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PRISONER WHO WANTED THE BRITISH TO SHELL THEM.

SUPERIORITY OF OUR GUNS.

The following descriptive account, which has been communicated by the "Eye witnes present with General Head quarters, continues and supplements the narrative published on the 7th January

January 8th.

During the last four days the weather has been warm but still continues rainy, the rainfall during the last few weeks having been altogether exceptional even for Flandora

There is also a fine section devoted to the welfare of children and architecture and engineering as professions for women are more fully dealt with than in provi ans editions. According to Miss Griff, engineering as a profession has not many attractions to most women, but owing to the ever-increasing use of machinery in this the twentieth century there is an equally growing need and place in the On Monday, January 4th, our artillery professions for the woman engineer. on the right was especially successful. Automatically also women's interest in engineering matters is increasing from their new almost daily contact, in some way or another, with mechanical matters,

RUSSIA'S LEAD.

"Russia has led the way for some years in opening the profession to women. In that country they have been admitted me designers and draughts women in large onginooring works, and recently a lady obtained a post as road engineer after open competition with mon," says the writer

During the day sounds of pumping wore heard in the enemy's trenches opposite our centre, and it is thought that they may be using pumps to dram the trenches worked by electricity from the electric power station at Lille. The problers of how best to get rid of the water is one which is engaging the attention of both sides,

On Tuesday, the Sih, among other points, the village of Neuve Eglise was selected as a target for the enemy's guns In this quarter our artillery proved itself After Russia follows Switzerland, the superior, and effectually checked the bom U.S.A. and Canada, in which countries ardment of our trenches. On Wednesday, women are engaged in various ways as January 6th the Germans shelled the engineers. In England there is not (to suburbs of Armentières heavily. Wo con the writer's knowledge) any woman but tinued to make steady progress on tho FRENCH LESSONS herself practising as consulting

engineer and exceedingly few training right in spite of the difficulties produced na qualified engineers in any brauch by the water. According to the repo:18 beyoud automobilism. Liverpool Univer of aviators, whole districts in Southera sity opened its doors to women for an Belgiam are now fooded, for the Scheldt and one woman took as well as the Lys has overflowed its banks. her final degree

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The Daily Express last month, received an interesting letter from an English lady war broke out, and eventually reached who was living in Innsbruck when the Florence.

- She draws a picture of the real position in Austria, the discontent at the war, and the illusive reports of victories and dissatisfaction with the German control. of the country's military affairs.

Her letter, which was written on Decem ber 1st, is as follows:

RISE IN TREIHTS.

SHIPOWNER'S EXPLANATION.

The great rise in the rates of shipping freights, which has been exciting so much attention at Home, was discussed in Ku interview with a representative of tho Pall Mall Gazette by Sir Edward Hain, ox Procidont of the Chamber of Shipping and Chairman of the General Shipowners Society of London. EN

Tho rise is purely a matter of supply present time to the scarcity of tonnage on the various markets of the world. In the and demand," he said. "It is dus at a

case of British shipping, the Admiralty, for transport purposes, have taken up a

cargo service. very large number of vessels, which have thus been removed from the ordinary

WAGE CONGESTION AT THE PORTS.

"Ono very important factor in the scarcity of tonnage, which has resulted in the increase of freights, is the very great The Press campaign against England congestion at the various ports. Owing of lightors, ships accumulate faster than has been intolerable. I don't say a word to the shortage of labour and the absence against either the Gertuan or Austrian they can be discharged. This is specially when in the ordinary course of things a army they are simply carrying out orders the case in London and Liverpool. Vessels but I am thoroughly and for over dis-ro here discharging five and six weeks, gusted with German hypocrisy and low-weak or ten days ought to be sufficient. down methods of elandering us. In Liverpool they have had as many In Austria there is a good deal of disa thirty or more vessels waiting for quay content about the way the war is being berths. The result has been that cotton carried on in Poland. The people openly and other commodities which factories couse the Germans of putting the require to keep them going are all held up Austrians in the most dangerous positions owing to shortage of labour.

ports, especially in France, where vessels and of sacrificing them needlessly, also The suns thing applies to foreign of not supporting them. have been detained two or three months.

Every one knows that the German without getting rid of their cargo Emperor said he wished he had an army Genoa, again, it is the same. This very with Austrian men and Prussian officers, serious detention has resulted in a further because the Austrian soldier as a unit has reduction in the supply of available- more personal bravery, while the Austrian tonnago

engineering traB.Sc. (Eng.) othered Man ENEMY DRIVEN FROM A TRENCH, PA officer is merely ornamental, and nothing.

"more, DRAM

WANT TO BE WOUNDED.

