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m of cemeteries thousands of graves in french lorraine shifting of battles may be traced by following lines of wooden crosses i portion cf those killed in the opera tions in the attack and defeat of nancy pious hands are taring for these cemeteries evenso close to the battle- front that the german heavy artil lery often rakes up the sod and sends the crosses flying in splinters flow ers are planted on all the french graves and the tricolor floats over many of them the graves of the germans are sacredly protected but not decorated respect kitchener french lorraine is the greatest german press likens him to duke of cemetery in the world colonics of dead marked by lines of crude wood en crosses lies everywhere under newlytformed sod at the edges of woods and thickets and in ravines german and french the shifting of battle scenes may be traced by fol lowing them they are thickest there where was for nancy that began with the re treat of the french from morhange wellington the most remarkably frank appreci ation of any englishman that has ap peared in the german press since the beginning of the war is published by the berliner tageblatt as the imme- they are thickcst tnere d r t lord kitcheners mis- fought the great battle son the cffc wllch sen sl- i n tl ous germans are plainly uneasy lord kitchener is evidently rcgard- ed by the writer as the modem wei and reached its climax during thc battle of fti ammo th number has jngton n ly compares him whilst the whole article is an ap preciation of lord kitcheners mili tary and organizing genius as fol lows nothing is more stupid than to un derestimate an adversary and when j england sends its best military man battle of the maine the number has been continually swelled since in the 14months struggle in the woevre and the vosges saint genevieve essey the amances the heights of cuittes veaine gerbevillers of the grand couronne denancy etain the j to the district in which possibly the eparges the bois brule the bois v bc iceidc1 we hie every apremont the bois saint mansuyand reaso t0 cxamin0 the man his capa- the bois le pretro in the woevre are bimics ani determination as impar- so many cemeteries nearly all tially as possible to begin with we them with crosses bearing names lj but admit that what lord kit- ready illustrious lionel rieux thej ha done in the course of this war as an organizer is deserving of poet lies at essey paul vial who received a bullet in his heart in the saint mansuy woods among the the greatest respect one must judge not from the english point of view french buned at gerberviller is jean for t is impossible to apply the same martin one of the most promising pu- stan to the work of a german and pilsofthe french art school at an engish minister of wal agci man minister of war would bo ashamed of himself if he needed so rome he fell with the heroic hand- 1 ful of chasseurs that held the mor- tagne there against 40000 germans during the 11 hours mercell drouet is among those who lie at the summit of the samagneux hill tomorrow in nancy the dead lie thickest perhaps at the loisy gap after the germans had captured nomeny and ponta mousson they sent a regiment to force this passage between two heights held by a single company of french infantry that gap became the tomb of the entire regiment the cemetery of st genevieve is not so dense but far more extended than that of the loisy gap the ger mans forced by the resistance of the company of infantry at loisy to try a flank movement around tliehejelg of s geneviev obla cessbelore the heigmxnof cuittes where french crosses predominate it was then thinking he saw the route opening up for his troops the em peror of germany issued his famous order of the day tomorrow in nancy sainte genevieve was still between his majestys troops and the lorraine capital it is today the ceme tery of most of them the french too fell in such numbers there as to disquiet the officers who called the attention of commandant m to the losses no matter replied the command ant we wont give an inch it re quired an order from the general to induce him to take up a stronger posi tion a little in the rear in the name of his majesty during the attacks upon the plateau of amance captured on the 7th and retaken by general duljial on the 8th emperor william is said to have observed the action from the edge of the moral woods behind which were concealed the 10000 horsemen of the prussian guard his escort into nancy velaine fell and uhlans and bavarian infantry surged into the passage between the two heights of amance if we can hold out the day it will be a miracle said the french general in command the throe- inchers increased their fire to the maximum speed just then and mowed those uhlans and bavarians down be fore they could debouch from the de file they lie there today in serried ranks over which a weedy sod has formed the 10000 cavalry of the guard galloped off toward metz and a parliamentarian with a white flag asked in the name of his majesty for an aimistice of 24 hours to bury the dead in 24 hours replied the french general when the emperor shall have given sepulchre to his thousands of dead we shall be ready for him again flowers on french graves an estimated proportion of three germans to one frenchman buried in the battlefields of the grand cou ronne de nancy extending in a semi circle from gerbevillers to pont-a- mousson on the cast bank of the mo selle naturally takes no account of the thousands of bavarian dead re moved nt night by rail toward metz after the battle of sainte genevieve which decided the issue of the strug gle for nancy nor docs it comprise the heavy death roll of the french in annexed lorraine just over the frontier in the disaster of mor- hange l the evidence oi those who have visited all the battlefields of lor raine and those who kolpcd pick up j the dead after tho battle of nancy lends to tho belief that taking tho french dead in german lorraino and the german dead ferried