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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1918-06-13, Page 3. ••• 1 - •I a . Oultriliqr I' ewer en -..-. "T" • ' ' " — 7 '7711f. • --yeereeeresa 77•I'e TIE BARRAGE OR CURTAIN OF FIRE MILITARY DEVICE OF RECENT ORIGIN* Invention of the Quick -Firing Field Gun Made Possible the Use of This We -Saving lactic. The ebarrege, or barrage artille17 fire, has been one of theemest &cuts ca nt developments of the war. , Barrage, or curtain fire as the Brit- ish call it, was unknewn a few yeare 'age, and irapossible. It signifies the confinement' of,shell fire to a narrow strip of determined length of enemy territory and exploding shells in that territory so continuously that no lilt- s mg -thing can pass through, or cons their gunners that there is *S reiN11 RAIDING THE danger from the apprOaclaing their OWIt gunfire as there is from their being wounded by eueniy fire. Second Barrage Now Used. The last measure which bee been taken tes increase the efficiency of this taties th ddftg t th frstf . second barrage. The objectiveof thie ' second barrage is the communication and second line enemy trend: systere 1 and any etrong points that may be • within range. The theery i$ that it will prevent re -enforcements from aiding the defenders•of the first line. As scion as the creeping barrage is lifted frozn, the • front line enemy trench it le added to the second bar- rage. in this way counter artilleri fire er attacks are prevented, giving tht attacking infantry • time to over- come the confusion of the icun across No, Man's Land; send Tack prisoners and coneolidete the newly wen positions. I ,SIGNI3O4RDS OF BATTLEFIELD. ENEMY TRENCHES STORY OF ONE PROSAIC NIGHT ATTACK. 4••••••••=.1, Lieut. W. N. • Bickle, Fifteenth Battas lion, C.E.F., Gives This •Ancount Of a Successful Raid For nearly a week we bad been Practising behind the lines the raid we knew we were to make the everting we moyed up to thetrenchee. There were nearly fifty a us, and the week had been one of bard work, every waking -moment being occupied in SOIria way connected with the raid, Lectures on our objective and every phase of our work in reaching* it; what to do on entering the •eriemy• ir it ft r . 'tinue to exist on, that territory. Sue , , a tactic was imposeiblerhaore the tn. . , trench and how to ret sperm a e Humor is Displayed Displayed by Placards our work was finished; practice in • • ventian of the qUick-firing field gun • Posted by Abe Troops. raiding ,a trench as similar as possible • —the whizzbang, The rate of fire of it tt k d all this the old field guns was not sufficiently •• rapid to operate a barrage, even ' though a great numben of the pieces -were concentrated; and these guns ' did not abSorb their own shock, ratty- , ingsand repointing was necessary af- ter each shot because the shock drove the tail into the ground, shifting the part of the • depot yards of a. bustling , staring us always. in the face it was • • ' . carriage. But the piece in use to -days little town, C—, now thoroughly obe ; not the most pleasant work in the'' which absorbs its recoil without in the literated. American engineers were world, but knowing that some forty - operating and maintainifig this divi- odd good Men would be right along sion of the military' railway, and at kept one from worrying very much the siding a lean-to luemienoom. had aboutthe final Outcome. . been propped up--theipnly structure -1 Plans Well•Laid. • • I, to mark the former site of C---. The . • agony of desolation of the. prostrate Our squad was diVided into three sections. Four picked men were to town was cheerfully answered by, a ahead and cut the eneanY's. bold' sign nailed to the side of the i adearice lunch room: "Boost for G.