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FRENCH ATTEMPT DRIVE
TO REACH CITY OF METZ
Kaisers Troops Make Determined Kffort to Get
to Amiens in Order to Cut ()ff Allies’Supplies.
Thin Ice Bars Progress Over Flooded Land.
!S“7s»KIPLINC SEES CLERKS OF
forest of IvePetre, but the official
statement has not yet shown how
these bear upon the efforts to pain the
Norroy ridge, from which their long-
range guns could reach the Metz
forts.
Allies Halted by Barriers.
A brief lull in the fighting in Flan
ders is due to the fact that the Allies
have reached the barriers that halted
the Germans when they tried to hack
their way through to Dunkirk before
the main English forces had reached
the front. This 1 s the Inundation
along the Yser Canal. Ice has for®**!
!n the flooded region, but It Is not yet
thick enough to bear the wei/ t of
men and artillery.
When the ice has reached the nec
essary thickness, the offensive of both
Germans and Allies in this region will
probably result in the greatest Tosses
that have yet occurred in the war.
Germans Driven From
Rawa by Russians.
Special Cable to The American.
PETROGRAD. Dec. 26.—Smashing
their way forward through a blizzard
that rendered operations by the ene
my’s scouting aeroplanes impossible,
Russian forces celebrated Christmas
Day by driving the Germans out of
Rawa, on the Rawka River, and drove
them back six miles to Jezow. For
five days the Germans bad been in
possession of Rawa, part of which
stands on the highest point of a range
of hills between the Pillca and Bzura
Rivers.
A sanguinary^ bat tie took place on
these heights, but after a conflict of
three hours the Germans were driven
down the western slopes. The Rus-
Continued From Page 1.
Mans took 2,300 prisoners and three
guns.
According to The Army Messenger,
this victory at Rawa, while not over
whelming in itself, opens a way of
making a breach in the German line
to lessen the pressure that the Kai
ser’s troops arc maintaining against
the Russians on both the Bzura and
Pillca.
‘The Russian positions on the Bzu
ra are now secure," It says to-day.
‘The Rawa heights are of great im
portance, and dominate the situation
between the Pillca and Bzura. It Is
fortunate that they were taken at
this time, as the Germans are bring
ing up heavy reinforcements.”
Germany is annarentlv drawing
upon her last resources to concen
trate 1,000,000 men on the Russian
western front. Among prisoners pass
ing through Warsaw were noted
many professional men Scores wore
spectacles, showing that men who had
been rejected early in the war had
later been sent to the front.
Austrian Strength Admitted.
Under the caption. "Austrian Armv
a Surprise,” The Army Messenger dls-
c tisses the Galician campaign at some
length.
"The stubborn defense of our Aus
trian opponents in Western Qalicia
has been the greatest surprise of the
war.” it admits. "Beginning with the
battle of Dukla Pass, It has shown a
resourcefulness and strength wholly
unexpected, in view of the early
events of the war.
"Though we won at Dukla, taking
several ammunition wagons and more
than 2,000 prisoners, the Austrians
inflicted severe losses upon us. They
contest bitterly for every foot of
ground.”
Refusal to Protest Against Slaying of
Noncombatanta Coat Ua English
Friendship, He Asserts.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—President
Wilson’s refusal to protest against
“the barbarian warfare waged by
German troops" has cost the United
Htates the friendship of England and
made a clash with the winner of the
present European conflict inevitable,
•cording to Surgeon Major Louia L
Seaman, who returned aboard the Bt.
I»uis yesterday from five months’
service with the Rea Cross corps of
the Allies.
‘War with an armed European
power la inevitable," said Major Bea
man," and we must immediately com
mence a policy of armed neutrality or
pay the price in the devastation of
the United States and the sacrifice of
millions of American lives. President
Wilson's complacent military program
is nn error of the gravest sort. I
predict that If the Germans win they
will Impress their military machine
upon the the defenseless United
States.
'Our failure to protest against the
massacre of noncombatants by Ger
man troops has cost us the friend
ship of England. Talks /ith prom
inent men in London and Paris show
America can expect little courtesy
from the victorious Allies 'Peanut
politics’ Is applied to the attitude of
the United States abroad. Half a mil
lion trained men are needed to pre
serve this country from a horrible
catastrophe. We are practically de
fenseless against attack by a
class power.”
