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very h's m tt from tM tle long rolling
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PRIDEr9 eriod of the destroyer. Indeed. itION
OF d s. i p a roll very disturbing to any des- I e;-' DECORAI t
t.royer man Wire may happen to bet - _
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aboard, aboard, and it has been known to lay
MANNED 11Y VOLtJNTEItl r FROM nut r• big ship man. lion CAPTAIN CAMP1IELL \VON
THE PROFESSIONS j • With it all is a tremcndoue strain, THE VIC'rORIA CROSS
for these little craft have neither the •
' heels nor the armament of some of
They Aided Greatly in Famous Raids the modern enemy* vessels they may Brat}sh C:uvernmrttl Revealbilary of
on Ostend and feebzu.gge--lient eneounter. These long nights at sea
for the Ilan II -boats. when vigilance unrea,ing is demand- Heroic Battle of "Q" Ship
ed, when eyes stare out into the 'With U-boat.
parknees until they are rendered sore
by cunetant exposure to salt spray, When Captain Gorden Campbell, of
when those enemie , cold Lind wet, the British Nary, received the Vie -
have to be endured, take heavy toll toria Cross early in February of 11117
of etrene'th and endurance. the imagination of the civilized world
The M. L. man will grovel to you was aroused, until he became known
of these things, tell yon somethinne of as the "mysterious V. C." Out of the
the diseonu'urts of a rolling. heat in thousands upon thousands of valorous
a dirty night, of the enldneee of his Britishere fighting daily in the air, 0u
ship. But seek to symna; tie. weltane andatsea he w°as one ofe
The following despatch from l.ott-
don tells of the Navy activities
brought to n Close by the signing of
the armistice:
The fix ra
sh Navy tail est a fatherly
pride in its young t ne ube e, and
speaks of theta fanulistel, end with e
brevity that cloaks t.t�pen isiion, Out-
side the• service there 5x110 few who
even staspeeted the Esc tem... of these
vert- junior Members until the raids
on (Setae' need Zeebougge gave prom-
inence to them and :heir work. The
public knew -the navy had expanded
enormously, but it visualized that
growth in what it regagds as bigte
chips. om destroyers upward. It
did net r,'uc.ss that little craft were
Another Peon by Cultutel fl1cCrae.
Before the war Colouti Meterne was
unknown as aproet. Now hie mem-
ory is revered wherever the English
language . is rd. ' Ilia poem, "In
Flanders' liielde," is generally well
known, bet many of our readers have
not read the other, "The Anxious
Dead," It is appeeded:
0 guns, fall silent till the dead mon
hear
Above their heads the legions
pressing on!
(These fought thole tight in- times of
hitter• fear
And died not knowing haw -the day
had gone.)
0 tlttshing mazzles, pause and let
then see
The coming dawn that streaks the
sky afar)
0
Them let your mighty chorus witness
h land the
Minn, and as sou Sit with hint in hie thirty nett who up to that time had Tv them, end Caesar, that. we etill
war.
rocking. dancing cabin and Rein hint received the V.C. in the World War. 11
to fill it with the blue reek of shin's And of all the recipients of this hunt A•,,11 theta, 0 gun;, rho we have heard
tobacco, you learn that the fires of up to that time his was only one their call;
adventure have been rekindled, instonee in which the°spoeifle act of That we. have sworn and will not
Promptly he answers with a deep, meriting the decoration was not men- turn aside;
cheery laugh, 1eBv ,Tore. von know, . tioned. The British government ane ,That we w}11- onward till we win or
taking but after ell titin is life".trounced that Captain Campbell's act fall; I
ntf3usitely and defensively
h etaking
V t would not be. revealed until the end That we will keep the faith fur'
part m that watt over o .
seas that never fur a moment sink- I THE IUNGR.1.TEFUL HUNS
erred.
The 11. Lee are the motor launches, I Dr. Alice Gregory Tells of Exper-
nn infant addition, lusty and untiring, ! ienees in the Battle Zone.
of the war.
Truth is Now Revealed.
Hardly a week elapsed before the
moauc•te of the eeend's =agitation
which they died.
