: . "Nothing could PAGE TEN EE ---------------- % INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR! Rescued An Officer. In a letter Major Page Croft, manding the 1st Hertfordshir torials, has sent home, thrilling story of the heroic of a wounded officer by a Territorial sergeant, In a spirited chargesa number of the King's Royal Rifles were caught in a concealed German trench, over which was barbed wire covered with earth. At the same time the UGer- mans opened a heavy fire on them from machine guns, and also shelled them with petrol! bombs When the Hertfordshires relieved the Rifles four days later a wounded officer was seen in an exposed posi tion, and when night came Sergeant Ravan went oiit at great from flying bullets and brought in the offi- cer, who, wounded in both ankles, had lain where he fell for four days ~ The colonel of the Rifles wired to Major and also to Ravan, thank- ing thé sergeant on béhalf the corps for his gallant action, and the Incident is recorded in the battalion orders It is also reported from fhe front that three of the Hertfordshires have béen congratulated by the brigadier- general for valuable information gained by them when they volunteer ed to search out the concealed posi tions of the Germans com Terri he tells a rescue risk of wThe War Train, be more touching and suggestive than the scenes which attend the departure of the one o'- clock "war train', from Victoria for France, Wives and sisters, sweet- hearts and cousins, all go to Victoria" 'to say good-bye to their men-folk bent on the battle trail. Mr. James Milne tells in the "Daily Chronicle" of a distinguished 'Frenchman who happened to travel by this "war train" the other day, and said to an English friend who was bidding him gcsi-hye. "You British are very calm, very quiet on an occasion like this. No tears, or if there are any they are brushed away quickly, but, #8 we know in France, your soldiers are the gayest, merriest fighting men | It was a keenly an- there to-day." _alytical estimate of the British tem- perament from the French point of view, full of compliment as well as of insight. New Army Slang. The new army phraseology (says & writer in the "Manchester Guard- | {AUTOLIVERY | . {Bibby's Garage A-1 Auto- Mechanics _ Agents, Dodge Bros. ° Phones: 201, Garage; 917, Residence. NO PLACE LIKE HOME--IF YOU | | | ' | { | | | In bestowing. charity try and con-! ian") is gradually broadening down from precedent to precedent in many odd "ways, In the South African War. a battle was always called "a how." In the present war the term iil kept for ordinary engagenvents but the big évents the term is 'a pic show, You hear the phrase sometimes "Oh, you were in the picture show at Ypres." This means the famous engagement there, when the Prussian Guards tried to break through To be captured is to he scuttled" to wounded is to he washed out" There are many phrases about being killed One sounds particularly brutal but indi- cates very clearly the dauntless spirit with which soldiers face death. It is called "to be put in a bag." Another phrage used is "to be scuppered." ture 1 be Quick Work, Describing journey front, an officer writes - wonderful place in these days, port dead to the The i8 50 quiet that it appears to be yet all the time troops are pouring out his . : / The whole thing is a triumph of well-oiled organization, as are the en- | training and handling 'of troops at ; everything done with the minimum of noise and bustle, 10 p.m., steamer with 500 mien close- | ly packed inside her, tied up to a wharf. Two or three soldiers and an embarkation man on the quay. A Naval officer walks up, consults his watch, orders the gangway in, waits for the clock to strike, and. then tells the skipper to cast off. The four men on the quay wish us good luck, and raway we go jnto the night at full speed, with searchlights playing on us, I The Chauffeur's Deputy. One feature arising from the war, | which mo one seems to have noticed in print, is the number of ladies driving their motor cars in the traffic of the West End. When chauffeurs enlisted (says the London Club cor- | respondent of the- 'Liverpool Post") several daughters took to driving | | their important parents down to the | War Office in the morning. Now a member of a club in Piccadilly sole- | {mnly assurred me that in one hour yesterday he 'counted eighty-three | cars, all driven by ladies, passing the | 'club window, 4 | | The Kaiser's Island. | | Here is an amusing story which is | | going the rounds in Germany. The , | Kaiser was recently due to appear at | { Hamburg in connection with some! { function, and he mentioned to a court | | official thyt he was always pleased to { visit the" Free City, as he retained | | such pleasing recollections of the | jiSland in the Alster where he used to | play as' a small bey. On receipt of | Sate gracious message, the City Fa- thers were placed in a Quandary, for it so happens that there are no is-| {lands in the Alster. The sugges-| {tion by one plain-spoken councillor | | that His Majesty should be informed {that his memory had played him | | false was negatived as likely to lead | | to a "Majestae sheleidigung," and the | | Senate decided to create an artificial (island. When - William came; ' the | Burgomaster pointed out the island on which the All-Highest "used to| play," Quoth the Emperor, "Ach | | so! How it all comes back to me." The Het Was "Of." | { Earl Grey tells an amusing story | concerning the average English- | {man's ignorance about the British col | | onles, { A young Canadian, on a visit to | London, was much upset at the lack of interest manifested by Londoners | in his native country. He made a | bet with a friend that three out of four people in the metropolis were | {ignorant of colonial affairs, and it | {was agreed that they shoulb ask four | passers-by in the street if they knew anything about the city of Ot- tawa. | The first person they stopped hap- | |petied to be a clerk re oe [that he had mever heard of Ottawa. | | The friends passed on, and decided to quéStion a young. girl why | | was selling flowers in the gutter. | | ""Exeuse me," said the anadian, | politely, raising his hat, "but do you | | know anything about Ottawa ?"' i | "Do I know anything o! '0o ?" éx- | |claimed the damsel, angrily. "You | get along or I'll smack your dirty | | face 1" | After that the wo friends decided [to declare the bet "off," as they con- idered that it was wiser not to make any more enquiries. : | vey the impression that you are ask-| ing a favor, not granting one. Hour | ' confessed | ! next | | readily seen that a mistaken sense of RRR a bary Home Dress Makin Lesrons reg | pm fit 2 Prepared Especially For This Newspaper by Pictorial Review <3 How, THE PUTTY COLORED LINEN! The feature of this frock is its ex- treme simplicity, but the plain collar and belt set against the striped ma- terial is very smart. Striped effects are m st suc and, although there are m ny frocks which show them manipulated in wonderful ways, the straight line is equally attractive. As shown here the hairline effect. is exceedingly smart The skirt hangs full from a very short, blowsed waist of its own material, while the belt, collar and cuffs are of plain linen. The calor scheme is In two shades of blue, 4 yards of S4-inch material being required for the dress and 1 yard of linen for the trimming If a foundation skirt 1s worn with this model a tunic may be made by cut- ting off the Empire skirt in pointed ef- fect front and back. Much sewing Is saved by proper cut- ting. The material is foided; then the front and back gores are placed on a lengthwise fold. Separating these sece- tions, however, are the back and collar, also placed on the fold of the material. Opposite and back, on a lengthwise thread, is the front of the walst, and opposite the collar, on the same fliread, is the sleeve. The cuff, pocket and plecing are placed near the selvidge edge of the material. The belt, cut crosswise, is lald on the, fold. If the design is de= sired with a coat closing cut off front edge of right front on double "oo™ per- forations and cut off front edges of left front and stay on single small forations, The sleeves may be lined with the collar material if a touch ot color is desired in the finish. The woman of fashion may not be ready for panniers and puffed over- skirts and snug-fitting boned bodices and full sleeves and skirts flounced to the waist, but she orders her frocks made with fuller skirts and has more curve in the waist of her frock. If she is clever she can glean delightful hints for details that wili give &martness even to the most demure frocks "0" pers % mr --d J FOLD OF 54 INCH MATERIAL WITH NAP Pictorial Review Costume No. £179. Sizes 14 to 20 years. Price, 15 cents. WOULD LIKE TO GET HIM. Measures Taken For Safety Of Lord Kitchener. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, | who has just been elected a member | of the Athenaeum club in London, | under the provisions of Rule 2 of the club, which empowers the annual el- ection by the committee of three per- sons of distinguished science, literature, the arts, or for! public services," is now established in the York house portion of St. James' palace, which has been plac- ed at his disposal by the King for the duration of the war. . At first the sovereign's action in the matter was looked upon in the light of an altogether exceptional mark of royal favor, and was diseus- | sed as such in the publi¢ press. But! it now appears that there were other considerations besides those of mere compliment and finance, and that if Lord Kitchener is residing in a royal palace, it is because he is more se- cure there from injury, specially guarded as it is by numerous military sentinels, and by a large force of po-| lice, than he could be in any private | residence of the metropolis. | It seems, thai the authorities in England: have had reason to fear German designs on the life of the Fleld Marshal, who' is regarded throughout' the * dominions of the Kaiser as the driving wheel and mainspring, in fact, the directing agency of the entire system of Great Britain's defence. The impression | that if anything untoward were to] happen to Lord Kitchener, military | diserganization and confusion and general inefficiency would ensue, is: widespread, not only in Germany, but even in France and in England; and this being the case, it will be patriotism might drive some son of the fatherland