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CARE OF HORSES AT THE

FRONT.

TRIBUTE TO THE ARMY VETERINARY CORPS.

become

THE BOHEMIAN SLAVS.

WAR BREVITIES. A PEOPLE WITHOUT A PRESENT Telegrams from Sofia state that the

operations in the Dardanelles are engross The manner in which the Czechs of ing public attention, particularly as it Bohemin have been able to spread over was believed that the advent of the hat rich and fertile land, regaining Germans had rendered a forcing of the more and more of the territory occupied | Straits impossible. ANIMALS IN SPLENDID CONDITION. by the Germans furnishes one of the niest characteristic examples to be found.

This story of a lost dinner is told by Hasing noticed in Mr. Tenant's anywhere in Europe of the awakening of the Eye Witness at the British Head- admirable speech in the House of Com the nationalist spirit. If it be renn- quarters: "A party of our officers had

that Bohemia had mons, the great and deserved tributes hebered paid to the medical service and the per thoroughly Germanized, that the Czech cxtraordinary escape on this day. fection of system of both sanitation and language was spoken only by the peasan- They were on the point of sitting down to dinner in a dug out when a bonib from inoculation, I think it may be of value German city-though it is now 05 per try, Giat Prague itself had become a

A German trench mortar Jaded in their to those interested in animals to havent Czech-the successful efforts that müdet. When the smoke and dust of the their attention drawn to the Army Toter have been made within the last and completely disappeared, but not 9 explosion had cleared away the dinner inary Corps, which comes under the to shake off Germanic eclture Quartermaster-General's department, and dominion seem beyond belief..

single man was hurt under General Pringle on this side of the Channel, and under General Moore who represents it in the English Expedition ary Force,

I had the opportunity of going to the second lines ("animal lines"), and thence to the third and fourth lines and more. southern bases, and I saw every remount and hospital bass. I think, therefore, that I am fully entitled to express an opinion as to the work of the Army Veterinary Corps and the Hemannt Department. All lovers of horses can rest assured that my remarks are rather those of one who went to curse but returned to birst.

HEALTH AND VITALITY.

I had heard much of the difficulties and sufferings connected with the animals, but I have not the slightest hesitation in asuring the whole of the English horse loving world that I do not believe in all the various departments of the Army there is any branch that deserves mord credit, and shows more astonishing fore sight in the alleviation of suffering and general superintendence of the animals, Chan do the Army Veterinary Corps and the Remount Department.

I have heard many criticisms about the treatment of horses, and I have heard reports of shortage of medicaments, of necessary instruments, and of the means of transport of the animals. To these my only answer is that I found no such difficulties.

I was enormously impressed by the health and vitality of all the horses that I saw. Many of the artillery horses looked exceedingly well; all the cavalry horses that I saw (of course, with certain exceptions) looked magnificent which is a very strong word to use, but a true one

I then went down to the various basesi At No. 1 1 found hospital bases that had

been built with stable shelters constructed of iron. for the horses. These had been easily erected, and were, to my mind, far preferable to the wooden ones I saw at other places. They are divided into sections, and every hospital within certain distance from the front is en oulated and based on the thousand-horse system: The ground selected was, in my humble opinion, admirable.

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I found that the veterinary surgeons, some of whom I knew, were most capable The dressers were all that could be desired. The operating theatres wore arranged as perfectly as could be dore in our own city of London. The instru avents, medicaments, and everything necesary for the respective hospitals were of the finest quality, and, to my great surpri e, up to strength for all require ments and most fully equipped.

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There are, of course, many cares of suffering-shraprel wounds, Bore backs, and the like-bas the principal injuries were to the feet, probably produced by nails causing quitter, and the dificulties with lice and inange, but in every case the individual horse was separated and looked after in accordance with its parti eular malady, and I did not obscrve onc

many thousands of horses that I saw.

That there are sufferings, that there are shortcomings, that there are little details which could be rectified I do not for one minute dispute, and I should lay the want of horse ambulances, coarseness of the shoes, the want of proper sized nose bags, the lack of head or neck collars in place of headstalls (which are necɩssary in cases of catarrh, strangles, or pacu monia) is probably the greatest criticism? I could make. This ia, however, a small. matter which is being rectified.

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Both Japanese and Russian gldiers home is invariably exclusively Czech, the (reports The Times) | aro wearing children. ure ednented in Czech schiaclsKamniko," or

The paper clothing.

