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THE QUEEN
take any job netted of him with a
fair degree of confidence, AN ANCIENT cient and modern, in comnion use
There are various other Bongs, an- ,BRITISi MARCH '''' TIIIRTY-THREE
aniline., the Jews, whieh might well
OF BATTLE maiTuDE 0.22Ing FRENCH ,
JEWISH MELODY mke ahsiztaiwftrtttea.ili'Liinii:Tre: .
A Writer Deecribes Partings et De- TOWARD RI/INE - HOURS IN A YAWL
been noted as a musical people. They —
NAME APPLIED I1Y NAPOLEON
• TO THE INFANTRY
Some Defects of the German System
of Handling Infantry Which Led
to Their Downfall.
"Napoleon called the infantry the
Queen of Battle. The Germane have
degraded It to the mere handmaiden
of the guns." This emark, made to
the writer the other day by a Brit-
ishmilitary officer of high rank,
epitomizes the result of the new Ger.
man infantry tacties, developed dur-
ing the war just ended, which it is
believed contained the seed of Ger-
Many's ultimate destruction.
From the day when organized
armies were first ereatee, the infan-
try has been the backbone of .every
artily, and in the cotillion of the -most
competent generals to -day this still
'holds good. The development of mee
chenical aids to warfare has led to
many changes in tactics and strategy,
but to -day, as in the first days of
war, the infantry is the deriding fac-
tor. It must complete the work that
begunbae bean Y tI'e guno, •
tanks, by the aeroplanes. And if the
quality of the infantry is poor, the
whole army must suffer. in proper -
pots in 'War pro's. use more music in their worship than
At a French railroad station any YOUNGEST OF NATIONS )IAS probably any other religionists, and ROADS STREWN WITH WRECK -
clay one roma weeping women; but THE OLDEST OF HYMNS they have eontributed to the world AGE OF GERMAN ARMY
they clo not weep until after the a greeter number rif famous operatic
trainthat carry their menfolk back --„, and other musical composers than _
The Melody Sung by Miriam at Red
Sea is the Chief of Jeivish
.
Tho youngest of the nations bas
the oldest of hymns. Such. is sub.-
.
to the trenches have gone. To this any other rime in proportion here to their
Strange Medley of the Broken Ma -
rale I have never seen au exception. nemhere, The three songs de -
A soldier who has finished his leave scribed are, however. pre-eminently clattery of War Reveals the Rai
tho n
permiesolnaire, e French cAnthems
all the typieal songs of the jetvieh people of a Once Proud Empire,
ane ef the potentially metered Zion.
him -comes to the station to go back
to his duties at the .Frone. It may be
he is a staff officer, gorgeous in gold
lace. It may ho he is a recruit of • y tfle rase Jor wmie 000
thie year's class, with the down
Independence of the Jewish Common- When a Britisher Gave Vent to Emo-
dolescence . still upon his cheeks, but of
wealth in Palestina was assured by lion in a Public Place,
a
A CHA RING CROSS DRAMA
with the grave eseerence of a veteran declaration Of the British government
or 1, may eeh„ is not yet to the himself when he weeps nr sings M
The F
neutral zone (4 ten mies, :
more than a year ago, that common- renehman takes no shame to
in his- vi
t.,'
leeetathemmed wealth organized public on being ntirred; the Yankee
GUARD ON TORPEDOED LUCIA
TELLS Ole RESCUE AT SEA
WHEN GERMAN
PRISONERS ESCAPE
CUNNING MANOEUVRES IN A
DP3TENSION CAMP
•14,..141,
.1M.*
Sufferinge of Crew of ".Nonsinlathle" A Guard in One of the Campe in
Steamship When Sunk by Ger- England Tellseof PlM
easMade
man'll-boat Mid-Atlantie. to Regain Liberty.
