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'A Man of Iron win Who Made '
the Yri` h Yet y the Efficient
Fighting Viatilise of To-day---
Saw
oday=Sate Tdiat the ,E ip re Would be
SaVitill or Lost in the North Bea.,
'Moss than to any other mew, the
Present efficiency of the Brattish navy
is due to Theron Hirer, the First Sea
Lord who rteeeeeded Petnee Louis of
Batter:1mm m. Wet high . peat. . He
plenum( dm shies, he wattled the
offrce4'e, he ise;ah•«el the srategy which
is SOr keeling ems sand of the North
Sea.
For a man w^so has done so mneh
he la curiously unknown to his fellow
eotratmenen. lentorteg the navy at 18,
he eve seed ,nr"rtee Mee many another
ofeesr, !bet refernt't'edrttention almost
exeltweetily tL•om his superiors. His
erect rsprperrtanne did not come erne]
he wee ever CO. Then came a day
,rhea Lkere ,sans offered to him the
legvest mete ,g' a Bettor's arebttlon
in testa sf ]'sane -rho ken/tone of
rtt t own Leord.
:srt twee that berme he would only
tale en Estates. fee carried ea kis
breis a tIrll agrelee of PeOPSVIIIMOtiOli.
Ile Went ved are settinh!g end the die
trllretfen of the wavy to .be po!'fionely
cat of base. lee had wasehed the
e memo Isom weeeen malls to iron
c°rre..as paelfed with bsenen' ewes aid
exeteia'Pke irreelttwwry. Yet there had
been in etese aritenkbl ohmage *nee
Ne,1eaees ti'me tai the method re train -
lee cft,caes ter their pretender'.
Monte a Ween Swee•.p.
Me Jelin Fieeer•-raw he eves tlisen;
his ere$tteen es deet fierce Fisher of
Ftilmewtewe dales- front 196.9--eleasly
smote hire iottesttese. They were en-
peeved. He went sato the Admisetty
to wiry `.lase..% eat. Ills activities
were reeolut wary though construc-
tive. 1.e wee deueenoed for the cheer
:eras,, fed .reeehrtie i of the changes
he teWed imeei.
At (eeier sae le tanned the officers
twralise to inundie the ellen machines
which b ve *up tided forever the old
virion of meets and earls. He vastly
it l'retned revicieuey while reducing ex -
metre:. He ssruek put of the estimates:
every p,eny vrikilt old not yield real
fghting ceras;. He mercilessly 50rap-
ped scenes of week vessels dant could:
NOW 15111.114411 r s THS WAR
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a1Eli%i:SIS
—Bert Thomas in
The E nd is Now in 5 ighi
" ick Man of
For 70 runes Terhey hes borne the
name of 'the sial( man of Europe."
In 1844 Niobolae I., Ozer of Russia,
visited Ifatgbosd and eons,nitod with
British stateroom: about what be be-
lieved to be the impending ,fan of the
Ottoman ompive. "We have a sink;
mann, a tying man, on our hands,"
said this Omar, "We must keep him.
alive so long, as is poestble, but we
must frankly take into view all eon-
tirmencioa."
The demise did not take place as
expected by Nicholas, and' einoe that
time Tus+key has engaged in four wars
and hoe undeagone a revolution in its
internal etiminie s,ation, It fought
Russia in the Crimea in 1856.58, and
again in the Balkans in 1877-78, los-
ing several provinces. It made a vain
resietanoe aigainst Italy's seizure of
Tripoli in 1912, and in the Balkan war
of bast year it lost its remaining
European territory, sieve 5 strip ex-
tepdtng aboat 160 miles from Oon
stanttnople, just tar enough to include
Adri,'utople•
Tho present Sultan, Mohammed V.,
London Opinion
and Vow V eng
Y a`lied Orskag o E>ieraeed by !Starke of Atroeit es
On the Fart' of iahe German8
After talking to the vaunted sol-
neither starfish .ler run. He trans- deers from the .battlefields, v v m- �,CA0
tarred the men to realfighting ships. preeslons have been imprinted on my LitG`i
eance
and Treacbary
i is i RATIONS FOR VALOR
lir (v••orteri with. the insptrxttlon of .memory by thepassionate declarations
nothing Tela then, genius the system of those ,brave men who have been Great Britain maywell feel` proud
of araeloue orewe, by elect: every helping to keep the "Huns at bay,
shipin the reserve could be mobilized says'a Glasgow correspondent of the and boast of her military decoration,
11 the Victoria Gross, which Is only con-
fer rem in a few hours. Above a London Chronicle.
