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(hers rltfedy 1st minter tece. aebewrbers what
tall to tertian Tar "resat restarts by rail
wens nM aratror 1y . un vwWtf the fM
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t churn id ansae l •� e�
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may be uwte 7 task A � aft. ewspew
e nder. v' mer eve. o. me eased r.
flabn'rfriarfn yee...n.�•..aata arriwl
ADyrir,atau 'sea. stares ter ase
waren et tress -ewe . t- w 1 d tan Ire en stAS-
tattua Legal, d other .haII*r..4 wart
WO MA,perIt's.' fur Are 1••.. rine awn
rote Ws" her ter earn siese elms .assess.
tfornrad ty a wart of wee. we. i l-4 •
ger In Im :,, n ��
Site
and unbar. Foe n :.r• I• Strayed. A4V011e -
scut. of logit. 1' •rend,
Vadat. Sit tette, N -•'.•..d. Houser for saber
to Rent. Y. fur tivle tr to Reet. Articles
for P.l., eta. not dreading sight her Twisty -
Are ('.wr o eb in'onion : one Dollar for feel
earth Mt, Cent, for once a.M uses[ earth.
LaMar edvertl-eweotr in pepor1ten. As-
ooenonoeet. In ordinary radios typo. Tee
Caste per line. No notice lent Ira Tw..1y-
Ars Cents. Any .yeoial nates. the *IOW of
whish ta tl.o paeaniarf swat of Yf
.0
eel or .w0tatton. w bar oeeedw*d as sever -
Moment nett charred iso erdlsfb- tir d
To ('oauureroana.ts.-The
our .ubrrriber- and t*a/•ee 4 ettrd y Walt -
ad toward. making Tau P W S AL a weeklr rei.rd
of •11 local. county •oddbar*ctdolose•• oases
munication will be attended us rakes /t ses-
tela. the norm pps.
end .dola of the weltersat
•aarny for
mor ood faith Nee. iters Drheeld rear Tars
iov•!. orfs,. not Liter trio Wedyeeda7 noon
of men week.
Tilt
the guilty ones, but it will als•r those
maeuteotutrers and coalminee who
have dose their week la se hapset
and patriotic spirit.
The Burse aanlvtneary seems to
have passed .1.15.1 sewotieed in this
part of the cousin,. It Is to be hoped
It will not always be neglected because
Huron has pissed the Ssoit Act.
'Scotties wtlI be interested 1a the an-
nounceseset that Harry Lauder, the
famous eoasedies,, hoc sontributed
El ,000 to the Priem of Wales' war re-
lief fund. What le mors, his eon has
?charted for army nervier.
The Farmer. Inseitsh, meetings
next week should be well attended.
Those who may bays found the meet-
ings uninteresting in the past should
go and make thew interesting by tisk-
log part in lb. discttssiow.
Toronto Star: Quebec should not
bother Ontario just now about the
French lenguege in our schools. That
question can keep. Just now Ontario
is busy enlisting, drilling. and sending
•wry men to help preserve the French
language in France.
Our sprightly contemporary The
Heusall Observer reports that 1600
cup, of coffee were drunk at a social
event in that town. 1f Finance Min -
Fater White beers (f this while be is
RSDAY. JANUARY 2s"•, 1915
GOOD BUSINESS ADVIOE.
At recent westing of the St.Lawr-
ence River Counties' Pres. A.ociso
tion, Mr. Geo. A. Wright. secretary•
tre*.nrer of the Roht. Wright Co.,
Limited, of Brockville, ooh of the
1 trge.t and most ,u-re-sful dry goods
hou.ew in Canada, gate an interesting
address on "Advertising, from an Ad-
vertiser's Mtandpoint.•' Anv a.itice
on this.ubj.eet coining f•i' ••a' who
knows, such a. Mr. N'tigh'. is honed
to he .round and *tumid b • convincing
to .11 retail -•nerchsnts. Mr. Wright
says the fonnJatinn of hi. fir.u's'bust -
nen war lid by •dvertisiog. Its
growth wan• due to adteiti+ing, and its
continued increasing %.dilute it the re-
sult of persi.t•nL 5..1vie eOng. Theas-
port of his address cant ours:
"i'er•is:ent sled definite aavertisiog
was the keynote of Mr. Wrigbtb ad-
vertising creed, which years of ex-
perience had taught hint was the cor-
rect method to produce restate.
