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THE CITY OF GHOSTS

THE YPRES YOUR SON IS FIGHTING FOR NOW,

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THE ART OF PROPAGANDA, CUTLER PALMER & CO. S

AS STUDIED IN GERMANY.

He was

"WEAPON OF FALSEHOOD,” LURD SELBORNE'S REPUDIATION.

Addressing conference of agricul For the fourth the Tomkinson wZK turists at Darlington, recently, the Earl [DY J. 9. HAMMERTON.]

of Selborne said:-We have read with brought in for examination, great pain and indignation the accounts tired of repeating his name, his rank. The City of Ghosts! So Philip of a notorious trial in which there has his regiment, and his occupation--before Gibbs, one of the best descriptive writers been a statement made that Black

Book exists in which are thousands of the war, to his dress-examiners, and he of the Great War. has termed the ruins nans of some of the best of our fellow-resolutely refuse to give any further de- of Ypres. But the phrase is not his countrymen

There is not one shadow or shade of tails than these. No Germans had she right mos: felicitous,

The only ghosts that evidence given that any such book exists, walked in Ypres when I was there were (Cheers.) It is merely the uncorroborated to demand more of a British, prisoner; as hefty specimens of British manhood and unproved statement of a witness. As indeed Tomkinson was even doubtful if it, the statement was that his civilian occupation was any business as could be found throughout the throng this book was an official compilation of ing war 3UTIP Nas, my dear Philip the German Government. Suppose it doer of Germany's. However, if they wanted Gibbs, the city of ghosts is no more. The exist, do you think you are going to find it, there could be no harm in giving it.. poor ghosts have nowhere to haunt in all the truth about Englishmen and English, that sprawling waste of crumbled stone women in a German Government compila. and mortar. More aptly would the phrasetion Do we not know from all our bitter | have fitted the Ypres that I knew of old, experience of this war that the first wen or Brige Bruges the "Dend of pon to which that Government goes is a Rodenbach's uncanny"symbolism.

wenpeu of falsehood Therefore it this Book exists-and of its existence there is not a shadow of proof it is a German book, compiled for German official pur. before the world in connection with this What paines have been dragged notorious trial. The names of some of our glorious dend. There was the horrible story about the tenth in Palestine of the

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Designer of stained glass windows," he said wearily for the fourth time,

To his immense surprise this German attiver (unlike the others) jumped, excit- edly to his feet.

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Nat the Tomkinson ? le cried, Well," said Tomkinson modestly, have had a little anmerited saccess_per• haps, and

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My dear fellow, everybody has heard of Tomkinson. In Germany, at any rate, Why, your book on stained glass: -*

-My Look?" said Tomkinson in sur- "Oh, you menm my painphlet on prise.

Exactly." said the Germana hastily. I made a tremendons" impression over here. Now tell me, he broke off and added winningly. "you know, it is really extraordinary lucky meeting you like this; I am an amateur ayself on the subject.

There is nothing so dead as certain things wherein life still lingers. Brages in those dear days before the Teuton flooded into Flanders was a beautiful dend thing; its glorious pld life of the nge of the merchant princes had long singe vanished; its antique palaces and | churches spoke only of the greatness that, of the Earl of Rosebery, a man hon that passed for ever; and so, too. Ypres. Lanted by his fellow-countrymen, and now That there were streets in Ypras where the colonel of the regiment who saw that thriving tradesmen lived in happy noble young officer killed writes to say plenty that the causeways were noisy

the whole story is a lie. Another ex-Prine with the clatter of horses' hoofs, Änd

Minister whose name was dragged into many motor-wars gave raucous warning this trint was Mr. Asquith. I have for of their passing, mattered not ajthirty years been a political opponent of Ypres was then a city of ghosts,

Mr. Asquith, and I am an opponent of his thousand worthy

to-day Some

but I speak for the whole, of citizens found it good to stay there, but the political party to which I belong when tin had been when the Ypres folksy that we repudiate as an abominable le the suggestion that Mr. Asquith's pri were nambered by the hundred thousand.

vate life is not clean, and noble, or that The ghosts of the princely merchants, the is not a loyal, and devoted servant of traders from far lands, the artists, the King and country. (Cheets.) · Is this To have the chance of a talk with the priests, the learned men who, nach up the aristocracy of that great medieval community. thronged about you in the vast and dusty salons of the Cloth Hall. which might well have roofed over the whole, population any day before the first Hun shell burst on its majestic mass of masonry. Alax the city of ghosts is not In its place is mera desolation without form, "void even of memories!

