HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-10-12, Page 7MAMY LIERNIAN 'COUN'TERS, 1CANADIANS
WITHSTOOD
AWFUL FIRE
NT NONE SUCCEEDED
While Frehch Troops Made Small Gains on
the Somme Front
heavy Spoils in Guns Taken by British—
Wastage of he Enemy
London Cable. -----The Germans 1,0 -
day delivered numerous counter-at-
tacks in -strength along a great part
of the front north of the Somme.
'their artillery fire is also becoming
heavier, new supplies of ammunition
having been brought up.
Despite their strenuous efforts, how-
ever, the British and French lines to-
night are unchanged, except for some
local advances made by the French in
the Morval sector. Here Focife troops
have pressed forward to the eastward,
in the region of the Peronne-Bapaume
high road.
• The report from General Haig's
headquarters to -night contains an in-
teresting statement of the number of
artillery pieces and machine guns cap-
tured from the Germans during the
Progress of the Franco -British offen-
sive. It says:
"Between July lst and Sept. 3rd, be-
sides large . quantities of other war
material, we captured or recovered
from the Somme battlefield 29 heavy
guns and heavy howitzers, 92 field
guns and nein howitzers, 103 trench
artillery pieces, and 397 machine
guns,"
SHORT OF'RESERVES.
The Allies' position is everywhere
excellent, the line having been
straightened out after the capture of
Combles and Thiepval, and contrary
to German reports, has been extended
not shortened. • •
The extent to which German forces
are being used up by the unremitting
hammering of the Allies east and west
is revealed by statistics which the
Paris Temps is authorized to -.pub-
lish
"Accordhig to these figures," the
Temps says "the Central Powers have
no longer at their disposal an accum-
ulation of strategic reserves which
they can throw into the line wherever
decisiveactions are intended to be
fought, The only manoeuvre now pos-
sible for the German general staff is
to take portions of the regular re-
serves from points not threatened to
where they are mast needed, relying
on the strength of their defences and
the difficulty for their adversary to
Start offensives without the Germans
being apprised.
"This ystem, however entails risks
as shown by the surprise blow of the
Russians last June. 13y dint of scrap-
ing the Germans have drummed tin
ten divisions, whichthey have now
sent traipsing from Verdun to the
Somme, to Galicia and ilback. Proof
of the non-existence of itaategic re-
serves is the fact that these divisions
are constantly on the move, hurried
from one battlefield to the other prac-
tically without rest. An, example is
' the 'FirtY-third Reserve Division,
which was Withdrawn. on June 10 from
the Verdun front and was identified
June 24 in the Lutsk region of the
eastern front When the Franco -Brit-
ish drive of Sept, 12 begen one divi-
sion about to entrain for Russia and
another already on the way were hur-
ried back to the. Somme.
"A. list of the regiments identified
in the different sectors to the west
and eaot with dates furnishes further
ample proof, If strategic reserves were
forthcoming, the same division would
not be met within five months at Ver-
dun, the Somme and Galicia. The 900
kilometres added to the German bat-
tlefront 'by the entry of Roumania in-
to the conflict reducee the Central
Empires to•the expedient of forming
new divisions with three regimente or
nine battalions only. From the records
of peisoners, the killed or deserters
Identified on the yellow; fronts, it
transpires that Germany and Austria-
Hungary have now only three divis-
ions (60,000 neen) each in reserve,
whereas at the beginning of the Ver-
dun attack Germany alone had eight
reserve divistome on the western fruit.
"An examination of the conditions
in which the last two classes were
Called up by- Germany reveals the in-
teresting facts that the 1915 class was
called up six months earlier than the
previous elaes, that the latter only
had three to six months' training and
that unprecedented calls have been
made on the older class in the matter
of recuperations, all of which proves
that the drain on German resources
during the last four months has been
much heavier than was foreseen."
BRITISH REPORT.
London Cable.—Thursday night's
report from headquarters reads:
"There is little to report from the
battle front except enemy shelling
of the Gueudecourt neighborhood and
two enemy counter-attacke in the
Thieval area, which were severely
handled and repulsed."
FRENCH REPORT.
Paris Cable.— Thursday night's
War Office reort read: '
"North of the Somme we continued
our progress eastward of Monica. We
repulsed a strong counter-attack on
our newly -conquered trench north of
Fregicourt,
"South of the Somme the German
artillery continued to display great ea-
tivitY, principally in the sector ,Bar-
leux•Belloy-Denieciburt.
"In the Woevre, near St. Benoiteour
heavy artillery has taken under its
fire a military station where great
movements of troops had been report-
ed.
"On the remainder of . the front
there is nothing of importance to re-
port,.
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French Ways
In the War
FEET AND FOOTWEAR.
Greatly as the niodern human being
falls below the standard of beauty
there are few points in which the
general average is so low as in the
feet. Most people take a certain
pride in and trouble about their fig-
ures, their hands, faces ,and hair, but
th eyseem qiute unaware that there is
any difference between a beautilful
and natural and an ugly and distorted
foot. The only thing aimed at is
smallness, with no thought of the true
proportion between the size of the
foot and the body. A tall person
veith tiny feet is as unnatural and as
badly proportoined as a short one
with big feet. Both are wrongly
adapted.