Newspaper space wi.h'handbills care-
fully distributed, re an ruxdirry, cou-
"stitutrd the hest advertising. Spun
wodic advertising was of very Buie
use : ever large spaces in oewspapers,
used only occasiont ed of site
desired effete e pet intent
advertising then caused the name of •
firm to become a household word and
inetautly ar,ociet*J in the miud with
daily needs of pie -do es*. Definite
adveriest tog %VAS necessary, and the
quutaLo,n of puree wee a great factor
in gaintog pal+.tic atteuti',a and in-
terest. Advertirulg must be honest
also: fur the puelic is quick to du-
ceru the fake flush Ute true, and, un -
leas facts are advertised, public cuu-
l4lene it lust. The persistent adver-
tiser ()Uri, `•'m'fits teem the •dvettis-
iog of th! ucc..ional advertiser, as
people 13 the sCCw.t.rused themselves tc
the mane tit the prsietent advertising
firm and often reepind by gulag to the
stun of the latter for goods advertised
by .sen.' .•t as" firm whose mane ap-
pears only occasionally in the public
print.. \Fr. \fright gave instances i.t
which tht• had aec•:u: read in all, uwu ex-
perie.,ce.
EDITO1IAL NOTES.
A Z-ppelio raid appears to be a1-
n,ost M deet i uetlre a. A suffragette
dlnusslra, ion.
Toronto Telegram :
"What d.. we care foe a bit of snow,
Wbeu there'• news like that from
Jetliner' --`
In the .natter of the patriotic fund,
will the county council the week do
something worthy of the great county
of Huron ?
Toronto News (January Si, 1915) :
"This newspaper ba, never opposed a
t'ausdian navy." Well, the discussion
is making a little progress.
Sunday's fight in the North See
p:setisally destroyed the striking
power of the German navy. In very
truth Britannia rules the sea.
Every dollar spent in Goderieh belps
your own town. A good sentiment,
isn't It? By the way, do you always
get your printing done io town?
A large number of good cooks ere
being eniuted in the third Cssadisa
contingent. The last obstacle to re-
cruiting ha. surely been removed.
The towel ns" Welland has a source of
Income not every bees available.
Lou week no less a limns than 112,700
was eollertsd in petals... from "blind
pigs•" _- -
devising new s••hemes of taxation.
something may happen.
or -General Sam Hughes has his
failings, but if he had to deal with the
men who have 1•een grafting on army
contracts they would bear from hitt
to some effect. The Government,
however, has seen fit to plate
the aw.rd,ng of contracts in the
hands of a cu.minatte. at the head of
!which is Hon- "Bob" Rogers -with
the pxpe.ted rv.ule
since the war began Britons every-
where have been waiting for a regu-
lar stand-up fight between the British
and Getman tattle fleets. Possible
the engagement of 8baday last is the
ne•rert to wet n tight the war will
see, as the German navy bus been so
badly mauled *heady that it will
hardly dare to come out into the open
and roust , total destruction. The
changed condition, of naval fighting
ere indicated by the statement that In
Sunday's fight the ebemy's ships were
barely visible and the gunners had to
train their guns upon a target that
{Poked no bigger thau a 5 -cent piece.
When the peed, were asked to vote
for Hydro -electric bylaws, they were
told they were voting for an extension
of the principle pf public ownership
and operation. instead of this, we
find that to a considerable extent real
public control has been displaced by
autocratic control from Toronto. A
recent issue of The Guelph Heald
had the following :
"Guelph has no mistreat with the
Provincial Hydro -Electric Commit -
*ion, and does not a i.h to have any.
The question at issue is not important
enough. But as to whether Guelph
retains the old *yeti= of collecting isa
and light accounts- quarterly, Inst rad
of 'ubntbly. we base surely • perfect
right to'decide for ourselvers, irrespec-
tive of anything the Provincial Oom-
misdon has to say. The Iccal light
and heat eummiesion will, no doubt,
emphasize this fact in further negoti-
ation with the Prnvinci•.I body.
