IN A SKYLINE TRENCH.
[BT DENIS GARSTIN.] "If you show so much as the rim of a wish they'll blow you to bell at once, anid a complacent follow. "They're queer ones to soe," be added, thoughtfully regarding a piece of bully before bo swallowed it. There was a lad for cursing the Germans, and he toade the air so thick with curses that they saw it
seams,
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A conference of leading German ongineers has been hold ut Stuttgart to BITTAIN'S COUNTER-STROKES,
discuss the question of overland com Germany has threatened with her gub
murication for goods traffic between marines to destroy our shipping and city no larger than Southport or Bath Central Europe and Asia Minor. Tho starve England. The threat dates back Think of a population of 75,000 inorease main purpose of such a line is that it to the beginning of the war. Yet Eng by an inflow of 10,000 now inhabitants shall compete with the ses route and be independent of English influences The two officers who had crawled into land has plenty of food, while Germany How are these to be housed 1. How can
Grandiose. his shell-hole peered cautiously over the is starving, dog they be fed ! Where are the Government under all circumstances."
Now, however, according to inspired Offices to establish themselves! How schemes were put forward. Professor von top. The ground sloped down towards the German lives, then up again to Thiepval statements intended to lull the hunger shall the Foreign Legations find suitable Schmidt advocated in all seriousness the and the hill bobind, where the enemy guarrelt in the Fatherland, British mer quarters? By what means can the construction of a Schwebobahn," pres were. For the moment there was a lull in the fring, and they could see over all chant ships are then to be swept from the sources of the town be su dercloped us to sumably an aerial cable railway, with suffice for a population nearly double hanging cars, from Berlin rid Constan
tinople to Bagdad, which, he said, could the wasted land. It was like a piece of sonia,
Captain Persius, the Germans that of ordinary times? putrid brown cloth held together by white
that ran in every direction; authority, does not seem to be sure tent It will be long before these questions easily be made to satisfy all trafic untidity and, it seemed, without cars. In the work will be quite so easy. In an are all satisfactorily answered. In the demands,
Another cheme discussed was for an Bone places there were hig patches of article reproduced below from a German cantamo those who shpy energy and dirty white, where the shells had con- paper he warns his countrymen against cuterprise are managing to settle down centrated and laid bare the chalk subsoil. false hopes. He declares that Great Briand get on with their work. The others electric railway along the same route with But for the most part the ground was tain cannot be starved by a turn of the (who are the majority) are waiting for only few stations at great distances pitted with small fanawerable holes, so hand, and that our instruments for the something to turn up, and they are likely apar as collecting stations for goods innumerable that they gave, more than destruction of submarines are increasing to wait for some time. The dificultiesWhatever other ambitions with which
The sinking of the Allies' ships is reof changing chaos into order are all the
greater by reason of the very large they plunged into war the German Government may have abandoned, they fate nothing is ever said
Jassy (pronounced Inghs) with full sway from I am writing them pass by my Central Empire their policy is more refrain from reporting the sinking or capture of their submarines. They do know, however, that scores of them have window a mile at least of transport left their ports never to return. Perhaps wagons belonging to a brigad, that has and more taking this orientation. So far mado effective, its directors apparently. it is not too much to expect that the come in by road. The streets are filled as possible that policy is already being time has arrived when the Admiralty with Russian soldiers in their winter will partially lift the veil and let the caps of sheepskin. In the cafés all day ignoring the possibility that their exist. public into some of its secreta, which long two-thirds of the marble-topped ing power over the Balkans, on which all
signed known drinking tea must, in the case of losses, be known to tables are occupied by Russian officers depend, may be broken before peace is the enemy.
