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THEY MUST
FIND SUBSTITUTES
GERMANY IS NOW IN A VERY
BAD POSITION:
Wood Meal One of Things German
Have Tried to Find
Palatable.
No more convincing testimony t
the effectiveness of our sea meas
ores against Germany can be con
eeived than that afforded by a study
of the advertisement columns in
the leading newspapers of th
country.
In the remote days before the war
these columns were filled with matte
which differed only slightly from co
responding columns in British jour
ale. The stress of war away up in
the mists of the northern seas,' have
given an entirely different complexion
to them. The wants of the German
nation now are not what they were
18 months ago. The eager demands
of purchasers all over the gamut of
desire have been concentrated into
one strident and uniform demand -
the demand for food. Before the war
we never encountered the advertise-
ments of traders in search of food, or
advertisements from those with food
to sell. To -day the advertisements
are a good indication of the grinding
pressure on the German nation
"Prime sunflower oil" takes the place
of olive oil, one of a score of sub-
stitutes, some of which must be ex-
tremely nasty. "Pure linseed oil" is
chemically deprived of its peculiar
taste by the "Continental Isola Fac-
tory" of Birkesdorf (Rhenish Prus-
sia), and to the oil so purified is add-
ed "that peculiarly delicate flavor"
which the best Italian oil possesses.
A Splendid Liar
Dick Trevor read the letter through
again, then erumpled it in his hand.
"Dear old Dick,—Just a line to tell
you all is well with yours always as
this leaves me at present. I am glad
I came out to Canada. It is the place
to make money. I suppose you are
still jogging on at the old pitch. You
did not have to trouble about the cash,
How's Milly Barton? Dina the cook-
ing as well as ever? That brings me
to the most important point. I have
got married, old man, and Clary is
the sunniest girl ever born. My love
to Milly."
There was a deal more, which did
not signify.
His love to lenity! A stony look
was on Dick Trevor's face, He knew
what Milly Barton hoped, She and
her mother had looked after the
rooms Trevor had shared with Tom
Collyer, and had since kept an alone.
Mrs. Barton entered the room with
a supper -tray, which she set down on
the table by the window; afterwards
drawing the curtains and lighting up.
Trevor slipped the note into his poc-
ket.
"How's Milly this evening?" he
asked.
"Nothing to boast about, sir," said
the woman, with a sigh. "She just
worries. Always thinking of Mr. Tom
—wondering how it is he hasn't writ-
ten. Ah, Canada must be a woeful
place!"
s "She ought to have a change," said
' Trevor, as he sat down.
"There's no change for folks Iike
Milly and me," replied Mrs. Barton.
"If it wasn't for you stopping on, sir,
o I don't know where we should be now,
- for people don't seem to need lodgings
any more."
Trevor gave the speaker an odd
look,
at els Milly well enough to see me to-
night?" he asked.
"Oh, if you would come and talk to
r her, sir! It always does her a power
r- of good, you knowing Mr. Tom as
n- you did."
Artificial Honey.
We are fascinated by a wonderful
array of "artificial honeys." The
fascination lies in their mystery. We
wonder what they are, what those
ingredients are which those wizzards
of chemists have excogitated. In the
Berliner Tageblatt, Ernst Colditz, of
Leipzig, advertises four distinct var-
ieties of this honey: (1) Solid; (2)
Resembling lard; (3) FIuid; (4) Pow-
der. They are all "excellent," and
they possess an "unapproachable na-
tural aroma." The "Nutriment Fac-
tory, Apis, of Namslau, in Silesia,
sells honey powder at 5d. a packet,
both of. them "analyzed by Dr. Way,
of Breslau."
Famine of Fat.
Of course, the great trouble is to
get something to spread on the war -
bread. This war -bread is not vary
palatable, and must have something
on it to alleviate its asperities. But-
ter is all right, so is goose fat, so
is lard, so is any sort of grease, but
there is a famine of fat in the land,
and, that is where the artificial
honeys and jams and artificiai mar-
tlerines, etc., come in. Better the
racist artificial of honeys than plain,
Unadulterated war bread by itself.
Here is a recipe for artificial honey
advertised by the manufacturer of
one of the ingredients: "Two pounds
of sugar, half-pint of water, and a
package of Salus Honey Aroma.
Dissolve over a fire, boil briskly,
and let cool. The result is easily
digestible, and tastes as good as
bees' honey."
