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BRITISH WAR PRISONERS.

LONDON, March 22nd.

In the Hoves of Commons, Mr. J. F. Bope, Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the Government was determined to who had been improperly treated He ensure redress for British war prisoners also stated that it had been thought desir. number of German able to transfer var officers from the West of England to the Das Coust. This was not a reprisal or a punishment, and the climate of the Kent and Essex.conets was probably better than that of a number of the prison cemps in Germany. (Cheers.)

LAT

THE MINERS' COMB-OUT BALLOT.

MAJORITY AGAINST PROPOSAL.

LONDON, March 21st.

as demanded by the Government.

PRIME MINISTER'S REPLY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRERS MONDAY MARCH 25TH,

WHAT THE SOLDIERS SAY.

NO FEAR IN FRANCE.

LBY EDWARD PRICE BELL, THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT OF THE "CHICAGO" DAILY NEws"]

AMERICAN IDEAS OF

ENGLAND.

years of history. Americans were taught English history, though the idea that the average American boy of Britain and the Britiel-quite a wrong one-was based upon the way in which they had been taught the history of the war of 1818-14, Everything that was possible, he thought, how be on the road character und as knowledge of real dis position of the "Britisher." He had been

WAITING FOR THE CHALLENGE.

FAITH OF OUR FIGHTING MEN.

1913

IT'S NOT THE PRICE,

But the quality, that counts.

WHITEAWAY'S

Mr. Philip Gibbs wrote on January 12th-It is six weeks since the German counter-attacks at Cambrai, two months since our capture of Passchendaele, and the lines have been quiet since then under the heavy snow, except for bursta of gun ALL fire and right sids, and that flamo assault last week. Our men have been glad of this respite from fighting, and the resting battalions have enjoyed their spell of peace. Even in the line the tumult of the fighting months has died down into quiet days and nights, with only moments of savage shelling, as a reminder that the devil is not yet dand, so that our men up there have not too bad a time,

Some of them I know-those Gordons of whom I have given glimpses up and

Mr. J. B. MacAfee, an Amerionn banker, speaking at a gathering at the Royal Automobile Club under the aus What in the state of mind of the British pices of the Atlantic Union recently, and French Armies in their wintry sur said he was disappointed to and that in roundings at this war-locked beginning England none of the schools taught the of another scar? Are they fearful lest history of the United States. Perhaps the German avalanche crash over them they thought it was too new, though and bury free society in the wreck America had practically four hundred

Some days inquiry among these armies leads me to say "No! Concern there is. It is reflected in all competent discussion in the war zone. Scarcely & private, I think, is unaware of the adverse factors of recent development on other fronts. Concern there is, but fear there is not. The National Miners Ballot resulted The British remember Ypres and are asked why many prominent Americans down the roads of warhad quite a good in a majority of 28,756 votes against hopeful The French remember Verdun, were not pro-British, and he could give time on Hogmanay Night within 400 and have few inisgivings. Both rocall them one reason. He knew a man some combing out 50,000 miners. for the Army the fact that Gorman arms have had the years ago who after he had taken a high yards of the enemy. In some eaves quarried deep below the trenches and worst of it in the West in every notable degree at an American University, came lighted with electric lamps--there was a action since the opening of the great to England with the idea of taking a horrid moment when the engine stopped battles on the Somme Britons and post-graduate course at an English working and threatened to plunge them Frenchmen know their. Teutonic adver University, but to his surprise found all in darkness-they had a fenst-night, sary, and are ready for anything he may that Oxford would not recognise the and the spirit of Scotland moved among American degrte. He was told that be them and lived in their songs and could not be admitted unless he passed speeches with the memory of "gallant Frence tells us semi-officially The the common entrance examination, where comrades who had been with them a year French and British Armies are now pro-as in Germany he was received with open ago, and are no longer with them. The fting by the period of esld and snow arms at Heidelberg, took degrees there, pipers came up into the caves, and their to take all dispositions and measures and subsequently was honoured with a music filled these rocky valuts with wild necessary in view of the new phase on high degree from Vienna. The result was sound very haunting in its call to which the war is entering". This same that for thirty-seven years he told stud Scottish hearts, but it was imprisoned authority adds: Any offensive the enta in Amorien that the place to learn below ground, and did not reach the enemy may deem himself able to under- everything was Germany, because he knew German lines. The little dim light glow- take will find our Allies and ourselves the reception they would get in Englanded on the steel helmets of the Gordons, prepared to offer a victorious resistance. This year, fortunately, the great English and made fantastic shadows on the walle,

