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The English Battery Cominsader got the message just before breakfast, and came into the room with it in his hand.

5'' I've got a job of work for one of you fellows," he said, "I can't do it myself, Dr I would; they want me up at Group. It seems that in that last push of ours

third line, wo found

OUR WORKERS ARE ALL RIGHT

[BY ALEXANDER M. THOMPSON.. Mr. George Roberts, the Minister of Labour, tells me that the change in the industrial situation effected by the Ger- man offensive has been absolutely mar- vellous

GREAT AIR FEAT. LIEUTENANT FONCK'S RECORDA

Until May the record for destruction in air fights in a single day was held by, Guynemer, the Unforgettable, who, in one day, brought down four German machines. Lt. Fouck, the young French aviator, has not only improved Guys nomer's record, he has deprived the Ger- man arroy in twenty-four hours of sin

the other day, when we took the German which are a constant soures of worry to He was already at his thirty-sixth enemy Sectional strikes over local grievances, five-ning howitzer in their second line. They the Department, disappeared with the must have pushed it up. for some start of the German attack as if by stunt or other, and nover had magic Threats of strikes were suddenly the chance to use it. Now it's in our withdrawn. Branches of the Amalgamat Bocond line, stuck in its emplacement-od Society of Engineers all over the coun Z14c53 are the co-ordinates they're given try are protesting that whatever their me. I want someone to take u party down grievances which are very real and grave to-night and bring it back

to them-they resolutely refuse to stop An instant clamour arose from the work while their brothers and sons at the assembled officers. Let me go, air front are urgently needing their help.

You can't go, you're on duty to-night." 1 know where it is, sir, I was down that way reconnoitring yesterday after noon. You'd lose your way in the dark, Charles,

machines and ton highly-trained airmen. machine brought down. He has now, forty-two to his credit; which means that he has actually accounted for at least sixty German acroplanes, for the rigid French registration system allows the pilot credit only for those enemy en confirmed by French observers, machines the destruction of "which has

either in the air ar on the ground. As almost all our sir fights are fought over the enemy's lines, it follows that a large Never since the beginning of the war proportion of the air duels which end in has the pulse of the nation throbbed so victory for the firm and even. The consciousness of machines, are never officially recorded. French or British danger has cleared their vision, distress The airmen know themselves, and are the temper of the highest heart, like the Germans. They know that if the whole has roused their strength. For it is unmoved by the fantastic claims of the Thank you," he said, I thought palm tree, as Sir Philip Sidney said,

truth could published Baron, von you'd all want to go. I suppose you hurdened.

to strive most upward when it is most Richthofen's record Fould easily be match realize that it won't be a picnic, the

badded by those of Guynemer, Ball, Fonek, Germans know exactly where the gun mass of the British workers always were

As a matter of fact, of course, the great Nungessor, and half a dozen others. and they'll open on it with every battery they've got on the first sign of anybody going near it. I'm not going to risk nore than one of you. If you still all want to go, you can put your names in

hat and draw for the job."

The Major held up his hand, and the subalterns subsided into silence,

Du

They did so, and the junior subaltern, to his unbounded delight, drow the lucky number. The Major took him aside after

the meni was over.

It's a chance of a lifetime for you, Wilson," he said.If you bring it off you'll get all the kudos. Make your own arrangements; I won't interfere un less you ask for advice."

Thank you, sir, replied the boy I'll get down to the trenches now and have a look round,"

When I suggested to Mr. Roberts that sound of heart and staunch of spirit, quite 90 per cent of them had consistent individual or class interest, he replied ly preferred the national cause to their

emphatically: Oh, much more than 80 per cent. The minority are a very small and negligible fraction

This confident conclusion is confrised by all my recent inquiries in the Mid- lands and the North As first in my in vestigation I was startled, especially in Glasgow, by the rebellious violence of some of the views with which I was us sailed: it really seemed as if Scott's own country were disposed to return a anani mous affirmative to his famous question: Breathes there the man with soul so

dead

Who never to himself hath said,

That evening a party of twenty men, headed by the exultant Wilson, started out from the Battery along the track that led towards the trenches. They were

This is my own, my native land?" carrying between then a whole coil of

But when I said as much to a stern old four-inch rope over two hundred yards Scottish Socialist of my acquaintance, he long and most uncomfortably heavy and indignantly replied: If there's any bulky, a few handspikes, and a couple Bolshevism here, it is because nearly all of snatch-blocks. Progress was slow

but the open

when they came Scotsmen of miltiary age to the beginning of the communication wounded

Are dead, or fighting. Most of the french that they must follow if they were Clyde-side slackers are aliens with a dif. to be undetected it. stopped altogether, ficulty in pronouncing the letter and The trench was too narrow to allow of by the way, have ye over noticed that the passage of the coil, except by the their leaders bear such fine old Scots process of rolling it along the ducknames as McManus, Gallagher, and Mur- boards. When they had held up the whole phy I had not noticed it before. But traffic of the sector, and been cursed it it is a coincidence significant of much.. every known dialect of the British Isles, Wilson had a bright iden.

