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After all, Government institutions do concern themselves with human things, writes a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, The British museum is colect ing those sprightly sheets-some of them printed, but iustly typed or graphed
in, which trench clitors record the lund: dry in waggish pictures and pare, No better evidence can be found of our army unqueishable spirit than those clay stained Aimsica.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, February 16th.
THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS.
Unce more the German Zeppelins are going araiding, apparently considerably out of their course and rot 200 enge to try conclusions with the improved defences of London. Still, they have had aeroplanes over Kent and Zeppelins over part of the Eastern counties, and the Midlands, and the only "bag" for us so far appears to be ond Zeppelin that fell into the North Sen and submerged with its crew after being damaged by Dutch guns while taking a short cut across Holland for their sanguin ary work,
There's The Gasper" of the Royal Fusiliers, with its dry of the champion grouser who, when at nang in hosp.ta, found a yearning message from a girl donor o a new-luid eggWill you write was serawled under her address. The grouser did--sitting up in bed with the hatt-end of his indelible, and firing off on Bat the comparative immunity of the s posteard. Your egg was hod.".
Zeppelins in causing strong protests to up- There's a copy of The Salient," whose pear in the newspapers. No doubt the poet writes Toothless Rhymes for Ruth-matives of those who write are good but loss Tunes," among them:
the result might give the Germans the Two Scottish ladies us Ypres
iden that they have in part attained their Were harried and worried by soypras,
objiet by tearing us. Now this is not So to dummox tormentreg
little bit. the case, and the only result bas They crawled on their sentres
bees, from a military point of view, a heavy And-Pouf --went a nut of the vypra
rush of recruits to avenge the murders of women and children, Or, again, here's the Gazette of the 20th
One of the voxed questions in the North Canadian Regiment, issued to subscribers and the Midlands, where rules are now only" from an oory cave at battalion head enforced as to larning out, or shielding all quarters, Appaling oceans of mud call for lights, is what measures, if any, should be the following instructions:VAN
taken to give warning when a raid it ex. Ration and fatigue partie, swinaningpected. The trouble is that of bells are to the firing-line must keep
a sharp look rung or hooters sounded it provides, first ant for hostile submarines. The Strafe of all, a sound signal for the Germans to Coluante s how No. 2813 started bins listen for, and further; people in these murder and grecu flares in the night by islunde are so lacking in the fear that the turning loose in the German wire a village Germany seek to inspire and so full of cat with a bully beef tin tied to her tail. curiosity, that at the first sound they make Trench cartoons, if crudely drawn, are for the streets instead of the cellars. A de pointed enough, Ons shows the nervous cision has been come to at Manchester that BW-CGI-rushing from his bomb-| may yet be followed in London and els proof or a slamming noise, to flounder in where that for a few minutes before the the thigh deep slime, That's Taube town is to be plunged into darkness the verhead! cries he to his orderly, who's electric light will be raised and lowered fairly up to his neck at the salute, “No, rapidly from the central power station, as sir-it's only the sergent a-beatin' hes a warning to householdera to light candles sirgela!"
Or otherwise provide for emergencies, as they desire.
ment
Shel's permitting" is the cautious provise of the editor when he announces a quick-firing number, with which will be given away as armoured plate warrant ed to turn a Mauser bullet." Advertise
12 sre nicely displayed. Haig's Pille for Hunnish People. A mountain of shall gives grim point to this, "Lung
Bre aimed at sarcastic sergeants veterans who wither green drafts with
Thank God, we's got a navy! The Lead-Stinger is the organ of the West Riding Fiod Ambulanco, Ita First Aid for Malingerers. makes a moving tale There are skite on the inevitab parcel. How carpet slippers were deliver
Tonics
from a raft to a pan in the flooded trench, who forthwith crawled into a funk. Dit, sud asked his love to change, them for a motor-launch or a pair of stilta 1..
Thao & Caldatzeaner has uproarious tale of Lord Cavan's amphibious brigade," who were in trenches undrainable and above the knews with puddle for twenty-thru days, Some of the specimens before me have little notes seribbled in the corner of the creased and muddy page: Editor gassed. Stay reporter mauled on the wire, Whole staff and gear buried on press day by H. E howitzer shel-11in, It caved in the whole parapet. Nobody lofs but the printer's devil-yours truly
,
Mind
Meanwhile there is a vivid exchange of views as to whether we should engage in prisus against German cities, beginning with Cologne. Some distinguished mon including the Lord Chancellor and Bir Edward Clarke, the eminent lawyer, are against this on the ground that German cruelty should not be imitated, but the temper of our people is rapidly coming round to the view that in dealing with so unscrupulous bully the tactics that are most effective must be adopted, regardless of the ethics involved. They argue that the German, are singularly afraid of air attacks, and to it would be well to touch them on their panicky side y
DARKNESS AND CRIME.
