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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 3

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NOTES. Surgt.-Major iMwiade reports that the enrollments in New L'iymouth o date for 'the supplementary expedilion--1 ary force number 101. Enrolments uiro stiJl c-oni.n" in. I' Mrs. T. Parker, of Egmont road, has handed tu £ll l(Ji» lid, u.e rofita of tile [ recent plain awl fancy dress toll organised % the ladies oi What read. The money is to be devo'ted to the Poor in Belgium Fund, and ha-; been handed to the treasurer of the vented! fu" ' The ladies of E°jmont road .ire to be congratulated on the smx-i-isful outcome of their efforts.

A FALLEN .MONARCH. London, Sept. I!).—The Emperor of Germany was declared insane by four of the most famous medical experts, and has been confined in a padded cell, in the noted asylum of 'Tolnev Hatch."— Daily News, September 20, 1915.

William of Germany sat one night in the depths of a padded cell, Gently stroking his fair moustache, when lie suddenly said, "Ah, well, If I hadn't been such" a confounded fool and wanted so much to light I might have been the Emperor of Germany still, and not in this cell tonight.

"Oh, why did I make such an ass of myself and try to tackle three, When I might have known, if I'd only thought, that one was enough for me?" Then he waved his arms in great distress and pulled his royal mo', But lunatics always act that way—it's for ever and ever so.

Then he thought of the days of long ago when he was Emperor Bill, With millions of Teuton subjects to bow to his royal will. So he cursed aloud in his great despair and started to rave and jump, Till the warders ail came running along to see Bill off las chump.

But there he'll sit till the crack of doom, alone with his royal mo', Singing in German that old refrain, "I'm liatmy, don't yer know." And when at last he turns it up, he'll have to take his turn, And for all the misery caused on earth he'll have to fizz and burn.

There's a moral to this story, friends, A moral meant for all. If you want to succeed by ambition and greed And reach that pinnacle tall. Just follow the step of Germany's Bill, To see how far you can fall. For there was never a man or nation yet That tried to subdue the world But back from the heights of ambition and pride .Straight back to tile earth was hurled. —H.J.E. Koni. Sept. 25.

BIUTISII FLEET INCREASING. The .Secretary of State for the Colonies recently announced that no fewer thai 12 tirst-elass ships will be joining the British Navy within the next 12 months. This must mean that the Britiwi Ultlcfhips which were to have bcejj finished in October, 1015, will have been so pressed on with as to be fit to join the fleet at least a month before tliey were due fur their trials. The following is the list of 13 first-class ships which would have joined in the ordinary course by tile end of next year:—Battleships: Emperor of India, Benbow (both 20,400 tons, knots, ten U.jin. guns), Queen kliz&bctii, Warspite, Valiant. liarham, Malaya leach 27,501) tons, 25 knots, and eight of the new loin suns), ltoval Sovereign, Ko.al Oak, Ke.-olution, Kamillies, Kenown (each 20,000 tons. 22'/, knots, ten l")in guns). This makes 12~ battleships ten with the new guns. The cruiser Tiger—'2S,OUO tons, eight 1.1.0 in j/nn-., and reaching the enormous figure or I HMXJu-horsc-power, which should give her something far above liO knots—is also .-1,,,, to join the licet. These ships enormously increase the strength of the bat tie 11, .el; (iermany will not possess one ship with a gun larger than 12in until the end of next year at the earliest. The first-class ships which the Cennans will have ready within til" next rear are probably the battleships .Uarkgraf mid Crosscr Kurfurst—if these are not abvady in the licet—and tile unnamed battleship and battle-cruiser- to replace the old Brandenburg and the Kaiserin Augusta—which were to be ready in April of next year. It mav be taken for certain that the great cruiser D.'ifl'linger h already commissioned. If the Markgrat" and the Grosser Kurfurst are already with the Cerman fleet—as they should be--then the Admiralty must be expecting the Cerman battleships which should not be finished before the middle of ISMii to be rushed through at an caspeed.

