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“THE OBSTACLE TO PEACE" GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN

GERMAN CHANCELLOR BLAMES

GREAT BRITAIN.

The following statement attributed to the German Chancellor, is clearly adoitier clumsy German effort to sow discord among the Allies by attempting to show that only England stands in the way of peaco

THE WEST

DECISION AT ALL COSTS,

What is the memce of the offensive which led the enemy last week to attack the French lines at Nesville St. Vaast and at Frise, in the bend of the Somme, with isolated and tentative thrusts at some points of our own front! (asks & corres NEW YORK, January 31st. Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, the Germanordent writing from British Headquar Imperial Chancellor, recently, called into ters on February 10th). That question conferenss the leaders of the various must dominate the thoughts of all people party groups in the Reichstag and gave who are trying to forecast the history for their edification a "frank outline of which is still unwritten with what letters the situation" as it appeared to him and of blood in the year of fate. For the presumably to the Cerman military autho complete answer to it we should need to ritios:

lock into the minds of the German General Staff, and to read without illusions, with out self-deception, and without mercy by the inhumaa brain of this machine. There are, however, various facts and signs which peint towards an answer--not quite cer tainly, but with some assurance,

His observations are now reproduced for the benefit of the American people in the Deutsches Journal by the managing editor, Gustav Schweppendick, who has hoon acting as Berlin correspondent of the "New York Americas," Tho Deulaches Journal is a daily newspaper published. in. New York by Mr. Hearst, Mr. Schwep- pendick states that the views of the ChancePar wore communicated to him by one of the party leaders present at the conference.

Dr. von Bethmann Hellweg devoted the burden of his remarks to Great Britain "Great Britain," he said, "is obstacle to pence. She hopes to starve Genuany into submission, Wo will meet lor on the economie battlefield,”

The Chancellor is reported to hayo then proceeded as for lows: "There have been no official peace overtures or negotiations so far. Tuore has been, however, an- official conversations by persons without official standing. These people were as a rule auciers of high international posi Switzerland nad Sweden principally. It was the general impression of the partici- punts that as the warring nations would willingly enter into peace negotiations exerpt England,

It is certain anyhow, that the enemy is aware of the increasing strength of the British Armies on the Western front. They know that one lines are continually being reinforced by large bodies of trained men. They have seen the constant arrival of new batteries and the steady increase in the supply of shells which during recent thereantha has enabled our gunners to main- tain a terrible bombardment upon their trenches and positions. And lately the passing of compulsion and the steady flew of recruits in England have warned them that as the months pass the forces arrayed against them will be too strong to break, whatever strength 's left to them All those corroborations must stare in the eyes of the German General Staff by Cam But what do they see and hear withier hundreds of thousands of soldiers' letters, whereas we rend only a few captured an German dead and German prisoners. If those hundreds of thousands are anything like the few that have fallen into our hands they must be like a great wail of agony rising from tortured souls. For these Ger- man soldiers, in spite of onsorship nod discipline, cry out against the intolerable conditions of their life, and against the fatality of thetory in for places, where there can be no end of the war, while the line, stands stationary on the Western front. If there are piles of corpses, wrote one of them "we must try to break through, because otherwise life is unendur-

NEW ASEPTIC CURES IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES BY

FRENCH DOCTORS. Observations made by the French Med.oak Staff during the present wor have led to a greater value being attached to asepticism growing disbelief in antiseptics and a of the most rigorous nature. As the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Pro- fessor. Pierre Delbot, who enjoys a high scientific and practical reputation in the medical world, road a paper on the result of experiments which he has made in this field. The result is remarkable.

He found that the action of the usual antiseptics on pus, inmerged therein, was often next bo nil. In some cases the anti- optic appeared rather to favour the deve lopment of toxic geros, and in none was Lo sterilisation higher than 50 per cent. solution of carbolic acid only sterilised times. Ether sterilised twice out of eight half its volume of pus twice out of five times, sublimate twice ont of niau, anl oxygen solution twice out of twelve times, Ia certain points the microbes instead of being killed multiplied to an extraordinary to some chemical transformation similar to degree, and the Professor attributes this that observed in the white of egg, which is a bad substance for culture of streptococci when it at once becomes excellent. util it is watered with Dakis's liquor,

The conclusion he arrives at is that by employing hypochlorides there is a risk of increasing the production of microbea by tive sction of phagocytose--and, therefore, destroying the living cells-e, the repara. it is wiser to contine oneself to much as possible to aseptics, to avoid antiseptins, and to encourage phagocytosis by the use of appropriate substances,

BEER SURGEON'S THEORIES UPSET in. The conversations: took place in their own arinis! Their sensors read a detor who was employed at a hospitalost

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A SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL "NOVEL OF ABSORBING INTEREST,

BY CHAS J. HALCOMBE,

ASTONISHING RECOVERY FROM WOUNDS.

