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entitled
WITH JOFFRE AND FRENCH."
The Invasion of the Huns
and the Great Siege from the Sea to the Alps.
The man of the hour in England FREDERIC VILLIERS The famous ar Vrtist-respondent
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Stirring Illustrated War Talk
WITH JOFFRE AND FRENCH
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THE COASTWISE WAR. THE WATCH TOWER ABOVE THE ADRIATIC
Mr. Perceval Gibbon writes from Rome to the Daily Chronicle:---
MAN WHO HAS A RIGHT TO TALK.
•
WHAT A REAL SOLDIER SAYS
SE ABOUT PEACE M.P. writes from somewhere in France People in "soft joba" like myself ught to be very guarded when they talk
shout peace.
The watch-tower above the Adriatic, from which the field of the constwise war flattens itself for his instruction, to a vast map, is a small structure with a box of a
To digress a moment: a soft job out cabin below its high platform, for the naval officer in charge, and another there is not easy to define. When one was its base for the telegraphist and his in struments Behind it are saave hills that warm with the dayshine from black to purple, from purple to live-green and russet, with cypresses upon the skyline," like shapes carved in ebony and the gleam of houses among the fields and frees vignette of Italy; before it, beyond the wind-ridged sand of the beach, the ashen- grey Adriatic tumbles white-capped, with rags of mist shifting upon the face of the waters Behind his breast-high rail, as he strides to and fro between the great tele- scope on its swivel-mounting at one end of the platform and the ladder head at the other the look-out man es to worth and south the line of the coast deploy in blunt headlands sloping to the water, en folding shallow sondeboked hays; to sea ward, a tracery of white water and
spray marks the ridge of a bank spout of masking the shore. For him, a seama of the Italian Navy, the prospect is as plain as print upon a chart. It is out a port, a ship-trap, it is the naked and defenceless flank of that Italy which flushes into view behind him when day broadens over the water.
THE RAIDER SIGHTED.
THE WAITING LIST. TYPICAL OF TO-DAY.
ARREST OF AN OSAK
MERCHANT.
Y 200,000 WORTH OF CARGO MISSING
BY MARGARET DELL-] Dewa the funny little street, with its
The Jopor Chronicle reports:-On the stalls of vegetables, fish, and cat's meal,
18th instant Mr. Nishio Tatsusaburo, of we go until we came to a big door with n finger painting the way across a court the Nishio Bhokai, an import and export yard to another door, for we want to see firm of Osaka, and one of the stafi named are Amani Fusakichi, were arrested on how Wonen omnibus-conductors
warrants issued by the Kobe Chiho selected,
Saibansho, and are detained in Kobe preliminary examination, prison pending the conclusion of their
3.
We are not the only ones seeking this ahead of 13. In they go where presently second door. See all the women and girls
It is alleged that during January last in the front-line trenches, one thought of we shall go, to see what we can see
is an ordinary passage except for one ment with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & job which kept one in the shell-riddied. The passage is crowded with thera. It the Japanese firm entered into an Agree Be thing. At close intervals on the walls are Co., Tientsin, through Messrs. Yukui & อ thousand yards back villige
to think of decidedly cushy," When one was stationed great placards in red lettering, exhorting Co., to transport 528 bales of wo
Bafety arst.
At the same ment New York. For this purpose the Nishio in this same village, one thought of a man. A glass door opens had a voice sings out ralued at Y.230,000, from Tientsin to permanently inhabiting the transport cheerily, Next!
door with great pink sheets of paper in Maru, whion, with the goods on board. field, in the M.B, pres (it Might Be three or four women emerge from the glass Shokai chartered the steamer Taiten were to be transhipped for New York. shelled; is, sometimes, bus it is more bad their hands. They disappear through theft Tientsin for Kobe, where the goods Let us go inside the office with the glass Soon after her departure however, the luck there if you get one), as what the passage into another room
door and see what the woman behind the steamer was ice-bound and was delayed in the vicinity of Chinhuangtao for French call embusqué,
We can do nothing for you, gedim.about a month," Appointed to a transport arca job, oue desk is saying to each one.
