general haig and his methods something about the british commanderinchief machinery at general headquarters runs smoothly and i quietly no military leader is more averse to publicity or works more silently than sir douglas haig the british commanderinchief in france to those who are importunate for the of fensive his answer is patience and yet again patience while the new munition factories begin to produce and he con tinues his building his generals say that he never tells them his plans only what they are to do writes a cor respondent at british headquarters in france a wisp of a flag and two sentries designate the entrance to the cha teau smaller than that occupied by many division generals which is the headquarters of the commander-in- chief the only occupants of the chateau beside sir douglas are his private secretary and his aides who aro crocks which is the army word for officers who have been wounded and are not fit for the physical ex posure of the trenches the hour of my appointment is exact to the minute and whoever has one at his chateau is expected to be there on the minute general head- puartcrs time there is little cere mony life at that small chateau has r real soldierly simplicity at lun cheon the soldier servant places the food on the sideboard and everyone take his plate and helps himself few guests come sir douglas keeps his time to himself for his work and his own choice of recreation soldier and scholar one of the aides receives the cal ler and a minute later the man with iron grey hair and moustache sturdy athletic of build slightly above med ium height who comes into the hall could not be mistaken whether in or out of uniform for anything but j a soldier though something about the wellchiseled regular features also suggests the scholar oxford and sandhurst and india said one of his admirers and hard work at j a desk when ho was not taking exer erected on the outskirts of head quarters town where he sits in the company of scottish officers and sol diers during a good scotch sermon and a long one too 6 diabolic song of shells german correspondent tells of viol- v ence of russian attacks some idea of the fierceness of the fighting on the russian front is given by a correspondent of the koelnische zeitung with von linsingens army who says that the dogged persistence of the russians shows that their de termination to continue the offensive in volhynia is as strong as ever describing the battle for stokhod and linewka south of stokhod he telegraphs both sides were strong ly supported by artillery and at times the battlefield was a real hell around the german advanced trench es howled the diabolic sort of the russian shells when the russian attack burst forth the clash was ter rific as the enemy rushed forword in dense masses so powerful and determined was the thrust that our lines which had been subjected for hours to the heavi est fire slowly withdrew as the afternoon progressed the russian ar tillery fire grew ever more violent the russian machine guns working with redoubled energy the bavari ans and saxons had already made six attacks and six strong russian coun terattacks had come in reply still our troops had not had enough in the evening they attacked for the seventh time and the russian main position was again captured during the night the russians made three fresh attacks against the lost trench german mills feel pinch textile plants need raw material output cut down german textile mills are suffering greatly from the shortage in raw material and the limitation of their output and their stockholders face the prospect of reduced dividends or none at all in many cases according to the following excerpts from a recent is sue of the monatsschrift for textile- industrie the administration of the eilen the personal touch officer so you object to th e way the serjeant speaks to you do you recruit well sir ow would you like to be called an addledcaded idiot supposing you wasnt one sir london bystander cisc him in one of the rooms of the ground floor the walls are hung with maps including a series which have been crowded on a roller any portion of the front in all its details may be re ferred to in a moment in the corcre of jjjeojunaleskr andagainst the wall a table with more maps and drawings and some of those strange photographs from aeroplanes of greyish lines of trench systems in a dusky field of shell and mine craters which make one think of the dead world of the moon huge number of ships being built some commercial vessels on the stocks in 1914 are still there a writer in the london times gives the ollowing description of a visit to a british naval yard the man who build a battleship has to build a hull that has to stand not only the strains of the seas but the titantic forces of the great guns and the energy of the engines equal to the horsepower of a fleet of tramps by the river bank is a towering mass of steel and iron it is almost not quite a battleship she has been burg calico factory states in reply to j launched from the ways about a month inquiries that the fixing of a dividend and now a hive of workmen swarm this year will