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WAR SENSE. ITS NATURE AND ADVANTAGES
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•{BY CAPTAIN A
War-sense 18.
into the
FEBRUARY 21er. 1917.
WHAT WEATHER,
THE FRIGHTFULNESS THAT SAVED THE HUNS.
health of man
FERGT FLORA SANDES. FIRST OVER THE TOP. WOUNDED IN A CHARGE.
[Sergeant Flora Sandes, of the Sor-.. bian Army, the British woman who was in all the Serbian campaigns, has been wounded in the Monastir assault on the Bulgar
[FROM R. J. DALVERT.]
NEW PENSIONS SCHEME. MR BARNES ON HIS PROPOSALS
Mr. GN Barnes, the Pensions Minister speaking at the Browning Set-
De Quinces, in one of those charmingly is a word I have allowed thement, Walworth Rd, London, recently, myself to express a state of being to which said they were working hard in his delicious sketches which he provided of great Hum philosopher who made it part for a long time wo have been foreigners. Furtment. He made his acceptance of his friends and enemies, has, told of m Most of us who have seen this war office conditional on his being allowed to of his daily routine to talk for ten through so far buderstand it well enough revise and improve the scales for a start.
In a clean and comfortable bed, amid times. Effectual in the most hopeless. It is in a greatly extended form, that The Prime Minister cordially agreed, minutes of the weather because nothing
man when he went down to his favourite Considerable progress had been made. And never has weather played a more comfortable and quiet surroundings. Tips elemental instinct which taught primitive and said he was to get on with the job, so intimately affected the existence and
drink to peer anxiously inte
was, If the account given by Sir Douglas cropped hair is grey her unfurrowed face pool to Stops it quickly. A little more and bushes to see if his neighbour, were wait and in a week or two he had to submit important part in man's life than in this a comely little Indy. Though her shoft-
ing there with his stone club. It is a scheme to the House of Commons. There word of hope to all who suffer from compound of caution, foresight, imaging-were one or two hurdles to get over Hany of the great Somino battle be care is young and fresh, with peachy bloom
even primordial promptings of all thosh they were trying to get their aims fully studied in connection with the daily in the rounded checks that tells of per tion, wariness and eve
nature has regard to neusions formulated and put French Bad British reports, it will be feet health instilled into wild beasts for the preserva into precise terms. Tint was pretty well found that the enemy was saved from But her bed is in the nurses ward of tion of their race. As it is directed in done, and they had to be submitted to the disaster not once, but repeatedly, by bind the Military Hospital Camp, and the self-preservation it is a sense that grows Treasury, and if necessary, in the weather conditions
little lady if a patient the only patient
very rapidly it war time and in pro Cabinet,
the enemy is
is vigorous and M Barnes proceeding, said he
of her sex in a camp that has accommoda
partion as
thought that far more important than
tion for 1,800 sick or wounded Serbian
viciachance aside, the man
Flora Spodes and on behalf of the Prince Leaving
side, the man who is money was to give a man a chance to get
men. A few days ago a royal aide-de- quick to develop his war sense is the most back into il lie under decent and
amp came to the bedside of Sergeant
with much ceremonial, the gold and silver likely to survive. He may, and probable dignified Loaditions. He wanted to train
Regent of Serbia pinned to her breast,
does, perform his dute no less well for the mon so that they could earn money
Cross of Karn-George- rare badge that knowing how totake care of himself. Bunitiugh crippled, and be bad the cordín!
