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Captain Montieth, R.A.M.C. recently stationed in Hongkong, writes to a friend:

AN ESCAPE FROM SUBMARINES.

EXCITING EXPERIENCE OF THE P.&O. ARCADIA.”

Those prisoners are the luckiest people, I guess, but they don't look it. They are all youths, dirty, dishevelled, and tired. Poor devi's, but we can't pity them now. They will be well cared for, no doubt Some of our men are really fine, and your cyo gets dim as you watch some of the The following extract from a letter re- things they do. I met a party of four ceived from one of the Shanghai contin. to-day who had had no food for two days, gent who went home on the G. 6.6. aad the spirit of the wounded is very dli-Arcadia is published in this 3.-C. Daily

News:- I got attached to the DCL-Landferent then. One doesn't hear half o came out with them on Nov. 10th. We have many groans. Ieve it is even money that The morning after leaving Gibraltar not been having an exciting time, with the war will be over in September. you can imagine passengers' feelings, espe the exception of one night, when Fee The Germans got wind of our attack.cally those of the ladite with children, took some trenches which another Bat--and that it was to be on the 7th. So it when wo read on the notice boast, 1 talion had lost. It was a jolly good show, was, and we had to change the date. The the order is given to abandon the ship. passengers must assemolo in the first- and we took several prisoners as well. Germans used to shout across to our fel-

class music saloon clad in their warmest The majority of them didn't wait for lows in the treacher. I say, what's go-

clothing.' Of course, it was meant to be the bayonet charge, and ran like heading to happen on the 7th?" and they pat

a warning to be quite ready to get into ed pupa The prisoners taken were very up a notice board one day which said,

the boats without a minuto's lose in case young, and med glad to be taken. "We are Saxons; you are Anglo-Saxons.

wo were torpedced. Luckily we were not. Apart from this bright incident, which Don't let's shoot at one another:"

But the notice was enough to make any- took place on a extremely dark, wet,

one-fer! nervous, and actually did make and cold night, trench life has been very

Rome of the mothers weep....... dull. The trenches are a bit better now

for FIVE YEARS, than when we first took them over. They

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were then anore libs sunken roads, and ab- solute swumpe Two Cameroon-got- drowned in them! The result on men's foot was deplorable-a condition like frost-bite-and at one time I was seeing over 100 such day, mostly feet! Thank Heavens, conditions are better now; ing about 100 pairs of feet of a morning was reducing me to a state of gibbering imbecility Our casualties have not been particularly heavy, Poor old Rogers was killed, James has lost his loft arm, and one or two other subalterns were slightly wounded. I have so far dicaped hells and bullets. As far as the firing- line is concerned, the bit our Division holds is exactly as it was when we arrive ed, and attacking by either side proves a very costly undertaking. We have been having filthy wet weather out here, and tho mud, the absolute limit. The worst part of the business is the continual night work, as, of course, wounded can't be got out of the trenches by day. The life, how evar, seems to suit me physically, na I am very fit, and must have put on a good den of weight. We are anticipating 98 hours' leave aftar being hero. for three months, but now that the three months are over, an order appears stopping all leave."

Captain RHM Watson, writing carly in March from the trenches to a Hongkong friend, says:

I came away from the column two days ago on a special job for a special show, all to do with emmanition, I was speci- ally sent for by our General for the job, so suppose I have to feel honoured. It is all to do with heavy supplies of sumuni- tion, and a new scheme of supply that they want me to organize. They seem to appreciate my efforts, ad the namber of times the kind Staff have told me that

WAR NEWS.

GERMANY'S LIE CAMPAIGN,

SOCIALISTS ARRESTED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH.

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports the arrest at Mähne in Alsace by the Germans of seven leading Socialsts because they refused any longer to publish false news in their paper. Five have been sent to a German fortress.

"SUBLIME IMPUDENCE.

In an editorial article the New York Frening Sun says that the blowing up of the William P. Frye is an outrage upon Americas neutrality.

It was very rough going through the Bay of Biscay, but I felt quite st Nothing untoward happened until wa were in the English Channel yesterday -morning. About 10 a.m. we saw strange ship approach, and when she was within about a quarter of a mile of us ahe turn. ed round and listed the German fing! We all thought our last moment tadi.come, and the captain, thinking wo had run right into the Germans, turned our courss and made off us hard as we could steam. After a few minutes we cume up with British armed merchantman, which told us that two German submarines were wait- ing for us just rear there. The strange ship turned out to be a French boat

fety against the Germans which had hoisted the German flag for its own safety against the German sub-

marines.

There is a certain sublimity of impa- us as warning, which we had taken as an dence (says the journal) in the cum attack!

fhen nt about 3 .p.m., about an hour mander of this vessel sailing into an American port, with his Amorici cap-out from Plymouth, a whole flotilla of tives on board, to tell us more or less destroyers, twelve in all, came out to es They sigualled boastfully how he had sent our flag to cort us into the harbour.