be more difficult than about her tall sides and buzz and last year as the situation in their j clatter in the great hull the bows branch of the textile trade is growing as sharp as a knife curve upwards very critical so scarce is raw mater- j until one would almost think that she n the open air best describe j j that shareholders must reckon withj must topple over she looks as if the cessation of work for the greater part of the coming fiscal year from meeranc saxony we have the following report since last years report no improvement has taken place in the situation it is un doubted that work for the general consumer other than the army has shrunk still more it is with the ut most difficulty that manufacturers can procure raw material material for ladies dresses is exhausted and ne the ordinary lines of cotton yarn are simply unobtainable from muncherigladbach for private manufacture other than mili- tary orders work is at a standstill she was made to cut the seas and spurn them past her sides and in reality that is what she will do her decks are iron for all wood planking has long ago been discarded a shell landing on wood decks would start fires and for this reason these new decks are of steel looking from the bridge to the i bows one is impressed with the cn- i ormous length of these ships from smoke pall from the countless fur- naees leebreakers too two yearsagothis river was the centre of the great shipbuilding in dustry but it was war that made it as it is now on some of the stocks there are hulls begun in 1914 they are still unfinished for they are merchantmen and take a second place to the ships of his majestys navy not all the vessels building are ves sels of war however cheek by jowl with a pair of destroyers is a ship of class unknown in british waters it is an icebreaker for our ally russia every conceivable type of craft is on the stocks here there are sub marines that make jules vernes nautilus look like a toy boat on the kinsington round pond this war has seen the usefulness of the small craft and in consequence they are building everywhere every yard is building destroyers and they do not take long to build farther up the river is a yard where shells are made as well as ships before the war this firm cm- ployed 1200 men at this work now they have 25000 men and girls on their pay rolls besides the men workers there are 13000 girls in the shops controlling automatic and semiautomatic shellmaking chinery german psychology why ii is that the teutonic soldiers allow themselves to be slaughtered i ii ui- push those who are in front without fticcrs with whom his work brought j feeling the immediate risk i will im in daily contact were constantly i ma- down with only two or three days work per week if things go on as at the present time total closing of the works will be unavoidable money came from britain steady routine the man and his method are as quiet as the room with a battle- front which remains in the same place month after month the routine of his work has become almost as set as his habitation and not unlike that of the autocrat of some great business or ganization the regular staff offi cers are in a town not far away subordinate chiefs of the different j army branches be it operations in telligence ordinance or supply come to him in succession at hours set dur ing the morning to make their reports and receive their instructions they do most of the talking and they have learned how not to do more than necessary he listens decides if a longer conference than usual is desired it may come at luncheon or later in the afternoon when he heturns from his ride which he takes regularly every day then more work until dinner and then some af- p the predecessors of the pre i i sent firm of elkington and co he offered to them a machine which he had invented for rolling the metal blanks from which spoons and forks are made eventually he sold this to the firm for 50000 with the money thus acquired krupp pro ceeded to essen and laid the founda tion of the fortune he afterwards ac quired un turrets to the flagstaff on her bows there is nothing to take away from this effect not a winch or a fan intake breaks the clear space to the outsider this seems the vomits british power noted german military authority says englanstsaves allies major moraht the military critic of the berliner tageblatt writes the situation shows that a critical we have now entered upon the fourth month of the battle of verdun with new frantic efforts on the part of the germans to break our defence but they have made no important progress since the end of february when the suddenness and secretly ac cumulated power of the blow gained them a few miles they have even heie and there lost ground and the initiative tf the fight has repeatedly passed on our side a neutral gent leman who has just come back from the invaded departments where he had been engaged for a year on re lief work told me a month ago that he had seen the whole slow and enor mous preparation of the attack in january and february the german off him speaking of the coming coup as if no doubt of success could be entertained