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1Xbiesetreeeper 4ms it. Ors aimmo,NOTED antiG
en& the taped sallims. and few loollebete
tossett treriaat neck inerstatesentinteZ1 EN oF THE wAR
**RAUL Tka aide.* et 1LX. nitisee
meow 1 -IM?, sipmem in
whien the LW. len Itelesige Wes
mum viLLAcz IN prostaest et tiorn wow" LAW irsa4.-
wizrun. had been blew* up * mine that
naeraing, and all Ids crew lout ens
greener Itail Veen kneed. Some her
A leyekia Bouripensia Winen Kay a• Iwun wt weepiag ""ettot.1"10.160.t. Biasop, the Greet Caudle*
its tut skwe slied
Anglian ta a illanared Planes hi.
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Inhofe single -landed exploits have
never been eurperised, that no tribute
to his *kill and bravery ii needed. He
flew, apparently, by instinct, like a
bird then
Nor does {'*pt Rall stand in need of
eny eulogy,- He was * more boY,
quite as 240404 ea the mechanic who
looked otter his plane, and the verit-
able D'Artagnan of the skies. Ile lov-
ed 'best to go off alone, scouting over
the German lines, looking for edven-
ture, and whether the enemy was one
or ten it made no difference to Ball
When he fell it woe in a great battie
*gelled odds.
Equelly gallant, but of a difterent
mental type was Mjaor ,Hewker, au
engineering °Meer who was learning
to fly when war broke out. He was
the that Britieb flying nun to win the
V.C., a soldier of rare gifts as a lead-.
er and administrator and inventor of
new "stunts." Him fighting &Attlee
and Ina knack of trebling endinspire
unr those -under him had much to do
with the British supremacy of the
air in 1916, Re died in a duel with
Richthofen, when a west wind drove
the combatante for betind the 'German
lines, andIlawker had the option of
lancting and surrendering or fighting
twas finiene He ' chose' the° latter
course.
ESCRIRING HOW THEY WON'
RENOWN.
Great Britsts.
Tits mai* street of this little coast
taina-aaw a siuseesweepiag as han base-
. -.-s fthe mined were *wen tett elaye leave to Grey, the editor, writer interesting -
sway rom snore, it forest et.
Ily about solne of the greatest flying
. Ask -bads, its little rod -tiled houses
tar seem centuries; and down around! . The Oweineus Telegram. ' imen of the war, and explains how
tn' they won renovni The first to attract
a r
Intik apexkliag flint walls-sparklingn "wasn't ths! Ins* .0" the *Id. Cnna ". n nesna intermitional attention was *eland
elute the seshbaes intros* them, I. atan nig and %newt nut c
emelt wen anent Items tee (hanging mine, neither!" the skipper was say,. Garros, not because of his Patticuler
North Sen --still huddle up the narrow kw. "Sue the way it lunneened! *nninits, because be was. !Fought
seem in the hopscotch tangle of tatty= !Why, we fetched up the infernal thintteldown awl made prisoner before he
01Lin• walks and worn stone 040-
on our kite of our own accord! Didn't could run up a big score, but because
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teens, tend the salt air which fills Gum , know the thing was there:end it blow-lef Ida nering and the great fame he
i e ed the 'tern. out of her! I *wish it'd i enjoyed as a birdman hi the days of
coma back tke base fee. its live days' • Ace, m a Finiehed Master of the
coaling, Provisteniag, engine -room ren Art ef Gunnerw.
pairs, and smelle, and the surviving,
skipper and gria*Se who had been' The Ieindon Aeroplane Mr. 0. G.
ey m0es W.
WU kireneery-huilt in 1798 -and the *gni
leen, 1 I could imagine the savage ghastly ipeece.
