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GUNS AM OTHER BOOTY
Troops From Warships Were•J:anded West of the
City Ottoman Shore Batteries Destroyed.
A despatch •from Petrograd says;
--Details of the surprisingly swift
Russian descent upon Trebizond and
of the strategy that forced the Turk-
ish clefeedere precipitately to abon-
clon the city, which, with German
assistance, tbey had made every effort
to convert into a stronghold impregn-
able against Russian attack from the
seaaaa land, are coming in from dif-
feront sources, According to the
latest despatches, a decisive part in
• the Russian operations was played
by the Black Sea fleet, which, after a
severe bombardment of the city and
the destruction of the great Turkish
shore batteries, landed a considerable
numberetf troops and further threat-
ened the surrounded city.
Employing the same tactics as they
had repeatedly used with success in
their progress. along the littoral, the
Russian warships moved forward for
some distance beyond their objective
and sent troops ashore considerably
to the westward of Trebizond, threat-
ening to entrap the Turkish garrison.
This move was carried out in con-
cert with the advance of the Russian
land forces, which, since the capture
of the Turkish positions at Kara Dere,
had penetrated to within striking dis-
ttance of Trebizond without meeting
serious resistance, and was accom-
•
panied by a steady bombardment from
the sea.
As soon as the 'Turks witnessed the
Russians preparations to land beyond
Trebizond they gave tip all resistance
and scattered pell mell in the two di-
rections open to them -one, the
route along the coast, and the other,
the road south-west toward Erzingan,
Trebizond contained a garrison of
between 50,000 and 60,000. A consid-
erable amount of war booty, including
a large number of the latest type Ger»
man heavy guns, was left behind, for
since• the fall of Erzerurn., Trebizond
has been the chief base and provision-
ing centre foe the Turks operating
in this theatre.
With the fall of Trebizoncl the
Turks lost the second of their two
principal fortified points in Asia
Minor, and will in the future have to
depend solely upon improvised de-
fences and the natural difficulties of
the country to prevent the westward
sweep of the Russian Caucasian
armies.
Trebizond never before surrendered
to Russians arms, although it was.
threatened from Baiburt in 1829, and
!the moral effect of the victory, it is
considered here, will b'e enormous.
For centuries Trebizond has been the
chief trading centre for Asia Minor
with the important caravan routes
into the interior of Turkey and Persia.
MORE RUSSIANS
TO AID JOFFRE
Quarter of a Million to be Rushed to
the Western Theatre of
War.
A despatch from Paris says :-The
arrival of the transports which
brought the Russian troops sent to join
the Entente forces on the western
front have been expected since Tues-
day, but a heavy storm in the Medi-
terranean delayed their reaching Mar-
seilles until Thursday. Every pre-
caution for their protection had been
taken owing to.. reports that hostile
submarines were operating in the
Mediterranean, but the voyage was
conclbded withorit the development of
: untowed incident. The protect-
ing flotilla included a number of
Japanese warships.
The coming of Russian troops to
the western front has been talked of
by military people for two or three
months, The reason, as now ex-
plained, is that it is easier for Russia
to arm and supply fighting material
to Russian troops on the western
front than on the. eastern. Russia
still has many hundred thousand more
men under training than she can use
on her fighting lines because the Rus-
sian problem continues to be not how
to get men, but munitions. The al-
lies can obviously provide complete;
equipment for Russians more easily
in France than by shipping to Russia.•
Possibly a quarter of a million men
will be sent into France thie. Spring.
LARGE WAR ORDERS
COME TO CANADA.
Contracts for Munitions and Supplies
Rea,h 380,000,000.
:Adespatch`.from Ottawa says: The
announcement was made on Wednes-
day that since the establishment of
the credit of $75,000,000 for the Brit-
ish Government in Canada by the
Chartered banks, at the instance of
the Government, $80,000,000 worth of
orders for munitions and supplies
have been placed in the Dominion by
the Imperial authorities. Sir Thomas
White announced on March 15 last
that the credit for the British Gov-
ernment had been provided as a re-
sult of an offer made by the Canadian
Bankers' Association, on behalf of the
banks, after conferences between him-
self and that body which had extend-
ed over several weeks.
Preliminary View.
"Hubby, I am going to town to-
morrow to see some new hairs,
"My dear, to -morrow is Sunday, and
the shops wil be closed."
