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AN AEROPLANE'S STAFY

artists, lecturers, cinematograph opera- Elsewhere I saw men using the most speedily effected, and it must always be tore, and photographers. Now that we modern Northampton machinery for borne in mind that delay in war time is have real war news from the able scribes soling and heoling any pair of old boots fatal. There are in use no fewer than who are allowed to freely and frankly that would stand the operation, and such; 30,000 different kinds of spare parte, in- tell us what is happening, readers with footgear, as was mueless was not wasted, cluding nuts, bolts, rivets, and screws. imagination are awakening to the truth for by an ingenious contrivance invented By proper co-operation between the var that we have a whole Bouth African cam- on the spot by n young Dublin boot-maker ious manufacturers these could be reduced paign and a complete Crimes every the upper parts of such boots were being to a minimum.or month. - But of the war behind the war, converted into bootlaces by the thouashd. In order to help economy all sparo tho

battles behind the battles, employing|In the Army machine shops the wasto parts are supplied when possible from the skilled workers considerably exceeding grease is saved and the oil which escapes salvage of machines of the same type, the number of the total original British from every such establishment is ingen. All this debris has to be carefully collected, Expeditionary Force, we liave but faint iously trapped and sold to local soup repaired and arranged in depots in such The battles of the Somune see not, of glimmerings. You can understand the makers at the equivalent of its present a manner that missing parts can be found instantly. The Germans use comparative course, so easily witnessed as those which need of this is establishment if you very high value.

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ly few types of motor vehicles and have can be seen from the heights around Ver- of war has to be accompanied to France

BRITISH WORKMAN TRANSLATED,

therefore an advantage over us. dun, but they are a great deal more by its own attendants, its own supplies, Since the early days of chaos and As one of the pioneers of automobiliza visible and understandable than the deand its own transport.

muddle we have conveyed across the scastion I should like to offer my tribute to pressing artillery duels in the plains and

tanchine shops and mechanics which must all sections of the motor transport de Neither photo-

exceed by twice or thrice the total of partment in France, and especially to swamps of Flanders.

The war plane of 1916 flies upwards those in a humming town like Coventry, the economic manner in which wasto has graphs or maps give much real impres son of the great panorama, which is, in and away with the speed and grace of Such factories have had to be manned, been eliminated dead, only possible for an onlooker to dragon fly, he has been made perfect and manned with labour able to meet the to me the understand when accompanied by one who and beautiful for her fight by skilled sudden emergencies of war. has witnessed the steady conquest of the expert mechanics. When she returns has all had to come from home. Clerks Gerina trenches from the beginning of after, let us hope, her conquest, the boys engineers. Alters, mechanics, quickly to the monotonous e the movement which was made on July who have escorted her in the air (one of selfled town 1st. What is cazy to realize, and so cheer these I met was at school last year) hand gularity of military life and the com her over again to those attendants to sest munal existence of the barracks, buts, and ing to our soldiers, is that we give theif she has any rent in her gown or other tents in which they live. True it is that Germans full ineasure and more in the matter of guns and shells. A couple of nishap which may be speedily mended. every consideration possible has been England are drilled in every form of hours in any place where the battles can When, therefore, you see an aeroplane shown for their happiness, confort, and be properly observed is enough for the you must realize that each machuic has uníusement. They have, their own excel There is something uncanny in the ap

its staff.

Speed and efficiency being lent canteens, reading rooms, and places proach of a company to a communication nerves of the average civilian, for to prime essentials of victory, her caretakers of entertainment. They are not forgotten trich, in its vanishing under the earth, see battles properly cae must be well in

