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THE DEATELESS ARMY.

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THE UNDOING OF GERMANY.

HOW TO MAKE A SECURE PEACE,

BY THE HT. HON. BIR JOSEPH COMPTON- KICKETT, FC, M.P., EX-FESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF BVANGELICAL- FREE CHURCH28.]

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‚ “The” Old Army is dead," civilian the other day to a friend of mine who has seen warfare in many lands. He

The gloom which gathered over Great pondent writes to The Timer) with a new was referring to the First Expeditionary

Britain and her Allica, a year ago has landed B.A.M.C, officer, who had carried Farce, compased of "Begular troops & Co, Army contractors, Globe-road, drifted to Central Europe. It is now the on his work of tending and dressing varying in oumbers from 80,000 to Mr. Cecil Whiteley, who prosecuted, German Empire and its dependencies 130,000, which saved our national honour said that the evidence would disclose a which have lost the former place in the wounded men for several hours, after TJIMANOEK in the first three months of the war and deplorable state of affairs. It revealed aun. The Power which determines de being badly mauled himself by shrapnel in so doing earned everlasting renown that not only had the defendant allowed stiny appears no longer propitious to splinters. Perhaps the public hardly himself to be bribed by Messrs. Soar, them. The Lord looked througli There is some excuse for those who believe but also that it was common knowledge the pillar of fire and of the cloud and realizes yet what a lot there is in soldiers! this little force--the grain de sable that among contractors that in order to get troubled the host of the Egyptians lives, outside fighting. Fighting makes brought the gigantic mechanism of Gor their goods passed they had to approach This will presently bring about a crisis plenty of demands for two o'clock in the Han eunquest to a standstill has utterly those who were employed in the Royal demanding caution and self-control. It morning courage, of course bat whereas perished. Of the bronzed, cheery mes Army Clothing Department and gives to this country that Europe will look the public bears something about the fight who took part in what was athem sums of money to look after their for a decision. To what ultimate pointing heroism. It knows very little about forlorn hope more than a third rest interests, well content under the soil of France und At the beginning of the war Messrs should our victory be pressed? Now the the other kinds. I'd like the public to Flanders; and of those who survive a Boar tendered for the supply of 20,000 British are the paymasters to whom the bear in mind what is known to every large proportion will never fight again, pairs of trousers at Os 4d, a pair. The Allies look and without whom further medical officer in the Army, that in every owing to wounds or the effects of the fonder was accepted. Those made in progress would be impossible. We have single quit on the front there are officers winter of 1914, the wettest over recorded, Globe road were up to standard, but it risen from a modest beginning to be the and men who are sticking it hour after hour, and day after days with never which filled the hospitals with sufferers became clear that the output from the leaders in the combination--a great naval quinterval of rest or comfort, or any from ague, reumatism, frost-bite, and Hackney factors would not be passed by and military Power whose judgment is thing to ease them, where if they were ather diseases of the swamped trenches, the Government viewers or inspectora, decisive. This responsibility imposas.

it home, no matter how urgent or im- How many are still fighting it is hard to One of the partnera, Francis Wiliam upon us a conscientious estimate of the portant their business, they would be Jo say, the number of those who are still ell Soar, then got into communication with object to be attained in proportion to bed, or, at least receiving such case and cient has been estimated at 3,000, I know the defendant and met him at the defen the sacrifice to be made. We have not comfort, such relief from rain, as medie not on what authority. Be the number dant's house on the Saturday before the suffered as some others have done; on cal attention can provide in civil life. greater or less, they are lost to sight, like first lot of trousers were to be delivered. territories are practically intact, and to These brave fellows of our, they won't drops of water in the sea, in the multitu- during the Boer War, the defendant told peace,

sive. It's as much as one can do to get After a reference to certain contracts fear of exhaustion tempts us to make go szek," you know, during an offen- dinous array of our new arm'es, So that a civilian or even a citizen soldier Mr. Boar the special points that viewers

some of them out of the fighting line, may surely be excused for thinking that coked for in clothing, and then naked, way through the hard shell of the Ger even when they are quite badly wounded;

What about the terms for paseing in the "Old Army "the" Regular Army, ferior garments! My terms will be man trenches, but all Flanders and North- as it used to be called-is no longer in down to begin with, and then a halfpenny fence, and when an evacuation becomes to bear well, they just set their teeth and era France is not honeycombed for de-times much more exhausting and trying being.

per pair of trousers passed. I cant be What is much less excusable is that a very useful to you, or I can do you a lot inevitable it will proced for more say nothing about these.

