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SYMBOL AND SENTIMENT

THE END IS NOT NEAR.

STRING PROSPECTS OF THE WAR

[BY LOVAT FRASPJEH

The great blizzard has destroyed the grip of winter on this contry. The sap is rising in the trees and the daffodils

THE BRITISH DETERMINED.

GERMAN NAYAL EXPERT WARNS

EIS COUNTRYMEN.

SCOTS MARNLAGES,

A BILL TO RECTIEY SOME EXISTING ANOMALIES.

Marriage in Scotland has always been

fish minds, accustomed to English cuptent

In an article appearing in the Berliter Tageblatt on the War of Starvationularly regarded elsewhere as of the Captain Persius comes to the conclusion that Germany has little causato - fear that she can be forced to conclude peace as the result of famine...

~[Mr. Asquith announced last week that | the Union Jack would be flown from all public buildings on Empire Day, May 24th, and that it was noped tho example would be followed. In view of this the following article by a correspondent to The Times is of peculiar interest.]

This is on age of flags. They wave alike from house tops and button-holes not only our own Union Jack but also new caps and badges of many colours, we had better not underestimate in the with Scots marriages, which passed its the Bags of our own Allies, and the blood apparently as a tribute to the season, and he says, the elasticity and desceka to rectify some of the existing must flow sluggishly indeed that they Spring is here and the war is waking up, future," để nút stir.

are flowering The officers of the Gen- tral Staf working at the War Once have been ordered to procure brecohes and

On the other hand, he warns his fellow gaiters. Other staff officers in England countrymen against hasing too great and overseas are to blossom forth in hopes on a shortage of British tonnage,

It has not been slumbering on the termination of the British Past events Verdun front, nor in Armenis, nor on It is pleasant to notice at the chang the Tigris, these many weeks. The approve that the British gift of organisa ing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace proach of the thaw in Russia sees great tion, in spite of its slowness, reaches its that the civilian has acquired the habit, armies wrestling for new positions in the goal all the same, that they have profited so full of grace and dignity, of saluting north and in Galicia. But everywhore by their errors, that a firm determination the colours us they pass with uncovered there are new signs of fresh movements, to master all difficulties exists, and is A fag is the syrubol of so many and we are perhaps about to enter on the we liave to do with an enemy of whose daily making itself more felt, and that things that wo fegl but cannot very well greatest struggles of the war capabilities it would be wrong and highly express. It appeals to many and varied We are so immersed in domestic differ detrimental to us to judge contemp- emotions, not only to a common prideences that we sometimes seem to forget the tuously. We must be prepared for an and patriotism, but also very often, to actual aspects of the mighty conflict in improvement of the conditions of on- a more individual and tenderer senti, which we are participating. It should

nage in England. meat. Who is there that has not in youth therefore be profitable to examine briefly been moved by the resplendent page of the prospects of tha

mpaigns. *** the flags of all nations" that blooms

But in doing so it. be best to avoid at the beginning of every well-conducted the eternal question, "How long will the stlast To many the eight of an atlaswar last ? 21 22 Sometimes Lars, like summons up a whole scene: the cupboard Charles the Second, ure an areniscion in which the flags lived, where they were able time a dying Early last winter so inaccessibly tucked away as to lend I cherished a vague secret belief that the a spico of romantic difficulty to the fetch war might begin to end next July, and ing of them. It brings back the fecting actually finish about the end of October. of the drawing room with the rain beat I do not think so now for it is clearer ing relanticasly on the windowe and the than ever that unless Prussia is invaded very toont of the paint-box, by which it and the Pressiand are beaten to their was hoped to induce a measure of rest-knees, this war, in some form or other, fulness. To thosn at least who do not will be always with us We had better love geography that page scents ever get on with the war, and not think too afterwards an archway of bright colours, much about when it will end. lighting in some degree the road to the sunless, caves of learning beyond.

about the weather. The principle of con- certed action will come into play, and Germany may find that fighting on in terior lines has disadvantages as well as advantages. Should the situation, thus hinted at develop, the climax of the struggle on land may be at hand. Bhu remember always that though this war began suddenly it is not at all likely to end suddenly Our little South Africar War lasted for two years after its climax, which may be taken to be the fall of Pretoria.

go as you plonso" variety. To Eng-

and ritual, a Scotch irregular, mari age is no macriagó it all. For in the bonnie and of cakes you can marry when and how you will. You can marry i haste and put the matter right at leisu**. You can agree to marry and disgreo afterwards about calling it a marriage.