The craze for small feet is respon-
sible for an enormous percentage of
deformed toes, bad carriages of the
body with consequent faulty relations
of the internal organs and of the
spine and its muscles. The modern
pointed toe and hgh heel throw the
body all out of balance, force the
.great toe inwards (providing a good
beginning for a bullion) and tend to
atrophy the muscles of the calf and
ankle, which never come fuly into
Play. Modern surgeons are inclined
to put down a number of cases of
chronic constipation to faulty car-
riage of the hip and pelvis. whilst the
absenee of "spring" in the walk jars
and tires the spine and the muscles
of the trunk. If We consider for a
moment it will be clear that the sys-
teni of muscles and points which is
planned to carry and balance the
whole weight of the body on the slen-
der ankles and smal supporting sur-.
face of the feet must of necessity be
delleate and complicated one; not to
be lightly tampered with. No one
Would without consideration or Me-
chanical Inraveledeg meddle with the
inside arrangements of a watch,
changing this piece of leverage mid
that cogwheel; but anyone without
the slightest knowledge of anatomy or
even the laws of gravity will play
tricks With their feet and expect rie
harm to come. They are usually miS•
taken.
Their Bravery Under It Be-
yond Praise, Says Eye -
Witness.
WON 3 SQUARE MILES
••••••/..,ont
In Furious Attack ancl
Counter-Attack—Ed-
monton Hero.
Canadian Headquarters in France,
via Loudon, Oct, 6.—Canadian coin
munique, Sept. 28 to Oct. 3,—Severe
fighting coutinuecl almost without
Cessation during the past week. Tile
Germans brought up reiriforcements
and fresh troops, and opposed at
times a desperate resistance to our
advance. Attacks were succeeded by
counter-attacks, and certain portions
of the trenches were the scene of
sanguinary hand-to-hand struggles.
The artillery duel and the artillery
concentration upon the infantry
trenches was terrible. None the less
the endurance, courage and cheerful
ness of our men were beyond praise,
and their attacks were delivered with
an unabated fury.
In the east and north of Courcelette
mar line was materially advanced.
There, for the first time since the
Canadians have participated in the
war, cavalry 'patrols were employed to
maintain touch with the enemy.
On the evening of' Sept. 27th it was
discovered that our advance had
broken through the last immediate
line of German resistance. Sorra cav-
alry were ordered to patrol in the di-
rection of Le Sars and Pys,
in order to establish the new lo-
cation of the enemy forces. Two
lieutenants and 24 other ranks, all
mounted, proceeded south of Courcel-
ette along the Bapaume, road from
this point on the morning of Seat. 28.
Five different patrols crossed our
front line trenches and went forward
into enemy territory. Two patrols in
the direction of Le Sars located' Ger-
• mans in Destremont Farm, over a,
mile beyond our lines. Here one of
our men was killed and another
wounded and two horses killed. An-
other patrolpenetrated northeast a
distance of about 2,500 yards, but was
compelled to turn back by the enemy
snipers. In consequence of their re-
ports our lines were promptly ad-
vanced, and a new position occupied
nearly 1,000 yards further forward.
.To northeast of Courcelette a To-
ialeto battalion carried out this man -
'Oeuvre wti hsuccess:
At the same time a New Brunswick
battalion advanced to the north of
Courcelette and established a more
advanced position to the south of
Regina trench. While this occurred
tipon the right a fierce enemy counter-
attack against- Korena, trench gave the
Germans a temporary posseesion.
Equally determined hostile attacks
against our position Inallessian trench.
on a frontage of 500 yard', were reL
emleed, with serious loeses to the
'enemy. A further. attack on the fol-
lowing morning against a smaller por-
lion of this trench was also repulsed.
011 Sept. 29 a brilliant attack by a
Mounted Rifle battalion caurecl an
important communication trench still
occupied by the enemy. One officer
and 33 other ranks were amide aria
onus.. A few hours later the, Germans
heavily counter -attacked, • but were
euccessfully repulsed by our machine
guns.
On Oct 1 we Melded a strong
attack upon Regina trenches. Bat-
talions from Montreal, Nova Scosia
and Eastern Canada, and a French-
Canadian battalien, took part. Des-
perate fighting occurred, and our men
succeeded, despite ;wavy macbiae gua
fire, in penetrating into several sec-
tors of the German lines. The trench,
however, was one strongly built, and
pretected by two rows of barbed wire
entanglements, which our artillery had
not succeeded in entirely removing,
They counter -attacked in aorce and
regained the whole ef Regina, trench.
Nevertheless, we remained in posses-
sion Of Kenora trench, which had been
recapaered, and another mare ad-
vanced position.
At the same time our line to the
rortheast of Coarcelette was success-
fully pushed forward a distance of
.ebout 500 yards, where new trenches
were dug.
In these operations the guns of our
motor machine gun brigade rendered
invaluable service, and continued in'
action, deepite heavy hostile artillery
fire. At ono time they protectecj. the
flank of a Montreal battalion • and
Practically wiped out a strong German
counter-attack. The maehine gun de-
tachment of the cavalry acted as a
carrying party. The Borden Battery.
remained in meet effective action, al-
thoue,•h three guns were destroyed by
direct hits and 22 casualties suffered.
Since their offerisive began the Can-
adians, fightirig nearly every yard of
the way, have wrested , over three
square miles of territory from tho Get.
mans.
