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blends , in sealed packets Author of "All for a Scrap of Paper." Life." etc, CHAPTER IV.â€"â€"(Cont‘d.) ' They spent all the my t in the troop-train, which was crow ed almost to suffocation. Where they were go- ing they didn’t now, scarcely cared. Sometimes they were drawn up to a siding where they would stay for: hours, then the train crawled on again. Presently the morning broke and Tom saw a flat and what seemed to him, after Surrey, an uninteresting piece of country.‘ Everything was strange to him, even the trees looked different fr In those he had seen in Surrey. Oh will on the train crawled, until preâ€" sently they had orders to alight. It was now early morning, and after breakfast they were formed in march- ing'order. Tom took but little notice of the country through which they marched, except that they were on a straight road, which was paved in the middle. As the day advanced the sun grew hot and scorching, but the men marched on uncomplainingly; there was little merriment, but much thought. Presently noon came, and again they stopped for‘food, after which there was anoth ' march. By this time Tom realised t at he was in- deed in the zone of war. He saw; what looked to him miles of motor: wagons" filled with food and muniâ€"l tionsLnL‘mbers of ambulance waggons, marked with the Red Cross. More than one body of horse soldiers paSsedll him, and again he saw numbers of} men bivouacked near him; but every-j where there were soldiers; soldiers; Tom could not understand it, it was‘ all so different from what he expectâ€"l ed, neither could he (see any order orl purpose in that which was taking. place around him. There was acticity‘ and movement everywhere, but he] ould oâ€"ordinate nothing, he wasl imply bewildered. 1 Towards evening there was anoth-" er resting-time, and each man gladly threw himself full length on the grass, For a moment there was a silence” then Tom heard a sound 'which gaveI him a sickening sensation; he felt a. sinking, too, at the pit of his stomach: it was the boom, boom, boom of guns.i “Look at yon’ airship in the sky!”l .cried one of the men. Each eye was turned towards it, then they heardthe boom of guns again, after which there were sheets of fire around the aeroplane, and afterwards little clouds of smoke formed themselves. , “I am getting near at last,” thought Tom. ‘I wonder nowâ€"I wonderâ€"4’ l 1 CHAPTER V. V , Tom discovered presently that his‘ destination was the Ypres salient, one of the most “unhealthy” places, to use the term in favor among the soldiers,‘ ‘ in the whole of the English battle line.‘ Here the most tremendous battle ever- fought in our British Army took place‘ â€"indeed, one of the most tremendous- battles in the history of the world. A ‘sergeant who was in a garrulous mood described it to Tom with a great deal‘ of spirit. { “Yes,” he said, “you have come to' an unhealthy spot; still itniay be good for you. The blessed Huns thought they were going to break through here about last September when the? battle of Wipers was fought. They} had six hundred thousand men to our hundred and fifty thousand. Then that blooming Kaiser made up his mind that he would break through our lines, and get to Calais. Yes, it was a touch and go with us. Fancy four to one, and they had all the adVantage‘ in big guns and ammunition. You‘ think those big guns? Wait till you’ have heard Jack Johnson and Blackl Maria. Talk about hell! Hell was‘ never as bad as the battle of Wipers.‘ I thought we were licked once. I was in the part where our line was the thinnest, and we saw ’em coming to- wards us in crowds; there seemed to be millions of ‘em; we had to rake out every cook and bottle-washer on the show. Lots of our men were fresh to the job, too, and had never smelt powder. or felt the touch of steel. But, by gosh, we let :‘em knowl. Four to one, my boy. and'wc licked] ’cm, in spite, of their lig gun , and their boasting. Aren‘t you proud ofj being a British Tommy ‘2" 1 Tom listened with wide, staringv eyes and compressed lips. There. within a mile or two of the battle liner could picture all of which thei spoke. he seru’e ant ted along this brown black smoke. All around him our guns were booming. while the distant sounds of the German guns reached him. very leaf is i full of its natural deliciou'sness. only. Published by Hoddcr & Stoughton. Limited. London and Toronto ‘higher and higher and then dropped ‘ every day, but not so much as there As he looked he! could discern too. here and there. dotâ€"i hnev CIOUdS 0f ‘ earth make in a day? l teacher. lpiper.” resh, fragrant Sold 3 107 “Deni-er Than 7." “Ay. it's a bit unhealthy." went on: the sergeant, “but you will get usedl to it after a bit. There, hear that?” Tom listened and heard the scream- ing of a shell in the air; the note it made was at first low, but it rose again. “When the note gets to about B flat,” said the sergeant, “you may know it’s soon going to fall, and as soon as it has touched the ground the shell bursts and tears a big hole up.” “Are many killed?" asked Tom. “Ay, there’s a good lot of casualties was at the second battle of Wipers. That was fair terrible. You see, the Germans could not drive us back nor break our lines. That was why they started bombarding the city. I was here and saw it. Man? you should have heard the women screaming, and seen the people flying for their lives. Whole streets of houses were burning, and all the time shells were falling and blirsting. How many people were killed here God only knows, but there must have been hundreds of women and ch'ldren. But what did those dirty swine of Germans care! They could not break our lines, and they had lost a hundred and fifty thousand men, so they turned their big guns upon the city. ‘We can kill Belgian women and children, anyhow,‘ they said, ‘and we can smash up the old town.’ Are you a bit jumpy ?" “No n=nâ€"no;-â€"â€"that is, a bit,” said Tom. \ 3 “0t, its quite quiet now," replied the sergeant. “I will walk through with you if you like and show you round. This is the great square; one of the biggest in the world. I saw it before it was bombarded; the Cath- edral and the Cloth Hall were just wonderful; see what they are now! knocked into smithereens. See the trees around, how they are twisted and burnt? That house there I saw shell- ed myself. hadgot a bit used to the shelling y that time, but I tell you it gave me a turn. It was the biggest house in 'the Square, and a great bomb caught it fair in the face; it seemed as though the whole world was shaking, and the noise fair deaf- ened you. The house went down as though it were cardboard, and other houses around fell as though to keep it company, while others caught fire. Ay, they're sweet creatures, are those German swine.” “Doan’t you hate ’em 7” asked Tom. “Hate ’em?” aid the sergeant; “well, I don’t kno . Mind you, they are fine soldiers, and brave men too, or at least they seem brave; but it’s discipline does it. They are just like machinery. Once when I was right in the middle of it, they attacked inl close formation, and we turned our machine-guns on ’em.. Ever seen ai mowing machine in a wheat field'I. ever seen the wheat fall before the' knives? Well, that's how they fell.5 Hundreds upon hundreds; but still, they came on. Just as fast as one lotl was killed, the others, knowing that they were going to certain death,‘ came on, thinking they would Wear us. down by sheer numbers.” “Did they?” asked Tom, 1 “No, that time they didn't," replied, the sergeant, “but another scrap I‘ was in they did. That is their plan,‘ you know; it is terribly costly, but‘ when it succeeds it works havoc.” I “Have you been wounded at all?” asked Torn . (To be continued.) 0 Use of Rice in United States. The increasingly important part1 rice is playingfin feeding the people of, lhe United States is shown in figures“ just compiled by the United States, Food Administration. The production for 1914-1915 amounted to l,064,205,-§ 000 pounds, with a per capita con-j sumption of 11.34 pounds. This wasl increased in the 1916-1917 crop to l,-' 831,590,000 pounds, with a per capita’ consumption of 17.33 pounds. The large increase in consumption during the past year undoubtedly has direct, relation to the high price of potatoes and wheat. The rice crop of India for the past year showed an increase of 1.255.000 tons. revolutions docs It‘s your turn. “You can't tell. the morning "How many Willie Smith.“ till you see Only Fine, Flavoury Teas { l 'deal has been learned by the British ‘For instance: Why did the ratio the , lNSANlTY or [Join crews ONE FACTOR IN THE TERRIBLE STRUGGLE. German Man Power Waning and Need of Repairs Hampers Sub- ngarine Fleet. submarinings were A great Unrestricted started seven months ago. in that period, writes a London correâ€", spondent. A review of the life and death struggle which has been in pro- grcss suggests interesting questions. of shipping losses show a great reduction’ during the season of long days, clear, skies and bright moonlight? Vv'hyl were German expectations so disapâ€" pointed hy the results of U-boat warâ€" fare during the Slimmer that a politiâ€" cal crisis in Germany was producod? There is no doubt that the Gcr~ mans are turning out new submarines faster tliai the Allies are destroying them. Despite this, there are fewer submarines out in the fighting areas than three months ago. Probably not all the reasons for this state of affairs are known. Some of them have been made clear. Manning submarines, with efficient crews is a hard task. Underwater} cruising is a nerve racking business, for men and officers alike. The com-‘ mander. never goes to his conning} tower without the realization that it may be shot away with him in it.