* welch barbed wire, making the way Clear it Growl" • . ' • 'fon us to the trench. The rest were cliVided about 'equally between bomb- - The biggest war •sign is at the ; Es. I ers and "rifle and • bayonet" men, Butte de Warlencoiirt, on the When the trate at last came for going patune-Albert road.. It reads: "To Bei I over we knew exactly What to do and Kept Intact by the French Govern - I knew every square inch of the ground mint. Do Net Disturb." The butte a rooky cone hillock, is surmounted ahead Of us. • • The boys' holding the trench sgave by five, crosses erected to the. memory I 4 they Were and forced *21 who were able to stand to follow us and at once started bach for our trench. • The viliole affair from the time we leaped into the trench till WO atarted beak bad not ken more than ten minutere but it lied given the artil- lery time to fin out that oomething • had happened ad' we had just start- ed back for ountrench when the ehells started to fly ar unel No Man' S Land. We were handle. pped by our prison- ers, but we sta ted thenr--at a run across and reached our tewri trench with only one m n wounded. One of the prisoners ha been killed and we left him where le felt It was not much more than fteen minutes- since we had left thes trenches; and here we were ,,baoir Lain, with thirty-six prisoners, and w knew we had left about the same I umber killed in the rta .dugout across th way: Tins had been n exceptionally easy raid and we had every reason to be thankful for the y it had come off; and yet te think; he sensation upper- most in our num was o - observe the present traffic laws if appointment, for • things had been so 'Mounted On One of the old type of 'easy that it left geliwttilteh'etahueserrire sa • . . aNehowillegj i gini ,goitrig to tell about a few • points. After your first rear tire 9,--,..... that f the dis Care of the Motorenele• illy excuse, for presuming to offer a little advice on the cere of the motorcycle is that I have ridden and • cared for four of them since 1999. My first was of the vintage of 1908. You remember etre type, no mag- neto—every time you got caught oat .in the rain a short circuit would oe- cur and the machine' would, refuse to run—and no thatele In orclersto start, it was necessary to pedal the thing until the engine was turning fast en- augh to start. It was lucky for us that in those days the traffic., officer had not come into exietenee, for it would be a physical impoSsibility to . , regard eur enter Aniong all the legends that apPeer iesept us busy, and any, snare time we of achievement. on signboards at and near the Front, had was spent in getting to know the MAKE plus a few plainly show the American ' men we were working with, so that spirit newly at work, says an English '• eue ease adaselee4eaaideatjtY.-811.9iPcla.,, !interfere with our Vans, Further Instance One of these I came across at al .With the fact that soon we would ., barity Have railway siding that formerly had been . be making this raid against an enemy pars out replace it withan oversize • least changing its position gr aim, can be fired ahnost as rapidly as it • can be reloaded, being aubject only to the heating of the breech to a point wherethere is danger of a premature .• discharge.. It is said that the quick - firing guns in use new fire up to • , thirty shots a minute.. • • ' First Use of 13iterage. ` • The speed and accuracy with which shells'eould. be fired fronintheise -guns -made' the barrage ., possible. The French artillery developed the gun , and needless to say, all the warring • • .nations were quick to make use of the •. new tactic. • ' • • When first Used the barrage only, -a. covered the advance of infantry; the fire was rigid, laid. down and taken off along the entire front attacked, at s a single order. The idea was new and ' the commanding officers were not sure s how advanning troops Would take . shell fire • coming over and near their siteads from behind, and exploding so near in front of -them. In the begin- ning the barrage, on-line of exploding •shells, was always • at . least three lunalred.feet in front of the troopsa As tiirne Passed practice and theory : luive greatly refined. and impioved the barrage. Signaling haaimproved and ' with airplane photographs of enemy . positions and increased accuracy and • . -quality-of .shells the curtain has been shortened until troops 'advance tisrentesilve yards of the exploding shells. • " • • ,• • • - s ••• . The Creeping Barrage. • 4 • • The barrage, Which has been pre- ceded by big glin.fire; keeps the 'en- ° emy in his dugouts and gives no .:• 'chance remaining Triachine guns Op- , portunity to