During the present war, medical men have reported many remarkable cases of the recovery of wounded man-cases whore a fatal termination seemed inevitable but it is doubtful, says The Star, if there has been any as astonishing as the case of Pri- vate G. A. Dawson of the 10th Yorkshire Regiment, who is now in the King George Military Hospital. Stamford-street, B.I. Private Dawson has created so much inter. est among members of the medical profes sion that he has been soan by scores of leading surgeons,

Enough shell has been removed from Private Dawson's head to kill many men." As Kipling said of the late Lord Roberts:

If you stand im on 'is 'ead,

You could spill a quart of lead. But with it all, this Tommy is able to sit up in his bed, and he is one of the brightest and cheeriest souls in the ward,

Private Dawson, who is the son of a newsagent of Bishop Auckland, Durham, went to France with his regiment last year and, after serving five months in the trenches, he was wounded on December 12th. He was in a village behind the lines, which was being shelled, and before he could get to his dug-out" a shell knocked him out. Usconscious, he was taken to the base hospital, and there; from a great hole in the centre of his forehead. directly above his nose, there was removed a large piece of shell, a piece of wood and part of his сар. For twenty days Dawson borered between life and death. His face became swollen and black, and nothing the surgeons could do seemed to reduce the swelling On December 1st Dawson was removed to a hospital at Boulogne, and there he was put under the X-rays immediately on his arrival. In the private's left cheek was found a large piece of shell, which must have entered through the hole in the fore bead and passed down the side of the nose,

On New Year's Day Private Dawson was operated upon again and this piece

which weighted 25 ounces, was te moved by the way it had entered, so that there should not be a spar of any sort so the private's chook.

NO GREAT BATTLES UNLESS—" England is compelling her Allies to refta from catering upon any peace movement.

Having failed to crash Ger- many by armed force, she hopes to succeed in an economic war. For this reason the I war will probably leat for some time. am telling you this as we may as well be prepared for it. We must safeguard our food and other supplies. We must be independent of wil overseas trade con- trolled by Great Britain. Fortunately o road has been opened to the Orient by our victorious Army. This will make the economic war mich easier.

The military situation could not be better. Wale we have not, any too much food we have enough. The only thing we need is rubber. We shall not give up for tho lack of a fow rubber bande,

"It is my impression that there will not be extensive held operations for the present. Even if we occupied more of the enemy's territory it would not alter the situation so far as England is concerned, We may straighten out our lines and in- prove our position in the west, but generally speaking no more great field Here the Chan battles are probable." cellor paused and added, "unless a can- paign be embarked upon that will strike a vital blow at England

Mr. Schweppen dick shows that whatever the object of his disclosures, which were doubtless intended to assist the German plan of representing Great Britain as the snemy of posce, the Emperor's military advisers fully appreciate that British sea power is destined to be the determining factor in the war.

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HUMAN WASTAGE. The German General Staff watches the wastage of the armies, and has calculated to a day how long that drain of blood can' go on until the end must come. They have watched the moral of their men weaken- ing and the human material of the armies. deteriorating in physique and in training. They know that to ensure a victorious peace they must strike a decisive blow be fore the stores of good material still in hand-the human material, which they use ruthlessly as so many instruments of killing power is utterly used up. Behind them are the German people the old men, and the women, and the men who work in the factories of war and the German people, after eighteen months of false hopes are clamouring also for the decision which will bring peace.

Bo quotes high military officials' saying to his Germany could take Paris. It would only be a question of how many men we are willing to sacrifice. But that would not bring England to terus and therefore would not end the But war We could take Petrograd. suppose we drove the ear out of his capital Great Britain would not care, The piece of shell-about a quarter of any could drive the Italian Army into the inch thick, with torn and jagged edges sea, but it would make no differetice to.

a relic prized grastly by Private England. Dawson Another remarkable featureThe more territory we occupy thetrating his guns upon a small part of the about the case is that, by a further opera tion at the King George Hospital, the sight of his left eye was saved. To use his own expression, the piece of shell, when passing into his check, "turned the lens A celebrated of my left eye over." ophthalmic surgeon has righted the loss of the eye, and in a few days Private Dawson will be able to see again with his left eye.

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MONROE DOCTRINE,

FERILA OF THE FUTURE.

