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NOT ONE BUILDING INTACT. Describing the appearance of the city when he first entered it, Mr. Barzini writes:-
Not one building remained intact. The hurricanes of steel had battered and penetrated thern hil. Roofs had boun carried away, leaving behind a broken framework; debris of every kind scattered over the street by the force of the explo siune hindered our steps from time to time These little houses had trembled and remained convulsed with an indescribabie expression of horror in their broken windows, which gave oue the idea of eyelasi sockets. .....
NEW FRENCH AIR BOMB, CAUSES DEATH BY COLD AND SHOCK.
Writing from Paris recently, the corres A long and graphic account of the ruin pondent of the Daily Mail stated that the of Ypres appears in the Daily Telegraph new air bomb of the French air service is from the pen of Mr. Luigi Barzini on the now in
$50. "I have talked with, an wanton destruction of the ancient city by aviator who has been allowed to experi- the Germans and the effect of the outragement with it upon the enemy. He gives upon civilisation.
a lucid description of the effcet of the altitude of an aeroplane. I have used bomb, which is clearly visible from the both the dynamite bob and the new bomb, said this aviator. "The two orë very similiar in size and weight, but the effect as seen from above is very different When the dynamite bomb falls upon a body of men you can see the bedies leap up in the air. It is liko a small volcano in action. When the new bomb bursts it simply lays everything out flat within the area of its explosion. It seems to exert the whole of its force in waves like the ripples when a large stone is thrown into a pond. Men go down like ainepius, buildings collapse like a house of playing cards, guns are turned over as if by some unseen hand. The explosion raises prac tically no dust or smoke. Even the earth disturbed by the case of the bomb striking the ground is nstantly Battened out by Extreme cold is produced at the moment the same extraordinary waves of force. of explosion, cald so interge that I felt it myself when I dropped my first bomb at a height of about 800ft. I was taking great chances in flying so low, but I wished twee the effect of the bomb. It fell on a section of Germans, bivonecking in a field, I estimate that at least thirty men were killed within the area of the explosion, Had they been massed more densely more would have been killed. Death from theso bomba comes instantly from intense cold- and concussion," "
AN AUGUST END.!!
We seemed to be disturbing the solemn mystery of an august end. Imagine what would be the feelings of one who arrived in St. Mark's square, dasorted and it ruins, and surprised the silent agony of the Palace of the Doges !
Gigantic and sulem above the mournful crowd of crumbling houses towered the monumental pileston, battered, devastated, but erect and still proad. Undermined by the blows of the shells, showing long cracks, breached and broken, the noble stone walls of the Halles, the Hôtel de Ville, and the Cathedral of St. Martin remained standing, indescribable in donth, still stretching towards the sky their towers without bells and without pinncoles, hollower at beir bases though by blows of a monstrons aze
All the rest of the world was plunged in the cruel barbarism of the Middle Ages when the Flenish penes had Ypres for its centre. Driate had not then heen born, and already the Halles of Ypres were a century old, and already the Cathedral of St. Martin watched over the town like a shepherd over his flock,
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BLIND TEUTON 'CATACLYSMP, But the butcher of ancient glories his come the blind Teutonic cataclysm as fallen upon unarmed and tranquil Ypres, and the portentous life is now extinet. There remains nothing but the gigantic ruins, isolated walks, the corpses of monu- ments which preserve a sublime expression of disdainful power
The Cathedral of St. Martin was one of those Gothic temples of the North whien, the oleventh century founded, "he twelfth erected, the thirteenth enlarged, and the fourteenth finished, leaving them strong as fortresses, supported by stender, arched, pierced buttresses, which swept their, eurve
to the sides of the grand have with the lightness of jets from a fountain —- churches which have, as it were, expression of fervour, and on which, in the course of the centuries, faith has accumulated all the graces of a lost art, Now, saya the writer, the venerable cathedral and all that was in it are, ruibed:-
*Tombs deserated, alters devastatell
pictures torn the stupid fury of the guns. has raged over everything. A Descent from the Cross hargs in rags with the and figure of Christ wounded by this new
martyrdom Nativity is riddled as though by tongues of flame
Such is the spectable what is offered our eyes in the cathedral of St. Martin so solemn in its torture. full of a sense of mystery fear, and grief, It seemed abandonment and solitude as if the old church were volemnising its own funeral. WANTÓN DESTRUCTION: Why, asks Mr. Barzini, did the Ger mans do it?
