His Majesty's e
ship's whether hearing admiral's Rage
nr the ordinary pennant. Wizen nec-
essary, orders are given to "some
ether ship in company" to return the
-
salute of a foreign man-of-war.
When the sovereign goes on board
any ship of war the royal standard is
hoisted at the main. the flag of the
Lord High Admiral (Le„ the admiral-
ty flag), at the fore and the union
flee; at the mizzen, or on board
adetian is After -the- •tai outlay, and the cost of v:orlomg vessel of less than three masts they
War Problem of. Statcimen. would certainly be melt lower, but ere hoisted "iii the most conspieu0u5
it is extremely improbable that these
wireless stations could transmit even
156,000 paving words in 24 hours.
The feature of mountain artillery
moved freely, showing that lubrication i e n
was good. and there wu' a e0nsatering emelt part 10 tarp f .:ltcald
is its mobility. Transport is effected g good sewing h r: retold the inovhlc,"
by means of pack- mules, the gun back to the compression. The gaso- «
being dismantled, and each part load- line I put Mtn the cylinder through But supposing your engine ran, al -
the priming cups did not explode, though some .yi.._lvo were mk'ing
ed separately. This operation, in the
hands of skilled gunners, may bo per-
formed in•'avery short space of time.
In each mountain battery there are
showing ignition trouble. If the exP}osiors?
engine bad started and stoppeel, tar- "If one 30 more t tine' m s were e mie.s-
buretior. trouble,, would ha a been in- ing persistently I :hour=1 look at the
four guns—one per sub -section-= theater), That mattes four conditions plugs at. the dist touter cr the v=ire
which, in a howitzer battery, consists --Ignition, earburetinn. laireteation between. If t1i r,1:es .seined to rut.
of some fifty males, and in a 2.75 bat -
"What:
compresseion - from one cylinder to an01]ter it might
"What: le the 1,?"be weak battery o' 0010 led inter -
"Cooling, hu' that ,.';'v mrese into renter points. titre e•->7 oeneo is the
play after the engine has started, so be:'; guide."
we need riot eaasiaer it now." "Expez-iene e a g,ocd t..1 -her but
"Having sa-icfie,1 yoeeself that it is a hard master, said nt,, friers,
ignition110111le, flow are you ,going to "But it becomes a legend serrs it to
work to locate 1t?" the man endowed with persistence,"
"By looking• fora spark at the die- said the trouble mat:.
eery of about .thirty-five mules. In
each'sub-section there are four dis-
tinct Mule-teams—gen, relief gun,
baggage, and ammunition, the _names
of which explain their various func-
tions. Eigbt miles are necessary to
carry the 3.7 gun, and six to cvarry
the 2.75. Each gun -pack saddle is
- •
gage and anneemition saddles con- Ci "+ l I aisle in coot that all then messages
designed to carry Inc part, while bag
form to one standard,
Many weird tales can be told by
mountain artillery 11zea of long days
and weary nights _spent in literally
-dragging worn -oat. mules over rock-
strewn hills and tortuous "waddles"
(or ravines) in search of the elusive
Iv ,, , shall be rapidly transmitted and i70-
to EMPIRE mediately answered, and all occasions
BRITIL otTltesuznaintenance ¢ cf chi,d.
league
will be possible may if all the prin-
cipal countries are linked together on
GIRDLE OF STEEL FORMS GOND one special system of cables, so that
Turk during that now historical stunt
OF .001'IiION11 E1Y,TIl each can be in touch with all the
w=hich, starting before Gaza, made others at all times.
Jerusalem ours, It may be here ex- .--•_ It might be iruei.sted that a wire-
plained that when some stiffly con- lass system would do d tall;, well,
tested point was being assaulted, it 4o Weld Self-Cover\arias', l• :o and cast appreciably less. The weemit-
was often necessary for the attendantOne
mountain battery to travel from peak
to peak in the vicinity, in an endeavor
to shell the enemy from all vantage
points, such spots, owing to the na-
ture of the country, being inaccessible
to the other branches of artillery.
And if anyone, happens to meet a
mcmbee of the Anzac Cavalry, ask
him .who was first there in support
when that last mad clash was made
which resulted in the capture. of
'Jericho. •
SIGNING ON.
