War Notes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 120, 14 October 1914, Page 7

War Notes.

THE MAX WHO KEEPS HIS HEAD. There's a man who fights for England, and' he'll keep her still atop. He will guard her from dishonor in the market and the shop. He will save.her homes from terror on the fields of Daily Bread. Go's the man who sticks to business, he'd the man who keeps his head. Let tho foe who strikes at England near I her wheels of commerce turn, ' Let the ships that war with England see her factory furnace burn; For the foe most fears the cannon, and [ his heart most quails with dread. ''When behind the man k in khaki is the ~' man who keeps hi* head. Brand him traitor and assassin who with miser's coward mood Has his gold looked up in secret, and.his larders stored with food, Who has cast adrift his workers, who lies sweating in Jtia ted; who snarls, to hear the laughter of the man who keeps his head. Let the poor man teach the rich man, for the poor man's constant strife Is from day to day to seek work, day by day to war with life, Aid the poor man's home hangs ever I by a frail and) brittle thread, And the poor man's often hungry, but the poor man keeps his hea<j. When tho ships come back from slaughter and the troops march home from war, When the* havoc strewn behind ua threads the road that lies before. ■ ! Every hero Shall be welcomed, every orphan shall be fed, By the man who stuck to business, by ' the man who kept his head. —Harold Bcgbie. il THE 6TORY OF THB GOEJJEN.

The story of the escape of the Gorman j tattle-cruiser Goeben and her consort, I the light cruiser Brcslau, ha* not yet J •buen told fully, hut accounts published j i» the 1-iondon newspapers make it fairly clear Vhat the two Gtrpian boat; did not distinguish themselves during tin: In ief period that ela.ps.id foetwein the outbreak of war and their flight tilnouyli the Dardanelles 'into Turkish watera, where they passed lamelyi into >.ie (bunds tof the Turks. 'HVhun the two German -ships were hiding the Italian shores," Bays the London Daily Chronicle, "(i French aimy corps was being transported from Africa to Fiance and the liritish ships, being allotted the duty of warding oil' any sort of interference with this all-important uperation. were ossified a position betwceji I'Laly ami t'lio line of ur&nsportation. Tho German warships -must have wondered ■why they were left alone, although the r iplncky Gloucester got a smack at the j Jsresla.il, and would hava sunk or cap- ! tuTed hor dud not the big Gtoeben hurried tic the rcucue." The operation of I conveyiimr l3ie IVe.nch army corps from i Africa to France having bttm most'successful l|y- completed, the British ships in the Mediterranean were free to search for the German vteoels, whkli had l taken refuge among the Greek islands. But tuc effort to bring the Goebcn and tGie Brj'slUu to hattle was not successful. "Our fjliips, scattering, searched for them, 'but it was li!ke looking, for a needle in a bundle of ihay," says the Daily Chronicle. "Interroptcd massages prcnently proven that tin ire was some kind of ecent and hiß Majesty's ship Gloucester and soma destroyer.; got in touch with therm But tilie'Uooiien and Brcslati 'knew that they were dkeover(d, and they fled] in a very prudent fashion, believing that our whole fleet vtob sit Uhe-ir he*.l», whereas, only small vessels, whioh they could have shattered and dropped to the hottom of the sea. were after them with hulldo;; temper and tenacity. The purpose of capture was baffliil Vi the German',, entrance into the Dardanelles. Before this, Jwwcver, the Goeben is said to have been (liven an opportunity, which she rejected, of single comlbat with one of our Wg ships." The Goeben and the. Breslau would have faced* certain defeat if tlliey had give* battle to the British shine, Imt they certainly would have been alule to inflict serere. damage on Uieir pursuers. Their commanders chose the less hfffoic path. Apparently it was nwt their conception, of duty to faec grea,t odds ajtd go daw* wili colors flyir.g.

EXCELLENT TAiRJGEIK v The ErencM officer* whose glittering mi«a-eovcr«a ma.p-easea make theon- cstelleirt taigete for th« eaemy'3 fire, fl.» described in recent eaHograniß, are onJy now leamuj Ue lessons that the

. MAP SHOWING *HE E USSIAN CAMPAIGN,

Britislh troops profited by after sad experience ill the Boer war. A New Zealand! soldier who commanded a contingent i'in South Africa had an interestingly pea'ilous illustration of the danger that lies in bright things on a sunny ,day in the field. His regiment was skirmkhiing on a range of rocky hills with a etatong Boe.T force, and he quijkly dio«»vered as he sat on a kopje watching the enemy through his field-glasses that he was drawing a. ihot lire, i A bullet grazed hiß boot and another struck a rook by lus head. He, eooii 'realised, after casting round, like tie old! campaigner that he was, far the «netey's taTget, that it was the flash of his binloculars tliat singled (hijn out for the sharpshooters on ,lii« opposite hill. Therein lies the value of a front shade or hcod for fieklglasses, a little, matter that may mean the difference between life and death in, the field of l»ttl«.

FEATURES OF ANTWERP. All picture-lovers know of the proud position which Antwerp holds in the history of art, and the association, of Reubens, Van Dyck, JordaauM and tSi-e Tenieißr ■with the city. The la.rfto Reubens, pictures an the cathedral have given tikis fine (building e. World-wide refutation. These Jaaetcrpieceo of the great Flemish painter, who "amused himself by being an ambassador" at the Court of St. Janeo', arc a priceless possesion to the Belgian peoplo. Antwerp takes ite name from a town which in d<>ankish times marked the site of. the. city. This castle was built to nrotect tflie entrance of the Scheldt, and to prevent foreign traders introducing gofods into the country without paying ■lioll to the sovereign lord. The penalty for theft and smuggling was in those days-the cutting off of a hand, and, as in this case, the severed members were thrown into the Scheldt, itOie castle came to bo known op Andihuacrbo (or, in Flemish, Antiwerpen), "the place of hand-throwing." The castle and two severed hands appear on the city arms to this day. Margins of Antwerp is one of the titles of the Emperor of Austria,