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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-1-6, Page 2• The Green Seal i3y CHAR:AS ElDIVIONDS WALK Author of "The Silver Blade," "The Paternoster Ruby; "The Time Lock," etc, :C�{�i%fir" .. •I• !Where I shall meet you, ilpen tills r lost his third son, the Ikon. Francial, THE TURK AS lig 1S• �� WORKING meeting depends the,Hearing uP of all nvmmu I Han', H! Pearson who enlisted as a privAto I� ��v„ ayByIH��YINy I S BY ] �%nrtKf trylag to escape, • Su posed to Bet,'ARD V M NITIO I urge you not to delay:j�j 1i (}l1 I p 1dd ever, zags the not a our• perplexities, and the removal e£ was taken nrlsoner, and shot' while Not the (riilaiii find Rugamrrlfin ie rs all the angers that have menaced us,. "That will be sufficient," he con- Only recently Captain the Iron c u o i „ ,- was the son and heir of Viscount liven It t least promising I Mile these words. When we are � MACRE PLANT GREW UP IN .A, Agar Robartea died of wounds. Re There is an old Turkish allying in' e, - BRITISH ARISTOCRACY SII01!' out of Constantinople, we will go .o • ' merited. Clifdeir and represented a Cornish Still more or less mystified, hove- GREAT GAI,LANTILX, constituency in the Reuse of Com- Br'ouese; when we aro expelled •frolii: T110N'1!i. „, i n d e e and enclosed o s" He was member of an in. Broussa, We will fly to Paradise. 1'heam m ian envelope. The Chinaman severable tido consisting of Neil Prim- ing' gives a very good insight into; ---' +...•.� � say made no move to talcs it, Instead he •, , the character of the 'Turk as he really, • • . Women said; In Many Cases Children Succeed to lose, Earl,Rosebery s second son, andrticipatron of W en Apparent- on CHAPTER XIX,—(Conn)., 1 "Lao, you're one foxy guy, be-lieve "If you are satisfied with 7ny part T, Of b 1 11' Jimmy Rothschild. Captain Robartes 's' Every Maud North eo e e n itin to wages When heirs are was the Corinthian of the House of Fatalism and a simply but piofoun,';, What had become of my resolve to me, he,exclaimed. Did you m o h argot , will you be willinggilled. Commons, and his naivete in speaking U • use my knowledge as a lever to gain without trouble? Or did they have give me the ring?" + "but olief iii his religion are two° of h gi of Tweed: r r a7—totakewhatever d- to use force?" 1 Not only willing'," I returned, t, was greatly enjoyed. He frequently strangest ebaracteristics, Although 1;11 ia sumad that to expand ii fo m tiona I'll do it with the greatest leisure. " vantage his resent desires might It was patent that Lao Wing Po did I g: P The old french adage noblesse obe broke the rigid etiquette o£ the House will tell , the most outrageous -gals' „It might be s g present e interview not relish these rude pleasantries, Then bring it with you, together ligo" has never been more trim than "1>re than two -fold the great shiP' place to my hands? t Th t x g by uttering such expressions as hoods and exercise the deepest curia. was so foreign to anything I liacl'pie- There was a touch of irony in his with the ivory reliquary, when env noW, as has been clearly demonstr t don't mind betting. n' g driving bargain, h 's, listing plants on the Clyde so far •1 t messenger comes,Now I must hurry l the 1 l' tont Id employes and output is concerned f't � , . n - " to an a e t in tared in the brief minutes of waiting calm resentment , deliberate of the -ani taxi Y, a i. i • ed by rho part played by the arts o= Hon, Francis Lambton, the' young main,, a srmp a sou , con'on'v after I had been handed his card, it brazenly, deliberate use of the China ylrith two rapid strides, he advanced, ould be all that is expected of this whenhe means pierced up the envelope., and thrust it cyan; of Great Britain in the Present est brother of the Earl of Durham, . with little, and blessed with the most t e .ein the way of muet.eed f. PIP, and hinge a turn so different from man's common defence inside his blouse, and in another Sec- war. No recruiting officers, no bands, killed, was a lieutenant in the Royal enviable powers of endurance. n r conceived that a possibly could have not to r osubefrcommunicative, thatnwas al- is not all that the Scotsmen en co five beforehand, nil that'T was ut- together too subtle for even Strbber's and Was at the door. no parades have