. Fo at - 'THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1915 7 OVER SEA I : : a ee THE TORPEDO TELLS | --____ rmom me WSHSUARTAN OE | TOMMY AT THE BASE HISTORY OF ITS LIFE | 15---- CWE IS FULL OF HUMOR Why Private Simpsoon Will For Ever be Known as One Who Died That 2 A Others Might Live Very Modern But Wonderful i i ng ia ; The Soldier, Wearied by Incessant Fighting and Din is Sent Back Death dealing Invention Plays ELECTRIC PANTS | 7 i 'despatolies bat. Whe Beyoud Reach of Trench Igfe-- Very Cheerfully He Sings in the home lettérs and Jokes of Discomforts on the Firing Line Australasian survivors. of the early p Warfere Makes Submarines a 8 | an Important Part in Naval : 1 {oO | fateful days after the Gallipoll land " r . 3 | ] Terror Travels at Great Speed IL8. 18 & certain stretcher-hearer. . His Fommy down the le is a notable y patriotic enough tc ssk him 1 He We Sy b for s p v + 3 a4 Re HH} 2, HL ome person Down the lone" means to be no fed up with the base LA CC ble. reason he got to b : f R an ne ex UO DE stationed at t base of operations, reply € most nou-comiuittal man L nu 8 MUurp A) 1 an slru HOWn # lurphy [any an Au or on t Murphy i WoL € u I communication ner nany miles t ing line. The Homemade Verse iol majority fown-t A Murlipy 1 are those whé have up a lin Back in his camp he gets mules, and he theft when they Work he was doing ) lommies certs, and puts hiv whole heart His songs I fier he sings of his | p ed, or if they have been wounded only El Or his count Amusing, too animals just un Co slightly wmy usually gets he parodies i up at t concer i etic carporal of Braund's: Hill" and sent sell Tuto the firlug Loudon srritorial would ask Woulided CMurphy's nothing om sbimogg 4 5 # YOICe cote shaky i conunued exposure Sing ys 1 chest A ® "Manchester | ., 4. ig sen 1 sigl hearing Tall Let me forge the world and all the longest, an wh 18 been for E Es fo luuate enough scape being wound e torpedo. selt-pr ® down bus because, It slmiple wor J Work out with iucessant | t s Hubs have be tore or les Lupaired from the un Always Cheery ending shock of explosion Often his | VaWD is0y dugaut, cold are my feet wed the Nothing but bully and biscuits to eat ahd et But ol hardships tie has undergo: although UY replied that he was walting a few webks in Another ommy wou'd regularly ¢ bit When wll y oa ng cheerfully of his "little wet home nm the trencl Ww the rain storms watinually drencl While old Jock median--wl uo was discovered nearly choking Taffy, of Fusiliers, durit gu frieudly when asked to desist : ( g ba : \ peak WES 4 great favor Hate" Hebuked i. . > % " : ' an'e y Rg ha Jul a company ol HOI ¢ HOSE at the member ofsthe t » 7 1 ) t 8 answered he rs { . { ns' Pape ae 1 v { on ried the ma an ( abu contingent teed [ter day e clin ad he i tewith Is permanently af ted hy was to put H Eurehead that made vou € soldiers througl MIRACULOUS CURES | xe. as miner, tevin, rection | Samcimen or" coven, ho. seeaver g « and a u is a 21.1 to be sent buck un | 3 0 rah ' Of But this is a rare Many Heroes Relurning Deaf and " : . re le Ix generally vague! Dumb Are Again Restored to Healt 3 king i : : £ i SCuie Tearan ung 0 or (i f again he bliad Canadian re A CT | hn ne ren oe en wow wemoie cuapan | ALL F Se nes : ros ¥ ) get, er . . : of " th J le ar; 4 . many startling Cases of marvellous re ' MARCHED T0 SAVE MEN ated iar sialon ie bu ti nts "es ane S @@rching For the Dead saga RE ; ant) . \ : ' i 11s € hate you tertainer was giving a performance Eight bombers attached to a well Plea to Banish it For "All Times"'-- tail, widely consists of prépellers, rud re t 1 urselves wi . ! { . > WwW t / k wounded soldiers in a Bristol . Proof T h - : : > : Yi xno giment went out®about nine oc hat Beethoven Though Born ders, ot ald piain. It would" be I S S 0} lers ors as hi when