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FLEET JOINS REVOLUTION!
Freedom of AM Jews Promised --
Orem' Duke Mlohaet Aosepte Throne
' A eh from Leaflets reads: The
Welke Russian Baltic feet and the
=Ebe al Viborg and 3veabor'
lethal the r•volutloaary move -
Runde. says • despatch
i' on, which is based on
I received nom Hapareada.
•o. Greed Detre Mlebael has ho -
•e the throes of seta, coo-
uoed on the consent of the iltnsalen
phe. aceordbtg to • statement re -
=here Sunday from the semi-
R News Agency. The
t+ment (lows: Grand Deka
bokmel AlgaadrovItch, acc.ptiag the
parous from his brother. declares that
he does°so only with the consent of
Russian people, wbo should be a
• establish a new firm at
tbvernmeat and new fundamental
'ib• Weekly Dispatch says It learns
Met— excellent authority that the first
9egishtive step of the new Russian
veattment will be to assure the pm-
ts freedom of all Russian Jews.
111th the final cementing of the
dements concerned In the construc-
illoa of the new Government upon the
bobs of the old, the new Caddied.
)Maisters. relieved of the heavy grlba
wt the endless conferences of the bet
♦w days. to which the> suffered many
ileiious hours. have assumed the posts
in which they were assigned. Prof.
1Paal N. Milukoff spent Sunday at
(he leoreien Office. In the afternoon
be received the diplomatic represen-
tatives of the allies. after wblch he
entered upon a long Cabinet confer -
o nce One of the first acts of the
Irtnteter waa to, send a series of i
stile messages to the Resatsn dlpte- !
mats abroad to the effect that Russia
was united in the desire to fight, out
ire tear with the a111es, the deteretina.
Mon to continue the conflict until the 1
victory is. achieved being Stranger -
aLin ever. - 1
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THE BACK
Halifax, ]•.L, Jan. 1C 1118.
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the
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sample o
Goya. I sad been a martyr tea
bears to int•aee pains acro.e aro
ac* and dashed to try Ota
Defer* I hal heated the thin.
bo. 1 found myself for the dna
time m y perfectly tree from
pain.
'roars sincerely.
Mrs. (Jane) rem.
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Doc. a Dor, or 0 hoist for 14.60.
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NATIONAL DRUG It CHEMICAL
00. or OANADA, LIMITED
Toreate, Oat. ee
.
to of Swing
lh 1866 a young Breton named
Clognarq went to Paris as assistant
to a little dry goods store. By 1872
he had raved up $60,000 and opened
a More why, h he called the Seward
taloa. That Breton store assistant
became wort!, $40,000,000.
Motion el. tures are being extensive-
ly used in Italy to teach several mi -
lion illiterate voters, enfranchised by
• new law, how to prepare trete bal-
late.
For household use a staple device
hies been invented fn Germany which
measures the proportion of carbonic
acid gas in the air of • room.
The Jolt has been taken out of flee
wheelbarrow by a Main man who has
invented one with springs between
the axle ends and side bars.
A German inventor's improved
otograph uses light rays to repro -
on photograph films writings or
wings made at a distance.
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Recruits Wanted
for Production
Just as t (ly s 1ack:of food is strangling Germany
day h\ ' 1 y, so enty of food is winning the victory
for the allies. 'I'll French armies, for instance, were
never better fed tie n now, for France cannot forget
the awful ( 1,070—the lc>son of failure of her food
supply: 1'o this she at ibuted the lost of that war.
To feed the French soldiers .around Verdun, more than 25,-
500,000'pounds of fte,it a, week ere,required. This give a
faint idea of the cnlos•altalkoffee 'ng an army. Canada and
Britai n have a huge artily of figbtitrgh' oes on the line; every
man ?It T have plenty of fo,ul,in spite of a world shortage.
Upon ( nada'. food production all principally rely.
The Farmers of Ontario
Urgently Need Help
The Department of Agriculture appeals to men and boys to
enlist in the farm help:eampaign. The Department appeals
to men unfit for military service, or whofind it ithpossible to
enl !!' i t in the army. Do your "bit" byhelping to increase
pr''oduction of foodstuff.. Tkis is your hour of opportunity.
