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4 ! T— KITCHENER’S LIFE a big army and supplying munitions Its ruthlessness. . It was charged at the same time was too great a task Kitchener trampled on hts foes In an for one man. The. discussion devel- j almost barbarous manner. • ifarnfcltoi it ‘unnrtiiirnf ■ tik "' . . b (abinet and the creation of the new| ever, he was generous enough to ask HERO OF KHARTUM HAD DECORD OF ILLUSTRIOUS SERVICE . GREAT ENGLISH SOLDIER portfolio of minister of munitions, of which David Lloyd-George took charge, .while Kitchener remained as war minister. Without his crowding achieve- his countrymen to found a college at Khartum wherein the sons of the dervish chiefs he had fought and overwhelmed might be educated in the knowledge of the West, a request ments as the. great organizer of the that met with such response among British campaign in the European Lthe British people that the fund re war, Kitchener had already won wide quired was far oversubscribed. -Masterful Man Was Best Organizer' in British Empire—Fought Many Campaigns in Egypt, India and South Africa—Genius Was * Uni versally Recognized. ^ Earl Kitchener was appointed sec retary of state for war on August 8, 1914, a few days after Great Brit ain’s declaration of war on Germany. He was regarded as England’s grept ; est soldier, and the decision of the government to entrust him with su preme direction of the war was re ceived with unanimous approval. As the war progressed and Great Britain’s deficiencies in certain di rections, particularly in regard to the shortage of artillery ammunition, be came apparent, Earl, Kitchener was subjected to severe criticism, led by Lord Northcliffe. The secretary was charged with responsibility-for fail ure to forsee the extraordinary de mand for heavy, shells and as a re sult the ministery of munitions was formed with David Lloyd-George as its head. Earl Kitchener’s responsibilities were further lessened by the appoint ment of Gen. Sir William Robertson as chief of the imperial staff in De cember of last year. It was reported at that time that friction had arisen between Earl Kitchener and Field Marshal French, then in command of the British forces in France. Shortly after the appointment of Gen. Rob ertson,* Field Marshal French relin- juished his command, ^fclotwithstanding the criticism di rected pgalnst Earl Kitchener his great accetm)lishments during the war are recognized universally. Foremost of his achievements is the creation from England's untrained manhood dr a 'Huge army. At the beginning of the war Great Britain had only a few hundred thou- sand trained men. Today more than ft.000,000 ' men are enrolled for the various branches of the service. All other great powers that enter ed the war had huge standing armies and compulsory military service. Great Britain alone faced the issue with confidence that its people would readily respond to the call of king and country without compulsion, and the precipitous developments that led to the war found both the people and the government unanimous in the verdict that Kitchener of Khartum was the man to lead in the recruiting and organization of the necessary army. It was not a sentimental clamor, for though Kitchener was a proved hero of many campaigns, his person ality was as Impenetrable as harden ed steel, end he was not a hero that and lasting fame by his many cam- paignsjn Egypt, South Africa and in India. \ He was born June 24, 1850, in County Kerry, Ireland,, a fact that gave rise to a general, belief that he was of Irish blood, but his parents were of French and English descent. His father was a soldier; but of no very high rank. He had managed to climb to the Heutemyit colonelcy of a dragoon regiment, when he retired to the estate in Ireland where Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the to-be-distin guished son, was born. Young Kitchener received his fun T damental military education at Wool wich, w : her.e he displayed only, ordi nary brilliancy, with .the exception of his liking for mathematics. On graduating he received a comihission in the Royal Engineers, but when not yet 21 years of age he attached him self to a French army in the Franco- Prussian war. He had'been in the service only a short time when he contracted pneu monia during a balloon flight, and had such a prolonged and serious ill ness that he had to give up further service for France. Kitchener’s ex perience in European warfare—prior to his direction of the great war of 1914—therefore, had