The Cambria Daily Leader

AMUSEMENTS. WARNING^ WARNING If Laughter Hurts You, KEEP AWAY from the EMPIRE THIS WEEK. It's the Funniest Show Ever Seen. GRAND THEATRE SWANSEA. MONDAY. FEB 8 CARY 15tb. 191-5, for Six Night, at 7.30. ami MATINEE on SATURDAY at 2.30. Mr. Robert Courlodidge's Production of the Sucee&sful Musica l Com.;dy- THE PEARL GIRL. From the Siiaftec-b-jry Theatre^ London. NEXT WEEK— Return Visit of the Gaiety Theatre Saccess, 'THE GIRL FROM UTAH." fHTAlirTOYAL SWANSEA. The Old" Star." The Drama House.! TO-NIGHT at 7.30. I And throughout the week, Percy Williams and G.N. Bullinger pre- j sent the Great American Comedy Drama Succ^-— j FOR HER CHILDRENIS SAKE. By Thoodore Kremr. The Companion Piav to "THE FATAL WEDDING." THE PICTURE HOUSE, I H!GH STREET. SWANSEA. NON-STOP RUN from 2.30 till 10.33. j WON-3TOP RUN frorn 2.30 till IO.SO. TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME- THE SOUL'S AWAKENING. An Exclusira by Nordi-sk. The Story of a Man's Regeneration. BRONCHO BILLY, VAGABOND '.Esean^y/. A WARM RECEPTION (Clarendon). THE HAND OF IRON (Edi&ca' A Fine Milit??ry Dr?ma. ISi KDlem) THE MAN )N THE VAULT ?Eolem? SECRET SERVICE SNITZ (Sterling |I! Comedy). THE SKY P!RATE. I Keystone C?mfdy. I | Path*3* Animated War Gazette. |!   CASTLE CINEMA Adjciciiig "Leader" Office. < WORCESTER PLACE, SWANSEA. I —————————-——————————— *y Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I £ Continuous Performance 2.38 to 10.38. THE CORSAIR. e) Â l"onr Part tlomautic D ania. 0 founded on Byron's Groat Pot-to. "5* A Film that tires the imagination J and grips throughout. 'An unusual picture both in its set. + tisgs and emotional qualities. SON? ? ? A Powertu! Story of a Young Man's t Downfall and Final Reciamxtion. ? CAUGHT !N A FLU E. £ A "Keystone" Comedy, in which the laughs thick and faet. HIS DOMINANT PASSION,. '? A Vit?.?r?ph" Drama \h:it wiU Cl'e$te I,' ? profound impne'toc. "d Oher Interesting Picture& Orchestral Music. Pop: ular Prices. 1 ? j MONDAY MEXT— I + IN PEACE AND IN WAR. A Powrful Topical Drama in 5 Parts. CARLTON 1 Cinema de Luxe, Oxford St., Swansea. 2.30. CONTINUOUSLY. 10.30. I Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. 8 MARY PICKFORD -The World's Sweetheart!. Supported by the Famous Players Co. in the i ascznaiiug Koznantic Comedy, Such a Little Queen. "Â little of the tenderns?^ and sweetness I of life put into dramatic expression." Approximate TimM of Showing: 2.30, I 5,23 and 1.11) p.m. THE HOUSE OF SILENCE. I THE STRENGTH OF TEN. THE WALL BETWEEN. PATHE'S ANIMATED GAZETTE. I Josie's Legacy. I I Troops Leavmg Swansea. } I -PRICES:—3d,, 9d6d,, and 15. I rhi?drcn. ?d. and 6d. i p I C T U R E- A a ■ Pi?o?idcd Every Afternoon (?a,turdsya i j I Meepted', a.t an Inclusive Chaj? of ? i' X"AELTON CAFE í :R. E..TONES. LTD.). ¡ r GXFOBD SO-EIST, SWAXST y Open Daily U &m. to 11 p.m. OSOHBS^-KAL & Musioo,! Director: VOGAXi itUtolC. Sisnor E. PeWIa, Vocalists— Miae MAY PSIC3 i&cxtreuao). Mr. DA VXD JOXBS v Baritone). T142 COSY. COMFORTABLE 1 OXFORD Electric Theatre, l UNION-STREET. TREMENDOUS ATTRACTION: THE POISON TREE. A Maeterpioce in Thrills. Sensations, Pathos and Fniruw Interest, featuring some of the Greatest Star Performers in the Picture ■ World. WAITING. Fine Thrilling Drama. I CAUGHT. I' One of tie Finest Comediee Screened. ¡ MEN WILL DECEIVE. A Fine Photo Flay by Big Ben. And &th«r Star Pieties. i &ontnKious from 6.3ft. Saturday from 2.39 AMUSEMENTS. THE SHAFTESBURY CINEMA, ST. HELEN'S ROAD, SWANSEA. IVeek- Commencing Monday, Feb. 15th. FRIDAY and SATURDAY— AN ORPHAN'S FATE Exc l usive) DETECTIVE AND MATCHMAKER. THE GREEN ROOM. HiS DOGGY. A FATAL FLIRTATION. BELLE OF THE BREWERY VILLE.  