Then, came the first of- the great
si"n• at a f'alr° °f rt! tank" bun""n". !fury of the skipper's face as savage,
held German flyers, Immelmaim with the
And if you waten almoet any area. en. while ies, chum sweeper came I Immelniann famous or the pilot made
in the 1Foldter, but whether the Fokker made
le against the gran "Y* i up bis pale sunburned greaser
et the empty sky, presently you'll see ""
h d h f -
ploug inn tower t em rom 400yds.1 the Machine famalai is a moot point,
a spent leoveringewhich materialiees •, awayenheid h. u
un p, „parting tit „him - Free"- the point of eriew a the altpert
d been a torpedo!"
bac* a pa.tr of drooping wings, arid ;to igkeep yer hate eene - designer of flying mechines, the Fok-
irides with a whining "velum" down •
He. wee going down to Deal on the
to the water to joirt a cloud of other I
gulls serearedng over a herring head., 1044 train, his greaser in the base
But you'd never know the old town hospital, and the rest of his crew gone
down to Davy. lie hadn't sent the
now, says an English writer. For the
quays which have been slowly rotting
wife a telegram adviaing ber that he
g nowever. em a
*way under a railroad monopoly hasethe men of the sweepers don't end
lasted ever since railroads were„n., e
rented, ars now sprucece unand their wives telegrams when they are
given leave. They merely go home,
there's a cosy little dry dock, and the
just as you do when your day's work
warehouses flaunt a startlingln fresh
Is done. Women whose huribands are
coat of paint. For the Royal Naval
away on the sweepers don't care about
Trawler Reserve rune them nowreceiving telegraine.
Keening Wilt& *114 Ward' A few corners down the dark street
And in, front of the Royal Hotel is -for night is really night On the war
an empty embankment id weather -col- emote -the dark structure of the base
°rod wood, with a fire -step and sand- nospita' rises three stories from the
bags and barbed wire. And down on etreet, al1. its windows darkened to
the long beach, where trippers used to screen it front aeroplane attack. Men
don't talk about the sights and equnds
-of- the little base hvital, and the
hospital's exterior gives no hint of the
Pun themselves in one-piece bathing'
suits while the beach -barkers barked
and the bathing machines formed
queues, is another empty trench in the hunutn. ;salvage within 'which is being
sand with a barbed wire entanglement menden as snilfully as Iies within the
in front of it ill, all empty and wait- power of the finest medical inen in the
ing. • , lend. 'Moat of its cases offthe sweep -
And if you undertake' to walk on the e.rs are neria•caseS, for if you escape
pleinsere'pier, an armed sailor ofethe dealt, evfien your sweeper hits a•mine
Rona Navy win stand in front of you usually non suffer from no more than
nerves and • aubraersion-if you
eitespe death.. 1 '
and ask you where you're going, and
why.
And scattered over the little fish-
ing village are a certain number of
old 'wrecks of dwelling house& com-
fortable homier wrecked by German
• And high over the village, at the
top of a long, slanting cable wbich you
The fiimg ot the Land Army.
The smelt of rich emit,: plow- up.
• turrini, the rain from soft but
perpisting skiers, .
The starting 'Wheat in its -velvet green
can pick out against the Annie thin asi
the soundhis 'Wind that the claim
hair, if your eyes are good, the. bale . . .
e
earth dries
loon -watch ia watching and waiting wilwhite-tan d lark with its lteind
to see wind it e n Bee. te the bursting budseand -the
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ker was Mere or less a Pike, but it was
admirably adapted for, its own pur-
pose; and had advantages • over Brit-
ish macinnes that helped the Germans
for some time to claim mastery of the
air. The Fokker was light, and it bed
a good engine, and as a clefeatee ma-.
chiee was hard to beat.
• Famous German Airman.
Being lighter ntewas swifter and
noula mount more rapidly than the
British machines, widcb, built for
voyages over the German hines, had
to carry enough gas for four and a
half hours' flying. The nicker, oper-
ating always behind the German. lines,
carrien only •enough fuel for two
hours' flying. '
In his Fokker'Immelmann need to.
sit up at an altitude of 10,000 feet and
swoop down like a lunnit enpoir the
British planes flying at 7,000feet. It
is not to be wondered at that with this
advantage in position and hi machine
he should have made a foemidable
score, but even so, Mr. Grey entree he
has never heard any R.F.C. man 00
that the German was not a great air
fighter. - ` •
He haena letter from a crack Brit,
ish flyer when Ininielmanri's fame was
at its heighte and he said; 'I had
Major Bishop, the great Canadian
ace, is to be reckoned among the finest
flying Agbters tbe war has developed.
His nerve and Ida mastery of maehine
guns -in the latter respect he is not
surpassed, if, indeed, he is equalled
by any man who ever drove a plane -
are his chief characteristics. He has
won all the British honors bestowed
on Ball and Hawker, and, he survives
as the commander �f a squadron to
add. new laurels to ins magnificent re-
.
cord,
n, DIRTIEST TOWN Int .
