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A NIGHT OUT IN 1918.

[AY TWELS BEEX.]

"I have spoken to you twice without complained Mrs.

getting an answer," Brown.

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Mr. Brown laid down his paper, "Sorry, my dear, but I was absorbed in this last Government order. It's rather complicated. Men of afty-one are appar ently liable if they receive a pink forma within sixteen days after receiving the gieen form, but they are exempted it, w'thin sx days after receiving the blue form, they apply to their local recruiting officer for a purple-

GERMAN PARSON SNIPER.

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A RIFLE.

The atory reported from British Headquarters of the mysterions Armentières--the Man in Black who was shot whilst crossing No Man's Land is easily surpassed in interest by story related by Canadian officers con cerning remarkable ecurrence at Ypres some time ago (says the Central News) which throws a significant light on the ramifications of the German spy and sniping system,

1916.

MAN-POWER.

YOUNG MEN NEEDED.

ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION.

[BY THE TIMES" MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.

in the field by a further and stupendous display of machinery of all kinds. There fore the drawing of mon fit for general service from munition works can only be effected by a process of substitution, and we are also compelled, by all means open to us, to assist Mr. Montagu-who has personalty shown an excellent spirit

in the control of his new office-in find-

Our present system of administeringing labour to develop to the utmost the the Military Service Acts has not given possibilities of our war factories. A great in the field should pass this way, and us the men we need, and therefore muat many of the men ineligible for service be radically changed. The selfishness of many of the women employed upon almost all the Departments, and the remunitions must by this time have become prehensible action of the Board of Trade skilled hands and can now begin to train in particular, have so tied and hampered up others. We must regard the muni- the Tribunals that they have not been

tion works as part of the fighting Army, and not the least important part by any able to lay hands on men enough, and while the Army is crying cut for re 'OLD

For a fortnight or so before that cruite there are between 3,000,000 and

pursuing their occupations at home. "I don't see that you need bother, memorable event the Canadians in a cor-4,000,000 men, of military age peacefully Public opinion takes the correct view SQUARE" interrupted Mrs. Brown; you were tain sector had been visited daily by a

have given a pledge that men over fifty-aged man, modestly garbed as priest, that before, we raise the limit of age the of the War Office recently given to the fifty-two in June and the Government suave voiced, pale complexioned, middle in demanding with no uncertain voice

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"That's just what's worrying me," interposed Mr. Brown. The clearer the pledge the sooner the breach. Pledges make me uneasy."

It was at the time of the great German attack on the Ypres saliest.

Lusiness,

means.

1

THE TRIBUNALS. The writer believes that Lord Hylton' recent tribute of praise to the Tribunals most of these bodies, and that the thanks has been thoroughly well deserved by the

have combed out the shirkers between always ready with a kindly word for

to Press reports, share this opinion, and

It was the Tribunals who instituted the forty and fifty who are filling civilian the boys" and always assiduous in the used. The Man-Power Board, according presentatives" bave equally been merited. tasks that can be performed by able distribution of oblong cards beating have advised that no young man fit for List of Reserved Occupations, or skirted Biblical texts, with which the capacious service and under the age of 6 shall Ireland, or let off the theological students pockets of his somewhat dilapidated be exempt unless he is specially skilled in and the conscientious objectors, or creat gown seemed to be full. No suspicion of some work of national importance. The ed all the numerous bolt-holes to enable the kindly old follow was entertained, new proposals of the Board have not yet citizens to escape the performance of a and no one thought of questioning his been published nor even considered by the public service. It was Ministers of the War Committee, but assuming that Crown who did all these things, and ramour for once does not lie, this main further failed to prepare proper regula proposal of the Board will secure general tions in due time. To Lord Derby and acceptance. If we add to this broad and his fellow-workers at Headquarters, to

recruiting officers, and to general rule provision for substituting the men of military age and it to sorvO

zealous work, and had it not been for who are now in the various sheltered oe-

this work we should have been poor cupations, we may be able, if decisions indeed. If, in certain districts, & few of the 1,800 Tribunals are not up to the are carried out with a firm hand, to maintain our armies in the field,

SHOT IN THE BACK.

But night after night, as convoys with supplies passed to a certain point of the mysterious casualties Canadian line,

the

"there's nothing I should liko better, occurred. Sometimes it was the guardsmen ineligible for service in place of Tribunals overy honour is due for their

"Oh, do stop thinking about the war. I was suggesting a dinner and theatro. You've worked for two years without a break. Let's say to-morrow night?"