ELYSIUM 6.15. High Sir3et> Swansea. 3.30. THURSDAY, FRIOAY & SATURDAY, February 13, 19 and 20, His Majety Kmn George V.'s Favourite Drama— HARBOUR LIGHTS. By George R. Sims and 1-1. Pettitt CHESTER & DOTTRI DGE, Comedy Duo. In addition to an All-Star Programme. COMING SHORTLY- Another Elysium Masterpiece to equal The Patriot of France," Mr. Barnes of New York," The cast is an ideal one, headed by the Famous Screen Artiste, Mr. MAURICE COSTELLO. Further part inular-a will be duly announced PUBLIC NOTICES. OF ^W^^SSA! ST. JOHN AM 3U LANCE BRIGADE. FOR MAT ION OF A DIVISION AT SWANSEA. You are cordially invited to attend a PUBLIC GATHERING at the GUILD- HALL, SWANSEA, on MONDAY NEXT, the 22nd February, at S o'clock pan., for the purpose of Inaugurating the above Movement. A LANTERN LECTURE will be givec. by HERBERT LEWIS. ESQ. lEeputy CommitJioner, No. XI. Districts, illustrating' tae work of the Order of the Hospital of 3t. John. OANI EL JONES, Mayor. GOWER LYD OYSrIETi.MOUTH HOSPITAL COMMITTEE. POSHES AND COOK-GEN"&&AL. WANTED. MAN* AND WIFE. the former j to ac-, as Porter, ajici tho latijec- as Cook- General, at the Ciunniiuee'e Hospital, eitiiftte at Fairwcod Common. KiiT^.v, nestr Swantsea. Salary for combined oSioet, L60 per annuir.. witii boaiyl and residence. Appli-'aticnft. storing agee, prerioue ex- pej-knoe. a/-corn panied by tT7o nefeiienfe^ as to cha.raoter. to b? gent to mo. 'Lh? under- Ei?n??. not later then the Urd February, ISla. JNO. H. ROBINSON. Clerk to the O:I1llliitt I Council Offleceu <)>"csermc-utb, neaj* Swaxieea,. Iftth Februfixj", 1?15. I ^WANSEA RA-RDOUR TBUST. NOTICE IS HllK-EKY GIVBX that the ANNUAL GEyLHAL MEETING of the Swarraea Harbour Trut-t £ *t!s will be held at! the HARBOUR OFl'iCEfe. in the Oounty 1 Borou'h of S^raj;saa- on. M.ONDAX, the 8th iia.T of iLABCfl, 19i5. ax Twelve o'clock, j noon, when a Statement of tht) Receipts j and Dxpenditirre of the Trus<:eos for the 19'4, a..nfi cf year endut? the 31s- December, ?91?. ann üf all d?bta <?in? by them. and of all (bu- j tracts enteral ir.t,í) by tiiem, "Till be pro- d acrrl l'cr osamiriation and isettlemcsnt. NOTICE Ul; HEREBY ALiO <1.1 VEN t,h.t primed copies of such StAtement are TMw ready, rind IIL>-Y be had ai i,ll(: Offi. of the { Trustee^, F.itua.te in tho County Borough of Swansea; and thai, such Statement and the several Acoooat Books and l>"jcnments re- ferred to lie therein at the eaid Offices for tJio inspect iou of the Creditors o-f the eadti Trufitcee. Harborir luitepacvej-s and cot.ber parties intA,re,tel at all rr-,a,Bona-bi-B hoars. Dated this wth day of February. 1915. TALFOURD STBJO.K. Cierk. Harbour Officee, %wamme,. THE PUBMO HEALTH ACT 1875. SWANSEA. WHEREAS the Council of the Borough of Swansea have applied to the Local Govern- j ment Board for t-innclion to borrow the sum of £ j,li30 for the p1,-rf i:J¡¡,¡e of C"v»m U-nydd I Farm and certain adjoining land in -,he ParisJi of Oockett a a a site for an Isolation Hospital; and the Local Government Boatd ( have directed Inquiry into tho subject-mat- ter of iuch Application: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Morgan J. Bees, fisquire, ID., tho Inspector ap- poir,t £ il to hold tho said Inquiry, will at. tend for that purpose it tho Onildhall, Swansea, on Wednesday, the Third day off March, 1915. at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, I and will then and there bf prepared to re- ceive the evidence of ac.v persons interested I in the matter of tHe said Inquiry. H C. MONRO. Secretary. Local Government Board, 18th sWA-NEEA, AEr gOCLETY ROYAL INSTITUTION OF SOUTH WAIVES. WAR En EXHIBITION I (Ln aid of Belgian Relief Fund). AN EXHIBITION of PAINTINGS AND I Sl-CEm^lTS^ by StEiTBERS of the SWANSEA -o.T SOCIETY, will be held at The ROYAl. I INSTITUTION OF SOUTH WALES, iivom SATURDAY. Xth FEBRUARY, to SATUR-. 