companied the Serpins come onr he accompanied ian army on its flight to the Adriatic says: "Future Sekefations when they read of the erblan drama, will refuse to believe to fights which took place pr capital, and I saw the 12 ins Morava and the desper- ation of vision. I saw the exodus of a whole nation amid the silence of , the long trains of wagons driven by women and the end- less struggle fo the wandering capital at Nish and in the hotel where the Skupshtine met I heard the last proud words of the dying nation. But this suffering was overshadowed by what L saw later "More tragic than Belgrade and the Morava; than Mitrovitza and Kossovo, Vido--a piece of hell on the enchanted isle of Corfu--ltes drum in provinces to summon the Asveniteea, Site and Alteen years. These boys who might have been strong enough to shoulder a gun in & year or two were called because the go.-rament was informed by the allies that the war would never might last for years. hese youthful recruits were collected, but only a small part of them reached the sea and Corfu, The regular troops on their 'retreat through the Albanian mountains had at least 8 'and leaders and they posse Some food, but the boy re- cruits were laaderless and had nothing to still thelr hunger. The March of Death "On the Albanian frontier they were met by a Serbian officer who pointed 10 the west and sald: 'March straight ahead. In a month you will reach the sea and there you will find ships to take you to & place of safety.' The officer returned to his regiment and the recruits marched on to the west thro many long weeks. Hundreds ys d from exhaustion and ¢ cod sna DE The Dominos were. marked by the es o ra ot youne fellows who had laid themselves' down to sleep, never to awake again. "The 'bark of trees and grass form- ed their only nourishment. When the column reached the Adriatic only 15,000 of the boys were left and many died on the shore before they could be embarked. Less than 9,000 of the fugitives reached the steamers and all of these were living corpses. Twenty- four hours later the ships cast anchor before Corfu, but on the short sea voyage several hundred more of the boys died. The rest of the recruits was landed at Vido, among olive and orange trees in one of the most beau- titul spots of God's earth. Many weeks since, but still the boys are '#nd in a short time nothing will be left of them. Many might have been saved, but there were Jo tals, no beds and no nerses for ory on A single physician had to take care of all. Later a few more doctors arrived, but death con- tinued its I harvest. Too Late! "The fugitives now have beds, food and good care, but still they die. Their emaciated bodies are no longer able to assimilate the nourfshment given to them and the southern sun does not warm them. Bilently, ghastly pale and racked with fever they lie under their tents awaiting death. Vido 13 a hell surrounded by a garden of roses. On the shore the ship Francesco d'Assisl recelves a cargo of dedd bodies day after day to take them out to sea where the unfortunate boys find their last resting place. FRENCH WAR MINISTER Personal Bravery and Ability Won Promotion For Roques Prench Minister of War in succession to General Gal lienl, 18 a brillant soldier as well as & clever organizer and military ad- minist An old of Military Aeronautics, of Rhich, he remained permanent inspector unt 3 The new Fren - hu in- order to throw - off: the doping yoke of Junkerdom snd mill FAITHFUL TO TREATIES The entry of Portugal into the war obatru Was welcome to all of the allies, and most of all to England, Germany in- deed excuses her declaration of war Against the Republic on the ground that its Government are of 4." No, the Pp never been the vassals of England, but ber Government, like all the wisest Fulers of the land for more than 600 years, are England's faithful friends and allies. Both nations have found in a friendship which re the Hohensollern bad set his foot in Brandenburg. The treaty of 1873, which first consecrated the political alliance between the two k oms, is still recognized by the tories as extant and of binding obligation. The "amnities, alliances, unions, good confederacy of pure love" which bave prevailed almost without - inter- Tul John of Gaunt, in the Peninsula as well as Wellington, and neither ve Bor our Portuguwse friends have thought of treating the pledges our | fathers gave as "scraps of er," London Times. pap . -------- King's Meir and Urchin The Prince of Wales, home on short leave from the front, was the hero of a starting incident in St James' Street, London, An urchin who hag been riding on the back of a taxi fel) into the road, and if the Prince had | hot promptly dragged the boy out of | the road a motordyelist Just behind | behind must have finished him. It Was a matter of a second' 0, | g. | mp | up, and then when he began to howl gave | him a