Ccrporsl Stevens, of | Co% Tegimen 9 Now, w } noiamd ¢ of and better the 2nd King's Royal Rifles. who had © lock ome wight and when dawn in Germany Was Anti-German charged f uo ube $ at \ onl fee - been rendered deaf and dumb in Flan rh valve cetdroliing th PY 04 RIP, p ex laid nous our ders, suddenly burst into loud laugh. Selves. It had been a terrib J German music has heen banished to the engine in opened A ie, rSarics English Trooper Sends a Thrilling | a ne ter, and to the amazement of doctors DIACK as ink, with the i of from all French coneart and theatre whines begin lo work y propellers north and the rain © he programs A number of French musi / ah . 3 3 p + Thi d nurses showed that iad i i revolve, driving me throug © wate Description of Nights at Thi JAPAN'S EMPEROR oh wi that fie hed mire As lhe. morning wore ! ul, patriotic and other societies pas ) came they had pot presented them . i VPoRcone is Ancient Warfare Revived lously rec vered his speech and hear : AL the. srine wnoinent. : ope bet heal . a seted 1 Terrible Work---Has its Dan \ {ing ment pictured thei: X yi sed resolutions urglug the government put nia rapld rotation, so 2 Reep 4 ins hea «an npexpected re.) : wounded and dytug in tl 44 [to prohibit the prooducing of German : ' : \ . aa . In anothe case a man who had - rs vivi ancient weapons in this war ers--8udden Death is Easier With elaborate co a t h 4 ; ? 4 | Ger my course ah BT ae oe (eal g 1horate reremoules dating Lug. rendered deaf and dumb through | De slush Sud dggaxing tai at hag | PPETAS by law Tall, times There ® « press Train Qutdone Rly Na Tliind's. Ure ant Roman ack housands of vears 'oshihito, [the bursting of a shell at Mons sud could only " Hel of SCE B opposition lo this campaign of hat (nen! If 1am 18 inches in « del- | tapults for f A trooper from one! of {he ast. of | 1 mperor Of "Japan, was formally in-|deuly recovered speech through the Pappened U a. pe re je W We ap d, howey Several musicians and er, 1 can cover 5,000 yards at 20 knots ous bowiekiives have also been | England regiments in a vi narra talled on his throne : pain brought about by placiug his Bul ow 0 aan ib isl Re Hterary wen of note have expressed au our, 2.500 yards at 2% Knots, and [[J5 G00 SELES underground fight | Live described the searcl - Jupan is proud of her Emperor, be- | land on 8 hot weter pipe in the cor | '!&hL, the Ge ma Pp head over (he opinion that the French music wOG yards ut 18 knot But, good |, over the big battlefield in the Sati fAuse he is a zealous soldier aud u|ridor of the Queen Alexandra Military ROMUON; even to put one's h ad OVET | lovers should not be deprived of the wh thix is, it i» noo my best perform f ti Culais » Fue sou of the people, while no man Hospital at Millbank. In the same hos the parapet meant si Sati M work of the greui German Composers wlice, Aw Law now uged fu the Brit | G80 AU 8 bing squads. are taking to A few minutes ) ting lin Japan Is more proud of his country | pital LanceCorporal Fowkes, of the | thelr « juraies Ei Fa Even the "Revue Bleus," which other dh navy, 1 start off ut the speed 'the Kar knobkersie. * The res) ar. Says, "and then we m W Ali Xoshihtte, who rules 'its destin-|Isth Hussars, who wis rendered blind | #0d had oy id th wre smonest the | FIS€ 18 very vielent in its denuncia wl express (rain fo be Fe 8, 48 ole. 3 c ironwood stick with x the rest of the brigade on 1 s a. at Mops, and whose case was regard | ley a Je ow re a | : a tou of everything German, comes (o hot ald lave a rang tot lass aR wotli fashionable Patch, and pegged down for the nig osililiito's $2 youth reminds one of | og as hopeless by the Surgeous, re barbed wire, rank gra ah ¥ he conclusion that German music ix than (2000 yards Yes it . CHT By teu the next morning we wi ' [the King of 'Italy, for he had | ce ved special Xoray treatment with grain. 