_". PAGE TWELVE ran __THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1915. < rom OVERSEAS Londoners Are Only Curious" ( With Zeppelins Overhead {lions Watch Huge Gas Bags up Above City and Far From Being Panic-stricken Are Only Made White-hot Mad--Attacks Only Boom Recruiting. The following is a published de- scription of a Zeppelin raic over the heart of London: Above the din of the orchestra there. sweeps over the theatre a cavernous bass "Boom." "Zeppelin," whispers a pretty girl sit- ting next to a Scotch officer. "No," you hear him whisper. "It's a door banging." He's lying, and kffows it. "Zeppelin."-- "Zeppelin," the through the audien :e It ou knew what was transpiring in the street you'd be out there, in- stead of waiting for the last act *o end. Such a scene is being enacted rout there as the old town of London, in all its rich, thousand years' history never beheld until Germony tried her new war. . The curtain goe. down. You fil out of the theatre iuto a crowded station and trafic is at a standstill. A mil lion quiet cries make a subiued roar. Seven million peurle of the biggest city in the world stand gazi 1g into the sky from the darkened streets. - Here is the climax of the twentieth cen- tury. Among the stars floats a. long, gaunt Zeppelin.' It is dull yellow, the color of the moon. The long firgers of the searchlights, reaching up from the roofs of the city, are teaching all sides of (lie. death ""messcnger with their white tips. Great booming sounds shake the city. They are Zeppelin' bombs -- falling -- killing -- burning. Lesser noises--of sheoting --are nearer at hand, the noise of aerial guns seniing shraprel intc the sky. whisper runs Fires and Battie "For God': sake don't do that!" Says one man to another who has Just strack a match to light a cigar Site. Whispers, low voices, run all through the streets. "Theres : red light in the sky over there; our houses may be burning," exclaims a woman, clutching at a man's coat. "There are a million houses in London; why ours pariicularly? he responds. A group of men talking French stand gazing up from the street. They are in waiters' clothes and have rushed out from the supmer room of one of the most luxurious hotels in the world. "The devils!" exclain:s one, and thea --""We've got it--it can't get away. There's shrapnel all around it" "Oh--my neck!" says a pretty girl in evening wraps. "I can't look up a minute more." But she does All ' about you are beautifully garbed wo- men and men in evening clothes. "O's," "Al's," and long-drawn out ex- clamations of admiration like the sounds made by holiday crowds watching fireworks, greet the brilliant- ly white flashes of shrapnel. Suddenly you realize that the big- gest city in the world as been the night battlefield on which seven mil. lon harmless men, women and child- ren live. Here is war at the very heart of civilization, threatening all the millions of things that human hearts and human minds have created In past centuries. Mourners to-aight . Will leave the side of their dead to . look into the sky fearfully. Little children, who have said 'Now 1 lay me down" and have gone to sleep, will be awakened and rushed into cel lars to save them from death. There are more cries--"Good God, it's stag: gering!" as a shrapnel flash breaks apparently near the great airship. What a roar of joy would go up ifrom the millions of this great city if they could suddenly see the yellow object transformed into the flash of one gigantic explosion, little white gloved hands clap their approval at the Zeppelin's near approach to death; white teeth sparkle in smiles; men roar with delight. These" men and women, flowers of the twentieth cen- tury culture, have become elemental. , bloody, battle:mad soldiers felt: the same way in battle.' Killing has been put into the hearts of these crowds. If the man up there in the sky. think they are terrifying London they are wrong. They are only mak- ing England - white-hot mad. Brothers All The redness of a burning building fills the sky. The dome of historic St. Paul's cathedral looms up against the redness. You pass the old church in a side street 2 g : sk: Bi GOTT STRAFE ENGLAND The above reproduction is of a poster extensively used throughout Ger- many in connection with the "God punish England" madness. the illustration," says theslwhdon all, the German 'Gott' This fully explains and the intimacy between the German ASIN ing of the Story of to-pight's Zeppelin raid have-crumbled into dust. They typify London and England- -unchang- | aa AA "From Tatler, "as will. now be obvious to is the personage whom we regard as the Devil. justifies the Kaiser in his many references to 'Gott' and himself." ed one iota by this Zeppelin raid that only ended in the loss of harmless lives. The next day recruiting tripled. How To Win Battles As Told By Napoleon| _ Brilliant Advice of the Greatest * Mathematics and Consta A French colone! has been at con- sidcrable pains to scan the literature of Napol.on and select from it every observation of the greates: of miiitary geniuses that bears upon tho art and science of war. Anybody can read what Napoleon advises. There is nothing manifestly obscure about his principles. 