"My dear Emily," said Mr. Brown, But think of the formalities. First of all, who were aniped, but more often it was we must procure and fill up the yellow the mea on the waggons and lorries, and form to obtain a permit to be out of bed they were always shot in a manner which the rear. Some nights two men fell out; on other occasions as many as four were either killed or wounded.

until midnight. Then we have to obtain 1 denoted that they had been fired at from obtain the men we need to complete andmark, this should hare been foreseen and

and fill up the white form for permission to be outdoors after nine o'clock at night, That means going round to a clergymas, a J.P., and a solicitor for certificates of good character. Then I shall have to get the bank to endorse the application to spend on scheduled amusements a sum not exceeding one-eighth of my weekly income. Then I must get my season ticket- vised at the Home Office for a journey not concerned with business. Then I must get a certificate for your railway ticket the Restriction of Locomotion Office. Then I have to take our registration cards to one of the young men in the Inland Travel Board's offices and obtain pas-

All efforts to solve the mystery proved unavailing, and at last, when the thing had been going on for over a week, captain, a sergeant, and two corporals determined to get to the bottom of it.

special panels created to take their. places. To expect, when all the country was so busy, to find some 30,000 voluntary workers with the legal acumen of Solo-

the powers of prophecy of Isaiah

ORGANIZATION. was surely a little beyond reason.

ports for the district within half a mile ruins of a demolished building, they each office and firm to be the sole judge which will be put to it when stock-taking

What rules the Board have suggested for the release of men of military ago in Government Departments we do not yet know, but we require something uncom- amonly drastic. The writer's opinion is all this question until we admit the that we shall only continue to trife with

If legislation and administration have principle that no Government office, or Their first night's investigation proved munition works, or railway shall act as still the large scope which has here been barren, and two more men went down, its own Tribunal and retain or release credited to them, there is also place for On the second night they failed to get whom it pleases. We may compel the organization, especially on the military any nearer the solution of the raystery offices and firms to pass before the ordi-side. Organization on a national scale but on the third night, when the little nary Tribunals, or we may institute has become indispensable in view of the be prepared to answer all the questions band of investigators, with the aid of a special panels, but we shall never obtain new German effort, and the Army must few more comrades, were watching the the men we need so long as we allow

Are we making tho best use of our resources of recruiting! Do the numbers of men now is the field numbers 1 nggregato and actually fighting represent a proper proportion bodied men it all our administrative services be replaced to a large extent by Cannot the immense number of

This system, combined with the calling men less fit to fight? Have all the estab up of hitherto exempted mon progressive.lishments in rear of our armies in France ly according to age in large blocks, been cut down to their absolute minimum 1 should prove effective. It will not prove Does the Army really think that the damaging to industry beyond the capacity numbers at home, especially in the ad- of the country to bear the strain if a ministrative services,

the flash of a rifle as came along as usual, and it was followed by another a few seconds later. The place was promptly surrounded, and sergeant of the party, exceping stealthily through a hole at the bottom of a wall, faced, middle-aged man, in clerical garb, was amazed to discover behind it the pale rifle in hand.

AN UNDERGROUND STORE.

have to apply to all the great businesses the same rule that we enforce in the use of the other citizens who have not great influences at their back, and it a positive injustice to proceed in any

other way.

SUBSTITUTION

of

restaurant and theatre permits to be got the Dilution of Dismalnces Depart ment. Then I must get the two night out' brassards, and the attestation before a commissioner for oaths that we will not carry chocolate creams, matches, biscuits, or bull's-eyes into the prohibited area. No, I don't really think it's good enough. But Mrs. Brown prevailed. Mr. Brown spent the following day in bustling. He was brought before a court-martail through the formalities, and at six o'clock the next morning, at all efforts to induce him to give an account of himself failed. the came home to take his wife out.

Good Honvens!" cried Mr. Brown A few hours later, however, his fate was well-considered plan of substitution is These and other questions will have to be when he entered his wife's room. Mrs. satisfactorily settled. On going through enforced, and, even apart from substitu-answered soon, and the best thing that Brown was arrayed in a simple evening his underground hiding place a little tion, industry has a wonderful capasity the War Office can do will be to put its

Surely,"

later the inspecting party were surprised for adapting itself to circumstances if house in order before it is overhauled. said Mr. Brown irritably, "you've read to find a capacious dug-out, most ingeniit knows that the time has come when it We want a good deal more of the pro- ously constructed, well furnished, and must. The arrangement made between vident housekeeping spirit in the home containing several rifles of the latest tions whereby the latter agree to release of the Adjutant General type are applied German patterns, and a large stock of all unskilled and semi-skilled men under to this problem it will not come amiss. ammunition.

frock that dated from 1913.

the latest Order in Council?"

