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The following letter has been received from Bergeant T. S. D. Wade, dated “In France, October 3rd":-
Since doing our share in the great attack and victory, we have done a long tres northwards and are now within easy ronch of quite another part of the front.
We are billotted at present in stables and not owning a greatoont just now, having lost all in the big push," nearly shivered to death last night. We are expecting fresh kit and equipment every day to replace stuff lost or thrown away during action. Just before going into Betion I had all my hair cropped off like everybody else, and as it is the very first time I've ever had it off so, felt it somewhat. I also let my Gillette in my pack, so an now doing with some thing that scrapes like a saw.
INDUSTRIAL UNREST.
SHARP RISE IN THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES.
FEAR THAT EMPLOYERS WILL
EXPLOIT THE PRESENT - SITUATION.
fessor Kirkally suggested that
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A TIME TO SPEAK OUT.
THE DUTY OF THE RESPONSIBLE PRESS.
In a letter to The Times, Mr. Austin Harrison, the well-known author and journalist, says:
THE CHAMPAGNE BATTLE
VISIT TO THE CAPTURED TRENCHES,
writer says
We
shall go into the firing fine again. Our presentative committeo might be appointe, conscription and the militarization about four miles distant on the wooded.
I expect directly we get equipped we battalion came off much better than expected, a number of late arrivals turn ing up. Our Company lost seventy in casualtios and the Battalion nhout 300,
to inconclusive settlement,
first line
A SOLDIER'S DESCRIPTION. A former correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, now a soldier in the French Army, gives the following description of the Champagne battlefield as a while "It must now be clear to every man recovering the body of a comrade, aa At. the annual conference of the British that Britain is to-day faced with the artilleryman, who, although not supposed grave danger that those students and ob- to participato, joined in the infantry Association a discussion on means for preservers (called pessimists) of foreign assault and had been killed far inside moting industrial harmony was opened by affairs and the war have long foreseen the German lines. After a long march Professor Kirkcaldy, who spoke gravely of and, so far as our un-English and stupid his body had been discovered and a parts the danger which threatens the nation omsorship permitted, gave warning of went out to bring it in for burintre We lost Turkey, just as we lost Bul- I went along to help. We traversed a from friction between employers and work again and again. men. The problem, he said, was to disgaria and the active co-operation of village whereof only ruins romain. cover some method of computing the share reece, through our refusal to face facts, then reached a little wood on a low hill of the profits which was due to each par- to understand the stupendous gravity of which dominates the plain on every side. tripator in the work of production. It the war due to our Governmental blind and where begin deep communicating was difficult, but not impossible of solunes of the meaning of war or power. trenches leading to the French lines. tion. The whole industrial army should First we counted on the Russian - But, for the first time for many months, counted on banevolgut and could dispense with walking between be graded so that the value to the combers, then we
We won't manity of the master and organiser was as Allies; then we counted on money, white winding carthern walls. accurately known as the value of the ourselves steadily keeping the people mis. straight across, the plain, which is vory artisan and the humblest labourer, Pro-informed about the war, and refusing to wide here, sloping gently away, then ris- re-adopt the only safe way to fight this war, ing slowly towards the horizon, where of the human and economic energies of orest we could seo amoke from bursting. ed to consider this question.
Sir Charles Mserra's address was large this Empire in the service of national and shells."
Imporial defence. Our optimists are At this time of the your the view a criticism of the Government, particu: the people who before the war told us would be dull and monotonous except farly of its neglect to use the Industrial Germany was our friend. Just as before for whitish lines which cris-cross every- Council, and its failure to prevent the rise the war they did not understand Ger where like a great net. The soil is chalky Our Colonel, who had lost his son E
in the prices of commodities which, in his many, so ever since they have underrated and parapets and trenches compris, this One stands 3- month or so ago, was killed the other day opinion, was the main cause of the present the German power and the significance complicated network. almost simultaneously with Major Dent,
The interference of of the war; failed to realize that we are tonished before such a huge intricacy of industrial unrest. whose last words were, "Now, my lads, I want you to follow me and take that politicians in industrial disputes often led confronted by the most powerful military defences. Later I was able to verif
Disputes fre and economic combination over known in one cannot walk 500 yards along this trench ahead." He mounted over the parapet and led the charge for ten yards quently arose from an exaggerated esti history and that only by superior plain without crossing a trench, while or so when he fell and died very shortly mate of the return on capital, and schemes strength-greater forces and better organ in many places, especially near the first line, the system is developed in much. after. Sergeant Reuter of the Shanghai for ascertaining profits should be pro-ization can we hope to defeat it.
