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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1919-1-23, Page 2BOTHA HAILED AS HERO BY BRITISH MAN TO WHOM 'TIIE EMPIRE IS GREATLY INDEBTED South African Prime Minister, Gen. Louis Botha, Won Victory Over Germans and Rebels. Great Britain cannot possibly too greatly honor General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Aft -lea, says a London correspondent Few of our cure. He has been assathd on all sides with the utmost bitterness, The embers of rebellion have smoulder( d all the time. Ho has had to reconcile interests apparently irreeoneilahle. Some of his own countrymen have de- nounced him as a "Khaki," an " Ling- lishrnane--bath terms of. horrible re- MORE LIGHT ON GERMAN preach. A section of the British TREATMENT OF CAPTIVES population has attacked him as a raci- alist. He has had labor troubles which developed into anarchy and bloodshed. The cosmopolitan nature of a large part of the South African population has not lessened his diffi- culties during the war. And all the FRENCH PRISONER NAMES TORTURERS Definite Accusations Made Against Prison Commanders—Some Ter- rible Indictments, Fresh light was thrown recently on two-thirds succumbed to the typhus through lack of care." The accusers ask: "Are these crimes to be loft unpunished?" SIMPLE PERFUME MAKING Iiow to Capture the Fragrance From highly Scented Flowers. Few people know how easy it is to capture the fragrance of real flowers. The first step in the plan is to secure a glass funnel. The small end of this instead of opening should be drawn out to a fine point, Some time he has had the ever-present means must be adopted to maintain native problem to deal with in its the abominable treatment by the Ger- the funnel411 an upright position, Any many phases. mans of French prisoners in the de- ; kind.; of highly scented flowers, such Through it all he has never wavered finite accusations of M, A. H. Bezies. as roses, may be gathered; these generals—he is a full general in the even momentarily from his duty. The who was interned in several camps should be in fresh condition es, just British army—have placed us under a Empire owes him a debt of gratitude and was an eyewitness of German - before opening, the fragrance is at greater obligation in this war than which it can never repay. It may flat- atrocities. He says: i its best. Place these in a vase filled the man who, seventeen yeaee ago, at ter our pe'itieal pride to attribute the "X accuse Dr. Karl I:eeede of having I with water so that they^ will not the head of the Baer feree.s, defies • loyalty of Smith Africa to the wisdom starved for four mon`hs Frenchmen I wither. Now get some ice and crush the might of British roans for three of Camp''ell-Bannerman m granting treated at the lazaret of the Kaserne this into email fragments using it to long years. It is net e;sv ::* s::" up her selfsovernment. But here is one at Zerbst, in Anhalt. I accuse him of fill up the glass funnel. At the same his achievements with, ..t ap:e:a•ing sc.i e:nerete feet for grateful rem barbarous treatment of our wounded time place some receptacle under the to err on the side r t s e, erear:xnee--the loyalty of South Africa natives, by torturing them when probe funnel. Sprinkle salt on the ire and He fought t:. el ea. he British Empire has been large- ing their wounds, and seeking to make then move the flowers and the funnel Motorcycle Chains, Motorcycle chains gradually wear! and lengthen with use, As this; stretehing occurs it becomes noses -I sary to adjust them to keep them at a proper tension. Now a chain rare- ly stretches the same amount Battery Logic, A few days ago I had an interest- ing conversation with the battery ox - pert who looks after the make of battery with which my' car is sup- plied. He remarked: "We battery men get so that we GERMANS SHOWN IN TRUE C;ARACTER DEFEAT REVEALED THE REAL NATURE OF THE HUN. The Whole German Nation is Utterly/ Deficient in Moral Fibre— Merely Brutal Thugs. --From the viewpoint of a psycholo- throughout its length. Almost al- can tell in genreal a man's character gist, the German mind is showing the ways ono part of it years more ahan from his battery. The man who is same imperfocUuue in defeat which it another, So, in tightening it, turn naturally careful is the one whom We exhibited so oonsplcuously while the the chain all the way around the see every month. He runs up to the war was in active progress, says Jas. sprockets until it is in the first post- door and has us test his hnttety, and P. Laugh, Professor of Psychology in tion before considering the job cern- nine times out of ten goes away with New York Cinivorsity. We now see plate. Otherwise, in one position a clean hill of health, His battery that the last four and a half years the tension may be proper while in is always filled, and, since the level have given us a perfectly elem. impres- another -it may be stretched almost never fluctuates, we know that it is elon of the German