to risk his own life in| an attempt on that of 's | great Secretary of State for War. One thing is certain; - disappearance ' of Lord Kitcheper eminence. in| TRAITORS, AT THE TOWER. Lieut. Carl Hans Lody Was the First To Die Since 1747. The execution by shooting at the Tower of London of Carl Hans Lody, the German spy, reminds The London \ Daily Telegraph that, grim as ar» its ' records, more than a century and a half has passed since an execution took place withill the Tower. Most of the histories of the great fortress state 'that the Earl of Essex was the last prisoner to suffer death actually inside those forbidding walls, on Feb. 25th, 1601. Elizabeth's favorite en- joyed great Popularity among the : London citizens, and when his abor- tive rising failed, and he was taken prisoner at Essex House, in the Strand, it was decided that he should meet a traitor's death on Tower | Green, where Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, and other gentle victims. suffered, instead of on the scaffold' at Tower Hill, outside the fortress, for fear of public demonstrations. When Derrick, the headsman, left the Tower, he was maltreated and nearly | killed by the mob, Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower has, however, recovered a rare Geor- | glan pamphlet, describing the execu- | tion of three soldiers in the Tower for mutiny. They were shot on July 18, 1743, in front of the little chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula. The last executions on Tower Hill were those of. Lords Kilmarnock and | Balmerino, of Simon April 8th In the following year. The Tower has held state prisoners with- on Aug. 18th, 1746, and in the past century. Thistlewood and | his fellows in the Cato Street con- spiracy of 1820 were confined within the fortress, from which six of them Were taken out and hanged in front | of Newgate. Since them the Tower has ceased to be a state prison, " -- Tattooing "Tommy." would in the eyes of Germany be of | triotic i A greater advantage than the destruction of several English army Corps, and consequently he is in greater peril of assassination by some more or less irresponsible Teu- ton t any other personage in no matter whether sover- eign or statesman, Fraser, Lord Lovett, on | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY; APRIL 9, 1915. & Practical TB Are Living on Charity. Few commercial activities have | been hit so hard by the war as the ; diamond and jewelry trade. | One London dealer has in his safe a rope of perféct pink pearls. He is certain that a year ago Lord . who possesses: a marvellous collee- | tion of gems, would have given $500,000 for it. But Lord is "somewhere in France," and has other things to think about. { The average diamond dealer has! all his capital sunk in his stock. | There is a man with quite $1,250 000 worth of stones who has been |! living on the charity of his friends for months past. And there are many similar cases. : Hatton Garden, the London street which is the great world centre of the diamond trade, would have gone bankrupt long ago if the Gove] ernment had not stepped in and lent | & helping hand. As it is, many homes i have been sold up because the own- | ers, who could literally stuff their! i 1 pockets with diamonds, could Doty tory line provide their families with the bare necessities of life, | The matter is complicated by the fact that the diamond. trade all over | the world is controlled by one of the | most powerful trusts in existence, | The trust is composed of the little | ring of financiers who control the mines. By regulating the output | they keep, the stones at an artificially high price. And so the gems in the Hatton | Garden safes are practically value= | less at the presemt moment. Wil | the public ever be willing to pay the old fancy prices? It is more than | doubtful, The war has sobererd everyone in Britain, even the "smart | set" and the "vulgar rich." | In any case, the diamond mer- | chants must look forward to several | lean years and heavy losses. For { the moment they are ruined, But! even when the war is over and trade becomes more or less normal again, | they will not be able to dispose or| | their stocks ai the old prices, They will lose hundreds of thousands of | pounds. | The merchants and brokers are | not the only people who are suffer- ing. The cutters are also idle. For | some years past London has been slowly but surely winning from Am-' sterdam the reputation for the finest diamond cutting and polishing, More and more of the best stones were coming to London to be cut, Now the cutters are only too glad to get any stones to cut, and at starvation | prices. One of the leading London firms, which a year ago was employing half a dozen skilled euliers earning any- thing up to $40 a week each, now | has only one man, who not only does all the cutting, but all the cleri- | cal work as well; and he is glad to | get $10 a week, Instead of the $50 he used to-earn as foreman. 4 'al Babu English, ' The following bright sample of English "as she 18 spoke" in Burma was sent for publication to a Ran- oon contemporary: 5 "Kindly publish this following new in your paper by due date. 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