open ups on advancing • troops. . The nearer. attacking troops can approach before it is -.lifted the less chance has the enemy Of. Putting: up a strong fight. When the barrage •• • 'is lifted the troops have but ,a. short distance to run—less than froin base to base on a standard base ball ,clitt- .'But.the.development otethe barrage did not stenheree The nreeping bar- rage,' a British improvement, ,canie next Trenches are never exactly ellel, and usually there is considerable • difference• in alignment between Op- posing front lines: The gunners :are supplied with photographs, possibly . with a large scale map, of these front • lines and detailed 'instructions. At the • ,proper time they:lay -down a barrage • irf No Man's Land which conforms to - the contoureef:their,front trench., gradually .this creeps forward and confoems to the frerit line enemy trench. The 'great Advantage of ehe creeping barrage is that it; gives .maximurn. protection:" to advancing troop e and allows them, regardless of : • the curves the trench attacked to approach equally near to it before the • •• barrage is, lifted. of British troops who lost their lives us a great welcome and we knew if anything went wrong that they 'could right, it would be done at any • cost. Everything was so new and we had been trained to such a fine point that there was very little nervousness in tile crowd, and when the wire cutters as last crawled over the top, just af- ter midnight, we .cheered - them •• sin their way as if it were a picnic. , The interval between the time they left our trench and their return to say plastered with signs in English and French to this 'effect: ‘!Standing Brick Walls. Not to be Destroyed." Thia shows the thought that is be- ing given to reconstruction. • ennen's outfitters—of the high-cless sort that has shops -in Fifth Avenue, New York,;as-well Piecadilly,"Lon- -den—Candilet travelling bazaars clase. to the Froht, 'and you find their 'signs. •by the thousands in storining the butte in October, November and De- 'eember, 1916. The. big signboard is a moving testimonial of the apprecia- tion of the Fxench for their loyal • Al- ly's, sacrifices. • . One of the most common signs near the Front 1.4.1 mPoiseried Well. Boil .or Chlorinate.".. • --• • Wrecked towns and cities are now - • even higher degree, of skill on the part of the gunnere, for each gun acts in- „ dependently, has a generate task to perform, that did the ' rigid barrage; , • -• it was developed very, ranidly and has reached an exceedingly high degree of • accuracy: The creeping barrage is in general. use to -day and the number d shells .that 'go wild .is remarkably low. uch' confidence have the troops' in . . the way was clear was rather trying, for we half- expected emery Minute to hear% rapid-fire opened by the enemy telling nt our stunt had been discov- Across No Man's Land. , —As eoon as- west-eard- theway wait clear. we -crawled over- the •• parapet, end, keeping ai low as. poseible, . sin over battered buildings. lentln moved toward the enemy. Our. . I saw in all devastated areas road 'trip. across was a rather trying ordeal. directions and designations eflocali- The; slightest sound might mean our ties; also signs on ruins at entrances discovery, and as we neared the Ger- to bomb -proof shelters.. •• •- man trench we were almost afraid to Signs In trenches remind'. soldiers breathe. A stray • ballet vihistling of "Gas. .Alertl".and lila* directions. past me nearly' scared me stiff'and for ' The front of a supporttrenchhad •fraction of • a• second I could not been. bashed in by . one of the Hun's Move. a • . biggest packages of violence. In the As we Carrie 'thin some twenty centre of the wide crater a sign at a yards or so of the enemy's trench, -sporty angle warned: "Dump No Tea Leaves Here," • • , ^ • TO.MAKE "WHALE FAT" OLEO. An official repo of prisoners of w cently. It says t report of Sir Bo Mittee revealed a cent examples of and broken faith. lariy to breaches prisoners should within 30 kilomet the report says of Sir Robert's re mulated a long 11 tions of this agr captured on the m having passed the barbed wire ob- . struetion, it was with a, feeling of actual relief that we, heard