Stolcism of British Subalterns Re vealed in an Incident of Present War--Tragedy Well Barne A true story, but instinct with the dramatic intensity of a short story masterpiece is recorded as follows by the Westminster Gazette: The Rail way Transport Officer was very busy; his work can be very strénuous at times. A subsitefn came ito the of fice. "Captain Duncan about? he asked. | "Yen: he'll be back In a minute. Went to see him personally, or will I dot "Yes, | want to see him, he's in the Blankshires, isn't he'--irthur Dun- can." "Yes, that's He. Will you wait?" answeted the RTO. The subaltern sat down. "Thanks," he said, and then allded apologetically: "He's my brother, you know; haven't seen him for dges-- only Lippened to hear in the town he was here." "Funny how one drops acrods one's people out here," sald the R.T.O. "Here's a paper, only yesterday's." "Thule" The subaitern reached #crose the table. "Haven't seen one since | left England" The RT.O. went Un with his work. THe subaltern read the paper. Captain Duncan came in io & few minutes, and sat down without speaking. The subalfern glanced up, and them coutinued to read thie paper. Didn't Notice Duncan ¥ "Very odd," thought the R.T.O. "Wonder why the Sub doesn't speak to his brother?' He looked from one to the other. "D--4 odd." "Oh, Captain Duncan," he said at last, "this chap wants to see you personally." Captain Duncan looked up. "Want to see me?' The subaltern Difficulties and Triumphs of Navalism Are Frankly Discussed Interviewed by a Paris newspaper, Lord Robert Cecil, "Blockade Minis- ter," said; "It is the intention of the allies to destroy Germany's cominerce apd cut off her ft supplies from abroad. In my opinion we have al- ready mccomplished a great desl in this direction. We have absolutely paralyzed the German export trade, German credit abroad is rapidly sink- ing and her imports are decreasing. "As you know, Germany is forced to rely upon neutral neighboring coun- tries for her food supplies from abroad at a time when she cannot possibly produce enough food at home. The great difficulty we meet is to distin- | gulsh between the imports which are | intended for consumption in the neut- | ral country and those which by devious ways are smuggled into the enemy's put his paper down. "Oh--er, | was-- er." He seemed very puzzled. "Are you Captain Duncan, of the Blank. | shires?" : "Yes, certainly." country. Whether we adopt what is | kuown as a regular blockade or con- | tinue to sfrengthén the measures | which we have already taken, this dif- | ficulty remains the same. i "You will probably agree that while UNIQUE DEFENSE PLANS An attack on Holland from the sea "Look pleasant, please!""--From London Opinion.- { KITCHENERS SECRETARY | Sir, Reginald Brade, K.C.B., has had the great distinction of Commander of the Leglon of Honor conferred upon hin by the French Government. This 18 the first occasion on which a civilian has received this coveted reward. As Secretary to the War Office since 1914, no man has deserved the honor more. If 8ir Reginald were allowed .c speak, hé could a tale unfold that would thrill the Empire. For weeks and months after war broke cut he ate and slept at the War Office. Confidential secre- taty of Lord Kitchener, he shared the load of those dark days, and/ his friends. marvelled that even his fing constitution did not give way beneath the terrible strain which was put dpon it. Sir Reginald was born ih 1864. DEFORMED SOLDIERS { |b Marriages of Britain's Heroes Decla & ed Eugenic by Expert t Dr. Murray Leslie, figuring the British casualties in the present war of one foot. gigantic moat stands a line of strong fortrésses commandlig it. WAYS across this meat are roads, rail- way lines and river banks. i higher than the sea level, while most of the land is well below the sea, in some placés as much as twenty feet. All these causéways could be raked by a Harrowing fire from the barrier forts. | is cut up with many canals, poids and | | other depressions into which soldiers "of an invadifig ariny would fall and | perish. cre passageways across the water line to storm the is theoretically almost impossible. The coast for the most part is low aad shndy with a great stretch of shallow water which prevents large boats ap proaching nearer than half a dozen miles. e few openings at the ports are protected with cunningly planned forts where great guns could pound a libstile squadron to pieces without themselves being in serious danger. But the unique features of Holland's defense system is on the land. If at- tacked from the east, the Dutch would almost immediately abandon the eastern Half of their country. No large cities stand here and the land is of little value compared with the western half. Wilhelmina's armies could