Selecting Seamen for a Voyage on
, Admiralty Transport:
The scene is the exterior of
shipping oficc in one of our big s
port towns, says an English nu
pap01' -There is a
trans) 001 "signing on
of men are loitering
for the cltacc of a job
mate and the chief
an
a
ea-
vvs-
Ing Admiralty
," and numbers
around, waiting
Presently the
engineer, who
Lows tout•hed the northern bank and Autumn met ns on the way.
her stern was perhaps fifteen feet Nang the hells for holiday;
&tattered gold on every hand—
from the other side, The Intrepid
More than misers could command!
lay some ten yards further on—a con- ,1nil the harvest, rich and high,
siderahly smaller vessel—almost par -Spewed the Plenty to the sky,
sal. with the shore; butin such a
"Heaven and 0111113 have hoitrrl," ht
h
position as to "increase the difficulty said
of posing the narrow gap at the ,;
•, , Hearts that prayed and toiled roe
For -more than a month .the canal bread."
Iphigrur.a s stern.
teas blocked entirely, German efforts
to budge the concrete -filled Iphigenia
being vain,' Finally they managed by
dredging ,to render passage at her
stern practicable for smaljie'submar-.
ines and torpedo boats at high water,
but the channel remained closed to
'.large vessels.
The - captain told mo that the Ger-
mans bad left intact the big lock
gate, whose destruction would have,
intoreered with the working of the
whole sluice system- The sluices also
were uninjured, and what is more re-
markable, the Solway Electric Werke,
a mile up stream, which supplies the
power for the whole cabal, mirrored
no worse damage than could be re-
paired in a fortnight. The dynatnoe
and engines are uninjured.
We made our way cautic3uely across
the charred woodwork and writhee
metal of the Iphigenia to the bridge,
where the Germanise bad donstrueted
a massive box in veinforeod commute,
evidently for the proteetion'of parties
working on the ship against alt ate
tadoe
"Ile careful not to touch Mat wire,"
stld the eaptaln, "The beetle is quite
capable of leaving booby tenni. I
have 1101 oomc across any yet here-
abouts, blit en army man told m0 t3
loot( out. LIo said a cettnln Al elen.
A November Song.
Sometimes in November'sheart
Sudden vernal pulses star
On a day when winds forget
Their aclinonitory fret,
And a single violet
On a ;southward facing slope lost, owing to the fief; thee in places
Dares to ore its eyes pe be
vain) the new city is built right dp to the
(Though the golden hopeope he old walls, and that in others huge
That it's April once" again. mnunclq the d0b
So -with age. A day will come
When Youth's sweet delirium
Stir the sluggish vein along, .n the efts!, so
Virile,
at r=rase, and the name of his last ship. cantuty tr break away from size ma -
Virile, vit.ul:'swift and string sdries that the walla lead on to rho' ' 4ftcr° tea li' the terms of the they cotuitry and to become inde-
A;s the. throbbing of a song. greensward, .vhfeh, to. give the Holy agreement to the men, the euporinten- per c'cr1 If therefore the British
Waft of perfume, oyes that teem., City its distinctive citaraeter as the rl zit ititnr1-1 upon than the int-,1ft;t{iire is to be transformed into n
Wake the transitory di 00113 Orville nf thtea religions, ought to 1lartfln5 of,, mining the ship in good • ttua league of independent nations, it
(Though the golden decant be vain) run right around it. ' time. fro speaks of the need for ells- I is above all things essential that
That it's April once agarol British Are Welcomed• citable daring; the present time, and means shall be provided which will
'elle '.I'raet0t• and the Contractor. ' pence which has been inaugnral.c•1 by • showing the reward the Government I together harmoniously and to insure duties of the {ittcrul stet ata ma
of the streets. In the new city they•The crowd gathers round, discharge
were quite passahl,e, but in 'the old
hook;- are produced, and the picking
they w-er'e'renowned for their filthy of the crew beginze. Only Britishare
raid unsanitary condition. To -day the .ire allowed so "sign 0n" in Admiralty
old city' is cleaner than -it has ever elm seemed ships.
been. A.: emen as the Wren ata sele0ted
Writing of clic condition of Jere -
it -insolent
v rile into the office, where a super
silent prompts oat. to point out that it n.teendent m' the Mercantile Marine
hi a 113)00s;unl pities that, when the
Otilre awaits them with the ship's
Turks authorized the inhabitants to articles of agroament.