Owing to this unexpected incident, the thought of the divisional headquarters
faraway people who could not You are too short. You must not be less
Osaka firm suffered considerable loss, and folk
The little woman thas spoken to slips it is alleged that Mr. Nishio, in order to see the war through a telescope. So, at than five feet," de division, I suppose they thought of the corps; and so on, I imagine I have out again into the passage and her make good this loss temporarily, decided not sampled life so far back when you get way across the courtyard to the ryto store the goods in his own name and to the bedrock, the War Office, you speak street with the stalls of vegetables, fish, raise money thereon. When the steamer The timid girl who is standing before arrived at Kole, the 028 bales of wool, instead of being transshipped to New of a badged "indispensable" with that blend of semi-envy and semi-scorn which coast with one sums up in the words "soft job," the desk has just some up from the coun York, were put into the Kobe and Osaka
try. The woman beside hier is her mother. Da a point of personal explanation, my They look terrified when the voice behind warehouses of the Tokyo Soko Kaisha 1t on the security of the goods. A hundred job is betwixt and between on the edge the desk says that the girl must be pre and a large amount of money borrowed of the Might-Be areas.
I do not care whereared to go anywhere she is sent. you find it, is a the infantryman's, Your look-out man on Green or Barking. a North Sea mine-sweeper gets chilly times. Your airman gets the shrapnel rattling round him. Though you may not believe it, your administrative staff puts in a fourteen hour day most times, them up, all three, and you have not reached the sum of what an infantryman goes through for one and threepence a day.
and cat's
ment
Any job in the way one compared with may be to Battersea or Finsbury, Golder's bales were deposited in Kobe and 529
It is yet something short of fall day when the import and significance of that blinded chast are suddenly made vivid for bim. There is a foreboding of light in the east, with a rain-squall faintly etched against it; the man on the look-out hitches the collar of his oil-skin cont not his cars and glauses in his thwartship tramp to state steadily to seaward. Below is him, in the boxlike cabin, whose TOCE the deck of the platform, the officer, dozing
So it is the infantryman who has a right In a chair, opens bis eyes as the feet above to talk about whether we wont peace him cease to sound. The look-out want to tell you what an infantryman, a
friend of mine, thinks about it. steps suddenly to the great telescope, nh- hoods it, and swings, it to bear upon that pates of distant water which the squell is screening. There is something, he thinks and if it is anything, it can only be the one thing.
To
THE INFANTRYMAN.
Meanwhile Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., the ownere of the goods, becoming suspicious of Mr. Nishio's actions, es used facts stated above. The British firm, inquiring to be made and ascertained the through their counsel, Mr. S. Yamamoto and Mr. J. Hirata, has instituted legal proccedings against Mr. Nishio, result- ing in the arrest and incarceration of Mr. Nishio and his manager.
ТБ may be that her in Osaka, services will be required at an hour when all the rational world is asleep. When he city streets are mysterious in night-time hundred dows and grey ghosts seem to stalk along the pavements; when a dutiful clocks should be clanging out the of three-even at this time must the in country girl be prapared to leave her warm blankets and saunter forth into For this is the hour the frost and fog. begia their day, and they must have some when munition makers in the East End means of getting to the inctories.
If the girl is willing to help them in their work, if she is conscientious in her rosolve to go the erratic way of an om onibus, she will not mind going to live
When the war began, he had not to begin his soldiering. He had qualified as marksman before age allowed him quality as a voter. On August 4th, 1914, He was in his place and he knew big job.
