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VIEW i V - 1 CREST MESSINES RIDGE BULWARK FRONT CENTRE OF GREAT 1 - OF BRITISH BATTLE lift tMif ! fe5 it. k ' I' e 0 MM- hm - . I ' , . . ... . . . . , . Yfg&O - PH oTp err ceTff Nw$' Photo 6gyv:gl ..-. ! - " - ; - ' ! : LONDON lb Mm H IN me ONLY IT COMMENCING AGAINST GERMANY Allied Flyers Prepare for Irre sistible Incursions toThrottle the Foe on Rhine. YMINSAT WAR NEVER LOSES HIS WIT AND JEST Indian Newspaper Collects Some of Best Anecdotes About Soldiers. LONDON RECOVERING RAPIDLY FROM CURFEW CLOSING OREER i But British Capital Has Few Subjects for Complaint, with Rationing System for Meat Running SmoothlyAirdromes Have Language All Their Own Wa? Has Good Effect on Church Attendance of Soldiers. (Sperijsl PJspatrb.) London, Saturday. Already the Allies have got the Germans well whipped in the" air. "You have only to ranee at the daily communiqufea to" realize to vrliat extent. But they are preparing for still greater ihings, assisted by the im merse re5cu2c;:s ia men and material from America. How they are thus preparing for victory in the air, and hew they are busy on the construction of the biggest airdrome in the world, is told in a graphic story narrated by a Daiiy Express special correspondent "somewnere in rtnee . "uiii'o tiif p. hi no towns' shiver with ap prehension and "the German "government ir;c -r, warVmiii P;iris tn nrevent further noriai i incursion into her territory, several have cot together in the m..st gigantic airdrome in the wc-rl4 and a:e learning how systematically to Lombard Germany.. It is -the -beginning t i'r.c realization of a Wcllsian dream the Fj.-.-in? ton-ard the German cities of thou yar,;:5 of airplanes loaded up with bombs. Tlii war in the air is only just beginning, the nath to Germany and victory lies ir-rough the air. "I v.-i5 r-rivilcsed to visit' this' airdrome r-.is :i;orning, nnd I had not teen very ion? in the i lace before I was able to rnge into the very atmosphere, of it. J "fras passing a hut. and through the open "iocr eame a hearty cheer a full throated British cheer.. London .newspapers, bad t si rived, and the cheering youths, air in the chrysalis stage, had iust read ''orr.bs on a German. city; a cheer more !rT-:b!e than an: hymn of hate. 'To'jth has coma to this airdrome to 'e-rn h0w j.0 end the war quickly and vic roufiy:. he has come "from" the" four" cer - "s of thf r-.irth from American colonies 'rr! r-rnirie?. from London. city offices and i-n-i i street, from tho boulevards of Paris, 'n Japan. China. ?outh America. Port- "?n'. frTi RnFPia even, and not one of tf is m-rr thirty years of age. (Special Dispatch.) ... London, Saturday. thinks of a superbeehive, the bees 'y:nn.re to swarm hornets rather, me E'v is full of Farmans. SoDwiths. Xieu- rerts. Cauldrons. Voisins. and the others I My not mention. The Allies are now in Fs?tsion of more sneedv bombing air !lanes of greater weisht cirrj'ln.5 and M.srier flvipg capacity than the machines of the eremy. We are bui'.dinsr the ma f-f ir.es in Ensland. France is turning them t"o. and America sends them in nura ofs -nel! ahead of the schedule, hi this rrreat solitude of rolling plain -1 l i v i j . j .iLJr llta 1 MU( U i. is a ir-.'jshrcom in the night, but. as the r?su!t r,f etady and systematic endeavor, 't is a temple of youth the house of the - j r.n tr.o machine. odn nuts and canvas sheds shelter them both. Each f -ion has its o'ti sector rind its cvn i tmcti c touch of rationality. iejr strapping Americans sit round a 're eiitsirie their hut and frv bacon: it 'frt ho a Rcc-ne out nf a Bret Harte rovel- but the talk is not of the "rlacer" "rnp: one yrs "joysticks" mentioned l1;- nthe'' weird fragments of airmanese. w French grow salads and spring vege-ac-les :n their sf-etor. and in the British mes flft" htr.e pigs are rapidly becoming- er. Kur.r, sometimes 'crash." and there '"i repair shops for the boy and