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TREATMENT OF HORSEB IN CHRISTMAS IN FLANDERS.

THE WAR.

A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Half a million wounded and killed in the British Expeditionary forces is suffi- cient evidence of the cost of men of a war of attrition. But hardly less imposing, says the Field, in testifying to the wear ing-down effect of the siege warfare on the Western front are the figures relating to the horses. Since the retreat from Mons, horses have hardly been used by the British Army in the capacity which is demanded by grand notions; and even in the less spectacular work of transport horses have been supplemented by moter vehicles. Yet, since the beginning of the war more than 100,000 horses have passed through the hospitals. The experience of many other campaigns had given birth to the maxim that a wounded horse was a dead horse, and prior to this war many humane and experienced soldiers would have said that to kill n. wounded horse was the kindest, as well to the most expeditious thing to do. That has not been found to be the casy in the present campaign, where, thanks to an Army Veterinary Corps, which is the most scientific in the world, the proportion of recoveries of wounded horses is remarkable, and some of the particular instances of successful operations on horses siffering from gun- shot and ahrapnel wounds are almost in credible. Even so, however, the propar tion of horses killed to horses wounded and taken to hospital must be higher than that which holds for killed and wounded mon, and from those figures the vast numbers of horses employed can guessed, though naturally one is not allowed to publish them. We are allow ed, however, to quote from Lieut. E. G. Feirholme, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, some of the results of the work of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. The total number of animals trented in hospitals to last Augu was 81,134. Of these 47,192 were returned to remouate as cured, 4,966 died, 4,843 were destroyed and 1812 were east, ind sold. Beyond these 22,991 realuei

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AIGOUR OF THE GAME OF WAR.

GUNB AND FLUM PUDDINGS,

There was little in Flanders on the eve of Christmas to show men were keeping in mind cu oli tale of wonderful moaning to humanity, and that the time of it had como round again. Io the town best known to some of us here-a placa future glisaren will visit because the destiny cf their country once depended on the urgent decisions of some of their fellows who were forced to live there for a period only a few super-gaudy postcards in the shops signified that a thought other that of war was in our minda. holly and mistletoe for sale, of course and the prevision shops remembered fcatival Also our post from home was larger than usual, and our various messes passed amasing documents between them selves. But the general remembrance of Christmas was kept submerged, by com mon consent. The caro's which all of us know-well, sometimes somebody gave way and began to sing a vereo; but its sinister irony was not suffered. He was promptly closured. In the ruthless actuality of war the church of a community place shelled first, and shelled always and in the same way any man prompted beyond his parapet in the firing line this Christmas by a tender and generous seco

gun in nition that the fellow with

er Pot it in the neck," as the men say opposite mud-hole was his very brother, his had better be said at once. One has admit the fact, as one does shall fire when it is close. The men in the trenches knew quite well-the worse their luck it was Christmas time; but kept their heads

down

FRANCE AND SPIES.

UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF BRUSSELS,

SEARCH FOR

GERMANS' VAIN

HOME OF BELGIAN NEWSPAPER.

OFFICIAL FIGURES, For the first time since the war M. Malvy, Home Secretary, has given figures

A Rotterdam correspondent recently regarding spies caught and punished in France. Since the war 1,125 persouS

famous Brussels nows-sheat Libre Belgique, have been arrested for capionage in the drew attention to the fact that the already military zone. Fifty-five have been which the German authorities have made furious but fruitless efforts to suppress, had tenced to death and executed, thirty-

Hade its fifty-third appearance. four sentenced to terms of hard labour, fourteen to solitary confinement; and twenty-nine to imprisonment. Behind the military one 788 portons have beon arrested for espionage, nine of whom have been sentenced to death and executed; and thirty-three have been sent to hard labour or prison. A very great number of cases are stil sub judice.

The regular appearance of this weekly paper, under conditions of the greatest dif ficulty and danger, is one of the most aresting chapters of "la guerre anecdo tique" (writes the Central News Paris cor respondent);

The sheet is cleverly edited, and pursues ared-hot" policy, Inghing the Germane with its satire and cond.mnation, seeking keep the flame of loyalty and confidence burning in the hearts of the Belgian people, and delighting its many readers with a counts of the numberless tricks which the gaming of Brussels continue to play on the German soldiery.