"Who said' anything about shops?
am going to church."
WILSON'S NOTE
NOW DELIVERED
Ambassador Gerard Hands Message
on Submarine Issue to Ber-
lin Minister.
A despatch from Berlin says :-
The American note in regard to sub-
marine warfare is now in the hands,
of the German Government. It was"
delivered on Thursday evening to
Foreign Minister von Jagow in the
usual manner, with no attendant cir-
cumstances to mark the unusual im-
portance of the occasion. Owing to
the length of the note and the ap-
pendix and to the delayed arrival of
one section of the note, at was not
ready for presentation until 7.30
o'clock. Ambassador Gerard then
rolled the document in a magazine
to protect it from a light rain which
was falling, and walked across the
.•.quare to the Foreign Office. The
Ambassador was received immedi-
ately. The Foreign Minister read
the none, and a short, general conver-
sation followed.
TRADE OF CANADA
FOR FISCAL YEAR.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
statement of Canadian trade, prepar-
ed by the Department of Customs,
shows a total of $882,872,502 in ex-
ports for the. fiscal year just closed,
and $564,480,998 in imports. The re-
turns by countries have not yet been
compiled. The statement follows:
Imports into Canada during the
fiscal year ended 31st March, 1916:
Dutiable $310,168,216
Free 254,312,782
Breadstuffa,
Toronto, April 25: Manitoba wheat
-No, 1 Northern, 41.18%;
Northern, $1.12%; Nor 3 Northern
$1.08%, in store Fort William.
lVlanitQba oats. -No. 2 C.W., 46i/ac;
No. 3 C,W„ 441%0; extra No. 1 feed
44%e; No. 1 feed, 43%c. in store Fort
William.
American corn --No. 3 yellow, 85e,
track Toronto,
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 44 to
45c; commercial, 43 to 44c, according
to freights outside,
Ontario wheat -No, 1 commercial,
$1.00 to $1.02; No. 2 coinmereial,98e.
to $1.00; No. 3 commercial, 95 to 97c;
feed wheat, 86' to 88c, according to
freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, $1.60;' peas, accord-
ing to sample, $1.20 to $L50, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Barley -Malting, 62 to 63e; feed, 59
to 62e., according tofreights outside.
Buckwheat -69 to 70c. according to
freights outside,
Rye -No. 4t commercial, 90 to 91e;
rejected, according to sample, 86 to
88c, according to :freights outside.
Manitoba flour. -First patents, in
jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in
jute bags, $6.00; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $5.80, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
sample, $4.15 to $4.25, track Toronto;
$4.30 to $4.40, bulk seaboard, prompt
shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, per ton, $24;
Filling the Dinner P ail of a Machine Gun. shorts, per ton, $25; middlings, per
A machine gun to do effective w ork must be well fed. Therefore it is ton, $26; good feed flour, per bag,'
necessary to see to it that its dinner pail be wellfilled when it goes into $1.60 to $1.70.
rot
EVERY PO
AND
RECREATIO
action The men in the photo have t he task of seeing that the "dinner
pails," cartridge belts, are filled with shells. Note the size of the belt.
DANCERS OF THE
LISTENING POST
NEXT TO A CHARGE CONTAINS
GREATEST DANGERS.
Snipers Are Always on the Alert
Against Guards Who
Watch .Enemy.
•
surely he has seen us? Then a flare.
goes up, and in its horrible greenish
light a posh is revealed, to which re-
mains of barbed wire, shattered by
shells, still cling. Only that, and no-
thing more! -
"Darkness again, and the wind
sighing over our heads. Quickly one
realizes how deceptive the eyes can
be for night work. Nerves are at the
highest tension. You see wooden posts
move and bend. Some men will even
hear them whispering in German!
Dead Lie Thick.
"After a time I press forward, on 1
throw h the k -hi h •rass of No
Perhaps no strain is greater on the g g g
average soldier .than when he takes Man's Land. It is a thrilling experi-
his turn, under cover of night, at the ence, this exploring of ground where
"listening post." For he must clam- battles have been fought for many a
ber over the parapet of the fire trench long month and where the dead lie
into the hidden dangers of No Man's
Land, and creep cautiously in snake
fashion among long grass and death -
smelling shell holes, where enemy snip -
thick. I fell forward three times over
the bodies of slain comrades! Though ;
the soaring star shells light up the
scene brilliantly, lying flat like this,
ers and enemy scouts are sure bo be I am not out of sight of the enemy.
lurking, writes Ellen Adair from Lon- "Now I can hear the Germans dis-
don in the Philadelphia Ledger. i tinetly. I am close to their trenches.