German Counter Attacks
Repulsed, Allies Claim
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Repulse of Ger
man counter attacks by the Allies is
the chief feature emphasized in an of
ficial statement issued here this aft
ernoon. It indicates the Germans, re
plying to the offensive taken by the
French. British and Belgians, have
themselves in turn made attacks al
most along the entire front. The of
ficial statement follows.
"There was a light cannonade on
the front between the sea and the
Lys, where a thick fog paralyzed
operations. Between Lys and the
Oise we repulsed numerous counter
attacks by the enemy at Noulettes.
wert of Lens; at Labolsselle, north
east of Albert, and at Llhons, west
of Chatlines Where a trench taken
from the enemy was lost and then
retaken after a sharp fight.
German Attack Repulaed.
"Between ihe Oise and the Aisne we
report that during the day of Decem
ber 24 a very severe German attack
Mon of All Occupations Made Into Crack Bat-
j that where he was used to walk with j
I his ladies under the beech trees, some j
j unsporting people had built a minia
ture landscape, with tiny villages,
| churches and factories, and came i
i there daily to point cannon at it.
I "Keep away from that place,” said |
I, "or you will find yourself In a field ]
kitchen.”
“Not me!” he crowed. “I’m as |
sacred as golf courses!”
Some Skilled Mechanics.
There was a little town a couple of
miles down the road where one used
teries by Drill on Grounds of a Fine Old Es- ^ re ev T;T a ^ ng a,ton r ,:{; e e d ln ho b u a ei
tate-
High-Paid Chauffeurs Grovel in Mud. o7&my
Service Corps and some mechanical
transport lived near the station.
"Are they easy to find?” I asked
of a wandering private with the
hands of a sweep and the head of
a Christian among the lions.
"Well, the A. S. C. are in the Ter
ritorial Drill Hall for one thing; and
for another, you’re like to hear US!
There’s some motors come in from
Bulford—” He snorted and passed
on smelling of petrol.
The drill shed was peace and com
fort. The A. S. C. were getting ready
for payday, and for a concert that
evening. Outside, in the wind and
In a single day the brackened turf between the oaks and the ^"ford^motors and
By RUDYARD KIPLING.
Third of a Series on the New British Army. Copyright, 1914, by Rudyard
Kipling. All Rights Reserved.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—One had known the place for years as a
picturesque old house standing in a peaceful park ; had watched
the growth of certain younfr oaks alon£ a new-laid avenue, and ap
plauded the owner’s enterprise in turning a stretch of pasture to
plow. There are scores of such estates in England which the
motorist, through passing so often, comes to look upon almost as
his own.
Amt-
Watson Addresses
Sonnet to America
Tel!* “Would-be Umpire” That Vic
tory Over Germany Muet Precede
Peace Parleys.
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was repulaed at Chivy, northeast of
Soupir.
"In the region of Perthes our artil
lery silenced the batteries which were
bombarding the trenches recently
taken by our troops. The strong coun
ter attacks by the Germans were
rolled back. During the night of De
cember 24-25 a new counter attack
particularly strong, made on a front
of 1,500 yards and with powerful
troops, suffered a complete check.
"In the Argonne and between the
Meuse and Moselle there is nothing to
report.
"In Upper Alsace the day was
marked by appreciable progress be
fore Cernay. YVe reached the edge of
the woods on the hills to the west of
that town. We maintained, despite
numerous counter attacks, our posi
tions.
Vantage Point Oocupied.
"We now occupy the outskirts of
Lower Aspach and the heights which
dominate Cnrspach to the west.”
The following statement on the
fighting in the eastern theater of war
was issued at the same time;
"Russia—The Germans who have
forced a crossing of the Rzura to the
south of Sochaczew have been thrown
back after suffering considerable
losses. All their attack® on Bollmow
have been checked. In the region of
Inowlodz, on the Pillca, and to the
south stubborn combats continue.
"Along the whole course of the Nida
nod to the SOIlth Of the Vistula the
battle Is going on under conditions
favorable to the Russians.”
Repulse of Allies
Claimed by Germans.
