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TOUR THROUGH EGYPT.

THE DELUDED TURKS.

MAY A CHRIFTIAN RETALIATE?

THE DEAN OF MANCHESTER'S VIEW

Since the beginning of the year, I have

The consolentious objector and the sub had the privilege of selling from uno ject of reprisals were referred to by the end of Egypt to the offer, and also, tu, Dean of Manchester in a sermon as mope extent in the Sudan, says Dr. Gibbons chester Cathedral, JONES

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LIFE STORY OF A TORPEDO. MOST WONDERFUL WEAPON OF MODERN SEA WAR

DY 7. 8. MARUMIBON,]

He first awoke to a realisation of what she really was when the workmen took him

NEW RUSSIAN PREMIER'S WAR CRY

VICTORY AND A LASTING PEACE.

He said two puestions were much on men a bumping, jolting trolley, down to the scenty Bummary WIE MANwhich

One

resist

the

what

(2 You-York Horrid correspondent); Asidoaps and in their hearts just now. from the presence of a large number of wa "Blay - Christians of British troops in the triangle Usire-Alex-pirit of Jesus Christ, has force to

evil-doing? and she other, "If

the limit which Christ's In his view St. Paul, in log on love, referred to a certain mind, and not to a particular was the interpretation of forbade the spirit of refor eye was demanded for aa for a tooth. If anyone did He said we must not seek to reta bate upon But suppose them by doing them wrong ef

andria-Port Saul, and the mobilizing of caniels everywhere there is nothing to indi- cate that Egypt is taking part in the world war: The skirmishing with the Benas far away-list in onother planet. On the Caunt the military authorities, having minde their preparations, are resigning them selves to a far harder lask than fighting are waiting The Dardanelles ex

f which Egypt was really the

iner of That W

Ramizn papers give the full text of the statement issued by M. Sturmer, the new Russian Prime Ministar on Russin's foreign and dome

at the water e edge, and lowered him slowly into time to England. Wearing below in full the blue waters About an hour previous to the passages referring to the War -—. his journey he had lain, silent and inert,In the time which we are passing through an a bench in the workshop, whie along the fundamental tusk which stands before knake-like pip, had led his chambers with us all is the attainment at all costs of a comprosodit. And now he was going to victorious ending of the war, which was, do his trial run the first time that a tornos begun by us. I always was, and stil reda roally takes the water

am, a convinced and unflinching adherent The blue cant forenien was nothing some of the idea that this war inposed upon n. thing on a sheet of paper, and as the waters must be won at any price. No offers of bed over his shimmering sides he made a separate peace, however attractive they Thea bo nodded briskly may doem and however advantageous they he man by the torpedo de smacked really may be wil solve the problem st brass bever and stood up to before the peoples by this titanic struggle,...

• We are not, intimidated by—nay, they orpedo felt a dehaous (hrill, and to us ridiculous these threats of our Benncia] ur economic exhaustion. When began to shake nervously. The compressed the Ioue 21 steke is the primary most air rushed along the feed pipe and through vital interests of Russia, how can ono'sprak the aur delay to the engines, and as they of the exhaustion of this onormous country felt the pressure the twin propellors at the which is not only replote with visible directions The torpedo was off of for to us now and hitherto unknown treasures the first time in its life

ap

is now part history. The indux

the wrong was done by someone, sick and wounded he stopped and soon there be no more work in the hospitalsWe saw a bully maltreating a win I have talked with native pashas of all we to say it was no consern of the bitterest hostility to the English to and there would be rug undible in whades of political opinion, ranging from should resist brutality by our own the cheerful acceptance of a permanent such an kotion, which would rather be that stern gommenced to revolve in opposite natural richen, but which every day rovents

could not

eremy

protectorate. They have spoken to me of an honourable and Bego frankly and while many do not hesitate man to the case of Belgian to state their antipathy to any form of think that its resistance o foreign rule, and some assert their pro spoliation by à grest and Turkish proclivities, not a single eno en- the resistance of Great tertaing longer the hope of the Turks and euco to a solemn compact, whe Certonus coming to Egypt, Various proua chivalrous example grannes for demanding complete internal which led antions to constitute autonomy in Egypt have bean outlined to champions of the oppressed, me, but the champions are careful to state war was, and absoluto as was that "these are matters to be settled after the war is over.”