been limited only to a few balloon flights in France. In 1874 when a British expedition was sent out to survey western Pales tine, Kitchener was one of the eager volunteers accepted for this service. For months he traveled over the hills and valleys of this peaceable Bible land with the thcodite and survey ing tape, and with^his life in the open he grew to be a tall, gaunt sub altern with a hard face well burn ed. His contribution to the topogra- completed, young Kitchener was sent to Cyprus, which Great Britain had Just acquired to organize a system of courts, a work in which he displayed administrative ability arid tact. It was while there, in -1882, that he took his first step on the path that waa to- lead him erentiialty to Khar tum. Trouble was already brewing Ip the Sudan. Hearing that the Egyptian army was being organized by Sir Evelyn Wqod, young Kitchen er saw his opportunity with unerring Instinct and' lost no time in offering his services. The military authorities, recogniz ing at once his Insight into the na tive character, put him In the intelli gence department, and from the very outset of his Egyptlon career pego- 1^ GERMANS GAIN ONE MILE HEADQUARTERS TELL OF EVAC UATION OF NEW POSITIONS For his triumph in the Sudan he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartum, .and received the thanks of parliament and a grant of $150,000. Shortly afterward he was promoted to lieutenant general and then chief of staff to Lord Rob erts in the South African wah, and on Lord Roberts’ return to England in .November, 1910, succeeded him as commander-in-chief in that field. By constructing s 3,500 mile chain of block houses he stopped the Boer raids and virtually ended the war in South Africa. This added to his pop ularity ajid -prestige at home, and he was rewarded by the title of vis count, promotion to the rank of gen eral for distinguished services, the thanks of the parliament and a grant of $250,000. Immediately after the peace Gen. Kitchener went to -India as com- mandeij n-chief of the British forces there, and this position, which he held for seven years, he carried out not qhly many far-reaching adminis trative reforms but a complete re organization and strategical redistri bution of the British and native forces. On leaving India in 1909 he was promoted to field marshal and ap pointed commander-ln-chief and high commissioner in the Mediterranean, and later on took a tour of inspec tion of the forces of the entire em pire, drawing up a scheme of defense of the overseas dominions. He then returned to Egypt, the scene of his first triumph, in the capacity of British agent and consul general in Cairo—virtually a gover nor generalship of Egypt—and led In the economical development of the country, building new roads and irri gation projects on a large scale. During all the years the British people had looked on Kitchener's silent, but effictlve work, they had never been able-to falbum hia..per? sonaltty. A cockney non-commission ed officer, who had seen much ser vice under him, summed up the gen- arol opinion when he said pf Ktfr chener:** - ' ■■ ** E’s no talker. Not ’im. ’E'- all steel and hlce.” His face was that of a man who neither asked for sympathy nor wanted it. He had steady, blue-gray passion less eyes, and a heavy mustach cov ered a mouth that shut close and firm like a wolf trap. He believed with all his might in the gospel of work. He had illimitable self-confl RUSSIANS RETAKE LUTSK 4* - - Strong Force Continues Victorious Drive and Recapture* Fortress of laitsk, Dressing Adversaries to the Westward—Germans Begin At tacks to lighten Pressure on Ally. _ Having recaptured Lutsk, one of the triangle forts in Volhynia, from the Austro-Hungarians, the Russians are pressing their adversaries west ward. In numerous places not only have the Russians gained the banks of the Ikwa and Styr rivers, but have crossed the streams and continue their offensive against their foes In the region of Kovel, midway be tween Lutsk and Brest-Lltovsk, and in the vicinity of Rovno, southeast of the fortress, the Russians have be gun actions against the Austro-Hun garians. • » Likewise in Galicia there has been no let-up in the Russian attacks against the soldiers of the dual mon archy, from whom they have cap tured along the lower reaches of the Stripa River heavily fortified posi tions. In the fighting the Russians have materially added to their pris oners and their stores of captured guns, machine guns and war mate rials. Considerable activity has been shown