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ENEMY'S DEFENCE.

AMR BELLOC'S VIEWS

THE LINE OF RETIREMENT Mr. Hilaira Belloc, writing in Land and Water, discusses Germany's defensivo problem in the West,

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He points out that critics sometimes talk as though the existence of trenches behind trenches, that is, of a series of

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parallel one with another behind the original line rendered the prob lem insoluble The eremy they say, may be driven out of his first linu, but he will fall back upon his second from his second upon his third-and so forth. There is no end to it." But that While homeward freights have risen to is not the way the thing works, or can record" figures, outward freights con- conceivably work, unless the second lines time to advance by leaps and bounds. To are shorter than the first and the third give an example:-On January 12th the lines shorter than the second rate of freight on coals from the Tyne So long na Gonoral, continues Mr. to Marseilles was 30s on January 13th Belloc, “ has enough men to hold his first a boat of 4,800 tons secured a freight of line against the enemy's numbers and 359, and the terms as to demurrage aro mechanical means of attack, so long he

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The present line held by the Germans is roughly three hundred and fifty miles in length in all its convolutions. Sup pose they fall back upon a line passing. The ordinary rate on coal from the Tyne in front of Antwerp and Brussels toto London is 3s to-day the shipowner is Namur, then up the Meuse to the neigh- able to demand 13, ed., that is to say he is bourhood of Verdun, and so along their able to impose a tax of about 10s, per ton original line to the Swiss mountains. on the coal consumer in London, When They would shorten their total present we come to investigate the reason underly. line by sacrificing all their presenting the scarcity of tonnage available for hold upon the strip of North-Eastern our needs at a time when our Navy has France, which is their principal asset in the Western:

so magnificently sucereded in its taak of as it is now keeping our ports open and of ensuring developing.

the safety of our trade routes, we find The distance from

their present poei tions just north of Verdun to Antwerp, that, apart from the lock-up of German counting the necessary fuctuations in the tonnage and the comparatively insignifi line, would be nearly 200 miles. Their cant loss of other tonnage through the existing lines from the same point north operations of war, the chief reason is 10. of Verdun round past Rheims and along be found in the large number of British the Aisne and then up to the North Seu steamers requisitioned by the Admiralty. by Nieuport, are barely 210, and to gain at the commencement of the war. The that 12 or 13 per cent, of relief from the enormous profits which the unrequisition. strain upon their diminishing strength of ed ships are now earning are due mainly their adversaries, they would have to to the remoral of this competitive British give up all thought of further advance tonunge by the Government. What, then, on Calais, all Western Belgium, and all is the remedy Shipowners whose the French territory they hold, except a seamers were requisitioned by the Govern- tiny strip east of the Mouse Valley.ment in August last were quite satisfied HONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES AND AUSTRALIAN PORTS

Bee what a scerifice they would be at that time with the scale of hire laid making in the objects and nature of their war, and for Low slight an end t AMEA MAGERMANY'S BEST DEFENCE

down-a scale asmring them a proft which

to normal times would be considered generous, Now those same shipowners are.

But there is a further line behind this again to which the enemy might retiregarding with envy the unexpected and by so retiring really seriously shorten his line and concentrate his effectives.

It is the line which, starting from the Dutch froutier, covers Lilge, runs along the valley of the Ourthe includes the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and fur ther south reposes upon Thionville and Metz, and then upon the Vosges exactly na the present live dogs. It is hardly two-thirds of the original line in length; it has three great fortresses upon its front, nearly half of its trajectory is taken up with the difficult and highly defensible country of the Ardennes in the north and the Vosges upon the south; and lastly it keeps German soil intact

That line, the Liége-Moiz line, we can quite safely say, is at once the obvious and the only second shorter line upon which, with reduced effectives, a German retirement could safely be made,

But, unfortunately for Germany, Ger- man problems are not as yet nor perhaps will ever be-purely strategical in this WET.

fortunes which are being to rapidly accumulated by the more fortunate ovners of ships not similarly requisitioned. The public generally, when they realize that much of the burden they are bearing in the form of enhanced prices is a burden laid on them by those fortunate hip- owners to wham the present war has become a source of extravagant wealth, will demand, and demand with reason, that some means shall be found of either lessening the burden or of diverting these profits to the use of the nation in its successful prosecution of the mes, exper

war the world has known.. The Government has already assamed control of the railways, it has requisition- ed the merchant ships reedel for the service of the Fleets

Flasince the time now arrived when it should requisition all British shipping on similar terms, ensuring to the owners an adequate return on the capital represent- They are grossly interfered with led, and to the nation the knowledge that by political considerations. To fall back every British ship is being so employed upon this obvious second line is to give | throughout the oceans of the world as to up Belgium and Antwerp and all hope give the Doʻple in these islands the full of threatening Great Britain. It is to economic bonent of our navel supremacy 1 confess the beginning of the end. It isYours faithfully, morally certain that such a confession

will not be made by such confused thinkers until it is too late.

