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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-3-30, Page 6-CER ANS AS HUNGRY AS THEIR PRISONERS LANCE -CORPORAL 'WM. EGAN'S EXPERIENCE. • "They told is that they had boon promised tinct they 'would not he sant man!) DUKE against the lerit;sh or the Fxonclx v: Mont b NICHOLAS PIIS PL C Y ut oyatnst, the Russians. I Am Sorry For That, for I would dearly, love to put my bayonet through one of the renegade Removed Prom blackguards who disgraced such a flue regiment Ile mine, • Has Carried the Stage With "'The sentries occaaionelly referred Hi Silt IVILL1A11 11, ROBERTSON. RIUTISH HOSPITAL, SHIPS. HISTORIC PUNS. i A "Tommy" 41'1:0 'las riccome Vh'tual, 'Kaki' Their Owe Antiseptics By Wer 'Time -Jokes lion Through Con- J] of British Army. Newly -Invented Device. 1 furies of English I3lstory. One o@ the meet rentarkaltle person- The Mot that, in this war, hospital The 'English are declared to take alt•„es that the war has. il15slosed.in ships have. played a great part in the their' pleasures seriously. Perhaps— the ,Britieh army is. that of Sir Wil- trans port of the sick and wounded theatre of Stage, He 1 1 , they dq,.but, on the. other hand, they. liar R. Robertson, who is now chief has 'ondowecl the question of the dis- often show an admirably gallant gay - infection of these ships with special ety in 'the face of danger, difficulty to the German Irishmen. They said, r tan Even 'If they are traitors to England it is One, An Irish Soldier Says Germans Begged Prisoners for Germany,', and I don't think they are Bread. •tar wrong "The pleasantest memory of the "Being a military prisoner of win' war I have is of La Bassee, where we in Germany is purgatory,” aeoording made the Germans run like hares, I to haute -Corporal William Egan . of • said to my mate --poor• fellow, he was the Ileyal Irish Rifles, who is'a sur- -killed afterward -'We don't come vivor of the Mons retreat and was from Dublin to be laughed at, do we?' captured by the Germans at La Bas- 'Indeed we don't,' he replied. "Then see in October, 1914. The following give them fifteen rounds rapid,' I said, is Corporal Egan's own story of his and so we did, Bat afterward they experiences. It contains, as will lee gave us a gruelling. I thought all noticed, interesting details regarding the cannon, in the German Empire was -Sir Roger Casement's attempt to in -firing upon us. duce Irish prisoners of'war to enlist "I mast say this, that all the time M the German ranks we were in Germany we never lost "When we 'first arrived- in Ger- hope. We knew that Britain would many," says Corporal Egan, "we were come out on top and ib was rare good simply half starved and I remember news to be told that conscription had my comrades and myself picking out come in." potato peelings from the swilltub,' __.r _—_•. where they had been thrown by our FARM 'WORK POR VETERANS. akin sentries, washing them and making a meal of them. We would have $1Q,000,000 to Be Raised to Aid Sol - eaten anything. ; diers and Sailors. "When the parcels began to ar Extensiveplans rive from the Old Country our guards are in preparation were themselves being put on shgrt, for. the settlement' or the em-iloyment rations and they begged us to give on the land in England and Wales of them some of our bread, but we re_sailors and soldiers discharged from membered the swilltub, and we refus the British army, and if the report d. We said a•e wanted it all for our- presented by Sir Harry Verney, M.P.; m u r Built 0 New just 00 likely they will be traitors to e selves. Sometimes they would take is adopted a preliminary credit of up our food and look at it eagerly, $10,000,000 will be granted az onto but they did not dare to touch it. What to those who will be in charge of the. they did out of spite was to, give us scheme. our parcels last. Everybody else in Sir Harry Verney is chairman ofa the camp was served first, the committee appointed by the Pre - "We often discussed the war with ardent of the Board of Agriculture the guards. At first they thought it and Fisheries to present a report of would be a walkover. 