What is Wood Meal?
These chemists. We produce
the advertisement of one of them
offering his services to the public,
What .is wood meal orflour? We
find it advertised in the Berliner Tage-
blatt" and in other journals of less
ride. It is not sawdust. It is clearly
an article of food. Some months ago
a professor of chemistry declared that
there were unsuspected stores of nu-
triment in wood and etraw, and that a
slight admixture with potatoes and
rye need not necessarily be indigent-
ible. Is this wood meal the response?
Unkind,
"They say that igno'nnee is bliss."
"flow perfectly blissful you must
be than."
Milly Barton was lying back on the
couch in the neatly -furnished sitting -
room as Trevor entered. She started
up as he crossed to her, holding out
his hand.
"No, stay as you were, please,"
said the man, taking the chair at her
side and gazing at her sadly.
Milly Barton was really pretty, and
something more, for there was sym-
pathy and understanding in her grey
eyes.
"How good of you to come and talk
to me, Mr. Trevor!" she murmured'
softly. "I know how busy you are.
Ts there any news?"
Trevor nodded. He knew—how well;
—that Tom Collyer was her hero.
Tom was a brilliant. ready talker, a'
splendid interpreter of the superficial.
"He has written to you again?"
questioned the girl, "Of course he
has to about all the business. He
would not have time to write to me, I
know, not since those wonderful let-
ters he sent me when I was ill." Her
eyes searched the man's face, "I like
to think of them. I remember every
word."
Trevor nodded.
"Tom's all right," he said gravely.
"There is a message for you. He
thinks about you."
It was well to carry on the decep-
tion. The doctor had let him know
that much pretty clearly, for the poor
girl had nearly died.
"0f course it is a hard life out
there," he added.
Milly's hand fluttered towards him.
"Tell me all," she said quietly. "I
love to hear,"
Mrs. Barton placed an iron which
was time -expired in front of the fire
and went slowly out of the room.
"It is a wonderfully big country,"
said Trevor, with an effort. "Tom has
a farm of hundreds and hundreds of
acres. He is ready to laugh at the
Old Country now, because he thinks
it is so small."
Ile went on talking about the ab-
sent one, about the vast land out there
beyond the firelight, the rolling plains,
the stretching forests where the beav-
er made its home; and Milly nestled
back amidst the cushions, a smile of
interest on her lips.
Suddenly she looked at Trevor.
"It is so good of you," she said wilt
fully. "But I must not keep you from
your work. I know you have to write
to -night. I can lie here and think—
about Canada and England and—and
all you have said. You have been so
kind to me!" Her eyes filled with
tears. "I hardly know how to thank
you!"
Trevor bent over her.
"Don't cry, little girl!" he said, as
he left.
From the kitchen eame the sound of
washing-up. The fire was burning
low. Milly sat up and put her hand
to her eyes. In the room beyond she
saw Trevor seated at hie desk,
"I wonder if there is anything I
could send Tom," she said to herself,
"Mr, Trevor never told me his ad-
dress. I will ask him for it."
She rose slowly and stood a mo-
ment, her hand resting on the back of
a chair. Then she went carefully to-
wards the door.
"Why, he's asleep!" she cried. "lie
has been working much too hard."
She stooped over him, to see the
commencement of a .letter lying be-
fore him—a letter in which /ter name
was mentioned—and a erimson flush
'suffused her face as she read the
words:
"You speak of 1YIilly. You little
know the harm your lightly -spoken
words have done. It was no jest to
her. The poor girl loves you, thinks
of you every second of her beautiful
life, anti your silence caused her to
worry herself into an illness from
which we feared she would never re -
I cover, You talk in your letter of me.
As if Milly ever gave Inc a single
thought, or ever could!
"May you be happy, Tom! I sup-
pose you sinned.from want of knowl-
edge rather than by intent; but I am
in distress when I keep the news of
your marriage from her, dreading
what will happen when she knows, for
then—."
The girl drew back, a deep sigh es-
caping her. Trevor stirred, murmur
ed a word—her name. She glide
back to her accustomed place, Whe
Mrs, Barton came in it was to se
Milly seated there, her chin .resting i
her hand, her eyes peering into t
fire's glow.
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n
he
+ * * * * *
"I suppose there was no such thing
as a letter from where the beavers
live, where the great lakes are, to-
day?"