coin. "BELGIAN PATRIOTISM Grave of Hessian Prince Near Ypres Remains Unmarked "Until Bel- glum Lives Again" Writing of a irlp to the British front, Viggo Toepfer, a United States correspondent says: On our way to ruined Ypres, our cars stop at a hill where. stands a famous Trappist monastery. Our party consists of seyeral of high staff officers, a guide sud the Spanish military attache at London. It is & glorious day and the country, of which we have an un- cted view for miles around, lies bathed in sunshine at our feet. There is no wind and the aeroplanes, Brit ish as well as German, are busy recon- noitring and directing an incipient bombardment which promises to as- sume imposing proportions. Qut of the gate of the stately monas- tery comes a procession of the silent white-garbed monks, going out to their work in the fields as they have been doing daily even when the battle was raging all around them, before the Germans were flnally driven back to thelr present positions barely visible in the distant horizon. The place in which we are standing has seem fur- fous fighting several times in the course of the war. It was here that Prince Max of Hesse found his death with hundreds of his countrymen and Was buried by the monks. His last resting place is under one of the little wooden crosses which dot the land: scape. Which one? Nobody knows, not even the Kaiser, who when the news of his relative's death reached him wrote a long letter to the abbot imploring 'him to indicate where the Prince was buried that his last re. maius might be removed to Germany. The Kaiser offered rich treasures to the monastery for the information, but the abbot replied: "Your Majesty. When you who brought this atrocious War upon the world, and who, without provocation, attacked a peace-loving and patriotic little nation, have restor. ed to heroic King Albert every inch of Belgian soil you now occupy, and when you have made restitution for all the crimes and atrocities commit- ted by your soldiers, then and then only 'will. I tell you where Prince Max is buried. Until then his grave will remain unknown among thou- | sands of others." THE BAIT! PRUSSIA LACKS BABIES ~~ WHILE YOUTHS PERISH Steadfastly-declining Birthrate Alarms the Arch-Militants--Each Class Blames the Other A Copenhagen cofrespondent writes, / Prussian statistics show as plainly as anything that the most alarming de- cline of the birth rate is found among minor officials, employed by the state, the municipalities or large private concerns of a semi-public nature. This proves that the smaller number of children born is tne outcome of a de- liberate plan, a design on the part of these classes. The people who are receiving siaall salaries dare not be: come parents of a large number of children when their salaries remain stationary while the cost of living is continually rising, The question which agitates Germany is then, what. Is to be found to remedy this? The socialists answer thus: Better con- ditions of living, higher salaries and wages. The other political parties say that this Is not nearly sufficient. If selfishness and TSouam a to get the' 'upper hand in many, even very well-to-do people will reason that they shall be able to live far more . thousands of them in comfortably and pleasantly with ene or two children, or none at all, than with a large number. Herr Naumann, a member of the Reichstag, suggests that salaries are to be regulated by the mumber of children so that 'no family gains anything financially by having fewer children. - The problem has even b..n con- nected with the question of the change of constitution in Prussia, for which the of the people are tarism. It' has heen suggested that greater political power, a double vote, should be to the fathers of |. families. One thing is abso- ~Travaso, Rome WOULD CRUSH HOLLAND Of Holland's danger Louis Rae maekers, the artist, says: "In my country I think there are a" quarter of a million Germans. There are many Amsterdam and a spy. 1 also thou- The Germans almost every German estimate that there are sands of military spies. know all our weaknesses and our Strength. Near Limburg, in a dis trict where there are quite unfmport- ant villages, they have built numerous rallways. The grass has been grow- ing between the rails for thirty-five years, and there were no trains run- ning when I was there, and 1 have Spent ten years in th eneighborhood. We shall see whether the Germans consider themselves strong enough to 'hack a way' through. The concentration of their troops on our frontier was surely part of a carefully laid plan, the development of whick we shall soon witness. It was, as deliberate as the sinking of the Tubantia and the Palembang. | should imagine that the sinking of these vessels was done with the avow- ed object of provoking a sharp note from the Dutch Government and such an outburst of feeling in Holland as would