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"FOUL !
GERMANY'S FAILURE TO PLAY THE GAME,
[BY JOHN BLUNT. ||||
BACK OF THE FRONT IN FRANCE
couple of housand man and womeut workers who are the cfficiul spenders of the British Army, Willing hands of f girls seize the derelict boots, the majority) SCENES UP AND DOWN THE LINE, of which have long since ceased to beat
BY RD.B]
as
When the German thinks he is gaining
The average reader of newspapers victories he is bons ful, when he gets hard kucke he sunrls, and when he is really long been under the impression that desporate hestrafes everything and
"Somewhere in France siguities any everybody. - Just now be is really des perate, and so he hum trumpeted his place where the air resounds with the defiance in the shape of a submarine cum paign against all pations to the four crash of shells, the thunder of guns, and the cheets of charging men. Nearly corners of the earth.
everything that is placed before him bears that impression. The public wants to know all abeat the heroism and the quickly-moving war scenes, and so the
be
Now let us look at the facts. The Hun has for the lust two years been doing his best to sink everything he can, making excuses here and there when by chance
happened to strike a neutral vessel with American subjects on board, He bas sunk Dutch ships and Swedish ships and Nor correspondents and descriptive writers, wegian ships and Amerient ships and hos | meeting this demand, devote themselves pital ships. From his point of view, however, he has sict sunk enough. Never to the picturesque part of the business, theless, the Kaiser and his Kiel braves which is mainly to be fund in the front know that their boats have sunk all
of the war zone, where Death has its hend. they can,
quarters pad Tragedy gives endless op
.26 *** NO RETALIATION,
the slightest resemblance to brots dump them helter-skelter, into a hot disinfect and bath, ant thien into an oil to give them pliancy Others examine, and pass er reicct them. So they troceed through The factory, and in half an hour or so your old defected, discarded boot comes up again nicely soled, healed, faced, and braced, as good an Arme boot, as you would wish to wear. Not a particle of the old worn-out bout remains unused; even the uppers, if otherwise useless. are at once transformed into serviceable. bootlaces! I am no statistician, but I should think that the State saves many hundreds of thousands of pounds a sear in this boot hospital
ót
Not only boots go through this astound-
ing process. This base factory for repairs looks after everything that hos gone out gear-field guns, limbers, rifles thas have been left on the field and require re- sighting, bayonets that need to be straightened, knives to be sharpened, pigeon-lofty to repair, wheeks to be set red-hot in circular batha, cookers, to be
their rust,
We will sink your hospital ships, portunity for fine writing and fascinatingade sound, and stirrups to be cleaned of
they say, conveniestly forgetting the tor pedes which sank the Braemar Castle and the Briffinato “we will torpedo Ame- rican ships and Dutch, mailhante, again forgetting that they have already done so, not once, but many times,
The truth is, of course, that the Ger- man has no sense of humour. He knows only the grotesque. Two German women fighting over a sirloin of beef in a butcher's shop and resorting to the face- suratchings and hair-pullings of their kind-that to him is very funny indeed
when a fleet of Zeppelins dropped ondefenceless women and children, but then we so futed on them that was not Tuany at all. We were brutes, fiends, the seam of the earth, devils, dogs-anything you like except nation paying back eye
Toud were the m
towns,
for eye and tooth for tooth.
The Hun is wont to boast of his pro gress in sport ye, he never played cricket in the game or in his behaviour. Some years ago 1 watched a tugby football match in Germany. After the first five minutes the Huns got across the English men's line and scored; and until the whistle blew for half time they kept their lead. In that first half, when they were ahend, they playel a clean, sporting game, such as you may see at Queen's Club or Blackheath any winter's day in peace time. After half-time, however, the Eng lish tean shook themselves and warmed to work. They packed" quicker and better than their German adversaries, and within the first ten minutes scored twice. Were the Germans silent? Not they The onlookers hissed the Englishmen, serenmed at them, cursed, and shouted
Foul! The German team were better than the crowd They lost their tempers and the ball The
photographs.
Behind the limelight so to speak, the rent business of war goes on just as effec. tively, and here the British Army lives and moves Only a small portion of it The rest in the trenches at one time. remains in the rest billets, for removed from the dangers of importunate and in torfering German shells; or it cocuples itself in bringing up supplies, building roads erecting sheds, completing the training of newly arrived soldiers from home, baking bread, repairing boots. curing the sick both human and equine, drug motor ferries-and-doing-a-than- sand and me things that no one at home ever dreaans of.
