There are few phases of the Warsubsidiary phases, side-issues, marginaliamore interesting, I think, than the return of the natives: the triumphant progress, through their old haunts and among their old friends, of the youths, recently civilians, but now tried and tested warriors; lately so urban and hesitating and immature, but now so seasoned and confident and of the world.

Suggestions to that successful soldier from civilians now were like those of the Dutch Deputies when they undertook to lecture the great Marlborough on the art of war.

There is one law and code of conduct for officers and another for civilians, and woe betide the civilian who resists the military pretensions.

If one of the two commanders be greatly censured, the other must be also, and the world will be always apt to conclude that they knew what could be effected better than the civilians.

Somewhat prone to hauteur, in presence of the importunities of the Executive and other civilians unskilled in military affairs, he was patient, mild, and cordial with his men.

This power extends to military offenses as well as to the criminal offenses of civilians.

The civilians composing our party were bidden to climb aboard the passenger coach, where the eight of us, two of the number being of augmented super-adult size, took possession of a compartment meant to hold six.

The Germans had fought here, first with organized troops of the Allies, and later, by their own telling, with bushwhacking civilians.

It is forbidden to civilians, and more particularly to correspondents, to go prowling about eastern Belgium just now; but I found a friend in a naturalized German- American, formerly of Chicago, but living now in Germany, though he still retains his citizenship in the United States.

Now, and no doubt for years to come, it will be chiefly notable as having been the town where, it is said, Belgian civilians first fired on the German troops from roofs and windows, and where the Germans first inaugurated their ruthless system of reprisal on houses and people alike.

"Things are quiet enough here now; but on Monday"that would be three days before "we shot sixteen men hererioters and civilians who fired on our troops, and one grave-robbera dirty hound!

At that moment two or three roughly clad civilians issued from a doorway near by.

With the officers, the nurses and the surgeons all marching afoot marched also three bearded civilians in frock coats, having the air about them of village dignitaries.

It is our law for war times, and these Belgian civilians must be taught that they cannot fire on German soldiers and not pay for it with their lives and their homes.

"I am sure, though, that the severity with which we punished these offenses at the outset was really merciful, for only by killing the civilians who fired on us, and by burning their houses, could we bring home to thousands of others the lesson that if they wished to fight us they must enlist in their own army and come against us in uniforms, as soldiers.

Lord Canning, his Council and law advisers, all civilians sitting quietly at Calcutta, living in ease and comfort far from the dangers of war, thought, forsooth, that the Delhi army, struggling for existence for months, fighting to uphold British rule in Indianay, for the very lives and safety of these civilian judgesand at last victorious in the contest, would rest content with their decision.

We returned to von W, then in Brussels, who vised our pass with a note to the effect that although we were civilians, exceptional circumstances demanded our hurried return to Aix by military train.

We were undoubtedly marked figures, because in the first place no civilians were allowed along the railway line, especially foreigners.

" The "guardhouse" proved a precinct police station, and the captain was not there: instead we found a mixed crowd of civilians and militaires who looked us over and shook their heads.

See English civilians Museum, MS.

It is not generally known that Deputy Cohn, speaking in the Reichstag on April 8, 1916, sharply criticised the method of interning British civilians at Ruhleben.

They are allowed at their discretion to strike or otherwise maltreat not only civilians, but soldiers.

Aided and even abetted by a myriad of spies and agents-provocateurs, they have placed under what is known as "preventive arrest" throughout the German Empire and Austria so great a number of civilians that the German prisons, as has been admitted, are filled to repletion.

" On August 1st, 1916, there were more police in the square than civilians.

By May, 1916, the death sentences of civilians pronounced in Austria since the beginning of the war exceeded 4,000.