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There are few portions of any front that I have ever seen where one could gain more than an idea of a single detail of the operations. Verdun is an excep tion. In a certain place carefully shelt ered from view of the enemy was & dug out, and through the loophole of this peered the long-range eye of one of the highest-powered telescopes that it has. ever been my privilege to look through. could not have imagined that from a I single spot one could see so many of the now famous points which have become synonymous with the defence of Verdun. Down in the valley of the Meuse lay town itself, whence, every few ninutes, came the distant reverberation of a bursting, shell. When one is in the town itself users little, Unless a shell' falls very near, une never serg 'it ut all. But from our observation point one can se the volcanoes of dust and black smoke shoot up here and there about the town, followed a lille Jater by the be luted sound of the report drifting up from the valley. Verthin itself is appar ently hidden from the direct vision of the corny, but ranges long ago corrected by a aeroplanes have been established these many months. It is questionable, however, how much check the gamers have on the target at present, since it hus hectome unhealthy for the ClermNA aeroplanes to show themselves in this
There is n vicinity in the day-time. question that the Frend absolutely do- ninate the air at Verdun, for while Isw dozens of French aeroplanes sailing hither and thither at will I did not see a single German machine during the entire
day.
OPEN COUNTY,
attack against the Germans on February 5th and nipped their advance by. way of Dounumont in the bud, just at the moment when the Teutons believed their way to Verdun open before then. The village is already desolate from the German shell fire. A little to the nurth lies Vaux and we can just see the ruins So powerful is the fole of the town. scope that the piles of bricks and the remaining walls stand out in clearcut detail.
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MK BIRRELL'S POLITICAL
CAREER
[BY INDEX]
The termination of Mr. Birrell's politi a career adds another to the lengthen ing list of Ministers who have proterred" 16 resign rather than identify themselves have found the bigh trial of service in the Government's policy, or who wartime too great for their capacity But it must be said that there will be less tendency to guestion Mr. Birrell's discretion in sending his resignation to the Prime Minister than in any previous detection from the ranks of the Cabinet: As a genial, agreeable, well-read man. with at times a happy knack of trifling with subjects that affect most men more deeply than himself, his absence from public life will be noticed even by those who fully recognise the necessity in the public interest of the stop that he has Just taken. Otherwise. Mr. Birrell can- not be said, even by his friends, to have displayed aptitude for responsible public work.
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MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND HIS CHIEF.
Mr.
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Lloyd.
He said:
ACT AS EXECUTIONERS. The stenographic report of one of the Just sittings of the Prussian Diet con- THE PEOPLE.”.
tains a speech by the Socialist deputy, Herr Hoffmann, deal with the blas addressed a George
phemous outpourings of militant pan- said Herr Hoffmann, "at the Look,' meeting of his constituents at Corman pasi
dirried on by Chaplain way last month, devoting his speech
circulating mainly to a defence of his attitude with agitation
Schietiler, who has been regard to compulsion. Nothing which has happened since in among our soldiers at the front books in which butchery is advocated as a Chris- the way of compulsory measures can ever
tian duty. Among many other things. detract from the pride we possess in the fact that we are the first nation in the of a similiar degraded character he
says:- history of the world that has raised over three millions of men for any great mili tary enterprise purely by means. (Cheers.) Young men from every quarter of this country flocked to the standard of international right as to It was a glorious a great crusade. achievement, and well may Britain be proud of it. (Cheers.)
voluntary
The death cries of the Russian troops caught in the Masurian swapa were. terrible, but we must rejoice over thein, for in slaughtering thousands upon thousands of Russian barbarians we were achieving a noble work, a truly religious work & service for Christ.