ご
The Bri
rings,
Stirrups get roo buckles and buttons and chains They may have lain for days in the rain and slush of the Somine battlefield, but otherwise fatigue when the rag-and-borin men of the Army
parties have gathered then up there rent to our particular bree hospital and duriped into a revolving drum, which, after giving its rusty visi- for a through abhing and rubbing, sends forth a cargo of brilliantly polished metal articles. De Instrons and as good as now which is another point in favour of economy.
after
If that Army horses aro if they tell you to rodie, you can refer the gossiper to any Army veterinary officer for refutation. I spent an instruc tive hour at mange hospital, where they The British soldier has been in France snatch horses from the grave, so to speak
The walking boneyards as long that he has come to lock upon it and send them forth smooth and sleek and as most home. See him in rest billets cheery as colts. behind the line, smoking. Jarking, yarn that enter this wizards' grove look as if which ing, and doing odd jobs for his landlady, they could not live another day. Quickly and you can readily understand how he they are seized and clipped bare; has acclimatised himself. More than this, operation shows the extent of their til- ment, and at the same time gives Brother he has brought over to the war zone some Mange less opportunity to spread himself. of the gold old customs from home. As Then the suffering, biting, itching, wern for instance, walking out. Even on these
ous benst is led willy-nilly into a hot sul- cold winter days, when Northern France phur bath. which does not in the Irast presents a far more wintry scene than please the parasite that has played havoc England, you can always, particularly cn | with so many hundreds of valuable B Sunday afternoon, observe Thomas animals. Thus, step by step, you see the The first lines Abking walking hand-in-hand with a fair daily progress to health. maid of Picardy walking out" as show a slight improvement the second, Tommy did at home with Mary Jane. In third still more, and so on until you
a week's treatment, a little more this caso the only difference is that the perambulation is in silence, for Tommy reach the lines of the cured, and there you does not talk French, and Jeannette's find the most beautiful things on earth........ English vocabulary is restricted to "Oh, healthy cart-horses, prancing chargers, No!). So, both being perforce out me proud gun lurses, cavalry beasts. the least resmblance to the miserable of action as far as lingual conversation smooth polished and champing, with not goes, they do their talking, with their creatures that limped and stumbled into eyes, emphasised by hand-squeezes, and
the place weeks before. they get on wonderfully False Tommy and fickle Jeannette! If Tommy's Mary
Bokers, shun cried the master Jano at home could only see him "carry- ing on along the frozen country roads baker, and 200 in n pulled their hands out of France As for Jeannette, her own of the dough trough and stoou still for a menfolk aaway keeping the Boche out moment while I, the object of all this cere of Verdan or on the Somme, and it imonial, was ushered into a great room on only reasonable that she should enjoy on the upper floor of 'n factory. Bakers, innocent Bunda walk with the nie, soun again un another floor, where 200 more nien were similarly employed. clean British soldier who is always, a
on another floor, where 200 bakers Again, gentleman, Besides, her cwn Alphons were baking the bread, and again on or Gaston, or whatever his name is, way another, wh he similarly enjoying himself War does twist things about a lot!
man in a Homburg hat and visor Nou (which is her iden of former favourites of the hunting field at
and gaiters, blew his whistle whenever the Britishers looked dangerous, and yelpel continually for * Frei-kick
When the game was over the British team cheered the beaten Germans, but the German team left the field and their guests without a word. They sulked.
FOUND-OFL
Germany makes war as she plays games, with the exception that when she is win ning the first period of a war she plays no cleaner than wher she is losing the latter and therefore most important part of it. President Wilson, however, has at last realised the German nature. He and
his American fullow-citizens with hind
him
sen
men making and men baking loaves and others loading the trains. It never ceases. How many bags of flour flundreds and
dreds and hundreds. If a dough trough shows bad workmanship, there is always a sergeant baker on hand with a sheet and a pic that makes marks, Discipline isn't confined to the men that carry rifles,
, where 200 more were carrying the doux, and on a siding where 200 were packing the bread in ears that were about the German in his true colours They see
to carry bread to the army at the front. as the beaten footballer, fouling not; by every known and unknown method to There is a peasant old hostelry in the That sort of thing goes on day and night gain his end. The American people have principal street of a little country town-men carrying flour, men making doagli, seen through the German to such au ex not far back of the line. It is called tent that they have broken off diplomatic Les Quatre Fils d'Aymon, and the relations with him. The Germans do not British soldier, who stands in the cross like it. They will, of course, send out ronds near by directing the traffic ikea stream of invective for the consumption of Loudon puliceman stores at it occasion the non-combatant world. Their bonts may even shell a mile or so of America's ally wondering what Aymon's four 2018 had done to be so perpetuated in memory. gigantic seaboard