nust be skilled and young. As for her by the Y.M.C.A. or by the Salvation reach of the onomy, and so when we have supplies, there must be at hand a great Army and Church Army, whose work and its reappearance some hundreds of had our hill we make our way along a quantity of spare parts ready to be ap cannot be too highly spoken of. They are yards away, where clambering over the communication trench to whers a small plied inmantaneously, and there must be individually looked after by their own top," to use the most poignant expres and unobtrusive motor has been hidden men, in ense of need, who can either alter heads of departments with solicitude sion of the war, the soldier pupils dash Presently we come to the rouds where or oven make such parts. There must be and kindness. The gramophone, the joy forward in n vociferous bayonet charge ons goes one of the triumphs of the war, those who understand-tier camera-and-its-of-the-dug-outs, the hospitals, and the At these great reinforcement campa axo the transport which brings the ammuni repair, her wireless and its working, men billets, in a never ending source of enter gas mask attacks, where pupils are passed through underground chambora, filled tion for the guns and the food for the who have already learnt the mysteries of tainment,

- The workers are by no means unable to with real gas, that they may become men, a transport which has had to meet the newest bombs, rockets, and machine

I take the aeroplane as an in-muse themselves. They are well provid-familiarized with one of the worst curses all kinds of unexpected difliculties. The une..

tance because of its prominence in theed with cinematographs and frequent of warfare. The gas itself is a subtle and | last is water, for our troops are a public eyes boxing tournaments. Gardening, toy, is at first not a very fearsoins enemy, but proaching a part of Franos which is as

What applies to an aeroplane applies one of their hobbies, and from the cas the victim is apt to be overcome before chalky and dry as our South Downs.

in other degrees to every kind of gun,ualty clearing stations at the front to the he is aware of it

A GREAT ORGANIZATION.

Some researches with a view to placing on record the work of the British Bed Cross Society and Order of St. John in their relations to the wonderful Army Medical Service in France have brought

SCHOOLS WHERE, WAD 18 TAUGHT, Scattered among the Army behind the Army are schools, where war is taught by úfficers who have studied the art at the front. Here in vast camps the spectator sht easily imagine that he was at the Front itself. Here the pupils fresh from

fighting

to every form of motor or horse trans-workers' huts at the hass are to be And at these miniature battlefields, all port, ambulances, field kitchens, filters, counted thousands of English-made of them larger than the held of Water- ind to a thousand articles which at first gardens. The French who knew as little loo, are demonstration lecturers who sight do not necessarily seem to be part of us as we do of them, were not a little teach bombing, first with toy bombs that of war making.

surprised to find her onere insists on explode harmlessly with a slight puff, The Army behind the Army is full of journs the British workman insists on and then with the real Mills bombs which the writer into touch with almost the originality. It has already improved, on making himself a garden. At a great have a noisy, and destructs bombs which most splendid achievement of the war, the the spot, much machinery which we had veterinary hospital at one of the bases gether disproportionate to their size and the men living a considerable distance.innocent appearance. The various types puilding up of the great organization thought to havo attained perfection, from a town and away from other pasof machine-guns are fired at ingenious This is a war of machinery as well as of times have planted for themselves garceus targets all the day long. There are actual bravery, and aniong Germany's many that would be a credit to toy prosperous dugouts in which pupils are interned blunders was her forgetfulness of the Bri: London suburb in peace time. fish power of quick improvization and organization In unexpected

circum stances, which is a secret of our success in building up the Empire in strange lands.

The Army behind the Army is being squeezed for men for the front. In some places it can legitimately bear more squeezing, and it is getting it. On the other hand, owing to their own burning desire or by the pressure of the author ties men have left the anvil the tools, the lathe, or the foundry for the ring line who in the end would have killed

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that les between the Somme and the British Isles. In commON with other writers I have been able to visit the

The energy, enterprise, and spirit of with entrances closed while gas is pro- various theatres of war from time to

the base cominandants and hundreds of fusely projected around them so that me, and have not hesitated to criticizo

other officers along the lines of communi- they may learn how to deal with the new things that were obviously wrong. I

cations, their tast in their relations with weapon by spraying it and flapping it shall he set down the miracniously

our French friends, and their capacity away when the entrance is upcovered at changed conditions, from the point of

for overcoming obstacles have response a given signal. Crator fighting is taught view of athelency and economy, in which

in the enthusiasm of their workers with an actual reproduction of a crater, we enter upon the third year of war.