Bid theta be patient, and some day,
anon,
They shall feel earth emegapt in
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.,
Your C'are's Elec1tie Syr tent. To prevent too mueit rowt.tr•r Ii'`>!tte• to
What do you know nbu.it the ele-
ctric system 011 your ear?
It has long bebn the pertrtiee to
compare electricity to water in ex-
plaining its action, and this analogy-
may-
nalogymay be arteries" out iu the case of the
auto electric system. First we have
a tank for storing water; this rout -
pares with the storage battery of thn
car, in which it may be assumed that
we story. ' electricity. • Pr= the
tank we may hove a pipe, with a valve
in it connected to a water wheel or
water motor. If the valve is open-
ed the water flows to the wheel and
turns it. If 1h^: wheel be geared
to ma.chlnery it will be operated.
Liltewiee` in thct electric system a wire
may be run through a switch (valve)
to an electric motor. When this
switch is chosen the current flows to
the motor and turns it; it geared to
a gee engine it will revolve the
Frank shaft of the engine. This is
popularly called a self starter, but it
really is an electrle cranker.
but not the youngest of the war pro Three hui)dred Bathes suffering
were being retailed, It was said that the water wheal migh4 be geared to
ny born to t}t' navy, nor .the Captain Campbell had etude a sub- silence deep-- n gas engine, which when thus start
k' -from wounds cured for and only one I Shall greet ht wonderment the quiet cal would drive a pump and this
smallest. Seen moored in harbor umovh them who said "Thank you: marine single handed b, swimming dawn, I would pump everter back into the tank,
rlongside their parent ship they look ler, Alice Gregory, who has been from a vessel and placing a mine. And it: content may turn them to rents -et -jelling the supply; so in the
like nothing so much as a brood of serving 00 a surgeon with the French There were tumors that hse 11111 alaut their laep.
checltens nestling shout the shelter- army, and who recently returned to a L' -boat commander in . ingle coni-
ing wings. of a tnotheriy cad hen, this country on furlough, had this; bat after a British nine sweeper had ”. — .W
Closter aea,taintmne tuth them brings experience with the prisoner wound-; been sunk. With graphic detail the AN 1 XTlt,1OIIDINARY JOURNAL
•'azeme nt, that these little craft, ell ed i fight in which he sunk a submarine
j "The only one who thanked me," j after lois entire had been slain aboard The "Wipers Times" \Vats a Wonder -
length and 1ro width. with a waist
coat noeket edition of a bridge, , said P, • C,re4'ere "vale tt member of ' a trawler was repeated It was all ful Product of the Battlefield.
- . as -work
should be able to do the work rite e . the Prussian Guard. He was only gue, and not untthe arm
s- One of the most extraordinary pa-
ri o doing. ' twenty-three, but he had gone tice teas signed did the British Bureau pees ever published was the Wipers
Thee have sumatltios of the hull through so much that he looked forty. of Information clearly relate the cit- (Ypres) Times'. Patrick MtttrGill, �j
of a srivate yaei,t m^:cat for inshore I helped to save his arm from being cumstance,; of the "mysterious" dee- : lit
t•pnifing only. This. indeed. is what author of The Great Push and other a
*amputated anal tae was grateful., . oration of Captain Campbell. • popular books. and a soldier in
range, desert
electric system, when the gaeelinu en-
gine is started it drives an electric
generator, which may be termed an
eletruly - plant), and this pumps
elects iiiy back into the storage bat-
tery, Within certain limits this
snakes a self-contained system.
the emit and Oaushtg it. to overflew a
font nlighti be rigged to the t ti o so
that w'iten the water' reuhe,l ,t Ver-
tain level tine valve on the supply pipe
would be closed and no Moro water he
pumped. So in the electricity sys-
tem a current regulator may he in-
stalled to prevent the battery fronn
overcharged,
We Wright desire to t ke water from
the t-mtk to washstand, bathtub or
sink, -or elsewhere. This may be
done easily through spur pipes, eurhl
with a valve at. the paint where the,
water is to he used. In the cute.
electric system we do deetr to est+,
electric curreut fe.r lit:'hta. ignition,
horn and possibly ether devices; 'ether'
is done by attaching wires Ohio!
lead from the battery through the
switch to the various devices to be.
operated. In practice one wiro is;
run from the battery to the switch -
and branches run from there Joek us
in a water system a main pipe is tun
with spur pities to the several attt-'
lets. In the auto the switch bus
l
carries all the wine for the entire;
electric system except. the starter
wires, which nut' to the pedal orj
sta.rttne button.
