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At Liverpool Assizes recently, Captain. HW Wilson, formerly chief substin tion officer, and John Hughes, owner of 50 grocers' shops, were found guilty of conspiring to defeat the Military Service Acts. Hughes was also found guilty of corruptly giving Wilson £675 and Wilson of accepting the money.

BY ARNOLD FREEMAN. Though it is now a long time since our German enemies introduced liquid-fire into this world-war, it is quite surprising how little is known in Englane, and hat erroneous ideas are hekl, of this weapon It is not very long ago since I saw in a newspaper an account of an interview a correspondent had but with a puts on the Somme front, in which The Solicitor-Genera) (Sir Gordon the French Tommy described how from Howart) said that on May 28th lust vantage-point he had watched the Ger Hughes paid to Captain Wilson £100. mans: during an attack pour liquid-fre Ciptain Wilson having it in his power into a trench and shrivel up the deto confer illegitimate advantages upon fenders Had that correspondent known

SOME QUEER THINGS IN

ENEMY MANGUVRES FOR PEACh KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

THE PRESS MUZZLED,

(FROM

THE BATTLES.

SOLDIERS STORIES.

Some queer things happened in Angres. There was a soldier of ours, an Irishman, who ate his breakfast in Augres, but he

THE TIMES HUNGARIAN a German at the entrance and fought was in evin company. He came across

CORRESPONDENT WITC knocking each other allout they came to refer to the shortage of food, and ant with him, but in a friendly way. After newspapers basa been strictly formidden-

Since April 15th last tho Hungarian an understanding, and ant down together a line has appeared in them on the subs in dag-out to men of Germen sausage, ext. The prohibition coincided with tho cheese, back bread, and French wine appearance in the Government organ, the in common, and were seen coming out suggesting that the next few months They found a great deal of human nature Irishman brought back his prisoner still greater sacrifices of the people, who Inazmondo, of an article by Count Tisza later art-in-arm, and in this way the would be most critical and would demand An Irish colonel told this and another should prepare themselves to accept tho. queer tale of an Irishman in the outskirta coming hardships with steadfastness. battle of the Bois-en-Bache, which was & appeared in the Prise on the subject of of Lens. The colonel my him after the These are the Inst words that have the least thing about Flammenwerfen,hes. In July Hughes paid Wilson terrible affair, and a great feat of arms he provalent mine. The newspapers party was pulling his leg and I and £125. Counsel described how, after ar shrapnel: He was guiding this poor papers appear to have followed suit, for he would have realised at once that the 200 and on subsequent days £150 and the mud and snow, bringing back a were permitted to issue this warniere German horse under machine gan fire and since then they have porforce, remained a good many others would have missed 14ngements had been made for Hughes Jean beast over frightful ground, round no longer do they come out with dismal. silent. The Austrian and German news- through broken strands of barbed wire, subject of the food starcity. As con the edge of monstrous shell craters, lamentations as they used to do on the and across trenches and are that sequence of this policy of concealment brute asked the commanding officer parcels of food from Germany to German What are you doing with that pour and of the despatch of thousands of Sure, sir, said the Irishman, prisoners of war in Allied countries, no bringing the horse back for Father doubt with the object of misleading public The horse was in the last stages of food conditions in Germany, one dis- Malone to ride.”

opinion in England and France as to starvation, and the padre weighs 10 position is shown by Walters for the stone, according to the popular estimate Preas of countries with which Germany of Wilson. In the cases of sixteen the

which Wilson had to do.

bute, anyhow, to the affection of the men Empires are not nearly so badly off Wilson said he desired to express publicly Land and, when there are any of his lads ries. The fact is, however, that & dos- Addressing Mr. Justice Bailhache, of a man who is always out in No Man's be by correspondents in neutral coun son af Justice e of man-Lube have laughing giant for blood suy they have been represented his great sorrow for all the things he had out there, going as far as the German perate effort is being made both in Ger failed in regarding his duty, and for the barbed wire to give the last riles to many and Austria is keep an ap things he had done wrongly. That day dying men. S he lost his commission after holding it STUCK IN MUD UNDER HIGE

pearances, and this is part and parcel for 17 years, but though no longer an abominable that they have fought for and Berlin E of the olaborate manœuvres to Our men have had to endure weather so Prace that are now going on in Vienna secure officer he remained a soldier, and he in- tended to apply to the Army Council for days wet to the skin, lying out at night BUNGARIAN LONGING FOR PEACE

With regard to Hungary, the people of

laugh. As

a matter of fact, a trench is the safest place (excepting a dug-ont) a man can be in if there is any so-called liquid-fire about.

me to be dealt with under the chamber of commerce scheme, Hughes, naisted by Wilson, went outside that scheme and wrongly secured exemptions for certain of his workpeople.

