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The Wingham Advance, 1917-07-19, Page 4Page r our TrIE Wf G1-i4M ADVANCE ntelinotain Ab.innue JOItN. JOYNT, Proprietor A. G, S inn, Manager TI1URSDAY, .101,Y ,Y 1Qth W17 The French•Camedian It Imo frequently been pointed out that French- Canadians enlisted fairly well in all provilnees except Quebec, A French-Canadian member from New Brunswick (Mr. Robidoux) voted for Miiitary Service Bill; the only French•Ooneervativo member in Ont. ario (Dr. Chabot) apoke for the 13i11 and would have voted for it were he not paired with Hon. Dr. Behind, now a prisoner of war in t. erman.y. (Lie was urged to vote anyway on the ground that Dr, Island himself would vote for it were he here; but he re- spected the pair he made.) The only French Canadian member from Sask- atchewan, a Liberal, (Mr. Champagne) voted for the Bill. This all indicates that the trouble is with Quebec province, rather than with the French Canadian as such. Re- moved from the Quebec environment the French-Canadian appears to better advantage. Playing the Game Beware of the Liberal member who plays Laurier's game on uoneeription. Sir Wilfrid has been given great credit for according hie followers the privilege of voting against him, He granted it first because he had to, and secondly because it was good policy to do so. He bolds a solid Quebec now and he accords Mr. Graham the privi- lege of going out so ho may come in with a sufficient force of conscription- ist Liberals to make a majority over the anti -conscriptionist wing of the Liberal party. If Laurier en:naa in, conscription goes out. It Laurier comes in, he brings a referundum which means delay and perhaps defeat. In either event the boys 'we sent out to fight our battles will be left without reinfoteements. Sir Wilfrid was very anxious on Friday to learn the per- centage of casualties able to return to the trenches. Does he think it fair that every man over there should be sent back every time he recovers from wounds or sickness until he exhauate every, chance of escape? Missed Grand Chance We wonder if Mr. Truax, M. P., thinks the electors of South Bruce are a nnotley collection of unsophisticated fools, He must do so, if he imagines they will be satisfied with the speech he made and the votes he gave on the Conscription Act. .Ili hie speech he stated that he was in favor of the con- scription bill, but would vote in favor of Sir Wilfrid's amendment for a referendum. Now Mr. Truax must have known that this amendment was intended to, and if carried would have' had the effect of killing the Act, as the probability is, that before a vote could be taken and, if approved of, Parliament called together to pass it, that the war would be over, and in the meantime our men in the trenches would continue to suffer for want of reinforcements to relieve them. It looks as if Mr. Truax thought to please the anti-British element and the "slackers" by voting for the Amend- ment, and then to appease the Patri- otic electors bay voting for the Act on its second reading, when the vote against the Amendment showed that the Bill was certain to pass by a large majority. The South Bruce member sure missed a grand opportunity of showing that he put country before party, which in this ease he failed to do.i--Bruce herald and Times. Axm e04 ineligible, Rejected or. Overage for Military Saralee May have a fres trip Overseas for non-military work, Wages $15.00 per month and upwards with transportation board and lodging. Write or apply to Captain Midfard, 263 Arlington Ave,, Ottawa, CHIROPRACTIC Chiropractic accurately locates and remove9 the cause of,disease, allowing nature to restore health. J. A. FOX D.C., D.O. Drugless Physician, Consultation and examinations free. Phone 191, Member Drugless Physicians Associa- tion of Canada. 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Ed and Von Papen—Reporter es Von Bernstorff's Trusted Secretary Amazing examples of the part play- ed layed by The Providence Journal in foil- ing German plots and in bringing the United States into the .var were given the Canadian Press Association last week by Mr. John n, Rathom, the Edi- tor of that publication, in several ad- dresses. Following are a few of the more remarkable feats of the staff to .whom their chief gave all the -credit: A reporter on The Providence Journal acted for seventeen months as orae of the private secretaries of Ambassador von Bernsdorf, the are credited diplomatic representative of the German Empire to the United States, and the evidence of the Am• bassador's activities thus exposed by the Journal resulted in his departure from American shores in disgrace Another staff reporter followed Dr. Heinrich Albert, exchanged suit cases with him and secured the evidence which defeated the plot to involve Ire• land in rebellion and ended in the exe• cation of Sir Roger Casement. A six teen-dollar:a-week stenographer in the office of The Journal out -witted Cap- tain' F. von Papen, German naval at tache at Washington. How she 'die so would make the plot of a moving picture scenario. Wireless Gave them Start .