PASE TWELVE ® x 5 rs v ives Slackers Fine Example | | | { | \ DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, "a Naw" ry Against Ansa' in Widnes, Home of War's e zigza it of danger The Germans Hoaxed taken po escape of mans must hay car Frobably inding it hack atigfied to after tried te repair it sible started to men tow were their lives Mlle. Duele short distance behind back d leave the r car rmnning found a road that lead them t the one that the follow on their officer in charge taking the but Mle ited that she was the could get ti Thu in 1fter a mans would way back ihe party in wheel demon one wno of her ca let her Behind a the mesting of wait for Up the mn of t car tr e Lest for i place of that they the of the returs road tay marks lay in pile rocks roads ing German came the German ging at a rope that drew th ghled Frehch armored r r were abhut forty of practically half a company, minus men wh had already fallen in fight Wholesale Annihilation Duclos immediately that she should drive the down on the Her opportunity had come upon the toili great Rd.harsepor an arrow ¥ its ta IE dis ere them the 0 the Mile suggested Car straight unsuspecting Germans for a great zed sit Down Germans flew or Straight with he weight muitiplie a hundred times ite speed and downward course. All the Germans in full path went down like ripe corn before the scythe 3 Straight it flew on with out being Served dn the slightest de gree by the FumRn obstacles in its way \ "1 felt like the year carnation of | the spirit of destruction and revenge" says Mlle. Duclos. describing thia wild scene. "I was not human The car flew on its path of death until ii reach ed the captured French armored car Mile. Duclos missed this by an incal culable fraction of an inch and then | slowly brought her racing car to a stop. So it was that Mlle Duclos at the wheel of her own car led the gloious wreck back in triumph action hill the Ne s car as of br its Spain's Huge Palace The King of Spain has the largest | royal! palace in Europe It is called the Escurial. near Madrid. and i= co large that it would take four days to go through all the rooms and apart | ments, the distance which would have to be traversed being about 120 wiles King William at rand partly Supplies Little Known Lancash ae ' Has Smells, 1y } And for it is right, In w nr stran a pla films of weather pavement would questioned hydrogen" and . Now and Y odors ridescent cc or and roadway ) wt the inte sident the atmosp i a thick 1 and for the hasi the stench is a f a night quirers from all ov Widnes ht the to learn of ¢he on t men mus of grease the face to pre t the In other + with the Clothes injured Y Wear mas: Chemicals Ruin Widnes how destructive ateriala dealt laboring man Nofice his riddled with holes would be futile to atte; The towel which ! the sheets wherein he 8 a like fate. In some cases necessary to havea omplete before leaving his task, and rows housewife know ai with trudge The jack on gieeps KINGS IN "SPILLS" When Monarchs' Mounts Have Stum bled--King George One of Many considering the always taken in the selec enough their mounts, monarchs fre ome to grief when riding corge's ancestor, Wiliam the 1ig death from a fall from most schoolboys are awa 1a]. a one-eved steed named mblel over a mole hill with to its rider. Afterwards who, of course, hated used to toast "Master heing the horse) and in Velvet (that Sorrel fatal the r Jac its hites, One-Eye (that the Little Gentleman being the mole)" William 1 came by stumbling not uu through n too, though death over some ashes the siege Mantes. He was car ried to Rouen suffering from severe internal injuries, and died ther a few days lIater King George II. ad a Larrow e cape from death at the battie of Dettingen, through hig horse falling with him, upon him With great pluck, however, he jumped up. and, assuring iis troops that he was not hurt, continued to lead them on foot It was afterwards found that although no bones were broken. the King was bruised practically sil over his body ed horse 8 lon Court St Barthelomew"s Hospital, don, Eng, was founded by the t Jester of Henry | wonder: of Chemicals ppen dust machine idle ir few days au fearful explosion 1Hme sulting ort A twa of be o1 Ww ad en wa e of ago the: 108 momen for dear "Cold With Sweat" ago Ww Attn rarge car paid very time a ing a funnel which 18 to. kept full im nstead of « to that he would Astor oil in stopped his B han hin ge earboy hi side blond in ne and Why nly veina to stuff ice nhina ? town } Sweat they 1 1d glis 1y f~aherzs river bank tuddeniy SUDDEN DEATH It w of wl ed that on.ihe Marnc tod mor re strange L« certain Ger orpses Death had th bodies Te of the turned stories rel man unw 80 insta ainegd idering mo In a the Academy Arnoux asser the were due | efficacy explosives a fift en yards' radius point where the shell explodes the displacement of the air is so intense ag to destroy the equili- brium of pressgre on the interior and exterior of the human body. The gas contair n the hicod