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Behind line where water is more plentiful the mind' of the trencher has meals murning evers khori-shrift. pump is thegentre of attraction. Strange and "wonderful utensils are produced to Buckets are assist in the operatio, sure and seldom to be had, but biscuit tins, mess time, pie dishes, and tin hats
make admirable substitutes.
MASSACRES IN RUSSIA.
HORRORS OF THE GERMAN INVASION:
PROTEST TO BERLIN.
ALONE IN A BLACK'S CAMP. THE LIFE TRAGEDY OF A YOUNG GIRL MISSIONARY.
The following extraordinary story, re A reign of terror, equalled only by thecently appeared in the Sunday Times conditions existing in Belgium in 10, (Sydney) |-- has been established by the invader in
A grave miscarriage of missionary Hussia. The protest of the Russian Gor
| says pe
FLOGGED AND HANGED.
..
ACROSS THE MARNE
THE GERMAN DEFEAT.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, June 5th. The attempt made by the German to cross the Marne at Jaulgonne yas more serious than appeared from the first re- ports received. Opposite Jaulgonne, on
CALMNESS!
WHAT IT HAS DONE AND UNDONÉ DURING WAR.
A TWO-EDGED SWORD, Realm Bo calm Real!
It's the text of every publicist and or tor, from the Prime Minister down
the nation's strategy Tehoulders.
of Marcilly Varennes, a station on the Paris-Chalous main line, which at this point-emerges from the Marcilly tunnel' and rans along the valley a few hundred yards from the bank of the river. enemy passed over the Marne by means of
The
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It is popularly supposed that no true Englishman eur do without his cold tub every morning Speaking for! myself, I feel almost ashiment to admit that, while I certainly enjoy my
my morning. bath, I do not insist that the water there in shall be cold. But war has the most disturbing effect on one's mest cherished institutions: spit six weeks in France ernment printed below is one of the most ethod is present in the marriage of the south bank of the river, is the village through Messrs. Hogge and Pringle, to
a a Never have I been without a bath for so the war has produced. i long, and over have I needed a bath so
In the course of a long and detailed girl religions enthusiast with a balt- much for war is a very dirty business statement addressed to the German caste aborigine on a mission settlement In spite of every disadvantage the Foreign Office, the Russian Government in NSW, 500 miles from Sydney. There British soldier contrives to keep remark- ably clean, Trench life is the filthiest Many trustworthy eye-witnesses in is, of course, no legal impedinient to the form of existence it is possible to inngine form us producing also documentary marriage of a white woman and a half-
And the people--the forty-five millione The soldier's world is bounded by mind. It spreads itself over his clothingeliskog / evidence, of the terrible position of the caste nan, and, if it were not that there enough to allow two nga, al móst, tôi
a very light ladder bridge, only just vidn ̈peer about in their moments of relaxa- up his rifle and davours his food. At the peaceful population of the occupied re
tion for the shuddering spectre of panic same time it generally happens that water gions of White Russia along the line of is n certain social degradation of the cross abreast Twenty-two of these And not having necess to platform or is setres and precious as chupag Arcation-of-violence of pogroms, of woman, with no probability of the social Four of them were destroyed by our util Press, wonder in silence at the un-British
bridges were thrown across the river. single ng full of water once served me tortures, of executions, and of savage elevation of the man, there would be no fey. for washing, shaving, and cleaning of methods of dealing with the working cal for comment on the position set up throw a battalion belonging to the 175th
Over these remaining the Germans fears of those who have. classes, as well as of the plundering and burning of Russian villages by German considered by the proper authority.
in the specific case, that will have to Prussian Regiment on to the south bank.