the ma "e. The hospital for the former is as "".nipped ns any in France, and the eP-ir shops for the machines cover sev--fal acres. Anything from a wing to the Propeller can be replaced. I saw a ripping fight," says another ler '-six machines of a German squ&d- :on hove in sight. Eight of ours spotted -r.ern and shot down two; the others -'"net. 1 1--. . Jur cnaps chased them, when from son.owhcre in France' eight other Ger- ns carrje on the scene. Thev dropped n our chaps' tails. Two of them were ..i-i. 10vn and T nw n Prmnn rvllot terallv mt,, ..... - . .f. . "'ii uul oi. nis seal, whuo aw "-..ii.e went scudrli 'Us. 1 h :tr nt 1m miles an ven knows v;here, in somer Mry n-lv" heen i'--lng ths luring trie! Inn .if cut t-;V03 threes, to tempt olfl r r,ists of circuses. "We are t "a for 1hnt - tr. HC'fVe bi('n t?ack ar behind nf-ngars. Their nerves awfni ,n-15ht ai1fl day- Tho3' had an ":rul bfe of it." just ore .wore extract:- - r,3-1 a hot lime vith mysr;uadron puds t. 'cnl0T,J?'' 'trace-rs, 'flaming fr"m , pneI Phosphorus balls, shots tui; i v1iomponiS' hich spray the air Dullcts four thousand feet hiarh. fifteen8 Itl it! Ur uadron. which -is Hm tv.lrJ"5' topped, fetched and ear Amid the whirl siid maze of battle, the soldier's Tiumer is one thing that he can not lose. In easy tiroes, in tight corners, in the face of death itself,-he is an incor rigible jester. There is nothing labored about his wit; his jokes are always spon taneous, forgotten almost as soon as they are made. An Indian newspaper has taken great ain tn miirt a. number of the best anec dotes.' Not all of them are new, but they are at least worth retelling. ThA Smith AfHcan war was responsible for the immortal story of the convalescent .enl4iT- in a Vinsnita.1 who. havinC had his face washed three times in one morning by three different ladies or nign degree who were amusing' themselves by looking ift "tv. m Anr iiur wmmried." adorned the head ef his bed next oay witn a. nm- tio . ttinr forth that Via WRS tOO SICK tn-ilav tn V nuraeii." Thr s lan is' a. storv nf the smart young staff officer who rode up to a party of dnstv warriors, wearv with "foot-slog ging; many miles over the veldt, with the query, "Are you the west Kicung : wnen "Xo me lord." came in a cheery voice from the rear, "we ain't! we're tne Duns in' Buffs walkin' !" India a Fruitful Field. Tn4 naturaiiv has been for many v-Mrs a fruitful huntlnz ground for stories nf Tummv Atkins. One of the best con cerns a scrap of desultory conversation between two men stretcnea on me grouuu at the endjif a field day just before the march back to barracks. It was a Mon day, and, presumably, in the mind of the first speaker there stui lingerer n de ments cf the scriptural language he had heard in church the previous day, for he suddenly observed, apropos of nothing at all. "And the Lora sasa unto 'Arf-rigkt-tum. vvitnout a momem. a hesitation his neighbor lying next him added: "And Moses, not knowin' his drill turned 'arf-left! itirins hPinr the best hearted fe.low in the vorld, is always anxious to hearten in -ffliotirm. and the following story illustrates a well meant effort m tms direction.: Outside the Pasteur Institute at Kasauii, in the north of India, may usually be seen at midday a crowd of Quite a hundred persons from all parts of the country wan ing to be inoculated against the ill effects of bites by rabid dogs, jackals and the like. On one occasion tre new arrives eluded an officer who was anything but cemfortab'e as to the effect the inocula tion .would, .have on iiimt and to him a Tommy spoke with words of .cheer. Bitten Uy Hi Friend. Don't vou worry, sir," the soldier said. ww it fr."t nothinz. this inoculation. A friend' W .mine bit me and I said it was o dog, and I've been avin- a onaay ere The scene of another little yam is iam in . . . i i . cotivn an Tn-:an nn-eouniry rawj .w amid the lost'.ing crowds of Indi ans, an English official saw to his regret upon -the 'platform a corporal ana pnvtt .o!n ruiriment somewhat the worse for liquor and inclined to be noisy. Close by, on a station bench, tawing no nuuw of the. same iwnaievci, v..