• The boys and girls of the paper fear lessly took their lives`in their hand: for years. "Without them," said Jolts'. R. Rathom, "eve could have 'dello noth ing." , Yet he himself is a man of're markabla personality, shrewd, cour ageous and very good-humored. Bon in Australia, he was brought up in the United States and is a thorough-golni American, a patriot with breadth ani sympathy enough to •accord full prais' to Canada for her saciiflces in the wet His one aim throughout was to brinf his fellow -citizens to see that German was their natural fo'e. "God bless Canada,". was Ms simple conclusion. Mr. Rathom explained that for 'year before war was thought of The Provi deuce Journal had had a "bug" to; wireless telegraphy, and had two sta tions of its own on the Atlantic coast When war broke out they conceives the idea of tapping Sayville and Nan tucket, and in that way, long before any exposures were made in The Journal, • they had accumulated evi dence of German complicity in mis chief -making in the' United ,State; which would amount to . a hundror times more than was already publish ed: Then had come the following-ur in which the reporters had been in• valuable, and the nbmance of spy -hunt ing .had surpassed all fiction. Of the Ottawa Parliament Build ings • fire, Mr, Rathom said they had no ' positive information, but' three weeks before it took place they 'had information of a plan to destroy the Parliament Buildings about that time. with two munition plants in Canada. Both Parliament Buildings and the munition plants were damaged by fire or sbomb within forty-eight hours of the time of which The Providence had information. "That is all I know of the Ottawa fire," said Mr. Rathom, "but I am content to believe that it r e tocarelessness be cera d could nots 'nor lack of ordinary precaution at Ottawa, because we knew 'how difIl- cult.it is to circumvent these men." Horn's "Green Blubber" Brain Mr. Rathom • caused a burst of laughter by describing the brains of every German diplomat as "green blubber." He always made a mistake which nobody with real brains would be guilty of. The speaker gave sever- al instances where the most elabor- ate plots had fallen through because of this characteristic German stupid- ity. One of these was the case of Lieut. Werner Horn, the young Ger- man officer who had been deputed to blow up the Vanceboro' bridge. This man hied gone to the trouble of grow- ing. a beard, and, disguising himself as 'a rough, uncouth workman --old clothes, dirt boots, worn-out carpet bag, etc. He, however, gave himself away by riding in the parlor car • of the best train running through New England. He. was "spotted" at once. Afterwards when asked why he did not travel in a different sort of a train he replied that he was an ofn• cep and a gehtteman, and that was the way he was accustomed to travel. Three days after the Du Pont ex- plosion in Delaware, which killed 31 men, Boy -Ed, the German ' Military Attache at Washington, and Capt. F. yon Papen eat fit an hotel and toasted the men who had been sue- cessful in bringing about this Du Pont explosion. A Journal reporter at a dictagrapil in the next room was }able to, report the occurrence in full. Rathom Convinced Wilton The whole story of how one sole nr" 'spaner was enabled so to expose Germaa sec:-' i Iottinge in the United States that it resulted, first, in recall of one officialafter the other up to "'stint von Bernstorff, Find then proved „..,.yt weight in convincing President Wilson Of machinations against the State, could never have been told if the enoreeous initial difficulty cs the wireless codes had not been overcome, After five months of war and after nearly 100,000 messages had been stored In the vaults, the Journal was fortunate enough to discover the code to read some of these messages. Arm- ed with facts thus revealed by its four operators, the Jourt!al's reporters were sent out to take jobs in the German Constllates and other places named in the raessages, "The material we got in five months would keep us going for 25 years,” said Mr. Rathom. "We have not toueh- ed i0 per cent. of it. 