'England is the subject and in his recommends kaput' (finished) they bold us. There tions he suggests the immediate es - is 'nicht geld' (no gold). and 'nicht tablishment of three colonies and the essen' (nothing to eat) in England. acquisition of land for other similar Afterward they changed their opine establishments. The committe sag- 1o0s'and said England has 'viel geld' ,'eats that these colonies should be (much gold) and 'viel essen' (much managed on co-operated lines, and to eat). the small holdings should be rather Worried Over Conscription. on the basis of tenancy than owner- ship. "They thought we had a very small' The principal recommendations in - army at freb but toward the end they elude: 'knew that we had grown into a very That the State should find the big army. The last few weeks I was money for training disabled men. there they were greatly worried over That a vigorous campaign should conscription, and I noticed the Ger- be undertaken in favor of land settle - man papers were full of references to merit at home, the committee believe it. ing that the scheme has. far better "At the time Warsaw was capbur- Promises of real success than any ed the Germans were certain that thing hitherto tried in this country. they were going to win, and you That the Board of Agriculture should have heard the singing and the should have power to acquire land rejoicing and the yelling of 'Deutsch- for the settlement of ex service men Tho Grand Duke Nicholas Nieho- laievitch 'is the man that deserves credit for the capture„ of Erzerum and the advance of the Russians in Asiatic Turkey—the greatest success that has come to the arms of 'the allies since the capture of Przernysl and the Carpathitun drive almost a year ago, which was also engineered by the Grand Duke. When the Grand Duke Nicholas was removed from the supreme com- mand of Russia's land force and sent to the Caucasus last September, the average casual observer said, ''Well, that is the end of the Grand Duke." A good many men in the Grand Dukes position would have gone into a fit of sulks for the rest of the war. But Nicholas Nieholaievitch is too big a man to do that. His brain and his heart are as proportionately big as his huge body. Apparently re- moved from the centre of the stage, we find that. he has carried the stage with. him, or has built a new one, if you like, where the eyes of the world are now centred. More than any other member of the royal family, Nicholas Nicholale- vitch has devoted himself to the pro- fession of soldiering.. Grand Duke Nicholas. As a youth of 21 in the war of 1877 - land uobor Allis!' 'Wo shall have in State colonies, and that land own- 78 with Turkey he went with his fa - peace by Christmas,' one of the sen- era should be invited to offer to the ther, who bore the same name, to bhe tries bold me. board any largo farms which come m Danube and the Balkans, where the When Christmas tante and there hand before they are relet, elder Nicholas was commander -in- was no peace our sentries lost their take no man should be allowed to chief of the Russian forces in Euro - cocksureness and told us that before ake up holdings of their own unless peen Turkey. He was then ajunior forming any definite opinion of the they have the necessary experience. officer in a hussar regiment and was prospects of the war they would like Men without such experience should on the staff of Gen. Radetzky. He to compare the English and the Ger- be offered employment at wages in took part fir the campaigns of Plev- man papers. They could see that the first instance. na, Lovcha, and the Shipka Pass, re - things were not going as well as were' The War Office should hand over carved the Cross of Sb. George for pictured both from the absence of to the board, free of cost, any of the valor, and established the foundation coin in the country, the scarcity of military hutments which are not re- of his present high reputation as a food, the continual stream of wound- quired for military purposes after the horseman and expert on cavalry mat- ed returning from the front and the war. tors. never ceasing demand for fresh drafts i Expert guidance should be provide After that war the Grand Duke for the firing line. ;ed for the settlers in each colony by rose by degrees to be commander of At, first we saw fine, physically de-• the appointment of a resident dim- a hussar regiment, commander of a veloped men about the camp, but be- tor and an agricultural or horticul- division of cavalry, and finally in - fore I came away they had all gone tural instructor. specbor-general of cavalry. In spite to the front, and in their place had ; A depot should be established in of his immense height and his fond - come anaemic looking, elerklike fel- each colony for the collection and dis- ness for stirrups rather shorter than lows with spectacles, so thin that you posal of produce, and a store for the most men of his size would select, he could blow them over with your sale-of'the requirements. sits a horse as securely and as gracefully as all but the Very pick of European cavalrymen. Like Gen. Sukhomlinoff, who was h saidour fie wasso Sure Cure for Rat -Plague, and They're -Ministerthsof War during the first because they r months of the present conflict, the