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ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

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UY LEANDRNA]

The field of bastle is the microcosm of life

THE RUMANIAN OIL HOW

WELLS WERE WRECKED, COL. NORTON GRIFFITHS AND HIS HAMMER

THE STATES BEVISITED. CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE,

APUZZLED COUNTRY.

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF

"THE TIMES,"

Sometimes the reply would be that President Wilson had laid un înjuretion upon the country at the very beginning of the war that they must not only act us neutrals but think neutrally, ⠀⠀ Of Coured, as an explanation, this is grot esque and absurd There is some deeper * * * [BY HAMILTON FYFE]

cause that oven the men who felt them- selves supprested cannot Iny, a finger During the last week I have been in bed only twice, so if these pictures and

upon. My distinguished friend here was impressions are a little disjointed I think

longing to go east to New York or I may reasonably nek to be forgiven.

out and free his mind. I neked him why As I look back, these seven days seem

Boston, to get an opportunity to speak like a nightmare born of the huge fleres

he did not hire a hall here for that pur- of burning petrol, lakes of petrol, rivera

a quick and alert interest in the Europe. He did not know but he was sure

that such a thing could not be done, of petrol, set on fire of set purpose in

prerent gration

WAITING FOR A LEAD, From getting pean war is confined to the Eastern and on vil in a measure rarely met with in man's. I fancy it those which will In the East the interest is direct, and is destruction of the Western seaboards of the United States. petrol industry have the deepest imprint: on my imagina

Hern may a man within the space of a few hours live a career as packed with incident as any that medieval romance can show : hero may a man enjoy such a moment of life as even Leonidas of Sparta might envy; here are hope, and fear and courage and despair to be tasted

normal existence.

Life is a matter of years; battle of hours, sometimes only minutes. In battle,

the

elemy

SAN FRANCISCO Over the mountains and one comes into the war zone. It is a curious and interesting circumstance to discover that

One does not pretend to explain this

exists.

curious and puzzling condition, but it It may be due to a lack of tion. I have been with armies in retreat grows out of the close relations-busi intellectual geadership; it may be due to before. It is always a hateful experience ness, personal, social, and economic the unsettled and undetermined state of This retreat was hostier than the others between the belligerents and the persons in which the whole country finds as in life, men drift into one another's I have seen, but in essentials not different in that part of the century Aself. This luck of a drift or tendency ken and drift out ogain; only in battle The attack on the ail helds was somelling has been repeatedly testified, the East of national popular opinion in any direction may he due to the widespread acquaintanceship is briefor but rivet entirely new. I had tried out is firmly pro-Ally in its sentiments, general ignorance of foreign affairs and ed by dangers borne in common. In to myself beforehand, but without This alert interest extends to the foreigu relations and a natural diffidenco on the part of taen 10 spook out until men come and go within each other's na

certain national loaders of popular and public opinion have spoken. It is not o

the

du

wholesome condition.

thea on some fire-apopt alope to bid of thought, and labor upon years the war is, in a manger of speaking, a threshed out the questions, and unper-

antice, vaguely shaped, that are at the back of everybody's mind. Such a dis cussion would have brought into being healthy alert public opinion and would have defned issues and problems

success. The reality was such as no man's row circles and leave an impression behind could have conceived in advance Alleghanys, but does not surmount Is Here on the Western seaboard, on the hind.

Even to convey any idea of it is difficult them. Wounded,

Pacific Slope, the interest in the war is perhaps, have most to after it has happened The

The two candi tell of these strange acquaintanceships of The whole business appears to me now the rattlefield, of good Samaritans who go fantastic that I catch myself doubting almost as keen, but sympathy with either

election would have rendored a public have come to them out of the Unknown, if it really did tuppen. That it could of the belligeronts is not nearly so clearly dates for the Presidency at the last

nossible to result

out completely the defined. The Pacific Coast'a intorest service if they had publicly debated and tarried for a while in a shel-hole with clewly built

of

of highly trained indirect interest, and possibly is derived their wounds and give them water or a

and have passed on again intelligence and highly skilled labour, had from its acute and direct interest in cigarette - - 4.

never occurred to me.When I heard the Japan. The attttude of the people here into the Unknown. Maybe the Samniten talk first of what could be done to prevent towards the belligerents in Europe is, never bestowe another, thought on the oh

on suspects more or less directly ject of his compassion, but the fevered the oil falling into the enemy's possession