—the •
Hit, Recently Captured, Looks Beau-.
tifun Only • From a Distance.
FATE or iu-BOAT CREW. e
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An Incislent of the *Wok Reid on
neenteugge /MSC
Harrovian dinars of the deatruction
of one of the largeet and more recent-
ly eonstructen German submarine*
are given in a despatch from a neutral
correspondent, says a London dee
Reach. This submarine was one of
the last to leave Zeebrugge before the
entrance to the harbor was blocked. by
Beitislx forces.
U-holet struclt Mine, and out
, of the crew of 40 only two survived
on reaching the surface after a ter-
rible struggle with death for an hour
and **halt 20 fathoms below the sur-
feit*. Some of the crew committed
suicide, baving lost all hope of leav-
ing The boat alive.
The only chance of escaping was
to force open the conning tower and
the forwerd biddies and trust to the
compreesion of nix in one part of
the Vinniel to force %telt man like a
torpedo to the .surface. The air pres-
sure in the submarine had become so
high that the great Inajerity ot the
Germans could net keep their -menthe
elosed.
. The compressed air shot tlum in the
surface, and hardly ha4 they reached
• the see level when the air pressure
buret -their lunge and alma 20 ofthein
saint like stones. The survivors de-
scribed the yells of the men when the
end came, as the most horrible noise
they had ever heard.- •
I The attention of a British_ trawler
wan attracted, and it hastened to the
rescue. IThe. conditien of the eurviv.•
ora,showed that their experiences in
the submarinehad been of a dreadful
character,
BELGIAN VaLLAGE IN -ENGLAND:.
Wounded Refugees Make, Shells for
British Army.
New townships have . *ling 111) in
• perts of England, owing to the de -
Hit, which we occupied recent- mend for housing for munition work -
lee viewed from a mile, or two "down- era. Mr. Raymond -Unwhi, who plan -
stream, reminds ' one of a town in .ned the first garden city at Latch -
Italy, writes Edmund Candler, British worth, has been appointed by the Min -
press representative in MesopotamiaistrY of Munitions to superintend the
But as one enters it the enchantnient building of these "model teem:ships.”
that 4istance lends disappears. One The War Pictorial says: .
cannot escape' from . refuse in these 'At • Elizbethville, named after the
smallinncient Biblical oi*o. It is the Queen of the Belgians, Some 4,000 Bel -
salient think. They are hinit on ie. gime soldiers are making shells for the
fuse The Hit of to -day; hi nentlen a Bintish army. Of these .90 per ,cent.
strata of Hits dating back to the hate seen service in the field, and
AIM of the Bible: The -debris Without. MOre than three-quarters hate been
grows' until it threatens to dominate wounded. Like the ether munition
the walls a the town; yet the debris totnnshiPseElizabethville is a product
within never decreases, and being of the war. . •
scrap with Immelmann the other day, InOre recent it is more offenelve.
He flies a Monoplane, fires through One. wouldnhink that bitumen must
his propeller and flies beautifully. We bane a Purging effect: The Arabs
got off drums of mule/ninon at one used to call these bitumen wells, which
anotber; apparently without results,
except plenty .of holes in my ma-
chine." •
liolcke was another Fokket flyer,
wida.tonteinporitty of Ininiehitakirtn,
are scattered all over the -desert? "nu
mouths- of hell.". 'There ls One withirt
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half a mile of it and it lives up to
its 'reputed °tied . : One need not ask
the -*ay to it, one is guided by • the
. .
I imed tee phrase."fishing village" • - streams att., .•
"Elizabethville is situated in one of
the most beautiful valleys of northern
England. Its population is eetirelet
Belgian; and it reproduces as faith -
gully as possible every feature of Bel-
gian town life. The cottages and all
the furniture have been provide& by
the Ministry of Munitions, and each
cottage has a garden' attached," -
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ENGLISH CHANNEL TUNNEL. HEROISM OF
The Imatediate Ceesstructiett ot Muck - T
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CANADIAN NURSES Needed unnel is Ursed.