One of the books written by Chaplain Sebettler is entitled In the Name of God-Forward. Here is a characteristic extract:
Is is not our fault if in this bloody war we must also carry out the duties
Cold steel is put of an executioner. into the hand of the German soldier, and he must use it without hesitation and without mercy: he must thrust the bayonet between the rilis of the enemy;. he must shatter the butt end of his rifo on the enemies skulls-that is his holy Tho duty, thereby he is serving God. Almighty has allowed this war to chastise humanity. Fou soldiers have no responsibility; you have only to use your, weapons with effect against the Russians, the French, the Belgians, and, above all, against the English canaille,
Is that the language of religion, is that the doctrine of the Christian faith?" Our soldiers Asked Herr Hoffmann.
at the front," he added, are sending me copies of these extracts with burning protests against their bloodthirsty con- tenis."
best Liberal friends. They are rather shocked in their hearts because I aзn throwing such fervour into the prosEGU-
Σ very often feel a sense of shock pass tion of the war. Well, I hate war. through my systent when I realize what the terrible machines which I am help
ing to manufacture are intended for. But you either make war or you doru (Cheers.) It is the business of statesmen to strain every nerve to keep a nation out of war, but once they are in it, it is also their business to wage it with all. their might (Cheers.) It is the old story, "Beware of entrance, to a quarrel, but, being in it see that thine enemy beware of thee. I hate war, and that is the reason why I want this to be the last (hear, hear), and it won't be unless this war is effective- ly waged by us. (Hear, hear.) A badly conducted war means a bad prace, and a bad peace means no peace at all. (Hear, hons.) That is why I have urged that this war should be conducted with de termination. You must not only be re We have accomplished enormous results solute, but you must appear to be resolute. in the raising of armies and in their equipment, whon you consider that wo hegen with about the tiniest army in Europe, smaller than the Serbian Army, and that we have now got one of the greatest and best-equipped armies in the world. (Cheers.)
But the numbers fell off somewhat to- His appearance in Parliament dates from 1889, when, at the age of 3s, hewards the end of last summer, and it became abundantly clear about August was returned for West Fife. In 1900, he and September that if we were to carry amtested North East Manchester with out success. In 1006 he was returned for through this war and get an adequate North Bristol, a seat which he has since supply of men for the purpose we should have to resort to other methods. There retained. Hix services to his party may
is no indignity in compulsion. (Cheers.) be illustrated by the fact that it was ke
"smoking Compulsion simply recans that a nation the coined. who
phrase hecatombs of slaughtered babes in re is organizing itself in an orderly con ference to the coneratration camps insistent, resolute fashion for war. Taxos are compulsory, although I should say which the Boer women and children were
there is no one hem who has discovered collected and cared for by his country in the South African War. It was he also that because he has paid them willingly who invented the cry of Chinese (cheers and laughter) compulsion and Slavery" for the election of 1906-an voluntaryism are not inconsistent in a Compulsion simply insinuation which even his own ecl-democratic nation.
agues were compelled to repudiate. As means the will of the majority of the the head of the propaganda department people- the voluntary decision of the of the Radical party, he found work majority. Unless you had a majority, an which was suited to his quickness of overwhelming majority. compulsion phrasemaking, and ensured his inclusion would have been impossible. So compl Sir Henry Campbeli-Bannerman'ssion is simply organized voluntary effort. Cabinet as Minister of Education.
