For a fuller image than the Times correspondent intends, see Decoud's line
that "the whole land is like a treasure-house, and all these people are breaking
into it, whilst we are cutting each other's throats."
The Times phrase, which recurs ironically in this chapter and the next,
carries a faint suggestion that the whole world is the treasure-house: a world
devoted to the worship of wealth and the attempt to get it.