While tba &mans are Milting of
re-establishing their shattered com-
merce after the war by means of eu-
forced preference* and long -terra
trinities With other nations, the Allies
are iniproaching the tonne subject in a
more practice' way. The later -
national Parliamentary Trade Center -
once has already laid the foundations
of an inter -Ally commerciat teem
and isabout to hold a third annual
meeting in London.
At this gathering, which will be
held during the first week in July, the
treation of an inter -Ally ;trade coun-
cil will be proposed, which is intend-
ed to 'be to the expected commercial
war what the Inter -Ally Supreme War
Couneil is to the presentconflict. By
far the most important question to .be
raised will be that on the immediate
construction of the long disowned
Channel tunnel.
Or Arthur Fell, for years a fore -
Most advocate of the great engineer-
ing undertaking,* has PreParen a Pa-
per to be read, during the discussion
showing how Tepid and cheap com-
munication between treat Britain,
France and the Continent will help all
the Allies to *recuperate froin the
crushing losses they have suffered.
throughthe war, and will tend to
make them more independent of the
Central Powers in regard to trade.
Sir Arthur shows that, in gone of the
feeling against Germans engendered
by the Franco-Prussian. War, German
trade with France from 1907 to 1914
increased sixty per cent., while Anglo-
French commerce expanded only half
as much. He attributes this difference
to speedy railway traffic optioned to
the slowness of transportation by sea
and urges the • construction-- of the
Channel tunnel as the, surest way s to
avoid the. latter, • At a Meeting nin
London recently he, explained the im-
portance of tho.. subject, and said it
would. be practicable for through
trains to run between London and
Constantinople. • • • • -
•nd
Had the tunnel been Ofimp e nee
bine thee war the struggle might have
been victoriously miand by this time.
Obviating; submarine perils,' it would
have saved hundreds of lives and
scores of cargoes of supplies lost' be-
tween the English west and .the
French ports. Had it been begun even
during the first .months of the strug-
gle it could have been completed, by
this time. Now it ispreposed to be-
gin In earnest the great work, whtch
will. not only help Europe but be .re-
flected in many channels of American
trade, particularly in raw materials,
which, worked up in England, will be
passed on to the Continent as elninhed•
products.- -
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BRITISHERS: OF- 51 CALLED tin.:
though he did net rise to fame so soon: smell; and. when one teaches the
To said to belong' the credit of elnang one is held there watching it
develeping . the German Berstein Of With a horrid faicination, The foul
training a number of airmen to fight nes ninirte IT In Intermittent gushes,
in, regular normation on the lines nee raising the @cum. in bubbles like gi-
gantic black boils which distend and
what later on came to he known as a
burst with a hissing sound. The pitch
"circus." His circus became famous
„ • , • discharges itself down a slope, where
. ntichthofen's Circus. . it is collected and carried w
One. of hie pikes was Richthofen, finds it on, the roots and -Mahe and
nirlibably the fittest orrilltetentiai.fineestreeteetit-Bitneelkatse are - caulked
ers, who was kilted by. a Canadian • a With It ia Invaluable for boat
few weeks ago. .Ridithofen would ape- bridges. • • . •
pear to have•all the qualifications for The pitch the bittiminous, reel -
success as an airmen.. He was a cave due of the asphaltic bees oil distilled
airy Officer by training, a horseman, by the sun. The nature of The surface
and. a game shot by family tradition.. discharges in the neighborhood aeries
When given command of ,a squadron according to age and locality. One
A couple of paragraphs hack Bet the Give me Thy pa ',mate love, of these,
nE7S TORTURED TO DEATH.
'Turke , Claim Germans • Instigated
Atrocities to Bagdad
Sir Auckland Geddes is Trying to Sup -
Milner* ot the hotel remarked a feW -71Aird' till I diet. • ..ply Urgent Need. .