deadly. They had a perfect horror of Scarce at the Front. Grand Duke did not smell powder in the Ypres front and declared they A British army officer searched the war with Japan, but was held in would rather be sent anywhere thanreserve to guard Russia's western all London recently fora mongoose breath and hardly as tall as their hay- onets. "The sentries used to ash: me whe- ther all our chaps had Maxim guns, 3 MONGOOSES KILL RATS. there.border-from possible attacks in that "We heard that three German sol He had received an urgent letter from direction. He was made commander some friends in the trenches asking diers who had been told off for the for one of these valuable little beasts of the St. Petersburg district in 1906, western front committed suicide. —a sure cure for rat plague. He was a position which he was holding They had no heart for facing us told that one could only be secured when he was appointed commander- - a private individual happened to of Russia's armies at the be- German Trish Brigade. have one to dispose of, and the price, ginning of this war., "You have heard of the abtempt would be about £5 10s, I Nicholas Nieholaievitch was born that was made to form a German Irish Mie Cecil Isaacs, of the Royal) November 6, 1856, but he is appar- brigade by SirRoger Casement. Oust Menageries,' Shaftesbury avenue, Lon- ontly as vigorous and erect as when of 2,000 Irishmen they got fifty-one don, told a representative of the Daily he was a dashing young giant of a to consent to join, and afterward, Chronicle that the mongoose is the hussar. dressed in a gray uniform with gold- only animal that can be depended up- The Grand Duke himself is a fine en harps worked on it, they came on to rid a trench of rates. athlete, a keen horseman and he strutting in to see us, their hands on "A ferret," • he said, "will kill for himself taught the present Czar, his their bayonets just like officers. the sake of eating. But a mongoose first cousin once removed, how to "One or two tried their capers on kills for the sake of killing. I guar- straddle a horse. The Grand Duke me, but they got their answer sharp. antee that any trench with a mon- Was married in 1907 to the Princess 1 said: 'I wouldn't be after being a goose will not suffer from rats. The Anastasia, daughter of the present traitor for all the money in the world.' difficulty is to get a mongoose. I King of Montenegro, and a sister of have sent out half a dozen recently the Queen of Italy. I1 was believed to France, but live stock is not be- to be a love match, and the Grand ing shipped to England now, and the Duke is said to be devoted to.his wife, home of the mongoose is Ceylon. I01 1ussia the Grand Duke is not "The only chance is to seek out held so high as a strategist, as he is at the land we have taken: I said: private' owners and ask them to sell, in America. His critics say, for one 'What do you mean by we?' There Many enquiries . have reached mo thing, that he should never have gone they were arrying on as if they were from officer's at the front. Even the to the crest of the Carpathians, as he real Germans. At times I lost, my ferret isscarce. did about a year ago, knowing that temper and felt like sbrilcing them, but: after trying me three Limes they gave me up as a bad job. "I Must say that, the fifty-one .fel- lows they got for the brigade were about) the biggest rascals that I have ever seen in any. army, They were itot soldiers for the love of soldiering They answered: 'You are nob a real Irishman, You are an English swine, one that came from Dublin.' I said: 'What did you do it for?' They an- swered: 'We are sure to win. Look The mongoose is a rare animal in England. But in one hotel in Ire- land, reland, plagued with rats for many months, two mongooses were import- ed with the very happiest results. "This may be justice," said the de- or because of any patriotism, hut be- Mated defendant, "but is strikes me cause they could not find anything as being a pretty fishy verdict" else to de, and I dare wager. that if "That shows that it is justice," tee they give as Much trouble to the Ger- torted the plaintiff. "One of the most mans as they gave to their own regi- conspicuous features of justico is menta they will riot be long there, her scales." he had little ammunition.. On the other hand, his defenders say that the Grand Duke did not know of this shortage, and they aver that but for corruption and inefficiency in Petro - geed, which held up long-overdueor- ders for shells, the long retreat of last spring and euminer would never have occurred. - ,t, Fortune awaits the inventor of a lifeboat that will float on a sea of trouble, e, of the imperial general stalk, uud, as reports from London tell us, the most influential man in the military organization. of Great Britain, Lord from the Near East to England would front has recently revealed, mammy Czar Has An Exclusive Paper..