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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28тa. 1917.

DEAD BOY HOME AGAIN.

FIVE DAYS UNDERNEATH AN OVERTURNED BOAT

VIENNA TO-DAY-

elegance, furs, jewels, dainty sho09 and stockings, and costly laces; many of them Road in the light of recent telegrams literally carry a fortune about on their indiosting the desire for peace in Aur-persous Although soap is so expensivo - tria, the following article published by and difficult to get there were never so the fanchester Guardian, which received many white tailettes, to be seen as last and children even it from a correspondent lately in Vienna, summer wonen, girls, un is of special importanco of the simpler classes were

spotless The Austrian capital has always had dressed, mostly it the reputation of being one of the gayest are several reasonis given

fied luxury in dress; one is that the taxes the way will be so heavy that the character even now, but to the keen ob- and save money in any form would be and it has not entirely changed its

server there are many curious and inter taken from them, so eating differences which show how deeply

whitetely.

This

There

intensi

for him orning and most light-hearted cities in Euros feel it would be of no use to try.

high ground is imperative whatever was picked up by

British

INVORS

they

to prefer

possession; also, the prices rise

become

bince the war, returning from the dead seeing to have become an easier matter than it was once, though still rare enough, An astonishing case has just decurred in London, n youth named Francia arriving THE BRITISH FRONT, Oct. 1st. home to find his family in full General von Armin is willing to pay for him who is "missing" from a front heavily to recover the lower slopes of the A man

treach in France is far more likely Ridge

Already to our line tre Passchendaele

to be heard of again than was this youth pession. A study of the

five days rancis who was an ordinary seaman n the stupendous war has affected it Then something, which will remain attacks all the con-

tapidly that everyone, is anxious to great

German Higher Com steamer was and all lation, from the highest to the lowatt, secure all be can before her Feilson Is

unattainable. that the immediate recapture of her

tish most acerly in that of the food supply quite excepting three men who were The state of semi-starvation at which the that many persons earn more now than casualties the operation may involve boat which capsized on being poorer classes have now arrived has come they have ever done before. It is mora

launched. The three men dis

country doubt intended to deprive us of observa-

distinct stages, that they have so dear to the hearts of most well-to-do Gheluvelt and Becolare the repeated off bottom upwards. assaults above Polygon Wood show the When Francis arrived home his mother have ceased to wonder, at it. They suffer French fashions manage to and their way Therefore money flows disbelieved her senses. As she

most severely from lack of fat in every into Vienna). precaciousness of the enemy's position on dish scarle dropped. The youth form. Almost every afternoon, outside freely inside the country the ridge north of Becelare. At Zon-

sufficiently recovered from his the large markets, from four o'clock on At the beginning of the war there was nebeke we are with a short distance of not

experienes to

to be what is called wards, one can see crowds, consisting great movement in favour of the As told to a Press repre chiefly of women and children but with simple life people resolved to at- the erest. Already the assembly of counter attacking troops under cover of the ridge is oriously hampered, and the sentative this is what happened elderly men and boys too, gathering tend theatres and concerts less, and to enemy 28 apparently nervous lest we Francis was, with the other two men, round the entrances; by about ten o'clock content themselves with domestic enter should think of taking the reming They caught hold of a thwart and raised hundreds These people lie, sit, or stand raised. What is to become of actors and

enclosed within the overturned

boat, in the evening they may be counted by tainments. But Vienna is accustomed to narrow fragment of the western slope over every movement makes the

For the purpose.

Buch

ALL AT WHOLESALE PRICES DIRECT TO YOU. thrusts south of Polygon Wood are no appeared at once, and were not seen on so gradually, and has been marked by difficult to travel. France, that

Four Million Families all over the world supply their need tion from the heads of the valley between again. The boat was cut away to float most ocde to regard it as natural, and Austrians, is closed to them (although

from us,

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line on both sides of the Menin road fresh divisions have bem brought

ammunition

attacks are welcome, but

cfforts greater

Counter

te

themselves expecting to be picked up.

out food or water, their bodies half im mersed and then the two

within the

pushed them off

elder me

his

The bread with which the people are supplied has gone through many stages: there was a time when it was made almost entirely of maize flour, then the mafie

itself, and the cry WAB SOON

popularity

Mr. Bernard

and

take the standpoint that art is interna-

Wery depressing by & French

destroyer. He was hardly and dried beans, with a small percentage tinguished Basel) by violent - Bratch

mainder

our conscious, and was taken at once to a hospital at Brest, where good treatment pulled him round. He had been eight days altogether without flood or drink.

