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THE STOLEN SUBMARINE
[EY GEORGE EGAR. |
*He came in with a gust of wind.
Tha rain was rolling off his waterproof coat. The garb revealed him as a lieutenant z0. the L.N.R.NE
HINDENBURG'S ENTRY INTO LONDON 1
PROUDEST CITY OF THE WORLD IN GERMAN HANDS
A COMIC ROMANCE,
The most popular book of the present
A WAR DICTIONARY.
SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS,
A
Lachrymatory Bholle-A type of shell which on bursting blinda thone moar it whom it does not kill
Lazarot. A hospital
Loft Bank of a River.-Is to the left coming down stream from the soures to the sen
Asphyxiating Gua-Chlorine, a heavy yellow gas intensely poisonous, discharg od from steel cylinders in which it has Lift-A technical artillery term, mean- He walked to the club bar toolz posses
been compresseding to raise the angle of the guns firing sion of it, and begen skilfully to make a
Automatic Rillo- rife which reloads so as to throw the shells farther away. most complicated cocktail. After he had shaken the mixture up and poured in cat Berlin Lock seasca has already run into itself automatically-by the force of the Thus during an attack the guns shell the after he had carefully given it the squeeso many editione, and the popular demand, recoil or the gas produced by the dis enemy's trenches; when the storming line of lemon-rind which is the last polemn rita according to all accounts, renting charge. It is fired from the shoulder, reaches the trenchan the gune Lift or throw whereas the machine Gun is ured on their project les farther back, to avoid in the making of cocktails, he drank satisfied. } first toesting me with a Cheero and strafo
"Tho_speeint" correspondent of the Ex-light carriage or tripod. The enemy are hitting their own men and prevent the all Germans. Then he sighed and rechange Telegraph Company in Switzer, said to be arming snipers with automatic approach of enemy reinforcements,****
Listening-Post-A post, as near as pos rifles; moved his rain kit. When he came from land sends a translation of some extractą
sible to the enemy's lines, in advance of under the wet hat end the shining cost, I from the last chapter in the book, in which was convinced that he was Lieutenant the author prophetically describes Battalion-A unit of infantry usually the trenches, where men are stationed at Herdinck
the passage of the vast German Army 1,000 strong, and divided into four connight to guard against surprise and, if
possible, hear what the onemy is doing. through the pricipal streets of the cap panies each of 150 men
Battery-Mens- A number of guns
M tured capital
placed is position to attack an enemy:
Tes-strafe all Gormans," Lieutenant Hardtack said, rancorously. They lie up, sa smug as fleas in rug, drinking to Der Tag, and horo em 1, two nights out of every four, wallowing about the
enough E
What's biting you?" I aked, as he pulled on his cocktail
B
Machine GunA gun which fires rifle. ammunition automatically, the recoil or produced by each discharge mechani
north Ben playing 1 8py. It's not good Croydon the Field-Marshal passes the ing a gun armament (generally a machine cally reloading the gun and discharging
The trumphal entry had lasen preceded by a great battle in the home counties in which the Teutons successfully dispersed the last lovies of decadent England, At troops in review Comrades, ho cries, we have the proudest city in the world "You'd know what was biting me if in our hands." A you'd had two days and two nights yacht The subdued lights of the Imperial city ing in this weather with an old screw still were seen by the soldiers as they camped stinking of fish. Mostly all last night the on the night before the triumphal entry water was up to my kness in what the ori-into the outer suburbs. The march acros ginal skipper no doubt called his cabin. London Bridge begins at 9am. precisely, It's rotten enough living like a dog in Hindenburg, seated on his horse with kennel, but ugh i when the kennel is wet it Count Zeppelin at his side, watching in touches the limit. And the old hooker tently the first regiments as they swing short of ballast and is really hoggish when past doing the goose step as if they were she begins to roll. I thought she was on the parade ground at Berlin, ing to tum right over when I was making the turn at the harbour mouth this morn ing
and Well-you are not the only man steer ing ntin barge." I suggested mildly.
Not by a couple, I should think," he replied, but I'm one-and my hit is my share of the trouble-an't it?
Still you have the consolation of doing your bit I ventured
· “That's it—a bit-a tiny bit!" he said, in a gusty voke I've been taught look forward to this war over since I went into the service and what is there to look forward to now? Mind you, I'm not grousing-I'm disappointed. This isn't my idea of a war,””
*** What is your idea?" I asked. "A cruiser going well over her register ed speed, my boy, and a good pelting, hard scrap with something sinking at the end of it. Look at 'an-not a German an the
ocean,"
“There have been several aca fights 1" ventured.