'We have not prin ed 10 per cent, of it, Wo would have gone on doing so, but the result 'we wanted. came about." "We were working under a cloud for the first nine Months of our ex• ,posures," said Mr. 13,athom, "Nobody would believe us. The authorities Wok no action, Finally I went to the President and showed him the Ines• ts;ges that had been going to Berlin Via Sayville about 'Little Enlily.' 'Lit• tle Melly' was part of a secret code. "fheso moseagee sometimes told of her death, sometimes of details of her fun- eral, but the strange part of it was that .Beatty died as many as nine times in One week. The President was con- vinced, and the Govcrtttuent tlten put a large Staff et work to deoiphcr the coded, ;end handle the information that had teen received by the Journal frons the wire1e s Insall►-ge;l gels* to Gor- 1 MakInq Fool of Pernstorff Moist daring of all the thlventures of the Journal staff during the subse- quent "exposure" period was the part played by the reporter who got a pocl- tiou as a- private secretary to Count von Bernstorff.. For seventeen months he maintained his disguise and played his double part, keeping the Journal informed of all that the German Ami bassador was doing. The Jeanie' kept this information to itself until it wee quite really. Then I3ornetorff was completely discredited. When he was recalled, hie private secretary went with hien as far as the boat. "Hurry up," said Von I3ornatorff, who did not in the least sweet he hao hada,t." been fooled; "you will lose your "I think I'll be eater on this able," smiled the reporter. And this is how Von Bernstorff learned the truth. The Editor of RATHOM, JOHN R r E *pros vidence Journal. Overheard Bryan and Dumba The pacifist sentiment" or William ,Jennings Bryan, American Secretary of State at the opening of the war, were rudely dealt with by the Jour- nal. It happened that a Journal man overheard the conversation between Bryan and Dumba, the Austrian Am- bassador, in which Bryan agreed to influence President Wilson to suggest that United States citizens refrain from sailing on ships carrying muni- tions, in return for Germany's putting an end to submarine warfare, "Don't pay any attention to the President, he means nothing," Bryan was heard to say, referring to Presi- dent Wilson's notes. The Journal printed the terms of this agreement 'and the remarks of Bryan,iu full, with the result that Bryan, unable to deny the story, was eliminated from the Cabinet. ' In the case of the attempt to involve the United States in a war with Mexico, it was a Journal man that engaged the room where Huerta and the 'German agents discussed the terms, "Of course being our man he engaged suitable rooms, and we were enabled to hear every word and send r ni n of to the Dent et information t op h State." The "Pierced Hearts" Trick The story of the stenographer, a young girl who was employed by Dr, Heinrich Albert, the Austrian Con'sul- general in New York,' was perhaps the meat romantic of all. • This girl had no previous experience of plot- ting and counter -plotting, ,v city ex- perience whatever, havir.v come to the Journal from the, eountrr some 20 miles outside of Peoviden':e. She simply used her native New England wit. .A. certain paokalre of papers was to 'be sent to Germany through Eng- land on a Swedish ship, according to information tbn,t. the Journal had se- cured. These •pipers told who were the agents of the Teutonic Govern- ments in ties United States, what their services% had been to date, how much thee' bad been patch, and how much wet; Still to be paid. The case was to tsvr shipped with other cases of similar outside appearance containing harmlei's freight. ' huraday July ltd 19t7 for four trtouth%, The Now York Shi,:e The cls.