G the Burnished 00

dis-

ocean haul from Chicago to Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Nagasaki, Shanchat to support Fourth German Army 2 were drafted into it in May, and new consumption; vegetables are search and public with every phase and incident of

troops Nof

By

01

waiting for the lard or bacon which is artists sold at seven or eight next morning.

ments America is the only big market in normal condition where produe and thus obtaining complete survola For two days the three men existed wit out on the pavement the whole night, alenerally if there are fewer amuse response, and met with a ready

went back to its old habits. tion has not diminished, prices are not inflated, and means of shipping open, ose of re-establishing his There was a vague green twilight Each person receives six dekagram (bout and with a sigh of relief

which, was full of hollow an eighth of a pound), and, as a rule, theatres were crowded

as well conccsic-hells." was also food and water,rat comers get any those who only take suffered consider cotid ollow the supply is so limited that only the attended as ever, o and the supply of sounds. Th

Di recalling his extravagant outbursts on the covering his companions were dead, become too late, Our service across the Pacific is unimpaired, and the freight rate ice with a prodigality but Francis could not reach them up their places after nine in the evening get few foreign

Shaw's plays are given at the Burg Bomme. The result was exceeded bar On the fifth day he would matre GRADUAL CHANGES.

Theatre, or were till the present director most sanguine expretation. A cody longer, and being a powerful swimmer

was appointed and Milestones

Aunt still enjoy great waste of men and munitions in a series dived for the outer world to die in day

Chartiste, in gevern) hold then

I thought light. Outside, though, weakened by his

and probable, and its effect on the spirit of mufferings, he minde & desperate, struggle

themselves aloof from war qucations German troops engaged in undoubt to reach the hot and succeed in get gave out, and barley was chiefly used, tional. There are, however, some excep- ting astride of the keel. To that he clung since April of this year it has contions, such as the popular director Felis for three days more, and The first of these heavy

was then sighted

sisted chiefly of bran, horse chestnuts, Weingartner. This gentleman has resulting in continuous Today was intended to trist against Zonnebeke and the

of musty our Each person gets 16 proclivities, and he is one of the ninety- of Polygon Wood The Fiftieth

dekagrau (about 6oz), and the control is three intellectuals who have signed a very strict. This amount is quite insuf-compact to give no concerts either in Eng- Reserve Division designated for this

ficient for the working classes, since they land or America till at least five years. sacrifice is said to have

have nothing else to take its place after the war 200

potatoes were hardly ever to be seen battalions of

In the kinos" (cinemas) the special Thirtieth Reserve infantry regiments

the

near Hartebise in April, was sent to dried peas, beans, lentils, rice, and sago films, taken by permission of the Com professional storm Russia. More than a thousand Alsatians have long since disappeared from general mander in Chief, have familiarized the first Assault at a quarter

Hix in the morning. A remarkably large num che ho had not previously been in enormously dear, and ment is only to be no great struggle. We have been shown

line bor of batteries contributed the barrage recounts the men were insufficiently waiting. The principal articles of food at work

According to prisoners' obtained at high prices and after long scenes from every front; we saw the men

in

Convoys of Russian prisoners, of our front astride the Menin road were friction betewen them and the senior non- sage, lights, horse flash, such odds, and the distribution of food, the diving of nearly all the field guns, field and heavy commissioned officers. Batches of one of ends of vegetables as they can manage to submarine bonts, the men at work ins howitzers, and long-range guns that, the memy could bring to bear front his out of the Ypres in such a hurry to get get hold of, and their portion of bread them, the mounting of aeroplanes, con- and four or catuical. Coffee is no longer 41S in the air, the quartering of trapps, decorating Before the day ended practically all the mation about the line or

the state of their

Frenz Josef the co

coronation of the pre- troops of the Fiftieth Reserve Division Banks. Che prisoner, & Thuringen, said sugar, and a little inferior coffee or his men, the funeral of the old monarch mus, have been in the battle, and through the inen had many grievances against chicory. For real coffee, which can acme sent one in Budapest, innumerable pio

times be got irregularly, people pay stares of Hindenburg, Mackensen, the out the night they continued to attack their officers in the hope of increasing the slight ad-

much as tu kronen (about 23 103) Archduke Frederick and commanders. vantage gained by many hours of the

Kilogram (2h.). Milk is very scarce, and No cinema performance is ever given A prisoner whom I saw the other day, kept chiefly for children and sick per without some of these war pictures, and until next month, told of the lack of grant a week for each person, egge are the interest of the public in the progress moral in a Prusian regimen to which almost unobtainable, and one gladly gives of t he had

drafted been

the war as the against his w

will. 7d for one; and ham has disappeared AN UNPLEASANT SHOCK plats adversely influenced ile fresh the time in many casualties from view, since before Easter Tes costs

it was marched it. thrown into Thursday Acke defences on the night of Septemb anything from 40 to 60 kronen & kilo. When Roumania joined in the war, thes counter-attacks against Polygor Wood