■ universities had granted to Americone as the pipers marched up and down, and and Colonials privileges never granted shone in the eyes of the officers and men prior to the war, though it was easy to

as they sipped hot rum punch, and felt its warmth in their hearts. The comely realise that American professors with German degrees told their students more nose of Honest John, with his no- about Germany than England. The trump face, as the Colonel called it, Americane had quite a wrong idea of glowed with rum and love for his fellow what a limited Monarchy moant. It was creatures, GR MIES really difficult to differentiate between limited Monarchy and an autocratic democracy, which changed every four years, and he contended that we should let the Americans understand that the English Constitution was an ideal demo. cracy. A proposal to form a strong com mittee of British and American citizena to initiate public lectures, in which the history of the relations between the two countries and the ideals and resources of both should be set forth, was carried

LONDON, March 22nd. Mr. Lloyd George, yesterday, told the. Executive of the Miners Federation, who presented the figures of the ballot on the subject of combing out, that the men re- quired would be recruited for the Army. PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES DELEGATES.

The Daily Mail states that the Prime Minister, who was greatly moved by the news from the Front, addressed theminere delegates on the subject of combing-out He was most emphatic in his references to the military situation, and his insistence. that the miners' vote, if acted upon, would mean installing Bolshevism, in Great Britain had a sad, almost staggering. affect upon the delegates.

AUSTRALIA AND GERMANY'S

attempt

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Experience in the war zone sems amply to confirm these statements Great move. ments of troops are in progress. Guus of all calibres glut the military roads. Fresh strength, human and mechanical, is flowing towards the fighting line over its whole length. At a British ordnance depot where I stood in the midst of a Wilderness of camouflaged guns, all ready for the front, I found an especially aanguine British officer. And shall I tell The Australian Associated Chambers of you why he was sanguine? He was Commerce are ananimously urging Brieanguine because he knew. tain to retain the German Colonies in the Pacific.

PACIFIC COLONIES.

MELBOURNE, March 22nd

At another point, not far from where German high-explosive shrapnel. LORD FORREST RESIGNS. bursting, I ran across a British officer of Lord Forrest Ens resigned the Trea-notably robust faith. His specialities

are saiping, observation, and reconnais sufrership, owing to ill health, and Mr. sauce. As & sniper he has killed more Watt, the Minister for Railways, succeeds Germans, they say, than has any other

bit.

man in British uniform.

Ho is deeply versed in the complex are

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT of camouflage as practised by his oppon-

"EXORBITANT LEGAL FEES.

LONDON, March 20th. In the House of Commons, Mr. G. W. Currie affirmed that an officer's widow was charged over fifty pounds sterling official expenses in Madras for the com. pletion of her title to four hundred poards worth of shares in the Madras Rupee Company.

Mr. Hares Fisher replied that if Mr. Currie would give the officer's name, an inquiry would be made,

PENSION REGULATION.

LONDON, March 20th.. In the House of Commons, Mr. Hayes Fisher stated, in reply to Col. Yate, that arrangements would shortly be announced in India for putting into effect the pro visions of the Royal Warrant dated December 3rd, 1017, including an exten- sion of the period for electing to take a pension on the completion of twenty-two years service

at a row of trees.

Of

REMEMBER CAVELL, FRYATT-

AND THIS!

The French proverb rans “ To know all is to parder all. It must be reconstruct, ed to-day in regard to the Germans, and should read To know all is to pardon nothing

Four officers who had fought through the Somme together-alas there are only four new of those who held the lines at Martinpuich raised their glasses to each other and toasted the colonel who thinks of them from afar awaiting for a wound to heal in bis lung, and yearning to come out again, because, though he hates war, he loves his bottalion. He is the Georgian, gentleman who has appear ed as an herois figure in sotne of my sketches, and one day he will reappear, and the pipors will play him back with the march Bane of his own clan)

A FLEASING PICTURE.

ents. Ho does not use the French word

Up in the line there was a pint of hot * camouflage ''be uns ita English

COCON every night dispensed from a equivalent, protective coloration."

