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Action Described as One of the
Mokt Brittle tit 44 the
War.
eleepalth from Paris gays; The
swifteees of the •actien at the eront,
and the rapidity with which the for-
tunes of tear change from one army
to the. oiler0 has not been better
illuserated Di the present • c-onflict
than by thee events in a very violent
engagement, at Ypres, which ie giv-
en especial prominence in the ef-
ficate commanca.tioas.
The continual progress of the al-
lies' offensive has pushed back the
German lines to each an extent that
itt various points they are compell-
ed bo emi'lt to counter-attacks to
&we per tions of theirarenches frone
captuee and their troops .from en-
velopment. One of these eountme
offensives was directed at Ypres re-
cently, and it resulted in partial
euccees :for the Germans, They di-
rected a series of, assaultagainst
the allies' .torees in this region .and
Were repulsed on three oecesions.
.On tile fourth, however, they reach-
ed the first line of the allies'
treache•s. • This'. happening was
announced in the Communication in
the afternoon, The estatement is-
sued brought the news that the lost
trenches had been retaken at night.
Unofficially it is reported that,
this action Was one of the mast
brilliant of the war. It is nut
thought in military circles that the
new attacks on 'Ypres mean it de-
termined effort of the Germans to
break through, Out heve been
launched for the puepose of taking
off tome of bhe pressure vaiith the
alliee -have been .exerting at virtual-
ly every ..foot of the ham froth Al-
•sace to the sea.
1,100 Turks Captured.
A despabch from London says:
The In -clean Offica reports that 1,100
.Turkish ,prisoners, exclueive oi
wounded, aodnine guns, were cap -
tetrad set Kumla, on the Persian
Gulf, which was occupied on Des
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BRITAIN' S EN V 0 Y 110 RO ME.
Si r If miry Reward Repreemita Live
at the Vatiean.
The new Pepe, Benedict XV.,
.m.ade '11.0 formal atinouncemont of
policy when lee aseamed the triple
crown of St. Pete). hest Septembee.
Bub as he leedbeee the devoted pu-
pil at Cardinal ltampolles 'the Sec-
retary of 51 -ate of •Leo 'XIII., for
twe•nty-five years, it was assureed
that the Vatiean under Benedict
XV. would return to the
ideas and aspirations of Rampolla.
• The appoint/fleet of Sir Henry
Howard as erfeby from Great', Bri-
tain to the Hely See is the Meet
indication of the papal policy, amd
a -signal' diplomatie victery' for 'the
Pojie. To 'being abatitthe estab-
• lisheeent cliploinatie rela-
tions' between, England end the
Vatieetp was the thing Bampella
labored for unceasingly from • the
day he entered office until he left,
it, when the late Pope,. Pius X., was
.elected .aocl took Cardinal Merry
del Val to be his Secreeery of
England has . been tee greed: foe
of political /Roman ,Owtholk doc-
trine e .since the days of Henry VIII.
and Queen Elizabeth, and t'he ee-
tabli.thment of the Thiglish Protes-
tant Chttech; and although the Eng -
hell Sovereign maintained a repri-
• neativein Rothe as long as the
Pope was, Sovereign there-4hiellt
wa:s until 1870 -the r.elatioo was
broken off as soon as a. King of
Italy *seamed the throne.
Only Temporary. ,
All of bhe nations of Europe
which were Catholic -aa Austria,
France, Portugal, .and Spain--con-
tinned for the fettle being an Am-
bassador at bile Vatican, while send-
ing another one to the Quirinal,
Germany, being Protestant and
C.atholic, -was finally induced by the
Vatican to ena.intain ale.° the two
Amba•ssaelors. - But England held
out. The Government, knowing
the strong anti-Cakholie senthnent
in the country, could n.ot be per-
suaded to brook the storm of cheap-
proval swill a move would cause.