- - . . , i Iregiment who looKed as quiet ana resp-i "Can't you get hold of these two noisy cernrade of yours and Keep mem qmc: iHBIvcv no . . . Very sorry, sir,'" was me rePIy. j- TiKfliinsr. The official went on, pointing ou uw it was the duty of the white man in xndia i -7f rv. and how the behavior to set an . - . of the two delinquents was- calcu.ated to , ji..j on tne rcKijJicm., uu- got only the same answer. - nothing." . asperation. and received the amazing re piy- .. I. iiv. "Be? pardon, sir, dui yw -h nnd them s the d them on!'njs- "CIU . have had esco. u wTO-rt. rrvades the A somewnai -". - . story abbut the German., spy. nuv.o had to walk some distance to the place where e ence Js be carried out n w.o w - -r- ui,n erumbled considerably at v.JV,. tn.walk so. far." His escort bore . om time- but At last, wear- Mntr's interminable ana, as I . j.t Vnnr nllt with the weatner.-one 01 ihui i to grouse Biu (Special Dispatrb.) London, Saturday. T,fti!nn ha a rOAveTflr1 frftm it three j days' shock, the biggest it has had since July, 1914. Ix)ng addicted to late nours, I the bare idea of theatres, restaurants and cafes closing aown at n air-past nine, maae nersons in London rub their eyes. They held their breath. They gasped. It was no use quoting to them the lines of Lowell, who wrote in "The Bigelow Papers": "An" you've to git up airly Ef you want to take in God," Of that if fhv vnt tn hd earlv and eot up correspondingly early, if they did not "taKe in UM tney wouia mena tneir nerves and save some money for their country. "Rut th fi'ino- is not sa drastic after all. Theatre manuers are relieved, as well as restaurateurs. Nevertheless, London is to be put to bed much earlier than Is its cus tom P:irtatns must rine down In the thatrpa not a. second after half-nast ten. No food is to be served in restaurants after ten o'clock, and "lights out" hall an hour later". then! is onfv one -mace inliondon where oiri oiirfair ia atiil runr. At nine o'clock every evening the bell tolls in Lincoln's Inp,.just aa it did. centuries ago wnen law yers and students ooeyeav tne commanu and capped tneir candies. m m m An- interesting point in regard to the rnrtfx" is its effect en the dances which are held in London at night. It is said on behalf of aancing tnat it nas oeen or thA ohif dHehts of men on leave. They are asking already if the new order will mean shutting aown an dui puv.ic ftr tn o'clock. Hitherto such UUUOCO ' - clubs as Murray's have bad dancing from t. h.if.niist Mven and. after dinner, from half-pat nine Ull midnight Now, as j.v. ...tminnts which nermit dancing. T l Lil 1 "... ' - - they will have to stop the music at ten o'clock. But. after all, London has not much about which to complain, me coupon sys tem for the rationing of meat now is run cootniv it has done away alto- gether with the annoying queues in front of shops. With the regulation of the food distribution everybody nnos ne vf" to eat, with perhaps tne exception u. gourmands, who will always grumble and keen crumbling to tne enu. wi.u..,, have settled down to the new order 01 things and are providing menua mv, though in some cases costly, are the won der of lunchers and diners. Business never was brisker, never more profitable. London his nothing wnatever to Bruiu at. . www ttti r.