Trevor stared curiously at the girl
as she stood facing him in the garden
of the old-world cottage which he had
come to regard as home. She had
changed so much during the past few
weeks, and he did not understand,
• "No; no new,, is to hand this morn-
ing;' lie replied. "I am sorry!"
Milly watched him, a quaint little
smile at the corners of her mouth, as
Trevor sat down on a rustic bench and
began to fill his pipe.
How strange that Tom should not
have written!" she said, her eyes
misty now,
Trevor looked up.
"Next mail, perhaps," he said blunt-
ly. "I do declare you are getting
stronger!"
"Time I slid, I should say!" said the
girl, seating herself at the man's side.
"I have been ill so Iong that the work
well, mother has been doing the
best she could, but of course she can-
not do everything.' She clasped her
hands in her lap and looked at the
flowers in the grass. "I mean to make
up now,"
"What are you worrying about?"
asked Trevor. "You have been ill.
People can't help being ill."
"I could!" said Milly intently. "I
have been thinking about you stop-
ping down here working so hard.
Riverdale isn't such a nice place as all
that—to make a man like you remain
here always when there is the great
world outside."
"The great world is just wherever
we choose to put it," said Trevor,
with a sideways glance at his com-
panion. "Not taking to philosophy,
are you, Milly?"
"No; I am not clever, like you."
Trevor shrugged his shoulders.
"I am only just able to squeeze in
with the average, and I assure you
there was an awful crowd at the en-
trance."
The girl laughed.
"How splendid you are!" she cried.
"Thank you, dear lady, for your
(rind and encouraging words! I shall
remember them next time something
occurs to annoy me."
"But—but—"there were tears close
now—"you stay on with us; you do
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CONTAINS NO ALUM — MiADE IN CANADA
well as anybody else! My dear Milly,
what do you mean?"
"It is hard to explain," said the
gir'1. "But I am thinking of a man
who acted nobly always, who never
troubled about his own convenience—
the man who, before I was ill, let me
help him with his work, I want to do
that again."
Trevor rose and took a step or two
down the garden -path, while Milly
sat watching him, an odd, little, su-
perior look in her eyes. Trevor faced
round and resumed lois seat.
"You can do the work if you are
strong enough," he said.
"You mean that? You are not an-
gry with me?" cried the girl, as she
slipped her hand through his arm.
"I could not be angry with you,"
murmured Trevor, darting her a look
and then averting his gaze.
"Then talk to me, please! Talk
about the things you used to before
"About Tom?"
"No; it wasn't Tom Collyer at all,
but somebody quite different whom I
eared for—the man who was a frien
in the sad days, the man who proved
so true and great, the man who lie
"TROOPS OF ATTACK."
Special Divisions Used Only For
Charges on Trenches.
During the first part of the wa
eareful watch was kept by the Frew
General Staff over the way ever
regiment and division acted. In th
acid test of battle this division prov
ed its ability to advance under fire
that regiment failed. Gradually th
"crack" organizations were known.
These picked men are quartered
about twenty or thirty miles behind
the lines, and they live like athletes
training for a prize fight. They have
great athletic fields, where they play
football and practice field sports
Theatres and music are provided for
their amusement. While things ar
quiet at the front they are kept in a
perfect physical and mental condition
as art and science can devise.
Then when the commanders at the
front need men for a charge against
German trenches across the shell
swept open fields, word is sent back
d for these special troops. The needed
d +number are told off, they are loaded
into automobiles, carried swiftly to
the front, singing and eager; they
make . their charge; trench troops
move up and occupy the ground they
have gained, and the attackers—such
as are left of them—go back to their
football and training, to get ready to
go to the next point in the line that
needs them.
What the French have done Ger-
mans and the British have done like-
wise. These "troops of attack" are
a development of modern warfare.—
World's Worlc.
AFFECTS ANIMALS.
Heavy Gun Firing Has Driven Garne
Out of War Zone.
MIRACLES OF
WWAR SURGERY
Frew
Y PORTION OF NERVE GRAFTED IN
o AN ARM.
e
Bullet Taken From a Lung and Shrap-
nel From the
Heart.
Visits paid to military hospitals in
England show that the ravages of
' war are being more successfully corn -
bated than ever before.
• Limbs are being saved which for-
s merly would have had to come off
for gangrene, and cripples are being
uncrippled who formerly would have
become cripples for life. The X-rays
and the new antiseptic treatments
have resulted in miracles.