1 DAY, 2LAECH, 1315 unciiisiTe!, from 9 a.m. till 9 p.m. ADMISSION FREE. I IF YOU WANT A PRIVATE CASH ADVANCE apply to- ALBERT E. GASH, 6, UPLANDS CRESCENT, SWANSEA, Where any respectahla person may obtain a Loan from £10 to any amount without fuso or loan office formalities. No Fees or Sureties are required, and the I Amount is Adrajiced,41 J. j SALES BY AUCTION. SWANSEA AUCTION ROOMS, 46, WATERLOO-STREET. MESS liS. j John M. Leeder and Son J "DEG to announce that their uext. Sale of Miscellaneous Furniture and Effects will Ltf; held at the SWAIv'SfiA Al'CTTON ROOMS ou WEDNESDAY NEXT, FEBRU. AKY 2th, 1915, comrucaf^nc at 11.30 o'clock t in tho forenoon, when thev- will offer a j Larr-j As-x/rtment of Useful Household Furniture AND EFFECTS. Roughly comprising:— Oak Sideboards. o Carved Oak High-back Ohaira, Dining Table, Mahogany-framed Suite in Amcriciu Leather, Oak iiall Stand. Dnchdss Dressing' Table a-n-d Marblc-top Washstind, Painted Bedroom Suite, vario.ii Dressing Tables and Wa^h- 5tands. Cheste of Drawers. Maliogany Swing } Mirrors. Bedroom Wa.1?. Towel Airer?. C:nnmod, B)-3?? Rail, Oak-fmmed ??d Combination Bed?l?a/if. amI Beddinr;. Ormolu mounted W ilrmt and Maro.net.ery China Cabinet. blaid i hogany Bureau, fitted with nests and drop front and three drawers mider; W-al- nut Davenport, Loo and Occasional Taoles, | Piush-framcri aud other Mirrors, Overraau- {telfi. Mahogany-framed Couches, and Floor Cash ion O-Ike, Furniture.—Oali-framed B'X>kshelves,! very fine Mahoprany Show utted with plate-glasa back and Fl:) ar-f old Screen. Plated Revolving Breakfast Dish, Handsome Ornameutrf and Vases, Pair Plated Candlesticks, Large Qtiantity of Boote, Phoa!Ogra,ph Records, Cut G126s Wine Dei-enteri?, Wciv-esfe-r 'leo. a.ud Breakfast Service, Sundry Dinner Ware, Engravangs. Waiter Colour?, otc, Brasi-xnonnted ilceal, Vases, All-Brass and other Fenders, and Fire Suite?. Gas Fire, Fire Soneens, Plant and Unibrella Stands. Stained Medi- cine Cheft, Karriwvn's Cireular Knitter, Treadle Sewing Mnchine, Electric Light Fit. tines. Lawn Mower. Oat-don Roller. Ziac > CircuHr Water Tank with tap, Bicycler. Men'c. and s lIoc>e. ,amti Em- broiuered Half Hose; Eitohen !)Te-zeor. and the Ullel Kiichen Furniture, etc. | 11 on View Morning of Sale from J 9.Z.o a.m. DATE OF NEXT SALE—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10th, 1915. 62. WALTEB-ROAD. SWANSEA. A Large a.ad Attractive Sale of Unique and Valuable Effects. Removed from Messrs. PowlefcLand and Macon'e aud Mr. Edder- sha; St.crc8 to the Above Address. Mr. Astley W. Samuel (F-A.L). HAS received itstructionq to SEIJ, by PUBLIC ACCTTON, at the above ad- dress:, on TUESDAY, 2,3rd FEBBUARY, 1915, j the Hout-eiiold Appointments. Some cf the items consist of: KASTNER'S AUiO-TiAisO, latent model. ROSEWOOD CASE, playing full-scale music, together with quantity cf Remarkably fluai SOLID OAK TELESCOPE DINING TABLE. with massive centre pedestal, all exquisitely j carved; a very ri.?.h!y-car*ed dark Oak I Sideboard; very handsome choicely-carved DARK OAK DINING-ROOM SUITE, hi MOROCCO; beautiful Solid Mahogany Cir- cular Table, with Cabriole Leg. exception- ally well-carved Dark Oak Sideboard; mas-1 sivo femi-circular Gilt Pier Glass IMPOS- j ik a satin walnut bedh^m suits very fine Old Oak Bureau, Antique Gra.nd- father's Cloak, artistia Ebony Overmantel, very choicd Drawing-room W riting Tables, Moorish Pedestal Tables, heavy all-Brass i Bedsteads, VALUABLE OIL PAINTINGS by j Fielding and others, very handsome Oraa- uientdl CHINA, several