Sir Henry Howard's appointment
is ,announced as being only tempo-
rary, to congratulate the new Pope
upon his accession, aod then to re-
main in Rome clueing the progress
of the wax. But it seems to he gen-
erally mccepted as an opening
'wedge for the appointment of a per-
manent Arnbassadoe from Great
Britain to the Vatican.
It is seici that the allies • are
alarmed ail the prozpeot of Prince
Von 13uelow's preponderance of
power at the eemt of the King of
lettly ss Ambassteclor from the Ger-
man Emperor, and that, England,
Russia, aad Feat -tee have alai) he-
mmers suddenly alive to the nossi-
Sir ifenrY 110055114
bility of the Pope playing an impor-
tant role in the settlement of peace.
lo this event the aalies would have
.a weak representation in compare
am to their enemies,
'rite Sole Representative.
Russia Ittie no formal Ambassa-
dor to the Pope. France has bro-
ken all ther former diploniabic rela-
tions. Sir Henry Howeed is,
therefore, the sole repreeentative
of the three' countries.
Germany has during recent yeare
increased her solicitude for the
Pope's friendship,which was offi-
Melly sealed by Bismarck granting
certain ,privileges in the Reichsbag
to the Catholic party in Berlin
when the Pope created the first
German cardinal, Acklitionae car-
dinals have been added from time
to time, so that the German Em-
pire lute itt procent a ebeong corps.
of supporters et Rome,
Austria is still regarded by the
Popes as their last stronghold
against the eneroachteents of Pro-
teatantiem, and the relationship be-
tween the Pope and the Emperor
Francis' Joseph is very intimate.
The Duke of 'Norfolk in England,
the premier duke of the realm, is a
Catholic, and he has spent a greater
part of' his life in reconciling the
British •Governmeet to a policy of
recognition of the political status of
the Pepe. It was the Duke of Nor-
folk who personally superintended
the peesern, plans for Sir Healey
Howard's going to Rome.
Howard has. beee British Minister
et The. Hague and Luxemberg.
Nearly fifty years ago he was an
attache se the British Legation ie
Washingteos and married at &at
time Miss Ceeiliti Riggs, the daugh-
ter of G. W. Beggs, of Wathington.
She diecl in 1907.
Oeorgees Observations.
Five years a.go George Ade, while
in Berlin, said this to an Engyeh
ineerviewer : "The Gemmel officer
regards every civilian as an lose&
The foreign civilian is looked upon
as a biteillue. The Americanciyilian
ie too atomic for consideration.
Ovee here everyone pokes fun at
the, gtiffneeked martinets of the
army, but when doing so they us-
ually go up an alley a,nd talk in
whespers.''
The louder a man talks the more
he reminds us of a base drum.
PICTURES 'IRE TI1E .WORli OF
..:•PROVESSIDeNAJ, •SOLDIERS.
Snapslioeteils Taking pliiitegeaphs
TR6,70.7.7slopcx. ift,Ncul
The Indians Fon2;ht. riand-to-hand With Gerriv
In the Darl,
of''Bit ttleftelitisio.I.tun G:reat, A desPatell from London 'says
Rs
, Arthur W. Leech telegraphs to the
Daily News from lefoothern France
Where do thee come irom1 Who s. ,.very early, but very, sureiy, the
take s • them
You'll fee.ar theee questions in the. Irelia4ls ohf• avraie trail! adding t° their
crowd ,surgingestro.uethe r onlein
siel provciel eneysepaper remeee(ot' ''eel,fringt,4"tewleinenrly
itholvear
d
aed evee outside' the peat WeCt.-`
bombezdrilent.hiah ha4
end stores weigh display the laee.elt i.`""
eeseteeefteee tem the emit, 64.0 Considerably shaken up the Ger-
. mans had given them a .particularly
Pe`I'zIr's;111361)171.1te2dctille. war' correeponee,tte:frietsreni -the
i h Gleiterkivbeaes 'altfelt
dent's daY was over, that the Gee- beyonete. They erept over the in-
nierasteff thought him a pest'Worse, tarvenieg ground like pent -hers
thgail p;, espy, and so to be shot a* streype,