-.ntomniites the sufferings which the Germans have eridured, and the erim deierminea way m - 'sticking to it one wonuci. with them, we in nv pr smallest ground to talk of hardships. For example, one authority says that any mixture will, be regarded as tobacco Jn which the proportion of real tebacco forms more than live per cent "V : weight." Samples of Germaxi tobacco that have been anaiyseu u-u flowers, leaves and stems or norenouna. mullein, mint, vervain, wild oats, heather, seeds, pith of elder tree and small shoot, of trees and fragments of bark. It also was at dinner over a succulent' pigeon pie that Colonel J. W. Slater, of the King's Liverpool Regiment, told a k.mAiie cnrv of a. niffnn ni TTe was Iiuiuuiuua ww.rf - c v i- serving on the western front wlien a Portu guese regiment came close up to tne Hing lish lines, and the English commander thought it would be rather a nice tmng to nresent a dozen carrier pigeons to the vis itors for carrying messages. The pigeons were well trained and were well worm. ?io each. A note was sent witn tne pigeons explaining their purpose, but this was ap parently not unaersiooa, lor a. ww uaa at-" ateiul reply was receivea irom k. -riiotfi pnmmandine officer stat- L I . o . . : A. A- ins h y -he pigeons naa maae a irt raw pigeon pie for the officers' mess. Frm Egypt Major F. A. Kelly sends a - -Rovni Fivine corns sergeants s"sJ V,k Mess, which contains some rather pretty o f wittv wisdom: i , ' 7 i. i The way or tne transgressor i the family. . . tii. mnsmiitn is a small insect designed by nature to make us tmnK Detter 01 mea, Then: ... ttrnmp T riehtlv think. There are five reasons why men drink- Good wine, good friends, Decause mey re dry Or else they may be by and by Or any ether reason why. Tn such exercises or humor ao tne sol diers keep depression away. . GERMANS' HATRED VENTED FULLY ON NAVAL PRISONERS "pd thw 6' UJPPea, tetcned and car- uie wwm. o" -"v. -rn nl v e? hu"Orcd bombs " oa Sunday 'Ere. wot 'ave you to ing before breakfast. IWe've trrt waiir t--i-"v found on German prisoners of war 'was shown to consist of a com pound of terminal buds of different trees and Plants, such as ash. ivy hyssop, fcc. chopped ty " ' """-T- in Bavaria, are oniy their normal supply of beer. The only boots procurable nave cin vpp wooden soles, and contain practically no leather at all, white linoleum is largely used for repairs. Half a pound of meat and two and a hall ounces 01 w . o, fats are the ration, but many people can not procure even so men. Fish d vege tables are very scarce, potatoes, which are plentiful enough here, being rationed at ten and a half ounces per day. These are only a iew items. "v :...i.u4.-..fHP. dearable or usable in can be procured at a"- holding steadily in the nope oi victory. .v.t "rations ' the staff of the ?r7,,,; f -STatural 'History was lvitart out to lunch. To their 3SKth was meaUn they finisher -" lt . Lir; CT rr.j- ti,TY xrilained that he had been XI1C11 iiuov , taking liberties In ,erani L" vl" -perlment with the flesh of .u,-v, v.oj neen feund stranded en the Suffolk coast." Every party agreed that the experiment had been r r-jj-n-i.. niasant one. the whale being scarcely distinguishable from beef and every bit as palataeie. ado were unanimous that if whale .eef were put en i ti...mamiiriiM son came. Of course, .we have to get the whales nt. cn-.Ae.A whales are rare, and 'its Tk.r. in fh anthoritv of Sir Arthur Lee for stating that the majority of the "land women" who were inspected Dy me vmu the other day took to the work not lor pay, but as the best means of doing their share in the absence or me men at t front. The same good motive is shared by fu. -BL-oVkrs and Sir Arthur's evi dence reminded one of, a story heard re cently from an officer who personally rll. fnr its authenticity. Here It is in . . a . nis own werus . . At - a very worthy and patriotic but rather pompous peer, a recent creation, engaged in important public duties. w;as v.; ,otl hv art army service UI1VCU " . . . - ,.x.r. -,rtrv, o n ririvpr. A number of oiricer 'friends were standing beneath. the portico v hnf. o nii witn tne aUDarent mm v. impressing them with his importance, he said to his driver wun some itsi itj . rn r vn at three o ciocK, anu uuui. iyi ... - ...... a .... An tini " yvu Ate uu v . ... - ."All right." repnea tne iaay in vCl, matter of fact tone. .