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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-1-4, Page 6GOOD NEWS 1 1 D' h t mstruatacns M i •;'''ie ob�a e•t ruluetasm lv Pre "1s the silver' all put carefully the kitchen vvrth tv,ac o,�crt e1 e.. Ilei i q e • vvel] • I'll ex- obvious excitement mala the cook put l "It's outa'al eous1" she repeated at. you're l"i inq+dsitivo liy half? Cone., lsrm 'r.tr' I Ahs intervals. 14,A h a ic;:.al�¢ n TES I hi here!," !neer, byher ecu ' • . s was served em+iXor than usual!, eptly, hoe, oval Oho waXltotl baelt to zn = . , ' c�UN. away, Maggie? Very !i "Do you mean to say you don't roe the papers?" demanded the visitor. amazedly. "01., I glance through them --not that it's worth the trouble!" returned Miss ,Weddelow. sourly. "But surely the war news---" "The war doesn't affect me, Alice, I'm glad to say. In fact, I'm sensible enough to try to forget that it's on." "Julia!" "My income's hardly reduced at all, thank goodness.' People: make far too much fuss, in my idea." "You wouldn't talk like that," ob- jeered her friend warmly, "if any of your menfolk were in the Army or the Halt." Sharp words almost led to an open quarrel Mrs. Romain left soon after- wards, flushed and indignant. "To criticize my cpnduct!" Miss Weddelow muttered. Impertinence, T call it, even if we were once at school together!" A thin, sharp -featured spinster, verging upon middle age, she looked! particularly unlovable as, -with a sneer' on her face, she softly descended the stairs to, the kitchen. Outside the door she halted. The housemaid's voice could be heard coin- pleining to the cook. "Won't let me change my evening out, when I want specially to meet my Tom who's off to the front! But I'll go—you see if I don't! Now, she says this 'ere silver hasn't been prop- erly done, and sets me to clean it all over again! Drat the stuff! What's the good of it to her? She simply hoards it up in the cupboard and never uses it!" Miss Weddelow coughed, and walk- ed in, setting her lips together. Both servants pretended to be very busy. Her criticizing eye, roaming round the room, noted that the scullery door was ajar, and a disreputable -looking tramp was peering in. "Who is that man, Maggie? Send him away at once!" The startled housemaid ran to obey. "He came begging, ma'am. I really thought he'd gone." "You're always careless!" Miss Widdelow complained severely. "Why isn't the gardener here?" "He won't be coming any more— not till the end of the war." "Why on earth not, pray?" "He's in the Royal Naval Reserve, and he's been called up." Miss Widdelow's frown deepened. "Well,when Jenner arrives tell him I shall want the broughman punctu- ally at 4.30." It was nearly -5 o'clock, however, by the ohne the coachman appeared, Miss Widdelow fuming, demanded an instant explanation. He fingered his hat. "I'm sorry, mum, It took me long - ern I expected it would. You see, I've been turnin' things over in my mind, and seein' as how Britain wants all the men she can get, I want to make inquiries about—" "You've done what?" Miss Wedde- low cried.' ' "I've enlisted, mum; and I made bold to think you'd approve, consid- erin'— "So you act in this inconsiderate fashion without consulting me? You are dismissed at once! Understand?" "Thank you, mum! I'd ha' given notice, anyhow, o' course," he answer- ed, with a grin Miss Widdelow, left alone, choked with indignation. "They don't study my convenience a bit, these people! What are things coming to?" Presently she calmed down r; little, remembering the shopping expedition she had arranged. It would be most enjoyable. Mrs. Maverton was al- ways good company. "Telephone for a taxi -cab, Maggie," instructed Miss Weddelow. The amid reappeared almost ihnme- diatoly., "Telegram for you, ma'am. The bay's waiting." Miss Weddelow tore open the enve- lope. "Please excuse me to -day. Just heard harry has been wounded in ac- tion, so am naturally too upset to come. Of course, you will under- stand. "Gertrude Maverton." "Tch!" She made a gesture of an- noyance. "No answer!" • She dressed in an ill -humor, Forced to alter her plans, she drove to pay some calls. Mrs. Pettit, another long-standing'' acquaintance proved depressing in the, extreme. Her ,husband. it 'appeared,! had failed in business, owing to the', closing of the Stock Exchange, and the only other, topic she wanted to' discuss was the war, "Rome!" Miss Weddelow instruct- ed the chauffeur irritably, Hardly had sire reached her house before a sauvc gentleman arrived, re