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TRENCH AND BILLET.

·WAR'S STRANGE CONTRASTS.

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AMAZING STORY OF GERMAN INTRIGUE.

BAVARIAN ECCLESIASTIC CHIEF OF VILLAINS.

The New York Sun publishes the following amazing story of Hun intrigue, in which a Bavarian ecclesiastle and the German Embassy in Vienna were part

[UY JAMES ROBSON.] There are days here that are worthy of Lancashire's worst, moist and windless, bonenth a sky the colour of a wet road, untilled "felds and sky of one hue, Scenes utterly desolate le all about you: Landscapes flat, drear and bare, save forners :~~

One day last April sach of the people stunted, straight trees. forsaken looking haystacks, and "houses

with guping of Rome as read anything but the war wounds in roof and side--wounds that are new! in their papers may have noticed

All brief item from Vienna, which reported but ill-healed by wood and, engs.

But none of a burglary in a house, adjoining the this we had seen before. us had set eyes on a village of such utter German Embassy in that city. A safe, desolation as we reached on our way to a very unusual and burglar defying safe, the Bring-fine last time. The very road had been cut upon like a cheese, and was pitted with shell holes filled with large sum of money extracted. So at If anything said the newspapers. except money had been taken they forbor to mention it,

water.

No single villager' remained Bvery house or barn or loft was partly ruined, and even as we approached we could hear the incredulous whistle-like the whistle of an astounded man-of abells, and hear the crashes and see the smoke in the village.

No one besitates about walking into the middle of shells. None of you likes it. You talk about, say, the wine at last night's estaminet, and you say "The stuff was just like Here shell whistles towards you. You don't know whether you'll be hit, and involuntarily you stop talking, but for a second only. You see the shell burst Hity yards ahead. and you finish the sentence, water. And you plod on at the old to the minute,"

You have an inward feeling of pervish anger at the whistling and. if you are an ordinary man, you curse under your breath.

A month or two earlier two very famous, deft and skilful Italian cracks mon had escaped from jail. Thint matter had not been widely celebrated. If one or two of those reflective souls found in every town, who love to clip and collate criminal items, traces up fanciful clues and write to the newspapers about them, did so in Rome nobody paid any

attention to them.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 201#, 2017.

THE GIRLS' ARMY, WOUNDED SOLDIERS' SALUTE,

OFF TO THE FRONT. Tramp, tramp with even steps; heads orect, shoulders back, and joyous beating, a detachment of khaki-clad troops with haversacks slung on their back swung round from Seymour-street into Edgware road and marched away to entrain for France. But they were women. All of them, including the smart subaltern who led them, were bright faced, lithe limbed, athletic-looking girls.

To the passers-by in Edgware-road it might have seemed merely some spring day pleasure jaunt upon which they were engaged. Bu, there was a glow of in thusiasm in their cheerful faces and an air of purpose in their brisk steps, to tell the onlookers that the girls were doing the country's work, and that there was a thrill of pride in the pleasant spectacle of their enjoyment. It was one of the first detachments of the Women's which is Army Auxiliary Corps. gradually taking over, the vast office work of the Army in France that hitherto hos occupied the energies of thousands of men who are needed at the fighting front.

Already some hundreds of girl clerks Seemingly one person only in all Rome have been enlisted trained, and sent took any lively interest in the Vienna over to release men who have had to be burglary, and he was immured in the kept at the buses to do the clerical work innor vastness of the Vatican, a sequest of the Army Pay Department Almost ed anil ecclesiastical retreat, into which daily now fresh detachments are marching echoes of the intrigue and crime of the away en route for France- profane world seemed hardly likely to

But We were to take charge of a little store penetrate.

to Monsignor von of thigh boots, and to the barn we repair Gerlach, papal chamberlain and master ed. One corner of it was a stretcher of the papal wardrobe, the news of the hearers' elation. Another shell.

burglary conveyed so startling a message "Stretcher-bearers!" goes the ery down that within a few hours he had fled not the street, and, in a few minutes, hand-only the Vatican, but Italian territory nged and bloody men come in. None of

When the police, scarce two hours after us talk about it. We get on with our his flight, broke into his rooms they job of airling boots. Five yards away is a field studded with wooden crosses found them littered with incriminating crosses that are often crowner with ser documents which he had na rico caps, sodden and bedraggled with destroy or take away and which revealed rain and wind

the papal chamberlain as head of the German spy system in Italy.

time to

THE

TREACHERY

FURTHER EXPOSED.