— ItOW ROYALTY GETS NEWS S THE NEWS IMPORTANT READING CUPPED FOR RULERS. mtportanee. A ship bringing cases and discouraging circumstances. Ase of para -typhoid fever or dysentery abundant correspondence from the Kttehener by no means excepted, Sir William has long been a valued of- ficer to whose merits hie superiors were quite alive, but it is only within the last year that other lands have heard his name, His career le espe- cially interesting, for it shows the opportuirities that lie open to capacity and faithfulness even in an organiza- tion as fundamentally aristocratic as the British army, Par Sir William has literally risen from the ranks with nothing except his own merit to recommend. him. ' Without any advantage of technical education he has made himself per- haps the greatest authority in Eng- land in the hi her and more difficult become, were measures of clislnfec. Atkins in the field is far froth being tion neglected, a public danger, The a serious-minded person much of thea "Literary, Rooms" for. King difficulty has been to devise adequate time; ho is often OS "Barky" 08 0! George, measures which shall be, at the snare schoolboy, and his exuberant non-' tiino, easily applied and relatively sense is frequently touched with The average man is generally antis - cheap. gleams of real wit as well as humor. feel with the news that is dished up, This clitficalty has been solved in But it is nob British Tommies only for ]tun in the halfpenny paper he large measure by means of an aline- who joke in war time. Through- purchases an his way to business; roue recently installed tin rho Aryni-. out centuries of English history, but a king must know -everything that tania under the supervision of Dr.jokes, from sources military, literary, is going on in the world, says ti writer Dakin and at the instance of the noble and even royal, have occasion- in a. London paper. Medical Research Committee of the ally enlivened momentous events. It is, of course, imppssible for a National Insurance Act. Puns, the most frivolous and trivial,monarch to read through every news - The apparatus consists of an ole- sometimes the most disdained, of paper that is published, and, as a con- trolytic cell, a reversing switch cap- jocular- efforts, attach themselves sequence, he finds it advantageous to able of carrying 100 amperes, and here and there, like impudent burs, to maintain a department which is not some ordinary insulated electric cable•rho most serious and careful ehroni- a butler or a footman; on that point unlike the newsroom of 0daily paper. g The cost is about $250. The cell„ Iles. The sober historian who writes For a good many years now rho problems of army organization and stands upon a rubber mat to insulate fully of the disastrous Battle of Cul- German Emperor has maintained a field abratcgv, Ile began life, we are told, as either b! its t Prussian Ministry tk Interior. stories differ. VTichever it was; Sir William did not long remain content in that station of life. Ho came up from Lincol.-shire in his twentieth year and enlisted as a private in a I cavalry regiment. For eight years he remained a trooper, although ho took every opportunity to improve his mind I and to study the lore of the profes- sion he had adopted. He spent al- most all his money -a British cavalry - ib, and is raised upon a low table to loden, which decided the finalefall of "liberary department" attached to the enable r contents o be pouredoutthe royal house of Stuart, when he to- inis ry for e easily hates that the advance of Genetuls . It is filled with cold sea wa- This department is under the' manage - ter, and if a current of 60-75 amperes Cope, Wade and Hawley was delayed rent of a Teuton gentleman well at 110 volts be then turned on a solu-by the snow -filled glens and icy slopes versed in journalism, and, since the tion containing bwo parts of sodium of wild Scotland, condescends to re- tear broke out, ho and his assistants hypochlorite or available chlorine to cord in a footnote that the opposing have been kept exceedingly busy 1,000 parts will be obtained in five forces drew ,mirthful encouragement reading through the .foreign news- minutes. The cost of this solution from this punning' couplet; Papers which reach Berlin, and cutting works out at 3d. per 100 gallons. out the remarks made by English, The solution is also excellent as a Cope could not cope, nor Wade wade I American and other countries' news - sterilizer of drinking water (one part ; through the snow, I papers upon Germany's- action and chlorine to one million parts), and - Nor Hawley haw' his cannon to the movements• as an antiseptic for wounds (used 1 foe. Plenty to Collect. man gets fourteen pence a day—in undiluted as produced by the electro- , When, aft 1707, the fleet of Admiral (• It has been said that the War Lord books, and thereis a story that when lyzer, Le., two paits hypochlorite of 'Duncan was about to engage that of has ordered his literary assistants to lie was busy grooming his horse or soda to 1,000 parts). Further, in the the Dutch Admiral de Winter, the supply him with every article dealing cleaning his equipment he would get butcher's department its value was British captains came aboard the with the great struggle written out- a cent edo to read to him from some soon evident, and also in the laundry flagship for instructions. They re- side hisdomains, as well as the car - classic English author or from a text- for soaking undyed cotton and linen ceived them in an address of mentor--; toons in 'which he and his son, the book on war. 1 goods. It was added to the water in able brevity and point. Crown Prince, are depicted. Almost all British officers are men the swimming bath of the ship in the "Gentlemen," said Admiral Duncan, For years back his Majesty of Pots- df family Who have been educated ab proportion of one part 111 two million "you see a severe Winter approach- dam has made a collection of car - the military college at Sandhurst, but Parts, with the result that bacteria ing; I have only to advise you to teens which "poke fun" at himself a private who has the knowledge. and which had -formerly been present in]coop up a good fixe." land his country. In this respect he the character can occasionally get, a tate water to the number of 2,000 per Their enthusiastic compliance with follows the example of his grand - commission by passing a stiff examine 0.0. were reduced to 200 ac., a 90 his advice resulted in a brilliant vice father, William L, who collected the tory. most ridiculous caricatures of himself Perhaps the briefest and wittiest of printed in the French illustrated historic English puns was the Latin : press from 1866 onward. announcement in a single word of the 1 It was reported a little while ago conquest of Scinde, attributed to the that a newspaper is printed in Ruse conqueror, Sir Charles . Napier: "Peccavi " (I have sinned.) ation. Young Robertson got such a per cent. reduction. commission in the Third Dragoon ; These excellent results have delight. Guards at the age of twenty-eight, ed all who have observed them. In and he soon showed so much fitness the case of the Aquitania the economy for the highest sort of staff work that in largely replacing expensive coal - he was attached to the intelligence de- tar disinfectants, such as carbolic pertinent of the Indian establishment. acid, cresol, etc., by electrolytic hpyo- He spent the spare moments of his chlorite will approximately pay for busy days learning every Indian iia- the cost of the cell in the course of a letthe could master, and made him- i single trip of three weeks. self thereby one of .the most useful F officers in the service. He came out of the Chitral cam- LAND FOR THE DISABLED. paign with a severe wound, the Dis- , tinguished Service Order and the rank Australian Wounded to be Taken of staff captain. After a tour of duty Care of by the State. ab home he went out in the Boer War, where. he won fresh distinction, both' al and statetaes of Australianmtfide in the field and in staff duty. Mean- oral and governments have while he had learned French and Ger- adopted a scheme for the settling of returned soldiers on the land. man and studied carefully the army systems of the Continental nations; The bases of the scheme are, first, and in 1910 this self-taught, self- the provision of land by the States, trained officer, who had no ground- which is to be available' for. the de - work of re¢ular academic ed pendants of deceased soldiers and for ucatton, returned soldiers; second, the pro - was put at the head of the Army Staff vision of the federal government of College, an institubion that gathers funds and loans to the States for the the ablest ;officers in the army for purpose of making advances through instruction in the higher branches of agricultural banks or other govern war. He distinguished himself therements, stock and implements; third, again, and was in charge of outfit- the advance by State institutions to ting and supplying the expeditionary soldiers and settlers of money at cost force that went over to France in ' 1914. Sir John French made him his -plus reasonable working charges; chief