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

In

Whilst it is true that freights are a good deal higher than we have usually. known thom, they have not all surpassed the records. In regard to what was con sidered a very fine freight for a ship that was fixed this week, I had to remind oste

The directions in which a woman who is thoroughly trained should find useful

The people say that there is a good deal and congenial work are these Consult our trench mortars scored a success of disaffection in the Austrian ranks. No ing engineer, research work in laboura destroying a house which was being bed one could explain why so many men were tories, laboratory assistant, lecturer, by the enemy's snipers, and it is believed wounded in the left hand, but an officer factory inspector, insurance inspector that the occupants were killed.told some people I know in Innsbruck that of my younger friends that thirty year

I refused the same rate,

to say draughtsmanship for drawing ofice. The Germans are reported to be collect when the men are in the trenches they hold 280, when vessels were smaller and fewer, tracer, assistant to patent agents,

inded and "It is quita uconcerted action to bring mechanical manager to Isdy farmers, ing all the brass they can find, no doubt up their left hands to get wounded and mechanical manager to lady manageress for the purposo of extracting the copper be sent home. of printing works, steam and electric required for making fuses. For this pur. Then, too, there have boon a lot of about the present rates Merchants uro

pose the towns and villages behind the front are systematically ransacked, and scandals about the way the medical willingly offering to shipowners rates everything that contains copper le seized, examinations for conscription have been which they are perfectly well able to pay. from church bells to household utensile of conducted. For' I don't know how many yoara the military doctors have been all kinds.

accepting bribes to let the men off service, with the reallt that no one who could afford it and was willing to pay for it was called up for military service

laundries, etc.

BRITISH CLOCKS. EFFORT TO REVIVE A LOST INDUSTRY

In all pery

about this

FOOD PRICES.

Serious losses were also made in the

On the outbreak of the war shipowners made very heavy losses. In August vessels were directed towards the Black Sea for A good deal has been said in the Preas

new shipments of Russian grain. All about the bad feeling always latent

these Black Sea charters were cancelled. Steamers were held up for weeks at Con- between the South Germans and

That is all to be stopped. At the last stantinoplo owing to the vagaries of the Prussians, It is easy to exaggerate this feeling, but there is no doubt that it exists, examination, in October, the Austrian Turk, and eventually had to return to za any lednversation with prisoners shows doctors were all replaced by Prussian ones, this country in hallast, paying heavy-

Our Saxon, and Bavarian prisoners not frequently indulge in abuse of their with the result that the Austrians are sums for war risk insurance, and all show- russian comrades, And it is reported that expected to be able to place 1,000,000 more ing heavy losses. on one occasion à Saxon disclosed the fact men than was originally anticipated in the also being that certain trenches which had been fold. Not content with examining the occupied by his unit were going to be taken conscripts, the men who have already bee of freights, drafts Upon Ene examined. Imagine the rage of the people Deutsche Bank in London have never been over by a Prussian battalion the next been declared unfit are

amounts are still outstanding in respect morning, and shelling them after the who thought they were safe met, and probably never will be, and farge Then, too, the people are dissatisfied of freights which will never be obtained. relief had taken place.

cause they learn nothing except the It is only reasonable, therefore, that ship- reports of German and Austrian successes, owners should have the advantage of better Every time they were driven back we got rates of freight when they occur in order a report that the Allied armies had to recoup themselves for the heavy losses evacuated their positions in order to be of the past,

organised. As each new roorganisa. tion was heralded by train loads of wounded, people are beginning to have a fair idea of what is really in question.

An effort is to be made at ones to capture ono and a quarter million pounds worth of German trade in clocks. Ame of representatives of the clock inakers London was to be bold Jast month to decide the means to be, adopted to bring abompany will be formed for the manufacture of the cheaper pattern of clock, which up to the present has been obtained almost ex clusively from abroad, and chiefly from Germany. Sixty years ago British clocks were acknowledged to be the finest that Information continues to come in as to could be had Clerkenwell was the busy the prevalence of typhoid in the chemy's and thriving place where they were made, ranks and the military hospitals in and the clockmaker then, perhaps with Belgium are reported to contain many two or three assistante, sold the timepieces of his own making, and was proud of The German losses appear to have been

altered.

very heavy during the fighting of the last few weeks. According to prisoners, the average strength of companies in the corps, which attacked the British oni December 10th had been, before that date, 120, but after it they did not muster more than seventy

STIFLING THE TRUTH.

As to the effect on food and other prices of this increase in freights, these that we are in a state of war, Things are prices are not unduly high considering better with us in this country than they are anywhere else.

his craft. Every instrument he made was produced with the care of a man who believed himself an artist. But in Gor many they began to make clocks by machinery and to tam out a score while the Briton was making and perfecting

The military authorities severely punish At these times of stress and strain tha. one. It is true that they were not in

any soldier who returns from the front people with fixed incomes are those who. any way the equal of the British article, but they kept time, and they were cheap.

