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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1917-11-29, Page 109 q, t"2AVID' WATSON, !Y!'A.t:.GEN, SIR R E. W. TURNER, G.EYi.G•; ....,, . 6< C.M.G. 66 h om the Trenches ' ajor t . i Rev. C.W. Writes a Strong and Moving .Appeal Su .i' port for Union Government of or, the Rev. C. W. Cordon (Ralph Connor.) ar always looks ragged. It is farthest from the band, e'of•interest, from the place of action. Also itis ,stragglers to walk;" too weary to keep step. lnies compose a nation's war strength. Far up at the the fightingarm where the guns roar and belch forth Y, 'here the H.E. shells batter flat the lines of trenches,< labs blow up dugouts, where the bayonets, coldly glitter- . terror to the shrinking foe, where the gallant knights ud 'wheel and dart like_avenging angels over their foes. BACK OF THE FIGHTING ARMY. i the fighting army'is the army of transportation lines of communication,=:a slow;; -winding much -grey Dusly articulated with transport, wagons and`amrn:u- motor lorriesand G.H.Q. utos, shell -laden pack Q pack ambulances, water carts and laundry machines, repair ad medical stores, big gulls s an..d marching coIumris" with• p est and joint In the 'writhing ser 1 139 O '44 then a tank, a joyous J a p , the control of mounted men alert, patient, nt fierce, now in smiles, now with a"sulphurous aura visible and palp their heads. ,;of direction, where the brass: hats exude brain sweat es of -subs- and orderliesound the types till the P P Y cuariel:guns or roar;;savage amenities into telephone Le a.rniy reconstruction, all the way from No Man's Land the stretcher bearers and battalion M.O's. artd chaplains e through Hied and fire to save their wounded comrades, the, line through baytalion aid posts,advancedced dressing sualty clearing stations, hospital trains and base hos- through clever brains an. d quick fingers through. te n and smiling lips the 'Chrism.pity and the Christ lave al%ng streams about sorevun edbodiesand weary THE ARMY' OF. THE REAR. c n 3ro" administration of which let only reverend word s' -ear, and other armies, but chiefly and lastly the rear. Here,says the armyo£ t .;`ray of orpraduction,y .g :F Lloyd� George, the war will be' lost or''.. fire;" ech©edlsz Loyd c', , b , x their te- all. the other er armiesa ,draw, th ar seas :rOrri this army eir very life. Let this arrny fail and the war stops short, est. The llistory of thiswar sofar relieves us of allfear other.. arnxies. The fighting army will not quit so long 1i.'Iaose armies that reach from the fighting line to the'. g g they andi 1 na.f: fail the ffightingman, for hey catch now again the gleam .of bayonet, the flash of wings rid of the ens 1 Y , � guns,. g. istricken 3r, and the} seer she long line ,of he roes borne to s army the rear. 'Will they quit, think you?" asked endo poilu'an:doualy of a newspaper man. n there?" ..'� " 1 clown i�elo`i1�. on, those �' is an..'iea.y Y s the only anxiety in the war. artny the rear, the ragged army where, with the rear �t st lax teazlih.r of all the fighting men, niingle the weak. .try;•':, fhe slacker, the fearful, mode.Y crew ancl iard to gallant rear guard, what glory is theirs, irnperisi- lac ;;act g' sacrificial offering of their hearts' dearest trews an.of separation aiad of waiting; theirs the shat b' of death winged cel fronj h' battlefield; theirs the stern ire; itith faces : esren'� always the ultimate dein•,'nds. 1 � n f�. a colonel �., n.s. c 1e the ca G n 1 ref he ixu.. b �. �: z a 11.0 ., 'i, ixr a1i h.a + r • "tell in(t,"o saidshe .-. a„•7lliiside,!xra'r�rvw+✓.erJ{�:.N.vJv..v- +4„_.,..-.. :wj 1' .. ric' 4.4u. ,:�, MAJOR GlE ° CUtt ilE, ' K. �xlf"+aMYetaF'.4,.XCt.Y.'itiG�x.2zeTxwunWuw.wrc3'ttIRGikon 4:41, 'i1(1C44lA�'lSkTl>r'J sh,•3v{✓r5 3 k:2 45 1a :a sttlAst yw"'a";�d':w\k\\yCd\';.•:• `'v``.�r, �'':, :'.'...".3..^+"'."» `.,•>'fZ04., 4,;.%.`3'•G:}�.nro'"'C. cs,5t,� ,y�.rmcax��.��%aayoj /��v fi'4�19rt.id/aalacjeku • �'A/yf2G'!! P On the eve of an election which will decide' whether Canada is to continue her war effort at full pressure or radually,- uit ,loyal Canadians will give heed to this ,cry for help,from the firing line. From, the generals who co and our like . glorious troops thele .messsages come 1 e a trumpetcall to duty. • , . GE • SIS ���yTT7.. ., •�•�j�-� -COMMANDER' .. .:.O 'CANADIAN "ARRM .