Calmness? It was calmness exposod This free advanced immediately upon
Britain's are breast to a mailed, foe. detachments. Special mention in this respect is necessary with respect to the assorted mating of the refined white the station, while the rest of the battalion aggresive instinct, nullified the blockade. In brief, the facts lending up to the ill the railway and installed a party of the rhetoric of a Prime Minister early Calmness delayed conscription. tarned hundred men with six machine-guns in Police Legions."
in the war dgainst the exploitation of aa The report goes on to give dehnite invited sopi-aborigine are these::
wornan and the illiterate and unculti- stances of robbery, the plunder of banks,
Under spread out along the line, finding excel-lost Serbia, indulged Constantine to the farms. etc, cattle which belonged to the missionary system with headquarters it was decided, on our side, that the Armentières against all fermany wild the authority of a privately-conducted way bankment and in the tunnel itself. that would have held the Somme and lent ever from our fire behind the mil verge of disaster, postponed the comb-out peasants being take away and given to a suburb of Sydney, a girl (now about enemy should be thrown back across the muster. The British saldier's assion for cleanlidreds of pensants were killed by Uhlana mission ramp in which, at the time of carried out on Sunday night.
the landlords in several villages Hin years of age) was sent to a far out river at all costs and this operation was Bess makes a great dented upon the and the villages laid in ruins.
THE CRIES OF CALINESS. water supply of the country, and the
her arrival, was another white woman A small force of dismounted dragoons, our shields against Zeppelins
"Darkans and composure Hinhabitants live in no little fear of a
missionary. Official information is to supported by an American machine gun and Ben was a Government's shibbeth. "were to be Ia Kbaliki, Quali, and other villages the effect that these women (one of whom party, therefore attacked the station in Forty-five months of calmness opened drought. So much so that on one acta
"Wait len a lattalion arrived at a small pusants, women and children who endea of the place) were the only white in front, while the infantry, working along gates to seikes, sincking, hoarding, pro- sion. French village overnight, it was found youred to escape from the fires were babitants of the camp of the blacks. They the valley from the right, were to take heating, extravagance, waste, selfistoss the-next, norning that the hand of pursued by Uhlans, cut into pieces with fived in a degrading environment, with the Germans in the flank. The remainder every pamp in the place had mysteriously swords, and flogged with whips. In one disappeared. After some discussion a village an old dew was first flogged and ful of disciplinary methods, and the support.
a people naturally nomadic, and resent of the infantry battalion was to remain that trusis to its reserves-calmness, and the chimic imperturbability of a nation "The frontal attack, how nothing else. It is a war bonus to luxury handles reappeared.
My first bath at the front was me the villages were set fire to. All persons boom expected. She was alone, and...
villagers. After having been plundered of one of the girls, just what might have an machine guns in the station, and, it what unpremeditated and was in one suspected of belonging to the Bolsheviks
was at this moment that the American hard players on the sixth day of retreat- of the agitating brand. It exempts bil- qtener not appreciated by me as it might and those who were in military naiform
married a half-cast
machine gunners were able to intervene. On the sixteenth it protects the enemy have
with the happiest results. They opened alies walking our streets. operating our been. It took place behind the
Thousands of
fire on the Germans in the station, and businesses, living in prohibited areas. breastwerks which formed the third fine were sat on the spot. of defence in a region of swamp known arrests have been made, and all are de
The trouble, with her coloured charges machine guns, while the French infantry ing breaths at Baillout in the petty occupied the attention of the enemy On the twenty-sixth it drowns, the pant- Festuber. It was early morning in
tained-under the most terrible conditions. midwinter. I was cold and I ran to get They are flogged, and many of them have that among visitors to the camp was
was not her only burden. It is stated were working round from the right in the wrangling of an incurably trivial flouse warm. The ground was treacherom and men shot for attempts to escape,”
rear of the railway. When the machine of Commons. full of shell holes. I slipped and fell Uhlan punitive detachments," the standing in the district and his attitude Germans was at its height, the Germans because ment is rationed calls a taxi
white man alleged to be of good socialgau duel between the Americas and the headlong into a deep crater 6lled to the ctement continues are raiding vil to the girl was that of one who regarited suddenly discovered that the French had when private prof is forbidden, resista Calmness cats three eggs For breakfast brim with icécold water; I struggled lages, plundering, killing, and are re- out, and disclaining the vulgar augment turning singing songs of victory, with
a white woman in a blacks camp as get behind them, and had attacked and restrictions, dissipates on pate de fois of everyone present, retired to my dugout blood-stained whips and clothes.
gin," and to be treated with just the captured the main centre of resistance gras the notes the Treasury clunour for somewhat dumped and chilled in mind town is cut off from the outside world, lack of respect that he and his kind show which was protecting their bridge-head.