Some interesting statistics of the losses and tells anything about the true state suffer most. But we do not hear of them.. Consequently they found a ready market. It is hoped that all this will soon be in German company have been obtained of affairs, but, all the same, one hears The industrial population, on the other Two or three factories have from colour sergeant's pay list which has stories that fairly make one's hair curl. hand, which makes its voice heard, b already bed the necessary machinery fallen into our hands,. It covers the The authorities try to prevent people from better off now and better able to pay the installed in them, and there are abundant period from the outbreak of war to learning the truth by sending wounded weekly bills than it was before the war foreign specimens from which to model October 10th, during which time the com soldiers to parts of the empire where broke out, for, if the prices of commodities a cheap British clock, The Germans have any lost 10 per cent of its strength in another language is spoken-Hungarians have risen, wages of all kinds Bro one factory in which 1,500 of these cheaper non commissioned officers, and 60 per cent. to German-speaking places, Italians to advanced in proportion and even to e timepieces aso turned out in a single of its strength in men, but a point Bohemis Germans in places where the greater extent. No one, however, would day. No repairing is allowed for, and which is of greater interest is the very high population speaks a Slav language; but venture to say that labour is making

a lack of understanding write all sorts of the imperfect article is simply scrapped, proportion of killed to wounded, being of course there is always something that profit out of the war, yet some people wi which shows how cheaply the clock, is no less than 38 to 91, or about 38 per cent filters through, made. But the genuine old Clerkenwell Of & draft of 18 non-commissioned All the time the Austrians are scared nonsense to the papers cambering the clack of the middle of the last century officers and tren who arrived during the to death for lear that Italy should start supposed action of shipowners. can still find purchasers. It is readily week of September 8th, 49 are recorded as on the side of the Triple Entente, but saleable in the United States of America killed, wounded, or missing during the what I know on that matter I will reserve at a good price, in spite of the 60 per ensuing month. From figures which have

censorship stands here in Italy. cont. tariff Recently a clock made by been obtained relating to other units these for a later period until I find out how the Tompion, who was famous in Clerken losses are certainly not exceptional. well in the 1700's sold for £400 Although

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ite value lay largely in its age, it goes as well as on the day when it was first wound up...

THE GUNNERS' WAR,

THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITION. Touching on the suggestion that British Sir Edward pointed out that a Gotorn- shipping should be taken over by the State, I can tell you we English who have ment scheme for managing shipping is They have, he passed the last months in Austria have quite unpracticable. The experiences of this was have caused learnt to be circumspect. We simply dare said, no knowledge of ships or their many profound modifications in the not let our real sentiments be known, and management, and the transport depart- theories commonly held before it broke out, it is such a relief to me to think I can ment have as much as they can do now For the following efforts of juvenile but no factor was perhaps so under spread myself ont a little and say what in dealing with those that they have taken erudition the Dublin Journal of Medical estimated as the effect of high explosive I have had to keep bottled ap. Sometimes up for transport and collier purposes.

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rates of freight by tan shillings a ton, it tomy is the human body, which consists projectiles fired by guns and howitzers. I felt as if I should explode if I couldn't Supposing Government intervention would simply mean that that ton shillings of the parts the head, the chist, and the The opening of the war found the Allies let myself go. stumruck The head contains the eyes and brains, if any, the chist contains the lungs and a piece of the liver. The stum

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in a position of inferiority to the enemy NO MONLY in this respect, an inferiority which has, however, since been made good, and the Germans are now experiencing to a greater extent than before the devastating effect

bas ever before possessed.

Food is awfully expensive in Austria. No one has any money, and I think the new Wer Loan is not being taken up with

NEIZDALS BENEFITTING.

A remain exactly the same Up to the time I left, they had scraped

It would be impossible, moreover, for For the last hundred years, against together about 2,000,000,000 kronen troops in the field, artillery has, generally (280,000,000); considerably less than half the Government to regulate freights of speaking, been depended on to create a of what they want but it has not been British chips between one tentral port and given by private individuals as it has in another, say, from the Argentino or the moral effect rather than to achieve any Germany, but by companies, banks, munt United States to the Mediterranean; so great material result, and it has been cipalities, and various institutions, and that intervention would mean further reserved for this war to prove that it is all this in spite of the fact that they are assistance to nentral shipping at the cost the chief agent in destroying the enemy's offering 5 per cent. in Austria and 6 per of British vessels power of resistance.

cent. in Hungary,

Neutral ships at this moment are People know that even in the event of getting wonderfully high freights for Germany winning, Austria will get voyages which British vessels are not precions little of the spoils, and every allowed to make. By the end of the war body says that Germany is simply playing they will be in a strong financial position for her own hand, is using Austria ass and then competition with us will be tool, and will not hesitate to sacrifice keeper than ever. Neutral shine are ribice Austria to serve her own getting fahulons rates for carrying com- modities to neutral countries, and pre- sumably a lot of the cargo is being passed through to Germany

It is extremely hard to conceal the posi tion of trenches from an aerial observer, and once their position is notified to the guas and the exact range is obtained, it not long before whale lengths of trenches will be blown in, and entanglements, trous de leup, and every form of obstacle however ingenious, swept away as

That the moral effect is very great is shown by the written and verbal evidence of prisoners who have lately her captured. The Allied artillery is gradual Suming superiority over the

I can assure you that everything I have factor of great importance in the prosecution of our general offensive told you is absolutely well-authenticated,

interests.

I should think that Austria is finished, and done with at any rate, and if only England and her Allies will stick to it, they can cripple Germany as well.

Wheat rose thd on the Liverpool market on the 15th ult Flour officially advanced is per sack within a week.