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CAVALRY IN WAR
WEARY INACTIVITY TRENCH WORK WELCOMED.
SATURDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1916.
WAR FOOD PRICES
BRITAIN'S BISE BY 47 PER CENT.; GERMANY'S BY 83 PER CENT
Since the beginning of the years Philip Gibbs, writing in the Daily Tele graph from the British General Head-foodstuffs have further advanced in price. The retail rise for January was là per quarters, mys-
This trench warfare of ours the vilest cent.. necording to a statement in the Board human beings of Trade Labour Gazette. The greatest way of fighting for
Supward more has been in flour and bread, has put the cavalry into the cart, as any trooper would ang Into the Fits of Byer cent, and in fish and granulated - ways behind the lines would be a less figura ugaz, 5 per cent...
five way to put it, and it is one of the minor tragedies of the war.
A
With bread reaching old. for the quar-
BLINDED BY THE WAR.
THE HOSTEL OF HEROES.
[BY TWELLS BEGX.]
He was tall and straight. Thick, curly hair crispered above his handsome young face. Muscles of lusty youth rippled in young life was in his cheeks. big atalwart limbs. Tho flush of ardont All the choirs of his morn should be singing to him of adventure, enterprise, and achievement before him were all the great visions and horizons of twenty--and he has been blind red in battle
At the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors SHostel, St Douman's, Regent's Park, he at at hig Arst halting lesson at the type. writer, Click, click a fumbling wig- stroke-click, click, alick-slowly and un- certainly click, clink again,
torn leaf, the baker's bill, is heavier than it has ever been in modern times. But in For truly it has been a tragedy that other directions the latest market quote
tions have modified some of the January Winter sunshine apeared into the room. those fine bodies of men, with all their figures. Fish is cheaper; and there and lit up his brave, young, sightless face splendid spirit, should have been so wast-been a scasonal fall in the price of eg and shone on his bright hair. I had to
ed, their years of training, their great traditions, their special purpose in war made useless by all this digging in of armies.
It is the same with the German cavalry, to which all the noble families sent their sons, and with the French. In the early stages of the war they had their chance for three months, while the open fighting lasted. Those masses of German horse, which spread out like a fan through Belgium and France, with little patrols and Uhlans scouting audaciously ahead of the main armies, fulfilled their purpose successfully, though it seems probable that the same work could have been done more effectively by armoured motorcars and motor-cycles, with machine-guni,
Our own cavalry had four weeks of great adventure, inade a ne sweeping movement in the first, October of the war, and rode through the Germans in a few great charges which proved our absolute supe riurity in saralry fighting. Then for our mon and the French all ther activity ended abruptly before the lines of treaches, and it was only in Russia where the enemy attempted a great circling movement frem the north that here was a real continuation. of cavalry warfare. That too, ended in s silence that has never been broken, so for as I know, except by private letters full of lament for the dead Great masses of cavalry seem to have been lost in the eternal mista
A FADED DREAM.
Here in France our cavalry have bad co work to do as a mounted force sino the autumn of 1914. Only a few of them dashing cavalry leaders who dream of xid- ing through the enemy's country in a glorious pursuit still cherish any allusions as to their future in the war,
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It is difficult to see how they can ride over the ground now held by the enemy when we break the German lines on a wide enough gap to pour our squadrons through, However demoralised the German retreat may be they will leave behind them line aftor line of trenches and fields of barbed wire and machine-guns which will make cavalry pursuit a deadly endeavour, That at least, is my personal opinion, though there are probably many soldiers who have greater hopefulness Bo that as it may, the present lines have "bunker ed" oat mounted meu, and the monotony of their life has been well-nigh intolerable. Scores of times I have passed them on the roads between quaint little village, exer- cising their horses, and knowing the keen spirit of these men, I have pitied them from my heart became they are not content with this daily routine or satisfied with safety.
DARLINGTON'S HANDBOOK, left behind, they have gone from time to
The increase in the cost of food, compar- ing February 1t with a year ago, has been :—
Fish
Meat..........
turn away. I was not inured to this sight of men blinded by war. I had not yet understood what I was to learn at the Per Cent.hostel of that other light that couses to
those who walk in darkness.
Bacon, bread, sugar, milk, and
choose
Tes
Flour and eggs Butter Potatoes
Margarine
50
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Substantials are the war additions to the British food budget, eneur countries have been hit to a vtaggering extent. The following comparisons of increases upon pre-war prices are sigalficant :
Per Cent.
United Kingdom Berlin...
Viepos
53.4 ..112.8
But someone was rallying the novice typist on a comic mistake he had made, I looked again at his sightless face. Ho was laughing as gladly as over people laugh who can look of the world. His face, as he laughed, was strangely radiant. It was the sereno radiance of the light that comes from within, The flash of that blind young hero's guile was a photograph, instantaneous and vivid, of the great work and achievement of St. Dunstan' The unnecessary sentimentality that visitor first takes into the hostel fell away from me.