-..j via lorflshln added: "It would be just as easy to speak as 1 am accustomed to be spoken to, and to say. A11 right, my lord.' " The response, delivered without an atom i,,t with erusnmz eiiect, iu Oi v ciivjni, . ' - " spite of the sunny smile which accompa- U1CU w m-m "Certainly, my lord, and as the arrangeT ments had better be reciprocal. jnP vo will address me as 'yojfBilaaasfsraEi,! . . tt - j ...vants no. r . . --1- r as niy uvn, os. ' The woman was me aaugnter ui vC1. known peer, and had selected tnis par ticular method of doing her part. An amusing story of the ultra-strict command officer of a unit that it is not safe even to ; mdU-t ISr from hlrideas oi discipline. He remaking the. first visit of the day and the guard turned out to accord the cus- tomarv "ffreeing." . They took special ternary ft Thf pains to give d..- R. S. M. happened- to be present, .and to him the C. O, turned and indignantly de - v.o thniisrht of it. manaea vnu ----- . . 'All right, sir," repiieu tne wana. ficer. 1i "What, all right'.' wny, anyiuu. v.ox. see what was wrong, ''barked tne on Yes sir. but I couion t, rcspuuu Sergeant Major. it ia in th vertical, and then lit immediately falls over 'on its back,' from which position it quicKiy rignts itself." rtna of th mast remarkable results of the war is the number of soldier poets who have been discovered. xne oookbcubis shelves reveal a lot of interesting produc tions from the field and trench. - But there must be an amazing amount of fine stuff written in dugouts and in all manner oi curious places which never sees the light. One evening recently, sitting in one oi me v iw r a . huts, we were discussing this very subject of soldier poets when a young j officer told how he had found in the clothes of a young soldier who had won a little white wooden cross in France one of the most tbuching little pieces of poetry he had ever read.- -T,ftey ,aaa so impresses him that they were ' indelibly fixed upen his memory. A deep silence, as he softly recited the lines which, he said, were addressed, 'TTo. Mv Mother:" ' "If I should fall, grieve not that one so , weak and poor as jl . - r. .Should die. vvi thona-h thv heart should break Think only this: mat wnen at ousic xney speak nf sons and brothers? of another one, Then thou canst say. 'L too, had a son; He died for England's saite. www XT a f ..rail v this IpA tn discussion on the 4. u, w m j- j effect which, the war nad produces upon tvia roiivioim helief of 'the soldiers. A chaplain who had been at the front almost since the beginning of tne war saio. "t v.;n haa iniiiirt rnnnsanas ox. men A Luiun i A.ww n,v.n kfn tho war were 'unattached to any religious body, definitely to associate rtnmRlvi with one or otner 01 tne nrVig' and niwn v to nroiess a recog nized creed. This attitude has not been noi Yxr anv nromntinffs oi narrow -o or hiffntrv. hut has rather been the expression of a desire to be able to give , . ,vilenro of 'tftB I aim WOICU is in V T - to ffont of tha war's eomoelling force Koc not hnwwfr. been conimett to me army, but among civilians at nome tne has been annarent. Quite recently four of London's leading masters of mirth George Robey, deorge ros smith, George Formby and George Mozart have joined the Catholic Church, a fact which should go some way in disabusing the mind of the popular belief that a man who "professes" a religion must necessar ily be "a dull dog;" English Seamen Subjected to . . .Unbelievable Tortures by Captors. it (Special Dispatch.) . , . London, Saturday. Pacifists Properly Tamed by 'Ragging9 at Cannibal Club AT BALL GAME HEART OF STRAN Vacant Lot There, Americans; Seize It Without Thought or Care for Rental. (Special Dispatch.) London, Saturday. Ramsay Macdonald, Charles TreVelyan and Arthur Ponsonby took their courage in both hands on Thursday and sat down to lunch with the Cannibal Club-about the last place in the world where pacifists might be expected. But