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JOY LIEUT-COL. HOUSTAM BER, IN THE
DAILY EXPRESS']
SOBER THOUGHTS IN GERMANY.
SUPPRESSED MEMORIAL TO THE
REICHSTAG.
UNCONQUERED ENGLAND.
THE NEW STANDARD.
ALARM THROUGH A COUGH.
PATROL
The following report is from British Headquarters is France, and 18 datod Sunday, August 15th:--
One thing is certain, we shall have to EXCITING NIGHT FIGHT BY OUR live quito differently--whatever the In- come Tax may be, and howeyer long short a time the war lasta." This, said the Spectator a month ago, is what wo all hear many times a day, spoken in differont tones and instinct with different mounings. The few say it with something like The great battle for the Vistula,
The work of strengthening our position The Zurich Social Democratic organ, the pleasure, almost as if they were look is constantly going on at all points. Now which is still in progress and will be in
ing forward to the lange; the majority tronches are dug, fresh entanglements ass. progress while the fortress of Nove Geor-
Volkrecht, publishes . a summary of a make the statement in the same tone of
erected at important points, and new worka Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at gievsk is able to hold out, prente a very memorial recently presented to the Gorman determination that they fall into when
are constructed. they say, interesting strategical problem, which will Reichstag by the newly-founded society a few, again, speak out of deep depression, also
We must go on till we win ";
Night patroling between the trenches is only become clear to the public after the called the Neues Vaterland, protesting usually adding, "Our class will be wiped patey had an exciting adventure a few ay important feature. One little No one knows very definitely to nights ago. The most interesting questions in con against the annexation proposals of six out."
A party of five men, which nection with that battle certainly will great German industrial associations.
what social stratum they refer, but it included a former Oxford professor, Bot be: Whether battle was delivered by the
sounds very sad and true, Now it stands out shortly before midnight to explore a Germans by their own initiative and wil-reference to the memorial in the German relative; but these different tones of voice
The Government refused to permit any to reason that all financial misfortune
certain. hedge across a field close to a Ger-
whether the Grand Duke provoked tho
might conceal machine-guns or defensive ency to attack the Rusians earlier than pamphlet form it was immediately con- that one man can afford a loss which works. Making their way with the utmost was desired by the German Main General seated.
another cannot. Among those who expect caution across the rough ground soperat- Staff; or whether simply the strategical
The document begins by declaring that it to suffer equally the matter is looked ating the Levo trenches, expecting their pr circumstances, especially on the northern is madness to imagine that a victorious with very diferent eyes, Even tho fnetence to be rovented at any moment by a front, forced the Grand Duke to abandon Germany could really render Great Britain that some men are pierced to the heart bare from the enemy's trench, the little the first line of defence and partially and Russia powerless for any considerable any loss of money, whether they have pleband at last reached the hedge. to retire un the second.
period.
ty left or not, while others only valdo it. Suddenly a cough was heard from the Even supposing,"
"it says,
which is as a means to their own or someone else other side, and the five immediately flang absurd, that Great Britain lost Egypt, comfort, does not explain the divergent themselves flat and waited. Another cough India, South Africa, and Gibraltar, and points of view constantly expressed by came in a few minutes, and then a Get- that Finland, the Baltic provinces, persons in the same situation of life. The Poland, and the Ukraine were taken educated crowd who set their teeth and Without a moment's hesitation the officer man head was poked through the twigs. from Russia. Then Great Britain, with say that war must be paid for did not as a with the party shot the man dead, and her remaining Colonies, such as Australia rule belong to the rich in any sense. They then, regardless of the numbers that and Canada, united to her closer than are the poorer members of the great middle might be lying behind the hedge, charged ever before, and with the certainty of class, to whom life is always something through it, closely, followed by four new source of strength in conscription, of a struggle, and who are content to privates. Six Germans were fount. and Bussra, with her illimitable torri struggle a little harder. They have madshee were shot and the other three- tories and population, would very soone artificial neeyssities in life; they Hys
surrendered. be ready and capable to fight again."
Dougtong & Naghbarnaɔndorste to frestingly, accepted by the Grand Duke; Press, and when the society published it are not wholly to bo explained by the fact man trench. Tho ledge, it was thought,
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The fact is clear that the Russians started their retreat after accepting the battle, leaving a part of their forces on the Narey-Bug line as well as in the fortress of Novo Georgievsk, the guardian of the Middle Vistula; of course, with the intention of relieving it later.