ghosting an interview. He, wasad- companiod by a.coestable. "Requisition my horses for the Government! Do 'am uaetually mean to say that I've got to sell them to you whether I like it or .not? My horses! But what am 1 to do whin I want to use the carriage?" "Why, remember that the Almy needed them, madam. Please see that they are delivered punetually." IIe tools itis, Nave, with the police - mem in atteiiclance, Miss Weddelow, thoroughly drsgueeed and angry, gated kep awl dela the room, amine it to -morrow. At nixie o'clock an lnqulry. ' v: r 1?. h h 'l Tii1+aR'I'l rll)hS u TIL ELECTED alP.'s. "What hs?" I shall go to bed," - It told—its going off to be told for the WORKED . Al 3 I "Thankgoodnessla commented the 'benefit of the Relief Fend!" ' maid, under hes' breath. "The silver," stammered the house- Just before she fell asleep Miss i maid indistinctly, Oh, I thong Widdelow was engaged in making a you'd hardly believe it, but it's true. mental list of the annoyances inflietedYou could have knoci;ud me down with-, upon her during the day in conoc-�a feather when she'd done talking. quence of the war. She had been Listen! I've got to take some phoney ' powerless in the matter, she reflected; i and a message to Jenner's wife." 1 .that was the worst of it, As a rich. `Never!" , r e: a 11 1) And hi 1 ce •!cl '- " is a fact. A s a cons en I p nomof property, with woman t P p y, able idea of her own importance, she kept for him till after the war, Be - I felt doubly aggrieved, ' I sides that, we're going to have a fam- In the middle of the night, being a Aly of Belgians living here." very light sleeper, she was quickly 1 "Gracious!" ejaculated the cook, . aroused by suspicious sounds. Slip -a faintly. ping on a dressing -gown, she hurried, "A widow and three children, And to wake the servants. Together they, our wages are going to be risen, be-'. leaned over the bannisters, listening.; cause of the extra work. I'm to let Obviously, someone had gained en- her know if you're agreeable.". .trance to the house. I The cook recovered her breafir with Only Miss Weddelock herself would; an effort. descend. She did not lack courage 1 Well, rather! Thenshe—she isn't, when the lossof any of her cherished half a bad sort, after all!" 1 belongings was in question, I "Seems nbt," Maggie agreed, be- ; Purposely she made an unnecessary: wildered.' noise on the stairs, and there followed; When she re-entered the dining- f a scuffling of rapid footsteps along room Miss Wecldelow was bending; the passage below. The intruder had over a newspaper. vanished when she reached the hall. < "Have you seen the latest,' But the sideboard in the dressing - Maggie?" room stood open, and of her extensive "I—I—what, ma'am, please?" collection bf plate not a trace was left. "Look, girl! Show more interest," At the sight Miss Widdelow al- snapped Miss Weddelow reprovingly. most gaveway to tears; then she "I'm surprised at you! Here, take it ,clenched her teeth. Her shrill, angry voice brought the frightened servants down to the hall. "It was that tramp, I'll be bound! You let him hang about by the back door, and no wonder he planned to break in and rob me! Practically speaking, you two are responsible. I shall explain to the police when they arrive. Go and telephone directly, one of you!" away and read it. Why, it's good news for the Allies—for our side!"— Lendon Answers. HUN ZEPP. I•IYPOCRISY. Object to French,' Airmen Dropping Bombs—May Kill Women. German hypocrisy can go no fur- ther than a recent attempt to per - She fidgeted incessantly until an suade the French people by means answer was received that the matter F Fcrench vi dropped nbairmen thath should have attending., French aviators are engaged inthe "My silver! I'd sooner have lost pastime of murdering German inno- anything but that!" cents, says n sir, Chronicle. printed In a Berlin circular, printed fn "Perhaps the man'1l be caught be- French, appear the following pass - fore morning. He's sure to be stop= ages: ped if he's seen carrying a bundle." "Frenchmen! Your airmen with "He's too far away by now," Miss their bombs have killed, during the Weddelow retorted. last few weeks, a great number of Slowly she went back to bed, thor- civilians, men, women, and children, oughly convinced that her beloved sil- far behind the front in Germany. At ver was gone for good. Karlsruhe, 48 killed, included 30 chil- Jane, the cook, came and rapped on dren. In attacks on Mulheim, Fri - the door. bourg, Kandern, Holzen, Mappach and "Don't worry yourself too much, Heitersheim there were as many kill ma'am—I mean to say, other people ed as wounded. None of these places have lost far more. If you look at it are of the slightest military import - in that light—' i ante. "Frenchmen! We know now with - "What are you talking about, pray?" Miss Weddelow demanded; but her voice was less harsh than usual. "Why, ma'am, those whose hus- bands or sons have been killed in the battles." Miss Weddelow did not answer, but for an hour or more she lay awake, thinking, "Germany makes war upon the She rose in the morning strangely French armed forces, not on the civil quiet and subdued in manner. The Popalation of women and children. 