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TRAPPED IN A TUNNEL, GERMANS CONSTRUCT THEIR TOMB.
KERENSKI AT THE FRONT.
REMARKABLE SCENES day
island of unrest. He was known all over
DYNAMITE JOHNNY O'BRIEN
ANOTHER ALEXANDER DUMAS:
A newspaper, correspondent who accom The recent death of Dynamite Johnny Typical of the "normous power of the punied Kerenski on his recent visit to the OBrien closed a long and adventurous HOW BRITAIN) CAN HELP JAPAN IN German defensive organisations in Chums South-western front gives some vivid pic career, the details of which would read agne is the Mont Cornillet Tunnel,tures of the remarkable scenes which took like a romance of Alexander Dumas set INDIA,
watch, after a resistance of weeks, fell to place during the tour. The Petrograd the twentieth century.
by his blockade. the French us the result of the last bril-correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in Dynamita Johnny who, b
repiting some of these impressions, says running expeditions with men, arms, and liant attack on the summit.
the apart of rovalution in the early days that in the course of a day the popular ammunition, enabled the Cubans to lan War Minister, with whom was General of their struggle for independence. His Brassitoff, addressed meetings with an adres kere, not confined to that aggregate attendance of some hundreds of the world wherever there has bea balee thousands of soldiers, and everywhere he ing, and was reupted to have been in left his auditors boiling with enthusiasm, command of a Japanese submarine during But it was asta Cuban sympathiser that nearly every ease Kerenski and thetho Russ Japanese War. Commander-in-Chief were chaired back to he was beat known for bis daredevil gun. their car on the shoulders of the troops running exploits. To the Cubans he was a hero, and at the bedside of the old At one place, where 30,000 troops were flibuster, when he peacefully passed away gathered, General Brussiloff asked if he at a New York hotel, was Victor Hugo night pledge his word that they would Barranca, who had come to New York to honourably fulfil their duty to the cou tell Dynamite Johnny that the Cuban when it was Congress was about to pass a bill pro try and the nation, and asked from them go to death for freedom.iding for the payment of 80,000 a year This appen! was received with ferved cries to the soldier of fortune. Of his adveu. of We'll go where we are ordered! We furous life the New York Sun says
A Another
STORY OF THE BEAL CAPTAIN KETTLE." Capt. John A. O'Brien, me he insisted
in a recent number of the ogobi-Nikonjiu (Japan and the Japanes) Mr. Nishida Chichi urges the necessity of Japan vončhiding an economic alliance with Britain tomake the place of the pre- sent poliücal alience, which has already served a good purpose, out which may be almost said to have lost its rien d'irt, weing that both Britain mud Japan are un friendly terms with Russia, against whom the Anglo Japanese Alli ance was directed. In this course of the article, the writertsvates:--
now
Britain and Japan, who have been successful in their political alliance, are now under the necessity of concluding an economic allinnee Though Britain has opened ap large markets for her goods everywhere in the world, the marksis for Japanese goods are Ho extensive. The two countries, which др politically allied, are mad on the same intimate terms in economic matterseas, indeed, is observ able in the Eastern markets, hiére
The tunnel had been cut clean through the hill with the object of feeding the southern side in case of attack: Three battalions coull be sheltered with supplied and munitions enough to stand a siege of ten days. Three entrances connected by galleries, with a tranverse by gallery within the hill, gave access to the tunnel on the southern slope of the crest. The tunnel was ventilated by shafts opening on the hill, and the air in the galleries was kept muying by powerful fans,...
ught to assume the vdomin: "APAR: usable. The rain of shells was maintainedctually leapt upon the car, and, flinging five feet two and turned upon them a pair)
India Britais makes man's commercial big shell struck the ventilation shaft organisation, eulminating in a refusal to big birthday-ce.cbration and dinner in
He was born in the old Dry Dock dis trict, New York Lity, in 1857. He learned to swim about as soon learned to walk, and he got his name of
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For weeks no progress-could-be made against the bill in face of a stream of perfectly fresh troops which the Germans were able to launch at any minute from safe shelter within the tunnel. The final nitack was postponed until it was possible beg you to give the pledge!
concentrate enough artillery of the point a crowd of some 10,000 soldiers ran heaviest calibres to wreck at least the after the car for nearly two miles, stretch- entrances of the tunnel and reader it un-ing out their hands to be pressed, and he should be called by subordinates when of them weeping with joy. Some he drew huset up to as tult height of but is in keen commercial impetition. night and day around the entrances, their round Kereuski, kissed him. On the markets in the South Sens and that the German sappers were unable to
At the headquarters of the 113th Divic eyes at snot them through and of thwarting work on or even to approach them. One sion, which in consequence of acute distruga, was eighty years old 20th April, when he was the guest of honour a the development of
the Hotel McAlpin. On his seventy- interests.