from tho 1 field of battle ftero is no exaggera tion in the estimate of three ger- mans to ono fr a thr sro- much time and trouble as lord kit chener has needed to get together and prepare a similar force for operations no such improvisation is necessary in our case but in england where in times of peace preparations have ne ver been made for a land war on such a scale it must be recognized that lord kitchener has created his armies and organization out of nothing it is easily understood therefore why the leading classes are not to be shaken in their confidence in him who is this man with whom we have to reckon in the future in the devel opment of the struggle of saf kggxes in the eastern mediteur7xsi helsta typicalxrcsentative of english kinism which notwithstanding all disclaimers has always existed and once had a similar representative a man of the same stamp like welling ton lord kitchener like wellington de termines his acts on grounds of prac ticability only revolt when truth told berlin people already doubt some german versions of war to the paris figaro a french woman has written a letter from ber lin describing in a very interesting manner certain conditions in the ger man capital after telling of the daily increasing difficulty in procuring suffi cient provisions and other necessities of life the correspondent continues life hero is becoming unbearable and i am glad that it will soon be time for me to leave the people here hate everything that is not german they are absolutely selfsufficient and nobody else is of any account they will not admit the superiority of any one except god perhaps there is one thing in particular which exasperates them and that is when they are referred to as barbar ians they hate france well enough but it is nothing compared to their hatred of england to the english are credited the blackest crimes un der the sun and every german prays and hopes most fervently that the powers of heaven will some day strike and utterly blot out england we are quite a few sympathizers of the allies here and in spite of all the bad news we are treated to in the war bulletins we are not getting dis couraged at the time of the latest french successes in champagne the german version of the event read like this on the bulletin boards the french occupied a few of our ad vanced trenches but wo retook them presently but htey forgot to men tion that these trenches cost them 120000 men many have begun to doubt the veracity of the war office and are murmuring over the unrelia bility of the news from the front it is my opinion that these people who have hitherto let themselves be led like sheep to the slaughter block will become like wild beasts when they finally learn the truth the maori in his tommy atkins and his native uniform men of the xow zealand maori contingent to tho british expeditionary force when they set the kings uniform on are men of a different color so lo speak envy but a horrible thing happened another maid bringing gifts and len to dcrness suddenly appeared two hearts the bombardier was fully com petent to hold conversation became jerky when a third girl arrived and when the fourth skipped in the boastful bombardier germanys army it has an increasing tendency shrink some calculations on germanys wastage and reserves are given by mr warner allen the british correspon- j dent with the french armies these c awayto order tea he fied calculations he writes are confirmed tho dcn a scjmcwhat r by a variety of sources j condition on the step he stumbled 1rom august 1b11 to the end ox i the ficth attachment oli october 191o the total german losses i j she v shm we eit amounted approximately to four and tq thj pictul hc a a half million men on the combined fronts of this total three millions may be tjiken as definitely hors de combat dead prisoners or perma nently disabled while the remaining 1000000 may be considered as having returned to the fighting line there is a considerable amount of evidence to show that the german losses are much greater than they ad mit the writer comes to the conclu sion that during the last nine months of the war the german casualties have reached 300000 a month exactly as they did during the first six months not more than onethird of this total is able to return to the front so that the german net losses amount to 200- 000 a month to meet further losses germany will be compelled to raise the age limit of military service above 45 and al ready a secret circular has been issued instructing the authorities to proceed to the preparatory registration of men between 4g and 50 for some time past the numerical ed quickly that ward it was getting too hot in electricity on the farm being taken up by the farmers of during the past two or three years the employment of electricity upon the farm has undergone considerable de velopment in great britain says chamberss journal one great ob jection to this system of illumination has been the fear that highly skilled labor is essential to its installation and maintenance but tho increasing utilization of oilengines as a source of power has dispelled this illusion accordingly a british firm conceived the idea of putting on tho market a complete electriclighting installation of simple design highly efficient vir tually foolproof and capable of be ing installed and maintained by a far mer of average intelligence at the strength of the german army has th question of initial ex- been stationary on the various fronts nense had to be borne in mmd how- with an increasing tendency to shrink i ever an experimental installation was the number of men called up for ac- j prepared and displayed at an exhibi- tive service since february last cer- tion u aroused instant and wide- tainly does not exceed the number of spread attention the average farmer casualties and at the present moment the number of men in the depots does not exceed the number at that date j antiquated oillamp illumination the tho wastage result is that the farmers electric set i having