Residents
Men iin -forty-nine, fifty' and fitty-
mhuites ago, 4`1 wouldn't .fish now for The golden grain to the harvest
at pound an hour. Youeoughtto see the whirring fall of the • Arm, one have been called up for nienieal
some of the duff they bring up." For bound wheat, ' examination for' the army says a re-
some
is nidneteen hundred and war- Tile burning suns in. the azure .skies, cent London despatch e In this 'cint-
timeff and you•have to have a permit • the peewee's morn -ball Wild and.nection Sir Auckland Geddes, the mail
to fish. There ate only one or two linnet, - -- • - •
ayr One
crews fining here -now-i.e.,efishing Tile black clouds rent by-theinghtning chairman of the Beistel tonseriptien
nowet controller,: emoted by - the
for herring-ande" they. go out and pale, • the daisies wilitening every tribunal as. saying he is „ ttying to
come in at specified tunes and fish in. dale, meet the urgent need for men for a
lovenn these,
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• retails of the brutal treatment of
Jews in Mesopotamia are given by • a
correspondent of the Provisional Zion-
ist Committee -wno actompenied the
British ariiiy. The Jews in Bagdad
were ordered by the Turks to hand in
their gold and silver money, for which
notes were given in -exchange. The
sudden addition to the wiper currenty,
already depreciated, caused* further
and the Turkish Government
✓ uked the local officials. • •
rich Jews were thereupon sum-
moned te) pourt and accused of .a de-
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specified areas. And if they neglect Give Me• Thy passioriate
to observe the sPeeifications, they lose Lord, till I die!
their permits in a jiffy and are
led off into the Arntye • • The deenate winds' on the- browning
mutes, the red full weight of the
But the few of them that are still at
it are 'minting fabulous sums item the PP e, , •
Rese.reeso .whieh fishes for oerrao The bracing air of steely dawns, the a. his 'avnl he developed the- 13oleke finds congealed lakes of asphalt;
d er_ satainonodtilinganadfliaaatt aative.ground, and one
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•
. • 13/wee,. n• men were not only aviators, but gYm
Goverriment credit -They evere 'torture
„ woos. . • yellow • leaves . in. a twinkling circus to a remarkable egree. Is , hardas pavemen ,• i erate attempt to depreciate the
Preferred a, Torpedo. imperfectly solidified stretches,.
:, The cornfields brown and the •ehip.., milfitS__, Theft machines' Were painted linde a ed to death and their bodies thrown
them in the Old Inue Anclion Thai duck h' env , . . • • , malied from. place to phice along the
I spent an.evenirtg with a dozen or munks the far triangle of wiltie in all sorts Of harlequin colors They as at. Ain Manch, where the surface into the Tigris, • ..
rorks as you walk en it line 'a quaking- These discoveries were made When
the number were skippers -one from
Deal one from Milford flatten one, Give me Thy passionate love:of these front, and when the weather Was -fa- bog. The springs of this dried patch
. are th d oil . the British. entered Bagdad, Of', the
year or two longer,. and. expeets that
the tribunate will do the seine..
He is aware of the public feeling
about calling up older • men .while
younger ones remain, but smite of the
younger men are essential 'to the
mimitione stqfp y and cannot be re-
inoved to the ft forces until the
older men are--abIe to de theit work
.• Sir Auckland adds that there are
60,000 fewer men in the' goirernment
departments now than . three years
T" ' • - •
per- a e e o from which petrol,
r Lord, till 1 diet . • • Vorable-they always game twopersecutions at Alvan, the correepon- "
from Cardiff, one -front Aberdeen, one --en-0,e_ formance.s a day. One iui. the morning kerosine fuel, and lubricating oil are dent says they were instigated and •
from Yarmouth and the other- * . • preeer for courage.
when they were all tegether, and_ene., prepared. . d
, • orgamze by,the Gertuans, nthe Turks The Sighing of the Prisoners
Lowestoftematt. In their peace -time .
later in the day, when the survivors Bitter/Uri, .waterwheels and a el . . -
gaudy mufflers, and - straps,. around erre never be revealed tre m . • .
days they used to wear 'eanrings, and Why sheald long for what Imo • ' • ent are see admitted tins
_ w gave nolo stunts. . -11ilseIY to be the abiding ireptessionn - The endless length ICIsayagn, E:t
r wi carry
In hue • • et Alb tr tliat the sold'e ' • ftill of drearl d- 1
patn .
lc ens =Ms eve a o,ss .1 away rom Forest Studies in New Brunswick. • • !