On August 4th, 104, without a second thought, he volunteered for foreign service was not in his contract. He hated the anywhere, under any conditions, although Germans then, whom he was going to fight about as much as he hated, the men He had rowed against, boxed agrinet, brainst, or folled with at pass at Rugby.
swun
When the war was hurely a month old, he was in France. When he had time to read the paper, which was seldom, he read things about the Germans that put them out of the category of sporting, foes.
in
And
the East End. For live there she must her garage happens to be there.
The country no one can tell where there may he a es course of training.
hesitates for a moment, but finally vacancy when she has finished her fort puts down her name and pussess out of the glass door, bearing, the pink sheet paper which require the signatures of three responsible citizens who will vouch for her respectability
2.
*
JOURNALISTS
AND WAR
NEWS.
APPEAL BY CHIEF CONSTABLE
OF DOVER FAILS.:
The look-out man, his oye yes glued to
An interesting point under the Defence of the Realm Act came up for considera- the glass, stamps smartly three times un It is the old the deck of his platform.
tion in the King's Bench Divisional net-call so, in the sailing ship day, rose ing
the starboard side of the poop, one
Court before the Lord Chief Justice and we want to call the captain; and his boot
Justices Ridey and Ludh. In May last has barely ceased to thump on the planks
Mr. George Spicer, à Dover journalist, was charged at the local police court that, before the officer is climbing to his hide.
without lawful authority, he communi- Half a dozen crisp words of report; a to a ball-button that warns the signal. touch
The woman in mourning in a war widowcated certain information of nature más of the watch, in the telegraph-hat below, to stand by for orders; the lieuton
Yes, she has one child. Who is going to calculated to be useful to the enemy, also with respect to the movement, numbers, ant, at the telescope, is making cerin.
look after it while she is at work! Her for communicating certain information ether. She is quite willing to go any
and dispositol of his Majesty's forces, It needs only a few seconds she is thers sure enough, a swift, grey shape of a spip. He got in the trenches. Those were the where she is sent. The six shillings a day with the chin smoke whipping from the days when, as Mr. Lloyd: George said,
You will earn every forthing of it" missed the charges, and an application was then made for a special case to be Jips ut ber funnels, heading outh and division extra on either side would have is the reason for her willingness, she says. The Court having heard the evidence, dis done the trick. He took his place in the woman behind the desk assures her. edging in towards that villig. studded const upon her regular mission of ditch four feet deep-and two feet of that the fret, fortaight you will think stated. The Divisional Court were now murder. Upon the Italian side, save for was half-frozen mud-and eight feet wide, you have become a victim to chronic in-asked to give their opinion whether the Quenza. Every bone in your body will justices. upon the statement of facts. Ancona, with its destroyer harbour, there with a parapet that would not have There is not a part from Venice to Tarants upon stopped the slug of an airgua.
intolerable. I don't want to discourage law. which to baie the sbing th
should met were no communication trenches in those, and you will think the mine-hour day came to a correct decision in point of
We need I give you plain facts.
Mr. Branson, who appeared for Mr. times. He just walked up to the trenches, you.
to her and deal with her.
yoù au thousand more, bus don't think W. H. Fox, Chief Constable, the appel- in 11g fork beside the telescope; the lien-meet a machine-gun bullet from the front the work is easy. Leura to smile at diffi-lant, stated that in May last the respond
The big ful-mouthed-speaking tube hangs overland, in the dark; didn't happen tenant is pouring his orders through it to the ready car in the telegraph but be
; even before he has finished speaking ho can hear the swift trip and stutter of the sending key that passes his words along.
Jow
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or a sniper's bullet from behind (there culties. were such things then; the trenches were not
even
ALWAYS CHERRY,
the
That
wax
That will help you more than ent communicated to London by tele- phone certain facts with regard to the war widow fills up the pink sheet movement of troops in the Dover district, continuous; the frost-bitten anything else."
