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MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1917.

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BATTLEFIELD THOUGHTS too long.". I have been much ENGLISHMAN'S PICTURE

NOBILITY OF THE FALLEN.

As ptiese serving in France, writes :----

I have to-day been to Feinrourt-sur-

«truck with this thought, for although T ars old enough to dislike (alas! only in

* [theory)"the use of superlative adjectives to expresa positive montiinents, yes I look on this tendency as being partly ' the

. OF GERMANY.

SENSE OF VICTORY GONE.

evidence of a language that is is alive and on “que nung "* CORRESPONDENT]

Auere," and though I am now an old and strong, Sane of our mot expressive Pried soldier accustomed to every, aspect words to-day began as "púkka" slang Fur war. I am still capable of being Bug the drawback of this misuse of adjec..

Flats February 15th.

I have had an extremely interesting

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I have a drawing which I did of to-exprims his deep feeling. He cannot. the valley of there a was last The coinage has been too long debased.” summer, which I dessoribed in you.

As I stand beside the lingke church al hare a drawing as it is to-day, Stavros anit looked down the Gulf of bitterly at Inadaje with a winter mind. Ortung, on the ship that lay there und It is it curious thing to walk over enemy the great natutains behind a dappled frenches that I have watched like a tiger with cloud-shadeira and their arads of the coldest weather Berlin has her werks and" works-but what of the wreathed in vajour, sad as I noted the pericneed for 88 years. Germany i boys wlan fook those trenches with their ligħra and shades and the blue haze of going through a transport, erisiu exactly. | 11 rows of barbed wire in frons of them? mystery and enchantment in the distance sinillärt that of Great Britain and Accommodation in the connecting Stammer from COLOMBO in definitely asserved in "think I ever before to-day rated fit me to me that here was something France, and with similars colts as

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the British soldier at bis proper valhe, that I could never describe. Everyone regards coal supply. Coal costs about His suferings in this weather

with about that loves and takes strength 50. për fon, but owing to the cold wea- indescribable: when he is not in the ad comfort from the beautiful in naturether and also to transport difficulties, trenches his disenters are enough to must at times ache with the thought all quantities only are available in the kill any ordinary mortal, when he is in that it can over be passed on by hime capital, where goal lines are a regular the treelies it is a mixtury bowen he Truly we live mit die alone, North, Pole and Hell; and yet when the hard saying? Yet face it for it is a true moment comes be jumps up and charges one. Contuct is not anim, though na given by nervals of the situation in at the impossible, and conquers it, and in all ages have tried to Bersuade themi Į Berlin. He does not pretend for a

feature of the streets.

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reached may point of acute depression. any means staging, or that they have

Having been able, as hare but few of the (neutral observers who have written upon The whole hillside opposite the cancer cuiditions, to watch the enemy is a mass of heather bloom and the serpt)

since the very beginning of the war, his impressions are perhaps non as clear cut

he is grateful to the country who feeds) selves that it is. Even the most devoted j kian and clothes him well enough to give jand closet of friends--companions of a hin the heart to die. Sate of the pour lifetime though they be, urinot describe lows who lay there as they del looked scenery to ench, other, They can. but to me ubsolutely noble, and. E thought inspire the wish to mess in, of their fandle who were aching "for news rst thêm, and hoping against hopa that they would not be lett unburied in fis very saseen and gites one nostalgis for their misery..

? the lowlands and the highlands at the

greas pence) inforgotten islands." A broods over the last here and you would i not dream of war. The enemy, in ring

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dewaltory way, but it only wakens the eches for a moment and then they fade and pete comes again.

i was out on the Noohori plateau ther

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All the wing and tender thought that are lavished en hem are not enough, There ng no words ter describe the larg heurts of these mes. God blew them And what o;- The French on, whose they Bet Can they ever forget the bloral

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J.A. Plummer, Esq.,-Deputy Chairma Hon. Mr.