Te defensible t

"I know nothing of Orders in Conn.plentifully supplied with food, a rack the War Office and the Ministry of Muni administration, and if a few more minds

cil," replied Mrs. Brown. it say?".

"What does

With the cessation of the distribution "It says this," read Mr. Brown:

Defence of the Realm--The following of kindly words and Biblical texts by the d'rections are laid down for the costume pale-faced cleric," there ceased also the of all persons obtaining permite to visit mysterious nocturnal casualties suffered hotels, restaurants, and places of public by the members of the Canadian supply amusement within the scheduled hours. columns, Males Dark lounge or morning coat, or boots, dark overcont black shoes (optional), plain walking-stick or umbrel

man.

30 on the production by the War Ofice of a substitute, is typical of an opera- tion which may be greatly extended, but whether, we can afford to allow this form of substitution to retain its present voluntary character can only be ascer tained by results.

Substitution is necessary in Govern- ment offices, in agriculture, in Govern ment and badged firms, in many certified

CONCLUSIONS,

It may be convenient, in conclusion, to summarize the preceding arguments and proposals in a concise form, Mar Power has become the dominant question military situation and of the stupendous of the day on account of the general: Man- efforts in progress in Germany. Power concerns munition works as well as the Army and the Navy, and by

la without silver ornament; no feathers, Fagani's, the Pall Mall, and the Pic-pesupations, and in all civil employinents necessarily embracing the claims of sil trinkets, jewels, or other personal adornadilly. We had better ask a police ment. Females: Dark plain costume, black shoes or boots, ribbed black woollen stockings, neatly braided hair, untrimmed hat not exceeding six inches in brim, no feathers, trinkets, jewels-"

"Iefore to go out," cried Mrs. Brown, "As you will, my dear," Mr. Brown "Of course, if shrugged his shoulders. you want to lose the war

"I don't see that my making myself a frump will help."

Mr. Brown looked at his watch. "It'e the Defence of the Realm, Emily, and Are we going or there's the end of it.

mot

Half an hour later, after Mr. Brown had duly seen that all household fires order of the Fuel Control Board, and were out according to the new 7 p.m. had gagged and chained the Pekinese in the cellar in obedience to the new order of the Hostile Aircraft Silence and Composure Board, the Browns turned the key of their house (they had been ser vantless since 1916) and started for their night out. Mr. Brown had only one more formality to attend to the deposit of the key at the local office of the NOW Ministry of Household Inspection at

Any Old Time.

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The

No more

in which men are exempt because they essential national industries leads up to aro classed as indispensable. We are at the consideration of National Service in The Sphero of the The policeman told the Browns of present able to provide substitutes from its purest form.

There are many men soldier is. limited to the statement of restaurant still open in Coventry-strent umerous sources

Can you get us a table?" asked Mr. who have been called up and then rele-the numbers needed to create and main manager.gated to the Army Reserve; there are tain the armed forces authorized by the Brown of the "neutral"

All der dables vos booked." answered men exempted by the Tribunals on con-Government to carry out their policy, and the manager haughtily. The Browns ditton of finding work of national im-it is for the Government to say how the The War Ofice and the Tribunals havo waited in the lounge and eventually portance; and, as the Army fills up with numbers are to be found, scared a table, produced their permits general service men, there are men of the een met with difficulties raised by some to the waiter, and Mr. Brown took up second and third B and C classes who ca the bill of fare.

resulted a lack of men. The Man-Power "We haven't time now be spared. Whether all substitution can Government Departments, and there has. for the table d'hôte," he said to Mrs. long remain voluntary, or whether we

and to effect the necessary compromise Brown. "What about half a dozen shall be forced to follow the rumoured Board promise to allay these differences oysters, something from the grill, and a Germna plan of compulsory enrolment of

The waiter interposed our whole manhood in essential war and between the claims of industry and war. It is not expedient to give the public all savoury."