been needed to bring •ITorse Guards, and before .the war en many ways; of pours:, the Turks epaat aro contributing ace d bei i ha , 8 "Until to -night, he said, and was the sons of the finest families of Brit- maintained 'successfully a training is an abomination, and utterly out of western terry at a loss. comprehension, onoanymeans, for here as in other quitecolors, They have rallied, stable at Newmarket for Sir.FrAnets .place to twentieth-century Europe, its f the kingdom new workshops To bo frank about: it,Lao Lao Wing Fri crossed his hands in g stn to the Wing Fu had the situation entirely his voluminotis sleeves, which eom- "Now what d' quh ]snow axed- fought, and fallen in so great, num- Cassel: but he has his that!"Struber exploded, perplexed -Points, as only thoae!e tieing erected for munitions and, within his control, pletely bid them. bers that there is practically not a The death of Capt.�Andrew de Ver who have travelled and studied him ants intended originall for other And then I recalled a cynical utter- "No savvy," said he stonily, star- ly ruffling his hair. Then abruptlyhe y jumped from his chair and snatched noble house in all the United King- Maclean leaves that romantic figure at home can properly appreciate, He $ teirxied into shell once of Strubor's that confirms a corn- ing straight ahead. poses al. ,•bring" " it an can guess Strube' laughed; but when the up my desk telephone. He had police dem to -day which is not mourning: •maid •Sir Harry Maclean, the real is not the complete villain and rafiR-. y Fes mon belief; No white m what's in a Chink's mind until he's other remained motionless and silent headquarters at once, and was talking Sole heirs, eldest sons, youngest the ruler of Morocco for so many years, muffin he is so popularly supposed tarp sticking a knife in your back; then beneath his rough "joshing" he at last rapidly to his chief. sons, fathers, and brothers childless. be. Somewhere in Scotland an As - you navy he wants your life. But at took the hint and turned to me. Detail a couple o'men to get on greatest and most famous English ,ciated Press correspondent recently that you don't know why." "I s'pose yuh wanted me, or 1 Lao Wing Fu's trail—pronto. He's families went to the front at the ver Great Old families. As befits the introducer of rho', lei ted gestin' it for Chinatown rind Il send y' Turkish bath to the rest of the world;, •sited - two hundred in filing All at once my visitor began speak- l wouldn't a -been asked in." He wait- a messenger somewhere;one'man offset and are now in the trenches in Others who have fallen for their .the Turk ie a the of ean peisite which has grown uP •acre aerile ing in his former manner, quite as if ed inquiringly, gFrance and at the Dardanelles • or on country ate: Capt. Lord Richard 'son where his own body�is coneernele lore than a month like a mag'city, there had been no break. 1 "Sit down," said I. "Lao Wing Fu shadow the messenger, thother Lao. honor of asking Have em get a move on, too, for the the high seas. There can be no doubt Wellesley, the second son of the Duke His towns and streets maybe, an rith its scores of separate structures. "Mr.t Ferris, in your father's collect has just done g" the g the ring"—it had come to re- Big Thing's about to break, an' I that the peer of England is paying of Wellington; Major the Hon. Wil- Mostly are, filthy; but not so the Turn There are no less than eleven miles tion there was a ring of peculiar me for g wouldn't have the Chink hand us any- toll not less willingly, but even'far liam Cadogan, the third survivingsort p f trolley track to carry shells from workmanship, bearing a Chinese fico- quire no more definite identification ,g Y, himself. Soap is scared in Turkey graph; I know that you are familiar between us—"and I had just stated thing now for all you haven't saved dace to place. The plant will be with it, for I am myself not unac- certain conditions under which I would in a year." 1 Hugh Dawnay, second son of quainted with its more recent histo' consider a proposal, whenyou were It might as well be recorded right And now I come to the delicate part announced. here that Lao Wing Fu "handed" us of my errand. I do not know what as- "He moreover hinted that there several "things." The two men found Sociattons