BERLIN, Dec. 26 (by wireless).—
An official statement issued here this
afternoon says that a night attack by
English and French troops was re
pulsed by the Germans, and that In a
fight near St. Hubert the Germans
captured 19 officers, 819 men and 14
machine guns. It also tells of the
repulse of four Russian attacks near
lyotzen, East Prussia, and the cap
ture of 1,000 Russians there. The of
ficial statement follows:
"English and French attacks on the
night of December 24 were repulded.
In a battle against the English and
Indians near St. Hubert we took 19
officers. 819 men, 14 machine grins, 12
mine throwers and other war mate
rial.
"Four Russian attacks in th% vie
cinity of Lotzen were repulsed. fV's
took 1,000 prisoners.
"In North Poland, east of the Wel-
chel (Vistula), the situation Is un
changed.”
French Girl Cuts Off
Her Hair for Soldiers
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—The Evening
News prints the following sonnet, en
titled "To a Would-be Umpire," by
William Watson:
Great Perseus babbled not of peace
while free
To rend were still the Gorgon's tal
ons, nor
Did mighty Theseus while the Mino
taur
Took his red toll of white virginity
Crave mediation. Glaucus’ son, when
he
Vanquished the triple-mouthed Chi
mera for
The Lyclans, reined not back Ills
furious war
Till he had felled the monster’® fore
heads three.
Nor shall Bt. George of England stay
his spear
In parley while yon ravening shape
accurst
Ramps over life and treads down
arts and laws.
To you far westward we will give an
ear
Where sage and safe you sit; but hew
we first
The dragon’s teeth out of the drag
on’s jaws.
U. of Pa, Student in
German Army Slain
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26.—A letter
Just received by one of the classmen at
the University of Pennsylvania discloses
the fact that F. W. Solbrig, a member
of the dentistry 1914 class, was killed
• in th#» battle of Rheime while serving
with his regiment in the German army.
Bolbrig was graduated from the Uni
versity of Leipzig in 1913 and entered
the senior class at the University of
Pennsylvania last year. While at the
university he was a member of the Eu
ropean Club, and was prominent in the
club's activities. When the war broke
out he was in Paris and experienced
considerable difficulty in getting away
safely.
name and business
that retired house and discreetly
wooded park had gone elsewhere In
haste, and his house and lands were
taken over by the military.
Then one met men and horses argu
ing with each other for miles about
that countryside; or the car would be
flung on her brakes by artillery issu
ing from cross lanes—clean batteries
Jingling off to their work on the
downs, and hungry ones coming back
to meals. Every day brought the
men and the horses and the weights
behind them to a better understand
ing. till in a little while the car could
pass a quarter of a mile of them
without having to hoot more than
once.
"Why are you so virtuous?" she
asked of a section encountered at a
blind and brambly corner. "Why do
you obtrude your personality less
than an average tax-cart?”
Their ‘‘Blessed Orders."
Because," said a driver, his arm
flung up to keep the untrimmed hedge
from sweeping his cap off—"because
those are our blessed orders. We
don’t do it for love.”
No one accuses the gunner of
maudlin affection for anything except
his beasts and his weapons. He
hasn’t the time. He serves at least
three Jealous gods—his horse and all
its saddlery and harness; his gun,
whose least detail of efficiency is
more important than men’s lives;
and, when these have been attended
to, the never-ending mystery of his
art commands him.
It was a wettish windy day wh?n
to lunch in the old
the hotel to oneself.
days and have
Now there are
iron road-fence blossomed into tents, and the drives were all cut
up with hoofs and wheels. A little later one’s car, sweeping home of
warm September nights, was stopped by sentries who asked her
for the owner of
I visited the so-lons-known house
and park. Cock pheasants ducked
In and out of trim rhododendron
clumps; neat grates opened Into
sacredly preserved vegetable gardens;
the many-colored leaves of specimen
trees pasted themselves stickily
against sodden tent walls; and there
was a mixture of circus smells from
the horse lines, and the faint civil
ized breaths of chrysanthemums In
the potting sheds The main drive
was being relaid with a foot of flint;
the other approaches were churned
and pitted under the gun wheela and
heavy supply wagons. Great breadths
of what had been well-kept turf be
tween unbrowsed trees we^e blanks of
slippery brown wetness, dotted with
picketed horses and field kitchens.