For the first time also the Minister has given out definite information regarding the treatment of aliens, and the capture of spies in France. When the way broke out there were 400,000 foreigners living in Paris Forty-five thousand Austro- Germans were at once interned in chat- contration camps. Subsequently wonen

VON DISSING'S- COPY. and children among them and males under 16 and over 60 were sent back to their

Morning by morning General von Bissing the

country. A small number of enemy sub- jects were allowed privileges. One hund-receives a free copy of the current issue. and the most searching investigation has led Austrians were and stil are allowed to red and eighty-seven Germans and 703 Nobody seems to know how it reaches aim, to nothing more important than the arrest live freely in France, because they have live

of two of the agents responsible for the. sons born in France who are fighting in.

Thirty-eight enemy distribution of the paper. The people the French army. subjects had served in the Foreign L higher up have never been discovered; the giop, and now, consequently, live freely location of the printing-press has never been here. Finally 137 invalid enemy subjects brought to light, nor have the authorities have been granted the same permission.

been able to set hands upon a single member of the editorial staff.

What was in everybody's thoughts was clear, but, with so many us about, thoughts which are expressed in a lower key are at a distinct disadvantage. The rain had stopped. The clouds upened, watery sunlight made the ranges plain, and a shel opened the road by a street corner; more of a house front fell into the

in the hospitals and at the convalegres road. Our men about ducked and laugh

** God rest you merry gentlemen,"

horse depot. The convalescent horse depused. is a great farm of twenty miles of the

The peculier position of Alsatians had to be specially considered in France. Ten thousand of them have been granted free residence in Paris since the war. The have all been certified to be genuine Alsatians of French sympathics by a com mission of well-known Alsatians, includ ing, for instance the Abby Wetterle Similarly 3,000 Blay subjects of the Aus- tro-Hungarian Empire, whose sympathics latter received permission of residence. A number of Armenian and other subjects later wenig de against the rulers of the of the Ottoman Empire who have no sym- with the latter also live here

best grazing land in Normandy, and heve | greeted the officer we had come out to see patty Rince the war 4,700 subjects of

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"No, our men will have no fraternizing to-morrow.

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There really seemed to be no promise of it, aneway. A selve of ours banged

from somewhere about. Howitzers were rotring methodically in their jaire. Ours again. The upper air was full of scream ing and dolorous cries, most of it made by un most, by a long way. The noises from the unlucky direction were surpris ingly less, by Inst summer standard. This was certainly exhilarating area

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NO HOLIDAYS 22. FOR THE REMANS. "The Germans have made their bed," id this afficer, who had a noticeable chin an embarrassingly straight eye, and

and they aball lie on it. This is what they asked for and they are getting it. When they have had enough let them say 50. In the meantime there are no holi days, not even at this time of the year."

In certain desolated headquarters, where sacking kept out wind and rain from un- was holly behind lucky holes, there coloured pictures from the illustrateds and frosted cake and puddings end the telos Mon vores little bit more thoughtful, and their fun way aronie: but they kept their guns going incessantly

Christmas Day begin with rain, and then became gleamy and mild, the very likeness of the day before, The aqueous roads past those farms and cottages which often stond isolated in meres were crowded with the trafic of war. Screened by a shrubbery. I began my Christmas in the tranches by discovering the bottom of the mud too late. Sometimes the bottom of the liquid communication trench is fairly close; at other time not. One never knews till one has tried; and as the parapets have been in some places partly dissolved, it is better not to stand about experimenting because a German machine-

may begin.

doing that while you wait, and with complete results

men who are used to it take yellow

with mud apparently indifference. 1 Bay complete

Anyhow, parently" with indifference. they take it and say little about it even on Christuss Day what-they do say

Here we are again

The functions of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in the war are so weld known that they need no more than a few of description. The military of the army is situated somewhere on baso the coast of northern France. It may be imaging as the palur of & lined from stretch out fingers whose tips rest on the firing line. Near the tips of field the veterinars the fingers are units, which attend to horses they become wounded, rendering first aid when necessary, or destroying hopeless cases To every division and cavalry brigade is attached a mobile veterinary action. Each consists of an ofher and twenty-two trained men of the Army Veterinary Corps, all mounted and equipped with all the necessary veterinary means and appliances. (When the army is on the move they come up behind and set as a moving surgery to collect the wounded horses, assemble them, and arrange for their transfer to the rear. In the pre sent form of warfare their task is to gun relieve the field veterinary units of all sick and ineficient animals. unless the in- But

the juries are very slight, and they form a con- necting link between the field units and the veterinary hospitals, The advanced veterinery hospitals are distributed along the fingers, at the joints. To them, the wounded or sick are sent by rail;, accompanied by orderlies spared from the mobile veterinary section.