IMPOSSIBLE SITVATION,
There will
older members Youth will still be merry and age still rather tired rather niora This is the natural way tired, that is all. for bravo men to take a money misfortune, It is not heroic, nor yet in the least cowardly.
Ong, while being taken back to our lines, treacherously attempted to snatch the revolver from the hands of the officer. The latter, however, inanaged to foil him, and pushing his weapon into the German's chest he pulled the trigger, The ungozine had been emptied in the original melis and only a click resulted. A struggle ensued the two tumbling together in the darkness. Finally the officer succeeded in getting the better of his adversary and knocked him senseless with the butt-end of his revolver.
By this time the enemy were aware of the struggle and turned on a machine-gua in the direction of the ncise, regardless ar to whether they hit their own men or not. In the face of the fire the ofeer had to inve his captive and crawled back to his own trench.
The Inst battle for Warsaw and the Vistul, from the political point of view. as well as from the strategical, can, be compared with the famous battle of Boro- dino for Moscow on September 7th, 1812. Military historians have never quite real- ised for what reason that battle vas
among themselves and reach after no stan: offered by Napoleop, and why it was
ard not their own. If they must en masse accepted by General Koutuzoff Neither
five still a little more carefully, they hay for the Russians nor for the French had After urging the folly of Germany's at 1. no time to ropine. Their whole world wit it any definite strategical importance for ing sixteen million hostile people to her alter its way of living a little. the moment, end it is absolutely incred-population, and the financial impos-be-no-comparisons to accentuate the giac ible that General Koutureff conld fore-sibilities of exproprinting them, the memo-After all, it will still live more comfortably see at the moment when he accepted the rial declares that annexation, instead of than it did within the recollection of it badile that he snartally wounding the dividing the foo after the war, would only enemy and striking a blow at his heart!
Great Britain, France, As history proves the Russian held unite them closer. marshal had no confidence that he would and Russia, it says, would be allied against be able to finish with the French army.
Germany in future. It would be impos sible to conceive anything more senseless oz A FATAL STEP.
perilous for German interests. If such That batth cost the Russians the loss annexation demands were made the con-
Where food and service are concorpo of Mosgow, which Koutnzoff had tried to dilions of concluding peace, then an end we believe there are a fair number of prevent, while Napoleon made a wrong to the war within a reasonable period people who will be glad of some necessity stop and lost the whole campaign. That would be absolutely impossible. Great which shall compel them to lead a simpler fatal battle cost the French about ono Britain would certainly never accept | life. It is not that they do not enjoy their quarter of the strength of their army, and, though Napoleon entered the heart any such peace unless she were first fine food and the case which comes of mus of Russia, his losses were too heavy, and completely overthrown. By what means waiting on. They like it far too wel On the other he was compelled to continue the war and in what tune Great Britain would te voluntarily to relinquish it,
hand, the prospect of being obliged to do thenceforward. not only with the Russian "o defeated is beyard understanding.
Everybody in great Britain, including differently is not without attraction. The army but with all the Russian nation, and too far from his bayra
even those desiring pence, is convinced that burden of the plant" often wearis They feel themselves to be Certainly Napoleon thought that after Great Britain can holl out as long as Ger them. the occupation of Moscow a most favour many. No serious person in Germany entangled in the paraphernalia of hyper able peace with Russia would be possible really believes that Great Britain can be civilisation-almost enslaved by it.
Probably, therefore, It is odd that this time of enforced re- and the campaign would finish in his completely crushed." favour, as it did after he took Vienna. pace will one lay be concluded without trenchment should accomplish an Dut, on the other hand, we can see by the victor lewating terms to the vanquish franchisemont, but we believe that after 1f 1 studying history that after having ctp-ed, but some sort of understanding will be the war. it will in many ensos do so. tured Smolensk and witnessing the steady reached upon the basis of the then existing change must be made at all, it is worth retreat of the Russians he anxiously situation.