"Yes," he snapped; but not enough to go round. Hero I've been mucking about in my old yacht since the war begam. I've been soused from one end of the Channel to the other. I've been in a collision. I've run into the harbour pier, And what is the hag! I'll tell you a dozen mines or
"
The sokliers look curiously at the docks, burning or smoaktering as the Zeppelin attacks had been recent or the reverse, The aim of the troops was St James' Park, Thoro is unusual animation and movement in the City quarter around London Bridge, and even the muse of the military bands could soarcely be heard
boys the din.
A unit of artillery generally consisting of (cr in the French Army 4) gúna,
Battle-Plans-A large coroplane carry, gun, but occasionally a small pics of it if the trigger is held back. A good artillery kate machine-gun can fire 600 rounds a minute.
Bridge Head. A fortified work protest ing the end of a bridge. All the German bridges over the Rhine are defended by very strong works of this character on the
western bank
Brigade-In the British Army, for the infantry, has a strength of 4,000; in the German and most Continental armies, of
6,000.
Cadre --A nucleus of trained officers, sergeants, and corporals which in wer may be expanded into a regiment of infantry or a force of artillery, “
Calibre,Bore or diameter of a gun or shell, Thug a75" is a gun of 75 milli metres bere (firing shells of that diamotor),
Min-Gallery. Is a turnnol, under the ground leading to a mine of series of mines. Each of these mines, when a serious attack is being made on an enemy's position, may contain a ton or more ef
high explosive
Minenwerfer or Trench Mortar,-A small smoothbore gan fer throwing a large shell a very short distance used in treneb fighting. -/
Mortar-A very short gun for high angle fire, generally not rifled, and thus differing from a howitzer.
Outflank. To get round the extremity of a line of troops so as to attack them by Enkkinding fire and threatening their
r about 3in. An 18in, howitzer je a howit rear.
zer firing shells 18in in diameter,
Chasseur-A rifleman or light infantry
man.
Company. One-fourth of a battalion of infantry or 240 men.
THE LORD MAYOR A SPECTATOR: The Wellington and Charing Cross bridges had been demolished on the pre- Consolidate a position, To. Tore vious day by heavy German artillery, and arrange the defences of a captured posi all the trafic tramways, combustion, place fresh barbed wire entangle tradesmen's vans, cabs, and luxurious ments about it, and alter it so that it can automobiles were concentrated upon Lo be held against a counter-attack. don Bridge. Thousands and thousands swarmed on the tops of the omnibuses in order to get a glimpse of Hindenburg and the Hans
Corps. An army corps is a body of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry, usually nutabering from 35,000 to 56,000 men with 100 to 160 guns.
:
По
Parapet.-Abrenetwork protecting
troope
Park-In technical military language
vehicles means a collection of guns, wagons, or
motor-cars PlatoonOne-fourth of a company of infantry or 60 mon
Pioneer-Troops who remove obstacles, clear roads, dig trenches, and construct camps or entanglements, In the British Army this work is usually carried out by engineers; though pioneer battalions havo
boer raised in this war.
Point d'Appui. A fortified position of special strength in a line of trenches or defences, such as a stout building loop- hoted and strengthened with concrete.
The troope marched through King. Wil-}|_ Cupola,--A turret with armour contain liam-street to the richest place in the a gun or machine gun world, that between the Mansion House, Curtaja of Fire,Is when a largo num the Bank, and the Stock Exchange, ber of guns so direct their shells as to cut Round the Bank the troops saw an angry off the enemy's approach or retreat hy a moh clamoaring for money, The Lord line of shells descending steadily in his
Redoubt.-An earthwork which is com Mayor of the day looks down upon the front or rear. A curtain of shells is gen-pletely enclosed, such as the Hohenzollern strange procession from the Guildhall balerally used in the attack on first-line Redoubt on Hill 70. This is almost square cong. Unkempt worried looking members trenches to prevent the arrival of supports and can resist attack from the rear, Buch earthworks are surrounded with elaborate of the Stock Exchange are huddled to
Division. A smaller body of troops than entanglements of barbed wire and gener ether, angry but curious,
Past St Paul's up Fleet-street, along an army Corps, usually containing infeally contain armoured shelters, mounting the Strand, through the Mall into dub try and artillery, with a strength of shout machine guns, and Dug-outa or Bomb- fand the conquerors marah. Mournful 18,060 mon, A clubmon peer out from their privileged Dug-Out. A shelter in the trenches homent, NA KAT
proofs to give shelter during a bombard positions at the club windows at the low the level of the earth, out of which it Re-Entrant--Is an anglo in a position troops.