the Canmbalj had a great afternoon, just after their own hearts. They "sweedled" their guests for a "rag," and they got it sure ough Of course the guests had to spea. Mr. Ponsonby plaintively protested that they were not pro-Germans and - mdi eating L r.oi,w hs settled by 'a talk new ' lie wcli vv - when a Cannibal shouted. "Shut up'. - He TWirrionald did rather better. Hej Horrible as are many of the tales which have been published of German brutality to prisoners of war, there are many others still more harrowing if they could onlv he nrintAH. A nrl tha worst tales of all could be told of the Hun treatment of naval prisoners. Fortunately these pris oners are comparatively few In number, but the Boche hatred of their enemies vnt. itsalf fnr reasons which nrobably seem good to them, in greatest measure against the British navy, xne tiring oy U-boats upon helpless crews struggling in the water or escaping from torpedoed ves sels 4s nothing, tor.meir vne treatment 01 prisoners taken at sea. I have been permitted to read some let ter frera'Eiiglfsh. seamen which somehow have escaped the eyes of the German cen sers. Some of the stories one would not dare to quote. They are horrible beyond description. Tk. 'filtv.ioct rf starilaa or vermin m Hh -w.. - ' fested cow sheds are good enough for the "English swine" from the sea, who nave been the means of- bottling up the Ger man fleet and have stopped all commerce for Germany on the sea routes of the world. Guards Laugh am Men Die. Were it not for the narcels of food sent from England by the Prisoners' Aid Soci ety they could not possibly live, and even the test of that food often never reaches them. To complain is to risk punishment fir Inisiilinrri'inatinn. 'Sentries and Eruardfc are-encouraged by their officers to pun ish, summarily, witnout any cnarge or sending them up for court martial, which is always a farce anyway. And those sen tries, who would seem to be men selected for their lack of feeling, are never slow in taking- advantage of opportunities thai present themselves of inflicting the most inhuman tortures on their prisoners. Picture a cell catching fire. Picture the prisoners beating on the bars for release. And picture the sentry, with sardonic laugh, "sticking" thern through the bars with his bayonet That is what actually happened to two men. And their deaths were officially recorded as having been rln f ft-flnnhviriatirtn. .... It recalls .a story I recently iheard In the American Y. M. C. A. Eagle Hut, which a wounded Canadian soldier told of a bru tal Hun who killed a . helpless wounded Fnelisjh soldier hv stiekine his bayonet again and again into his body, laughing j and gloatmg over the blood as. At 'drippeu from the blade. Ptrfrr' Forced to Make Munitions. . The naval nrisoners of war are forced to work- in' coal mines, labor for which they are totally unfitted. Dislocated wrists and broken limbs are not Jnfre quently the result. " But" what do the Ger man slave drivers care! The class oi work, however, to which they delight in putting the navai prison rs is the making of munitions. Naturally they rebel. Bui it ia n ",u,e, fot relugal 'ineans for th-ira one of the most terrible of punishments, or tortures "the. tree" a. method of cru cifixion which recalls the days of the In Mnisition. whan, .ifter hf-me' t6rtured bv the rack until unconscious, the unhappy prisoner was revived to go mrougn tne torture all over again. TTre is how the nuntshment of "the 1 tree" is described in plain and simple lan guage in a prisoner's letter home, and (Special Dispatch.) London,. Saturday. ' The diversity of "sights" in the Strand. London, has always been a matter for wonder for the visiting American. But young America is just now providing Lon doners themselves with a "sight" in the ; f Strand which makes them stand in open v; mouthed amazement. Around the Eagle ; Hut there is a big bit of space, which the American boys