choice Pieces of SILVER. Gent.'s Bicycle, ]ron Safe, beauti- fut Antique Rosewood Card Table, etc., etc Catalogues (2d. will be i?eued, and can he had of the Auctioneer. Goods on new Monday, 22nd February, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sale to commence at 11 a.m. Terms—Cash. Auctioneer's Offices. King's Chamber-?, Swansea. Docks Tel. 266. Highly Important Sale of Leasehold Pro- peities and Freehold Ground Rente in the Parish of Oysteimouth. PAr. Arthur S. T. Lucas HAS been instructed by tire Executors of the late Mrs. Laura Burgees to offer for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the HOTEL METROPOLIS. SWANSEA, on TUES- DAY. the 2ad day of MARCH, 1215. the tol- lowing most Valuable Properties: fnll detailed particulars of which appear ou the conditions of sale, auction posters, and slips: LOT 7, Alexandra-terrace, West Orofen; term. 96 years, from September. lõ6i; ground rent. £ 3 3s.; present rent, £ 25 net. LOT 2.—The Rest Cafe, Promenade; term. 60 years, from March. 1862; ground 1C.; rent, £23 net. LOT 3.NL a. H', Newton- road, corner of WaJteis-crescent; term, 99 years, from March* Laol; ground i ( «t, -6; grc«5 rent. £45 10; LOT1 4.—No. lB. cwWn. road, adjoining, let 'o Mr. E. G. Vtwl-jj. (Jaemist. at £.40 net; term. 99 years, from March, 1901; ground rent, i.6; posseesion of this lot can be given in June n\t. LOTS — The GOSPEL HAldU Nevrtcn-road; rent. £50 net; term. 99 years, from Mcivh. IvOl-; grouiid rent, £ 9. LOT i.-i.ro 13. k-te •- race; term, 99 yeavs.-troui September, JSaJ (less two day&); ground rent, £ 2 So.; wilt, I' iUs. 6d- a week finclu-i.cl. LOT 7. No 15. 1k-terr3,ce; cerm. ? vl.n. f- m Sti-li m- h:c, 136? Oe?s two d3T?): let kr .brce '<?ra from June. 1914, a,t. ?a in?usi-v? ren of .:2 15s. per month; groand rent, E.1 5- LOT 3.— A Freehold Ground Rent of £ 7 6$. M. peT annum, secur.ed by No. 19, Promenatio, now let. at .CT& per annum. TOY 9.—A Freehold Ground Kent of £ 7 6s- 8d.. secured by No. 20, the Promenade, now let at £ 26 per an- num. LOT 10.—A Freehold Ground Rent of £ 7 6s. ad.. scoured by No. 21, the Promen- ade, now let at f,24 per annum. The leases of Lots 8. 9, and 10 arc for 99 years, from las?. The Mines and Minerals are excepted as to Lots 2. 3. 4, and 5. The Sale 10 oommeuce at 3.30 in the., after- noon precisely. For Particulars and Conditions of Sate apply to Arthur S. T. Luca-s. Auctiono»-r, Valuer, and Estate A?nt. 6. But land-street, Swansea, and at the Mum bias. Tel.. Cea- tral ;},j; ,>a,hlisÍ!NI Ft.s; or for permission to inspect the propenies, apply to the ten- "Its. and as to the Gospel Hali. apply to Mrs. Morgaat, the caretaker, No. 14, Castie- ton, Mumbles; or as to the whole of the lots to D, Stauley Ow. Fzq., Solicitor. I-ondon and Provincial Bank Buildings, Wind-street, Swansea. Tel.: Docks 363. No. 156 j. AUC'iTON_MART, 3, 4S, GOAT STPFM, SWANSEA. To Baakans. Ma« ufawurere.. County Oonnoils, Cl.errks to District and I Parish OouxKhJe. lYcdeCTen. others. Messrs. J. F. Harvey & Sons I XtriLL OdTFiiR for PUBLIC COMPETITION on WEtDNE-SDAY, FEBRUARY 24tiit j 1315, et the above axLdress, a Valufihle eignment of 15 High Class Cold Bent Stesi Safes, VerioiM sizes, iroul 20 inchet to 4 feet high, with all the latest and mc.et appro-red modem nttincrs and improvem'snts, mazzl- facturod by the well-known firm of Measre-. Thornae ^ithoi-s -ai-Ni Sone-, Phcemx Safe Work6, Weet Bromwwh On View Morning of Sale. I Sale to commence 12 Noon. -"U_ SPECIAL ARRIVAL OF MARMALADE ORANGES PER en. DOZEN. MACK L T ?., WATERLOO AN? SEP.-Cr4"'ST'REE-TIl."I J. Sun Rises 7.8, Sun Sets 5.21. Lighting-up Time, 6.13. I High Water To-day, 9.51 p.m. To-morrow, 10,11 a.m., 10.25 p.m.