Guelph is ni asking tor any favors
that cannot with rea..en be granted
to any other city or town. it
has merely decided to revert to the
old system of cone+•tog accounts
1,v 1 be quarter. What is there in this
that need cause friction or necessitate
mention of granting favor? Sir
Adam Beck says the Hydro Commis-
sion will not recognize the change
hark to the o1.1 and popular system of
collecting the rates quarterly. This
opposition from the Provincial board
is tint. ducats and te,11 neceaaitete
careful consideration. for Guelph has
been too firm a friend of the movement
to run counter to thec.mullein° with-
out grave cause. At the *erne time we
think the request of the local com.bie-
sion i• • fair one, and should he
allowed. Guelph is not. a. we under -
stead, staking for anything mote than
i the right to collect i's rates as snits
Ithe general convenience. It is alto-
gether ton arbitrary a rule [het re-
fuse* to giant even that reasonable
measure of liberty of si•t inn."
The Herald has always been an ad-
vocate n( the Hydro at stem ; in fact,
it is one of those Conner settler papers
that have worshipped Minnie blindly
at the shrine of Adarr. ilrck. It is
getting its efee open.
Compensation.
When her twe [here had unto m.nnord erten.
Death lend Mess int to std•, ons Mwry
May.
And .she. hand and heart .mpty..a1 and loea,
Asked leartuily: "15 It not true that try
Are haeeser far who sever bee*. Child.
W M .e%sr odd the little feet about t
Seater to be hers treed Hiss r*eenrlbd
Whoa leek*.s up ass gado ht. Split I. out r'
net when 1 laid "New von know ...o(.ae•
km*:
t Now yes MA better rid another • Wa .
{ltr war rue icer await yea var. .1,...
Amid yes will prase then t o leer heart atria :
AM mare. tan yes. th►•..eh .11 that sacra
Vence
w■ Asher b.." -a 'Web* sr ..y -•see bee
tart
Alez..der twin Frew.
plhroirrss0wt .bold investigate the All the world levee • lover. The
Merles of the supplying of shoddy wood Inv?, 10 be mmnaui
'areola to the Canadian foto? gctiom 10
it only when they want to register
W frost. 'lids will not only give the a klet Cher basso propir pest th.Ar stet
Pauls as oppertswlty of deellmig with loot rot weed.
THE SIGNAL 1 a1f1T)RRTOR = ONTARIO
ECHOES Of THt WAR.
Titers ars many rumors, sas-Yy en -
true, gots' about et the tract. Mk
i+
aa ea.mple :-
A report ran Wel among out make
[bat the German li�peeoe was sap-
tured. At the bead 01 • uolusas whist*
was �j*5 from ase plass to
soother an order was Imusd fee Coe -
poral Fraser. It was taken up by •
Cockney soldier, who shouted bask
for"Corporal Fritter. • Further amid
further beck the uressage was passed
on 1111 it became, "Otugbt the Caller."
In no time the urea were talking ex-
citedly of the capture of the German
Emperor, end the omlcen were dis-
cussing possible details.
Odor things happen to wee. "Hs is
going to be shot •t 2 o'clock," rs:-
mwrked soma French soldiers the
other day in Belgium to some passing
British who were looking at an oto
Frenchman cutting and piling wood
se
wiextreme speed. The old lltwoob-
Malt, it sea. explaieed, had takes pity
on two hung. German soldiers w1µ,
bad lust *bale way -he had given
them shelter and food. This was di. -
coveted by the French authorities.
The _Germans were taken prMonies,
and the old man was doomed todeetd
"Does he know be is going to be
shot r asked a British soldier. "Oh,
yes, be lamer* verywell." As the
afternoon went on tBritish passed
again. Still the old man labored rap-
idly at hi. wood -cutting. '•Why,
u
what has happened ? It is pt, 2."
"Ye*, but he is working so well, you
see, and we want more wood. 'We
shall not shoot him till 0o'clock."