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rapidly than many, anticipate in order. In the hit week, I assure you, I have few people remember what it was, and Mr. Boar, continged counsel, explained that the enemy may save men and mate- been quite glad to seo coming my way. what it did, in the days of disaster. The the position about the inferior stuff atrial for the defence of the Rhine with wounds, so that I could get them the British Government must have forgotten

wore it not so, there would already be the Hackney factory, and the defendant strong man may keep a fever at bay to rest and medical attention they needed; medals and clasps for the survivors of the suggested that he should include some of the last, but be capitulates more com- soldiers, from colonels, to privates, who wonderful series of battles against wastly the things from that place with those pletely than one apparently weaker, and to my certain knowledge most have been from the Globe-road factory. At that his sudden collapso means death. It is suffering horribly for days, and in some superior numbers and equipment which interview other arms were mentioned who hardly likely that Germany will retain cases for weeks, without the slightest Find began at Mons and ended shall we say were doing exactly the same thing. Mr.her grip of Belgium at the expense of a

of alleviation of any sort, whilst keeping Guard at Ypres. I have the honour of Mr. H, H. Soar, who drew a cheque for cross the eastern frontier the western in all the din and fury of the front line; with the defeat of the valiant Prussian Soar reported the matter to his cousin, German province. When the Russians stiff upper lip, and carrying on, with never a spoken word that wasn't cheery, knowing one of these survivors who£s, and the proceeds were handed to the fence must weaken. though he looks healthy and cheerful, will prisoner. A few daws after the first with the retirement of the German men with actute internal troubles, rock- never again be fit for active service. Old delivery had been made the defendant armies from Belgium a military raid of like whitlows, living on biscuits and bully ing neuralgia, or violently pisinful things men and young women ask him why he is telephoned to Megara. SoarIt's these islands will have become so remote beef, in shell pounded, sun baked chalk not in khaki the same question is some right keep on delivering. There were that it may be left out of account. Our ditches for a week or so on end, helf times shouted at him by festive recruits, in all six payments of £5 each made to home garrisons will then be available to blind for lack of sleep, 00 EU this year's vintage crop. Having a quiet the defendant, and during that time very sens of humour, he does not allow him few garments something like forty or a greater extent than hitherto for foreign

service, and we shall probably not main wound in the left hand. You might The very last man I dressed, a slight self to be annoyed by the sarcasticfifty-were returned queries of well-meaning patriots. He is Counsel said that when, later, Messrs. taso large a number of men in this fix this up as soon as you can, will you, pleased to think that, unlike so many of Soar entered into further contracts they country. In spite of our misfortunes in Doc." he said cheerily, to explain why his former comrades, he is able to fill a were required to send the garments to the the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia, Tut he did not want to wait hit turn. I small billet; his mental attitude is that Marylebone branch of the Army Clothing key must know that she is sloomed. Be must get back to my platoon as quick as Department The discipline there tween the upper and nether millstones I can. We've got a little taid on this of the shockingly wounded soldier who repeared to be more strict, and the goods she will be ground to pieces, thankful for evening. A moment later he was vomit pled to the condolences of a visitor to his accepted had to be properly made. One any terms which would include the Cali-ing. Well, I won't bother you with hospital with the cheery, emphatic words: consignment of 2,404 trousers was reject-phate, if indeed it is not too late to re-delails, but his case was perfectly clear.

My deasar, I'm alive! But why, ined, and Mr. Francis William Soar there cover the Holy Placca

In ordinary life he'd have been in bed, find's name, should he be compelled to upon again saw the defendant, who pro With the retirement of Austrian troops and probably operated on, weeks before. swallow insults from strangers with mised to fix the matter up for him from the Balkans, which is certainly in I knew beyond any possibility of doubt amilet forbearance? Why, the fees to with a man whom he knew in that deminent in face of the invasion of Hung- the sort of torment he must have been. the Crown lawyers in the Casement Trial pariment. "but," he added, would more than cover the cost of pru to go more carefully to work thereary Bulgaria may be expected to stone suffering for weeks, and the tract reasont for her past misdecus by sacrificing her why he looked such, a searecrow.fixed viding the survivors of the retreat from Mons with some emblem of their amortal or gave him Lö, but soon after dynasty and changing her alliance Him. I was his senior core, and fed

between him-and his achievements in the greatest and most cousin became strained, and he did not These developments, which are probably successful forlorn hope in the world's see the defendant again approaching would set free the garrisons arrest.

of Salonica and of Egypt, and bring us history

Evidence having been given in support

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many herself will be compelled to concen- DUNNO WHERE THEY ARE!?! at all, was committed for trial, bailtrate in order to save her reserves. Ryca being allowed.