If we desire to•kpow how meet wa-
ter is being pumped and the 'pree-
eure, suitable meters are to Mdk d,i
Likewise the auto electric • sy 'teem
usually is equipped with an ammeter
or ampere meter, to .chow the amount
of efferent paring, and a vett meter
to indicate' tho preeaure.
FRENCH REFUGEES
HOERillD BOUND
PITIFUL 11111' HAPPY THRONG
RETURN '1'() Witl:Chig) 11014ES
Villages in. the Abate District Are
Too Badly Demolished by Ilan
Fire to he Iuhabititble.
Carrying their their littler bundles of
household possessions, the French re-
fugees are returning to their horrios
in Chateau -Thierry and the little
French villages around it, to Vattx,
Lucy, Belleau and the rest, places
now et part of the war history.
They are coming back to ruins of
villages and houses clemelisherl by
Clerman artillery, to live in cellars
and in the shelter of tottering walls
until they can rebuild their ltornos,
and their return is a pitiful spec -
'Melee
Sometimes they find no homes at
all. Never do they find any furni-
ture. Often they find no food, and
theft the Iced Cross steps in anclholpe
them. The woman who can dig out
her stove from a hoop of dirt and
plaster and patch it up again so that
it will burn counts herself inordin-
ately lucky. One woman found re-
maining of all her household goods
just our, big salt cellar, reeks are
worth their weight in gold, and at
feather beet is prized above rubies.
I Five thousand five hundred itlanket%
the Red Cross shipped out to return-.
ing rofttgoes in a single w'eelc.
Aisne is Uninhabitable. •
The people in the Aisne will not
be able to spend the winter in their
oven villages The villages ort the
they are in effect. with eert:ttn adan-' ` ' vr,,,t of the German prisoners that The reason that the details of the 1, 'hes its unusual be-
tee:bees for war nurnoses. There is I treated were absolutely ignorant decoration, or rather the action which tonin . °
weather when they ovoid met live at and seemed not so sullen as elapid, 1 merited it, were withheld was that t In the early part of 191.ti a major --
and asergeant of the Bri .sh army GERMANS ESPECIALLY CRUEL
discovered an old printing house in
the city of Ypres. Part of the house ' TO BRITISH SOLDIF,,RS
was blown into the street; the -re-
ONROAD HOME
pea, hist enemy craft. to which they At the front they were terribly Captain Campbell was the commander
pay particular attentioly are also • scared at first, not knowing what we of several "Q" boats in the course of
weather ?bound. were going to do with them. One the wtir, and there was reason for the
Vedettes of the Sea. t of these nen, although he did not greatest 1' these
Primarily they are vedettes of the , thank me. gave me Itis iron cross.
sea; scouts that go nosing abonir; and ! He didn't say a word—,lust handed
at night hunt enemy craft, submarine 1 it to me.
as well as surface vessels, and either 1 "We went to Attichy-sur-Aisne,
to deal with it or, if too formidable, 1near
of eons, the whetirire ties w erewe five
five
to call up those alert, vengeful big .
miles from- brothers, the destroyers. - f very' dray of our arrival we were
?h
ey are the night motet patrol,' trot j very busy, working from eight o'clock
' til t'1 f ut• o' •lock in the
-- ._. _____----_.__._... hank; or the little Marne are too ,tt-
deaths or three among their par•.i.ea. i tterly battered by shells to afford
The big droves, by natural process, !hunutn protection during the winter.
split tip into little groups which weather. Nov'. while days are warm
clung together for company as long ! and skies are blue, their owners call
as possible. rind some little corner or other to
• Especially Cruel to British. live in, but the rain and mud tinct
"It would be dificult t.o• overstate, chilly damp of a French winter will.