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THE FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE." former curtainty of victory has Tin splendid feeling that

C. E. Anton, W.L triumplunt Germany was íneing a world | G.T.M, Editing, Esq. Pattendan, Esq.

in arms has given way to the tremendous CS. Gabbay, Esq. Hon. Mr. F. Shellim.

that is mingled with their own I hope other day, "wherd once stood "Amphipolis, anxiety of the light for existence.

to-day.

PEN PICTURES OF MACEDONIA.

of an other in Minedonid!--

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The

submarine super-rightfulness has crouted two definite schools of opinion among the

Germany,

curly the same problems which confmat The German capital is struggling with

not. I don't think England has ever had

and there, indeed, they chose a wonderfel as much cause" to be proud as she haste How far beneath the ancient the

toder, has falien, may be seen by come mass of the propie. Both are agreed that the war may be over in May paring the site and ruins of Amphipolis

or Time, bat one school'still shinks it will The following is taken from the letters with the existing village of Senhora end in the starvation of England by the cat's best and a palace? The plated is submarine blockade, while the other is Every day af daewo the lighters cone fairly level, at a height of about 700ft. It gloomily certain that it will end in the up from Stavros.

The Bulgar cop slopes precipitously to sea-level on all British Fleet's successful blockade of them, so I give no secret away! They sides but pun: where, it joins the pur are black and without any mast, drives going up to the highlands, and where it by an oil engine in the stern. In the slopes back to the river. North towards evening when they go back they are often Drania there is a long stretch of low hills!

great mountains with precipitans sides.

The Struma is exceedingly muddy and the afternoon: in Berlin so scarce is stem to sterz they glide along without

is said to be a hot-bed of diseases. It labour and transport that the courtyard noise, and their bows with the big ramp uns very switty, with many eddies. of every binck of buildings has become a give the effect of the curved prow of There are all sorts of interesting things big rele held. Here the French are ancient barge. It is then that I recall on the site of the town, and in one place endeavouring to increase their sanitary: the passing of Elaine, or the vision of the columns of some great imilding haft by recruiting North African labour Arthur moving out upon the flood-heep nearthed, with traces of capitals |

Faith, Hope, and Charity," and three still showing. There are also bake overs In Berlin"the work, of the dastmen fa greens who should help him at his need, and countless graves, I should like to very largely in the hands of French and gathered round him, loosening his armourbe a romantic quest.

form one of an excavating party: it would Rumian prisoners of war, who move about

the capital without any escort...

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when darkness falls. Dead black from

away down the long waterway, does this 20th-century accessory of war, with the some gradital noiseless motion, wafted by

journey down the Via Egnatia. for in his

some ureen band. What can it be but foverywhere I should imagine Palestin disappeared. The theatres

the hero's armour and accoutrements that to resemble this country very much. the men-at-arms juve laid so reverently

| by his side ere the bast left the shore?,

Alas! it is only mail bags

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and chaing the cold hands. It fades St. Paul must have had a wonderful p All the old brilliance which arousad the day it would have been a very thriving l'enthusiasm of American correspondents in laud. The road and its vicinity is shaded Herlin in the early days of the war has with fine olive trees, and wild vines arP,,,

эле half empty and unheated, the audience sitting in "its overcoats and polisses. Drastié lighting regulations have also been intro- duced.. The German woman spends all Although German diplomats and her time, to judge from conversations in consular officials have been compelled to leave China after severance of diplomatic trains and tramcars, complaining of the, so rockbound the ecast, with the tall bills relations with Germany, other Germans food regulations and speculating upon rising up on either hand Edmund in Chinese employ have been allowed to what she will be able to get in`recum for Candler was once describing scenery in the remain so far. A report is to the effect her food cards.

that this will soon' not be the case. Dr. Himalayas, and he breaks off with this:- Arnold of the Ministry of Finance is to We can never convey to others the be dismissed so that he may leave China image ale what we see.

at the earliest opportunity. The report (xz language will not carry it. The coinage has been is, however, unconfirmed, anys the

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