The most aggressive gallantry was
performed by a private belonging to
an Edmonton battalion. He was tak-
ing part in a bombing attack, when
the advance was arrested and the map -
ply of bombs exhausted. Although one
of his fingers had been blown, away
at the second joint by a German bomb,
he jumped out, of the trench and ran
along the outside, firing at tartlet blank
range at thee • enemy; killing and
wounding many of them, The remain-
der, -siXty-tWo in number, thinking
themselves about to be cut Off, there-
upon surrelidered He, with two other
men, esecrted the prisoners gams
011en ground, under heavy a fire, to a
support trench, and then returned
and reported himself for duty to his
company eorninander, before his
woand had been dressed.
This action undoubtedly made it line
Sible for the battalion to capture and
hold 260 yards of trench at a critical
*Moment in the general attack,.
the treatment of thes diseases of the
kidn.ey.
Perspiration.•.has thefurther re-
sult of reducing the excessive heat of
the body. It does this in two ways:
First, by actually treeing the body
from a oertain quantity of warm
water, and secondly, by wetting the
surface of the skin so that it cools by
evaporation. tI .is for these last rea-
sons that, it is so unwise to sit in
draughts or in cold air after being
over -heated and covered with per-
spiration. The rapid exaporation
from so large a surface of the body
is aut to chill it unduly, and so lower
the vitality,
CARE OF THE HAIR,
All patent medicines are not rub-
bieh, and all advertised "hair restor-
ers" are not frauds. Still, with regard
to the latter, we ehould do well to
ask ourselves how much of the result
claimed for the restorer, and undoubt-
edly produced, is due to the stuff ap-
plied, and how much to the manner
of its application. The fact is that the
scalp, like the rest of the surface
of the skin, ie apt to become dead and
choked up unless it le frequently
cleansed and stimulated. Now the best
method of stimulation is firm but gen-
tle rubbing and massage, whilst any
'slightly greasy or alcoholic fluid rub-'
bed in and rubbed off is an effecting
cleansing agent: It le an 'open ques-
tion whether by following the instruc-
tions as to brushing and massaging
the head and hair -roots given as dir-
ections with any advertised hair res-
torer, but substituting for the restor-
er a lotion made simply from one part
of glycerine arid eight parts of water,
an equally good result woald not be
produced. In other words, the effects
are mechanical, and not due to the
virtue of the application.
o
• LOST IN GALE.
PERSPIRATION.
We aro apt, during the summer, M.
look upon perspiration ea an incon-
venient and even a distressing pberi-
°merle% arid one which We could well
dispense with. OA us by way of
consolation, consider its lama and
function in the bodily economy. First,
and most inmortant, perapiration is an
agent for the elimination of waste
produets from the, body. 13o great al
the amount of theee prolucts Carried
away by means cyf the sweat glands
tlita hi caeca of disease ef the kidney,
where the functions of that nrgan IS
inipaired, its work can be almost re-
placed by ctimuIation of the organa of
perspiration. Thua Tuelcish, hat air,
my was also struck by the numbitit, but
Three Wooden Lake Ships
Pounder in Atlantic,
Detroit, Mich., heport.—Three old time
wooden ships that had withstood Morals
anti gales on the Great Lakes, through
a quarter of a century, passed out in a
gale which they encountered within a few
days after their arrival an the Atlan-
tic eoaet.
A inevate message received by C. A.
Chamberlin, veteran veesel •agent in De-
troit, conveys the news that the steamer
Gettysburg, with the barges Ames and
In a north-west gale in tow, 'was caught
In a north-west gale off Sable /eland,
OundaY, and all throe lost.
Cannain J. It. Carr, master of_the Get-
tysburg, and the crew of the three vee-
nele were rescued by the line steamer
Sagamore, end take to Boston.
The Gettysburg., with two barges in
tow, left the Lakes two weeks ago, after
undergoing en extensive overhauling. An
three vessels carried cargoes of Wed
pulp wood, loaded at Chatham, Itl, 13.,
to Ile delivered in Portland, Maine.
'the vessels were sold to buyers on
the coast hut opting,
AUTO FATALLY HURTS BOY.
Montreal, Iteport.--Jean Matabee, nine
years of age, was fatally injured yester-
day afternoon by District Fire Chief
Pevereau's automobile, driven by Chauf-
feur Gatlin, at the corner of Craig •and
nenucirty otiVrte, The bay died in Notre
Dame. Tfoopital. Lennie. Lortie, an eight -
ear -old girl who was playing with the
and vapour bathe enter largely IMO esetteed. aerious injury.
SWISS FRONTIER GUARD KILLED
Berne, Oct, Swiss frontier guard
was killed yesterday by a stray bullet
\riffle doing eentinel duty on the emtunit
of Drele-Prachen Spitze, where the Swies,
/Wien and Austrian Tyrol, frontier come
tegc '1;hte sentinel, Genrge Catho-
mak weft etruck by the 'bullet which
Passed over Swim 'territory From either
the /Milan or Tyrolean frontier, Ma to
the that Metaece of a Swiss froutier
maim being killed Wet hostilitien began,
The summit on which Catlromaft wax
kilted is 5,301 feet above .sett end
is tear the St. anomie pees.
HALF MILLION
IN TEN WEEKS
Enormous Captures of Pri-
soners by the Allies.