Huge bakeries, the gigantic storehouses by a lusty sergeant who has seen much Communication being as urgent as

one is the largest in the world) of the actual thing, and tells the meu transport, the Koyai Lugineers buvo moon

factories, and repair shops are filled with what to do with their bombs and with to je tuas, the large area o Norters and

workers who are a visible contradiction Germans. Such schools are known to North-west Frause in which our Armies

of the allegations as to the allaged slack exist throughout Germany, but no are operating has been linked up by

mess of the British workmen. The jea Prussian Bioroughness can better these wieprzonac Systein that is unique. It is no

lousy that exists in mere collection of temporary wires strunk more Germans by the use of their own most Ariny and civil times between British war-training schools in France. establishments For those who are not so quick in intelli tom tres to tree. The poles and wires particular skill in the workshop does not seen to be known. Great soldiers gence as others there is a revival of the

introduced me with pride to young men are in every way as good as those of the Our L of C. in Franco (Lines of Com Post Once a home. The installation nunication) has developed to what inust who two years ago had no idea that they old awkward squad who are taught slows might indeed be thought to be extra be one of the largest organizations in the but have adapted themselves with won

would enter upon a quasiuilitary life,ly and patiently with remarkably results. vagant, but excap telephoning is notori world. It represents a per cent of the derful facility to entirely changed contero arrived, while I was on the sćene, outsiyad telepaoning. A breakdown while of our forces in France. It has to itions. Many have brought with them a great number of German prisoners on of communications which might be deal with more spheres of human industry. caused by the feree wind and electric than I should be allowed to mention. Its invaluable knowledge gained in the their way to the Base. I do not know from England were being trained that day. Certainly many thousands, and queably in the war might spell a great medical examinations that eliminare stand elsewhere.

do not wonder that the prisoners were convenience or even worse. An indis men for the trenches. The task is a de- licate one. An organization absolutely

It is true, of course, that the workinen amazed at the spectacle before them. an over-monstering gloom envelopes life And so, telephone is useless. marching with the Army, and linking infinite. Isbour, by promotion of the the war better than their brothers at lent English that his comrades were under tant to recount in detail the symptoms sential to victory has at length, and in our great French factories understood One of them frankly confessed in excel- and nothing seems worth white Reluc uptuousand essential points, skilled and rejection of the incompetent home. They are nearer to the war, They the impression that we had ne men left of his condition the sufferer sums up the telephone service that cannot be better been set on its feel. We must make

live in the country invaded by the Han. The food supplied to these Gorman pri situation in the phrase "I'm a bit off. ed. To-day would be quite possible changes with caution.

They see their French fellow-workmen soners here, as everywhere, was execlient color.' for the Commander-in-Chiet, if he so

keyed up to the highest pitch and they did not hesitate to say Friends tactfully say that a change of Puçsired, to fall up London from beyond

intense desire to rid fair Franco of its Temporary Juths and other washing air is needed, whereas the change really Fricourt, for our wires are already in

At various times I have personally ob- despoiler. Daily they see reinforcements arrangements were fitted up for them, required is enge of bloud: a change places, where wo saw them burying the served the great organizations of the going to the front and the wounded-re they had an abundances of tobacco, and from the thin, impoverished, watery fluid. Ulackened corpses of dead Germans, and Clyde, the Tyne, of Belfast, of Woolwich, turning home. There is a war atmosphere where the sound of great guns makes it Chicago, in and around Paris, at Steven in towns like Havre and Rouen. The were just as comfortably off in their tents which is slowly starving the system. to sometimes necessary to hout in order Etienne, and in the Crennot works in war is always present. One day 1 saw a as our soldiers not actually in barracks, the rich, red health-giving blood that has to make oneself hoard in a conversation. Hamburg, in Essen, and at Hoechst on great number of captured German can whore, was appalling. Imprisoned instances by Dr. Williams Link Pills.