the ring may have for you might be an interesting story connect- neither him nor the messenger; but personally, or with what sentiment ed with it; I thought perhaps you when we learned this it was too late you may regard it, but—" He paus- might want to hear it" to be of service. ed and smiled in apologetic ember- "Surest thing yuh know," Struber Struber set down the telephone and rassment• ; earnestly agreed, staring hard at the grabbed his hat. "Youwant it," I finished for him. ' expressionless face. "I'll be interest- I gotta be going, he abruptly an - "You nounced. "If that Chink isn't lying, Precisely. But it was difficult for ed t y g „ I've been handed the crookedest steer a bull ever got. I had it tipped off to me where Strang's been all this time, and I'd meant to surprise yuh; but I don't want to be made a monkey of," "I suppose you won't tell me about it ?" "Not on your life—not till I find out for sure. Look's now as if that big Chink has known all along where Strang was. I oughtn't to 'a' butted in here, If I hadn't a -come when I did he might a -told yuh everything," "I don't know about that. Our in- terview reached a crisis. Mr. Fu hi a little toomuch was havingthings s t g way—playing u on m his own sensi- bilities and hlike—but I aminclin- ed to believe he really is not in pos- session of all the facts we want. I had laid down an ultimatum, and yon only heard how he accepted it. Your ap- pearance didn't give the situation an unexpected turn. "But, Struber, you have as much tact and delicacy as a horned-toad— and about as much imagination. You have been a source of constant sur - me to say so." In a flash I leaped out from the spell this man had cast about me. I re- membered every detail of the past few weeks, every outrage and indignity, and I hardened all over. "Mr. Lao. Wing Fu," said I, drily, "I will tell you frankly that the ring has not a single pleasant association in my mind; on the contrary, I would like to see it sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; but I have a presenti- ment that it is a talisman worth keeping, and I mean to hold on to it until :mine things that at present are ok re made confoundedlycrooked a straight. For example, I should like to know why a certain young lady has a facsimile of the seal tattooed upon her throat, and why a blowsy woman, pretending to be a canvasser, should try to persuade that young lady to let her remove the tattoo -mark; I should like to know why I was forcibly kid- napped and hauled around the coun- try blindfolded in a motor car while nye pockets were being searched; I should like to know why my office was burglarized by a desperate crook dis- guised as a Chinaman who, by the way, met his death through the in- strumentality of that same ring; I should like to know wby my rooms were broken into and ransacked; why James Strang was so interested in my stenographer that he journeyed clear from Johore to see her; why he has disappeared, and what has become of him. When I learn all that and some other things I have neglected to men- tion, then I may consider an offer :for the ring—not until." As I began speaking, the China - man's face, for the first time since he entered the room, grew as impassive as brass. He watched nee steadily un- til I was through, but with eyes that were utterly' expressionless. After a moment he spoke. "You touch upon strange matters, Mr. Ferris, some of which I am in a measure familiar with; others that 1 am utterly ignorant of. "I don't know what you mean when you speak of your rooms liaving.been broken into, for instance, or why your Office should have been burglarized. "On the other hand, I do know James Strang, that he came to this country recently, that he disappeared. It may also interest you to know that, with the aid of a system vastly more efficient than anything your po- n anything Lao has to say. What had he said before I same? "That he and my father and Strang were friends years ago in China." Struber slowly nodded his head. "I'd doped. that out for myself some time ago. I s'pose the conditions yuh laid down was in the nature of a bar- gain—information in exchange for the ring. No information, no ring." "Something of the sort," I admit- ted. Trow about it, Lao?" he sharply asked the Chinaman. Lao Wing Fu appeared