AGITATION BY FANATICS,

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Straight as an arrow shot from a bow —and ng swill—the glistening, cigar-abaped| bé defeated,

chanism beɛded up the loch. The work-⠀⠀⠀ Our great country and our great people

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on. There was never swerve to right inent with their Allies and in complets con NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. ar left, and torpedo thor-viction thig of oughly to enjoy them, ondlong rush through the l waters Speed-peed to coms complete progress and prosperity speed! The engines seamed to sing that in the realisation of her material and moral. song over and over again almost mono interest. To the attainment of this great tonously and the torpedo tots than at last it historical object the anited efforts of all was indeed living. It could go on like her sons, great and humble, be consecrated this for ever. It was got very deep We live in exceptional times and to these just a matter of about two feet below the expectional fines correspond exceptional surface and the wake of bubbles i loft problems. Their solution is only possible astern dragged out in one straight line, by the united strength of the entire Rus- showing to the watchers on the shore the nation, from its highest to its lowest the torpedo's interior economy was doing clases som PEOPLE.

the man or nation who occasioned it, there was no un-Christian action in resist ance to evil-doing so long it was offered in accordance with honorable law. We No stone has been left unturned, how owed our personal safety to the army and over, by agitators and religious fanatics navy and those who declined to take their to annoy the British authorities and the part in, or decried the army and navy native Ministers, who, under the now were not high-minded servants of Christ, Sultan. have accepted the task of ruling

Referring to reprisals: the Dean said the Egypt during wartime. I wrote two weeks nations had been at infinite pains to elabor

that the dewsonsiration at the Abdinate a system of international morals to Palace, which was ridiculously exeggor- ated abroad was purely local in charactor mitigate the horror of war. But if inita duty woll and truly

war one side used asphyxiating gas, ho and confined to fewer than a thousand could not blame the others for using it, so

relife" (reservists). It had no repercus but there ought to be no relation except of sion whatever either in Cairo or in the

country at large. Its effect was not felt

at all in Alexandria,

Among certain religious sements, how ever. The opportunity has not been lost to emphasis the fact that while, the Egyptians are willing to rain neatral in the war between England and Turkey, they should not be expreted, even indirect ly to contribute their efforts in hostile menures against their Khalf. An enony- mous petition to that effect was handed in

military necessity. We prayed that we

should not stoop to imitate our enemics in sending innocent women and children to death, whether by Zeppeling or submarines

WAR DECIDED UPON IN 1912, GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S ADMIS

SION TO HIS ITALIAN

COLLEAGUE, the Sultan and his Ministers recently Marquis and Seastor Garron, Italian recalling the statement made by the British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte until authorities at the beginning of the war with Italy declared war against Turkey a few Turkey that the Egyptian would not be mouths back, has been cat off the list of aced to take aides and that the defence diplomatists. This step was taken by the of Egypt against invasion would be wholly Italian Government in response to a freely asted by Great Britain, the protoct-xpressed desire of the public that Gargyroscope which hummed in his interior ing Power It seems to by the universal roni should take no further part in Italian sentiment that the calling up of the reser diplomacy His taalt consists in knowing, viste is contrary to the spirit, if not to the fully two years previous to August, 1914, letter, of this statement and that it would that the Kaiser was determined to make he best to disperse with any other form of war in Europe. Egyptian service at the Canal than that of voluntary paid labour. I believe that the Egyptian point of view is thoroughly understood and appreciated by military and bivil officina in Egypt. Whenever there is nn smooth

for British authorities Bailing in an Islamic country and I speak of Lines of peace as well as of war-it is bo- crush of London's inability or unwilingness to take into consideration the peculiar prob tems of Islain as they must be faced and solved by the official on the spot.

DISILLUSIONED IN TURKS

TE SAVINGS OF THE

1915, Galy 8.748-000 gaituns of State vodka were sold, as against 146,791,000 in 1914 The revenue from the sale of liquor accordingly diminished by £44.000.000 as compared with the your b

before

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Then, without warning, click! Some The Russian Counch of Ministers had thing snapped in the inside and before he under consideration a statistical memoran- could try to prevent it, he had leapt a full dum showing the financial and coonomic three fect our of the water, and lay rolling condition of the Empire a. the end of Janu on the still water.. app an According to summary which has Men came in a steamboat and retrieved appeared in the Press, the condition of the bicommenting the while on the splendid winter crop appears to be favourable, ruu They even went oned a sinking valve, The influx of cash deposits in the State Bay- and the brilliant way the counter gear had ng banks in the course of 1815 reached brought him to the surface at the end of the record figure of £65.800,000 wherens in the previous year, when the crops were he allotted space of his run Wheraat Mr. Torpedo tock heart of grace realising that partielarly abundant, the total amount of after all it was only some prearranged and deposits was only £9,000,000 In addition, sot portion of his machinery that had stop the savings banks received on doposit vari- org grous paper securities to an aggregate count ped his ru