100 exactly a danger to France atid lpen gréat changes nn Ime i in such a mess that the brigu O (rluniph over a delicate constitution. | (he result that he regained his sight Whilst they were thinking in Us | gomangs thu ut least Heethoven 1 awas young, special Loats calli : ' moved us iuto billets A few vi Outdoor life and svglematit exercise Recently, Corporal Leonard, who was Strait a Roman Catholi CHRP 3M A should be taken from tlie blacklist after ine, 1orpedo boule, «were Steel. in Warfare Again Inter, we were 10 furnish elghl owever, built up kis physique. He | parert of learing and speech, went to 'ached to the AME ud I0 {yy jtg argument this paper says sed (0. re ne kt big vessels, ia ret soldiers wear a stéel| per troop to clear up the battlegrou indulged fn walking, monutatn climb | 4 woviug picture show at <Liverpooi |e fring line ! veiled Lo Beethoven No "Boche" these produced torpedo boat destroy) ¢ ction from shrapuel, lof the recent advance. A jourues und riding and displayed an ear!y | As rhe film revealed the antics of the | 80 out in front Bane 34 HUY Fale.irs to leethoven was horn Germany, 5 whic an thelr uae Judi ? nd na Neil oul uw supply | yeveral hours by miotor bus (ook *bassion tor soldiering hy studying the | wel) Kuown comedian Billie -Ritchje, (10d the bodies AL aE esis ived thors nd dies ir Vien a cw were (or catodng or sinking the wasp fo British Toni othe rig to a small town Which had heeu badly military Hterature and WHHTArY | the risible faculties of the soldier were HO Nis request was] granted Dou re was not . Germ i "Hid ove beg ike ie that carried mie Now. sub 1 Ihe only ins Ces on record of | pattered, wnd liere we left tie bu methods of other countries touched He fell a burning in hig | Hing Lis surplice and wit] a creeifix *i Vp pi kai ie A INATHIES WILL Jy 21d Lire prexing upon armor. being used in tie wars of the | and proceeded on foot He prefers to dress in Enropean cos: | throat and a painful drumming in his 0 Dis hand, the priest proceeded as a Belgian. In 179% he wre te Do both! Yet the fest worpedo boat was nineteenth century are Jie steellined 'After a walk of about three m Lume, photograply being one 0° his | ears. which seemed about to burst. |40WH one of the saps and climbed 25 o wel rood a You Oia re Hberis bRilt for the Bridleh navy =o-1¢ ntly | vest worn hy Confede € oop: in| we canie to half a dozen dewd horses favorite lobbies He is also an ac hen to Lis agreeable surprise, he out into the open With their eves re oh rt ga 4 gre aot i an 1877 the American Civil War of 1861-56 and broken limbers We were complished poet His wife, Empress | heard 4 shout and found that it was glued to periscopes the British ne i me a Cotte ? : ne 2 - pe 2 structed 10 collect all hodies Sadako, is a woman of remarkable | ji. OWI. Voice [ watched him auxiously as he pro | Decome a traitor to truth TuCch sen trenches Murde: bu 1&8 not generwlly known at ie grenadiers and bayonet men "f The ceeded slowly towards the German | tments could not have been expressed ing our own fellows for Meutity d culture and accomplishment h " . . shot « by a 'Boche Ihe composer had the » 1 he Ger 5 CHIpero ri g i Nbt a shot was fired by tlie 3 2 Be ia Bagdad : Ci t y of the O ne and pay hooks, gud the German : mie gary od yo vee, and. has |e T_T rem giings. After h 400 the chaplain | idealidfm of a Frenchman and his . Papers ! : ' { a sar | WOrks ar therefor yor { . Only Germans Found i NEW WAR WONDER ) | wag seen to stop and bend down near ) ALE here ® worthy to be the German wire entanglements He Deard by French ears If he wer: 1 h : T / { O At first we four only G THE M BEHIND THE GUN . » alive today he would never have sign hou an an n AN ~~ [knelt in prayer. Then with the same J & these ' 9 » 1 eal v ! S e Nig ts bodied, Bd er wd that o A strange indirect result of the war calm step he returned to lis own line | ed 3 £ ann sto of the Herman Jute Brat targus Rh i " < Hs the formation of a pew lake near |e had four identity discs in his hand plect tals, like Siegfried Wagner, Prof Ruedersdorf, a few miles from the |and reported that the Germans had Humperdink and other pigmies At Germau capital Lue village of Rue- | held up four khaki caps on thelr rifles. 