Tho

Unroll that damn coil," he said, Start away with the end, one of you, and we'll pick it up us you go ahead.

The procession was resumed, the rope winding itself like a snake round

of the trench, supported at traverses intervals on the men's shoulders. rightful traffe made ite way past, trip ping over the rope at intervals where it hung loose, and cursing worse than ever. Net until they reached a hay in the second line, where they had space to coll freely

rope up again, did Wilson breathe *** Thank God,” he exclaimed. "Let's sit here a moment and have a breather. There's plenty of time, it'll get a loh darker vet."

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ployers, one after another, spoke up in Recently in the Midlands when om enthusiastic praise of their workpeople's wonderingly, where then were the anti splendid devion to war work. I asked, war shirkers and strikers one heard so much about. A director of a shell Inc. tory answered: "I really don't know. It puzzles me as much as it puzzies you. I hear and read about these fellows, bat never see or hear them. They certainly don't exist in our factory. No men of women could have worked harder, more loyally, or more wonderfully than these men and women that you see, a

I met Fonek (says Reuter's Corros- ron of battle-planes to which he belongs, pondent) at the aerodrome of the squad. He is assuredly young for his exploits, stature with nothing about him, except not more than 22, small and slight i his hard-sighted gaze which airmen sharo with sailors, and a row of decorations hidden by bis overcoat, to give one a clue to his personality. It was difficult to make him talks, because he wanted to describe his exploits in three words. It was true, he said, that he brought down two Boche machines in ten seconds. Flying in the morning with his patrols, he suddenly found in front of him group of three two-seater German machines. (Fonck, I am told by his comrades, has two great qualities in air fighting; he is, like all flying "Aces," a machine gunner of marvellous skill; in addition, he has a speed in manœuvring which bales his opponents and atrazes his friends. He chooses his own moment to make an 'attack, but he will make it from any position whatever. He selects his foe out of a German patrol, which always comprises a number of machines. and is sometimes fifteen strong, and attacks him at his own moment, relying manoeuvring to win the duel. on his extraordinary speed and skill in

fight. He succeeded in getting bore the I return to Fonck's description DE the

German machines, and opened fire with his machine gun at short range Within machines, cach manned by two men, a few seconds the first two German with two machine-guns capable of firing to destruction. The third Boche machine at any angle, were hurtling downwards attempted to bolt, but Fonck was too

quick for it, and sent it crashing earth- wards on fire. The fight had lasted loss than two minutes. It was Fonck's morn. ing's work. His mastory of his machine. and of his gun had enabled him to shoot. down three German planes before they were able to get all or any of their six machine-gung trained on him. In all likelihood he shot the pilot of each of the enerny machines dencl.

Then the works manager of an Bero plane factory enlightened me. He said: In the afternoon Licut nani Fonck The Germans were obviously nervous noisy. They make themselves heard, Flying over the enemy's liare, in the re. The grousers are jolly few hut jolly went out on his second daily patrol. A couple of Field Batteries were carrying while the thousands who are doing thegion of Montdidier, he encountered a on a desultory shelling of the British trenches, and fares were going up from work say nothing. I tried to form a de patrol of nine German machines, four of their lines in unbroken succession. About bating society here in the works to get the Pfalz type, and five Albatrosses, eleven o'clock, Wilson stood up and called questions affecting the welfare of the Numbers do not affect Forek Ha obose his Men together in a hushed whisper.

workpeople threshed out. The grousers his time and attacked. He brought down You know what to do," he said, turned up all right-about a dozen of three machines, one double seater and Give me the end of the rope, and crawl them. But the steady, skilled craftsmen two chasing planes. The rest bolted for out with the rest of it on to the road, couldn't be induced to attend. What's safety Lieutenant Fonek had Enished When I give a rug, heave like hell and the use of cackling they asked impati- his day's work. He had brought down don't

top for anything till you hear fue ently.

let's get on with the job." six enemy machines with an average ex- That is the solution of the mystery. penditure of less than ten cartridges per He took the end of the rope and There is a mall minority of cucklers, a machine. In the fourth year of the war, landspike and crawled out of the trench snug, self-righteous, stack-jawed class. The gue was about fifty yards away, and We hear about them because they aro

Rost of us have some idea of what a he made his way cautiously towards it always talking. The workers are silent,

machine gun is, and the speed with which A few stray bullets whizzed over him as When grievances occur and the war has Fonck fired fifty-two rounds, in all, against it spouts munitions into the blue. Licut he crept along, and sometimes he crouched produced very many serious injustice, in his six foen. Fonck in all his air fights down as a brighter flare than usual the workshops the talkers take the has never been wounded. Even his without being defected, and made fust centre of the stage. They are the men machine has never been touched. He told

The who attend the branch meetings of the the end of the rope to the trail.

me that, young as he is, he began flying he crawled on again, passing the slack of traile unions and speak from public plat.eighteen months before the way. He has the rope through his hand, till he reached forms, while the great mass stay at home. played most games, and done well at ali the road.