1 servants decided that she must be i11. We hope that there will be no more, "What d'you think? She couldn't petition Germany will be compelled to find anything to grumble at when I take similar measures in defence, took up her tea!""But you .will know then, French-, "Never said a word about last men, that that slave of England, M.! night?" Poincare, will be responsible for the, "No; the shock's been too much for blood of innocent victims, and that it her." will be British barbarity, which will "Serve her jolly well right!" have compelled us to plunge your After breakfast Miss Widdelow towns, far away from the front, into strolled in the garden, and here, five mourning." minutes later, she gave a loud cry of When one recalls the unprovoked amazement. The servants ran out, to Zeppelin attacks upon centres of pop - find her struggling with a bulky sack, ulation both near Paris and in Eng - which rested, half hidden, beneath land, which are not of the slightest some shrubs. • military value, and the hundreds of "ropy silver, ma'am! Good grad -I non-combatants victims of all ages ous! Why, the man must ha' been so and sexes, the colossal effrontery of scared that he left it behind, after all jthis circular is self-evident, Miss Weddelow examined the con -i Austria's Double -headed Eagle. tents. I That two -headed eagle by which we "Yes; it's all here!" she announced, I now recognize Austria is one of the "How glad you must be, ma'am!" !frauds on heraldry. It has been point - "Fetch down that hig chest fromed out by old-fashioned historians upstairs. I'll pack this myself, It'll; with a passion for truth that when be sent off some time to -clay." !Francis of Austria gave up pretend - "Yes, yes, ma'am. To the bank?" , ing to be the heir of the Caesars, and "Never you mind, Jane!" snapped , laid aside his claire to the Holy Ro- Miss Weddelow; with something of, man Empire and his German kingdom, her old sharpness. !lie ought to have rendered back to The cook retired, stammering apolo- j Caesar that which was Caesar's. But gies. Her mistress turned to the. he stuck to the two -headed eagle, in- houscmaicl stead ofcontenting himself with the "I find, Maggie. that it is possible lion of his archduchy. From the point for you to have this evening off, pro -1 of view of the Heralds' College, this vided that you finish your work in conduct was as indefensible as if a time. You spoke of someone you private British citizen had used the wished to meet---" arms of an English see because he "My young man, ma'am. Thank '•!aimed to be the descendant of a you ever so much!" bishop. There was method, however, They stared after the disappearing in the usurpation. For an "emperor" figure, with an eagle became a more dis- "What's come over her? Can't tinguished personage than an arch - make it out at all!" they agreed, in duke with a lion. whispers. That afternoon, when the Silver had Freight CarsFfor France. • all beon packed, Miss Weddelow went The British Government, it is un- to visit her old friend, Mrs. Romain. derstoocl in Parka, has engaged to "IfI was rude to 700 yesterday, send immediately to France ten thou - Alice, please forget it, Immure I want sand. freight ears, taken front 13ritiali your adeace." railroad companies. Ten thousand ad - tales. Romain listened anrazedlyditional cars are to be sent over dur- ing the first months in 1917, with a certain number of locomotives. This is to be done, it is understood, because Great B'itain's military opeeatione'in France have been requiring the use of 20,000 French freight cars, out any doubt whatever that these crimes have been committed by the express order of your Government. President Poincare himself has given. the order at the base instigation of barbarous attacks of this kind by French aviators, but if there is a ee- of the British. What a bit o luck. "Everyone else seems