the misery of these poor men, j drive them, or if it does not, n pat -
whose fault wag that they were Bri-; cried, government will send them
es secrecy regarding tish soldiers. I Nava as yet met only i back back to their temporary home,
boats, where only value was in the maunder was lying ou the prnttmg "'- one Roumanian, and heard of a few 111 the uninvadocl provinces to wtdt
mystery which surrountlecl them. They prase, and the type was stuttered Turned Out Ill, Starving, • and %nt Rags Italians who have been treated in', for spring.
extended •eamoufiage into extremes of hers and there. The sergeant, who this way, but there is no doubt that ( One purpose in aending them Noma
the art of pantomime and their crews ltad been a printer in civil life, de- to Find Their Way Bach to it has happened to thousands of Bri- so quickly was to harvest the wheat
were as clever as they were valorous. dared that he could get .the press to
Allied Territory. fish sold}ars. crops, but there. was ne food. se the
In making public the actions which work if the otticer' would give hint "All prisoners I lave spoken 1 Red Cross est tblishecl canteens in
wan the Victoria Cross for Captain permission and find help. Both were There are 'several hundreds of •to since the arihistico was concluded, 1 many villages and served twa meals
Campbell, Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord obtained. The soldier dug the type thousands of nen in Germany whose of whatever nationality, agree Upon . a day free to those too poor to pity.
p ob ti._,. :-..e rho sdgrrdng• of one thing—'that is, • that while ail w•itile others paid small sums. Forty
in le eve my un i o c - of Ow. Adm}ralt •, sa}d of these ships: policing tho inshore seas, operating e 3 1 ' out of the nt;u,l and washed it, and pilght,
defensively o1: one side of the oar- t morning. \tee worked in eight hour "I think of nothing more inspiring in somehow they found paper and ink. the armistice was bad, Inas become
row waters, offensive on the other; shifts, The first week or ten days' the annals of gallantry on land or Brit}sh officers became journalists, desperate, writes Reuter's correspon-
itz in submarine and in sur -1 1.,000 wounded, grandee blesses, pas-, sea than the story of the officers and printers' devils and proof readers. dent at the French headquarters. He
fAa craft, has already met them and ! sed through our hands every twenty ' then who served upon the 'Q' ships. Soldiers in khaki forgot hate of the says these are prisoners of war—
the foregathering has not been to his a four hours. The boats for the most part were Hun for the time being and set British, French and Roumanian—who
'lcing What other things the M. I ''The patients were brought in by 1 tramp steamships fitted t'ep with Pow- Wipers
to work to praduco the , are now being released from German
lr n , French or American ambulance driv-' esfu' and cunningl screened guns. On y} iuers Times. I prison camps. These men have boort
L.'s can do was shown in the Wend y'
Zeebrugge operations, where t ors. But they were evacuated by a I board were picked man of the fighting They edited one number in a ease- , living and working for months on a
and cg P most interesting group of men, some ,navy, so disguised that they looked mate under the ramparts built by , diet of three or four hundred gram -
t leer tnaehinr, taking work, their 511 of , g
screens and off the men o£ old Englishmen, many of teen sole-; like anything in the world but fight- Vauban ages ago; they produced an- mos of infamously bad bread a day,
the block shi s were an indispensible heated men. 1 Mg. men. Some wore women's apparel other in the Cloth Hall, with the air ; supplemented by a soup, issued at
p "One of these men was the cele .others were Lent old men in appear- full 01 wash shells. Printers' devils mid-day, made of water in which
part of the scheme. But these raids,Ibrated Shakespearian actor, Sir g
as the offers will frankly tell you,: ante, and frequently half the crew airs had to stand to ;n as masks and the cabbage or barley has been boiled.
somewhat of the spectacular,' Frank ,Ba con
met Then there roves ' peered with arms in slings or other editor had to coect proofs while a Continuing, the correspondent
there t South African who had sons and disguise to indicate disability. battle was raging. writes; - "I talked to 30 of the prix- died over their work, Of men who • turning refugees with food, clothing
the}r Teal work is that night shift in grandsons in the war and said he The ships were used to lute sub- This brave little paper has never I otters on Nov. 19—all BritishsoIdiers, were refused admission to hospitals and household utensils. Dentode
the steady., unceasing "-�wo1' j wasn't going to stay out of it. An- I marines ,and from dozens of points been inted outside the front, area; •• captured in March or April.—and being carried out dead from lata,' mete for coffee mills, scrtabbdng'
h P p' +t•^+ c1 e,• had never while the German sentinels stood by brushes, pails, knives, forks, spoons
aro starved, the British arc the carloads of food were sent to the
hungrier and far worse treated 1 Marne and the Aisne in a single
than others. 1 month. A grocer store has been
" 'Swine,' 'Dog,' seem to be the 1 opened in *Chateau -Thierry, which ale
current manitee of address Whore , ramie- is a busy town again, thouk't..