"It is marvel you” have the bottom, and to begin to unload his to us." cucumbering prisoners of war upon our escaped; you are very lacky. Then they charity. We cannot too much almire formed a circle all round us and we sail- hie expectation of refitting in our docked in safely, in spite of the fact that yards and going to bea again, perhaps to sink more American ships.

A FRIENDLY SHELL, The captais, commander, torpedo-lieu- tenant and another officer of the Blucher only escaped going down with their ship by a most extraordinary coincidence.

They were in the armoured costing tower when the vessel began to heel over from the effects of the British fire. They were preparing to lease it, as she was manifestly sinking, when a shell struck it with such force that the door jammed and could not be opened.

They resigned themselves to death, and, making a virtue of necessity, were pre-

there was another German submarine waiting for us just outside Plymouth Harbour.

If would have been & lucky event for the Germans, if they had sunk ns; there were on board £2,000,000 syces, £4,000,000 worth of cargo and 600 passengers, nearly 200 of whom were soldiers! You will not bo surprised then to hear that all the passengers got off at Plymouth and cama up to London by train

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It is not because of ties of kinship, as hali? started, i.e., yesterday at 7.33 5.1.currences, it would surely be hard to find between nations; not at all. We do not. You might have thought you were in the one to beat this.

consider that the United States as a poli- internal regions. At 8.30 we had secur ed another village, and two lines of Ger- "TREATIES NOT EVERLASTING."tical entity is in debt to England; quite the contrary we should have said as late man trenches, and, an hour later, a couple

GERMAN PLAN TO ANNEN DELGIUM IN 1905. as half a century ngn-and even now. of hundred prisoners in charge of a dozen

wher liam Waleon, part, Senator Jenouvrier, in the Gaulois, gives "C

for not rushing to aughter Gurkhas were legging it back out of the way, and then, Inter, at intervals there details of a conversation between l'oust the bence of noble mother,” we have was the sadder side of these little in Saed a friend of the Kaiser, and a cidents which I will not worry you by de-French diplomatic

1903, during Neither to France, though ever friendly, scribing. We are still at it, at intervals, place in Rome in Noobage, which took to laugh, though nut, of course, to score. to Rusia, though everlastingly and you will read of it, I suppose, in the the jubilee of Pius X.

Count Saedt, declared that the-fierman | greateful, does the United States acknow papers you get by this or the following mail. It is comic to see all these wretches Emperor would consent to and ledge, obligations of such a nature as to Lorraine and the Walloon district in impel embroilment in causes not her own. in charge of a few Gurkhas. A lot more went off last night in the pitch dark, but Belgium to France on condition that Moreover, as a people, we have quite as they have no use for running away. They Germany should retain the Flemish par much in common with the thrifty, indus

tion of Belgium with Holland.

trious, bone-loving Germans as with were a mixed lot of boys and old men,

The French diplomat declared that the English, French, or Russians, weary and dirty-looking, and frightened

Count Saedt bargain was impossible. to death. They must have had an hous replied that treaties were not everlasting. of hell anyhow before they were allowed and that Germany at prosent was not to to captured. All is not over, and I hope we shall get more ground and not like Prussia, who had guaranteed the world except that you are continuing the

neutrality of Belgium.

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TT one crazy. They are ell el coneзaled, men about him who do psess it. so that aeroplanes cannot see them. Chief of Staff is a masterly strategist, In a letter written on the following day while in his other departments he has (March 12th), the officer says:-We biffed picked men each of whom is the best that the Germans again this morning, when Rusia can produce. He himself, with they counter-attacked at 5 am to kick an iron character and incomparable de us out of the village and the two lines of termination, binds the whole into a co trenches that we had bagged." At 1 p.m.hesive unit. In the army he is au abso- we attacked and knocked them a bit inr-lute autocrat. He he fixed idi. ther back, and lots of them have come in and that is the success of Russia, regard- and surrendered. The sight of the dying, Ers of cost. For once, Russis has 1 desd, and wounded is too horrible, but Commander-in-Chief and a General Staff that must always be so. What do you who have but one criterion and onestaüd- think of trench packed like sardines ard-success and efficiency, The Gener with dead and dying of three antionalissimo is a big enough man to listen to Indian, German, and English? My others and, if need be, to change his mind head is splitting with this gunfire; it is too even at the eleventh hour. terrific for words. Jack Johnscas" hava been coming in by the dozen to-day. None have burst nearer me than 100 yards oft. so far My towar was nearly "kopped" yesterday, but he was so bucked picking up the bits and chasing after me to show. them that he didn't mind a bit. Things are going splendidly, and everyone is very pleased, but it hasn't cot us nothing, as you may imaging. The Prince of Wales came and looked at my ammunition yes terday. He strails about here anywhere. More prisoners have just come in, and we have orders to shove on. That is the best news we have had for some time.

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