their trousers just betove the knees. X nnlY Pranetna!kentay.krow. hiplane,s, bnt ihortlY Wore- the Get- Inie. ' I ?Aire al7ays thonght of nitt
Prof. R. B. Miller, of the University , Interminable nightli,,, 1....„.• ,, .„.., ...:.:.1. ''• • :
But. now the Royal Nivel Rererve ••••An nitre ann .-neneely es a free- ,
1
yv Brunswiek Ittill' he-enaphiYa-Whin even resPite in ' the lande of
!men Speing ciffensine- began, Rientho•• as r ndtEnnet. little tcr0 jp 401a,..A1151,:ef-ikre-_,...
in isjudg.ment the sent-it:tune-13f tne
clothes them, and they wearnhe -cress- raii•I•iiiicilAc Iv ili,,i2'.:- titir . . linen nenehad been %tete-aline pre- joiritly this, *summer by the New Brunie' • nieenris
Is sought In viten n • ,
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I only crave thP Ittil ina.^e • ': The teed litniger pangs ' ' . ., •
Of hrenenee nreeeneg nen-and
That gnaw •and . grip and 2 'ceps' aft
. enarn. - •
'wolf its preyi , T ' . • '" -
The burning,: panclibige tbireten
iiiftliF-It-titiilt
.8e.eksaptoangaenan ,
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e
The wretched •weitineris yearst .
. The fettered sieulnewhile soullese
. : . beasts go 'Nee! ' ,.• .• •• •
The taunting itiemariesen . ,
914 God, In Pity, seed•forgetfulnenne:
Or liberty! P .
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u e ess
ed anchors ana. crown in red af war-
rant officers, It.N.T.R., on their caps
arid on the left sleeves of their /ignore-
• ent Ntereeblen nanketn. Ent they stiti
eling to. their eerrings.
. Remains or xely rell beanie- Etna;
Mesopotamia 'Expeditionary Force .
enably training new pilots, returned wick Forest Service arid the Botanical
rto tne front, and he and the men un- ti.wierthofmteh. Ittoulinwowhn6rina 'aonfeamsmniaarll cfioaeg- Divider). of the Dominion Departinent
bini were equipped with poldrer of Agneultnrea in making Fenn:0y of
leeee, which arc add to htepwi
x badly LI 'flying, masons And neavengers. are
Serest tree dis,eases in New Bruns-
In one corner of the 014 Blue An- Let ene bring• erern see0 en,ene eatorciaereeetinn the vent* of nrgiation_j_
=vile copies:a the th BriisSoth. i tufo imme
e morial smells arbeing e eeeeh,
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or'a gabliU'hari Cub.' 'en4.4rfn-e linen extert jayerrgy Ana -when ac, . . • • Scouring the Floorn. .
sed to be the trawler Little 'Boy, -was . The patient erearake of '1'.he Vans. console himself °VIOL the - ;reflection., • Peeling Trimatoes. a good- Washing powder mixed with
nerforming between its mutes of stout.' Et' d • eie . tent be end .0one bit, and done' ill Prick some holes in .the bottoni of sand over it. Do this at least lin hour,
of N.M. Minesweeper et -6789, can& The strong parsiste*e zorA .trentethofen was brought down he could : ' • Before scouring your floor, sprinkle
It consisted of an accordion, a mouth- en ene van*" ntaaran len iry rare
organ,* jew's harp, and ari old tin pan .1 s/lan not mina 'floe wt4IltiAs ata
,
which was clanged witli a couple Of scans, ' . * man& las been written about
.,,u, : •S
spoons by the ships coek. All its Feeling s strength of etre', . • Gtneuterthe French ace, whoe
numbers wore the blue, flat hat, with The bright conviction :of the Stara, inaree srili never be inrgotten, and easier to peel.
the tomat,oes with riefork and 12old
therii Over the fire for an instant. Thin
,will crack the skin and make them
before serubbing, and walk over it so'
the mixture -will be rubbed into the
floor. This removes all grease and
leaven the floor very white.
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Had to Wear Gas Masks for Some
Boum While Carrying on Their
Work of Mercy.
A remarkable story of the heroine
of Canadien nurses is contained in *
cable received by the Department of
Militia and Defence from overseas,
which tells. how women. of the Doe
minion had to wear gas mance for
hours while carrying out them gentle
nuke. The article wail written by Ro-
land Hill from War Correspondenta'
tHoe8Ocitqtauwartea,brys'SFirraildeeavia4rnddlnweamsPribled
Min-
ister of Overgeas Forces.