},..:„ "I hOde that,. apPreciating What we do `i: n the.fie. ld through. ',-u,, nit, in all our effort, they will doth it utmost to remain unite in Canada. News om there does not make pleasant'readin to men in the field here. Orangemen and Catholic, Angio -Saxon and- French-Canadian, Whig and- Tory,- fight side by side, and,' dying, are laid side by side in the same grave, fully satisfied to give their, lves-for the cause Ahey know to.be just. a' "They have given their blood.- freely . to .:maintain .their nation's honor and now confidently expect: that the full fruits of their ..; .`.: :::-.• g ..... sacrifice rif ic,.: e wil • n.. o be 'prejudiced. It is an imerative•and urent necessitythatsteps.be itnediatel taken to n.erethat .sn d cin drafts of offacers.and.nez are: gent from Canadatokee .thecorps at its fill: -strength: "Myersonal conviction, is, that the 'only t .:the..roblela. of - .0 adian recruiting is conscription ex eriences., n France.:have shown r .,. j - , - 'the,' -not. as a Politician, Ea as,a solcli6 the necess�A �af co>�scri tz�n if:�;w -de- sire to maintain at full strength`oiir fighting' divisions to:the end:" LIEUT.-GEN. SIR-„LUCHARD TURNER, 17.C: I wish as a soldier it waspermitted 'to express 'full myviews. on 'the .. p y. present Canadian. -crisis. Do'people,in Canada think: 250090, of their best .. . - .4. ,�, blood fighting this world war in defence of their countr,.will tamely submit to,Any part of Canada sa, In'We will not support you to our fullestxextent inyour efforts to beat the'recreant Hun to his knees? Have the Canadian �. troops since the war atarted; ever- stopped to consider, or been daunted by, any numbers up against Ahem? The anser is given on, oan , bloody battle= fields in Belgium and France.' CadHans all must play the game and be true to their salt., -) l�ts �.- MA�R.:..AI'H:, IT JG. Gd,, i Yn. e can onlv carryon' the war to the basis of a, final ecce -b. havixi our battalions m.aintain.ed-to full strength. For this we entirely rely onCanada. We are convinced that Canadians will never permittheir battalions at the fr nt to become worn.a t.througl lack of reinforcements,. but w face :.the' .:situation and take the. gee= e(�s�'+s�1ar steps to provide therm.. For us:all our thoughts are;. of Canada- •.an'- 4.Ji:D 4�rfA y ��. ... SC.�...-.,Y ... .::. them. .. _- 1. _..�., .. ,• ....i "�•- .. .. .:.. .v. ..,.}Y, .. d in a : our minds .isthatagain after every victory the one idea ...w all o xn d C�nad.a will �,�azn of her sons at the front inupholding have reason to be proud holdin � g her honor arch Sowe have absolute faith that Canada will yes and with the.zein- liert.. liberty. p forcements necessary to sustain. us.71 MAJOR -GENERAL. !...DAVID AV � DWA. TS e . '® I state with positive Berta� ty.ihat:as Splendid state ofd £ternilcti �an d resdlution� .',exists exists ina, rea;t 1 d g reethan ever a xh ,. eVerY : unit ]it o ft he C a ,� r ad ia: n fare tafiIYaThis resolve Cud beiief is he everrovir sa1lt. f -i�lmate Liaoyled e that this terrible strci�`e entered cd loa ✓ er b64,11 '0 r,r r-rrnli �1` iiia MAJOR -GEN -.'L, J. LIPSETT''• (Conthiiued from .first . two csiunine;; of this rage.) -nor..daily, rations, that so they may win for Prance the right : to live free. BLOOD .MARKS: ON THE• -SHELLS , So tqo with the army of, the rear in Old Britain, where men long' past age toil long hours ”and here wo en from the Cmatie and the farm, from the manor Sxansion house and the cottage, from thefishing village came -forth' to w•ork at the mating of thole and guns, and all the engineering"of war that so their Lien *hitt have,a chance for their Ivies against their fee, trained to war and equippedto the last button with ` all that science could supply' . They tell' how those :first•shell.s were -often' marked with blood from: the tender fingers:of women unused to work, but the•worli- ers' never slackened for that. 