You must organize effort when a nation hd bitterly attacked the education bills
is in peril You, cannot run a war as The country is rolling in all dire of the Unionist party, but obtained no
you run a Sunday school treat (laughter), tions, and for the most part barron of success with the alternative scheme where one man voluntarily brings the
buns, another man supplice the te forest or shelter except the very ques-brought forward by himself. tionable protection that small villages
The promotion of Mr. Bryce in Jar and another brings the kettle, one afford.. Through our ginssey we can see
con the shells bursting in and about the ary, 1907, from the position of Secretary looks after the boiling and another village of Fleury, Lohind which we are for Ireland to that of Ambassador at takes round the teacups, some
Washington opened the way for the posi- tribute in each, and a good many lounge told the French astered for a counter-
tion which Mr. Birrell held until yester- about and just make the best of what is day. His natural disinclination to study going. (Laughter.) Your cannot run
war like that. I do not say we can make Irish questions on the spot which he was
evercome rendered it the same contribution in men in propr never able to inevitable that his first effort at tion to the population as France has done, Irish legislation-the Councils Bill It was generally supposed that I suggest should prove an ignominious failure.ed that the other night in the House of The Nationalists, whose wishes he pro Commons. I did not. We cannot do so. We are supplying France with fessed to embody in the measure, would Why 7
nothing to have
do with it, and steel, with coal, with the material for it was withdrawn at once, These explosives. We are supplying other All
#11 unfortunate two disasters were beginning to Mr. Birrell's Irish Seere- with munitions of war, we are supply To-day is a day of approximate quiet taryship, and the famous and still un-ing them generally with transport on the The explained theft of certain Irish Crown seas, we have got, in addition to a great
Army-the greatest Navy in the world and recuperation for the enemy. plain before us and every portion of the jewels in 1907 caused the wisdom of his (cheers) and well do one Allies, and still retirement front office to be discussed in valley that lies beneath us is stripped of circles other than those of his political better do our foes, know that. (Cheers.)
But for the
The number of men engaged on equp any sign of living thing. continuous bursting of shells in all opponents. However, be elected to re- directions, one might imagine that the main in office, though he betrayed no fur.ping the Navy with munitions of war is whole landscape had been long since ther activity therein beyond the framing almost as great as the numbers who are and passing of a University Bill, which engaged in France on prochicing muni aliandoned by human habitant. A little
passed by requiescence, if not with tions for their Army. We must take all to the west of Vaux stands the sullon this by the House of Commons. that into account. I never doubted that ridge of Douaumont Fort, whose name The Heme Rule Bill, which occupied the for a moment, although I want to make has become famous throughout the world attention of politicians and, indeed, of one thing clear. All those who are en As the scene of some of the fiercest fight the whole population of this country to gaged in producing innitions of war are ing which this war has produced. Down the exclusion of other interests until the not men of military age, and when you the western slope one can see the line outbreak of war, was notoriously in no hear of 1,900.000 engaged in munitions,
War is a terrible business. But mon case Mr. Birrell's work, and he was there are hundreds of thousands of of the German trench, though the
sendtein calleri 'upon to Lake charge of it women, about the best workers among us will face all its horrors if they have con- French line is hidden from our view by
in the Commons, With a habitual in- T
(cheera), and as for the rest, barely 40 fidance-in-their leaders. (Hear, hear.) the crest of a ridge that intervenes
per cent. are men of military age. But But if there is hesitation, if there is the north lies the valley of the slow ability to recognise the grave
should winen Rowing Meuse, to-day in the spring sun- invoved,
is still a considerable margin of man who hearts will fail and the spirit of the shine like a river of peace. A bit to theed the Government of the ultimate prob- after you have deducted all that, there the appea: ance of irresolution, the bravest west in the Mort Homme, that bloody ability of the rebellion which has just will be available in this country, if the nation is the propellant of its armies. need arises, for increasing our Armies (Hear, bear.) Therefore it is important, slope which has cost the lives of thou been crushed, the Irish Secretary seemed sands of Germans in their frantic efforts to welcome ine assumption of a Pred and that margin is not merely a great whatever happens, that you should have
functions by the Prune Miaster and
confidence that the Government is doing to gain its summit.
was content to sit aside while his colone: it is a growing one.
its best in the firmest and most resolute Turn in any direction and one always leagues spoke for, the country and the
(Hear manner to conduct the war. I have already hinted at the reason. sece in the air half-a-dozen shells burst-
pebje about which he had never cared ing. Now it is a big shrapnel over
to gaan information. He absented him- Women are coming more and more to hear.) That is why I have had no sym- In munition pathy with those who seem to think that Fleury, with its clouds of puffy, cutton-
selt from Ireland as much as possible, the rescue of the men. like smoke drifting off on the breeza,
and his attempt to let his official reworks we have got pretty nearly 300,000 because war is hat ful; you ought to fight. waile a second later, with a crash like sidence in Dublin gives the measure of of them engaged upon tasks which before it with a sort of saveur of regret in your Doubting hand tlic explosion of a volcano, a shell aimed his attention to his work on the other the war no ope ever assumed a woman actions. (Hear, hear.)
was capable of discharging-metal work,
never yet struck & firm blow. (Cheers.) at Verdun, tears up half an acre on the side of the Irish Sea.