the bomb- , ens hurl their, isom,bs into the trench. One lone German was all the 'enemy ' • Norway Decides. to Use. Big Fish to we could see, and be. was doing his ' Overcome Fat Shortage. best to crawl into a dugout. poisoneus gas, it is exteaordmary to there is a traffic that has never. been Following instruetions we quickly •see heti, every remaining twig strug- beaten.. The stranger ' notices the many uniforms; he thinks the French- NERS WORK: of German Bar- • en Revealed. t on the treatment was published re - at oti April 11 the ert Yolieger's com- ew of the most re- erman inhumanity Referring particu- of agreement that not be employed s of the "firing line, at since the issue ort there has iiecu- of atrocious viola- ement. One elan • rning of March 28, 1918, was made o. work two hours immediately after he was •taktn ,prid- oner, servingg-a G man field gun with sainmunitiori and - gging out, a -posi- tion for it under ritish -fire, In the working party w e warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and Royal Army Medical Go ps Men, who were made to work on ortds andlight rail ways under shell fire and knocked ground groaning. One working party out, and I never went back to 'the low between the valve stem and valve lift about. with rifle h tts Or Alas. •Qn,e• to give the' high-priced recom- no op a heavy piece of paper man Was beaten s he lay on • the mended by the' mariufaeturer a try -- had a corporal ki led and three -men tw. een. .If there is, too much play the priced oils.. - s'• valve will not open to its full cepa- working behind the lines died of ociltayy, wwliiiiilekeoenpththee-othvaievrehfernodnitosoealtiittnlge To Clean' the Crank Case wounded by. shell fire. Many men weakness. When fresh batches of Use a good oil, flush out the Crank properly.—W. Eo prisoners were c pturecl they were kept working behi d the lines instead ,of k being sent to registered • camps. One man died in hut and the body was there for th ee da-YS"Before be- ingiremoved. ' i3EAUTIF L -FRANCE:- ire; if possible, a regular automobile' case with coal oil every thousand pistons are sdovvre and fill up both cYlinders with vial oil. have 'worked down between the cylin- By the' next morning the oil will der walls and the piston, thoroughly cleaning both. Rinse out Vie inside of the crank case by turning over the the 'engine' with only coal oil ais. motor. no this by hand; never ran camp, but am assured by Sergeant that what happened in Schneiderauhl, a Duggan, of the First ColdetreaMsx lubricant. did- once, to any sorrow Posen, was la:finitely worse, says a for the crank shaft seized in its bush: war Correspondent writing from Am- ing and I was compelled to take the eterclara on May 28. He was there • engine entirely hpart to release it, front 1914to Mardi, 1918. Prisoners I always eonsidered carbon a? nne of all nationalities, Russian, French, of my worse triali. My riding. was Buell ,o,lat it required at 'times pretty British' and Belgian, were there, but much all the yeserve, power of my ma- the rnajoritl were Russians. , Atethe beginning they lived in holes chine. There was one steep, rough hedillktetellreateidinegyrre, radaaYanfila:hitgaTeggetauire: elinshatitieevegrr. miaDoaggavittetwaednymeraeprrog: tograph illustrating this. condition of Abeut once a month I could feel the thing§ which lasted some time, it motor get sluggish and develop a knock. finally it would be neces- being month before the prisoners The food was so bad the-Britigh -had any covering oiree their -heads. nevei could eat it, In December, 1914, a typhus epidemic began. and continued for four or five months. • Thirty Died, Daily. Schneiderauld camp, containing 40,000 prisoners, the daily average of deaths certainly was not under thirty. Dtiggan showed • me- another photo-, graph depicting the long proeeesionof toffins during the epidemic, A gigantic German, carrying a rifle, headed the 'procession, which was mainly come posed of Rrissian prisoners. Anything more pathetic • cannot be imagined. The photograph's! showed 'many being buried' at one time in one long trench. After the interment, during which • bodies were deposited four deep' Mee ' above another, the Gerlifini