In these areungte inces. The above the point from which the inner attitude of soxe British subjects in India galleries radiate and wrecked the entire
seventh birthday ng was stricken with and China towards the Japan se isplace; including the commandant's quar hostile that it is difficult to recognisters, besides choking up the galleries and
Paralysis at his home in Newark, and since then his health failed steadily, them as the people of Japan's Ally asphyxinting a large number of the garri
Alost of the tile he had spent in bed. "When the Nippon Yusen Krisha inson. At that moment the garrison am- angurated its Calcutta service some years bered about 500 infantry, two machine ago the P&O Company entered into anompanies, and four sections of esp keen competition with the Japanese steamer.medical, wireless and other details whip company. Owing to the gut per The troops were led by two battalion com- severance displayed by the N, UK. if manters, both of whom were killed by keeping up the competition, the British this shell. When some hours later the company at last field $6 01
ad the Cafentt French infantry swept over the crest, the of the tunnel was entirely cuteof, and the whole principal steamship lines of this een garrison either crushed, asphyxiated, or If Britain is ready to stara similar coth capensed. petition with Japan in future in, ordel
The Gerican offer commanding in to prevent the extension of Japan's ; ma mercial interests, the Angle Japanese frul, finding no help came from the Alliance will be rendered null and's bid. tunnel, went to see what had happened He found the entrances choked with fallen "It is advisable for Britain rather to
carth and dead men, and no sign of life welcome the extension of Japan's con mer cial interests in her vast colonies, for the coming from within. While investigating purpose of checking the development of the damage he was captured with a nam German commercial influence. Gers amber of his men by the Beach,
were finding their way into In din This is the third instance during the goods in large quantities in pre-war day In recent fighting in which,, as in the cast at 1015 India imported German gonds to be Cherreux and on the California Plateau, value of 128,000,000 rupees, about the the tunnels of these subterranean fort- times the value of the goods imported fresses in which, if anywhere, the Germans Japan the sang year. Not only in Indi might have thought themselves safe have bat in Canada and Australia Germe become the tombs of their garrisons. commercial influence is far superar 10 Ant of Japan. It is, therefore, necessary that Japan and British should conclud o An economic alliance so that the develop -
America is now
been withdrawn go into the trenches, from the fighting front the Minister addressed 10,000 men. He said to them, Is it true, as the German thinks, hat the Russian troops cannot fight without n Tsar, that what the Russing soldier needs
freedom but the whip, because with is not out that he remains inactive, while Wilhelm takes away his best regiments from our front and sends them against the freest of all nations, France Ta this challenge the soldiers shouted back as with one voice. "It is not true! Lead us to the attack! One of the men then mounted the platform and said, " For the first time for three years we have heard here a kind word. It has been spoken to us by the representative of the Provisional Government, our War Minister and com rade. Kerenski. Did you hear, comrades, what he said? You will not forget his words. Shame upon us that we allowed ourselves to be misled by wicked and ignorau men. Comrades, the Provisional Government demands that we should die
For freedom's sake. It cannot be that we are not really to show we love freedom and Russia. We will die, but we will never sarrender our freedom,!
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#ment of Japanese commercial interests instances, that efforts should be made to asked. What is the meaning of these
British colonics may be advanced, to say nothing of British commercial interests being largely improved In this way, both countries ought to endem our to throw obstacles in the way of the
development of German commerce as farter. as possible.
It is very regrettable that Japan's trade with India is in awery unfavourable condition, in singular contrast to the great prosperity of British trade there An economic alliance between Japan and Britain is also greatly nerded in order to improve this indifferent condition of Japan's trade with India. The following table gives a comparison between Japan
se and British trade with India?-
1004.
you wish
Daredevil Johnny when he worked with his brother, who ran a ferry-boat in the East River. He took many a big boat through Hell Gate long before thers had box, thought of clearing that treacher ous, rock strewn channel, and he could boast that he never met with a mishap.” Subsequently he became a pilot between New York and Halifax, and when the Civil War started he managed to get a commission as third other on the dinos when she was sent with other ships to fight the Merrimac.
Then he went out as make on a schooner
was cranimed with arms and ammunition for the Confederacy. O'Brien succeeded to the captaincy and ran the schooner fo Matamoras, her real destination, whery the cargo was turned over to Confederate agents.
ostensibly bound for Nassau. The vessel
Carrying contraband to that disturbed land he helped to bring about the down- fall and expatriation of Legitime.