THE CAUSE OF THE OPPRESSED. slope north of the town. The Germans
The grim determination of Ulster to comic Hare. In my young days which are
In any action which I have taken «ines are sending in large numbers of their kep her towns and aress free from alienreceding very rapidly, there was a far
dolinton was wholly misunderstood by larger proportion of women engaged in the war I am not conscious of having de- a280'a to-day, and their explosions on the
Mr. Birrell, who, by Sir Edward Car-agricultural work than you have got now parted from any principle which I ever slopes and crests of the hills resemble the
on this platform. Sun & orders, was kept exactly informed In Germany the number of women. en enunciated to you sudden eruption of a volcano, while, fer
01 what was going on in the North of gaged in agricultural pursuits is some (Hoar, bear.) I came into politics to many minutes afterwards the
The formation of the Ulster thing like 89 per cent. of the males. Of fight for the under dog, and it has bee steam and smoke like chimneys of in- ternal fires. Under our eyes, though we Volunteer Force and the fainous gun coura: they are very much higher now, the same to me whether he was an see them not, are neatly tucked away I running of Laine still round the Irish but I am talking of times of peace. know not how many of the lurking 75's Secretary unable to appreciate the situa-France there are 67 per cent of women,' Liet Admittedly, only the sudden and in England and Wales they were and bigger guns. The country is an ideal one for there to work in. Every breaking out of war with Germany saved only eight per cent. Well, if the need conspicuous chiset now in German bands the con ry from civil war. has long since been definitely located that did tot steady r. Birrell. His arrives women can still look after farms
In fighting this war I have simply, in and the range worked out to a nicety. Ieglect of Irish ataire increased, and to-let-the men-fight. (Cheers.).
a trea of Icame a matter of amazement even to
I thought the necessity for compulsion my judgment, been carrying out the prin- suppose there in hardly cottage within three miles of the French his Nationalist friends; and though it is guns which cannot be wiped out of exis not as yet expedient to set down the had arisen in September. I still think ciples which I have advocated on this origin and course of the recent rebellions. (Hear, hear.) (Every effort was made platform now for 30 years of my life. I tence in less than a minute, if it please and bloodshed in Dublin, it is accepted to save the voluntary system by the groups have had no illusions as to what this war means or meant. I have always felt the commander of the artillery to give by both parties in Parliament that im of Lord Derby's scheme, and for myself
that the life of this Empire was at atake. the word. So great is the French speed mediate resignation was the only possible cannot express the admiration which I
and I know how much depends on, that have for the colossal effort put forward and precision or fire that it is possible course for Mr. Birrell to take. to land nearly 1,000 shells a minúte on
As a writer, Mr. Birrell's fame rests by Lord Derby (hear, hear); but Lord life. With all its faults, the British Em
pire, here and across the seas, stands for almost any target which it pleases them upon a few excellently written volumes Derby's scheme was not the voluntary sys to pick. But today the guns are only of light essays, of which Obiter Dictatem. If you say to a man, "You come freer, better, ampler, nobler conditions (Cheers.) I believed But he was down from there. I will give you fire of life for man. playing. The little 76's are sonding only is by far the best known. an occasional shell to work out some also a shrewd writer on legal matters,
policeman to fetch you down." Would I have thrown myself with all my heart correction in the range or to keep the and his great acquaintance with English minutes, and if you don't I shall ask a that in this war freedom was at stake, šo enemy in his trenches.
literature lent to even his lightest pieces that he voluntary or would it be con- and soul and strength into working for an importance as criticism which was
victory. (Cheers.) enhanced by his easy and pure style. pulory? (Yes.")