retire behind what is known as the New Holland Water Line. A] stretch of country starting from the | south shore of the Zuider Zee and ex- tending south and then west, until it reaches the Holland Deep just west of the mouth of the River Meuse (or Maas) would be flooded to a depth On the west edge af this The 'only Thése are The Dutch could flood the country The ground below the water The Dutch have plenty of men | o défend this line--for an. enemy ould only use a few men against Reig, Even if the enemy, with in ible labor could build enough | | | | défénses in the rear the | War to End War is Hope bf Strange . Classes Germany not only made the Apaches disappear from Paris; she &lso trans formed all anarchists into patriotic Fregstumen. AB 4 mafter of fact, prac- ticglly every known anarchist turned patriot, not unwillingly, but with the greatest enthusiasm. A Paris paper began to investigate what had become of the anarchist leaders and found that with the exception of those teo ald to be accepted ends volunteers, they were all in the trenches One of them, formerly a professor afd a champion of the most vielent anarchistic doctrines, wrote the follow: ing letter from a trench in the Ar- gonne, in which he has von promotion for llmsell by exceptional bravery: "There have been moments when 1 have askéd myself why I am here, and | have answered: First, because I iad to go; but, later on, because I réalized that it was my duty, and how nothing but death or victory will make me quit. I have won promotion and I, wlio a year dgo would have despised the stripes on my Sleeves, dm now proud of them as 1 am proud of the sixty men unger my command. 1 have sixty comrades, sixty triends, the soldiers confided to my care. "A MHttlé more patiente and this dreadful war will be over. 1 am sure that it cafinot last much longer, War is even more horrible than 1 imagined, bat wet for a slhgle moment have I doubted who is to blame for this war. much deeper, but they do not wish to | M¥ Tope is that it will be the last, do so. A foot of water prevents navi gation even in flat bottom boats. alo prevents wading for several rea- sons. becomes a &Oggy mass in which the feet sink and are held. The country | and it is our hope that our children it | Will never have to engage in another | gun fires through the blades of the which inspires me with an almost superhuman strength and a firm deter- mination to endure until the end." moni | 10 MaliGeuvre the gun nad the plane BISHOP AND PACIFISTS | The Bishop of Bristol, in his dioces- an magazine, deprecatés '"'well-meant | but mischievous efforts by some earn- est people to press for peace now, when there can be no question of reconciliation." He BATTLEPLANES DEMAND FINE NERVES AND SKILL undred Heroes of Pilot Needs Judgment of Jockey and Daring of a --8peed and Position Coun t---British Aviitor Stratagems of Mid-air Combats It is eSséntial that it shall be ablé to cmb rapidly and that it hss a powerfyl engine, In order that if it be outnumbered it can get away by means of superior Speed, The pn able types of mmeh this of work are those of the (propeller behind) and 'double' engine variety. b "By removing the ropellesy from the forépart of toes (body), the gunner is giv o an 80 per cent. wider field ire eponis oh ee When firing 1s Vv; the the accuracy ent skill of the pilot in machine into the required posit that is with the nose pointing directly towards the other machtte, fas it will be seen that with wuvement of the attacked the attacker must im- mediately follow suit, and the ability ts that it he be not enough he will be led into & over the enemy guns. Gun and Sun "Another most matter is a suitable mounting for the gun. This must allow the largest possible ares The best Writing in a London newspaper, a British air pilot gives the following account of the swift daring strategy of air battles: "Closing into conflict, the primary idea of the pilot of each air craft is to obtain the best strategical position; that is with both machines travelling 'down' wind and in the same direction. The best strategical position is above the other machine, there to be able to take it with machine gun fire, or, if so needed, to drop bombs on it. Having attained the strategical position the three qualities most required are initiative, speed and daring; initiative, because it is the unexpected move that always wins the aerial combat; speed, to be able to climb faster than the other machine; and daring, tc accomplish that which the enemy fears to essay. "Pilots in the stress and excitement of a hot fight repeatedly perform evolutions that they admit would be impossible to them in their saner moments, for the strain on the ma- chine is enormous. With the greater number of aeroplanes the machine of elevation