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THE TIGHTENING GRIP.
WHAT HAS BEFALLEN IN THREE
STEARS
BY CAPT. I. AUSTIN FREEMAN, ]
The little, or in some cases great changes by which the aspect of our cou try has been so metamorphosed in the last year or two, are apt to be accepted
GERMAN OFFICERS ESCAPE
MONTE CRISTO'S NEWA K
EXPLOIT
The most daring of the long seriese of escapes from internment camps was made recently, when no fewer than 22 German officer prisoners including Lieutenant Otto Thelen, the Hun Monte Cristo."— disappeared through a tunnel from the camp at Kegworth, Nottingham, which is near the famous Donington Hall and is
under the game commandant,
Most of the officers were -
by the unreffective us merely part of the condition of being at war, and left at that with no further enquiry or considerne | Zes tion. Their dooper significance is apt to escape notice and the portents which they, shadow forth to pass unheeded. The great hotels turned into hospitals, the clubs transformed into barracks the streets peopled with soldiers, the country roads thronged with supply trains: these seem to be part of the prevailing cond: surface. And yet from all this calm and quiet activity there is a lesson, to be learn a lesson which may help us to draw aside, if only a little, the vet that hides the Tature and perhaps may hearten ns (if any need heartening) to brace our
-dressed
"TOO BUSY"- MOTHERS,
hord.
NEW MOTOR TO BEAT. U-BOAT.
prob
Sub-
NO TIME FOR HOME.
Mother says I can do anything Ji like
FORTY ONE MILES AN HOUR. so long as I don't worry her exclaimed Representatives of the United States a girl of eieren who had run to sak her| British, French,..and Russian Govern- mother
's permission to go out to, teints have for some time been watching the performances of a fifty-three-foot "Having such a lot of war things to do motor boat equipped with
engine of new design, invented by she added in a wistful, half-apologetic lem of putting power enough makes mother very busy, you know!"
rican which promises to solve times
enough in one of explanation. It made one think
amarino chisors to make then. speed with the swiftest German sub marines. The motor has a capacity of There are a lot of things for women to 400 horse-power the highest of ita, cype
the inventor do in these days, it is true. But it is in the in
the Sound on October 2nd it.
entor says and in also true that there are a lot of women run
drove the
at forty-one mize
one miles an hour German beld-grey uniform. They includ. to do those things; and in looking around drove the boat at for
raiser Amden Eight of the fugitives doors and actions have become wrongly signed the motor now widely used in the ed Captain von Müller, of the German the thought will come that me wrongly The inventor is C. D. Holmes, who de were recaptured within a few hours of connected. The war, with its multitudi- their escape. Oric was caught eight miles nous calls for workers, has created too United States Life Saving Service, te the war began in Europe, with the aim away, two were seen by special constables busy mothers, and the latter ray do started to work on the motor soon after far more harm to the coming generation of a design specially suited to the sub- ying fast asleep in a wood five miles from
With this
Gaging
times as much to the railway station, were stopped by kilting customs" which have lately becu the police as they approached Trent pilloried at Infant Welfare exhibitions power can be placed in a submarine Bridge Nottingham, Two others were up and down the country.
chaser in the same space, and at prac arrested in Plumtree village, six miler An, please God, keep daddy safe antically the same weight, as is possible from cump. ville, six mile make the way over quick eo that.muvver with any engine in present, use, accord-
All the men were covered with mud and
won't be so awfully busy, cos we nevering to the inventor. selves up for the work that lies ahead. day; some were in uniform, but others hardly see her at all now was the re- larger boat and an addition of for va
Let us take a simple and apparently wore civilian clothes. The surprising cent petition of two small boys. Their to seven miles an hour in speed: Bat
thing was the quantity of the stuff they mother happened to overhear the words seat, according to reports had brought away with them. Most of Some short time age, a brief spell of them had bandes containing nearly a leave enabled me to revisit my home after died eight of food and clothing One had a travelling rug and portman- a somewhat prolonged absence. In that. Interval, Rumour-which in these days of censorship, has come into her own again caps, as well as tins of sardines, and had been busy with stories of havoc and meat, fish, cheese, cigarettes, bottles of girls' club, writing to lonely soldiers, available is needed, for living room and
tes, and matches Each man had a de destruction; for it appeared that, on
coast were clearly marked. A
The tunnel by which they escaped was yarde long, and started at one of the huts and passed under a private road. Its oxit was discovered by a farm labourer while passing through a turnip field. Two cables which connect with the electric
tions and few trouble to look below the camp, and three, who had asked the way than could ever result from all the " baby-marine chaser.NAMA
commonplace instance,
RUMOUR BUSY.
five
from
Europe,
several miles an hour faster than chasers, so that the addition miles in
speed to
the chasers would
Submari
five ben
enemy subinarines. Saving against one and vaubasa in the campaign
is also 2
item, as every foot ammunition. The now engine can also to adapter.