Referring to the rumours of differences
I have no fear of the people. Britain recognition of his services to literature of opinion between himself and the will fight it out. We are a sluggish he was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd George said: people, but no one ever made the mistake University in 1911, and he is air honor The councillor who professes to agree without suffering for it that we were ary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. It is to be hoped that his release from with everything that falls from his leader faint-hearted. (Cheers.) I believe in the public life will enable him in future to Las betrayed him. After all, in the Cour-old motto "Trust the People." (Cheers.) devote himself to those studies in which cil Chamber you want free expression of Tell them what is happening. There is he has secured a graceful pre-eminence opinioa. You want a variety of opinions nothing what is
expressed, and the height of wisdom is in before them. They are a courageous knowing, not what counsel to give, but people, but they never put forward their Daily Telegraph.
which counsel to take, Many men many best effort in this land until they face the them what they are confronted with and they will rise to every occasion. Look at are capable of rising to greater heights the way they are doing it. The people than even their truest leaders ever be- lieved. Look at the way, the cheerful way it is the amazement, of every ma
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CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY.
A BOCIAL AND POLITICAL NOVEL OF ABSORBING INTEREST,
By CHAS. J. HALCOMBE, Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Customs Service, Author of "The Mystic Flowery Land," ato.
craters
MATHEMATICS UNDER FIRE. Leaving our observation point we motor back to the outskirts of the town, where the Generel shows us one of his anti-aircraft stations. Here are set up a number of 75's on special mountings. In the centre of the station, suspended on HE VOLUME, which consists of 401 a small platform, is a brass bell. The Pages, and includes both a moment an enemy machine is sighted the of historical interest showing the disksibel is sounded, and no matter from tion of the Forcea at the battle of Kwei which direction it may be coming, every lin is dedicated to Bir ROBERT HART, gun is on the target and the three cor G.O.M.O., and Dr. A. RE
rections accessary for the first shot have
Ireland.
1881es have warn-
Yet even
HOW A SOLDIER ESCAPED FROM
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING,
WHEN COMPULSION BECAME NECESSARY,
In
underpaid agricultural labourer, a sick workman, an infirm and broken old man or woman who bad given their lives to the country, a poor slum dweller, or a
pires... (Cheers.) small nation harried by voracious Em-
Its description of Chinens Social been made within 15 seconds. SOUTH DUBLIN WORKHOUSE.minds, and if there are not many minds alternative, of disaster. (Cheers.) Tell
Justome and Superstitions, combined mathematics are extremely interesting. with the insight it gives into political A very intellectual young man with vouditions in China, makes CHILDREN book of logarithms, a pad, and a pencil or Has ÜSTAY " an excellent volume for undertook to explain to me how the rang ing was done. While he was drawing resentation to friends at Home,
nent triangles and polygons and pains takingly dropping perpendiculars here $8.50
and there, the enemy dropped three shells not too far away, and I regret to relate that I not at this time recall a single one of the equations or figures which he so kindly worked out for my instruction.
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How a wounded soldier was got out of you may depend upon it there are not the South Dublin Workhouse after it had very many tren. (Laughter.) They are been occupied by the rebels is told by a not me, hut automatons, and what I in a great war wants counsellors or mere progress. clergyman who visited the place while want to know is this, whether the nation hostilities were in devised the plan of getting the man out enny-in-the-slot machines. (Laughts) to be no part of the equipment (Hear, in a coffin, which was carried out. To If the latter, then all I can say is I desire complete their plan it was necessary to deposit the coffin with the supposed dead hear.} body in it in the mortuary, and nos had this been done than the soldier burst- open the lid, leaped out, ran to the gate,
and made his escape,
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Lat me give you a second matter which seems to be worrying some of my very (Continued on nezë Column.j
who has been at the front-they are en- during hardships, wounds, facing danger and death on the battlefield. Look at the calm, quiet courage with which the men and women at home are enduring grief. You can trust the people.