A and body.
general bolt to the river then ensued, claims exemption for a goll-caddie, upda It was
wealthy at least, the missionary had to invoke the
saniles while British. ing bands of the Polish legions." AL
smiles when trouble brews We acquaintance of the divisional lath. Minsk arrested men are being sent in their assistance of the blacks for her protection
ther bank before the French could siszont home-smiles and yawn glit on the Each division in France has its thousands to the West.
against the white assailant of her virtue.
the bridges, The German officers were the Thousands of bath and arrangements are made whereby
Calmness? It's the only first to lead the flight. The French British market. Leach unit of the division may take its families have been robbed of their kind of place to which she would be of the enemy ultimately succeeded in Wells
Apparently she had no idea of the already held the bridges, and only a few at Stargate there'd be goll at Tunbridge If the Germans were turn at the atlas s leing withdrawn porters, and are without any means of attached, and it does not appear that reaching the opposite bank
When he threatened Dartford from the trenches. The particular bath subsistence. which I are about to describes was fitted for Foreign Affairs believes that all the establishment from which she was sent swam across, whilst a few of the men got stop the Hun before he reached, the hack.
The People's Commnissariat
she was told by the management of the
Some Ger- some Drake would be finishing his game man officers plunged into the river and of bowls at Woolwich-ready and able t un in what had once been a barn, now acts have taken place without knowledge that she would have to live with the over in a couple of pontoons which were It's with his back to the wall the Brilon partitioned off and adapted generally to and against the instructions of the its new capacity.
moored to the river bank. Formation of mixed commissions. German Government, and suggests the blacks and like the blacks.
There does not appear to have been the battalion, were either killed or opthat wall in Flanders. Our telescopes at The rest of comes out strong." General Haig sere any provision for her personal needs; no tured." Their
machine guns as well as home do not reach that far It's the we divested ourselves of our othing, and Russiansen masse have taken place. Even bush to gather wood for conking purposes Château-Thierry bridge were also partis
In Finland, it is stated arrests of provision for her supply of clean white other material fell into our hands.
woman's food. She had to go into the The enemy losses in the machine gun the page was there before the corner dis
cornered Briton who writes history. But, battle with boots and uniform, to the attendant-twelve-year-old children have been shut. She was left in the camp of the blacks cularly heavy. Over a thousand German be collecting the interest on the German) handed it over, with the exception of.
the Aniericans for thepelled his calmness.
Calmness? If calmness won ways we'd outfit, not new, but clean and disinfected in the majority of cases Russian officers at night every night, after the other dead were left lying along the bank of indemnity by this time.
66 ASARF BEER "compromise was affected and the missing then hanged in the presence of all the result of this association was, in the cusoever, was brought to a halt by the Gertrades and amusements, to shop stewards
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A WHITE PERSECUTUR.
week or two later that I made and is wholly given over to the plunder to some of the natives. On one occasion, the Germans hoping to regain the fur-soldiers astres,
We were first ushered into a room with a brazier in the middle of the floor and a bench running round the walls. There
CHILDREN OF 12 SHOT.
a fresh At Viborg one witness saw 200 corpses,
Scot-who gave us in exchange a
since last worn.
