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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1918-04-04, Page 6' • -e" •-1-1 7:".7,..`*.-"xre sT.I""*•-• • g71.0*. • II% NOR IhA AN HALT,. It 41 CHAPTER X.—(Centl.) I ever, to make our trenches tenable. tWo e sort oe week you ewe Early the following morning we set to taste?" twork removins the wreckage .of hu.. 'It abet been. a weekite , n; atan bodies' -Never befere aaa death bee* a lifetime!" revealed itself so terribly to us. Many Lucky ear ua yott !goats eon* in, of the mien had been literally blown juat `WW1 you did. wee, about te pieces, and it Was necatutar*t0 gath- reached the limit" er the fragments in blankets. For "'Ow far we leOt to ro for water?", woke afterward we had to eat and Bout two iJes. Awfu1 Journey!! sleep and work and think among such Tyks you all aigitt to do it. You got; awful sights. It was *hisolutel to atop every minute, they's se much! to them finally. It was absolutely traffic along that trench. • Ge down essential that we should. Stanley Road about five 'unerd yards, The trenches and dugouts had been turn off to per left on &ilex Alley, battered to pieces by the: British mails thea yer first right. Bring* you lery fire before the infantry -assault, right out by the 'ouse Were 'the pump and since their capture the work of - destruction had been carried on by the H'Ere's a straight tip! Send yer German gunners. Even in their water fatigue down early in the morn.. wrecked condition we could see how In': three o'clock at the latest. They' s skillfully they had been constructed thousands lain! that well an' the goes NO labor had been **redin making dry arter a little wile." them as nearly sheltspreef and as "You blokes want any souvenirs, 'comfortable for living quarters as i all you got to do is pick 'em up: is possible for suc.h earthworks to be allreets, revolvers,rifles,. German The ground here was unusually fav d'eries. . You wite mown'. You'll, orable. Under a clayish surface soil see plenty." there was a stratum of solid chalk Is this the last line- co" Pritzleat Advantage of this had, been taken by trenches?" 'the -German engineers whe must hav 'Cant tell ,on, mate. All we planned and supervised the work know is, we 4.0t 'ere some'ow an' we, Many- of the shell -Proof dugouts wgre been iiJoIdin' on. My Gawd! It's fifteen and -even twenty feet below been awful! They calmed down a bit the surface of the ground. Entrance to -night. YOU blokes is lucky coirdele these WAS inade in the front wall of In Just 'Wen you did.* • the trench on a level with the floor. "I ain't got a pal left put o" Beg:. Stairways just large enough to permit ton. You'll nee :mine of_ 'eni. We the passage' of a MEWS body led ain't 'ad time to bury 'tun." I clown to them. The roofs Were rein. They were soon gone and we were forced with heavy 'timbers. They left in ignorance of the situation.- We Were SO strongly built throughout that knew only approximately the direction mot. of, them were intact, Although of the living enemy and the dead the passageways leading . up to -the spoke teneldif in dumb AU*, telling trench were choked with loose earth. up:images ble thhegs &met tbe boral There were larger surface dugouts ss. rare of modern warfere. r with floors but elightly, tower than Fortunately for us, the fire of the that of the trench. These were avid - German batteries, -during our first ently built for living quarters in times night in captured trenches, Watt of comparative quiet. Many -of thera directed chiefly upon positions to our were six feet wide and from twenty right and left. The aliens from our to thirty feet long, and quite Palaces • own batteries were exploding far in, compared to thewretchedlittle qua-- advenee of our sector of trench, and Untie" to which, we. had, been accuse we Judged from this that we were tented. They were roofed with logs holding what had been the. enemy'e a foot or more in diameter Placed clog list line, and that the British artille w h h I' together' and one on to of the other g w le en tiers of three, with ae-covering they would dig themselves in anew. We bit more of earth three or. four feet thick. .But certain of this later in although they were solidly built they the night.when working' Partiee were hid net been proof against th'e rain sent from the battalion to a point of lila explosives. MallY of Ithene twelve hundred yards in front of the were in reins, the lees splintered like trenches; we were then holding. They muffling wood., ease drawn far and were to dig a'new Hue there, te/ con- wide over. theergrouhd. nect with inteenchments which had _.,„3-deeelatuilsemzeit' • e - - - beell'Vls116-(111°*-9-U-Uither officer's quarters, which were, ajrnost . !luxuriously furnished.