long since appreciated the in- conveniences and dangers attending and the nurse was offended doctor well casey are the eyes improving patient sure they are sir doctor can you sec better can you see the nurse now patient sure i can sir faith she gets plainer and plainer ivery day a false note i hear you caalling me warb led daughter from tho parlor yes sang mother from the kit chen i want you to como here and help mo with the dissshes and then a profound silence reign ed to keep pace with germany has been forcedto exhaust almost all the reserves of men and the work has been carried out with ruthless severity her last reserves are being rapidly used up and if tho numerical strength of her army can still be kept up for a limited time its quality has deteriorated and must de teriorate more and more boastful bombardier a teaparty meeting of five of his sweethearts wounded heroes form many attach ments in our county towns says the london daily mail some men glide happily into one affair and let it ripen but there are others who drift along the pleasant path to convales cence making a fresh conquest every afternoon the story of a boastful bambardier illustrates the danger of falling in love more than twice at the same time the fire was glowing red in the re creation room of a hospital arid the men turned lightly to romance re garding the achievements of his col leagues as mediocre singlestring af fairs the boastful bombardier describ ed no fewer than five simple maids who carried his photograph the other men asked the names and addresses of tho lucky girls and the bombardier gave them with intense fervor late at night the other men issued five postcards inviting the maids to tea and signed joe the name of the bambardier on new years day tho bombardier sitting by the fireside was pleasantly surprised to receive a visit joe said the girl how sweet of you to ask me secretly amazed tho bombardlor coaxed her to the fire and winked a triumphant message to the other men who stood about apparently glum with has come into extensive favor and is having a promising vogue the in stallation has everything that is re quired including a small petrol- engine some seventeen lights of vari ous types to meet the decorative scheme of different apartments and buildings sufficient supply of wiring fuses lamps switchboard dynamo and a special type of storagebattery moreover the set is made up in such a manner that nothing elss whatever is required while the task of install ing can be carried out by the owner himself without any extraneous aid the whole equipment is of substantial construction the parts which ordi narily demand careful handling and supervision being unusually robust the battery is of sufficient capacity to supply twothirds of the lights nt the rated candlepower for eight hours continuously the battery being re charged during the hours when the light is not required misfit ad in a paper wanted book keeper and salesman must have one leg shorter than the other wo were about to telephone this opportunity to a friend when we sud denly remembered that what he had was one leg longer than the other t accommodating her father tho fact is i cannot give my daughter a dowry just at present suitor thats all right sir i can love her for herself alone in the meantime hello old man have you had any luck shooting i should say i did i shot eoventeen ducks in one day wild well no hot exactly but tho farmer wasl go back to old remedies war brings return of medicines of grandfathers day physicians have been jumping from one drug or chemical to another ever since lister found a way to check or prevent the infection of wounds doc tors have tried friars balsam car bolic acid iodoform and dozens of other antiseptics some of them very costly and now seem to have gone back to old household dress ings of rast years and even past cen turies on the battlefields of euroic sugar salt tincture of iodine and common garlic have supersede drugs and chemicals with high sounding names the nov- york commercial rtates sugar is used as a dressing for wound already infected the british government has found that wounded men on ships whose injuries have been wnrbed with common sea water make better recoveries than those treated in field hospitals the conclu sion being that the waters of the ocean are an ideal antiseptic tinc ture of iodine a preparation as old as the hills is the favorite protection afrairst lockjaw and so it goes of all these reversions to grand mothers specifics however the dis covery that garlic is almost a cureall is the most striking doctors who prescribe and use only the most costly and newfangled preparations import ed from germany will have to give re spected attention to garlic for its efficacy is vouched for by the london lancet on the testimony of two emi nent london surgeons garlic applied to a wound stops the infection and heals quickly whereas modern anti septics used in fashionable practice in jure the tissues garlic has been test ed thoroughly at the paddington in firmary in london as well as in field hospitals in france the story of the rediscovery of gar lic possesses human interest an old french peasant woman was found to have dressed the sores and wounds of soldiers in the war zone with remark able results an army surgeon inves tigated and garlic is sold by the ton where it was formerly sold by the ounce in england chemists shops garlic juice diluted with three or four parts of distilled water seems to be the standard dressing garlic is also found to be effective in preventing tuberculosis and in cur ing it in its early stages the com mon onion cousin of the clove of gar lic is good for colds hindus have used plasters of garlic for ages just when speculators have cornered the drug and chemical market army doc tors find substitutes in things that are cheap and plentiful tkliincit luxuries soldiers have wirenetting beds and paved trenches j the french riniies are undertaking their second winter campaign under conditions which are luxury compared