I have played liquid fire over a trench full of Tommien, and, the demonstration 1 was alleged that twenty-five employer over, they have emerged smiling, un-of Hughes obtained car the instruction singed, without oven the smell of burning for certain periods upon the intron when the flame of the Werter has been men lived in areas other than that with of the men, who adore him. I istri is at war to believe that the Central

about them.

I have been in a trench

roaring overhead, and have felt a plea sant warmth that is all

For this reason. The flame about which so much (and so little) has been heard is from twenty to thirty feet long the car lier Werfer throws the shorter distance --and it cannot be directed downwards the extremity of the flame i hever so near the ground as its beginning; for, the sur- rounding, air being heated by the flute, it rises, as hot air is bound to do, and

directed

Hughes said he was absolutely innocent, The

only real value of this instrument but the judge remarked that his case in of German Kultur 18 ila moral effect. some respects was the worst of them all, Certainly its appearance is fearsome and in addition to 12 months' imprison enough. Just imagins, the orange-colourment, ordered him to pay £200 towards od Dame, thirty feet long and five or six the costa,

one; the dense innexes of black smoke

menne

of

#

Our men

snow

As some of the battalions in support exchange greetings with the gunners, who were passing up to the trenches they laughingly pointed to the guns that were wheel to wheel. Boys," they said, "rely on us. The Somme mixture this time 18 English-speaking Hun shouted out to the the same time they are turning their eyes

THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE extra special.

The Hungarians, in fact, hope against Two nights before the great attack an Socialist gathering at Stockholm, and at hope that something will come of the Tominy on outpost duty the name of his with increased interest towards e and the number of the battalion that had is doing nothing is recorded every day regiment, the pur the battalion Russian front. That the Russian Army been relieved. Apparently be had been with evident satisfaction. Indeed, even the British trench, for by means of saps activity than to the Socialist manuyres. able to catch traces of the conversation in greater hopes are attached to this in- the two lines had approached to within a It is true that the Hungarian papers are Lew feet of one another.

in recording the bare fact. prohibited from commenting in any way on the subject, but they take great delight

the cooler air below, moving upward to permission to serve abroad. He hoped his frozen stiff, and struggling after the that country put up with the enforced, take it place, causes the flame to rise lordship would endorse his application, enemy up to the knees in mud. So it was silence of their Press on the subject of Thais when the flame of a Werfero throw himself on the mercy of the in this little battle of the Roisen-Hache, their food, troubles because they allow

upon a treach it passes harmless court and would serve what sentence counter-attack agains" i hope of a themselves to be persunded by y over the top, provided that the exarch might be imposed upon him when he re Through that blinding blizzard of age authorities that this will in some wer is not so badly constructed as to have the turned from abroad. provided, also, that the mea have kept fioult for him to express the grief het hill above the river Souchez, and had to sketches or in a very veiled form, here parados higher than the parapet; and Mr. Justice Bailbaache said it was dir. England Irish troops attacked this so ardently desired. Only in humorous lead to that peace which they have long their heads and are lying down in the ot tom of the trench. Once only hay abilities in such a position. His offence could go neither forward nor backward,. Népszava attributes all the food troubles at secing a man of Wilson's undoubted bers of them stuck up to the waist and of the people to be detected. The cross through a quagmire, so that num fore, ure any allusions to the sufferings known a man in a trench to be singed by was serious one, and the sentence would while they were swept by machine-gun experienced in Budapest to one of the the flame. He was a staff officer and he one year, and nine months' imprison and rifle fire from that other hill called onomy capitals. It tells its readers how perhaps considered it beneath his dignity ment to die Bat. He merely bent down. His dignity cost him a new tonic

yet taken by the Canadians shops are longer than they have ever thy Pimple, to their right, which was not in London the quotes before the butter I saw one man come back wounded over heen before, how people in Paris crowd that abominable ground under rifle fire the pavements before cigar shops and which spat bullets about him. He stunincké pitiful appeals for a bled into shell-holes and crawled out garettes or an ounce of tobacco; and couple of fent in diameter, durting out towards Mendal Fishel, Francis S. Barnett, where I stood he fell dead across the cut down to such an extent that only the again. Just as he reached the trench in Rome the bread rations have been given off by it; the great roar of its burns and Ernest E Barnett, who had pre Parapet. Nearly all our men were hit in the people to bear up under their affic ing, and one can realise what its feel and Francis Barnett to 9 months That was because they were knee deep in articles by a Special Commissioner on

