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KITCHENER ARMIES.

MORE GERMAN OFFICIAL

CONTEMPT "

The appearance of "Kitchener Armies"

man

in the field has been greeted by a Ger- official outburst only comparable with the famous. contemptible little ikring."!

Order, in which the Kaiser vented his wrath against the British Expeditionary Force. The Wolff Bureau supplied the whole Gorman Press on Thursday with an insolent article enlled It begins The Kitchener Army." thus:-

About a year has passed singe the idoa of Kitchener Annies" made its appear- ance. All other belligerents had armies based upon universal military training, England Lasting for several years. undertook to produce armies out of the earth. The other peoples struggled for victory with troops which were the result of the labour of many decades. England entered into the competition by calling up volunteers and throwing them into the great struggle.

It has taken a long time for these to find their way "Kitchener Armies from the recruiting office through the barracks and the training ground, across which has become half English, and into the Channel, through Northern France, the trenchies-inte the real war ere to eye with the Corman enemy. Only the battles of the last days of September have given real acquaintance with the Germans genuine Kitchener divisions. They have supplied the Germans with material-in the shape of numerous English prisoners for the making of a trustworthy picture of this enemy. This picture is not edify.

ing.

A great number of the men were com pelled to enter the Kitchener Arm because they had been dismissed by their calogers. some chers broad-heats had been distributed which gave them to. understand that they would starve if they Most of the non have did not enlisi. gone into the war unwillingly because They do not regard themselves as soldiers, The training in England consistol mainly in marches. A great part of the men had never fired a shot. The others had fired one or twice or three times 50 shots in all. Until recently they were still training with wooden rifles. Se of them were not provided with rifles until June, and a great many of thom only just before their departure for France. Only few of the men have once or twice made trenches. The offers bave the training to men who have been

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age Serbia in resistance to Germany and Austria-Hungary, so that Berbia, like Bel. gium, may continue to blood on the altar of Entente interests With Borbin's help Germany's rond to Constantinople is to be blocked, after the attempt to defeat Tur- key at the Dardanelles has been a miser- The diversion of English able failure,

and French troops to Greek territory 18. also intended to hide the military finsco of the Dardanelles from British and French publle opinion."

The Note concludes:~~~

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A BUSINESS MAN AND

WAR.

GERMANY'S PLANS FOR OUR EXHAUSTION

DR. RATHENAU'S SCHEME.

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The Timer reprints a most interest ing Berlin dispatch from the special "If a new chapter in the military his correspondent of the Chiengo Daily News, Mr. Raymond Swing. The article tory of this war is now opening, the latest

deserves the attention of those who are démarches, of the Entente at Sofia and unaware of Germany's financial projects. Athens are the last word in n chapter of

Incidentally, as one of hundreds of the diplomatic history of the Entente such contributions by neutral writers on which posterity will call the history

Germany, it is instructive as showbag hypocrisy.

Germany's open-handed invitations to KING CONSTANTINE.

reutral correspondents. It is very The Press seems to have been instructed,tain that our Press Bureau would forbid with a view to further pressure upon the publication of any such article deal Greece, to issue warnings against excessive ing with our national finances in any optimism. Many newspapers, in almost newspaper over which if had control. identical language, remind the public that in the case of Italy the hopes which the Germans so confidently placed in Singor Thus the Giolitti were disappointed. Frankfurter Zeitung said on Wednesday

evening:

"One

"The troops which are being brought from the Dardanelles to Balonika have not only themselves been defeated, but belong to defeated countries. King Constantine's chief of the General Staff, Dousmanis, ex- pressed at the Council in March his con viction that it would be thus. King Con- stantine himself never had any doubt He knows the German Army about it. too well from his own observation, will never offer the Greek Army for the purposes of the Quadruple Entente. has decided for neutrality, and will stick to that decision to the end."

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Some day, it is to be hoped, the Ger men Government will give some concrete facts of the transformation of industrial Gormány Now nearly all that can be nid is that it is an necomplished fact. T pays an eloquent testimonial to the elasti- city and youth of Germany's business. I is no simple thing to change an electric. factory overnight into an ammunition mill, But in Germany it can be done. Something like that has been done by nearly all factories and without great difficulty.

