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KEEPERS OF A GATEWAY,
A NIGHT WITH THE GALLANT
SERBS.
"U-BOAT THIEVES.
A SKIPPER'S STORY. A capacity for being cheerful in all cir cumstances is one of the most precions gifts with which Nature en endow
Happy and few are they who it.
His ship
THE HEART OF THE WORKSHOP.
OUR DEADLY GUNS.
GERMAN'S TALE OF WOE.
***HELPLESS AGAINST BRITISH,"
LEST. WE FORGET [BY AN A... MEMBER
A letter found upon the Messines Ridge When the delegates of the A... cua gives a good picture of what the enemy ferred with the Government upon the is now enduring, and what he thinks of
cold, looking forward to my hot ten, eggs ben conveyed, that the casualties, have and bacon with the keen relisk ons always been and continus to be very heavy takes from the morning watch to the Moreover, the delegates have brought breakfast table. Away on the port hand
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[17 FRANE FOX.).
After Jour, days of hard travelling" in December, 1918, I had reached Mustapha Pacha from Kirk Kilisse, and pushed on
Skipper Bendrope was one of thesection of the Trade Card Scheme n fow the war. It is dated June 6th, and the weeks ago they were addressed by Sir W. address given is "A Shell-Hole in Holl": from the village to the railway station,
You have no idea what it is like--four- greatly blessed individuals.
Robertson, who told them in confidence two miles distant, hoping to catch a train had been submarined, the Haus had rob- some particulars about the wastage of life teen days passed in hellish fire day and to Bofia at 5 pm. But the train, was
bed him. Yet was he in no wise depress in the present campaign and that ho Bight in this marvellously beautiful wea to leave at 5 the next morning and wo
ut out of humour, but told his story required 500,000 fresh men by July. Asthor. We crouch together in holes and turned buck, my driver and I, to seek food
with twinkling eye and ready emilofar as I know this confidence has been await our doom. The dead here are piled in the town. The tide of war, stayed at Soon after daybreak," said he, "I was honoured, but an inference has certainly aperior to ours. The night through wo up by their artillery alone, which is far the moment by sa armistice between the the bridge weather thick dashed Balkan States and the Turkish Empire,
lo prepared for action, with gas-tasks had swept the country clean of all hood,
and three or four hundredweight of aerial on our faces, us Tommy fires gas ahelis and it had been with dificulty that
torpedoes all night. No trench work, as obtained bread and chëse ht an
The wounded and poisoned are occasional bit of goat's Besh on the road. I noticed what appeared to be a fishingway some very vivid impressions of the it is not to be thought of with shrapnel all Mustapha Pacha seemed to be worse than boat under full sail. Didn't quite fancy general situation, and not the least signi- night.
beant is the conviction that the War Office being continually collected in groups and the country around, the one little café, the cat of her, so called up my mate aquaint den that might have been a poor do you make out of that, Bill
Pointing her out 1 asked him, What and the recruiting authorities have in scat off; many dend, too, from gas poison- Ho con-ome ens demanded that a large con ing. Up to now our division-only three re- class drinking place in ancient Rome with its bench for cooling the wins-jats just ned her for a bit, then putting down his tribution towards making up the required giments-haa lost 3,400 men in barely three as you see them in Pompei, was closed glass said, Moves funny for a fishing ner shall be and ought to be contri-mouths. The fourth regiment is in Mace
boat.
It's tim-fish (torpedoes) she corbuted by the Ministry of Munitions. No donia. We are quite helpless against the Thirty men have been buried to the public. It was now a less for rice, I bet them sails is only a blind. well-inforated person will deny that the English. officers of the Barbian Army which had
Beliove you're right, Bill, I told War Ufice demand is reasonable; indeed, in mine galleries, and are burning into come over to help the Bulgarians to
him
we'll give her wide berth, there is a strong presumption that the the bargain. Every day, the English capture Adrianople from the Turks
and I rang up for full speed and put the entire contribution might well cuise from fetch over some of those in the front The town offered no chance of food for helm over. But the submarine, for it was the Munitions Service, and that without trench, or rather hole. my servant and myself, nor for the brave a submarine rigged to resemble a fishing taking ono sing qualified artisan From poor fellows to do? Everyone refuses little ponies that had carried us over the vessel, noticed our alteration of course his work or impairing in the least the go to the front line. We wait all night rough tracks which represent roads in the and prepped a shot eross our bows. As adequacy and capacity of production in increased readiness for action: We Turkish Empire. But what I had seen we didn't stop for that she sent another One is puzzled to decide, not so much how can no longer sit or lie down. Our heads we nave produced so much, but rather how ache from the gus. Our eigarettes taste up to then of the Serb showed him so over our decks.