character in cola to the breaking point, thereby put- filled regularly. Iain aspocis. ting a lot of unnecessary wear and Sometimes, before the regular The utast trilling trait of this strain upon the sprocket and bear- time for his visit, ho will come down character is 0 lack of mortal fibro, ings. It is almost superfluous to re- d lain that something is wrong, which throughout history all nations. paign of tie: st ; •.tae to the personal influence of uu exp a them renounce their French nation- into Gloss proximity. murk that an ext emcly tight chain and when we ask him why, we learn like all poisons, have looked up to as German final: ": .i" :a c ss rte man, Lo::is Botha. ality. After a while it will be seen that soon loosens, the victim of more wear that he Inas been using his hydro- a supreme attribute. The Germans triumph of ni ;c t,e ifli- — the moisture from the atmosphere is then months of normal use would meter syrin a as regularly as he has have shown themselves to be merely I accuse the camp commander at brutal culties of nature. The . p. ot: oras. CHINA'S GREAT Be 1' of I d con en5e on the outst(e of the fun filled L the battery eg water. PAST i • ' condensed d outside _ cause ...1, sthugs. 7ossen, near r m, having urmg cFrom tare broad viewpoint of Inu- e mast ruiece ei rspi•..,c ..r.: e:'i•:i- -- six months, starved thousands of Al -,mei, the surface of which is chilled' On the other hand, having a chain) "At the end of the year, if he is envy. He took a fierce f from .;, eo:i Japan, Peru, and Mexico Also Had genian and Tunisian prisoners, and by the ice. The ethereal odor of the too loose may work even more harm, going to stere his car, he brings it in malty. some (IOWA have hoped that Ancient Civilizations, • of making them run for from two to flower; eoly t�es with this dquid t once got csretess and did not take giving orders they would have continued to fight g and stores .it with us, and defend have territory, at least which slowly trickles down by drops time to adjust the long chain of my ire, i ,i Thousands of years ago—long be- four hours with a sack of fifty pounds into the receptacle. When a sufli- machine. As a result, niter flapping to renew the insulati s1,1 I c�hetspough until they had lock as touch territory n. 1 t.e. In less fore the great -western nations of to- of sand on their backs with the object than a to had eoveret more an v Greek or Ro- of malting them renounce their qua!- (dent quantity is securedmthis may be tap and down for a few days, it jump- I "If ha is cunni. g as they took from France. This would 130 mites. His hiot and marched 350 day long before even a mixed with about an equal quantity ed oft the rear -wheel sprocket and the winter he generally has his bat have given them a chance to show man were heard of—there were. sty of French subjects and enlist in q q jammed between the sprocket and tery overhauled at the same time lie heroic qualities if they bud possessed miles ever that hot and thirety conn- more or lss advanced civilizations •the Turkish army. of puts alcohol. The mixture should 1 p' try on the heels of the cavalry and then be placed in bottles, when it will hub tearing out a dozen spokes, It Inas the rest of the machine overhaul- lineal. The appalling evidence of the yea=_had Otani only three clays be- °n both sides of the Pacific, Cltina„ ii'orked 13 IIours at a Stretch. ]seep for an indefinite time, In this tore the spokes loose from the hath ed for the opening of the next euson.': lack of the finer moral qualities in for example, had grown into a stable ; way all kinds of flower erfumu ma and my negligence cost alto a new. Occasionally we run up against'' practically a ttltote people is a clts- hin(1 the horsemen' Mongolian kingdom perhaps 5,000 I accuse Commander Stralkowo, of p y drive [}heel, the stingy roan. He s the one who tinct loss to all of us as human beings. When he set out upon that con- nears before the beginning of our' a camp in Poland, with inflicting, be captured with the greatest ease. When it becomes necessary to re -1 gives his battery good ante: but ie We cannot escape the feeling that the paign !lathe was nifty -ane and a sick clurin 19TH, in defiance of all inter- �— cony-w•ii:e and pound_foolish, and man. PR has been a sick man for era, A Chinese author writes: "There g CP.Oii'N .TEii'EI.; 101V IN TOii°ER Place the short engine chain, always P human race has been degraded by the is no existing nation in the world that , stational agreements, inhuman treat- get a new engine sprocket. By the when he neglects it, hoping in this 1 evidence that in Central nil 113e se years, Be has only recently left a Inas a larger past than China. She' meat int the French in his camp. In bed of sickness in South Africa. The During the War i'he3 ![ ere Kept •to time the chain is worn out, the small way to save a few cents, I large a proportion of the population as see Egyptian d t c the eaten to 50.