Britishers are concerned in German the walls of its houses hese been
prison camps.- Rieks and blows with shattered and torn by shells. To
the butt end of •a rife: werov their , keep intruders out, the residents
daily portion. Now is the moment ; scrawl on their hones in chalk, "Pro -
to go into the appalling stories our ,I prietor returned" or •`.IIouse ccee-
men tell of comrades dropping on pied.'
their way to work from hunger, des- I Rolling stores oe tru'lcs tour
entery, and being beaten with rifles through the villages in the Valley of
until they got up and went on and the Oise and Aisne to smelly the re -
It al an old nut's ser:ree. Ent t e. other, was a retired colonel in the_'
d'ective needs some clualiflcation,' 0„.$vantage sharp eyes were on the once the ``works" were aboveground they to d •me
a y c onlyas things go in the British army. He refused to stay ; lookout from the blatant the "Q" aahips seven hundred yards from the front had any clothes from the Germans.
for it i. old ghome and came out to drive an am- ;started from port. line. The strangest thing with n- They started on their long march in
navy, where :mien not yet in their balance, although he was seventy m oft' or
dirties are commanding destroyers j "Cl" Boat Wins V. C. gird to this publication is that nen boots with the soles dropp' g
and youths who in civil life would years old. They slept do dugout, and ii who were being bomherded night and else in' wooden clogs. None had
the who
in
aeirsl are having underwent all the other hardships. - Captain Campbell was navigating day could find tinte unci incluination socks. Their feet were bound up
still be at Their spirit was wonderful. one of -these ships early in February, to produce a paper written on such 5vitlt cotton rags. Some had acar-
crowded• hours of adventure rand peril, "We had ale raids every night, be- ; 1917, when at a point in the Irish Sea high satll Tallith.
coats, some had nuns. Many oi'
marrying heavy responsibilities in a cause v;e ware on a road that the a torpedo fired by a hidden submarine �_q _ - them had sold their overcoats and
eery matter' -of -fact sort of way. Be- cannons used to take up to the front struck the vessel. It was the activityBritish boots and oven: their shiats,
. cause they are little more than arm- and near a bridge that the Germans BELGIAN -CITIES e- their guards for potatoes and
which followed V.C. on the eshi ship which
rd yachts, it was 115(1. al enough that --- extra bread. Apparently they started
n•en should •wish to $ervo in were always trying to get. But air ! me the V.C. for the slii shed Sd come The Tow so Hell and tufa Belfry Aro from elle d. son camps in droves of
yaehte stead of being afraid when the air 1 !mender, and the Distinguished ofuished Service
them. raids were on we came to feel awful- Order for every one of the craw and the Pride of Flanders Folk. several hundred in charge of officers
n
Professional and Business bleu. ly bored by them. They would wake oflcers. 'The torpedo knocked a great No pian shall say that we love our and a couple of soldiers, who wore
And it da eateu't yachtsm::tt who us up, of course, but often we did . holo hi the "Q" ship's side and sever- land less than ay Frenchman loves to give them directions. Tnvar}ably
officer them, men Mier the then tnili- not want to take the trouble to go al of the bulkheads gave way: She France, lass than a Belgian lovas his these gu}dos deserted them atter a
r age, et: fit enough and a.xicva to the collar. T seldom went, breanse, started to settle, and to further de- native land, We have our holy cities, few* hours, alleging as an excuse
et oagltg to do something, The adop- tite air was so bad. I got to the ceive the enemy part; of the crew Winchester and Canterbury, and a that they had lost their way and
tion of the motor Iaunch by the navy p t o back to onquiru bout it,
gave there their chance, so they don- There had been a hard frost, wort
ped uniform --•lawyers, barristers, M.