'If only one could read it, and then proceed to discomfit and de- stroy the Germans. One natu-ally turns to those precepts that ar. col- lectud under the head, "How to be a Great Captain." Napoleon was a great captain, and he knew undoubtedly how one ought to act in o der to be one. He says in the frst place that one ought to make #ggressive war. Napo- leon recommends tlat the soldier who aspires to be a great captain should read and'reread the maxims and cam- paigns of Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick the Great. He fails to mention Marlborough in this connee- tion, though at another time he said that Marlborough was the only Eng-!| lish general he would consider fit to cross a sword wil. He lusists that there is nothing vague or mysterious about the art of war. Its general prin- ciples are uiichang'ng, and most of them have tu do with the blunders of the enemy. Experience no Teacher | Napoleon said it" was femarkable that though he had fough: sixty battles he knew no more when he finished than when he begun. C@msar, too, fought his first battle lke the last. He said that it was a great arc in battles to change tie ln' of oper ation during action. "He attributed to this principle, of which he claimed to be the discoverer, his victory at Mar engo. The simple.t manceuvres were, in his opinion, the best. He adied: "Yet one must have common sense. | 1 cannot uacerstand how general: can make mistakes; it is perhaps because they wish to act by inspiration. The most thing is to guess the truth in all the conflicting repcrts that you receive. "It .s like a fist fight The niore one hits the better It is necessary, however, to study the map carefully." about genera's i His observations | were to this effect: "The time for a to work is 'night. If he uselessly himself the day he is wora out at nisht. At Vitto'hs wa were beaien 'during | the Soldier--~Common Sense, Maps, nt Vigilance the Recipe the rest is the gift of heaven. To be a good gen:ral . one mu t know mathematics; in a thousand circum- stances mathematics will serve to rec- tify ideas. Possibly 1 owe my success to my mathematical ideas. A general ought not to have too vivid an imagin- ation; that is worse than anything. Because the enemy has captured an outpost it does not necessarily follow that the entire aruy is there." Analyzes Himself His 'own great gift of generalship he reduced to fhe possession of one gift--to see 'he truth clearly, and even in a talk to see through all the phases of a question to its base; a gift one might think that has to te born in a man and cannot be acquired, even though all the military chronicles ever written were read und digested. Nat- urally enough, he blamed his own re verses to hard luck and was unable to see that his encmies had any mill- tary; gifts at all. He asserted that Wellington was an ordinary. man, who was merely prudent. He had an alibt for every defeat. Of Waterloo, he said that all failed whe all had won. "It might have restored Europe." STRANGE €O0D OF HUNS ---- Well might the allies despal: 'a vin- ning or justifying their cause if they were to accept the German Emperor's belief that Ged was always on his side, says The New York Sun. © Teo people whose religious feeling is not militant and whose conception of God is impersonal the Emperor's convic- tion, so constantly intimated, thet the Almighty is with him and agzinst his enemies comes as a shock It seems insinéqre and wanting in reverence. But it is nothing -of the kiid, as Mr. Sydney Brooks points out. To the English and the Germans God is a different being. To the English "He fs the Lord Géd Almighty, a terrific overshadowing being, feared and re vered, and kept in our private sanc- tuaries, to he appealed to in moments of profound grief or emotion, bus cer tainly mo companion to our crdi thaughta on actions." © But, to guote Mr , "the lieber<Herr Gott of the German: is above all things a very human comrade, a 'partaker of common round to be resognized in whatever is loved or enjoyed. He is also an intensely German deity, peculiarly associated wit: the Ger man soil, the supreme war lord and guardian of the German .osts The even German heart responds to Him 4when the 'German intellect refuses to Ws scepticism and refuses still more sternly to > "caged within the four walls of any doctrine" THE BLACK WATCH The Black Watch, represents the regiments of the old Forty-secon! and Seventy-third Royal Highlanders, which in turn represented indepen- dent companies from Whig clans, raised between 1715 and 1745 to kee