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On the 14th at 1150,-No returns from Japanese" untions,

Presenro has Incresent moderately along tha Bart const of China, and alight!” « nowhows, szorgt over fle Philippines, whoy it had decrossed alightly.

The anti-orolone over Caina kak forðarr strengthened.

Strong monson is indiested along the east coast of Ukins, sad over the N. China Sea.

Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours mading st 10 am, to-day, 0.08 inch. Toval sinos"lat January, 18.81 inches, against an average of 91:13 inches

The forecast for the 24 hours miing at moon. to-day is as follows

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Formons Channel

FORBOART (NE. wins, strong; fine. !N.E. gate.

South Coast of China between ƒ'The maze si g. Hongkong and Lamooks1 No. 1.

Bonth Loast of Chian between Tha mama na.

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HOW THE PRUSSIAN GUARD CAME HOME

HIDING THE WOUNDED,”

SUCCESS OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

A RESULT OF CHARACTER.

The Kreuz Zeitung publishes an in

England's foreign policy. The writer. attributes it, first, to the mixture of races. in the British character, which includes the cunning of the Celt, the tough will...· power of the Low German, the persever ance and steadiness of the North Ger man, and the keen enterprise of the Nor

military theory that attack is the best defence, and, stepping up to him, I stated that I was a newspaper corre- spondent. Might I not see the wound- ed taken, from the train!” I requested. He very courteously replied that I might Various circumstances enabled. Mr. not, unless I had a special pass for that Curtia to witness a sight strictly for-purpose from the Kriegsministerium inquiry into the cause of the success of bidden to the German public-the Berlin.. return of the wounded from the front.I remembered a large window in the In this his second article on his teu first and second clasa dining-room in the months' stay in Germany he describes station, from which a very close view of the return to Potsdam of the wounded the tragedy could be gained. I knew of the Prussian Guard after their that there was no train luck to Berlin encounter with the British at Contal for an hour and a half. I took a ticket, maison and the efforts of the authorities handed it to the uniformed woman who

This natural disposition for politics to hide them from the people,

deals with them as in England, and cx has been developed by the Englishman [BY. D, THOMAS CURTIN IN THE TIMES." plained to the soldier and Unteroffizier in the course of centuries to an artistio who stood by her that I would like to perfection, which might still cause wonder The 4th of August is the aniversary of go into the dining-room to read and get even to-day if it did not display the what is known in Germany an England's something to eat. I walked straight to horrifying reverse side of a complete lack treachery the day that England on the window of the dining-room and or of true morality and Christian feeling. tered the war in what the German dered butterless bread and Dutch cheese, The first great characteristic of English Government tells the people is a base the universal and almost standard mid-policy, which sharply distinguishes it and cowardly attempt to try and best day dict of Germany to-day--and was from many epochs of our German her by starving innocent women and glad that my Berlin ticket served. My political life, is that it is always objęc- children."

ruse succeeded. I saw everything and live, soberly material, but never, as the unmolested.

German only to often is, sentimental.

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By this time the wounded were being moved from the train. The slightly wounded were drawn up in double ranks, their clean white arm and head bandages gleaming in the noonday light. They stood dazed and dojected, looking on at the real work which was just beginning the removal of the severely wounded.

mai.

While policy for the German immediately implies love or hate, the Englishman remains in political life always the calmly calculating business. man, the cool expert, who at every turn diately naka, How will it profit or injure in the state of the world's affairs: imame-

own country i

No other people on earth attain in their policy this objective sobriety of the English. It has been almost hardest for the Germans, whose depth of soul and idealism, like their cosmopolitanium, have played them many a bad turn when it came to politics. Just consider the num- ber of people, for whom in the course of the last century the Germans have been infatuated, unselfishly, and without thinking of their own interests—Poles and Greeks, French and English, Japan- ese and Boors, How unselfishly have we sities to all foreigners, allowed them to receive a military education among us, introduced their into all the secrets of our most advanced spiritual and econo-

Do that sunny and fresh morning. 1 looked out of the railway carriage window some quarter of a mile before we arrived at Potsdam and a numerous brown traine marked with the Red Cross, trains that usually travel by night in Germany. Thore were a couple of officers of the Guard Cavalry in the same carriage with me. They also looked out. Ach, nich zinmal" ("What, more of them?" discontentedly remarked the elder They WOUNDED IN FURNITURE VÀNS, were a gloomy pair and they had reason Then it was that I learned the use of to be. The German public has begun those mammoth furniture vans. Then it to know a great deal about the wounded, was I realized that these vous are part They do not know all the facts, because of Germany's plan by which her wounded wounded men aro, as far as possible, are carried-I will not say secretly-but 3070 hidden in Germany and never sent to as unobtrusively as possible. In some of socialist centres unless it is absolutely the mammoths were put 12, into others unavoidable. The official figures, which14; others held us many as 20. are increasing in an enormous ratio The Prussian Guard had come home since the development of England's war The steel corps of the army of Germany machine, are falsified by manipulation.had met at Contalmaison the lightheart-opened the lecture-rores of our anivor-