Our troops have- finithed the sew, Thirty-three hours on the water Nothing is more -notorioue Mt:I-
ona stage of their journey to the constantly ut the °ere, with seas run.. German cunning, and when three
Rhine. To -day, Nov, 2e, our front . Wog so high it mimed they would lee hundred specimens of it. the majority
nets emits the Meuse at IlUYI 19 swamped every minute and become o: whom aro officere, are penned up
miles east of Namur, and beyond this food for schools of man-eatime sharks, in a detention camp with nothing ti
vague line, whith passes throngh a t was the experience of the survivors do but think out fresh ethemee for
Huy street with busy shops, is the of the crew of the "nonsinkable" escaping, you may guess that it takes
leroese.
eteamship Leda when see. was sunk more than _ordinary care to hold
by a German torpedo in midm-etei them.
October 21. Fred Estegies, a life In the ew;,p whiel, em sta-
guard who was limit officer on the tinned there have been miveral -nt.•
ill -feted vessel, told of the narnew tempts during the• paet month, all of
escape the eightefour surtivor whith have been unsuceeeeftlie Tee.
c
obleter,•bent ferextent that the Polish and Czeho-
werd. by one of those is apt to laugh very londly; the Eng- eillY hehlte nagged en70333 ef Ole
c
.20 in the evening the ompoutel. Their plans showed
rinkled! I mean Co :rake no
enormous pa,..,ha which his sort am Slovak States are, Yee its prospect-
lithman Will be mute mei will ex- opposing "Int".
ways tote about with them. And to Coe citizen:4, though still scattered It he been e jOUrney cd abeorting
010 this last of the three always pr
far and wide throughout the earth, hibi•t slight confusion, which by some
e -
cherish as the chief of their anthems might be mistaken for mental awk- interest from clEmlerol ane Nivelles
sonts the most. heartemoving spec-
tacle of any.
Nearly always he looks _so tired, one whose weird 'ad Moul
nting m.elotly
.
date notmerely generations or
to all rules, e''''; the winding valley, 1101111110. in by all-
before they were picked -up by leee fret two were eeight Di -mulling from
e e
So far as the rule nertaina to the grey cliffs, paid, picturesmee yillage.e
a cook-I:tweclosto the fencing or
e e5e
destroyers.
so w
auct is so stained and so eveh.n and centuries hut thousands of years, It
is said to be the identical melody Britisher, I am thinking:1A two ex -
and argient castleto the citadel c "It was l)002.
ceptions. To one of these instances ; Huy. The made are. stre.-sm with the of October 21 -when a tereiiie explo- the thnnel wee int(greed to pase right
' cheap gibe, at the expense of a na- which was sung by Miriam and her I was an eyewitness; the other inei_ wrenkage of the German army in re- skin theca< us -from stem to etern. All - under the wire, centime to the sue --
tion that is fineetritetheonthed her companithe to celebrate the erossing
elent bards were summered on ..leck Ito- (fitieel.ii.t artinewngoieoezmet2lu:Itni.isulehlildce,,,,geali,-;
lend for man power to stand the drain of the Red Sea by - the children of
1,... was prsent
teld to me by a man who ' treat and burned and broken thane-
sent when it oecurred. port lorries sprawl in muddy ditchmediately by the skipper
es,
of four years (if -Oar when I say that Israel aril the destruction of Pha I He said be was passing through while guns Iie rusting me battel-ed :.
,
I made the same boat With Orville a pokerwhich wee used as a peek,
according to my Observations the oah's pursuing hosts, , Charing Cross Station one night when : earriagee, the playthings of litt•Ie Bowen, first mate ef the Lucia. Soo- and a fire shovel T.ny also had a
1 territorial reserves of France in 1 018
I are a million middle-aged men whose
I oet -hurt them.
Be he staff officer, though or beard-
,
, Con.
• lees youth, or fifty -year-old back -line
"Storm Troops" and Others.' man 11 is certain that his womenfolk
Nothing has been more notable hi will accompany him to the station to
this war than the progressive deteri- tell him good-bye. He had had his The Lord is a man of war, the Lord
soil was collected in a sack rind yeae
duced-a young raan blinded. Across lhe battlefield of Quatre-Brae is sport the yawls. e
oratien et the ordinate German in- week la home.; By to -night 11e will is His name. Pharoth's hosts and . .
his eyes was drawn a white cloth for .surrendered limbers and ammuni- "Our convoy put on full speed to eletributed amono the r)wer berth and
famtry, and this, it is believed, is be baek egain at the cont in the his chariots too hath He cast into band and he moved with the uncertain then wagons, and ungainly motor vane, get away from the r -boat, all the 1 gardens cittrinr; the sa.s.)-c, ,,,, that
-due to the inherently vicious German mned and filth and the cold and the the sea, and his chosen captains in fumbling gait of one upon whom this • shod with iron, and old tunice peep_ other boats keeping on. making a 1 should not attract ateentiono
system of developing specialist wet. By to -morrow he may be dead, the Red Sea hath He drowned."
troops, to the detriment and expense But there is never a tear shed at A Second National Song.