Those by Roumania and Sa-
loniki Not Included.
•
Paris Cable.—The Paris Journal
Plablislies a table of the prisoners aad
Leoty captured by the allies on the
Lour principal fronts from July 1 to
aopt. 18, Tae captures of the Rou-a
mei= artily and the Satellite' arIllY
are atet inehaded. Tlie ftguree are: •
Gruas.1\-il3lettinl.° Prisoners.
la
729 33,609 rcuch 145
3
British ., 109 22 21,450
Russian 841 1.5,820 4123;0447,1
Italian — . „ 86
— --
Total . —1,131 e,624 490,668
These figures were obtained from
the official communiques.
From Sept. 18 to Oct. 4, according to
the communique, the French increased
their total af .prisoners to 40,313, the
British to 27,602, the Russians to 432,-
664, and the Italians to 34,243, giving
a arena total of 534,727 prisoners
taken on the western, eastern and
eouthern fronts from July, when the
eli.ourniee offensive began, to the present
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V: I.
RICH FIELD IN
OLD ETHIOPIA
The Egyptologists Unearth
Mines of Historical Wealth,
While the Excavations Are
Only Started.
Cairo Egypt, Cable.—(Correspon-
dence of the Assodated Press)—Im-
portant discoveries which are said to
have supplied much of the hitherto ob-
scure history of ancient Ethiopia were
made recently by the Egyptian Expe-
dition sent by Harvard University and
the Boston Museum of Fine Arte un-
der the directorship of Dr. George A.
Reisner, well known' as an Egyptolo-
gist.
ln an interview with a representa-
tive of the Associated Frees, Dr. Res -
beer said that during excavatione at
Gebel Barkal material bearing on the
Whole period between 1,600 B. C. and
100 A, D. had been found and that
prospect e were that further excava-
tion would bring to light objects of
still greater importance.
Among the more important finde
have been ten large statues of kings
of Ethiopia. Five ,of these were nearly
complete and five were lacking the
heads, but it i§ believed these will be
fount'. The exPedition has also uncov-
ered the foundations of temples built
by Egyptian kings of the Eighteenth
Dynasty and shown that the sphinxes
of A.menophis III. and other monu-
ments of that period found at Barkal
belong to these temples and were not
brought here in later times as some.
hietorians have aeaumecla Deseribing
the work, Dr. Reimer said:
"Gebel Barked, which is in the dis-
trict of Napata, lies 250 miles up the
Nile from Kerma in the Province of
Dongola. Napata was the capital of
that kingdom of Ethiopia whose arme
les are mentioned in the Old Testa-
ment ae the Opponents of Aeeyria in
the latter part of the eighth century
before Christ. Gebel Barkal ie an up-
stending table mountain of sand-
stone, visible for a great distance.
From the moment it appears in the
Egyptian inscriptions it is marked ae
'the Holy Mountain.' Ite selection was
not doubt due to its proximity to Nap -
ate, the great city Which must have
lain on both side e of the Nile. The site
of Napata was peculiarly fitted for a
great role in the political and Commer-
cial activities of ancient times. It lies
at the head of the navigable stretch.
of river between the third and fourth
cataracts, at the end of the relatively
rich ,agricultural area of the province,
and at the junction of five caravan
roads through the desert.
"The extent of the city has not yet
been determitied but there are traces
of ruined buildings on both sides of
the river. -There are at least four
groups of pyramids, that is, royal
cemeteries in the neighborhood, and
the two most distant groups are nearly
twenty miles apart. In this long
stretch, which may be assumed to
contala the city of Napata, it is Gebel
Barkal and its immediate neighbor-
hood which has always drawn the at-
tention �f modern scholars. Beside the
mountain stand two groups of pyra-
mids and under the perpendicular face
of the rock on the river side six Or
seven temples have been traceable,
bile Of Which was very large. These
temples have in past threes yielded a
remarkable eeriee afeeculptures and in-
scriptiens which have gone to enrich
the museums of Cairo, Leridon, Paris
and I3erlin and form the greeted
source of our knowledge of the his-
tory of 'EthiePia.
"Our expedition reached Gebel
Bartatl from Cairo on Zan. 24 last. We
'worked Orate three months, employing
a force of about 300 local workmen, and
left just hi tittle to eeettpe the hot
weather. Many peopjo had worked
on the pyramids, but aro one had yet
diecovered the plan of the structures,
oud no Oa.. knew how to get into them.
Porttinately a Gebel Barkal there
were two completely ralhed aryramidS
of small size, which of fered.the eaelest
opportutity of solving the mystery.
We found in,the caSe all each a stair-
way on tho eastern side leading down
to chantherei tinder the, pyramid. With
that hint we attacked Via larger pYra-
inids and Within it mental we had
found the entrances of 25 pytrunide
and had cleared the burial chcanbere
cf all but one,
"All the eltambers had been repeat-
edly plundered In ancient daYS for
gold. Nevertheless, We gathered
mass of Material from wieleh teat Were
able to recOnetrnet the forms end
clutrecter of the greatetamart of the
pottery, inialenients Laid tither things
eberaeteristic -of. .tlio perioa. 'This re-
(011etructed grOup pointed Clofmtly to,
the first Century before Chalet as tile
tline in which had lived, these' ilttle
comparison, this concluilon may be a
century away from the truth.
