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The Eye Witness with the British Head- quarers in a recent report of the capture Please take a cigaretie," said the lady of some German. trenches⠀⠀⠀ says - war-worker, We'll talk all the more "Amongst the spoils of war captured was comfy." a large amount of dundum ammunition, and many cartridges in which the bullets had been reversed, with their bases out wards"
SITUATION AT PRZEMYSL.
The Daily Express representative, "who in this particular case hardly ever smokes a cigarette, took one, It was the fath time that day that gallantry had con pelled three Virginia, ono Turkish, and now a petite Russian smoke, just three whiffs attached to a dainty cardboard tube.
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SIR JOHN FRENCH'S PRAISE
A despatch by Field-Marshal Sir John French published on the 17th ult, contains the following reference to the
Territorials:
In my dispatch of 20th November, 1014, I referred to the reinforcements of |, Territorial Troops which I had received, and I mentioned several nuits which had already been employed in the fighting line. A Hungarian correspondent of the
In the positions which I held for some London Morning Post stated a month ago
Women, as everybody knows, smoked a years before the outbreak of this was I that although the Russians are surround great deal before the war, and many was brought into close contact with the ing Przemysl, the outer fortifications, tried, with varying success, to emulate Territorial Force, and I found every rea- having a radius of 12 miles, are untaken, the late Lady Dorothy Nevill in her preson to hope and believe that, when the and there are twelve villages within the furonco for robust, if fragrant, cigar hour of trial arrived, they would justify investing line whore officers can shoot antor breakfast slio used to smoke a abundance of wild duck and geese for cigar with Lord Beaconsfield every after every hope and trust which was placed in food. Unless the besiegers are more noon at one time. active the fortress can
The Lords Lieutenant of Councies- and, hold out for another three months.
INDIA'S FINANCIAL HELP.
The Finance Member of the Imperial Legislative Council of India in his annual statement on the financial position of the country puts India's contribu tion to the cost of the war, representing the amount which she would otherwise have saved in pay and maintenarios charges of the troops absent in the field, at nearly 2 million pounds in the current year and 43 million in 1915-1910. The Finance Member also makes special men tion of the contributions by Indian Prines totalling £768,000 and including 60 lakhs from Mysore and 60 lakhs from Hyderabad. These are for the general cost of the war and will be passed on to the Home Government.
THE KAISER'S JOY.
My joy over this glorious success. is diminished by the sight of the district once. so flourishing which for weeks has been u the enemy's hand.
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Sinob the war, however, when thousands of women have worked office hours for the first time in their lives, running all kinds of emergency movements, the occasional cigarette of caprice has given place to the box of a hundred on the work desk.
Sometimes it is accompanied by a match stand like those in an hotel lounge, but more frequently one light at the boginning of the day is enough to carry on.
Peeresses, social workers, lady motor-car organisors, Lady doctors, emergency directresses taking the place of men who have become soldiers all smoke now adays. While mes men, in a spirit of war economy, are trying to cut down their tobacco bills, the loss to the cigaretta shops is more than made up by the new brigule of women smokers.unda
The Daily Express representative asked one of them why it was. You see," she replied, we have so much more work to do now, and we have to take it so seriously that we find a cigarette now and again quite essential as 2 nerve steadier.”—Daily Express -
FLIGHT OF TORPEDO AND
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KELVIN'S THEORIES IN PRACTICE.
* Void of all human feeling, he has in
or destroyed almost the last house and the | last barn.
"Our beautiful Mazurian land is waste"".
Professor A. Gray, of Glasgow Univer- The Kaiser's messago to his Chancellor,sity, delivered before the Institution of as given in a Reuter telegrain.
Electrical Engineers in London the sixth Kelvin lecture.. The subject was Lord
The Belgian Commission of Inquiry on the atrocities perpetrated by the German soldiery have issued a twelfth report em- bodying certain general conclusions, and recording the chief phases of a systematic barbarity which will stain the German nation for evor.??
SHORT & TALL MEN AS FIGHTERS.;
Dr. Pembrey, of Guy's Hospital, who initiated a discussion at the Royal Sami tary Institute on the relative value of tall and short men, might have adduced in
Kelvin's work on gyrostatics, and the lee
ture was illustrated by the original gyro scopes and gyrostats now preserved under Professor Gray's care in the University. The lecturer recalled the gyrostatic ex- periments which used to be performed to
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the Associations which worked under them of Japan, Offeially Recommended by the bestowed a vast amount of labour, and Medical Collagen of The Imperial Universities energy on the organization of tho Terri torial Force; and I trust it may be some of Tokyo and Kyoto, recompense to them to know that I, and the principal Commanders serving under me, consider that the Territorial Force has far more than justifies the most. sanguine hopes that any of us ventured to entertain of their value and use in the seld. Commanders of Cavalry Divisions. are unstinted in their praise of the man- tached to their brigades have done their ner in which the Yeomanry regiments at- duty, both in and out of action. The ser- vice of Divisional Cavalry is now almost entirely performed by Yeomanry, and Divisional Commanders report that they are very efficient. -
Army Corps Commanders are loud in their praise of the Territorial Battalions. which form part of nearly all the brigados at the front in the first line, and more than one of them have told me that thesa
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I wish to add a word about the Officers'. Training Corps. The presence of the Artists! Rifles (28th Battalion, The Lon- don Regiment) with the Army in France enabled me also to test the value of this organization.
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illustrate the complete change in the con- ditions of stability of a body produced by setting the body into rapid rotationing, as all cadets do a tour of 45 hours in one which should secure first consideration He pointed out that the earth is a top which turns once round its axis in a side the trenches, and afterwards write a rein the decoration of the Home. reat day, and that this spin gives to the port on what they see and notice. They
**BYNOLEO” is the Distemper also visit an observation post of a battery earth & property which is of great importer group of batteries, and spend some supplied in a beautiful range of artistio ance in maintaining its axis in practic hours there. ally the same direction from year to year.