while to make a great change, to put right looked for a strong position in which to
our mistakes, to get any happiness that & cense his advance. His genius 'told him
rearrangement can give us. We fear that that further advance would be dangerous,
Coming to material questions, the memoar first a new way of life may come rather but as a tactician he could not find a rial points out the appalling cost of war. hard upon the more prosperous and highly sufficiently strong position for harrying It says: It is a scandal that ever skilled of the servant class, many of whom the Russians, who were in the better pus" to-day it is openly asserted that the must be turned out of place. But, on the happened. One speclater compared suen tion for enecatrating their forces for a new winter campaign. So Napoleon, in quirements of the war are so great that the other hand, we hear constant complaints spite of his reasoned convictions, con- Empire, the individual States, and com-that servants are scarce because new carcera are opening before women, and if the race tinued his advance, being forced to do somunities together cannot satisfy them. partly by the military circumstances and The longer the war continues the greater of indoor manservants died out altogether this gigantic burden grows. Those whwe do not imagine that anyone would sort partly by his vanity,
We can see nearly the same position help to prolong it by demanding unattainously regret the loss of a not very valuable now in regard to the German army. The able annexation are letting our soldiers type. If the excessive luxury in woman's Kaiser, having freed Galicia, thought to fight day after day to increase the burden dress which has of late years transfigured re-establish Poland after capturing War of taxation.
the London shops were to he once more con- SL, and all his efforts were directed to The memorial concludes:--Annexation fined to the really rich, if necessity were to this end. Like Napoleon before Moscow, in the East would benefit only the agra-sat a sumptuary fashion and the hands ho did not pay any attention to how high rians, and in the West only increase the fashion's clock were to go back a few de a price he must pay to accomplish his dividends of great industrial organiza plan and what consequences would follow tions. The great mass of the people ar his supposed victory.
mous losses,
APPALLING COST.
DEVASTATION OF A TINY
PIN.
COLONEL DESCRIBES A ROAD
MINE TRAP.
en-
cades, could such a change be widely re- gretted?
WAR AS BUSINESS, CYNICAL CALCULATION BY GERMAN WRITER,
Gourg Bernhard, writing in the Fos sische Zeitang on the question of the war indemnity in connection with the Imperial Chancellor's speech, says:
BIG SHELL MYSTERIES.
MEN TURNED TO WAXEN IMAGES OR KILLED BY WIND PRESSURE.
Reference is made by the British Medical Journal to some of the mysterious trage- dies at the front, as for instance, when such deaths have occurred in groups, the mon still life-like, in the act of eating e drinking or smoking-so much so that the assailants hesitate to approach until the unnatural immobility shows what has
A group to figures in a waxwork exhibi tion.
or
Again, a big shell explodes, and the jeen near by are rolled over by the concussion without being struck by any of the frag- They get up, feeling rather ments.
tuned, but in the course of a few hours, day or two, they collapse and dia without presenting any obvious injury.
But post-mortem examination reveals extensive damage to internal organs, especially the hollow visceral. A plausible hypothesis is that either the enormous momentary pressure of a big shell burst- ing forces air into the cavities of the body, or the temporary vacuum that follows violently disturbs atmospheric conditions within the body, inflicting extensive
lesions.
"If this bo so, it would be the strict equivalent of the wind of the cannon bali which performed such extraordinary feas in the annals of ancient military lare"
WHAT TO DO TO GET FAT
AND INCREASE WEIGHT. THE REAL CAUSE OF THINNESS,
A PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE, –
Moscow was evacuated after the battle offering under intolerable war sacrifices, at Borodino, and burned down by the and demand a peace which will not bring Russians because it was a Russian capi- advantages to small interested circles at tal Warsaw has been evacuated after a the cost of the whole nation. battle for the Vistula and left untouched because it is a Polish capital, and tho Russians for many reasons could not de stroy the city which they undoubtedly will recapture in order to deliver it to a new free Poland. The fact remains the. Samo in both cases, however that the
The main burden of the cost of the war strategical and political centres were abandoned by the Russians after a most
must be borne by Germany's enemies. At the present moment we have Poland; fierce battle and given up to the enemy.
Lithuania, and Courland almost complete As after the battle at Borodino, so after the battle of the Vistula, the Russian From the Orillia Packet, a Canadiaaly in our hands... We occupy almost at army retired untouched and in full order paper, we quote the following passage in Belgium, and our western front encircles a while the army of the enemy suffered eror-u letter from Colonel F. Brennan, of the portion of France which includes the chick South African Irish, concerning the perils industrial districts and a respectable per- PREPARED RETREAT.
of the campaign in South-West Africa:centage of the total of French taxpayers,
Corefa examination showed ten mines "It is useless to-day to make conjectures The retreat of the Russians after the battle of Borodino was absolutely a sur-laid across a roadway only right feet as to how the European map will look after Whatever stand prisa for the army and the whole nationwide, and on the railway line 200 yards to the conclusion of peace.