the peace of the Highlands. Eacl company wore the tartan of its com: mander, and most of these tartans such as that of the Campbells and Munroes, were of a dark character. Thus these companies gained the name of (in Gaeli.' "Freimdun Dhu," or Black Watch, as opposed to the "Leidman Diarag," or Red "Soldiers. The title, "Royal Highlanders," was bestowed in 1758, and at that. date, no clan having a prior claim to give a tartan to the whole, a few dark tartan was exp -essly designed, which has since been peculiar to the regi- ment. Like all British regiments, the honors gained were won: in far-sunder- ed places and embrace Martinique, Corunna, Waterldoe, Alma, Sebastopol, Lucknow, Ashanti, Egypt, and Paardeburg, South Africa. Many of these battles were fought against foes which are now not mere- ly friends, but comrades in arms, as witness Waterloo, Sebastoyo., Luck- now, and, latest of all, Paardeburg. MORAL GAIN BY WAR Inspiring Interpretation by Most Fa- mous Philosopher of France As President of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, *enri Bergson, France's most dear.y loved philosopher, delivered an address on the meaning of the war. He shows how, when Germany was working out her matural self-déevelopment,, Prussia --an artificially-created State, not one of natural growtlh--introduced and succeeded in imposing on Germany her mechanical system of Govern- ment, her mechanical army, which strangled the free, human, develop- ment of the people. By the defeat of France in 1870-71, Bismarck induc- ed the whole of Germany tc accept Prussian materialism. In the great industrial development that followed, lust of conquest took a new form in the thirst for wealth. So came the desire to dominate the world, and the trust in material force to secure that end. The alliance betweén militarism and industrialism has made Germany ruthless and regardless of all rules in the conduct of the war. Wishing to strike at the enemy's industry and wealth, she was filled with the spirit of destruction, and to make the war short, in the interests of German com- merce, she adopted all methods for terrorizing the enemy population. Such, says M. Bergson, is thy ex- planation of the spectacle before, the world. "Barbarism reinforced by the capture of civilization." Humanity, physically enlarged enormously by the ad ance of the mechanical arts, was busy trying to fill up "the soulless void in the body politic By creating more liberty, more frateraity, more justice than the world has ever seen." Then, in the person of Germany, brute force sought to usurp the place of moral forces» But, says Bergson in a fine passage; great miracles then hap- pened; moral forces suddenly reveal- ed themselves a3 creators of material force--in Great Britain especially, where "one million, two millions of soldiers suddenly rose from the earth," and "in a nation thought to be mortally divided against itself all became brothers in the space of a day. From that noment the issue of the conflict was not open tosloubt." Great spiritual gains, Bergson is confident, will be the issue of the war, and the philosopher of the fufure will see "how humanity was saved by material suffering from the moral downfall which would have been its end." de - > NIGHT FIGHTING IS BEST Owing to the havoc caused by meod- ern artillery, commanders are now car- rying out 'a considerable nvmber of their most important movementr un- der the protective cover of darkness. The night attack is & form of tactics which is becoming increasingly popu- lar, and night fighting has deve:oped into quite a science. All mainer of Ingenious ruses are practiced to en- able 'large bodies of troops silently to advance across country and launch an unexpected attack onthe enemy. The success of such tactics depends very largely on the silence with which they are carried out. During night operations troops ure strictly ferbid- den to carry their rifles at the "sicpe." which is to say, across their shoulder. This .. to rrevent the glittering in the moonlight above the andergrowth. He men have to carry their rE but never with he left, a a, e fo FiAREE fine 3 Tel-el-Kebir, |. | | an a Er 1 Turks Thought The Maoris Were Savage Cannibals Von Teufel (to von Tirpitz): "Allow me to confer the Sulphur Cross upon your Excellency!" -- "Westminster Gazette," London. -------- Scientists Of Britain *. Not German-T aught British Military Inventors Have Led Where Others Copied--Writ- er Pleads For Mobilization of Scientific Brains The British Empire is mobilizing its industries for the manufacture of shells. When shall we mobilize our scientists? asks a British writer. The urgency of this question is emphasized by the news tifat the French Lcademy ot 'Science is in the closest possible touch with the French army. Officers inform the academy of new needs as they arise and submit questions for solution. Thus in present