In that unfortunate reluctance of the of them, but speed is his hobby, and the A dark figure moved as he came ur.

majority to bestir themselves in their aeroplane and the automobile were always "That you, sir?" it whispered in a own affairs, and in their habit of depend. his favourite playthings. He began his hoarau voice..

ence upon the leadership of the self- career as a military airman in the obser Got your suutch-block fixed?

appointed mouthpieces, lies the basic vation, not in the fighting, service, and "Yes, sir," said the figure. "I found fault and root-problem of democracy, The brought down, his first Boche airman as. the tree-stump and lashed it to it. The men who publicly represent democracy the pilot of an observation machine on men are a good hundred and fifty yards mainly, as one of my friends lately wrote, August 6th, 1910. He decided that year the road with the other end of the men whose point of view, tastes, and to exchange into the battle-plane service, ideals obtained brevet, and brought down Topsey eraseled across the road, suid pass thesis are fundamentalis different from his first Bouho in a lighting plastic on Stuy 5th, 1917. Since then he has added forty German machines to his fist of trophies. He fought with our airmen in Flanders- last year, and wears the British Dis tinguished Service Medal and our Mili tary Cross.

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ed the light of the rope through the the Man in the Club is so grossly deceiv snatch-block. While they did so, taughtened as the party at the far ended as to the temper of the British work took in the slack.'

ers. His conception is based on the freaks and the exceptional, while the vast toiling mass, who have formed our amics, fed them clothed them, and arm-

Ready, sergeant!" said Wilson. "All right, now look out for trouble."

be

He gave a sharp tug on the rope as

the men hauled on it. The

gun stirred in its emplacement, and Wil son and the sergeant rushed down to help

ste, and it immediately creaked and ed them, are never heard of,

But as Mr. Roberts says, the workers are all right. Their quiet endurance is not seen in the darkness of adversity their it with their handspikes. It hung a steady virtues shine like stars moment, then, as the strain on the rope. increased,

started with a run up the into the open.

ramp

WHAT THINK YE? What are we fighting for, men of my race

And the best of us dying fort

For wealth or profit or power-or fame?. Or a statesman's lust or a monarch's

name?

Or for aught that the sons at our sons

could: blame

Did we throw the dics of war?

It seemed as if every gun, light and Why are ye weeping, sisters of mine, heavy, in the whole sector had opened on

Jost as it did so an unfucky fare went trench. Here an infantryman relieved up, revealing the moving mass as clearly him of his burden, and passed the word as daylight Wilson and the sergeant for the stretcher-bearers. Then Wilson Bung themselves on their faces na a ran of after the gun, cruckle of machine-guns and ride-fire

How he escaped death he never know. burst out.

We'll have to run for that sustoh 'block," whispered Wilson... Come on.” the road, to say nothing of machine-guns With mien so proud and brave?

They reached it as the gun bumped on and rifles. After an eternity of labour Do ye weep because of the utter woe? to the road, Wilson gave a sharp whistle, the gun climbed a slight rise, and then Are ye proud because ye would have it so,. sad the rope slackened. As it did so, sank over the crest into comparative Though Fate should have dealt you the the sergeant cast it out of the snatch cover: block, and Wilson gave another force Wilson blew his whistle once more and

final blow! And there's nothing to mark the grave? tug

The

again, and the ran up beside the rope to the party, inst gun began

gan to move jerkily along the road. Thanks to their distance from the gun, What are we fighting for, women and A sharp exclamation from the sergeant they had escaped practically unscathed, made Wilson turn quickly. "What's

And the best of us dying for?". pline for a few slight wounds from It was just because we had signed our matter! " he asked.

splinters

rope stretched

All right, sir, I've got it in the teg replied the sergeant

You ab on and

leave me hero.'

Wilson went up to him, and half ca ried..

half-dragged, him down into the

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

Thank God," said Wilson fervently. mame,

men,

"We'll give there a few minutes, and And the Briton's ereed is to honour the then we can trundle the old piece up the same

fams

road at our leisure. I'm just going back It was only for that, and our own fair into the trenches to see if the sergeant's all right. I'm afraid we'll have to leave that snatch block, though."

We took up the gage of war.

W. A. BRISCOR, in United Empire.