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“AWA TRẤT TRÅDE SPARKED WORDŽA ZEBRAFIONE DI OF

Bot now der fsightin's ofor, unt vo offer

you do hout

And vonce again vo come to lif vas, trade

in your goot ant

Vot's deb you say? You do not vish to be

goot vriendts again!

You tink ve didn't fight you fair!

Vell, letu shoot ezhlein

Poor Pelginn! Ju! She drank dor cup of

sorrow to der dregs,

Bot poobles can't make onelettes mitoat

to preak some eggs, Destruction, billage, hol-dose tings are Ve've always took an mit us in all eam

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CONDITIONS ON THE CAUCASUS FRONT. RESULTS OF TURKISH BRUTALITY

STRIKES IN ENGLAND,

A SERIOUS POSITION, The Goverment last month exhibited in the centres affected by the strikes the following notice

DOCTORS AND RECRUITS. PASSING OF UNFIT MEN

Much complaint has been made in Eng- land regarding the extraordinary laxity of the doctors employed by the War Office: iu pasing unft men for military service.

Some refugees from Bivas, who succeed-

A serious stoppage of work by engi din getting through the Turkish lines nst Novetuber, reached Erzingan after noers engaged in the vital business of Sir Frederick Milner recently wrote on terrible journey across snow-covered producing munitions pecurred at this subject to the Times as follows;----- hills They described the conditions pre-moment who, in view of the present In a letter which you have published

vailing in Sivas and the neighbourhood to offensive on all fronts, there was greater recently

Practitioner of Medicine

a correspondent, who writes as follows need for all munitions than at any miestates: Military doctors are perfectly vious time. The strike is allegedly a competent, in the vast majority of cases,

from Erzerum

military

Ven vonca de vårdbgs vou let loose, ve had no capture of Erzingen by the

to try and vin-kle

Kussians at the end of July, lulu, protest partly against this abolition of And don't forget you vent for us ve didn't-caused a pante among the Turkish trade cards and partly against the Muni

authorities at Divas Attions Amendment Bill vant you in

was felt that, should the Russians Despite the full explanations, and the advance further westward without giving effect of these measures, and despite the the Turiss time to organise the defence of fact that it was completely unauthorised Sivas, there would be but one way out and condemned by 50 trade-unions of the of the situation),c., to \vacunte Sivas engineering and shipbuilding trades, the and retife to angola, the terminus of the strike is therefore clearly as much a pro- railway from Constantinople, arudi test against the executive authority of the Bey Turkish general or Circassian trade-unions as it is against Government origin, who had been compelled to retire action. from Erzingan at the head of a demoralised division, declared publicly at Sivas that the German who wore in commend on the Caucasian front did not care to defend Ottoman territory, nor did Turkish armies. For his Irans speech, this General was ordered by the military authorities to go to Constantinople on a few months leave.

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You can't get men te faight onless day haf

aloedla fun Fratality ́ It all deposits on how you look

at tinge You ACCE

at Kultur, vilo vo know ye penrits it prings!

Ye mink defenceless ships and set deir crews [= mdrift? I know

Bot Himmel Vot vos U-boats for if nut

to "nuz slonst ro? Und now you're short of vessels, vile velvet

a lot, ha ha!- Ve'll carry gouts instead of you, and safe

you trouble, ja!

Vot'a dat?” “You're going to take ours, your

lost rons to replace

Vy, vote notion Ach mein Gott! dat

man could bo so pase

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i:

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ve are

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Sherman claims.

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You don't mean it? Donnerwetter! Vell, it shows you nefer know T So 1 tought you would sorry for a man who's

hat x fal, Bot I find Ives mistaken in you English,

after all i

as a réprisut for the fall of Erzingan 1,700 Armenian soldiers and artisans, who were employed on the roads and in work shops, were killed by the Turks.