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Typewriters a whole battery of the busy. little machines that are such godsends to the man that is blind. At every machine voluntary
In this connection it has to be remem-gits a blind warrior with a bered that Berlin lows only a limited helper who has come to teach him. We sale at a legal maximum price of what are writers have often thought of the tribute ordinary every-day articles of diet, This we could write to our typewriters, of the applies to bread, butter, flour, pork, and toil they have lifted and the inspiration mik; while products such as lard, beaus, that floats above the keyboard. What sort peas, and lentils appear to be practically of a tribute might these blind men write unobtainable,
Without the typewriter the power of writ ing would leave them. But here I have a whole bundle of letters that have been written by blinded soldiers and sailors who have left St. Dunstan's and restarted use- ful lives with crafts and husbandry they have learnt at the hostes. To quote from letters to Mr. Arthur Pearson:
In Vienna the end of the year brought an easing of some of the advances, partly explained by the fact that in December maximum retail charges came into opera tion for the first time in respect of bacon and hog's fat
Here are some comparative returns of increased percentages since July, 1914 :-
Penny United
Beef
Mutton Bocon
Flour, house
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Flour
Kingdom, Berlin. Vienos.
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this absolute safety for the immedists menace of death They knew already the boastiliness of life in trenches. They had no illusion about "glory." But they were glad to go bocause activity is better than inactivity, and because the risk, would give them back their pride, and because the cavalry should fight onghow and somehow even if a charge or a pursuit is denied them. They cannot be left on one side to eat their heart out until the last phase of the war.
A HOT TIME.”
"Last July I went to your happy hostel miserable, heart-broken creature, and Was no longer capable of earning a living for my wife and family; but, thanks to you, things are now quite different with nte, I am now delighted to any, air, that I was never better off in my life before, I have a nice home, well furnished, and am able to earn good money.”
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Another letter is happy over the man's venture in poultry-rearing. He describes the little farm and its arrangement of guiding wires and nettings- mightily in- genious invention of St. Dunstan's He discusses his breads and varieties of birds just as a sighted man might an art ho has been taught at St. Dunstan'a He has caught and kiled his first birds for the table, trussed them, and dressed them-an-4.15 pm sharp on Saturday afternoon, other work he has been taught at St. Dun- March 18th, and play during the ten to. stan's I am sending you now, he be given there by Lady May and the ladies. finish, a dozen of my eggs ag a little of Hongkong to the crews of H.M. ships. thank offering. The letter is typed as now in port, ENDZO ORDER neatly as a typist in a City office would DRILL CU AMENDED ORDER OF COMPETING. type it
Your happy hostel." There, in three words, is the picture of this bravo place. Approach the long workrooms that hum and stir with the basketmakers, the mat makers, the cobblers, and the carpenters. and you hear men who are finding hap They have been safe as cavalry, but this
pines, more happy because none of them wounded pride of theirs has been heated
expected to know it again. A naturalist once told me that birds will whistle whe- ther they are happy or not. It is certain from time to time by the violent comedy of infantry Aghting-a-curious and tragio
They had a hot time in the trenches that no unhappy man ever whistles. Halt paradox! Leaving their homes in charge! of a fow men who chafe because hey are The enemy's artillery was active and the dozen of these blind workers were trill list of casualties began to tot up. A good ing. They had reason for the outburst time to take a turn in the trenches They afficer and a fine fellow was killed almost it was pride of workmanship, mang keen- were horribly est jey. Here was a dining table, smooth- were put into the second battle of Ypres, at the optant, and men
was a lordly rabbit-hutch that will plunge and fought with splendid heroism on days wounded. But al these troopers showed ogled as human hand could trim it. Here when we were nearer disaster than the na-cool courage, and it was only now and then some boy into a rapture of possession. Handbook."
tion has ever known, And again during when a parapet was blown in and when Hero was a boot soled as, alas! the war. "Nothing better could be wished for the battle of Locs they went in and held the bombardment was most intente that time citizen cannot get his boots soled by
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any of them showed a little worry. The cobblers who have eyesight. Here was an their ground with determined courage officers went up to chat with them then, as honest, covetable bookcaso. Here was this 'Far superior to ordinary guides.➡
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were surprised by the steady nerves of the never done woodwork before (as indeed. men They showed a kind of disdain of all one of them has), a stationery rack; trim this "strafing," and the men in the dug and tight-jointed. And here was basket- oute did tot let it interfere with their work that made you look narrowly again at the lightless windows of these workers sleep,
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Before they went into the line last time I went to sto some of these young cavalry officers to wish them good luck, and after wards when they came out. In the head quarters of one squadroa-the way in was by a ladder through the window-billeted in a village which on a day of frost looked as quaint and pretty as a Christmas card was a party of officers typical of the Bri- fish cavalry as a whole.
