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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEKES, AFFRAINERS AND SURVEYORS, -Public Auctions-

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THE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction

100

MONDAY, Septimber 20, 1820,

Commenting at 11 am.

st their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street.

2 Double Barrelled Hammer Sporting

Gune,

1 Pathe-Phone with records,

1 Motor Bicycle,

to" Leg Vise,

19 dez Gold Filled Spectacles,

70 case Soft Soap,

2 cases Jam,

Also

23,900 Egyptian Cigarettes

(Slightly damaged)

Tax-Cash on delivery,

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GHOSTS OF THE GREAT WAR.

A HAUNTING, EXPERIENCE. -

SPIRIT OF ENGLAND IN, IMPERIAL MUSEUM.

Sir Philip Gibbs, contributes the following to the Daily Chronicle.

To anybody not afraid of meeting ghosts, and especially the ghost of himself,face to face, I strongly recommend a visit to the Crystal I spent some bours there, where the Imperial War Museum is housed among plaster gods and goddesses,

Palace.

ing in the treach at dawn with a the compass-box of the "Vindictive" daydream of "victory and the and the clock from Her chart room fireside," and reading the American and a piece of the Zeebrugge Mole, appeals for dollars to feed the fight- which had been carried away in her ing men and the starving people of fender, as though these things put a Belgium and France.

spell on him.

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM.

"It must have been terrible!" said the wife,

Suddenly he turned round with a

"Aye. That's war," he answered. curious laugh as though touched by

"Our fellows knew what bell was all some comic memory. We were

Do right."

That's war. Well, one can get an opposite the English posters of your bit," and the beckoning ser-

east, and Kitchener's appeal for idea of it in this museum, and I fancy another hundred thousand." But that 100 years hence, more than the one which twanged some comic to-day people will come to this ex- chord in the mind of the man inhibition, in some other place perhaps, hospital blue was that of the Tommy that went on in Europe and left

its heritage to them. lighting his pipe under shell fire with.

a 'Azf a mo, Kais!"

Our eyes met with a smile, and he spoke to me.

to see what manner of war it was

Is it possible that our women did all that work shown in their section

Egyptian kings and queens, and Seemis queer now, don't it?" he of exhibits, made those great shells,

exhibits of trouser presses,

oil said

"That picture took me to the produced that machine tool work- engines, electric washing machines, recruiting office of course I know done with perfect craftsmanship- and other articles of modern progress I'd have to go-and got me this and fed the guns with such moun and Western civilisation.

wound and all the rest of it. You tains of munitions? Those "Wrens," When I came out of the great glass know, the Somme, Flanders, all the busy with their depth charges, those halls to sunny lawns, where children sort of thing they're painted in the carpenters of aircraft, those land-girls were playing to the music of bands, pictures here. It's hard to think back and foresters, all that great army of

womanhood helping to kill and help ing to heal, what passionate purpose was revealed by that labour which

I was conscious that I had passed to those days. Like a dream!

through a haunting experience, 1 There were other fellows at the had been walking amidst a throng Crystal Palace getting back to that

No more use, for some time at least, with luck and a little sense.

cf ghosts, among whom was myself dream that has passed, because here it has now for the most part "downed (an utterly different fellow from the was imaged for them again in Orpen's tools," and made way for men?

Lord, the number of them f man who now wears my bat), and I pictures, the drawings of Muirhead had seen again, as in a mirror across Bone, the frightful realista of Nevin helped to make!" said a girl with a which a living image passes, the son in that picture, The Harvest of loud open mouthed laugh at a row spirit of a people, our people, and Victory (with the dead slopping about of gas masks... "No more use for inany of its thoughts, emotions, in the swamps of Flanders), and the that class of good!" endeavours, and struggles, through allegory of Sargeant's Gassed. years of enormous history which

Some of these men wandered about Dow seem a thousand years ago.

alone, lingering over exhibits which GRIM SIGN-BOARDS,

perhaps were particular relics of that "That was the most extraordinary old ghost life of theirs a field thing. Here was I, and here were which saw service in Palestine, a other men about me who had lived German trench mortar taken at Cam through that time which began six brai, a trench sign board pointing the years ago, who had walked in the way to some glory hole in which they places shown in these galleries of lived while others died. pictures and models, who had stood They made no comment to each by these very guns when they were other, just wandered round silently not silent as now, who had found our with ghost seeing eyes. Others were way about by the sign-boards now with their wives and children, and hanging on these walls. "To Suicide explained the exhibits with an air Corner To Courcellette Mirau of proprietorship and with little grim mont," "Contalnaison "who had asides and jokes.

"Now you know what Daddy did read that notice, Wind dangerous"

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THE REAL WAR MEMORIAL. Again that queer sense of unbelief in the things that happened. So it is with many who go to the War Museum, and see, neatly arranged, finely selected, well displayed, the open history of those years, and grope back again to the spirit of that vast strife and struggle and find it incredible, because those old emotions cannot be recaptured and all the effort is now spent, and the sharp edge of memory is getting to the white ash of extinguished blurred, and passion has died down

fires.

In a way this museum is the real

The objects war memorial, better than piles of meaningless stone. gathered here are the true relics of our fighting men, the things they touched and used, and the spirit of their endeavour the genius of our adventure is revealed here. - youth in this grim and dreadful

and loosened the strap of a gas mask, in the great war! Why, I had a bit and yet to me, and to those other of shell twice the size of that slap mden, as I am sure, all those things through the roof of the dug-out. seemed to belong to another life, Not a widow this time, old dear, I enormously far away, and probably says to myself when I crawled out, "but a very near go! Happy days! In the top gallery where there is a Yes, and next time there's a Europe great collection of posters which an war I shall be in it on the first were placarded on the walls of many day-I don't think!"

The Crystal Palace is not the right nations, and ours when each country PILGRIMS OF REMEMBRANCE was calling for its youth, and more On the whole, they were not place for this historical museum. of it, and all of it, appealing to every loquacious, these pilgrims of remem. One day it must have a house of its but meanwhile pilgrims may go-to emotion of loyalty, hatred, self sacri brance. A chief petty-offices was nobly built, as a national shrine, fice, so that the passionate fires might there with his wife, doing the naval Sydenham and find, among those be fed, a man in blue hospital clothes, section rather thoroughly. I think he relics, the ghost of England as it walking stiffly with a stick, attracted must have been in the Dardanelles, rose to the challenge of fate six judging by the way in which be

my attention....

He was reading each of these pointed out the different ships in years ago, and their own spirit as it posters gravely and thoughtfully, some of the sex pictures, and went 107ed then, in strange places, and staring at those German pictures of gravely round the relics of that with passionate impulses, before the Peace which brought, new-thoughts, hungry women and children blessing (campaign.

discoveries, desires, and thrust that the soldier who goes to defend their But it was the Zeebrugge adven-life of war back into the night of re- Fatherland, pandering over the fine ture which seemed to interest him membrance. figure of that French" poilu" stand most, and Lewatched him staring at

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