TI d 1 . d •
an attention from the opening verse of he saw a couple of Canadian sub- clubmen. era/ of our boats were snit:shed by lerge eereare wocelmi frame which
the fifteenth chapter of the Book of alter" emerging from one of the 1 Ambulances and ste ears:, bearing
to carry the eighty-six survivors. It week ,I foreemel. t.t... prevene a collapse.
the explosion and there -were but fuer , they puthed atorg the 3)115503)0 01 they
Exodus, and ren as follows: refreshment booths. Both of them • the crest of a ruined empire, -rest
h • I • • b (1 d 1 th "
had been wonnded. One had his right ; w t eei 0 a an one m e was necessary for two of the crew to litie frame wee remle of slielees, etc.,
"Then did Moses sing *is song
unto the Lord, and with him sangthearm in a sling and limped as he , straggling rearguard and blaeh-eross
walked. The other was that most • airplanes, rany,ed in orderly rows, con- clear on one of the life rafts, to token from their huts, and was dove..
which they lashed themselves. The Willed togethcr beentifidly-a typical
children of Israel, and snake saying:
pitiable spectacle this war has pro -front our passing troops Nivelles.
, rest of ue were crowded together in sample of German workmanship. The
affliction has newly come. , mg out of the mud. Metal helmets, eieeeh course. Our wireless man ; Music Rath Charms.
With hi injured arm the lame the most useless Possession of the picked un calls from one at' the big ; • '
of the great. mass. parting. He 'hisses his. wife or his Another characteristic song, which youth was steering his companion. German array, roost on femme and steemers, in which -the told of being 1 or two afterwavds, wheu the laundry
.. me w fs rne: e a eay
At the beginning• of the war the ; mother or his sister, or all of them; may -well be regarded as a national The two boys -for they were only , farm gates, and litter naves the waY under a red-hot shellfire, whicli was , was. bel li t'd A I T 1,. t
German infantry weve a fairly home- . he hop to his breast his babies, if song of the Jews, though devotional boys --halted in an arched exit to trod by the British infantry. ng co. tee a . . arge eatme
geneous force of dietinctly goodeaver- rather than patriotic m tone, is the . put on them topcoats betove stepping ; probably the reason we were net -mole , was brought . t f tl- • e dm , 1
he has babies.
Faetastie Pietere of Defeat. ested further, the te-beet erideutly : . it .. I • iie e • •
1 ea wee eater ed Into tee van
All Were equally well trained and which alimady is erowdecl with others
Then he climbs aboard the ear,
Ear, 0 Lord!" This also is a eon- ' officer released his hold upon his : Chaos, wain and utter alentdeimient keeping, up a running fight.
Bravery of Crew. 1 stheeetn«.,eluttorgeelcettZg tehoueitedeir3a.le'Zicglij;:et.
age quail ey. famous "Ana Bekorenu," or "Give • ont into the drizzle. The crippled ;
ovally well equipped, and exceptefor ; like him; and as the train draws spicuous part of the hymnody of the ; friends elbew to shrug his own gar- ' of all order and discipline are un- e
A large part cee the cargo of the ; tame. to the Cerman privates cerry-
S 1 ardM Teel is ko- t b t u n shoulders I mistakably eevealed in the strange
the difference between the various away the women run down the plat11113 -
Linea was made up of high explosives ing it, so he tipped the whole lot out
German tribes, of fairly average form alongside it, smiling and blowe very ancient, though its origin is 1 The second bless° was making a ' medley of broken machinery of war.
