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MORTENTOR OF BEITISH RAIDS,

THE PAIN OF DEATH

AMERICAN WOMAN AVIATOR'S: AMBITION.

"I am at the service of my country for moment I may be

A CLERIC'S VIEWS. The Hon, and Rev. James Adderley, I found among the soldiers a general agreement that they would infinitely Hon. Canon of Birmingham Cathedral flying duty at any rather face the rench troops than the writes the following essay on death called upon," said Miss Ruth Law, British. They attributed their greater its phenomenon Fear of our men to the iden, probably The physical pain of death depends. Invintor, when she arrived in New York mistaken, that our men were less ready suppose on the particular cause of death last month on the steamer Alfonso XII.,

Naturally, death from starvation cancer must bu very much more painful after several months spent in England than

death from old age, nat

thun and France observing the latest methods: Dying is probably more death itself. At some painful death-beds of using aeroplanes in warfare.

Eam willing to fly a fast little scout there seems to come a period of calm when the cad draws near

than the French to make them prisoners as soon as they raised their hands and that the unnerving effect on the Germans cried "Kamerad I suspect, however, of the Sir Douglas Haig system of trench raiding is the real explanation

This is how a German soldier gave me

1 think it is a great pity that for the machine alone, travelling 150 or 160 sake of relations a death agony is commiles an hour, or I'll drive a heavier times prolonged by the use of powerful

period two or three of them were actually daub their faces with clay, come along. sentimental reasons? For these what I'd like to do more than anything-

billeted on the good fellow with whom I lodged.

I knew just sufficient of the German language to be able to chat with them, and they made no attempt to concent from me their real feelings. I am merely repeating the statement made to me over and over again by many German soldiers when I say that the men in the ranks are thoroughly tired of the war, that they have abandoned all thought of con- quest, and that they fight on only be cause they believe that their homes and families are at stake.

"THEY SING NO MORE"

is that I be sent to the front, wherever

his impression of the British raids

They are the worst horror we have to contend with The English seem to do it drugs. I remember a doctor saying to machine carrying a gun and gunner and for spert, not for war. A bombardment me at the death-bed of a young officer. go into actual battle with the enemy" is bad enough; but you know it is If there were relations here we should added the diminutive holder of the

get right into the fight. coming. You do not know when or whore keep him alive a few hours. Why should Chicago New York flight record." That's 4. raid is coming. These Englishmen a dying man be kept alive

he painful-

The only request I shall make of the the ground on all fours, amother our I suppose a great deal of the advance posts, and are in our tronches ness of death is due to our struggling Government when I offer my services.

They against it. Just as when we resist an before we know where we are come not with rifles and revolvers, but anaesthetic it causes us great disconfort, formally, which will be in a day or so.

is delightful, so with death with knives and sledge-hammers and while if we meekly subant to it the sense ft. is. Above all things, I'd like to reco bombs. We cannot use our rifles against The reason we resist, is that we cling, to the front in France; if America sends them. They are too near, and perhaps life. This dous not necessarily mean that any soldiers over there stał we have not fixed our bayonets. We must we are afraid to die, or that we have we have a woman Congressman, either run or be killed. The English will doubts about immortality, and want to why can't we have a woman fighting- clear a trench on a stretch of 150 yards have as much of this world as possible or aviator" she demanded.

RECORD SHOWS HER ABILITY. and get away again without losing a fear there is no other. The greatest struggle for life I ever witnessed was on

Of Miss Law's ability there is no ques man."

It would be difficult to exaggerate the the part of a young spiritualist, who most genuino terror with which the raids certainly believed in the next world. He tion. Her performances prove that. She are 6lled. German soldiers of all ranks simply refused to die, and did literally holds the altitude mark for a woman--- live some days longer because of his and regiments. A ART

determination. It was rather splendid, early 12,000 feet and the cross-country, "I am arranging to get a Morane- As a rule the soldiers did not maltreat this insistence on life, though it probably American record for either sex. the civilians in Roubaix except when they cost him a lot of pain were acting under the orders of their

Saulnier monoplane from France, and am officers, when, for example, they were

willing to cater it in the service of the tearing people from their homes to work

United States," Miss Law continued, as slaves. They had, however, the right

That is the fastest plane in use in Europe, had a flight over Paris in a of travelling without payment on the

Another case I remember of a a young two-seater with Robert Morane, the in- tramcars, and they frequently exercised this right to such an extent as to pre-soldier who had had a long, weary illness ventor. I thought I had down fact by clude the townsfolk from the use of the from an awful wound. Ife, no doubt, was fore, but my eyes were opened by the bound to die but he too lost heart. It was arranged that he should go to Blighty, but he had ceased to care to do so, and refused. The end came very rapidly after that.