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Five days after Great Britain's declara of of war, when it was certain that Germany was to he blockaded, a business man drove up to the offices of Genal you ind laid remembers what happened n Falkenhayn, War Minister. Italy, when the Salandra Cabinet resigned, before him a plan of coonomic hattle, an

GERMAN WEALTH KEPT AT HOME. but the pressure of the street and of the industrial fight against blackade.

And Dr. Rathenan's extrno, dinary iration of the gigantic industries of Ger-

The from reaching & Parliamentary solution.many and the institution of a new con- paradox has become a verity, Germany agitators prevented the Cabinet crisis as a plan which included the reorgan- A similar development is perhaps possible cern, the greatest in the history of the keeping her vast wealth at home,

Athens, although the much-despised world. It was a plan to make it possible blockade has resulted in concentrating it Greeks have proved themselves more in for Germany to fight for an indefuite in Germany, where it flows from the Gov the Italians with their time, though practically shut off from ernment to the industries, thence to the

General vor telligent than

Things in Athens imports.

Falkenhayn people and back to the Government again. much-praised cunning. are, indeed, rather different, for King studied the plan and sent for the businesa At the end of the war Germany will have to foreign hardly a penny of debt Constantine is more of a leader of his man.

in "Here are four rooms the War countries. She will be economically JAVA, MAKASSAR, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. people thon Victor Emmanuel,”

You can have all unassailable. Many other journals discuss the amo Ministry," he said.

In the meantime Great Britain has kept Only the Funische Zeitung claims the help you wish. Go ahead!" point. King Constantine as already committed to And thereupon, began the campaign her foreign markets open, and this connot the German cause, This journal writes which has won half of Germany's help weakening hey, for she is buying i

The economie General, the Ger- ceases. man business man, was Dr. Walther these markets to the value of billicus. To send either goods or the equivalent in cash. The whole of England's metals ARAKAN... Rathonau, president of the General pay for these unusta! purchases she can Electric Company of Berlin.

would hardly be sufficient to pay her bills GERMANY MADE SELF-SUPPORTING.

To pay in goods as in More thun any war in the past, this for three months

work overtime at making export one is a war of materials. The human normal times her own factores would have factor is half; the material factor the to Heather half. Germany is not rich in raw articles. But her own factories are being KARIMOEN

so that Eng- And war is converted into war mills, materials. She produces iron, coal, zinc, gradually taken from export work and He and petroleum, little else.

land's trade balance Is steadily in favour TJIKEMBANG

England will waged with, perhaps, 200 materials.

Dr. Rathenau had been thinking of cf the other fellow." the possibility that the war would last emerge from the war with a heavy debt To rule the seus " for years, and back of his plan was one to the outside world- of the greatest ideas of modern times; will have proved a costly glory. he was thinking that by applying the

It can, of course, be argued that Ger

But her indebtedness could be remade into a self-supporting through the war.

And it State, independent of imports.

is internal, which is an advantage for the It will be Gerinan money going sergeants"-vid and experienced non-1 journal describes as "a shameless lie" the this could be done, then Germany, the interest on this debt will he spent in Ger report that German Consuls in Asin blockaded, would end the war without a Minor are favouring the atrocities, and foreign debt, while Great Britain, the into German pockets. And when the war declares that they and the German min blockader, would constantly be buying is over, and peaceful trade is re umed, the sions are doing their best to mitigate from foreign countries and paying the "hardships which may have cecurred in equivalent of cash for much of what she many lessons of independence from for- the suppression of the Armenian riots." bought. So that at the end of the war eign raw materials will surely give the The organ of the Frankfurt Jews uses this the most extraordinary paradox concuir German trade bolances dreided turn in It's an extraordinary story, this miragla word hardships" repeatedly to describe able would result; the blockader would favour of Germany. - the horrible crimes committed by Ger-be poor, the blockaded financially strong.