With the brown Russian uniforms Captain Persius, the German naval ex- port, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt mingle the blue of the Rouraanian Army, of January 6th on submarine warfare, the smart cloaks and képis of innumer
England's Gre under the title
Greatestable French officers, the slate-grey tunics of the Serbs, and the khaki of the British Anxiety," says
We have always held the view that the Bod Cross Ambulance men This is the in the village alwaantile tonnage might be ambulante given by the Moners Feders "They're like the dogs in the who tako to barking all at once," observed one of the most important factors tion to Roumanis, It was to have gone the soldiers. They'll be atrading us in a bringing about peace, but remember we on to Bucarest The news of the evacus
to only
might, say" for whether it will tion of the capital kept it here. Where minute's time. They are terrible chaps. Gre their guns
Maneally be so depends on many circumit is to establish itself has not yet been There was no question of seeing any tacos which cannot yet be surveyed, decided. Among all these on the square thing now. On both sides the guns were The increasing success of our submarines in the centre of the town and up and shundering away. Overhead the shells has in the last few months become sur wailed, screamed and groaned. The sky prising. Nevertheless, nothing would be down thoroughfares, well paved, however, had suddenly become alive with all more foolish than to build up hopes on and lined with surprisingly well-stocked manner of savage noise that burst here this, and think, for example that our shops, move the peasants with their ox----- and there, and thrashed the earth into a successes must go on increasing at the carts; the notables of Jessy, who repre- storm of dust and fragments. Then out same rate, so that in spring we might be sent the highest culture of the country: of all the clamour came the sound that sinking a million tons & month The and the Jews, who form so large an elo soldiers learn to recognise so spon more the submarine wou become the all the business, wholesale as well as retail, on commerce in ment here, keeping in their hands almost They threw themselves dat against the
creases, the moro side of the hole just as a shell burst a few difficulties it has to face. The number of of the neighbourhood.
The well-to-do Jews have comfortable, ships daring to go to sea decline tho yards in front of thera..
At Wasn't I saying
"began the ships which still sail are more strongly even huzurious, houses educate their soldier, lifting his head only to shudder armed, and the skill of their captams daughters in convents kept by French into the earth again, as another shell gave in repelling submarine attacks increases nuo send their sons to the university; its quick warning of approach.
Lastly, the number of enemy instruments dress like other well-to-do people; and They ve spotted us," said an officer;
for destroying submarines increases, then
crouched quickly.
The majority of the people have learned resent bitterly the law which treats them For tot minutes they isy there, pressed in two and a half years of war to look as strangers in the land. The Roumanians hard against the soil while shells burst dangers in the face, they know, for ex insist that they are strangers who flocked all about them, casting up great spouts ample, that the prophecies of the secession in without being invited, and who would, of earth and stores and smoke of English Colonies from the Motherland, if they were admitted to citizenship, set Better get & move on," said one at of the imminent collapse of the enemy up a political as well as a commercial last; but the other, a mero boy, did not ete. have not been fulfilled. Never donfination. The question has any sides to the to it, and is far too big for me to discuss shaking.theless, they look white and
bring us in passing, now. Come on, old sou," said his com future which they
circles. receonable or we'll be late for tea, pacion,
the peace desired in The boy started, looked at his friend, It would, above all, be fatal to think we
Faffairs, Pleasanter to speak of the magnificent and then at the hurricane of war around could starve out England by a turn of him. The older man smiled. They get the band. It would be a sin against our situation of Jassy, perched on a hill so bored if we're late," he said
own people to conceal the truth-that among the mountains of Moldavia, with "All
said the right, said the
endless waiting and inexhaustible confi" glorious views on every side, and an dence are necessary in our submarines atmosphere which, after the flavourless They scrambled
out of their shelter and till they will finally be able to reach the air of Bucarest, is deliciously, Fresh and to bole, while fragments of shell whipped If one
at the shads into the the saels, it is shoer ingratitude to our valley of a city of palaces. An immenso trench. It was full of men, mostly praise, who fearlessly set out again and residence. The domed and pointed towers ground, and at last found a piece of submarine crews, who are beyond all administrative building looks like a royal again on voyages full of danger beyond of famous churches support the illusion. Been here five days," said a scarecrow description, ready to offer their lives for When you climb the hill and make the a man. His face was black with hair, their country, perhaps in a most painful town's acquaintance you find it less thril. dirt, sad dry blood, and his clothes were fashion. When thinking of our sub-ling than it appeared from a distance, fishy and ragged. It was hard to see the marine herues we ought never to forget but, nevertheless, an agreeabl, and from was an officer: Cletting rather tired of the difficulty of our goal-the economic certain points of view an interesting it. lost nearly all my men.