(11(0 ;nen over sandy wastes of wateti'• : country at a speed that seemed almost i week 1 1 1 i than r h nth' rise and fall of the an- January, 1915, he created a disetp- ' sprocket is pretty well used up and i "Then we have the impulsive man, of what we call the civilized world Is ricer o= the Boer R'ar have left him clout gyp ian pas ie_; unary squad called Erziehnngs Com-! • Fault at 1i'intisor Castle, 1 • p p y ya worn s rocket will use u a new the one who will rut m every week total! bereft of this essential virtue, with en enfeebled rnnstitution. But Sian of the Persian empire; the con- pagnie for men returning from work I Crown jewels have been brought out chain very quickly. At the end of, to have his battery tested for a I It ie plain that the Germane are un - one =••; old never think so to look at quest of Alexander; the irresistible with whom their masters were dt•s- 1 of their wartime hiding place and ra- the third engine chain it is well to -month or so, then let it go for sea -table to see themselves as others seo.- nr him. He is more than six feet m advance of the Roman legions; the I pleased, For three weeks our French !turned to the Tower of London. They replace not only the engine sprocket oral months and come in with his bate; them. Their recent experiences would height. When I last saw frim his deluge of the Teutonic hordes from ; comrades were forced to do work of were not paraded back. In fact, the but also the large clutch sprocket, tery in pretty bad shape. He has' have had a chastening effect on most weight war more than 250 rounds. the north; and the birth of all the a severe nature from 5- o'clock in the Pie comparatively sedentary lite as removal was so informal and quiet The long chain of course will out-; entirely forgotten it. IIe recognizes peoples, but no such effect has been tions of modern Europe i morning until six in the evening, that no one perhaps, who satin t wear several engine chains but when the fault as his own, and has it fixed visible in them. in Prime 4Iaddler. after his Boer years nations Japanese also, a people cam- without having the right to sit down couple of automobiles containing four replaced' should have new sprockets,; up without throwing the blame on The flight of the haiser is an indi- in the saddle after the Boer ~Vail led of various elements, but for a moment. and having as their army men disguised as civilians sus- —W.C. the poor old battery." --J. R. cation of their type of mind. Thinly pected that they were carrying $30,- _.�--- _ ._..__,__ —_ _._., _.-- 000.000 worth of jewelry. thickened him considerably. But his chiefly :Mongolian and Malayan, , sole food soup made of cattle beet bulk is not ungainly. Ti (e well dis- stood at the beginning of our era on ; and pounded bones, tribute, d on that gigantic frame' a hi'*h plane of civilization, and even 1 "I accuse Colonel Strelkowo of hav- A Crosses. Quelled a Rebellion, then exhibited the exeleatic tenden-lug more than fifty times ordered ;nave revealed a cardboard hatbox, The moon shines down on Flanders' Before he went in conquer Ger nen cies and attentiveness which distill-• sentinels to strike with the butt ends but the peeper wouldn't have known Fields Southwest Africa for the British 'rn- gui-h them to -day- of their rifles and with bayonets that it contained the Imperial State On crosses white and bare, Hire he took the iielri to quell a rebut-, Then away to the cast in Central' Frenchmen whom he considered lazy, Crown, Nor would he have guessed Bttt. One who watches over them lion among his fellow countrymen, and South America, civilization I accuse Feldwebel-Lieutenants that the piece of rough, heavy, red A crown of thorns did wear, engineered by General Beyers, then . waxed and waned, reaching its high- • Goebel and Muller, of Zerbst camp, of cloth he was seeing covered the royal They do not sleep alone, our boys, err.^.man la'tt general of the ;Doth est development in the Aztec and having wittingly placed clean, healthy sceptre, with its famous Cullin-in For angels day and night Incan empires, the latter of which Frenchmen in huts with Russians con- diamond. Insignificant -looking boxes Afriean fo-re('e. and the redoubtable He given charge to wstch and keep Chrlstia(m de Wet. the famous goers!_ was an extremely interesting example ered with vermin and suifering from and parcels were the other crowns, `Them ever in their sight. of despotic socialism, Asiatic typhus, with the publicly coronets, orbs and the rest of the 1 la leader of tl±e hoer War. That is avowed design of procuringtheir1 a story all compact of romance—too 1 royal regalia. 1 So not forgotten shall they be, HIS WORD IS HIS BOND death. I The guards were two army officers I Who died that we might ling, long to be told Here, Both of these I men were his trusted friends, old and , •— I "I accuse Colonel Baron von Wacht- and two non-commissioned oiDcers. 