he swung be whole fleet, as it were, Many of them were 'emphatic as
clean rause to fate the t'oeks of the to the,"brutality of the German hogs."
future. The Highlanders especially seemed
He reccgnleed that in thetwentieth deeply incensed by the treachery and
century es in the seventeenth, the barbarism of the enemy. They are
'British 'Empire would be saved or lost handing over this legacy of righteous
r not in the Mediterranean but in the hatredto the men, who are taking
North tea, Quietly be massed British their places in the firing line.
r ' Pn'e;th in the narrow Seas, until, in Every new man is told how the Ger-
Adrera!l efahen's words, "85 per cent. mans have tanked the fair fight, how
of the lirttitoh battleship strength they have tied women to their ar-
e•^a .•erran:rated in, or near home tillery arid thus advanced because
waters."
Keeps elle Own Counsel
All his, .life es tins been a hard
worker, and `•e was untiring at the
Admirrlt7. He was constantlylan-
ning and preparing for the war which machine guns.
naw now come, and when the storm It was also interesting to get again
broke the men• and ships of England
wore, thanks to his work of organisa-
tion, as ready for war as the German'
so'idiers were. His know}eege of naval
affairs was all -embracing. He .knew'
where cerci ship weds and all a:. rat
it, whether the commander wee a good
officer, wbether he email, whether he
was a fop, whether he 'vas liked by
his crew—in fact, everything about
To this encyolopaed1e knowledge is
joined the faeelty of prompt action
and utter feer1eseneee. He proved lir
courage over and over twain in the
Crimean war, the China war of 1861)•
60, r„nd the bombardment of Alexan-
dria.
There le a foolish story to the effect
that his mother wsa a C1ng61ee WO -
man
o -man' of highrank, but Lord Fisher
squelched tae story years ago by
quietly produoing the authentic facto
of his birth. ' He is the son of Capt.
William Fisher, Seventy-eighth High-
landers, and Sophia Lambe, daughter
of a London merchant. The .only
,truth in the Ceylon story is that he
was born on that island, where his
father was serving.
He holds the opinion that humane
'warfare is both foolish and cruel and
headvancedthat opinion at the
Hague conference with consummate
skill.
"When you have to wring a c'hick-
en's neck," he said, "all you think
about is wringing it quickly. You
don't give the chicken '_ntervals for
refreshment and 'recuperation. It
should be thesame with warfare."
The small 'village of Bulwick, Nor-
thamp6enshire, gave Lord Kitchener's
iormy ten of its eleven eligible men.
they knew the British would not fire.
They have been warned, too, about
the frequent appearance of the white
flag—the flag which they say is un-
furled over hidden trenches of hand
and again from men of different corps
the same magnificent testimony to
the gallantry of the officers.' And the
regiments represented include Gor-
don Highlanders, Seaforths, .Black
Watch, Army Service Corps, Scots
Greys, Coldstream Guards and others.
"Our office , are no flannelledfools,"
said one wounded soldier. "The men
are proud of them, and will. follow
them wherever they go. And they
are not like the German officers, who
take up positions .at the back of the
men, and threaten to shoot them if
they don't go forward to certain death
quick enough.
Our officers are always where the.
bullets are thickest, a'na it la really
splendid 'to "watch the hallcare&esa,
though watchful way . they scan the
shells as they come along.
Our men know' that their officers
are doing everything they can • for
their comfort. Their example makes
the boys in the trenchers new men.,
The spirit of the .officers Inoculates
their men, ands we scorn the enemy
though we take, bo chances.
Another says some of the officers
in the Highland regiments have sworn
on their dirks to make the German:
Huns pay for the brutality on the
women and children. But the soldiers
even refuse to tell some of the .awful
things clone, by the Germans in ,their
Welter of 'flood and lust.
But the reckoning is coming.' When
the Germans next meet some, of the
Highland regiments which have been
reinforced—when they face the steel''
of ,the Argyles, the Seaforths, and the
Black Watch—then they will under-
stand what Highland revenge is like..
The Germane will get their account
paid in full.
gained the throne in 1109, after the
Young Turks had gained eentroi of
the government, exiling Sateen Abdel
Harald. The revolution, of w'hleh
much was hoped, did not *top • the
persecution of Tuz8eey's Christian
population, or change 'retiree's habit
of fleshing in muddy waters a diplo-
macy.
After the ontbreek of the passent
war, Turkey gave a haven to the Ger-
man cruisers Goeben and. Breaker', and
ostensibly purchased them -a trans-
action against. which Fllgi'etnd ,pre`
tested. It also abrogated the tfeattes
which had limited Turaie'h eoreredgnty
over natives of ether fenrv'pean coun-
tries within her borders, and did away
with all extra territorial government
by foreign consuls, and with foreign
post offices in Turkey.