ACTIVITY IN KRÚSSIA) |
One of the Trans-Amur regiments paraded with red flags, on which was the His Glibustering days began when the inscription, Down with the war, and
Cuban revolution started. It was at the picture of hands clasped in friendship calling of gun-runner that he gained a Without giving the usual greeting, reputation that rang around the world Kerenski called out the Regimental Com and made him a prize ardently desired must desirable, in the existing circun-mittee and Commander, and sternly by the Spaniards. Many a man, many a gud, and many a round of amiaunition increase the export of Japanese goods to flags He was told that the regiment were landed on Cubaa soil from the deck India by organising an economic alliance desired a speely prace as it was sick of of an O'Brien blockade-runner. But this with Britain, if possible so that Japan's the war, and also a new Commander. Te work palled on him. It was not exciting exports to that country may at least reach this the Minister replied, "You desire the enough. He left the sea, joined the insur the figures of her imports from that quar conclusion of peace; but don't you know gents, and led companies of ragged little ps that such a prace now would mean dis-brown men against Spain's reterans. Ho "India is a country of wide diren grace to Russia and death to freedom 1 | jumped back to the sea, made u mock of the Spaniards with his gun-landing from oris, equal to the area of Europe with It is not Sukhomilinoff who tells you this
Russia. Judging from the variety but J, Kerenski I am ashamed to and the city of Mexico tried his hand at natal products, the adaptability of such a regiment in the Russian army piloting between Cuba and the Florids declinate for cultivation, the largenees The Committee men were much chagrined coast, a job for which there were few the population, the free supply of by this severe dressing-down, and the candidates in those days, and then turned labour and the abundance of raw soldiers in the first ranks raised the ories, his bright eye towards Haiti
sterials, there is every prospect of the Away with the flagst The pacifist industries in India attaining great de inscriptions at once disappeared, and velopment in future, and there is accord-Kerenski, turning to the ing Jy as bright future for her trade as "If you receive
Comment said, for the trade of China and America. for, will you give me your word of honour Rupees.
Ind lia boazis a population of over that t your regiment will become the bravest 848,939,000 500, 000,000, which is
Russidy, but her go first of all into the attack The 150,590,000 trade has bon far behind that of Europe. reply came back from hundreds of throats, -.-1,428,505,000 | For instance, while the total value of the We give it! We give it!"
81,393,000 trade of European countries reached the Minister then addressed himself
all ready to lund his wits and hard hand 405,012,000 enorm tous sun of V 45,000,000,000 prior to General Brussiloft: Commander-in-ta the great job when the Potemkin the outbreak of the war, the trade of Chief, I give you my word that at your mutiny, far too precipitate, made the India was estimated at Y-3,000,000,000, first command this regimens will go into whole revolutionary plan abortive. 1-734,775,000 which is only 1-15th of the trade of battle in front of all the others.
Com Dynamite Johnny led from
Russio 33,585,000 Europe!
In other words, in European rades the continued, turning once more through the Caucasus. He found himself 790,275,000 countries the alue of trade per head is to the soldiers), I have given my word in Tokyo just before the outbreak of the 2,172,062,000 150, while in India it's V:10 per head for you, and you will not make it a false Russo-Japanese War.
134,830,000 In Japan, the trade returna work out at hood. We will not: hurrah!" was appointed by the Japanese Government as First he was $18,637,000X35 per head and in China at Y4 par the response, "said the Minister, an agent to purchase Holland submarines
head
we will be reconciled again," in token in America. Later he was placed in com of which he kissed the Chairman of the mand of a submarine operating off Port Regimental Committee. Total Imports of India
Arthur, and the story has been told with At Tarnopol, where a crowd of 15,000 Imports from Japan
1,173,822,000 unreasonably to expect them to acquire Zuports from Britain
Johnny commanded the submarine which 2,590,903,000 the same contaic power a European visitors were welcomed by Count Rthe torpedoed and sank the Russian battle "Total Exports of India
293,733,000 peoples. But even the Indian people ouski, who said, "Before you, comrades, ship Petrapatuorsk off Port Arthur, on Exports to Japan ---... 573,651,000 attain only half the trade achieved by Minister of Justice, abolished the death ment has always maintained, however, stands that saree Kerenski who, as 13th April, 1904. The Japanese Govern- Exports from the above table, India European people he fact auch develop sentence. I am a representative of the old that no submarines were in activo com imported from England 60 per cont. of Y:20,000,000,000, and in fact auch develop Polish aristocracy, but I am ready to kiss mission in the wat. the total imports for 1904, while imports ment in her trade is quite within the this man's hand which signed the great The incident by which O'Brien won his i from Japan accounted for only 1 per bounds af possibility. cent of the total. As to India's exports.
Total imports of India Imports from Japan Imports from Britain Total exports of India Exports Japan. Exports to Brilain
1010.
Total imports of India
Imports from Japan... Imports from Britain....... #total exports of India
Exports to Japan.. Exports to Britain
1913.
Britain.....