to consider the matter. Finally he rose slowly to his feet and addressed us—or me, ra- ther; he pointedly ignored Struber's presence. "This conversation has taken a turn that I did not anticipate," he said. "I came here this afternoon prepared to pay for the ring anything within reas- on that Mr. Ferris might have de- manded. It has very little intrinsic value; but I shall not attempt to con- ceal the fact that it does possess con- siderable value for its antiquity—for' its religious associations, if I may say so. I want to be fair. "However, this matter of informa- tion—I hardly know what to say. I do not want to appear reserved or in- sincere; but the fact is, there is much that I do not know anything at all about—Mr. Ferris specified several things—while others that I do in a way know are the secrets of another. Believe me, if I could tell you all that you desire to know I would con- sider that I was getting the ring cheaply." You can answer our questions," Struber bluntly suggested. The other did not so much as glance at the speaker, but directed his re- sponse at me. That would be unfair to me, It would only prove embarrassing. I would have to reply either that I did not know, or else explain that a re- ply would betray some one who is trusting me—either of which would excite your suspicions. "If you will allow me, I think I can suggest a very simple means of re- solving the difficulty. If Mr. Ferris will write a brief note, I will under- take to have James Strang at a cer- tain place to -night at half -past ten." • Struber almost sprang from his chair. "The dickens you will!" he yelled. "You've been hiding him— that's what you've been doing. I've a notion to take a chance and pinch yuh lice can command, I have been at con- right now." siderable pains and expense trying. to This threat left the Chinaman find him." -' wholly unmoved, excepting for a tinge "You?" I blurted in astonishment• of contempt in the tone with which he "�Vhv'+" said: "I have only accomplished what 1 friend of mine. He you.have failed in. r father's, too, in ' "If Mr. Strang's attendance is to be secured for to -night," he continued, I marvelled. "no time must be wasted, and some And then it came to r, e in a flash of precautions will have to be observed. spiration—the three of them; Lao He shall not be placed in jeopardy Fu Strang and m s associated with on alllw n Yes, and Major Sylvester, too been ono of them. Because" he is was a friend of y, China." "A friend of yours. ether had through me, and I must be promised a another. safe conduct for him, free from es - e had pionage, in case he does not desire to tall: " "See here," I began after a oment, "I'll promise that, all right," growl - "somewhere, somehow, we a e work- ed Struber; "the police have nothing Ing at cross-purposes. Let's get this on him. All I ask is to get within, thing straight." reachin' distance of the gent." Smiling at my perplexity, h re-' "Very well. It will take my mes joined: "Thera is nothing so st range senger at least until ten -thirty to go about it all. I visited China last No- where Mr. Strang is at present and vember and met Mr. Strang in Johore return with him. In his presence I Behru, where I had occasion to'go. shall not hesitate to talk freely, and I strongly suspect it was through my ram euro lie will fill in the gaps where' ?" satisfactory instrumentality that he came—but I. am ignorant. Is that Y that is not my affair. I feel, however, Struber and I exchanged bewildered doubly bound to find him; to learn, if glances. What was this strange Ori - possible, that he has suffered no ental not capable of? But we were arm." soon to learn, to some extent at least, At this moment 1 recognized Stub's the range of his capabilities. ' knock. "Come in," I called. I "I can not understand," I said at me1 • last, haw a note from will fetch ina °til deet thrust his bead t e He u like a turtle, and succinctly announce him. He has refused—" eel: "Mr, Struber:" Yes, I know. Heretofore he has His arrival could, not have been been in grave peril; now I can assure more opportune. him that the cause of danger has been largely removed, and that he can come will observe a Measure of if he y more than the men of the working of the late Lord Cadogan; the Hon. to the majority of the inhabitants it tri c asses• an unknown luxury—but the religiot, An illuminating illustration of this Viscount Downe; Capt. the Hon. John of Islam demands daily bathing, fact was given recently when the Boyle, the third son of the Eai•1 of ,,,F members of the much abused House Glasgow; Lord Charles Merces well as certain ablutions before die g + repeated prayers. 