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Hi, Bodger! Just keep clear of my weighing machine It's only up to a quarter of a ton, and I'm not taking any zisks!!
Temporary Captain Bodger, RG.A., turned endly back to his howitzers. He was an excellent officer, and his Sin, shells reached their address in Bocheland with weighed 20 stone, and his gietla was the precision of a postal delivery But he threatening his career
Only yesterday he had walked five miles to a field artillery observing station 00 a new German redoubt, and had in the trenchies, whence he was to range ignominiously tiled to get through the tunnel. A party of grinning Tommies entrance for him; the subaltern to whom gone, the conviction that it was still pro the observation post belonged had com- feeding, that he still formed part of it, plained of his attracting the attention of lingered. Unhindered, unperturbed he the enemy's airmen by waiting outside, went through his recurrent duties, shared and the general, who unfortunately went in the very limited round of home-made by had regarded, hit with a send-him-to pleasures behind the firing line, but the base look in his eye. Something must have been something more important, less Bodger had a light lunch of three chops occasionally he wished that he might be done, but what?
Why give restricted, than a mere pawn. Wh
pudding and cheese ordered a them, and keep him blind and bound second bottle of beer to assist his niedita. the pawn brains and the power to use suddited ban trend some suct Five times the waking dream had come tions. But the only idea that emerged and gone, and each time he felt that some posed, prepared, or arranged for him; then a week passed without any know ledge of the mystic game. At the end of with his battalion that week he was sent from the place where the sound of the guns seemed a vague rolling thunder to a spot where at first, it shocked and jerked every nerve in his body. The war claimed him; henceforth he was a soldier, under fire, learning the tricks which mean lift and the slips which mean death.
But though the vision of the game had had taken 40 minutus to enlarge the
decisive
YOUNG AMERICA
FROM AN OXFORD CORRESPONDENT. TO
A TRE” TIMESZI
Perhaps youth is the same in all coun- tries. Perhaps the youth of Bulgaria itself, in these days of Arms and the Man, is eagar-eyed and glows into visions. It is hard for us here in Eng land to believe that there is any youth like our own; and we cannot but think that the gallantry we know, and love, and mourn is an island gallantry race. Our thoughts may have their peculiar to the lads of our own island truth; but there were never gallant deeds done, or doing, which did not make blood run faster in all young veins Some talk of Alexander, and some the world over.
Hercules
some of
FUTURE OF INDIA. MR A CHAMBERLAIN ON IMPERIAL PROGRESS. Mr. Austen Chamberlain and the repre sentatives of India at the Imperial War Conference were the guests at luncheon at the Savoy Hotel recently of the British Empire Producere Organization.
It had not been the intention of Mr. Chamberlain or the Indian representa tives to speak, but Sir James Meston said a few words of appreciation of the colleagues in England. He said he fully welcome given to him and to
them because they were the representatives. of the great Indian dependency, which salised that this reception was given to
council of the Empire, and it would be for the first time had been called into the
noturned to India, to explain to their their duty and pleasure when they
his
Some read Marryat, and some Fenimore fellow-subjects ever their reading--whether it be of old Motherland.
Mr. Chamberlain, responding to con- things ancient or modern, or of sea or land, or of bussenneers or great hunters tinued calls for a speech, suid be wel
wue thing that, is always con-comed to the full the effort which the there stant; and that is the longing to go and members of the British Empire Producers do likewise. And so, in our boyhood we Organization and others were making to launched our long ships in the listie, develop the resources of the Empire, and river by the garden, and sitting well into render the Empire independent of sources of supply which the events of the order smote the rippling waters, saying last two years had shown us might not be available just when they were most needed For my parpose holds
He went on To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths or singing
Of all the Western Stars, until I die.
Cooper; but whatever their talk, or what-inlocuius in that country tho was
step in his destiny had been pro-was a transfer to Coast Defence, and this And so again, in other years, in older and a drawer of water for the rest of the
involved boat regretful at the
his work. loathed. With a regretful glance of
But in the meantime an intelligence of empty bottles, he went back to a higher order had been shaping his destinies. The Army commander, hearing the tale of the tunnel and the observation post, had remarked→ Sound gunner, is he? No use sending him, to the Trans hort
lorries are overloaded already There's one thing in this Army that's up him over, will you?"