,1 kiflogtlelda
eiTaprey, th•en seddenly
awful hullabaloo
All this' is true 'etiongle The feet
is that the stirring or pitiful Pm- aeren i
n•dfee•ef!nellnesibhe Germans their
tures wo Bee in the papers are the eet wee it ha,ncl-to-ha.nd fight, anti
-work of 'profeesional soldiers 'who
are in many eases professeonel pho-
tographere armed only with heed
cameras and :working in odd nio-
moots, hoping to make it little mo-
ney for the /many left behind:
'Thus far both Belgian and French
noo-coins. and peivatee :h.ave been
snapping war scenes and sending
the undeeeloped films with numbers
tininitncab
eloteosit
,itow.aATostWerp or Paris, by
i.o
Many at thenot vivid and strik-
ing subjeets .havo miscarried alto-
gether, phothertaken in the faee of
terrible .areillery fire and 'thunder-
ous eherges of cavalry. 'The acil-
dier-artist hap sent a hurried -note
to his agent, in the capital, only to
And that his precious roll of films,
taken at frightful risk of life and
litub, has never been heard of.
Perhaps Vienna or Berlin is pub-
liehingthem now with garbled titles
to illustrate a "victory," which has.
no existence outside the editor's
ituaginatien.
Dangerous WIWI:.
Probably ;the last great wax in
which the press photographer had
free scope was, the Rueso-Japane•se,
and somo account of the adventures
of James Bicalton, the American
operator, will give an idea el the
deadly peeil 'and daring which at-
tend this work.
Correspondents with General
Nogi's army were limited to 66 lbs.
of equipment, bub Ricalbon got
through wile mere than twice this
amount of baggage, because, he
"had a way with him." Pereonality
and charm of meaner cella erior-
int.nucrly in delicate work of this
The war photographer proper de-
pends upon no mere -hand camera
such as every tourist carries; the
Hake of failure would be too great
after enorinous toil in time, trouble
and money. Instead, he carries a
heavy tripod affair with big glass
plates and thtee important lenses.
More than this, the .artist often car-
ries three of those weighty things
to make certain of hitt pictures,
Bear in mind that, one sensational
plate may he sold to a, couple of
hundred papers and be worth 3100.
Trailing in his wake are reserves
of five or six cases of fragile plain
each weighing 75 lbs. "Two days
ago," wrote Ricalton, "I'moved in-
to the first houee I've slept in for
three months. No have I had my
clothes off during that time." "I've
been trying," wrote those devoted
man in another letter, "to photo-
graph the flying shells of the big
siege gees. They tan be seen in
flight, and I must have a etere•ca
graph to show one'
And lie did secure a marvellous
picture showing a, 500 -lb. projectile
screaming its way over the hills
from all eleven -inch coast defense
moiler. It was aimed at the in-
visible Russian fleet. Firet of all,
the photographer stuffed hie ears
wibh cotton wool, for many of the
gueners serving these enormous
pieees had been deallen•ed for life
by. the terriffic explosioe,
The Real Thing.
"Why do yon take the risk V'
asked. one of 'the ordinal*, cerees-
pendents. "You coeld just es easily
picture the mortar at rest and then
paint in the smoke and ths little dot
that thews the shell." The speaker
was looking at the dot se heroically
gained, -
"I suppose 1 mould," replied Ri-
calton slowly. "tab then it would-
n't be the real thing," It is the
professional pride wheal makes the
newspapers of to -day so magnifi-
cently served.
On went this Yankee free lance
with his 30 -lb. tripod .114)&1, his
arm.Scared 'commanders &nested
him time after time, but his devo-
tion 10051 General Nogi's 'heart.
• "If it's'ehat American•photogra,
pher," decreed the geeett Japan•ese
leader beer bhe telephone, "let him
take picturee wherever he likes."
