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[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
LONDON, October 18th.
With the fall of Antwerp, and minor successes for Germany in Galicia oud. even, to some extent, in Northern France, we have set our teeth, afresh for the struggle and we are more than ever determined to see it through."
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The news from Germany indicates that the Kaiser and his people are jubilating. unduly over the Antwerp capture. This is natural, for the forts were proclaimed to be impregnable before the wonderful secret 1 inch sicge guns of Germany became known, but nevertheless it has not the material advantages, at any rate for the present, that might be sipposed at first sight. It is not much use as a sen base unless Germany decides to drag Holland in, to the aid of the allies, by violating her neutrality even as pho violated that of Belgium. On the other hand, to hold north-west Belgium iny yet prové a matter of danger to her when the retreat back to Germany has to be undertaken in earnest. The invaders captured merely a shell of a city, prae tically without citizens, without an army, without any great quantity of stores. It may prove as empty an entry as that of Napoleon into Moscow. It resulted, how- ever, in scenes of unexampled suffering, as perhaps half a million refugees trudged the roads into Holland and led to the return of the cheques. There Ireland to day, and there is a fine chasce others made their weary way to Ostond. is quite a bit of fake about commercial for your able former Governor, Sir They are pouring into England at the patriotism, as a matter of fact. I know Matthew Nathan, the new Permanent rate of three thousand a day, and London blazons abroad the fact that positions are many conciliatory parts, to make the of one great store, for example, which Under-Secretary for Ireland, a man of -to-day is the most cosmopolitan city in being kept open for all men joining the probeat cohesion merge in a lasting union Europe. All classes are here. Thousands army and that there will be no loss of between all parties and sections in the have been distributed to towns along the pay- What happens really is that the island.
firm pays the difference between his army const, especially Folkestone: others are pay and his store pay and gets his distributed to homes and public shelters associates to do his work as well as their of the Rubber Growers Association have Mr. John McEwan and his colleagues in London and the counties further north. { own. In this store there are several men Aldwych and the Strand-especially the
in putting down the rubber flooring at vicinity of Charing Cross-are crowded peace time and now their work is being Guy's Hospital, which was the subject of with the Belgicas-edignorial professional done and their posts are being kept open an opening ceremony last work. ThTHE men, alert business men, and a mixture at ecst to the proprietors of not more of dock workers and peasants. Flemish and French jostle our Cockney accents in a Babel of sound. The peasants look dazed, and theirs is the most difficult lot, for while some of us speak French and can aid French-speaking people when they are seen in difficulties, the peasants
more
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than thirty shillings a week. As the war Ormond Street will be similarly blessed, is likely to last a long time and the and Lady Jelliese will preside at the number of the men is a large one, the firm function. How great a blessing it will is really making a profit, especially as it no one can know except those who is bandling several highly remunerative have been an inmate of a great abode of Government contracts for equipment.
sickness in a busy city and been racked by the multitude of noises.
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speak only the Flemish, and few indeed of us can boast of any knowledge in that lingo. The better-to-de classes are taking matters more philosophically, though most of them have less proportionately side a mental ward. But there are other Rubber Growers Association have gone Fatimates given for quick construction and repair of Ships, Engines,
than their poorer compatriots.departments calculated to rouse mirthfar in proving what an advance rubber Distress has, in fact, been a great leveller, among people with a business faculty places where silence is desirable. Now. shows on old-time floor materials in To begin with, and in the way to our safety. thoy, have a
are putting up whole lot of temporary shelters we have these two hospitals, the Weal all the rich man with his motor car and at Aldershot and elsewhere for Exchange, St. Michael's Church, Com- the peasant with his little bundle-hen prisoners and for troops In normal hill, and some of the latest liners fitted. glad to share the sarce straw mattress in to have not more than so many knot-holes Association has also went several hundred times woodwork for the War Office has P with the noiselcas carpet. The somo passage-way while waiting for the to the square foot. But the shelters are pure rubber hot water bottles to help the refugee boats. A friend of mine who of a temporary nature and as no timber hospitals where the wounded are being was over in Heliand the other day was to speak of is catering our ports it would treated, and manufacturers are urging not a little annoyed, in a good humoured adhered to. Nevertheless all day officers the Russians do, with rubber boots for the be thought that the rule would not be the Government to equip the troops, as way, with his experiences. When he are examining timber with magnifying nowy season that is coming on. The wanted to go aboard the vessel with the glasses for knot-holes and flaws."