It means a risk of being ambushed i Some one is calling out names rapidly
and killed silently with cold steel. !-probably a sergeant distributing
On the other hand, it may mean cap- I the mails. Sonia one is playing a
turing a bringing h m reconnoitringutntriumphantly, with a l thethud! •thud ! e of rinspades picka, escome
possible reward in the form of a 1.from behind the trench. The enemy
week's home leave or the much covet- ;must befrill.. their sandbags to
ed D. C. M. Though occasionally we ; strengthen their parapets against shell
hear of the staleness and monotony of fire.
trench life, there is nothing in the j "Then my heart gives a sudden ter -
least monotonous in the'work of the 1 rible jump! For hero come a party
night outpost. If he regards it as ; of Germans right toward me, on their
merely monotonous and lets his wits i way back from patroling. No Man's
grow drowsy at the job, then, as some „Land!
Tommy or other aptly puts it, he's'. "The night wind whistles as the
liable to "get the wooden cross." R steps grow nearer, nearer. Yes, they
"For wits that go wool gathering ; have seen me. I must wait bill a
meet with disaster. And enemy snip-; bayonet pins me to the ;ground, or
ers are ever watching and waiting for i till I ain seized and made prisoner.
them. I No escape now! Resistance would be
Total $564,480,998 "Going out to the `listening post' is ' absurd. The whole course of my past
Entered for consumption: the next best adventure to a charge," ; life runs past me in a panorama of
Dutiable $2$9,332,729 a cheery corporal informed me to -day.' quiet events. How soon will I feel the
Free
252,710,834 "1 shall never forget one night of it sting of • cold steel through me? How
P g soon?
I had! A wis of moon was
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 29 tot
33c; inferior, 25e; creamery prints, 35
to 36c; solids, 33 to 34c.
Eggs -New laid, 24c; do., in car-
tons, 25 to 26c.
Honey -Prices in 10 to 60 -Ib. tins,
13% to 14c. Combs -No. 1, $2.75
to 33; No. 2, $2,25 to 32.40.
Beans -$4. to 34.40, the latter for
hand-picked.
Cheese -Large, 19c; twins, 191Y4c.
Maple syrup -$1.40 per Imperial
gallon.
Poultry -Chickens, 21 to 22c; fowls,
18 to 20c; ducks, 24 to 250; turkeys,
25c.
Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario 31.65
to .31.70, and New Brunswicks at
31.80 to 31.85 per bag, on track.
Montreal Markets.
Montreal, April 25. -Corn -Ameri-
can No. 2 yellow, 86 to 87c. Oats -
Canadian Western, No. 2, 54%c; No.
3, 53e; extra No.1 feed, 53c; No. 2
local white, 501/a to 51c; No. 3 local
white, 491% to 50e; No. 4 local white,
`481/z to 49c. Barley --Manitoba feed,
68 to 71c; malting, 75 to 77c. Flour
-Manitoba Spring wheat patents,
1 firsts, $6.60; seconds, $6.10; strong
bakers', $5.90; Winter patents, choice,
$6.00; straight rollers, $5.30 to $5.40;
do. bags, 32.45 to $2.50, Rolled oats.
-Bbis, 35.10 to 35.20; do bags, 90 lbs.,
$2.40 to 82.45. Bran, $24. Shorts,
326. Middlings, 328 to $30. Mouillie, ,
$30. to 335. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car
lots, $20.50 to 321. Cheese -Finest
westerns, 1814 to 18%e; finest east -
erns, 17:i to 18c. Butter -Choicest
creamery, 33 to 33lec; seconds, 30 to
Egg ---Fresh, 25 to 26e. Po-
tatoes -Per bag, car lots, $"..75 to
$1.80 .
Country Produce.
Total .........
Exports:
Domestic
Foreign
Tobal
$542,043,563 mering in a veil of mist, when three of . «'What an unpleasant odor!' says
us set out. The Germans had begun the foremost German. 'Where's the
$741,610,953 their night -long display of star shells, k corpse, d'ye think?'