THE COMPELLING HAND. The idea bad grown upon him steadily since one night, just before he had crossed [BY ROBERT HERRICK,]
the Channel, he had awakened from an Evident to any observer is the con uneasy dream concerning a game of chess fidence in Paris that for the first time the in which he was not either of the playera, allied armies on the west front ara pre but one of the occupante of the board
The players, whoever they were, remain pared. The English have taken over with their new armies many of the sectors ed invisible, but every now and then a previously held by the French, permitting hand, an immense, overshadowing hand, the latter to strengthen their remaining appeared, and moved them in secordance front and to send strong reinforcements with the acknowledged rules, and he had to the east. Whatever rumours of exhaus been conscious of a sensation of extreme tion in France may have been spread in suspense as, in the progress of the tactics, America by German propaganda, you will he foresaw his own turn coming. It came He was to be no longer inert and useless. find'no confirmation from those who know The hand approached, hesitated, touched
him--and in
in the
the thrill of that touch he the situation. And the discouragement woke derriere" after the Roumanian, blunder because evident, which expressed itself in a political organization, has not affected the spirits of the men who must do the fighting. All reports are that the morale of the armies was never better. So the great effort time without hampering effort under Nivelle and Haig will conditions that have limited previous decisive successes in France they will get efforts. If the Allies are ever to obtain then soon. One hears no more of the "war of usury!" with the With all this stated as preliminary, which gives reasonable, grounds of, hope for a successful decision, and the end of the war in a form more darable than German prace, it is not out of place to look at the situation bere in France from another, a purely haman, angle. The sacrifices that France has already made are known, gloriously, throughout the world. Yet few probably, even among the ardent admirers of the French Nation, realize quite concretely the price that way to his weight, and that's a tank. Shift France has had to pay thus far for her her dend already lie in her soil, tuore, Halfway across that strip of land haWhen the great man spoke things woved in the darkness, it haply they may find hers. Do not fall into that trap. There
More than a million and a quarter of probably many more than these, are was one of the first to fall. Presently the seriously crippled and diseased. What stunned brain woke toi consiousness, and these facts imply in a nation of only he opened his eyes ton darkness edged thirty-nine millions any one can resolve with flashing fame. He saw more than Whole families, whole names have dis that however, and heard more than the appeared, are disappearing from France, uproar of the lifting barrage; he saw It is the ponsant class that has suffered once more, the great game, and heard most; they took their livelihood from the voices calmly arguing. He gathered that soil; as a French writer has said poigna discussion was going on, somewhere antly, and they have give their bodies to about his fate the fate of the tiny pawn He was to be taken to be withheld What is lees easy to formulate than the from the play, to be set aside. Well, if actual loss in killed and wounded are the it must be eo, he thought, he had done incidental drains on the nation's vitality what he could to win, which a prolonged war has brought it seemed that he was raised high above custom, cocked up ber tail and charged it. those who had gone For one thing they gatherings. I believe that when what Man's three great enemies alcoholism, the other pieces poised in mid-air, so Now if things had gone right the tail were, for the most part, older in years.hey have felt and the character of their tuberculosis, and syphilis have reared that for a moment the whole game became should have come down with a hump, They had the solid build of maturi
clear to him, and he thought how poor throwing her nose up, and she should they had the judgment and shrewd die reception become known in Indin it will strengthen the bands of fellow-citizenship, their bends on this battle ground and are and small had been his share in it, how have cleared the bank like a porpoise cretion of their seniority they seemed strengthen all the ties of loyalty, will apping this so publicly admitted mattered almost nothing that he should jumping. But the glue-like med piled grown men, likely to go quietly and and will help forward the pencefal and prosperous development of India an the face of brought them among us. But they were part great part of our Empirem a that the Government has appointed
bump like luggage
time admitted part now for the first
to take her share to slide off lazily, silently, tilthey train in collision. She backed out, but ag, after all; and because they were prevention (which, if the commissions lay in a chnotic heap on muddy earth her tail remained high in air but young, they were generous; and in their formally, to our
days of the war, were nager to be up ulike in the advantages and in the obliga werk with the usual. Parliamentary a a distin- generosity they, too, from those early suu buns forth to languor, will not come into operation for
and doing in the day of visitation. It tions of the Empire along with the I another
Figures of course, are year.) impossible to get, and would be merely
two years now since they began to Country and the grent Dominions who sit Mr. WF Massey, Prime Minister of approximate, meaningless Those who
to
go over to Belgium and the occupied in that Council with her. (Chiers-) **
advocate themselves between the hammer and the anvil among suspicion and survillance, an opportunity he was going to in unremitting toil and with patient preference within the Empire, and he organization, they laboured to relieve hoped to do this in the course of a few
Zealand Parliament at Wellington. the destitute and to visit the needy in months within the walls of the New their affiction. Such work became, as
honour.