conditions wire entanglements are usually re- moved by a very clumsy process-- using high-explosive shell to tear down their supports. It might be possible to devise some more effective sclen- tific means of achieving this end. The present idee is to meet poisonous gas by the issue of respirators. It would be better and quite as practicable to neutralize the asphyxiating gas with some other gas or vapor. To give an example, chlorine fumes would b« ren- dered harmless by soda solution spray- ed. In place of choking vapor there would be a snowfall of a solid viscous substance, chloride of sodium, or com- mon salt. Science Decides The war is more and more becoming a matter of.science. Gérman- scien- tists have given various kinds of as- phyxiating gases and bombs charged with formaline and other choking fumes. They have turned out high explosives in gigantic quantities and of relative stability. When the allied blockade interfered with the supply of nitrates--and nitric acid is an essen. tial ingredient In .very explosive--the German chemists produced their plant by which nitrogen was extracted from the air. There is an ill-founded idea that tls British ar» inferior to the Germans in scientific acquirements and inventive ness. This has been much exploited by the Huns, but it is sheer nonsense One of the most famous American mil- lionaires states that he ha: made an Immense fortune cut of British brains and declares that the British cre great- er inventors then all other nations. Sir William Ramsay recently showed that the most rem .rkable chemical in- ventions of the lart few years were the "achievements of Englishmen We Show and Huns Learn The British army was the first in Europe to be equipped with the ma- chine gun and to grasp its value. Hav: ing done this it ctood still and was content with a tiny allowance of these guns. The Germans ordered just be- fore the war 50,006 machine guns, The result is that they are affen able to hold their trenches with' machine guns worked by half a dozen men, whereas we are compelled to offer the German high-explosive shells a splendid target of many splendid lives. Britaia led the world in the adoption of the Dread- nought type, and here again the. Ger- mans merely copied us.. The onc real Germar invention is the Zeppelir, and to this a reply could long since kaye been discovered. NN PININIINIINNNI ARMENIANS EXTINCT? 4 Latest Turkish Atrocities Show De- liberate Fiendish Plan A letter written by a man in Con- stantinople to anourin Williams, a member of the British Parliament, de- scribes the terrible plight of the Ar menians. - "The .aisery of our people was never greater. We now know with certainty that the Armenians have been deported in a body from all towns and villages im: Cilicia to the desert regions south of Aleppo. The refugees have to traverse or. foot distances requiring marches of from one to two (or even more) months before they can arrive at the remote point of the dese-t assigne! tv them as their dwelling place, which is 'bound to become thelr tomb. We learn, besides, that the 'roads and the "It is a plan to exterminate the whole Armenian people, quite quietly. It is another kind of massacre, one of by the Trochak and Henchak Socie- ties. In addition to this hanging 32 persons were condemned at Cmsarea to penalties varying from 10 to 156 years of penal servitude. -- "These are for the mos part law-abiding mer chants. "On the other hand, many have fal len from blows frcm clubs. Thirteen Armenians were killed on their way from Chabine Karahissa to Sivas. Not 2 house has been left without search, nor have the bishops' houses, the churches, and the schools. Hundreds of women, young girls and even child: ren thrown in the prisons. The churches and convents have been pil- laged, defiled and d_stroyed. The vil lages around.Vau and Bitis have "pillafied, 'and their inhabitants put to the sword. All the inhabitants of Hara-Hissar were pitiléssly massa ced, with the exception of a few children who are said to have escap ed miraculously." . Hun Charity Statues / Many of the war charity. schemes in Germany take the form of wooden statues. These have been erected in y of the towns throughout the country. People drive nails into the - | #tatnes, each nail costing roughly 26 cents, the proceeds usually going to the Red Cross funds. The idea is that the statue should be covered with nail armor, and there is scarcely a German town of any importance which has not erected In some prom- pre- | inent position one of thers charity g rf 1 people pass through districts which reputed dangerous even in times peace and where there was great robbed. rts-martial operate every i Twelve, Ar at Cmoarea on Bil ji of statues. ues. p has the most impos- ing one--a huge effigy of Hindeaburg {| The figure of Hindenburg himsif is no less than 33 feet high from the soles of his mighty boots to