Popis dug. Men take refuge in it during the point or apex of which is directed in- Later Hindenburg and some of the bombardment and live in it when not re- tonous. Even & torpedo would be a change higher offers visit the Houses of Parlia- quired for the defence of the trenches. Yes; here's the old Navy at war with Ger many at last, and all there is in it is wet ment, where, doubles to the former's em- barrassment, they find a huge life size pic- and dirty patrol work. Why, I'd just ture of the Field Marshal propped up on soor be a policeman in an uninhabited vil the historic woolback. Big Ben, it seems, lage. Over twelve months of it and the had been seat for many months, but on only German I've seen I took out of a Hindenburg's instructions he strikes the Dutchmana mangy little bese he was hours again on this histeric night. too?? marketThe romance, about which all Germany Hardtack finished his cocktail and mix is now reving, closes with Hindenburg's ed another, with the air of a chemist proclamation to his troops weighing up the unknown.
It is useful to put a mine out of the way," I said.KNO
"Yes," Hardtack grunted. But After | your first half-dozen minés sze ́IDEO-).
There are a few subs loft," I protested "There was one heaved up yesterday out eide the Belvoir habour, and by she would't put her heads up they sent her down. There'll be one left for you, sure enough.
That's the rotten part of everything." Hardback replied, with exceeding bitter- nese Yesterday's submarine was Scrap per'e job... –– Is isn't fair”-------
wards the interior of the positionin
Regiment. Of infantry usually consists of 3 or 4 battalions, or 8,000 or 4,000 men; of cavalry usually consists of 3 or 4 squadrons.
Echelon-Bodies of troops are said to be en echelon whom they occupy positions behind or in advance of the other flank, Ricochet-When a shelf or hullet glancss just as the black or while squares follow or rebounds it is said to ricochet, each other diagonally across a chess-board. Emplacement.A position, usually in
Sap. Is a trench running out bowards
the trenches, or separately entrenched, for the enemy's position. It usually shows a gas or machine-gun.
Soldiers," the opening sentence runs, have marched from victory to victory and it has been a difficult struggle, but you the world now knows that to fire burns they are usually made of curved form with near the frontiers of Germany. After obstacles to enfilading fire in the shape of beating a world of enemies, you are Traverses. bivouacing in front of Buckingham, Palico
"What isn't?" I asked onriously * MAX HARDEN'S PLAIN SPEAKING.:
That Berapper should have had the
sub at all,” he replied bitterly "He Jew-
Maximilian Harden, writing in the
Eafilade. Is to our with fire the on the map as a sigrag, the object of this whole length of a work or line of men, To zigsigging being to prevent the enemy an enemy who has reached one or other end he certainly would if it were carried prevent trenches from being enfiladed by from sweeping or enfilading it with fire straight out towards him. The work of carrying out a sap is one of the most hazardous in which troops can engage,
Bup Head. The end or termination towards the enemy of such a Sap. point of apex of which juts out from the Salient, Is an angle in a position the position. A salient ie dimoult to hold because it will usually be swept by a cross-fire.
Bector-A portion of a front; strictly
rtion of
Facines. Maggots or bundles of sticks bound together and used for contructing earthworks, building saps and filling
| ditches or obstacles,
ed me out of the best chance that has come Zukunft [publication of which has now ground, the shock firing a cap in the fuse speaking that part of a circle which is
bounded by two radii ond the part of the
eircumference between them,
Fuss-The mechanism by which shells ere exploded A Percussion Fuse deton- ates the shell when the nose strikes the my way since the war began. Scrapper comes from my district, kucefked him been forbidden warms his countrymen and the fame travelling to the charge in silly at school He joined the Cunard that the Allies desine peace. He adds: a certain number of seconds or fractions of against entertaining the dangerous hope the shell. A Time Fuse detonates the shell Line. Ferrying the beastly Atlantic, hu The British and the Russians must be a second after the shell has left the gun. charge of explosive in a hole or tunnel. If Tomp. To beat down earth upon a was, and helping the prettiest girls along considered to be caly commencing the The shock of firing is made to ignite a the charge is not tamped much of its the promenade deck when his wretched war. There is, therefore wore fighting slow-burning composition in the fuse; fores is lost through passing out by the hotel staggered. Last week they sent the ahead for Germany.” Ho urge Ger- after a certain tire which can be varied hole or tunnel ad Cunarder to this station and gave him many to state her intentions regarding according as are in the nose of the Trench First Line-Is the ontermost charge of an old tub-warce than mine, peace terms.
shell is set by the gunners, the Bame in line of trenches in the position defended. He had the nerve to ask me what I'd been
the composition reaches the charge in the The trench may be a shallow excavation doing as soon as he arrived at the hotel,
shell and exples it Many shells and in the earth with the soil removed thrown and when I told him he chaffed me about
shrapnel have both time and percussion in front, so as to shelter men lying down the small size of the bag.
A.
I smiled thoughtfully as Hardtack sip- pod his cocktail in a melancholy manner.