the soil,
race. This is not hysteria
+
The word came that at last, one eycoing over after twilight, they were to i!! g
SITTING OF THE TAIL
quickly, and in the battery Badger met
·
years, we set ourselves in mind of Galabad and his quest and we put on the armour of faith and went out to seek our ideal. To those who were going before the war in the daytinte, before the coming of this dreadful night the way often led into the dark places of our great cities; and the grail of which they went in quest was one that might shine suddenly blindingly, cleansingly, in the form and shape of a social ideal, upon the stale squalor of the slam, To-day the sun and the moon are dark ened, and the stars return not after the rain. But the young men are searching
India will not remain, and ought not to remain, content to be a hewer of wood Empire. It is essential to her sound and healthy development that her own inchis tries should progress, and that gradually, as skill and capital and enterprise become and available, she should take a larger larger share in manufacturing, as well as in producing raw material. I can imagine nothing worse for the relations of this country and of Indin' then that that development should be received with jealousy and suspicion here he le mischief-makers, and some erring only plenty of people, some of them deliberate through ignorance, who are ready to try to persuade Indra that her interests the incompatible with ours and ours with
he
of either wi
will help the
the development of the an orderly with a "merno directing light to lighten it; they are seeking
y testimony to blood of their wounds they are making I am anxious to bear my Her commander; a him to report at once to H.M. landship and they are not only seeking, but in a room for both, and the development Mastodon for instruction. The Mastodon the sweat of their brows and by the other was a new ship. eavalry major was pleased to got a good an ideal of politica' Right." gunners man who was also useful as shift. It is many months now-indeed, it ng ballast, Bodger took kindly to his seme many years since the young men new duties, and the tank steered sweetly from the four sens, and the dordinions under his sympathetic hand. beyond the seas, marched away from A week later the Mastodon took part in Oxford But we have had with us here, a minos push--A little affair of straighten- until of late (and now they, too, begin ing the line. There was a parapet to get to go), the young men of America. They
the cordial, and more than cordial, vel- come which has met us who represent India in the Imperial War Cabinet and the Imperial War Conferences at the colleagues. Our reception hands of our British and Dominion corporately and individually, has touted
from India to represent her at these my heart, and has I know, touched no
over, and the Mastodon, according to seemed, in some ways, different from less the hearts of those who have coine
be removed from the board then, before
under her upward and the picces began to slide off the bank
and the
Parliamentary comissions to study the he could protest, the board tilted slowly her nose vertail remained up, steadily about the business which had
situation and recommend measures
of
knowledge the game and the world.
of The board was aoset," he said gravely the doctor who bent over him in the
Imperial
Home
should know the truth admit the facts. base hospital. I was a pan-I was no walrus and sat on the end of it. Thore territories of France and there, setting Zealand, said that whenever he got.
And that the conditions are probably as
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THE GREAT WRESTLE.
guanery
she
He
BRITISH OFFICEE.
ab
guished himself. He squeezed through door. Heedless of the bullets which hummed round him, he swarmed up the tail with the determination of a bull wy was no mistake about the tail coming had or worse on the enemy's side of the Not you, old chap, retorted the down this time. The Mastodon charged up, and got over the lines makes it no better: it is an inevit doctor who had listened to many state again, now well able result of modern factory warments more mysterious than this from bank, kicking up a shower of clods Millions of men cannot be kept herded patients struggling to free themselves behind her Bodger stuck to his perch, You and though the shell-splinters whanged on the in the terrible conditions of trench life, from the merciful oblivion. not fur weeks and months, but for years, friends have won the without an andermining of physical and final any mistake about that don't armour, and got off with nothing worse it seemed, a part of their Oxford course;
tanke
enthusiast, and when his major America, after staying a little while, moral hygiene The most terrible wuste Then--who were the players than a chipped ear. After this he became and, each new student who came from PORTUGUESE HOMAGE TO A DEAD of manhood in modern war is not on the Ah, ny dear fellow," he said lightly, was promoted Admiral of the Fleet and crossed over, as if in duty bound, for
The funeral of Captain William battlefields. The incessant hardships, if we only knew who the players are hoisted his Bag in the Mammoth, Badger his term of service on the other side. exposure, and entus of trench-life make who move in buck and forth on this succeeded to the command of the Masto. As time went on new doors were opened Raymond Croft Murray, Grenadier He painted her in a beautiful and new duties were undertaken. When Guards, who had gone to Portugal in the a. certain laxity of discipline inevitable chequer board of nights and days, what don.