build without the city walla, they dict These articles contain all the terms
mot insist •on the maintenance of a upon which the Wren engage—their
clear spare between the neve and the
rate of pay, their rating on board ship
old ef{des. Jerusalem is perhaps one and the number of hours they have to
of the most perfect examples extant work daily. There are clauses re-
latingmedieval to overtfnze, to salvage, to -the
.meant sof wages to be paid in case
late vessel is torpedoed or ..tined;
there is a caause stating the length
but. at ,present its character is mute
It appeat',, as if the present Beiiislt
Empire will beware, before long, the
British League of Maim*, coon na- The preset news would take 15 hours the Ifing on his visit to Incite leering •
tion pu, .essitee complete self govern- to send, whereas eve have seen that..only two masts, ryas fitted with nn
melt, and all c ombittin,, together as cable stations can handle over `i30,0.00 I extra one amidships on which Was one consolidated n mitienweelth for words.. The speed of transmission . hatted the ,alas standard, the hdmir-
foreigit affairs and for defence. The 1 would be less,_ the corrections more, ally and union hag's being hoisted •
political r - I , n s f inter- ` s.• , . .
arrange- '- us and the chs .ce. o I :,�r . v e fore laid main. St
101110 dela}la o tine ideal a tinge 1 r, pto.o refine ..,e,, at th
3110111 are, howev e,, veil notch in em- • ruption much greeter.
lryo and, no deliberate steps can be To Speed Transmission,
taken towards their elucidation until
this present war is over, 'There is also a farther point totbe-
Tltere is, however, one .factor which taken into consideration. It is well the white ensign became the clistin- .
would Inflsence enonsnously the solv- ,.vithi,1 the realms of possibility that dishing flag of the royal navy, the
ing of this problem. and one worthy , the speed of signalling over cables-
bles- blue of the naval reserve, and, broad; -
of immediate consideration. There i,s : may be increased. Any hath increasely speaking, of government vessels
a string tendency with l 111111ln beings, • permit: a large, amount of traffic to (not shins of war) and the red of the
both individually and in the mass, to' flow, and the extra money thus earned mercantile marine.
become if isolated more or lens an_' would be abnost: entirety clear profit. The admiralty fiat• of. to -day is
tagonistie towarda other individual Jf the speed of trsnsmtasion was semevvhat simillee to that designed ed et
masses, 1Iisunderstandings ar}:fo increased by 10 per cent„ ani hour the beginning 10of the nineteenth sen -
through want of intimate intercourse, • would be saved in the transmission of they„ lint the sellar is smeller and
end these lead to dissensions, guar- ewe. This hour would be available to Part of the eshle isabove it.
rel/ and total separation. 1 for private messages, and if it was e _..... _
The only care of this 11 man -per- used for each country to intercom-, LUMBER IN GERMANY
versity, the one attractive !tree in mimirat@ with its adjacent countries, ,,.,--,•
-
human life. width can 0,=errome - or1 30,000 Additional words could be sent. Many hinds of Timber Are Soiree
balance the centrifugal force of pen- 113051415 this, the 27u,000 words of and Prices Extremely High:
vincia1 self-interest is intercourse, I Private messaes would be increased A German aper states that the
{uterchsnge of news and intercom- to 300,000 during the other 13 hours,
3 prices German
all sorts of luenbev in Ger-
mmnieation. It was through the: malcind the total gain of 64,000 words. malty have risen to astounding ,
growth of ini.ereonr.so that human Allowing 25. :per cent, for codes and heights. Latterly the requirements
families in prehistoric times combined corrections, 48,000 additional paying 0° the army on the eastern front have
together and formed villages and vvnrds would he sent, considerably diminished, but orders
trvvrs, combined into provinces, and It must he pointed out that the I from the railway cat factories have
provinces into nettles, and nations various government taleeranh do greatly increased. The most serious
bite eoueolidated empires. The iso- partments would be bound to make ft earl is the ecarciiy rather then the
men Empire owed her (mimosa very 50me ndditianal charge for colleetfng
high price ]civet. Indeed, it is a seri-
largely to her system of roads which and forwarding any private messages
nes problem to keep the flying Inc.
lee.vo intergommurication and led to to the nearest cable station, An ad- china •fncl.uri3s supplied with duffle
free intercourse among the various ditional thnrg a would also be mads by tient W00(1. Material for these face
peoples. - the. local press agencies for trans -
tortes is so scarce 'Chat none of the
milting all the press news to_ the
Welding Emprtre With Cables. ver!ous newspaper oii}cce, but if 20 wood usually discarded in sawing is
Empire •owes its being papers in each reentry took the 115ves
now thrown away. Coneevile that do
The British k,- p za 6 P rot belong tee the flying machinesyns'
mainly to the interceurse obtained by and were each charged £5 a day this dicato have to pay at least $51 at
would only he 1d, per 40 words, sd the normal exchange rite per L000
that they eceildcharge
well afford an adds, tation',in East Prussia,,
lienal charge fon• delivery. Although feet at the a
the initial isle charged to the public Conceims that belong to the syndicr}tq
might be 8d. per word this would be pay $122 per 3,000 feet, the prie0 fi/c-.