Its smooth operation with ab sence of vibration and steadings, were noteworthy in the recent run
as site entered the nursery, and she says the newest German submarines have a she experienced the most terrible shame. of her life as she realised their truth
When her husband joined up, she had of
work-voluntary canteen work, helping at a minition visiting soldiers' dependents, and half dominated and filled every moment of her life. There was no time left for the children to whom she had hitherto been an ideal mother, and but, for her unes- pected nursery visit matters might have continued as they were. Now, however, that particular mother is trying to regain her old position with her Bags, while war,
sundry occasions, strangers from on high failed map, on which the routes to the dozen other things until the work boada sit-planes and armoured.
had visited us and had distributed the usugl kind of largess with more than the uantal liberality. Whence, as the train entered the thoroughly raided area in which my home is situate, I began anxiously to look around for traces of the devastating activity NJA
succeeded in carrying out the subter
*
run.
The engine is of the twin six V-type, and is the first application of this desig to this kind of mator. It weighs 3,400 pounds, is eight fest four inches long and three feet ten incure in height. The
use of the twin-six design, with
to minimum
teat
Which of the old landmarks, 1 speculati Elarm had been cut How the prisoners work of very diminished proportions boat is equipped with two of the engines ranean work without the knowledge of her file, place of Jesser importance in its practical continuous impulse, rudurrs the guards on duty around the camp is a mystery
We have speed, but that has. One of the prisoners recaptured is It is no problem of class, affecting any not been the chief aim, as there are other Lieutenant Otto Thelen, who had already one grade of women. Too but demands of equal
importance One is..
thist
Will
Bu all Lieutenant Lehmann, who was caught of women. The mothers of today are all day and is not with him, had twice previously eluded su busy with a number of things that it spurts. The need of this quality in bunt- his guardar
magd is easy to drift unawares. Some women ing submarine is readily seen, as
as is also have to earn wages, others choose to do that of getting at the parts quickly so others devote much time to voluntary anything goes wrong. At 1,080 revolu service; and in the scant free time left tious per minute this engine will turn to them it is easy to tell children to do off 300-horse, power, without any strain as they like to set aside their confid whatever, and it can be sponded up to ences with the curt assertion that "Mother 1,400 revolutions, producing 400-horse is too busy to listen! It is easy enough effort. We produce a house power to
power, with very little, evidence of extra but it means robbing both mother and fort child of part of life's sweetest heritage natio of those now in use
every nine pounde af engine, while the Mothers who have no time to take a prag to twenty/
is about one tical, personal interest in their children. and who are too busy to be their guide,
um speed of submarino philosopher, and friend, must not be surprised to and that fair boys and girls are more or less strangers to them in later life.
was said to have ground the village corn escaped three times from camp, while mothers are to be found among all ranks steadiness, anable merely of short.
ed, would have vanished for ever from my en Which of the old friends of my solitary rambles would greet me no more? Would it be the old wooden windmill on the rising ground above the marshes, that since the days of Queen Anne? Or the ancient in that lurked by the high road as if still hopefully expectant of the footling coach-horn with visitors for the cofice room to follow? Or would it be the venerable almshouse, with its group of “Charity in the gable? Or the grey old village church
The train crept on through the endless wayside stations, and still no traces of devastation revealed themselves. There was the old mill, twirling its arms as un- concernedly as though Count Zeppelin had never been born. There was the inn Alumbering on in its ruddy old age to the creak of the swinging sign-board. The almhouses stood unchanged, with glimpses of white-aproned inmates gossiping at the doors; and the church was intact to the very bars of the grid-iron on its weather vane which marked its dedication to that well-done good and faithful servant of the Church, St. Lawrence. Nothing (was gone. As for an occasional homb hole in a field or ditch, a burned tay rick, or perchance a newly-made grave in church yard, or a heart-broken mother in some unseen cottage, they may or may not have bern. The salient fact was that
ide was unchanged,
the
A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.