ALost of the Turkiet regiments were reduced to half their normal strength owing to the heavy strain put upon them during the relentless Russian campaign

to arrive in their own findings at just and safe conclusions." That certainly in not my experience. If the people of this country had any idea of the huge sums of money that have been wasted owing la the ignorance or carelessness of military ductors, or of men appointed to carry out the duties of military doctors, indigna” on would be widespread. It would be exaggeration to say that thousands of men have been passed it for service who This was fully confirmed by tulegraus have not been able to do any military from the strike leaders in the danchester service at all: Buch is the carelessness of area, stating that the joint engineering some of thess gentlemen that it is notori- shop stewards committee repudiated any qua that men have actually been passed interference by the omotal executives or with artificial legs and glass eyes; I know the workers concerned in the present dis of several ensos myself, and Major pute. The Government cannot permit the General Sir C. Crutchley admitted it in strike to continue. Therefore, they must a speech he made some months ago summon all loyal citizens to resume work Hardly a day passes that I do not get immediately. They point out that all appeals from men who have been invalid- inciting any stoppage of munition worked out without any pension. These men are guilty, under the Defence of the admit themselves that they did only Resim Act and liable to a penalty of few weeks service before being sent to servitude for life, or such lesser punish hospital, and that many of them were kept in hospita: for months before being. men as may be awarded...

invalided out. These men werd, course, receiving pay and separation allowances, besides the cost of their food and treat- ment in hospital, yes none of them was able to render any hulitary service at all. have already made public many cases of gross and unpardonable carelessness. During the last few days the following cases have come to my knowledge. A man was passed with incurable heart disease, from which he has suffered for years, and has never been able to do any bat the slightest work. The leading doctor in the district stated before the tribunal that in his opinion if this man were sent on a route march with a full load he would drop down dead, yet this man was passed, and actually passed again on appeal. Another fun was so full of tubercle that the slightest knock caused serious trouble, He had recently gone through a very

The Minister of Munitions states that the officials of the various unsong opius the spring and summer. Ammation that the men should resume work on was running short, because means of Monday The Minister emphasise that transport were daily decreasing. Hun supplies of aircraft material, heavy guns, dreds of camels and pack-horses, which howitzers, tanks, and other materials will were carrying military supplies from be seriously delayed by the present illegal Angora to Sivas in the spring, dropped on the road from ill-usage and overwork, The distribution of military supplies was the worst possible. Discontent was rife among all classes, but though everyone in the army was longing for peace none dared incur the consequences of any any demonstration:

action. It would also impede the western offensive, and numberless lives would be unnecessarily sacrificed

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The Daily Telegraph says: Hemer being that the engineer strikers are cat ing gher wages than ever, and are

home of security, while our soldiers are facing death, the strike seems incredible The whole country will support the overnment action, because the traitors in the factories deserye, the same tate de the traitors in the trenches

MISTAKEN POLICY

Practi

For some time past the Turks had been deporting Greeks from towns and villages and the Binck Sea coast. There had been ne cassucres of Grecks, but in the course of deportation many hundreds of Greeks Ve've lots of naice wings reaty in your vare had died, as Armenians had done. In the House of Commons, Mr. W. Cseric is operation, and the surgeon who

houses to doomp,

Anderson (L., Attercliffe) said that the aid the operation stated that it was Last November the military comman Unt von't you all be happy von de prices dant of Sivas undertook to raise a new labour unrest was a mistaken policy. A man could be found to pass suca a man Government's secret session regarding absolutely inconceivable that any medical downwards shoomp! Com shake mein hant, old kamerad army corps, but he had met with very fair and honest discussion, coupled with for service, yet he was passed, though he

little success up to the time of the deparnu attempt to meet the grievances of she told the doctor of all he had been through.... Shake hante on it, I say k And led me pook your orders in der goedture of this informant. Hundreds of worker would have better results: Unbes The other day I saw two men in hospital. men are deserting from the Turkish army, the Government observed its pledges to They had been born almost blind. They old shenin) vay

and hillsides are infested with hangry Labour it would bring the country to the had never been able to do any work, and robbers and mara aders

verge of revolution, got their living by hinwking small articles Thousands of widows and orphans are Mr. FG Kellaway (L, Bedford) in the street. Yet these men were con-

away (L. Bidford) reaching the Caucasus, after a long fight replied that the munition-makere were scribed, passed, and actually sen to through the mountains, in condition nerve-timed after three years of excessive France. They were, of course, unable to that beggars description hose have labour and strain, and these unparalleled do a day's work, and were eventually sent been not only crually bereft of their conditions now resulted in rain and back to hospital to be discharged in the bicar-winners, they have also lost every extreme action where formerly matters face of such evidence how can thing they possessed through Turkish were easily settled. Every day the strikes tioner of Medicine say that military brutality." But two years ago happy and continued meant lengthening the war authorities are competent to arrive at nat wall to do they are now on the verge of The trade-card system was an experiment and safe conclusions? There has been no which had proved unsatisfactory, but great r scandal in this war than the Starvation.