The Chenley Enterprise si s: In
the last threw verses of the 1.1.13 chap -
1. r of 8t. Mark, the Master colnweod-
eth the poor widow for her Much giv-
ing. In Chesley in the last week of
1914 a little six-year old boy who had
five dull.rs iu the savings bankave
all that Ise had to buy s hereto! flour
(or the Belgians, and a barrel will
keep two starving Belgians alive all
winter. The boy's nam is Burdett,
M (Neel and we would mak all our ex-
changes to repeat the story of the
sacrifice of a Cbe.ley boy won has a
heart that can feel for another's woe.
A pretty story from Winnipeg gives
• happy insight into the character of
the poops Canada is seeding to the
front, and int . the big hearts that
bat under the khaki coats of the lads
who are offering their servicer for
King and country.
it was tb.• 00110113 of men io train-
ing in Winnipeg to march every
motnit.g past a house where a tiny girl
unfailingly stood at the gate and
waved bee bandkerctief at them. No
day was too cold or too rainy, and
finally the mets in uniform began to
watch for her and to turn "eyes lett"
ea soon as G. .y reached her part of the
street, to say nutbiog of stepping out
with extra 8.0.0. r and vigor. Need-
le -a to may, the "soldier Inaba" became
a part of the baby's little life, and one
day a tangible evidence of her place in
theirs came for her in Ibe form of a
big blue-eyed doll. -
But this was not all. Little Miss
Baby was to be carried off to Cali•
fain*. for the coldest winter weeks.
One day there was a trip to the
railway station, wbere the train was
waiting to carry her south. And
there on the platfoorro stood 500
stalwart soldiers lined up to see her
off. With their cheers ringing in her
ears and bee beautiful dolly clasped in
her arms the proudest little lady in
C+.nnds war whirled away to i-
fornia.
A young British ',- Meer in charge of
a remote station in South Africa re-
ceived from his superior officer at the
have 'some time iu August this' ones -
seise : "War has been declared.
Arrest all enemy aliens in your dis-
u i -t." Promptly the superior officer
received this rept : "Have arrested
seven Godwin", four Russian*, two
Frenchmen, five Italiana, two Rouman-
ians and en American. Please say
who we are at war with."
At the annual prize giving of an Old
Country school the principal quoted
the following "howlers" written
f 1 log t by
pupils in a "General Knowledge"
paper :
What does H. A. U. stand for? -
H• .n rihle Artillery Company.
Who is the prime minister ?-John
Bull.
What is the iron cress ?-A medal
the Keiser gives his soldiers for
brutality.
Why is London so badly lighted
now ?-Because the Government want
the money for the war.
Why has 8t. Petersburg been
(-hanged to Petrograd P -So that the
Germans won't know it Is the capital
•od where to find it.
New York Bveniog Post : Lest
anyone think [het giving to the Bel-
gian. is confined to the rich and pros
porous in nur cities, we would cite
n recent happening in Rock Hill, 8. C.
The girl atudxnts of the Winthrop
Not mal College at t [rat place recently
called • ro.etins on their own motion
and unanimously voted not to make
any Christmas gifts this year, but to
give as much of their slender means
as they cased to the Belgians. As •
result. $563 hes been sent to the mut-
terers.
ubfirers. This generous set Involved
both self-denial and self .*ernes, for
295 nI the atudecte are daughters of
farmers, who is a class have been
hardest hit in the south by the bad
timer. Many of the student.. more-
over, are working their way through
0 )11s -me.
A Walkerton p- aper say.: The
Walkers se bey. ebe ai• guarding
the wireless .taitlnn at ToherMnry
are kept well posted on happenings at
the front. They eateh the wireless
reports as they ore fleshed areas ,he
enuntry from Halifax, and than eons*.
wet ly gnext loth* doings long ho-
me they appear in the dally papers.
They also Intercept. much thirteen
DOW, ►bit is seat by wireless to Say
-
trill., N.Y., wad to met the German
veseslna of the 5mht before it I. served
np b the press of the American re-
public. Po, although 1e a lonely pert
of the country, the boys are kept
wised-ep ow the lateen bwewnings in
the war hose.
it'. the last look in the tltlnsr that
sacro a wawa' to NM lbs [tai.