141,261,549 lighting up the scene in silvery radi- " `Here's the body,' says another,
ante. Their rifles uttered vicious half bending over me. Wonder if he's
$882 872 502h' k continually W heard '7the whizz of a bullet overhead, or the "I am nervous and excited, but not
angry hum of a spinning ricochet. ' afraid. My death seems a fantastic,
Wibh a friendly leg up to the parapet, + impossible thing.
502whi
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GERMANY IS ENROLLING
BOYS OF SEVENTEEN YEARS.
A despatch from Paris says :-Ger-
many has begun the enrollment of her
1919 Claes-boys of seventeen. Notices
ordering them to inscribe their names
on the Landsturm register have been
posted at Aix -le -Chapelle.
Ever Meet One?
"That get -rich -quick man is as busy
as a bee.'
"Yes," replied Cumrox. "He's one
of those busy bees who can't manage
to gather honey without incidentally
stinging somebody."
MEFIIAN CHAIN OF HILLS
CAPTURED BY THE RUSSIANS
Troops Brought Prom Gallipoli Annihilated -
Hundreds of Ottoman Dead Left on Reid.
A despatch from Petrograd says
While the northern armies of the
Grand Duke were completing the con-
quest of Trebizond the other Rus-
sian army advancing from Erzerum
gained an important victory. In the
region of Aschkala, west of Erzerum,
the Russian troops by a night assault
carried a chain of highhills which
hacl been strongly organized, They
aptul^e'd four Turkish officers and
More than 120 men. The enemy lett
hundreds of dead on the field. Some
enemy elements which had been re-
1Gallipoli
re-
cently b>•ought from Gal po were an-
nihilated, while the other. Turkish
troops which participated in the fight
s con lana y, a ear really killed
we scrambled over as fast as we « `Coxae on -leave the corpse alone,'
could. It would not do to be seen in says the first. 'I'm dead tired, and want
the light of a flare, for German snip- to get back to the dug -out'
ers miss few good targets. "As in a dream I hear their re -
Wait in Hole. treabing footsteps, and I am alone
"'Crack -crack -crack -crack!' in a again -saved! Cold sweat breaks out
breathless stutter from a machinne all over me. Quickly I -am off to join
gun. The bullets whistle and hit the my two companions at the rear. They,
parapet behind us with a mighty too, are shivering, but with cold, not
f ear.
"Far off a cat is mewing dismally.
Perhaps the poor creature is wound-
ed? Hundreds of such, gone wild,
haunt this dreary No Man's Land, liv-
ing on field mice, and, distrustful of
cruel humanity, refuse to come near.
"A sudden terrific fire frost German
machine guns warns us to lie flat
again. We're near the trenches now
-yet this may be the end. Over our
headse wild blast goes -the star
shells soot up rapidly.
"For fifteen minutes the firing goes
on Without pause, Apparently the
erlere. ffear we shall crllell over to at.
tae 4.b the p�tu: o$ d. ,wnt ;.,.
" ,ti en Collies A -blessed silence,' pave
for the mewing of those hats, Drama
rosesRoses, ow a ea see Q ch other' s
l {Qt
v� cold light �' the0 Mop*.
e ale
,
, �xt>I
t arena and ending
iii a � d
n • �a z
,$"Trailing l 6
. , ,s o` r our'
is wera�Vi�.riis'hars �e
Yt ets-a ldd hornet
pa""The long nigh is over and duty
at
tho 'listening pest' is done."
The man who jeure of hie own
ability never has to bi►a;; about it,
whack! Have the Germans seen us?
We lie flat, holding our breath. 'Are
you two all right?' I whisper to the
men behind.
"Slowly we creep forward another,
20 yards to a hole torn by a shell.
This is bo be our listening post till
close to dawn. The Germans are not
unlikely to attack, and our business
is to see that they do not take us by
surprise. We do not expect to use
our. rifles. We have bo use our eyes
and ears, especially our ears, to detect
any movement of the enemy. If we
see him advancing, we must report to
our comrades in the trenches without
a second's delay.