m knaki ' using tne nut have, without as much as asklne the ground rent holders "by your leave," have converted into a baseball aiamond. wot . that these same ground rent 'holders "mind, a bit1. Not they! No doubt they are; rather .pl;asecL. And the Y. M. C. A. aids and abets by supplying the bats and balls Never a day passes without a regular "corner lot" game, -while the Londoners r stand and stare, and. Master Eobby never -says "Move on," so much is he amused, himself. Sometimes it is a game between "Army" and "Navy." and sometimes some naen.oX the allied: forces who are nqt familiar with the game make up a team to compete with the Americans (by way of . learning. And they get a lesson, sure enough, , . One day even some of the American -'j gins at work In the Hut grew so excited witnessing the game that they ran down from the verandas, demanded some mits. and joined the game. The American Y. M. C. A. is organizing. . a ree-nlar haaehall laomio tn nlav B'a.me during the spring and summer months. " v ' "You English are 'slow but sure. You 'look before you leap. And a mighty good . y rule it is to be broken sometimes. Wi Americans den't stop to think not al ways. We just go for things and think . out the details on the way there." W He Was quite a young man who spoke barely twenty. He had been an under secretary to his father for a whole year in a big business house "somewhere to New York," and therefore knew something -. about American hustle. Now he wal , wearing a "bird's" uniform, with the full: determination to carry his policy into more a practical effect by "just going for thing- and thinking out details on the way there.; ' There was a story the other day how American slang completely oa tiiea iu sharp eared German spy. But if you go tc an airdrome in tms tuunuj -, -ven the Englishman can- not understand unless he is versed in air- dromese. You must tam, not uu w planes, but "buses." You must not Jhxnt ia nervous. He is "all of a doodah.' If you call a cap a cap, you are are "eadeets." When you are taking a 5f ' , .are either a "Hun" or a Iirsi-Iirgnt -you - . "quirk." If you are - ore n smissed as a George. stranger yv" " ,, ; j .1. tr, a sma.ll nortion of the air- man's vocabulary, which is being added to almost every day. The officer of the Royal Flying Corps dwmped his aerodromese, However, and t.iC.j vnrilsh while explaining-to tt.c t"-". . f-.-' , t. . , nItB a "George- mat iwue " 1 easy." "In fact," e saio, you can t ne.p deing it." Being rather dubious, he went on to explain that "you simply press a lever which tilts the planes to the fullest extent, and tne nacnine aun steepest ngle. At each angle, however, the force of ravityis -too great for the strength of the engine and the machine d-a SI -irm presented the trio as a sort ot coven trated casualty list by declaring, We have been wounded many times Uui.to the last three and a half years. The. Cannibals crooned symiJitu, a voice broke the spell. Mr. Macdonald was peitea wu mu- tlons. "Will you repeat your smcui . Germany?" was the nrst. x ' " bottle of wine if you do you wUl find your self in Runleben." ' ' ,..af u ,a . "I am glad," he repu. realized I should be put In prison if I .7. s M Germany. I will cer- Uttereu my tinrra tainly express these views at any confer-. MrTreveiyan then had his little say, which was of no account, and the canni bals released their victims. Compare this scene with that in the House of Commons on Thursday when Mr. Arthur Balfeur, whatever his first performances on foreign affairs may have r ; j j viis- critics, made a Been coubiucicu " j - . most fascinating and appealing speech on the Russian situation- - " it. He had no-difficulty in covering with humillatlen and discomfiture the Pajstf who.ee in .auieaTBwnwnw.w, ,..? which is vouched for by others who know as beinr a auite unexaggerated picture: "A bLt party of Uhlans rode intor the omn art A sHrronnfiefl the men (who