From the advanced hospitals the horses

$1

That being the only way to go, when snipers are looking on intently, you con tinue and don't complaie so much as com

fortable people at home might think. though water

cold

just now. We deck- ed as some German shells went overhead to burst on the road behind,

nentral countries who were deemed unde

A great sirable have been expelled, number of enemy subjects who had be- come naturalised French bave been de naturalised by the Ministry of Justice and interned in concentration camps.

THRORGH GERMAN EYES. HARDSHIPS ON THE WESTERN FRONT,

Yet Libre Belgique circulates widely, copies regularly arriving in France and each issue, the address of its offices and duly conforms with the law by giving, in printing works It announces that it is uumerous correspondents to address com- printed in a cellar on wheels, and invites ita munications to the offices of the Kom-

Governor for the denunciation of the per-, sous responsible for its production has risen mandantur! The reward offered by tha

from £1,000 to £3,009; but so far there have been no claimants,

THE GOVERNOR'S PART.. According to the Matin, one of the latest and most daring exploits of Libre Belgigu- has been to identify von Bissing, the Gov- ernor of Brussels, with the Lieutenant von. Pissing who is mentioned by Sir Willim Russell, the famous Times correspondent, in connection with the loot of freestres from the château of Saint-Cloud during the Franco-German war.

Libre Belgique points out that the pro- sent Governor of Brussels was born in 1844, and served as lieutenant with the Third Army in the campaign of 1870. It suggests that herein lies the reason for his appoint- meat as head of the provisional Govern- Thoyment he had had experience of pillage.

The German correspondents on the West ern front send their papers long accounts of the celebrations of Christmas deal mainly with Christmas trees and the additional supplies of grog. The correspon dent of the Vossische Zeitung writes:----

This year the vigilance was, if any thing, greater than at Christmas 1914. It has increased in the same proportion as the biezas of the fighting corporal whis was spending his second winter here asid to me:"A year ago we had the French against us before Ypres, and then it was rather calmier They even threw notes across to us telling us to fraternize with them like good comrades. This sort of thing does not do with the English, who are now opposite us. We de nos like one another. and so the noise goes on us on any other day kulala

Major Moraht, in the Berliner Tageblatt, refere as follows to the letters received from German soldiers in the Web:

In all of them I read determination, and see that our brave men have reconciled themselves to the fate of spending a second Christmas in the enemy's country, that their discipline is in no way crumbling, and that the grief at the thought of wife and child at home cannot injure their dia. cipline. But one request I find constantly repeated the privations at the front should not be underestimated at home, Superhuman work is chill being achieved in

fight against wind, and win- ter. The privations are particularly great in the case of those hundreds of thousands of brain workers whom the German people

has sent little by little to the wax,

BEER sent to the big veterinary hospitals, fully equipped, enter wards, forage sheds, operating shed and pharmacy, men's quarters and dining-room-a town ia itself and each town capable of ac commodating 1,000 horses. These hospitals are in striking contrast to the arrange ments which had to be made at fret. At this time last year it was frequently necessary to operate on horses in the open. Finally, from the advanced hospital the horses are sent to the convalescent depot, It need hardly be said that the greatest care is exercised in isolating case of in fectious disease. Thanks to the rigorous precautions which have been taken, epide

ON THE WAY TO A CRA

CRATER. mics have been few and sight, and always

"Come and we our crater," said my have been kept well in hand. Very few captured German horses were allowed to guide. It's a fine crater. The Germans stay in the British lies. There was a pre. made it, but we've got it. Only don't say judice against them, not on account of a word while you are there, and go more favourable, but they are few. On the B How Western and Eastern fronts, and on the their nationality, but because of the disquietly, for the beggars are only her they might import yards away are mixed in such cases, Frontiers of our Allies in the Alps and on

I will not describe in detail, what bodies have to suffer while hearts remain firm. But in order that we at home may not Luckily in my section the communics underestimate their privations and what tion path rose towards the fring line, where an occasional crack or the sounds they have to hear, I must agree with the overhead ghowed that the day might be wish that is often expressed that people what it liked, but things were as usual. would not let themselves be deceived by the I found the firing line, as one does gener- pretty pictures which now and then find ally, with surprise. The approach their way into German newspapers #g com- seemed interminable; I squeezed past aing from the front. After the bad change barrier of sandbags that were Goring evil grey Bime, getting mad even on my aap at last, and a sharp crack passed over bead,

CO. TUKIO

JAPAN

Very much satisfaction is expressed in the new Army at the decision of the Army Council to apportion 80 per cent. of the first commissions to warrent non-commission

One's feelings dire

It is instructive to compare with the British veterinary organisation the little but one goes. We splashed and squeezed hat has been made known concerning about between those stacks of hard grey that of the enemy. What little there is bage, and ooze was everywhere, repulsive favours the belief that their losses in to touch and to smoll, Within dark re- horses have been much more severe than cesses of the bags I saw recumbent figures ours Four to one is a computation that covered with new mud, fast asleep others has been made by those in a position to jammed themselves against the muck to allow us to pass as cleanly as possible. know.