I RUSSIA'S HANDS FULL The Germans first reported that they had taken 46.000 Russian prisoners in the Hast Prussian batih>s. Then another lour thousand was added to tho nnmber. A tian- later, the.ir "wireless" jumped to the total of 6-i,ftOO. TV a will do well t-> | receive these figuras with considerable reserve. There is no doubt but. that the KiLssians, quite out-numborcd because of tho facilities their strategical railways give the Germans for rapid of troops, have suffered a serious reverse, but the extent of it wo shall not know until Petrograd elects to speak. The Germans have in all probability given us a very exaggerated statement of their sunc«?ss. We can place no reliance, upon the makers of a German naval success cut of the. Dogger Bank fight, and 1he j authors of the "Mtcen thousand British gcldiers drowned in Flanders tale. We have, however, to face the fact that the position in the East is far from being as satisfactory as the operations before "Warsaw a fortnight ago gave us reason t,) believe. Instead of waging offensive warfare in East Prussia, the Russians have now to defend their own soil. On the other extreme of their line, they htve had to evacuate the Southern Bukowina. Movements are in operation which are said to imperil Warsaw, not by means of eObtly frontal attacks the Germans I hava several times attempted, but. in a more threatening way. The enemy aro said to bo aiming at the forrress of Kovno, and possibly at Grodno also, and what, is far moro important from their poinc of view. at cutting the main line from Petrograd to Warsaw. And the line is believed to be further and perhaps even more seriously menaced by the simultaneous advance into Poland in the neighbourhood of Ostrolenka, from points south of the Masurian Lake region. Should the railway bo reached and held by either advance, Warsaw would be in grave danger. Still we have confidence in the Eus- sians. Their task in enormously difficult. They have to fight on a very long front, and in country where they are without many transport facilities. The Turkish I forces' iu the South are not to be despised, although they are not to be feared. The Austria-Hungarian armies have powers of recuperation which have often been insisted upon in this journaL Notwith- standing the jubilant massage from tho pan of Professor Pares, the authorised correspondent with the Russian Ariniea, the, soldier? of the Dual Monarchy are by no means played out. The situation does not givo much ground for anticipating] an early advance over the German borders, and the Times has good reason to declare that the moral for thé Western Allies is. in simple. lang-uag that whatever may happen during the nest few weeks, Russia has her hands! full. It is the duty of the Allies in the West to prosecute their efforts with in- creasing rigour as soon as conditions per- mit, without too much regard lor the operations in the Eastern theatre. The war began in the West, and the strobes that linish it will probably bavo to be administered in tho West." We have had spy books by the score since the outbreak: of the war, some en- j titled to the benefit of the doubt, some too melodramatic, to have importance attached! to them. Wo think that when the public see a publication professing to state j "What I did as a German Spy" it is! frankly incredulous, and prepares to "allel the said spy's doings with a liberal help- ing of salt. But -A-Len a soldier of the reputation of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell bilks of his adventure*, as a tpy, it is another matter; we know and are ready to believe. There- fore great valuo must bo attached to his new book My Adventures As a Spy ^Pearson, Is.), wherein he breezily writes of his many and thrilling experiences. Six years ago. the lierutenant- general recounted, in a private lecture to othcerf-, illustrated with! lantern slides and maps, one of the plans of invasion of this country drawn up by the Germans. It wa3 not until the report of this lecture leaked into the papers that he realised how nearly he had touched the spot." The Secretary of State ior War was badgered with ques- tions in the House of Commons, and, says B.-P. "I was assailed with htteIC from Germany of most violent, abuse from various quarters, high and low, which showed me that I had gone nearer the truth than I had'oven expected. You are but a brown-paper general,' said one, and if you think that by your foolish talk you are to frighten 116 from coming, tou are not right. The German idea, six years ago, accord- ing to Sir Robert's discoveries after getting into touch with. a sort of interna- tional spy agency, was that they could, by means of mines and submarines, at any time block the traffic in the British Channel in the space of a few hours, thus holdihg our home fleets in the stations at Spithead and Portland. With the Straits of Dovar so blocked, they could then, rush a fleet of transports across the North Sea from Germany, to the East Coast of Eng- land, either East Anglia or, as in this plan, in Yorkshire. They had in Germany nine embarking stations, with piers and ¡\ platforms, all ready made, and steel lighters for disembarkation purposes or for actual traversing of the ocean in case of fine weather. The nearest Bank Holiday to July 13th —considered, by the law of average, the nnpst day of the year—was to be the Day Bank Holiday, because then com- -lie j organised. Spies in England were to cut wires, to blow dowr. bridges, and to create, as much confusion as possible. Not London, but the teeming Midland centre I where there are fourteen millions of people* in a short radius, was the strategical ob- | jeetive. Their theory wa? that if they could rush an army of even ,¡(¡,OOO men j into Leeds, Sheffield. Halifax. Manchester, I land Liverpool without, encountering great j opposition in the tirst tew hours, they could thero establish themselves iu such strength that it would require a powerful army to drive them out again. Bringing I a week's provisions with them, and seiz- iB? all the local pro?'isiou?. they would have chough to su?isin Ib?ui for a C')11-1 "idprahle time, and t1e fint step of their occllpation would hI) to expel every in- habitant—man, woman, and child-frnm f the neighbourhood and destroy the towns. Thus, within a few hours, some fourteen i 1. 1 1 millions of people, would be starving, and I wandering without shelter over the face of the country—a disaster which would need a large for''? to deal with? and would causK entire disruption of our food supplies and of business in the country. that was before our nava l bases bad been established in the North. Sir Robert Baden-Powell believes that if at that time (nve or six y-ars ago) they had declared war, they might, have had no serious interference from our Navy during the- passage of flour transports, which, of course, would be protected on that flank by their entire flout of warships. At j first glance," he comments, it seems too fanciful a plan to commend itself to belief, but iu talking it over with German officers, I found they fully believed in it as a practical proposition. They them- selves enlarged on the idea of the use that they would thus make of the civil popula-j tion, and foreshadowed their present bru- i tality by explaining that when war came, j it would not be made with kid gloves.1 ¡ The meaning of their commands would be j brought home to the people by shooting i down civilians if necessary, in order to prove that they were in earnest, and to I' force the inhabitants through terror, to; comply with their requirements." The best-laid plans This plan, like many another, made by Germany since, went astray. Until the Gernian fket is smashed—and that will be when it shows its BOco beyond the mine-tMid? of the Bight—we &hail have to rNnain on the ¡ alet't. But with tho Battle of the Dogger Bank, the lat GM man hope of invasion r practically vanished. I

BULLETS AND THEIR WOUNDS. ■ Mr. J. A. Spender, of 'tbe ""t.1 mmster GazeUe," who has been in tbp war Mn<\ in his last articls upon J in Iiis last art,,clo lipC,U j inflicted by bullets are generally clean, unless they have been contaminated by I fragments, of clothing or by .contact with I the earth afterwards. The high velocity of the mod?'m rifle generates ? heat, on btrikiug which, is its own caMt?ry for severed nerves and tissues, and is merci- i-l-hl(,Ii i, its oivii CzAtitoT.y ab--8 that the wounded are quickly handled, aod that, it trains are used to (transport them to the base hospitals, these are dean and comfortabift and well- provided with nurses aud doctors, a large proportion of the cases prove to be light and recover quickly. Where these con- ditions are not forthcoming, gangrene, tetanus, and ouier kinds ot septic com- plications follow quickly. A Splendid Service. I The writer testifies to the enormous im- provement, of our service in these respects since the first weeks of the war. The trains are excellent, nurses and doctors are snHiciont in numbers and highly competent, and the stationary ;1.11<1 general hospitals are an durably equipped. Nothing can exceed the ingenuity with which hotels, casinos, and other less pro- mising buildings have been adapted for this purpose. There is always a large margin of beds f<)r ;)t the principal base, and not a moment is lost in getting the wounded mm from the tiring line to the hospital. But, the nt-most care will not abolish all the | complications. Tetanus, for instance, has always to he reckoned with, though fortunately it has almost disappeared since the beginning of winter. I find no doubt among the doctors that the anti- tetanic serum administered after the l wound has bcon received is a true pro-I p1: laetk. A Conquest Over Tetanus. I So much progress has been milCh: in the treatment that in a large proportion of eases this disease, hitherto thought, fatal from the onset, may now be regarded as curate". The general rule is that the chance* of recovery increases with the length of the incubation. It tetanus, for instance, appears on tho second day after the wound was received, the chances are small; if on tho tenth recovery is a l- 1 most certain. Careful researches have ln made on this subject t-ince the, war broke out, and here, as in many other branches of medicine, knowledge is II sensibly advanced.

Colonel John Robertson, aged 73. died ycr- terday at Guildford. He served in the I Crimea and in the Indian Mutiny. Mr. Herbert Samuel has a,ppoillt-ed Lord Sandhurst to the membership of the com- mittee formed to consider employment tor disabled soldiers"*ihT"sailorsi.