The farmers of Ontario need the help of retired farmers, of
mon following no occupation f retired), of business men who
can spare a portion of their time. We appeal to all who
can so arrange their ordinary affairs to plan to help some
farmer friend, particularly in seed time and harvest.
Confer with your county District Representative of the
Department of Agriculture, or write, "Farm Help Cam-
paign," care Department of Agriculture, Toronto.
Ontario Department of Agriculture
W. H. Hearst, Minister of Agriraltwre
Parliament Buildings Toronto
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t HE SIGNAL : CODERICII ONTARIO
Allies SWeeDI NALANTHECOMPOSED TO ORDER
80 -Mile front
Will Australia get • national WI
Um= out % this empire crena. Who
esti ay' Are national anthems •ver
written to order? We doubt It. If
like TUWy. they dual "lust grow,"
British Take Pothere's something aacyl, un-
rtions, Ba' atiefactury about them, 'weedy/es
ttlfetal
like paper rosea. Portugal, on the
paume and 60 Villages I establishment of the republic, asked
for a new national anthem. but we
have not heard she has got one to
suit. Like poets, national suthe
TRENCH DRIVE 12 MILES I are born. not made.
Greatest Advances on West Front
fence the Marne—Over 900 Square
Mites of France Re -won
A Despatch from London Sunday
reads: The German forces have been
compelled to surrender nearly 1,001
square miles of conquered French
territory. The British forces con-
tinued their rapid advance on the
heels of the enemy along a front of
46 miler, entering the German, post-
Uons to a depth of ten miles In places.
The important towns of Peronne, Ba-
paume, Chaulne. and Neste were cap-
tured, in addition to 19 villages.
Saturday night's report from head-
quarters in France read: "Bapaume
has been occupied by our troops steer
stiff fighting with the German guard.
The town has been systematically
pillaged by the enemy. All private
houses and public buildings alike have
been destroyed and everything Of
value carried off or burned. Our ad-
BARRY LAUDER'S BEST
• ON EMPIRE'S ALTAR
Mere a Mean Man," But H• Oave His
Only Child—Tragedy •f a
Comedian
Two nights attar Harry Lauder
beard that his only child had bees
killed to France the famous comedian
took bis place in a revue In Loudon
'lest other members of the company
hungry " That night tis• company
Eis stage maw Mr Lauder dash the
ms from his qw agate and again
IM he went before the footU{hts to
tart the audience lata roars ol t.ugh-
All that evening the potpie la
the theatre before and behind the
poilmee were laughing and crltng wtth
kb
h. Nearly t o and • had years
Mier•. when Mr Lander was'Inutng
la Australia, his son own* tread from
kb studies at ('ambrtdg• to lobs his.
end Mrs. Lauder. The boy arrived es
August 2. Two days later • cable
Wee from Itbgland when they were
at breakfast. It said. "Mobilise; m-
ien had report to depot at eerueat.
—War Office"
"John" was at that time in s Ter-
torial regiment. "What do you
Ink of that, dad'" said the boy
And the father spoke like thousands
•t other fathers mast have spoken on
that day. "Well, my boy." he said.
N yes go you will do your duty by
your bather and mother.
n- 'Always a Vacant `hairn"
The fact is, that It is not always
the omcial tuitional anthem whk:h is
the real one. For Instance. "My Coun-
try, 'T1s of Thee," sung to our own ,
"God Save" tune. Is the gffclal an-
them of the United States. but It
takes secondary place to "The Star
Spangled Banner," "Yankee Doodle;
"John Brown's Body," and, In the
*moth, "DUI* Land." These were all
anthems hot from the heart In times
of crisis
teen the "Marsetllalse," which to
the official anthem of the French Re
public, used to be anathema to the
Government. It Man anthem of re-
volt, not of loyalty. It WWI a song
of revolution. But now that a re-
public has ousted royalty It 1s shown
in at the front door.
Really our own "God Save the
Kinwas the merest accident. Who
commissioned It! It simply frappe
ed. But. even so. It is not the best I
ty
of our great national songs. That
ace 1s undoubtedly held by "Rule.
lace
Morover, that old Jaco-
te song. written to an exiled mon- I
arch. Is really touch better in every
vanes has proceeded rapidly during way than our official anthem—
the day on both banks of the Somme i "Here's a Health 1'uto His ltalesty."