couldn't we know ! It might be too chromatic colour scheme, and fitted the bombardment of Verdun was fiercest, hops of recovering from severe wounds in the quarters behind the l
Both England and France have been much for us You'he played the game, at larder and a cushioned beer-bin.
the deadliest intensity against its wells, attack of typhoid fever in the English, If she restrictions as they have imposed He wrist off smiling, to attend to others could, hit a Boche parapet while build the American Ambulance was there, and hospital at Lisbon, took place weak in the treatment of alcohol, but even any rate. "Don't worry any more worked up his crew at gunnery till they and the set of iron and bre drove with received at Loos, and succumbed to an on the consumption of alcohol had beenAnd the young man thought of the little across country, He enjoyed four solid American students were with the ambul-Lisbon ROWY FUL
seemed so powerless of the meals a day and ceased to repine at his ance of their country Turning chuf By the wish of the widow, full military rigidly enforced both in civil and military and hand that moved him on prd, increasing weight.
feurs and mechanics chauffers and honours were dispensed with, but a life the situation would be helter. Trob- shadowy
mechanics of an infinite resource and captain's guard of honour was furnished ably the authorities feel that they cannot and fall asleep, to dream of the empty
The Big Push came on, and Bodger's sagacity they drove thousands of the by the 5th Portuguese Infantry Regimcat.. be enforced. The strain imposed by the board and the fine, finished game in which,
Mastodon proved the smartest landship wounded soldiers of France, along ice- The coffin, covered by the Union Jack, continuation of the war has been too great after all, he was glad to have played his
could bound, slippery roads, from the field of
was borne by British seamen from the in the fleet, while at for human beings. Therefore, not only part.
bave given points to the Excellent. There battle to their haven of rest; and if church to the grave, over which the now but after the war France must fight
came a day when we had pierced deeply their cars broke down, as American cars Last post was sounded by six for her race against these three frightful curves of humanity
see what it means with a detached obje into the German lines, and with it came would sometimes do, they set them buglers of the Portuguese Army.
The funeral was attended by the And there is another, subtler menace, tively that is not clouded by any sent Badger's chance, which has made his name triumphantly to right by the roadside, whose devastation cannot be stated in mentality. They know perfectly well in the Land Feet He, aw a locomotive and in a few hours were driving quietly British Minister, Sir Luis Barreto de exact terms the gradual embruiting of what they are doing and why the neces half a mile in front dragging off a couple forward again to their bus. Nor were Cruz, representing the President of the men, the ruthless degradation of the sity of their sacrifics; but they also realize of howitzers along a light railway, and, their goings and doings only in Belgium Republic, the Belgian Russian, Ameri- a fabric, due quite as much to the is only the highly intelligent man can regardless of his admiral's warning foots, and in France, they went even farther can, and Italian Ministers, Captain cal conditions of trench warfare as realize what the sacrifice means to them, he inde for it across the trenches. afield. And there were some who, seeking Florentino Martins, representing the to the horrors of the modern battlefield. even when fate permits them to survive Furious Germans tried to rush him as he the farthest hounds of the far flung Minister of War, and the representatives tore as not so apparent at first; And they know also that event with anal ploughed through their lines, but he hid battle line web but to find ways of of a large number of regiments of the with the hope of a speedy and triumphant Success-with the brutal invader forever the Mastodon to her course, spoutins service and ministration in India, or Portuguese Army, leading members of the British colony, and many others. end to the business, finely organized men driven out n France here will never fame on both broadsides. Field guns
But all these things seemed to them, After the ceremony General Baronrdis- could endure the disgustingly brutish con again be the France for which they have were hurriedly turned on him but the in Afrién, or Mesopotamia, ditions in which they found themselves given themselves, spent their flood, and shells missed or glanced from the armour. the foul smelle foul sights, hellish anise, more than their blood, their very souls. He hended off the locomotive by a bare sim nehme dhe tomb all the tón, en behalf of the Secretary of State Countries stood out more clearly and present for the kindly tribute of respect jockeyed the
things and the slightly less evils of mud, 5lth, Is this not the suprente encrifice to give so fathoms and reversing his starboard grim mehate to the ideals of all free for War, thanked the Portuguese officers
Ita incet it,astodon more wrathfully, to be but minor
fallen comrade." vermin, which were reducing them to a when one is conscious that the very object
All this was of one's giving i, fated not to be realized round state of print of France will endure, and not under the Now when a 60-ton locomotive, hauling and only a second best. The policy of they had paid to the memory of their borne heroléruly,
civil life, bel of the brutal ecnqueror Yes! But double its weight of heavy howitzer, meets their country, moving among many dif- afterward