And leesent, presents of fruit to
Libtle rtio and hareoreus inessagei
besides. For loyalty is .everywhere
admirable.
So behold the wee' photographer
crawling at _dawn through trenehe•s
when an exposed head brought a
toerent of Russian- shot and ellen.
By day the blazing sun peeled the
skin hem his fame in flakes.. He
spent dread „hours in deep bombe
prooi caverns of earnage, blasted
by the Japanese sappers under the
very feet of 'the Czar's troops in ths
eeleagu red fajta.
It is. 10011 to remember that the
Ordinary descriptive writer Call get
his stuff by interviewing seaff <Ail-
een et, the 5e111', or, at any rate,
_through powerfield field glasses out
of item range of fire. But the war
photographer who Warnts unique
and striking pictures must go to
within it few hundred yards of his
objective. , Moreover, he met al-
ways be en, the spot with his mem-
beetle gear. •
He Must Sleep in the Trenches, ,
exposed to toreential rains and bit-
ing .frosts.
"fihe wild geese ere going south,"
Ricalion .wrote , home to hie wife.
"They know that 'winter is here,
and my overeoat is in Yokohama.
no troops 3n the world omelet
the Gterichas alt thae kind of
fare. The kukri did much
havoc, but eoine of the woue
brought back to the Britith lines
ported that the butt ends of en,
were also used.
• "While the fiist line of trerich
Were being ethrmed., with grim es
CCSO Other cOmpanies of India
charged forward, yelling and shoe
in,g, and the Germans took bo the:
heels. They didn't stop until the
came under the effective support oh
their own artillery. •
"As a result of their sortie the
Inclistes gained some valuable posi-
tions en the direction of Lille. The
Indian casuattier were heavy, but
the results achieved were of tre-
mendou.s importance."
I guess plenty of thirte will replace
it ' We unto the war &Deist who
had no sense of humor!
This men may be taken as typical
of these deveoted !servants of the
press: The physical labor bhey un -
the mental etrein and gen-
eral eisks, and hardships far surpass
those which the combatant soldier
has to fame. The real thing and no
fakes. -So the fanatic creeps
through the trenches, hogging the
huge camera with which he serisee
the people at home,
Heave, as his burden was, James
Ricalton did twenty mike a day
with it, often stepping over the still
warm bodies of the pitiful deed
stretched this way and that in fan-
thetie pose. And, indeed, he'd send
home medezt apologies for the qual-
ity of the negatives he'd taken.
"My hest subject, No. 18, is ao
awful Mess. a dynamite explosion
took place when I was -takingit,
s.haking the earth like a volcano trp-
heaetal and filling the trench with
it hail of earth and stones. It wee
hell an every side °I me, so do the
beet OUu-can With that print."
begin'to feel a new sympathy
with woman's work," this war pho-
tographer wrote to his wife. "I
mean bhe domestic grind, because
really my cooking and disb washing
*epee harder to me than the snap-
ping at pictures ender fire. And
that reminds me. I was washing up
the other day after a noble feed
when a Russian 100 -pounder
screeched past me, so near that the
terrific gust of air carried My cap
clean eff my head.
'The hell burst about 30 feet be-
hind my •tripod and drove a huge
hole in the earth; you could have
buried a horse in the pit. Thank
God I escaped the ilyieg 'fragments,
and I've kept one fee you as a sou-
venir. Mind, I eaiv this big fellow
corning. too. , I had only
A Seeond to Snap and Wiala
tend cluck, taxi pray as one prays le-
etinctively at, such an awful time
In all recent wave the photogra-
pher has played a simile). pare
During the terrible Boxer rebellion
in China the pieture in -en were hur-
rying Deb° Tientsin just when whites
and Chinese alike were fleeing for
their lives.
W -hen the allied forme entered
Pekin a eeries of stereographs was
secured which astonished the world.