Mr. McKinnon Wood's Bill dealing

second reading in the House recently,

anomaliesingle who is also keenly

la interested in the Bill, and has expert” knowledge of Scotch law affecting marri age, simplified the leading provisions to, a Pall Mall Gamite representative in the lobby.

There are two diasses of marriage in

Scotland," he said, or the ⠀⠀ regular - marriage celebrated by a clergyman after the irregular marriage, which is simply a statutory notice has been given, Laud

a matter of consent that is, two people mutually agree to marry, and can do so by expressing their agreement before wit nessca in a private house or elsewhere.

In case of an irregular marriage. it is possible to apply to the Sheriff after wards for a warrant to register the marri- age. This is obtained by swearing before the Registrar that the marriage las takeu pince, whereupon he grants the warranĚ.

“The warrant should then be taken fo the Registrar to have the wedding re- gistered. But in many cases this has not Deen carried out, and then there exists: no legal evidence of the wedding.

To overcome this difficulty the Bill provides that a schedule of particulars should be filled up, when the application for the warrant, is made, and that the. registration shall follow automatically." ***Another feature, of the Bill meets the present emergencies of our soldiers and sailors desirous of marrying "regularly" immediately before going to the front, or during a short furlough, MN

Under the present law, said Mr. Pringle, there must be seven clear dinys notice given to the Registrar. But undor the Bill it is provided that only one day 'k

notice is necessary.

MEDICAL DISCUSSION IN PARIS

The battle of Verdun continues to

All other theatres of the war are sub- rage intermittently, there seems little doubt about its issue. The Germans have sidiary to these two great fronts. We _ Apart from such memories, & flag plu

dine exactly what they were permitted do not know, nor would it perhaps be duces an emotion which is all its own

to do, and no more, They have fattened prudent to speculate about, the atention and entirely different from that produced in salient with the shrewd and far-seeing of the Allies regarding the powerful annS by its distant, kinsman, a coat of arma acquiescence of the French, but they have, of French, British, and Serbians concen A coat of arms suggests some stately and not won an inch of ground which the trated at and within reach of Salonica. solemn gateway. There are some who French were not willing to yield in pur However much opinions may differ atou! will always think of the Bucks at suance of their definite policy. The the occupation of Salonica, it must be Cambridge--the Royal arma encircled in enemy have organised, against the Verdun admitted that it has served one profound its border of blue and white over the front the most formidable attack yet wit-¦ ly useful purpose.- It has steadied the gate of John's or the red and gold of nassed in the way, and they have utterly military position in the Balkan Clare Their feeling is a wholly disfailed to achieve their purpose They Whether it may grow into a more active tinct one; they should not be thus doi thus begin the spring with a deep con- design is quite another mattor. Tas, scribed in terms of common colours, but sciónsness of discomfiture, which has northward routes into the Balkans ure | NERVE INJURIES IN THE WAR. in the beautiful and consciously archaic i spread to their civil population.