."ruo mwo, interesting 01.4We were
cd -glazed plates„ polished vessels of
(ammo red and. variegated ginne, am-
phorae, imitating the Itliodiaa in form
and material, a bronze Jug with two
bandies, each ending in a mash, four
bronze vessels, a piece of wood carved
in relief; and s, wonderful gold brace-
let . with a lacquer decoration in
14e5;1'l\Qal‘ridthe("iteti
testyle,
"1of February tbe
full force was turned on the eXeava-
tion of the temple area.. The Lech
Part of the great temple and almost
the whole of the other temples were
in a seemingly hopeless state of de-
struction, Nall a dozen expeditions
bad dug desultory trenches la these,
and the natives had used them as
quarries for centuries. In hunting for
a suitable place to throw the refuse,
we cleared a Space beside the first
pylori, We found ourselves, bowever,
inside the temple enclosure arid on
the living floor or the Meroltic period
(olout 100 B, 0.). To our great our -
prise, in a hole inthis floor, wo came
on the edge of a pile or fragments of
large royal statues of the Ethiopian
period. Investigation showed that
there had been a great restoration of
the temple after a period of destruc•
tion, subsequent to 600 B. 0., and that
the statues of the Ethiopian kings
fouud broken daring this restoration
tied been carried out and thrown into
this place, The names of four kings
were found—the biblical Tirlailea,
Amon -anal, his son Espalta, and a
later king named Senka-amonaeken.
, Only the statue of Espalta wee com-
plete. It seemed, therefore, that there
niust be another dump, in which the
fragments of these statues had beeu
thrown, but in so vast an area the
chance of finding the other dump
without excavating the whole seemed
too small for consideration.
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Some Truths About
German Conditions
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(New York Sun.) •
The alert and rigorous censorship
practised by the belligerents renders
it difficult to ascertain the true con-
dition of affairs in their respective
countries. This is particularly true
of isolated Germany, about which the
most conflicting reports have been
published, lt is therefore matter for
satisfaction to the nowsgatherer to
secure from an unprejudiced source
apparently reliable information.
The Ugesskrift for Laeger, a Copen-
hagen journal, publishes a letter from
its editor, Mr. V. Sclieel, who has re-
eently visited Berlin in company with
four other Danish citizens and army
surgeons. He describes Berlin as
greatly changed in many respects.
The first impression inclicatin.g a devi-
ation from the former gay appearance
of the city was the absence ot rub-
ber tired vehicles and their substitte
tion by old-fashioned cabs driven by
decrepit nags,' The predominance of
v, omen among conductors, motormen,
letter carriers, street sweepers, and
even street pavers, was plainly in eva
deuce. •
The food supply in Berlin was ex-
tremely scant, probably more than
usually, by reason of the near hare
vest. Potatoes were unpromising on
account of a cold spring. The bread
ration was n,bout six otmces a day,
and of meat it was about four
ounces a week, Tuehday and Friday,
being no meat days. Cream was
rarely seen anywhere, butter was
doled out in quantities of not quite
three ounce i a week; eggs two a
'week:. sugar very scarce. The sub-
,atitutes ingeniously invented or de
,sed, were not nutritious.
It was endettaored to gloss over
this lack' of substantial food by sep-
Plementing it with green vegetables,
fruit and poultry, which were net
restricted. In bargaining for a sand-
wich it became' necessary to present
a coupon for butter and meat from
the bread and meat card. From this
account the epicure had opportunity
for mending his ways, and the house-
holder was learning valuable lessons
of economy and thrift that may aid
in recouping the national loss in
finances.
There appeared to be no more un-
der -flourished persons, however, than
are usually found in a largo city. The
sight of women and children stared -
Ina in. line to buy food bears pathetic
testimony to the scarcity of the ne-
cessaries of life. State organization of
the food supply is a great aid to the
People; children are fed in the schools
and public kitchens supply midday
meals of tolerably good food. Nursing
women, young infants and the sick
may procure at moderate prices extra
food on a physician's prescription, or
from hospital kitchens. There are no
apparent detrimental effects upon the
bealth of the eommunity, as indicated
by the municipal records.
The treatment of the wounded is
a marvellous demonstration of effi-
ciency; 'the Berlin hospitals have
never been naturally full. Few capital
operations are performed, the con-
valescents are kept interested in
studying languages, learning practi-
cal tradee or raisig chickens and
rabbits. The hospital food was abun-
dant and above reproach. By a sin-
gular coincidence the College of Scalp.
tare at Charlottenbarg is converted
into a hospital for injuries of the
Mee, NeW faces are built up by
transplantation of bone and flesh;
"the whole is worthy of the Institu-
tion for Plastic Arts." Dentists
are In charge who have learned trans•
plantation, because it was easier to
teach them this branch of surgery
tban to teach surgeous their raechan•
teal art.
The prisoners' camps have been sub
jects of acrinloniats discussion and
recrimination; they are divided into
quarters for 1,000 men enclosed with
barbed wire. The food is no tenger
rained out, but is calculated aceord
frig to heat units, 2,500 a day. Thls
Is, a 'little scanty, but searcely scan-
tier than inost Germans are laving
mi at present, and "judging from the
prisoriers' aspect, the nouriehatent Wits
surficient,"
This unbiassed account of wild!.
done in Germany hulk:lies the stress
of the people and confirms the urifav-
Orable reports that have front time to
Unit escaped the Meer.