On that autumn morning when the first German troops came into Roubaix they came flushed with victory, full of con- fidence in their strength, marching with their eyes fixed on Paris and London They sang aloud as they swung through our streets. They sing no more. Instead, as I saw with my own eyes, many of the show in their faces the abject miserva which is in their hearts.

By force of habit, combined with the instinct of self-preservation they have re tained their discipline, They still obey their officers unquestioningly and salute them in the street with that automaton like stiffness which is the pride of the German Army. But in almost every other respect the smartness has gone from them. Their unifoning have become threadbare I remember a rather amus ing incident in this connection I was felling a Saxon jaeger one day that the Prussian Guard, the flower of the Gars man forces, had been staying in Rou bair shortly before, "But we are the dite, too, he proudly replied. Turn round," I said, und pointed ironically at two large patches in the seat of his frousers. He was crestfallen, for a while until he saw the Judicrous side of the situation NAS

Apart from that annoyance, there was little ground for complaint of the general behaviour of the soldiers. The conduct of the officers was very different. For a long time they made a habit of requisi- tioning from shopkeepers and others sup plies of food for which they had no inten. tion of paying. One day an officer moved up in a trap to a shop kept by an acquaintance of mine and bought sardines, chocolate, bread, and fancy cakes to the value of about 200 francs (about $8). He produced a piece of paper and borrowed a pair of scissors with which to cut off a slip. On this slip he wrote a few words in German, and then, handing it to the shopkeeper, he went off with his purchases. The shopkeeper on presenting the paper at the Remmandantour, was informed that the inscription Fan For the loan of setesore, 200 francs," and that the signa ture was unknown. Payment was there

was

On the other hand, I remeziber, a young soldier in France who died from sheer lack of wanting to live. The doctor told me he need not have died if he had only resolved to live.

I think these instances show that much depends on will power. My own father was a man of extraordinary vitality. A to me, Ry all the laws he ought to be month before his death, his doctor said

speed of that bus

The little squeen of the air was 40- which young men of England and Francs thusiastic in her praise of the way in hail turned out for aviatico training. She displayed a picture of one of the French fields at Le Bourget, near Pariz, machines in each banger. "I never where there are 150 hangars and 100. It was difficult to believe a dreamed there were so many aeroplanes few hours before his death, at the age of in the world," she said. "Why, they buzz

His, ninety, that he was a dying man.

quitoes. again was a case of the most absolute over the city of Paris almost like mos- You'll see a big triplane carrying 2 belief in the other world, coupled with an intense desire to live and die not crew of three or four men and a three- moment too soon.

dead now.

我

Probably the greatest pain in death is inch gun.. surrounded by twenty or thirty mental pain. I can conceive a wasted fast little planes armed with machine painful for a man Miss Law tried to get to the fighting life, a stupid life, and, still more, a wick guns to protect the big fellows,

pended front, but was permitted no further than ed life, making it to die, very pain

At the same time I am bound to say Compiegne, close to where the Germans. that many people who lived a very un were turned away from their march to- peaceful, end. Perhaps they nics all the boys of the Lafayette satisfactory life are apparently able to wards Paris early in the war. make a very

Others, I think, are really sorry what it is meant for

connote demoralization. While it would fore refused, This Case. bave never understood what life is, or Escadrille the American flying group,"

rry to

die, she said, and I had the privilege of

because they have been much interested

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in life, and there are all sorts of prob of all, Lieut. Guynemer, who has shot. latting with the greatest fighting flyer it is all going to be hidden from me a ring fashioned from the button of

a German airman's roat, their sight. This is exactly where re lens they had hoped to see solved, and down more than thirty flyers. He gave ligion does bring great comfort to the Computing the foreign aeroplanes with dying. The man of faith has lived see-those in use here. Miss Law said ours:

He has always been ing the invisible," and now he is going are catirely too heavy. The English and French machines are very much lighter, to see it visibly.