THE OUTEUT OF FRENCH MUNITIONS.

output was 237 times greater; at the be RIFLES-At the end of March, 1910, the ginning of June, 2873 times, and a month later 200 times.

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It is amazing how very few people have any clear idea of what the "Old Army was and what it did in the first three

when the crisis approaches she will have months of the war. It is true that Lord

large armies in the field, and probably a In some things they are very careless Ernest Hamilton's story of "The First

good supply of munitions. But she would, at the War Office, the following record Sevon Divisions" has guna into a twelfth

never have permitted Austria to invoko adition. It is told by a soldier in soldier-

the help of Turkey, even temporarily, it is one they will probably never beat. Jy language, pithy yet picturesque, and

she had been in a position to sustain her There was a Cyclists Battalion stationed is easily the best war book. You can read

Since the end of March, on which date Ally, And in spite of the rumours of at Scarborough, and stationed there so it again and again, each time with a fresh were published the comparative statistics Turkey's support it is hardly credible long that the town, beautiful as it is, access of wonderment and gratitude. It regarding the manufacture of powder that Turkey would suffer herself to be became an eyesore to the men. They ought to be given to every schoolboy in explosives and various types of shells weakened against the advancing Russian, wanted to go to the Front, but no orders the country; indeed, the reading of it and guns, the increase continues in the

came, despite weary waiting. At length the Commanding Officer concluded that would not be task work if it were set as output of the factories under the control a holiday task at every Public School. It of the State or belonging to private com Everything points to an approaching change of some kind was absolutely neces was the first clear account of the deeds panies. Taking as a basis the quots of depletion of German man power. Even sary either France or fresh billets: So of men who, when historical comparisons production at the beginning of August, if she has still two to three millions he made a special journey to town, and, can be worked out at our leisure, will be 1914, the following variations in the whom she can draw upon in her despercalling at the War Office, begged that his battalion might be moved. And then he classed with the Spartana at Thermo manufacture of guns and shells are to be tion, the waste of war will account for was told that his battalion was in France, pylae and the Ten Thousand Grock noted :-

these before many months are over. There having been despatched thither on a given veterans who went up into the heart of

MACHINE-OUXS-At the end of March, can be no doubt that Russia can make date as entered in the books. When the the Persian Empire and came back in 1916, the production was 98 times good her losses, however long the war officer, flabbergasted and furious, er safety despite the loss of their leaders, greater at the beginning of June, 1314 may last, Great Britain is on the ascend postulated, his protests were received with Hannibal's Expeditionary Force and times; and a month later over 136 times, ing scale in numbers and efficiency with incredulity. It was all very well to the best of the Roman legionaries, with 27 times and of 75mm, gun-carriages 914 her Allies and Italy and has plenty at ar Scarborough, but how could that be, GUNS.--The output of 75mm, guns is France is safe with the co-operation of declare that this Cyclists' Dattalion was Bruce's workmanlike little army at Ban-

times greater. nockburu, with the very "modern". Eng.

her disposal.

when the W. O, books proved otherwise? Fsh army at Agincourt, with Cromwell's in the manufacture of heavy guns which perhaps, quite soon, Germany will have HEAVY GUNS.-Progress has been made "New Model," with the seasoned organ is certainly not inferior to that of the to admit to herself that she is beaten and national energies into me ambitious iam of Karl Gustav-with any and all of 788. and new modes are in process the most famous armies of the further of production from which great results will offer such terms that neutral coun-channels. /** and nearer past. Indeed, in some respects are expected.

tries may be impressed, and an opinion it surpasses most of these historic weapons