by the Germans against the Russians on the northern sections of the Russian front, where the Ger man guns have heavily bombarded the lines along the Dvina to the lake region south of Dvinsk and thrown infantry attacks against the Russian positions south of Smorgon. Ih this latter region the German report the capture of the village of Kunawa. but Petrograd asserts that all their attacks were repulsed. ' Petrograd reports: The capture of Lutsk, in Volhynia, and also of a series of • r »tr- 0 rT..n ? r ■ GERMAN FLEET FACED BRmSI BATTLE CRUISERS ONLY tlations of the utmost Important F ° r ^/^‘fee^ns pntnmfpH to him nnH po 1 ^ &S incapabl Of feeling were entrusted to him and carried out with invariable success. As an intelligence officer Kitchen er accompanied Sir Herbert Stewart’s hesert column on thu heroic but dis astrous enterprise known as the Gor don relief expedition—the relief of Gen Gordon from Khartum where he had been entangled during the evacu- could be loved;'even the war office atlowoTthe'SuIan Kitchener deep- had no pronounced liking for him,' i T took to heart the lessons of this but on all sides there was profound fiasco, with its failure of transport respect for his military efficiency and. and Intelligence departments, and for all he had done to extend the do-i avoided these troubles in the expedl- malns of the British empire. By more luck Kitchener happened to be In England on one of the com paratively rare visits that he had paid to Ixmdon during his long ca reer abroad, when the European war broke out. He had just come home from service as British agent in tions which he himself led nomel years later. In the meantime Kitchener was| employed in innumerable fights and raids against the dervishes or Mah-| (lists of southern Egypt. In 1886 he became governor of the Red Sea ter ritories and set in motion a series of sympathy or showing mercy: an offi cer who failed him once got no sec ond chance. He had a grim, laconic humor "What la your -tute in hairpins?' for Instance, is said to have been the buery with which he annihilated a dandified officer. He was indif ferent to popularity, particularly among women, and though feted all over the world in social circles, he never married. In 1910 he paid brief visit to the United States dur ing a trip around the world. At that time it came out in the New York papers that the great Kit chener was a "woman hater.” He took occasion to deny this and said the only reason he had never mar rled was because he believed a man could not be a good soldier and Egypt, had jccepted-an earldom from- raids on the notorious Osman Dlgna, good husband at the same time. King George and was being talked of as viceroy to India. Within a few hours after Eng land’s declaration of war. Kitchener was appointed secretary of state for war and immediately took full charge ftt the war office, where he worked day and night to overcome the handicap which the central pow ers had over England in the matter of fighting strength. - He grimly told the British people hey had a bigger war on their hands than they realized, and one' that might last longer than they expected, but it was to be faved with entire confidence, and he, unsmiling, almost like a dehumanized machine, set about to maze things hum. He had scarcely moved into White hall atr.eet when he made numerous changes in the personals of the war ofifee, which was said to be Honey combed with social and political fa voritism. After dispatching a few hundred thousand regulars to France and Bel gium to help check the onrushing Germans, the war secretary began re cruiting and organizing his army of millions. The British Isles were cov- ,ered with signs and posters urging 'young mpn to join the colors. Kitch ener went through the country super intending the drilling.of the army. ''rom time to time were reports in dicating.his failure to get the number of men he wanted, but within a year after the war opened Premier As quith officially annpunbed in parlia ment that about 3,000,000 men had enlisted in the United j Kingdom alone, and al.most another toillion'in the overseas dominions. Kitchener, however, was the object of no little criticism. There was much grumbling because of the strict cen sorship he imposed’ on newspapers and his utter disregard for war cor respondents. .Notwithstanding this, the British newspapers gave him ac tive support 'prior to May, l0l5. During the winter .months the war • secretary had announced the “big drive” would begin about May;IT The battle of Neuve Chapelle oc