of, staff, and he was in time pro- touthe in ep'ti tr of subucripti with meted from that post to the head of toh a specialcrepatriation fund trth sub - the general staff in London. the object of providing for the !sidiary requirements of returned sol - A remarkable man, only fifty-five (Hers, the fund to be vested in years of age now, and good for many trustees, who are to make loans with- years to come, if one may judge by out interest; and fifth, the immediate the air of vigor and of:plrysical flt- Iestablishmentof State training farms, ness thab distinguishes him. It is ten which inexperienced men are to that power of endurance which has serve a probationary period in order enabled him to give sixteen hours' etc) determine whether they possess work to, the day, as he has done more aptitude for the work, in addition to than once for long periods in his life. which arrangements are to be made Like most successful generals, he for training men on approved private talks little and listens patiently, and farm, is nob at all impressed with the sac-: It is estimated that—assuming the redness of red tape. Ho is modest war' ends this year 'and that the n- and retiring, and is indifferent to op- cessary money is raised in the Com- portunities of self -advertisement. He monwealth within three years—by is, they say, proud of ono thing only— the end of June, 1919, it will be pos- and that is that he was once a bloom- sible to settle upward of 42,000 suit- ing Tommy," and that within thirty able persons on the soil. years he made himself the virtual *----- . head of the British army. And of that he has an unquestionable right to be proud. • CANNON IS KNIFE SIZE. New Weapon is Invented for Pocket Use. The smallest breech loading can- non in the world is now being made for pocket use. It is not a toy, but takes a 22 -calibre rim fire cartridge and fires a bullet that would inflict a nasty wound at close range, The most remarkable tide in the world. It has even been caught as far Men who are looking for the refine - It is in the form of a pocket knife world is that of the Bay of Fundy. It north as St. John in New Brunswick:' ment of precaution recommend that no larger than the usual knife, and rises at, bhe rate of a foot every five The whale shark is a slow creature 'gunners :wear shoes with rubber - has two blades of fine steel' 13ut at minutes, the water sometimes attain- and does not frequent great depths. cushioned soles and heels to lessen one end is a hole, Anyone asked ing the height of seventy-five feet. Its food consists of the minute crusta- I the jar on the deck. to examine the article and say what It is believed that forests some-ceans and mollusks that live near thiel Tho air vibration, duo either to fir- it is will most likely guess that it is times bake fire through the branches surface of the ocean. In spite of its Ing in one's own or someother tor - some new fan led nencil sharpeher of trees being rubbed together bythe huge size, the whale shark is iucap-I ret, hiss caused many cases of gun oe cigar cutter. violence of the wind, thus producing able of swallowing a mal, It differs deafness. To stuff the ears with cob - In the end of fire knife is a steel the friction necessary to ignite them. from the true shark, which has enorm- tofiwool is of course the commo est block that turns out on a swivel, be- In Japan devilfish weighing up to ous triangular teeth that cut like expedient followed e to f. e bymnanh o ing held by a spring that is released 200 pounds.. aro sometimes caught. knives, in having very small teeth and fleets alike. There is also what is with the thumbnail and reveals a These fish are amphibious: they wide gill openings with'peculier Bomb- called the Cheatham device consist- hale straight through the block: Tire. aro often seen wabbling on their ten- like gills that, like the whalebone in cartridge is inserted at the base of taches, like giant spiders, in search of whales, serve to retain its minute Kea this hole, the block is swung back patches of sweet potatoes. The ria- food. No one knows certainly how into place, the trigger on the lido is tives kill them with clubs. In the wa- long these huge sharks live, but, judge open, thus cocking the pieta!, which ter they are caught in jars lowered ing fron their slow growth the Is now reedy to fire. It is held in to the bottom, which the octopus 011- rtobrtbl live to a ver old age, Their the hand and the trigger ,pressed tors, thinking them a good retreat size probably increases slowly tuntii down with the thumb. r from which to catch his food, , the enol of their lives. SCIENTIFIC FACTS. „ It is estimated that an acre of good fishing hi the sea will yield more food in a week than . an acre of the best land will yield in a year. The taste for frog eating is in- creasing in America.