and deptel direction in which to fire the gun de- pends on the type of machine. some the best direction is back upwards, or slightly to one side; with others, in front, backwards, and up- wards; with others, again, behind and below. "When giving chase to another ms chine the pilot should always aim to keep the enemy in view and his own machine out of sight. Once he takes his eye off the enemy when travelling in mid-air it is an extremely difficult matter to find him again. The | propeller. This means that at least | 6 per cent. of the bullets will be de- | lected. With only the pilot aboard {It Is a matter of extreme difficulty at one and the same time. With { some types of machine it is impos- sible. The direction of the wind in- fluences the combat to a very large extent. Let us take as an example two aeroplanes, A and B, both with a speed of 80 miles per hour, approach- ing one another. A is flying down wind (with the wind) and a wind of { 16 miles behind it. A therefore has {up to Februsry 1, 1816, at just over | tellowship or 5 y hav Id. The { half a million, as against only 50,000 Dutch would not have to yle y flot sho would then rétire to a second and Pp uld further endeavor to keep "l heard there was a Duncan In| we gre justified in destroying the com- his aeroplane between the enemy and the Blankslires here, #o I thought I'd | merce of Germany, it is equally true { writes: "What we are fighting--and [an actual speed of 95 miles per hour. other look in and see him on my way up | that we miust-fespect the rights of all | during the whole of the Transvaal country. Must be another fellow of | the same name." Other Duncan Killed "Yes," sald Captain Duncan. "There is--there was another fellow in the other battalion killed two days ago near Neuve Chapelle. Awful good | lad, rotten luck. There was a silence tense with some intangible emotion. The subaltern turned white, The R.T.O, cursed in- wardly. The telephone bell rang. and Captain Duncan picked up the re ceiver. "Ob, well," sald the Subaltern, "I must get along. Solong, you chaps," and re left the office abruptly. "Odd fellow," sald Captain Duncan. A A A AA a A a dd ad Pd Strange Solemn Scene of Sacrament Before Battle Lachlan 'lsclean Watt, the High- land mystic, preacher and chaplain, narrates his experience in giving the sacrament 10 Scottish soldiers pre- paring for action, and continues: It only needed the simplest words to seal that sacrament. And next #orning, in the grey light, the men who had been touched by the thought of home and the dear ones there, and the big throbbing thought of consecration, were marchitig off to grip'the very hand of death, in sacrifice, like Christ's, for others. The scene was repeated with a difference at another where in a big marquee the mem- of the Y.M.C.A. had been selling and coffee. "We are going off to- rrow® sald a fine lad from Heshire. "Give us communion that ¢ may remember when we go that igh ideals call us." It was a difficult thing. just for a moment. to decide 'Whether in that tent where men were aafslly eating and drinking at the counter it should be held, or in some Nee apart. Instinctively I sald: "Yes. Amidst the Clatter | 80 a rude communion. table was made of boxes heaped together as our thers would heap stones together in @ moors. Covered with a white cloth, we lald upon that table little chalice of silver, with the neutral countries, if we do %ot want | to sink perilously near to the level | of Germany in the eyes of the civilized | world. Without losing sight of the | fact that we are fighting for our nation- al existence, we alag remember that e Jso fighting the existence of yi ti x may, while exercising our rights as belllgerents, very well apply the prificiplés of inter. dation) a A the fashion rendered necessary hy modern conditions to én- | sure the efficiency of the meagures we | liave taken. | Special constables in Britain nuin-4 ber 124,646; of whom there Is a daily | average of 16,881 on duty | { | to partake. But the tent filled apd hushed, and filled to overflowing; apd even outside men stood and peered in through the seams. And we began, | as ever, with the twenty-third psalm of consecrated meémory. 