physique. At the end of the war they : jog kisses at him, -waving their hands unknostm and is not even hinted at in . sorry joh of finding the armholes of , Our soldiers sieve wonderfullY at the and we were instructed to pull away 1 and sat on it ultle a hump, A yell
a safe distance and wait. The skipper e01110 trona the pile of linen. and out
divided into what the Germane call! and shouting farewells, and bidding , distress in their path.
trustworthy tradition. Judging by its; his coat when a handsome elderly ' • ,
"stone troops" and ordinary troops, I him to do this or that or the other style of composition, which comprises officer, with the badges of a major- ! The mind of man could not have and the gun crews showed their crawled Fritz.rubbing. his head rue -
end the result was that the general spirit. They remained aboard the : fully.
thing. solo -and chorus, it has been regarded • general upon his shoulders and a conceived a more fantastic picture '
Allies.
average fell much below that of the And then, when the train has dis- by some as of Spanish origin. Indeed, brevet loaded with ribbon decorations, decoration-
., 1 of defeat; than this, and each addi. Lucia manning the guns, ready to 1 Two ranee were eftenvards dis-
engage the submersible should the re- cevered making a tunnel from the
1
It is certain that the bulk ef the I appeared, they drop down where they some parts of the melody are almost ! stepped up and, with the words, "Let , tional mile see= to multiply on
appear he our vicinity, They left musie room eetimated to reach day -
are and cry their hearts out. I have characteristically SPanishr• The fact me help you; won't emu?" held the ' every hand the evidences of utter
when it was quite certain that the , light in a large. beee of artichokes. The
-prisoners taken from the enemy dur- witnessed this spectacle a thousand of its use by the Sephardic Jews also coat in the proper position while deft- ' disintegration which leas been the
1 screeds Of digging they drowned with
tug, the closing months of the war times, T am sure; tend always the favors this theory. But it was cen- ly he guided- the blind boy's arms into fate of the war lords and their all_ IT -boat had hauled away.
'Bowen took the tiller and I joined orelmeiral areempaniment ereseendo.
storm troops on which the Germans the women of what I veritably be-; Jews to their brethren in alt lands, In a second the unexpected clenouel Near Namur one dump alone
We had no lights except pocket ' by the inspectine patrol, no one could
the membeve of the crew at the oars.
were a poor lot compared with the sight of it renews mV admiration for turies ago passed on by the Sephardic the sleeve openings. conquering host.
. Although the tunnel was discovered.
,
- relied so much. The ordinary Ger- lieve to be the most patient and the • until new it has long been of prac-, meat came. Tho youngster reached ' yielded 1,800 machine guns. One
flashes. We made up signals before 1 be <aught al: work there. In order
badly fed and poorly egoipped. The ' most steadfast race of beings on the ' ideally tniversal use Its words,I • 1 • ' t hisk t• fl f alt forthe1, d ed d sixtyairplanes lie in '
e uc 1 in o poc e , len a un r an a n
; • eve left the Lucia that each boat was 1 to discover the culprits a sudden
man infantrymen are of poor physinue
storm troops are men in the pink of 1 face of the earth.
;
condition, well fed, wearing new red- FRENCH ARMY DOGS
forms end the beet of enuipmcnt. The 1
stolen troops -relight to the last, while Sentinel Dogs Can Hear Advancing Hear us, we beseech Thee! ished general lay a shilling. 1 Villagers told me how drivers pull -
t 't 1 1 I •
are a Oityer, rem es follows:
Give eeteee0 Lord, when we call Thee,
hear our cry,
hand of this vo un eer who ea come , •g •
to flash her number at stated inter- i parade was called, and all the prison-
! The Germans appear to have
to his assistance.
With these. and in this way we ers were carefully iespeeted. Two
"Thank you. very much!" he said; ; thrown down everything like men vele.
managed to keep together through of them had particles. of 'soil and
and there in the palm of the astone ' who were tired of useless burdens.
•en l th ' • d th• 1 ' I 1.1
1 tThle sea lols tm, s ealm as the night.hadnot tar time to lemove, and -these
wore on, and along about 2 o'clock.; two then•confeeeed that the tunnel
' the seas became terrific. The weigh , was t•heire.