P.'s, doctors', dentists, merchants,
beeinesu mere, then of the professions
in their active middle years. Many
point where the. am raids seemed jumped into the boat end nulled awayhundred more whose old names are ntus e•
simply silly and my only feeling was from the ship.Others leaped into dear to speak. Yet. I'sel}eve says a;00 follows: e
•
that t wished they would leave me
' Moats attached to which there was but welter in the Lom_ 1 Evening Naewes,1 call . These men were all "$noxi- Bodies all velvet -sleet of babes and
alone so that I might sleep. ! one devil and as the boats fell down thee: the '+&onto ita,s a patriotism of tally reduced by lounger. ,Before „: mothers
"I had a somewhat open-faced ' the aide of the shipthe men were the. city of the teem., which we neverthey started they had no food, anti Make carpet setter Dian an April
room in a damaged house, There thrown Into the water and give every had, I were tramping through a country in sward,
was no bed, but the framework of , evidence of panic, The story of that love for the city I which they could not enquire their Bat taste thou first their morning
is alt the history of Belgium. The' way because they couldn't speak dnw;
c the wealth either French or German and on By force freim their fresh youth tape
history of the freedom oe 1 which the people have literally oto- pleasure;
and the ancient arts of Belgium is thin to give to anyone after their Drink and intoxiettte thy soul 1
1 ' { t d Bruges, $
of them, because of, the dragging of
laughing. Of Wren with acute de's- and pots for the people taking up
eatery crawling out at night for re- housekeeping again, as literally ':11
lief and dying on the ground under that they left behind then when they
the 'eyes of indifferent sentries.;." fled has been destroyed or carried
- - --'o -- — away to Germat.y.
The Bulgarian Hymn of hate. Home to Amiens.
To Amiens the refugees are just
When the Bulgars' armies were beginning to return, but they will
cracking, says a writer in the Even- come soon in large numbers, and they
ing Standard, b poem was found alt will find the Red Cross ready to r ••
the person' of almost every Bulger ceive them. There is a big building
prisoner. The poem is the Bulgarian in A.tnim% that was a boy's seh.otl
Hymn of Hate, and written by rho in those heli -f'org'otten days when the
famous Bulgarian national poet, Ivan city was not under shell fire. It be -
Armando!, who, by the way, was re-. longs to the Rod Cross now, and }t't
warded by being placed at the head class rooms are turned' to strange
of the Educational Department du oc- uses, sohero to a Uig "salla de. re-
eupied Serbia, The poem has been eeptimt;' where the r0turnin�' re-
fugees praised in Bulgaria, and runs are assorted nut and their
needs asecrtained. There is n me-
teors that servos two hot, nourishing•
nma15 to day. There is' a long dormi-
tory with beds for the weary ones
who come back to find empty mane
and roof -base houses. There aro two
dispensaries, and dispenoa•y clortore
find much to do in a country where
people lupe precarious, hand-to••ntottih
existences.
The Red Croon vwrkers famish°
clothing to the shivering., shabby pea -
the war, Incrnovo making heavy per- one Was still there soul the. orderly I Int the meantime the gunners were
conal saerifieee, but they are st}eking used to lay my stray mattress inside !waiting patiently at their hidden
to it, natwithstanditig recurrent per- this framewark so that one had the 1 posts, some of them up to their thighs
mads of monotony. illusion of a bed. ; in water., for the appearance upon
For there is monotony in this night But the diet! That wast what
i the surface of the apparently auecass-
pAtrol, monotony too iufregexently, if made it necessary for me to take a fol sul.+mtuine,
brilliantly, relieved by such atlairs as furlough. The 7+reach army people;
seem to thrive on horse meat and . Finally the great undersea craft tag o e o in the form of little squares of ca d-
C:t tend and Zeebrugge, and by pn-
beans twice n clay, but T Pound it eeama lurching out of tiro water and that gnaws tap behind the shelter of boatel, which were only accepted as
eountere with U -Moats tIta.t were mon difficult Then rife sol^ od us L'}uard I'assod across the "Q" ship's Laws walls and armed rates, with the rats -
money at the prison canna canteens.