Some of the successful operations
performed are little short of the mira-
culous.
Ono resourceful surgeon at the
Royal Herbert Hospital at Shooter's
Hill, for instance, found four inches
of a nerve in an arm gone.
He telephoned to the other London
hospitals to inquire if an amputation
,was in prospect, and learned that a
man was to have Me leg off that
afternoon. -
He asked that the limb, a healthy
one, should be put at once in a saline
bath and brought to him by taxi. He
had his patient ready under an anaes-
thetic on the arrival of the limb, still
bl.00dwarm, and promptly transferred
four inches of nerve from the ampu-
tated leg to the arm of the patient,
with the best results.
Operation—Then a Smoke.
I —for—"
She was staring down at his hand,
and the other gave a start as he felt
a tear fall on his palm.
"Really, Milly, you are talking in
riddles! I don't understand you at
all."
"Don't you? Yet you know the
man I mean. You know him quite
well."
"I'm afraid I— You don't mean
the doctor's son—the handsome Geof-
fray ?"
"Oh, how silly you are! Of course
not!"
"Then please explain, fair lady, for
I admit I am very dense to -day."
"You—you showed me once that I
was something to you," she whisper-
ed, "and you—it was like coming back
to life—I knew the truth, knew that
all the rest was only a stupid mistake,
and if you care still--"
She gave a sigh, then came the
murmured words: "Oh, Dick!" as
Trevor gathered her in his arms. —
London Answers.
BRITAIN MUST WIN.
Maoris Pledge Revenge for Losses In
the Great War.
A striking speech was made just
before the end of the recent session of
the New Zealand House of Represent-
atives by Dr. D. Pomare, a member of
not go away, because it would be so the Cabinet and a Maori—one of the
hard for us if you did!" Trevor said aboriginals of New Zealand. A resolu-
nothing, only laid his hand gently on
hers. "You see, while I was ill there
was time to think such a lot, and this
place—you must find it very dull."
"Never, on my life!"
Milly regarded him steadily.
"That's because you never think of
yourself, I expect."
"No," said Trevor, with a shake of
his head. "I am merely a selfish
beast, like most of the others."
"You can tell me that, but you are
only laughing at me, and I—I have
been wondering how mother and I can
ever repay you for all you have done."
"Oh, just a smile now and then from
you!" said the man, trying to speak
casually. "That will meet all require-
ments."
"A smile! And you—you a busy
man, you walked five miles for the
doctor that night I was taken bad —
for me, the daughter of the landlady,
nothing more!"
"It beats me why the daughter of a
landlady shouldn't have a doctor as
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tion was before the House expressing
Parliament's "inflexible determination
to continue the war to a successful is-
sue," when Doctor Pomare rose and
said:
"To -day Aegean breezes stir the
grasses over the graves of mine and
yours, and wherever a Maori hears
the moan of the wind, whenever he
hears the boom of guns, it reminds
him that away beyond the seas Utu
(revenge) has got to be brought about
for the dead. For that reason the
Maoris' determination to end the war
victoriously is just as inflexible as
that of the pakeha (white man). One
result of the war will be the cohesion
of the empire and the understanding
between the different races under the
British flag. The spirit of Rowi and
other big fighters live in the Maori
to -day, and he cries in the same spirit
of defiance, 'Ake! Ake! Ake!' (forever
and forever)."
In calling for vengeance for the
Maori dead Doctor Pomare had par-
ticular reference to the handful of
soldiers of his race who, with a few
white New Zealanders, reached, after
desperate fighting, and held for a few
minutes during the Suvya Bay opera-
tions, a position from which they
could see the central Dardanelles.
This, it is said, was the utmost point
reached by any of the Allied troops in
the Gallipoli campaign.
"Anzac."
The definition of the newly -coined
word "Anzac" may still puzzle some
people. 'The word is formed of the
initials of the following: "Australia
New Zealand Army Corps." And the
Anzacs will ever be remembered by
a grateful Mother Country for the
wonderful work they did in Gallipoli,
and the splendid services they are
now rendering in France.
Knew The Effect.
Tommy (dictating letters to be sent
his wlfo)--The nurses hero are a very
plain lot--
Nurse—Oh, come, I say, that's not
very polite to as.