had refused to work on munition making), and started pushing and snoving tnem anout, and dirrsrlnir tnem 'with' flielr' rifles. The Officer in charee. who could sneak Enc nav. -told the men "that thev were only prisoners ot war, mat tney wouia nave to nut un with what they could Ket and ao as they were ordered. Her gave them five minutes to get to work or he would order them to be shot. "The men were, literally starving. SO that nearly all gave in. They were marched ! ..... - i back to worK, wnicn 'tney nao to ao mm nothing to eat until eight o'clock at night. " "But Xhirty-fqur men remained on the parade ground, refusing to make shells to kill their own people. They were not shot, but' fir worse. The officer sent them into the wood-and ordered them to be tied to trees. Some were tied up, crucifix fashion; n.... Si-r hv on Ice or on? arm: some were made to-stand on stools while their bands were tied to. trees above their heads: Then tne stools were kicked away from under them, and they were , left hanging, at. the mercy or tne mosqu.ioeo, And this same policy of "just going for5 ; things" without troubling to look before ; taking a leap was Illustrated: by a Y. M. r -, C. A. secretary who has been working at ; one of the American huts at a certain . jort in England where troops embark for France. r A r tr'no-HaVi Kolrtier ran into the Offioel :i ' one day in great excitement, saying tha his transport was just aoout 10 iea.ve, . . . . 1 J J. 1. 1 M .VAnvA eL. ' nis momer xiau. eeui mm o. -dressed care of the Y. M. C. A. Unable -to locate the money before leaving Eng- i. iv.f Tiro a in ?reat distress and waa ICLlU, ilV O - -. 'tffiagrined more than ever to find that ha- ' had lost more valuable time Dy coming ubi the American Y. M. C. A. by mistake. s "Get on to your transport' said t0 . American officer. "You must not take: ; any chance of losing that. Til get your money for you." xne soioier maae ur I. . , 9 . 1 t.A.1ran lrAii .TPMbi.- . 1115 snip auu tne -n-iui 4 ., . ing the speed llniit on hia old Ford to the : - ; British Y. M. C. A. tie located tne caeqoa -. a-ot kv to the dock lust in time td. '-. roll it up in a ball and throw It te the ; ; eager young man on tne iookoux on aecis.r. And the Tommies standing round, whOt.; , had learned of the race against time, gavev-:? three lusty tsntisn cnews auu jeueu w., r"'r hearty appreciation: "That's the Yankee way-to do things.' : - " ' Here is another story told .by a T. M. C. ,; A. secretary Illustrating the fine epirit of. -honesty which exists in . the American" t . Armv. A -number of troops were stopping r.. at a British camp, and pay day being 8ome ? way off they were in need ef funds to ' buysome personal equipment. Something. near 250 was needed to go round the , men. but the Y. M. C. A. came to their - -relief. Soon afterward they left for France." - And. not a man defaulted. . When pay day . tw4-rmA .van nf nf the. hnrrnwcvf mnMI 4 . l.L . . , , ' . was returned, witn gra.iei.ui tn ruins ivrz thf loan. " - ' : i . - JhZt vt a nne tion and aggression, and the sentries who came ardund prodding In a fme phrase" he swept this aside. ,TSVeithem with tbei bayonets. SeSf on help and sympathy." he 'hfftr tlV jiwasion And '.KTnnr. . - ne of our fellows in a faint, he raised his. head and puncneo. mm in tne race, xnes , he ordered-hlm to be xrat down, and he fefl i in a-heap on. the ground. Left lying there . till' he came to, they tied hlra up again. ? "After two hours of this treatment the? prisoners were marched. back to camp and,. p'jx in a. Uvirn wiutuui eituci i.wu wj : blankets.- For. three days this treatment of the tree; was continued. The men were ; slowly dying of agony until we saw there was o-: use -for 'them- to, stick to it any longer: so wc advised t,hem o give Jn. M.; ihey had done their best -and it was ne -use going through all such 'unnecessaxs inixore." , - ;S ! I- Si: us. t i ''S :;i 1.: j it ! '- h i r