'Again ahd again, and again, the chalice and plat ter came back for replenishing. Men raised their drooping heads and stretched out the.r hands for the | sacred symbols. Away up in the trenches, and about the region of La Basseée, red blood, as red as Christ's: was enrichitig the soil of France; and the hearts that were beating here might soon be still, in the long graves yonder. A breath of mystery seemed to sway them in that tent, and still that quiet urgency for more came up, until over three ! hundred men, whose faces to-morrow would be set toward the battle, had | partaken of the sacrament of sacrifice that lfnked us to God and our homes | across the sea. Real Church Union Talk of your churches, your sects, your quarrelsome divisions! When | men are face to face with thé été¥pal, as we are out here, thesé things dre af forgotteri &s the dust that bléw last year aver the remotest sand heap into the Atlafitic. Brothefhood th the divine uplifting of a great imperial call, and the love of a uniting Christ of red wine, and the bread pon its. platter, expecting élght uién AA A AA RA AR AA A A SS A FANCY BATTALIONS OLD || What fe Kiown in the amy ou. '" ship, bind, as with a §oldey irdle, all our Lopes, Our faiths, and fears aid Hok them to the Highest" jof clerks who, in the early days, band- | ed themselves together for the defence {of Calcutia. The old 10th Foot, now jgyer raised, were the flower { of their choice even though they had | been disfigured or disabled. t wounded heroes. Perhaps it would not | practical ome, but the principle Is a j men 'theré are in the country with | comfortable fhcomés, who spend large | sims annually on pampered lapdogs | refuted | tell a North Sea trawler froth a West | fhe Lintolnslire Regliiént, traces its 'gin to a Sailors' Battalion recruited en.rely from amongst the local sail | War, calculates that for every thous- and deaths there are 200 cases of per- manent disablement. After giving tliese Startling figures he consoled the members of the Institute of Hygiene by stdting that a man being crippled or even deformed by no means stood fn the way of his potentialities as diie of the fathers of the future geher- } dtion. On the contrary, these men, mem- { hers of the greatest voluntary army of the British race, and would be the fathers of; the finest children ever rdised in Gréat Beitain, provided they were free from dnhy organic troubles. The pre- sent marriage rate was the highest on 'record, he said Nearly all these unions were confined to young, strong, vigorous 'soldiers and there = were numerous instances of sound and healthy girls mating with the men ¥ From a purely eugenic point of view the lecturer favored war engagements and war marriages. "It has been pro- joBed," the lecturer went on, "to found a league for the marrying of be edsy to make guch a scheme a sound one. The economic question is the moot point, but how many wo- and who might with advantage turn their attention to eugenic marriages with wounded soldiers." Dr. Leslie the error that deformities were heréditary, assuring any scepti- cal hearers that there were no records of atquited deformities, mutilations wooden legs or other disablements be ing transmitted to offspring PROUD SKIPPERS THESE co Masters of Trawlers Despise Seaman: Jhahip of Navy Every trawler is distinctive, dnd the whole character of the crew dnd of the life on board depends on the cap- tain. These skippers aré types whe seem to have survived from an age long since gone by, You cau always country one. The North Sem skippers seem stern and taciturn, wheréas the West countrymen, mostly Devonshire men, seem genial, loquacious. All are, however, deligutfully independent and express their views on things tn general in a manner which makes naval officers tremble tor the disel- pline of the service. They love to criticiz® overything. The skipper of a trawler never will admit that any officer in the navy is a real seaman. They will "stoutly maintain that sea: manship is a Tost art, which can now only be found among themselves, and they love to hold forth on the han@itig same place as the first and making a great circle to the westward and north- ward to terminate on the Zuider Zee again. centre of this water line. able to do the work expected of it. | 4 uniroubled era of Ohristian love | and brotherhood. That is the vainest | fatuous of receive grams from These messages are carefully selected extracts from certain Swiss journals, which in Bern and Zurich do not en joy any authority. to the Wolff despatches from Holland. The authority, and ih pious awe it is print- ed by the great German journals. a rule the despatches are the most foolish and impudént les which it is possible to conceive. miatter whether it Is a tel¢gram that tells us of 'Italians being bribed with milliards by John Bull or of the march of 100,000 Italian Switzerland to France, or the invented dictum of some statesmen of the En- tente, Wolff adopts it and the 'great' German press prints ft. to telegraph from quith and Grey had learned German secretly, and morning Slegerkranz,' had killed the Pope, the 'great' German press, the 'instructors of the nation,' would print leaded type. nation of thinkérs we are in regard to our press." Aircraft Experts Claim Lieut. Bran: ander In the Royal day. who has put in the first elaim for ha bombed and brought down the