"Carry ,on" has been the motto of
Canadian nursing sietere since the
enemy airmen bombed their bospitala, •
and tbeir courage and, steadfastness
has geinen them the atimirationn of
all British, French and American,e
soldiers who have tome uuder their
care. Night after night for over it
Week two of the largesf our Can-
adian hospitals worked Steadily, al-
though they were in the very centre
of one of the heavily bombed, areas.
Several of the nursing sisters were
killed and wounded, -and several of
the staff ,Newvereeww•iiipielaoruryt. on!,
The colonel of one hospital de-
eided to semi the blue -gowned girls
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to a distant hospital on. the COa•st,
practically, immune ftom 21144% A
few were started lot this haven, then
from the others came a great protest
"We will .carry op," they declared,
and the colonel permitted -them tone-
maime • , ' -
' Each night the sisters on duty were
aerved with shrininel-pt shields to
wear under their uniformin Emergency -
operations were carried thrOugh with-
out a hitch, and raring a soldiers hfe
was saved, althougn the surgietti hut
rocked with the force of.tiurexPlocdona
from bombs that nropped only a fewe
yat•ds of. - In other •huts, when the
raid Srert was blown, these indomit-
able 'girls from Cr • In went through.
their wards and genny WWI h 'pless
patients to. the floor, where, under then
shelter of. the sandbag battier that's' .
kined the hut, they. were •pomparative•
ly sane from flying shrapnel: Then ik
and only then they sought 'shelter in
the bomb-pioof shelters. If unluelnly
a ward was Int by a bomb, one of the
first to rush to the reecoe would be a
nureing sister as cool as she 'was
akeous-a. wonderful tonic for. the
shell-shocked men who were in her
este. • -
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Faced belly Death.
In the Canadian casualty...clearing
stations closer to .the lines eine faced
(laity death' and possible capture With , •
an ever -Changing front 'Mote than
one hospital 'hen been lieayily singled
during' a 'battle when the .• rush of
wounded .,•wae so centinuone • there
emild be no -Theinehe of evrentiatingthe
On seine , occasions Slitting .
March -April oftensive'4. the hoSpitals
were drenched with enemy gaS, and.
the sisters had to wear gas maslo for
hours cloing wilat gentle taske theY-
could with ant+ a handicap.. When
forward •casualty clearing ...stations
were sWent, away little bands of these
brave . girls marched with the tinkle*
troops, occasionally netting 0. lift on
an ambulance Until they reanted se 0
other overWnrked hospital, and ther
they evouldineiget their fatigue and
joirintheir• tonirades in tne 'worn. of •
mercy, Some Canadian 'sisters who
came through that ordeal actually did
duty in as many as pve dinerent hos-
nitaLs. in the Week, scores of miles
apart • '
In thirbite base &meted' alongside.
the graves of hundreds of the tie,.
nire's bravest are • •the little . white
woOderi cremes that, mark the resting
place.of those heroic Canadian sisters.
Who died an duty an "Killed in Lunen"
is the • Minnie inscriptioo, and mothers,
aria fathers' in Canada can be proud '
of. it, for it is the seine as that which
the fighting, soldier 'earns • whett he ;
intlinnionneitignntrennemy.latetwe. ninny
are of the same breed, those tender •
yaliant nistern.froni everseas.
O In Belgiummore than
Malting Potanie- s Help.
a food. Whensoap became nnobtain-
able Belgium's housewives were in a
quandryas to how to . get their laun-
dry .clean entil Bonin. one discovered
that by letting clothes seen all day hi
water in which peeled potatoes had
been boiled and then rubbing them at
you would in a. lather the clothe$ di
would came out snew-white. • IF
Why not let potatoes help as as they
have the European countries, if not to
launder otir clothes sit least to take the
place of whet? The more potatoes
we eat the less wheat We need. A me-
dium-sized potato, . weighleg about
three and ortentalf out -ices, supplies
about as much starch a$ two small
slices of wheat bread one-half "nth
thick. in .other respects, Ikkle, the
pante nireSSOTSS' up well with wheat
bread and ellen his the advantage over
it in supplying certatn salts which the
1:11dYultineengdLrtt !tte2ws,eaLetf mth:chaccledrite!
als, meet and eggs,
"Tlutni in the fink mean ran* in
the ioul,s-Wilifiya R. Itidpriy.
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