In times of peace they had enjoyed most of the good things of English life, hunting and shooting and the pleasant ways of country houses where there is no blatant luxury but a comfort built up on centuries of well-to-do tradition All the promise of life had been offered to their youth, and fey had been glad of it. But now here they had been for months imprisoned in this little French village in this queer. cramped little cottage, shut off from all society except that of brother officers in the next village along the road without any form of amusement except a game of -cards, even unable to shoot the birds which were there in the neighbouring wools Money could buy nothing to ease the mone tony of this life. In time of war poverty ss as good as wealth, a ja pran nang get A few pictures cut out of La Fie Pari sienne woro tacked on to the walls to ra mind them of the arts and grners of an older mode of life, and to keep them human by the sight of a pretty face. (Oh to soo & pretty girl again 1) A few boots Hardy's "Dynasts," Oliver's Ordeal by Batte lay on the window sill though in Broadwood Terrade.
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But now they were going to change this cottage for the trenches, this quiet village, with a church bel chiming every hour, for the incessant tumalt in the battle-front
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Things looked bad for a few minutes, when a section of trenches was blown in, In the poultry farm a young blinded isolating one platoon from another A soldier held an indignant fowl while an sergeant major made his way back from instructor, himself blind (as most of them the damaged section, and a young officer are here), taught him the indignant one's who was going forward to find out the ex-breed and points by the sense of touch. When the blind poultry-rearer goog out tent of the damage met him on the way.
equipped from St. Dunstan'a he will catch default, "Can I get through?" asked the officer,
you his fowls and tell you their variety. ** I've got through was the answer, but The management of his incubator will be it's chancing one's luck. The officer familiar accomplishment. That he can.m.
chanced his luck," but did not expect to run down and catch the agile few! you came back alive. Afterwards he tried to find it hard to believe? I bave seen him analys his feelings for my benefit I do it at St. Dunstan's. had no sense of fear; he said, "but as of sub-conscious knowledge that the odds were against me if I went on, and yet conscious determination to go on at all raste and find out what had happened."
He came back covered in blood, hut up wounded. In enite of all the unpleasant sights in a crumpled trench he had the heart to smile when in the middle of the night one of the sergeants approached him with an amiable suggestion,
"Don't you think it would be a good time, ar to make a slight attack upon the
enemy.
Quickness and accuracy: they are two of
the gifts that come to the blind is this words of tribute. There are now 125 hostel. These newly blind men already inmates of the hostel, and, large as the more quickly. They walk unafraid, down house is, some thousands of pounds have. long corridors and about the twisting had to be spent in the erection of work- the grounds. garden patha of St. Dunstan's. Turnings shops and dormitories in and corners they take without hesitation. The blinded men some here steeped and What are their only guides Strips of wrapped in what they believe to be their gardens and on the terraces that denote hopeful, ordinary working citizens. If a carpet in the corridors, wooden boards in ever-hopeless tragedy They leave here steps up or down, handrails along the ream were written of St, Dunstan's work, paths with little knobs that mean a "turn- it could say nothing more significant than ing opposite. That is all. You and I this
War has no personal tragedy that is would want more guidance on one of our nights whose darkness is luminous com- greater than these tragedies hone, But pared to the cayless days of the blinded. man, and his unconquerable soul, is still We have no use for the word 'adicted triumphant over fate Ha'f the tragedy nor sty liking for it, is the stout chalis forgotton when the victims of it mix We are together as they do here and feel their lenge you bear at St. Dunstan's. morely bandicapped-and we have our community. The sporting spirit comes So the cavalry did its bit sgaire, though compensations. We develop other senses up top said Mr. Pearson," and they all help each other and chaff each other into as cavalry, and I saw some of them when
that you own no less than us."!
Nin months ago Mr Otto Kaha lent cheerines and resolution. There is an they came back, and they were glad to have gone through this awful business so this delightful country house and gardens other undying consolation of man which that so mas may fing scornful word as in the centre of London to the Blinded comes to the blind here. As I walked away they pass with their borscan Soldiers and Sanors Care Committes and from St. Dunstan's a girl brought her its chairman, Mr. O. Arthur Pearson, blinded lover back from walk Ther The trenches are not the place for cavalry. but when they get there they show the concerning whose extreme devotion and were fost to the world, and the face of the spirit of their famous regiments and toil to bring light to blind people it were blind man was radiant with his light
almost an impertinence to pass common within-Daily Mail
There was something in those words "a slight attack which is irresistibly comic to any of us who know the conditions of modern trench war. But they were not spoken in jest.
Kadhich it *- well