Bram (a crown is about 10), and one Austrian public experienced an unplea- and Zonnebeke I have already told how eith, a few hours before the first attack can only get 6 dekagram at a time ant chock That it would do so sooner

the Australians on Polygon Wood Boiled sweets; which to some extent take or later was inevitable, but no one ima CUTLER PALMER & CO'S their amembly points, and that the only

boy he looked little more than two attacks that succeeded in coming

hen the place of sugar, are sold in small quan. gined the moment was so near. There curiour business complications in within machine gun and rifle range were only sixteen and a half, and after

consequence of it. A pertain insurance as effectually dispersed. For some hours brief training at Posen, was sent to the stand in long queues several hours to company in Vienna had been asked

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depot at Cambrai, from which he was obtain them, doubt brought up

For a tin of salmo insure freights of grain fo the value of other troops

from

the front. at

which I saw her high the

million kröten. “As the sum was I hoped to morning he

be in Germany until the other day marked at 10ld one pays

hesitated company Reserve areas On Friday

and only tried again with smaller groups,

ten Agarcist. Polygon uren that I and party of 200 men reluctantly

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Yet our attack... was

oasiaughts, and ved its purefully prepare

by these furio

failure of this

the formations were repeatedly broken at was called up last April when tities once or twice a week and people who

the against Australians,

older

BO

the newspaper reports.

he lost so many

kronen (exactly #1), wine and beer are ented to issue the policy after anxious.

We could be econ advancing slowly a less than soventeen in his fantry regi a day, either for dinner or supper. As received the waited until they were quite close of the condition of his brings the drinks and clears the tables) after the poli

opening

Bre

broken wave

one

They

ATTACK BY MOONLIGHT.

as follows a four

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ARMY.

A BURNING TOPIC

almost ceased to be discussed much in

still

Business, politics, even the war have which bod turn heen heap.

alse

Ro

док

front:// He knew of seven other boys of become very dear. At the restaurants & Offices The company was in cor

ys of very small quantity of beer is sold ones respondence with both departments, and A soldier of a Bavarian

that the assurance

political scattered into

lear. Twenty-four hours ago in soon as the Piccolo" (the small boy who horizon was clear Front holes and for several hour

several hours afterwards

signed the news little parties were climbing out of shell put into the line again. My company rush for the coveted refreshment he is and

of stragglers

bad between Roumania from this division:

the Central Powers was published in holes and advancing into the Australian how the rifle strength in tren relieved of most of his burden before he all the newspapers, and the rain was lines with hands up three officers and cher amounts this time to 62 Also the

The feelings of more than three score men in all, and not oral of the troops is wil Is it the same can reach the end of the room the un-in Roumanian waters.

of them had any fight left in him with you The general deterioration is tions at one araught, hide the glasses Great indignation was felt

scrupulous thirsty drink off their por the insurance company can be imagined

at fact OT owing to the long duration of the war

had paid During Friday might the enemy guns and everything being done by compil have seen as many as five glasses stowed

under the table, and demand a second that the Austrian Government

for large

of wheat which were Prisoners of the Third Reserve showing his infantry, obviously trying to put down a series of barrages withoutsion taken at Zonnebeke and Poly away under a table. Of course, liberal ever del quantile gold had been sent reep our men at high tension. On gon Wood showed the low moral-on tips play an important part in impair to Bucharest, but war was declared in Saturday he decided to try again. Frag company refused to go forward, and a ing the Piccolo's memory. The German Government sent its money the meantime, so the grain never arrived.

ments of storm troop

platoon surrendered en masse when the battalions

to the frontier and declined to part emerged from the craters south of Poly British were seen coming over the field

with it till the corn was

was actually in its Atually in gon Wood-and were shelled into them again. They were observed by airmen I might give a long list of facts which public; the great and burning topic ined on the Russian, French, English, and