An American friend travelling in this country commented on the 'darkness in Lon- on and the almost total absence of crime not only in this metropolis but also throughout the country. This state of affairs filled him with wonder. "Why," said he, if it was as dark as this in New York or Chicago it would be unsafe to walk
hundred yards unarmed;"
ledger and cash-box, roller skates, box of cheinen, far more powerful, fashlight that I have ever permitted myself to buy, and a wide variety of other property. betekening a catholicity of taste and a range of vision that would have becu re- garded as ridiculous in other times,
Boys in South Wales are earning up to forty-five shillings a werk for making and taking ten to munition workers. Until recently I had one of the worst young camps in my office that ever plagued Fless Street--and Heaven knows that in putting the case strongly and he was so utterly hopeless that I let him go rather than raise his pay above twelve shillings a week.. learn how that ho is painting shells at other light duties for which a grateful Woolwich Arsenal and performing sundry country is paying him just under two rounds a week.
A washerwoman living adjacent in Alder- shot was shown the other day to be making
18 a week from her laundry where sho washed for untold number of soldiere while some other woon with small cut- ages in that region were extracting from weary sons of Mars as much as a pound a night for the privilege of allowing them to occupy a bedroom,
A "Indy" who does me the honour to visit my flat once or twice a week in order to demonstrate to us how not to char." yesterday confided to a listening world that she had spent two pounds during the past week and couldn't remember what on." She added with a prideful titter that she had had her pitcher took in evenin dress," and she went so far as to threaten to show us the result on a future occasion, when doubtless sho meditates descending
upon us in state, an
These things may give me indication of the reasons why no lower than six Cabinet. Ministers are going to the City this week to make momentous announcements with the object of impressing upon the people, the necessity of saving.
It may be they will also explain the rea sons why they are cheene-paring museums and letting frost-bitten men from the ser vices go to the workhouse pensioules, while monopolists are still routing in the contract trough at freight manipulators are busy with the shipping. The official explana tion as to the soldiers and sailors so treated is that the men did not get their injuries in war-that Sa, they were hit by nature anl.not by bullets--but I foresee a big crop of angry questions on that in the next few days in a reassembled House of Commons.
CARE FOR OUR BOLDIERS.
Hosts of ladies are giving their services day and night to keep the soldiers' canteens and rest quarters going as the stations, and, in consequence of the shortage labour for such work, many a refited, de- licately-reared woman is acting as kitchen maid or floor-scrubber so that the man who pass by in khaki may not lack a word of cheer and a helping hand, with shelter for the weary hours of waiting. The National Guard, mostly business men over military age, spend hours at any time round the clock, directing and helping the khaki way farers entirely a labour of love, pa
THE CALL TO THE COLOURS,
The Y.M.C.A. huts, the Soldiers' Club in Adelphi, and the Union Jack Club in the Westminster Bridge road are but a few of the many shelters where Jack and Tommy may find a haven of rest, where the sur- THE THADE WAR AGAINST GERMANY. roundings are good and the accommodation This week the conferences concerning the costs minimum rates. Any of us can testify ensures to be taken for allied co-operation how shy the visiting soldier is in London, The Continent now knows our men ay for war against Germany in commerce are and how he welcomes the helping hand that gay fatalists. A terrible follow, says to be considerably extended. Places like directs him to one or the other of these the French General Zurlinden, “ Merry Manchester are greatly exercised as to a places, especially in the fight
the high insouciante Foujours le boule-dogue departure from the principles of Froe ** Our chief mistake, mouras the German Trade, but the opinion is now fairly gene- expert. Captain Persine, was to underral that for a time at least and maybe for The calling up of all eligible single men estimate our British opponents
over the old cries are dead. I think it this week is in its extent a surprise to is fairly easy to predict that after the war many, Evidently the Government decided there will be a geral tariff against Ger- it would be better to do the whole thing many throughout the lands of the Allies rather than take several bites at the cherry, and in every part of the British Empire What the town is likely to look like soon, I There will, of course, by a slowly developed hesitate to think, Already the trains are return to some trade with the German full of feminine hate and bonnets, and those Empire, but there will never again in this of us who are of the male six are almon, all generation be the same open hospitality told or ineligible. The conscientious ob- the square-heads'' that there has been jectors do not seem to exist to any great in the past Even those who have been degree. One of them was neatly caught oppressed by the idea that the German at a local tribunal this week, He was a market would be largely lost are now.com song themselves with the thought of the now unrkets that will be open to us, both in allied lands and also in neutral countries, where formerly Germany had a strong held. The omons are all for boldness in meeting the now situation wth new methods, The recent Parliamentary pronouncements of the Fresident of the Board of Trade are signs that the Government is no longer tied ** Gardening?'" with shrewd advics about Free Trade, while the Spectator, which the best seeds for the Flanders clay and up to this crisis was one of the staunchest prizes (packets of Woodbines) for the hest upholders of that policy, now recants and tuft of primroses raised in the trench says the situation demands the imposition