„weather kept up all through the next ; When caught the prieeners nee ree
- day. We pulled an oar with one ; markably frank, end in the maeority
- hand and used the other to feed our- 1 of casee treat it as a joke. end are
' selves with the meager store of hie- 1 jr.et as nverbearing end bombastically
' cults and canned stuff we lied taken ; confident that thiveill get clear
off,:TaIitk
opened. There were schools of them 3
larlauesti tcold
Q the • . • t anythingwasI
areluest. TthheeryeSeemed to ; escape. he never get::: very.
smell
DRIED MILE
! away "neet time." Teat when one does
__, ---
around us all the time, trailing up
; with the i .' '
13ecorning Popular.
d- This Beneficial Product is Rapidly
1 "About midnight of the second night
11 would seem that milk in the
i we heard a boat nenr us. It did not
form of a dry powder is far rao•ra
, under full power. The craft showed
come very close, but kept circling DR
extensively used than mast people
no lights. We didn't know whether
It is an excellent food for infents-
boat trying to draw a bead on us and
it was a vessel to rescue SIS of a te- ' lePlaese
n lash. In hot we:ether it may he
'MOW 118 1111. It was two hours before
le they suf.
signals from the flashlights. , It was PeciallY ter citY haLies.
it, ventured close and returned our Preferable to fresh eow's mill: es,
for from digestive troube. it is bene -
a destroyer. The boat had wanted .
tho ordinary infentry surrendered Man at 400 Metres. In merey pardon all or greed and
The other lieutenant, the youth
cosily, There are four «lasses of dogs used _ with the bandaged erne stumbled to
perverseness,
Thie is moved by the come* el the by the French army -ratters, Red Hear us, we beseech, Thee! his coneracie's side He may have
recent fighting, When the storm Heed the words of oue pleading,
troths attacked they took tho Allied Cross dogs sentinels and liaisons.
0 hear US, good Ienel! meant to whispre, but in his distress
In trend; -warfare. where men have he fairly shouted it out:
positions in front of them with rem- The sin in which we were conceived •
to live in dirt and filth much of the "You've 32250 handed a tip to a
narativeease. Then they were with- Forgive us, good Lordl
drawn ain't the ordinary infantry were major general!"
time, the rat is a great clanger to
health, as veell as being n destructive The foist or longer line of ea& "Horrified, the blind boy spun about
put in to earrison the ventured po- element to army stores. So nearly couplet is sung ms a solo and the on his heel to apologize. i
sitions, The result was filet when every company has jt rat catcher. second or shorter line as a chorus. "I'm so sorvy, sir!" he gasped. "I,
the Allies connter-nttathed they re- Because of the same trench life, Another Ancient Authem.
took the positions with almost mono-, however, the use of the Red Cross A third song may perhaps he ro-
tenone regularity. 1 dog has become less inmoreant. In garded as the real 14tional or atri-
ed up lorries at cafe doers, drank
heavily, and ironically presented to
the cafe keepers their wagons as
' souvenirs of their stay. Then they
1 would join the ragged pilgrims
afoot in the greasy mud.
Guns were mostly damped at
. railroad etatinns, but many were
slupg alengside felled trees which
line the highway. II,wsea were tied
to carts overladen with luggage.
Nothing remained of many lorries
but the blackened iron framework
and piles of charred wood.
Canadians Escort Mattes.
A cavalry detachment of fifty
Uhlans rode quietly across the
Meuse bridge out of Namur on the
morning of Nov. 28, in the direction
f their b t t
of Canadian troopers. Not a sound
was heard in the crowded streets as :
they followed the flapping white flag,:
b' t bl 1 1 T1
-I thought it was a porter, of course.,
I beg your pardon -a tboasand times,
sir. I hone you'll forgive ma -you
Government by Superman. 1 a war of movement the dog who otic anthem of the Jews, as it has , you, I can't see any more, sir." And ,
It is interesting, to note that this I could find wounded men, trot bacle
, been adopted as the official hymn of ' with that he held out his hand to i
system in military affairs is the ' with some article of clothing', an" the Zionists, and its words, of modern take back the miserable coin.
counterpart of the political organize- ; then guide help to the disabled sol- origin, are distinctly patriotic in tone. The splendicl-looking old man put!