to bo doing something," explained Miss Wedde- low gruffly, "so I suppose 1 must fol - love that). example. What a nuisance it is!" Returning !tome, she labelled the hig box ie the hall. Curiosity led the t housemaid to tiptoe along the pass - ,age and read the address. "Now, then!" called Miss Wedde- low Sharply, heat the diningroom. "Haven't I often told you before that A Sticker For Pop, "Prrl' "Well, my son," "How can it solid fact leak art?" And Have kept the Working -Classes in Line for Prosecution of War. • Mr, Arthur Henderson is one of the five -members of the new British War Cabinet, Mr,G. N. Barnes is Minis- ter of Tensions, and Mr. John Bodge is Minister of Labor. The first nam- ed has no portfolio. And the offices of the other two are new ones. Or, rather, between them they constitute the greater part of the offices recent- ly held in the coalition Government` by Mr, Henderson. Mr. Henderson in that Government'' was Paymaster- General and Labor Adviser to the Government. The duties which he performed as Labor Adviser will now be taken over by Mr. Hodge as the head of a separate labor department. The office of Paymaster -General car- ried with it the supervision of pen- sions. This part of the duties of that office will now he undertaken by Mr.. Barnes. ngem er of the Manchester City GERMAN AVIATORS BEATEN, Commit for three years. p,•_ ,i h,.• c r eovea.y of 14h'. I3 edge s abili- Supremacy in the Air. Is Yery Much ales was one of the urprieee of last I With the Allies,. year in Parliament Side -whiskered, „ with beetling' brows, and of burly In aviation the Germans have, i form, John Hodge looks jest what he to exist," This is the unanimous ver- is--the el•- is -thy British workman, capab a and diet of military experts, says the aggressive. When the Government. London Chronicle. � started to put the blame for the eom- One need' only stay at the "Bt'iflsh pan•ittively slow output of munitions front'one single day to be cbnvineed in the early part of lost year on the that the verdict is right. The allied drinking habits of workmen the aviators don -limit() the air, This is a g phrase no longer. It is :se much a talked back to .them in n very�effec- tive way, contending that they were reality as the British battle fleet or slandering the working classes to the allied artillery. The allied aero - cover up their own steeliness. As act- . Planes are everywhere, They guide 1 s find direct the artillery fire, make bold fug chairmen of'the Labor party, he . has had a big share in keeping the reconnaissances, photograph the 'on - larger section of that party right in emy positions before and after the line with regard to the waq, in . spite bombardments, fill the enemy trenches, of Ramsay Macdonald, Snowden, and with grenades, and combine with the Company, infantry to attack the German fortifi- cations.. During the first two months of the Somme offensive the British aviators Rt. Hon. John Hodge. The fact that three Labor members are in the new Ministry, and one, in- deed, in that new "holy of holies," the War Cabinet, shows that labor at last is coming to its own in Eng- land in regard to official responsibil- ity and dignity, For all three of these Rt. Hon. working men were genuine bona -fide working men. They were not mere "apouters," such as try to impress the workers with the idea that they are, for some occult reason, working class leaders, although they may never have done a single day's manual work in their lives. They were real manual workers them- selves. Mr. Henderson, who is 58 years old, was a moulder in Newcastle -on -Tyne. Mr. Barnes, who is 57, started as a little lad, to earn his living in a jute mill at the age of 11. Mr. Hodge who is 61, was a steel and iron worker. Labor Party Chairman. All three have held the chairman- ship of the Labor party in the House of Commons. Mr. Barnes was chair- man of the party in 1910. But the Rt. Hon. G. N. Barnes. extreme wing of the Labor party be- , coming too much in the ascendant for his liking', he resigned that post in February of the following year, and !Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was appoint - led in his stead. M1•. Henderson was elected chairman of the Labor party, in the place of Mr, Ramsay Macdon- iold—who was at variance with the 'larger section of the Labor party as to the war and its causes --on the out- break of war, Ile hedprcviausly been • chairman of the party from 1908 to 1910. When he joined the coalition Government in May of last year, Mr, Hodge was appointed acting chairman of the Labor party in his place. The three Labor members or the Government all entered Parliament at the general election of 1005, when the Labor patty first became forntid- able as a Parliament entity. Mr, Henderson and Mr, Hedge both had had previous municipal training — the former as a 9oameillor and Mayor of, narlingtora turd the latter as a THE ORIGINAL CHAUFFEURS. covered more than 100,000 miles in Were the French "Scorchers," Hold'- the air, and that in spite of the fact Up Men. that for a whole fortnight there was More than a hundred years ago, in no flying a't all because of the heavy the Rhenish provinces on the border- mist and rain. According to careful land between France •and Germany, military statistics, the British airmen there flourished a particularly Mao- covered no less than a million miles cions variety of bandits, says the over the German lines in the firsttwo Cleveland Plaindenler. These desper- Years of war. adoes made a practice of holding the The history'of the struggle for mas- soles of their victims' feet in front of tery in the air is very instructive. At a fierce flee in order to force them to the beginning of the war the su- roves] the hiding places of their vela- premacy in aviation undoubtedly be- ables. So they came to 'be known as longed to the British and the French, "scorchers," or in Frenal, "chauf- But during the first year of the war fears." the Germans, availing themselves of The most famous of these thugs , their superior industrial organization, was called "Schinderhannes," which went ahead of the allies., For a brief is, being interpreted, John the Scor- period, German aviation surpassed not cher. He'was captured near Lim- only the British and French aviation burg in 1802 and executed in Nevem- separately, butboth combined. That ber the following year. The police period 'coincides with the appearance had made a general roundup ee of the Foltkers and the activity of chaffeurs by that time, and a record Imnrelmann and other prominent Ger- was made at the execution. Twenty man pilots. heads were chopped off in twenty-six However, the Germans could not minutes. After that the profession maintain their superiority. Toward languished. Napoleon I. was at the the end of the second year, the su- helm, and the protagonists of this premacy passed to the allies once particular brand of brigandage ap- peared to be discouraged. But while it lasted it was a great trade. Bands of these. outlaws ex- tended from Holland to the Danube; they had a language of their own — a jargon .composed of French, Ger- man, Flemish and Hebrew. They had lines of communication through the more. By the quantity and quality , of their machines, as well as by the quantity and quality of their pilots the British and French now so much surpass the Germans that at present one can speak of the absolute su- periority of the allied aviators. It is i not yet a comnlete domination of the air; but the British and the French country districts, and the posts on do now possess an absolutely ]neon- 1 those lines were country taverns, the testable domination at the fi;ont. landlords of which were in league with the robbers. After a century had passed the French were in need of a term to ap- ply to the driver of an automobile, and with a certain historic humor they used the old "scorcher." The The present war has fully justified term was applied in derision, and, of the views of the late Admiral Mahan oourse, it is not closely applicable, on the value to a nation of command but it has stuck. And'though it is of the sea. The authors of a recent sometimes whispered that the pro- article in the Fortnightly Review,' fessional chauffeurs of modern times entitled "Two Years of Aerial War," , adhere to the old traditions—that predict that in any great war of the they are in league with the landlords future, command of the air will be as . of road houses and country taverns important as sea power. Aircraft ink for tris detention of passengers—yet, this war—that is, •the destructive no Schinderhehmes hapse s arisen among inaclhints—give no more idea of the', them and their depredations have not size, or of the power, of the fighting' yet demanded machines of than a row - Considering his opportunities asexecution. a host would givethe of future the power of an bandit, we must be grateful to the Atlantic liner. In the wars of the fit-' modern chauffeur for his forbearance. tore it will be the great fighting aero -t planes that will be to the forefront.' Milk From a