Thelen and Lehmann were the two men who made the astonishing escape from the Detention Barracks at Chelmsford in May last. They slept in cells on the same corridor, but four cell apart. They made dummy Cardboard locks which they put on the outside of the cell doors in place of the real locks, which they removed, Dummy figures to deceive the sentry who paced the corridor were made of their bedclothes and some of their own clothes and, to make the figures lying in bed more lifelike, they had shocks of hair taken from the mattresses
They picked the corridor lock with a false key, and in the prison yard they also picked the feck of the fron gave lea 1 ing to the chaplain's garden. By this way they gut to the Chelmer River, but were later captured in a ditch,
Thelen is also an adept at tundelling, for it was by means of a tunnel made with a poker and a garden trowel under the foundation of the outer wall that he and Lieutenant Keilback escaped from Donington Hall last year
It is false charity for a woman to be an inspiring member of a war charity com- mittes or to write wonderful letters to a lonely soldier if by doing so she silences her own babies' tales of woe--if she lets her growing lade and lassies do practically as they please because slie ja "so tearfully busg there is no time to be bothered by them There are many women lonely women-who can cheer lonely soldiers and serve on war committees, but there is no other woman on earth who can fulfil any mother's sacred duties to her own children.
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The mothers whose images inspire the
20
The maximum chasers now in use in European waters. in other 21 miles an hour accord ing to the figures given out by American manufacturers of the craft, while the sur face speed of B submarine has been vari ourusly given as between 15 and 20 miles an hour. American-made chasers that were said to be capable of making 20 knots, an hour were equipped with two gasoline engines of 250-horsepower each, and making 400 revolutions a minute. There has been much controversy over the seaworthiness of the chasers, although they speed has not been considered sufficient. must of the chasers now used are 80 +5. in length.
These same two prisoners also contrived to get away from Holyport Camp, And yet, was it? Was there no change Maidenhead. The ruse they adopted was since these distant, unrealisable days befor on to saw through the floor of a hat fore the war? Nothing, indeed, appeared while the other played a mouth-organ to To have gone; bith, still, was the place draden the sound, but on that occasionen Over There were never so full of cut-Society is celebrating its centenary short- quite the same 3 Not, not quite For -something had como Something ugly. disfiguring the landscape, but fraught with a deep significance. On all sides, in meadow and orchard and pasture-land, there had sprung up range after range of 1ng, low sheds, daubed into fiat con-
the trick was discovered in time
SAILORS AND THE WAR.
The British and Foreign Sailors side work that they had no time for their ly, and in viow of this event hopes to boys. The saddest story of all the war to raise £250,000 for the further extension me is contained in this tiny incident. A of its work. Founded in the days.
of mother reached a naval hospital too late Lord Nelson and with Admiral Gambier GEN. SUKHOMEINOFF.
to hear her boy's last words. He had as its first president, the society has made hcen a middy-just & slip of a boy. The the welfare of British seamen its first In the course of the trial of General mother's anguish was terrible, but most charge throughout the past hundred gruity with their surroundings And Prines Andronikoff, un intuential folf percible of all when she head the boy's the society, institutions, in all parts of where the sheds were not, there had arisen an poli- pencilled message.
I would not countless akeleton shapes, which would be tical adventurer, one of which, written let them sond You are always so Great Britain and elsewhere have given sheds tomorrow; and again, heyond en. September 27th last to the ex busy.
I did not want to bother shelter, The. Arst charges, and most and clothing to thoende thes, upright posts of raw, new wind, Taarita, zag
you
crews of torpedoed ships fended by leisurely men, píps in in ath and stolid of aspect. A day or two and those posts will have grown into skeleton shapes a day or two more and they will be shecis, yet a few days more and there will issue from them the hum of labour: and then a quiet, steady stream of upi tions will begin to fow forth coast-wards,
General Bukhomlinoff is the victim of his love for his wife, who spent money recklraly on diess and foreign travel and forced her husband to procure the neces ary means. Although a faithful subject of his Emperor, he sells his conscience and is becoming a slave in order to gratify the whims of the woman he loves,
and his wife spending 160,000 roubles (£15,000) a year, he seeks means to increase his income, his conscience is
does not refuse to accept bribes from con- tractors.
H.M.K.N.
THE NEW EMBARGO,
NO FOOD FOR GERMANY,
The Washington Correspondent of the New York Times says: It is impossible
of men.
one
food
gniteful thanks have been received by the society from owners, officers tnd men. Relief
to hundreds of seamen fis dispensed
through the
or their dependentsailors who.
war, and nearly one
across the channel (in spite cub His ministerial salery being insufficient of overestimate the importance of the of the Nature is distribmuted to men
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marines), to the base, and thence the line to ammonition column, battery and trench until at last they reach the enemy linca, bringing a message of death
and retribution.
becoming more and more elastic, and he
THE POSITION TO-DAY.