tion not favourable to modern arnues, for the language of heraldry, They are, lik We are entitled now to draw from difficulties of transport are enormous, Hage, full of ancient pride, but they are Verdun a farther proof that the western Half a million men would be needed, utterly tranquil and remote. A Hag is front is probably impregnable, at any with large additional reserves. Salonico? u- live thing, of moods, and takes on rate for the present. The lesson is one will probably wait upon events elsewhere. something of the varied and dramatic, which may be found in out both ways, Egypt has passed out of the picture for character of the wind. It droops almost until the German numbers are very much the time being. Our defences beyond the sulkily around its-gole; it floats with a diminished. More than that it would be Suez Canal are now elaborate and love dreamy majesty, it Tatters out briskly unsafe to say, although a shrewd com reached the point to which they squid and sharply. The noise that it makes sentator has pointed out that the west is it tugs and tears at the rope t fall fern front is tending to develop a series are been brought a year ago. The Tmks uro evidently wat wenry, but while un-er of excitement. Moreover, we can, if wh of rather ragged, salienta The convic Pasho lives and remains obedient to his will, put something of our own feelings tion remains as strong as ever that, what German masters we should not pay much into it. A flag can be wared, though ever may happen in other theatres, the heed to the rumours of Turkish overtures in this respect we scarcely avail out war on land will be decided in the West for peace. The same considerations ap selves to the full of its possibilities. We Wherever the Germans may go in their have even in the past raised our eye feverish search for a decision; always brows at our American friends when they they must return to the calm and solid brandished thousands of little star Erray of troops confronting them in

France and Flanders spangled banners and shouted their war cries. Not long ago, however, the entry of the King and Queen at a concert in the Albert Hall was greeted by every minber of the audience simultaneously Vaving a flag and the effect was strange by

ply to Bulgaria.

The present war has been productive of many nervous affectious, both organic and functional. The Société de Neurologių, has just concluded a session Paris (says The Times correspondent) which was attended by representatives from all the military centres for neurologiezi work in France. The British War Offen sent Colonel Aldren Turner, and Colonels Gordon, Holmes and Percy. Sargent, re- presented the neurological centre in Boulogne Dr. Head was present on behalf of the National Health Commis- The Grand Duke Nicholas continue toner The Italian Governmen work wonders beyond Erzerum, but wo sont a representative at must not expect to see him marching on After Verdun the next prominent fac Constantinople. His resources are gov tor in the situation is the internal condi-erned by Russia's needs in Europe and tion of Germany Personally I have his hardy and valiant troops are mostly never been much impressed by the stress second-line. He has to a great excant laid upon Germany's weakening financial Rettled the Persian trouble for a sud for position. She is contracting huge liabili that we owe him our gratitude. The ties among her misguided people which Mesopotamian campaign has smali re As the flag is in its ossence a live thing, she will probably be unable to meet, and tion to the larger military issies. We sa ite also a primitive one. The best will perhaps eventually be compelled to shall have to settle accounts about it in fags are the simplest. In this respect repudiste, but shortage of cash is not due paton, and yo should all like to we are fortunate in the flags of our likely to affect her attitude for very see General Townshend rescued speedily, Allies. Franco, Italy, and Belgium with long time to come. The chortage of cer but his beleaguered force can iot affect their three bold stripen of colour, and tain kinds of food, as well as of certain the decisive areas one way or the other. Russie with its plain blue cross upon a materials needed for her staple indus The swing of the pendulum is just now white ground, make an admirably simple tries, is of more immediate importance, making the European jesues paramount and direct appeal. Of the flags in the and its affect grows steadily less obscure and Asia recedes into the background Atlas those which most profoundly stir One who knows more about Germany? our childish memories are probably the internal condition than most people said One notices that the German papers have gorgecue, and complex-Royal Standards to me: If we could only take the lid ceased to grow ecstatic about the Stam fall of the "pomp of heraldry." But off Germany, the world would be boul Express while

we love them still we can sea with astonished grown up eyes that vivid splashes o. colour, few, bold and big, and devoid of superfluous devices, are the most inspir ang. The others have something the look of coats of arms that have been converted. They are magnificent, but they are not quite flags It is a good thing that flags should be un-claborate in order that they may be easily recognized, and no one may Lave an excuse for ignoran Perhaps, also, it may not be too fanciful to suggest that the plainer the flag the better does it typify the fact that it be longs to all slike, gentle and simple,