the crown of his" colossal hat, rests on & square pedestal over § feet high. At Hamburg a woode: statue of the German St. Michael has been erecied. Hamburgers are now spend. ing their marks In nails which they "yfve into the "statué in the cause of charity. : { Y Colored Troops From New Zea land, Some "of Them College- bred, Puzzled Enemy When They Indulged in Old-time War Dange--Are Splendid Fighters: An officer of the New Zealand con- tingent writes: "At Galiijoll .a group of men were sitting roun' the en- trance to a dug-cut. In their midst squatted a Greek interpreter traas- lating into very bad Englizi. some of the news contained in a copy of the Constantinople newspape. Tanin. The article. said: "Information is still lacking as to the composition of the enemy's forces, but it appears from indications received from Rurope that they must consis. chiefly of black men from Africa: end Auitralia. Thus the Straits for the first time in his- tory have had to endure attac; by cannibals." No wonder the listening Australians and New Zealander laugh- ed uproariously. The British force at Gallipoli had been strengthened by the arrival of the Maori contingent, "| direct descendants of most chivalrous and warlike ancestors, 10 whom the poaka-roa, or "long pig," as & human joint was termed, was a much esteem- ed delicacy. Nowadays the Maori, in- stead of fattening his slaves, spends his time, if he is ambitious, In get- ting his M.A. degree or in passing his accountancy examin.tions. A Splendid Race These men who landed at Gaba Tepe are the first Polynesian troops to be brought oversea to fight for the Mother Country, and having the spirit of their ancestors, do it well. "Back in the Maori wars their forebear war: riors were besieged by British troops. The 65th Regime:wnt, it was, sat Jown around the fortress gates and, prepar- ed to starve out the men inside the pah. The hikite peep, as the Maors called the besiegirg regiment, ra: out of water first, and the situation was getting serious when the palisade gates of the pah opened and a line of brown figures carrying gourds fill- ed with water approached the British trenches. Fearing a ruse the colonel of the 65th ordered his men to stand to arms, but the chief leading the water-bearers smiled. He made a courteous speech, in which he said naively that both parties hitherto had been enjoying themselves, and it would be a pity if so small a matter as lack of water should put a stop to what was really a most pleasant siege. Such a thing was unthinkable, There was abundance of water-in the pah for both besieged and besiegers. With further complimentary refer ences he took his leave, and the thirs- ty hikite peep, watched the brown backs for a mi.ut or twc in gmaze ment "and then buried their faces in the cogl gourds. The next morning the pah was empty, and the garrison had walked out a back way through what had looked like an impassable swamp. Only a few old women were left to shout and .ake a noise dur ing the might. While Morlems Shivered Now the Mafri fights. with us, and he has exchanged his old Tower mus- ket for the Mark Il. Star L. E., with which he is a phenomenal shot. The Maoris started to cig themselve- in, and made their bivouacs in an old watercourse .on the left flank. Then the Paksha (white man) General came along and addressed them, and afterwards occurred a sc:ne tha* has no counterpart ir the weird and varied annals cf the Dardanelles. The Maoris, privates and office. s, lined up. With protruding tongues and a rhyth- tical slapping of hands on thighs and chests, with a_deep concerted "a-a-ah" ending abruptly, they began the Maori haka--tho war dance. Shrill and high the leader intoned the solo parts, and the chorus crashed out. As the dancers became more animated the beat of their feet echoed through the gullies of Gallipoli = The leader now declaimed fiercely, now his voice sank to an eerie whisper, still per fectly audible, and as he "rouched low to the ground so the men 1 hind him posed. Suddenly, after a concerted crash of voices, the chant endad with a sibilant hiss, a stamp of the right toot, and the detonation Of palms slapping the hard ground. A hundred yards away In the Turk- ish trenches perplexed Moslems lis tened to this blood-curdling screnade, and one of them in explanation pro- duced his copy of the Koran. Omin. ous nods and headshakings followed its reading. "For the first timg in history the Straits have had to en- dure attack by cannibals" And the leader of the haka, a full blooded Maori, wrote M.A. LL.D. after his name, and spoke better English than many a'white man. Buckingham's Workshop One of the finest carpenter's work- shops in London #8 at Buckingham Palace. A little while igo the King had this workshop entirely refitted, and it now contains a splendid elec- tricallydriven. turning plant. In many 6f the rooms at the different Royal