In turn massing below Broodseinde to make a confirm the statements of this soldier that the trams, in the cafes, in the streets, Italian Governments was ruild in com dash over the

ridge into Zonnebeke, and the German Army is wearing out. It everywhere where people come together, parison with that bestowed again the guns laid them at The is becoming tattered and torn, a thing

upon hou thought he might do better in the of patches and make shifts, and as time is the price of food, which shops still mania, although even that has by moonlight, and at one o'clock yesterday goes on this process el decay will he have supplies of this or that, which re- somewhat subsided. The average Aus morning he lost another lot of torta more rapid. All the prisoners I have staurants give the largest portions, when trian is a lukewarm politician and troops east of the Polygon Wood, and seen in the At half-past

during the past fort and where soap, candles, chocolate, petro- troubles himself little about the hight were ragged slovenly y their leum, or other much coveted articles can of his Government. He admits that the be obtained system leaves much to be desired, but has made three more ambitious efforts

and until first youth of Beutelbeer, was abandoned could not held together. He had been enormously dear, and ant only clothing liberty; his chief object in life is to before the

involved could reach told to do infantry

o the best second, our line; the

Astride Menin

best they could with their but all the little necessaries of daily avoid disagreeables of any kind and road.

old clothes as new ones are very life in connection with clothes Plastic to have as good a time as posible, affait, with a deusa barraga scarce. One of two now greatcoats 1 containing real India rubber is almost was a large pots avsting usual saw was of shoddy materialy greatly unobtainablefor the last piece I bought from smoke heavy shellfire, and unhappy

Lammen inferior to werfer experta carrying their valises of New buttons are of bone, for later. 11 paid at the rate of 88 a metrà; a pair

those given out last. gs and petrol before the storms troops. more bram for this purpose,

t of this effort was the temporary are, badly rande and badly fitted and goods are so dear that two ladies of my now serving it sted Cross ambulances result occupation As immediate

1ste counterattack a drone the ton cage is to complain of the past chas acquaintances have been wearing their na Algeria, Merocito and the Orient. my back, and some prisoners and cause ETA SERVE many dead were left behind. Even the German wounded reflect the costumes. They were of good Liberty Tea thousand additional women of

The last attack of

The day was a repeti general discontent tion of the second, but was dealt with reduction in the owing to the recent in a little faded by the suri, hut after various foreign nationalities are aiding more promptly, and the storm troops Hospitals and on the lines of communies cost less, than half the price, now naked The eighty thousand are beyond all could not get

Wet forward

cages

Tower Hamlets batch e tanice covered with patobes and menu Every kind of clothing has become no very strong feeling for political

in the d day

The

the

no of plice labes costs a shilling, a reel of The bouls sowing cotton about the same all liner

issued to

the

FRANCE HAS 80,000 NURSES. Seventy thousand French women are

own dining room curtains made up into France,

being dyed they were as good as new, and ther

for linen of very inferior quality,

hen more troops the prisoners that the B08J0ityba Ladies can only buy one pair of stock Creams of woman's part in the war which

were brought forward for th counter of

attacks made to-day

KREMY'S LOWERED HOPAL

I understand accordingly to some ordinary first aid bandages ia

great ings at a times woollen dress materials any army chief or feminist entertained back in 1914. There were just eighty that during the last thres Our men comment on the noticeable have only been turned to mouth the host suything from 21 to 4 a metre permanent French women nurees before to the ard cottons are somewhat aheaper, but the war. Such a tremendous growth as decline of the fighting quality of their dressing stations, and that wool supply is very limited. For men's clothes illustrates aptly, the part in the opponents One sergeant of a West

15 Practically naprocurable.

fet, no cards af in Germy which France a womanhood is bear. Country regimen told that three

many but it is difficult to obtaining parties of Prussians

esptured by the

suficient supply, of anything. shot doners in the recent fighting east of St. the children of the working classes are women France has just created a series Lively to him without grins Ti

Most of In recognition of the devotion

of these exhausted remuants of the

Julien appeared to be

be well suppli Reserve Divisional storm troops put all casentials, and was not lacking in of a pair of shoes costs about El, and which will indicate service from the to plied with wearing wooden sandals, for the soling of medals in gold, silver sud bronze up the white when a

samsthetics

The prisoners attribute our success to the military authorities.

genuine leather can only be obtained from three things: Arst, the determination of the British infantry; second, the te terioration in the meal of their own In spite of the high prices, there never

approaches pond in the

they light left in therm Dissatisfaction in one Sex man division has been to great owing to the incompetence of the officers presence of furge numbers of Poles a Alsatians that the regiments composing ib have been of very little value: division, after being hammered so badly (Ooshaved et foot of weat ColWMM..

troops, and third, the closeness of our barrage and the skilful organisation of a greater luxury in dress in Vienan each attack. One of them summed up his fortunes have been made, so that the wi

than during the last two years. Many opinion even more Loth se

The British always seem very confident and daughters of these nolltenuz richer are resplendent in garments of finished

three years. Scores of nurses and hos- pital workers have received the highest military decorations which France has to, bestow.

heroism have

thousand Fren

dy, in the fire ere they are bject, to ogastant risk of death and wounds from shelia