They took him back again, and charged at £16,700,000, ga against £5,200,000 in the State savings banks on December 14th. him with dit again and again that day, 1014. The total amount of cash deposits in the foremna meking notes on the paper 1815, was £230,100,000 and in paper securi sheet after every run. They tried him with lieg £55.300.000. his rudders jammed hard over, so that the should have a chance of showing what it could do in the way of bringing the torped back to the straight and narrow path of rectitude and correct deflection; and at th- end of all these things they packed him Ambassador Wangenheim, now dead and his sheet of paper into a long-tax, and mysteriously in Turkey, but then the Min placed him on a railway track quis German collesque Constantinople, AT THE TORPEDO STORE. told Garron of the Kaiser plans. Instead Followed a long and rambling journey of forwarding the information to his Gov to the soulli in pitch blackness until he erement in Rome, Garroni, kept it to him. camo in curas of time to the torpedo self. Even when he returned from Turkey store in Portsmouth Dockyards

Here, glistening and proud of his new- last autumn (anys an American Exchange), he held his peace to Baven Bonnino Fornese they placed him on a shelf in company eign Minister, but he did tell Giolitti, with a lot of other weapons of his own This friend and Italy's former Foreign size, some shining like himself others show Minister Giolitti said nothing for some ing a certain rustiness that told of their time, but the weight of the secret seeing to veteranship. And in the darkness, when bave worried him, and he made it public the store was closed, they told each other some weeks back;

tales, those veterans; tale of dives taken Since then many prominent people have during practice runs and of long sojourns demanded punishment for Marquis Carroni, on the bottom of the harbour, when the contending that his silence did much harm, divers or the sweeps had routed them out and that it was his bound duty immediately and ant them up for further service to inform his Government of what Wang Stories of gyroscopes outwitted, of the joys catein had told him. The pews of his of diddling the'r oranger gear and taking lisarae has caused a good deal of satisfac runs of three miles over their proper on, which, however, is marred at his ranges with sweating boat's grews foiling being put on the list of prefects, as the after there in an effort to retrieve-ruus King's disposition, should a vacancy occur tha, had only ended when the air gave cult among Ita sau cities Though a prefect is Others capped thees with narratives of very far beneath na-Ambassador in rank, Aulking, when they refused to let their Gerren enemies and specially the Interews resolve at all, or when after a great terventionist Socialists, declare he should deal of coaxing, they had suddenly sheered not even have that honour, and predict acff, turned round, and hit their own ship general outburst of public indignation if in sheer perversity

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SADRIFT.

For days be drifted while the salt of streaks on his side Three days later he the sea bit into his sheen and loft rusty found himself lying on the sandy hesch of

The friction that has arisen and the unrest that has been greased is far from serious. I speak from close personal ob servation. And it is more than off wat hy the disillusionment now apparent every where

about the military power of the Turke. In a former letter I said that the Egyptian mas in the street had for a year beloved that the Turks, were coming be in irresistible force, and that while would risk nothing to help them before ho had the absolute assurance of thoin viel tory by their actual presence in Egyph, he loaked forward to the invasion with eagar- now a confidence. The failure at Galli- pol and the retreat from Baghdad had diminished British prestige greatly in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they honestly believed the Turks would force the British to quit Egypt In the Fayous and in he is given the prefecture of any city, it All these storica Mr. Torpedo. junior Upper Egypt it was the same as in Cafre Italy took in, and he resolved that he, too, woulda West Country fishing part, and a hoary and Alexandria. But during the past two Garron is not only Giolitti's friend, but I have some sport when at length ho got our months I have watched the process of disil. his political supporter as well, and was into the wide world of ships and seas. He lusionment. The Turks not only have not much oppad to Italy's entering the war did not have to wait long. There came a cant, but they have not even started to against Austria. Golisti used what influ-day when more men lifted him down from Can The fact that they seen to have ence he had left co save Carroni from dis- his resting-place on the shelf, and carted abandoned the Canal project the inevit-missal from the diplomat srvice, but in him down to where a low-lying, lean, vici. able success of which all the Turkish vain. Public opinion was too strong forous, black destroyer nestled close to the

jetty. agents in Egypt had been heralding him throughout the year 1815, has had a wootler- ful offect in re establishing British prestige in the eyes of the Egyptians. The two defeats of the Sanusi on the western front have come as the same time ne a lesson to the Egyptians,