The London Telegraph, in what was
believed to be an afflcially inspired
utterance October 1, declared that "if.
Turkey chooses war, it will mean the
end not merely of Turkey in Europe,
but of Turkey in erste, and the allied
powers will exact the ,falitat retri-
bution."
Many Fps r t sh Flags
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11 ideas
CEi7AM VITUPERATION
The "Inambasger Na,olrriohton."
ooatueins the following theasnple• of the
lamgnage coed m the German press:
"".Che German women," it says, "are
beings too gentle, of a textureal-
together too -'.+oiieaito, bo support ate
idea of war. But in eo far as tire.
present !me is concerned car women
In their r illi'ons welnonrn it with joy,
because they reoogutso that it is a
struggle against nnrtoes, hating, and
hateful foes,
"German motlroe'o have never
brought rq-th such wild beasts as
these poison-epreadiig enemies. The
sons of German mothers nee formed
In the image of Cod, of t'he God who
brought the sword tato the world and
entered into friendship vette the Jen-
turion of Capernaum. Not se the sone
of -Heusi, English. Rnsslan.and lel-
gian mothers. They are made of
other material.
"By the use of horrible, lacerating
bullets, by mnrdertag and mutilating
wounded German warr'cre, and by
pia-ytng the hypocrites` part by means
of the white Las, their sons have
e shorn them -settee to bo bea.ete and
Q the eons of beasts.
Throughout Eg g �Ti "Between
bitterly
as these of the ed, the nob
the vemlftttwg cad the e'rll, the vile
*ad ,She degrading, the battle must
m ;o oz esti the end, nate their tears
ani liner mare'''s shell have moved
Hi„h . Ra ,en to grant the Germans
'victory."
Over One ftrnftreel Ensigns and 'Banners Reeognizod
Ashore—fit Oolonies Usually Work Their
Emblem Into this Design
The leritisli- Empire has over a
hundred' distinct tkegs, each of whioh
has a separate use ane meaning. The
Royal Standard, of oouree, is the most
important, being the, exclusive fiag•of
the King. It is oomposed of the Royal
Obert of Arms; the three lions in the
lett and right corners representing
England and Wales, the single lion
representing Scotland, and . the harp
Ireland. Nobody bas the right to fly
this fbag in any clroumstanees except
his Majesty himself.
The Union Jack, which every citi-
zen of the British .Empire has a right
to fly, is a combination of three orbss-
es representing the patron saints of
England, Scotland, and Ireland. St.
George's Gross is the red upright one,
St. Andrew's is the white diagonal one
and St. Patrick's the red diagonal one.
ferrel for conspicuous acts of bravery
The Union Jack is embodied in
on the .field of battle, some form or other in nearly all. the
France confers her distinctive bad- other British flags. The White En-
ges in the well known form of the sign, which is the trade mark of the
Legion of Honor. Navy, consists of a white background
Austria confers her Ancient Order divided into four by a red St. George's
of Marie Thdr0se.
Germany's equivalent of the'Vic-
toria Cross is the Iron Cross,
Russia distributes her. Cross o4' St.
Vladimir sparingly to her successful
soldiers.
Denmark has one of the most illus-
trious orders of chivalry,'the Order
of the Elephant, which ranks even
with that of Britain's Order of the
Garter.
Spain Is truly proud of, her ; Order
of the Golden Fleece; which 1s, and
has been, most sparingly conferred.
Italy -never , fails to. decorate ° her
soldiers with 'her Military Medal:of
Merit.
Cross. T
The top
TREASURINt TROPHIES
Tommy Atklno Dearly Loveeto•Tatae'
Them Home With Him
When , a British Tommy obtains a
war trophy in fair fight,.be; will stick
to that trophy . 'as though it were
Precious gold. The, reason is not far
to seek. A war trophy is a proof of
victory, and in years to come, tit forms'
not only. an ,Interesting link with the
giorioYls past, but a proof to, a youn-
ger generation that one's reminiscen-
ces are not 15117 tales! •
One poor fellow, 'with one arm off
and the other' in a sling, paused a
melancholy kind of amusement. by
the pertinacity with which he clung
to a rifle' -he had captured from a
German soldier. He: would not let it
go out of his grasp, despite his con-
dition, for a single moment.' 'Ile was
riding in a car; when a fellow passen-
ger, anxious to make him comfortable,
suggested that he should lay the rifle
down for a minute.