Jerricks

at the well-hends demolished. towards Japan. They know, of course, In the circumstances it is small wonder every feature of his face, every modul VIGOROUS DESTRUCTION. tion of his voice. In every soldiers, hos Destruction of that which has been that treaties of alliance exist between thate Europe is puzited about the United pital in Britain to-day there are men who created by man's energy for the satise Great Britain and Japan, and between States. The United States is puzzled one day hope, to meet and thank the union of the world's needs, of that, which Russia and Japan. They do not know about itself; it does not know clearly just known friend that did not pass them by provides proft and wage for hundreds of clearly the full purport of these treaties, now which way it will turn. It does not I have a little tale of kindly acts done to thousands of people and so enables them They do not known what would be the know clearly its duties, its obligations, me, & dishevelled, muddy, incoherent, and to live, must be a hideous, sadding attitude of Great Britain or what would utterly insignificant eccord lioutennat, by

espectacle That the wreaking was beyond be the attitude of Russia in the event of and its responsibilities with respect to a succession of humble, unknown soldiery all quin necessary made the case no ary clash of interests between Japan and rid the present it is evading on the autumn evening that brought my baster.It added to is horrid irony the United States. They are impressed attacking the problem, yet it is early military

career to a temporary close 1 was wounded by a shell when all was over We were forced to defend ourselves vory deeply with the belies that in any known that the problem must be met, and against barbarians by barbarous means condict between Japan and the United that without much longer delay. It is waiting for is word, for a clear direction bar the

shelling, when the last objective leave the ail wells untouched would States, California and this coast would from some national leader in whom it had been captured, when the day was wen. It was the hour when, in the fail have been crime. The Germans and bear the brunt of it All this coast, too, will have confidence. In the meantime the fail their dupes need lubricants very badly is more deeply concerned stout Japan's is depending upon President Wilson ing light, the horse ambulances struggle 1 These were the only oil fields from which relations with Chine than any other part and hoping that he will find a way, over the shell-ploughed ground ne non at they could get them in any quite of the United States, which st It is this indecision, I think, that they dare to the firing-line, when the work They would have benefer by the

After a great fight, which strongly contributes to the widespread belief and is begun of evacuating the woude from of the Roumanian wells for as long as aroused this coast, and over the protest hope one finds east and west that neither the shell-holes and trenches where they they occupied the oil region. Then they of the Federal Government at Washing side will win decisively in the European have la helpless all day.

NICE ROSA would have destroyed the industry them

making use of it ONKO Japanese from owning land in this clear decision for themselves, men, who to walk in a fashion, for it first I was It was therefore an urgent inatter, when State. It is commonly felt here, I are in this undetermined frame of mind quite conscious though rather shaken the enemy flood erme pouring over the that the acceptance of this situation by hope that the belligerents will corne to When

every trench has its complement of Roumanin plain sweeping the Rou the Japanese Government is only to the same pass. An inconclusive public victims, livid with ghastly wounds, mantan Army before it, to set about porary, and that at a more convenient sentiment here would naturally hope for

walking

ing wounded is @ very compre destruction with vigour. Fortunately a season the question of whether Japanese hensive term. A very to direct it Colonel Norton If and when the question is re-opened vigorous man was sent out from may own land here will be re-opened. My people brought i me down to the dressing-station where the horse ambul Griffiths surprised not only the Rou- the popular baief here is that an inter- by his energetic methods he national problem will be presented for him wielding a big hammer, swinging it THE PUBLIC AND THE WAR. round his head and smashing up machinery with it, just to slow how the work ought to be dolle made one postical mino-manager describe him as being in

imagination of the ended men retning had vision of thinks set alight, ofinfluenced by their watchful attitude that this country must face and soire.

Mine was a head-wound, and I was ableselves so as to prevent the Allies from ton, California passed a law prohibiting War Having been unable to reach

ascea wore waiting. But there the RoC-1sed the Americans as well. To see solution. Alle

tors implored me, if I could manage to struggle along on foot, to make my own Bay to the clearing station. They pointed to the wiliting anbulence already full up with unconscious men on stretchers to the long lines of stretchers on the ground surfolding them.

85 Tarted to hobble on slong * dally I found another officer heide

One finds in such expressions as the following in the leading newspapers evasion of a direct emotional particips

in events in Europe

inconclusive termination of hostilities in Europe.