THE GREAT STRU6GLE
Mainly Extracts from Leading British
and American Papers Relating to the
War. • • • • • •• :
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WHAT ••TUI! OONTSMPTIBLE timed the whole movement was may
LITFLY ARMY" BAH BERN DOING. he seas from the last that after an uu•
expect dl 'hurt siege Antwerp boll
ua the eth October, and the Ger-
mtas aet trove proceeded to sweep for-
ward viet.alostdy thuntgb Belgium
inwards Calais" and we oba?.et rbe
dteb of Sir John Pesach covet Freoeh tires eo..ed agar La Basses
tsps ing lanai Lille. Ossetia* o gap of forty or
i 1 u coded
bow various source.: from editorial By the aid of the t.trore in the north
rumwalire in the Thiess, Nation- and 5.r John sea. enal.l.11 w hold the
M.11:0diet Recorder of London ; from masse. of .he Germans. But fur weeks"
the vivid letters of the army chapl•lu he had ouly a very lr.gile line to op-
wbi' h appear la the Recorder and In pose to greatly superior numbers, and
the Toronto Christian Guardian: and the French were not able to bring
from Sir John Ftench's dispatch itself. rmcient, aid for some time. By Hood-
Osrtaiu verbatim extracts from this ing the valley of the Y.er (run, the
teeter are dhoti oguished by being sea the Belgians were able to hold the
priotasd within brackets. line neoreet the (weal, but iu the
The dispatch is a stirring record of oeighborbo..d of Ypres the little con -
long and desperate fighting against tingent of B,(tiah troops had for a
formidable odds, weieh ended in deb fortnight to face fretful odd. By the
int* sureness -although at a very heavy 21th Oct ober, General F.etnch
price. The words Field-ll.usbal "the 8.a.,nd Volps'was now becoruieg
French incidentally user is recognis- exbau,ted, owing w the con.taut re-
ing the "invaluable services" reodeted infotcemenu of the enemy, the length
by the Fust Army Cot pe under Sir of line which it had to defend, and the
Douglas Iia(g may be applied with rnor.r.ou. losses which it bad sur -
equal fitness to the whole army. feted." It had been fighting con -
"Their deeds," he says, "during these tnuO.tsly awe the 121h, mad had n
days of .trews and trial will furni h' reserves or reinforcements until un the
some of the most b•allien' chapters in filth • division of the Indian Army
tbe'bbtnryof our time." The dispatch Corps arrived. '1'bis corps. occupied
is full of rewords of actions, each of
which, in a war of less magnitude.
would have riveted attention and in-
spired adinirattoo. It conveys a broad
irnprerron of the exceedingly critical
condition in which the left flank of the
Allies remrinsd far many days, and
shows how narrow wart the margin by
which the determined etiempts of the
enemy to establish themselves on • the
northern coast of France were re -
Pulsed. %Ve cannot summarize • dis-
patch oo pecked wi h facts, and can
only select a few outstanding featured.
Undoubtedly the oatataading pub-
lieatioas dads.' with the war Issued
dtriog the pest two smooths have Leen
tb. Freeah Yellow Book and the long
be -
the operations of his army t rim 00- fifty noise practically solei
est
t..l putts.
Sed to November *Deb, • peril's' 1 tw.0u tbetir rltUomv 1.11 had the MIL
of about nevem Meets. This dispatch and Out for tier Jobe Frvaah's arrival
was published to England oil Novem- sous a would have been 'Terris but
souse Ptsooh cavalryand 'Territorials
her Pith, but while of the utmost iso- anal the exbaAwtsd remnant of the Brl-
portaoos acid iotereet wise apparently 'Bien army ter bwc th. way to lbw Cb•a-
tu) bo' to be cabled to the Carrolton sir Juan Ftencb's original plan had
Clue, -
peso, sod little 1t known of Le con- evidratly beets to sweep rued by •
tants on this side. rapid march so Ghent and B,ngee in
The dispatch leave on one chiefly the hope of jwnwg hands a iso the
these two iwpressiour: first, of the±u'top.r.,wly arnL W brIp Antwerp.