GERMANY'S MODEL COOLIE IN MESOPOTAMIA.

RECRUITS FROM AN INDIAN UTOPIA.

[BY EDMUND CANTİLER.]

The Labour Corps in Mesopotamin make roads and bunds, build houses, load and unload steamers and trucks, supply carpenters, smiths, and masons, follow the fighting man, and improve the can manications behind him, and make the and habitable which he has won the

The other day I ran into a crowd of Santais on the Bridge of Boats in Baghdad. It was probably the first time. that Babylon had drawn into its verIOX the aboriginals of the hill tracts of Bengal. They were surrying like a flock I of sheep, not because they were rushed. I was told, but simply for fun. Someone had started it, and the others hud brokçu into a jogtrot. One of them, with bricks balanced on head, was playing a small reed Bute--the Pipe of Pan. Another of salmon-pink had stuck a spray okander in his hair. The full round cheeks of the little men make their black skin look as if it had been sewn up tightly and tucked under their chin. They were like happy golliwogs. *

When the Santal, left his home all bo took with him were two brass cooking pots, his stick, and a bottle of mustaril it. On board ship he saw coal for the was given a first time Ench man briqnette with his rations for fuel, and Jangal Baski, Goods Risku, and others put their vessel on the strange black sub- stance and expected it to boil. simple happy, and contented person is

A very

the Santal. Once gain his confidence, and he will work for you all day und half the night; abuse it, and he will not work at all

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On no point has German diplomacy laid so much stress as on this that Ger many did not mobilise till Russia bad done so, and did not give the order to mobiliso till 5 p.m. on August 1st, 1814. he Mesonge drags to light, as is shown. by Mr. H. W. Wilson in an article on this book in the June Vineteenth Century. fget after fact which demonstrates con- clusively that Germany's statement was an absolute and deliberato lie. published reports of the French Embassy in Berlin show that the Gorman mabili sation began in secret on July 21st. Le Mensonge makes public certain new and important facts: en Cert

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"On the night of July with de colonels of the Gorman regiments at Metz gave their officers the secret in- structions -never divulged till the eye of war--as to the duty of the "covering force" L the outbreak of war. Machine guns were momited un Düs. seldorf station and high buildings near it. On the 20th the railway stations throughout Germany, were occupied by the military, and on this and the two following days a movement hy train of envalry, artillery and infantry towards the Belgian frontier began: On- the 27th the French observed "German infantry taking post along the frontier and barbed wire being laid. Men on. leave were ordered to rejoin. German officers of the reserve at Antwerp were secretly instructed at once to depart for their regiments. That same day five classes of reservists were called up." The total number of men in these five The conclusion is classes was 1.250,000, irresistibale, des

Night has wrapped earth in a dark grey shroud, a shroud pierced again and hunin by stars rising rocket-like, in the myrind fairly lights that delighted us We line as children, before we move. the road in single file. Absolute silence and no smoking." Everybody knows that bullets and their way across the path that is soon to be ours and, thinking | long been trying to explain. a train offure as keen as their brothers in doing the same tale." They are the straightest wheel within a, wheel, with a cashinn of

much, we truge off towards adventure.

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THE FOLLOWING HABIT.

It is very weird. No sound but the splashing of fost into pools of water and the slight creaking and rattle of equip: ment as we march. Increase the in

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THE SPIRIT OF THE $1RES.

A whed that renders a railway car riage noiseless and silences the shrill that marched gaily away from the Con Most of the girls in the detachment

screech of a trolly as it takes a curve has naught Club, which is the training centre in a palm grove by the Tigris.

I found them in their camp afterwards been perfected by Mr. Edwin C. Madden. and hostel of the amazon corps, were

They For more than a year a street car in Mixture London girl clerks. They had received

were very much at home. The pensioned Portland, Maine, has been running on little elementary drill for mobility and veteran, with snowy beard and moustache,

Indian officer in charge, a magnificent eight experiments! wheels of the Madden type (ways, the New York discipline, but required very little train and two rows of ribbons on his breast, Independent), and the inhabitante that city refer to No. 404. all in the nature of their accustomed little dark inen like a Colossus or a bene of ing for the work they are to do. That is was pacing up and down among these

because it glide cleries! employment. They have been involent god. The old Subedar was loud as the "ghost, car,"

He had been on the by without making a noise. It has been demonstrated in the course of this ex- structed in household economy, and among in their praises. them is one section which is specially staff of a Convict Labour. Corps, and co