0 of Lords refused to pass a motion au- Nairne, son of the Marquis of Lana- thorizing the return from the front dawns, the Unionist leader of the; The Religion of the Turk. ai of those of its members who had House of Lords; Lieut. the Hon. H. ' His religion also keeps him soba ti gone to the firing line. R. Hardinge, the heir of Viscount Already five peerages are without Hardinge and nephew of the .Viceroy heirs in remainder through the war, of India, whose eldest son, Lieut. the namely, the marquesate of Lincoln- Hon. E: C. Hardinge,'D.S.O., died of shire and the baronies of Knares- wounds in December; Lieut. the Hon. borough, Playfair, Ribblesdale, and Arthur S. Coke, second son of the Stamfordham. Earl of Leicester; Captain the Hon, Six peers have already been killed, William Andrew Nugent of the 16th namely, Lords Congleton, Hawarden, Hussars, brother and heir of the Earl Brabourne, Annesley, De Freyne, and of Westmeath, who died of wounds; Petra. Capt. the Hon. R. G. E. Morgan Gren- Nearly thirty heirs to peerages have ville, Master of Kinloss; Capt. Hon. been killed and almost as many C. H. M. St. Clair, son of Lord Sin - wounded. :lair, and Major Lord John Spencer Fifty sons of peers have been kill- Cavendish, youngest brother of the ed and the number wounded is in the Duke of Devonshire. hundreds. ILo d Ri blesdale's only surviving g 'Brothers of peers, baronets, and son, the Hpn. Charles Lister, was knights who have either been killed wounded in two engagements pre - while his kindness to dumb aninie' certainly puts many more civilin and enlightened folk to burro shame. The prosecution of a T,rf for cruelty to animals is an unlcn thing; no Moslem wouldever oe work his borne or his donkey, or his dog. He would as soon asst his own father. The Turk has an extraordinary: apparently inevitable way of imtre ately deteriorating when he has':n "official" work to undertake, or c 1 he is bonded with others of his } for any purpose; but by Mineola private 117e, he is often quite a chis( ing person. He ds courteous, hi. kind, he is considerate, he is hospi ble, sensehumor. he has a of humo •. or wounded number a great total. iviously to sustaining in the third the fact, when he likes, the Turk can How heavily the titled families wounds that caused his death. a perfect gentleman with peri', have contributed themselves to this' Lord Stamfordham, the private sec- ' manners. conflict may best be imagined when retary to King George, has lost his But, unfortunately, the bad trait it is stated that 213 peers and 424 only son, Capt. J. M. Bigge; Lord *the Turk far outnumber the g sons of peers are already serving with Desborough, the famous sportsman, ones. The position which he allow the colors. has lost two sons, his eldest, the Hon. his women, fm• instance, is archei• Boys Inherit Titles. Julian Grenfell, and a younger, S. W. For a few years a Turkish gir prise to me, but I believe I have about Grenfell. - allowed to run about and play gauged your limitations. Ever hear The havoc that this war has played Death has also claimed the eldest mix with little boys in a more or of Tibet?" with the aristocracy may be best in- son and heir of the Earl of Yin:- rational manner, except that not Struber accepted this sarcasm un- dicated by a partial list of members borough, and .two other sons the attention is given to her clothes, moved. "No. Who is he?" of prominent families killed, including Hon. George and the Hon. Marcus her attendance at school, despite "Tibet isn't a 'he,' it's a place—a Lord S. D. Compton, a lieutenant in Sackville Pelham, are fighting in pulsory schooling being in fore try—a vast unexplored region the Royal Horse Guards, brother and handers, not generally insisted upon. the roof of the world; the cradle of heir presumptive of the Marquis . of the human race. That's where this Northampton; Capt. M. A. de Tuyll mess we're floundering in was start- of the Tenth Hussars, youngest son ed." of the Duchess of Beaufort; Major "Help! Let me out! Do' I have to the Hon. C. B. 0. Freeman-Mitford, go there?" 