1 Who gladly gave their lives for us— ' d : of the l:;tttlefi •]d. Eoth' Characteristics of Natives of Small 1 holt, of Sprottau camp. in Silesia, of The officers wore silk hats and frock I Gave all they had to give. fell a victim to Garman wiles--Beyers coons a 1 European State. stealing the parcels of French prison- coats and the noncommissioned officers fell because t I think) he was a knave; De I Notwitlistanding his barbaric ens.: erg and having them loaded into his ; black overcoats and derbies. Wet from an inverted sense of chiv- toms, an Albanians word is his bond. car before our very eyes. I accuse this 1 Windsor Castle, about 25 miles airy. I A promise given by these savage same colonel of having in defiance of l from London, became the repository Any one who knows South Africa ' tribes is never broken. If a stranger i the regulations and agreements con- 1 of the jewels soon after German air - intimately will he able to appreciate 1 eats of their food, even though he be corning prisoners of war signed in craft began to bomb the metropolis. the difficulties of Botha's position an enemy, he is sacred for 24 hours , 1917 and 1918, cocealed -from the They were placed in a thick-walled , when the rebellion broke out. Lord afterwards. 1 visits of the Swiss doctors and come , stone vault. Ila •court• who was colonial secretary I Hope for the future of Albania lies,missions during the first six months at the time, has just told us that half in the fact that the Albanian, though of 1918 300 cases of tuberculosis in i FiRST USE OF COFFEE Berries Were Brought to Venice in the Year 1591, The ordinary coffee plant is a native of Abyssinia, and as such was used as a beverage, both in wild and culti- vated state, from time immemorial. the country's store of rifles and am- • a warrior and a man who prefers to munition was taken by the rebels go ahvays armed, is, unlike the Mon - through treachery, and that for six- tenegrin, a hard worker. Among his teen days it was "touch and go" in barren mountains he is a first-rate South Africa. shepherd, and, where he has the op - General Botha promptly took the portunity, a skilful agriculturist. The field against his own countrymen. He Albanian of the towns excels as an moved swiftly, as is his wont, Rebel- artificer, armorer, and maker of fine ling soon turned to root. Beyers, stuffs. The Albanian zarfs, or coffee - fleeing before him, perished ignomin- cup holders, of silver filigree are cele- ously while swiming his horse across brated all over the Near East for a nodded river. De Wet, whose elu- their beautiful workmanship. sive tactics had defeated our best British 1 I t f three There are no schools in Albania except those established ley Italian and Austrian monks as a partofe Sprottau camp. I hold him respon- Bible, with the chief doctor of the hospital, of the death of these un- happy men—they are guilty of the death of 5,000 of the Allies lying in Sprottau Cemetery." 1 Story of Escaped Officer. An officer who escaped from Wit- Itenberg camp, on the Elbe, states: 1 "In 1917 a typhus epidemic broke Iout in the camp. The commander immediately had the huts ringed with rt is r cava ry eac.ers or re lofty palisades and ordered the Ger- years, was taken prisoner, k th ' num attendants to quit. In their Botha had kept his pledge to the political propaganda of those powers. stead a few French doctors, with a empire to which he swore loyalty at Italy and Austria for years have been very small supply of medicines, were the Peace Conference at Vereeniging. exerting every effort to curry favor installed. Posts were established But he had sacrificer' lifelong '.friend-; with the natives, a fact NV 11C has ships. Many of his best and oldest , been apparent even to the rough friends drew apart from him. And ad- I tribesmen. The North Albanian may ditto/nil rancor was introduced into I leo entirely uneducated, a barbarian South African politics, already suffi- and at heart a brigand, but he is cer- ciently embittered through schism tainhy no fool. Although he has gl- and other causes, Never Wavered in Loy alto. ways considered both Italy and Aus- tria equally his enemy, he fought valiantly by the side of the Italians Followed the German Southwest in driving out the Austrians. Afric0. campaign, with ' es•.11ts which 1 -•- are now history. Botha retained to' Using bean cake as a basis, a con - his old post and carried an as 1'r'(,nlor; cern in Japan has begun the manu- while his inseparable friend and lieu -,facture of an imitation celluloid that tenons. Smuts, went firs; to conquer'; also can be used as a substitute for German Beet Africa and later to Lon-' lacquer, artificial leather and rubber don to assist in the War Caoinet• 1 and as a water and heat resisting Botha's position '.las been no sine- i building material, twenty yards distant from the pali- sading, which was strengthened with concrete. Daily food was supplied to the immured by shooting it down an inclined plane. The food was so scanty that when one of us died we would hide the corpse under the mat- tress and only declare the death some days later so as to.: get his share of food, Burials were carried out m the camp for