And if easy proot be needed of the ad boys I had seen drilling in Hyde Park truth of my assertion I point to the last year, and in a furious counter monstrous official misstatement involved attack, in which they had attempted to in the announcement that over 90 per regain the village, had been wiped out. cont. of Germans wounded return to the These were not merely wounded, butic life-only to reap to day the bitterest firing line! Of the great crush of dejected wounded. The whole atmosphere ingratitude. wounded at Potsdam I doubt whether of the scene was that of intense surprise add that we in Germany and Prussia The Kreur Zeitung, while ir hastens to any appreciable portion of the serious and depression. Tradition going back have not the slightest inclination to in- cases will return to anything except to Frederick the Great nearly 200 years troduce English parliamentarisin, but permanent invalidism. They are auf ago, had beea smashed-by amateur col will rather maintain our strong Monar- fering from shell wounds, not shrapnel,diers. The callow youth of 10 who served chy," is fain to recognize, in the exist cuce for the most part, I gathered.

my lunch was muttering something to the for three centuries of a Parliament, bermaid, who replied that he was lucky second great source of political educa BROEEN MEN

to be in a class that was not likely to tion enjoyed by the English people:

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I SAY EMPHATICALLY. That Sciatics, that most excruciating of maladies, can be cured! LITTLE' ORIENTAL BALM cured me, after five years of misery. "It will cure you," That voices the sentiment of one grateful

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The extreme cases were carried at a snail's pace by bearers, who put their feet down as carefully as if they were testing fortable spring stretchers in the very few very thin ice, and who placed the com- vehicles which had rubber or imitation rubber tires. The work was done with military precision and great celerity, The evacuation of this train was no soon er finished than another took its place. and the same scene was repeated. Pre sently the great furniture vans returned from having deposited their loads, and were again filled. One van was reserved for those who had expired on the journey, and it was full,

Statecraft, and especially foreign policy, is not a secret art among them

as it still is to countless numbers-one-

uncongenial though it may be, the Ger might almost say the majority of Ger- mans today. This is a sphero in which, man people must learn from the Eng-

lish."

one

making foreign nations believe in her Thirdly, England bas succeeded in

She understands better and making an impression. power,

going.

aculeate into other people before all "While we Germans are inclined to things the conviction of our inner worth, our spiritual significance and would like to appear to them in a really advan- tageous light the Englishman This, then, was the battered remnant desires no “moral conquest" over other of the five Reserve regiments of the Prus-nations as we do." siau Guard which had charged the British

England further succeeds by producing lines at Contalmaison three weeks before a sense of unchangeableness. in a desperate. German counter-attack to "How quickly has she by this means wrest, the village from the enemy, who made the South African Boers, who are had just occupied it. Each train disfighting for England against us to-day, the German wounded in East Prussia, charged between six and seven hundred into good Englishmen, and how limited, but the wounded of the Prussian Guard maimed passengers. Nor was this the on the contrary, has been our success in at Fotedam surpassed in sadness any-last day of the influx. thing I have witnessed in the last two bloody year

I saw the British wounded arrive from Neuve Chapelle at Boulogne; I saw the Russian wounded in the retreat from the Bukovina; I saw the Belgian wounded in the: Antwerp retreat and

WHAT THE GUARD MBAND.

The Guard had its garrisons chiefly in Potsdam, but also partly in Earlin, and represents the physical flower of German manhood. On parade it was inspiring to

Alsace-Lorraine i

Your Neure Chapelle wounded were, if not gay, many of them blithe and smiling their bodies were hurt but their minds were cheerful; but the wounded look at, and no military officer in the silver bullets we have been making golden

of the Prussian Guard the proudest military force in the world-who had come back to their home town decimated and humbled these Guards formed the

WASTE IN SHELL-MAKING.

Instead of fighting the enemy with world ever doubted its prowess. Nor has shells," said Dr. J. E. Stead at the Iron it failed in the war to show splendid and Steel Institute. "We have been English serving destruction on gold plates when courage and fighting qualities. people simply do not understand its pre- pewter would do perfectly well. stige at home and among neutrals. most amazing agglomeration of broken

At the beginning of the war, be said, The Guard is sent only where there is it was alleged that if the percentages of men I have ever encountered. As to the supreme work to be done. numbers of them, of these five reserve that it has been hurled into a charge you raised they would be liable to break up If you hear sulphur and phosphorus in abells were regiments but few are believed to be may rest assured that it is striving to

in the guns, but shells with an increased unburt. Vast numbers were killed, and gain something on which Germany sets the ever-growing streets of hospitals that of the Guard is the dearest that she can that us they had not broken in the guns most of the rest are back at Potsdam in the highest price for the life-blood percentage of 50 per cent. had been sent to the front, and it must be assumed are being built on the Bornstädterfeld. pay.