DATES AND M'ATKF. The cul)].' tells us that tinfiKilter* in the campaign in France are '' t'l" gallant African natives, wlio liv on dates anil water. Whether tile fact that they have not cultivated an appetite for flesh food and alcoholic stimulant has created in them a greater amount of nerve and muscle than ia to he fouuil in the white man iii a mat-

mj and Austrian troops to know that a.diet of dates iin'd water is more wholesome than horseflesh ami lager beer. The announcement made by en. '■■■■ no:, »ve apprehend, cause a slump in the market for frozen meat. Dates and water may be really food material from which to construct reekless lighters. We want to educate the people to a diet which will make for a world of peaceful, law-abiding subjects. In iiiis connection, good New Zealand lamb should have a wholesome and civilising effect. There is nothing so docile as t.n-. iinili, and as for our butter and cheese, well, it is good stuff to fight on, though it lias not jet been known to arouse thu homicidal passions.—Wairarapa Age.

CLORY OF RHEIMS. Tin; Cathedral was the glory of Rheims. On its site was the basilica where Clovis was baptised. The old basilica fell into ruins and another church was erected, and this, in 12tl, was burin J. Then the Cathedral of Notre Dame was built —it was completed by the end of the century—and in it were crowned the Kings of France. So magnificent was the building and so great its historical and architectural interest, that in 1875, when repairs were necessary, the. sum of £89,000 was voted for the restoration of th» - rpu. ®«U ua.ustrau. i. jacaue was one of the most perfect masterpieces of the Middle Ages, a glorious piece of arcuitecture, decorated -with numerous statues. Indeed, there was a profusion of statues both within and without. The windows were of rare magnificence, filled as they were with stained glass of the century. Beautiful tapestries and paj ltin Ks added to the wealth of decoration. No was to save the beautiful and ancient that the city—selected as one of the pube fortified after 1871—was given up to the Germans when the Allies retreated from the Aisne. But the tide of war has swept hack, and the Cathedral of Rheims lies in ruins.

FACING THE CAVA-TjR.Y. In spite of all tile prophecies made in exncrience in the "Utile wars" of modern tiincfi, the tirst big war lias shown that 'hand-to-hand iiglhting, (bayonet rushes, cavalry charges, are not th.'iiitrs of tile jKb.ll when great armies face one (mother in deadly eariK'st. Somehow cavalry i/iha.rgtfe never had thie terror for Uritialh infaiuirv wMi they .seem to pos•csa for the infantry of otter nations. Ait. the kittle of Alexandria in 1801, the Black Watch was caught by French cav'akv in an apparently hopeless -osit.ion. It was in line, and in a rather muddled line at tlhut. A : t this ipaiitiicu'lar awkward moment a body of French cavalry charged down upon. it. 'Win inen irol.ed" into little groups of any shape—what Mr. Itudyard Ki|pUin<* ealtt formations of the 'diseased aiioe cluaip'' orde.r—land for Ihree-quaiHers of an hour the cavalry drairged them ill vain. Fourteen years (later at Quatro Bras, the 44th Essex, Regiment was caugwt whilst it was deployiwig into two rants. A ma.93 of French cavalry anooaieu suddenly at one end of tlhe line and tmreatencd to roll it itp from to end. v.". command was simply given—''itear rank, 'right about face." And there, in j lino, the 4-tUi .received with sulcccss the attack of the finest cava'J'ry in the : world, both in front and ki tile rear." I

M. BRIANI/3 !PKOT!IECY. When the Britis'li Government decided to take up arms against Germany, M. Briand, the former Premier of France, expressed his enthusiasm at the mews." "I never doubted her loyalty," he said, "and I have constantly said so to doubtins: friends during the last few days. It makes mo proud 4o thing that' 1 started the three years' service movement, and that it was on any initiative tlhat the general staffs of the. English and French. Armies 'began to lixchtuijre views and co-operate. The French Navy is in a splendid condition. I worked for eighteen m'ontlis with Admiral Boue do Lapeyrere When he reorganised it, and 1 know what magnificent results he achieved." When a correspondent of a London paper 'told M. Briand that lie was going to join tile army at the front, M. Briand Eaid: "I envy you. I'ou will see great French victories."