Organization was begun at once by Dr. of industry, this inventiveness, this genius It is a story which ex Rathenau. Just how German industries of organisation. were reconstructed no outsider probably plains the fall of Warsaw and the

offensive and the im will know, for it is naturally a valuable great eastern

And when the secret of State. But what resulted is preganhle western line. this-80 per cent of Germany's industries Falkenhayns, the Hindenburgs, the Mac- became war industries, either altogether kensens are thought of as the great Ger- or in part, and to-day hardly one-third man soldiers, one person must be set beside of Germany's factories are not serving them, the German business man, Dr.

Walter Hathen zu. the war department exclusively.

THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

promuted non-ectnmissioned officers a few angry comments on the House of Lords German talent for organization Germany many, too, has incurred indebtedness

The Frankfurter Zeitung published debate and the statements of The Time about the Armenian atrocities

werks after they enter the Army. Thorn ara not many of the so-called "drilling commissioned officers-stiff left in Eng larth. After their arrival in France all a series of route training censed,

1011 gradually arches brought the

It was in just nearer to the front;" before the lash gal battles that they came into the trenches.

official writer The Germian The indulges in imaginative criticisms of the operations, which he puts into the mouth many's Turkish friends.

He ends his story s of prisoners. follows:--

Although

A SPLENDID OUTFIELD.

The

V. 6. CRICKETER WHO ACCOUNTED FOR 80 TURKS.

Sergeant Somers, V.C., is scarcely twenty-two, and looks younger still- writes an Irish correspondent to the Times; He is a light, wiry follow, full of good spirits and boyishly delighted with all the When he was fooman in Bantry House attentions that are being paid to him, a couple of years ago-before he joined the keen Inniskilling Fusiliers-he cricketer and a great man to throw in from the outfield.

was

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A great new organization was formed. There were no law providing for it, there were no precepts for its conduct, there were no men trained particularly to set its wheels in motion. Yet to-day this organization, with 30 subsidiary and absolutely new concerns, is manufactur- ing Germany's war supplies.

THREE SOURCES OF AUPTLY.

This is how the Kitchener divisions are fisted for the offensive. As the men were some of them never in trenches before they lack the necessary toughness. many of them were captured very soon after they had reached the front line. they give an impression of strain and weariness. When once they were out- flanked they surrendered very They admit that they are happy to he ut of it. The officers as well as the mon are for the most part very young. The discipline left everything to bu desired Only the greater part of the non-commis- sioned officers made a good impression.

Here is a picture which gives food for We are reaping the fruits of thought

When the Turke had The question of materials was immense universal military service, which during

driven the Inniskillings and the Gurkhas ly complicated. There were three courses 100 years has entered into the flesh and blood of every German. The English are from their trenches on July 1st Bomers reto pursue. Occupied territories could be reaping the consequence of their system.mained on in his angle and started to hold shorn of their supply of materials needed Luckily in Germany; some materials could be IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR AND ENGLAND.

he had a good store of them and for a long imported through the few doors left opon While the German military authorities his end up by throwing bombs,

summer afternoon and far into the night to Germany, and for the rest oither th thus consoled themselves for the reverses suffered at the hands of these "contemp: he kept the fielders busy. He stopped tapped German sources must be found or tible" troops, the Imperial Chancellor also

were found shot opposite his trench-and has made a fresh attack on England. The many a rush with rapid fire-thirty Turks substitutes discovered. Gorman newspapers are supplied with an

Just before dawn he stole away, and account of a conversation which he has had his bombs put fifty more out of action. with Franz Hugo Krebs, a well-known

Herr von Beth-brought up the bombing party he had Jawyer from Boston." mann Holiwwig talked about the "scien-charge of, and all next day ho and his #ific principles of government which men fought on, sharing the zigzag trench

prevent poverty" in Germany, and con- trusted the evils of "British slums." then, after his manner, raised his voice, and said:-

We know well what fictions the Eng- lish have circulated about us ever since the While we make beginning of the war. the mass of these English gentlemen re- sponsible for the circulation of these anders, we feel that their behaviour is a symptom of the innate brutality of the English-a brutality which makes seem impossible for us to regard them as our equals in matters of intellect and

morals"

He

t

He had one narrow with the enemy. escape on the morning of July 2-a splinter struck him across the spine-but he held his men together and rained in the bombs By that time, how- until he fell from loss of blood and fatigue. in the afternoon. ever, the trench had been recaptured. The Turks retreated.