South of,the river we have entered It L surprising how seldom Scuts
the enemy's positions me a trout of sing the National Anthem. \\'(tat do
about sixteen, miles and occupled the they sing when they foregather either
villages of Frames, Horghy, Vlllere- at home or at the tar ends of the
('arbennel, Barletta, Eterpigny, and eat! Why. "Aur Lang Syue." or !
Lit Malsonnette. North of the river, coarse! That's the Scottish national,
in addition to the town of Bapaume. anthem!
we are in, possession of the village
of Le Transloy, Biefvillers, Blhucourt,
Achiet-le-Grand, Achlet-le-Petft, Ab-
laingevllle, Bucgvoy and Essen.. We
also hold Queeney Farm. 1,500 yards
northeast of /the last named village,
and have .Rained the western and
northweseern defences of Menc•hy-au-
Bola." ,
Alevines on Front et 45 Miles
The text of Sunday's statement
reads: "We have, .occupled Nettle,
Chaulnes and Peronne. Pressing back
the enemy's rear guards, we advanced
several males during the past twenty-
four hours to a depth up to ten miles
in places on a front of approximately
forty-five miles, from south of Chaul-
ass to the neighborhood of Arras. An
encouoter__tema_place .yesterday be -
tween a patrol of eight of our air -
Planer and stxteen enemy machine's,
with the result that in twenty minutes'
fighting the hostile formation was
broken up. Two German airplanes
were destroyed and two others driven
down damaged. All our machines re-
turned."
Glorious Day For France
The official story of the French ad.
vane. is told in the official report*:
Saturday morning's report. chronicling
the beginning of the offensive, stated
that north of the Avre and between
the Avre and thie Oise French detach-
ments continued to exert vigorous
pressure on the enemy and during the
night extended their progress on a
front of 20 kilometres. The text of
Saturday night's statement read:
"Along the whole (root between An-
dechy and the Oise (about 15 milesi,
the enemy, declining battle, abandon-
ed under the pressure of our troops
powerfully and skilfully fortified lines,
'. which they had held for more than Death of Major Gant on His 100th
two years. To -day our advance move- Birthday
meat continued rapidly. Our advance
guard entered Roye, pursuing an B7 the death of Major John Castle
enemy contingent, which blew up Ghat, at the age of 100, England has
crossings and -streets 4n the interior lost Its oldest volunteer. He caught
section. North and northeast of Las- a *Ill on his birthday and died at his
algny, which we likewise occupied, we picturesque residence, Wlllowhyrst,
have reached at several points, and Chiddingly, Sussex. He lotned the
even advanced beyond the road be- Volunteers at the age of forty-three,
tween Roye had Noyon. in the course when fears of a French invasion re-
nt our pursuit we made prisoners, gutted In the formation of the force,
who have not yet been counted." and be claimed to have provided the
Take Entire Garman First Line humorists of the day with much ma -
"From the Aare to the Aisne on a toilet for pictorial satire. He was a
front of more than sixty kilometres groat friend of Mr. T. Delano, the
the advance et our troops continued famous editor of The Times.
during the course of the day. North Born at Herne (Kent), be was the
of the Avre our cavalry this morning eon of Lieut. -Colonel John Castle
entered Nettle and we Immediately Gant, formerty DeputylGovernor of
sent out patrols In the direction of the Tower of London. He was edu-
the Somme. There were several en- cated for the army, but lett It for
gagements with enemy rear guard de- the law, and became one of the best
tachments, who resisted feebly. The known 'elicitors in the City.
Inhabitants of Neale acclalrned our
troops. Northeast of Lassigny . we
have up to the present advanced more
than twenty kilometres In the direc-
tion of Ham. Further to the south
our light cavalry detachments, muv-
Ing along the valley of the Olse, oc-
cupied Noyon about ten o'clock this
morning. Between the Oise and Sols -
sone (Aisne sector) the entire Ger-
man first line, as well as the villages
of ('arlepont. 'Moment and Nouvron
Vino. tell loco our hands. We have Man Bowed to Superior "Finish' of
gained a foothold on the northern Lincolnshire Maid
plateau of Soissons and occupied —
rouy." Here is ear Interesting result of war
time exigencies in England: Miss
Led British In Middle East
GENERAL F. 8. MAUDE
ftalferly on the Governor•General's
staff at Ottawa, succeeded General
Townshend as commander in ram
' sign to codqusr the Turks In the
Tigris country for Britain.