is thus liberat- ed, causes a diste n of th: blood- vesgels and arteries, and, ultimately bursting organs, induces spd- den death Thiz argument ig con- firmed by the state of the' bodies. which often showed the heart and liver greatly distended and namerous iniarna' hemorrhages. heen ons at Ke pos phenomena f the French of the these German Guns Useful The reason why so comparatively small 8 number of German guns are on exhibition in England is that so many have been captured and they , are in such good condition that it has « bean found worth while making ecial ammuniion for them and ting them ino service agains: originat ownérs 2 ' | 4 pui-| their GERMANS, NOT BRITONS, SHOULD BE PESSIMISTS { Tha dismal and gloomy pessimists like the Fat Boy, are always fry ing to make our flesh creep with| stories of Britain's mismanagement of | war unpreparedness, and | ack of decisive victories, while laud g to the skies what (hey big achievements on the part of ermans, might, with considerable rofit, employ some of their time read marking learning, and inward y | the pregnant remarks of Mr | Bennett I can imagine writer, in an artic Daily News our leading | be turned transformed say We | who this her the sting nold ive this | nent 1 the London some of could blished in he wailing of mists if they to Germany and Germans. They woulo ed everywhere We spent nousand millions of marks fieet, and it ie a complete failure ervthing in our favor for of Paris and we falled to cap-| We tried under similar favor to get (Calais and We tried to put the out of action and] nto on a We had ev the | capture ture it able conditions we there Russian armies failed there Wa tried rade to failed mari we to destroy British by submarines and Tt is our submarines destroyed We tried the allies and we failed there 2d to keep Italy neutral and we We had great trained men; we have i Ereat a ivantage in ave lost ji We xcept time failed there to which are divide a advan have also our colonise ne Our allies ions and are y vill are bor without interest es nave risen by*a than ia food pric percentage vorld Our } men shops any others $0 have all of me NC stand ight or and often nights in reach de in der they hutchers y obtain a bit il several thay can \¥ Britain Because Britain has steadily ed herself whereas are {ily being disorganized Facts! have to stand a throt before w succession ounter is we Let gan At us 31 ¢ Face the BRITISH TO THE END the English | prisoner of! W. Lonsdale, man who is in Germany and whose death sentence (afterwards commuted to twenty vears' penal servitude) recent ly aroused great indignation in the old countrys writes bitterly about treatment. meted, out to him. He w in the fortress prison Span dau, amd, though in good health feeling' the full rigor o German discipline." In one letter to his he says The captain came to see me yester day and gave me some English maga The only time {have for read ing is on a Sunday During the week it is all work and sleep, and not a] large amount of the latter i Pleased to hear that at the front) is still You can tell him that I don't fancy being a prisoner of war; and also tell him that, if he is so placed that he is likely to bp taken prisoner, he ha dbetter put a bullet through his brain. Death is far preferable to what! I have already gone through If my | time were to come over again, | should never ba a prisoner of war I would be with my comrades on the pit hills in Flanders. They have tried gaveral ways to kil! me Now they | are trying to starve me because | am | English. 1 only get half as much to} cat as the (érman prisoners. This| is not the Salvation Hotel; it is the Starvation Hell" | In another letter he urges his wife | not to worry. about him. as he is quite well 'S80 cheer up," he adds, "keep up a good old British heart the same as | am doing, and all will come | well in the end Remember. Once British always British. That is a good motto, and it takes a lot to break the! heart of a true Britisher." ! THE TOWER OF SKULLS | Private streelcar a war the is of is wife zines (someone alive and well | Ancient City of Nish Has Nemarkable | Memorial Erected im it ---- have béen many tragic epi the history of Nish, the capital of Serbia. In the ffteenth century ihe Turks captured the city, and for 300 years it remained in their possession, altheugh there were brief periods when the Austrians held it Then. in 1809. the Serbians, who had recovered most of their country from the Turks, besieged Nish, but were defeated with great loss. The Tucks. to celebrate their victory. erected a rough tower, composed .lternatel¥ of lumps of rock apd skulls of Serbians cemented togethe It is related that there were origin ally 1.200 skulls in the Tower of Nish For a long period it was the habit of travellers to Nish to carry off a skull as a souvenir. end this reduced their numbers. = But in the Russo Turkish War the Serbiun army un- der the command of King Milan be siegetd Nish. amd the fortress fell on January 10th. 1878. ¥ The remaining