writes andre chcvrilton in country life nothing said my friend who had learned to know them well was more significant than their reticence as to verdun during the last weeks of his stay with them the subject had become taboo and yet they still launch their mas sive attacks in which their men come shoulder to shoulder to fall in long7 rapidly increasing heaps under the fire of our machineguns if one had not heard from the russian side as well as from our front of german prisoners who were taken still smell ing of ether and who confessed to having been under a special diet be fore being thus hurled in serried ranks twelve deep to the yard to butchery one would not know which to admire most the blind absolute devotedness of those men or the in domitable temper of those french soldiers who were supposed to have more elan than staying power and who manage to find shelter in the craters that have been dug by a ter rific trommel feuer and there in little packs of survivors or isolated with what is left of machineguns most of the protective wire being wiped out succeed in stopping the thick waves of the advancing enemy strength of the german all the essential difference between the two peoples is to be seen in the two sides of such a picture the french are individualists the value of the nation is that of the individ- from old scotland notes of interest frox1 ueb banks and braes what la going on tn the highland and lowlands of auld scotia landsecrs famous picture tho what germans call neroism body and soul they belong to their kaiser he knows what he can exact from them at dinant and acrschot it was to open fire with- machmeguns in the market place be- mo of the glen has been sold fore the shrieking women on a crowd to j thomas deacon for 2c250 of men after wiring them in at th works of messrc neill co verdun it is to march in continuous edinburgh the oldest printing house rows line behind line over the dead scotland founded in 1749 has been heaps of those that went ikfre them bu c against the fire that mows them down mr t bb a scottish labor lead- on the part of the soldiers this may unsuccessfully contested be called heroism our own men go south lanark at the last election has more quietly to what they know is j al clcland certain death they are not carried j on by the impetus of a solid human mass in which those who are behind give two recent instances of the curious passivity of the sheer spirit at the edingurgh university court at the edinburgh university caurt being made for the visit of a number of french university professors gartmore looks like having a forest of its own sir charles gsyzcr of gartmore and newtyle having plant- of obedience that often goes wittger mjjo trees during the past season i the dumbarton tramways company man heroism and by which men are changed into tools wonderful tools to be used for good or bad and to be thiown wholesale into the furnace if waste as sometimes happens pays however so little has commenced to train lady cardriv ers who have been running their first car with lady driver and lady con ductor the death has occurred at borelaml in champagne some of our aviators jo a mc gill one of the best known and most noticed behind the german line and at a safe distance from our guns strange activities of the enemy they seemed to be fighting between them- i selves over a network of lines which highly respected farmers in the dis trict the marchioness of bute has re ceived from h m the queen a gift of in no way connected with the resibf jpf ccirettes for the pali- u ir ti u i cnts in mountstuart naval hospital at the defence photographs were taken r and revealed two distinct and elabor- i the st andrews scottish soldiers ate systems of trenches the puzzle hi club and heme was formally opened was solved when an officer suddenly i bv lady hunter at aldershot the perceived one of the two systems to i j nnr i building which cost 45000 has been be an exact copy of a particularly 1 1 ui 1 iu u u opened free of debt strong i rench labyrinth the other re- r rt r an anonymous glasgow citizen has producing the german defence in front nt 1 presented erskine house on the clyde of it in a war which puts a terrific r with 350 acres of land to the princess strain on human energv at a time 0 1 fi 1 louise scottish hospital for limhless when men are generally sent to the j uals hence their achievement in air w t hun used to retake two craft and their rapid success in the raont ago a certain length of that noble art hence also the general pos on both sides the usual tendency of our school of tactics ru f an attack is to cover for which leaning on national psychology some hours with trommel feuer favours the ordre disperse and leaves j the iine which vou want to co moment has been reached for all the as much as possible to the judgment and wh6n t moment for the rush c high school belligerent armies our enemies arc and enterprise of each man the 1 comes to increase the range in order i at the high tide of their exertions strength of the german is in the or- 1 we must honestly admit that their j ganized herd their attacks remind sailors and soldiers