It was all a crazy mixture of stack
necessity and manicured luxury,
cheek by jowl In the undlscrlmlnatlng
rain.
Service Conditions.
The cook houses, storerooms, forges
and workshops were collections of
tiles, poles, rlckcloths and odd lum
her, beaver«d together as on service.
The officer^ mess was a thin, soaked
marquee.
Less than a hundred vards away
were dozens of vacant, well furnished
rooms In the big brick house of which
the staff furtively occupied one cor
ner. There was accommodation for
very many of the men in its stables
and outhouses alone, or the whole
building might have been gutted and
rearranged for barracks twice over In
the last three months.
A
Carpenters Won’t Work in
Rain, but Artillery Must
War Brings Business
To Factories in U. S.
MORGANTOWN, W. VA., Dec. 26.—
One of the results of the European war
lifts been a revival of watch crystal
manufacturing here. Watch crystals
have been made principally In Ger
many.
A company here Is now turning out
12,000 crystals a day.
WORCESTER, MASS., Dee. 26—Two
plants of the Reed-Prentice Company,
this city’s largest machine tool manu
facturers. are working overtime on wa-
orders for 200 automatic lathes des
tined for England and France.
The company Is employing 200 extra
hands.
Scattered among the tents
rows of half-built tin sheds, the ready-
1,repared lumber and the corrugated
Iron lying beside them, ready to be
pieced together like children's toys.
But there were no workmen. I was
told that they came at morning, but
had knocked off because it was wet.
"1 see. And where are the batter
ies?” I demanded.
"Out at work, of course. They've
been out since 7."
"How shocking! In this dreadful
weather, too."
"They took some bread and cheese
with them. They'll be back about
dinner time if you care to wait. Here's
one of our field kitchens."
Batteries look after their own
stomachs, and are not catered for by
contractors. The cookhouse was a
wagon-tilt. One thought of the wide,
adequate kitchen ranges and the con
crete passages of the service quarters
in the big house just behind. One
even dared to think Teutonlcally of
the perfectly good paneling and the
thick hardwood floors that could
"Service conditions, you see,” said
my guide as the cook Inspected the
baked meats and the men Inside the
wagon-tilt grated the carrote and pre
pared the onions. It was old work to
them after all these months; done
swiftly with the clean economy of
effort that life leaches.
“What are these lads when they’re
at home?" I Inquired.
"Londoners chiefly—all sorts and
conditions.”
Work Five Days Weekly.
The cook In his shirt sleeves made
another investigation and sniffed Judi
ciously. He might have been cooking
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offerings for the troops in service,
varying from live geese to sprigs of
holly and mistletoe tied with the tri
color ribbon, but> the strangest and
most touching came to-day—coils of
long golden hair.
The tender, a Lorraine peasant girl,
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German Shells Stop
French Card Games
were since the Peninsular. He looked at
his watch and across toward the park
gates. He was responsible for 160 ra
tions. and a battery has the habit of
saying all that it thinks of its food.
"How often do the batteries go
out?” I continued.
” ’Bout five days a week. You see,
we’re being worked up a little.”
"And have they got plenty of ground
to work over?”
”Oh—yes-s.”
"What’s the difficulty this time?
Birds?”
"No. But we got orders the other
day not to go over a golf course. That
rather knocks the bottom out of tac
tical schemes.”
Perfect shamelessness, like perfect
virtue, is impregnable; and, after all,
the lightnings of this war which have
brought out so much resolve, passion
and self-sacrifice must show up equal
ly certain souls and institutions that
are irredeemable.
The weather took off a little before
noon. The carpenters could have put
in a good half-day’s work on the
sheds, and even if they had been rain
ed upon they had roofs with fires
awaiting their return. The batteries
had none of these things.
They came in at last far down the
park, heralded by that unmistakable
half-grumble, half-grunt of guns on
the move. The picketed horses heard
it first, and one of them neighed long
and loud, which proved that he had
abandoned civilian habits. Horses in
stables and mews seldom do more
than snlckor, even when they are
halves of separated pairs. But these
gentlemen had a corporate life of their
own now, and knew what "pulling to
gether" means.
Japan to Protest New
California Laws
Special Cable to The American.