Some curious and interesting ob-
servations upon the psychological ef-
fect produced on animals by the de-
tonations of big guns have been re-
cently made. The animals considered
are the horses and dogs used for mili-
tary purposes, and the game in the
area of warfare. It was noticed soon
after the beginning of the war that
the latter began to migrate into Lux-
emburg, Switzerland, and the portions
of France and Belgium not the seat of
hostilities.
The first to flee was the "black
game" (a term which includes the
wild boar, the badger, and the bear),
whose senses are specially acute.
Then the roebuck and the red deer
followed; but, strange to say, the
hare, whose timidity is proverbial,
continued to occupy its usual terri-
tory.. The larger birds likewise, such
as the grouse, the pheasant, the sea -
eagle, and the wild duck, were driven
away by the heavy firing,
Strange to say, the wolf, which
was expected to regain lost ground
in the present war, has shown itself
very gun-shy. Another curious fact
is that the song -birds, such as the
lark, the thrush, and the finch, have
not been driven away by the thunder
o1 the cannon, and continue to hold
their nests and sing their songs in
their accustomed haunts. Other birds
which remain -unfrightened are vari-'
ous kinds of owls, falcons, sparrow -
hawks, etc.
BOOKS CARRY NO DISEASE.
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Experiments Dispel Superstition That
Leaves Attract Germs.
Old superstitions that books are
carriers of disease seem to have been
dispelled for once and all by experi-
ments recently made in London.
We all know the familiar argument
that Mr. Bo -and -So caught this or
that by reading an old book that old
Mr, Such -and -Such read a few months
before he died with the same disease. !
Now we are told that germs cannot
Hee he such surroundings as are of-
fered by the dry pages of books, says
Farming Business, and that sneezing,
coughing gl g and talking while reading a
book do not make that book a carrier
of the disease the reader may have.
Washings from boolts read by tuber-
cular patients were fed to guinea pigs,
but none developed the disease.
Worth While,
At an evening party two men,
strangers to each other, began chat-
ting, Presently one indicated a lady 1
across the room and remarked:
"What a beautiful woman that is
over there!"
"Glad you think so," nailed the oth-
er, with a smile. "She is my wife." g
"Then I congratulate you, old chap.
It must be quite a pleasure to lose
every argument to a woman like
that"
Many thousands of persons every
clay are being given anaesthetics, and
within a quarter of an hour of the
completion of anaesthesia, after an
operation which may have lasted
three or four hours, the patient can
,be brought round completely enough
to enable him, if he wishes, to smoke
a cigarette.
Two of the most remarkable opera-
tions performed have succeeded in
removing a bullet from a man's Lung
in the one case and a niece of shran-
nel from a man's heart in the other.
In the former case a young Irish-
man was shot in the abdomen with
a bullet, which struck upwards and
lodged in the lung. It was found by
the X-rays and removed, and the man
is on the point of leaving hospital
almost quite well.
In the second case the man com-
plained of severe pain in the region
of the heart, especially when he bent,
and he had great difficulty in walk-
ing. The rays showed a hard ' sub-
stance at the back of the heart, and
the surgeon, in the course of the
operation, had to put his hand behind
the heart and take away the shrap-
nel—which was the size of a half-
penny—with his fingers. Air was
pumped into the man's lungs through-
out, and all other precautions were
taken to keep him alive during this
touch-and-go process, Fortunately,
there was no sport of blood when
the shrapnel was removed, and the
man is now perfectly well.'
Making New Faces:
In the Third London General Hos
pital at Wandsworth are 1,600 pa-
tients.
An A,R.A., with the rank of lieu-
tenant, can be seen here patching up
damaged faces by means of masks
and making plaster caste, The arti-
ficial coverings are formed in copper,
then silvered, and painted a flesh
color.
Photographs of men taken before
and after "restoration" disclosed
some truly astonishing successes.
That an ex -Guardsman who had his
nose and the lower portion of his
face shot away should be now follow-
ing a useful occupation, with his in-
juries
lsi
juries so effectively masked as to be
scarcely distinguishable, is a striking
proof of what mechanleal skill can
accomplish.
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A substitut f
e ;for gold is obtained
by combining 04 parts of copper
with six parts of antimohy and add -
ng a little magnesium carbonate to
ncrease the weight. It is sold that
this alloy can be drawn, wrought and
oldered very much like gold, and
that it also receives and retains a
olden polish. It is worth something
like 25 cents a pound,
Tommy—Never mind, nurse, put it Some people are too busy to tatend v'
down. It'll please her. to their own business.