H'USSIA on Grand Duke's Programme. The Fear Upon Germany. Germany's urst victims of .sobmarin«-» warfare since the blockade of Eng- land was proclaimed in the Norwegian steamer Belridge, torpedoed off Folke- stone. V French steamer was a hu torpedoed. Both ships have reached jWt. Sir Edward Grey ha? sent a memorandum, to the American Government, justifying the use of the neutral flag by British ships in order to escape destruction. The second of the two German airships wrecked on the Danish coast, was the L.IV.. a super-Zeppelin of the latest type. She succumbed to a snowstorm.' Tho text is issued M two historic letters which passed between King George and President Poiueare on the eve of the war. They show that down to the last moment (,f¡, which were unfortu- nately foiled, were made to preserve -were iiiacie ir) pi-c-?eu%e The Fussion situation is discussed below. A warning is given not to accept the reports now being issued from Berlin. THE RUSSIAN RETIREMENT. QO long as the Russian armies are held together Russia in unconquerable. In the illimitable spaces behind his armies the Grand Duke can rind constantly good positions prepared in advance, and as the Russians retire they will offer more resist- ance, like a spring that is compressed, while the enemy will encounter ever- increasing difficulties from a hostile popu- lation, broken communicai ions. and a country swept clear of supplies. This is the conclusion come to by Colonel Repington, who in the Times to-day. discusses the new situation in the eastern war theatre. He warns us that we must not allow our minds to be influenced by reports of German origin which pretend that all sorts of disasters have over- whelmed the Russians in East Prussia. Mendacious and Coloured. All German official news of late has been mendacious, and coloured to en- courage the German people and affect the opinions of neutrals. Even if we accept the German report, that 60 Russian guns have been captured, these only represent the artillery of a sintrle division, and tho Germans boast that they defeated 11 Russian divisions, which may very well have had 700 guns amongst them. AVe must there- fore believe (says the military corre- spondent) that the Russian retire.menr was orderly and by no means a rout. It was in accordance with common sense that the Grand Duke, finding himself faced b* y an unexpected hostile concen- tration. should have temporarily post- 1,1(-T-111,11 his offensive in East Prussia and have drawn back his troops to a prepared line of defence upon which these troops can lie n}C\t easilv and rapidlv reinforced. In these last ten day-, this operation has been iu progress and we can feel confident that the Grand Duke will have taken those measures which the situation de- mands. The Situation Surveyed, Nothing that has yet happened affects in v-rious dc-ree the. situation el ih", Russian armies. Ail the centre ol the> long Russian line from Warsaw to the middle Carpathians remains formidable and intact. The. Austrian irruption id to Bukowiua has, it is true, temporarily re- taken tii!F, province, thanks largely to the men from the-Tyrol and the \oralberg, who are among the best of tb« Austrian troops and are experts in hill fighting, but tho military resources of south-wes- tern Russia should allow this loss to bo retrieved, and this Austrian offensive which will entail immense difficulties in regard to communication and supply, h;1i" not vet reached a point where it (:;11) vitallv affect the operation? in Uahcia. and still less those in Poland and the orth. BATTLE IN A WILDERNESS. A T present tho sceue of fiercest fight- ..¡ ing is the .immense wilderness which lie: between the Niemen and Augustovo, and which from eaft I" west, extends without a break for a distance of thirty or forty miles. This vacit expanse of forest and swamp, tho Petrograd T. r pondent. of the Daily Telegraph says, j has already once been the theatre of fctrugg'lc. for it was here that the Ger- mans offered the most; obstinate resist-1 ailee when they were, being flung back i ,r(,.m their firkt attack on the Niemen. During the two or three weeks of in- cessavit fighting, which on that occasion j took place in the Augustovo forest, rain fell in torrents, and the. swamp which normally forms a considerable portion of j the region became universal. The Frontier Fighting. Now the are. very different, The thaw of the first three days of this i woek came to an abrupt end with a thermometric drop of 4ftdcg. Fahrenheit in twenty-fonr honff, ami a sharpish frost now prevails, it Las- b-en sng- ■ gested that the Germans are relying on. the frozen tstafo of the Niemen and the: Bohr swamps iu this latest plunge at the main line of the Russian communication. Possibly these favour tiwir plant-, but on j the other hand, our Allies undoubtedly i bear the cold much better ihan they. So. far the lvittle on the. East Prussian fron- j ier i? apparently only in the ?ta?e of d?- velopmcnt. and i?me day? will probably j elapso before it is possible to give defi- ui 1 o news as to its issue. 141LAIRE BELLOC AND A DRAW." 1\TR. illLAIRE BELLOC continues in he argues that a draw to the war would be impossible, and, for this country, fatal. To those who use the argument that after so appalling a strain exhal-iitj()il would forbid to Prussia, as much as to ¡he Allies a renewal of hostilities Mr. Belloc replies that in international affairs IIlO:;t things are done without, actual tscourse to arms. Prussia out of Alsace-^Lorraine, consenting to relax ia some measure her obscene tyrannies in Poland, and even accepting a general scheme of disarma- ment—but still somewhere or somehow in Belgium-would be a Prussia acceptable enough to most of the Continent, but would be a Prussia- still in a position to press such continued demands upon Great Britain as would either grow intolerable, I or, if accepted, would involve the rapid decline of this country. The Line of the Rhine. lir. Belloc says that the enemy will probably suggest a draw when he feels the necessity of abandoning the Belgian plain. It his