• 4 - s
NUTS FROM 'THE PHILIPPINES.
PM nuts. which grow abundantly in the
Philippines, have recently been ehipped
on a considerable seale to the 'United
'States. They are produeed by trees of
thegenusCanarlum, to which belongs
the Java almond, are nearly triangular
In eross-seetion, and tontain a small,
• oil -kernel of almond -like flavor. Be-
sides being VOT y palatable in their natural
• otete, they yield a valuttble. oil, twelfth'.
frig all of almonds. Aceorditig to an
()Metal report, the production of pill -011
is he
ene of tcoming induetriee of the
hinge who Irad built thetat rriOnnmente 1011,1,0I•tiireaeaegalLaweattleigakilaialverait.Z hats eaellY dote he elthett. Others tO bo
but in *view of the Stailty Material for which are very hard. vieleuia—Cieerla
HUNS SHORT OF
GUNS PLANES PLOT TO iviumnit,
ge*.om
Allegreln, yCoo4nkneacttri jokne.With
Alt BUT F000 New Yerk ReporaL Conepiracy tO
• assinate Theodore P. Shouts arid
Frank Healey, president and general
Meleager, respectIve!Y, of the inter -
borough Rapid Trallett Mal the New
Yorle Railwaye Companies, were un-
euethed here late last night, according
to the police, Two men have been de-
tained, and detectives are mid to be
searching the city for others alleged
'to bave been involved.•
The police declare a conversation in
a saloon, which Was overheard by a
disinterested person, led to tire die
-
Document Captured by Bri-
tish Shows Their Organ-
ization Failed,
VON ARNIM'S f MUTE
High Praise Given to Haig's
Men—German Air
Scouts Useless.
..1•••••••••••11.11••••11ft....,
War Correspondents' Headquarters
in France, Cable, via London Cable)
—Germany is short of guns, aero-
planes and war material of all sorts,
but not ef food, according to a most
sensationally interesting document
the British have captured, which is
called the "Experiences of the Fourth
German Corps in the Battle of the
Somme."
The aocument was written as In-
structions to the troops. It was
drawn from the lessons a the battle
by General 'Count aixt von Arnim, the
corps commander, who had been
fighting against the British through-
out the offensiae. This long -de-
tailed revelation of the inner thoughts
of the German Stafr discusses the
methode and shortcomings of eaery
branch of the German army in view
of the unexpected power and organiz-
ation the British have shown. The
document starts out by paying tribute
to the British infantry, "which un-
doubtedly has learned much since last
autumn's offensive."
"It shows great dash in attack," the
document continues. "The English-
man lute physique and training in
his ,favor. One must acknowledge
the skill of the English in rapidly
consolidating captured positions and
their great tenacity in the defence of
them,"
Because the breech actions of so
many German rifles have been clogged
with dirt, General von Arnim euggests
In the document that it would be ad-
visable to fit a cover ever the breech
of the rifles -like that used in the
British army, which can easily be un-
fastened and then hangs from the
rifle.
Explicit instructions are given in the
document to the artillery to change
their methods of placing batteries itt
villages and behind steep slopes, be-
cause of the British method of dis-
tribution of their artillery fire, which
prodigally. searches all obvious Mid-
ters. Owing to the terrine concentra-
tion of the British artillery fire, says
the document, front limes of trenehes
should be thinly held and dependence
placed on small groups of machine -
gunners, Once the British lay a cur-
tain of fire on a trench, it adds, the
men had better evacuate it and lie
down in the open.
Most interesting to the officers, in
view of the fact, that the Beitish have
so consistently held ground they have
taken against counter-attack, is what
General Arnim says on the subject:
"If counter-attack, which on ac-
count of the situation ought to. be
methodically prepared, are hurried,
they cost much blood, because the
troops lose their trust in the leaders
it' they fail, which nearly always hap-
pens" says Gen. von Arnim.
Ile then complains that the "exist-
ing telephone system has proved to-
tally inadequate in consequence of the
development of the fighting," and
says the artillery signal system broke
down. The Commander asserts that
he has discovered that British aero-
planes me, sound signals to tell gun-
ners -where their shells are falling,
and says the fourth corps already has
started an experiment on the same
kind of method as a complement to
the wireless, -which is frequently in-
terrupted.
"The numerical superiority of the
British 'airmen and the fact that their
machines were better made is dis-
agreeably apparent to us," Gen. von.
Arnim says, and he speaks of the sur-
prisingly bold procedure of British
airmen, who were often "able to fire
-successfuly on our troops with ma-
chine-guns by descending to within a
few hundred feet from the ground" He
adds that the German anti-aircraft
guns could not continue firing at that
height "without exposing their own
tramps to the serious danger of shell
fragments." 'Before the battle of the
Somme airmen kept at anywhere
from 6,000 to 12,000 feet over the
lines on account of the anti-aircraft
gunfire.
General von Ainini in the document
warns his infantry to use their rifles
against these daring British aviators.
• He says the ammunition supply and
the artillery are adequate and that
Maps were insufficient in quantity
and bad as regards details. Also the
supply of horses has reached the ut-
most, limit.