TOKIO, Dec. 26.—The Japanese For
eign office Is evidently expecting much
ant l-Japanese legislation at the next
session of the California Legislature.
Secret agents o' the Foreign Office have
followed the recent elections very close
ly, with the result that it has issued a
confidential report to the Japanese
newspapers giving what appears to be
an accurate analysis of the possible
anti-Japanese legislative situation in
California
It is believed here that Japan has
held off protests until the California
elections.
St. Johns Sends One
Out of Every 25 Men
ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Dec. 36.—From
this city, population 30 000. about 1,250
men have enlisted in the British army
and navy. This is an average of one
in twenty-five, an average that has
been exceeded only at Liverpool.
The extent of the local enlistment has
been a surprise to the Government, as
there la no militia in Newfoundland.
T9e ability of St. Johns to put so
large a force in the field is ascribed to
the fact that for twenty years denomi
national schools have maintained boys’
brigades.
Bible To Be Sent to
Each Soldier in War
Battery Wheels Its 6 Guns
In Line Like Veteran Troops
j Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Piquet la the fa
vorite diversion of the French troops
in the trenches along the battle line.
Somo remarkable Karnes are played., B , M „ to Mch soldier In the warrini
Many of the contests are broken off arm | e8 0 f Europe.
PITTSBURG, Dec 26.—Important of
ficers of the International Sunday School
Association and the World’s Sunday
School Association have made plans
which they say will result in sending
suddenly by the bursting of a shell in
or near the trenches.
Not infrequently a game ends in a
"dead” hand when some unfortunate
plaver "passes out” forever while
holding the winning card.
lurope
A. J. Heins says that an appeal will
be sent to every Sundav school in the
country, each scholar being asked to
contribute five cents he has earned.
John Wanamaker and others have
guaranteed the distribution of the Bibles
without expense to the contributors.
When a battery comes into camp it
"parks" all six guns at the appointed
place, side by side in one mathemat
ically straight line, and the accuracy
of the alignment is, like ceremonial
drill with the foot, a fair test of its at
tainments. The ground was no treat
for parking Specimen trees and
draining ditches had to be avoided and
circumvented. The gunners, their
reins, the guns, the ground, were
equally wet, and the slob dropped
away like gruel from the brake shoes.
And they were Londoners—clerks,
mechanics, shop assitsants and deliv
erymen—anything and everything
that you please. But they were all
home and at home in their saddles and
seats. They said nothing; their offi
cers said little enough to them.
They came in across w hat once had
been turf, wheeled with tight traces;
halted; unhooked, the wise teams
stumped off to their pickets, and be
hold. the six guns were left'precisely
where they should have been left to
the fraction of an inch. You could see
the wind blowing the last few drops
of wet from each leather muzzle cover
at exactly the same angle. It was all
old known evolutions, taken uncon
sciously in the course of the day’s
work.
“Our men have one advantage,”
said a voice. "As Territorials they
were introduced to unmade horses
once a year at training. So they’ve
never been accustomed to made
horses."
"And what do the horses aay about
it all?” I asked, remembering what I
had seen on the roads in the early
day®
What the Horses Mean.
“They said a good deal at first, but
our chaps could make allowances for
’em. They know now.’’
Allah never intended the gunners
to talk. His own arm does that for
him. The batteries off-saddled in si
lence, though one noticed on all sides
little quiet caresses between man and
beast—affectionate muzzling® and
no®e slapplngs. Surely the Gunner’s
relation to his horse is more intimate
even than the cavalryman's, for a lost
horse only turns cavalry into infan
try, but trouble in a gun team may
mean death all round. And this is a
Gunner’s war. The young, wet offi
cers said so, joyously, as they passed
to and fro picking up scandal about
breast-straps and breechings; exam
ining the collars of ammunition wag
on teams, and listening to remarks
about shoes.
Local blacksmiths, assisted by the
battery itself, do the shoeing. There
are master smiths and important far
riers. who have cheerfully thrown up
good wages to help the game, and
their horses reward them by keeping
fit. A fair proportion of the horses
are aged—there was never a Gunner
yet satisfied with his team or its ra
tions till he had left the battery—but
they do their work as steadfastly and
wholeheartedly as the men.
Londoners Kind to • Basts.
I am persuaded they also like being
In society and working out their daily
problems of draught and direction.