ፎዚ.. The 23-centimètre steel shell engine we have carried the burden, and yet sur-of
would drive a lion wad, and its effect is chivalrous and courteous that I decided Next ml go into our
indescribable. Our artillery, cannot áre to try my luck with the Mess. A Major room, remarksl the mate, and knowing | vired. of Artillery who spoke v'rench (almost as the ways of the pirates I guessed he had
surmised about right.
prevalent trend of workshop in the day-line. Tommy notices it st bndly as 1'"did) was it once amicable, s
You are English. Well, well Indeed, nothing like running while you've got thought, explained in previous articles, once, and it all dies away.
Three grand, I wish much to know more the logs, and I thought I'd chnice it; we has induced the idea that this is casen-
A terribly devastated region. might get awaF, But the sabmarine tially a workman's trouble, and be alone English. Sir, make this your home; and didn't mean to let us. She overhauled in its victim. But he fact is that the days more and we shall go. right up to We for your servant and your horse. Yes,
as so easily that you might as well have employers, particularly suniler the front line again for five days. everyting is requisitioned the town tried to avoid Sunday as run from her. employers, are direct sufferers; while the all look forward with joy to being nude We do not touch the hand- for the military. it is not possible to An officer on her deck megaphoned us to actual reflex of this thoughtless abuse is prisoners. buy.
But as cur gucat you will bave lay to, saying that I meant to sink us inadequate and inserute production, and grenades. It would be useless. Nowhere everylning.
anyway we didn't stop and down hence a vitally urgent national question en a man be worse off, not even among
Hottentots. Such + pitiful life Louis a had everything.
The punics Indders pretty quickly he'd sink the ship Apart from the social and iron der food, no drinking water all day, and the were munching an angui. aty servant ¦ and all hands with her.
of the business, the practical considera- slept in the aliehen visibly distended. f **Seeing there was no help for it, on is that the industry cannot carry this aim burne. At midnight dinner, and at had a noble meal with no start of a stopped engines and ordered all hands to depressing burden and produce efficiently. irée in the morning coffee, bat not in spite of much meretricious window always, ns, in every act there is danger tolerable Grick Wint out of an amphora catch up what they could, then come un and, greatest gus of all, there was uttered deck and lower the boats. Uy the time we dressing by Ministers why anxiously to one's life. If we are not soon relieved. ne ship and an insight into the had done this the pirates were aboard us. quote radiant statistics which the public we shall go mad! we are already ail mud- And the first thing the thieves did was cannot analyse and which they would find died. There are artillery, infantry, and They say souls of a datering little race.
My friena no major e civil life was to make a turn out our pockets. They scane difficulty in demonstrating as Baw-lying men from Arras here.
being armed and us not, all the powerlessly accurate, it is production that is Arras was the golden age compared with an alcancet of Belgrade, lo vas a cul of arguing lay on their side. So we just still the clamant demand of our day. The this time in hell. At least, they had gal tivated man in a way cxactly antithetical
fished out what money and watches and wisest thing Lord Derby ever said was biseries there; we have absolutely nothing
here. The English want to shoot to Leriai Kaltar, for no was not over things we had and the pirates grabbed the recent admonition to our countrymen to loaded with fucts wrist we had a really lot. They hunted up all the grub they Look at the map and ask yourselves if flown,, not to make pence. They do not intelligent mind and her thought out for could find in the ship as well, their offeerall is well!" The progressive undula need infantry their artillery is enough. himse a pastosophy of lite (of the telling us that they wanted it worse wetions of the lack line which approxi-We dare not lot a glimpse of us be seen mntional duties in the particularly) that did, as we could go ashore and get more mately indicate the military frontiers of during the day timi. Fifteen to twenty- and they couldn't The lubberly swabs, warring nations is educational enough five dying men are over our posision, and It was ins- unhappy position of his hope they'll never get store again and needs little emphasis or claboration as soon as they catch sight of any one people as Keepers of a Gateway that made After the pirates had collected their loot thoughtful men. Machined steel is the they signal with their machine-guas, and the tine 01 Major - a talk before they pulled back to their craft and made instrument of modern warfare, the for half an hour the heaviest shells are
the position
Here and And we had to lay nary agents of its production are skilled whistling over dinner. Whom the Turk came to Europe, us go with them he pointed out, the way to the rich plains alongside them while they fired into our engineers, int a horde of unknowing and there half a dug-out is to be found.
There is no doubt that many such letters ship aral sank her.