0.5.0., eldest son and heir of Lord "You'd never get back."with the "Well, then, I'll go somewheres else Redesdale are serving col - that I have a chance getting back ors, two in the army and two in the from. And I'll have to hustle if it's navy, The Hon. Colwyn Phillips, to be by ten -thirty to -night. Will you elder son of Lord St. Davids, was an stand for the price of a speedy auto early victim of the war. His brother for the rest o' the day?" Roland, who is now sole heir, is a I eyed him severely. this war will fall to the nation whose �„ lieutenant in the cavalry. then until she is married. CHAPTER XX. », �, tion, . Send him in,"I said quickly; and Preca u to the Chinaman (who hacl not made `You talk in rirldlee; but if a sum- ' the slightest movement to go): "That mons from me will bring him out of was not a dismissal. Struber will be his hole, to he sure you may have it." as interested as I in hearing what "And both of you gentlemen give you have to say." me your word that you will not men- "Well, look who's here!" burst sur- tion the matter to any one until after prisedly from Struber, as he came in you have seen him?"' and closed the door, He stood a moe We both bound ourselves. Lao meat glancing questioningly between Wing 1 u thoughtfully eontentplateci Lao WIn Fu; then, in his cocksure the pad I had drawn toward me, manner,he advaneed ami clapped the Simply say: Please accompany Chinamen familiarly upon the Awn -[bearer of this note without delay. lieder, will bring you to a safe rendezvous. CRUELTIES UNNERVE MEN. Marry Their Mother's Choice. But very early there come change. Her mother looks at her German Soldiers Suicide After Moral says she is growing big, and she Torture. put on a charshaf. A charshaf The London Daily Graphic prints silk cloak reaching down to the its and upes to the top of the head the follwing despatch from Petro- it impedes the child's movement. grad: • turally. She must also wear a In view of the statement of Gen- veil, never see a little boy agair eral Hindenburg that the victory in never speak to any man but I ere die you going . "Ever hear of Sturtevant Camp? When the Earl of Erne died his son It's somewhere up east o' Mt. Wilson." and heir, Major Viscount Crichton, "You can't get there in an automo- who had been equerry to the King, bile," I told him. was reported to have been taken "No, but I can make a record run to prisoner in Germany. Later inform- Sierra Madre and hit the trail from ation showed he died from wounds there up." about the same time as his father. "Get the machine, then. I trust you Viscount Crichton left a son born in know what d cheerfullye about." 1907,who at the earl age of eight He grinned . and wrinkled y g g his nose. years has become the Earl of Erne. "That's where Hardwick's fishin'," Another pathetic case is that of he left me to mull over. Captain Lord Guernsey, whose little son Michael, born in 1908, becomes the heir to the earldom of Aylesford. (To be continued.) Diplomacy. Through the death of Viscount Irate Father—If I catch that young Northland, the only son of the Earl idler around here again I'll break his of Ranfurly, the heir to the earldom head. lis Northland's little baby, born in Sweet Daughter—But he's not an May of this year. Lord Northland idler, father; he's a prizefighter, came into notoriety some years ago Irate Father—Oh, well, then, of by being named as the correspondent tour a se P will have to treat himsensational divorce case. as a in a friend of yours, Lord Killanin's heir is now the baby son of Lieut. -Col. S. H. Morris, who was killed some months ago. Lard Ninian Crichton -Stuart, who has lost his life in the war, was a brother to the Marquis of Bute, When Capt. Charles Uncle was killed his nine-year-old son became heir to his grandfather, Viscount ets. diced to an absurdity Monck. " Y After Przemsyl General Macken - the corruption of the official by Lord Congleton is succeeded by his sen issued an order to the army in ed to carry them out. The Viscountess Areheson formerly Miss Mildred Cart'ex;, of Bal- timore, the only daughter of. J, Ridge•: ley Carter, former American Ministe to the Balkan States, whose work. the Duchess of Marlborough's W Relief Committee of American 1; has been highly commended by Q Mary, r en, soldiers have the strongest nerves, it The majority of Turkish girt is interesting to note that cases of ry the man their mother dtoq suicide are increasing largely in the them. But as the mother may German army.