The English, too. and Londoners par
ticularly, are the kindest and most
reasonable of folk with animals. If it
were not our business strictly to un
derrate ourselves for the next few
years, one would say that the Terri
torials' batteries had already done
wonders, but perhaps it Is better to
let it all go with the grudging admis
sion wrung out of a wringing wet
bombardier: "Well, it isn't so dam’
bad, considerin'."
I left them taking their dinner in
mess tins to their tents, with a stren
uous afternoon's cleaning-up ahead
of them, and a detail under orders to
take over some more horses from the
railway station. The big park held
already nearly 3,000 men. I had seen
no more than a few hundred, and
missed the howitzers batteries after
all.
A cock-pheasant chaperoned me
down the drive, complaining loudly
some other crocks sat on a side road
between what ha been the local ga
rage and a newly-erected workshop
of creaking scaffold poles and belly
ing slatting rick cloths, where a forge
glowed and general repairs were oe-
ing effected. Beneath the motors
men lay on their backs and called
their friends to pass them spanners,
or for pity’s saks to shove another
sack under their mud-plastered
heads.
Voices in Gear Boxes.
A corporal who had been nine
years a fitter and seven in a city ga
rage briefly outlined the more viru
lent diseases that develop in Govern
ment rolling stock. (I heard quite a
lot about Bulford.) Hollow voices
from beneath eviscerated gear boxes
confirmed him. We withdrew to the
shelter of the rick-cloth workshop—
the corporal, the sergeant who had
been a carpenter with a business of
his own, and, incidentally, had served
through the Boer War; another ser
geant who was a member of the Mas
ter Builders Association, ana a pri
vate who had also been a fitter,
chauffeur and a few other things. The
sergeant who kept a poultry farm in
Surrey had some duty elsewhere.
A man at a carpenter's bench was
finishing a spoke for a newly painted
cart. He squinted along it.
"That’s funny," said the master
builder. "Of course, in his own busi
ness he’d chuck his job sooner than
do woodwork. But it’s all funny.”
"What I grudge,” a sergeant struck
in, “is havin’ to put two and three
guinea a week men to loading and
unloading beef. That’s where a mod
ified conscription for the men that
won’t roll up’d be useful to us! We
want hewers of wood, we do!”
"I want that file.” This was a pri
vate in a hurry, come from beneath
an unspeakable Bulford. Someone
asked him musically if he "would tell
his wife in the morning who he was
with to-night.”
“You’ll find it in the tool chest,”
said the sergeant. It was his own
tool chest and a beauty, which he had
contributed to the common stock.
"And what sort of men have you
got in the unit?" I asked.
Every Sort of Man.
"Every sort you can think of. There
isn’t a thing you couldn’t have made
here if you wanted to. But"—the
corpora' who had been a fitter, spoke
with fervor—“you can’t expect us to
make big ends, can you? That five-
ton Bulford lorry out in the wet ”
"And she Isn’t the worst,” said the
master builder. "But it’s all part of
the job. And so funny when you
come to thir.k of it. Me painting
carts, and certified plumbers loading
beef! ”
"What about the discipline?" I
asked.
The corporal turned a fietter’s eye
on me. "The mechanism is the dis-»
cipline," he said, with most profound
truth. "Jockeyin’ a sick car on the
road is discipline, too. What about
the discipline?” He turned to the
sergeant with the carpenter’s chest.
There was one sergeant of regulars,
with tw'enty years’ service behind him
and a knowledge of human nature.
"You ought to know. You’ve Just
been made corporal," said that ser
geant of regulars.
"Well, there’s so much which ev
erybody knows has got to be done
that—that—why, we all turn In and
do it,” quoth the corporal.
"Yes. that’s Just about how the case
stands," said the sergeant of regu
lars. “Come and see our stores.”
They were beautifully arranged in
a shed which felt like a monastery
after the windy, clashing world with
out, and the youn gprivate who acted
as checker—he came from some rail
way office—had the thin, keen face of
the cleric.
"We’re in billets in the town,” said
the sergeant who had been a carpen
ter. “But I’m ’a married man.
shouldn’t care to have men billeted
on US, an’ I don’t want to incon
venience other people. So I’ve knock
ed up a bunk for myself on the prem
ises. It’s handier to the stores.”
