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Zurich Herald, 1917-11-30, Page 2y ASSArd Teas for Economy Assam teas are the strongest and richest grown. It is of these teas that Red Rose Tea chiefly consists. That is why it yields the very large number of 250 cups to the pound—at the cost of about a cent e,e•,-e e , for five c Lips, and `�x� ,c ,•. every cup rich., M"'" strong, delicious tea. Kept Good by the Sealed Package r • Author of "All Por a Scrap of ]'aper," "Dearer Than 1 ire " ete. Published by Budder .St Stoughton, Limited, London and Toronto Waterman had been able to throw the. stone, or how near it might be.to the German trench. But his eyes were young and keen; every faculty was more than ordinarily tease and active, and Tom was in deadly earnest, He had •started to do this thing, and he would do it. Presently he saw a white spot on the ground, and he felt as though. hammers were beating against his temples. Crouching low, he made his way towards it, but he had only gene a few steps when he discerned the form of a man, apparently. with the same object in view, creeping from a German trench. Like lightning Tom made a dash for it, but the other was nearer than he, and by the time he had reached it the German had secured it. As far as he could judge they were about half -way between the two lines, and he knew the danger of the task he had set himself. In a vague way he wondered whether the Germans had seen him, he also won- dered whether the British were watch- ing hien. But this did not trouble him much; the one thought which fill- ed his mind was that he must at all • hazards secure the paper which Wa- terman had thxo;vn, Without hesitating a second, and without making a sound, he threw himself upon the Gasman and well- nigh bore him to the ground. Then followed a hand-to-hand struggle, the i details of which Tom was never clear l about. As a lad he hud been a foot - 1 helhad pla e i half -back fand had made or the Brunod e CHAPTER VIII:--(Cont'd.) I "Not until 1 .get at the bottom of p y Tom eeognieed the new -comer al -this," said Penrose quietly, ford football club for several seasons, °ae though he had not seem him for; "I tell you the man is either a mad !and the was Well built by ando --stron . months. It was Penrose who had nntn or a fool." Waterman was stem- During the time he had been in the. been with hien in Lancashire, and who' inering painfully* no.v. Army, too, every muscle in his b.r11y had received his commission imnledi., "That •will have to be proved," and had been developed to its fullest cap, ately aster his arrival in Surrey. , Penrose gripped his arm tightly.training told in "You know me, sir!" cried Tom, still "That's it� ackson; take his revolver. favor now,severeand Tom never dreamt of holding on to the other; "you know 1 .As it happens," he went on to Water- giving in. On the other hand, how - would net do a thing without reason, man. `•I know Pollard; he's a level- ever, the German was a big, heavy sir! 1VIake• him a prisoner, hes headed lad, and he would not have man and he also had undergone a ., giving information to the enemy! done this without reason. Ah, Major severe training. "Prove it! said Waterman. Blundell, will you come here a minute, Tom felt his antagonist weakening; "Yes, I will prove it!" panted Tom by Major, he knew it by his gurgling breath and ir, £ur this time theTa'or haw- , m "Make slim a prison:•, sir; I tell you in; heard the sound of voices, had his weakening grasp. He himself was he' been communicating with the r t.shed up. also well-nigh spent, although he was enemy. I saw him not a minute ago!", "What's the matter?"p g "What has he done?" asked Pen- Penrose quickly told him what had not apparent rweakness ted. of his riopponng - rose. taken place, and the young officer's eat was only a ruse by which he might. I saw him take a piece of paper words carne like a bombshell upon this gain advantage, Tom determined on from his pocket which was fastened, steady -going and rather dull officer, an old football trick. A second later over etto hie ngd-bags ;t then hes the threw Ger- , If it were true, all the mystery of the German's shoulder blade snapped the last few weeks was cleared up. like a match, and Tom, seizing the man lines. I tell you, sir, I saw flim; But he could net believe it. Water- aper,rushed backtowards the En do it! Make him a prisoner."p Eng - : this time others had come u ' man was regarded as one of the most l lish lines, and Waterman,laughed uneasily. "He's who Tom had released capable and trustworthy of the staff He had only fifty yards to cover, but somewhat, officers. He had sown zeal be- such a fifty yards! His legs seemed swim- either attacked mea madman," k,, mem a ds' inddquicknessl of ordinary, ceptiorand his nhad more telligence of lead, too,Nsooner while hhad he commenced warning, and without the sii •htest: than once been remarked upon; indeed to stagger back, than the Germans reason," g he had been mentioned in the dis- opened fire on him; a hundred bullets "Hold him fast sir " cried Tem.!patches as one who had rendered whistled by him, while he heard yells it's youaluable service to the British Army; ee rage coming from the enemy's "I'll soon prove towhether without the slightest reason. Promise; and now for an accusation like this to trenches. me you won't let him go, sir?" conte fairly staggered the well -mean- He felt his strength leaving him,, Penrose, who had grasped the situa-' ing faithful officer. his head was swimming, his breath tion, replied quickly: "Of course I� The whole affair had been so sudden came in short, difficult gasps, and he shall not let him go, but you must too. Only a couple of minutes before, knew he was wounded. He suffered prove your accusation, Pollard, here he had been discussing plans with your"W - no great pain, but by the burning ae iag-?" , 1 Waterman, who had urged him to be sensations in his left arm and in his "I am going to get ,the a er he i more than ordinarily careful in carry- right shoulder he knew that the Ger- , - 7- ertrcenereeeerarr _reeaa-�y,„,,.bullets lute liege - struck .. t rew towards tine" ' a-,,xl ifs.: -mint r it 1r t'here h was accused More than once he stumbled and fell. fast} ' ' of communicating with the enemy, and He felt himself going blind; he Tom was so excited that he had for- seen by a trustworthy soldier to throw heard cries from the English trenches gotten all about military rules and i a missile towards the enemy's lines, which seemed like cheers, but he could regulations. He acted just as he! �� here is Pollard? asked Major see nothing, and the cries seemed to be one would going an acted outrageous deed beforht e l"He'sl,gone to secuor Tom red the paned he pied ons. sol` I rust o et in! till1 niusthe r get the war. ! saw Captain Waterman throw," was in!" was the thought which possessed Waterman began to shout aloud, iPenrose's reply. his bewildered brain. Then lie fell but Penrose was too. quick for him. ! A second later Major Blundell was heevily; after that all became dark. He placed his hand on the other's ;leaning over the sand -bag., looking When he returned to consciousness mouth', and said quietly, "No you; across the "No -man's -Laud" towards it seemed to him as though he saw a don't, sir." i the enemy's trenches. number of ghostly faces around him. "Do you know what you are doing, had gathered;this eas if by magic tha number of e news men deahad , l nd that those facsort of es 1 belonged to hat he was Lieutenant?" said Waterman. You are attacking your superior officer, had flown, and for a moment even the spirit world; but in a few seconds Taklineoncein ." your men and Iet me go at drsci As will beseasily e5 en,eTom's work theyer. beearae s better, rTom, that's better! was not easy, and the space of ground You are all right. You did it, lad! f ge1;1' rehers $ i ]tie between the English and -the Germanrn lines was dangerous in the highest 1 I. ou did it, "Stand back there, and give him air. SendAny one seen there was a Heavens! There hasn't been a braver Send T h e 1. To target for both English and German thing done by any man in the Army!" ;.. ARTIER rifles. But Tom did not think of He heard all this, but not clearly. this, indeed the thought of danger They seemed to be stray • sentences, was at that time utterly absent from uttered by many voices. But it didn't Anything in the nature of the him. Just as at times the mind has matter; only one thing mattered. Had cleaning and dyeing of fabrics subconscious powers, so there are he done what he had set out to do? can be entrusted to Parker's times when the body is so much under "Have you got it?" he gasped. Dye Works with the full assur., the influence of excitement that ordin- "Got it! I should think we have," arance of prompt, efficient, and that] timawse Tom seemed to not seem to o ebet livie. ng all t It wright, as tlPoor llarddelIyou've who pdone�,the economical service. hours in seconds, because he instinc- attach written in- upon what he wanted to do. If he trick," Make a parcel of goods you wish ren) tively felt that great issues depended "Have I, sir?" said Tom. "I—I feel very strange." stnictions to each piece, "You will soon get over it, you are only pumped!" (To be continued.) EMEMRER the Great Economy o ta'ns young forest growth which, if protected from further destruction, Will, in time, furnish the. basis for en- ormous industrial development on our Pacific coast. 