Writing in the Jineteenth Century, on "The Monroe Doctrine and the Great War" Mr. Moreton Frewen says it will be surprising it, with peace concluded and Germany terribly impoverished, that coun- try does not, her fleet still in being, at once pick a quarrel with the United States. Nor, wore Germany unsuccessful in such arald, does she risk any reprisals on the The Monroe Doctrine part of America.

thinner our lines and the greater our dificulty in supplying then, Going aberd on such lines would help England more than us,"

Mr. Schweppendick, who returned to New York a few days ago, declares that the foregoing statements by the Chancellor and a high military official accurately reflect German sentiment. He proceeds "People want peace......... I do not mean that they are willing to surrender. Far from that. But they are in a reasonable spirit. A party of Germans in the street will meet several young men who have lost leg of arm or are otherwise maimed.

There are hundreds of thousands of suck man, What a pity that fine young men must sacrifice their limbs. one will comment. What are we fighting for? We went into this to defend our father and we have kept the enemy out, and have even occupied big territory. The best thing now would be au honourable peace to stop this sacrifice.

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The Paris correspondent of The Stanilarit has heard of a new serum discovered by- the Vosges, which he claims to be most specific against the dreaded" Gongrüne gazeuse." It has beca subjected to a con- siderable number of tests by reat doctors on cases that were salefed absolutely hopeless and except in were saved, and recovery rapidly set in, two casos of tetanus the lives and limbs accompanied with an increase of weight of gre than two ponds a day, on an ave rage, in many patients. The same pre- paretion is also found to be efficacious in experiments, however, and a longer period advanced tubercular phthisis. Further of observation will be necessary before the ralisé," as it is called, ona be ascertained. definite value of this "plasma polywine-

FOOD OF THE GODS. - PROFESSOR BOTTOMLEY ON BACTERISED PEAT,

Food

In his lecture at King's College, Pro- fessor Bottomley spoke about Supply in War Time." He said that our methods of agriculture had led us into such a condition that we never have more than two months' food supply in England. He believed that it was the old story, Wo have land, have brains but we do not care about science. He went into statistics of imports of grain and the agricultural work that was being done in different countries, and showed that though England could supply itself from outside because of its command of the trade routes, the central countries could go on producing their own care of agriculture. We could do it if wo food for a long time because of their greater willed

It is to got this decision at all costs on the Western front, It is against which is the probable cause of the attacks Frence, which has fought with heroic reck

Professor Bottomley has often shown the lessness and suffered tragic losses of man, Lood along a front of 550 miles month way that peat when treated by bacteria after month, for a year and a half that can make plants grow until they are really the enemy has struck savagely. If Ger wonderful, and in his lecture he explained many could only give France a deathblow why it cannot be taken up at present. It a matter of labour. England has the decision might be won have been to 17,000,000 acres of unused land, which

What of her chance? I many parts of the French line and only exceeds all the agricultural land of Bel- recently to Neuville St. Toast and the inm Holland, and Denmark put together. lines around Arras and the country of the Ireland has the pent, and if only the two Somme, where I talked with many French lots of unproductive land could be brought officers and men and saw the spirit and together something great would result."

Recently he had got an offer from Man- organisation of their great army. It does not reem to me that the enemy has any chester to try his laboratory methods on chance of breaking through. By concen a large scale. The corporation owns Chat mosa, 2,500 acres of peat-land, and it also front and hurling a mass of men at A polichas 1,300 allotment-holders who are doing tion lavishly bombarded, it is always pos their best to provide food on rather poor sible for the enemy, as well as for our selves, to onpture the front-line trenches and to take a number of prisoners. But that is not "breaking through, as we" found to our cost in our own attacks, and the slaughter that follows is a great sacri- Sce of men which cannot be spared by those whose manpower is not increasing M IGNOMINIOUS FAILTER, A

This war has proved the strength of defence, and if the Germans take the offen- eive they must pay the price, which to them will surely mean death unless all our cal culations are falee. I was told that one of our men recently killed forty Germana with his own hand by touching the trigger of a machine-gun. In that fact alone is the whole secret of this war. Given enough machinery, no human courage can live So it is that recent German attacks upon within the zone of fire 200 our line have failed ignominiously. Only a few men dared to come out of their

Boil.

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR.

Mr. Robert Davidson, of the Chinese Maritime Customs Statistical Department, has been granted a commision as 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Royal Scots.

News has been received tha, Mr. Arthur Piercy (from the office of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.) has been promoted to Lieutenant, He served as 2nd Lieut, in 2nd Cheshire Regiment in Flanders, France (including four days battle at Loss), and Egypt, and is now with the Selonika Force.

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Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Custota and today this was infinitely more the Everywhere the all-important question is.trenches to face those sweeping sorthes of Tuesday, March 14th-No. 1 Co. (3 and

Service, Author of "The Mystie

Flowery Land," etc.