Yet we must not count too much upon No. examination of the military out Germany's desperate straits The look can onit some reference to the pos

the military Cante Hohenzollerns and

upon the war. sibility of the invasion of these islands, have staked their all u Their back is to the wall, and they know about which much has recently been said, it. When they admit total failure, as and written. The attempt will probably they must in the end, the scales should be made before the war ends, but unless fall from the eyes of the German people, the Government and the military author but that time is a long way off. The jities grow heedless or make mistakes of Emperor and the Great General Biaff are judgment, we can now regard the pos still masters of the situation, and are sibility with reasonable calmness. In likely to remain so. Assuredly they still plain words, the Germans have probilly have the bulk of the people with them, missed their chance, as they have missed Remember that this race of cunning har so many chances. The nearer we ap- barians has been preparing for forty proach the end of the war the more vigi years to seek the mastery of the world. lant we ought to be about invasion. It If they have to eat the soles off their will come, if it comes at all now, BE I boots, they will not yield at the end of desperate gambler's throw, and not as twenty months come to the banda deliberate and well-conceived military Having once more thrust vainly in the operation. These desperate throws some West, the German military authorities times succeed, and there can be no more apparently propose to strike again at hilly attitude than to leave invasion out Russia. Report credits them with con of our reckoning. We ought to be pre- templating move against Riga and pared to meet it any day and any night. The Spanish Press has published, in Petrograd, sud this time report is pro some cases with misleading commenta, ably correct. They will have to operate reports of the acquisition on behalf of in very difficult country, especially if ras British Government of a controlling they reach the region of the Pakov lakes. interest in the Goath of Spain Railway, and they will attack under very different CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London in The real facts are as follows conditions from one of ing when

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The whole session - was devoted to Ă series of the discussions each of which ended in the formulation of a number of practical conclusions. M. Pierre Marie spoke of the difficulty in determining what course to pursue in regard to soldiers who had been wounded in the head but had suffered no grave injury of the brain. Many speakers pointed ont that these men were unstable and might become a source of weakness at the front. Their memory was often weaken

especially for ordera. They were liable to develop headache and become sleepless, also easily tired. The concin- watched on duty for three months at least before returning to the firing-line:** M. Pabinski showed some remarkable case where a purely functional paralysis had led to changes in the tissues of the affected limb which could not be removed by suggestion. He earnestly implored that these patients should be sent in an early stage to the nearest neurological centre in order being cured to give them a chance of M. Vincent described from personal experience at the front the nervous con ditions arising from the discharge large quantities of high explosives as in the missile of a mine thro springing of a mine

sion was that these men should be

of

All the questions discussed bore à direct relation to the war, and the debates were of lively character, especially when the meeting came to draw up its formal con- clusionsMany members returned - 10 their posts at the front on the close of the last sitting Their presence brought a wonderful air of freshness and actuality into the discussions.

A CURE THAT CURES.

There are men and women in every

locality who are being racked to death with Kheamatian. Many of them bave The best opinion is again less hopeful tried chcuriaty, hotch's Turlish and that the Germans will try their luck at mineral baths, massage, ste, while others sea in me near future. The chances prob have been doctored until they have lost ably turn upon the internal condition of all hope and patience LITTLE'S Germany and upon the attitude of the ORIENTAL BALM has, by ite thousands civil population, which is still compara. of successful curos, demonstrated its tively docile. The Germans will want to superiority over soy known treatment for in use part of their Fleet to co-operate in the cure of Rheumatism, Through it be the Balthwith the new land attack on sufferers have sbandoned their crutebes Fing, Russia, and meanwhile they will perhaps others have been cured after yours rof

prefer to take no great risks in the North suffering, We have to learn of Ben Should the High Ser Fleet coms Feingle

to give battle wa shail know that the endORIENT Filna to in near Germany will have reached the given a fair the Aund of her tether. But I do not in the

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