- Last year 6,- 000,000 frogs were placed on the mar- kets of Sb. Paul and Minneapolis. The new bridge across the Tiber at Rome, having a span of 828 feet, is the longest re -enforced concrete arch in the world. 1' PRIEST MINISTERED TO ENEMY. German Halted Comrades While He use of Ins secretary. This unique newspaper contains various para. Prayed for Dying British. graphs and articles taken from The British press, bitter though it foreign newspapers and translated is toward Germany and most things into Russian. German, is never slow to pay tribute Several European Rulers. to an act of heroism even though that subscribe to the Press -cutting agen- act be performed by an enemy. An cies in order to obtain possession of instance of this is found in the,public- the principal items of the world's ation of a letter written to the Daily news. At one time the Emperor of News by a soldier who tolls how a Austria relied on the agencies for the German priest ministered to British better part of the cuttings, but he fin - soldiers in their dying moments. ally employed a literary man to "cut" In the course of a spirited action the various newspapers. in and between trenches two young To -day this gentleman slips the cut - British officers and five men were se- tings into a special leather casepre- verely wounded. "Their position was pared for the purpose, and places it helpless," writes the soldier, "for it before the Emperor first thing in the was impossible to rescue them. De- -morning. spite our tremendous fire the. Ger-I At the Royal residences in our Ow11 mans with fixed bayonets tried to country there aro 'literary rooms" reach the party, and their intention where men are employed to cub from was obvious. They got withitr'a few the newspapers and rbviews, publish. yards of the wounded, when one of ed in all parts of the world, items of their number sprang in front of them news dealing with foreign affairs, and flashed a .crucifix. 'Stop!' he politics, and other topics which are of shouted, and then .he knelt by the direcb interest to King George and side of our men and blessed them. The his advisers. other Germans. immediately withdrew.1 In addition to their specially select - "Then we managed bo reach the ed cuttings, King George, the Czar of wounded, end our officer thanked the Russia, and the German. Emperor priest for the brave way in which he peruse many newspapers just as they had behaved in the face of his own are ,received at their respective pal- men. `Take me,' said the priest, 'I . aces. am your prisoner.' The officer said l that he returned to the German lines WHEN GUNNERS GO DEAF. unharmed. The promise was kept, and before they parted the priest, fall- Effect of the Tremendous Vibration of ing on his knees, thanked our officer the Big Guns. warmly, adding: 'God bless you, and good luck!"The average civilian has a very vague idea as to the conditions inside a turret on a war -vessel while heavy firing is going on. The greatest force of the vibration from the firing of a gun is naturally Fact Longa just outside the muzzle, and: that is outside the turret. So terrific is this The largest living shark (Rhiaodon vibration that, if severe precautions typicus), more commonly known as were not taken, the deck under the the whale shark, is a near relative of muzzle would bo ripped to pieces, the dogfish, and has none of the, sheet iron doors would be wrenched bloodthirsty attributes of a true man from their hangings, and skylights eating shark. It is often forty, and shattered. To guard against these sometimes sixty, feet long, and is � effects the deck under the gun -muzzle: probably the largest of all living 'frsh,'is re -enforced with steel plates about for the great basking shark, its near -;an inch thick, and skylights are tak- est rival, is not known to. exceed a en off and replaced with coverings of length of thirty-six feet, Like the armor -plate. basking shark, it is a pelagic fish and Of coarse, there is considerable roams the seas of nearly the whole roar anti jar felt inside' the turret..sia for the exclusive use of the Czar, and that only two copies are taken from the machine. ' One is handed to the Russian mon- arch, and the other is resegved for the he would not do that but he would see THE GREATEST FISH. Whale Shark Is Sometimes Sixty ing of a mixture of clay and wool. It le very flexible, can be moulded to any car, and still allows its wearer bo hear orders. Gun -deafness niay 00105 immediate- ly as a result of a ruptured ear drum, o1 gradually, owing to an injury 10 the auditory nerve, t 4.