the field of battle. apparently insignificant are the small Forgu, and other If a man was burt or
Her right hand and arm are stripped it takes time to learn. How light purleg-operation of Lord Derby Sir Alfred
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The modern army, acting on the offer sive, is peculiarly susceptible to weather because its eyes are in is airmen and its airmen are powerless when there is ranch hampered by strong wind. By some ground mist and they are greatly unfortunate accident there was no true free from ram during the summer months Northern France is usually fairly, trot list yen however, from the beginning
and it may occur to him that it may be sum of money, irrespective of his earning of July to the close of November there protect her right side and right leg; the
capacity. would do something for sonerbaps, without the widow, who was then give of hue weather in this area shoulder to the knees was Intely a ronse ing cottage wall, and knowing it, saves his life. Another man On the whole, ho was not inclined to give
opened on lat. On may pass the same spot and ignoring the hardy, healthy young woman a lot of The stuck, as all the world knows of torn flesh and shattered bone-the work heavy thunderstorms and torrential to clear out an enemy trench-but now it justant later he falls dead by the sniper's for the State that she lion'd work Bub and 3rd there were showers on July 4th upon her as she was helping the Serbs bullet. He is called
to have come children, she should have the good round rainy, on the 6th there were low clouds could wish, through so far, is said to have a charme sum of a pound week or suficient and heavy showers; on the 7th, when life, perhaps, whereas he is only clever at money to look after the children properly Containaison was taken for the first calculating his chances and is possessed of Mr. Barnes also referred to the subject we could get peace was to banish peace from our minds until we had attained the objects we set out to gain in this war
man is called Tritteky "the first where she could not work, og if she had gains were reported. July 5th was is hanling as satisfactorily as any SurgÆÐN
HER STORY OF THE CHARGE, She went through the whole of the offen. Through many a hand-to-hand encounter she passed scatheless, clambering up the intervals ench of those towering heights from which the Serbs drove the from Gornichevo - und a northwar Kajmakenlanom
automatically to apply one's knowledge of an imagination. One has to learn and of pente. He said the best way in which time, her rain flooded the trenchessive that began on September 19th. the vagaries of the instruments of moders war What is the range of a sniper with his telescopic sight! What thre When shells begin to whistle, how ere should they be allowed to come before men retire to their dug-outs?
ballistics of the various types of shelter Germany appeal to the belligerents was Allies and to an extent which could Bulgaro-Germans steadily fighting their
IMAGINATION THAT STOPS HALF WAYA 11,
It was a long time for us all before we were able to realie that we bere at real war, that we were not running stout France and Belgium on some more than usually strenuous stun maneuvres And how little we realised the chancer the war was to issue. I remember in the early summer of 14 we were practis a hattlefield. I myself on a horse rode slowly forward directing behind me a long line of men extended at forty pages interval They were supposed to be searching the bushes as they moved for It was very beautiful, but if any officer had tried to put it into execution this war he and his horse would have as a gust in
IR
stood about as much Ju a magazI56 11
front of a fire hoge,
not genuine. We could not make terms with a wild beast: either the wild beast mirt"down" us or the mist "down" the wild heast
WAR AND RELIGION. Spoaking on Religion and the National Lite, at St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, last month, the Master of Belliot (Mr. A. L. Smith) said that the New
on the 8th bad weather ampered operations, and rain and fun very heavy rain were reported Chance, in fact, was steadily against the hardly be realised from Sir Douglas Haig's laconic phrase in his despatch, "mach unfavourable weather. It was in the decisive assault on the It would be interesting to know whe highest crest that Miss Sandes' active ther an extensive weather forecast had career was temporarily out short, How been prepared by the weather depart this happened let her relate in her own ment at hendquarters, seeing that opera words:- tions are so seriously influenced by rain ↑ We had been crouching and shivering The prevalent winds for some days before in our little shallow pits for hours, wait- enne. It was knowing and snow lay on the attack opened were from the southing impatiently for the order to break west, so that the Allies had the call of ever and attack At 7 am the order They knew the barometrical movements
éculd move, I am always the first to ing a schente for picking up wounded on Armies had been a revelation to all of the conditions that were approaching ground. I was out of my pit in half the heroic qualities that underlay then the Atlantic and in the west of second and rusting as fast as my legs character of the ordinary man. The
But, unfortunately, I am not so nimble ns men of Ypres and Gallipoli were the men Ireland'ssibly the need for action
- last to reach they knew in ordinary life as miners, was too imperious to brook delay ave cover. It is my daw as a non-com. porters, clerks, and farm labourers; but sould not
most of my men, so it happens that I am the difference lay bit the training they it would not have obtained satisfactory generally among the last to reach an hit been through and the call now made conditions in 1916. In my meteorological enemy trench on their better self Discipline and a diary I find that in Southern England Well, I had nearly reached the brink ideal these were the only things wanted there were 15 wet days in July, 16 in of the Bulgarian trench in which our men August, 12 in September, and 16 in were already at grips with the defenders.