Counsel contended that an offence had cavalry were holding Yprie at the time), and goes out through the glass door,
The three girl who take their places been committed under Regulation 18th. and slipped into bis trench;
before the desk have been "in service. Between him, in his particular bit of One of thein is going to have some diffi- The point raised by Mr. Spicer was that
the question whether it
a Press A moment later and a vociferous rail- way gong is roaring a summons, and be- trench, and Calais there was not a man, culty in applying. She has been at Malta offence ought to have been submitted to
since the beginning of the wur. tween the standing cars of a good train except the cooks and transport, a mile or (I wonder if the Germans
means she must pay a visit to Scotland the Director of Public Prosecutions, and alumbering in the dew, blue-clad men come two behind,
Yard. There are many questions she must that no prosecution could succeed until running, dodging between buffers and know).
His food was filthy. Shells came over
answers to passports. She did not have it had been so gubmitted,
Without calling upon Mr. Joseph to under trucks, flocking aboard of a long
She was a lady's a passport, she says.
Still reply, the Court dismissed the appeal kad-blue train that is already moving and that would have knocked the Tower of He saw his best pals beginning to pull out. The silors leap London sideways.
she cannot fill up the pink sheet until she with costs. The Lord Chief Justice, for the stops as they go by, and spread shot beside him. He was verminous (and maid auf travelled without one.
was whether the words used over the fore and aft along the cars, swarming over in civil life he was a rising young man,
entitled to fill it up. the roofs and down into the pairs of open rather particular about his clothes). Has assured Scotland Yard that she is giving judgment, said the sole question
Yet I never
The tired-looking woman with the green telephone were capable of being brought trucks whose loads are tarpaulin-covered could not wash for weeks.
foother in her hat confesses that she is within the definition of Press offence The great passenger locomotive that baulsheard him grouse, I never heard or saw
fed-up or nervy men in trench for thirty-four and married. e attendant within the Defence of the Realm regula- then jumps to racing speed while yet the a
behind the desk frowns a little. It is not tions. In his opinion the words were trained hands of the seamen are stripping whom be had not a chery word..
He had a year of this. Halfway an ill-natured frown so much as one of used for the purposes of publication. away the tarpaulins that blanket the through he was in an attack that cost his doubt.
Once having arrived at the conclusion harrelled naval guns.
regiment half its men and two-thirds of
Have you brought your birth certifi that these words might be within the
definition of a Press offence, then before The sea is beside them as they go, thundits officers. It was rather a mix-up, cate, madam 1"
She had not. She did not remember the prosecution was instituted the matter ering at 40 miles an hour through the Napoleon and a senior wrangler could not
She repeated should have been reported to the Director damp down, with the great guns swung hays sorted them out. He and about ever having possessed one. inboard to clear telegraph and signal posts sixteen of his regiment, who had a part-the date of her birthday. The attendant Prosecutions. In this case, therefore, and the buff-painted shells standing hardly cular job to do, volunteered to say up an Piled but shook her head.
"I'm sorry, madam, but I must see mund their breeches. Even while yet the extra day. Four came ent.
A few months later he went through a your birth certificate. Every applicant Triple Alliance of Germany, Italy and
his must show one before she can be enrolled. Austria had the solid and enduring up four-day bombardment that cost
madam. You can find one, pearance of nay other lath painted to look regiment a third of its men-a regiment. Back up. like iron, this railway that skirts the by the way, that never lost a trench and dare say
The tall, thin girl with glasses is going Adriatic beach for the whole length of never attacked a trench it did not takes
He did not gta D.C.M. or any other to have difficulty in passing the medical the peninsula, was being perfected and
"I'm afraid, madam, you have varicose elaborated; for the neighbour of Austria kind of medal. There were a good many test. The attendant, who is quick of eye
veino."! and frank of speech, sees this at a glance. a commission. has always to guard against a knife in the like him, and not many medals.