brilliant rtr•t o[ Sir Joho'r sono e'.0 the asst slurs" the reel tow., dews"
egy•P o1 the presence of the British -not
tion of moving his army to the meth . nowise. only -in Antwerp has been
of Fiance, • wovemrnt which min.! unveiled. It was evidently the so -
tentless' in time to prevent an almost ins t teuuob W ?take Attwei p the new
1upon which Lhe.113. 1 line should rest,
parable diaa.tet ; and. secondly, of the and so shut off Genuauy rot irely (rum
bulldog tenacity sed heroic endures*. the coast. The muvemru: cane near
with which for week. a 1133. British suaxedtng ; but it came 4o late, not
line hold at tray the assaults of a much only 10r Ault/err,
but fur the full
wocass of Sir John French's en.
stronger force Bushed with receot vio- .derstvur. The German. had the
tarry and d.terwined to break its way 'tupelosiuy in buu,herr and they
through W the coveted goal of the bad al.., the shorter lines, and were
English Chancel. evidently serre,Iv wwteriog for the
coamueat of the coast. Tb• advent ot
the Btiti,o toiled them once more.
The following account is made up
[tersely in October a study of the gen-
eral',Motion rt,osgly impressed me
with the necessity "f bringing the
greatest possible force to hear in luta
port of the northern tient of the
Allies. At the same Uwe the position
of the Aisne appeared to me to war-
rant • witbdrewad of the Brinell forcer
from the positions they tben held. i
represented th.se views to Oeweral
Jolters, who fully agreed.)
The very operation of bringing an
army out of the centre of a long (rattle
line, and establi.hing it afresh on the
Hank, was, as Sir John French says,
very "d.licete," but it ea. accom-
plished smoothly owing to the ad-
mirable relations maintained with
General Joffre and the French general
mit aff.
The ch•plaio correspondent tells
bow Ole force with whictr he served
fell back, "marching dining the night,
with Isutructions that at dawn they
mu -t hide ttansportand guns amongst
trees, etc., sal lbat the enemy's aero-
plane scouts should not see them,
whiles for the "ante reason the fro, pe
were ordered to remain in the shelter
of their billets throughout the day. It
would be easy for me to linger over
these marches, I have rarely en-
joyed anything no much, sod 1 should
like to ...navvy 10 you sossething of the
glamor and beauty of the superb
country through which we paged -
the steep wooded hill., the lovely
valley•, bore • r Iver shining silver in
the moonlight, there • stately chateau
encompassed by its double moat, the
forest scenery viewed In the brilliant
moonlight .eemin,( like falryleod, and
constantly the picturesque villager,
with their houses of grey stone and in
the midst the church, dating from
Norman times. The withdrawing of
troops from our centre, convoying
them across Prance, intersecting coa-
ster ly our Allies' 11wee of commoner -
tion, will doubtless, when the story
comes to be fully told. he regarded as
one of the meet brilliant achievements
of the war. ProbsbI never la the
bison of war has en large • body of
trumps 130.11 moved en swiftly and
secret ly, and there is moth evidence
to abo.. that, Is spited the Germane'
very efflciet:t in (OlilTv�-inee-. department,
it took them cenupletely by surprise
and entirely Upset their p" He
tell. fur in.ten • • how, at, tie they had
reached Meir d. -t satran, two rive
emelt* (Maneb.st to end Ea- tHorst y.)
tactually met • German 1..ginvent
searching alone the reed in ..slid
edition, caught them at three toour
bnndrd yard•, 'mit literally wiped alt
the wb le t. goinrnt
The npe•retin0 comm. need on its*
3rd Oetober : the various *rosy
corp followed in .uceerion at in'ee
vole of • leer ell .J ., the Nate end floe's
ender H.r Horses tlmitb-I),,rlsn
beige . A. are t t ►aka up Its pas 1-eri
nn the lith of Odnher; it was elneely
f..11nwed by the Third Corp. soder
(len. rat Poloeney, wbleh neenpiwg
ground still further to the worth: sad
the metre was completed ee the tela
of October when the Heel Uerps soder
81r Donates Balg ei mrplMad lie de- leashes Watt developed les ��er�ffeatt
men
treatt. flaw betesat. y Weil- rheas and thefts el the first DI
vItItM
the "southern end of the new British
line, fighting continuouiiy near
La Bawer, • position which Sir John
French my* "bas throughout the
tattle defied .11 nt(emp‘s at capture,
either by the Freuch or by the Brit-
ieb."
