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WEATHER REPORT.

On the 192nd at 11:45,-No returns from Japansas stations.

Fressure banorassed moderately over N.E. China and slightly over the "hilippines. It bas decreased slightly over Indo-Chíus and is nestly stationary elsewhere,

The atti-spolony over China, strangthened allightly.

Freih monsoon in indicated along the east coast of China, and over the N. Uhlas Ses.

Hongkong rainful for 24 hours ending at 10 am today, 400 inak. Total since 1 Janssey, 79.81 inches, against an average of 61.75 inches,

The forest for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows-

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A MIRACLE OF HEALING.

MARVELS OF THE AMBRINE TREATMENT.

BY WINIFRED STEPHENS.] an

Vanves is a name one has often asen on Paris tramcars and motor-buses. One used to wonder where and what it was For, one never went there. But now all Paris is going out to this ones uninter esting suburb. At 10 o'clock every morn ing a stream of motorcars may be seen dowing in that direction and halting at the entrance to the vast Lycée Button, which the war has transformed into the military hospital of St. Nicholas.

The miracles of heating worked daily For many months in the wards of this hospital are now being bruited abroad. | And well they may be, for they are un-

ON THE SUMMIT OF TEN MONTHS IN GERMANY.

KAYMAKTCHALAN.

WHERE SERBIA BEGINS.

THE BULGARIAN DEAD,

BY O. WARD PRICE.]

KAYMAKTUHALAN, Oct. 13th. This lonely, barren peak of Kaymak- tchalan, from whose 8,000ft, you look down upon both Serbia and Greece us on a plaster contour-map, looks to-day like a museum of battle. It is deserted by all but the dead. And they, almost entirely Bulgarians, lie by scores as they fell, their arms in their bands, and frag mente of the trench-mortar shells that killed them sticking out. of the earth around.

TOMMY IN GERMANY.

PRISONER LIFE..

CHAPTER VL

Hasked him if he heard from-home, .*! Yes,"*"he said, "now and then, bub the folks tell me nothing and I can tell them, nothing. If you get back to Eng- land you tell the people there foto believe, a word that comes from English prinowara Thom who write favourably do so because they have too. Every truth- ful letter is burned by the military sensor. Tell the people to arrange the parcels. A CHEERY COCKNEY,

better and see that every man gets u parcel at least once a week-not send five LBY D. THOMAS CURTIN TO "THE TINKS"]

parcels to one man and no parcels to some Ono day the world will be flooded with poor bloke like me who is alone How is be asked. some of the most dramatic, horrible, and the war going on, guv'nor!

I think it's romantic of narratives-the life stories of gave him my views. the English soldiers captured in the early going badly for the Germans by days of the war, their gross ill-treatment.

what they tell me here or what 1 gets in their escapes, and attempts at escape. 1 that awful Continental Times paper, but.. claim to be the only unofficial neutral from what I notice in the people round with any large amount of eyewitness,about, and the officers who visit us. The hand-to-hand knowledge of your poor people are not so abusive to the English men in Germany.

as they used to be. The superior officers

surpassed even in these days of the thing about fierce fighting, say that the many and to remain, if necessary, for a fat hold IFéinrich here."

war.

Well may the Serbias, who know some-

last week were the fiercest of the whole desperate struggles on naymaktehalaa Coulrmation of this is written in grim detail on every side. ing a position so naturally strong is The feat of the Serbian Army in carry beyond realization until you have seen the ground. Kaynaktchalan is a king nong Balkon mountains, thrusting up its head above a ring of satellite peaks. In surface it is like Dartmoor drawn up at a steep angle to the sky. To approach it you twist up a zigzag road that has had to be made with infinite labour out of a inere donkey-track. Ita gradients are appalling and its corners almost im possible,

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When in August, 1915, Lord Northefiffe do not treat us like dogs, as they dil, gave ate my instructions to go into Ger. and as for the Landsturmerswell, look

"HEINY OF THE LANDATURM, I had got the confidence, or as much of Landsturm soldier came round the corner, year, ho was very specific on the question of prisoners. He told me that as soon as

At that moment a heavy, shabby old the confidence as que can get, of the Ger and the Cockney prisoner treated him man Authorities, it was his urgent wish that I should find out what was happen- almost as though he were a performing. ing to the 30,000 soldiers and 4,000 sal- diera and 4,000 civilians now in captivity. I was instructed to transmit the informa tion to him if possible zid Holland, Swit- zerland, or the United States, and, if not possible, to memorize it carefully and bring it with me in person. I found it impossible to send in writing.

triumphs of surgery and medicine.