"Crouching low in our shell hole,
we strain our eyes to pierce the clar'k�
i'lppea
e 0
yea s
o fee
sustained heavy losses through the
-it only Johnson, my com
pai41
an
Russian fire and bayonet charges. ,Sae that figu e in Front," he ois
s,
In the, Black Sea a Russian sub- "1in es again.
sera n in. y eyes g 6k
marine, although attacked by an en- there's a dark, motionless shape and
only airman, succeeded in sinking a a few yards ahead!
steamer and a sailing ship near the "Tightly I grip my rifle, ready to
entrance of the Bosphorus under a club the suspect, and in tense expect..
heavy fire from the Turk batteries ancy we await his approach, For
nese. Suddenly my arm f .
oe•ame the
f v odos
tightly.i c
shout, but cold perspiratlth
out on my forehead. NO heed
SOLD BY ALL QM s 1OE DEALF,I43
WORN Br guff biri41iza, O' TBE TAMMY
•� i!t�i�enavm•.tF: F�@".:F7'4y�n, • d.
choice, $6.50 to $7.25; do,, good, 35.75
to $6.50; butcher bulls, choice, 36.50
to $7.25; do., good. $5.50 to $6.00; do.,
medium, $5,00 to $5.50; do., rough
bologna, $4.40 to $4.50; feeders, 900 to
1,000 lbs., 37.00 .to 37.40; do., bulls,
$5.50 to $6,00; stockers, 700 to 800 lbs.
$7.00 to $7.40; do, med., 650 to '750
lbs,, $6.75. to $7.05; do., light, 600 to
650 lbs., $5.00 to $5.50; canners, 34.00
to 34,25; cutters, 34,50 to 34.75; milk-
ers, choice, each, 360.00 to 385.00
springers, 360.00 to 85.00; calves, veal,
choice, 39.00 to 311.00; do„ medium,
$6.00 to $7.50; do., common, 35.00 to
35.50; lambs, yearlings, 310 to 318,50;
culled lambs, $7.00 to $7.25; spring
lambs, each, $7.00 to $12,00; ewes,
light, $9.00 to $10,00; sheep, heavy,
and bucks 36.50 to 38.50; hogs fed and
watered, 311.15; do., f.o.b., $10.75; do.,
weighed off cars, $11.50.
Montreal, April 25. -Choice steers
$9 to $9.25; good at 38.50 to $8.75, and
the lower grades from that. down to
$7.25, while butchers' cows brought
from 36.25 to $84. and bulls from 36.50
to $8.50 per 100 lbs. Yearling and
spring lambs, $11.70 to $12 per 100
lbs. and the latter at $5 to $12 each,
as to size and quality. Sheep $7.50
to $8.50 per 100 lbs. Calves 8c. to
9c per lb., and the lower grades at
41/4c. to 51Yac. Hogs selected, $12 to
312,25 per 100 lbs., weighed off cars.
GREEKS MASSACRED
IN BIG TURK CITIES
Hundreds Slain in Adrianople, Con-
stantinopie and Smyrna..
A despatch from London says:
Wholesale massacres of Greeks at
Adrianople, Constantinople and Smyr-
na are reported in a Saloniki despatch
to the Morning Post. "In Adrianople
and Demotica, Turks and Bulgarians
acting together," says the despatch,
"killed 400 and wounded 300 Greeks
after pillaging their houses. In the
Smyrna district several Greek vii-
; lages were raided, 200 persons being
killed and many wounded. Constan-
tinople was likewise the scene of
serious massacres, no figures pertain-
ing
ertaining to which," adds the correspond
ent, "are available. All the mas-
sacres occurred on April 11,"
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg. April 25 Cash prices-
Wheat---Nc. 1 Northern, $1.15%; No.
2, cls., 31.11%; No. 3, do,, $1.07%;
No. 4, $1.05%; No. 5, 96%c; No. 6,
88%c; feed, 83e/sc. Oats -No. 2 C.
W., 4614; No. 3, do., 4414e; extra No.
1 feed, 4414c; No. 1 feed, 42%c; No.
2, do., 42c. Barley --No. 3, 63c; No. 4,
58c; rejected, 55c; feed, 55c. Flax -
No. 1 N.-W.C., 31.87%; No. 2, C.W.,
$1,84%
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, April 25. -Wheat -
May, $1.17%; July, 31.171%; No. 1
hard, $1.22%; No. 1 northern, $1.161%
to 31.19%. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 77
to 78c. Oats -No. 3 white, 43e. to
431Y4c. Flour --Unchanged, Bran
$18.75 to $19.