tion of the protagonists in the war, 1 dim.' was useful; but in tie% station- The melody, like the former two, is both his bands upon the lad's shout- 1
' Germany is an autoevacy where the i ary waefare there is not, as a rule, of unknown origin and is certainly I dors. His ruddy face WAS quivering :
superman rules, and the common emee this need for a search for wounded several centuries old. As now used and the tears were running down his
counts for tothime. America, France
Italy, and Britain are democracies,
whets the common man counts, and
the al -Mom -at is either non-existent
in out-of-the-way places. it has evidently been' modernized in • cheeks I
Sentinel and. liaison dogs are of its rhythmical structure, but it still ' "Please clan Please don't!" he;
greatest value. The former goes into retains enmistakable trades of anti- gulped almost incoherently. "I want
qu ty and indeed of kinship with other to keep your shilling, if you don't
.
advanee posts with his master, and h
,
or secondavy. is trained to give the alarm by a y, obless you, my son,
very old Jewish melodies. Some stu- lnin • .1 1 -1.1 ,t
low growl at the approach of any I want to keep it a ways. WOU ( n
th a eonThese c o can r
Germany in all her elahovate schema dents have declared 'it to be a seetilar
or organization goes in for the glori- e el P 1 ' .„.folk song of Russia, Poland or Roo- '•• le
pounds ' :
ann at mak1ng competent all-roundf g . ' •ht. TI gests such xis°. But a in h
ore t °rough !Ie And then, falling back one riece, I they had been picked for this -deft :
saluted tl blind lad with 11 theto the openly arid by the look% of before coming too close.
—e..--...
fienHon of the specialist. The Allies an advancing man at 400 metres, end mania, and indeed its character stig-
men, and it is the belief of the Allied liaison dog is trained to carry mes- consideeation leads to the conclu '
sten reverence he would have accorded his them one might have judged the ,
i • 1 i i - Gevman cavalry are as strong and i Why He Thrimbled.
men looked very smart and the
horses ; extremely fit Obvious] to make sure what eve were end he
positive it was not a Hun aneheth
s k ng.- •
commauders that their system has sages from one of hie two mastehs
that while indeed it may have Nan commander in ch ef
efficient as in the early days of the
won the war. u ie o e , used for generations as a folk song "
Tho weakness of the German sys- Patching orders. Te tale about three ,e.
Tc was at a still meter date a He-
ise --
also apparent in the air, end; months to brain (logs to travel as far brew hytem. In other words, -instead WONDER YEARS
to this system is duo her progressive as three si ome les h -'s work. of a Slavic folk song being adopted --e
Many can bo taught to go in both' ' • • detachmente whieli were supposed to
deterioeation in this brenth of theas a Jewish h
war.
On the whole, our men have seen
very few Germans. Many outpost
ymn, a • Jewish benne 'Victory Year, 1918, Marks Beginning remain until our patrols :vetoed have
Service. Perheps noWhere is there a direetions. A liaison team consists was adopted as a siahis fat sal
• • of n New Era.
greater contrast than exists between
the air syeterns of Rettain and Cleve
of two dogs and t len tame's, 1.1 to This national hymn of the Zionists
always work together, ' is entitled "Hatiwoh," or "Our Hope."
mallY, From the beginning recent:my , Real poilus they are, too; no em- The words weto written about twenty
has exalted the air supermen. Rich- i "Mace ening them! They 1,
sead° years ago by Naphtali Here, Imbue a
Claret's flying circus was a gratheass ' all the hardehips of front -lite life Jewish poet of London. Ho is be
example of this. and all the dangers, and they share, lieved to have formed the model Inc
Here the commander was credited too, the "wnoden evoss„ or military Israel Zangwillee interesting eharac-
with ell the victories won by his honors, When their regiment gots ev of fiction, Melchiseclek Pinches.
squarlron, Which consieted of picked the Croix de Guerra so do they, and et
verses were set to music by Isaac
men, and by eoason of this selection often they have been mentioned in pahiewe.v,
I then the cantor of the
despatches. • Finsbury Park Synagogne, iit London.