^,anva'ry tlntt the elorin.:r• ships in New York harbor had bees diunaged wa:l made by the Journal but the authorities would not beliese it, as their own man had reportot. that they were all right, It was not until Mr. Rathom had shown the pill Wale. aamples of the earborundun; sand that had been poured luto the engines that they would believe. '.Then the (Adele admitted that their inspector had ons$ b':411 abeve decks. That the ships were not bior •t up as planned wan duo to the watchfulness of 60 or 70 Italian workmen, working around the .'rhervee in various gt'leee, emnploye:1 by the Jo':r.t„d, "-vile always ecem.i that if wo looked enough tato lay German scheme we should find a holo big enough in it for a,aehool boy to crawl through," come monted Mr. leathern. Then he traced the disclosures throughout 191G and down to the [regent year which had brought success to the Journal':; elms. Partial List of Triumphs, It was in April, 1915, that The Pro- vidence Journal exposed the German Embassy plot to discredit the Wash- ington Administration, and these dis- closures focused the eyes of the world on that paper. In the early months of 1915 powder plants in Illin- ois and New Jersey were blown up with loss of life, and merchant ships worn ruthlessly destroyed, but it was not until July that the real carnival began. It was then, too, Tlie Provi• deuce Journal exposed the Sayville wireless frauds, the result being that the 'United States Government seized the station. The celebrated conversations be- tween eeeSecretary of State Bryan and Ambassador Dumba were next published, causing a profound sensa- tion throughout the ,world, and read- ers will remember that a bomb was next placed in,the east wing of the Capitol at Washington and an attempt Was made on the life of J: P, Morgan, both by the same person, Frank Holt, a German sympathizer, who after- wards committed suicide. Lusitanla Plot -and' After The girl's task was to identify the particular box so that le could he pick- ed slut when it got to England. She saw the box in Albert's office and kept her eye on it. So did von Papen, the German naval attache at Washing- ton, who was hanging around Albert's office for the purpose. The girl, dur- ing her watch sat down on the pre- cious box and began to eat her lunch. The unsuspecting von Papen struck up a flirtation and invited himself to share the sandwiches. Before long he was talking sentimental twaddle, and the girl encouraged hint by tak- inga red lead pencil out of her hair, and coyly drawing two big red hearts on the top of the packing case. Von Papen himself drew the arrow through them. The box duly arrived at Falrnouth on the Oscar lI., to be examined. Neutral American cargoes were allowed to go through of they did not contain con- �traband. The authorities had been warned about the box with the two hearts and the arrow, and I)ad no diffi- culty in picking It out of hundreds of others. "And yet there aro no brilliant pee- ple but tete Germans," smiled Rathom. The Changed Suit Case• An assignment to a Providence Journal reported involved the shadow. ing of Dr. Heinrich Albert himself .one occasion. He was seen to go int a leather goods store and buy u suf. dune. He left it for his initials to le attached. The reporter then bought a similar suit case, and left it to see whether he liked the initials on the one that had just been ordered. Next day he called, saw Albert's initials, took away the suit case and had ini- tials put on by another dealer. Later riding in an elevated train a scuffle occurred at the front end of the car, and Dr. Albert stood up to see the fun, while his suit case was exchang- ed by the reporter in the seat behind. The scufna in the front of the car was caused by Mr. Rathom's men, too. Heinrich went on with the wrong suit case and discovered his less two days later. Then Ito reported to the police that his amt case had been ex• changed. However, it was too late What was found in that suit case, pub. lfshed in the .Providence Journal, sent Baron Konstatin T. Dumba, the Aus trim Ambaeeaeor, home to Austria within a week, Dr. Gartshare, Austrian Consul -Gen oral at San Francisco, wan ordered to blow up tho torpedo plants at Seattle. He refused. "When I heard 'that 1 thought it was so 'unusual tha 1 looked him up," said Mr. leathern Gartshare proved to be diegirsted wits his job and with his Government ant its methods, and f;ave information to the Journal resulting in the seeuririt tar a,n immense amount of material. II Wee denotement be the Austrian Fin lgagY, suit x Yana 4> 1,11 is not of. .tun DISTRICT NEWS Rollie ilenherson spn of Mr, T. M. llenderson, formerly of the Bluevale road, has been appointed on the permanent staff tri Deetnehot, l ngland, as a lecturer and instructor, Mr. Jas. McGuffin of the Uowick•Wal- 1ace boundary met with a rather severe accidcnt its Mr, A, Edgar's raising on Friday last, A heavy stick of timber fell crushing his arm between the timber and the cenrenc waft, His arm was badly twinned and his wrist put out of joint. He wilt carry his arm in a sling for some time; Tho annual Garden Party of Walton Presbyterian chureh was held on the manse lawn Wednesday evening et last week and prayed