accredited trade-unionists accepted the absolutely reckless passing of men totally new scheme, and denied that the Govern unfit for any kind of service. Hundreds ment and broken its pledge given to the of thousands of pounds have been literally engineers. Though the existing difficulty thrown away in this direction. was widespread there were grounds for

Now, unless the new Military Service hoping that the worst was past, Bill is to be a ghastly failure, the Govern- Dr. Addison (Minister for Munitions) ment must see to it that only doctors interviewed, said that a large body of who really understand their duties shall Australian munition-makers in a factory be employed to examine these men, and at which the engineers were striking they must be told that the examination passed a resolution protesting against the must be thorough and complete, however strike, and stating their willingness to long it taken, and that if any more volunteer in a body for active service cripples are passed into the Army tho Dr. Addison did not accept the offer, doctors who passed them shall be made because the men were equally valuable in responsible. The majority of our best the factories.

military doctors are at the front, and Dr. Addison added." The people inuy skilled civilian aid should be called in,

THE PRICE OF ZINC.

In a short article in Chamber's Journal for March, Mr. John Bowman gives “Some Facts about Zinc," from which we extract the following:--

Before the war prices for sine ranged from £16 to £21 per ton. In November, 1914, the price was £24 per ton. By January, 1915, 220 was the market price, and twelve months later the price was

ST. GEORGE THE TANK.

GRAPHIC STORY OF 40 HOURS'

AMAZIG FIGHT

The capture of Wancourt and Heninel south-east of Arras) will always be fainous if only for the journey of a tank It had a forty hour duel with Hinden burk, which ontdoes all the stories of St. George and the Dragon. Nothing like it had ever been done before by any fengine of war with a human crew. Only

HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.

BAND COMMITTEE.

The Committee will meet at Headquar ters' Club on Wednesday, June 20th, at 6 p.m.

283 per ton. The highest pries 2102 per those who bave heard what the hold of say that we have heaps of shells in unless the whole thing is to be a farce. ton, was reached at the end of February tank is like can understand the feat of France. That fortunately is true, but the 1 was talking on this subject the other On March 1st an order prohibiting spe- endurance by its cabined and padded supply of big guns, tanks, aeroplanes day to a high military authority, and calative dealings in metals was publish crown

and motors has been gravely affected he said to me, “ We are but to win this ed, and in less than a fortnight the price Our infantry (says Mr W Beach The continuation of the offensive depends war, and we must have men" I replied had declined to £71 per ton. At the Thonies in the Daily fail) were held up upon those things, now finishing in the I was out to win this war just as much beginning of April the price was steady heavy machine-gun fire from pits and shops. We have lost three weeks work by as he was, but that numbers were no good at £80. By the middle of the month the trenches dotted over a slope on their left the Barrow stoppage, and the time which without efficiency, and that we should not price had again risen to £100 and re- They were attacking from the Farthest is being leat now will be felt in June and win this war with an army of cripples" mained at this figure until the beginning points south where we had crowed the July The tanks are very popular in of May. At the end of May £70 was the Hindenburg line in the Arras sector. France, but few things are more difficult quoted price; the end of June saw a In their plight a tank was called to to turn out because it is difficult to get further decline to £56. Since then the help, and elected to go forth unscoom spare parts. Two orders were given in price has fluctuated between £50 and £60, panied on a lone mission. It started by the last few weeks, for 1,200 and 1,700 tons the average for December being 155. A diret advance along the line of Hinden respectively for tank spare parts alone. While this price represents an enormous burg's wire, and flattened out one bolt It was true, be continued, thats increase on normal prices, the big reducat it leisure while bullets rattled on its Rochdale firm had seriously breached its tion from the maximum price is satisfac hide like bail on a tin roof. understanding with the unions, but that tory, because it is due to the determined They flattened, fell, or glanced off was dealt with immediately. It had action of producers in Australia The while the crew laughed, Jested, and nothing to do with the present strikes. Thursday, June 21st: Wednesday, June