—— There could only been trouble in F20pt if the Turks had actually invaded the country. When it is known that the Cans] expedition has been given up whatever potential blaze may have been mouldering in Egypt will cause anxiety and poed watching as longer, if few thousand troops are kept hers as before the war

A WAR-SICK GERMAN

BRITISH PATROL'S EXCITING ADVENTURE

A certain soldier is now the pride of his regiment in consequence of the skill and daring with which he extricated himself

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PUT THROUGH HIS PICES. then they screwed as now bind of head on THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD

They put him in a tube and, after tok him a head that tok him that it meant ing him to sea launched him forth from business and was charged with sudden and the ship en another exercising run, with awful death. During the days that follow- the Holmes light, burning at his nose to ed the warhead drilled quite a lot of philo wark where he came up at the end of itsophy into Mr. Torpedo, until he began to

Mr. Turpedo behaved wonderfully on see his duty quite clearly

from a very light corner that run. Indeed, it was not unish they Then followed days and nights of sour The men was sent out on pulzo duty were charging him for a third run thating through the grey wastes of the North with another. They were surprised by a party of the enemy in considerably stronger he remembered the stories of his cronies in Ses with his bronze nose now staised

the store, and determined to have a bit of vivid green through the action of the salt force, and cale upon to surrender, replied by firing, and killed Gorman,

boat. after which the companion bolted. The unnamed hero permitted himself to be taken He was disaruied and searched, but his osplora failed to observe that he had con conled a grenade in his capacions fist. This he dexterously returned to his pocket when the Boches had finished rummaging his tunic.

fun on his own account water-looking out over the gunwale of the

HIB TURN COMES

And then, one day kis turn came the boat sighted an enemy cruser. In a tripe the sights were aligned Crack went the powder impulse once more this time the run wol grimly real ~ The engines sang, the gyroscope hummed and the ruddera lay perfectly in rest. Only the twin screw at his tail whirled as he dashed along. His sinking valve was open. He knew-none better that this was his last run: if he missed the target he wond sink inglorionel at the end of the runa failure, while if he his he would most certainly be blown to picco But he would have achieved suoads

Accordingly when they launched him again, he tried to monkey with his gyros scope, twisting suddenly off to the left. But the gyro was awake, and watchful. Back you come it said, and twisted him over suddenly Mr. Torpedo deter mined to have his own way suddenly kick ed up his heels Down for three yards A Daily Chronicle Amsterdam core spondent has just met a German soldier The captive was taken to the German went his nose, and then the pendulum ruiting Halland on special leave. He lines where he was left in charge of a weight in his balance chamber brought him declared that the sight of a war-free solitary sentine! Quielly withdrawing the back to the level with a jerk. So ha plunged land, amply supplied with food gave him bomb from his pocket, but without slipping his tail down suddenly, and leapt & clear transports of joy. He felt unable again out the safety-pin, he suddenly brought it yard out of the water, but by the time he to face the trenches and, but for disgracing down with a tremendong whack upon the truckator again, the weight ad inter and ruining his father, ho would desert skull of his guard. The German dropped fered once more. He was meditating für There was nothing but a great depressing like a log, his rifle and bayonet clattering ther trick, when that countor gear clicked

to the ground

patt The more? of the rank and file was now The British soldier took to his heels in Bud shut off the air, and he was compelled

One hundred yards fifty there was deplorable. The or everywhere were so the direction of the British Unes, but ford willy-milly, to rack the surface and wait for heavy that the one idea of the officers and not gone far when he came upon another the picking up bost to retrieve him,

Fate must have been with him that day, thud that shook him along his entire length, men was to get out at any cost. Large German patrol Challenged to surrender. bribes were given to doctors and officers he stood still, and allowed the enemy to for as the bost came alongside the bow-then-anthing His work was accomplish enipowered to send men home. Many of the approach him close, when he hurled the man happened to touch the delay with ed. He had run straight and true st the rich soldiers had been going, and the know-grenade right into the midst of the litte his boa book, and before Mr. Torpedo him-end of things. He had done his bt ledge of this increased the discontent of the group. There was an immediate explosion, self knew it he was off with a rush gaps that romainder Food was bad, even in the followed by cries and groans, and the gil.more Straight on he sped and by-and- Army, for which the Government tried to lant patrol continued his sprint, returnby, when his air gave out, he found him get the best. We are running short of sng safely to tell the story to his cheering eelf lost and drifting in the contre of a

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