8 recent concert in Paris one of the i sonatas J 3 good Haroun ul-Ruschid ap a friend bad | met him dersdorf has large limestone gquirries indicating that the other four were SOI a is ae rent Dae; 3ppearad ¢ . , on he "wr i « Not Well Kept or Clean --8qual Fhe streets are narrow, crooked Nefark Nice' war, wher - | which have been worked for more than | prisoners in their hands o Ie ¥ : an ku ie po ee wal q Sle NI . Pe} . no rT bd, 2 a or and Dirt Abound--Its Great unpaved, and dirty, roll of ruts and jad {wget him a day or two Mr. Frederick Palmer. the aceredit |a hundred years and are very deep i - pall pd Diayed, as hos . sirewed with garbage, which, however | shold' have sliot or Laven ed American corespendenut at the Brit | In some aces the quarries extend * The Humor of Drilling : ; Ww Railway Many Mosques. ¥ for the most part ramoved by dogs, [ir not cheerfully. - at. least ty |i cadiiuafety in France, describes | considerably below the seu level The "drill > sergeant 'wh oh . AT 1y ' 1 » i serge red nus the public scavengers in the Kast A%. We went on. the bodies .becs ne visits fie has paidto British bat | When the war broke out work came Rie a the roant. waa red] mo THE ZEPPELIN FAILS 1p In 1902 I oirade from the Sultan!, POLY } ( NaAnS tpries "Herealter 1 shall not be sur | to a standstill, as most of the employes tard, an h - I 1g Lunoriaiized by Haroun al Bascl . : 3 jorge nunierous, Iu ABI i a ina ho He 1 PR bad time. "The weather had been very -- | 1 : : BaVe powers Loa German tompany to] Britigh. Most of the wednd brised, he says, "10 see u mugzle poks| were called (o the colors. The RUMIDS | Lo and 'the parade ground was stil In the story of the "Arabian Nights, construct a ratlway from Konich 10 | gmall gnd clout % soffié of ond | IE ite head owt of an oven, from un | had to be stopped wid (he water from iy w a 3 aad sy 1 { mail 1a anu i ¢ ; . i Bagdad, which has a population of Husew by Bagdad rough the Euphra- | would hot bear econd glances, nach | 4eC grandfathers chafr, 0. under u [subterranean springs began to rise. A * we y a ho Snnl Smal ) % N he {es 4 istahoe : of | RG z , RKO Tr lake formed and it now rovers u large '¥ *% So wlou 2000 wyy built on the rulus tes valley, a total distance of 1630 1) eseriplion Joa (} § | farm Wagon, or up a tree, or in a f rg ; by ¢ AE a ny Miles ess 8. degeripl ervanuts garret. Think of the last |part of the basin in which the quarries £9880 slipped and fell full sprawl. and - : of au aucleul Habylowiwnu city daling still wore thelr respirators ) . it 3 . 8 nuterally whe "rookies" could hardly fn spite all that the Germans A Company was foated at Framkfort | op had smoke help Ovi place in the world for eurplacing a | are situated It Is three-quarters of & a back 10 2.000 B.u., Records have been |, pq, Lh 2 capital of $760,000, 0 (yeir I "ds After # while we. pase | ¥3l and one.may pe there; think of |& mile wide and 126° feet deep, and Pehle thdr mirth claimed for Zeppelin the aise: 5 air lek i d pruey Ready. , afier a while we pam ik y . : etiing up with all the dignity he menace has proved a failure. In ie fit bricks establishing 6 fA A J , " he nas y stilt growin + : fould ou aucie ¢ « onstruct the rot section, and this to a place where cur men hud eviden € most likely glace and one may be Ero g could muster, the sergeant's eye fell first place Zeppeling being obliged 1 on