"There is no fight tensive text that the new wheel is not trained for the conduct of the hostels in spoke from his heart. Let us go back further. We know that which they are to be housed in France. ng. quarrelling, thieving, lying, song only a nerve.saver for the public, but a It is es experte in intrigue like E. Phillips

There is as keen and fine a spirit of them, Sahib. If you leave anything on money-saver for the railway,

No timated that the Madden wheel is good Oppenheim would have begun this nar rativo in different form and prolonged of the nation's war organisation. The No tricks of deceit."

service among these girls as in any branch the ground they won't pick it up.

trouble with womenfolk No gambling. for 300.000 miles, while the present stand the suspense. But in a lightly amateur have given up their employments and

ard wheel is ready for the scrap pile way we shall merely try to state the facts, foined the Women's Corps because they

A British officer of the company, who after running only half as far. Know then that the Italian police had

knew them in their own country, told me The silent wheel really consists of a their bit." One of the girls before the mysterious happenings including the les detachment paraded for the march expeople I have ever struck," he said. "We springy rubber between the inner and 166 of two Italian battleships, the Benedetto pressed the spirit in a few sentences:

raised them in the district, paid them a muter etion. There are three recesses, Bein and the Leonardo da Finci. In some

month's wages in advance, and told them which are devised to prevent any creep- We are going to be the finest corps to find their way to the nearest railway in, either inckward or forward while way they learned that documents re- vealing all were in a safe in a private in the British Army,' she said, and station, a journey of two or three days. house next the German Embassy in that means the finest corps in the whole They all turned up but one. They are side strain is cared for by the cases that. Vienna.

But that safe! Here enters world. The old man at my office didn't very honest, law-abiding folk. They at the same time protect it from injury. romance. Not only did it have every want a to-go, but I told him I was leave theirney lying about in their dirt and greate. The effect of the rubber. The man in frout becomes diter

Not only

was it electrically doing nothing particular when all the police in their villages, the headman the sound that is produced by either And there is pounding of the tyres or by scraping of one feels a little more alone. Sometimes makers. when the star-shells rise we hak ant connected with every police station in boys were giving up everything. Why, sestles all their troubles.

no himbug about them. Other coolies the flanges on the rails. stand perfectly still. After a moment or Vienna, but it was a constructed that the work I was doing in the office was slack off if you don't watch them, and put two we move on. Now and then the harsh if roughly opened it would pour forth a doing any good and any fool of a may

So here I am and to-night a temendous spart when they see an rattle of a machine-gun strikes the air cloud of that asphyxiating gas so dread could do it

But the dear old officer coming along.”

If vivid and clear. You wonder what the eil in the trenches, which would stretch shall be in France. Just think of it; Santal is much to simple for this. target is, and plod on. You follow the the safe-breakers lifeless before the open every one of as women in the corps is the Army Commander came to see them

How many bilious attacks have you track of the dim form ahead-now keep evidence of their guilt. (Romance writer as good as two men because every they'd throw down their picks and shovels had! If few, you should be thankful:

of us makes two men of some use who and stare at him till he went away. They ing to the right, now to the left, as shell | pleasr copy.) holes

avoided. Sometimes Be

are not thrusters; they go their own pace, If many, then you are entitled to syn But the Italian detectives were not thus were doing no good before. blunders into the middle of a pool, and.

but they do their day's work all right,pathy. But sympathy won't onre or even And the to be foiled. Privily they secured the like as not, you follow him. You have

release from prison-under cover of an

And they are extraordinarily patient and relieve you of this trouble. gol the following habit; and, anyhow.

First there is the man at the base willing."

trouble, as we know, arees through the Italy's most skilled and

faulty action of the liver. It is apparent other places war be worse. So you trach serpe of

who has only been doing the work we All this sounded very Utopian, but the then, that to be free from Biliousness or the trenches. The sandbags are a thick, eduired rack men. Provided with gas

promised $10,000

are going to do and now will be able to glimpse of them on the Bridge of Bon & Bilions Headaches, you must keep this rounded, podgy rampart stretching inta masks

important organ of the digestive system the night on either side, and at interval immunity for past offences, these seien-go and fight, and next there is the mix and an hour spent in their camp on Sun

Through the many there are twinkling yellow lights that tists operated on the safe with coreplete at home who has been doing nothing at day morning gave on the impression of

children who had not been spoilt.

years that Mother Seigel's Syrup. has flash for a moment and are gone ne flaps surense,

want the round of their teafs, and they been before the public, in ny one thing over dug out doors open and shut.

