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War Savings Certificates.

Vilne 5 years

after purchase

£500

£1

Purchace Price

£387 10:0 155. ed.

FREE OF INCOME TAX.

For avory 188. 6d. lent now £1 will be paid 'In: 5 years' time; equivalent to 5 per cent, comi pound interest. Nq Income Tax Will be payable.

Anyone whatever tis or bet income may be, can buy War

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

(1) A Certifiente entitles tis puretusET to, merivų £1 formeh Battel, où the hith anniversary of the date of purchase, free! of income tax in respect of the accTIZUN lated interest.

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(2) A A Certifiente, is except by pencission of the Postmaster General; a fog of 1s, will be charged in!

t of each transfarer. In the event

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of death, the same rules will be applied

the Df

ra Savings Bank Deposits. (3) Onwritten application (on a form tainable at any Fust Office) being mul to the Controller. Money Order Department, London, the purchase price, part thereof in multiples of 15. 61. will be repaid at any time, with an alition of Bel. For each . el. on the first anniversary of the tate of purchase and with a further adtion of 15 per 15. d. for each month thereafter.

(4) No person may hild more thải El Certificates or their equivalent.

The 1 Certificates (purchase prics 15. Bd.) are issued in hk form. The Certificates for £19 (posthuse price £9 Baland (purchase price £t is Bla are issuer, without books. The £1. $19

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"If Certificates but, and the serial! numbers can be furnished to the Controller of the Money Order Depart ment, new Certificates will be issued at

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SPORTSSAS & AUTOMATON.

Mr. J. E. Munness Howe writes:-A

June, 1914.

Meur ngtwo before the war whe chatting with some Gerton offers at Cologne (For examples of investment in War Savings

Certificates, set and wra fell in comparison of certain the other side),

Examples of Investment inertaan arudies, 1 had, leer watching

War Savings Certificates

soane brigache maarisees which Germans always ulata are match, no 5ke the

281 6-

187 10 ---

88 14-

93 15-

48 17 3

18 16-

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15

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89 7.0

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8 176.

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7 17 0

8 189

2 7 8

1 10 B

2 18 3

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maitiple of 154. 6d. up to £867 10m

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RUTHLESS METHOD=" Even are ruthlesse are the mecha

by the ferman connoissioned

offer for beating initiative out of a n anch reshing him to a mere automaten. • Men have lawn forend, to" Hek ng filth depped on the barrack roo for and breinbed under the ferocious treat. arus by which such, onders have been accompaniek, Dae of the saddest things ever read was the diary of a Germin dier describing the destructing of his idesty maler the effect of such

tament. And if we remember that one at the effects of brutality ke this must

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halers, boxers, cricketers, and inveterate loture of sport "iu sine forms or other, ment yho have learnt in play, to keep in all vircumstapeés an even tengerband a cool head, and a gay hers, and so have known how to keep then when trenches have been flooded-in juddyvers, when by night they have been frozen, and by day lashest with ag range artillery to which y cruild make no reply.

if this was possible when the sports- were still terribly inferior in numbers what is he not capable of, now that at that he has beenme as strong as his foe, and the big artillery, bigger and better thasi the Hun artillery has ever been, cours behind him raining shelly on a "bully shaken, fra?

*Surrender ?" raßed an officer of a strong German patrol one, sight as lia party turntled en a shell hole contain ing a little group of London soldier under corporal. I don't ink was the reply. "Hand: up yerself yer. blighters ?**

he to isentalise the object, we shall more easily understand hos. German sunities bave occurred. Such are the methods by which the "Germans have anafactured rex thing thin the Humboyant Kaiser their carinon indder," the term itself mertenvres later in the year. During being a lot epitome of the under the operations I had monarked the invari- tying principles of their military system, uble advusee du attack in ""insely musmed Men trained by the German method waves, inipressive enough in front of could never hopi in tight stressfully unless employed in greatly superior nume blank cartridge, but bound to be terribly turd by a highly trained statt. Ta fact the Down the Hun rites went to the round Triumph of their system depended on the and every hand was hurriedly Efted. The skilful manipulation of docile unthinking officer looked at them, hesituted, and said, masses brought to bear upon a mumeri, a Well, as everyone has surrendered I slly interior enemy. Yet even then with must do an ́ten," verything in their favour, as was the case in the Mens campaign overwhelding masses of such automata have proved caprible of driving home the advantage gained by superior sight to the rant of

nitiative like the British and the French capable of fighting with an intelligent