Perizwaig was an accomplished Mu -
dent of ancient Jewish music and
selected this piece partly for its an-
tiquity, taking it from a collection of
the songs of the Sephardic Jews. The
collection wee published in 1857 and
amyl:ether] lio piece which was- not
certainly known to be at that:time at
least a century and a hall old. The
melody of "Hatikwoh" is familiarly
used to this day by congrogatione of
Spanish and Portugeee ,Tews in all
parts of the world where they aye
found, set to the 117th Psalm,
Tither's weeds form a poem of. eight
foineliee staneas, with a eonneon
chores or four linos, the fine verse
and the chorus being as followd:
every other squndron in the German
air service was wealeened, The Eng-
lish eystein is to aim at making all
its men competent, all-vound flyers.
trained in thane work, and to discour-
age ehe creation of the "ace." Tho
resell; is seen in the superiority of the
• Bre-tisk teiv 51001(0 over the German,
•'" The All -Round Mao.
In the training at in -Canby, too,
the difference is very apparent. In
•• both the French and British Armies
the aim is to make every Man a fiest-
class, thoroughly efficient soldier. '
livery battalion is trained 10 shock
tactics, in machine gun work, and in
all the other details of a soldier's
job, The result is a morel level of
exeellenee, which gives a commandee
confidence that he ean Seeln0 et lent
0Verag0 re020t0 from any troops whiele
may be tet, his disposal. A 'German
general dared not attack without hie
quota ok special shock troops became
Ime krieve that his onclinary wink 01151 uere eared for by women workers: of
Me wore not equal to the Odle. A the organization, and 700 were Met
13ritieb, lerenth or 11101') 11) tee] •e• e;, 1.11110Vilies where the relief Pork is
dor has ne Stleh Worry, end tan neder- veetheuirtee
FAMISHED ANI) HALF NAICED
2,600 Prisoners Freed by Germans in
a Pitiful Siete.
Famished and half naked, 2,600
prisoners of war freed by the Ger-
mans, have come stumbling into Bac-
cavat, Miley, and Linville in the
pas few days and have been cared for
by Y.M.CA, workers on the Lorraine
front, according to a oeblograin from
Pates. The Germans had brought; the
mew:neve to the border, given each a
piene of bread, and turned them Mose.
Fourteen hundral British prisoners
reaching Baccarat in 11. wretched con -
(Minn were given hot &Inks, fed and
clothe:I by Y.M.C.A. men who had
heard of their approach and sent
trucks loaded with supplies to meet
them, the table message states, Five
hundred mere who eel:erect Nancy
While yot the olden lithe burn
Within each loyal Hebrew broaste
And totvard the inset our eyes eve turn
With Zion still met only quest.
Chorus: -
Lost is not the helm of yore,
Our olden hope and blest,
To outer Zton's laud once mots,
• Where Mir fathers vest,
slipped away and left the guns and
The year 1918, which brought peace wagons they guarded to the care of
the villagers, Every German seerne
to the world, will stand out to all
future generations as a wonder year, anxious to got. acres his owe frontier
a year which marks the commence- as quickly ae possible, Their roar -
mem of a new era, just as 1914 will guards have been withdrawn some
always bo a year of ill -omen, cm miles beyond the fined neutral zone.
marking the commencement of a
veorld-war beside which all other
wars in history are like the -battle of
fro s and inioe
It WAS widely noticed in 1000 that
Last Germans Leave Liege.
I was told that the lasiti Germane
left Liege on Nov. 27. Retuning
British and 'French prisoners whom
I Met near Hey said that mixed em-
it, was the inost remarhable centenary
Y051 ever recorded, Which meant, of
Nevels•elmirosarlhiinngraralpllinzard with
and artillery
course, that more babies who after-
serange mixture of transport, livo
it
wards attained distinction were born
(tock and commandeered vehicles of
ea 1809 than in any °thee. year on
all kinds, and WW2 hurrying 'through
record. These included Glladstone,
Yerviers, n 13elgian frontier station
Tampon, Oliver Wendell Hohnee,
FitzGerald, Hamill; Poe, Mondelssohe
and Chopin, besides a great array of
lesser fame.