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That was doubt- less a prearranged signal between him and the Germans, If they bad heard it, as was more than probable, one of their men would naturally be sent to find the paper. In that case the plans and arrangements which the English officers had made would be hi the hands of the Germans. Tom had noted the :spot on which Waterman had stood when he threw his missile, and had also noticed the direction in which it had flown, at, least he thought he had. But when he was in the open space he was not so sure. As fortune would have it, this particular bit of ground was not wired, and he moved without difficul- ty. Tom looked around, bewildered; nowhere could he see the gleaming white paper which Waterman had thrown—in fact, nothing was plainly visible to him. He saw, dimly, the outline of the German trenches; saw the mound of earth with the sand- bags on their summits, but nothing else. 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When Uncle Sam's flying men come to take their part on the Western Front they will find their job a "cinch" in comparison with the British task in 1914. pur„brave fellows were among the pioneers in aerial warfare, and they...gave their lives freely ain learning how it should be dune... Our flying men had,' at the begin- ning, to conform to rules and regula- tions. Army discipline handicapped then right and left, consequently they worked at a disa"iv r t:tge all the time. The military man pure and sim- ple has zio imagination and it requires imagination tot, use flying machines at the front. • Early in the war it was said: "Lis- ten to the flying men and let them tell us what we need.” And as soon as we listened to the flying men we pro. gressed in the air by teal::; n rid bounds. Obsolete Monoplanes, It was the flying men themselves who discovered that the monoplane was of no value for oboer ration pur- poses. No monoplanes aro used in warfare to -day. It was the flying men who learnt how to dodge shrapnel fire. The obvious thing seemed to be to climb out of range. But more often than not the obvious thing in flying is the wrong thing. Pilots to -day drop like a plummet to avoid shrapnel.. It is possible to drop at a much great- er speed than it is to climb—and the - greater the speed of the machine the more difficult it is to hit, It is not so very long ago that everyone gasped at the daring of Pe- goud, the first man to loop the loop. And yet to -day every lad,, -and the majority are lads—who hold's a pilot's certificate in the Flying Corps loops the loop without turning a hair. In fact, looping is one of the favorite dodges in .air fighting. To be behind an enemy 'plane is the most favorable position, and if, when chased by a hos- tile machine, a pilot can loop the loop and come up behind the enemy, he immediately becomes the chaser, and has his opponent at- a disadvantage. Eyes of Army and Navy. It used to be thought that to ' get above and in front' of an enemy flyer vaft thy' most advantageous position in air fighting. Now our men realize that below and behind is the best posi- tion. It. is easier to turn a machine- gun on to an enemy machine when he is above or in front. Kitchener once said that one aero- plane was worth a thousand men, and it is certain that a thousand men have the value of ten thousand now that it is possible to slip over to the enemy's lines and see what is afoot there. It is the same in the Navy. A bat- tleship is comparatively helpless with- out its accompanying 'planes, for dur- ing a modern sea -fight the contesting fleets are seldom, if ever, visible to one another, and depend entirely on the observers and their wireless for instructions. Nowadays the authorities realize the tremendous importance of the fly- ing man, and they treat him accord. ingly. At the best of times his life is short—the span of life of a pilot at the front can be named in lours—and the authorities endeavor to make it a merry one as fax as it is possible. He i.s paid well and fed well, and has the best billet that can be secured., We have learnt that our pilots are worth looking after. 'The "Intensive System." His machine is worth looking after, also, and quite a small army of men do nothing all day long but tinker with the machines. Every pilot has three machines in readiness for him, so that if one is damaged the work of observ- ing can go on uninterruptedly. John Bright once said that war is a great teacher of geography. If he had said merely that war was a great teacher he would have spoken just as truly. More has been learnt about the air and the possibilities of its navigation in those few years of war than could have been learnt in a hun- dred years in the jogtrot times of peace. Amused The King. The King and Queen had an en- thusiastic reception when they visited the Western General Hospital at Liverpool recently. One man, wh had been first wounded at Mons, tole} the King that he had been visite after that battle by Lord Kitchener, who had said: "Well, well, bullet wounds don't matter much nowadaysi'y "But they ain't good for your 'earth, your Majesty," said the veteran, while the King and those around him laughed,