Of the food supply General von Ar-
nim says:
"No special difficulty arose. The
supply columns proved diffident."
But he emphasizes the importance
of mineral waters and beverages
which the British have fil•.vays found
plentiful in captured Gernian
trenches, and says that the troops
cannot have too muck of all kinds
of sausages and meat when fighting.
Dried herring are unsatisfactory as
they increase third. Alcoholic drinks
need: not be served out to the troops
in dry, warm weather, but solid,fied
alcohol for cooking warm -riaals has
proved useful.
Fresh troops, says th; (Mein -rent,
should always be ,used for attack.
They should aVold sunkett roads tad
natural eoVer, as the Britisla with
their plentiful Mare, are sere to
haVe tlieSe peints registeeed by their
guns, awd turn loose on them Jennie-
diately an attack starts. Gen. von
Arnim emphasises the value of steel
helmets, which the French first intro-
duced, and With which the Germans
are not Yet fully 'equipped.
As an idea of the amnia of PM -
inanition Stich battle cenditleas aS
those of the SOnime require, General
von Arnim San that a battery cf fear
field milie should have 2,200 Mantle
at the battery itself, aside from its re-
serve trappIY.
Indeed, Geri. Arailres ery IS for more
gunS, aeroplanes and =Munition --
everything elteePt feed.
Tito more Virtuous any Min is, tace
coe ery of the alleged plot against the
two largest transit COMPaIlles affected
by the strike of unionizeil carnien.
The prisoners, who gave their names
as (War Wallace and John J. Shearau,
were questioned for several hours to,
day, but the police said that to reveal
the result of this examination might
hamper in continuing the investiga-
tion.
TROOP TRAIN
JUMPED TRACK
300 Soldiers On Way to Ni-
agara Camp On Board.
Only Man Severely Injured
Has Broken Leg.
Niagara Falls, Ont., Report.--1Vlich-
igan Central train with 300 soldiers
of the 162nd Battalion, Parry Sound,
on their way back to Niagara Camp
after their final four days' leave,
jumped the rails just as it was leaving
the station, the last cars becoming de- •
tached, and smashed rata a coal died;
adjoining. Such was the force of thee
impact that the coach turned complete-
ly over on its side, leaving the truck.
Seeing the danger, :he men on the
rear coach jumped off before the im-
pact, and thus escaped injury. Pte.
Samuel Hamilton, single, of Callen-
der, the only man severely injured,
had his right leg broken and was
conveyed to tae General albspital. He
was in one of the forward coaches
that telescoped when they left the
rails, Others received minor injuries,
and owe their good luck to the fact
that the train was traveling only 'four
miles an. hour when the accident hap-
pened.
The special, with seven coaches,
left Sudbury this morning at 6,30, the
men being in charge of Lieut. Hark-
ness. After an hour and a half's delay
the train proceeded to the camp.
SHORT ITEMS
OF THE NEWS
OF THE DAY
Toronto Trades 0ouncii
, Raps Ottawa Gov't, Over
Living Cost,
COAL FOR ITALY
Eaiser's Crown Jewels and
Gold Plate Go Into
WaiFunds.
Patrick Benson, North Ba/'s oldest
inhabitant passed away at the ripe age
of 86 years.
Infantile paralysis is spreading in
Ontario, there being 76 cases and 7
deaths last month.
Only four new students have regis-
tered at Wycliffe College and they are
ipeligible for the army.
Stratford bakers raised bread to 8
cents a loaf, and there is a possibility
`tea it going to 9 cents efore long.
The barn with most of the crop and
implements belonging to John Wat-
son, of King's Township was destroy-
ed by fire.
Speakers at the Toronto Trades and
Labor Council ceasured the Ottawa
Government for inaction, on the high
Cost of living.
Walter Montgomery, a bachelor
farmer, was found murdered and rob..
bed in a drive house on his plaoe, lot
7, con, 10, Madoe.
Pte. H. J. Johnston, a; graduate of
the University of Toronto, bas been
appointed to an., important post in
the compass department of the Ad -
Wimpy
R.* ***,d i••arts.4.. ot.x&d0twineS
that President Itunctman, of the
Board of Trade has satisfactorily ar-
ranged with coal owners the question
of supplying coal to Italy.
Redmond Quain, a director of the
Ottawa Electric Railway Company and
the Ottawa Car Company died there
euadenly. He was in his fifty-seventh
year.
A feature of the annual fair at Gras-
sy Lake, Alta., was a plate • of straw-
berries grown by J. B. Mosey, which
were picked ten days age, and were
just as luecious as those picked in July
or August.
Abraham Dent, for almost half a
century a practising 'barrister at Mit-
chel, Perth County, and well known
.in legal circles throughout Ontario,
died at London, Ont. He was born at
lambro, North Oxford, 75 years ago.
wiRDEREDFn. 1 „Cot ciorvininprivn, 2c400mt hs aBnadt tali, boans sLtiaernt te.d-
onea trek throughout . the counties of
4.10NEY HAA iNleonvfermewberandtLoanagrekt , iunnutrielathteo eavoef
!IL conditions.
Eccentric Farmer Near
Belleville Found Slain.
Skull Had Been Broken by
a Blow.