- There -were At daybreak we leartied that we rugs for the wood= :floors:And pie were tdightlY to *Ile len of ". tures and 'mirrors .for the and Hunuch, a• small visage still in node. in each, of them there Was4he jolliest pesazon •of the Germans. was iext front. tc? Our little *stove With .a removable lid. We Midway between OW 70i discovered one of these underground . and Rauch and llninediatelY t!'e- palaces at the end .of e blind alley front of our position, there watt a 101 eading,off<from the main•treneh. It stretch of open country which slope gently- forward for six or eight hunel was at with two stairvvasrs leading down to it, Meet fifteen feet underground, dred yards and then' rose gradually' toward the *yam ...eels *4 first es_ that if escape, was eut off in one **ult.- the British trooPs had please direction, it Was still possible to get Out on the other sides We immediately on past the trenches we were holding snd had advanced . up the •Op site took possession,' built a roaring file, and were soon passing canteens of hoe tea around the eircle. Idie was worth while again. We all Agreed that there, were less comfortable CREAM WANTEUI Street cc churning Crone Highest market Neese peiM, we supply mute P� y express charm sad remit daily. Mutual Dairy 4A. Creamery Co. 743-5 King et. West. - Toronto < BRITISH RECRUITING MIeSION. To Secure MAO Mon From U. It' In Three Month,. For the week ending March 2nd the Britten. and Canadian Recruiting Mile sten diapetehed to Canada 1.01$9 volute toes for the British. and eantellan ;mime During the absence at Briga- dier -General W. A. Inhite, 0.M.G.., Colonel .T. 0. Dennis of the Canadian' y Expeditionary Force le in tommaud of' the ree,ruiting program In the Dented States. cErigadier-Genend White le making a tour through the' Swat in, an effort to atimulate inter,eet In re- cruiting. • The pictures accompanying this article illuetrate the- campaign Una is being carried en in, New York by the , Weston. -BrigadieaGenerat White and Colonel Donde have ;toted a, whirl- wind campaign, for recruitieg British, t ers and Cenadians ia the United • stetee noTtring the next two Month& Tlieiaambitien ia to eecure 20,000 -men from sebe. Meted Watt* poseiblO, befere the terms of the draft conveu- Son bettveen the United Statee and Great Britain bootee: effectife. leur- ing the eign.t months the MissiOn has been at -work in the, Ilateil States it lute secured. 22,000' volunteers, for the Britieb. and 'Canadian omips, audehas.' examined about 16.000- Amite • s slope, nearly a mile farther on. ere they started to dig: themselves in, but an unfortunate delay in getting. tor- • -ward had given the enemy time to collect a trong force of kcal reserves Pkdo' in which to have breakfast on " behind hi second line, which was Bei- raany autumn mornings than German oral-hund yards benne. so heavy ewers' dug -outs, ▪ ere had been concentrated iipon The haste with which the ,Germans them that the Britieh troops had been abandoned their trenches was eiidenc- forced to retire to the line we were then '14 by Out, amouhe-of war macerial occupying. They had .inet with thee' left behind. We found two ma - heavy levies both in advancing and re- chine guns and great deal of small - tiring, and the green& in front of us armeQ'tturuttuition our °wee -limited for nearly. a mile 'was strewn. with sector of frontage. Rifles, intrench- ing tools, haversacks, canteens, great - at once. we low, nothing et our coats, bayonets were scattered every - bodies. We did not learn all of this 'exact posttion during the first night, Where. -tell of this material ,wee of but as there appeared to be no enemy tbe very beets' Canteens, wate"°t" within striking distance of our Im- ties, and dealt frying -pans were made mediate front, we stood on the firing. of aluminum and most. ingeniously benthee vainly trying to get hear- fashioned to make them less bulky for Inge. 