fear of contagion. Imagine the ravages of the epidemic! Vainly the French doctors repeated demands for medicines, especially serum. Fin- ally they were forbidden to communi- cate with the outside. The Witten- berg contingent was decimated in a few days. I consider that more than The moon still shines on Flanders' Fields, On crosses white as snow, But whiter are the souls of those Whom God and Christ doth know. For mothers, all your boys are there, He gathered them all in; And safe within the fold they are, Cleansed each from every sin. For He who gave His only Son Can surely understand That they laid down their lives for us, And for their native land. Olt! moon, shine on in Flanders' Fields It was carried into Arabia about the And touch each cross with peace; beginning of the fifteenth century. And let them quietly sleep on From Arabia it was carried to all Whose souls have found release. parts of the Mohammedan world by --4 the Mecca pilgrims, who found it -a Not Delivered Yet. hapy substitute for the alcoholic bev- erages forbidden by the Koran. The first authentic mention of it by a European was by a German physician and traveler en his return from a tour through Syria in 1573. It was brought to eVnice by a physician in 1591. It is referred to in 1621 by Button in his "Anatomy of 14leian_ "Naturally," said the minister, "I tal=e a deep interest in this force at Salonica. Are you aware, Mrs, X., that these Salonieans are the Thes- salonians to whom Sit Paul sent a letter 9" Mrs. X. looked up. "Well, he may have written there; I'm not saying he choly," as follows: "The Turks have didn't, But I'm sorry for him if he a drink called coffee, so named from sent parcels. I sent two to my boy a berry black as soot and as bitter. months since, and they' haven't been delivered yet." which they sip hot because they find by experience that that kind of drink, so used, helpeth digestion and pro- moteth alacrity." The first coffee house established its London was in lel'2• Coffee was heard of in France in 1658, and became fash- ionable in Paris in 1669, There is a whole lot of interesting information in regard to coffee which space will not permit to be given here, M7C, IVGI. XIV fOr SJf SE" MEM 72a', • Give W.S.S. as Gifts. One or more War Savings Stamps would make a very, appropriate gift. Nut only are they real money, but they will undoubtedly have the effect of starting the person to whom they a:e given on the way of systematic saving. ____a of the number of rulers who have died SUBS ALWAYS IN DANGER. at the heads of their armies, making a last desperate, hopeless, but never. Thought to Belong to Enemy and Are the less !lemic stand, But this man Hunted by Friends. rims away: he has not the fibre to stand and share in the fate of his One of the greatest perils to allied people. submarines during the war was at- World's Champion Quitters. tack by friendly destroyers, A sub. Let us suppose that England had marine was assumed to be an enemy been defeated and that an English when sighted by the ships or any allied King, corresponding in his relations nation, and it was up to the submarine to his people with the Kaiser, had to show recognition signals If she was taken to ignominious 'flight. Popular not German. But if it wars a destroyer indignation at his cowardice would that sighted the submersible she was always making for the little craft by the time the recognition signals could bo shown. A slight hitch in getting up 0 Reg or firing a rocket would mean the submarine would be forced to seek safety beneath the surface. Probably tbo last attack of this sort was made by American destroyers on a new British submarine of a large type. She was being tested when sighted by the destroyers and they made for her full speed. Something happened to the signal system and the underwater vessel submerged as depth charges began to tear up the water. One charge shook her until the Brew thought site was doomed. The submarine was constructed to dive 320 feet, butthatwas forgotten as charge alter charge exploded near by. Finally site struck bottom at 3,000 feet and It was found she was not badly dasuaged. She was kept on the bottom until iter commander was certain the destroyers had gone. Then she was cautiously brought to the sur- "BIos don't need any more testing face. after that experience," the commander reported to the officer in charge of the submarine base. The Ubiquitous Fan. Fans are put to all sorts of curious uses" in Japan. At wrestling and fencing matches the umpire always uses a large fan, and the various mo- tions of this fan constitute a language which the Jcombatants understand perfectly and to which they pay prompt attention. The servant -girl has a flat fan made of rough paper to blow the charcoal fires with or to use as a dust put; the farmer has a strong fan to winnow his grain. An- other variety is made of waterproof paper, which can be dipped in water, and creates great coolness by evap- oration. have known no bounds. Yet, though the censorship