The Ministry of untouchables ficials. of Austra rai through the valley of the
During this proceeding a pirat stood li unitions can give General Robertson his as this are written in the German lines Varuar and the mountain passes around on the submatie's deck taking photo half million of rernits without taking a these days, but there is every dasht which the Serb race hail vitled. They
graphs. One of our men asked him if single qualified skilled or senssile to whether the censors let any of them were a simple people, the Serbs, he said, he'd mind sending him a picture postman or aprenite from the workshung, pans---Renter's Special Samuar, half with pride, uait with regret, and card, so as lie could put it in the family and he will do the industry and the copfl suke no kind of terms as did album alongside the picture of the missus nation good service by inserting upon olders-wita t Tark. Their fate was and the kids. On, yes, certainly I will: getting them
with sick and maimed and, metālated man. to get on until they were exterminated give me your addres," replies de pirate,
hood. These men have given their best, except a renmant that kept the embers of smiling, as if he was ever so pleased to This article is written with an earnest and there are more of them. than there re the race alive in the wild bills. Never | be obliging. Don't send it.: bring desire to help in widening the workshop aggrieved fitters put turners had the Serb nation bowed its kuce to We'd like to see you round Hull way,'
outlook, in giving fibre and substance to a [dormani »vASC national responsibility of a nation that in regard the tragedy the Turk, and when tre tine came the says our chap. mountain bands swept down and Serbia. Well, after our pour old skip had in clearing the workshop; wind af lived again.
goat the submarine dived herself, telling exaggerated sectional self consciousness of war as a commonplace and ears p
such scrupulous heed to the various involved Here is CARE "But now," the Serbian officer con-us to make for shore as quickly as we could, It is much more a confession of culpinterests. cluded, "Now we shall have all that again what could a penniless, half naked grow and men in the engineering industry are satids. One of the first of our soldiers to
which was superfluous advice anyway, for ability than a preachment. If mastors unfortunately, typical of tens of thou with the German instead of the Turk."
was astonished, for at this time do going sea-faring in a couple of ding- asked to-day. "Are you al doing your be gassed and who miraculously survived
hies?
He surely didn't think we'd set duty, are you faithfully giving of your (December, 1914) Serbia was on the creat of her victory over Turkey, and one
out to trade with the Indies in them.best to the cause which depends so much lies dying of consumption and bas An hour or so later a patrol vessel pick-upon you?" what will the honest answer did not expect to find in the Balkan an appreciation, se soundly prophetic, of the Tuture European sitvilion.
war sound enough.
I
passes
And we do not It is our inte. know how to avoid it. We cannot live as slaves. We cannot keep friends with both camps as some do; we have not the art. The German hates us as the Tuck hated us. We bring up our children to
a doon."
HOME TROTIK.
ed us up, and here we are, all ready to be if not an admission of fault! go to sea again as soon as we can sign on in another ship."
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A perusal of the synopsis of evidence to be officially submitted by the A.R.B. to
is the sole support of a widowed mother, Jis true," he went on. "We held
one of the seven Commissions of Inquiry It is not enough to live upon and not the passes when the Tark wished to
into Labour Unrest has prompted the enough even to dio comfortably upon. over-rus Europe; and we suffered. Now,
reflection that selfish sectional concentra One wonders if the thousands of men who Germany move down to the Mediter at the hands of the Turk. France would ion is the spirit in which it has been have suffered and sacrificed as much as ranean, he must come down the valley of help if she could of that he was sure.compiled, for the headings all indicate bave any grievances the Vardar, and again we hold the Bat France had troubles of her own, the prevalence of the idea that the to engage the wise attention of a few serious enough was the English Fleet that could save incidence of war and the inconvenient
ÎN EXTENUATION. Serbia. That was how he put it. But I concomitante of war, time are carried
If the wrongdoing of our rulers and could we that he thought of the English suffered exclusively by our own industry.
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British American There is no breath of willing sacrifices no employers made us right, we are mani❤ Firet affair, and had very optimistic ideas thought of courageous and upstanding foldly acquit; for the mechanic is virtue about the possibilities of the transport self-reliance. It is natural to apprehend personified by comparison with the that the employers will tender small testi patriotic commercialist. The best our of armies by sea.
Major
had some mistaken mony from their own point of
rulers can do is to infest an industry with. Carrying the subject farther, he was
Wage-grabbing and profiteering
myrinds of parasitic officials and wash less precise; and no purpose would be notions. His confusion about the Ameri Serrad by repeating all that he said. can and British peoples was beyond cure either callous iniquities or shining virtues us the best productive skill with indis But its argument was this: that Serbia, by explanation. (It was common enough according to the standpoint from which criminate dilution." If example be facing the great danger of the German in the Balkans, where the identity of they are approached--which sonbiment better than precept, there are mpmples
epitomises the Cult of the Aggrieved. flood breaking against her, felt saddened language and the identity of aims ther Our own suspicion that thus employers are enough at least to qualify the indictment
Here is one, American " and ** British"
conspiring against our by the thought that the rest of Europe made
industrial against the engineer.
a leading commentary upon the last did not sympathise with or understand practically synonymous except in the best liberties, with at least one eye upon after xiract from the Fantier, contained in
But on the war possibilities, may be well founded, anuaal meeting of the Cunard Steamship. her. France, be said warmly, had been informed official circles). a good friend. Russia he regarded as whole he was sound enough, and during but we can fight then for it after the war Company.
