Evening star., 1918-02-18

Some German fiiers believe that they
would fail in their tasks in the air If
they did not carry the picture Of some
member Of the German royal family.
The turomil of battle plays havoc
with the smartest clad soldiers. After
a few days stay in the trenches they
emerge disheveled. unshaven. their
clothes dirty and unkempt
most popular generals ever leading
British armies. OF him one of his un-
der officers said:
Genial. friendly. with a handshake
that strikes a glow into you, a quick
blue eye. full of good humor and fun,
as keen to see a joke as to fix up a
tactical point, ready and fluent
tongue and a way with him that makes
you feel you have known him for
years He is perfectly frank and
astonishingiy modest"
Almost 10 per cent of the men seri-
ously wounded at the front have taken
up agricultural pursuits in France
Artificial legs and arms, the majority
of them American inventions, enable
the soldier farmers to perform their
tasks in quite satisfactory manner.
I'VE Germans do not hate like the
Latin races" says Duke Ernest Gunther
Schelswig-Holstein, a brother of the
German empress, Hate is foreign to
our nature. But I am sure that were
a referendum taken today among Ger
man people as to whom they detest the
most, it would be President Wilson"
Arabs do not like moving pictures.
That is, some Of them do not A ma
chine is carried by the British for the
entertainment of soldiers in Palestine.
Having expressed interest in the con-
trivance. a group of Arabs were invited
TO see the pictures When the Aim q
unreeled several OF them fell on their
| faces crying out to Allah for protection
and later took to their heels
Officers at the front admit that re-
peatedly. in the thick Of battle, they
have taken small books of poetry from
| their pockets and read to quiet their
nerves Soldiers as a rule read much
trash. but many follow tho classics
One Canadian soldier has read Ma
caulays History Of England and Gib-
bons' Hietory Of Rome since he enter
| ed the service.
Since Germany has threatened to
! shoot, as spies. all allied aviators who
! cross its boundaries, there to scatter
propaganda literature such as speeches
and documents which might inf1ame
German people, wartime inventors are
trying to evolve plans for a machine
that can fly without pilot and scatter
moral munitions" over a wide terri
tory
England. before the war, depended IN
a great measure upon Germany for
ordinary gas mantles Since the CON
| f1ict started this industry has been de-
veloped on the British Isles
Great sparks a foot and a half lonx
dance along the front edges Of airplane
| wings when machines strike thunder
clouds This has been verified time
| and again by diers at the front who
L n
| clouds In their aerial engaGemeutA
The military atrplane In service 1t the
front today and tho machine which NJ
relied upon In the battle of the Marne and
other Of the earlier battles in the rresenf
war are as different as Columbus caravej
and the modern-day ocean liner
British journalists declare the bot.he.
vik idea of publishing to the world the
progress Of negotiations at Brest- -Litoysk
| was not new. The action Of United States
Minister Bowen, who. to the surprise and
| discomfort Of European diplomats, an
| nounced the progress of the negotiations
| between the powers and Venezuela fifteen
years ago, is cited as a precedent. II
was called "shirt-sleeve diplomacy by
the Americans, but Negotiations with 8
brass band" by the British. Britain now
however. is for this very principle.
'-The difference between US and fbe
| enemy n the difference between tho VaJ
| VIC entered jerusalem and the vay thl
enemy entered Belgfum,s was the 0nccfnc5
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