It is especially for the treatment of burns that the St. Nicholas Hospital is becoming famdus. I, myself, as a spectator, have had some experience of the terrible sufferings endured by the burned when their wounds are dressed. Consequently, when it was suggested to ne that I should go one morning to the St. Nicholas to see, the new method of treating burns, I hesitated. "Could I possibly endure the spectacle of so much

I asked myself. agony 7"

Imagine my surprise, therefore, on entering the salle des pansements (th dressing-room), where some eight or nine patients were being treated, to find pe feet silence, not a cry, not & groant And yet here were some of the worst Ostrovo, from which you started, as it of showing the hated: English captives to cases, too bad to be dressed in the wards were ou a celestial balcony. Is And the horror of the wounds, which the places which in normal times are visited nurses were anointing, triumming and only by the eagles you come suddenly Yet upon a van of the British transport ser- bandaging, beggars description. not a patient so much as winced. "Does vice which by means of skilful driving and much pushing from Berbian road it not hurt?" I asked. Not a bit "

gangs has brought up food or anumuni- was the invariable reply.

on for the Serbians.

You look down

Lake ÛT

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visits

bear.

You're all right, ain't you, Herny, so long as I give you a bit of sugar now and then? he said to his decrépit old guardian in his German gibberish.

This state of affairs was a revelation to me, but I was soon to find that if the English prisoners are weary of their cup- tivity their old German guardians aro much more weary of their task These

years of cruelty have not cowed, are an high-spirited English lads, whom two intense puzzle to the German authorities.

You see," remarked a very decent. German officiel connected with the mili tury censorship department, which I shall deserine presently "every one of those Every one of Englishmen is different. then stuks up for what he calls his rights many of them decline to work on Sunday, and short of taking them out. on Sanday morning at the point of the bayonet we cannot get them to do it. Wo have to be careful, foo, with these English- men now As a man of the world, you will realize that though our- general public here in do not know that, the English have captured many Germana

given coffee into which the public were allowed to sit. These are but a few of the slights and abominations heaped upon them. Much of it is quite unprintable.

Many a night did I lie awake in Berlin lately, and the fact is never mentioned

soine of these men,

from Headquarters that the English cogitating how to get into touch within the courmoniques, we have had a hint I learned something prisoners may one day balance ours, and on a previous visit in 1914, when I saw the English prisoners at At that that hardship for these verfchte. Eng- time it was impossible to get into con under may result in hardship for our versation with them. They were efficient men in England," ly and continually guarded by compara-portant to relate that since the beginning tively active soldiers.

On the whole, the task set me was one of the most difficult of this last 10 months' investigation, or, indeed, of my previous It was facilitated by the German policy as many people as possible. Your 30,000 men have been scattered into at least 800 prison caraps. In the depleted state of the Gorman Army it is not easy to find efficient guards for so many establishments Your, men are constantly being moved about. They are conveyed ostentatiously and shown at railway stations en route, THE MARVELLOUS -WAX,

Horses take you on to the summit. where until recently they were allowed to What is this miraculous treatment Right on the top of the rocky crest abe spat upon by the public, and were It consists in the application of a sab Serbian frontier-stone stands, within 10 stance known as anbrine, or one night yards of the edge of a shear precipice. call it essence of amber, a compound of It looks far across New Serbia, such a resin of amber mingled with parafin, view of mountain and forest and stream

as only a painter could recoril. forming a kind of wax. The wax is melted. The resulting liquid. is raised Tcherna River away on the loft shines in a silver loop. White sinuke in the plains to a high temperature. Putting one's

saows where the French and the Serbians hand into it one, feels no burning but a pleasant, comfortable sensation like that are bombarding the Bulgarian trench of a poultice applied to some inflamedline at Kenali, Right in front, where one spot. The ambrine, when applied. del solitary peak towers beyond the others in,cately with a soft brush or sprayed on and looks out from above the lower to the wound, dulls all pain. It forms clouds, there is Babuna, another natural. over the oharred surface a coating of stronghold, the Kaymakichalan of Cen-