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But ragged, clothes do not necessarily scarcely be true to say that the more of by no means an isolated one.

When an officer was billeted on a house, the German soldiers has been shattered,W I am convinced that it has been badly, he would insist on turning the family shaken. No German with whom I spoke out of the dining room and drawing-rooni would ever admit for a moment that his and sleeping in the best bed room; some- Army was or could be beaten But now times he would eject people entirely from instead of boasting as they did two years their homemake ago that they were going to Paris By contrast the docile private soldier Ypres, and Calais, and would bombard was almost a welcome guest. I remember England from France, they say We well one quite friendly fellow she was uld have got to Paris if we had wanted-lodged for some time in the same house W could have Ypres and Calnis, if it as myself and some English over military proving the unseen; " now it will be and therefore easier to handle and cap varo in our programme. But we are only age in the suburb of Croix. He came to spends teachers are able of far greater speed.

I think that religious fighting for the defence of our Father me in great glee one day with a letter land, our mothers and wives and child from his wife in which she warned him foolish not to preach heaven as the solving Just think of those Morane machines to beware of the British cut throats of doubts and the enjoyment of truth getting up 6,000 feet in seven minutes, Last year scores of them told me, quite She went on to give him a long series What the late Miner Canon Shuttleworth she said," Many of them con climb al- independently, that the war would come of instructions for his safety. He was to used to call a giant tea garden with most 1,000 feet a minute and it took me to an end on November 17th, 1918. How barricade his bed-room door every night, mammoth Crystal Palace in the back an hour and a half to get up to 19,000. to heaven. Mr. Bradlaugh used to say the attitude record. Our materials and that date came to be fixed by the proto sleep, always with his knife under his ground" can never attract some people with my little old biplane when I made

to be pheta nobody know, but the belief in the pillow and never to take anything that he did nos want to go to heaven if bodies should be refined and lightened.

none of the heraties of history were was universal among the offered him to eat or drink. proplecy soldiers.

Tren.

THE GUNN ON THE SOMME

TWO CONGREGATIONS.

there.

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The little aviator said American men by the thousands ought to be turning out for air service right now, particularly for const defence duty

the firing-line they are fed en a very different scale. For the double purpose・・ SAW THE ́ ́ GILET TRICK.'' ___ of keeping up their strength and dis couraging any tendency to malingering,

Last Christmas Day I was present for That way before the Battle of the a few minutes at a special service for the

I saw a wonderful new bit of trick Somme. For days we in Roubaix heard German troops, held in the little English the distant roaring of the guns in that church. Our Minister, the Rev. H. Fishe, great encounter Night and day without had annonceed on the previons Sunday

is a stunt called "le vrille (tho gimlet). trasing their rumble sounded. He had that there would be a service for the the men in the trenches are supplied oying at Le Bourget," she went on It grown Recustomed to the sound of the English colony-they still number 50 or freely with food (though its quality is While the machine is on a level, the hond guns about Ypres and Armentieres w 60 but when we arrived at the church not now so good as it was) that they are stands still and then the tail whirls' and sat at our windows in the evening we found the soldiers already in possess able to send considerable quantities to around and around. It is done by jam- ning the ridders. But, with all the their homes in Germany.

fancy flying I saw I still believe the beat. and watched the flashes in the darkness;sion The ininister decided that we should we had even heard at night-time the rattle proceed with our service in the vestry. But we had never and I went into the church for a few

trick aviator I ever beheld was Lincoln of machine guns.

hymn-books. The building was Full of haard so continuous or so heavy thunder as that which came to us from soldiers, and a chaplain was delivering

Beachey, our own Yankee hoy."

Herman the Somme...

Miss Law brought back with her a French trench dog called Paily, who w much actual fighting and was wounded steel helmet. He had to go into quaran- several times. He wears a miniature tine because of the regulations regarding the importation of animals,

A DULL WAR.