Now a new area of war has opened, greater detail.
THE FIRST GERMAN TRENCHES. Police was nearest him at the time and noted.
Mr. Wil Thorne, M.P., who appeared as an area of open warfare where decisions
It may be described We reached the French took away some of his belongings to send to his people. 2nd Lieut. Cornaby was a representative of the Trade Unions Con-may be expected. also wounded, also Sergeant Router, Ugress, said he was prepared to agree to as the Pan-German roalization to link, trenches, picked our way through the re the submission of disputes to the Indus that is, Hamburg with Constantinople mains d the barbed wire en unitment, trial Council, er, better still, to a smaller and Baghdad. In a word, the issue of and 50 yards beyond came the German committee of commitices appointed by the new war in the East. The Germans barbed wire. Already we saw the elec The three gentlemen who constituted the hope to strike at us, as Napoleon did, it of the terrible bombardment to which our vulnerable spot. Diplomatically, the ongmy had been subjected. Hero and Committee on Production were all drawn they have already secured the strategie there the soil was barst open by shells, belong, and he did not think it was pos- gence send ships through the of an Algerian rifleman; poor him more from a class to which the speaker and no advantages owing to our sloth and negli Among some twisted wires, was the body sible for them to give a fair and judicial Dardanelles at the beginning of the war, bodies of Algerians. Then we came up decision, because they were not in a posi- and so secure the freedom of the Straits, to the first German trench, and for the tion to consult with the delegates of er-and the neutrality, willing or unwilling first time the war presented itself to ma After condemning.com. of Young Turkey. No verbiage can in a sort of vivid unreality, the impres ganised labour.
excuse this remissness on our part. Torsion of which is unforgettable.
We went on along the trench, The pulsory arbitration, Mr. Thorns advocated the idea of compelling masters and men to key was from the first the key to Bulgaria meet and discuss disputes before proceed whom we supinely allowed to be floored effect of the bombardment in some places
We know
was terrible Two enormous 270mm. He said he at the Treaty of Bukarest. ing to the strike or lockout. should like to see more conciliation boards Ferdinand's dream was to win back the (11in.) shells lay side by side in a great
we did
hola torn by another shell which had set up.
At the bottom of much of the soil taken from him, and yet
It caused the whole side of the trench to nothing. We behaved like amateurs. industrial unrest of the moment was the is false to say--it is evidently to be the cave in. Many had burst clore outside sharp rise in the price of commodities, in many cases without any justification. HeGovernmental excuse that we were tied the trench; no one could go more than by our Allies. We alone had a free Navy, thirty yards without seeing that the took ag an example the rise in the prior and so the power. Like idiots, we offend- trench itself had been shattered by an of coal and he said that if the Governmented Turkey by sizing her ships and allow explosion. Every ten yards at most there had done with the collieries whating the Goeben to get in first. We just were corpses, sometimes several twisted they had done with the railways neglected to use the vital point of vantage together. I was surprised to see
been T14 trouble there would have
open to us in the war
with their arms raised, unsupported. .On coalfields.
the general I am not surprised at our negligence. One was leaning against the trench, in question of promoting harmony Mr. Ever since the war broke out, as the act of taking aim, but without a Thorne was not optimistic. He could not long former resident in Germany, I have rifle. The arms and fingers were held goo how, under the present system of pro tried to make my countrymen understand correctly but sticking stiffly into the air. duction, we could harmonise the opposing the stupendous power of Germany, and I myself should have thought the arms forces of employers and employed; but warned them that unless we adopt would have fallen by their own weight there might be brought about a diman National Service we cannot expect to after death,
We preferred to tion of friction. There must be a great smash the Germans, fight on the question of distribution. The addle ourselves about the vices of mili tarism, We lost Turkey because the workers were thoroughly convinced that Germans showed the greatest power in at present they were not getting what they Costantinople; we lost Bulgaria for the were entitled to,
same reason. On the Continent and in America men say but one thing: Can England be serious if she sticks to half- We have the answer in the measures? Balkans,
myself. I hear Fickburn was wounded by an entrenching tool.
Buy amount of trouble and casualties, being very skilfully concealed. When in the danger zone and with dawn approaching they close up and give themselves up, throwing up their arms and calling out "Kamerad Kamerad! I saw several cases of this personally.