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One of the trains had just stopped The square was blocked with vehicles of every description. I was surprised to find the great German furniture vans

WITHOUT HOPE.

But it was the visages of the men on

which by comparison with those used in gainst the army of Foch at Sézanne and the stretchers that riveted my attention.

England and the United States look almost like houses on wheels, were drawn

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In the battle of the Marne the active the material had served its purpose. regiments of the Guard forming a link between the armies of Below and Hausen were dashed like spray on jagged cliffs when they surged in wave after wave Fore

Champenoise. Germany was willing to sacrifice those I never saw so many men so completely up in rows with military precision. As super troops during the early part of exhausted. Not one pair of lips relaxed if there were not enough, the whole of the battle because she knew that ven into a smile, and not an eye lit up with the wheeled traffic of Potsdam seemed to even though he did not advance, and the

Kluck had only to hold his army together, the glad recognition of former surround be commandeered by the military for the overthrow of Foch would mean a Teuton

It was not, however, the lines of suffer- lightly wounded -- caba, tradesmen's wedge driven between Verdun and Paris. ing in those faces that impressed me, but private carriages everything on wheels One year and 10 months later she hurled that uncanny someness of expression, an Lexcept, of course, motor-cars, which are the Guard Reserve at Contalmaison expression of hopeless gloom so deep that non existent owing to the rubber abort because she was determined that this in it made me forget that the sun was shin- age. Endless tiers of stretchers lay along portant link in the chain of concrete and ing from an unclouded sky. The dejec the low embankment sloping up to the steel that coiled back and forth before tion of the police, of the soldier onlook- line. Doctors, nurses, and bearers were Bapaume Péronne must remain unbrokeners, of the walking wounded, and those waiting in quiet readiness.

The newly-formed lines of Britain's sons turned faces on the white pillows told bent but did not break under the shock as plainly as words could ever tell that They were outnumbered, but, like all the the Guard at last met a force superior rest of the British that the back-from-to themselves and their the front German soldiers have told me They knew well that they were the idol of their Fatherland, and that they had about these fought on and on, never

fought with every ounce of their great thinking of surrender.

physical strength backed by their long traditions. They had been vanquished by

The passengers coming out of the station, including the women with the tall baskets, stopped, but only for a moment. They did not tarry, for the police, of which there will never be any dearth if the war lists thirty years motioned them on, a slight movement of the hand being sufficient.

MOVE ON."

war machine.

an army of mere sportsmen.

My thoughts went back to Berlin and the uninformed scoffings at the British Army and its futile efforts to push back the troops of Rupprecht on the Somme. Yet here on the actual outskirts of the German

capital was a grim tribute to the machine that Great Britain had built ap

I know from one of these that in a first onslaught the Guard lost heavily, but was reinforced and again advanced. Another desperate encounter and the men I was so absorbed that I failed to from Potsdam withered in the hand to notice the big constable near me until he hand carnage. The Germans could not laid his heavy paw upon my shoulder hold what they had won back, and the and told me to move on. A schoolmaster khaki succeeded the field grey at Contal and his wife, his rucksack fall of lunch, maison who had taken advantage of the glorious sunshine to get away from Berlin to spend a day amidst the woods along the pied hours. I purposely missed my train editions were fluttering their daily head-

The evacuation of the wounded occa under the protection of her Navy

In Berlin at that moment the afternoon Havél, asked the policeman what the for I know that I was probably the only lines of Victory to the crowds on the foreign civilian to see the historic picture Linden and the Triedrichstrasse, but here The reply was Vichts hier zu sehen" of the proudest soldiery of Prussia return the mammoth vans were moving slowly (Nothing to be seen here; get along "), to its garrison town from the greatest through the streets of Potsdam

matter was.

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The great Huah Hush! Hush battle in history, the lines waiting with the potato and butter

Empty trains were pulled out of

Doctors

To the women who stood in the long tickets for food on the other side of the old stone bridge that spans the Havel furniture wagongarye

machinery of Germany was at work.

Determined not to be baffled, I moved way, to be succeeded by more trains foll out of the square into the shelter of a of wounded, and again more. roadside tree, on the principle that and nurses were attentive and always they were merely ordinary enmbersome distant view would be better than none basy and the stretcher bearers moved

at all, but the police wore on the alert back and forth until their faces grew red

with exertion.

and a police lieutenant tackled me at onde.. I decided to set on the German (Dontinued at foot of nezt Golummet.)

How were they to know that these tumbrils contained the bloody story of Contaimaisori in