phone friend, cho never more that France whose children 2 109-ton tank, both all out, something is Giculties, with almost imperceptible re- peace. But now that So many moths it has come to be the have died by the millian and will.com almost certain to happen. This time it volutions of the wheels, was too slow for It is difficult to judge a whole nation. tinue to die in to-morrow's battles by the was the unexpected. The antagonists their ardont. The were eager to pay What is the criterion of judgment, and their tails, locked for a moment the last and the fullest measure of de who are they that are judged? Some of natural order of life a
here no hope thousands. Not that France for which stoodust le
but like soldier it must seen as 13
view The railway crossed and all they had learned, only made them judged America, and found her wanting of terraping from the inferno, except hey have given what is more than
encounter road at the point of by a fatal or crippling wound. In many few a strange, an unknown
not, and would not be left behind in this struggle and unflinching determina- instances he must give up all idea of return to normal life. Often his family in that phense which is so often linked and the bridge had given way. Dawn embrace the more firmly. They could in open-eye-I recognition of the issues of French of "le went the loomotive, wheels uppermost the race which is set before, the young tion to face the sanes boldly. But if we has been broken up or bis family ties are
the Mastodon on top sitzers tum of this generation, in all countries which are to be judged by our statesmen, might, so loosened that his permission
struggle for the bered pitched on top of the heap. would freedom, and law,, all deserve same judgment? him virtually alone in an unfamiliar speak world. He is content to return to the solely after Dalmas ENSA
of Orades but the cant through dented like an old the hardly, won, treasures of the dong The heart care cox the twin it comes t the worse, and the ages through which men have struggled for years before this war began. Yet it canj has become inextricably woven with the tin
expected to find a wreck, against barbarisma race in which the is not easy to say that our recognition who Germans rader
18 larger ideal of right, of justice. That
swift feet of Death, and the prize, for of those issues was open-eyed, or our omen that day. those who arst reach the goal, is the determination to face the flinchi Proof of this can be had from talking what dignifies, mares possible the supreme were wel by shells and machine gan
There was no holding beyond the determining, either to light or to dark We do not dwell on test thing in our with the soldiers from some of the sacrifice that the Freach have made. officers diaries, which are now being is not a simple patriotism, a defence of and they pressed on well soon had neee, of the future of all the roundown past, and why should any dwell published, where highly intelligent, clear one's home and one's own people. That hollow road
the leading batta world. And so, in these past weeks, our on these bings, or things like these, In eyed men without a trace of whimper has become
in the larger
reached her they found Bodger scholars from America are slipping away the history of another nation? If a nation record the terrible sacrifice of right, justace has been asseted from them. In the of gras been made the bloody alter lunching on deck, with dozen bottles from us finally, one by one, to join the is to be judged, let it be judged by the doing of their highest duty they are of sacrifice for the sins of all the world of beer standing ready for his visitors army of the young in the great rece answer that its spirit makes, in the hour giving all the best possibilities of them That is why I take it, the homage of 30 He was asked to describe his trip across with Death. Some there are who have of need, rough its purest and most selves they are wrecking themselves many strangers, has gone out to her, the German trenches, but preferred to gone to France; and some there are who chosen voices the voices of the young, ideally as well as physically that he because instead of faltering or evasion the expatiate on the bottles are finding their way into the lists in who are the first to hear, and the quickest
patrie shall be saved, that the right has accepted the sacrifice to its last bitter cushioned beer-b
England. No gates are shut to the
shall prevar
drop. In these fateful days to come
teer in a cause so great so universal tragedy is that in the case of France it further the line fatic of her civilization, A hua put through the awful ordeal many in order that right and justies may pred gun is ready for launching and Bodger so fraught with issues to all time, but men of the most sensitive most delicate vail oven though her own children ma will command her. He looking for has his place, bis recognition, and his
of their ward to steering her through the streets meedia and any wake, bi) the fam
Continued at foot of neat column:) understanding, who are perfectly able to not live to reap the reward of
(Continued at foot of neat column.) sacrifice.
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and to many
Therefore there is peculi
with the
hollow and then suddenly disvotion to a cause which all they had seen, us, and some of her own, citizens, have
22: Snag ELLA
DAERATRever with the monster howitzers. 1
Of his
te brokerve on then be
had
One of the special cruelties of this world must, pour out mye lives, weaken stillex new 1,000 hipong and strong, and Brave: no volum If that be our criterion, and these are
of Berlin-
tank, Carrying a 6in.
to obey, he call of Duty and Honour. they that are judged, then America, may
Answered, and answered early, and their be proud, and may stand secure in the day of judgment. For her young men
Buster Way We comm