Germans, it appears, have worked very return half of his first-class ticket, he African war that cases of part for the manifold equipment, such an airship Somebody act up the rule in the South hard to secure rubber supplies, for was turned back with the remark, "Never wounded should be made to hold ten parts, but they have been headed of with mind the first-class ticket. Refugees must bottles When a very large contract was
a skill that is beyond praise be shipped first. He tells me that the given out the other day the firm receiving
GERMAN SHIPPING. it replied that they had thousands of cases sight of the thousands of people crowding at the docks in cases of twelve bottles and Another serious result to the Germans the docks, almost all carrying some house it was suggested that these would do.hrough the war will be the sinashing of hold pet-a dog, a cat or a canary-was Not a bit of it: it was down in the rules all their scherace for the development of one calculated to grip the mind for life. that the cases must hold in bottles, soleamship lines in the Pacific, including At the Belgian Consulate offices in all the cases had to be emptied and fresh sailings between New York and San Kingsway there is such a crush of cases made to hold two bottles caces British shipowners are taking advantage Francisco, through the Panania Caul refugees that they have to be checked off I am told also that one rule at least goes of the opportunity, and by the time the one by one and admitted in strict order away back to the Crimea. It was laid to prevent them from rushing the staff dow then that army packages should war is over they will probably be well
of clerks who are registering them inside. he fastened down with great big rose- established in new routes. The capture
A hundred yards further along the headed nails These are awkward and of German colonies in the Pacific is likely Aldwych Skating Rink has been brought clumsy and make handling more difficult to stimulate the development of shipping into- service and there a committee of Nobody uses them now as they have been with Australasia, I understand that th hard-working but unestentations people, superseded by flat-headed nails. The new possessions will soon be linked with daylight till after dark at the task of thousand ponads worth of goods in boxes link in the chain of elaser connections in headed by Lord Gladstone, toil from other day a manufactures sent in ten the Imperial and Australian systems of wireless telegraphy, thus adding another distributing the poor families to homes fastened with flat-headed upils.
They suitable to their needs, delivering their were all sent back to him because he had the Pacific. fragments of baggage, and answering the not used the obsolete rose-headed nails! inquiries of friends or relatives. It is a doleful fact that in that final rush from
SHORTAGE OF MORPHIA.. Antwerp many a mother was separated
There is some danger of a shortage in from her little children, and so there are morphia, opium and other drugs long queues meeting overy tanin at the calculated to ease pain on the battlefield. London stations, hoping every time to Opium still holds out, but there is at times see the loved ones step into the London streets Many of these families are now re-united, but the lot of the others is such as to shake even a hardy nerve.
RECRUITING IN IRELAND.
difficulty in keeping the supplies of morphia up to the sudden demands that may be made os it in the cases where injuries are so severe as to preclude FAKED COMMERCIAL PATRIOTISM.
recovery and the best that can be donc is to lessen pai Persian opium has not There is
sensation aroong yet gone up in price, but Turkish opium prominent business men by rewon of an has advanced a shilling a pound. Some unprecedented action on the part of those Landon brokers have large supplies in responsible for the administration of the hand or on the way, but Germany is said Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund to be much worse off than we are which is looking after the families To ame, HONGKONG TO CANTONAtkins leaves behind him. One morning
last week the heads of some of the great While Mr. Lloyd George is carrying atorca of London and perhaps the best Wales with a rush on the road to the known silversmiths in the world, received recruiting of a Welsh brigade of 38,000 back their chequee for £1,000 apiece, with men, Mr. John Redmond is rendering note to the effect that their generosity similar service in Ireland. I am told was gratefully acknowledged, but in view that he is having fine results and that bis of the distress likely to develop in their speeches are wonderful efforts of reasoned own industries it was considered better oratory. But while John Redmond sces that they should devote their donations it all clearly, and his followers are mostly to the relief of such cases as would be being fired by his arguments, the average known to them personally. This was Paddy has not reasoned it out and it is really the little bit of jam concealing the all contrary to his long held utterances pill. This Gguring largely in the and attitude towards England. There Subscription lists is a very useful form fore there are plenty to warn Mr. of publicity, but it became known to some Redmond that the Irish are inherently serious-minded members of the Fund suspicious of their leaders and that he Committee, of whom Mr. A. J. Balfour is is in danger of going too fast for his a leading figure, that there had been such countrymen. Sir Edward Curson is dismissals of staff in some of these big among the Ulstermen, rowing recruits concerns as would save far more than the to the Imperial army. His bride, the cheques indicated. This was reported to daughter of former independent Queen Mary, who, being cminent!" Nationalist M.P., is with him and has practical, did not approve of that brand thrown in her lot with his politics. All of patriotism and set the wires going that told, however, we can all be proud of
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