"No, no!" he protested. "What-
ever happens, I ain't going to let go
that!"
Another soldier, with one arm in
a sling, proudly carried the cap of a
German soldier under the other. There
was a stalwart Scotsman, too, whose,
ankle was bound up. He regarded.
his injury with great glee.
"Look, boys!" he cried. ; "It took
fllty of the bounders to do that. They .
are a brave lot!"
left-hand square is
occupied by a Union Jack. The B!ue
Ensign, used by the Royal Naval Re-
serve, consists of a blue background
with a .. Union Jack in the top, left-
hand corner. The Red Ensign, used
by the merchant service, is similar,
except for its red background. Ad-
miralty vessels, other than men-of-
war, . fly a Blue Ensign with an an-
c`or in the bottom right-hand corner.
The Naval Ordnance Department
has a special flag consisting of the
Blue Ensign with an anchor and three
cannons in the bottom right corner.
Ireland's flag consists of a green.
background with a Union Jack in the
top left corner and a harp to the right.
The Bine Ensign forms the basis
of the flags of the following colonies:
The Commonwealth of Australia uses
it with six white stare, a large one
underneath the Upton Jack and five,
one for each state, on the right. New
South Wales has a white circle on:.tle
right with a red erose ornamented
;with a bon ' and four stars. New
Zealand hos four red stars on the
right half • the flag. The Straits
Settlements has three crowns on a
diamond-shaped background with red
bars.
The Red Ensign is used by- Vio-
toria, with the addition of a blue
circle on the right of the Union
Jack, containing' a crown with five
stars beneathit. Tasmania also
uses the Red Ensign, with n red lion
on a white circular background in
place ofp1the blue circle used by Vic-
toria. ;Similarly Queensland has a
blue cross with a crown In the centre.
Canada's flag is the Red Ensign
with a shield containing the coats'
o: arms of the various provinces on
We right of the Union Jack. South
Africa uses a similar flay with, of
course, a different coat of. arms. Malta
also has a special flag, consisting of
the Red Ensign ,with a Maltese Cross
on the right.
The ', Indian flag is a Union Jack
with the Star of 6081a in the centre,
surmounted by a crown. The Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland has a similar
flag, with a harp on a blue shield in
the centre. The Diplomatic Service
also flies a Union Jack, but has` to
Afloat
Own
Vee Trenthe i o!noplane an Austrian
l'olvetation and. the A•rrOW bi-
plane is Prom am Bsig11tit Modal
—Ens Lately Followed Ail -steel
The Teethe (in English: Dove), of
wheel: so mn,.1r hes been heard re-
cently, is a smell ail -steel monot lane,
As Its name suggests, when in the
n,ir the machine gives the impression'
of.. a pigeon •restreg_ on its wings. For
mttltury purposes the Taube is sainted
light bore to match the sky, so that
ie fere weather it is diiflcutt to detect;
With the exception of a few ex-
perimental machines, ail the German
military monoplanes' are of tho Taube
t5^po. At tete beginning of the war
Germany possessed between 700 and
800 Taabea, but a percentage of these
would be of an old pattern and unfit
for the strenuous service required In
the centre the lion and unlearn sur-
mounted by n` laurel 'wreath.
In addition to these lugs there are
those of the various naval ranks from
that of admiral to senior officer.
There are no fewer tban thirty-
four different flags, in all of which
the Union Jack figures• ruled by the
various Royal Yacht Chubs. There
aro special coast flags.
The decoration and ormvreetetten
of ships by flags did act come into
general use until about 1400, wiaioh
is when three -masted ships leek be-
gan to appear.
In the Navy, however, the flag of
St. George was first intnod'noed as tau•
back as the twelfth century by Riehard
I., and the national coat of arms also
came into use at the same time—
after the return from the Crusades.
Cy Henry M.'s time it had become
customary for the oommandor-in-chief
of a fleet to fly the St, _George's en-
sign at his masthead.
But the Turks had fon' many years
carried enormous banners, which, by
their size and magnificence. astonish-
ed British sailors.
The White Ensign was, at one time,
whiten blue, or red, according to the
rank of the admiral, but at Trafalgar
Nelson ordered all ships to fly the
White Ensign.
To -day the Blue and Red Ensigns
are flown by merchant ships, though
the only boats allowed to wt-rr the
blue are those carrying a proportion
of Royal Nav"'a1 Reserve men—a fact
not generally known,
° lietTNIER
NOR BUTYn
A Wenscw's Heroic Let'.er to Hca'
Skeeter arothor
raodsra aerial warfare.