The documents secured showed Von Work we have been doing.”

their fates the sauc has it been more successful than in con Yon; have, alrendy

aware in a Gerlach, formerly an officer

The detachment was paraded in the played to as in the qaaunt sort of way that there was mud | Bavarian army, and as spies must be Lecture Hail at the Connaught Club by tral strains one hears in villages alquering or preventing biliousness. Provi Nearly every Santal is of this we have from the thousands of about, but when you leave the sandbags a person of my pleasing personality. their draft conducting officer.

musician, and plays the drum or pipe. people who have voluntarily testified ju and the jumping yellow lights you can to be the head of the German spy Monica Harcourt-Browne, the smartestThey muke flutes out of any material they fact. see it glisten, and you feel it squelch system in Italy. He had imposed himself of young subalterns, who, if she does not can pick up. One of them blew off two round your feet and lugs Boards have!

on the household force in the Vatican. hold the rank of lieutenant, ought to.of his fingers boring stops in the brass been laid, bat always dry are slippery, and from that coign of vratage au When their kits had been found in order tube of a Turkish shell which had a fuse and you lose many points in the gas of keeping both fees on them. You slip carried on his propaganda, organised his there came into the hall with quick, and an unexploded charge left in it at every step; now the pace is too fast: aystem of espionage and even conducted athletic stride as fine a figure of an in- That is the only casually among the now too slow. You go along, a jogging, his correspondence with Germany under specting officer as any regimental parade Santals remotely connected with arus. She was Miss It is an understood thing that they should ground could show, cover of the Vatican pouch, which 'was, squelching, halting, hot, cursing, miser- able line. Even the boards stop at last, of course, free from search or censorship Blanche Ireland, their drill instructor. not go near the firing-line. and now you flounder hopelessly, Mud," As a result of the revelations made by She was taller than the rest and a leather the safe and the papers in Von Gerlach's belt of the Sam Browne colour, girdled a world of mud.

chambers the Italian Courts have been her khaki tunic.

Br

rhen

The star shells throw a devilish light on you, and disclose your misery, the achine-guns rattle, and the snipers' bullets ping their way You are tired our, and you clench your hand and watch the mud oozing through your fingers, watch is in a dull vacant way.

and

accused. Sentences

execution.

andi

Staggering, mattering, praying that there's not much farther to go, you mose on again. Somebody whispers, Jump Jump You couldn't jamp to save your immortal soul but you try. The pool is waist-deep. You crawl out, and you find,

An amazing story of intrigue and de still in a dull sort of way, that your right tective skill, throughout, and so true that thigh boot is gone, and that you are in

no novelist would ever have dared to in your stockinged foot. To recover the vent it. boot is impossible, and, anyway,. nothing Beats to matter. So the remainder of the journey is completed

You & all

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HOW MANY?

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Miss over the East,

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Here is a case which will endorse what we have said. The statement not onl shows what Mother Seigel's Syrup did for this lady when she was prone to Biliousness, but also records the beneficial effect it had on her digestive organs,

Mrs. Edith Bourne, London Road Blackwater, near Camberley, Hants, The Santals have no quarrel with Meso- said:"I am by profession a certified potamia. Twenty ropces a month and midwife, and wish to add my testimony everything, found is a wage that a few to the excellent result which followed my On and off, I sip busy for weeks. Nearly 300 persons were Commend was in her eye, confidence years ago would have seemed beyond the taking your remedy.

dreams of wvarice. They are putting on pose I have taken your Mother Beigel's ranging through and competence in her quick movements weight, fare better than they have ever Syrup for nigh on twenty years. I Brat various terms of imprisonment to death and easy boring. She had the "snap'

With know have been imposed on seares of those of the Brigade of Guards, and if slic bag done; and their families are growing took it for the relief of the pains 1

rich, Most of them have their wages always had after

ledge of what it ting,

for me in thin convicted. The debonair. Monsignor von not the rank of captain there is still red paid in family allotments at home. Gerlach drew a life sentence, but as he tape in Whitehall. She did not keep has vanished from sight and writs of them waiting while she talked about the When the Santals are at home again respect, I have since made it my house I also recommend it for bilicusness, extendition no tenger run in Germany his worth this will be found-drinking there hati, hold remedy. 27 prosecutors will probably have to be double line, numbered them, and put or rice beer, looking after their crops and

toils,TM I have suffered the horrors of content with the sentence without its them at the "shan" in no time, turned herds, reaping the same harvest, think as that trouble has also had me in its them half-right into boarding-school for.ing the same thoughts, playing the sank sick headaches and vomiting for days on melodies on their pipes as, when end, but this I never do now, having put mation, and then with a smart" By y'r