The Third Corp., ender General 1
Pulta•ney, came up on Sir Horace
Si .tb-Durrien'r left tweet of Aimen-
tieres), and at one tin). the 8 lib Di-
vision berms t i have been almost in
the suburbs of Lille. At [hie stage it
fell to the lot of Sir John F,ench to
make a decision of vital importance
involving great danger. The First
Army Corps, under Sir Doug:as Hamm,
had just come up from the Aisne.
The Second Corps war being heavily
pureed near Ls (leasee, tb•+ Third
Corps was hardy balding its own
near Armentieres, the enemy were
before thew in greatly superior num-
ber, and the British troops were, in
Sir John Freseb's words, "holding •
much wider front (ban their numbers
and strength warranted."
W. ACHESON 8 SON
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House Dresses
Medium and dark Wrapperette Wash Dresses, neatly trim-
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Women's `Dresses
Dress Skirts, serges and tweeds, good styles, tailor-made and
perfect fitting. Reduced to clear at each - 62.50
• Mt kk, Persian and Sable Furs
MUFFS, NECK -PIECES, SCARFS, etc., many reduced to
half price and less. We invite inspection, as this is the greatest
opportunity to secure bargains in fashionable and desirable
furs.
Ladies' frr-trimmed Beaver Coats, quilted lined, sable collar,
coat warranted in every detail. All our 625.00 coats clear-
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was broken. The 7th Division to the
south was being brevity .in ll•d, and
by the retirement of the First Livid
, its left fi•uk war exporrd as a rrrult
of which the Royal Scute Fu•ilirr., re-
maining in their trenches, were cut
off. 8bortly a(terwaruo the head-
quarters of two divisions weer sheilyd
and a ouwber of staff aft. er. killed
and wounded. The eenen►1 cumwrnd-
ing the corps issued alders to hold •
lin* pitmen z midway between Gbeh•
vett sod Ypres "at all costs." Al-
, though ocher divisions and brigade.
i were now in difficulties owing to the
• pushing b ick of the line, scone of them
managed to hold tat to tlie,r trenches,
and, the lot Division having relied, a
counter attack .agrina1 the Germane
I was completely successful end (,brlu-
vett was retaken with the bayonet.
The other divisions ■leo advent: d,
steadily driving the enemy bark, *std
by 10 p.m. the lide held in the nornio
had been reoccupied. -•I regard i.
says Sir John. who was presebt dining
the height of the struggle ''as the [wort
critical mouses• in the whole (f this
great btttle. The rally of the First
Divibiun and the recapture of the vii- I
lags of Gbrluv,•lt at such a tiwe was
fraught with momentous coo.e-
quences." As • result the Beati.b
bare been enabled to hold Ypte., the
last important wen in Belgium, and
thus to block the Kaiset'r design of
formally proclaiming Belgium • con-
quered province when the last town in
it should have fallen. Orders found
on a pt ironer showed that three Ger-
man corps were entrusted with the
task of breaking through the line to
Ypres and 'het the Emperor himself
considered the success of this at trick
10 be of vital importance to the
successful issue of the War.
The arrival of the Indian troop.,
whose "initiative and resource" have
much impressed Sir John French, and
the bringing up of French poops dur-
ing the last week of October reliev,•,l
the prr..ureun the British line*, haat
from the i.ginning of November the
enemy still continued to concentrate
his efforts on breaking through the line
at Ypres.