of laggarde a dozen when well-aimed of
fell in our midst. A couple of greninde
of July, 1918, was 20 bad, being both web its explosion and fell wounded, but I seem and coll, that all the usual explanations to have got most of the senter Yes, the of its perversity were offered wireless shock was awful. Yet I don't thing I lost telegraphy, gunfire, something wrong consciousness for more than a minute, and frightfulnces confined to the west. Moscow it was bitterly cold. In A young ofheer of my battalion, with the Gulf Stream Nor was its was not left long untended Scandinavia, there was no summer wen standing behind a rock close by, had seen ther In Switzerland and South Germe drop. He crawled of towards me an many enormous injury was done to the all fours over the snow and, seizing my crops by torrential rains. On July 10th hands, pulled me over its smooth surface a cyclone visited the suburbs of Viennial to the shelter of the rock. The torture of tore off roofs, and inflicted rather more being dragged by the hand of my broken damage than a dozen Zeppelins, killing arm was acute, yet it was not very much 31 persons and injuring 100. greater than what I ad already been suf- In September Bir Douglas Haig notes foring. It had to be borne and the strain was "hindered by bad weather in tender are Berbian soldiers in dressing in his despatch that the Allied advance was soon over Wonderfully deft and early October be says that there were wounds on the field. A couple of them, three days of continuous rain; and in men of my own company, did me up in soon lying on a stretcher on my way to mid-October, he states, the weather broke the quickest time imaginable, and I was
field hospital. poor visibility seriously interfered the nearest the 1st she may rely upon altogether till early November
KEW pieture of a searchlight mounted raise them to the herois level Bus 1 October. The total for the four months I was one
a small hand trolley which was said to the ordinary social and industrial, he was 58 data on which Foin fell, against perhang a small group of NRT
be u
So far as imagination goes the utilised herd was in the Army recruits in the same fontes men besides inyself were in the radius-
used in searching for the wondell at neither of these two great forces was gentleman who invented in an obedien vast reservoir of religion as the deepest possessed one of the essential constituents sense and the same was true in a large of the war scuse but imagination which degree of the working class as a whole stops half-way is merely misleading.ational Huty that Christianity had lost It was only by a terrible dereliction of PET PHASES OF THE WALL through it all the war has assumed three world of labour that they had to recap: To the mind of one who hay passed hold of the labour world. It was this distinct bases the first a sort of ture, as well as the student world. The apprenticeship which lasted from Mons materialet tendency which was so marked to the Aisse: the second, the desperate in education in the seventies and eighties fighting in Flanders about the city of had given way to a marked spirituak which was a sort of transition tendency and that was being increased Ypres period; the third, the present tennis court by the intensity of conviction engendered was arose the lines of the trencher. In by the war, out of which there was coming the first two the conditions were not a spiritual awakening unexampled since dissimilar from the old-style warfare one the seventeenth century. Could they
or Penin may read of in the Waterloo sular campaigns; the fighting, too, was hope that the same spirit would be found done by a nation's army. In the last the influencing on large scale the business sation has itself become the sand and commercial world! Could business be humanised and Christiansed? In the many time worn conventions of military struggle between man and michinery, If life have had to go, some for good, some, pornarable chances, one has had to learn machine it would crush humanity
for ill Bit by bit taking they did not humanise the working of the war-sense. A shell dropping through the
air at 2,000 feet per second whistling like At which the shell comes in. There it railway train and capable of blowing bursts and spray its con of bullets
this a farmyard to small
pieces at
of its journey, compels attention. There against the far side of the room, which
end;
it in the ope
is holed like a colander,
JUKES AND GUESSES.
In HOW SHE WAS GERCURD, *-**-
with the work of our artillery, and constant rein turned the mass of hastily dug trenches for which we were fighting into channels of deep mud. The coun. try roads were rapidly ing impassable
becore-
recovering the use of her injured limbs. As I took my leave she begged me to pto- euro for her a volume of Kipling's verses,
Daily
ily Mail, Melan
is only one way to dodgyssible in air is a serious thing to regard war as Bo that it is hardly an exaggeration to bend and
many a gaunt
and that is to le Bat, hollow or a ditel Stone and brick walls a joke or to take any liberties with are only a trap to concentrate its venom before you have some degree of intimacy should alight in the midst of them with it. I kits of two men who went up I spent profitable day, in the early part
to a trench with a working party. They of the war in studying what exactly had never been in the firing line before happened to houses hit by shellsnce the Inte
and went up with trepidation and wandered, home of children's shouts and laughter exhilaration. Before long, finding thing Once I saw a house and barn it the same quiet, they thought they would have & street with myself blown into a mass of little Joke with a Cerman sniper who was
to They struck p