Their condition on arrival here, as els be created in so many thousands of in- Every officer or head of department of the Rhine, and say without hesitation nons and other booly of which we hear their trenches by our barrage of fire they nourishing the irritated nerves debility Once this good, life-renewing blood is that making allowances for war Line, and see so little at home coming down had been deprived of many of the neces and depression soon give place to vigour importance in the British zone has a

The authorities at home seen to hide sities of life for days, and on their telephone at his hand, so that he may superimposed as it is upon the overwork from the front,

and brightness, give and receive orders, not absolutely ed French railways and roads, and in our German prisoners In France they arrival ate "ravenously. Must of them improves and the "The appetite rapidly "oft-colour feeling secret, by the quickest and most popular country where there is no native labour work, and in public, and are content were Prussian Guard and Rayarians, mens of communication. Where was to be had, ist in August. 1918. as near with their lot, as I know by personal and the number who had the Iron Cross sary, the English telephones are linked perfection is ever it can be. And I say inquiry of inany of them. Save for the ribbon in their buttonholes was oloo up with the trunk lines of the French more-that, difficult as demony and war better P.G." (prisonnier de guerre) atquent testimony to the type of enemy Government, for which purposes inter are to imate, I have on the occasion of the back of their conts it would be dif- troops our New Armies have been fight preters are placed in the exchanges. The this visit and in contrast to the days of Heult to realize that comfortable looking, ing. spest of communication is remarkable. 1914 seen nothing wasted. In the early middle-aged Landstarmy Haus, with his THE CLERICAL SETE It varies, of course, with the amount of months of the war there was waste at long pipe, and young Fritz, with his

If there be loss of time and energy in Indigestion, Malaria, Rhouniatism and business, but I have seen a man call up home and abroad arising from lack of cigarette, were prisoners at all. If it be Paris, London, and the seaport hases in control of our national habit of spending true that there he congestion in the docks the Army behind the Army it may be espioially, the ailments of ladies. Bold - Franse all within an hour. Supplemoney with both hands 1 remember at home gaused by lack of labour, the found in one or two of the clerical estab by dealers everywhere, und The Dr, Wil menting the telephonic system is a fele certain French village 1 visited where sooner German prisoners are put olishments, which might be carefully lins Medicine Co. 96. Szechnen Road, graphic link, and there is also the wire everywhere every tiny mite was filling work and help to shorten the war the modernized. In some of these depart Shanghai, 1 bottle for 81.80, û bottles for less. The Army Signal Corps is to bets mouth with English bread audiam. better. The war atmosphere and the patients it is said that men of military age 85 post free, Congratulated on A fine achievement. Today there is enough food and a riotic keenness of the skilled mechanics are still engaged... If this be so, there Over and above theas there are the motor rater variety of foods than before, but and labour battalions in France have is stila vetinin supply of superfinous and dead who are not missing or desd dispatah riders, some of whose experiences there is no rasta that is visible even to enabled the Commander-in-Chief, Sir middle-aged elurioal labour at home that at all 0. case was discovered whilst T

An inquisitive critic.

Douglas Haig, who has personally visited might be gradually introduced during the war have been as thrilling as those of our air boys. The noisy anisance Coming to the front, not only in the the bases in hurried journeys from ? he There is beyond question a growing soldier who had been reported missing of our pence, time roads at home has been high commands and among regimental front to accomplish what in pract tone tendensy for the filling up of more and for more than a year but who was found a prime factor in the prompt waging of officers and along the L of C is a plens would is the pe silways, are no came more forms in connection with the Army in confortable surroundings doing anty fter cycles and portable tele- ing proportion of Scotch folk who, while in miracle. The are so esim: it, is a disease which should be checked as an army cook in a totaly different part phones appear in the most out-of-the-way generous in the giving of, ambulances are bered that it is frequent to see trainow, before it becomes a hindranes to off of the field to that in which he dia spots. Far beyond Fricourt I met these not accustomed to waste anything in war nearly a kilometre (five-eighths of a mile) cyclists making their way in and out or at any other time. To-day, almost in length. As one travels about in search clent working. In some of the clerical before the reek and fume of battle are of information mile-long convoys of departinents the use of modern fles and