IWIUT THE WiAJt MAY LHAI) TO. A)n interesting view of Hie turn events may take .is a result of the war was rccenUv expressed by Sir Arthur Quil'Jer Coudh, the well-known; -writer. In tlie course of an interview lie sn.id; "We do nut want war, anil neither do tlie German people. What tihis crista is "oing to raise in the end is the question whether in future Uhepeopte who are interested and have to suffer in wars are going to diet-ate when war shall be made, or whether it is going to be left to the old-fashioned apparatus of Enipcrauj and Chancellors. Tlilat question is bound to be raised, however this 'business turns out. I do not think the War Lords of Europe co;;". 1 ! ifeyed at waiter into ihe tjiantla of the Continental Socialist.-, who nhsoru-tely have the -people ibehind them. 1 am not a socialist, but I bdlieve thinking people will 'be with them on tin.-; pa-rt'k'.u) : ar question."

LORD ROBERTS' "OLD ERIEMD." With tllie contingents from tlie Indian native States goes one of the keenest and finewt old mite that any race in t!ho. world can boa-! of—Major-O.ene-ml I'erttab Singhji, the Regent of the Indian Wtate of Jodh.j>ur. Sir I'ertab Simghji is CO, (but lie is one of those men who wou(! ! d bo more vigorous at 70 than others are at 50. flic" did great 'work in tlie little -State which his older brother inviltcd hiimi to control, lit: reformed every department of the Covenmnen't. su'pipresaud crime, and robbery, built railiw,T\s', contstruCU-d IwigatiotH. The famine, front which tin- -Stole periodically sull'ereredi lost its terrors. The keen soldier, wlio had aided «o -vigorousl.'y as Regent, wa.s allowed to go as A.D.C. to (.'en'nral Elfe in tin- Mohiiirind Expedition in ISD7, and (o -S(ir AY. Loekhctirt in the Tinih ciuniptiiftn 'in 1898, where lie wlas wounded ami lii« services mcnitioned in despakilii -. The hist service he riw was with the Jodhpur troop--», whom he commaauled wit!li the British force in China. An upright, strong, straight-living man, the very soul of honor, foe hai-;, gained himself a welcome in any English gathering -in India. Ho is own whom Lord Roberts saw ifi-t to shake. Irv the hand tmid address, wil.li the feeling of a Ifife-'long friendship behind tho word, :is "old 1 friend." Despite his years, there is not a finer soldier ill tiio world Hum this grand old warrior.

A DISOR('iAXISKD CfTV. Knirland can hardly realise what mobilisation means in a country where l , under conscription, practically every man lias a place under the colors in an emergency like this. One after another the tram's were stopped; there was nobody to work ihem. The motor 'buses went straight to their parages to bo lianded over to the military authorities; taxi-drivers

waiterß took off their aprons and 'flurried out. Shops will have to close by i the thousand, because no workers will be left, the home distribution of 'bread, milk and necessaries of life will perforce suddenly cease. Tlio whole force behind the everyday ilfe of the capital was disorganised by the stroke of a pen. BUE1; IN THE AIR. BELGIAN AND GERMAN. Writing from Liege on August 5, the special correspondent of the London Standard gave a brief but thrilling account of the aerial battle between a German and a Belgian aviator, reference to which was made in the cablegrams. A desperate tight in mid-air between ' a German and Belgian aviator was one of the stirring incidents connected with the German invasion of Belgium, said the correspondent. A German aeroplane was sighted near Ropinater, between Verviers and the frontier, and a Belgian aviator, M. Fornau, rose to'light an aerial duel with the invader. When he reached the same altitude as the stranger he noticed that the latter was a Ger m "" , —• j una imißcijalely attacked him. For 20 Inimitcs tiie two rival tvirinen tried to destroy one another'; manoeuvring for the upper position and exchanging revolver shots. Several tinjes the Belgian endeavored to ram his' opponent, obviously ready to sacrifice his own life to destroy the German, but the invader was able to avoid the collision, and finally planed to the ground. The Belgian also alighted about a quarter of a mile distant, but the officer was rescued and escorted home by a i squadron German cavalry engaged in scouting operatu,^-