the first stone of the work of re building the large central tower of the abbey of paisley has been laid the tower is the gift of mr robert allison of rosemount castlehead paisley mr j henry school board officer burntisland having been called up for military service the school board has approved of the duties being un dertaken durirte his absence by his wife bequests of 500 each to perth royal infirmary and hillside home perth and 10000 to be divided a- mong the missionary schemes have the peculiar method j beenleft by the late m jane pot of perth the treasury have appointed a com mittee for the organization of war savings in scotland one of the mem bers of which is mr g c pringle ma rector of peebles burgh and back only for a spell of rest german soldiers had been set by their leaders to the stupendous extra task of dig ging two complete networks of trench es for the object of methodically re hearsing a possible attack to those who know what such work means and the awful drudgery of it the fact is amazing the curtain fire the second instance is perhaps more significant an officer who had come on leave from his post in the neighborhood of la ferme navarin was telling us operations have become more energe- one of the charge of the buffaloes tic and more uniform their great re- which have closed together to stamp in money as well as their the tiger under foot a friend who and it is evident that we must shut i ff ssnhtamilt of on the open sea jsaw some of the battlefields of the j m tn nr three davs i v i f 1 make it more easy for them to render marne before the dead were buried warship she begins her beir on paper and from the paper plans are made wooden models of her many parts then one sees the vessel in molten form as the glowing crucibles spill the running metal into the moulds at this stage turbine cast ings gear wheels and bed plates be gin to take some sort of shape and from now onward they never vary mucl they come from the moulds tcr dinner if he goes down to the lines or perhaps to confer with gen eral joffrc in the one car which alone of all the cars carrying staff officers and generals along the roads flies the british flag the routine for that day is broken sleeps well like general joffrc he sleeps long hours a rested mind is a clear mind for great responsibilities like von hindcnburk he never reads fiction when reading has not to do with his profession it is of serious books and monthlies and quarterlies even dur- inb the battle of ypres when it was touch and go with disaster he slept as soundly as joffrc during the battle of the marnc at a crisis of the retreat from mons he remarked as quietly as if he were giving a direc tion to an aide we shall have to hold en here for a while if wc all die for it there is never any fustion about these modern scientific soldier oilanizers again during the retreat when a certain general became some what demoralized sir douglas took him by the arm and walked up and down with him in silence till he was over his fit of nerves on that terrible august day those who work with him know that his sign of anger is a prolonged silence of n telling kind ho has a temper but docs not let it get past his lips they say he has too a keen sense of humor with a scotch flavor attends service on sunday being a good scot he goes every sunday morniife to n little wooden presbyterian chapel which has been foundation of krupp gun firm laid with british capital everyone says the london chronicle knows the part which krupps plays roug castings and go through many in equipping germany and her allies j s before they are assembled but with munitions but how many are cac unit has now its final shape a aware that the money with which the woodworkers shop is in some re- great firm was placed on a sure foun- spec not much different from these dation if not actually founded came huge foundries and metal mills from birmingham alfred krupp there are planing machines drills came to birmingham about 1840 with punching machines and saws all an introduction from dr siemens to counterparts of those used bv the messrs elkington and mason electro- j jojnef w the difference that for metalworking they are all built with one idea the idea of strength and they arc in all cases many times larger than their prototypes of the joinery prodigious activity these are the beginnings of a ship the clumsy hull on the river side is really the last stage but one it is finished as to its shell and now waits i for its furnishings of guns d ermines the sheer sides are red with paint put on surely by some post- impressionist nnd the steel plates still bear the chalk marks of the man who fitted all this conglomeration of metals together in the shops a man chalks mystic hieroglyphics on a steol slacker gets back harder our final victory we should j told me that even in death this dif- be blind if we did not see these symp- ference between the temper of the toms we are confident that united two races is to be seen the french with us in the bonds forged in their dead he said were scattered here and own interests the bulgarians and there like poppies in a cornfield this