'About one 0 clock we wits carrying.. Some of the bayonets were nessed the fascinating' spectacle of *a, saw -edged. We found three of these counter-attack at night.. - needlessly cruel weapons in A dugout - It came with the draniatie•sunden. which bore: the following inscription nese, the striking spectacular display,' over the door:— - of a knetion-picture battle. The pic-1 "Gott tretv herein, )3ring' glucle, here - total effect Seemed extravagant! I hi." • • Overdrawn. **, Yr It was anenterestiog tommentary on There was * etiddeix hUrricant, of German character. Tommy., Athlete " Vitlereelera-iiiieldeeeten iire. euid in :an ;izivt==': .'4'i'Irt Ilizi'-'1441011,i'd• instant alI the detolatehnidscape was' ligicus leatUre over the .doorway °ft reseeetteetatice..--neeliSitessetelesiseseseeze 1. '''''. '.'7PPat,74,fi,_„--,-.--01:'7ri.t3,,,,a;;74 -,. etse.terench lecaete. We sau. the doe he file a saw edge on his %Tenet, enemy' advancing in irregular lines to We, found: Many lettere, ; picture the attack. , They were exposed to a rpost-cards, and newspapers; among pitiless infantry fire, I ceuld fel.. the latter, one palled the "Krieg- * low the curve of .ourteenthee on the. Zeitung," published at Lille for the Ieft by the almost: solid sheet of flame soldiers In the field, and lilted with , issuing' from the rifles of ,our cone ' glowing accounts-. otbattlee fought by rodeo against whore the assault was, the. ever,victotious German armies. launched. The artillery ranged epee! Death comes Sedate in war. One's the advancing lines' fat once, and the life hangs by a thread. The most sir was tilled with the roar of bursts- tritial circumstance saves or destroys. ing shells and the melancholy whine.; Mac came Into the half-rulaed duvet g -g -g of flying thrombi.- - t where ' the eiT.:daty innellitie gunners I did not believe Wet any Otte could etvere 'making tea over a lire of spliii- , croits' that fire -wept area alive, but tered loge.. : .before many "ftiomeuts we beard the " (To po continued.) staccato of burstitig bombs and hande-e grenades which, meatit that some of - ' • .1 the enemy, at least, were within strike • NEW ICE HARVESTER. lig distance. There was it sharp ' ----- • , I erescende of deafenitig sound; thee, Auto relied More 'Useful at ThisWeek gradually, the firing ceased, aria word . Than' the Horse. came *dowii the line, "Cotinteteattack - • against the—Guards: and jolly well That a motor ear can he used to beaten off too.", Another was at- better advantage than horses in cute tereetted hefete tht"Shteck, . and again ting Ice was shown recently . by . a the same torrent .of lead; the eaPle llaetaclitieette man who had a large hideous -supreme the same siekening . . . . h e ice contract to fulfill and wee unable 1t 50 x emelt of Isrddite; the Settle g as to obtain enough men and hOrSeS to do the woric. In the emergertey he utilized a medium-priced car, equip- ping the rear wheels with 'deinceint- able rime in *Al& were set tWo remit antOrnsblis The bed resPite 'wiliell we ettier" of 1-ineh , epikee. -The ed during our firtithight So= mate to ' an. end. we were:given thyte, /tor. proved .etitireIy satisfactory in draw-. ing the marker and grooving ploW,'. i awl later was driven alongeide the open water, toWing large barred cakes much fader than men could : Omit Ithem. It WOO fend. that the ice mold be eitt reboot three times an feet as with horse& ' nooti-day effect; the .sitme jiaC. si enee, and the sante result... • , • 11. lhousged Trenthea. . • • ' • shur-o4ith: Fe-riili0zer. ▪ "Niallikimilllows...