Slept in Frosted Is wide.
in the ttatary of r u weep and u
of Brussels and Oben-, aura Louvain 05015 bare needs have been satls'flo0 Take thou the fruit, then lain the
and Ypres. It begins with the build They had no money—their wages of peel away, 1 t
f th t wn seall. width the ma t
Acer' nine cents a day was rola to thorn .read forward softie on hum'
frequent in the early day: en00un-
tees- by no rnr.cuts unproftablc, It is
an arduous task, this night patrol,
• eepeeiaily it winter and in dirty
weather, Thee are times when duty
extends to Sixteen hours and more
Ott tt stret..h, when the decks n.re cov-
ered with 11e, when those ort deck•
notwithstanding layer upon layer of
thick clothing, are frozen almost stiff
And there is Water In their boots and
lira seek of petrol is unpie,-stntlr
acevaeive.
They Wall Ovet•1)oard.
And that is how they Leon the
erns, these keen of forty and upward.
If. through 1,11 heavy rolling of the
boat they clip os ee.•i,nard, Dude mt,tt.i-
t.ulinous +dntie}0g g}vc.: them no
e•hntnce, fret it is better to f,; mod
.iiasE the t'o;tain peospcet e i heirnr,
;Ira eft to death stud take tho t , :c: r -
lain risk of being welshed 0;tit-board.
'Set it is @a tisk, .for the "t i ';
co•a - lively dtnatt. '1-han1:.•9 to dour
:•rnallttess,anii lightness, they feet
e'vory. wave, and they have been
three hundred yards away. The Bri-
wine, which had quantities of tamtic
acid in It, which male rho teal, per- tush White Ensign was heisted, the T£ ou were a tourist who would
00der. to tire was given and n blast of y Whet happened to them, as 1 gag
fectly black."puns ninnvd paint blank at the U-boat 010 the glory 0f old Flanders and What
from their story, was this:
d s:
Iitlew it to p10cos, '.Che Gertntut eatn-
Inadequate Means. 1 ntander had ,jttat stepped onto the
A lady descended to the ball o+.' the . Teck and wax blown to atonvt with
fashiunttble Natal iu a clrassing gown I the great salvo from the apparently
at a. late hour and said to the night dt'f''r'aeles t 4), boat. The baits were
clenit sweetly: I rauailed to the strlokan ship and help
"Could you give nes e. glass of 14'11'd 1°4 ear,
water, Please?"
I While the tight wee on the chief
The night cleat: gitre her the
water 1 c'togin:eer and, his' 'atilt remained in
the funded eft •eine room and kept the
and site :tarried it upstairs. 1 i, p
Ten or ft twee minutes later situ cdynotnas ami machinery going until
came deem attain and asked for an- `d)ivert from their paints by inrushrntl'
ing of the tall belfry, the town's pride,
and the hanging of the bells.
Brabant,
earl. plc --warm flannel shirts aril] under-
royal, wear, stockings and shoes and sabutn.
Let press thy hots woman hoof on wont s Twelve thou:fend garments went set
bosom soft', from Paris in a single day. - bed
Lest that same milk should nourish they fu}ttish week for pee.", glee
hostile sone. must have a little tnency tt thay ere.
Fur valuot dost wait, rey young But- to live..
you leaked, not at the ca. "They tramped westwax tet gar?