Belleville, Ont., Report.— Walter
Montgomery, a middle-aged farmer,
and a bachelor, w,ho reside in the 7th
concession of Mabee Township, Ilea
been murdered. This morning his
body was discovered in a drive house
on his farm and abrasions at the back
of the Octal indicate the man was
clone away with by a blunt instru-
ment. The money that zee always car-
ried in a pouch suspended from his
neck by a etrap, is missing. Robbery
a as evidently the motive for the deed.
Montgomery was a bachelor of pe-
culiar and eccentric habits and lived
alone on a one hundred' acre farm
near the sulphite mines in Madoc
Township ,Financially he was in
comfoetablej circumstan.ces. He was
55 years of age, and as far as known
had no enemies. Montgomery had
no confidence in banks and always
carried his money about his person.
Ile was last seen alive on Tuesday of
Ibis week, and a neighbor not seeing
him about yesterday, informed rela-
tives and a search revealed his body.
A bag of apples partially filled gave
evidence that the unfortunate victim
was sorting apples when the deadly
blow was struck.
Dr. Harper, coroner of Medea, had
it jury empanelled and an autopsy re-
vealed a fracture of the skull.
•
SERBIANS NEAR
TO MONASTIR
Within Six Miles of Chief
City in South.
Germans Admits Gains by
the British.
London Cable.—righting ou ita,
horne sail again after months of -eic-
Patriation, the reconstituted Serbian
army is making steady progress to-
wards Monattir. An Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Saloniki to -day
repotted that the Serbians have
broken the Bulgarian first-line de-
tentes on Kaloni, and are only six
miles from the chief city of Southern
Serbia. Officially they aro repOrted as
crossing the Cerna River, near Do-
broveni and Brod, end to have occu-
pied the towns of Iltif and roan.
The reoccupation by the British of
the village of Yonikeui, east of the
Struma, on the Macedonian front, is
admitted in to -day's German War
Office statement. On the western end
of the front Entente forces are In Pas -
Session of the Nielje Planina, says the
statement, 'tallith follows: "The Nidje
Planina (Overlooking tho Ceram val-
ley, east of Monftstir) is held by the
enemy. Otherwise the poeitiott is un -
Changed front Presba Lake to the
Strum,. Thee battle on theleft bank
of the Struma la still lie progress, The
'village of Yeniketil Itas agahl been
loeta • •
Emperor William of Germany- has
turned over all the royal, gold plate
and part of the crown jewels to the
Imperial treasury to be converted Into
'funds to aid in the proeecution ntt the
ian-agmParis. according to information reach-
Sergt. Alex. Milne, a former em-
ployee of the Saskatchewan Govern-
ment, and recently transferred from
the 1961h to another battalloaa was
found guilty by a Juryain the Supreme
Court at Regina, of stealing documents
from the Highways .Department to
heze.d to Conservative organizers; he
s allowed to go on suspended sen-
t
PRO-GEFiANS
FOR HUGHES
So -Called ".American Truth
Society" Preparing
To Wage Campaign to De-
feat Wilson.
New York Des.—A, meeting of the
so-called "American Truth Society," an
orgOnization formed Tor the purpose of
• •
eavancing the German propaganda,
ems held here last night "for the pur-
pose of forming a 'campaign commit-
tee of 5,000 to wage tt campaign for
the defeat of Presideat Wilson and all
candidates opposed by the soeiety."
Bernard Kidder, editor , of the New
)ork Staats-geitung, who was the
chairman, reviewed, the "Teuto•Celt
Victories" of thepeat year in the
United States, ill whieh, lie said, the
"Teuto-Celt," 'who represents the real
Americanism, went out and beat the
pseudo -Americanism represanted by
Woodrow Wilson."
He mentioned among these the vic-
tory of -Senator Martine, of .NeW Jer-
sey', in the recent Deznotratie primary.
Prior to the meeting, announaement
Was made that Jeremiah AeO'Leary, a
Prime mover in the "Truth Society,"
has entered suit against Vance McCor-
mick, chairman of the Dete0eratie Na-
tional Committee, for.alleged slander,
growing out Of an exchange of tele -
gems between O'Leary and President
Wilson on Oct. 3rd. O'Leary said he
resented a statement attlibuted to Mr.
McCormick, criticising hint for send-
ing an "learning message" to Presi-
dent Wilson. In that passage Mr.
O'Leary criticised the President for
"not enforcing -American righte
itgainet Great Britain," and informed
Mr. Wilson that he Weald hot Vote for
the re•eleetion Of the .President. Mr.
Wilson replied that he would - "feel
deeply mortified to 'halee you (Mr.
O'Leary) or traybOay like you, vote for
Me," adding:
"Since you have fteeeeS to mailer die -
loyal Amerleans and 2 have note 2 will
ask you to convey thiseinesaage to
therm"
ELORA PRESBYTERIANS ANTIS.
laara, Ont., Iteport.---At. 'e, (*imolai tenet.
Mg of the toegregatien of i{nox Church,
held last night, the following 'resolution
was carried by it, Ittrge majority: ,.."Mov..
ed that this congreasttion havium twieti
previously voted against ehttreh union
by large majorities, again ,plkees en 'rec-
ord he determination to continue Se 5
tongeegation of the Presbyterian .1Ihureb
Method
Cadualondnan, aauctIonrgerfougsaeettattottuoci the .
u rtveihthm t 0171
tho. basis of union tts at present propos*
ed.,