skull- were then reverently buried by the Serbian troops except ome, which was teo deeply embedded in: the plaster to be extracted. The socalled "Tower of Skulls" is now omiy about four feet! in height. and only one skull can be seen to remind the traveller of its gloomy history cd ¢ There sodes in Highland pisids wore ] originally 'worn hy the Gauls consider | { | Minister | fiery I hoth | ments | looking | France | small lof 120 degrees; Rallying ma rt | BRIAND ye M. | French | This that Aristide. Briand has been ti As lonx ago as 1909 he thoug! a few ye formed his fir had only He began cialist ministry politic political The 1p Journalist hee I 8 art a8 a nn career of an later entered Lloyd son but n Par rege Keeper, he hecame iament to become if France He is like HBoti both ok law and the Ge Mr 1 Ww many par law yvd George in born of poor trained in the ly attracted poli their ability and by raised themselves their Govern a remarkable thin figure is that seems all much grimmer in real life than ographs show, for in them his drooping black moustache hides the strong lines of his mouth He owed his strength great railway strike broke did no io WAYS ents were became ea to ties, and powerfu high both by speaking positions Mr. Briand man Hi surmounted a angles and is pt to by face Is determined His more when the out in one had He led and for ¢ what ared to ard ra before en to th d them ca the WARY e colors then orders as soldiers aver the railways rik the in a and most who and wo trike wa recognized few days the M. Briand powerfu had the « Was Bs man and one ourage of 1 ( fc tions There clusive as Fran Aristide LUNGS OF A BATTLESHIP $s no of an Germany concerned, as Briand anvthing ncon far a8 say chance with As long peace has Ventilation One of the Worst Prob lems of Britain's Defenders One of the most difficult problems | in building a modern battleship is to secure satisfac ventilation such a complicated creature, made up of so many boxes, large and for the accommodation of of-| men, coal, ammunition, and stores; dotted here and there with so many steel ladders, automatic lifts steel bulkheads, and watertight doors, varied and there' by miles of electric wires belonging to lights tele | phones, bells, and motors, to say nothing of the endless mileage of pipes for flooding, draining, pumping, | fresh water, fresh air or compressed | air, and speaking tubes First in importance tilating of the boller rooms. When begin away in the bowels of the ship at a temperature when, too, you com mence realize' that unless the fur naces receive their required draught the speed of the battleship drops to below that of her sisters in the squad ron, you appreciate the importance of the steam-driven fans to the furnaces | and boiler rooms. The supply of air comes down through large water-tight trunks which are continued right up to the weather deck, armored gratings being provided at the protective deck tory She is steel ficers here comes the and engine ven you to German Decoy Duck In Antwerp, where the Boche reigns supreme, the inhabjtanis are suppos ed to read only two local papers ap proved hy the "kommandantur" But the inhabitants read the forbidden journals all the same, and pass them on from one to another One day a woman rose in a crowded street car, and exclaimed, "Soméone has stole | my handbag'" A German officer and some soldiers who "happened" to be on the platform came to*ths lady's "as sistance and ordered the passengers to turn out their pockets. They did | not find the bag, but they arrested two of Antwerp's citisens with pro hibited newspapers in their posses ston The Iaftly was a German de tective a | Divorces are scarcely ever known | to occur in modern Greece | HE don Cry Tune of the Pipes is Greatest to the Scotsman Stirring Deeds of Gallant Kilted Regiments Have Often Been In gpired by Opportune Playi ng by Lone Pipers Heroism Becomes Still More Heroic at Magic Sound As the bom bec their way along the German trenches after the first nm Watch pipers under a Black stood uprig on the parapet errible fire and played 'Hie land Laddies,' the regimental charge of a terrific bursting a round their Highland battle until one piper fell dead and was wounded I'nis was what hap pened during t Britis? attack the German lines nortl § 1 and It the that hrve two this gallant corps They stored in fire bombs a with and alr to the storm. of them bre the ot 1 o1 Bassee is one of epics been aast enturies Heroes of the Pipes It land largely gained by is almost a reg raditior thute« their « animating but by the contr by every ountrymen, not the raing t music coolness and se of ipers in possession in the he {2nd of danger lander whi Ey f acking party aptured Washington, { scrambled t AVE own to "a pipers made good He until at bullets rasched mangled and Waterloo, where imperishable Mackay himself that raged Haye the sum had play VAT Note who, a8 soon s he footing, began tinued sounding his ridd} point to point til it nis con last his body fro wi fell he bottom