• During the Russian man except her own husbanc retreat the enemy strove to demon- must rely upon the advice—ba: strate the possession of strong nerves rumors and hearsay of her • by inflicting numberless cruelties on friends—or else employ a profet the innocent population of the towns matchmaker. and villages. Near Dumbina, in the After she is married, a T village of Charna, the Germans eov- woman just "sits." She sits ft ered the streets with the bodies of after hour, placidly, with her' tortured men, women and children, folded, in the manner of a slee but the next morning nineteen dead A day's shopping or a rowboati' bodies of German soldiers were also the Golden IIorn is a thrilling seen. These had ended their lives by her life, She plays very distil. suicide. In common with their fellows and fiddle to her norther -in -la these nineteen men had been showing retains first call upon her son the strength of their nerves by cap- and larder, and such pastimes. turing and shooting peaceful people. !ing books, playing cards, tel At Przemsyl, when the Germans golf are nearly unknown to were firing thousands of guns, some of til soldiers Y women• sirwith bloodshot eyes i l hates reform; wl The Turc were seen rushing into the very thick! good enough for his father of the hand-to-hand fighting, oblivious : father before him—is qui: of the wounds they received. They enough for him; and altho appeared to be intoxicated by the fury isometimes wakes up for a of the fight. Others, frenzied by the , and passes laws for this or t fearful scene, shot themselves deadernizing of his country or It with their own rifles or pierced them- al life, 1115 enthusiasm soon i selves to the heart with their boson-' and the laws are ignored of brother, the Hon. John P. Parnell, a lieutenant in the army, and heir to the title is his brother William, who is 11 years of age. Lord Kinnaird lost his eldest son, Capt. Douglas Kinnaird, while an- other son is serving in the army. Lord Balfour of IIur ei gh s eldest son, the Hon. Robert Bruce, the mas- ter of Burleigh, was killed, and his brother is with the colors. Picturesque Figures. The death of Lord Annesley result- ed from his being shot through the head while making a brilliant aero- plane attack upon Ostend. edges of which have The death of Captain the Hon, R. other, but the General was determine like a saw. Wyndham, heir presumptive of his ed at rhuse mThese shells come tea brother, Lord Lecoufield, the nephew dentltol,got and ordoeredcathatofrho his bodyan's the air for a (muter of Lord Rosebery, makes the third should be searched. He rend aloud more, cutting through t member of the Wyndham family to the contents of the note which was in their way: When on fall in the War. discovered; 'I cannot boar any longer explodes the concussioi Lord Cowdrey, the head of the fain- ilia boating and moral torture inflict- for ten miles, The Br ous thin of Wectmaa-Pearsons, so ed by Lieutenant Glaubo. Private have •nick -named the prominent in the oil fields of Mexico, Conrad Dummler: " "Minnie -lovers," which he warned his troops that the d children of the soldier wives an t'lcls who committed suicide would be de- prived of pensions. The number of German soldiers who committed.sui- cid: at Przemsyl was 111. On the Dneister and near Juravno there were similarfilar cases caused by the dislike of the soldier's to face an overwhelming fire. "Very often the cruelty of the Ger- man officers was responsible for cases of suicide. On the very clay that Gen- eral Mackensen arrived at Vladimir Volynsk he saw the body of a Ger- man soldier who lead hanged himself. The officers looked confused at each LATEST IMPLEMENT 0 German Trench Mortar Ii Pound Shells. ' Germans on the western using a new trench mortar werfer, as they eall it, w tiles make a hole big enol lin automobile in. Each shell weighs tt pounds and r stands til splits two strips that me two to three feet in finished soon and worlcers for it are ow being trained