Oysders, sir, all commandeered by the national industries, can only be ascer

tary situation, and the fewer the people Reserve Strength Board-noring from ze tained when we know how the recently the facts and figures concerning the mili- grill, sir; no grills allowed aider seven established system of substitution cont

We have not vet taken definite decisions who know our plans the better for us. to-day. You can haf rosbif, rosfowl, respecting agriculture and the mines. We have ample resources of men within o'clock. No savouries, sir; new order pilaffmutton-

men engaged in agriculture the Empire, but they have not yet been Fresh legislation is waiter are to be called to the Colours until fully exploited. Mr. Brown ordered. brought the portions "All off der dable January 1st, 1817, and in the case of needed for the recall of British citizens in ten minutes, sir," he warned Mr. whole-timers engaged in dairy farming resident in friendly and neutral coun Brown." New order, sir; no food on the moratorium is extended to April 1st. trice, and may also be needed for raising dable ten minutes aider serving. Fifdy But the hearing of applications for exempth age limit of service liability, and for tion by men employed in agriculture is instituting real national service to match pound fine me, sfdy pound in you."

Can we drink anything?" asked Mr. proceeding, so there will not be much the impending Gerinan effort in the same Brown grimly. No sir: not afder real delay, and the way will be clear for direction. It is better that we should Ginger ale, then," any decision of the Man-Power Board make these laws now, and then suspend said Mr. Brown, even more grimly; to be rapidly enforced. Lord Crawford their operation until the need for them "Sorry, sir. Now order. Fordy pound knows by personal experience the needs arises, than await the need and make At the station the Browns presented fine me, fordy pound fine you."

Water,

of the Army as well as those of the fields, bad laws in a hurry. An efficient system "Borry, sir ; their travelling permits, were examined then," said Mr. Brown.

case, but whether it can remain voluntary by the Control Board's inspectors at the water only in case of illness, sir. Twendy and on his side good will is assured. In of substitution is indispensable in any

the collieries exemptions are not now barrier, and searched for chopolate and pounds fine me, month's imbrisonment granted to men who entered the ecal can only be judged in the event.

Our system of administering the boll's-eyes. Unable to read his evening you."

mines after June 24th of this year. The paper, Mr. Brown filled up the time hy

"Never mind." said Mr. Brown date is a late one, and avoidable absen- Military Service Acts must be changed studying the various official notices,

"We'll soon teeism in certain collieries is another and the List of Reserved Occupations warnings, and menaces in big print that they walked to the theatre.

forget the dinner if it's a bright show."

Our need for the the in were pasted

compartment. ""here's a

The play was a new revue, just passed question which the Board will have to must either be made an end of or bo "Hallo cried Mr. Brown,

by the Censorship of Public Morals, deal with Although the getting of coal drastically revised.

is among the first of our national indus- Army is young men, and we must call on Defence of the Realm.- new one:

Topical allusions were forbidden by tries, the privileged position of the mines all men up to 25 or 30 who are in Govern- new order: another order, forbidding the no

cannot continge if men expressly exempt. ment Departments and industrice, are serve strict silence. They const in case discuss roprisals, internment of stage employment of females of an aged from service to labour in collieries fit for general service, and are not enemies in our midst, Allied trade co- capable of operation after the war, or an alterna tive British Government. Penalty, one. year's imprisonment." "

Passengers must, as far as possible, pre-

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agricultural employment,

MUNITION, WORKS.

specially skilled men. We must not allow be the sole judges of what men they can the Departments and the industries to

spare. The Ministry of Munitions must

adversely affected the beauty chorus. fail to do their fair share of work. The The first net was disturbed by the arrest attitude of the Home Office in these and in the gallery of an old gentleman caught other matters must be carefully watched, eating chocolate almonds; the second act was interrupted by a round-up of The two most prolise sources whence be aided by all the resources of the The we can draw more men for the Army State to develop its output to the utmost married shirkers in the audience. order that all female performers and until we raise the age limit are the re of its capacity. The Army must take its dancers must wear masks and skirts not served occupations and the Munitions part in the general stock-taking by less than six feet in length and three Ministry But we can not only not afford using its resources of men to better inches in thickness likewise affected the to impoverish the latter, but have great advantage, and by restoring to civil life gaiety and abandon of the show.

need to strengthen it by more labour all men unft for general service as 3000 as they can be replaced. Lastly, the after objects of General Gröner's new post in home defence forces must be regarded as an indispensable part of our armour, Germany, is to endeavour to catch up the Allies in the production of munitions and the Volunteers must be incorporated and to make up for any want of numbers with them on reasonable conditions."

"I don't know where on earth to dine," said Mr. Brown when they reached their torminus. Nearly all the hotels and restaurants have been commandeered. The Ministry of Munitions have taken the Carlton, the Ritz, the Savoy, the Cecil, and Romano's. The Ministry of Public Morals have got the Trocadero, don't think that our nightont has because it is evident that one of the main TO D. EN GEBRA

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all" said Mr. Brown as they groped their way home.

"Nor do I replied Mrs. Brown.