curred in May, and England believed this was the beginning of the big drive. Shortly afterward, reports reached England that the drive had halted, owing to a shortage of muni tions, especially" high explosive sheila. A section of the London prq?s jfhen dec’ared that Kitchener had made a quantities of shrapnel and fflfl(ftfl- cient High” explosives. Newspaper at- the dervish leader. In one of these] raids Kitchener’s men were flanked and put to flight, during which he received a bullet which broke his| jaw. By this time much was heard In I England of Kitchener’s work in Egypt and when he returned there for a short rest he was received with honor and nominated aide-de-camp of Queen Victoria. With his health recruited, tfe went back to Egypt where, on the resignation of Sir Francis Grenfell, he was appointed sirdar (commander) of the Egyptian army. His really great career dates] from that time. As an instance of the self-confl-] dence with which Kitchener under took his tasks in Egypt is recalled how he dealt with the war office as I few generals before him ever dared. On one occasion he sent home for a special kind of gun. The war office] The Orkney Islands, off which the Hampshire went down, are off the north coast of Scotland. The Hamp shire was on her way into the Allan tic and around the northern end of the Scandinavian peninsula into the White Sea. Earl Kitchener probably Intended to debark at Archangel. The Hampshire was one of the Devonshire class of sir cruisers. She was built in 1903, and normally car ried 655 men. She displaced 10,85 tons, was 450 feet long. 6814 fee! beam and drew 25*4 feet. She was armed with four 7.5-inch, six six inch, two 12-pound and 20 three- pound guns, and two torpedo tubes She cost $4,250,000 The Hampshire has been in ijre as a scout boat and for carrying off! cials on various missions, having am pie accommodations for the Utter purpose. She was too old to take suggested another kind. 1 The sirdar Place on the fighting line. When the repeated his orders. Next he was ] 8tar ted she was in the Far East informed that the war office guns had been forwarded, whereupon he dispatched a politely insolent mes sage home saying that he was very grateful, but the war office could keep its guns. His message read: “I can throw stones at the dervishes myself.” As a consequence, the guns he asked for were forwarded with out delay. The Kitchener campaign that end ed^ with the recapture of Khartum was considered by military experts as perfectly organized and faultlessly conducted. The Egyptian arms, that Kitchener had worked to such re markable efficiency was. when he first took charge of it, a band of un paid, unfed and undermined fella heen. It was, said to be an army “with out stomifth, heart or backbone,” but Kitchener worked_,over these helpless reeds of broken natives and made of them some of the finest of black bat talions. The fight of Oipdurman, Septem ber 2, 1898, just across the Nile from Khartum, was the greatest battle of Kitchener's time, in E^-pt. Osman Digna faced him with 50,00(L»Meh; dists, while he had but 20,000 men. When the battle was over, 1 1,000 of the Mahdists had been killed out right .Afi.fiOO wounded, and -LOGO taken prisoners, while the English and Egyptian loss was under 600 men. and was reported ’ to have been worsted in a fight with Germans in the south China Sea. She was one of the British squadron sent to tne Jamestown exposition WILSON PLANS PLATFORM serlmis mistake In- providing large- --With the capture of Khartuin, cap TffiT of the Sudan, which meant t»u re-establishment of British posses President is Drawing up Draft Important Party Declaration. President Wilson lias practically completed a draft of the platform to be submitted to the Democratic na tional convention. Tho principal plank, it is expected, will consist of a declaration of tho administration success in guarding the honor and interests of the United States and a: tho same time keeping the nation a peace. » SpedficaHyrthe-fpreigg‘atf3ftE sec tion of the platform probably wit praise these acts of the adminintra tion: Protection of the neutral rights o tho United States and other nattom Refusal to allow tho country to b drawn into the Mexican interne ‘roubles, and prompt dispatch troops in pursuit of raiders -o American territory. Maintenance of the Monroo Do* rine and fostering good relatioi vith other letnisphere. Support of the policy of “Amerh Irst.” the majority of tHe papers defended him. It was agreed that the raising of hero worship In