their steel helmets just brick dust and black smoke. On going to known to be commanding the trench. examine it 1 found the roof and rafters above the parapet, but no bullets came gone and the walls of the upper storey, their way The Boche sniper had prob likewise the floorings, hut in the basement. been at his game for weeks or a score of rabbits were running about, s months, and had sufficient war-sense to unperturbed as if they were in a warreto that, men do not put their beads From this I concluded that the basement above the trenches, even with helmets on, or the cellar was the place to stay in when one of his genus is known to be but my conclusions were rudely disturbed about. In about two minutes to high- Ister, when shells with
us that this continual bad weather, by February 19th there was a halo, or large preventing the Allies from striking coloured circle, round the moon. decisive blow on the western front, Meteorologists assert that this commonly brought the ruin and defent of Roumania precades bad weather by from three to in the long gun chance works evenly six days, and the gale of February 18th The Somme battle was won with the followed it. There was a very strange. chances running steadily against the crimson rainbow round the moon on the Allied troops; nad the weather bees night of February 2let, To, the super- normal there's very little doubt that the stitions it may seem an omen of the coemy line would have been pierced, with | terrible battle of Verdun which began incalculable results on the following day. It appears to have The past year was a year of heavy gales heen caused by the presence of ice and marked by noe great storm of exceptionaf snow, in the upper air, as on the 23rd violence, though this was not severely fels and 24th some inches of snow fell and in London. This was the blizzard of lay, and a severe blizzard was reposted March 28th, when the barometer first in the Midlands. On March 20th there fell to rearly 28.50 inches and then was a pronounced mist about the moon suddenly rece to 20.3 inches. A terrific in a clear sky, perhaps premonitory of
fuses came into use action
explosives whistled over and blew the cyclone passed across the idlands, the gale of the 28th. On April 18th an
Mental and Physical Fatigue.
before
would trench in on top of the jokers, who prob bringing down 20,000 trees in an varen enormous corona, or belt of coloured penetrato
ably learnt more about warfare in two of 1,250 square miles and practically light, surrounded the moon, and on the exploding,
and instead of going off an of celegraph and telephone 17th there was violent herometrical with the tiles, maliciously waited parade contact with
system. For many hours the roads were disturbance accompanied by thunder in ground
By far the most remarkable of these until they were in the cellar, so that even I could multiply instances inordinately Blocked, and only the herealean efforts of many districts the rabbits, which in French farm-houses I could cite how the reading of maps the troops and of a large force of Royal often live in that rogih, stood to chance muet becere cond
nature
how one must Engineers the glorious soldiers who manifestations was the immense corona of escape. In houses hit by ordinary learn that cross roads, as multiplying try bur telegraphs and telephones on round the moon which was very clearly, shells the safest spot is against the wall possibilities by three or four, are dang the battle front, ap to the fighting line seen early in November in ronny parts
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
gerous spots to loiter in under shell-fire, cleared communications and relaid the of the country. The outer edge of this how howitzer shells fall vertically, so
is no the hiding behind tall objects,
corona on the of November 9th was how a ride bullet will penetrate five of solid wood in these days, so that to ordinary tree will protect one, and is indeed, only likely to drew fire; but the theme is one capable of such extension do that it would, require a volume to justice to it.
the medical men with fighting troops it is well-high as img rt aut as to the combatant officers themselves often more so, since he is more detached and has to fend for himself in the choice of positions for himself and his men, and has not always the same facilities for knowing the dispositions and intentions of the enemy. He has ofter to guess what is going on in front of or around him. He has to learn to discount the excited statements of the wounded and to put reliance in his own imperfect observations in the face of them. It all develops the faculties of cool and deliberate ealculs 63-4-tion to a surprising degree, and there is much less of the clement of mere luck 10
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this occasion several inches of mow lelf an intense red purple, but not of the and drifts resumed, though it was now same crimson colour as that observed un late in the year, till mid-April in certain the eve of Verdun. On the two following districts of the Midlands nights, besides the corons, close in to tho Other gates which uprooted trees took moon, there was a great balo in a circle pleae at the beginning of February, when far out from it, at a distance of at least the Zeppelin L. 10 caught in the ten diameters of the moon. It attracted North Bos and wrecked by the stormy, and great attention everywhere, and it was on February 16th, when thunder was followed by a tremendous atmospheric reported in the north and the barometer disturbance. The barometer fell from leaped up and down like a thing 30.40 inches on the 16th to 28.45 on the possessed. In November there were 18th-a drop of nearly two inches." On several violent movements of the baro the 17th a fierce gale swept over Wales meter and two strong gales, which did on the 18th heavy snowfalls were reported not, however, cause any great damage in the north near London, though they were felt où
the coast,
representing the barometric variations The movements of the line in a diagram A during the year are like those in the chart A interesting feature of the year was of a fever-stricken patient, though with the curious performance of the moon on a deeper and stranger irregularity thay. various occasions. Thus, on the night of can be found in the phenomena of dis
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