The evolution of the Teethe is ro-
mantic. The first machine of this de-
scription was designed by an Austrian
miliibnaire named `Ottricb. He took
the idea from the leaf of the Zanonia
tree, ;which grows in India. He ob-
eervod that When the Eanozis shed its
leases they were carried for miles
by the wind, and he naturally came
to Ibe oonclnaton that their buoyancy
was eve to their peculiar shape.
The wings of the first Taube were
faahtoaed after the Zanonia leaf, and
tie present pigeon shape is only a
slight modification. Ettrich patented
hie meahine in practically every coun-
try but Germany, and German eon-
struktars seized the idea and lmprove8
on it,
,Meet the efficiency of the deetgn
was proved beyond question the Gen
man Government, with a view to
An cheer etrvitsg on Sir John ataada,rtisatiou, and consequently
French's matt se the front In a letter facility of construction, tssued In-
to hire wl$e, enelmseal • teerv"ttlou qt (tractions that all military types of
a very etriieing letter• wrlitee (0 as monoplanes must be of the Taube
air mechanic in the French army be type.
hismeter. The 4oblowlmg Is en es- Later it was decided to construct all
boot: the of and
•'1 ,bear {drat Charles -and Lucien large factoriesmonoplanes were
steal engaged turningallthe
died on tine &8th J:N6net. lIene Is out Tubes and nothing but Taubes,
very badly woeneled. Louie, and Jean as far' as monoplanes for military
are dead' also, Rose has disappeared. purposes were concerned,
Mamma weeps; alas says that you are
strong, and bogs you to go to avenge
them. I hope your officers will not
refuse you permission. Jean had the
Legion of Honor; succeed him in this.
Out of the 11 of us who went to the them to earth. It might be mention -
war eight are &ted• My dear brother, ed that the Taube is easily controlled,
do your duty whatever is aaked of being almost automatically stable—
you. God gave you your life, and He
has the right to take it back. That
as what mamma says. Think of your
brothers and of grandfather in '70."
I take oft my hat to the women of
Franoe, the, officer remarked; in fact,
I think the women of both our men -
Being of steel, the Taube is a heavy
machine, and consequently much slow-
er than most British and French
machines, Many British pilots have
everts ken the Taubes and brought
that is the pilot can take his hands
with safety from the controls when
in the air. The machine is badly
designed for bomb -dropping, as the
pilot can only see ahead and not
directly below,
The German biplanes like the mono-
tries aro playing a harder game than planes are standardized. While the
the men. monoplanes are all pigeon -shaped .the
biplanes have their planes set back
When a Russian air scout near in the formation of an arrow. Ger-
Krasnik was shot at the bullet pene- many borrowed the idea of her mono-
trated the oil -tank of his machine, but. plane from Austria and her biplane
pressing his foot against the hole, he from England. It was Lieutenant
stopped the flow of the liquid and Dunne who first Invented the arrow
regained safety. shaped biplane. The idea did not
until quite recently take on in Eng-
land. Meanwhile long before the
IZunne biplane was brought to the
dttice of the public in Britain Ger-
many had decided that this was to
h., her standard military biplane.
Except that a tail was added the
modern German arrow machine is a
copy ofthe first Dunne biplane.
Before the war Germany possessed
about 100 arrow -shaped biplanes,
which with the Taubes constituted
practically the whole of her military
aeroplane fleet.
Like the Taubes the arrows are of
steel, but, being larger and able to
carry a greater power plant they are
faster than' the, monoplanes. Their
beet speed is about 106 miles per
hour, but even then they are slower
than many' of the British machines.
Little is to be feared from the naval
wing of the Imperial Flying Corps.
,Altogether the ,Germany navy -posses -
sea only 50 waterplanes. Four of
these -1 White, 2 Aures, and 1 Sop-
with—are British and the rest poor
copies of British waterplanes.
The land machines cannot be con-
verted into waterplanes for, being
constructed of steel, they are too
heavy to stand the extra; weight of
the floats.
Shop. Assistant: "This is a becoming color, Madam—"
Selina: "—Yes, but -will it, go with khaki?"--Lonaou Opinion.
e Time
99
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The Keiser Never Crowne('
William Ii. of Germany has saver
been crowned. In accordance with
hie usual ideas, he wished to be
crowned Emperor of Germany, not
German Emperor :like his predeces-
sors, after the manner of Cherie -
mange, Emperor o1 the Romans.
Lavish and elaborate preparations
were made by the Kaiser for his own
coronation, but the rulers of the
smaller German Stated, shrewdly. jeal-
ous of Prussian ascendancy, refused to
grant him the title.
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