hope of the head and body, none in the legs tions The Text Naple began a series of viously been found guilty, were sentenced:

un early pence gives strength to upon green troops might be, Conse quently demonstrations are constantly cach, and Ernest Barnett to 12 months, men come back from this fighting the food dificulties within the cours being given at our training centres in his lordship holding that the last-named France, and also in the field, by means was one of the prime stovers in the like figurer of clay, and so stiff at the Bd the possibilities offered by the tuning of captured flame throwers. Whole com bribery offences.

joints that they can hardly walk, and three of the articles had appeared t

harvest panies of various battalions are place!

It was stopped with voices gone so that they speak in The only real subject in the newspapers abruptly after in trenches, and the flames played over them, in order that the soldiers may re

whispers. And yet they have not lost is that of peace. alis how empty a blasterer the Alaingien

The present helmet is a perfect defence those who seem worse than themselves being in favour of peace, have gone up heart or spirit, and are concerned shout in this connection that the Socialists, It is curious to note merler is, and that they may have cou walk about in the thickest gas-cloud un after sleep and a wash refreshed and general public, and that even the most Ageinst ges Wearing it, a man may not wailing about their own troubles, but tremendously in the estimation of the fidence in the protection the treach gives then, and so deprive, this instrument of harmed (I have done so), though the ready to fight again if the call comes, its solo asset-its moral effect, quite a does cause rather an unpleasant feling

time being, and agree with the extreme formaldehyde generated inside the helmet THE SOMME MIXTURE

Conservative journals bave adopted The liquid-fire apparatus

Socialistic lens and principles for the simple affair. Outwardly, all ne reca is in this throat. This is quite harmless, but metal cylinder, which is fastened by it has caused many a man to imagine he

there is only one way out of the preventi Radical-Socialists in the contention that straps to the back of the soldier was ged when really he ailed nothing.

difficulties, and that is by thy dempera- whose duty it is to operate it, and a piece could tell a few laughable stories to of metal hose pipe attached to the illustrate this.

tisation of the world. cylinder. This pipe ends in a nozzle. The men being in possession of helmets which has attached to it a piece of wick, acts of a gas-cloud, it is necessary to which protect them from the physicul lighted before the attack begins.

The cylinder, or container, is divided instil in them confidence in their helmets, into two parts. The upper half is filled in order to rob the gas-cloud of its moral with comprcesed with a mixture of burning and lubricat were started divisional ones, to which hydrogen, the lower half effect. For this purpose anti-gas schools ing oils. The turning of a tap releases relays of men were and are sent from the the hydrogen, which forces the oil in a ane spray through the pipe, the spray army-schools for the training of non-com- various battalions in the division; and being ignited as it passes out of the nozzles missioned officers In these schools by the piece of burning wick, lectures dealing with anti-gas methods The Flammenwerfer operaters have no are given each day in the morning enviable job, for the moment they are scom sesson. In the afternoon the men (wear advancing they are the target for everying their gas-helmets) are placed in rifle within reach I remember once (it specially built room, in which are fixed was before we knew how innoenons this number of gas-cylinders. The gas is weapon was), when the Germans were turned on; the room is filled with a thick coming over to pay us a call, a big Irish fog. So the men learn that a helmet gives man saw across an open space, where part the adequate protection; and after that of the gray-clad phalanx hd been mown for them, a gas-cloud has no terrors. down, a man rushing forward with men have confidence in their masks, and The cylinder arrangement on his back velled out,

He consequently there is no fear of their Boys that baate with the moral being shaken by such an attack, hurdy-gurdy ons back! He was pump At the gas-schools the men are ing not rapid fire as he spoke, Glory taught the use of the Vermorel Sprayer

also be to God! he added as the man went on instrument not unlike a Flammen- down. Sure, it's the flames of hell he werfer in appearance which, after an at was afther bringing to you! A patrol tack sprays trenches and dug-outs with a went out afterwards to secure the ap solution that kills the gas which (being paratus, and they found that the man heavier than air) is left in all hollows. had been riddled with bullets from hend to heel, and that the container be