the
are prisoners of war receive food parcele at a cost of more than £500 per week. Suitable
Auxiliary fleet, transports, new embargo. It has been ascertained minesweepers, patrol boats, lighthouses, that the United States urged Britain to Nautical School has trained lads for the ete The society's King Edward VII. United States is that only neutral coun-ceived their Board of Trade certificates take the step. The attitude of the
merchant service, and over 4,000 have res tries are preventing starving of the And my eye roamed over the ever
Germans into submission,
The centenary fund will No now ar at the school. increasing multitude of frankly hideous
rangements for shipments to neutrals will enable this school to be extended. Cen- structures, there came to my mind the
ho made except with the Allies' consent. Frederick Green, J.P., Sailors Palace tenary subscriptions may be sent to Bir Saying of Smid, the son of Troll, which
and trade agreementa.
will
end he soake while yet the marks of Philam- That was three years ago. What has un
United States will replace the supplies Commercial Road, London, E. 14. mon fingers were and upon his threat befallen since? And what is the position which the Allies now obtain from neutral ** Listen to me, my son! A coward now The anser given by these countries. If the South Americen conn- grips sharply at first, and lossens his hand multitude of sheds, slowly spreading out the United States will cut off their coa! Those who object to scent in public will
THE SCENT LIMITA tries, attempt to send food to Germeny after awhile, because his blood is soon over the countryside. It comes from hot and soon cold," A brave man a grip every town and village where women and supply, which is essential
belverkn
read with interest the following extract grows the firmer the longer he holds, be girls, garbed in strange raiment, have The We Trade
LONDON cause the spirit of Odin comes upon him." stepped with cheerful nonchalance into that the new order prohibiting export you noticed what a lot of women have The War Trade Department explains from a new book, Tuan sald Have Now Smid, the son of Troll, was, a the thinning ranks of labour; from every to Halland and Scandinavia does not taken to exceeding the scent limit lately... sound psychologist, even though his ex cope and hedgerow, above, which peer the totally prevent shipment under licence, even in crowded places dones and planations were hardly equal to his facts inconspicuous green tents; from the but the continuance of licences must not only five rows of seats away from and the truth that he so, picturesquely countless groups of hutments that the be counted
concert halls? On Saturday night I sat et forth is illustrated afresh by this hore traveller notes on every side from [The tenor of most of the current views woman who had evidently been half alniversal eruption of sheds, so unlovely teeming camp where by day, armed on the subject points to a steady passage drowned in a river of Attar of Roses, and in themselves, so noble and glorious in multitudes train and maneuvre in trench of American products through neutral then brought round on musk, and honest their cifnificance; signs and symbols and redoubt amidst the thunder of guns conutries they are of an unwavering courage, and and bombs and the road of musketry hand adjacent to Germany into thely I hope she caught a chill by sitting hands of the enemy. One reason why in damp clothes. If this sort of thing au unwavering courage and unchanging from the range, whence by night issue Germany has been able to hold out so continues I shall take to going to the resolution.
jegovi interminable streams of men, tramping miraculonelyar Marco theatre in a gas-belmet. It is really woD- So I reflected and my thoughts went steadily station-wards with laughter and on, in an
paper, 13 that derfül how women get these long-range back some this years to thone scattered song while envious comrades line the she has been able get foodstaffs and effecte, considering that now-a-days they bands of weary man, staggering across roadside and speed them on their way supplits through neutrals. Among the have such limited clotties surface to Flanders with the countless hosts of the with valedictory cheers.
if sellers have
ave been the Scandinavian work on. Years ago women used shy little Kalser thandering in their tear. This then, is the position. After three peoples The rich Swedes are thought of them falling back before the years of a war, entered into with the case that the poor Swedes are becom the button-fels and at him if he all the time, despite the feat and seente which tised to take a man gently. night, treopers and drivers dosing antinuously developing its strength and 98 poorer he reason for 20% 22 remembered the old farm at baytime and Sweden is straining her exports to be the day he fore his trousers trying to half-closed everyone automate with carrying on the conflict on a scale which many to the utmost, which is hoisting the reach a sprig of honeysuckle for an ever, more automate, hardly is increasingly great The passage of cost of living to a degree almost in girl. There is none of that sentimental
twaddle shout these new futurist noent 9.16 p.s-The Court Cards at the Theatre edat unbeaten, and even in that long effect, the grip of Britain on her for ever weariness; battered, harried and bewilder even the inevitable reverses, haye hut one Boral
It is CLEMANY hurried retirement never losing their tightena; for
reported that Germany is retaliatever three row of talle grip man by Friday, 30th Nov.---
Bind the son of Troll, ing on the Allies embargo, and has offer the thross, and shout their college yell bold on the gigantic foe
would say. A brave man's grip grows ed gram to the neutres Presumably the at him, Gee! I'm mink ALU.S.F. (Cautinuod at foot of neet 'Volumem.)
the Armee the longer he holds.
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conscions of anything but au incredible time the varying fortunes of the fray, credible?NATING The get off the mark like a rocket, esp