maden. meunds surmounted by crosses, in- • timating that only two persons swere buried beneath each Mound. It is impossible to estimate how many were buried altogether,. but many thousands died' of this' Wilms epidemic. When the epidemic broke out a terrible 'condition quickly en- sued. It Was net until after it had been raging a fortnight that Riessian doctors arrived. pome patients were then first sent , to the hospital. The. condition of the camp, even after the doctors' arrival, was perfectly avvful. • Testimony.of• Ship Captain. NEW CHAPTER OF GERMAN CRUELTY BRITISHERS DESCRIBE CONDI.. TIONS IN PRISON CAMP* Cold, Vermin, Starvation, Typhus sad Cruelty on Part of Guards Mad* Life a Horror. , English readers have heard raucls about the horror of Wittenberg It- pays in, -satisfaction,- hut eery te.ellifft ,t9 low gear to gO.tto. Most a all in money, to do 'this. I the top. That was alvia:ys my have a freind who replaced his worn- signal to scrape carbon and grind the out rear tire with a .29x3i/e-inch rough valve s a little And what a change removing a little carbon does make! It transforms a Isluggish, icnoclang motor into a thingrf eager life. •. tread atitomobile tire that he never wore out. • And keep the tires hard. I realize this is very ,eld advice, but it is just as good: as it ever was. In my ear- lier days of motorcycling, before s spring saddle posts or spring. frames Ba 1 were dreamed of, there was an excuse scheme for removing carbon have yet' to And anything, that will for keeping. tires soft. A rider would tires. So in those days nearly all approximate' the results obtained by have been shaken to pieces with bard miles, and you will be well repaid. Flush. out the crank case as follows: tires were discarded on account of worn through. On bringing in the motor after a ride, rim -cut long before the tread was . while the engine is still hot, drain the as tar as rid. re concerned, keep the oil from the crank case. After "e motorcycle in the •earee But now, with the class as a rid - Ing qualities aoil is all out close the stop cock again. high-grade stuto,molelle, tires well infla•ted. . It took me• years to .learn that the manufacturer usually knews What he is 'talking about when he recommends a certain brand or grade of cylinder oil. I experimented with an sores of cheap, doubtfril oils. But when I bought my fourth machine I decided Removing he Carbon eneraping carbon is not a pleasant job, so I hopefully. tried out each new Reinove the plugs' from the cylinder heads, turn -over the engine until' both removing the cylinder and chipping out the accumulation of carbon -with n screw driver. -• •' Asathe valves lift only oneufourth incia a close adjustment of the valve lifts is necessary. When the. valve is. seated, there should be enough play Battlefields Take n a New Dress With Com i g of Spring. .. "The country n Wis as beautiful as spring can make ,” says the-Londoer Times correspond nt writing from the flelds,of death an slaughter recently. !1FE IN P IS - IN WAR TIME • , BEAUTIFULiVIONtMENTS—ARE • , HIDDEN BY SAND •BAGS.• eopIe Accept Privations in Cheerful , Mood; Saving considered a • - • Patriotic Duty. -"Under the influen e of the soft rain, • all the beechwood with which France Is "Who would have thought possible so lavishly clothed, after being heldbefore the war a world city in exmst- back by easterly winds, have shaken ence two days march behind the bat - out their leaved togethereand•the land tle front? During the first war weeks, everyWhere is of the tenderest shades • . of . green: " , "In woods which were shattered. t ' bits by shell ` fire, and which have again, and Again been drenched by • after the Government's departure to Bordeaux, Paris had been somewhat eserted. But since then everything is back The big hotels never did bet- ter than just now. In the streets On account of the sortage of other . sinned °lit in the trench, the ed mnen isles into leafage, and how the ground materials• hardened whale fat is to be h h t i th the ri ht and is carpeted with wild :hyacinths and used in Norway for the manufacture of margatine: For this.: reason whale catehing off the past of Norway, which has been prohibited for a num- ber of