a record success, About 1500 people attended. The night was ideal. Program given by Blyth Brass Band and the well known Maple Ler f Quartette of Galt was excellent, Proceeds amounted to $554. Rev. E G. Powell, IIuron county in- spector for the enforcement of liquor laws, made a seizure of liquor Thursday night of last week at Exeter and put it in Isis grip. which he deposited in his motor car. While he was stopping at the resitlenco of another citizen, someone took the grip and the whisky. . Apparently the inspect- or was watched, and some thirsty soul retrieved the wet goods, The story of the Embassy's part in the Lusitanla sailing was first told by Mr. Rathom s , era p p Theattempt to bribe Samuel Gompers, who twice re- fused enormous fortunes if he would betray labor and help Germany to foment strife in industrial plants, was disclosed in The Journal. Boy -Ed's and von Papen's activities wore pub- lished, and the publicity forced the Government to act, and they were de- clared objectionable persons. It was The Journal which first told of the fact in September, 1915, that England had -bagged 80 per cent. of the German submarines, a -fact after- wards,admitted by the British Gov- ernment. Tho plot to blow up the Welland Canal,t,the intrigues' of the Germans in using the fled Cross as a cloak for spy work, the bomb plots, the activities in Mexico and the help of Muth. were all exposed first by, The Providence Journal., The year 1916 was in the main a repetition of the atrocities of the year previous. But Boy -Ed and von Papen and von Igol and Dernberg and von der Goltz and Dumba were sent back to Ger- many and Austria, while dozens of others, of lesser degree, are languish- ing in United State prisons. The story of 1917 has been full of great honor for The Providence Jour- nal and Mr. Rathom. Munition plots multiplied, but a pitiless' publicity made the going extremely hazardous. The end was in sight in February, when ' Germany announced her new submarine policy. As 'he sailed Bern- storff termed The Providence Journal "villainous liar and creature of Eng- land." Germany's activities in Mexico were exposed, the trouble -making of M Bra washwnto Mr, n s o v be a part of Y a plan to keep the United. States in a state of inaction, the story of the Mexico -Japan deal proposed by' the German Foreign Secretary, Zimmer- mann, were all first published in The Journal, as wasfthe story 01 the•plot to destroy the ships interned in New York harbor,,. - Earned Thanks of Country The Boston Transcript wrote edi• torialfy: "The Providence Journal is entitled to the ,thanks of the country for the remarkable sucdess of the in- quiries into the German spy system and the German propaganda in this' country which it has conducted.' The Journal's discoveries have been the basis for about three-quarters—pos- sibly a larger proportion thanjthat-- of the Government's proceedings Against the German plotters.' It was upon the Journal's information that most of the judicial proceedings were taken. The Journal has a good many mere sharp arrows in. its quiver. It has taught the metropolitan press a lesson in enterprise. The Journal is nov eknowu in Downing street and Willrelmstrasse as well as on West- ptinster street; and it has performed a work that will be remembered 'tn `e history of the wa-•' '�..=_ .•- '.tea �- presented With $1000. Among all the noteworthy events that have been recorded in the history of St. Joseph's parish Ashfield, during the seven decades of its existence none has survpassed its dignity and grandeur the occasion celebrated on Wednesday of last 'Week, the 255.h anniversary of the ordination of Rey. Father Mc- Cormick, the beloved pastor of the parish. The fact that seventeen of the reverend father's twenty-five years in the priesthood had been spent in Ash. field was an additional reason for the people of the parish making the event a memorable one. Despite the fact that weather and road conditions were. most unfavourable, a large gathering representing points at a considerable distance, was present for the grand high mase which was announced for tea o'eloek on Wednesday, June 27th. Rev. Father McCortniek was celebrant with Rev. Father Hanlon of London, as deacon and Rev. Father Parding 6f St. Peter's Seminary, sub•deacon. There were present also in the sanet. uary Very I ev.1+'ather O'Connor, vic- ar•.genoraI of the diocese Rey. Father Ford of Woodslee, Rev. Father O'Neil of Patkhill, Rey, rather idcR;te, of Goderleb; Rev. Father J, Iogats, Luc - an; Rev, Father Doyle, of London; Rev, Father Fallon of W inghara; It iv, Father Moran of Stratford, and flet, Father Brophy, of Springfield, Mo, Rev, rather Dean of St. Augustine, acted as matter of ceremanies. 