By appointment to the Imperial. Household and become Czechs, but, what is amoro terial is mundo of the real Japanese surprising, when a Czech woman marries paper manufactured from mulberry bark of Japan, Offobily Recommended by the A thin layer of silk wadding is placed

a Bohemian-Gorman, this is also the case. and in a large measure accounts for the between two sheets of the paper and the Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universities rapid increase of our numbers," was the whole is quilted. Velvet shirts and explanation offered Even among the drawers made in this way are more com- of Tokyo and Kyoto. Bohemian nobility, who for many years foriable than flannels. A company in have lived chiefly in Vicana and had Yokohama is supplying large quantities become Germanized, Czech is again of paper shirts to the Russian Army,. spoken in the bouscheld.

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General Botha has taken the aggressive To-day the German population of against the Germaus in South-West Bohemia occupies merely a fringe on the Afrien The force which occupied outer borders of the kingdom. Yet wwiss Swakopmund, the chief port of the to the support they restive from Vienna colony, on January 14th, has moved inland and notwithstanding the fact that they are in the minority, the German element under the personal command of General still forms the great majority of the Botha, and, after driving the Germans oficial class. The struggle

for out, has occupied the important watering- upch clements within the boundaries of miles out. The Germans who were cap Supremacy between the German and place of Goanikontes, about twenty-three the country has not only been the cause tured declared themselves astonished at of serious disturbances, but has obscured thb boldness and dash of the burghers. to the Cachs, many wider issues of the

them. utmost importance to

The The Messugera (Rome) states that the injustice of the discrimination against headquarters of the German contraband the Czechs cannot be better proved than smugglers is in Barcelona, whence mer by stating that the Czech language is not chandise is shipped to Amsterdam; in FRENCH LESSONS yet fully recognized as official. This is Genoa, as cargoes leaving neutral mari- the cause of bitter discontent, and is time stations for other neutral ports are essentially irksome in legal matters, immune from capture. The German inquired of an influential Bohemian emissaries in Genoa despatch the goods German in Prague, who was closely con neeted with the Government and ought to Austerdam, ria Switzerland, but when to be well informed, what the reasons the train reaches Germany the goods are were for such an apparently unfair taken out. The firm in Amsterdam never policy. The answer is characteristic of complains of the nou-arrival of consign- the altitude of Vienna:

ONE We cannot grant all demands at

once

It is our aim to keep the people occupied Let them wrangle about their language and nationalist revival. The more it occupies their minds, so much the less will, they give

mants,

stripped and compelled to leap into an abyss known as the Devil's Gap, until one carried a Turk with him. Then the About 250 nien remainder were shot. were massacred at Tamvot, and the

women carried off into captivity.

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During the occupation of Ardanuch," Trans Caucasia, the Turks dragged into the streets 150 Armenians, and eat their throats. Old Turkish residents cold bloodedly killed their old Armenian maro vital political issues attention to acquaintances. Fifty Armenians were

To the Czechs as to the Serbo-Croatians and Rumages of South-Eastern Europe, the war that is being waged by the Albes is a war of liberation. "Just as the last century secured personal liberty, the prescut is to bring about racial independence, is their Brm belief. al the people of Bohemia, and particularly The death took place at Edinburgh of Prague, seam ongressed in their own Castle last month of the captain of the affairs which are of local or secondary German oruiser Blucher, which, it will importance. What to a foreigner is most be remembered, was sank in the battle remarkable is the fact that, for the in the North See on January 24th. Czechs, the present does not appear to was stated that the cause of death was exist. They live in the past and in the a complication of pneumonia and heart future. Even in these momentous days trouble, probably brought about by they spend their time either exposure following the sinking of is in reconstructing the glories of the past ship. The deceased officer was rescued by or in dreaming of the years to come. British warships, with large number The Battle of the White Mountain, which of his crew, after the Blücker had.. was fought three centuries ago, and disappeared. ended the days of Bohemian indepen dence, I heard referred to with more feeling and interest than the most recent news from Flanders or the Eastern front,

LACK OF

may

A STRONG LEADER, This apparent unconcern explained in part by the fact that the Czechs, split up as they are into countless small cliques, seem unable to agree as unibition, putty jealousy, but above all to the policy to be pursued. Personal

the lack of a strong leader, have kept the Bohemians floundering in a maze of contradictory plans. There is unques tionably a suspicious, and consequently a pessimistic, attitude towards active. assertive measures. This is strikingly illustrated by a remark made to me is Prague: -

It

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Vice-Admiral Sir Sackville Carden, who commanded the Allied squadron acting against the Turks, is in his 58th year. He is a recognized "safe" man

When war broke in the British navy. gut, he was in command of the Malta etsablishment, and on the successive retirements of Admirals Milne and command of the British force in the Jackson he was on promotion, given

Mediterranean, He has & very high reputation as a tactician, and has takenURNITURE AND PHOTO GOODS part in nearly every operation of note since 1870, in which year he entered the

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When the Russians are within 10 miles of Prague, every man, writing from Nairobi aays of the enemy A Corporal of the Royal Engineers woman, and child will go out to give in that part of the world: They them a royal welcome. But until they seem well supplied with guns, are within hailing distance, our attitude especially light field guns, and they are will remain unchanged."