The huge' camera.s at the correspon-
dents were often mistaken by the
.enemy for 'game new and diabolicel
wea-pons of offense which the foreign
devil had designed. The famous
South Gate of the imperial city had
to be blown up with dynamite, and
one picture man set his tripod
quite near to it.
"It's a fine subject," he pleaded
with the military. "A grand sub-
jeee with plenty of emoke in it!"
Whereupon they shrugged their
shouldees anci lee him take his
chance.
It is in the lest degree unlikely
that we shall have firsthand pic-
tures of the neval side •of the world
war, but on the laud side, at least,
a determined effort is to be mode
by the world's news.pa,pees and the
vitriol -is cinema companies.
c nor, ERA eN GERMANY.
--
In A nee ria-Itu n ea ry the Diseaee is
Spreading.
A de-spaLch 15001 Rotterdam says;
The Berlin Board of Health, ac-
cording to information reaching
Robterdern, reported 36 cases of
cholern, in Germaay dialog the
month of November. In Attar:a,
especially in Galicia, the eholera is
spreading rapidly. Eighb hundred
and forty-four cases were reported
during the firet week of November,
in which period there were 331
deaths. There were 90 deaths it
Vienna. In Hungary during the
same week there were 532 cas.es of
cholera,
RUSSIANS FOIL a
GERMAN SCHEIYIE,
Cheek Three of nee Forees Whish
Were Converging Upon.
Warsaw.
A despatch from • Lon&en says:
Of the five Austro-Gerinen column -5
which for same days appeared to
be making steady progress in theii:-
invasion Of Poland, three have sul-•
fered ceeeke, according to official
reports from Russian headquarters.
The column whi-ch was making a.
downward stroke from IVIlawa, on
the East Pruesian frontier, and
which.was reported in ane .despateh
from. Petrograd to 13Y. Within fifteen
milee of Warsaw, after an eneigetie;
offence. was repulsed, and under
counter-aetacks from the Russians
was compelled to retire at Lome
Points. The attacks of the Main
German column, which had Dit
front on the line between Lodz and
Lowlez„ and which came down cliaa-
onally from Thorn, ' were delivered
with great feriae, bet were, accord-
ing te the Russiao acceunt, repuls-
ed w:th heal*, keses to the invad-
ers. That the Germane laid greae
store on the success of their abtack
here is shown by ths face that dur-
ing the two days they faced the
Ruesian trenches seven timee, and
were drivee back be- an effeetive
fire.
The other column which has suf-
fered is that composed -el German
and A.ueteian troupe, which has
been trying to oettlank the Rus-
sian leet suuth of Cracem. In thin
ease it wae the Rutesians whes aa -
sued the offeneive, aed thaele sim
that after a tenacioas reas, nee
they defeated the Germans, taking
several gens and 2,5e1 prisoner!, •see„
Of the German columns operating I
1
in the region of Pea okuw and thee '
ad van cilia from C' zen s to chowa there
is no nee s except the Ruesie :et-' ate-
ment filet "oe other parte -re' ee
front there have been no stillo .11 -
teal changes."
Delayed "Last .3101n teas."
In the Beetle of Friedland,
Jane 34, 1807, there was a yeie
lieutenant in Napoleon's arniy nen
ed Schramm Wheathe viotoricri.
general was riding over the 'nate
field that evening, he tame mire
the eigbteen-year old officer lying
on the ground mortalle wounded,
and weeping bitterly.
"Why do you weep?" aeked Na-
poleon, as he rode by.
"Because I must die before 1 oan
become a -captain," the youth Non-
pl eined.
The words of the dying lieetenant
softened the emperor's heart, "My
we, 7 shall gladly fulfill your
wish," he eaid. "I hereby advance
you to bhe kink of captain."
'Phe unexpected promo tion actual-
ly .saved the boy's life ; he recover-
ed. Litter on he foright most vate
untie for the cause er Na.pelsen,
and by the time of the battle of
Waterloo he had already becoom a,
gerietal. He outlived his !last mo-
menta" on the field of Friedland •hy
more than seventy years,
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