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'140ON eY The Northern Exhibition, which has been an annual event in Walkerton for nearly halt a century, is going out of busi- ness for this year at least, the Directors the blame this annum on the condition of the buildings, some of which are too de' lapidated for the proper housing of stock, while the palace, which was repainted and fixed up last year. has suffered at the hands of the small boys, who systematic- ally practised on the windows with rocks, wills the result that the panes have beets havered and the structure s made to look awfully as if it had seen better days. 51. 0, Ransford, son•of John Ransford, a prominent farmer and stock raiser. near Clinton, was attacked by his Jersey bull, and had a very narrow escape from being killed by the enraged animal Thursday of last week. Mr. Ransford was making some repairs in the stable, when the bull broke loose and attacked him in a long passageway, which made escape almost impossible. and as a result he fought the animal for over 15 minutes. and it is fair to assume that very few men, except they possessed unusual strength. could have emerged alive from' the encounter. Mr. Ransford suffered nothing more serious than some broken bones and bruises, On Friday of last week Mr. Jack Hutch iron, son of Mr. Ilugh Hutchison of the 2nd con, of 1-Iowicic, had quite an experi- ence with run.•.ways. He was corning down the hill opposite Mr, Fobt, Earl's the horses took fright and ran away. They ran for about' half a mile before they were stopped, but did little damage except upsetting Mr. Wm. Elliott's mail box. When coming down the hill into Gorrie the team again ran away, this time doing considerable damage. The first object they struck was a telephone pole opposite Mr. S. Hunter's residence this they snap- ped in two and continued down street at a furious pace until they rata into the rear of Air, D. D. Sanderson's auto which was standing in front of the hardware store. The auto was pretty badly smashed and Mr, Carson's gasoline pump was broken off diose to the sidewalk, The horses were considerably cut and bruised. Lightning plays many a prank, and gives many a close call without doing any great harm, but rarely' does it pray a stranger trick than it did at Thomas Bow- ler's, ow•lers, Ashfield, during a storm the end of last week, Tc/the fact that Mrs. Bowler was away from home for the night she likely owes her life. She had gone to J. Hogan's to care for the children, Mr. and Mrs. Hogan being away for the night at Teeswater. During the night the Bowler house was struck by lightning. The cur- rent struck the peak of a gable, and after tearing the studding and lumber some- what, it descended and went clean through the bed on which Mr. Bowler was sleeping He had a rude and sudden awakening by being thrown upon the floor, On examine ation it was found that the lightning had made a fairly clean=cut hole through Ilse bedding, mattress and all, large enough to put one's hand through. The current then reached the ground without doing further damage, Had Mrs. Bowler net happened to be away that night, there likely would be a different story to tell, While Alf Mitchell, a lumber dealer of Powassan, near North Bay, was motoripg with his wife and family to visit with rela- tives in Lucicnow, his auto, a big Mc- Laughlin car, struck a rut on the road in going down the hill near Mr. Jas. Rogers' farm in l'i-ant, about six o'clock on Wed- nesday evening of last week, and turning turtle, plunged down a 15 ft em- battlement and landed with great force against a barbed wire fence, which was broken down by the impact. Mr. Mitchell who Was driving, was badly braised about the shoulders and cut by the Wire, while his wife had two ribs broken. A daugh- ter was also badly bruised and cut up by the wire. Another daughter and son, es caped with a few scratches and a slight shaking up, while the auto was. badly damaged in the mix-up, Mr, holm C. Leech and son, who heard the crash, rushed to the rescue and suec_ ceded in ex- tricating the parties from the wreck, While a passing autoist lent assistance and con- veyed the injured trio to the Walkerton Hospital, where the mother and daughter are still confined, while the father seas sufficiently r'eeovered as to leave the in- stitution on Monday. 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