[Ah out the lotth of Noveinher, after
saved unite of these corp. had Leet"
completely shattered in futile *flicks,
• divas' of the Prussian Guard,
which hili been operating in the
neighborhood of Arras, was moved up
to this area with great speed and
secrecy. Documents found on dead
officers prove that the Guards heti re-
ceived the Emperor'. special com-
mands to break through and succeed
where their comrades of the line had
failed. They took a leading part in
the vigorous at tacks made •eein.t the
centre on the I I t h and 12th ; but, like
their comrade... were repulsed with
rnorm.o, tassel
[Taking the-. Leets alone into con-
sideration It would have appeared
[vise to throw the First Corps in to
strengthen the line; but this would
have left the country north and best
of Ypres and the Ypres canal open to
r wide turning movement by troops
which 1 knew to oe operating in that
region. I was •leo aware that the
enemy was bringing large reinforce-
ments
einforcementa tip from the east. After the
hard fighting it had undergone the
Belgian army was in no condition to
withstand, unsupported. soh an at-
tack ; and unless some substantial re-
sistance could be offered to this
threatened turning movement, the
Allied flank must he turned and the
Channel ports laid hare to the enemy.
I judged this • successful movement
of this kind would be fraught with
such disastrous consequences that the
risk of operating on so extended •
front must be undertaken, and I
directed Sir Douglas Haig to move
with the First Corps to the north of
Ypres.)
Either way there were grave risks,
but Sir John took the biggest, and
there can be no manner of doubt that
thereby he saved Calais and the Chan-
nel parts. But it entailed leaving the
hard -premed Second and 'Third Corps
for $of mber period without relief or
amiet•nee, and sr events proved the
First Corp also had before it a fort-
night of the most melons fighting
along an extended line and against
determined and greatly superior
forces.
II fully realised the difficult task
wbkh lay before us. and the onerous
.role which the British army was called
upon to fulfil. That metes has been
attained, and ell the enemy's deeper -
ate attempt,' to break through our
line frustrated, is dee entirely
to the marvellous fighting power
sad the IedomitaNe coaeage sed
ten1dty of offlears, non-enmtb4-
eioned officers and ween No more'
arduous task has ever been ...(geed to
Orli ash soldiers : and In all their splen-
did hlstary there Is no instance of 434.4•
having�answered so esafslflcestly to
t be *4le Balle which of n.ee ssity
were 1•M upon them.)
)Perhaps the mo•timeer•ent sed tie•
e&Ave sheet fezewpt that of the Pro
clan Ouarl on the 1Mh Novemhe.)
made meanest the First Corps daring
the ?bol.. of It,. aramose 'epeehastw
1a the weights misread of Ypres took
��. ns tb. 31.1 °etcher.) Sir
lob. thew proceeds to t.11 is (for him)
sesfso1 &stall hew oa that day sue
AW.,.., live Wise east of Terse, •
By the 20th N eeeblbar, the date of
the dispatch, the line wea definite!
won. Our advance into Belgiuse had
been checked, but eta also wart the Ger-
man m ereh on Calais. It is steer that
in muck of thi . fithl ing o•.r foresee
were holding tlseir p'eitenn. against
lee attecks of an enemy miser their
esp.•rior in numbeer.,sail
Gmeee Indeed
Is themitt nf three met vrn Ave to
elle
Clover Seed Squatters
The United elates Imported X1181.-
187 Ina. .1 chore •red v..lssed et
g4ft9e,11111 for the veer soled .tune 30,
1912, ant wxn.rt.d only 1,874,frfl lbs.
rm. mi ... an ads"...e taslenee of Oft,-
e76.dgd IMimport. frnm Germany to
the United States, amounting to
7,842,1le I►... for tbe.alsw4arear 1912,
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Footwear
WE feel tiret
vet les* we
can do for yttwwhen
ynu conte int, this elute is
to give you Murmur llnh'eers
th•tt w III b • absolutely Ontn-
fortwble end will wear to
your gnat Heti..:-, We went
you to realm- that year wel-
ts' a is out pet coesideratiuo.
Our prkes are scoot remelt -
able.
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mere to Unaware of rouse Mehl
who wives for or es(a(a*M so the
flee stop toward seri ssierty petmtse. '
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ante.
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yeer, 6,1R7,480 lbs. of whiea west to
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