Murphy's grinning face {manoeuvre at a helght of severs! thou ! p § bearded, und spectacled German ) i might buve been a schoolmaster, Frederick Palmer, Writes in Praise of The Aneient und Storied City ig! of the traveller 1€ Bolden prime of | gon of man | should have accepts the Coolness of the British Gunner From a Military Point the Giant Gas Bag is Useless its early date was completed and opened in 1904 ly been caugil by a Maxim, they | there. One field battery | have in Ever since (he days of Haroun al Sluce then several other luportant were lying very close together jusi | mind, placed tn au ordchard Which A Diminutive Hero "Well, you grirning hyena'" he |sand feet and at night, the bomb drop Raschid the Jews Li 2 been the lead sections have been constructed a3 they had dropped. sowe of them Orchard, of all tie thousands along the | 1, & list of V.C's Lance-Corporal roared. "What's 'uring you' Do | pers have been unable to achieve any lug Ogures lu the commercial world es i still had their rifles firmly gripped in British front, the German siafl may | o ppyr Vickers, one of the winners, is you see anything funny" effective marksmanship Fiving by ou! Bagdud 'I'here are 50 000 of them WHEN MARS REIGNED their hands Buess If they choose. If German guns only 5 feet 2 inches. When war broke "No, sorr," gurgled "Murphy tact Gight. even when there are lights to with aboat ¥.000 Chaldean (or hereri A Gruesome Joly fired at all the orchards one by one | jo") ie © Apply six times for for. fully. "But, shure, Qi was just think. | steer by, is suMciently difficoit tn cal) Chiristiaus. The remainder of the = tet nraotically the they might locate It and then, again elgn service before he was accepted. in' what a augh we cud have had | when a tract of land lies in darkness yopuigiion. 1s made up of Persians. vig Length of time That Countries he dent oe Wy _., on as | aight nuk. Besides, this 1s je Las in addition to the V.C. .re-[4f it had been anywan else save yer |and a pilot dare not, for fear of hid Turks, Arnseniaus, Arabs, and Kurds Have Striven Against Each Oth jsaipe dgthe Brat. A THO8T a8 SOON 48 | peculyr sort of an orciard. It is a ceived the French Crolz de Guerre "aff sergeant'" : den guns, descend close enough to sinabad tue Baiior was born at Hag er {we started we found niore thau twenty tiaracteristic of gunners to be ueat , earth to recounoftre, and when, In ad dad, aud wll hig misrvellous adventures Three yours, ft } | German bodies in a section of hat "id to have an ey for the comeiipess | ~~ ee A A A A AAA AA AAA dition he is fying above ani begiu by lis golug down the Tigris to EXPecis wi oe Th ated by some |had been their first line They WEFE lof things. These Had a lawn and a rr ---- " and unfuiniliar country, his diffienlties Bussorsi + the oder Basra), the way [expats Aull Ee he » Slmum length | lying su close together that it was | garden. and tables and chairs. If you ; HIS REST in amie are very great The the British expédition came up out thet If bi hh . a Rs is bointed | possibly to put a foot down between ure famillar with the tidipess of a re [ t 4 Militartiy. Bagdad ly of no great im | =) gilt will rd Sat the utusen | thew. They had nearly all died of tired suVlor, who fegards his porch portance, but the woral impression |. Treat. por Sa en longer {han | bayonet wounds. After buryiug then "8 4 quarierdeck, and pallies forth to which its Tall would make on (he Arub |p] or TAP urope since the | we worked our way along the SWINE | remove eath descending autvmn lee: Persian froptier tribes would be Each of th ; roed as the night before with scarce from the grass, them yon Know how | 13 was on owe Balkan Wars of ly a gound except an occasion cry Of | scrupulous they were about the litter very great. | [191213 was a water of : . ' 'K p In regard te