demand is withstood his further chances/will get worse and worse very rapidly. If he cannot hold his present "lengthy line in the Wost lie cannot frilly hold the line of the Paine, which is lohj'er still. His industrial di&tricte—the I two principal orcs. at Past- lie expoeetj upon the edges of his territory, and if it be argued that their occupation w-->uld only enfeeble him and not; destroy him, it sliould be pointed out, that be will ha left to the task of maintaining and foed- in t heir population for that population '11 not be suffered to remain when tlm invasion be^-ius. Meanwhile, upon tbos« industrial district*, he it- ai)sotllwlv (pondent for certain things winch are ,L;;1 1 absolutely necessary to 111. conduct oi modern war. j Three Possible Settlements. Th?rp are (concludes th« vrit?r) ?Ti'? three settlements etat?pman&hip can ((HI" template: U) A defeat of the AIL.. with the probable decline of all that A-t call our civilisation and certain immedi- ate disaster to this country; (2) a defeat iof the Prussianised German Empire S,31 thorough as to forbid its reappearance in arms and the extirpation from Europe of iU abominable, morals; (.3) a prolonged j war remaining inconclusive for such a ispace of time that our civilisation shall | fail under it as suroly though, less con- temptibly than it would under tbet blundering attempts of Oenoan guidance, Of these three issues the last eoenis to m by far the loa.5t probable; next, thfs ifirst; and, most likely of tho three, tho sec-orid. But. that statesmanship can only con* j template one 01 these three issues; poli- tical and financial intrigue (they am tjvday one and the same thing) may] contemplate a fourth, to wit, the accept* ance, within a few months, of an lncoll. j elusive peace—the "draw." It ia .against such a folly that I have lseia j argued to the plain citizen. THE GREAT FEAR. XTO. says A.G G. in concluding hi* Saturday article in the "Daily SeVi," we need not suppose that Germany is cr>- iug Wolf." without cause. The grata 1:)r has come upon her. It is reflected ia those letters, found on (xcrman prisoner*, which Eye-Witness published this week: it is permeating the Press; it emerges gauntly from the very of i the situation. I see that it is said thAt if ] the Fear were, real the German. General Staff would take care, to hl(\» knowledge so valuable to the enemy. Them I are some things too big to hide. Wa might as-, woli try to hide from Germany the' fpirt that our own prices are rising. I If a nat-ion of seventy million people n .drifting towards starvation the. truth will out in spite of all tho teener; Staffs thatj ever sought to its lips. A Sort of Blind Fury. I The crisis may not, be near: hut tlifya mere knowledge, that, it is approae.hin-, | the mere spectacle of those daily rfueue:j jat thp bikers' shops—the griiu reminder i of the sinister bread ticket—all this 1 striking at the heart: of Germanv's mc-ste .-vital line of defence, the confidence a up j moral of the nation. It is this that i*< sending her ship of State plunging toward* the breakers with a sort of blind fury the fury that is born of the knowl«h<» I-Itaf, tiip, adventure has tailed and tila doom is assured. IN THE WRONG TRENCH, I "IfE difficulty of finding the right trench on a pitch dark night is nr, uncommon, bnt it is surely seldom thab an experience similar to thai, dot&iied by. an otncer in a Cornish regiment can hap- pen. Lie .;).Y5 in a letter home that, hav- ing been ordered to relieve a certain regi- ment, he sot off with guides and g-ot. ton the wrong trench, and found nobody who could direct him and his men to the right "no: so with nnn of his privates he wnt h¡ek and found th? commanding ofEcpr of the i??hn?nt he should have r?H?v?l. Th« latter said lif, had two men with him. would show him the proper destination. The letter continues: Who You Vas? So off the four of us started to collect my men from the wrong one. It was oow: j darker than ever and raining in torrents, We went, ve.rv- .slowly, keeping together all' | the time. In the darkness we missed the trench we were aiming for--it must havf* been by inches—and walked on until I came to one. All four of us were -stand- ing on the parapet and looking down into the trench. I said quite low but dis- tinctly. Who are and was greeted by Who yon vasr" also what —— said afterward s sounded like, ala- baster^" We could have shaken hands wth them, but did not wait to pay them that courtesy, but bolted for all we worn worh. They opened a point blank fire at us, but of course we were peon out of ■sight, and we had' a merciful escape. Head Over Heels. In our headlong flight vA luckilj tumbled head over heek into the trench wherfl I had left my mn-thy haviti" heard and seen nothing of what waj going on 40 yards ahead of them. Well, to cut a Ion? story short, we put our- selves under our two guides from tllft other regiment, and at 3.30 a.m. arrived at tho right trench. It is a terrible thing this wandering about over totally unknown ground, and of course always, by night time, and I think it is responsible- for a great numlvr of the missing one sees in till lists. There is obviously no other of doing it. HYMN IN TIME OF WAR, 0 God. to Whom our fathers prayed. When in their darkest hour Thy Hand the great Armada. stayed, And broke Napoleon's power, Grant, as our sons go forth, 0 Lord. To battlp, in the field. Not pride, but duty, be the word Engrayen on their shield. Thou knowest. Lord, we count no cost Of sorrow or of pain, If only those we loved and lost Shall not have died in vain. We should not dare. 0 God. to pray, Our pravers would be as naught, Had we not faith we fight to-day For all Thy Word has taught. Grant that Thy Spirit, Lord of Lif% Move o'er the embattled plain. Till from the chaos of its strife Thy worid be born again And to this land which Thou hast malt., So fair and free and strong, God of our fathers! lend Thine To war against the wrong; For false and feeble is the sword Unsheathed in tyrant might. But. if our cause be righteous. Lord, Thou wilt defend the right — Tunett.