The military council at Fili changed the left were three more such mines. A point one takes regarding the question of everything. Field-Marshal Kotazoff, in little iron, pin care just to the surface annexation, the financial gain from what spite of the opposition of almost all his the word. This little pin passes through we occupy is certain.
RANSOM! generals, ordered a retirement abandona hollow tube down to rest upon a fragile ing the sacred capital to the enemy-and glass tube full or sulphuric acid. The These countries will either be given the existence of the Russian army and slightest pressure on the glass will brea back after the war, in which case we will the future victory of the Russians were it. The acid then mixes with the powder.not only be justified in demanding comThey absorb just enough of the food they Casured,
An explosion occurs, and this is suficient pensation and costs for the war which was eat to maintain life and a somblance of If Napoleon had immediately attacked to set off the dynamite. A hollow, strong forced upon us, but our enemies will also health and strength. Stuffing won't help the Russians after the battle of Borodino iron tube contains the constituents for the be ready to make any sacrifices in order to them, & dozen meals a day won't make it would have been a useless bloodshed, first explosion. The ends are screwed regain possession of their former properly them gain a single "stay there" pound. because the retreat of the Russian army tightly. As there were ten boxes of as quickly as possible or the countries will All the fat-producing elements of their had been already decided by the field- marshal, who in reality had only con- explosive dynamite and blasting gelatine tinued the strategy of General Barcay it was estimated by experts, many of whom de Tolly, his predecessor.
During the battle of the Vistula we cza see nearly the same thing, with only one difference, that the Grand Duke, having lost the lattle for the Vistula owing to
remain as a whole or in part in the posses-
sion of the Central Powers. we have in our regiment, which contains "In that case they will be valuable
sources of future strength and taxation, and they contain property of inestimable value. Certainly the burden of the war indemnity will be hard to bear and still more difficult to pay, but that need not our concern. As long as we possess these These securities.
Most thin people eat from four to six. pounds of good solid fat-making food every day and still do not increase in weight one ounce, while on the other hand lightly and keep gaining all the time. many of the plump, chunky folks eat very It's all. bosh to say that this is the nature of the individual. It isn't Nature's way at all
Thin folks stay thin because their defective powers of assimilation are
food just stay in the intestines until they pass from the body as waste. What such people need is something that will pre- pare these fatty food elements so that their blood can absorb them and deposit the all about the body. Something, too, that will multiply their red blood cor puscles and increase their blood's carry- ing power,
so many minors, that the explosive would have killed everyone within 100 yards.
One wheel of our car touched one of these pins. I kept it as a relic. Another the outflanking movement of the enemy was only an inch from a danger spot. An from the north, has nevertheless escaped eighth of an inch farther to the left and disaster, and has succeded in retiring there would have been no funeral necessary securities we can wait. in fuil order on the second fortifed line for me or my companion. We had men not only represent capital, they also bear end taking two Sargol tablets with of defenos. Both these examples--though blown to pieces the same day that this interest Reuter. the first presents a previously arranged incident took place, and men blinded ani retirement after a successful battle, while deformed for life. The enemy have done
the second is a retreat forced by parti-dirty things to us from a soldier's stand- cular strategical circumstances brought
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in each case both engaged sites to the point, have poisoned the wells and tried new word to the language?
to spread infections. Yet they left their certainly been some narrow escapes. A cor Napoleon was very much disappointed women and children aud civilian popularespondent sent to Sir James Matray for
ous word-brean," which he had found when he entered Moscow and realised the tion to our tender piercy, and to-day they the New Oxford Dictionary the mysteri deplorable strategical situation of his are carrying on business in Kanbit and we army, while the Kaiser did not dare even have not disturbed them or taken their story by I. L. Stevenson. It was pre- to realise his solemn entrance into the stored-up food supplies. Instead of harsh sumed to be an obscure Scottish term; and Polish capital, being afraid to appear treatment the Germans have received pr the presumption lasted till Stevenson ridiculous in case he should be obliged tection and considerate treatment from wrote back that the word he had written to evacuate it. The bitter example of General Botha, who himself was nearly was ocean, Had the author been dead, "brean would no doubt have figured in. Napoleon hak, perhaps, restrained the blown up by the explosion of a mine that War Lord from a dangerous tie
killed one of his attendants,"
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