Zeppe- Hp L156 in the Thames Estuary stands to win, if awarded the prizes offered, @ sum amountifig to $10,000. Brandon put in his claim, however, any gunners and, indeed, whole bat- teries of the Royal artillery antialr éraft experts along the line of flight ot the airship, hav Mr. War, informed the House of Commons that these severa! claims were belng | stronger Water line, starting at the Amsterdam is about in the GERMANY'S 'LIE BUREAU "The Wolff bureau is hopelessly un- i but this is no reason why our world | journals should feel themselves com: | pelled to print the most idiotic tele- | grams of the bureay and inflict them in readers," says the llunich heavy type on their unfortunate | (Bavaria) | "Several times every week we | from Zurich and Bern tele- | Wolff's there. 0st. agents The same applies Swiss news comes with official As And. always, no soldiers through "It 1s quite certain that were Wolff Lotidon that As- that they sang every | breakfast, 'Hell dir im or that the news had ome from Rome that the Freemasons at it right honestly, with What an unsurpassable AVIATOR VS. ZEPPELIN a don's Uniqu: Honor Flight-Lieut. Brandon; a New Zeal- ving chased, Since e put in claims. Tennant, Under-Secretary for lin the sooner we all recognize it the | | better--is a sybtem and spirit which | against the same wind, has only a mean death to every nobler trait of | speed of 65 miles. humanity, and destruction of all that we value as Christians, let alone as citizens of a free country. "Don't let us lose 'sight of this. We | an) are up against the forces of evil and | 0 Were loath to give fight at a spirit loosed from hell. recruiting now will the sooner. the vile and unhallowed spirit still holds sway will not inaugurate a new of dreams and the most delusions." LLOYD-GEORGE'S LIFE Busy Minister of Munitions in New Quarters He doesn't say as much as formerly, but there:is no member of the Cabinet | who puts in so many hours' work as | Mr. Lloyd-George. He has removed with his personal staff from Whitehall | Gardens to the-offices of the Ministry of Munitions in Whitehall Plage. These offices include the premises known as Armament Buildings, and those formerly occupied by the Hotel Metropole. luxury has given place to business furniture. Mr. Lloyd-George has selected for his own use a singularly modest room on the second floor. In his room . the Minister of Munitions still uses his novel inkstand, which consists of a shell case, in which holes have been plerced so that pens may be inserted. Poverty Amid Plenty An English traveller writes: The hotels in Russia are greatly over crowded by refugees from Poland and the other war zones, and the wise traveller {8 he who engages rooms at least a week beforehand, and, if possible, through friends. In Petro- | grad it is apparent that the supply of food as well as of fuel is irregular, and in many cases insufficient. This | is mostly due to the lack of rallways as there is plenty of food in this enor- mous country, but the difficulties In the way of transporting it from 'the often remote places seem to he almost insurmountable. Bicycles, motor cars, and taxi eabs Liverpool carry sleigh bells at night in order to warn pedestrians | in the darkened streets. AAA SAA It is the | height of folly to stippose that to stop oring peace all To secure a peace while | Considerable "alterations | have been made inside the hotel, and | Tr | i A A A A A A AAA A AA A AAA B, on the hand, travelling the sun, to keep him on his gunner's left hand, and, vice versa, to avoid placing himself on the left of the enemy unless by doing so he will put the sun in his eyes. If a turn is found to be necessary he. should al Ways turn towards the enemy &nd not The Fokker, with its superior | away from him. its appearance | "The observers business is to note the relative speeds of his own and his opponent's machine. Therefore A has an advantage in speed of 30 miles. Germans Willing "Before November, 1915, enemy air- | price. | engine power, made {and the German airmen became not only willing but anxious. The fighting | aeroplane, or, to give it its official | title, the battleplane, is a machine of an entirely different type from those used for reconnaissance and 'sun spotting' work.' Its main duty is to | convoy the bomb-droppers on raiding | €xpeditions and to beat off any at- tacks that may be made upon them. moment and then fire as rapidly as possible. And last but not least comes the real human element. There must be a mutual understanding between the observer and the pilot, or the craft will inevitably come to griet." A A A A NPI HEROISH AND PRAYER [oo | Chaplain's Life With Soldiers Strengh- ASR 1386 P I 8 far back as 'ortugal, ens His Faith has been a since 6th, 1910, entered into its with Great