and mere schoolboys. Thus wife of Lieut.. white woman left. Near the ramp was a Armed with a towel and a piece of soup Colonel Wyszokikh, who was killed, told a hotel, and part of the self-imposed duty we passed on into the bath room proper witness that she saw bow the Russians of the missionary was to go to this The furniture of this room was ample who were to be executed were put in rove place at night and bring back those of in the extrenje,
It consisted of duck and killed by machine gun fire. Accord the men who were drinking or were drunk boards to protect bare feet from the colding to other witnesses, in two days more there. On her horseback trips to the town stone floor, and of
small pipe suspended than 600 were executed. After the cap. (nearly 40 miles distant) ber sole com- horizontally from the ceiling. At inter-
ture of Viborg by the White Guards, a Panion was a male from the blacks' settle vals in the pipe were small rays group of arrested Russian subjects, in mont
It has been stated (and this is a with tiny holes Beneath these sprays all about 200 persons, among then women matter which will have to be inquired on a given signal began to pump up the and children, were condemned to death, into) that on one of these journeys she officers the moment our attack was launch†fidence in victory which ignores. so long)
was thrown from her horse and sustained an injury which has affected her mon- tality. Her position at this time will have to be imagined. It cannot be in. diented here more than by saying that' she was in the case of the aborigines men and women,
MINISTERS REFUSE TO MARRY.
the river and in the streets leading down to the Marne. During the three days of
A CURSE fighting in the town two American machine-gun companies fired some tens of stoicism and indifference. Nothing in
Calmness encouraged "bertnes ier thousands of fouls of ammunition. The hum Havas correspondent,
nature; over developed, so de describing the generates to above fight, saya ¦---
mental inertia, tempera- mental insensibility, muscular atrophy. "Some hundreds of prisoners whom we The two cures of this world-struggie took are all unanimous in declaring that are the man who invented Business at they were shamefully abandoned by their usual" and that blind, imperishable cou we grouped ourselves, and a man outside
ed. Moreover, since their bitter experi- the only means it. water. The volume of water was very pat against the wall and shot by machine.
ence on this occasion, the Germans have The wounded were killed with
It was not calmness sacrificed the Easter Rinall, and it was disseminated to such guns. an extent by the sprays that it reached rifles and bayonets. A real extermination
refrained from making any further at-holiday of thousands of weary workers. tempt to cross the Marne.
frowned a nation's brow against a con our persons almost in the form of steam of the Russian population took place,
templated strike Not valuess that But it was hot and the time allowance was without distinction as to age or sex,
drove the Government to a long overdue! liberal. We scarcely recognised one There were exterminated officers, old men,
comb-out-an 1.59 conversion: and Heaven another afterwards the change in our women, school children, and children
particularly happy and healthy-looking grant the clock run slow! Not calmness complexions was quite startling. It was generally, all Bussians. One witness saw
youngsters were playing on the lawn in that nailed the sith for six days of death certainly a primitive sort of bath, but it corpses of Russians to the number ap
front. There are all the evidences of in the made us clean.
There is no information as to her woo- prosperity in the well-kept grounds and the Louse of Commons debated on of outnumbering while Some divisional baths which I sabse been mutilated in such a manter as to being by the half-caste who is now her house of the head of the mission. Un schedule the rights (!) of hitherto pro
proximately of 500 The corpsei have quently enjoyed were on a more sumptu unrecognisable.
husband. It is stated, in a letter from fortunately be was absent. It was stated tected citizens at home. ous scale than the one described above;
Not calhess there were yet more primitive.
In view of the feet that the response priest who married them, that the that he had gone to the camp of the ab- that offered America's soldiers to stringe There
The origines to make inquiries... was the establishment at Bethune, for bility lies with the German Government, girl was infatuated with the man
commands, and lowed Brilish traditions instance, a permanent affair situated in the statement condudes the People's Priest gives, this as his reason for marry
In reply to the suggestion that these before a French Commander-in-Chief. the basement of one of the more superior Contraissary for Foreign Affairs expects ing the couple after ministers of other might have been made before the girl-fear-the impulse that
No, not calmncis, but frank, wholesome Poles de Jeunes fillers. There was the that the German Government will agree religious denominations had refused to do missionary had been thrown into the
wars-the Here it is that one stands agbast at travelling bath-a boiler on wheels with to the formation of a mixed Commission
arms of the half-caste aborigine, the only one that wins great wars. A refined and educated woman said that they she and husband to date marked its bearer more than its careful investigation of all the girl of years is the companion of ao
the situation:
Caleness is a two-edged sword that has pipes and sprays-complete--which toured for a the country, ready with a screen of sack facts.