OLDEST VOLUNTEER
He fretted as d special constable
during the Chartist riot". To tem-
perate habits and plenty of outdoor
exercise he attributed his long life
He followed the war news closely,
and hoisted a flag In front of his how
every morning when the papers con-
tained good news.
GIRL PLOWED BETTER
Austria Wants Armistice
De:mete-heft fame Vienna say that the
3ermen Chancellor was received Sat-
erday by the Austrian Emperor and
Empress at the Luxemburg Castle.
aear Vienna. Political circles in
Vienna. the despatch adds, are con -
deleting the possibility of entering into
segittlatlons with the Russian Cabinet,
with ■ view to an armistice. Rdiperor
Charles 1s very anxious about the mat-
ter. The Germap ('hancellor will
leave Vienna Saturday night for Ber
fan and will immediately visit the Ger
man, Emperor at headquarters.
*meter Need For Food Than Men
The British Government regards the
production of food of greeter tlnport-
anre at the present time thin the send-
ing of additional men Into the army.
chancellor Boner law said, In re-
, sponse to questions In the House of
!Commons. that the ('ablo.t had 's-
limmed ed the War Office and the Board
rt Agri. alture that this waa Its vireo.
in official of the t 'nnlr•rence Cnm-
tteag
e of railroad maners In New
work announced at 1 o', lock Sunday
r at the fftlroad strike was off.
i
Elsie Jackson, aged 19, of Tat[snhall
Thorpe. defeated lir. Tom WQkleson,
aged 51, of Dovecote Farm, Watnfi•et,
to a ploughing match for $50 • side
on Mr. F. Saul's farm at Watnfleet,
1.Inoolnshlr.. The test was on barley
stubble in heavy ground Vlach com-
petitdr land to plough half
two •ors.
settitis ridge" and one
The work of Miss Jarkson, Lias
been fdeugtting ghee tike WY tali
east cid, was deeler•d br th. is
r. Taylpr, of Welton. be be
Inlsbed than that of her o0
Dylny to a Wily
Mow many thouaasds et Hritiah 1
dent have gone to their death to I11
dere and Gallipoli watt a m hall
song on their lips and in tis enrol
It was by sheer good Intikat the
song of the day • hammed to be rather
a ••arming One.- W. Arelten
•
There le little dnsbt in Lades that
the adoption eat the policy of e.aatlll
Ing native nplalon would remelta
overwhelming rota being neat th
eat what was hormerig Geraaa
la favor of the Brit gag.
'It you go out to the nt, while
pa are absent there will be a vacant
fele 1f you do not come back then
Will still be that chalopt for you."
(.ter he was fit a commtsslon
and went out to the front, and got
wounded at FMtub.rt and sent home
lie recovered and went beck again,
and one day was found unconscious
nom shell shock and later developed
pleurisy
All For His Heir
"They a7 I'm a mean man," said
s father, "hut 1 was saving it all
the boy " 711s Mends ay that
has saved 2700,000. It was all ter
Gin. John had everything that • boy
could wish tor. He had the beat .da-
istioe and be did not disappoint his
thither. He had motor ars, add he
Ilhavelled on the continent a great
5r1
The beautiful estate in Scot -
d that his father bought waa all
his boy.
At Cambridge the boy thrashed a
Wager fellow for sneering at hie
either for being a comedian. The
(toys were great friends atterwatds.
Jobs at one time thought of gotng to
the Bar, but atter the Itte in the tam-
eless he aid he telt he could not take
lig a book again, but that he would
wale down on the land with the girt
to whom he was engaged. .
JELLICOE's PIETY' \
lather Bernard Vaughan, *pukka,
•t a meeting in the east end of Lon-
don.
oo-don, aid what hs admired so woe
viously In Admiral Sir ,ohn JeWcoe
tis not only his efficiency am ad-
painistrator, hi. efficacy In et amend,
but his splendid manly pietyfast
before the great sea fight off Jutland
the admiral of the fief retired to his
cabin. There, on his knees, he com-
mitted himself and fisc fleet under
his command to the care of God.