give the Germans a pretext for declaring war and making an attempt at securing the mouth of the Rhine, which they have so long coveted. | Am 80 convinced that my views are correct that, although forty-seven years of age, | have decided to volun- teer for service in the Dutch army. The German armies will meet with a warm reception when they do cross the" frontier, but it is idle to under- estimate the power of the invaders, It 16 well known that as a last. resort we have a powerful means of defence |' th flooding Arab: "Oh, Allah! What a iiracle Sphinxes have now broken out Sphinx: Such a wild notion is enough to Warsaw. I A A AAA A DUMA CAN CRITICIZE BUT DOES NOT RULE Russian People Not Yet Qualified to Elect Representatives to Govern =-Premiers Are Unknowns -- H. Hamilton Fyfe, of the London Mail paper writes from Petrograd: | s; The Duma, the Lower House, repre- senting the nation, is elected like our House of Commons. are often lively; its criticism is pun- gent. But the difference between it and our House of Commons must be kept in mind by all who seek to un- derstand the system of government in Russia. The Cuma has no power. It can criticize, but it cannot alter. it can talk, but it cannot act. Minis ters are very seldom drawn from the Duma. They are under no obligation to render to it an account of their Stewardship. = They are responsible not to Parliament but to the Emperor. The Emperor appoints them and dis- misses them. Parliament can oppose their proceedings, but it cannot turn them out. There was in the Duma a majority of 315 against and 107 in op- position to .the Government of M. Goremykin. But the majority in the Duma could not drive M. Goremykin from. office. What he @i¢ when he found their criticism too oxiling was to suspend their sittings, Not a Politician M. Stirmer, when he was appointed prime minjster was unknown, even by name, to the mass of the Russian people. His name was unfamiliar to newspaper readers. It was scarcely ever mentioned. He had not been heard of for years. We are so accus- tomed to Prime Ministers who are leaders of parties that it is hard for us to realize that parties in Russia have little or no effect upon the course of political events. With us in Wes- tern lands the number of men from whom a Prime Minister could be chosen is limited to three or four, and they are all men who have lived long | in the public eye. In Russia any man may be selected who is considered by the Emperor and his advisers suitable for the post. The choice falls almost always upon an official, one who has spent his life in the Government ser-| vice. No Restraint There is thus a "great gulf fixed" between the Ministers who act and the politicians who talk. Ministers have no need to consider public opin- fon. Politicians are not steadied by the knowledge that they may be called upon to practise what they preach. | explained all this to an Englishman one day. He could not grasp it. "Arent they elected like our M.P.'s?" he asked. they elected for?" He could not clear his mind of our | system. He did not understand that, | as yet, "the people" in Russia have | ou must | recollect, excepting a few Millions of | ucated no power to give. They ed persons, noth ants, whose minds are of little children. . T| by the The percentage of who can write has gone up in recent years. But they are still ignorant and simple to a degree which no one can belfeve who has not lived among them. ----------i War Profits and War Victims While these huge fortunes are be- ing piled up th national necessities and national suf- fering, out of national diers who have lost their nerve in the country's service Lave their their dhe Jame sruel injustice has been and sail he hire broken : ; ar ca : ~ ns \ Ink les & ef a "The Germans want to conquer Egypt across Its proceedings | "Well, then, they must | have power. The peopie- who elect | them give it to them. What else are | Rl Ce B ! After keeping still for centuries, the in laughter. What has happened 7" the Lybian desert. make even stones laugh.""--Mucha, SEARCHLIGHT'S BEAM RESTRAINS ZEPPELINS With everything in their favor, wind, light, 'and atmospheric pressure (8ays a London Daily Mail Correspon- dent), the Zeppelins came in over the | coast with the coming of dusk and, & he skies, apparently | h 0 | would they could not evade their | range. One Zeppelin which came to | deal death and destruction in the east- ern counties turned tail and fled. It was just after ten o'clock when out of nowhere Sprang. a beam of | light; in a moment other beams shot (upwards. They wheeled and circled { in the heavens, and then suddenly con- | verged on one spot. There, right in | the focus, was the outline of one of | the Kaiser's aircraft. The Zeppelin | shot upwards, the light followed it. | It swerved to the east, the light fol. lowed." Manwuvre as it would, ft | could not escape into the surrounding | blackness; the light held it as at the end of a flaming sword, The airship | sought to escape by increasing its | Speed. | The sight was an enthralling one. Men stood marvelling at the wonders; fifteen minutes the Huns abandoned their purpose; not a single bomb { was discharged. The nose of the air- ship shot upwards and disappeared. The light could not find it. While this | took place other raiders | the country dropping bombs here and there, for the most part dropping in open spaces, only to plough the red earth of Engignd. -- {| To stop drinking by women trans- parent plate-glass in public house | windows 1s recommendéd by the Bootle (near Liverpool) justices. "I just know there fs a war on, | but I have not read or Seen anything about It," & Yorkshire farmer said. | - Out-of-work builders are asking Mr. Lloyd-George for munition work. Ama crept about' with the French army, gives the foi- lowing account of deeds of heroism at Verdun: "When one talks with the men who come down to Verdun straight from the firing line¢ one realizes how tremendous must have ore a eat roops t more centtly than the meh who retired 80 grimly from the Bois d'Haumont, the Bolg des Caures, and the Herbebois, to the line of the Cote du Polvre and Dousumont. time, and gladly gave their ves for this object. Two divisions held up two Tan army corps for several hours. Every yard of ground yielded was Paid for by the enemy a hundred times over, Shot Sixty Boches "There Was a sergeant who, as his knowledge, accounted for six: with rifie bullets. He was the erack shot of his battalion, and when the enemy were advancing 'he went up outside the trenches, and stood there fully exposed to the storm of shells and bullets, while his comrades hand- ed up to him loaded rifie after loaded rifle from below the parapet. By a miracle he was not touched, and after he had accounted for his sixty Ger mans he fell biek with his battalion to the second line. He was recom- mended for the Croix de Guerre, and few men have earned it better "The endurance of the French troops during this battle was beyond all praise. 'We are goMmg to stay here,' said one of these poilus to a staff officer, 'until we are killed, and in that way we are sure the reserves will be able to come up in time' I spoke to a wounded man just back from the firing trench. He had lost' his right hand, and I condoled with Boches They fought to gain Th and cept in the men' | certifies from his own certain | a troops he Was 8 water-bottles. men were almost dying of thirst, oir own free will they re oir flasks for which were try a spdle or two recovered by a ¢ Attack the original French in the Bois des Caures, the withdrawal of the picked ounter- e in e himself marched the rear of the all his Or 80 were cut last column. had off, and with them Colonel Driant, who true to the ancient captain should leave his the place of naval tradition. bo the Corridors of Two Miles' Length in War Office Peep at Vital Centre of Empire's War.-making--Thousands Work at High Pressure--Huge Of- fices Long Since Outgrown. Sir Reginald Brade, secratary of the War Office, gave facilities, through one of his staff as escort, to see something of the huge war machine in full swing under the pressure of one of the great- est wars with which it has ever had to cope. It was an experience of several hours, exploring the labyrinths of the vast institution, fairly vibrating with energy at every point and yet proceeding with precision and efficien- cy ii meeting the big part it is taking in the conduct of the war. Some idea of the immensity of this war establishment may be had from the fact that its corridors are two miles long--a good brisk walk of an hour. . And along these two miles is a good sized city of people, over 4,000 d in the infinife detail this war work, great and small, all the way from Lord' Kitchener, secretary | of state for war, down to boy scouts | and girl messengers. And this is only | the central establishemnt, for the war | exigencies have outgrown even this huge building, and many outside build: It doesn't matter how Paris. 5 Child Near Trenches While a company was t along for the first line of trenches in Flahiders, Private Impey found a Nitle pressure of | hgel sol- thelr: wits or | ton THE TRIUMPMAL CAR a many pull--it doesn't move forward --Le Rire, Ings, business blocks and have been taken in as Outgrown: The sudden ext ines as a of Censors' branch. branches Are at other points, War Subdivided Three or that a ship had ch Jan: gree p osen for f danger." other prem- Office. ension of censoring of ed into service a censors, and a num uired for defense large army ber of large quarters the military four other , and prac. Sealll the ordnance branc, pe 1 whole h partmen Lioya The Yet the War. Office stil remain the throbbing ceiitre of + Bete the the war work; Speed it is dimeuls Stes, and more and Bysterfi ' to get in