-knew nothing of the, situation of the toe. Fear not panic-is the bayonet that ignorant nomad of the aborigines settle-girl until the day before the wedding. never drops its point. British pride may ing to set up shop in any place at any moment. At one place which boasted of
ment in a request that an ordained Quick to anticipate the purpose of the well tumble its tradition of calianess this 'n good water supply, big tanks were pro-
minister of religion shall marry them. visit of our representative, she continued: year that it may sign a victorious prace BEEKLY PRESS, the HONGKONG vided on dating three or four men bath the front cannot exactly be called she was the missionary from the settle no facts to present
QUÜND VOLUMES of HONGKONGvided filled with hot water and capable Judged by peace-time standards the The ministers, we must take it, knew You haven't got the facts." She had next.
She did not even spiece. Each one of these baths vs a luxurious, but when we came from the ment sad, therefore, a member of the know where the girl and her half laundry in itself, and a clean set of filth of the trenches to one of those baths profession they followed. But beyond aborigine husband had gone after their always forthcoming in France, we revelled in it as we had refusing to marry her to the half-east, marriage, and it was not worth while when required.
never revelled in the clean white bath of they did not make any attempt to protect telling her that the honeymoon was spent (Continued at jont oj near Columa). porcelain with its gleaming taps at home her from the sure consequences of her in the camp of the blacks, and that next.
social lapse.
morning, the wedded pair left for a near- by town.
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The priest who united them seems to have been actuated by a desire to pro- tect her, as far as he could. by giving her a husband. Had he persisted in the refusal to marry them, there would, he thinks have been no marriage, but the man and woman would not have been kept apart.
We have it that the girl (whose people are in another State) is well connected. Of her malo relatives, over seventy ars in khaki, and her family is one of the oldest in Australia. It does not appear that the missionary society (said to be a breakaway from the older establish ments of the State) obtained the consent of her guardian before embarking her on a career for which she was not suited There is nothing to show that inquiries as to her physical fitness for the work were made. Nor does appear that there were any remittances of money, either by way of salary, or for the chase of necessarics.
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So far the only reply to an indignant complaint by a friend of the girl's family in Sydney is a letter from the secretary of the mission, "expressing his sympathy in the very regrettable cireum stances that have arisen."
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Ben
In a pamphlet issued by the society it
Mineral wax is a substance extraced is stated: carried on at any aboriginal settlement Benzol is now used exclusively, in Ger The work of the mission. is from brown coal with the aid of benzine, benzol, or other technical solvents. by missionaries sent forth by the Holy Spirit. No fixed or any remuneration is many for this purpose. Old methods have guaranteed, the missionaries being ex the coal treated, but the Kaiser Wilhelm been unable to extract all the wax from pected to depend entirely apon God for Institute for Experimentation with
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ply of all their needs. All fem. is now winning nearly the entire quen- oral and financial needs of the mission tity in the coal treated.
sought at the hands of the Lord in
The main Features of its raver, no money or goods being asked tem consist in extracting, the wax ander for from man."
High pressure, is much 33 81x atos- An adjoining paragraph in the pampheres, at a high temperature.
A phlet mentions in black type, however, brown coal which had produced only 11 be sent.. the address to which contributions may per cent. of war under the old systems
gives up 25 per cent under the new treat
These are the conditions under which: ment
Mineral wax was used in peace times for the fabrication of shoe polkb.
of partly-civilised males, and left to work several other young girls have been sentograph records, and the insulation
“WE ARE MAKING INQUIRIES.
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The chicks of the mission, a man and a woman whose names appear on the
to ac
alone to other aboriginal settlements in the back country, and it is surely high of electric cables. Its high percentage of time steps were taken by the authorities sebacic acid-about 60 par seat, of its to insist on better provision being made entire content has been turned for their welfare and protection.
count in the making of consistent f This article may be attingly concluded It is also being used extensively in papers of the establishment, live in by quoting a sentence from a conspicuote paper industry as sizing, taking the place very comfortable house in a suburb of the city. At the time of the visit of a re panel en the front page of one of the of colophoniam. presentative of the Sunday Times a few When men have done their worst, and
mission pamphlets
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