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Our Capt. Charteris having been killed, Capt. Douglas has new taken command of our Company. A new Major from the inkers Fusiliers has Northumberland. charge of our regiment
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NAVAL OFFICER BLOWS UP A RAILWAY.
A brilliant single-handed exploit at the Dardanelles by Lieutenant D'Oyly Hughes, British submarine officer, 14 reported by the Admiralty, along, with the announcement of the award of the D.S.) to Lieutenant D'Oyly Hughes.
Flaving volunteered to make an attempt on the railway, the Lieutenant proceeded slowly towards the shore, dropped into the water, and pushed the craft carrying the charge, his accoutrements, and clothes, 4 spot some sixty yards on the port bow of the boat,
After a stiff climb he reached the rail way line He then proceeded very slowly with the charge tuyands the viaduct.
Having advanced some five or six han- dred yards, voices were heard ahead, and shortly afterwards three men were observed sitting by the side of the line talking quite loudly. After watching them for some time he decided to leave the charge, which was very heavy and cumbersome, und go 9 pm-Mr. Maurice E. Bandmans at the forward, making a wide detour inbend
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Sir Hugh Bell, taking up the question from the employers' side, gave some figures about the steel-making industry in which he is engaged, These figures showed that from 70 to 75 per cent. of the cost of steal To-day the need is of stern coolness
To be was labour, and that an advance of 10 per There is only one thing to do... cant. on wages would wipe out the whole of serious at last, to rise to the heights of intr true greatness. To have a Commit the present profit. The position, however, said Sir Hugh, was not as hopeless as that tee of Public Safety of not more than fact might be thought to imply Im-seven men, chosen pot for political, but provements in methods of production for military and administrative quali- would produce more pront on a smaller ties; and to introduce conscription at labour bill, and wages might be increased by giving to the workman his share of the increased profit. Unfortunately the intro- duction of a labour-saving device often A stationary engine could be heard on moant a temporary disadvantage to the or just beyond the viaduct, and men were workers, and on that account it was resent. moving about incessantly. The Lieutened, though its ultimate effects were bene. ant decided that it was impossibleficial to them. Sir Hugh argued that the 3.15 p.m.-Fifth Gymkhana Meeting at the destroy the viaduct, so he returned to the interests of employer and employed were
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identical, and commended what had been called "compulsory conciliation" means of helping both sides in a dispute to sen where their true interests lay,
Mr. Albert Evans, general secretary of the National Union of Papermakers, said that at the bottom of the prevalent unrest among the workers was the suspicion that when the war ended the employing class would take advantage of the chaos in near ly every industry to filch from the workers advantages they had fought for years. They were anxious, in particular, about the employment of women to do men's work for less money than the men had re- beived.
Professor Schuster, the president of the Association, spoke a few words at the close of the morning session.
"We cannot afford any longer to un on our chances with half-measures, The now menace is a very real one, and, we may be sure, will be conducted with great force and swiftness; and, as like as not, we shall soon find ourselves engaged in yet another area of war-Egypt and the lines to the East. Even the trade union leaders must to-day begin to wonder how voluntaryism is to meet the requirements. It won't, and cannot.
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Presently we Beared the second-line frenches and passed the bodies of Zouves and Algerians, whom machine-guns had mown down. One had half his head taken off by a shell,
The German second-line wrenches are inferior to their first-line trenches, which are wide and deep-walled with planks, and fitted with very deep subterranean shelters. We saw several abandoned ma chice-guns, We were now about half a mile inside the German tines. I noticed that I could not take a "stop" without azaq sa po po po po pry |
as an Zuper WOUNDED AND KILLED. Our comrade'a body was in a tener of the trench. At the border of the wood the capture of which had cost us dearly, the Germans had concealed mochine-guns. The edge of the wood and the wood itself were thickly strewn with German dead. We put our dead comrade on a stretcher in order to carry him back. He had a bullet in one of his legs.
For the first time for a long while we had before us the battlefield, and it was really possible to see some thing. Yonder on our left several bat teries were firing rapidly, Flases shot from the mouths of the cannon in quick succession..
man who is not actually fighting can denishing disproportion between the
To urge silence in the 14th rawath of
A Dogs of cavalry trotted the war, to ask us to twiddle our thumbs while the 22 gentlemen ou pooled salarios past, jumping the trenches as best they in the Cabinet Wait and sec, weigh and could, and took up their positions behind balance, and affect complacent surprise a pine grove, where some infantry were at losing one advantage after the other already gathered, Some German shells is insanity; the only patriotic thing a sought to reach a battery half a mile without success. There was am is to fight here for real Government, for National Service, organization, and number of shells fired and received. I direction, and press on till the people believe I am right in estimating that we
Our Government have fooled fired ten shells to the enemy's two.