years, will be undertaken for Government account. • "In 1914 Denmark used 20,000, bar- latter, Thirty-six Prisoners. • left resPectively of. our party—hurls wood anemones as fresh as in any ung bombs over the to •keen• English spinney where gas is -nn-• Pars • wraps etself in a blue ,vell, which is very becoraing. "The electric. are lights, the gas lanterns of all descriptions are paint- ed blue. In tram cars, in the subway, in .the suburban trains the light is auto traffic is not without danger under Stich cirenineeences "Measuree of 'economy are now :Lek - en up, in eannest. Who wants to drink sweet coffee in the cefe has to bring The captain of a British nierchani' shin who suffered internment in a 'German prison camp discribeshis fel- low prisoners as skeletons •in raga and their, treatment bytheGermans as "brutal, says it London despatch. : When this captains vessel was tor- pedoect-he was-put.into the:forecastles of the 'submarine, where be questiened. As he refused to answer he Was locked - for , twenty-four his own sugar or be satisfied with the ,hours without food or 'water and then , saccharine tablet the waiter will han gi en. a 'small piece of breed with a. him. Cakes, pastry, and candy are n of water. Ile' was removed to. an- other part of the ship on the follow- • • not made any longer. Confectioners nig day and was searched. As he still are put entirely. out of business., The tea houses, toe,- are in a bad, fix. N refused to answer queetiens, he was sentenced to be shot on reaching port •• niore sugzir Or, sweetmeats; not even francs for such a pip of teats a pren: ty:good Priee. • • . • or ebefereesif he should. mote annoy- - . • • After im*isennient Underground . anee. • •• -. • tandWieliet atato be hid And -t a cell at Helgoland he was marched "The authorities figure everybody • with a nurriber of British. sailars and . will be sensible enough' to See that saving is the patriotic duty of, every firemen to a camp. While- his clothes . non-combatant Clever posters etell were being searched he was kept naked in the -intense ,gold for three ' • • the people ' transportation of , food takes up cargo space that ought to be hours, while. German officers' stood. about ' laughing. Eventuallsr his used for American troops and war . clothes were returned wet He was capital a big army 'camp, where mill- material. So every' citizen can see he placed in barracks his only covering tarn, men from all corner's of the will hasten the arrival of Anierican , being blankets which abounded with , -world meet. . , help and thus' suPport the Frenth captain adds: " flanks; the reiit of us covering all the ."Migrant birds' also have 'returned. to the uniforms and forget that once stemiousness. ! ' " • - ' tal and their ,conclition Was, pitiable. , treatment of prisoners here was brue at once to throw hornbs through the. though :there is nOthing left en them, the onlY ones wile added color to a An .A.ereage Increase of 2,600,000. . being put tee work, they fell -down n and seece, more else hears weth • the street scene. Mari gets used to every- : ._lifr. X' D. Menireger, pirector ef Lit- from weakeesn _they were kicked, saine wonder as in fernier spi,iiigs- thing After a While one found -tIre beri Canada Food Board, estithates Clubbed; beaten With -fiat swords and birds dinging their hearts out einid •dark streets quite natural:. One paid that the three prairie "provinces of kept standing at attention in freez- • . Canada will have sown an increase of lag weather as long as they could •- • the. thander of the gans. The first the high war prices writhe:it blinking. .five or six. days, and the gunfire has' Sugar card and leenned to get along 2,600,000 acres in wheat, oats . and steed... 