j with the improvised arrangements for their comfort made last winter war- her allen representative of the bri- i tish press with the french forces states that so highly organized are the j conditions now that not only has the army very little to fear from cold but i also the life of the soldier in the i trenches apart from the dangers in- j separable from war is more healthy i than his ordinary existence in time of i peace while germans in the first line are given only one meal a day and have to be contented at night with the cof- fcei served out to them and with such provisions as they have been able to buy for themselves the french com missariat has never failed to provide the entire army with two good meals a day an extra ration of meat is now given to the men most exposed and when the temperature requires it hot drinks the most radical form however is in making the trenches comfortable and healthy they are even being drained and paved and powerful pumps have been installed to clear out the water the walls of the trenches have been strengthened to make the shelters dampproof the ground has been beaten down levelled and cover ed with planks or straw the earthen roofs strengthened with sheets of zinc and duo attention paid to ventilation and heating in the second line wood en huts have been erected the beds in these shelters consist of wirenet ting stretched on a wooden frame he knew father tho philosopher is born and not made even in tender youth the pre cious gift is often olmcivftd remarks the manchcsur guardian one juvcnll ybuosftpinr ws dis covered the other dfty whin tho news arrived at a certain houns that the head of the family fighting with his regiment in france had been wound ed tears wcro the order of the day until tho small boy thought to in quire whereabouts was dad wound ed he was told in the hand thats just like father he re sponded going on methodically with his breakfast hes been trying to catch the bullet speedy dogs the swiftest dog in tho world tho berzoi or russian wolfhound has made record runs that show 75 feel in a second vhilo tho gazelle has shown measured speed of more than 80 feet a seconcf which would give it a speed of 4800 feet in a minute if the pace could be kept up trencn rabbits manychildren haunt the lines at the front in lady ingliss narrative of her experiences during the siege of luck- now half a century ago nothing caught the attention of the public more generally than her description of how quickly the children in the be leaguered residency became accus tomed to living under fire they lost all fear of bullets were only momen tarily startled by the crash of a shell close at hand and used to beg hard for the privilege of leaving the more sheltered womens quarters to play in a little inclosed garden despite the fact that their swing had been car ried away and their ret goat slftn there by cannon fire while bullets pat tered so frequently against the walls that it had ceased to be fun to run and pick them up while they were yet hot before the siege ended some of their little playmates had been killed and some wounded but the survivors pining in the heated rooms were not a whit less eager for tag and hopscotch in their dangerous playground- few indeed were the children who stored the perils of that time com pared with those endangered injured and slain in the fearful european war of today leaving aside atrocities or intentional injuries to children of which one can scarcely bear to think the exigencies of warfare along so many hundred miles of trenches run ning through so many ruined and half- ruined villages have brought many scores of children within the danger zone often they become like the lucknow children quite fearless learning to disregard the most terri fying sights and sounds they help their mothers to work in the fields un der fire quite as a matter ot course and it is their frequent tendency with the natural curiosity of childhood rather to approach the firing line than to keep away from it despite rules and orders they occasionally reach the second and even the first line of defense and pay surreptitious visits to the soldiers in the trenches there they are both scolded and welcomed in some cases orphan waifs have been practically adopted as individual com pany or regimental pets and mascots so numerous are the children who haunt the lines in certain regions that the soldiers have nicknamed them trench rabbits not always to the poor little rab bits escape unscathed from their dan gerous tasks in the open or from as sociating with their soldier chums wounded children are not common yet unfortunately they are not very rare in the hospitals near the front when they are brought in a nurse has testified they are often clinging tight ly for consolation 16 the toys con trived or carved for them by their grownup playfellows in the trenches in the monotonous hours of waiting between assaults one little lad wounded in the foot by shrapnel went under ether to have his mangled toes removed still clutch- i ing tightly in his hand a woolly lamb made for him by a british tommy from a scrap of his own torn sheep- skin coat and a few bits of whittled wood as the childs fingers relaxed it was removed and forgotten but no j sooner had hc recovered consciousness than his first inquiry and demand was where ismy lamb i want my lamb that monsieur tommee made for me i the lamb was found but it had been allowed to fall to the floor and the white fleece was stained with i blood the nurse offered to wash it off but the little fellow was not will- i ing to wait let me have my lamb now he begged you can tie a bandage round him and i will play that wo have both been wounded by the ene- mies of our country when his friend monsieur tom- mee atkins and monsieur tom- i mees comrades heard about it they made a number of other lambs and sent them to the hospital so that the i boys convalescence was cheered by 1 shepherding a noble flock of which he i never tired among the hills and val leys of the