11 would be interesting to discover
whether any year later is likely to
touch this record. The year 1803 will
probably be found in the running, for
in this year both Lloyd George and
Louis Botha were born, and an amaz-
ing' array of novelists, including W.
W. Jacobs, C.ouch, Max Pam -
heath, Anthony Hope, Marriott Wat-
son, Arthur 'Morrison, J. W. Locke,
Not What, Ile Meant,
Wounded Tommy (leaving hospital)
-"Thanks Very much for youv kind,
nees, eleter. slum% never forgot
yer. If ever there nee a 'fallen angel,
yotere One!" '
beyond Liege, into German territory,
The British Advance to Namur and
the Mows has been an almost un-
eventful series of marches through
joyful towts and vilInges. Every-
where the Belgian population is ex-
tending us a warns Mal hospitable
weleoree. Ths blight of war rests
lightly on towne like Namur and
Huy. Here the people tell 2110 frank-
ly thee they have ent been shore of
provieions.
"We have not suffered physieelly-
only mentelhe" said one liminess
111210. Food ia plenty was to be had
at prices,
Of the 660 (0219 ivory brought
annually into England, Sheffield
coneumes a third.
A half platoon of soldiers belonging
to' Irisht v • get-
ting ready for a night raid, which, es
everybody out there knows, is 11 pout-
' I 3' • d . • ,-• 1-'
operation.
A seasoned sergennt of the origin-
" al "old contemptibles" noticed a
' young soldier, fresh from lime, pain-
fully mad visibly affected by the near-
neas of the corning fight. His -face
1 was pale, hie teeth chatterer', and his
knees now and then emote each other.
It was sheer eeryonsness, but the
horrified eerie:mat thought it was
downright funk. •
"O'Neaughey," he whispered, "Is it
ihrimblin' ye are fer yer own dirty
?"
"N -no, sargint," replied Oleaughey,
malting a brave attempt to still his
shaking limbs and pereenate joko
at the same. time. "Oism thrimblin'
for the Mime They don't know 0',
Yeughey's Mewl"
An Ancient Game.
Dice exactly resembling thocia of
the present day have been recoveve
ed from the ancient Egyptian tombs
and also from the more remit times
ef Gramm -Latin civilization. Dice
similar to outs were found at Her-
culehneunm and the destruction
win& oeerwhelmed Pompeii also
destroyed a dicing party at thele
einesement. Eighteen hundred yeare
after the dice weve found in their
bony hamie and the game yet un -
seeded.
A layer sawdust on the floor or.
rabbit Or guinea* hutches will keep
down all odor, nen the hutches
every other day, •
&gal.
One reason presumahlythee the
high heat employed in ineemfacturing
the material Mlle any •dangerons ov
undesirable germs that the milk may
eontane In Dreamt and waies dried
milk is used in increasing meantities
et maternity told chad-weleare eta -
Cons. There ere also depots at which
the prequel; may be purchased in path.
aces of three grreles--"ftell cream,"
"three-quarters creem" amid "half
cream." The Very mem can get it at
poet or even free.
Dried milk with roma tend singer,
with egg powder and seller for cus-
tards, and in other combinations, an.
peers on the market; es a food. rt is
extensively enolee-eel by• bakers and
ronfectioners.
The up -tog -Mee method of preparing
it consists in discharging a streem (11
; Partly condensed milk in tho forte of
a spray into a heated eharther, 11
thus tridevemes immediate levapora-
Con and the dry powder falls to the
floor of the chamber.
The American Indian, in the most
highly -developed tribes and before
white man's whiskey and sulfisheess
ruined him, was at Wave adopt, a
nature poet, an idealise. He revere ;
enced the soul of bird and flowee,
tree and grilse, star and °loud. Ho
could maintain life in the wildeemees
bemuse he wae strong of body, keen
in all his settees, quick, setsitive,
alert, brave. He was loyal and hon-
est and true. The poor remnants of
the Indian which we know to -day cart
be compared only to the ruins of a
once stately building.
In parts of tho Western States 4
machine Was in use this year that
cut, thrashed and bagged grain tit
one operation, theetraw being loft
spread evenly on-tho ground, doll the'
bsgs 01 grain in a row. ,11