Take off your coat," which request The stout woman, confesses to the afflic After a year of it he took a It is along this Hoe that troope bould be poured to repel this, landing Not a "soft" one. He joined a tough, being granted she proceed, to measure the tion. which was ever one of the Austrian war newly formed infantry regiment that girl's chest. The result of her observa-Then there is no use in my taking up plans;
and now it serves for the landships wanted licking into shape-badly. He
anywhere in your anatomy our lady doctor Itsly has improvised to meet the had seen more war than most of the other shots is eloquently evinced by a negative your time. If you have a varicose vein I thought so I just saved you the is sure to find it, and she would never pass which the present war on her east officers had read about. In the few
you. I'm very sorry 2
BRINGING UP THE LAND SHIH.
ra coast.
months at home his men-very rawi
half
Sorry, madam you would never stand the trouble, of going before our lady doctor otrojn,
disguised"
comes next,
the Justices were right, and the appeal must be dismissed with costs,
Justices Ridley and Lush concurred, and the appeal was accordingly dismiss ed with costs.
The last of the line is a pretty girl ar rayed in imitation foery The all seeing woman behind the desk looks at
her through half-closed eyes.
The enemy ship is steering south; the of them had been called up and they found gun train is racing north to meet her the army rather irksome got to know Her course and her speed has been check him as a man who, when he said a thing, be from tower, a tower and semaphored expected and meant to see it done. The everly concealed under the for yelled through megaphones to the train
few months great hat. In ordinary times it hangs car as it passes. It halts at last where the He came out again, and is a line runs behind afone parapet dropping was in the biggest fight there ever has been down to her waist, where it is brought to more or less conspicuous finish by a sheer to the beach, and forthwith the blue in this or any other war. His colonel.
I happened to see clad gun crews are busy with all that major and adjutant, and all the company bight Green ribbon.
He was a lieutenant, acting captain, various functions which is the character on.
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Would you like to go in a tramway-
she asks. The girl murmurs something about un- becoming uniforms.
(The) W
woman smiles-a bit triumphantly,
I thought so
svift precision and trained inter-play of commanders were killed or wounded early the flapper in the little street bofore perhaps your idea in wishing of a naval'evolution. From the roofs of then. He commanded his battalion for the he turned in toward the passge the to be an omnibus conductors is to look
in glass door.
the situation.
It does not take
registration form. Good morning.".
And now the office is empty of all save the Attendant
the closed cars that separate the gun rest of the fight and the divisional com quick-eved woman behind the desk long to rart in out uniform, why you had
He received rather a mander was told.
better go back home at once. We don't trucks, officers drap quiet voiced and sys-nice note shout it later.
My Child, you had better run back to want joy-riders. We want workers. If worded
commands into the ordered tematized boil of activity below; the He is a major now He is still in the mother or she will be worried about you trucks are pined down to their places, mud. Daily he wades along the front In three or four years, when you are you decide to become a worker, you may the long guns swing outboard, duck and line. He has been out here for nearly two twenty-one, you may come back if we are come back to me and I'll give you a waver and come to rest with that short years in all He has no medals, gilt still needing omnibus conductors. sighted and questing manner which is the strips, or fancy badges. For the past custom of guns, and the breeches clash to seven or eight months he has hardly suent behind the shells and their charges night out of the range of shells. He Telescopes are at work and a range-finder beginning to draw about two thirds of the has been mounted
money he would have been making if And the reaalls? Well, this is not a had not thrown up his job and come out Co on with the war until the report of any instance in partcular: and the result varies from a village shelled to rains to a lame ship on fire limping enemy is beaten." lamentably to sea again,
to
4.
That is good enough, isn't it?
at It is one o'clock: the hour for the tendant to seek physical sustenance and Only two more ap mental relaxation plicants can be admitted: The others must One of these two is a stout woman, some
attendant return in the afternoon, what narnie of face. The atte
(Continued at foos of next colums.)
Let us ask her bow she manages to read the characters of each applicant so cor-
Why, madam, I've engaged eighteen bundred and twenty-two girls-since Inst Easter and have rejected twice that nam- tur. so I think I ought to be able to judge them by this time."-Daily Mail.