Pochadnezzar

ruled in Babylon. left! Quick! March!" had them out of of Babylon, Assyrin, in the place and half-way down the street Chaldea, and the Empire of the Chosro, Syrup!!

very remedy, Mother Beigel's before they knew they were starting have risen and crumbled away on the soil When a girl, in my teens," said Mrs They marched to the Marble Arch tube where he is labouring now, and all the atation on the way to Waterloo and the while the Santal has led the simple life, Flemington, of Guildford Road, Bag shot, Burrey, on December 13th, 1915. "I port of embarkation.

never straying far from the Golden Age, wet through unspeakably tired, and house where our billeters live. There is

never caught up in the unhappy train was occasionally subject to biliousness. muddy. You take over the trench from a stream where we may wash, and there

of Progress. And so his peace is undis- In after years I developed indigestion. other troops, sentries are posted, and the are pigs and chickens to eat our scraps.

Wounded soldiers stood at the salute turbed by the seismic convulsions of This I am not surprised at, seeing that my father also suffered from “this” com- work begins.

Our hosts are generous, courteous folk, as they marched down the Edgeware-road. Armageddon; he has escaped the crown plaint When dawn breaks, you see behind you, when 30 months' intercourse with British boys cheered, and young civilians and that Kultur has evolved at. Essen and The effect of not taking the troubla stuck in the mud at a rakish angle, soldiers has not spoilt. Nothing is ten uppers" stood abashed. They looked Potsdam-Times.

in hand in time led to my liver getting out of order rude cross of wood all askew, with the much trouble; they are patient and slow eager and so fit, and their short-skirted

had pain I

and distress words scratched on by a knife: R.1.P., in their speech that we way the better khaki uniforms with felt hats were so

right through from obest to back, between An Unknown Soldier.

understand them. They sell ne eggs, milk

the-shoulder blades Added to this.") & and the best café au lait I have had in neat and becoming that the flapper"

had a fulness after meals, accompanied by choking sensation in the throat. France. There is Paul, a bright boy, and smartness of the shopping women on the

а The London Morning: Host, in As my parents had taken your remedy. And their enjoyment of the great ad Clare a grave little maid of eight, who pavements seemed dowdy by comparison. are delighted with our cakes, and there:

only is an old gentleman camed Paul, too, who ventura apon which they were embarking special article on the Western front, I decided to try it too. I and the sound of guns is seldom heard, sits quietly by the polished stove and was the cheerful spirit of their noldier states that there are abundant indicato say that after two bottles where you may drop scross our men walk ing along the street with a mite clasping hands you a chair with dignity and brothers.. It was a sight to set off against tions that the Germans are short of guns secured relief, and an occasional dose grace. They always welcome us, and if the gloom of the stay-at-home skirkers, and ammunition. Although many guna now and then keeps me right to day. either hand, showing him, as he'll tell coffee is not ready it is but "Une minute. The girls love the life, love the drilling are massed at certain points the rest of When I tell you that I suffered for 19 you with a happy laugh, the way to the batcher's-they're afraid I shall get lost" meur." One of my counrades has been and the khaki and the dissipline. Like the line is skinned in order to enable the vars before getting relief, you will un- sick, and during the day our good lady the boys, they find themselves growing Germans to do so, British counter-bat derstand that I am pleased to know the My bome is a little room that boasts has stolen in with coffee and cognac, and and putting on weight, and they accept tery work never ceases. When an enemy worth of your remedy, because I was com-

Nails

I have given it to both my son and window and a mantelpiece..

at night with bread and milk. For some the authority of their officers even more battery is detected suddenly and without Pletely cured by Mother Beigel's Syrup. abound and rifles and equipment age of these she steadfastly refuses payment. readily than the men do. Those who have warning, anything from 150 to 500 British daughter with the very best results. I slung on the rafters Candles are perch-

We live a sleepy, happy, country life, reached France have taken most kindly heary shells are turned on the spot. I was told they had chronic, and perhaps ed on Jutting bricks, and no draughts make them ficker. Next door is a farm with long hours of leisure with our pipes to their life and work there, and write this way it is estimated the British have hereditary indigestion, bus they never

and books Peace is over everything, the happy, grateful letters to their training destroyed 1,280 German guns 18-23 suffer now

weeks. (Continued at foot of next column.),

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