To-day need is more than a friend-a big brother; but the course of this war I have often and beat them too.
It reads almost like a fairy tale, but competent and continued production, and fantastic freights are the order of the the extremely democratie polity of the thought of his prophetic insight.
At dinner we talked of dulerent failure is a guilt which we must share and day, and the torpedoing of the company's Serbian people, he felt, was a cause of Stine estrangement with Russia. It was things. Fourteen officers were present, all answer for in common with employers and leviathans, regrettable, as it may he on Those who spoke French inept Ministries, before the high tribunal | Aromanitarian grounds, to financially a Great Britain that his thoughts fine fellows, -turned--and Serbia's thoughts generally, translated to the others what I said, and of Public Right. And, be it known-even blessing in disguise. They were insured he assured me--with longing and yet with we became a band of friends. At 11 to. Dr. Addison-that gar munition pro- anxiety. Why did not Great Britain, o'clock it was decided that since I must duction is not what it should be, and that and unprofitably employed on Gbevrn- the case If this immoral declaration may go why did not America, understand the catch a train at 5 am, two miles off, is a temperate statement of
Look at the map! Remembering what
unwhipped, even unchallenged, can We Serb better? All over the Balkans British it was useless for me to try to go to bed has been achieved and what remains to barshly, criticise Sir Walter Runciman for aid and American aid had various and in good fellowship they agreed agencies, The English-speaking races among themselves to keep me company. be achieved, and we get at least a con-
--we have a right to make money! " of seemed to him to have a genuinely Taik faded away at midnight and the ception of cold-stoel fact it cannot be saying "Of course we are making money sympathetic unselfish interest in the small Serbian officers then song fin liedertafel deadened by all the drum-beating and denounce Lord Leverholme for stigmatic Balkan States. Of the educational work fashion) stern melancholy songs, in which trumpeting of Ministerial showmen, carried
During the past. by the United States with its I heard echoes of the old struggle against
won the headquarters at Constantinople he was the Turks, forebodings of the futuro especially the decadence of the skilled engineering operative for attaching more particularly appreciative. From that struggle against the Germans.
worker has been marked and manifest. Serbia had some benefit. But, on the The majority of my new friends march. There is an absence of motive and a lack portape to his petty trade regulations whole, she was the neglected child of the ed with me to the station, and having of enthusiaso; disposition to get time than to his country's peril ti
This at least we have a right to claim much in rather than to get work out, do not that if our rulers sincerely desire to bring during the evening learned so It is our fauit, perhaps. We have English, cried out: "Good-bye, good think there will be many mining about the restoration of the enthusiasm
workmen who will deny this, Whatever not the art to be popular We will not ye Lake German princes, and we will not.
and admittedly relapsed they must. prós That was the beginning of my know extenuations may be offered and there and energy from which we have obviously ledge of the Serbe, and ever afterwards are many extenuations to offer they will vide tint the results of our labour shall conceal our independence."
With a curious insight into the relaI found them as a race simple, brave, not justify a full acquittal, and the fact not be devoured by freight sharks, food tion of sea power with the European chivalrous. In this war as keepers of remains that we are not giving our best exploiters, and the chartered banditti of situation, he argued that if Serbia could the Gateway they have suffered more If we ask "Who is the answer is that the Armament and Chemical Flags not act the sympathy and aid of harshly probably than in the days of the millions of our fellows volazzariy gaze frittered away unon an army of anger Grent dritain and America (always he advancing Turk. But perhaps some of Lome and career and all that life means young shirkers who have been allow spoke as if these two minst necessarily them get consolation from the fact that to the young and ardent, and millions make lucrative and commodious funkhe
nt only the English-speaking ore are still giving as much, i under of our trades, but shall be ho act as one to defend a threatened race) now
to
Balkans.
she would suffer the same fate at the Powers but practically all the civilise hands of the German as she had suffered Fowers are their friends and will be their
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AN INDICTMENT.
twelve
compalsion. Our hospitals and hundreds
ment work."
ing the raising of the Excuss Profits Tax an absolute outrage Or for that matter, should we be hard upon the
of public and private buildings are filled devoted to the cause, we have at heart th
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