Vegetable Cow. Scouts, of course, will have their val- ue, but instead of being all-important they will be merely a part of the gen- COMMAND OF THE AIR. Fighting Aeroplanes to the Forefront in Futuie.Wars. The milk problem is by way of be- ing solved in Japan where cows are oral scheme, as the sea scouts of the scarce, by anextensive use of anti- navy are. Power in the air will be; ficial milk derived from the soy bean. striking power, as it is on the sea or First, the Japanese soak the beans, on the land. What appears from the then boil them until the liquid turns rainy made by the present experiment whim, when they add sugar and phos- al craft is merely a warning. Any1 pkat of potash. The boiling is re- nation that falls behind -in the strug- sumed until a fluid results very simi- gle for air power may in -years to lar in consistency and appearance to come be defeated in a campaign that ordinary condensed milk. When water that will last, not a year or a month is added, soy milk is hardly to be, or even• a weep, but as the result of distinguished from fresh cow's milk.; an attack delivered and completed In composition also the artificial milk within a few hours. With aircraft is almost like genuine mills. Its pro- flying, as they will, at a speed of two Mins, fats and sugars are in very' hundred miles an hour, it will be pose: nearly the same proportion, although, sibio Tor an enemy immediately on of course, they aro wholly vegetable , declaring war, or without waiting to' in origin. Whether the substitute is declare it, to strike in the course of an' !equal to real cow's milk as a form of , helm er so, and with precision—using nourishment is not quite clear, for 1 fleets of thousands of machines—the, much of tris value of the mint as a very nerve centres and arteries of any foodcomes from the enzymes or vita -1 opponent that is ill-prepared. He mines it contains. The Japanese,! could destroy government buildings, however, declare that it serves all the i ars0nal.s, faetria: and railways, para. purposes of cow's milk, and that it len all communications and blot out ' has the advantage of being less liable 1 whole cities, The power of a perfect - to infection when properly and care -1 eel aeroplane, when in unscrupulous fully manufactured. I Mende, may in the, :future become so 1 -'-'----'-�-- 'terrible as to .appear ahnost super - BERLIN GAYS NIGHT LIFE. hmnan. Pestilence may be spread by -- that means; the inhabitants oe great • Disgrace to I'"atherland, Says a Ger., artiew may W slain in thousands 'by Man Novelist. , poisonous or suffocating gases. Sea The German capital is a disgrace to power may be swift and pitiless, but p g le" more swift and fat more pitiless, Gorhiiany, says Frau Marie tilers, the: will be the action, ultimately, df air, popular German novelist, whose war' power. Disaster awaits a nation that pamphlet, quoted by several Berlin; ignores the warnings. ' papers, says:— _ "The German capital is a disgrace, Danes. Pace Food Shortage. , to Germany. While millions of our! breve German soldiers are giving I The general scarcity of foodstuffs their lives. at the front, Berlin is filled 18 beginning to be felt in Denmark. with crowds of carious pleasure -seek-; Since December 1, rye bread, the us- ers, profit -mongers, ghouls,—guitures' nal bread of 1)entt, ef; has been mixed and arlventurers, 1 with ten per cent. of barley, anti the "Iieeillesa of human suffering, hi percentage will seen bo 'raised to which their own countrymen are par -1 t' d)1ty per cent. The Horne Office ticipating es much as any, they par -'rias decided to regulate the consurtip- sue their selfish lives of greed, and tion and price of home-grown sugar licentiousness and infamy, Berlin .night life, always a scandal and a blot on Germany's honor, is a cryingshame ht Wal' time." Arriving At The Top. and will issue sugar dards. Each per- son is to be allowed one pound a. week. -.