'Many had unhealed wow* ' nightingales have been here now for One submitted to the necessity of a barley. ' ' .. .' ' . ' We all had to fight like wild. beasts . the enemy from attacking • on our• known. . • . "The Parisian long ago becaine used ed poilu hi his own. moderation and else vermin. The • dugout doors. The bombers started to their ' accustomed woods, even .there was a time when women were • ' They were skeletons in rags. If, on rels.of hardened whale fat in the mar- garine industry," says the weekly bul- letin of the Department of Trade and Commerce, Ottawa. "This product has This account does not sound 'less methodical or exciting than thie affair ed t be well suited low making really was, for on finding only one in prov o a Margarine that. keeps well• and tastes wen,: and to be even bitter suited for making lard. For the lat- i• n1 necoosary-to add te purpose 0 Y' ' as cottonseed oil or stoya 04, to - make 'the lard thus Produced fully as good as the imported American lard. In Denmark where' this.. fat hats been used for :nearly' three years, no in-. jhricius effects on the human organ- ism have .been observed." . • "A minute's success pays the fail- , ure f years."—Robert Broweing. I the trench to fire at, And he was try- ing th"get we -settled down bueiness as if we still were practis- ing *ell behind our own lines. • fareiliar thunderitorms." - eein n • . -Pfunes are mere wholesome if stow- ' ' - ' • no morq significance'to. them than the With a Moderate% coal supply in win- - • • • : • , Meaeuees for Pretection. „ ' ed Without sugar. ' for food. a His would refuse" • • ,,Aaboinkeeerej-wo lineenelishigeateeails- ' ed s forth guttiarioulalte wain - 'and "Kamerad" was plainly heard above the Mil:4mb, 'We let the men come out one at a time, their hands uplifted -above their heads, and whea ethe lest man was up one of our 'boys jumped Mt° their . dugont and came un with the news that there were six or :seven dead and a few wounded down below. We left the dead where 'WAIL es 1:0 colorass. . His iRespons Why.- . .agat4tArfOre them, espetially--in.:warmi, „e,.„ :',1' aaraeeeeele,„ee..eacoreeli,bareaa . . fr."41' jaenn'l----1E7-°4-5"ii.- ,f,b,t4tuoil lent -cif the vieit at Never neglect lo -keep weather.. Sour • milk -alid--Itattermiik-- V."14 ''''' ''''''''''' '1'''''" -'7-7-• ';-- - i ' -'-'-7 ."" • nee - ' is also geed. • e. -- the end of the British line. "When, you are asked where . Ewa The general, who was - great • hoe, is ,yoni. ,othievernent going. intoon the left: : . stickler for discipline, said to the last ' ' keeps the Plana: and then go on doing mat - - . .- e • . . . . • "Do you knew, sir, that you're • the God's plans, point -to your Master, who If most important soldier in the array?" your little services as faithfully as —Phillips Brooks. . . Pte. Perkins murmured some ntod. .est eejoinder, 'but, as in duty -hound, the whole temple were 5iours to build." kept his eye glued to the periscents with its vista of No Man's Land. "Yes," resumed the e general "you're the last man in the lasit squad of the. last platoon of the j'aii • "Idately,' however the Parisian ex - Over and above the small license of the war rather impressively. The fees eluirged to dealers in foodstuffs, latest visit re German airplanes re - the total cost to Canada of the Food suited iri energetic measures for pro - Board, since it was organized by. Mr. tiction. : At all..he.beautiful. Monua Hanna hi !June, 1917c4mas only • been $67,430.80, according to a 'statement made by Mr. H. B. Thomson, chair, man of the board at an address in Toronto on May 16th. • ments sand bags are .piled high. On 'many large buildings tablets are posit- ed sayieg there Is a• bomb proof cel- lar there and how many people it will shelter. When darkness appears • • cogthe3r3-1.10.11161.. . . . . • - . • • _ . . •• . . . • .. - . . LoOK ToM,71116 Kirrei4 NI-1.0YMb ma HOME. ° at.lp 1GOI4GTOKEEP 1/1 141 PLA`OuL 1.1111.E.. C US8 1 TOUGHY Y�)1.). DiDN'T inT. CA11% 'TOM f . . • ••••••, . 1'; • . ' ' -• • • • company of the last battalion of the hist regiment of the last brigade." • After .this impressive .. announce. meat the general turned on his heel and departed. nen, the sergeant'- major' lest Pte. Perkins should bt puffedup by the suddenly conferred importance, added: "Yes, and if the • army ,gete the conrad fal• the loft yeu'll. van. it'd; rat thtvn of your bloody natural life!" Any military mart eealizes What it *mild mean to -be pivotinan for a HA 1‘25 Miles long! , Iriereosein our eonsureption eg; vegetables means an increase in Ail export of, wheat. Share your riteA with the Men 44 the front by using potatoes, 'tart onions and turrilasi. 11