-Nolososiww, Erlgadier-General Mite ha medo the point that. if a Britisher or Canes dime desiree to aid the Allies he caii de itoe by, prenadlit voleateering, be" elate°, the machinery of the British and Cartadian armies for.tralning wen' has- been . ao, well dentelened by th e and a.hea years of experienee that it cantrain it men, wit him in the Bring line, and -hale bim. Invalided home in hie ,monelue This /las actually, been do= in quite a nuMber of case& Oa thet other hands the United States Government, starting mull tater, bag had Its hands full in training the Ant contIngent of Ilie draft numbering' ehone 700,000 tam and the secend draft will follow close upon the heale ertne first. I It exiiraimithempacitriineotiet money oroefutrititewwhotike — adding to the food wealth -of the community. The growing of food for home consumption eliminate* transportation waste with it4 attend- ing cost of labor and fuel. 1 It ie the intention of the Board to naecgailsrisiptyroohribrits:r:een peritodtinuseetioofn cognmithede 15th, in Western Canada to Nov. let, Unit This will further emphasize the vegetables, in Eastern caned* to Oct, widest poseible seete. I was 4T:: by the Verfirreemffeenctisvnedwethrice police. Their gardens Were often models in this, connection and an in- centive to other groups. A s. dieecof Ne---e-s-ette----uTs AND tatEnus African Negro* Pewter* Ilfervelloie- Thiewlig Ability. • s , . • Excellent as Canadian and -United • States soldiers are at "benthing," thinks to their baseball trebling, they are in proportion to their numbers excelled, it is claimed, by the , Africen ,negroes in the British and French armies. These nigreee, fresh from their eavage haunts and but newly arrayed in the ;steel helmet* and =Od- • om-habiliments of warA-POSOess Mare vellous throwing ability, the result of years of practice and ' centurielt of ' heredity in knocking down tlieW meals from cocoanut trees with 'donee. They can "ally" pebbles with un. erring Aim into the top of a cocoanut. tree and- bring a -nut down for sup- per. When „given hand grenades it was found. that they could ptace, the destruetive little affairs Into the /Hun trenches without the frequent misses •which white troops made, Practically all colored troops from the tropics are *es_ ood- ontrol Oirner 4 The peoduetion Of food Weikeriever of more vital importance than an the year 1918. The food Situation of the world. is not only, grave to -day but it will be increasingly So during the pro- ve:et Of the war 4-tfia for consider- able time - thereafter. The • Canada Food 'Board's duty is to See to itthat food production this year be at its 2 maximum. . Dering the tea year the cul Within of vacant lots and home gar dens int:laity towns and 'cities vrae at- tended with, highly satisfactory re sults. - In Montreal for instance IS •estiniatedethat not less than $100,000 worth -vegetables were grown on vacant lets. Calgary had 1113 lots under cultivation covering an area of 220 acres.. It is important that this work is not only continued but etas berated upon. ; It is desirable that this • movemeet should be instituted in every municipality in the Dominion. Where there are no .organizations the mayor °flea& municipality ehoind at once- call a miles Meeting' of its citizeris, including women, for organiz- ing purposes. • These meetings should be representative of its -teed- ing citizens; Ale; eclergy, the press, horticulturists,- heads of -varieus societies, public bodies, eta. _ A permanent ehatrinen or president and as, many* -offfeers as may . be "shoeld seketel at this meeting, and at lectet ecene 7,,ZeSkIsseisiliaiessateli-teletWee*Theseittleise and honle gardens.. • , Tothesecan be adted comniliteei on publicity, fertilizin and such oth- ers as May appear necessary. The town or city should be divided into districts, ectali in charge .4' a. Chair=. man and a local cenimittee.It lias - 'teen falba expedient to have meet- ings in each sub -district presided over by the president er one of the members of the central executive, at -Which it important to sedum the ot. tendance of those who are disposed to cultivate teem* lots. • The import= ante of these total ineeting5 cannot be too strongly emphasized. Tito sub:, committee's will attend' ta such duties AS the securing of vacant land, get - tine cultivators interested, etc. • The workers should be grouped On land as, near their homes 45 poesible," In this connection it will , he bund that, except in rare s &toe, the aver. ege individual, otherwise employed, has only sufficient time and strength Iteu va d a o I et. It is -.desirable that the owth of etandard eegetables only shottld be