On this occasion. I tame across my first TV ELK Beneath this and hore is the tral Macedonia,

Round about this Serbian frontier English prisoner quite by accident, and greatest miracle of all-nature docs her

aa so often happens in life, difficult prob own bealing work, and the tissues re- stono io huddled the Bulgarian dead. form. Even the most serious burns Little gullies are heaped with them, lemis settle themselves automatically. In

In addition to your good work in cap- treated with amhrine leave no scar. Suf. twisted into all sorts of strange postures nothing that I write simfl I give any ferers brought to the hospital in such among the rocks. It was as if, with that indication of the whereabouts of the 60turing numbers of German hostages on agony that they ask only to be allowed white frontier post gleaming on the top prisoners with whom I converged private the Bomme to hold against the treatment to die, find all their pangs cease as soon to call them on, the Serbians had foughty, but there can be no harm in my men of your men in Germany. I think I may with especial ferocity. In one place I tioning the whereabouts of my public claim without undue pride that much as this marvellous clixir, touches them.

And the wonder worker, the inventorinted 40 bodies, close that they visit, which took place in one of the re- good work has been done by our American the Ambassador and his staff of attachés. I of this treating, soothing balm, who is touched one another. They had all been gular neutral Cook's tours

came very little into contact with them, he There he was that morning, Dr. killed together, probably by one of those prisoners in Germany.

but I can and do state without hesitation torpedoes whose Barthe de Saufort, & careworn, anxious devastating aerini

that many of them work as sedulously on behalf of the prisoners as though those. young, but little and active despite his One man had died in the act of bandag

prisoners had been American. face, a man of modest mien, no longer ahtails stick out of the earth all round. previous wound, and he still 60 years, 15 of which he has spent in in- ing a

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS.

TO-DAY

--THE FIRST PRISONEL MET.

The strain of my work in so suspicious a place as Berlin; the constant carere quired to guard one's expressions and the anxiety as to whether one was being watched or not gets on the nerves some

That incident was long ago. It is im-

of the battle of the Somine thiore is, if I was correctly informed, a› marked in- prisoners all over Germany-not as re- provement in the condition of English cards food supplied by the authorities, because the food squeeze naturally affects your prisoners, as it does their guardians,

To continue my narrative of the Cook

3 p.m.Auction of Valuable Leasehold Proventing, perfecting and experimenting presses the liat against his leg. There times, and one Sunday I determined to ney soldier in Russian uniform.

& Hough

Friday, 15th Dec.:-

9p.m-Rehasral of Bazaar soene in Kismet

at City Hall

No Household

can be really happy if any of hy members. are nščina. Sound health in a family in n boom pripalane bay word worde, azil without St. sunoves mad felicity ses practically imposs Solo: Mack Masos la positřesky, neznamen

·ary and le occasioned chiefly by weeet. Moch anxiety giron on this excomună de inACT and dear ones ir, Uherefore, ároldable. It la of the most importance that a reliable zomedy sbruid always be at hand to relieve the start tymptoms: së indisporting. Buschama Fila iro en excellent bosebald medicina-safe to take and sure in their

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or a mix-un uniform that there is no pos sibility of my Cockney Russian being recognized by the authorities, and the photograph which my neutral friend took of him and me was taken under the very eyes of his Landsturner.

...“ HEINY” TIRED OF THE WALL. "Heiny," said the Russian Cockney, is fed up with the war. Aren't you, old- Heiny During the last few weeks a fresh call for more men has cleared the district of everything on two legs. We have had to work 14 hours a day, and wonder what my matre at home would think of 3. pay for 10 days work!"