Choosing absolutely at random from mass of newspaper cuttings one Radia views: like, these being written almost everywhere by way of popular guidance and education

4 second lieutennut like om straw, thrust thenr into it, and set them names is made public it does not become matter how well meant

re or where he came

but there or

In view of all the conditions, it seems at this time useless for the United States or any other, neutral country to sock to ith ruin her ships Corpedoed nowadays persuade the hostile Powers to end the thor weariness or danger could daunt the news is not a shock When a death war They lave too much at stake to Would not light quickly, he took bundles list containing hundreds of thousands of ve beed to any outside proposals, no flict has become a struggle between know, but he had been shot through the alight, escaping just in time. His helpers the most important news of the day. The truth is that the tremendous con- leg and found walking very painful So were worthy of their chief. The task of Massacres, disasters, and large-scale Gerinang and England for world-vide

joined forces, and putting arms round destruction was worse for the since they outrages pass rather lightly over our supremacy one another's necks, hopped along like a had themselves helped to build but they leads. Some hundreds or thousands of pair in a three-legged race Then, from

Tom went at it with a fury of determination people are killed in an earthquake in It may be regarded as contrary to the welfare and security of the United a shell-hole on that co # Gen Porta the enemy.

kimi to lenye nothing of what they had built Pondicherry, and it does not even induce States for either of the two chiel contest- slope, I heard a lond"

I

us to look up Pondicherry on the mapants to gain a decisive victory, or in any Nature can commit to net of destruction other way to become able to dictate the that deserves to be compared with war terms of peace and we have been reading of war until

process at Mareny, the most

A battered old aapper was beckoning to "It was pretty hard," one of them said, us. I can see him now, with his wrinkled on the morning after the inish of the

the smoke of a little fire wreathed about pretty hard to break up one's home, furui

out of his shell-hole with productive leaning

old face and his dirty cap and his grizzled wrecking the oil districts it was all our Eerves are blunted. Day follows Perhaps of the two Germany would

hair,

Wag

day, and with each day comes the America should the succeed in breaking be the greatest menace to the peace of marderous shuffing out of some thousands

ure, books, grand piano, every human lives more than were lost in the power of England, because Germany.

But we did it thoroughly, by Jove:

America, and so would clash with the

**** Would you like a drop o' rice hot tea. sir he said. Would we? The next lions of pounds worth of property the Titanic. Week follows week, and ambitious to spread ber, dominion and moment we were sitting on the s

he edge the siell-hole, drinking hot tea out of mess locked machinery demolished, refineries tius. I must have drunk a pint of it-it put out of sction, Some wrecks, believe meant People defend themselves from Monte Doctrine, to which this country

2 pledged. it tasted strongly of petrol (for on the the suoke of the bonfires burned day into whole life that a bullet or a shell cuts But yet numerous occurrences in the

the best drink I had over had. True me All over the country round about the truth by philosophy. It is never a Somme the water is sent up in more or night. At Targovisten, 20 miles distant, short. Death might have arrived in a was shortly afterwards extremely ma thero rolled over the town, at four in the lese kindly form. It cannot be wholly shown this country farther back, have afternoon, a dense bluck 108 ELHAM for what seems right. And so on. Never enemy England might be, if, through the

which, hid But to a man with a hole in his hexxi and the

hid undesirable to die purposely in dofence how dangerous an the population

could a touch of temperature, who has been In

crushing of Germany, she should become d scarce do we understand the whole moral and is an amhrceis! believe.

Our good Samaritan would not accept

the modest frano I offered.

that

Craught, all day, ten in case habeof the tale The and Power

came from Ploesti, physical horror. Our limited sympathies the supreme and undisputed military One could not realize the war and live American policy-so far se public senti and be sine, and diplomatic intercourse may in the United States would be incomplete of the war as would leave the balance of Any survey of the present state of mind accomplish anything should favour such an early and most desirable conclusion that did not take note of a curious power in Europe not very different from suppression of sentiment that what it was three years ago, with neither encounters in widely unrelated quarters.

first time the day before the murmur of Cannon, still far off. While they were right alongside the dressin station, as the accounts of the wrecking. They know Me and my gates is here!" he said trying to keep their spirits ap they had. you might say, and 4

officer is wel-now there was little hope of saving the come to his drop of tea

the capital - Daily Mod.

I had no cigarettes to offer him, but the old boy smoked a pure, and his ove onchful of my. gleamed as I

best tokso emptied, diend. Then

I left him at his work of mercy, a valiant agure, soymons, humble, whom I shad Rever forget, N

AM MOTHERLY CARE

I resumed my

FAR EASTERN MEN AND THE WAR. Scoutmaster J. M. Braga has received a letter from ex Scout A. F. Demee, who is "someware in France, which the writer says he is very well and sends his chin-chins to all his friends. He asks them to note his change of address 10ents Reg. d'Ligne, lime Compagnie, seme Section, Sector Postal 83, France.