THE ERINE

HERBERT JCRAIG

DOG'S WONDERFUL INSTINCT.

One of the most interesting of the many interesting experiences of the survivors of the Formidable is that of John Cowan,

an AB of the

This second line, the line Llege-Metz- A “ FORMIDABLE” SURVIVOR the Vosges, once abandoned, there is no other. The line of the Rhine, in spite of ite great fortresses, is not one upon which. a force seeking concentration could retire. One has but to look at the map to rce that this is so. It is a line which, in all ita convolutions, is almost as long as the pre sent line, and before a German Army should retire to it, that invasion of Ger- man soil which, let us always rememb it is politically essential for the German rulers to prevent, would have taken place. No; the more one looks at the prob lem, the more convinced one is that the enemy will hold on to its present lincs in the West as long as it is just com patible with his strength to do so, and possibly a trifle longer. "

LIKE RATS, DUCKS AND PIGS.

Royal Fleet Reserve Cowan, who is a Fifeshire boy, hailing from Lochgelly was carried into the Pilot Boat Hotel and placed on the kitchen floor in the belief that he was dead, all efforts to re- store him after he had been lifted out of the boat having failed.pd

All he had on was a pair of thin pants and a vest, and in this meagre dress he passed through the fearful experienses of those unforgetable 22 hours. Seeing that

14 of his comrades, somo better clad than he, had succumbed to exposure and ex- TERRITORIAL ON LIFE IN THE haustion, it is small wonder that was

TRENCHES

A private in the London Rife Brigade writes to his brother in Londìu (—

thought be, too, was dead.

As he lay there unconscious and UD. attended, all attention being concentrated on thoes who showed any sign of life, a remarkable incident occurred,

It is Sunday and after being in the trenches on three days, came out lust A dog of the house, a rough-haired cros night for a short rent Yesterday it bred collie, walked to the body and dis. poured with rain, and our trench had a played considerable uneasinen“ Las- foot of water in it everything was 23hn-

ning, ourselves as well. pitous that is the dog's name, whined piteously, and lay alongside Cowan and To make things worse, the walk through began to lick his face. the wood from our cowshed and pig stye is so muddy that you sink up to the knees, and after yesterday's rein well, I can't describe it.

From our hips downwards wo are never dry, and always scraping inches of mud off us. I was glad to lie down any where last night, and although it was only a cowshed I appreninted it as much as a body

When I return I shall lie and soak in a bath for hours, and then lie in bed for days. I shall appreciate the comforts of home ever so much more then We ar lost to civilisation; one day we are rets, one day ducks, and then pigs. What a

·life1

It is wonderful how some of our unfor tanate wounded comrades bear the pain without a murmur. Ore vas shot yester day through the stomach, and, although conscious all day, lay without a murraur until carried away at dusk,

Our fellows get very hot when they read of the football matches, etc., with their huge crowds not feeling the pinch at all for instance, the recruiting sergeant at Chelsea only getting one single reer it. Do they ever think what this war means to them?

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At the end of half an hour a faint moan, a movement of the body, and a glad whining from the dog attracted the atten tion of one of the helpers.

The warmth of the dog's body against Cowan's heart, and his assiduous Leging of his face had induced circulation. Im mediately willing hands completed the work the dog had begun, and in a short time Cowan sat up.

After that the dog and Cowan have been inseparable.

A German force moved in mass ugairet the North Staffordshire regiment near Ypres the other day, but became bogged in mud, and were an easy mark for the British riflemen. The enemy retire with heavy losses, and essayed an attack further northward, but met a withering Gre from the British, trenches. Then Canadian regiment, shouting, For Canada and Old England" charged the Germans with the bayonet The enemy broke and fled Trench after trench fell until German artillery checked the pur- suit. The ground gained by the charge extended over a mile.

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