Proud,
"Ile's proud of hie boy, isn't he?"
"I should say SO. Me thinks the
oral is just waiting foe him to grow.
ACROSS THE BORDER
WHAT IS GOING ON OVER IN
THE STATES.
Latest Happenings in Big Republic
I[eadere;
Condensed for Bray
Creat swarms of butterflies have
bean seen passing through and over
Greenville, S.C., making their way
southward.
The first woman to take out a
hunter's license in Cumberland county
for 1916 was Mrs. E. 0. Hatfield, of
West -Fairview, Pa.
A. Bueh Sons Company, of Elizae
bethtown, Pa., a $250,000 corporation
manufacturing machinery, has gone
into receivers' hands.
The town of Deerfield, Conn,, re-
cently entertained a reunion of 100
descendants of Sergt. John Plynnpton,
who settled in Deerfield in 1673.
It -has been learned that three Chi-
cago students of the University of
Michigan are involved as victims in
the nation-wide blackmail investiga-
tion.
Efforts of volunteer rescuers were
futile when Frederick Davidson,
wealthy Pittsburg steel man, became
exhausted when swimming and was
drowned off Virginia avenue, Atlantic
City.
After working in the service of
the Federal Government since .1866,
Dr. Caroline Asenah Gran Burghard
was rewarded with an increase in sal-
ary from $900 to $1,000 year.
Nation-wide prohibition in the
United States within ten years, and
a victory for Charles E. Hughes in the
Presidential election, were predicted
by Frank A. Munsey, the American
publisher.
The annual report of the treasurer
of Yale University shows the institu-
tion now has an endowment aggregat-
ing $18,431,444.64. There was an in-
crease of $2,256,356.69 for the year
ended June 30th, 1916.
It was 'said in Chicago recently
that British ships would hereafter
be allowed to carry a greater pro-
portion of corn than they have for
months, and that as much as pos-
sible Europeans would substitute
corn for wheat.
According to testimony offered in
Mayor's Court at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Joseph Norman, a leper who is sup-
posed to be under strict quarantine
night and day, left his home and
went to the home of a neighbor and
engaged in a poker game.
Some innocent looking sausage in
Oakland, Cal., contains the end of
the middle finger of a man's hand
lost during an accident. Where tho
sausage is that has the fragment of
this finger is a dark mystery. The
finger belongs to Fred Peterson, of
1239 Allston way, Berkley, who, work-
ing in a meat packing house, shoved
meat too far into a sausage machine.
RAIDS ON FORTIFIED LINES.
The British Evolve New Tactics In
Attacking.
The plan of operation which is be-
ing used by the British troops on the
French front, and which the French
neem to be adopting, is the "last word
in scientific warfare," according to a
French officer who has been in close
touch with operations since the be-
ginning of the war, He said:
"The nocturnal expeditions of Brit-
ish patrolling parties into German
first-line trenches, which seem to
many of the uninitiated as without re-
sult, became the essential feature of
the attack on lines fortified as those
held by the Germans on this front.
"The first thing in order is the de-
struction by heavy artillery of the
concrete shelters, perfected with con-
summate science. The second is to
reconnoitre and make sure that the
destruction is complete, for a single
machine gun left intact under a shel-
ter alone can stop an infantry assault,
The third is the destruction of the
barbed wire defences, and it is only
Chen that infantry can be prudently
officered to attack.
"The only means of gaining the
absolute assurance of the first object
attained is to go to the spot, and in
these operations British troops aro
showing the Germans, as well as the
French, something new in the tactics
of siege operations. Personally, I
think important results will be ob-
tained;'
Tho sporting aspect of these raids
and the indefiniteness of the results
thus far made known have puzzled
the public, which experts caution
against the hope of immediate and
sweeping success, as the demolition
of defence works is a long operation,
and must be effected over a wide
front before an advancecan be under-
taken.
To Issue Sliver Badge.
'The announcement has been made
officially in London that his Mttjeuty
has approved the issue of a silver
war badge for men discharged from
the army on account of age or sick-
ness. The badge will go to olfioers
and men of the British, Ionian and
overseas forces who have serval at
home or abroad since August 4, '.1911,
and who on Mccoutt or age, or physi-
cal infirmity arising from wounds or
sickness caused by military service,
have, in the cane of o"ivers, retired
o• relinquished admit: commissions,
or, in tine case bf Mien, been dis-
charged from the meta',