The two main disputes now involved the 27th; and Friday, June 29th- cutting off of the German and Belgian asked them to come in whenever a parti dilution of labour and the trade card supplies has enabled Australis to become cularly loud one hit the door

system. When the former was decided on end of the leading zinc producing coun ONE HELA FLATTENED.

an understanding was reached with the tries, and she should be at the close of when one belt was flattened St. George unions, but the demands for munitions of the war, a formidable competitor in the the Tank, turned in a graceful curve and all kinds, as well as shipbuilding, had Eastern and South American markets, procented with stately pomp to come back enormously increased, and the depart Canada also began producing last year, on a parallel course down the second ment gave additional safeguards to protect and the smelters at Traill, British of wire

the unions. The trade cards had been Columbia yielded 8,000,000 pounds After this preliminary work St. George defective because a number of big unions valued at £200,000 sterling.

set out northwards to search the lairs were not parties to the system of machine gunners on the slope: Fresulted in many skilled man being called while the gunners had censed firing, but up in some trades classified as unskilled, now again ordinary bullets and armour while in other trades they had been pro

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LOED NORTHCLIFFE PROMISES MORE LIGHT.

Lord Northcliffe, in a statement to the United Press Agency of New York, last

month, said

This

piercing bullets rattled on his visos Hetected, therefore, I been dis

had already, with his own machine-guns, The system,

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Platoon

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parades. Those not yet fitted with same must wear caps and covers. The Chief Inspector (Musketry) will in- spect all Rides and cleaning gear en these parades.

NO. 2 PLATOON

and during the Ramadan-Fast the members of this Platoon are exempt from all except Petrol duties,

shot a number of infantry along the continued, and the new system provided trenches behind the wiro, He now picked exemption for skill only. Local com off a quantity of machine gunners, though mittees had been appointed to settle com From and including Thursday, June fist, some burrowed into dig outs and stayed plaints. The unrest was largely due to there till subsequently taken prisoner the shop stewards. The Ministry could From the warren of maschine gunners not negotiate with individual shops, of “Britain will shortly publish the losses he went on to the village fortress of which there were 90,000 in the engineering On arising from submarines, not hiding any Wancourt, maked a serpentine course intrede alone. The Ministry he con- facts of importance connected with the and around it, spitting fire for he has tinued can only deal with the main way on land or sea, save those likely to the dragon's gifts as well as St. George's mo

organisations, and cannot be a party to be of benent to the enemy. The sub gifts whenever a good target offered movements designed to interfere with the

marines, while being the strongest card

that Germany has played, can ever win EVERY CARTRIDGE USED

making of manitions or the upsetting of

and from the 21st inst and until

further notice the feat shift patrols will be performed by the Mounted Police.

CONNLAND.

the authority of the central unions We The Command of the Police Reserve will the war The British official reports are for a day and a night and a day he have said all alone ETAS.P. (R.) as Acting Deputy

hat we will not deal temporarily be taken over by the perfectly frank, and do not conceal any machine gunners and groups of infantry in the House of Commons, on May 21st, Superintendent

continued his quest, nosing out German with the men, losses while the Germans are afraid to two villages, in the valley, and along Mr. Lloyd George announced that the Usit Commanders will communicate with publish theirs. The Germans do not yet the slopes. At last, bumped and battered Engineers generally had resumed work, kilow of the fall of Bagded. The war in

kijów

certain to be a long one. The German and worn as a shipwrecked crew, almost settlement having been reached under

mixture of science with brute force is not easily broken.ED

* New secret war implemente vore, added Lord Northcliffe, being prepared by Britain

every nigeon hole of ammunition used, the valinnt crew Burned their bows homewards.

Their ship covered much country and spent forty hours on the adventure,

which the Engineers Executive Council would negotiate with the Government regarding the existing differences, and endeavour to continue this practice with a view to avoiding future stoppage.

the Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police (Reserve) either direct for through this office

19th June, 1917.

(84) J.W. FRANKE,

Actg. B.B.P. (B).