turks will also be moved to further was at the beginning of the war when selfsacrificing activity j the french army still wore the tradi- englishmen go to work very -sys- tional red trousers the germans tematically and very carefully they lay in grey heaps like inanimate find out at certain points what they swarms this gregarious feature of want to know by tactically unimpor- the enemy struck our men in the very tant advances at long range they j first battles of the campaign we set to work with their artillery for j got sick with killing them a wound- which at the present moment they cd zouave who was just back from have a great amount of ammunition charleroi told me but the more of ready for many months england them you killed the thicker they came has been able to bring war material i ants they were like ants a across the channel unhindered the continuous tide of ants english do- not fall into the mistake of rejoicing too loudly or making small successes appear great they the otller am n0 ess j a committee with mr t m bar bour as chairman has been formed to raise the necessary funds for a mem orial stone to mark the grave of the scottish athlete donald dinnie in hanwell cemetery at a meeting of the stirlingshire territorial force association it was hun conception of hicrachy comes to increase the range to avoid killing your own people as they approach the enemy thus creat ing at the same time a curtain fire which cuts off the position from pos sible reinforcements as long as the trommel feuer is over them the assailed party remain buried in their holes but as soon as the range is i a that one bodv of volunteers changed and they hear the shells should be formed in the county- the bursting in their rear they know that administration being- in the hands of the onslaught is coming and leaping j the territorial force association out of their dugjouts begin to take aim with rifles and machineguns well what the germans did in this particular attack was simply not to increase their range they kept their troops a very dense formation un der their own fire so that our men did not know the rush was coming till the enemy was dropping hand gren ades into their trench for this suc cess about a thousand germans were killed by german guns france will not fail such methods may give an insight into the reasons of the continued tre mendous attacks at verdun probab to an ancient practice used red hot needles in korea let devils out in pyongyang a city surrounded by a river an- resembling a boat in shape it was believed that if any one should venture to dig a well the water would rush in sinking the boat and drown ing all the citys inhabitants need less to say no wells were dug says willard price in world outlook the streams washed the filth of tho city down into the river then the watermen filled their buckets at the on the battlefield of the west we shall never come one step nearer peace ran away to trenches harold phillips 17 years old says retort to german prisoner silences caustic tauiils frederick palmer tho war corres- u t pondent was talking about england chalks mystic hieroglyphics on a steol i british army is bully everything is war war war over p 1 wit that writing the plate the london daily chronicle pub- becomes part of a ship where you i the following from its livcr- now sec a few letters and numbers 1 n00 correspondent you know that in a week or so there t british army is bully it will be a gunmounting n range-find- braces you up nnd makes a man of er or a fire hydrant i envied that youp and j lont rebrct joining it a there he said dear help the young man who is not in khaki ho has a dreadful time now and then though one of these slackers as they are called gets a bit of his own back a slacker for example was pass ing a prison camp near london when an interned german shouted at him from the barbed wire fence hey kitchener vants you the slacker frowned what he said kitchener vants you the gorman replied well by jovc said tho blacker hes got you nil right r just like a man hub well it takps two to make a quarrel so ill shut jp wife that is just like a uontempt- iblo man you will fit there nnd think mean thlnghj- s v man with the chalk it mustbe satis- bit i have enjoyed the oxperience fying to walk over these huge hulls aml it h done me good in these and with a movement of the fingers worls an american boy of seventeen decide whore even a ringbolt must go wno has just been discharged from the spectator looking at this pro- the army with which he has been digious activity would think i that the industry of the river must be centred here but he would be very wrong for nineteen miles the waterway is given over to tho forge and he work shop steaming up tho river one goes through a lane of giant slipways and huge scaffoldings at one of these yajs is a crane that will lift an ex press locomotive from the tyno high- joycl bjljljce for- nineteen miles this waterway is dedicated to vulcan on oltfrcr bank the hulls of ships of war are building and abovo hangs tho even become very shy and avoid all j element in their psychology is of j ly the leaders have their doubt as to