Warning Not Needed.
We entered what had been the lo
cal garage. The mechanical trans
port were in full possession, tinkering
the gizzards of more cars. We dis
cussed chewed-up gears (samples at
hand) and the civil population’s views
of the military. The corporal told a
tale of a clergyman in a midland
town, who, only a year ago, on the
occasion of some maneuvers, prech-
ed a sermon warning his flock to
guard their womenfolk against the
soldiers.
“And when you think—when you
know—” said the corporal, “what life
in those little towns really is!” He
whistled. “Now come and see us
paid In the drill shed.”
The first man I ran across there
was a sergeant who had served in the
M. I. in the picnic we used to call a
war. He had been a private chauf
feur for some years—long enough to
catch the professional look, but was
joyously reverting to service type
again.
The men lined up, were called out,
saluted emphatically at the pay ta
ble, and fell back with their emolu
ments. They smiled at each other.
"An’ it’s all so funny,” murmured
the master builder in my ear. "About
a quarter—no—less than a quarter—
of what one ’ud be making on one’s
own!”
No Rest for Them.
"Two-ten a week and all found. 1
was. An’ only two cars to look after."
said a voice behind. “An’ if I’d been
asked—only asked—to lie down in the
mud all the afternoon—” The speak
er looked at his ten-shilling paper
note and half handful of silver
Someone wanted to know sott</ voce
if "that was union rates." and the
gTin spread among the uniformed ex
perts.
"Thank heaven!” said one of them
at last. "It’s too dark to work on
those blessed Bulfords any more to
day. We’ll get ready for the con
cert”
Every German Actuated by True Love of Coun
try; Victory in Poland Shows How Spirit
Wins Over Bulk, Says Kaiser’s Spokesman.
By JAMES CREELMAN.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—There was a look of pride and
power in the gray eyes of Dr. Bernhard Dernburg as he talked of
the German naval raid on the English coast and the smashing vic
tory of German arms ever the Russians.
A great, thick bulk of a man is the former German Colonial
Minister—broad-shouldered, deep-chested, with & massive head
and strong face, mantled with a thick shag of grizzly beard.
There is something in the rough, plain outline of the man that
at first suggests phlegrmatic slowness,
but, as he spoke of German victory
to-day. he lifted his great head high,
his big, flat teeth showed under the
mustache and his countenance shone
with patriotic enthusiasm and confi
dence.
“The great victory of Germany In
Poland, a victory so great that per
haps the general public can not ap
preciate Its full weight, shows that
mere numbers, mere military units,
can not Insure success in this war,”
he said.
Patriotism Triumphs.
“The tremendous victory which our
arms have won in the eastern theater
of war Is due to militarism backed by
German love of country,” he said.
The heavy figure paced the room
slowly and the powerful hands were
locked behind the back, head down
and brows close-knit.
“Indeed,” he said, “it is impossible
to separate German militarism from
German patriotism. One Is simply the
expression of the other, and the world
has In this great victory an illustra
tion of what German militarism
means—that is, the organized strength
and patriotism of the German people
to serve as a defense for their father-
land, which practically every German
soldier considers a privilege rather
than a mere duty.
Dr. Dernburg stopped pacing the
room and folded his arms over hts
powerful chest. His heavy face was
lit up by the thought that possessed
him. The heaviness was gone; he
was all enthusiasm.
“Masses can not do it,” he said,
"At the beginning of the war we
were told that as soon as the Rus
sian army was perfectly mobilized,
an army which would number from
10,000,000 to 12,000,000 men, it would
by sheer weight of numbers brea,k
down whatever forces Germany, fight
ing on two frontiers, could oppose,
and would rush on irresistibly to Ber
lin, where they were to be not later
than Christmas.
"Look at the situation to-day. There
will be quite a number of Russians
serving as unwilling guests In Ger
many at Christmas time, no less than
780,000 unwounded prisoners having
been taken so far in the Poland cam
paign.
“This rush upon the German east
ern lines of the greatest armed force
ever assembled in human history,” he
said, “has not only been checked, but
it is a fact that the Russian army is
actually shattered and in rout at the
present time.