It seems bristling with Maxims.

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And though Russian influence has though every party of ten men or more played a large part in fostering Slay have one. He adds: Our native. strength in Bohemia, I found little out troops scem to have no fear; Should any of the public wish to subpoken sympathy for the Russians, in fact, they are extremely brave, One!

DUKE'S APPEAL.

scribe in the interest of the animals, che kindest thing that could be done at the moment would be to contribute to funds tat provide ambulances for the relief or horses going from the trains to the hospitals, for it is obvious that there are niany cases of debility or of absolutely tired out horses arriving at the station nearest the hospitals which have not the strength to get into these hospitals.

At Gournay, at Forges-les-Eaux, at Dieppe, at Rouen, and at Havre motor lorries for the transport of horses could be of the greatest possible value.

I read the Duke of Portland's appeal through the RS.P.C.A., and 1 can assure all those who have subscribed and who are ready and willing to cubscribe that no contribution could he of greater benefit to the English horses at the front than this fund.

BOHEMIAN “OPPORTUNISM.”

of their white officers, Lieutenant Old

the

It is this opportunism with which field, killed at Taavo, having come right the Bohemians are content to envisage on to the muzzle of a Maxim, four of events that led me to inquire: what the his native askaris threw themselves it Czechs expect should the war waged by front to try, to save him, The whole the Allies be successful. To my surprise party were instantly riddled. no one expressed a desire to shake off the Hapsburg rule. That after 300 years of Ex-President Taft, in an ad tress an oppression the Bohemians should not the European situation; warned wish to be freed from even a nominal United States that she was now facel allegiance to the Dual Monarchy seems with a serious international crisis. The inexplicable. Their arguments were as only danger was at the spirit of follows:

jingoism should prevail. He denounced. Though ethnically and geographically ming-planting and the torpedoing of speaking we are a united people, experi-j merchant-men as violations of the rules ence has taught us that we are not strong governing contraband and neutral com

We desire merce. If American lives were lost the cough to stand alone. national freedom, possibly under n Government would then be faced with Hapsburg ruler, such as Hungary has the most momentous event in its history to-day.

we

We wish to live unmolested in The United States must sell arms and the development of our political, civic, Laminition to any nation able to pur and cultural" life within our own chase them, because if the United States boundaries. We desire full representa-went to war it would require a similar The society is not working as an indetion in the councils of the Monarchy, service from other nations.

"When the pendent one, but under the supervision but in matters of defence and finance President acts," Mr. Taft added, and at the request of the War Office, and Bohemia, joined in Fedoral union with must stand by him to the end." the advantages rendered by the society Austria-Hungary, will be far stronger are marked to a degree. I saw a stable than she could be if she were indeper. Sir Marcus Samuel points out that of theirs being built for 1,000 horses at dant, subject to any and every menace Germany's first act of piracy affected a Forges-les-Eaux; I saw motor-lorries from our northern neighbour, Germany, steamer under the Norwegian flag carry supplied by the society which are giving In these remarks there can be traced ing a cargo loaded by Americus and the greatest satisfaction; I saw medica the outgrowth of a struggle for racial destined to a Dutch port, He says it ments requisitioned by the Army Voter-independence rather than expressed would not surprise him to learn that the was financed and insured in ambition for State sovereignty. I found cargo

inary Corps and supplied by this society which become of the groutest value.

It is for this reason that I earmark the

fact that such an organization working under the authorities and with the super vision of the Army Veterinary Corps, is most satisfactory.

Having said this, I think it is only due to all those in the Veterinary Department and the Remount Department to refer to the extraordinary energy, the love of the animal the time, hard work, and fore thought displayed by all those connected with these two departments →→Dolly Mail."

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no international point of view in Prague. Germany. The only profit derived from the I mean thereby no programme for the act is by the British. To them will be paid even Republic. This may not incan that repairs to the ship must be done in a establishment of a Bohemian kingdom or the heavy salvage charges, whilst the no such programme exists. When it is British yard and by British workmen. remembered that a united State, includ. There is a consolation to be derived by OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. ing Bohemia, Moravia, and the adjacent our own merchantmen from the fact that Slovak proginces would form a country the torpedoes, discharged at short range far richer, more fertile, and populcus by the German submarine failed to sink than any of the existing Balkan States, rither the Belridge or the Dinorah. or even any of the smaller State of proving how greatly the explosives now Europe, this lack of internationa. used by the Germans have deteriorated is possibly more apparent than in power sine the commencement of the

"vision real-The Times.

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