‘. The men know that when their boat”t dives it may never come up again. ii “Mystery Ships." There is no sleep, no rest, no 1"elax‘â€" ation of strain from the moment the cruiseflbegins. Competent authorities believe the Germans confront a hard- er task in manning than they do .in building submarines. ' . ' A considerable number of submarine creWS have,been captured and sent to prison camps in- England. I am. not permitted to tell the proportion of these men who have shortly gone. stark mad; but it is such as to testify eloquently to the horrors of their work. » . Everybody has read about the “mystery ships" which have been sent out from British ports in great numâ€". bers. They look like merchantmen, sail the courses of merchantmen, and appear to the submarine commander,- observing through a periscope, to be easy marks. But they are anything else. l By the time Herr Submarine Com- mander gets within comfortable range to take a sure shot the mystery ship. has unmasked a bristling array of guns, big and little, and expert naval gunners are churning the whole sur- face around the submarine with shells. ' There’s only one thing for the sub- marine to do, and that‘s to dive in- stantly, and it is lucky if it is quick enough. V Men and U-Boats Strained. Between the mystery ships, which are peculiarly dangerous because any recklessness in dealing with them is likely to result fatally, and the flocks of destroyers that nowadays invest the areas where the submarines do most of their work things are‘ de- cidedly. lively for the submarine com- mander and his crew. The ideal subâ€", marine commanderxwas described the1 other day by an officer of large experi- ence in the danger zones as “a man who hasn’t any nerves, "who in all circumstances can be relied on tovact without stopping to think. He mustn’tl stop to think. He must perform in- sta’ntly and must do the right thing. “To command one of these mystery ships is about the hardest task that .is put up to a captain nowadays," the. officer went on. “It can be imagined what a nerve destroying time he puts i . Yet his occupation is not to be compared for sheer constant, man kill- .many, but this is‘largely conjecture. Seems a very large number of cups to get from a pound of tea. But 250 m that proves the fine quality of Red Rose Tea, which goes further and tastes better because it consists chiefly of rich, strong teas grown in the famous district of Assam in Northern India. A pound of Red Rose giv‘es 250 cups. Kept Good by the Sealed Package ing strain to that of the submarineion the shipyards for the repair of commander 0“ a Cl‘llise- Y{Chink there . old vessels. All these elements enter are still two or three commanders of ‘ into any computation dealing with the mystery ships in continuous service Germaus' capacity to carry on the after five months of it; the rest Of’sulnnarine \varfal-e indefinitely and them break down and have to take;their chances of making it successful. long leaves. 1 o “If it wears out the men who have the easier task at such a rate as this it is not hard to understand the effect on submarine officers. Their men beâ€" come unmanageable, and the ofllcers have to be taken’ out of the service after a strictly limited perior.” Life of U-Boat is Short. Another difficulty that the Germans more and more experience is in keep- ing the submarines in good order. A submarine is an extremely delicate contrivance. No other vessel is sub- jected to the hard and continuous wear which it must live through. The working life of a submarine is one Krupp munition maker with his necessarily short, and when it is in bloodv Shot and she“ port it.reguires Emile-55 attention. aiKnows more about damnation than all complete overhauling and restoration. the imns of Hell- “ AS tfsefvessels gm” 01“? the requtre‘ I Give my job to Kaiser Bill, for to Fer- men or repairs com‘pe them to s ay dinand the Tsar, longer and longer in. port. That is‘yolr to Sultan Abdul, Hamid, or exacay what is making trouble for . . Such man of war. lhe Gehmiin naval aumorltles now.” Itll hate to leave the old home, the spot is posmble that a further complica- I love so we“. tion is presented by the difficulty o’fiBut I feel that Pm not up to date in getting certain/materials, into Ger- r the glut of running Hell, I - ' ‘1 ' m x The decreasing efficiency of ‘ thel And the Dew Spat a squlrt of Stea . . . , at a brimstone, bumble bee, oldersubmarines together With the ‘zlAnd: mutteredr “Fm outclassed by the almost impossibility of finding skilled‘i Hohenzonern deviltryf, crews fast enough is supposed to ac- .: . - ’ count inzthe main for the fact that\ Make your money‘work for yourself With 2} larger number 0f “bmarmes 'and for your country by buying a war at their disposal the Germans are not bond‘ ‘ . I, M . able to keep so many on the fighting; line as formerly; Thus it may be said that while they have more submarines with every monthfâ€"it is understood that they are turning out about a dozen of them monthlyâ€"the wear and, tear .is so great that the increasedl number are not able to cover as many: miles or spend as many days cruising as the smaller number of new ves- selsiormerly in the service. Limits to Submarine Warfare. There are some pretty distinct limâ€" its to the capacity for producing, manâ€" ning and upkeeping submarines. Deâ€" spite the fact that some German authorities have tried to give the imâ€" pression that a general building pro-I gramme involving both warships and merchant vessels is being carried on in Germany, the best information is that nearly all the maritime construcâ€" SATAN QUITS HIS JOB. The Devil sat by the lake of fire on a pile of sulphur kegs; His head was bowed upon his breast, his tail between his legs. 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