Good
subjection of England,
place. Of the two provinces which were fellows, too. And I'm sorry, but Our enemies ability to wage war is united to make Roumania a kingdom, haven't a drink to offer your Every mainly dependent on the shipping at Wallachia is by far the richer, but Mol thing's gone west. What's the news in their disposal. If we succeed in making davia has always claimed, and justly They talked for a while, discussing the the scarcity already existing unendur clained, to be the intellectual partner situation. Yes, it's real good,' said able, wo shall see the Entente Powers In this small centre there are as many the scarecrow. We're putting it across about to collapse. Merchant ships are good bookshops as would be found in the fun now all right. But I shouldn't required by them to carry troops and war half a dozen small English towns of the mind letting my fellows have a bit of a material, and also coal, raw materials, rest. They've had a bad time. What are and foodstuffs. While the Central Powers same size.
The Moldavians are proud of their hure?"
are independent and produce their own birth. They are proud of having furnish
of Staff said the older man, "recon- coal and munitions and the minimum
ed most of Roumania's prominent state positions.
with the aid of copied We must push on food moitring
necessary
Paulien Good luck,
territories, the enemy can do nothing men..
Purane RUSSIA mainly In Moldavia the peasants preserve Good luck," said the scarecrow, "and without overseas traffic.
Capet James think of me when you climb into bed requires munitions, France and Italy their own particular character and to-night. Good-bye."
fuel,
and England foodstuffs Submarine costume. They mingle a good deal of There is talk of measures being taken Apari to know that
hat chap by sight, warfare threatens the freedom of the esca Slav melancholy sad fatalism, with the to clock the rapacity of hotel-keepers and Dagu said the boy. His father left him halfronte, for these possible entirely to more robust and plaiative; their philo would pay for expensive apartments in cheerful Latin rigens those who are letting rooms xt rates which The trench was being badly bombarded destroy their freedom of traffic on the saphy teaches the acceptance of whatever London or Paris Twenty thirty, forty 100 when they reached it in an old German seas. If we carefully consider the possiGod senda, the folly of trying to interfere pounds a month are asked and gladly Surigao dug-out they found an officer lying bilities of the submarine, apart from with the decrees of Nature. If thdiren for single rooms, and small at Labuan There was a soldier looking after.
of crews and material, our harvest, is good they live better than that In the shops the pricey are to wothing him as
can only be against those who usual, but make no attempt to put by | match. No matches can be bought, no the soldier-servant are
Merchants. 1. Baroner, anduced to 18 degrees Fahren cried, “is the finest man in the whole for their mercantile marine it is sinful to save What God gives risen to five times their usual value. In het, on the level of the sea in fishes, beriba
Brave as a lion,
Tho English Navy finds itself prac
H. BUTTONJEE & SON. We know," said the older officer, tically impotent against the losses of the He gives to be consumed, not to be the restaurants the dishes cost the same as helt on the live Look after him and he'll be as good mercantile marine. Its submarines can treasured up. It can easily be imagined before: This was arranged by the autho again.