attacks. from hostile Juropean houses ; (Weeks. So | Here's one.' or a growl of 'Keep that For weeks they hail been in the same i: - 2 . ee Of late yeary Sally Suropean, nd | fare the "Serbo-Buigariin = War of | light down. You'll get us shelled" | oqition, unseen bY the German aerc. | Sa a) A » : [acroplanes, the Zeppelth is cartginly have settled agents in the Y. andi ges and the Turco-Greek | y n by : very vulnerable if an aeroplane ca), 4 - J WwW, i -- 4 ™ % Bpitajn, France. and Russia have con [(ge= The Crimean woh ar | vianes. They had their daily baths: ' S 3 gel above it, but, If necessary, a Zep fuct, 100, that Zeppeling are threates ed by hostile aeroplanes as well us uigh-angle guns has piade airship» waste bombs over undefended" fracis of layd A . . . ae . hr suis there. Dutes, wool- grain, aud ter of a little m A mat Engnties Exchange Witticisms they did their weeks washing. taking X ! pelin can climb gt 4 twie timbac (a substitute for tobacco) are | Franvorr ns ad Fear, while "Hew deep Is the mud with you?" care noi t0'hAve'lY Where it would be \ 2 : * © b N ' Kreat as that of gm Forni Mono exported, and a wumber of horses are tically decided in a month ir shouted a German soldier in Flanders, visible from the sky. Every day they 4 J ; * "Ps N y ' 1 Ing two persons and a !cad of bombs sent to India (Parle was holding out three nthe | HIS volce came from behind a pjle | received their London papers und let ' S i I 2 RE { Inere are, however, certain single The cliy stands on both sides of afterwards ONThS [of wsndbags which divided the enemy | lors from home. When they were Wel . A : 2x seated. powerfully engined a croplanes Aho Tigris. the two parts being con Tp. RussoJapanese War lasteq | 0 the British in a communication | needed to heip in making. war, all } Post \ rn i specially set aside Yor airship attack ipcted by the famous bridge of boats. gpour tweive nionths, as did the hay trench. "Up (to our blooming knees" they had to do-was to slip a shell' in ; : ; - . § | In which a pilot ascend« carrying wit yards long. coltalian War of 1811-12. The Boc~. Said an English corporal. "Se? You | the breech, and send It with their con Ca |! ne y ! C - {him no greater burden than # few in A brick wall. five miles in circum | War ran for two and a half jere lucky fellows. We're up io our | pliments 'tox the Boghes. They were : | , Ki | condiary bombs. and which can be forence and 40 feet high, surrounds pur nat cannot be called a Bury on belts in it." ; | camping ont at His Sajentr's expense : dy : ; ' | made 10 cHmb at 4 speed ADPremaLL: ' A war. The American Civil Was Sowa ee | Im the pleasant 'land of ee in the ? 3 rg Kreater than any (wo seated craft £3Fae city contains uwpawrds of 100 for four years hi Greece Poorest Country | Joyous summertime; and en ihe root k : . $ ; : which 'carries a machine gun. It 1 Lough: barely twenty ot | Greece Is the poorest of the Euro |>f 30d o¥er their guns ware pots of : 1 Y such machines as this, stripped for Ti ue: They Bovses eater BORE { pean countries, - Her total wealth i Somers undisturbed by the blasts from 1 ; | speed and vying with Zeppelin fn the 'ape old, dirty, and ugly outsile bute aed Tanch priests are ,.1y 31,000.000000, or half that of | ¢ '® Sus musslés = Pe : race for altitude. that the airship the Junio vg Wek mould Bulads wort Bret mg Soi udp Switzerland, Portugal, -- -- " pilots have chiefly to fear vo nd cassie 5 we » MR POPES. aud massive gid Wade in Holland | and Denmark are all about equal in During the Stage of Paris long-tailed | The Wounded French Soldier: "and they told me that ! would get & rest ry orp briag Pass ww the recoiiection and Belgium, point of natural wealth. rats were sold at 75 cents per pound | in hospital!" La Baiongette of Paris | radeon Mary prefers lavender scent e ' rs A Gihara