We must face the fact that no lasting favourable to a settlement may crystallise of power and precision, for its moral was

belligerent countries themselves. Then is Empire exists. The service which Greek into a limited party of peace within the peace can be secured while the German not weakened by retreat and in defeat it

the time when men of good will mist and Roman civilization has rendered to was at victorious. Again and again, and yet again, it was unconquerable, SHELLS-The manufacture of empty which would be fraught with future dan aggrandisement, and has far outlasted the guard against a premature benevolence the world did not depend upon political: when by all the rules of warfare it should am shells was 33 times greater inger to the world, it will be said with political existence of the Greek State have been conquered. At the time we Marth and 35 times at the beginning plausible effect, We have done what we hoard Fitle or nothing of its amazing of July of empty shells of greater undertook to do." The invader has been character and career. There were no war calibres 54 and 70 times greater. At the driven out of Belgium and of France, correspondents present with the First present the output of these shells is 80 Poland has been recovered. The Russing Expeditionary Force. We heard, it is times larger than it was at the beginning are within sight of Constantinople and true, of the winning of V, Cs, honours of the war. awarded to the dead as well as the living,

Germany has seen the error of her Bright glimpses woad of the heroism

ways and is preparing to make good of individuals, of almost unthinkable

She will compensate Berbin and France episodes of fraternal devotion. But for dead and gone. It lives on, as every for the injury done to their civil life No one suggests that every V.C. given, a hundred were earned historic regiment lives on, as every his- Sho will throw Alsace Lorraine into the soil or a German people shall be placed "Military honours" observés Lord Ern-toric regiment lives on even though it bargain. She will offer her Colonies in under an alien government "But there est Hamilton, are the fruit of recombo annihilated in action-by virtue of lieu of further indemnity. She will are territories which she has annexed and[ mendation; but when Generals, Colonels, its traditions of duty, disciplina dero assent to new conventions by the gross Germanused within the last half-century Company Officers, and Sergeants are notion. The personnel of the First Expedi- for maintaining the future peace of the from which she is bound to withdraw. In more, the deed must be its own record; tionary Force may have perished or been world. We shall be fed up with Hague the west a federation of the little States there is none left to recommend." Now dispersed. But its spirit is undying and Conferences hardly worth the paper upon from Luxemburg to Denmark would form that the British offensive is begun (it is it is marching on to-day to a thunderous which their conclusions are written. To a fairly compact empire commanding the the merest beginning, remember), the war victory, the reverberations of which will save her empire, to preserve her territory, North Ben, while Hamburg and the mouth correspondents are doing their duty well echo through the centuries to come. The she will stay at nothing. Her failures of the Elbe could probably be neutralised and sending us heart-stirring stuff day example it set the secret of the success she will take care not to enter into any countries on the eastern side, including will be attributed to bad diplomacy under its supervision. The Slavonic by day. But one doubts if any war corn the Beld, first of the Territorial units, future war at such a disadvantage Give Poland, the Danubian kingdoms, and the respondent even one of the old type of pext of Kitchener's Armies To all the her time and she will recuperate Balkans would fall into independent confider tial observers, who had long millions that have followed after, the

WHAT MUST BE DONE Broups Austria-Hungary presents an years of training and were a profession spirit of the Old Army has been a It may be asked, What more can you even less difficult problem. Heligoland apart could have fully appreciated the noble contagion, a sign in the stars,

You cannot destroy a whole might properly be returned to the coun work of the First Expeditionary Force, Bismarck once cynically observed that his people, Germany must continue to exist. try which so lightly parted with it and a fraternity of professional soldiers. enemies were welcome to all the moral to be reckoned with, at last to be recon- become the northern Gibraltar of this

For it is only to-day that we know how victories" as long as he had the material ciled. That is true, but you are dealing Empire, great and glorious a victory this "Old success. But what would be have said with the German Empire and its military If Germany for wears her former ambi- Army" won for civilisation. Its mortal of such a moral victory as the first 80.000 organisation. That empire is not afty tions she may possibly win her way back deeds are chronicled in Lord Ernest gained in the dark days of the heading years old. Before it came into existence to the respect of Europe, and so hnd her Hamilton's detailed account of the fight German hustle towards Paris? It is to Germany was not formidable, yet the trae place. A peats which falls short of Ang from Mons to Ypres, But ita immor the sublime spirit of the men of Mons German people were governed according this will not satisfy the righteous de-a tality is a greater influence than the re" and Ypres that wa chiefly owe to-day's to their own ideas, or so believed. German mauds of the Europe she has threatened sults of its mortal deeds; what it was isomens of a triumphant issue, and it would culture and learning then existed, in with destruction. It is not retribution: more to-day even than what it did. It be the grossest ingratitude if we were to finenced the civilised world, and has lost but justice; and the dead will rise in in wrong to think of the Old Army" as forget all they did and all they were in rather than gained by the diversion of judgment against us if we fall short of

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