England; Ris cam' -'aign had been, and la to this day mnch criticised, however, because «(I , . _ bh mer f the Underwood tariff act, the fc -al reserve act and the admlnist* ton’s preparedness plana. General Assault Penetrates French Lines Near Thlaumont Farm— French Right In Rad Fix. Paris reports Friday: The Ger mans have launched a general attaci. along the entire front on the right bank of the Meuse and have pene trated the French line at one point, but were repulsed Elsewhere with heavy losses, according to an official statement issued by the war office Friday. The point where the Germans en tered the French lines is in the neigh borhood of Thlaumont farm. The Germans also made two small attacks southwest of Hill 304, but these at tacks, the statement says, were re pulsed. The fall of Fort Vaux Is deeply regretted', but public opinion is not discouraged. The withdrawal of the French line to the inner defences of Verdun on the right bank of the Meuse, forecast by military writers as a natural consequence of tho cap ture of Vaux, has not yet taken place. The French have resisted the furi ous and repeated efforts of the ene my t6 compel this retirement. Vio lent onslaughts, both in the Thlau mont region and on the trenches in the vicinity of Vaux, were made by the Germans in the last twenty-four hours, but, according to reports to the FYench war office, -*11 of these nttnolra wpta rpniilfipH By a week of nnlnterrnpted at-| a well known principle j)f &ttaekta| tacks, In which it is said a number of with superior numbers a det&eksA divisions were destroyed, the Ger- an( l Inferior force of the enemy )i mans have advanced their lines about recognized—the crux of the sit* one mile. They have taken the south- ^ probably not be kno — ern part of Calllette wood, part of ^ or 80m ® time, if indeed at all durlmg the Chapitre, Damloup village and I existence of the war, to what BEAin FOUGRT FIRMLY Neutral Observers in Wwxhlagtom Praise English Admiral for ICto Magnificent Stand Against Odde—•» Dreadnought Fleet DM Not AM British Ships Until Too Laic The more the details of the h Sea fight are studied by military oh* servers in Washington, admiratMa increases for the manner , in whMh the commander of the British battle cruiser'squadron succeeded in st&nA* ing off with his lightly armored craM the onslaught of the whole, of Um German high sea fleet. The wonder is that Vise A«t* m4ral Beatty In the face of tike overwhelming force opposed te him was able to bring away any at his ships, let alone actually e^ gage the Germans for a period #f fully seven hours, pending the ne* rival of the flritfsh grand fleet. That the Germans pat Into ef now Vaux fort. In past wars the! enemy's progress on the right would have compelled the French to fall] back automatically from the Douau- mont-Thiaumont lines, but under the] present conditions it has been found [ that such a sawtoothed front can be| held. The French found this to their I disadvantage in the great Champagne] tent Vice Admiral Beatty was at Mfc* erty tu engage white far In advansfi Of his supports, but the opinion prw* vails that the battle cruiser com mander did not actually learn ua'JI he attempted to turn the OeroMMi position, in other words cat off tfe* line of retreat of his opponents, that he was face to face with the Cermaft high sea fleet. In the present Instance Admiral offensive. Before the enemy will he able to take full.nee of his week's I JeUicoe. a*’ ng, It is assumed^ conquests hajwiR-tmYe to enlarge hisi frMl^Hntfttrucllijns of the sdrn ' " — Tfeeplng the ^ t J ’official communication given out^ Thursday. In addition to the Austrians pre viously captured in the offensive movement recently inaugurated the statement says there were captured In Wednesday fighting fifty-eight of ficers and eleven thousand men. A large amount of war material also was taken. London: The Austrians have evac uated Lutsk, one of the Volhynian triangle fortresses, according to in formation received at the Ruasian embassy in Rome, says a Central News dispatch from that city. Several brlgadea of Austrians are reported In the advices to have been captured with the fortresa. It Is stated that the Adrian lines have been broken In Volhynia, and that they have been withdrawn near ly twenty miles throughout the Lutsk sector. A dispatch from the Austrian head quarters on the Russian front Wed nesday says:’ One of tfie most gigantic battles ever witnessed on the Russian front has been raging aince Sunday be tween the Styr and the Prnth. After