thodral or the church, althouglt Bel- their guides had left them unitl'night- Ouwrtrd, ever oforeardl^
giotn hue many noble 010 cbueehos, fall: - Most of them slept two or titres --- --•-
but at the town ]tall and the belfry. hours in fields and Awoke stiff and Italy's Women Ii"iuttit}Mtn Workers.C11u lute, o:f theta is not in any other cold, And realizing that, it might mean
country. death to fall asleep again, got top and • Moot people think of Italy as the
__...._.r,.__.._. , Ft, continued their ioney. In the morn- country of Romeo and Juliet, of
MGT teal'. bLEi'AIR 5111115 m
.,.._• 1 1 i o tr writes a Milan rorre¢pondaut
Ten Thaaoand,- Some Belottgittg to
Alien,
Returned to Service,
The department of 5101) repairs of
other glass o;' water, which, 01' serene, , stater, Tlu,y then crept on to the the British Admiralty, which began
eh•+ trot. ; engineee and atayect utero until the operations in dunce, 101.7, had repair -
Another te,1i tumuli 1 passed, a,;d 1 light e:uele,1. Even after warships ed and rotnrned to the service, aside
, r -'e., he lady re- f carne, to Ibuir aid, the dangers of (hp- front vussels of allies and neutrals
with pr ase. up ,lUgt ., t y ,
..'speared and ifeke l the clerk if he tain Campbell and his crew' Wore. not .more titan 10,1100 thipea alt to October
could mind ivine lice a :bird gbtsa, over. Bute after. tomo h. seemed as
v 11 g �_
-i eau ate, mndtnt," the map ..al{ 1i the 04.0 ttot,id claim their vessel
"but cdo yon ob'e::1 to toll- lees on the day :following the artier
curt t. ly,J
I
ing mo t;fttet you era, ilei:.ft witl, all+t;}ta tvtit beached to prosgent batt ft•ottt
this watt.. ;" sinkhig. - - -
"1 know eed11 ant. sCreein when This "Q" altip Was at afteamslt}it of
Jen-.
,
r
.r. is ) .: ".
t ' < t.nt filet I t t :". n0 n .1 ter ut•m 1;te n1 t .ti div
its surto as :r ,�• ' • ., a this ttd • 'Int 0 t n 1 g t ,
1] t u r ,� ,,nil 1
known to roll you Iia ,�
,y ,
y.
lite bilge water has dotted back along 1 fele- to net • mat 0 fire 411 nt;; rnara.°l n'ose'd 1y ,v.rloue cle:ict .
of this year, says n Le.tciott ciaspatrlt,
At lt. est tt hell million torts of
lerenelt shipphig have been tepeirerl
aroyl rettirntd to service tide year,
unci during the last to,:r months
rood+ than 1,0001100 gross tents of
allied Mal neutral shipiting have
been nttende:d to.
ing there was thick iso on the poolse mandolin playcrtt, and of.deice far
Thee walked al nextday and nextien -.,
night, with occasional rests in the before the close of the war. The idle-
opeti, but without: food et' sleep, .0n mess of pease no longer exists, 'Cho
tho ascend morning after another icy mandolin has been exchanged for the
fright mitrch, they met French eol-
diers And Worel given :food and ,.put
into motor lorriert and taken to the
mortar and the lbialls grenade. Juliet
has gone to worle at the td -inch 11011
shop, Tlto Italian women aro quite
as remarkabib as the British wotneit
They have an extraordinary wee' ,
hose Picardy peasants, of uceentirre•
facts. They go back to live ender
lntpossiblo conditions as if it were
the stoat natural thing in tlic.world.
It nowt' occurs to that to do ttt'ry-
thing aloe, There tnsy be only ors
wall of a house left, but it ix Imam.
"Thera are 'few ways in which Can -
Lufkin resource and energy- titan be:
better eninloyed titan in strengihe e
ing •a philosophy and °enrage like
that" says one Red' Cross worker,
Sonne.. I+lour.
ueureet town. They are in such a • ":I want to eemplaht bol 'Shot
etata that the T 1 eneh Accra, tubo in the way they have ehotthlet•otl the Hour you sent into last sveelr," t;a d lit -
eve well user! to sights of wee, were burden of war wade for their country, tee airs. Newbride with sntzpteing
tt V v til
horrified to see men Sn such to state. They do the hardest work one the to her grocer the other day.
Sento of theta rerlainly died by the lightest with equal willingness:, and "That is as good gam as comes at
roadside of cold and exhaustion only for pay that is penury coral/erect with this town,' . protested the grocer,
a few miles from their friends, flow the money that cur svotnett earn. In "What was the lnattcr with it?"
many died there is no )51011115 of, one works the teenager told oto illat f3It was so tough," sobbed Mrs,
•l:nosving. Some then I talked with wetness earned a wage ,vvliich, in Ji ng• Nowbrido, "that my lusband couldn't
told um positively that in their party lush money, amounted to slightly oat A tingle one of the leisouits i
five lied died. others told me of tyro lose than "s Efd u day. made out of it." -