land of counterpane terrible in trenches 1 winter campaign worst in nistory german experts say an exceptionally frank admission of the terrific conditions faced by ger man troops going through the second winters campaign is contained in an article by major moraht military ex pert of the berliner tageblatt and the best known german military critic he described unparalelled hardships and sufferings by the kaisers men and calls the winter campaign the most terrible in the worlds history superhuman deeds still are being accomplished in the struggle against wind weather and winter i will not depict in detail the agonies which the flesh is undergoing out thero while the spirit remains steadfast but in order that we at home may not mini mize the magnitude of this suffering i can only describe as fully justified the wish which is so often expressed in my correspondence namely let no one be misled by pretty pictures which now and then reach the german papers from some alleged point at the front on our western and eastern fronts and along the lines held by our aus- trohungarian allies tho conditions under which wo must stubbornly hold out nre such as never in the history of tho worlds most terrible winter cam paign had to bc endured before a little fish in a small puddle imagines ho is big germans reckon the cost of peace hun newspaper publishes a frank article j enormous burden of taxatidn fore seen but people are defiant an exceptionally frank article re garding the actual economic conditions in germany appears in the koelnische- zeitung of a recent date the writer calls attention to the seriousness of the situation and expresses great doubt as to the possibility of germany being able to increase her income after the war in a proportion sufficient to meet the situation extracts of tho article follow never shall we be able to forget the seriousness of these times tho effects of this war will not be wiped out with the conclusion of peace in all circumstances as the secretary of state for tho imperial treasury has said in the reichstag we shall have to bear a colossal burden of taxes af ter the war it is useless to make guesses about the extent of the com ing taxes but even soperficial con sideration shows that after the war we shall have to place a far higher percentage of our income at the dis posal of the state in the shape of taxes and customs in addiditon to these great sacri fices smaller sacrifices are required and the future as well as the present demands privation how can ono measure these sacrifices in compari son with what our soldiers have to bear in the rain of shells in frost and wet and without even the most mis erable conveniences let us not forget that many ger man women are today walking a road of suffering and that there is much need among the families of the lower middle classes which is not yet allayed in spite of all readiness to help england is blamed we know who is responsible a war is no childs play but this war is of quite special horror because of j englands cunning and violence and because englands sharpest weapon is aimed at the lives of our children and of our weakest and mosthelpes3 anybody in england who has the very smallest ccrncepjipn of economic life has knownfor a ysar past ever since the beginnings of ouxorgani7- economy that the german pss j whole will continue to hold outliy war for years to come and e neutral knows that if engfenmjl course of a long war can still claim a success it will be the elements of the german people which are physically and economically the weakest that will succumb to the pressure if the english yet succeeded in gaining a triumph it would be our babic3 and the weakest members of our peoplo that would go under never the people as a whole and even this we shall 1 know how to prevent england will not be able to satisfy her ambition and to make good the failures of her strategy by a great murder of children we who are strong and capable of resistance must and will bring every blow to naught but to this end fresh sacrifices must be made our enemies now that tho jwar is approaching its climax and now that the last trumps are being i played on the enemys side shall learn that in our capacity and readiness to make sacrifices we have by no means reached the end and our readiness i will be all tho stronger and more will- ing the more plainly we see through i these horrible methods of warfare seeing that everything that the bri- tish spirit of invention has devised against us has hitherto turned into a blessing for us we may be sure that the enemys last spring will not find 1 us weak conditions of life altered we have never had and in future shall have less than ever any lack of bread the supply of potatoes which caused us such anxious hours and which seemed to be in such hopeless confusion has now been happily as- sured thanks to the heroism of our sol diers the existence of the german citi zens is so secure that he hardly re- i alizes how little this terrible war has altered the conditions of life in ger many this is the reason why wo hear complaints about trifiles instead of seeing every sort of discontent and all superfluous complaints put aside at the outset the renunciation of these popular and customary complaints is itself a sacrifice which is now required in the interests of our fatherland required not only from himwho com plains without reason but also from him whose heart is devoured by real suffering complaints will make iioth ing better but many of these deters of woe make breaches in our front in the field which may be more serious than many breaches made by shells the dictates of the simpliest grati tude ought to shut the mouths of those who complain the time for big talking has long gone by wo havo entered upon the days of tough endur ance and silenced complaints and it is more than ever necessary that every german should find in every other german a trustworthy support r when it comes to stepping into a fortune no man objects to ireitids hii foot in it itzsmimzi