<i. fiat rate. to any British eauntry, ind ed spy the War. Office.
Ash also is very, ycarca and- the' •
they complaint.
not have any cause for mice is as high tie $219 per 1,000 feet •
complaint.
parts of her.
All royal yachts have now three
masts, and the. Medina. which took
is worthy of note that the. red -ensign, -
originally the senior naval color, wale
heisted by all roval s'aehts from the
time of Charles IL until 1804, wheii
of time the voyage may tape, and the .leans of steam and electricity, to
its of centuries, link latitudes within which the ship must railways, steamships end telegraphs.
v lint with
keep. In addition, the articles.con- 1t was entirely the absence of hitt-
334 picturesque old Jct ,a Utile each.ntau's personal particulars %ate intercourse that forced the
Its very modern suburbs. It 11 Only
0051 .. ,his age, his birthplace, leis home ad- States of America in the eighteenth
• nd ttortheash
• The effect of the oral of justice and cb'mvs the .ton's notice to a placard enable these several stations to work
Cannot Speak "the English"
With practically all licorice and ash. Alder costs $101 per 1,000 feet "
languages involved in the war, the when it to obtainable, Basswood Is.'
ni,• very mob, in demand. The demand
go round wood. Tins figureis the
fixed official price .tor sawed aslz; but
it does not even represent the,aver-
age level of prices paid for "free"
A. movement, starting in Montreal' the British is, apparent not only on will be prepared to pay the man who I that intimate intei 0zzrse is estab- fold. 1t seems strange, however, to
ctrl ennslnt(iug i C,,,risant, U,0,,,. ,, - the faeces of the people, who a1Peat' : first sights an enemer submarine, 11 .,, , fished between theta all. Interchange • find home born Britons unable to
inlget 1 well he esnrsed throughout carefree heal as If they had awakened v it'h good eyesight get extra 311Y , of news must far cetera thet neesible speak Iinglisli Some of the best
C:e n in. This 1' tee .00niraeting idea i 1 om 0 terrible eightmoi'e, bet also' W11110 anile!; es "lookers -Out" withinat present, 1t5110e of tnel in the minesweeping crease still further when the •ftrt13
as tippliecl to farm lands, reite men , in their mental belmelor and their � enemrou5 areas. 1 Air travel may help, but the end in ttotillns (tail from the Scottie -1i DNS, attire iliduetrg roaunt0s 3,1(11131
with a 11t1.1e •capital are forming' syn- allitnde toward the: itee- anter. (leen- I_• The a1c'reement, Raving been made • view Can only be. definitely attained turd among them are some wlto add.....*.410.----...
clicatc,f to bay ia.ac10(5 and 1)rralc idle I Pleb' coeftdtntee reign.. belvvren elle , mita to the sa'ieraeti0n of the then, I h much thea er t.elo ra 1t =, Far 1
1 I Y P >; li 3 to the Gaelic the tongno which thele ;She idea materiel lime which iei
land cinder the direction 0f pea t1en1 people, of every ei nt',u �ity and the ; 11try pro'eed to sign, Discharge , more personal interchange of beton. I ±Bela forefathers 113Oke,,hut'i1011,ng- IS ro oeed to obtain a sup 1 ''of ,
I l 0' 1 g P P P Y ,
motor fuel es straw, -
Dripping pansand other• greasy" e
vessels e�nn he first wiped out wielt.'
viper.
for oak is especially heavy, owing to
efforts to i'eplenlah depleted ejioc'ks.
Undoubtedly prices for oak will in.
ronirect:m•s, 'fhts principle could h. , British n,lnzlnletroii. 1, no is ,vii 1, mt books Atte rol1ort0d,, end advance and tnation is requisite, and the govern- ifsh, Tbm—c :eve Scots who speak
appli:d to regular farm. Inside and Front the manner in which the 1 rlteen lil)himei1t' note's ere issued, 'and the I menta of all these countries tnuel Norse in the 113r1tich Navy, and who,
would held solve the labor prelfiefn look to the: latter 'for enmity( and as men rlieper e, with a final warning ae . have at their disposal n system of corrin , South need the aid of
P. y upon 6 e
for the Gtnadiat farmer. I szstanee in their dif ieulties, and the to the time to be or board, e I tot rapitic eommemiention so reason- an interpreter. They aro fine saute.,