smaller preparatory under taking the Russians Tuesday began the bombardment of our entire front, several hundred kilometres long, that against some of our positions reachimt drumfire pitch. After hours of artillery preparation troops held in readiness behind the front were driven to the attack. The Russian leaders still cling to the theory of deep attacking col umns. In countless waves the Rus sian infantry rolled toward our en tanglement zones that had been part ly destroyed by the artillery fire, and row after row of the attackers sank down, but ever fresh swarms were sent mercilessly ahead. The attacks against the Austro-Hungarian posi tions on the Putilowka and on both sides of the Olyka were characterized by the utmost fierceness and the em ployment of vast human masses. In the far-flung battle line the fighting was also particularly violent on the Besarabian border and north- wet of Tarnopol. In the northeast corner of Bukowina, by the village of Okna, bitter hand-to-hand fight ing occurred. Equally violent was the fighting on the Ikwa. But at no place could the Russians break through. Their attacks, Insofar as they were concluded, were aU beaten off.—At many points our troops in counter attacks threw the Russians back to their initial posi tions Thus the first day of the Russian offensive passed without any gain to the enemy, but the battle continues to rage along the whole front,-amt the intensity of the artillery gre has not diminished. The second day of the general Rus sian offensive was of a violence equal to the gigantic arMHery preparation of thp first. At numerous points on the entire southern Russian front the memy launched mass attacks, many waves following clgse one upon an other. When the attacks were beat- in off the enemy undertook n£w ’ostly attempts/ at some points welve attacks following in quick sue ossiotf. , The bombardment of our trenche- . as been simply overjxvwering. Fo tonths the Russians have been sav . ig and'collecting ammunition 1- ■der to'Squander it now in unbe evable quantities. The bombard ent was most violent on the fron * the sectors on the Ikwa by Sap- >w, west of Tarnopol, east of ti- rypa by Jazlowiec, and south r o Dniester by Okna. . At Dkba -t he AUstto-Hungarls mmand saw itself forced fo~wfp -"'-'w the front five kilometers soyt’ " v rd. as the first Tine in Northee Vowlnk running by Ohaa was ro»- ; ’tely shattered by the eeew- . _ mfire sad the wire eetangleme’- ’• ~e mown down by eouatleea the* have tarried lenger at thta pcH the front won id have cost t< f-nrtTrrv-TrrTtagTm&T3rr This fort crowns a height of three hundred and eighty-eight. meters, which is situated to the southwest Its guns sweep the lines to the crests running from Vaux to Douaumont and its seizure will be a hard task which will entail desperate fighting and htavy sacrifices. Hughe*. In Brit fleet concentrated somewhere arouwA the northern pert of Scotland. The belief prevails that the waters mt Socapa flow off the Orkneys, and tlM waters In the vicinity of CromartM, Scotland, represent the rendezvous points of the force under Admiral Jelllcoe. This being the case, the RritM main fleet would have f«Uy thru hundred miles to travel to reeeb tfc DV DFPIIRI IfAN PADTVl P 0,nt wher * Vice Admiral Beatty* DI KErUOUlAn rAIllII command first came In contact wtfL the Germans. The snperdrendneugjM* of the British ere credited wMb Root, Burton end Other] speeds of twenty-two knots, bat evaa NOMINATIONS ARE MADE Favorites ere Pieced In Run ning at Chicago. Nominations of candidates began Friday in the Republican national convention at Chicago. The first was that of Justice Hughes. Governor Whitman made the nominating speech, when as the roll of states was called, Alabama and Alaska passed and Arizona yielded to New York. Whitman denounced President] Wilson’s foreign policy and declared the prosperity of the country was de pendent wholly on the war. From the times to come, he declared, the nation called "for our greatest states men and the Republican party.” There was a demonstration when Whitman mentioned the name of Taft. The delegates rose cheering and waving their bats and for the first time the whole body won on its | tneA _ The clieerlng for Taft lasted slxl policy, may be the reenon, ti !• minutees. It was the longest dem-|why the British fleet le not p onstrstion of the convnetion so far As Governor Whitman closed and mentioned Hughes' name there was a demonstration. Apparently one-half the delegates joined in the demonstration. T Oregon delegation began a mar around the room followed by a large part of New York, Michigan, Missis sippi and Vermont delegates. The Hughes demonstration lasted twenty minutes. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler took the platform and offered, the name of Elihu Root. Arkansas yielded to Ohio, and the chair recognized Governor Willis to nominate Burton. When Willis con eluded the Ohio delegation started a Burton demonstration. During the Burton demonstration at this rate of steaming for tbe bined fare* it would have rodufrai fully thirteen hoira fqf the gruM fleet to come into action. The outward steaming time of (M vessel under Admiral Jolllcoo M crossing the Norik Son In not knram but the opinion prevalla that UM grand fleet sailed out at tho saaeO time as the battle crnlners startup, and that while tho latter ehlpe starv ed from some point well down IMF English coast, and ware nblo M* reach the German advance Ha* around half-past three o’eloefc In tfe*- afternoon, the grand fleet‘wan Mk able to pnt In an appenraaee anttP nearly eleven o’clock the same atgfcA With the German fleet eoneentnM*- ed In Kiel, the Brltlah have keen M the disadvantage of having to aaaM the arrival of tho many at some am- known spot rather than from mi known port of departure. *01# am* tlvitlee of the German sat coupled doubtless with before Heligoland. In the present war the British Ml Icy dictated by what Is reported m military sound” principles, Is to e» tralize the' main British force la n well chosen position and with ad+ quate lookouts, rather than to lent, it hither and thither in search ot th4 enejny's whereabouts. la Use s~flim ay 31, tho strategical any, was in permitting Vice Beatty's command to gel advance that support on the the grand fleet coaid not be i_ adequate time. “ f Military observers Incline to IMh opinion that from the experloaM Vice Admiral Beatty had in Jannarsh 1914, when pursuing the Germaa raiding force, that officer was mislftf into believing that he had only a Chairman Harding said the plan was I scouting force to engage in the Pi to take two ballots before the con- venton adjourned or recessed. The Burton men kept up their demonstra tion for thirty-three minutes. great a slcriflce. teen antiquated had Unfortunately, six- small-calibre guns built which had been built into the trenches had to be left behind after first being rendered useless. The first line was cleared in the after noon. By evening the Austro-Hun garian troops had, advanced again, taking the height at Czampqtok, thus recovering some of the lost ground. On the upper Strypa, in the zone between Buckanow and Sokolniki west of Trembowla, the enemy's at tacks reached our. entanglements 'ore collapsing under our artlller> ire. Near, Kozlow and Cebrow, wes' if Tarnopol, the, Russians succeede* n gaining some advantages, but ou> ounter attacks drove .them from thi renches again. Northwest of Kremienlec, nea 'apanaw, the enemy’s attacks wer specially seyere. hut thn—Yienn andsturm, holding the line there I' courageous, self-sacrificing defense "evented the Russian* from gainln; ay ground. ; The bottle Mill race*. The Rus- loa guns thunder tncewaantly and ‘he enemy tends on freoh ■f MUIBBI# ~Bpopir~ - -’tween Olyka and MT) now in. olhynta. Oar troops have a b*av) at. glorious task, and to far thej ■ve acquitted th—sidy to tfca ent instance, and that, to prevomt any possibility of tbe German fovM escaping him, the British commando* threw htti'whole squadron In, only tB find {bat he was up against the tall strength of the epemy. The German strategy, it Is ph»* ceived, follows closely the prinelploo laid down by Napoleon for the guid ance of his fleet when the Frendl emperor discovered that he eonld as pect nothing decisive from tho French navy in grand tactics, ha the face of the overwhelming Brttlflfc strength, Napoleon .accepted the tft- uation as one where his fleet bad to be used as* a means to harass or divide the enemy, and to effect theos results by menacing attitudes al many points, vigorous sorties, and hy diversions which provoked the Brit ish to expose detachments to attasl, by. greater numbers. These principles have been cars- fully followed as correct ones hy weaker navies, and in fact as belaff the only one tenable. What the Gor mans have accomplished in the Norik. Sea engagement has been an agtaak in force upon n division of the BHt> Ish grand fleet, a result which Is mC ’tkrly (o occur very soon again aniens the lessons of the light are whoQy loot upon'the British. As a resalt oC tl