DEWASA
He stopped and grew slowly purple. “And then,'' I prompted
*** Heart-breaking," he grumb.ed. "There ftle Scrapper waiting for me on the "Well, I can stand being rotted by any quey. He looked as pleased as a pup with map, Hardback said, if but I don't take ten tails. And he had tho nerve to say I chin music from a kid I could hammer owed him twelve pounds. And, upon my school, and a ferryman at that. So I fald soul, I did. He had begged something him that he would be lucky it, apart from better than a mit He had zeon a wate getting anything in the bag, he kept his marine, Yes-and the wretched little bost afloat, and then, with one thing or bounder sank her sink my submarine, another, we got rather hot. After twelve It's not fair," he faltered.
But he was there to sink her, woon't months knowledge of this station I bet hím an even sovereign he would not get any he1 1 asked. thing but, en odd mine here and there"Of course," replied Lieutenant Hard Also, I bet him another oven sovereign tack." But wasn't. I there ton? Haven't that he'd never soo a gubmarine and I laid I boon about here for twelve months. If bim ter overigne to no he wouldn't sink he had missed her wouldn't I have had her, if he had the luck to sight her peri- her!" Reope. Tho hots were off if the heads But he did not miss her," I pointed changed his station. I was betting on the out, possibilities of this bit of cos, as I know, it “Of course, I know that, Hardtack yard by yard for the best part of a year,”
said angrily, and he swore fervently for And you've lost your money 1 nearly a minuto. Of cours the little He sighed and drummed on the clab picpocket did not miss her. He ho, no counter with the fingers of his brown sense of beneur the wretched thief. He hand
didn't-miss-her-no! He begged her. He "Yes to a ferryman,” he said grudg-stole my blessed submarine one of the few ingly. What makes it worse, Berapper they've left. bagged her on his first trip out. He was """Scrapper is apparently no gentleman," round the headband. I had a beat further I said politely north. And we all had the pews. You bat Hardtack did not even smile. He was I kept my eyes skinned. And it was a intensely serious. beast of a night I thought I was going You can take it from ma he is not," he to sharɔ all the machinery out of my poor replied. "But to hear him talk now, you'd old musical box. When it came morning I think he had Nelson rocking in the race beard his gun go off-trice! - Swank, 1 for glory. I'm sick of the sea. Why can't said, and kept on with my yachting until we have a proper war Steward, what the tide allowed me to make-the-harbour-about-my-bath 1 m Being farthest out. I was the lam in, and Bendy, sir,” said a bhava võita at his them.
Salbow,—Daily Mail,
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SVAGE Heavy Artillers-Applied to those guas and howitzers which cannot easily accom- pany troops over country. In the German Army Gin-, 8ja., 11in, and 17is. howitzers, tin, and heavier guni.
against rise fire, or an elaborate work, excavated deeply with protection for the Glacis The smooth slope ouhide a line heads of the men fring, known as Head- of trenches or fortifications which is clear-cover. In many of the German trenches od, as far as possible of all shelter for the concrete and steal armour are employed to chomy, so as to give a good fekt of fire give security against shells, from the trenches, or fortifications Trench-Second Line Is an inner Gionades, Bombs or wall projectiles series of trenches where. Supports are throws by hand, containing high explo uspslly kept or bodies of men ready to sive, which is fired either by a time or go to the aid of the men in the first-line.
trenches when the enemy attacks, * Trench-Third Line-Are the lumost series of trenches, as usually there are not more than three distinct lines in the defences of any position or front. The German third-line trenches on the British and French front are reported to be of High Explosive.-Explosives of greater immense strength, power than those used in gune for propell Trench Communication--A Lins of. ing projectiles. The best known aro fyd. | earthworks of a tunnel or passage in the dite and melinite, both of which are made earth by which the first, second, or third- by treating carbolic send with nitric acid; line trenches are reached and which gives and trinityoluol made by treating tolual, meir moving along it shelter pgainst- which is obtained from coal in the manu hostile fre facture of coke or gas with nitric acid. Trench Mortar sma smooth-base High-Explosive Shell —A shell with gun for throwing a large shell a very short thick steel walls containing a charge of distance, used in trench fighting, high_explosive such ag lyddite, molinite, G or trinitrotoluol. The explosion is very Unit-A organised military főree of a violent, shattering the shell into many certain size as a platoon (60), a company pieces end destroying everything wear. Of | (240), a bettalion (1,000 men), ete, uge against buildings and fortincations
Howitzer A sherd squat gap which Weight of Shells. The following fable. tosses its shells high in the air so that they is only approximate as the weight varies fall on the very stis strep angle. The indiferent armies or with different fire of such gun, is most effective against patterns of gums:--310, 12 or 14 lb. reaches and forts. Howitzers are of all 45in, 20lb. 4.7in., 50lb.; Gin, 100th. sizes from the 45in. German field hovit siu., 250lb 10in 500th Hin, 750lb.j zer to the 18in, which throws a shell of 18in 800lb. İkin 1,500lb 17mmk Laver 2,0001
Toolby 18in) 2,000lb, Daily Melk