encouraged such as potatoea, beets, carrots,- pate,' beans, lettuee, onione, pantiles, ete. These ate high in food endue and are • easily grown by those who will volunteer for this ---sesteselete FERTI LIZ ER oNTADIO PERTILIZEile, eeleirrele leitteT TOtIONTO: . • CANADA ,`,,,I41111.111Wfrit work- many- of whom. willberamateers., For instance toreatoes and strawber- ages; while highlY palatable, are low in food value. Only seed of irtifen quality should be sown. It is just as heap to raise geed .AS poor produce. intended for the experienced garden - These suggestions are natukall,y't,iiit The priznary work of the committee on home gardes• will be to encourage the cultivation of vegetables in spaces usually 'devoted to flowers. Aside • • • in a time -heeding food economy many people are • noigetting all the nourish- -ment they might from. - their food. It Is not how ritueh you eat, hallow much ycn aseire- ___iliter_that-does-you--good.„‘ The addition of a small- • teaspoonful OfBovril to the diet as akpeptogense before ineals,leads to more thorough digest- ion and aseintaation anti thus:Saves food, for ..,, you need lees./• imA n Articles Wanted far Cash 'Two sToRws 03&3ereollosys Meet Maven Curtast Ileassenueeet etooaseas wiseaseweets autos Oa asktaaj_ uss 1 Owasautatil WAR Watoeheas maw TIIE Vette er *ewe Wilea. to , , , - . S. 714 le W. S. Besited , . . ANTIQUB oA,LLBRI1Ca • . If uIt. le 00.134". Anne% ',meta. Gni, - , past mestere in this bombing work. The most notePorthent perlieps is Cori:feral L. Roberts from Trinidad, whois attathecle with a few of his brethren, to a Middlesex regiment He is the eiarnploi bomber of hie WU- lion and at seventy-four yards is a dead sliet, heving been decerated twice y the British wpr Once .for single- nded feate of daring and extremely thorough execution of Huns defending trenehes and pill boxes againet the Tommies' advance. Every pound of pbultxy. • prodece raised in Canada, this year will release, sk` Pound of beef or bite= overseas,' Is easy to flee and will 110f bunt .....momummumunummlimmok Shopping 1.10 — -a It Scarcely anythingfploaseeia '1100Mite more than to come -to• the city to shop. There ikre,so man:ebbe stores with • Such =diem variety and Still there Is -just that chase of everything. . P. bec,Iteabout where ,to stay. The Walker House solves that probleni. It is a home for you while in the , " 2 city, and you can.haVeall yant pure es• chases sent direat. Aare, where there are seachAte_cilidet for .4Q*4 "-eating after your patois. - , 8 COMe tote, city to shop and stay. at --^ The WalkerHouse 1 The Reuse of Plenty 2= TORONTO, ',ONT." ... -4- s. P.&-tSpedal attention given to = E ladies and cblidren travelling with,. • X' out 4entlemen escorts. .e. - f , iimillusimilluitallinislimillimill ,nci it to Parker's GU will ,be astorMied at the results We get‘by Our - ()dem systemW dyeing and cleaning. Fabrics ••• at are shabby, dirty or spotted rzare made like new. We can restore the most delicate articles. Send -one article tv'a parcel of goads by post or express:* We wjll pay carrhtgeNone war, and our' charges are most reueonable. . ' *.; • . When yoU think of , ••• 0.LEANINGI AND DYEING *kik d PARKEirs.- , . . Let tui.ii-mn you our booklet of household helps we can render. • PARKER'S DYE WORKS, 1144111TED CLEANERS AND . D'rE4.8- 791 Yonge Street - 'Toronto. - • III: Fe tr. LUCAS IN rani cloriDon • SIIIERE.*-- Two Hemet, Brave and Tine, an Alt *erten Soldier and * Britleh Officer. s X have just heard two stories ef the war—new and true. I One le of a hooltal in Feence for , those soldiersin whom' tubcrcu1osis4 ' itaakee its ravates No hespitele, are sadder than, these—irr part beenuse a ,ffense of doom hangs over thous and in. 