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functions! changes taking place in their moment

gardens, 8.W.1 Sept. 6

OUR CITIZEN ARMY.

MEN. BETOND PRAISE

AMIRAULE OF THE WAR,

Mr. Lloyd George's eloquent tribute to the British Army makes the following at special interest

bodies, they work beyond their strength, Officer of the War Cabinet, & Whitehall often brosk down, become nervoas Marreks, their fatigue and dies suffering with weakened nervos trembling at every step. Often in their great deal of very loose and misThe outstanding fact of the recent fight weakened condition sapillary hemorrh chievous talk about peace. Some people ing here has been the same as i was on becomes excessive, this added drain seam to imagine that we have only to can the Somme last year, namely, the amar- compelling them to take to their beds clade a treaty with Germany and all will from nervous exhaustion.

What these women need is something be well. But I should like to ask what ng quality of our men. that will instantly relieve the pressure is to happen. then? Are the nations of

Dear Sir, I agree with you that there: British Beadquarters, 11th Septemberi

One talks about it less now than one on the overworked nerve centers and the world to proceed with preparations | did a year ago became then our now gire them the vitality to stand up under the grueling strain.

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enormous cohorts of seroplanes and bow the men are going to fight anywhere

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Talking to a Divisional Commander. The truth is that a treaty of peace does recently asked about the general not necessarily secure pesce in the only behaviour of his men. Oh," he said, sense in which it can be of any real use" they're rippers; absolute toppers, every to progress and humanity. We talk man of them?" His men came chiefly platitades about a league of nations to from certain manufacturing districts in enforce peace without considering the the North of England. Within the last conditions essential to its success. "But

pass slowly, study esch individual man. note the way they sit their hoses, the evidence of the ears that is taken of the animals, the confidence of the drivers, the serene assurance of his oute coc. petence which stamps the bearing of every man.: Who were they before the war? How long have they been here? Is it credible that they were ever anything. but soldiers?

Where have all the dispatch riders come from, these men whom all the Army admire, who day and night in all weathers, soaking wet or covered with grime, flash by with tight.net li and steady eyes, through all the dust and swirl of traffic? One knew there were young men in Britain who loved

there was a league of nations to protect two days an Army Commander, replying Belgium-there wars solemn treaties and to the same question, broke out on conventions at The Hague to apply the they're extraordinarily good i couldn't be principles of humanity as far as possible better, to master where they come from. in war, and to give suect to International And an Army Commander's men come ouch dare devil work as this, but where Law. "There is no International La from most parts et the Empires another have we found enough of them, so that said the German Emperor Treaties Divisional Commander bad spoken for our the roads of half France ons is never are but scrape of paper," said the Ger- said the German nation, to sink shape had fought And the way they stick of their engines? And the transport man Chancellor. We claim the right some time of the splendid way his men of earshot of the machine-gun raftle

of any nation, even neutrals at sight, and by each other, be had said, "is simply den, how comes to us they are ult lo murder their crews. We claim the right to use engines of death forbidden magnificent. They are troops of mixed brave, all possessed of an equal and by our own Conventions, only it will English county regiments, and have supreme contempt for abells when they asias us in the prosecution of st

suffered since the war began as heavy bave a job to do? If you ask an in-

sve not yet seen a single amities: losses as any division the Army.fantryman or gunner who was the bravest

made as to how in future these

Atu .to. be prevented from recurring,

the lawless temper of the Germans reAre they tired? *** maira unrepentant, and their power want peace?

to repeat their crimes remains what it

has been in the past relatively to the was the quick reply, rest of the world.

Do they

man he has seen he will speak probably,

Inske peace it in another infantryman ör gunner ia |

Not

not one of them.

the exercise of his ordinary duties, but of some cuncer who carried messages. some engineer of signals who had

what this war is

beginning they the care of telephone or telegraph wires,

or spae stretcher-bearer. So it is ad

through the Army and it is impossible not to wander daily how these men hid their qualities before the war and what

as shaped them to what they are today

President Wilson is right when he They understand now declares that no terms signed by the about, which at the present rulers of Germany will afford didn't." the slightest security for the peace of the world, and nothing is more certain than

