me a couple of German words which she has picked up
somewhere: "I don't know," "Potatoes without salt are no good,"
"Benzine is dangerous," and phrases like that. I cannot realise
that these children belong to an enemy nation. I should have
dearly loved to roam about with them through forest and field,
as I used to in Berlin.--(Quoted in the _Daily News_, December
20, 1915.)[40]

THE CHILD IN NO MAN'S LAND.

The story of the child adopted by the Bedfordshires will be remembered
by many. She was found in a ditch by the men on their way to the
trenches, and was perforce for some time with them there.

The German trenches were about 150 yards off, and the level,
open space between the two lines wasn't healthy. No man who
valued his life would go there unnecessarily, or recklessly put
his head above the parapet. One morning, to their horror the
men, through the periscope, saw the child standing above the
trench on the German side. Cries came from the enemy, but they
were not hostile. The sight of the girl, little more than an
infant, has touched their sentimental side, and she had offers
of chocolate and invitations to go and see them.

After that the girl went over the parapet quite often. She was
as safe in that danger zone as if she had been behind the lines.
No German would harm her, and once she went close up to their
first-line trench.--(_Daily News_, February 17, 1916).

AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS IN CETINJE.

When the Austro-Hungarian troops entered Cetinje there was already
serious famine:

The children in the streets were begging bread from the passing
soldiers, who shared their tiny brown loaves with the hungry
little children, and the military authorities at the barracks
were besieged from the morning till late in the evening by the
starving population.

There were some fifty or sixty well-to-do better class families,
who had been in Government positions before, or prominent
business people, who suffered as terribly as their poorer
brethren. Among those who went begging for bread to headquarters
were wives of ex-Ministers and women who were ladies-in-waiting
at the Royal Court only a few weeks previously. For their
children's sake they were all ready to beg for something to eat.

It must be admitted that the military authorities put the
soldiers on quarter rations and distrib