"Why did they not fire on the church of St. James and that St. Peter, who'd tall campaniles could equally serve the same purpose? Why have the remote" quarters of Ypres, far from the Halle, towards the Porte du Menin, remained intact!
The material composing the new bombs is simple. It can be conveyed to any air base, and the bomb can be filled by the aviator or his assistant before he alarts.
French aviators have now five terrible weapons of destruction for use in aere plane fighting. They are:
1.The steel arrow les fleches, Gin. long, grooved ensure straight downward Hight, about an ounce in weight, and carried in a Box which launches 1,000. at a time Dropped from an averago fying height one of these will hit its math with a driving force of 160b. It will go clean through a rider and his horse. The aviatorenpries several thou- sands on each flight. An aviator was recently mentioned in despatches for the skill and daring with which he used his bombs and arrows... 2.The quick-firing it gua. This is carried in, many of the French mono- planes. Two have been mounted on hiplanes in order to command the whole, field of flight. They have accounted for may of the enemy's machines.
3. The shell pistol, reserved for action against the Zeppelins. A lucky shot from one of these will put a Zeppelin "out of action
4.
The dyenmite bomh, This weighs 201
and is dropped by the aviator or his observer. This has been used for blowe ing up bridges.
5-ho new air Eonth,
With these weapons in the hands of daring aviators, the French air service is making history daily. Hundreds of young men are voluntering for the work, and many of them seem to hear charmed lives.
from accidental fall, the enemy's air guns They free the triple risk of death which they all declare to be admirably served and the explosion of their own weapons.
ENGINEERING AND WAR.
A SEVERE TEST.
No, no They fired on the. Halles 12 Engineering Society, the President, At the opening session of the Liverpool destroy them. Well, we can manage to referring to the severe test which all arma maintain an insincere reserve of neutralaments were undergoing, said it might in the war of the nations; but in the war be useful to consider the part played by between Germany and the Halles of Ypre engineers in those matters, while we are in the war between Gertany and the proud to think that the man chosen as Library of Louvain, between ffermany and Secretary of War is an engineer Not the Cathedral of Rheims, it is not possible long since it was said that England was one has only to look at the report from far behind in the matter of flying but the head of the Allies Armies in France read the great and satisfactory work
to remain neutral.
But, concludes the writer, the positions of the Allies were outside Ypres, To bombard the Halles the Germans had to fire over their enemy's lines. They neglected the soldiers for the monumenta It is what they have done whenever the could. MET
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2,730, boxes dried fruit. 3,746 sacks dried fruit, 12,942 sacks beans.
1,601 boxes canned goods. 256 boxca canned fish.
86,755 sacks Bour.
310 bosos groceries.
29 sacks groceries.
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4 cases tobacco,
128 sacks wheat.
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183 sacks salt.
8 cases coffeo.
200 cases dry milk.
343. sacks rolled oats.
235 cases macaront.
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tho difficulty -of supplying horses increases every year. Regarding Geld guns, rifles, and explosives, judging by the reports received, it does seem that England has produced at least as good as any that are known of equal size To the Navy, designed and built by: engineers, we owe a debt so great that it is impossible to assces it, and in passing it is interesting to note that amongst the first vessels sunk was the fast cruiser Komagen Louise, the first large vessel fitted with the Fotheringer transformer the practical seagoing results of which many were waiting to learn. Mr. Given also remarked that it might be nefully roted that the destruction of road and railway bridges will necessitate a large number of new orders being placed, and so will the cancellation of orders for iron and steel work previously placed on the Continent, and British engineera choul ! sce that they obtain their share of these orders.
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