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11 A National Disgrace.": It was reported recently to the Portamonth Guardians that there were 21 discharged men from the Army and Navy in the workhouse an canale. Eleven had been discharged fraca be services se medically cofit. It was consider- ed a national discredit that anch a state of things should exist. One speaker said that men die. charged as medically unfit were left la room about the country, It was also stated that there were men back from the front dia- charged with pensions of 49, and 53. a week only. Manchester Guardiane protested in ibe strongest possible manner against The scandal and disgrace of pan- perising sailors and soldiere who bave lost their reason on active service. The Government was pressed to provide for euch men with at bringing them into con- tact with the Poor Law.
Brave Captalo and Crew Honoured,
Daring a voyage from Cette to Marseilles the French armed freight steamer Craonne was st tacked last "Jone by an enemy aubmarice. Though the crew only numbered 26, mainly Corsicans! and Betone, the commander, Captain Dominique Locohesi, fought a duel to the death with the Bun for over an hour, con- tinuing to fire aren when the Craonne Was aisking. After taking to their boats the Craonge drew were overhauled by the! Germans, who Look Captain Lucchesi aboard and cross-quest- ioned him bratally, bat without result, and then allowed him to return to his boat, on which they fired before it finally disappeared. The Cracone's crew were later picked up by a Algerian fishing ameck. For his bravery and re- sourcefaloes, Captain Larchesi has been awarded the Legion of Honour, while the survivora of his paliant crew have received the War Cross.
An Inspector of 22. Before the Marylebone Magia. trate recenty Eiwin Shepherd, «-8 átrong young min of 22, waal charged with gambling at Paddington on Sunday. The police asid he was so inspector of aeroplane parts, earning 15s. = day, but he had not got a certi- ficate of exemption. Shepherd mentioned that be had a certificate as his previous place of employ. ment, but when he applied for snother Earth it was taken away from him. Mr. Mond: "This is alsok- nes. It seems to me scandalous
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I should think you do. 151. order to charge and as he rushes are nos do edge. day! That in "24 10x a week.
Bat you can't call this the fear seroan the death-swept Zone It seeme B moet remarkable towards the enemy. Die he of death. It is a parely physical thing, when men of 40 years of think of the chance of death? I-reaction of danger and detonation. age, with six or seven children, be physically afraid?Dee he Personally I believe that very few are obliged to go. I cancot un shrink from the necessity of men, indeed, fear death. The vast deretand it." Shepherd was put facing and inflicting death majority experience a more or leas back, that the police might make Mr. Donald Hankey, the English violent physical shrinking from inquiries.
man who wrote so frankly and the pain of death and wounds, interestingly of the soldier's specially when they are obliged. Milen, August.-Alor a lapse periences at the front in 'A Stad to be physically inactive, and of close upon 2,000 years since ens in Arms," considers this when they bars nothing else to the destruction cf Pompeii, the matter in his new volume, "a think about. Bat this is a purely keletons of four of the victims Stadent in Arms, Second Series "physical reaction which can be, have been discovered in the published by Dattas. Mr. Hankey and nearly alwaye ie, con betaal positions in which they spent nearly the whole of two rolled by the mind. Last were overtaken by the catastrophe. years at the front, in the trenches of all there is the Two of these victims, apparently and in the supporting lines, and pulsion and loathing for the whole a man and wife belonging to the was killed in action at the Batsle hominess of war, with its bloody apper classes, had evidently been of the Somme. He aaya- ruthlessness, "its fiendish in caught by the shower of red- The fact is that at the moment of genuity, and its insensate cruelty hot stones in the cloistered a charge men are in an absolutely that comes to a man after a battle, garden of their ville, and while abnormal condition. Their who the tortured and diemem- Lastening to seek shelter in emotions seem to be numbed, bered dead, lie strewn about the s corner had been suddenly Noises, aighte, and sensationench and the wounded groan, buried and asphyxisted through which would ordinarily produce from Ne-Man's Land. Bataeither the collspas of the roof overladen intense pity, horror, or dread have that the fear of death. It is a with volcanic dust. The hushand no effect apon them at all, and paleisn which breeds hot sager was found in a sitting position, yet never was the mind clearer, more often than cold fear, reckless with his head and back beat the senses more seate. It ittred of life more often than forward and the legs wide apart before an attack that a mon ijsbjset clinging to it. The caEOS His wife was standing eroot more liable to fear. Of all the where any sort of fear, oven for a immediately behind him. Her hours of dismay that come to moment, obtaine the mastery of gold earrings were found on a soldier there are few more tryio, a men are very rare, level with her ears, and there are to the nerves than when he i
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