'part because they have no asnect that appeals to the pulelie intagination, and therefore they do not share fully ' in pity or generosity. It follows, then, that a rather ses vial kind ofdevotion is netessary to inlPal amateure to eervice in these for- lorn otabliehments, but thet such, de - Is forthcoming I lmowfor it is withan. English lady who has been assisting to coeifort and make easier . the dark days of the patients in one of them that the eters' la concerned and of her *totem, an Algerian, told off to assisteher in. very comprelsene sive dutiee, ranging from cooking the meals and keeping the itecounte to smoothing the pillows of the dying. Without a Future, - . This Algerian, Wha.Watk of the pro- foundest blackness, was a man of :edu- cation and wide syrnpathiesecuriouslY familiar with the aiteritture of - the world but with all the lack 6f ambi- tion. Which AftiCan. blood so often cons - fere. To have tasted so much of what Is intellectually finest,ito have,_ gazed through- the gates , of such a paradise, and be black AS sea and tubereuIar as . well—that is not the high road to cone. Placerioyn He was thus a man without a future, but the present, wee made joy-tut:to hineli his adoration Ior. tlik Engiis'h lady. As long as he was set, . Ing -hew he was happy. And then ,another, blow fell, for till doctoi- signed him •a reforme--well enough, at anY rate to have to leave • the hospital and go iie e. . ., ta On his last day he vs s Waiting upon . the kitchen staff as °us 1, while thay had theft lunch. Suddenly he itoppM and said, "I want t6 tell you a ,stortel• „se Surprised, by his abruptness but corns '- gelled to-attentiou by -the eamistneei - .of his realinere they. prepared to lisases- es ten; '.."The story,Leeent to tell' You,*— he .began, "is the story of it worm and a star." . And -then, with extraordirtafy intensity, a, rapt and exalted Serious - nese that held the roc= silent, he mire rated his fable—how the tiny -crawling thing conceived a passion, for a, star; how it yearned with joys" when the night was clear; how it ached with disappointment When cloudir covered . the sky. "That is story," be said -- as he hilinsiShfeewd'beatanghlougrfrii aenddalweaaVIre.tc" „.0.-.A. little later -he returned, all ready to -go, a pathetic figute enough,' with • ill health, and -frieedlessnees stamped all ovter him and Africa—if of Africa _ e Was thinking—so far By thistime the English lady Was alone, but worde of farewell he had none. All that he said' as he 'saluted and turned awaY Was this: "Vitt .are that star." , ' A Gallant Bridisher. . . • • - MY other story is of a<cominanding officer who, although he hedged"- an eye and was etherwirie wounded, had but one thought, and that • was to waste no more time in hospital but re- turn to the front. It had been a point of honor with him hitherto not to re- place the loft 'eye but to wear a black patch over the empty Socket. Any- thing false was amain -114s But the meet important thing in thesworld be- ing to get back to the task of beating the Germans, and his chances of doing e se being enormouely increased by the semblance, at hey rate, at his Bard Of rsIveinirePdair-toctdhyle inniser-PiC72:rf talt2atiglais-c-be;;; n.laminItabanfi'latr was passed for active service. • • The first thing he did after leaving the War Office was to open the: win- dow of his texi and pitch the gime eye out of it. And if any reader of this page ehaececl to be in Whitehall at the time and picked. it I hope he will preserve it carefully as a SoUVOnir oVa very. genera, gentleman: , Seine months later he won the V.C. -abut that is enetter Ited it vas after hadlost his left arm, tets.; e 0 • • IRIUGAtING. TREES. MethotAdopted in Prance to Stimee late Grewth, Investment :Free from tF .minion I c -Dofninion of Canada 51/2% ,GOld Bonds Maturing. 1st December, 1922, 1927 or 1937. Novv obtainable g 98%,,and interest. 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Stitt, Canecliae rote estry Cops, Prance, forieetly Chief Pire Ranger uhdeie the Dominion Poet • estra 13ettne1i at Paz, Manitoba, in recent letter to the Branch says: We are still hard at wok over here eAeitte our beat to supply the growing needs of the front line traddles, We hove ;been cutting white poplat tine last , two nienths, most of it going into 24 • in road plank. , About one-third Of the total acre- age in the valley we are tow tvorking • Is tinder reforestation and it hi highly interestifig to pote the &mat and eystem of planting the young trees, We hate cut ttome 5 ft, and o'er at the stump.. Mot' of the treeare I planted Meng creeke and between every -row of trees e diteh in dug which, is kept full of water regulated by mnall it or ware. ) vt.