This country bears, I think, and certainly side greatly predominant cherishes the reputation of being one

The whole present national tendency,

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Tuesday, March 6th No. Company;-

Recruits Platoon,

Wednesday, March 7th Parade of Re craits selected for passing out by ASP, (B).

my pilgrimago alone, for the other officer had vansbed how and where I do not know now wounded ran for gets so much. But a hundred yards for Ther on when I was freling very near the limit of my endurance I fell in with a mess waiter of my own battalion, who s forthwith took charge of me with the soli- citude of mother. I He put his arm round my waist and supported me to a case, and was charmingly affable, though shell-hole where the wes things were i he had been working for twelve hours cluding whisky and Perrier, he chatted

without intermisjon. He told me histion, be said vaguely, had been laid upon Friday, March 9th. No. 2 Company brightly about a thousand inconsequential

"

Thursday, March 6th-No. 2 Company Clang of Instruction, under In- spector C. Alves.

Platoon

BAND. AND ORCHESTRA," "

of the most outspoken countries in the 50 far as any can be said to exist, is to world. Free discussion and freedom of find the easiest way to ovade a decision. opinion are supposed to be birthrights. Yet here by a happy chance I met a man, distinguished in his own seld, at home and abroad, who suddenly, in his own library, burst out with the confession that he had been suffering under an internal suppression of wrath against the Germans ever since the war began. I ventured to ask him why he had sup- pressed his feelings, why he had not spaken out, and to my astonishment be was puzzled and taken aback by the inquiry. He did not know. A conven- to keep my spirits up, and it was and hospital, and I have forgotten excrybody not to talk about or show any to who copp deniring quite sad both but I have a mental photograph song that boy and and naked the driver to give me a life of his cheery face and great goggles, and asked. He did not know, but was sure

made a seat. ERG

of sund bags on the shafts some day perhaps, we shall meet in Lor everybody felt the ban. This was corro

will be borated later by others don, and then the

the entertaining wine 1 too, had noticed this singular and lifter me into it himself, bidding me" on me."

Good luck! as we jogged away. I shall never see to thank more coherently faces and names and surroundings all journey across the continent, from New After that impressions grow hazy, and phenomenon in making my big zag than I could then, for a shell killed him fade away. But there was a strapping York. Men in speaking strongly about that same night a gentle, kindly man, young Grenadier private who took charge the war and their sympathies uncon drove that water cones the gunner who of me when my senses were failing, and 1sciously lowered their voices. Some

Next on my list

GENERAL BRUSILOFF'S ho he kept the can remember his arm about my waist as looked about them warily and oven

A CONFIDENCE. horse at a walking pace to save my aching he led me gently into some kind of field furtively if they were in a public com head, and he drove a good two miles out ambulance where there was very where they might be overheard. Some of of his way to drop me at a dearing shadowy K.A.M.C orderly with a very them at the universities, one had Addressing the officers of the Staff ou station. No walking wounded case who pronounced Dublin accent Their faces in vain, until there was not a vacant quace forget their personalities, soothing and futangible influence. They said that by uttered the following prediction:** I claimed a lift from that driver appealed have gone from me. but I shall never found before reaching California, were the south-western front, Genera. Frusi conscious of the same smothering, loff, according to the Russkor Store, left on tank or limber. I often think I kindly and disinterested

No doubt if should like to meet that man again.

their hour, or the hour of any other of At the casualty clearing station there

these good Samaritans in this narrative, was a boy doctor with glass, who changes in this war, what they did to ed my bandages and gave me a poft chair humble second lieutenant will be remem and hot soup and all the cigarettes in his bered! May to them be done even as they

(Continued at foot of next column.)

He

did-Daily Mail.

Sta

Band Practice Wednesday, March 7th Orchestra Practice Thursday March

(Bgd.) F. C. JENKIN,

D.S.P. (B) March 5th, 1017.

tacit consent in the Faculty: Clubs and formation af my disposa and my pers other gathering places where free and oral conviction warrant me in saring unrestricted speech might be looked for that I am certain-just as onits in aa as a matter of course, men did not talk than Im standing before you that about their sympathias in the war. One during the coming year the event will sought me explanetion, but in vain be finally and completely, routed.**