I was able to comfort him by giving him some cigars, and a great deal of really true and good news about the war, all of which he repeated to Landiturmer Heinrich. I suggested that this might be unwise. Not a bit of it," he said. Lots of these old Gormans are only too anxious to hear had news, because they think that bad news will bring the thing to a stop.".

were faces that were brutal; others with an expression but the studility of the with another neutral friend. There, by form, Belgian uniform, French uniforms, world to day.

He was originally a doctor in the peasant; a town which a certain re-accident, I came across my first private French navy.

Acute rheumatism com- neront persisted even after death and speciment of Tommy in Germany."

He went in these savage surroundings. On tone We were looking about for a decent pelled him to quit the service. to Dax, and there derived great benefit of these dead men was there any look of Gasthaus in which to get something to from the mud baths. On his return to horror, or fear, or suffering. They sleep eat when we saw a notice high up in large type on a wall outside an old farmhouse Paris he had Dax mad brought to him dispassionately, calmly.

Sorbian burial parties are at work all building, which read: in his house and tried to continue the

They naturally cure there, but without success. Nothing over Kaymaktchslan daunted he determined to see if he could take the bodies of their dead comrades not produce artificially something which first. Neatly fenced-in little cemeteries should possess the same healing proper will mark for a year or two where the ties as the soil of Dax. From his experi- Serbiang fell fighting, on the very thres-with the prisoners of war is strictly forbid

These notices, which threaten the civi- ments resulted ambrine. It cared its in-hold of Serbia, until the winter storms ventor and numerous patients to whom and snows of Kaymaktchalan wipe out lian population with heavy penalties if he applied it. Dr. Barthe announced his these traces of the invasion of this they exchange any words with the prison discovery to the medical profession! But solitude. Already lundreds of Bulgariansers are familiar all over Germany, but most of his confrères shook their heads have been buried, but the number and I did not expect to find them in that and looked dubious. Then he went to dense grouping of those who still re-

My neutral friend thought it would the East, to Indo-China, to bend the main, together with the quantities of

rides. and make a nice photograph if I would stand wounded during the riots at Yanuan. Bulgarian ammunition, And there opened a new and important bombs that lie about, show with what ander the notice. chapter in the history of ambrine. For sudden mess those last three Serbian here it first occurred to the inventor to bayonet charges in the darkness hurled apply ambring to burns. The experi- the final defenders of Kaymaktchalan off ment's unqualified success surpassed even the crest and down the steep slopes to

the north. the experimenter's expectations. He re-

The hard mountain-side gavo, no cover, turned to. France, to announce it to his! medical brethren, But they continued to and it is dotted with hundreds of turn towards him the cold shoulder. By individual heaps and rings of stones, all but a clear-sighted few he was re-which men on each sido laburiously built garded as a mere crank. And it was around themselves at night. Often they only in an obscure provincial hospital are only 20 yards apart, and in the that he was permitted to exercise his spaces between took place such cavage on- counters of man with man as the Stone healing art.

Ago nover surpassed. It was, indeed, a battle worthy of it wild setting.

·TI BENGATION OF THE HOUR. Even when the war broke out, bad it not boon for the insight and enthusiasm of a member of the Chamber, M. 'Lancian, Deputy for Finistère, this inestimable paying surprise visits to private families Recently the Vienna police have been benefit might still have been withhold on meatless days," and on the first day from mankind. It was M. Lanien, who found over 100 households eating meat. first drew the attention of the Millerand The offenders are all being prosecuted. Ministry to this amazing invention, sod

who later introduced the inventor to M.

Justin Godart the Minister who is the opposition come from the medical charged with the care of the wounded.¦ profession

small town.

ENGLISH IN RUSSIAN GARS,

As I did so a Russian came out of the barn and said, in rather bad German, "Going to hays your photograph taken " I replied, in German, "Yes."

He heard mo speaking English to my friend, and then, looking up and down the street each way to see if we were being watched, he addressed me in English with a strong Cockney accent.