river and sold drinking water boasting i bourse their absolute and mechanical j their ever entering that city and sure- 1 throughout the city constantly re- in this cool jurgment we recog- discipline a discipline which puts the ly they know that should they take i burring epidemics were the result nize the english will hold out until herd into the hands of the leader it they would have gained no decisive but the people did not blame the dirt victory is won without regard to the i a several hundred thousand or advantage that the french would fall they blamed the devils length of time required with its re- j million horsepower or rather man- back 011 prepared stronger lines but i it was the duty of every korean to verses and its system of economizing pj engine to be hurled at his they know that their men are mere know the 300 places where the human them england has now brought itself p j ni 01 that direction j matter in their hands they do not body could be pierced with a redhot into the position of being the savior this discipline is not as with us a shrink from hurling them into the five needle without causing death the in time of need for the allies with- m necessity of war it is founded i for the sake of keeping up the fur- needles were from 3 to 12 inches in out a serious reckoning with england firstly on the idea of caste we are i nace a furnace where both armies are length and the doctor was supposed very much struck in france by the j melting though not at the same rate to know how deep they should be fact that in spite of their enormous j they know that time is against gcr- thrust the purpose of the probing looses in officers they still avoid mak- many that she cannot afford to wait ing lieutenants of their sergeants and j and simply defend the territories fcjldwcbels an idea very different j which she won at the first blow by from the distinction between classes the methods we know their last aim wllich prevails in other countries in must be slaughter for the sake of eijgland for instance the old rural j slaughter continuous and wholesale not known in- korea until founded by soiial principle that one should know slaughter in which it does not matter a christian missionary onhs bettors is tempered by the re- to them if their men fall by hundreds the japanese government is now lig ous principle that a man is per- 0 thousands as long as the french splendidly following suit with the es- sonally responsible to god for all his fall by fifties of thousands they tablishmcrt of hospitals and medical nctk that his inner self cannot be reckon that they will feed and in- schools fine waterworks systems surrendered no liberty with it no crease the furnace till the neutrals t hayo been installed and the sort of attempt to compel his conscience no ra a cry of horror nnd try to in- j water that gushes from this hydrant slifht to his honor whether from his tervene or- till french sensibility and pyongyang is stated to have re- cqu als or his betters should be tolera- humanity at the back cannot stand i tho death rate by 70 per cent tedj kiplings story his private 1 an more the sight of french man- the old boatcity of pyongyang js hoiour gives the precise shade of hood gradually withering in that fire now underlaid with a network was to let out the devils which caused the disease when christianity came to korea it brought hygiene nnd medicine along with it a hospital or dispensary was of hud gallantly fighting in france for the eleven months closed the story of r his doirfes in the trenches lish the youth whose name is harold rigl phillips has had a stirring career i sonj although so young he is five feet ten inches in height and well builtin pro portion for three years he had been sailing on english vessels but in may of last year on returning from a voyage from chili he decided to join the army with a chum and was accepted for the royal field artillery ho described himself as a canadian j feeling you can also see it in j but france knows that if her will chard feverel when the old kng- failed her she would be doomed she farmer resolutely demands as his knows from her previous experiences t an apology from the squires 0 her enemy that peace would be for how far removed from this him but breathing time till he felt j prodid and individualistic idea is the strong enough for a new and pro conception of heirarchy the in- 1 hably stronger aggression- cidelits of zabern have taught us j stopped before the monsters teeth are vl monev wai it not in connection with these broken sooner or later it would mean j b w ln y v very different they say people with characteristics make tho opposito happiest nrt t ui marriages that if she i yes wots why im looking for a cnts that a member of the british 1 death for her she also knows that cabinet said in this country tho honour uf the lord is exactly on the samp footing as that of a costcrmon- gcrjr the odds arc now against him that the explanation how can she marry him knowing at the game he is playing he cannot outlast tho allies that knowledge j that he is dissipated steels the mother heart to the horror j but his fortune isnt m