of the rock disfigured Again the Camerons fame, it Piper Kenneth who specially distinguished In the thick of the fightin? round farmhouse Sainte, the Come French columns. Th ry came support of the infantry, the Camerons formed square And, while the Culrassier came thundering Piper Mackay stepped outside the square of bayon ets, and, marching around, piayed the stirring "Cogadh na Sithe Instances From History strains of the brought life and hope to the garrison in Lucknow; it at earned was the of La charged t} CAVA! baffled Ons a enemy's to the and 5 It that sieged was the pibroct he WAS LP THE ie heroic I parts of goaded the Bish viciory al it playing of the C strugeg Kebir was P ck 0 (ral Gordons the ground bac 1 1 heig « b the Victoria Cross paign * have he times themselve hen playing warri I It Simps Wat piper ing Simpso once got ion, t ARAlr He througt and, with triumphant died Music That Fires the Bloo Describing ie Inspiring the Kil along ofie of t ders. with flantly, a front pipes rouse a oi ing devil u ar the tar altogerhier a pleasant sis Scottish regiment being the trenches You can killing ahead; see determination of of the jaw, t} hands on rifle the wail of cry fle sai whom pipe "Th yon G passage A ted batta cky roads o British thus )agpipes COrrespot Che drone lent wrote seem to is you feel ea them the pipes a Wrging BErgeant Lic ely on Duamiri I me inspiration Cock th rmans wi BLINDED HEROES ENJOY LIFE School in London Helps Soldiers to Start Over Again When Blinded For Life--Sports Are Even Taken up by Convales- cents The of stands in the midst Hope grounds, with spa flower gardens House of splendid cions lawns, beautiful near a great lake branch of which spanned by a rustic bridge, runs into them, but its inmates, heroes all, live in darkness Thev are the soldiers and sailors who have been blinded in the war, who are doomed for the rest of their lives to walk in a world with out Mght. In a huge mansion in Lon kindly loaned by the generosity of Mr. Otto Kahn, the American finan cler, they are given new freedom, they are taught build another op for thewaselves on new foundations, [in place of the world of light they have laft They taught to live in ft and have mew he new ambi tions iddals These =ightless may seem tragic, saddening hopeless figures--but they themselves are mo longer sad, for they have found new comfort and happiness in the House of Hope. Soon after the war broke out, the Blinded Soldiers' and Sailors' Hostel, where these brave men could a to up sre to pes fresh the war heroes of an oQ > SCENE: NEW YORK German-American: "Halloa, Irishman! Pat: "I'm making war munitions" German: "Vell, dot's a nice vay io te Pat. "But Pat: "F ship It to the allies and 1. ey shoot it at 'em' Vot, you doing now?" neutral." I'm making it {or the Germans" German: "Oh, veil, dot's different, tut how you get de ammunition to de | sy --Tit 3its, London ot { be received, cared for, and their in life ih House of train was Hope new condition hed the fiers are he ans By arrangement wit} Office all blinded discharge fron pitals, are invited tq Here that can heir Ing and the ing | be blind | War | their oldi the mi avervinin devise f fone ome blinded if voluntary helpers, w aid can he highly ypewriting ight by instructors he ot too is al who are { Blind Teachers au ably There The try, boot weaving farming taug! man two and reading and a half pation (hat n occupation repairing massage, te and market also hi phony gardenir )¥ toa ind n the House of Hops ours a day al B riting, and anot n learning a enahie him earn comfortable wages, and to pension The duration training depends on the quick: those learning to he blind, and nature of their work, but it is at lea six months. When ready the men ar given a good start in life gnd arrange ments are being made which wi sure that they will be properly look¥d after a halt and will in Sports in Day's Routine ® i Sports and entertainmer.ts rm {good part of the daily routine at .he { House of Hope There ts a rowing chug, and a crew of blind soldier oars men roged on the Thames against jerews of blind civilians, and they won two out of threa races, and on a later | date they beat a strong crew of sight ed oarsmén. There is an annex for the accommodation of relatives of (men, who are welcome to go ther {and spend a few days near their hus- bands, sons. or brothers free of cost Another annex {8 to be found t Brighton and also at Torquay "s an- other annex, supported by the rener |osity of residents of (hat charmi | neighboshood, to which men in need of a prolpaged period of convales cence are sent. A nome in Serbia In Berbia lagd belongs to the | people, and every grown man has a {claim to five acres, which he can | netther sell nor have taken from him | His land and its produce are exempt from all claims for debi. Thus the | poorest man in Serbia has always five | acres to his credit. A, | Pour out of the last nine Crurs of Russia have heen assgupinsted ° A Japanese mounts Ka hore, of thd - right side '