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Kent Tomkinson! Now tell me. I have long wanted to ask you, how do you'--,"

Only to willing. Tomkinson let himself go upon his favourite subject. For hall an hour they talked about stained-glass. A remarkably pleasant and well informed gentleman," thought Tomkin

to be the end of our four years' experience of the horrors of this war, when all have tried to do their duty) Is this to be the ending. the result of the deaths which our sons have died on the sea and in the trenches all the world over Is this to be the beginning of our reconstruction of that better England for which B all son. pray! (Cheers.)

You must see some of our windows in Mannheim,' went .on the other. "Where your English bonba dropped," he added with a friendly smile.

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As I approached this place of doons Ruin more terrible that that bestrew. my mind was busy with the Ypres that ing the state of Ypres this world can

"Not to the damage of any works of I knew in the happy days of my wayenteely hold. The immense hall of the art, I hope," said Tomkinson. rather faring! I found myself wondering if cloth merchants, which took well-nigh two

awkwardly. The German was such the little auberge where I had put up one

hundred years to grow into the thing of

very pleasant gentleman.

Oh, no, no. Indeed," be went on care- evening of soft and misty sunset after a perfected Gothic beauty that symbolizedlessly the damage was absurdly slight long hiegel journey, and eaten a most the prinesly grandeur of the once power Now if I were your Air Minister. He excellent dinner before sauntering out fut city, and travellers through the cen- into the friendly streets, could be entituries had marvelleal over, had been re

broke off suddenly, and then added with fed among the ruins: if I might be able duced to these meaningless beaps of great frankness, after all, you are our to veterine the point of view from

stones by the scientific savagery of an

prisoner. so that nothing which I say to which, the next forenoon. I bad taken the Ene photograph of the Cloth Hall who for nearly four years had you can go any further." that is still among my Belgian collect in vain to enter the city his guns

had pounded into dust.

tion:

Among these insensate stopes a vast and strange life was pulsating. Given Tain wonderings! And yet it was a well-built villa with good cellers, blast important to me that I had seen this it down by sbell Gre so that it becomes place in the fight of other days. Life is but a beap of bricks, if the celler roof coloured for each of us by persona! is strong enough, or enn be strengthened perience; it is a different adventure for by stout timbering. a refuge has been every soul ly impressions of Ypres created underground by the very agency could not be the same at any other's, that destroyed what stood above. and els they were not mine. How often in old years, before I first came to the many a shell will burst in vain upon the rubbish heap while the soldiers abelter historic city that evening of misty san-

down below. Sandbags to cover the set, and beheld the great pinnacled weaker parts and shield the entrances belffy of les Haller and St. Martin's

to the cellars will make a fort that may unfinished spire luminons in the soft

long outlast the guns that wrought the gloaming. had I looked with eyes of Srst destruction. wonder upon engravings and etchings and photographs of that very scene? The reality before me had been anmis takable, even if I had first beheld it after being brought blindfolded to Ypres. But and I must say it-the Cloth Hall, when I came to examine it, gave me an impression of aridness"

In these strange, weird streets of Ypres there are may such cellar-forts, In the rains of some of the larger buildings officers are busy with maps and plans, telephones Luzz cheerily, and great busi ness is ever afoot. Padres have their sub-

"I can't pledge my word on any such matter," said Tomkinson firmly.

"Oh, quite so." He gave him a friend

If you escape but somehow smile. I don't think you will. Well then, if I were your Air Minister, I should never You bomb a big town like Mannheim. don't get the effect. What you ought to do is to concentrate with two or three hundred aeroplanes on one small village, and go on until you had wiped it out. However," he The moral effect of that all over Germany would be tremendous. smiled again. "luckily for us you're not likely to think of that in England, so long as we keep you safe, of course. Now what was it I was saying about windows? Ch, yes, in Mannheim, and that reminds me of another curious mistake your air-

They are always. men always make. dropping bombs on railways,

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itself he broke off hurriedly, collected ASAHI BEER.” bis thoughts and said, "Mannheim, yes. terranean chapels, where the worship of the God who seems to have forgotten the As I was saving, we have some stained- Really!" said Tomkinson at the end Creatures of His hands is faithfully glass windows there." maintained in circumstances that would have made Job revile his Maker. Little of it," really! I should much like to see reading-rooms, with cosy fires and good-them.