Y.M.C.A dug out by a great-hearted protective coloration he is a master..

soul, who once wrote books and plays I stood with him on a hillside looking

which all the world knows and now finds "There is a man in

happiness for a wounded heart in sery Do you nee him 15

ing our soldiers in the danger zone, Ho full view,” said be

had to borrow a steel hat and a gas-bag I scratinised everything before me, and could see no sign of a living thing. Tho

It would really acem that the Germans to go up to a place which he says amelle officer placed his hands about his mouth have learned nothing from Christianity

soldier's courage. Yesterday I met the and shouted, Stand forth!" Suddenly save the crucifixion The atrocities which strongly of hell, but no need to borrow a I saw a part of the trunk of a tree. detach affected us we think of and remember Gordons in their billets and took tea in itself and stand before ine, an armed ametimes. Do we ever put ourselves in their em with a score or so. officers at British riflemanywhere, these enters the berbs, to any nothing of Austria's a long table in an old house, which stands any undamaged in a ruined town. It was a hands with the men who did the follow history in it. If I were a painter in- territorial Slavs Can we yet shake good picture, not without the romance of

stead of a journeyman of words I should love to get the colour of it down on can- vas with the faces of those Scots in the candle light and the frelight. In that old brown panelled room, with its broken bits of gilding and its bigh-backed chaire. The officers of the Scottish Archers, who were the bodyguard of Louis XI, might have sat in such a room as this in this very town, and I think the faces of those medieval soldiers would have been like those I saw round the table yesterday-- clean-cut, brown, and hard.

They may be anywhere, these snipers That wood pile thirty feet ahead of you, though you think you can distinguish every separate piece in it, may contain a sniper with his rifle accurately sighted at your head. And these discarded sand bags and gunny sacks at your feet what danger may they not conceal? Grass, foliage, unevenneses of carth, ragged parapet lines, and many other things may cover a brave man who waita, with out actual protection from enemy bullets, either to watch or to kill.

S Formerly German bullets of a certain type pierced the thin stoel shields screen- ing British snipera and observers. The British at first had no similar small arm m ammunition. The Germans said it would take the British at least two years to NEW ITALIAN WAR MINISTER Germans knew where they were the make any such ammunition. Before the British not only were piercing German shields but were also making for them selves shields that the Germans could not Pierce

THE HOUSE ADJOURNS. The House of Commons adjourned until April th.

ROME, March 22nd. The Minister of War, General Alfieri, has resigned in order to take command at the front. Senator General Victor Zapelli will succeed him.

THE ROUMANIAN CABINET.

"A British officer heard shrieks in the night behind the German trenches at Hichebourg Avoue when the British troops atormed the position next day a girl was found naked on the ground pegged out in the form of a crucifix...

There is no doubt about the fact, for it is recorded and certified in Professor Morgen's offcial report (page 68). There are thousands of facts as bad and ce doned by the German people in the name of Kultur-Ez.

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kind of settlement, by statesmen rather

Jassy, March 22nd

It is expected that peace pourparlers will be immediately resumed.

POLITICAL SITUATION IN SPAIN.

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INDEPENDENCE OF POLAND.

apply to Feathery snow make him look almost more familiar, But this time one saw what

E. V. D. PARR, like a bird than like a mRD.

are called the falling leaf and the Do we

A meeting of Poleg of different politi. top spin." In the first case the plane cal views has taken place in London under find him down-hearted Is be longing for Blighty Well Tommy always is pitches end over end in a wheel like the chairmanship of Dr, G. Swietochowi longing for Blighty a clue, I suppose,vement until almost to the ground, After a discussion it was decided to form

The above includes four ex-Premiers."

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Captain Dreyfus Ballymacad

Seventeen ran. Won by four lengths, a

bad third stagn

The betting was 5 to 1 against the Winner; 20 to 1 against Captain Dreyfus and 7 to 1 against Ballymacad

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the creation of an independent Polish BWXLZ PRRES, JOLT to De Handy sleeves at the German dug-outs, and Equally efficient in arms, the British State with an access to the sea, reuniting 127, weanwhile pulls at his fag or hums songs forces in France, firmly welded with their all the Polish territories; that all Poles of home, mother, and sweetheart. Be magnificent French brethren in arms residing abroad should unite in order to Sale at the Hondross Bally Prezr gever knows when a German shell is seem to ine to speak hopefully to free support Poland's struggle with her Gor- going to be troublesome, but he takes no dom-loving humanity as the Old Year man oppressore for the possession of the oth

(Continued at foot of next Column.) takes leave of blood-drenched world. right of independent statehood.”