'The army of the rear, where are the invincible souls who shrink fromno• sacrifice that the fighting line may be kept strong, and' in good heart. In Glasgow, a widow with four sons fit for. war sent away three with the. Borderers. When the three had paid their full toll to freedom's cause, the fourth knew what he -must do but feared for his mother. To her he went at .last and said. "Mother, I must," "Aye, laddie," .sail thezn'iother,: qutetty ""Weel, I free ye must. We ha'e given too much not to.ie all,' and- sent -away her last, Iad.to the war. 8O ALSO WITH", CANADA. i As - withi tie home lands, so with. the !ands, overseas; so with Canada. Here also the army of the rear- labors' that' the tons' of - Canada in the fightingline may want neither supplieS. nor mien. But alas, the fight ligl.h1 miles away. The : whine of, the shell,:,the•. r-att ee.:of; the ,machine -gun, the qtr of the high explosives never breaks the quiet b. night or da , and. Y g by �' men,,preoccupied -with. anther things 'forget the ' boys- in the_• mud and ram -fighting for their -country far away. That is, tome:` forget But' some cannot• forget, for in'their o i.' -a 'est God` at n ht when . h '� r _ t .seek rest , and' by`da in''<the- P 9 g ey . Y atises of their:•work theybear upon. hearts' the lad ' P ! : Pwho left three-years`„a o.�now and- whom th.. , „would fain' see again, .and might see if 'one of .tfj: steighb9xs tbo=keeps four of them: still,"had gone to his relief: ' r r v oNr qa For it is trne—thou h, the lad in the lighting- ine e g line, great g - n erous"soul' that she is,' for long refused to, give the rumor cred-' erre:: It is true that those fourboysin'his neighbor's family back home ire Canada -refuse to con -ie to-his'relief:They can give many perfectly good reasons why.they refuse'to go..:But•they'have no. need to declare the truth. To 'all the eountry'they are;' -known` to be ,the craven -hearted slackers, that they,. are. .It may be that some, poor-souled :females nay become rwives...to them and • bear -there children to carry'tytit sante, and th:or shame' into succeed- ing generations, blit` iZhe fin song and sto'r`y the great deed, done in Flanders and in •.Franke, -thrill men's; hearts, their children- will Sit silent' and ashamed amid., the cheering ,crowds' and curse their, hearts; thecraven slackers that :begat Yes, it is 'sadly, terribly, shamefully -true 'that with "diose heroic' souls that 'coii- pose'the unsung but,glorious.army of -the rear mingle those others that are at once a nation's weakness and a nation's shame. THE CRYING; NEED FOR MEN. y : ;. . ..> ,•,. .n. fk.-.r, '. �:":f <�iy r ,"y..'( is Cdr 1'4E =fib. - :'when: "Joffre' at.. shinbton . 's< ked .. Ho1v:.cari America 7 '�'.Fr nc ..he:Made,. ans'.-er:� r.c:th ,`• best:"lief a .ew i 1 e e ,impact :of a. bullet: "Send us men, France needs imen,, send thein quick Food, guns,, ships, yes,' yes brit, chiefly. and quickly men." And in passionate oratory•'Viviani echoed the word Arthur l'alfour with quiet`s ut ;intense iterati.on.'pressed. home' -.the' truth -!..`France must- • have `nen?' P So with the, whole Western front against which Germany has • flung her scienced s'asses-.of war bred)Ixien invain. There is .sone need of: naen..thc e.;. the Prez clx Erne growsthin`•• T.he of our empire, too, that phenomenon Of the war, .fighting -on" -give ,fronts;• growsthin, upon the; western•. -front,. The Canadian line •otows'thin.- •.A.s.'the line the es'ever'forward: the• line -rows ever Y ., g thinner acid>nzbi e thin, Russia'is ou.t of the war:.Pray God, no.worse may come,froni her:',. Italy,:reeling from the stroke Of' :thelluirwar; Club, ceases or some aifonths otao sUenca,eaeble"':of oivhe. w"Tedsenece, frontherm,with an overwhelming, a smashing blow (alt, Canada,our. boY s ,'are: on that front. ;Inevitable:' as the a:, `n isc that blow will fall. what 'anen ca "doorm, w' 'doa. u, i:i ,.a eselutc ,blit tivitla not tlliafXlOtls• hearts. and withen'nxailln yearning glance- toward ' their homeland, for aid, they wait' that stroke: P,, 7 .APPEAL,,'l' 0,<MANH:OOD: Canada;' � willyon' ' ca ou' unifao a `> l `k Oh men of ..r �.... �' , �.Y„ - v d, o0 on while that''thin line of -'Canadian` heroes waits , the approach of those massed battalions long trained' and fully -equipped for this final attein t -to hack thro g`h? They need you, tese comrades of yours. For threeyea-sthey have fought for you and your cause. wonder ; 3' ,They wo der "at odeliberation. The , haunting, fear �ur easy gathers about,their°, hearts that you have forggotten them. Pitiful a Goch help ti'e`d agai lxt', chat. fear!, part ? - , [ou 'plead r? • Gocl • l iv you, for Canada' Your „party?'" •,, , .� . er .. ,fog e never will if ,for-tl7a,ogs like •these. you :farsalke those waiting lads. Refercndt'rn?'; '% efercndtini now, while with furious haste our eaxeaxi ,. prepares cly'structioix for.that waiting line? ' Surely not J' ref? erlAIlfl now, a -k, Uut ;reinforrcern rots and ,quick