elsewhere. Contractors Make No Profit. The plant is being erected by con- tractors who will make no profit and on a tour of munitions plants much of that sort of thing is seen. Engineers of large experience and reputation and owners of big esstob- lishments are doing their it" with- out a thought of personal gain. As in the case of the famous Arm- ` strong works at Newcastle plants en- goged in shipbuilding on the Clyde were open to inspection. and the ' The shops on the Tyne i Clyde are playing their part; and it is - 'tremendously impressive Pt In Glasgow as elsewhere the par - o ticipation of women in the industry is e apparent on every band. In their n khaki or blue aprons, with dust caps - of the same color, they are busy at s the lathes and swarm in and Et in in shift hes periods. thousands at n foreman with whom the correspond - ie : ent talked was enthusiastic et plication of the efficiency of women of the works. Of course they are f ' not set to work at the a heavchiefly chinos and they to, tasks requiring onlyafew dayb perience. In every establishment, til. is women workers learn how to work td the machines for the lighter shells se the men are taken out for the =mu- ch facture of the heavier munitions. nd Problem After the War. in -1 What the permanent effect of a11 is', this change in the working operations ' of women will be after the war is not concerning the employers now, though they appreciate that it will a. bring its chain of problems for setu- p() ! tion later. To the women it is al- ust , ready bringing more money than they s a ; ever had in their lives before and a elk- sense of. i• '^pendence never experi- and'enced. na- I This alteration in the industrial fab- hicic }}, riC'"by women's increasingt is beinand and . broadening opportunity is perhaps • fa- most vivid impression left on the mind of one who devotes a weekto mar -1 tour of the munition plants, second -. of the en- s for l only usto the comprehension t oduction that the ee she i MiniSt scale laof P ' It is in all pro - she Ministry has Planned, ad on l,bability the biggest engineering and omen' labor enterprise in modern history. ;iona1 e, rkish hour hands y cat. rip on ent in 1 t sec - who puree s read - n& or 'urlcish HOLLAND IS HURT. Textile Industry Deprived of Raw Materials and Dyestuffs. The.,textile trade, one of the princi- pal industries in holland, is su Gii at attack from both Germany and Britain, the first of which refuses to provide sufficient dyestuffs, while e raw latter restricts the supply oft materials required to keep the Dutch spindles going. the vari- Ever since August, 1914, • e .. eatil trade here ous branches of the t have experienced difficulties in keep- ing mills at work. At first there was a certain amount of ray+ stuffs on hand to furnish the looms, weree kept busy by the orders Dutch military authorities for cloth- ing for the rapidly mobilised Dutch troops. Then, however, carne restric- tions on imports- and exports, :which we• accompanied anied by depression in were the home purchasing market. This district is the centre of the textile trades, In the immediate ..v' einity of 'T.'wenthe in normal timendles s 27,000 looms and 800,000 meet they dee busy, and for the most p pend on foreign countries for raw materials. Altogether in ]:•Tolland trades textile r int e ter h • ale engaged there 370 power factories and 2,600 other tgh to bury works, whore purely hand -labor is employed• In these, concerns about 7 ro hundred 44,000 people earn their living. •ee feet. It Up till a few` yea s ago ic >n o1i do ksure from the mens and women'sfrom 1 came n Holland nt 'n sold i the clothing 1 g •cad til c r n" , Dutchmen tl Du con egged teeth Germany, !tuhemselves to titin trade, have applied t t the beginning of the war,• ing through Which, e entirely in Dutch mile or 'saw ]tsolf almost on y h vo: '008 that stand hands. People in this oountry a reed however, to economize by e of the shells .been fo ltions, and the •Quailing Gond tcan be heard rho pt itish soldiers clothing manufacturers hevo felt the minewerfers inch of thewar just as much a5 any P other branch of the textile trAdes,' at was and his e good ugh he moment at mod- s nation lion down else .re- ea son of s appoint - f' WAR. ;els 200, Ifronare t or-lnine- Mim- edx o`ec- P 3