Britain. Under the treaty Britain is pledged Portugal In case of an attack ' turn for certain co In a letter to the London "Stand- ard," a "Chaplain to the Forces" re- lates some incidents of the war which he has witnessed himself in thec ourse of his duties, because, as he himself { felt before going out, the people in England do not fully realize the mean: ing of the war. He sald: "Not long 480 someone asked me whether the | sufferfugs and horrors we saw did not tend to shake our faith in God. "Personally | have never passed through an experience that has more complétely established and confirmed my faith in God and my. belief in His | practical interposition in the affairs of ' men. Here is a man brought in to the | ambulance or advanced dressing sta- tion terribly wounded -- well-nigh | crushed out of all semblance to hu- | manity, uttering piteous groans, wrung | from him by his agony, in spite of him- | self. * Directly the chaplain kneels by { his side to whisper a few simple words | of Solace, the groans are hushed for the moment, apd ihe man listens | | eagerly to the message, and always | | finds strength to utter a heartfelt | {Thank you, sir' There is no room | { for Sham or Hypocrisy here, and you | have before your eyes the indisputable fact of réal help and comfort given | to the sufferer in his extremity. 1 | have known a man, but a few hours { removed from death, throw his arms | about my neck in the gratitude snd Joy that filled his heart fo overflowing, Another murmured over and over to { himself, 'Oh, the sweet prayer! Oh, the sweet prayer!' Does this tend to | Shake one's faith In God?" gal is compulsory. All thé age of seventeen to forty re lable to be called out, but ly: vice only begins at ge of twenty, Portugdls on colon! int jhe sessions have al 1 the ) of Germany. The Hane have very covetous .€yes on Angola, {ts stretch of 1,000 on the Africdii coat, and Mozambique, thi Portuguese territories oun the Coast of Africa, extending for a tance of 1,300 miles. -------- STRANGE ARAB FOES Turks' Ignorant Ally Has . Custome--One Virtue > The Arab fighting with the eu in Mesopotamia has some 4 po ih Ty ub. toss on | Tore Ha ea ree ron Hgnt i SH oat ming fn ofl. Tits sons eat hi od eid wok 3 dod hen elling, ws ie Sohind, od » he oil pi and that is, he fs rarely gr investigated. It' was Brandon who, single-handed, rose above the Zeppelin, and in the midst of shot and shell, dropped bomb after bomb and actually Saw the monster suddenly descend, as he belleved, the victim of his well directed shots. ors 'nd fishermen, In memory of its inception the regiment was for a long time permitted to wear blue tunics, at a period when all the Other bat talfons of the line wore scarlet ones. lof great baitleships as they rls He Is not very affect is very Hons, and so | initiative that he garely oA on shy. thing worth doing, or attempts to CAITY out any enterprise. ---- Partugal'rg Wealtt, Thraefifths of the people of 88" are engaged in agriculture. gficy battalions," such as, for in- the pe. Sportsmen's, | SH oti bent s', Footballers' Bankers' #fé not quite the novel that some people {magine them So long ago as 1703 a Miners' ghttalion was enlisted for service un- ¢ Marlborough, and did good work! Appropos of the Duke of Wellington, fing the siege of Tourniay, where the fourth béarer of that proud title, subterranean works were'it {s interesting to recall that in the ! Dy Both Sides. The 14th cellars of the historic Apsley House of the Middlesex Regiment, is the service of plate presented by called "The Devil's Own," | Portugal to the Iron Duke, the pro- entifely of mem-' bate value of which was $1,000,000. It in. {way inte narrow haFbors or a |atcalt anchorages, poluting out how {much better they could have dope. { Job themselves. They fave (o le {at everything, and withott a ance Wellingten Customs | hE} Soi be miserable --Liverpool 'ourier. inn French War Humier 'French racing horses' names are Best | now almost all inspired by the war. | ayimpet The ndmes of favorite generals, Joffre bu y hand French, for instance, are common; Net | ne patties in which the allies came out oped Bir yde | on top, find favor, such as La Marne; Hope is also in the fleld; while names e French cannon "Seveaty- five," "Hundred and five," Gre the hens a elif. | Sindh 1g dr ! . | was always used ut the Waterloo bun- Mother st : . George ML | quer. Every year, ot June 1th, the Park fir ordeF 16 watéh a § ! Feviewlng them: "all © of Wellington presents & tri- football which some sol s, are they? Then call them | color flag to the Sovereign at Windsor, fofi Own.'" And the Devil's ' Parliament having made this 8 con. ' rel Japs when wing the mansion Her '§ ditite of fleldsaye upon the | the | | Conqueror of Napoleon. | diefy \