Comparing this with our own system of open order formations, I asked my Der. num aequaintaber if they did not think such closely parked formations as their would prove tonestly under the hose-liked disalarga of undern, fireaños, Oh, said one, we only get our men for two years and in that time, it is Impossible an adversary, where individual units were 4traju them to fight like your splendid

The comparative nxorale and fighting spirit of the two armies is hers in a nutshell, and the lowering of these qualities among the German soldiery is evidenced by the fort that for hy duty. resembling a fokra hrape, anch as the army fell back towards the north, as well delaying of the British pursuit when their

six years soldiery. All we can hope to soldiery. Frat Hous to the Marne, as a as for all raiding attacks on the British

to me, the Loche was fought with the long arm, he was never allowed to se his weight ut in fighting, and bring of

* knock-out:

fur. These men fight with "fanaticul desperation, but the German lenders have recognised the ingraibility of detailing whule unite for such desperate or advra-.

urnus work.

a do in that time is to turn them into Aritish boxen, who was in it, described it for French trenches, voitsateers are enlled

automata, - expable merely of doing sienically what they are cold, without thinking. Would he irtipossible, as you will nyderstand, to expect such men to ve forward in independent formations -without the seas of touch, like your We know that we shall lose any heavily. We accept that. But we trust

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But it is not drough the efforts of ̧n war was composed of a regular soldiery hall percentage if desperate man that without its equal in Europe; we are faced the German armies can hope for final the Tiritish soldier of the new agnies with spirit and fighting etciency existing by another remarkable fact in compering victory. It is up the average fighting -* to màë numbers and we shall get there," his opponent. It is a fact which enables among their latest levies that they have

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It is in confrmity with this doctrines to trace the imperiority of the Tiritish to fly What the average value of this that the German soldier has been trained, | fighting man to jet apother and deepër

Rource than the long training of the better than the Irish soldier. hands in this greatest of all war," Ia regular soldier who astounded the Ger the ruthleum pursuit of this ideal of them in 1914. We cannot," said the fighting automaian, every nance of initia

German officer I bave quoted, "traid our.. trol individuality, and even of „meistal

men in two years to fight in open formas Lions like your splendid six setially has been beaten out of a man,

yearw For it is believed that if slowed to retain that Britons can fight in such formations soldiers." And yet. the war has shown us any power to think for himself he would with a sufficient instinct of cohesion after Jose that instinet ef blind obedience; in

a training not of six years but of only six which the German command put its months

whole faith. Fear and terror, the pooAN ANY OF SPORTHMEN. ducts of systematised brutality, have been.

Flow has this wonder been achieved?

the "German" means to this end. I have You must go to rock bottom for the

the training alone. This bas been stiff and searching enough. Pat it has not

answer to this question. It has not been

seed it in operation. I remember one day at a German military station watch ing an inspection of German recruits The jumperting offer, stiff ass ramrod been stiff enough to break the spirit of and remorseless, strode up and down the the British recruit to suppress his eternal opened ranks, stopping to glare at each sense of humeur or its own brother on man's face, as though werehing for i

eternal optimism. The miracle has been victim, Suddenly without my apparerendered possible not by the training, but ent reason, he raised his cans, and stashed by the material trained. It has been an

helpless, man access the face for soms Trivial detail which did not mees with his army of sportsmen that has been set in Approbation. To a British officer such Germany) An army ef for hunters, foot- array against the putomaton koste of sight was horribly repulsive C

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