12,824,000 Eur ope (exclusive of lent to that of on the South-Western front and always attracted him next. He travelled secretly
Rupees.
Rupees. The Fudians are a nation whose de 2,347,470,000 velopment has in the past been obstracted
toi
The prospect of trouble in Russin to Odessa, entered the service of the
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47,801,000 in many ways, and therefore it may boxoldiers and civilians had gathered, the degree of positiveness that Dynamite OLARKEBJanm in either set. The
act putting an end to the violent shedding
insistence on the necessity of an advance
courage of the man. The Brooklyn Eagle was received with boundless enibusiasm. thus recalls the story..
It is the duty of England and other of human blood." Here, too, Kerenski's gnomen also exemplifies the intrepid 37 per cent. of the total went to England, civilised countries to see to it that the only a little more than 5 per cent, casing civilisation of India is elevated to a 4o this country Thus, India imported higher less. This elevation of her civil- from Japan only 1-45th of what she irisation will necessarily followed by the Minister told the soldiers there that the when he helped ship a cargo of munitions An hour was spent in the trenches. The He had hardly reached his majority ported from England. In 1910, India development of her economic power, which
mported from England about 48 per cent will serve to advance her trade in the war must be continued till the complete of war to the Confederates by way of of her total imports, importing a little present state of the Indian people it is destruction of German militarism had Mexico. He first became an independers loss than 2 per cent. from Japna Dur beyond their power to exploit the natural men individually, having an encouraging Colombia, Three years after that he won zal been accomplished. He greeted all the filibuster in 1885, running arme to Ping the last ten years India's trade has resources of their country to the best ad
doubled, and England has always sup plied about 50 per cent of all her ite-ra, and it lies with other civilised word for each, shook hands with many of the title Dynamite Johnny Cuban rodhtries to make endeavours to put that them, and kissed a young sonscription, yacht, and had planned to send sixty Lons who had bought the Rambler, a big schooner sports. It is a great pity that in the face country in the way of nilising its own gorward without fears or doubts for the of dynamite to Cuba for the revolu of the prosperous trade England is doing natural resources **** with India, Japan has been able to supply The writer then refers to the fact that freedom of Russia. At one Toint ationists. O'Brien was the only man, who group of soldiers had lined up against would tackle the job of navigating the the wall of their trench, and sent forward Rambler so loaded. When he got started,
only 2 per cent of the Indian imports.
carried a red Bag with the
title fairly
It may also be noted that Japan's ex-Britain owes her present wealth greatly ports to India constitute merely one Efth to India, and says that in order to in one of their number to make a felicitatory heavy sea get the cargo shifting, of her imports from that country. Since crease her trade it is necessary for Japan speech, but after much hesitation man Single-handed, the skipper went into the the outbreak of the war: Japan's exports to secure the development of her, colonice, could only stemmer out. I am delighted hold and made things safe. He won that to India havo increased, and yet in 1935 enrage shipping industry, and expand to see the first Russian Socialist War
Britain. The
extension of the command. Japan's exports to that country were not of the sea elves sous hand in hand with Minister, and then broke down.com- more than 1.2.200,000 in value and in
pletely and wept. development of On the other hand, and the writer hails with great satisfac commercial interests, 1916 Y.71,000,000,
tion the fact that the present world con
Japan imported from India goods valued
nt Y.147,500,000 in 1915, and Y.179.5000 flict has put Japan in the position of The following years This discrepancy be tween exports and imports is not of course playing an important part in the
a discouraging phenomenon, as the great command of the Pacific and the Indian
THIRTEEN GASLESS HOURS.
er part of the imports from India consistecarus. He hopes that this will lead to A Frerich Decree forbids the distribution of raw cotton, waterial for Japanese in the future expansion of Japan's commer of gas every day between the hours of dustry, but as compared with the prosper.cial interests on the consts bordering two 8.30 am and 10.30 a.m., 2.p.m. and 5.30
In order to attain the develop- Oceans. ous condition of England's trade, one can- not help being struck with the insignifment of Japan's commercial interests the, and p.m. and 4.20 a.m.
In hotels and private houses the supply cance of Japan's trade with India. It is writer saya that an Anglo-Japanese
economic alliance is of the most urgent of water is forbidden each day except (Continued at feat of next column.) necessity.
Saturdays and Sundays.
In 1896 General Funston-then n young- ster from Kansas sailed on the Daunt--| less with thirty-five others to fight for free Cuba. O'Brien was the commander of the vessel, and this was Fanston's impression of the man
“He was an ideal man for this peculiar
business, cool and resourceful, and a splendid seaman. All of these qualifica tions were needed for filibustering in this particuler war. for, if there was one thing well-anderstood; it was that every member of one of these expeditions, if captured by the Spaniards, would get the shortest shrift possible to give him.
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