THE VOLUME, which consiste of 401 Pages, and includes & Skates Pls of historical interest showing the disposi tion of the Forces at the battle of Kwai. a. dedicated to Sir ROBET BABE, G.O.M.G., and Dr. A. RENIK.

bullets from our machine-guns, and in a moment or two they were cut to pieces. prepared by terrific bombardment, succeeds only as far as those trenches. When it behind it breaks against the defence and goes beyond the registering of the artillery Lecomes a shamblen That has been all our experience and the enemy has no other magic to destroy this law.

This year will bring many great tessa

(2) at W. 4) at C. No, 2 C), (3) at J. No. 1 Cẻ. Wednesday, March 14th—No, 3 Co. (2)

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was from the very first dependent on Britain's a-power for its maintenance, case then ever before, I would have to be How long is the war to last? The spirit abrogated, or, failing that, travel the seems different from early days. There is whole road to aq alliance between our ne ostentation of grief, no despair. The attack upon the front-line trenches, nations, Had such an alliance existed in abatement of patriotism,

I should say 1914 thero could have been no war. The that the humane side, which was submerged Monroe Doctrine hid imposed a veritable in the first days of the war, has again one strait-waistcoat on Germany, shutting her to the surface are appated. No-one

The people out of her place in the sun, filling her people with rage and fury against Eng-expected the war would last long. But the land and those fleets which alone prevented casualties have passed all expectations. Teutonic expansion into Cuba and South This is es true of France and other Allied

cres of men but having seen the strength America, and filling Central Europe, con countries as of Germany. You see no cory Its description of Chinese Social scious of disenso, unconscious of the surging of crowds when the soldiers leave of our armies and of our French Allies DRILL CUP

for the front, no more joyful sing ng it is inconceivable to me that the enemy Gestores and Superstitions, combined remedy, with a homicidal mania, with the insight it gives into polities! England should decide at once whether The Gormans are undoubted, but they should break through ca the Western conditions in China, makes CAULDREN she intended after this war still to buttress have settled down to a realization of what front. It is perhaps the last venture of mtandao desperate men, who must end their busi OF FAR CATHAY an excellent volume for the Monroe Doctrice, or whether in the war really means,

It is common talk that the world's presentation to friends at Home.

event of its infraction by Germany our

Enancial leaders are seeking a means fores, whether they win or loso, and the British Empire decided to close at early peace; it is an open secret that their ports to German shipping and their the former Chancellor, Prince Buelow, ships to German goods and passengers, participated in conversations in Switzer- then the sea would have closed over the add grave of the German merchant marine," But above all is the belief at Eng- and there would be no German Dread land is the one nation which must be noughts, New York could sleep in its beds, whipped since Great Britain insists upon and the Monroe Doctrine would endure prolonging to struggle Germany will make any sacrifices aceded in this regard.” at no cost to America, fully equipped, un-

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7.00 am. Members of Signalling Sec- tion and other Signallers, as detailed. in Signalling Section order dated 8th December, 1915-Morse flag proc tice at Headquarters, 6.15 p., Centre Section M. 0.-Co- artin, Inspection of arms, equipment, and uniforms at Kowloon. Docks. Launch leaves Statue Pier oh 4330 p.. Dress, etc,, Khaki drül, jacket and shorts, great coat (rolled), putties black boots, cap, rifle, side- arus, bondolier, holt four pouches, 150 rounds bad ammunition. haver- sack, and waterbottle.

5.15 p.Nos. 1 and 2 Sub-sections Arty. Batty. (as detailed In Corps. order No. 4 dated 30th December, 1915--10 pdr. gun drill at Headquar tors, Bergt. Bradley, R.G.B., will attend...

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A SENSATIONAL STORY

Mr. M. Donohoo huu ollained a sensa

can, who is a survivor from the passenger- steamer Brindig, which was travelling tional story from Miss Taños, an Ameri

from America with about 400 Montenegrin reservists on board; and was sunk by an enemy submaring in the Adristic. Miss Fanos says many Montenegrin on board wowed that if the vessel was torpedoed they preferred suicide to an ignominious death by drowning and they kept their word. While the Brindisi was setting down goores of Montenegrins gathered aft, sang the National Anthem, and shot themselves. Mis Lamos jumped overboard, and after swimming in ice-cold water reached n was overloaded and became subruered. plank. Others did likewise, till the plank There was a terrible fight amongst many to retain the coveted plank, but others suc F. O. JENKIN,cumbed to the cold.is Lamos, who were

DSP (R) heavy overcoat, was alone when rescued,

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