To say that America's decision came as or else he ponders on the nice hot tea a complete surprise to the diplomats of and toast and the juicy cutlets which the Berlin is not true The Germans reckoned officers who go there devour during this on such
a possibility as the severing of houts when visits to restaurants are por Talking of food, I went into a place diplomatic relations, but at the same time mitted. The Tour Sins is always where there were enough tins of salmon they did not think My, Wilson would take crowded with young men, some of whom to fill Victoria Station and enough bags 80 stringent a course without the usual come many miles to enjoy this litt of figs to reach from Picondilly circus to protests and arguments such as his former touch of gregarious entertainment St. James'-street! The A.B.U, captain who took me round his vast emporium, Notes contained This time the Kaiser Imagine travelling from, say, Putney to where millions of pounds worth of ipod get, no Note at all, nor does he get a fur- Guildford merely to meet a friend over
was stored overnight, only to be removed The chance of committing his insolent a cup of tea! That is a form of holiday and replaced again the next day, was ES
of
* diplomatic remarks to paper by way watch is eagerly seized upon by our proud of the fact that he had not lost a young heroca who have half a day to box of goods for six weeks as if he had. has been the dumping ground spare. Often they do the journey on won a battle. He fondled fomne, amons- for German, propaganda writings since
mountain of otions as if they - ພາ transportation, trusting to luck and the
were his the British Navy, carefully written by kindliness of heart of some motor-pro- mass meeting of sides of fat Prussiang with imaginations as highly coloured as their uniforms, have been pelled brass hat who may come speeding seemed to be a million or more and said swallowed wholesale by the pro-German along the road and give them a lift that they had each and all survived the, test. One thing above others impresses. popers throughout. the United States and
the visitor to those base depots, and that what the States prins in their papers, the Without motor-cars this war would South American dailles reproduce en sten have restricted itself to a narrow, if ever an army ought to be fit to larged, of course. The consequence was, area, corps commander who has to fight it must be the British Army, for no in the early stages of the war, when we look after a front of ten or twelve miles army has ever been fed like this-Daily were too busy to counteract these giry, and a background extending ever maty defeats, the American people had a very more could not possibly get round to see one-sided idea of the position of things his own people. Divisional staffe would That side, needless to say, was almost be similarly handicaped. The drives wholly German.
the outbreak of war. The deteals foot, for the want of any better mode of part children, and he on there.
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have gained the most astonishing kuow Lodge of the country. They know every short cut every country lane, every direct and indirect route. They know
Eeprese
HERD OF THE AIR,
It is announced that the King has been,
The Belgian and Serbian horrors were which road is safe, and which is under graciously pleased to award the Victoria
smothered by German propaganda articles which told of the tyrannical British rule enemy observation, and they take their over Ireland, the British cruelty to the risks with a coolness and intrepidity natives of Indin and the tortures to which which show that it is not alone in the captured U-boat crews were subjected at trenches that one must look for heroism. the bloodstained hands of the English Pirates. Other neutrals besides America. received audi
at
Cross to 1896 Sergt. Thomas Mottershead, late R.F.C.. for most conspicuous, bravery, endurance, and skill when, at attacked at an altitude of 9,000 feet, the pétrol tank was pierced and the machipe set on fire. Envelopod in flames, which,
When the Army first went to France, his observer, Lieutenant Gower, was auc
theit however, it wore cut its boots rapidly and threw able to subdue, this yery gallant soldier:
Munchausen stories merica was the landing and greatest neutral them away. It has learned a lot in these succeeded in bringing his aeroplane back She was more or less regarded by both sears of pressure-Boots are no longer to our lines, and though he made a belligerents as a judge, who, seated for thrown away. So long, as the upper re-successful landing, tho ma hine collapsed enough off from the turmoil from being mains there is hope for the boot. It is on touching the ground pinning him dragged into it, might say what she liked carefully herded with others of its fel- beneath wreckage, from which he wasu and do what behoved her lows that are down at beel or out, sith; sibsequently rescued. Though suffering
Now
this thanks to President
ite. Then when there are enough of them extreme forture from buras Sergeant state of affairs has changed. The pro- the officer wat is known as Dados, other Mottersbead plowed the most conspicuous. German papers of Milwaukee
and Cin cinnati must look clerwhere for their war wise D.A.D.OS. still otherwise Depute presence of mind in the careful selections eyen: the Hearst, journal, Are Assistant Director of Ordnance Store of landing place, and his wonderful copy and changing their tone
sends them off to a certain interesting endurance and fortitude undoubtedly Germany has gone too far. She has point st the base, where they are wel- saved the life of his observer, Hat has overshot the mark of America's patience comed under a roof which harbours & since succumbed to his injuries,