has been removed In Germany, no one there appears to have uttered one word in criticism of the Kaiser's course. It scents to then[ "- natural, to us abhorent. The Germans are the champion quitters of all time, and it excites no special emotion in a. then[ that the Kaiser has quit also. To the psychologist not only the actions of a nation but the people's viewpoints of that action aro an hula. cation of mental characteristics. No one in Germany apparently had a word to say in reprobation of the ells. graceful yielding of a great fleet with- out firing a shot. Before the war the Germans had pretty well concealed their true na- tional character by making a display of many ' admirable minor qualities. Among these were their love of music and their industrial efficiency. They had succeeded also in establishhtg a reputation for scholarship, which we now know was based largely on bor- rowed capital. These things were conspicuously placed before us, and blindest us to German defects. The truth has at last burst upon us, and there is 110 mistaking it. GABRIEL D'ANNUNZIO Italy's Greatest Airman is Also Poet and Dramatist. Major Gabriel d'Annunzio, the leader of the Italian airmen, is a most extraordinary personality. Fa- mous before the war as poet and dramatist, as the creator of a new Italian literature, he has affected "the language of his country mono 'profoundly than any one t'hice Dante; a notable figure in society, much discussed for his luxurious tastes, he stepped into the forefront of the battle as a soldier wheat over 50 yenta old. Since then he has added exploit to exploit, stealing into enemy ports in small craft at night to torpedo battleships, carrying out the longest and most dangerous air raids. He now regularly commands a squadron of picked young airmen. IIe is the great embodiment of the spirit of Italy to -day. British Dead in Gallipoli, Should not immediate steps be falc- on aleen to arrange• with the Turkish Gov- aliment for the transfer to the Brit- ish Empire of the rights of owner- ship over Sulva Bay and the other cemeteries of the gallant British and Dominion troops who fell in Gallipoli?. as12s a writer in the London Evening Standard. The cost of acquiring the. Dardanelles battlefields cannot be ex- eessive, and it will bo a consolation to the relatives of the dead heroes that thir remains mingle not with alien but with British soil, to be re- garded as sacred forever to their memories. CLL HIDE 7H19 TEN In HERB /% •gin LOGKEO, l / P fp t►, i. ' ' 4�i rte' n a�(r •� d�' N i1 . ., l..:` \4� P r i ( , ;; (� �G4 ` ���i '\ m r} C,7b, C., ;e+ �: 0 9l�Mr�f •lY"(i . *4011411:14t44i,rr+ 44c1. r�44j�11til e`iMs - V� e n¢iet dl ,l'. 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The Germans are the champion quitters of all time, and it excites no special emotion in a. then[ that the Kaiser has quit also. To the psychologist not only the actions of a nation but the people's viewpoints of that action aro an hula. cation of mental characteristics. No one in Germany apparently had a word to say in reprobation of the ells. graceful yielding of a great fleet with- out firing a shot. Before the war the Germans had pretty well concealed their true na- tional character by making a display of many ' admirable minor qualities. Among these were their love of music and their industrial efficiency. They had succeeded also in establishhtg a reputation for scholarship, which we now know was based largely on bor- rowed capital. These things were conspicuously placed before us, and blindest us to German defects. The truth has at last burst upon us, and there is 110 mistaking it. GABRIEL D'ANNUNZIO Italy's Greatest Airman is Also Poet and Dramatist. Major Gabriel d'Annunzio, the leader of the Italian airmen, is a most extraordinary personality. Fa- mous before the war as poet and dramatist, as the creator of a new Italian literature, he has affected "the language of his country mono 'profoundly than any one t'hice Dante; a notable figure in society, much discussed for his luxurious tastes, he stepped into the forefront of the battle as a soldier wheat over 50 yenta old. Since then he has added exploit to exploit, stealing into enemy ports in small craft at night to torpedo battleships, carrying out the longest and most dangerous air raids. He now regularly commands a squadron of picked young airmen. IIe is the great embodiment of the spirit of Italy to -day. British Dead in Gallipoli, Should not immediate steps be falc- on aleen to arrange• with the Turkish Gov- aliment for the transfer to the Brit- ish Empire of the rights of owner- ship over Sulva Bay and the other cemeteries of the gallant British and Dominion troops who fell in Gallipoli?. as12s a writer in the London Evening Standard. The cost of acquiring the. Dardanelles battlefields cannot be ex- eessive, and it will bo a consolation to the relatives of the dead heroes that thir remains mingle not with alien but with British soil, to be re- garded as sacred forever to their memories.