"As "his youthful hose, well saved, are to the lean and slippered Panto- loona world too wide for his shrunk shanks so did I feel that the Cloth Hall was to Ypres, a constant reminder of its shrunken state. The splendid stock of books and periodicals, are Well. I daresay I could get permis- architecture of the building, its perfectly features of these centres, of religious sion for rou-so well-known a man u proportioned immensity. the beautiful effort, and seldom is the reading-room yourself. And you must dine with the little areaded Hotel de Ville, tucked soenspty. Often has Evensong been cele one day. I see you smile," he went on prettily under its northern wing, with brated in the dug-out chapel while the kindly, though Tomkinson hadn't: "you the noble Gothic pile of St. Martin's shells burst overhead and the gas-alarm think that we haven't any food in Ger- Cathedral standing hard by to the was sounding. west-the whole forming as remarkable a group of beautiful buildings as any city of Europe ever possessed-of these I need attempt no description; it is nough that I was deeply conscious of their individual beauties. But I do aver that the Cloth Hall stays in my memory usa palace of ghosts, for no great use was made of it by living. It spoke only of the Ypres that had been,

As we passed along the outer western streets of the town that day of March. 1015, where every, house was a shapeless ruin, and many a one grotesquely patch ed with sandbags to shelter, the soldiers billeted in its cellars, the fantastic ruins of the cathedral came into view on the right.

Many."

"Oh, no, no," said Tomkinson hastily. "On the contrary I had an excellent piece of bread only yesterday-or was it the day before-No., yesterday.

"Dear, dear, this will never do, Mr. Tomkinson. They must look after you I will see to it. better than that. Although, to tell the truth, we are a little short of food."

Deeper than any of these cellar homes and forts are the dug-outs that take you forty feet down into the bowels of Ypres. There you will find the soldiers resting in their bunks, while the company cook is busy with their next meal over a tiny store in a stifling kitchen, where the thermometer will register 100 degrees on a winter's day and the pump alongside

Tomkinson didn't know what to say. "thed, thuds" as it sucks up the water and sends it aloft, for the cory soil of Politeness demanded an expression of Flanders would speedily drown out these regret. and patriotism an expression of troglodytes if the water were allowed profound joy. So he remained silent. to run its natural course through their Luckily the other went on more to bim dripping burrows.

self than to the Englishman.

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Why hold on to such a place? Why "Yes, our food experts tell us that it sacrifice men's lives by thousands to will be almost impossible for Germany, present the fiends who have destroyed it to hold out after 1925. April and May from entering into possession of the 1925, will be the difficult months. It will Yet, though an accident to our car wilderness they have made? These are be a disappointment to our men in the detained us several hours at Ypres, my questions for men of military knowledge, trenches if we have to abandon the war eves could at no moment rest upon any and I thank Heaven I cannot answer suddenly then, from lack of food. The are object that stirred a single memory of them. But this I know that the medi in tremendous spirits just now, and " the past. Where was my little auberge aval city that in 1302 sent its own con- He pulled himself together with a jerk. of the hearty dinners? Where are the tingent to join in the Battle of Courtraí. "Dear me, bow I wander on. You were houses of Ypres, but cluttering the that reckoned its wealth in millions and saying, Mr. Tomkinson, about this new ground like so mant abandoned brick-boasted a population three or four times method of yours." Kilns! The roads that threaded the waste greater than the London of its time, was

it was a much flattered and a dis well kept, noisy with the continuous trafic, of the Army holding this most never one tithe so precious to the cause tinetly happier Tomkinson when the of civilization, achieved nothing remotely pleasant German officer had finished with historic sector of the battle front were comparable with the crazy-looking brick him. A Tomkinson also, who had learnt not to the recognized as the old friendly held that for nearly four years now, has streets. where the feet of so many tions of Ypres folk had passed been the spearhead of the British lines

in Flanders. "Tell me where is the cavalry bar-

Let the dead past bury its dead." racks." I said,"" and perhaps I marget Ypres, the city of ghosts, is as extinat as my-bearings

I was told, and had the site pointed any city of Atlantis. Its ruins move me out, but I was no wiser. I wandered less to tears than to a solema joy that he was, to his great surprise, repatriated. Tomkinson (who, you will remember." round the ruins of Cloth Hall and our splendid Inland races could no long

gave no pledge) has been busy lately cathedral, hoping to find some spot for hold this bit of earth against the hosts

High memory to rest upop, but in all the form of hell. Its old gboats have gone ittelling his friends the real truth about

bas become a new shrine of British Germany. Yesterday he told a less mass of destruction there was not

The High Authority courage and endurance, and no beautiful Authority," a remembered scrap Engineers were

things the architects of the future will took it all down-and then smiled slowly busy shoring up a bit of a façade on which a painted, notice board stated rear upon this site where a fairer city to himself. He did not offer Tomkinson than the vanished one may arise-will be a post in the Intelligence Department. that it was to be "preserved as a national monument," but what part of suficiently beautiful to commemorate the he just talked to him in a fatherly human sacrifice bere made at one of manner instead. When asked now about the building it was I could not guest. Freedoin's highest altars-Weekly De- the inner life of Germany. Tomkinson

spatch. (Continued at foot, of nézi Obluma.)

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