Poison-gas is conveyed to the trenches resembled a sieve,

carried cylinders about forty inches in length Poison gus when first introinced was dug in the front wall of the trench-in

by seven in diameter. They are fixed certainly a more effective weapon than the batteries of five, with a space of about to reach your objective, and your sur Flammenwerfer, whether one considers its twenty yards between them. The five roundings are obliterated from your moral effect or the number of men put but cylinders are connected with one pipe, mind. When you kill a German who of action by its use British troops were which runs through the sandhagy and tries to stop yon, and a second and e not prepared for it; so that when the first projects slightly over the slope of the third ons you just give him a mechanical death cloud was released by the Boche parapet. As each cylinder is emptied the look to see if he is dead and then pass to float slowly over and into our trenches, next is turned on, the battery being ex on. The usual reverence of death is lost our men had no weapon with which to hausted in about fifteen minutes. The on you. If you azgue at all it is in this fight it. They had to choose between gas euing from the cylinders forma strain: His life for mine," and the sticking to their posts and being poison fan shaped cloud, which joins up with instinct of self-preservation ed, or running away and and letting in the clouds sent out by the batteries on above all else. It is not callousness, it is the enemy, To their eternal honour, they either side, so that one long, unbroken chose to stay. Gasping, choking, retch aloud is formed. It is often mixed with During the fighting the British shellfire baynit. But the barrage as that heary,

Just a 16 16 1 ing, they kept on firing antil, in some smoke, in order to form a more effective has been so violent that unharmed I don't wonder we got the first, brea esses, they could hold the riffs no longer cover from view, and thus facilitate an at prisoners when brought in have remained lines of trenches without very much in others, until relief came

Stens were soon taken by the powers discharged over a mile front, and it may dazed for hours. When they did speak it trouble. The German trenches we could

instance, a gas-cloud may be that be to meet the gas menace; for at only be intended to attack at one point, was to make wild rambling statements hardly see, they were that battered about the outset a very real menace it was The enemy being screened by gas and They admitted that the hope of winning We didn't meet any Germens but dead First, & respirator or pad to cover mouth smoke clond, the defenders cannot tell at on land was no longer entertained, but ones, until we went for the railway hut and nostrils was introduced. It did not which point the attack is go Prove very effective. Many of my own launched, until it is too late to concen- the U-boat heard much good about with the baynit, Auth, then the Pritse regiment the Duke's wore them on trate at that point.

put up their hands, them that didn't fin terrible day in May 1916, and were gassed To sum up, gas when first used was as they used to," said a Dundee man decent fight.RO

The Germans are not fighting so well away and never gave us the smelt of a in spite of them. Next a helmet with effective both for its effect upon oral They're more ready on the KameradIt went like clock werk Just as we mica windows or evepieces as intro and for the losses it cansd Today, in came and never gave us a chance to get rehearsed it behind the line, mud a duced hut it was found that the mies consequence of the admirable training of into them with the bayonet. It's all Morayshire man. Our generals and our use often broken in the folding of the the troops in anti gas methods, it very well for them to hang on to their staff are cleverer than the Germans. It helmet and so the present helmet for is in effect negligible. which every man posseases ten), fitted gas poisoned, it is pretty safe to conclude throw up their hands. It's kind o were a waste of time, rehearsh le hagi that, If any man is machine guns to the last second then I look back at the things I used to think with strong, fanged, ginas eyepieces, was that it is caused by carelesmess or some maddening. provided

other fault of the man himself -Cham- (Continued at foot of next column.)

here's Journal

tack For

REHEARSALS...

Much of the success of the British was due to the careful rehearsal beforehand. Day after day, behind the line, the part practised on land whose configuration and to be played in the actual battle was cut trenches corresponded to the positions to be attacked.

an interviewer that he had never enjoyed A Canadian who fought at Vimy told himself so much as during the battle and that his chief desire was to get well quick mans, he added euphemistically," was and be sent back. Taking the Ger- just like knocking daisies off a stear with

a stic

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STRENGTH

CAND COMMITTEE.

EMOTIONS IN BATTLE,SAL MA Asked to analyse his emotions in battle Pc. 760 Beltran is dismissed. & scholarly Tommy said: The barrage gives you a sense of security. You feel not run into it. that you are quite safe so long as you do The Band Committen will meet at Head- Your only thought is quarters Club on Tuesday, July 3rd at 6 p.m.

prevails

(Continued at foot of next column.)

(Sd.) J. W. FINES,

Actg D.S.F. (R.).

28th June, 1917)

MASTERLY ORGANISATION

this show here, though I liked the Somme A Glasgow man I was in the Somme battle, Auch it was neethin' like better we had more fightin' with the

I can see that the whole affair has been a matter of organisation by master minds”