THE GREEN DEVILS." Despite the temptations to crime and insubordination which naturally attend an idle manufacturing population of I doubt whether in all the history of some 125,000 people, there were very low We were used, too, to the sight of the church there has ever been an in-civilian offences against the law, German wounded Germans brought in from the cident so strange as this simultaneous or French, among the inhabitants of front, but Roubaix, and, still more celebration of the great Christian festival Ronbaix

Tume hung heavily on our hands Lille never witnessed such a constant by the German soldiers and British civi- stream of broken men as that which lians, each group singing carols in their Cut off from the outer world except by poured in last July and Augustown tongue with only, a doce between the the occasional arrival of the smuggled

In Roubaix alone, in addition to the two sets of worshippers

French and English newspapers to which have already given a hint of the I have referred, we spent our time read- town hospitals, the Germans had sudden- ly to improvise hospitals in the work jealousy which prevails between the ing, and playing cards, and at the last

It's a dull war. That is the considered house, the boys college, and the Prussians and the Saxony. It was nt 1 hoped I may never be reduced to this college. Every bed was filled, and to the all timey evident in the speech and form of anmusement again. In the two rest of the wounded the doctors in altitude of these two sections of the and a half years, cut out of my life and opinion of W.LA of the Dundee Roubaix bonld give only such attention German Army. If a housewife complain completely wasted I played as many battalion of the Black Watch, who has at is possible in a dreming station, ed to a Saxon that he was untidy or un game of cards as will satisfy me for the been two years at the front and has been panding their conveyance into Belgium clean in his personal babits and it rest of my existence.

Events, of course, proved that the hope should be understood that the French But ven if the inhabitants, in their some heavy fighting. Two years he ex- have spent one at the front. Many a which buoyed up the Germans and women did not hesitate to tell their enforced idleness, had any temptation to claim, It's a fair-sized slice of a mail's, filled them with new energy was false soldiers bluntly if they offended the be insubordinate, they had a far greater life. For every ten days I bave lived I They have not, however, given up their Sexon would strug his shoulders and inducement to Keep the law in the bridled General of old time who won faime saw faith that they will yet. avoid crushing answer: You wait until you get a savagery of the German gendarmeric less fighting than my comrades and I defeat, in the field. Something, they be Prussian lodged on you.

These creatures, who from the colour of lieve, will soon happen to bring hostili On at least one occasion the ill-feeling their uniform and the brutality of their The silver frost of age has yet to descend ties to an end. They will then withdraw between Saxons and Prussians broke out conduct were known as the green upon my locks, but may I not proudly to Germany but they are careful to add in something like a faction fight. At 4 devils," seemed to revel in sheer cruelty regard myself as a veteran ! for the benefit of French hearers, Britain o'clock one morning in last December two They scour the towns on bicycles and the Yet he confesses that he finds it a dull will never leave. Calais. The French parties of soldiers belonging to the rival outlying districts on horseback, always war. We bare guarded prisoners, he people, even the peasantry, laugh in their Armies fought a miniature pitched battle accompanied by a dog as savage as bis says, we have done every kind of manual faces. They know the eagerness of the in one of the open squares of Ronbaix.master, and at the slightest provocation labour, we have been loaded like camels, Germans to poison their minds against A few shots were fired and then one group or without even the slenderest pretext and we have performed all the wearisome CPWAT. People who get a shilling's worth their British Allies One of the clumsiest charged the other with the bayonet. Four they fall upon civilians with brutish jobs of an infantrymadres, it's a dull It was not uncommon for one of these of excitement watching the Bomme battle devices adopted for this purpose in the men were killed and a number of others violence. publication in the Gazette des Ardennes wounded in the inglorious combat, of lists of French villagers who are said

men to chase a woman on his bicycle, and flm unfold its vivid tale of terror and to have been killed behind the German

when he hail caught her, batter her head triumph may think it rather fine; but T lines by British shella The peasants

and body with the machine, Mary times assure you war ain't what it's cracked and townspeople alike were aware that

they would strike women with the flat of up to be. Somebody once said to d the Germans themselves were responsible

their sabres. One of them was seen to Dundee kiltie, Man, the life's great."- for any casualties that may have been seems to be bad feeding. I described yes unleash his dog against an old woman, The Scet replied, Ay, the life's no se

·Press: suffered by the civilian population, seterday a typical days fare provided for and laugh when the savage beast tore bad, it's the deaths I diana care for " ing that they would not allow anyone to the troops in Houbaix When they go to open the worgan's flesh from thigh to The Scottish Letter in Singapore Free

(mungon jean jo 10 per kniee. -Times. evacuate a village behind their lines

On the whole the life of the German soldier when he is resting in towns and villages behind the lines not parti cularly hard. The chief trouble, in the occupied part of France, at any rater

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