A PATHETIC DUTY. and around the abell holes.

over. almost before our own and the motor lorries loom quickly towards one indexes does not seem to be general, but

There are countless departaments of enemy dead are all buried, the Sairage from out of the dense dusi, and it is by this does not apply to all departments, Corps appears on the bloody and shell this combination of rail and road that for saw many that were quite upto which the public knows nothing. I have A few days later when visiting one of churned scene to collect and pile unused the almost impossible task has been date

only space and time to deal with one In one great branca is kept a completo more. It is that which watches over the the workshops at the base I saw the cartridge and ninchine-gun belts, unex achieved of keeping pace with the German wrecks of similar machines twisted and plodel bombs, old shell cases, damaged strategic railways, which were built for record of every British soldier, from the recovery of the effects of dead men und smashed out of all recognition by shrap rifles, havorancks, stel helmet, and even the sole purpose of the quick expedition hour of his arrival in France to his de officers. There are separate departments

parture, or death. Think of the count for each, but I nel, each speaking of an adventure, and old rags, which go to the base, and are of men and supplies.

I only saw that affecting perhaps a tragedy. The fact that these sold at £50 a ton. It is only old bottles,

The work begins on the battlefield and derelicts were being examined for possible which with old newspapers, letters, ment repair is a portent of the rigid economy tins, and broken boxes are a feature of England. These are the same complaints achieve that end efficiently and within the hospitals, where I saw the dead with which, on the French side of the the battlefields, that do not appear to be that have been mentioned in the Press accuracy.

„And My bodies being reverently searcheri. A list Channel at any rate, and perhaps on worthy of salvage,

and Parliament for many long months in

Another department, which exists for is carefully made there and then, and regard to the delay in handling shipping the satisfaction of relatives, and possible that list accompanies the little familiar both, the war is now being conducted. Regarding the utilization of waste pro-in England: In France it is a question decisions in the Court of Probate, keeps belongings that are a part of every man's I am not, of course, permitted to give duets there is as much ingenuity and in of labour and dock accommodation. The an exact record of the time of death and life to one of the great bases on the mos names of places, or numbers, or the dustry along the Lines of Communication docks are being enlarged in more ports place of burial of every officer and private of communication. The bag is there names of the heads of departments, but as would satisfy the directorate of the than one but yet more labour must be soldier in France, whether he comes from opened by two clurks, who check it once I shall be allowed to state that the always fabrik one blace, I saw over 1,0mm brought from Britain. If greater speed in the British Islands or the Dominions, more, securely fastening it, and sending

most highly over-organized Cersand growing immensity of the Armies, and the workshops behind the Army, a little French and. Beleian girls cleansing and

next-of-kin. S understood at home, or oven by those who pairing clothing that had come back mach at home can help to speed up the Such establiments neessarily demand it home, where it eventually reaches the

machine if we put our backs into the task the use of inch clerical labour. have made frequent visit to the war zone from the front. They work and talk and as is being done in France. Our motor-

The work of collecting these last Mrs. Humphry Ward lately and de-ing with alacrity and I witnessed the lorry and other motor makers could gard to such a department as that which mementos of the dead is carried out with process of the patching and reconstruc-greatly facilitate the work by standardi follows the course of every soldier in promptness, cure, and very kindly feel lightfully 'fted the veil a little, but whating of what looked like an impossible zation of motor parts. I do not know how France, that a Tony is a difficult poring, despite the nonotony of the task, ZAKS DEPOTE LE AUR CASTIGLIONE FANGUREN is required to bring home fo the peoplef waterproof coat, all in the course of many types of motor vehicles are being son to deal with. It is more than possible which begins in the morning and goes","

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