-_r, ' Some .Change. Mr. Neverwed—Doss your wife treat you the same as she did before "You've got to be pretty smooth You were married? to get to the top nowadays." Nt, Peck --Not exactly, Before we, "Yee, and you usually get. smooth were married, when I displeased her on the top before you get there," she re -Naiad to sptalt to me. AN INDEPENDENT ARABIA, Free at Last From '.Turkish 1)omina- The new kingdom of Arabia is un like the new kingdom of Poland in that it really 15 anindependent es- tablishment, }whose people have emancipated themselves and recognize no otttsiilo suzerain, says the Detroit Free Press, The liberty they enjoy may be transient, but it lie genuine, Arabia and Poland are alike in that they will be able to exist indefinitely as political entities only if they are under the protection of some strong power or powers. They are passing phenomena, born of abnormal world conditions. Poland never will gain a fully developed national existence. With Arabia .a return of normality throughout the globe will presage a return to vassalage' of one sort or an- other. The age is inimicalto the per- sistence of small powers !n Asia. Baluchistan is -swallowed; Afghanis- tan and Persia suffer from progressive submergence and their end is certain. Arabia can revel in no dream of the restoration even in a modest way of the glories of the ancient caliphate. But hapiply it does not follow that Arabia must fall again under the yoke of Constantinople or into a con- clition of - abject vassalage. If the allies win the Ottoman danger will be wiped out forever, because the Otto- man power will be a thing of the past. Even if the aver ends in a draw, there is a small likelihood that the Entente Powers will permit the recovery by Turkey of any territory she has lost: British oversight of matters in thg Arabian peninsula will be a natural consequence of complete English as- cendency in Egypt, and a logical ex- tension of the present English foot- hold in Aden. This development Would be a far more tolerable situa- tion for the Arabian than the rule of the Ottoman Turk; and it might well be accepted with good grace as the nearest approach to independence possible for a people without great military resources, TANK TRAPPED HUNS. • Perinitted Enemy to Surround Tank, Then Annihilated Them. The special correspondent of, the Paris Journal on the British front gives an amusing description of the exploit of one of the tanks. Ile says: "One of them, christened "rhe Devil's Delight; did marvellously at Beauconrt. Plunging forward like a huge elephant, he daringly dashed ahead of the waves of assault, and took up a position at the entry to the ruined village, "At first the Germans took to their heels. Then back they ,came one by one. Machine guns, d grenades, rifles, mortars tried to bore holes through his double shell, but all in vain. Sitting well down on his haunches, the majestic tank lorded it like Father Neptune, "He courteously allowed himself to be approached. Some sappers tried to place bombs under him to blow him up. The crew inside lay low. The Germans grew bolder. Ten, twenty, thirty soldiers armed with lifting lifting jacks and mallets tried to up- set hint. But what could even two battalions do against this amiable armored mastodon? "A colonel mad with rage fired eight shots with his revolver at close range. If Ise could have lauich- ed, the tank would have burst with glee, But his joking is of a more military sort. "Believing the crew annihilated and the monster disabled, at the end of a long quarter of en hour's silence the Germans closely surrounded him. Suddenly the portholes opened, ma- chine guns spat fire from both sides, and the terrible beast crusher!, flat- tened, riddled, slew ---a real giant in action, grinding the dead under Itis feet. An hour later, when the main body of British troops were able to reach Beaueour•t, they dieeo+•ered round the stranded tank numbers of dead lying in heaps. The tank speaks little but t0 the point," The Levy En Meese. In ordering a levy of its whole male population Germany will only 1>'e do- ing what Franco and la gland did without compulsion during the hun- dred Years' war. In those flays every fit man in both countries ha 1 to t•!ny his part, and that i; how it came about that, in the gent e' p 1 tin h of Edward III., "them wnri h af. I us;ht, squire, or man of honor, from the age of twenty to sixty years that did not go." That, too, explain.; the presence of Geoffrey Chaucer vaiilh the forte, and his capture in November, 1009, in a skirmish near Rheims. Chancier"a' experience was a general one in those days, when, it has been said every house in England was a fmtre s and every fortress a gaol, - Lon.lon Chronicle. Unprofitable. A sire' -week-old calf was nibbling at the grass in the yard and was viewed in silence for some minutes by the city girl. "Tell tnei" she said, turning irn- pulsively tb her. hostess, "does it reale ly pay you to ]seep as small a cow as that?" Oh, We See. `Hobson is fading a r:erious.chargo." "Why, what crime has he corneit- ted ?" "No Matte. nes gazing at, his coal hill, which has jut come its.'a 1 w Asa-