You wou'd have liked the eyes of those lads. They were the only bright, objects there, except the bayoneta. We got to our crater, a deep disruption of the clay barbed wire spilled into it, and hanked with bags where its rim was too dan cautions mirror I could make out beyond still land, ominous in its astonishing quietode, with some fantastic ruing be youd, through which showed the furorn Beside me stood silest youngster, who.. to first comulesions, after which they had might have been your son, mufled, intent. to learn the very rudiments of driu The gripping a tile with a fized bayonet, his civilise officer has now been practically thoughts heaven knows where watching eliminated. No officer will be appointed the few yards of earth between on and who has not already attained some military the foe, with a box of bombs close at hand, efficiency, either sea soldier in the racks and around him, a wreckage of wet clay

and barbed wire.Timer or a cade

in the weather in December our dug-outs really do not look like pleasant Alpine hots and our trenches do not look like cushioned resting-places. The war against the ele ments must be carried on by day and night in order merely to maintain the existence of cave dwellers. There are, no doubt, places at the front where the conditions are

the Isonzo, the strain upon endurance is greater than it ever was in all the winter campaigns of history,

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF

THE WOUNDED.

An urgent appeal has coms from Eng- land for long white knitted heelles stockings and white knitted skall caps, to be worn by the wounded returning in of and for the protection ambulance trains from the front, for bandages,

The Matin anticipates that the reward already alluded to will now be increased to £5,000; but in the meantime Zibro Belgique regularly appears, with its unsparing so- counts of German crimes and its shrewd analyses of the German official com maniques,

A irauter "ot: Josuits and Re-

demptorists who were arrested on suspicion have just been released for lack of evidence

HONGKUNG VOLUNTEERS.

ORDERS BY KEHÚY •COL, A, UHAPMAN, V.m

LLAVE 1Corp. G. H. Bowker is granted

leave of absence from February 10th, to February 24th, 1916. Bapper W. A Howells is granted Isave of absence from February 10th to August 1st, 1916.

PARADES,

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Headquarters...

5.16 p.m-Musketry Instruction in Kennedy Road Range for the follow- ing meni Gunners A F. Brown, F. G Bamways and A, N. Bootes (No. 2 Section Arty. Batty.), Ptes, E.-F. Clayson, J. Elias, J. E. Elias, A. E. Ablong and CE. Czorio (Right Ben. M.G. Co.), Pte. J Brown (Centre Bec, M.G. Co.), and Pte. F. M. H: Holman (Scouts Co.). Uniform (Drill Order) to be worn. Service rifles to be carried. Corpl, Grimas, R.E., and one N.C.O. from Right Section M.G. Co. will attend. No 4 Section Scouts Co (all members)- Machine Gan instruction at Head- quarters Recruite of all unitė- Squad drill and rife, exercises at Headquarters under Bergt. Major Higby

Remainder, nat

Note N.C.Os, and men of Scouts Co. who are on guard on the days on which their Section drill, will parada with the next Section drilling. FIELD OPERATIONS, 13TH FEBRUARY, 3.In addition to the units mentioned

in Corps Order No.4, dated Febru ary 8th, 1916, the Stretcher Bearer Bection will attend.

4-On duty to-night: Scouts Company.

Orderly Officer: Lieut. Murphy, Next for duty: HKVR

G. E. Stawarz, Capt.

Adjutant," BKVIH

ed officers, and men who have seen service, gerous. Through the indirect eye of & warmin, ang VIATA toful the Berliner Tageblatt, writes :-"We have

in the field of soms sort, the remaining pro port on guing to cadets and O.T.C. It has long been grievance of serving soldiers that civilians who had no knowledge of

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Major Moraht, the military expert of Mr. Phelips will, therefore, be for the names of any ladies who will abandoned all illusions. We know that wo articles, either by hand or machine. and could wish that Great Britain would kindly undertake the knitting of these are engaged in a life-and-death struggle, Wool knitting needles, and printed realise the impossibility of crushing us The instructions can be had from Mrs. Phelips, present agony is of no use to anyone. We, 12 The Peak, or at the City Hall on like the French have been forced by Jones tain is putting wine into her water. She Monday Tuesday and Thursday morninge Any small subscriptions to assist in the between 10 and 12.30,

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