From my own observation, I believe that, just in proportion as the military is to be true. Tired? Of course, man defect of Germany is incomplete, the duration of peace will be short. What got tired individually physically, and ever terms Germany might

now bring herself to accept in order to recuperate mentally tired. But the British Army is her strength for another aggression, her very stern and set in ita

purpose. now. A week ago, on the coast just behind people would Socz

forget such

economic privatione as and would remain convinced that they fight for the love of fighting; but in the rest take their horses, into the sës, have had to endure, Many men there are undoubtedly who the reach of shells, I watched men out they had proved them

themselves

elves invincible. With

men Eght now not from naked men on bareback horses, fenit to their armies in occupation of vast tracts as our

territory concession, adventurousness, not from discipline, but flesh. There were of conquered

more than 300 of such as the evacuation of Belgium, would because they propose to win this war, and them; and they went out in a great bow-

дер

be trumpeted as proof of German mag-

nanimity, and their children would be know that for the world's sake. win it taught to remember the presentar as

shaped line, centering, shouting, racing, through the long shallow of the incoming

the greatest of Germany's military they must. It might have been a very triumphs. The prestige of the House of nice war," said a sergeant, * If the Certide till the water rose from, hoof to Hohenzollern and of the Prussian, mili- mans would have fought it right. But fetlock and fetlock to belly and belly to

tary caste would mer or those illusions are gone. The German back, until nothing was to be seen but

and the inherent weakness of o

would be represented as the chief lesson has not fought it right; and it is a vile the horses' heads and part of the neck, to be drawn from a conflict in whi

which all

the democracies of the world in coalition and dreadful war; and our men know and men awash to the waists. And ther had been unable

the armies of War Lord to

the

defeat

If this war is to patanend trall war as

now, and know at there is nothing eise, to do but crush the Power which is the earnest desire of every mine made it so. every democratic e country in the world-

in

if, in the Prime Minister's phrase, there is to be

18 DIVISIONS AGAINST ONE COUPS.

no next time, it must be waged until German military power Inis been Some of the hardest fighting of the suficiently crushed to make fresh gres- tion by her impossible come, and mullable for a long time toner-perhaps of the war has been possible going on of late in the Westhak Zan man people themselves to

be doladed by the

they came back in one glorious race for home, a mass of black shining skin and whirling, white arms, all veiled in a smother of form in which the sun struck

rainbows. It was immensely good for the horses; but, oh! how good it was for

the near. But how came they all to ride,

for the German end of their inviz-/Voorão region, about the Ypres-Menin each one like some strange amphibious

achiaxed, it may be

this has been road. The Germans evidently regard this centaur? What were they before, and

cibility in arme possible for league se a crucial point in their positions and how far have they not travelled" from

of nationa to be established, with Some Fronsormble!

hope of eing able to conda pesce timus adt on is durable

have long in troops against us recklessly.

tion. Hus unfees this war attain such bedlove that, one of our corps has had

the.

and

50

enables

nations to fewer than 18 divisions against it:

their old ways of life and thought? By how much are they not better men?

Two stretcher-bearers were pointed out

Peresulotid to feel that they can during the month of August. Tae to me as having been particularly gallast

of the

enter upún problems of development

and progress without the constant terror struggle has begu desperate, and we hare

vain,

of a fature war, all the sacrifices of this made headway only very slowly. struggle will have been made in

d will

not have:

I and the world we been made

safe for democracyourse

ORDER at the attention

CHERRY & 00,

PEDDER STREET, Opposite Hongkong Hotel Telephone No. 491770

Hongeng bfarch 20, 1914.

Within the last few days I have talked

Eurely, therefore, our course is obvious with an uncer who, by virtue of his must carry on until such a victory is position, should be thoroughly, qualised gained as will:

remove all practical danger 15, of war Tar the Intare; and any man who to speak on the subject, and be told me tries, whatever his motive may be, to that never had he knows men come out

of the chentry from this goal of deliverance is the wort of battle in better spirits than those who' enemy of a real pencil, vas

have been fighting there. Esd?" they ay, Yes, it's been pretty bad; but my wa've killed a lot of Germans And they doubtedly have

Yours faithfolly,

· EDWARD CARBON.

I LOSING WEIGHT

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– Under, Wolght," (a condition of lil-health, shews your asafet flative powers are decreasing,

I spoke to them, and found that one had sat on a stool in an insumage office before the war, and the other was a farm hunë. One of our most brilliant airmen was,

I believe, in a haberdasher's stop. Of a certain group of kix officers, only one was

a Regular, sollier, in the Guards, one

was in the lading Civil Service, ODA S master at a great

school,

pro fessional musician, one a solicitor in his father's office, are a journalist of a family Fof journalists. – The most frightful of our Azever cesaing subject of cardositynewest engines of war was intented with me when taking to officers of the musical pratio of Ural weekly paper almost, every grade) is his quality of the However much may be written, and now drafts and have gever yer metald of our critizen Ahoy! I do

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