When he returned to the bridge Sir
John was aa much at his ease and
as cafm and collected as though the
great battle was some ordinary sham -
fight practice.
ROUMANIA'S GREAT NEED
Trained Officers Were Too Few—
Some Inside History
The following is from Hamilton
Fyfe, British correspondent la Rou-
mania: When the new German mili-
tary attache arrived In Bucharest
early In 1916 he made a proposal to
the Roumanians that they should loin
the Central Powers. He mild: "We
tole v all about your army. As a small
army It was a good one. You have
enlarged It and weakened iL You had
sot a suffice racy of good material for
officers. You could not expand your
pguipmeot to meet the increased num-
ber of nien and the needs of modern
cpariare. IT? you fight alone you will
fay badly. What we suggest, if you
will loin pa, is this: We will seed you
DG the—fnunitions you require. We
will send ;Imo generals to assist your
ro•quarter" Staff and a number of
rs skilled In the technical arts
of war, as well as regimental &floors,
one or more to each regiment Finally,
we will stye you two German •army
corps to stiffen your Inexperienced
b4Kgr7t was Germany's proposal. Rou-
maaala rejected It. Bhe threw in her
Last
with the allies They welcomed
• with much shouting *ed throwing
lap of saps. They sent her munition.
M
quickla as they could. but they
liketit be amount of the flaws In her
fry preparedness. They made no
r y 1 to Roumania as Oee-
parf mads. The Roumanian army
ei upon its disastrous campaign
aL its tapertectlons on its head
result le seen to the overrunning
Roumania by the enemy and the
. of her army today. What the
mans especially lacked was a
Ills tient supply of trained, vigorous,
tar ated officers. Everyone in the
try now admttto this. There were
y inch. but not enough. The
t ni of energy and force of character
atm more to be seen In the field thaw
any other activity of lite.
• Coasts* Destroyed Wine
Rosalind countess of Carlisle, wko
yea for many years one of the fore -
total abstinence advocates in
n, ordered the destruction of the
ole of the contents of the .1q•
re at Cattle Howard, her Tewk-
• seat. There were 1,500 bottles
old vintages. and It is understood
for thirty year* the cellars had
n sesled A large hole was deg
far from the mansion and the
eats of the bottles poured Into 11
sews ts•es' action caused
Lord Carlisle, a granrlsnn
°out ate et Carlisle, was
M.$ Mew Sea)and.
A Way to Soften the Hard
Water of the Bath
Get out the LUX package—pour in 3 or 4 table-
spoonfuls into the water and stir a little. The
water immediately become. creamy soft. most
refreshing and very beneficial to the akin. Try it
to -eight. You'll be pleased. well pleased. People
where the water is unusually hard just revel to
Ux-.
for the bath. Especially where babies are con-
cerned.
These silky -smooth little flakes of the purest
essence of soap exercise a soothing and
cleansing effect on the .'.cin that is very
stimulating after a trying day.
LUT—u all fescue, !Oc.—Rn'tish mode
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won
WOLLENS
along the Kentish coast early Sunday
morning, but did little damage, accord -
Ing to an official statement limited Sun-
day night. The text reads: "Some
lsemy torpedo boats and destroyers
approached the Kentish coast at 12.45
:.lock Sunday morning. They tired
a number of shells at certain coast
owls. There were no casualties.
The material damage was slight, one
occupied and two empty houses being)
No Enemy to Get Canadian Land
An order in 'ouacll from Ottawa
baa ben passed providing that no
pima 01 enemy nationality may ac-
landi power rights, or oiler
trey the Doodahs" lands In
Canada fpr 1M duration of
1111111read thereafter natal otherwise
warships Shell British Coasts
German torpedo boats shelled towns,
NOSE CLOGGED FROM
A COLD OR CATARRH 1,
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struggling for breath at night, your cold
or catarrh is gone.
Don't stay stuffed up' Get a small
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your
druggist now. Apply • little of thi•
inerrant. antiseptic createin your no
trillr
, let it penetrate through every air
passage of ,the bead. soothe and heal
the swollen, inflamed mucous membrane;
)riving you instant relief Ely's Cream
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