not return like for like to the enemy. that the Moldavian peasant had a hard rities. But the size of the dishes has He's the finest officer in the world," The merchant shipping of the Central life as a rule. In their broad-brimmed decreased to such an extent that one needs said the servant, but ters dehantly Powere has disappeared from the seae wideawake hate, long blouses, Posching to three or four portions to make up, what humidity of ale aparated with moisture bading shell came and buried him, and now he's since the outbreak of war, so that its belt of red, tight coston trousers, les contained in one. The rockers who Dinneries on Wire, to two
4 points. wandering a bit. Don't heed what he's not be attacked
8. Yonge dy Ward, according to Beaufort Seala saying.
infall, got him away tonight Wo cherish the expectation that the ther jackets embellished with embroidery always make their unwelcome voites heard
C. STATE OF WHarman, b bive aky, u detnebed enemy will not be so able to adapt them and fur, the men look prosperous din moments of difficulty prophesy that the officer, and lend a hand to this fellow selves to the altered situation when the care free on Sundays, while the women's soon there will be a farnine, cloud, d dialing it, frogig gloomy, b ball, I wo brought in. Things will quiet down economic war has been intensified still dresses are dainty and gas. But in the This was the state of the town before lighting, overcart, passing showere, qrqust, 5000, Don't worry
more. There is therefore a contest be fields they are like scarecrows, and one the whole of the official world reached rain, snow, thunder, visildlity, w dem (woj.
Karin inches, tenths and hundreds. tween us, the object of which is to cripple notices that the prettiness of the girls here. The Legations were at Jassy for They co
continued their way down the the other side economically. The future soon becomes, hardened and coarsened by three days without any sign of the Minis ters following them. The understanding trench, running from bule to hole, laugh still conceals from us who will hold out open-air work ing with the scattered troops they met, longest in the race--Daily Express. Those of the peasants who come into was that the latter were to leave Bucarest helping wounded into better shelter, and
town now gaze with astonishment at the at the same time. Each day trains ar in quiet moments taking stock of the
dense crowds in its usually quiet streets. If rived branging the staffs of Government position,
the treach became better
Before them lay the valley of the Ancre, they were to go into the restaurants they Departments, but M. Bratado and his Gradually
the
with its woods and broad folds and swell would be more astonished still by the colleagues angered still. It should bo shelling less. They reached & communica
ing hillsides. It was already evening, but die and chatter, Ose feels as one sits understood that the Legations acted upon tios trench, and found it blocked with the light had that luminous clearness that among the turmoil as if one were dining instructions and in the bel ef that com wounded, who had dragged themselves far and could get no further. Several comes between atorms. The ground still in a cage with all the parrots and all the plete evacuation was to be carried out at
glittered
ered with the recent rain, med far monkeys in tables. soo appears that the en times they found stretcher-bearers dead
light the earth seemed far serving of tables. Either you go very tions were given in a panic-stricken together with the man they had tried to less dark than the lowering sky. And the early or you wait your turn in a queue hour
The few who were left were
vet sail melt clean and sweet and very at the door. In order to eat more quietly All newspapers correspondents were
CITY OF PALACES.
ran a short distance, dodging from hole dested goalmates the difficulty of invigorating. It line the aspect from the declared the common determination to
wounded.
of
a million just before the war"
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Yet it has not been possible
Naha Bonini T...
The President devoted a considerable portion of his remarks to a defence of
Ternuro the Chamber against the charge of meddlesomeness in political and military Hakodate
Tokio IF & Parliamentary regimo has its Nagasaki
Kochi Kagoshima defects and who knows them better than Nagas we what are they compared with a war Oshima let loose by the ambition of an autocrat
M Dubost, President of the Senate, Ishima Proses were the war still rose who let it Cheloo till, in liberated Europe, great and small Hankow alike wore delivered from the Prussian Ichang loose were powerless to continue it and nightmare. To that and all were deter Kiukiang mined, in the country's name, to raise the administrative and fighting or reforming and perfecting Kanisms to the maximum pitch of power, Sharp Peak
The country knows that it is not at the end of its ordeal, but it would wish to have done with avoidable mistakes. (Loud
Loud cheers-Times.
SASTOW
Taichu
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Gap Rock stream of apples flowed turbulently to the ground. It increased my admiration Wachow for him to so that he was not in the Leibow least abashed. An Englishman would Takboi have been covered with confusion
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