of a gemrat tariff,
Frightfulces is thrown away upon our fellows the trench paper proves this upon overy page. The soldier has nicknames for all the German horrors but one. He never jokes about the chlorine gas, which entails. agony too hideous for words. But consider the soldier's day ng told by himself in these records-spurts of football between the bloodiest battles, with tunics for goal-posts, and a discarded shirt as a ball, wrappol round a lump of rubber coaxed from aerial headquarters; how the foo was harassed and tossed by all possible means, even by the patriot-gramophone that gave God Save the King" on the brink of a Ger- wan hive; reports of dare devil races on the parapet to decide an argument or a bat; how Private So-and-So wooed the cafe keeper's daughter in parrot French that failed owing to the treachery of his teachers in the trench, and a couton on
Picture the trench reporter getting his news by special wire" from Brigade: Headquarters, or nobbling despatch-riders. and the A.S.C. men, who drive those end- Tées lines of lorries over tho shell-torn wonde
PROSPERITY OF THE WORKERS. We are still talking of economies, but, of France. Picture the editor reeling off except in the middle and professional limericks on all then the jegs) rights of classes, where necesity is exhibiting a the wounded to their own scraps of shell; sterner anger than elsewhere, I fear we the V.C.'s terror of rate that play hideste not practising the virtue of thrift very and-seak on his sleeping face, b
Our Allies, too, have trench journals, They are on higher artistic planes "L'Echo de Marmites" and "Le Poila Enchaine." But these strike a deeper note. Somehow French and British aeem to have temperamentally changed places. There are no heroic, in our trench papers. The most serious note I so be I tum these 47-13 exuberant pages is an extract from found letters of the dead: This is not pretty job. But it's got to be done! (de
NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR
ENEMY
long-haired individus who began to recite the I.L.P. maxins of the sin of slaughter. The chairman asked whether he objected to saving life as much as he did to killing. people The applicant for exemption re- plied that he was all for saving life
Good," said the Chairman after a con- sultation with his colleagues, the appli- cant is allotted to mine sweeping !??-
SHARP RISE IN WAR BISK RATES.
The exploit of the Moewe generally supposed by shipping men to be a former Dutch fruit boat has brought about a sharp rise in the war risk rates, especially on the South American route. The matter is no without interest for the Far East, scofag that many regular liners are now being diverted from the Suez to the Cape route, Before the seizure of the Appam the premium from the United States to the Hiver Plate was 2/6 per cent, but it is now earnestly. This is not because those 120 shillings; while for steamers bound from high place do not set a good example, The the E to North America by the Cape Buckingham Palace staff has been reduced
cent, as compared with five shillings at by about bolf, go that those who are eligible rate the quotation in forty shillings per ay enter one or other of the services, and the end of last month. Theso of course, no wine is allowed at the Royal table, while the Queen declines to lend her patronage are underwriters figures, the British War to anything that is conducted in an ex-Insurance Burean rate remaining travagant or unbusinesslike fashion, twenty shillings per cent for all voyages, Princess Christian has a girl in blue nai- for instead of a footman to open her- door in Pall Mall, and Lord Ancaster is credited with knitting socke. The Marquin of Bute, too, is serving as a private in training in. Gray's Inn, despite his great wealth and belongings,
PRISONER IN BULGARIA.
KINDLY TREATHENT.
1
A wounded English officer prisoner of war in Bulgaria, in a letter to friends in England speaks in high terms of the treat- ment which he has received there I got a slight wound in the thigh," he says,
But the places of entertainment are as full as ever, and, despite the price of foods the restaurants aro hot finding patrons in any way restricted. Only yesterday, in According to the Vossische Zeitung, a modest restaurant to which I sometimen there is reason to doubt the truth of the go, I had opposite to me a stalwart young report that the Kaiser intends to write a fellow who looked eligible but was not in "hut, thanks to the kindly attention of new German National Anthem with music khaki. He had a dozen of the best 18 doctors at the hospital here, and at other by Richard Strauss, The journaj boliavea, kives' waabed doya with a bottle of places on our journey, it is rapidly heal- indeed, that the present National Anthem sparkling Moselle, next half a bird and ing, and giving me practically no trouble is in view of the Eug'ish origin of the sundry trimmings, theu pêche Melba, folat all I saw some of our fellows in the tune and the badaess of the text," to bolowed by the most expensive of cigars and hospital. All of them spoke most highly abandoned, but that a neve anthem is to be liqueurs boy is easing a good deal of of doctors and nurses, of the way they were obtained by open competition. These “"open" office-boy a treated, and of the food they received competitions are well-known in Germany, extra money by doing an extra job in other especially in connection with architecture hours than mins such is the demand for They always lead to violent disputes, and the young imps of London just now. He the Emperor then intervenes and appoints has been steadily adding to his possessions, tha "artist" whom he always intruded to thanks to his unusual wealth. To my appoint
knowledge he now has his own personal
I must say they all looked very dom- fortable well-fed, well-shared, and well- bodded. At first I did not recognise any of them as having been among the unshaved and unwashed company I had once com manded.”
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