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A ZEPPELIN CRITIC.
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once 20,000 years, so that there is a re- gular progressive change of direction in that long period. The gyroscope or gyrozat is, however, now more than a toy it has become important in engineering. A turbine in a ship, if its axis is fore and when the ship pitches or changes her aft, applies gyrostatic forces to the ship
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A Commandant has been appointed, and tints, suitable for inside or outside use, schemes for practice, administers the looked for in modern House decoration. the candidates. school, delivers lectures, and reports on
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When first started the school was able to turn out officers at the rate of 75 a month.
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a constant direction, constrains a tor pede to move in a course nearly straight and it has been proposed to use it to keep upright a railway carriage running on a single rail. If a train were made to travel very fast, or if a rapidly running tarbine were mounted on a train satisfactory. static ection would be shown in a sensible degree by the wheels of the train, and by the turbine. A rifle bullet also keeps its axis in the same direction in its flight DRUGGED MEN IN BATTLE. by gyrostatic action. Numerous other applications and capabilities of gyrostata have been suggested, many of them the direct outcome of the gyrostatic study carried on at Glasgow.
SINFUL COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.
or military officer of standing in Ger many who really believes in them, and before the war we often used to laugh st the way in which they were boomed. But Colonel Evans, the Queensland Commis In the course of a trip round the world because the Emperor had set his mind
on them nobody dared say what be really sioner for Railways, was much impressed thought and in consequence immense sums by the extent to which advertising is which could have been much more profit ably spent were paid for experiments. construction and for hangars. My own opinion, the opinion of ninety-nine of the German staff officers out of every hunded, is that they are nothing more or less than a swindle foisted on our
Empero by a silly old man, Of course I am speaking only from a military point
of view.
WAR BREVITIES. The Bishop of London and his chaplain are going to the front before Palm Sunday to take services among the troops until after Easter.
OFFICERS WITH RIDING WHIPS.
A young French soldier who recently returned to Paris from the firing line gives & terrible picture of a furious struggle in one of the French trenches. The Germans," he says, bogan their attack
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Baxons, composed mainly of fresh troops. audacity to leave their trenches in full We did not think they would have the daylight, but all of a sudden we saw them advance in column formation with four carried in the United States. Speaking ranks in close order, the first fics without to a Chicago reporter, he said : Your equipment, but with their haversacks full advertising instincts, if I may use the of grenades, which they began to hurl at word, go very far in fact, I notice you us. Immediately our artillery, mitrail advertise in the Bible. At the hotel this louses, aid infantry opened a murderous morning I found a copy of the Bible fire, and at the end of a quarter of an containing advice to commercial travel-hour we had corpses piled a yard high in ers, One injunction was, If lonesome front of us; but it was impossible to stop and blue and friends untrue, read this human wave as they swarmed on like Psalms 23 and 27.'. Another, If trade anta. Our rifles were so hot that it was is poor, read Psalm 37 IE very difficult to hold them. The Germans came prosperous read chapters 10 and 12, I Corinthians. If tired of sin, read then and jumped into our trenches, and t eighteenth chapter of St. Like, veries 35 was then the tragic business began. Our and 41 That, gentlemen, is advertising bayonets were of no use at such close I am going to beg, borrow, or steal that quarters, and it was a fearful band-to- Bible from the hotel. I am going to send hand struggle. We fought with axes, it to the commercial travellers in Austra pitchforks, shovels, and knives. It was lia, with particular regard to the sinful horrible for the three-quarters of an hour Gerald Du Maurier has been informed portion of the admonition.
that it lasted. About midnight it began. that his brother, Lieut. Col. Guy Du
all over again, when we counter-attacked Mauris author of An Englishman's
with several companies, and in the end Home," has been killed in action at the
succeeded in dislodging them from some front.
THE COTTON MARKET. of their own trenches. One very curious, A circular has been issued by the Liver all the Germans who fought against us fact which I want to put on record is that pool Cotton Association stating that the had taken brandy mixed with ether. We attention of the directors has been drawn tasted what remained of some in the flask to the fact that large orders both for of a wounded German, It had a most actual cotton and futures are being sent to members by agents in neutral courts peculiar taste. Thave seen, too, with my without disclosing their principal's cames. own eyes, that they have eren finished off In becoming Captain A. E. W. Mason," It is obvious, continues the circular, some of our wounded, Another very of the Manchester Regiment, the author that in many cases these orders may be interesting fact is that the German officers for the account of subjects in enemy coun-stood on the edge of the trenches and made trics, and the directors feel it their duty their men come out by blows-blows from to warn members that before executing their words and snakes from their riding such orders they must satisfy themselves whips." that these orders are bond-fde for the
According to the Handelsblad news has reached Kiel that in the battle off the Falklands, the admiral and nine staff officers of the German squadron and the commanders of four cruisers and the Chief of Staff were killed.
of The Four Feathers and The Witness for the Defence is the first novelis dramatist of the front, rank to take up a commission in the new Armics.
A general meeting of German tailors account of the subjects of neutral coun- was held at Frankfurt-on-Main in order tries. Members are also advised when Among the
the deaths at Home reported in to discover the basis for a new German making contracts for shipments to style of ladies and gentlemen's fashions nentral spinners to obtain an under- Free from Paris and London. After a taking from the spincers that the cotton stormy session a committen WES is for buyers consumption only and will appointed
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recent cables are the following: Mrs. Augustine Birrell Canon Thomas Skelton, Mr. Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Brows), the novelist; and Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton.
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