Somers tells all about it with great en- thusiasm, and constantly recurring in the stories is the phrase, "I did my duty," or "General Hamilton told me when be made me King's Sergeant on the field that I did brutis, hat is the ventral idea back to duty." in this young Irishman's mind-scared in and mainspring of his acts to do his duly.".

The Imperial Chancellor seems to make constant progress in his appreciation of

It was a fine thing to see Somers so England. He is now hardly outdone by

cheery and bright after his twelve months writers like Vice-Admiral Kirchhoff, who writes in the Tagliche Rundschau:-

"There is hardly a single German who of war. Ho stopped three German bullets is not completely filled with hatred and Flanders on August 21st, 1911, and with the thought of enduring in this war after hospital treatment in England he until the cunning enemy of all men and went again to the firing line in Flanders. the greatest pirate of the world has been He was sent back with some German pri We yearn with our whole soners to Londonderry and volunteered hearts for the great moment which shall when the chance offered for the Darda free the whole world from the brutal Eng nelles, and he saw four months' fighting fish The overthrow of England and the there before the V.C. came his way." breaking of British supremacy. at sea will be a Germon deed of Kutter of the first class, and it must be a sacred duty for overy German to assist in this task with all h's strength."

overthrown,

GERMAN PROTEST TO GREECE.

Gathering of metals, textiles, chemicals, and other materials was at once begun in the occupied territories. Inventories were made, warehouses were erected, ship- ping was arranged, and distribution pro- a gigantic industry. vided for. This in itself developed into

Then came the study of countries con- tiguous to Germany and their natural supplies and their capacity for exporta

truth.

And, finally, came the question of Ger- An inventory of all of substitutes. many's own supplies and the manufacture inetals, textiles, and chemicals in Germay Metals that were on tho was roade. scrap were turned over to men with an especial gift of making useless things use ful. It was surprising to find how richly Germany was supplied with materials which, lying in obscure hiding places, could be turned into war grist.

METAL SUPPLY "MOBILIZED."! The great metal collection idea was ori- ginated, and it was found that, Germany. has in roofs and other parts of dwellinga and factories millions of pounds of metal which can, if needed, be turned into munitions of war. Up to date only 2 per cent. of Germany's metal supply has been The rest is "mobilized." actually used. It is there when the time comes for its uso. There is enough for years,

many.

WOULD-BE RECRUIT AT 70.

Captain Marston, 6th East Surreys, told some amusing recruiting stories at

Chertsey meeting recently. An old man came to his office at Kinge- "Thirty- Burel" said Cap- ton and was asked his age. nine," he replied.

Been in the Army before 1--No. Buret-Well, yes (reluctantly), tain Marston. "Yes," was the reply.

Got your discharges --No.

Sure Well, I left 'em at home. "Look in your pocket," said the cap- tain. The veteran, with a smile which spoke volumes, handed over his discharge They showed he had left the papers. Munster Fusiliers in 1871 and was in his seventieth your.

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Lumbago is a very painful form of And for the things Germany. di not

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To replace salt-that sudden, piercing agoay that shouts months ago to keep a careful watch for stuffs were employed. any contrivances which the Germans might petre, which had been imported, nitraus down the thighs and legs these Pills have For use with the object of producing poisonous were taken from the air by a chemical probeen equally successful in giving freedo

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Start to-day on the blood-cure for the resignation of M. Venezelos certain regiment on taking ever some family imaginable.

And the remarkable re u't was that the Rheumatism, that is, Dr. Williams' Fink together with the announcement of a Ger-. trenches found some old bagpipes left in man protest to Greece about the Salonika the lines. At once the Colonel vent the substitutes were found in many cases o Pills, and so drive the disease out of your Many system. All dealers sell them; or direct to brigade head- be better than the originals, Jánding. A long semi-official Note on the following massage German protest compares the case of quarters: A weird instrument has just articles which had been made from costly from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 93, been discovered in my trenches: it is be export stuffs are now made from cheap Szechuen Road, Shanghai, 1 bottle for Greece with that of Belgium, and says:-

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