You speak English, then?" I said. "I am

he replied. "I'm an

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Then what are you doing in Rus

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How true that remark was, I knew from my minute investigations, which I shall duly report to my readers, of life in the great industrial town. The incident was closed by the distant appearance was Feldwebel (sergeant-major). My Cock- ney vanished, and Heinrich patrolled on- ward

My impression of your prisoners is of alert resourceful men (their escapes have been wonderful)-men who never know when they are beaten. If you have suffi- cient of these people you cannot possibly lose the war.

This particular incident is not typical of the life of an English prisoner in Ger- many, but it is indicative of the position It is the only thing I could get when any of your 30,000 prisoners have taken up by reason of their strong individuality my own clothes wore out." Keeping a and extraordinary cheerfulness and con

old Expeditionary Force; was taken at subject. I spent many long weeks schem careful ese up and down the street, he fideuce. told us his story. He was one of the I propose dealing exhaustively with the Mors with five bullet wounds in him, ing to get into direct relation with them, and, after ទ series of unpublishable and, whether my readers desire to hear. humiliations, had been drafted from more of their fellow-countrymen in Ger camp to camp until he had arrived at many or not, it is my bounden duty to this little town, where, in view of the carry out my promise to them officers German policy of letting all the popula and men alike to let the people at home tion to an Englishman, he was the repre know about their state. M. Godart installed Dr. Barthe in the In Paris ambrine is the sensation of sentative of your race in that community. St. Nicholas' Hospital, the surgeon in the hour. Not even les tanques are more

The local M.P." he called himself, in chief of which is the inventor's devoted discussed. "Have you been to the bis humorous way. friend and enthusiastic collaberator.. Hospital S. Nicholas everyone IB Robinson Crusoe on his island was not At first 25 beds out of the twelve asking. And if you reply in the affir- mere ignorant of the truth about the war hundred at St Nicholas were placed at motive, at once you become the object than that man, for, while he had learnt Dr. Barthe's disposal, then 40, then 90, of universal cavy. Indeed, there is grave few daily expressions in German, "he and he tells me that he has now room danger of lo service de l'ambrine becom

was unable to read it. The only informa

KAISER'S TWENTY SPEECHES. for 550 patients.

ing as fashionable as before the war was tion he could gather was from the French, M. Godart has recently issued an order the latest ballet rasse or exhibition of and some he got by bribing one of the Belgian, and Russian prisoners with him,

According to information from German that all cases of burns shall be sent to

sources the Kaiser, during his visit to the St. Nicholas Nevertheless when I Outside France the invention is also Landsturm Guards with a little mar visited the hospital not more than 70 attracting considerable attention. I saw garine or sugar out of his parcel from the Eastern front, delivered no fewer than England. He was fall of the battle of twenty speeches to the troops. In nome beds were occupied Dr. Barthe has American, English and Italian doctors Mons and how badly ho and his comrades of these orations did the Kaiser speak of everything ready for the installation of in the salle des pansements. American in Germany fell at the way they had been the German victories of 1918, but only the ambrins treatment at the front. nurses were working for Dr. Barthe. The left unsupported there. He was bitter at Obviously, an imtrense amount of suf British Admiralty, I am told, has autho- the neglect of the Eglish prisoners by the of those of 1915. His most frequently fering might be avoided if only the liquid eed the use of ambrise. Dr. Heuri de British authorities. Nou the less, repeated phrases were that Germany was could be applied in the earliest stages Bothschild has given a large sum for its though alone, with no Englishman Tor provoked, that she was defending her of the burn. But there seem to be dit manufacture Other gifts have been miles living almost entirely on his oxistence, and that, German tendencies fculties in the way of the adoption of offered. They have been refused. For, a parcels, absolutely cut off from the real are peaceful. In some places the Kaiser this wonderful cure.

The Ministry is Dr. Bartbe explamed to me," It is not facts of the war, hearing nothing but lies, permitted the soldiers to ask him quet- enthusiastically in favour of it. Does money that I need but patients."Daily he was as camly confident of your tions, and nearly all of them wanted to

altimate victory as I am.

know when the war will end.

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