Russians Must Reorganize
And Form New War Plans
"In order to become effective again
at all. there will be considerable time
required, an absolutely new grouping
of the Russian forces and an alto
gether new Russian plan.
“This great and crushing German
victory, as I have said, shows what
German training, backed by German
patriotism, means.
“Surely, it must be plain to any
body who has paid the slightest at
tention to the matter that Russia has
no cause that can evoke an intelligent
patriotism, since she is merely a bru
tal aggressor, and the ignorant mil
lions who have been called to tne
Russian colors have no idea what
they are fighting for.
“As a matter of fact, intelligent
men in the United States can not un
derstand what Russia is fighting for,
a mere fierce and vulgar passion for
conquest, against which the German
nation is a unit.
"Nothing stands out in this situa
tion more clearly than the absolute
unity of the German people, from the
Emperor and the Chancellor down
to the humblest man in the German
ranks, than the conviction that they
are fighting for the very life of their
nation.
"Since' the armies on the eastern
line of war are stretched out literally
for hundreds of miles, it must be ap
parent to everyone that the nations
involved must largely rely upon the
Initiative, intelligence and individual
convictions of the private soldiers
themselves, as well as upon the lead
ers of the smaller unts.
“It Is the fact that German mili
tarism, so-called, has produced In its
army a morally conscious military
unit that will make the cause of Rus
sia eventually hopeless.
"It is democracy against autocra
cy; for, whatever may be said, Ger
many to-day is a true democracy and
is, in fact, the actual mother of the
essentials of the democracies of the
United States and Great Britain.
"It was your own Daniel Webster
who asked his people not to forget
that there can be a despotism under
the form of a republic, and that it is
also possible to have a democracy
under the form of a monarchy.
"No one who has observed the ex
traordinary care with which the Ger
man Government has. for a quarter
of a century, exerted its supreme ef
forts to raise the masses of the Ger
man people by systematic and uni
versal education, by technical train
ing, and by successive laws provid
ing for old age pensions, compulsory
insurance against the consequences
of sickness, accidents, invalidism, and
taking care of widows and orphans—
in all of which she made her demo
cratic reforms long before they were
brought into the field either of Brit
ish or American politics.
"I say that no one who has ob
served these things can doubt that
the central thought and purpose of
the German Government has been
directed to true democratic ends.
Mortality Reduced.
"It is the consciousness of that fact
that stands behind the trained power
of the German army to-day.
“In spite of the talk about militar
ism, it must be remembered that while
the German army, a purely defensive
force provided by a nation surrounded
by powerful arms and aggressive
neighbors, has cost about 800,000,000
marks a year, the social insurance
system, which has safeguarded the
masses of the German people, has
enormously reduced mortality and
added to the productive efficiency of
the masses, has amounted to 1,200,006
marks a year, and the increase of
German national wealth acquired
through peaceful and intelligent in
dustry has increased annually about
8,000,000,000 marks.
"Nothing can be more certain that
when the German forces take the line
of the Vistula and dominate Poland*
they will be in a position to spars
enough troops to crush the Allies on
the west side of Europe. After this
smashing blow it will take the Rus*
sian army many months to reorga
nize for a new campaign.
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Causes Tuberculosis
The Medical Record (New York)
of December 18, 1909, contains an
article on "The Treatment of Pul
monary Tuberculosis, Based on the
Assumption That the Dietetic Cause
of the Disease Is Lime Starvation,”
by Dr. John F. Russell, who says:
"The condition which is recognized
as preceding the active development
of tuberculosis In the adult may be
considered as due to lime starvation.
* * * Among inorganic substances
lime salts appear to be of special
physiological Importance * * *
but if the salts are not In organio
combination It is difficult to sup
pose that the cells can appropriate
them for food."
Years of widespread use confirm
us in the belief that the sucecss
of Eckman’s Alterative in cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis (consump
tion) and chronic throat and bron
chial troubles is due in large meas
ure to its content of lime, so com
bined with other ingredients as to
be easily appropriated by the cells.
Doubtless this has had much to
do with the results obtained in many
cases of these affections, which ap
pear to have yielded to Eckman’s
Alterative.
As it contains no opiates, narcofe
ics or habit-forming drugs, it is
safe to try. Your druggist wMA or-
der it for you or you can aaK di
rect.
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