We
ENTHUSIASM OF INFANTRY, obtain it.
The advance at this point was about the people and fooled themselves. are paying £5,000,000 a day for their failures. No nation can afford the 5 miles in a straight line. We met a wounded man, who said, "The infantry Only the Press enn sava us. It is is mad with enthusiasm. At-fact we are Soon after two or three ineffecinal shots
luxury, indefinitely. He said it was were fired from behind. In view of the
now the duty of the responsible Pruss to going ahead. Here at last is regular fact that speed was necessary, Leutenant wise to recognise that conflict of interests
take the censorship into its own hands, campaigning-true warfare; and with artillery supporting D'Oyly Hughes followed the railway line existed. It was no use to minimize dif-and explain the situation and its require our formidable to the eastward for about a mile til he ferences. To say that all were working ments without stint or fear. The spiritus so well we are surely going to con- came close to the shore. He plunged into or the same end was merely to evade dif- of Britain is right enough. It will tinue" He told me of the first assault. low order of the water about three-quarters of a mile cultes, not to evercome them.
Many other speeches were made on the respond. But it cannot until the Press The men started quietly, confident and
assumes responsibility and sounds the calm. It required no to the eastward of the small bay in which the boat was lying. The charge explodedbject of the debate, but no resolution bugle call The Empire in danger con rourage to face the raging of the machine as he entered the water.
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scription and places in power a few guns and rifles. It seemed hardly five real men who will raise the necessary minutes before we reached the second armies, show Europe that are in line, having struck down or made pri- earnest, and so surely but eventually Jeadsener every one who opposed."
My attention was now attracted by group of comrades who were motioning Conthe. "Do you speak Ger- to, very little, only a few words." man?"
After swimming for four or five hundred yards straight out to sea he blew a long blast on his whistle, but the boat, being
in a small bay behind the cliifs, did not THE PRESIDENT'S APPETITE. Britain to victory. hear it. Day was breaking very rapidly. so after swimming back to the shore and resting a short time on the rocks, be eom- menced swimming towards the bay in which the boat was lying.
He was finally picked up in an extreme ly exhausted condition after he had swabi the best part of a mile in his clothes
QUANTITY. NOT QUALITY.
Mr. San Blythe, in the course of a most entertaining article on the President of China in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post gives us the following gmpse of Yuan
VIVID DESCRIPTIVE JOURNALESE.
It was a wounded German whom they had just found in a trench. His left leg was fractured. He had tain there two days with nothing to eat. He was a married. man and father of two children. He sooned intelligent; and we offered him something to driuk and bandaged his leg
The following example of how to write news is taken from the Society" Rushville News (Ind.):-
The bride and groom presented with splints.. regal spectace, never equalled sinez the proud Cleopatra sailed down the per- fumed lotus-bearing Nile in her gilded
Just then we saw a prisoner passing, guarded by some Zouaves. We requisi toned the prisoner to carry the wound-
"The President of China is a teetotaler. He has not taken a drink for ten years. The Welsh Regiment during the great He is a great eater. His appetite is QURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS offensive found two German women in a enormous and his capacity for food is the
German dugout. The dugout was fitted admiration of his friends, which stamps pageant. to meet Mark Antony while aled German. This ho was unable to do, up with mirrors and plenty of luxuries..
it seems, our bombardment had complete-" him as a wonder in his line, for Chinese the world stood agape at the unheard of as he had not eaten for three days, for. of the higher classes are heavy enters. It triumph. To describe the bride's customely interrupted the German supply zer- is said of the President that he has the beggars the English language and imagina-vice. We accordingly resumed our way Log falls faint and feeble before the through the twilight with our comrade's She was gorgeously body, taking now the main communica worst cook in Peking; but that makes no difference to him, Yuan eats anything Herculean task. and everything in large quantities, and arrayed in a calico house dress, and a pair tica tronch in order to avoid the shell the quality of the cooking does not annoy of lace curtains forted like a dream about holes and the barbed wire across the
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A new attraction at the recruiting meeting at Trafalgar Square recently was a band of girl pipers and drummers. The wore Highland bonnets, black velvet tumes, and tartan skirts, and as they marched around the square drew a large following.
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