Duluth, April 25. -Wheat -No. 1
northern, $1.15% to $1,17%; No. 2
northern, $1.12% to $1.14%.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, April 25. -Choice • heavy
steers, 38.50 to 38.75; butcher steers,
choice, $8.00 to $8.25; do., good, $7.90
to $8.15; da., medium, 37.85 to 37,50;
do., common, 36.50 to 37.00; heifers,
good to choice, $7,75 to $8.25; do.,
rined%uni,
37.25 to $7.50; butcher cows,
Ex PIRATE
S
IS DECORATED
U Boat Which He Commanded Was
Not Sunk, as Reported.
A despatch from Paris says: In-
formation was received from reliable
sources on Wednesday that Emperor
William has decorated the commander
of the submarine which torpedoed
the Sussex. It is understood Wash-
ington has been informed of this de-
velopment. The award of a decora-
tion would make it, perhaps, impos-
sible for Germany to punish him, in
case such a demand were made by
the United States Government.
e:
GEN. VON DER GOLTZ DEAD.
Organizer of the Dardanelles De-
fences Passes Away.
A despatch from Amsterdam says.:
-Baron Kolmar von der Goltz, corn- i
mander-in-chief of the Turkish army,
died Wednesday of spotted fever at the
headquarters of his Turkish army,
according to an official announcement
received here from Berlin. He had
been ill; ten days.
"HOLLAND MAY BE AT WAR
WITHINNEXT EIGHT DAYS' o$r gll an t was wounded in the battle
BUS IAN PEASANT TERROR TO
GERMANS.
Attacks Outposts, Raids Convoys and
Lures Troops Into
Marshes.
Winter, the difficulties of the ram.
paign on the easbern front in Russia,
and the knowledge of the impene-
trable Pinsk marshes have made a
Russian national hero out of a daring
peasant who is known throughout the
Czar's dominions as "Earless Peter,"
This man, according to a writer for
the Novoe Vremya, a Pei}rograd news-
paper, is the grimmest of all Ger-
many's enemies, and is feared by the
German troopers to such an extent
that his name is one to conjure with.
Just how much the guerilla leader is
feared is ascertained from German
newspapers that have been found in
the trenches, and make much of the
daring exploits of the man,
Daily Toll of Death.
"Everywhere along the eight hun-
dred mile front," says the Russian
writer, "German outposbs are being
attacked, sentries are being sniped,.
convoys raided, trenches pestered at
night, and every day a toll of death
is being taken, and a still greater
boll of terror. One of `Earless Pete's
latest exploits was when he crept
with his band between two discon-
nected German trenches an the
Pinsk-Baronovitch section and came
back with the headgear of thirty
slaughtered German whom he had
slain from ambush.
"These volunteers of ours are
either local peasants, disbanded sol-
diers, or young men from remoter
parts belonging to • the `educated'
class. Our peasants are now awake.
By encroaching on wholly Russian
soil the invaders have rendered us
a special service. The Poles could be
coerced or terrorized into submis-
sion. To -day the Germans are fight-
ing among men of Russian race and
faith, who feel that they are defend-
ing their hearths and their homes.
Neither bribes nor threats avail,
No Ear for Foes.
"It is this fact that gave `Earless
Pete' his name. In reality he is not
earless and can 'hear a German
sneeze a verst away. He is 'earless'
because he has no ear open to our
country's foes. 'Pete' slays no un-
armed or disarmed man, but in battle
he neither gives nor expects mercy.
He has never commanded more than
seventy men, but he has killed or put
oub of action at least 300 Germans.
`Pete' wins because with all their
technical perfection the Kaiser's bat-
talions lack the scouting, sporting in-
stincts needed for coping with the
guerillas.
"'Pete's ' allies are the winter
snows; still more the winter thaws.
He operates only in marsh land. In
the Pinsk marshes once thaw sets
in, malaria comes. 'Pete's men are
inured. They know the country and
are familiar with narrow lanes of
traversible land in the illimitable
marsh. Here is a sample of the way
'Earless Pete' works to confuse and
terrorize the Germans:
Lured Into Trap.
'Pete' made a feint attack on a
strong German outpost and pretended
to be alarmed at the strength of the
enemy and to flee. The enemy pur-
sued. 'Pete's' men took the longest,
narrowest path through the swamp.
When the pursuers were crowded on
the main road, bordered with swamp
land, with rotten ice, 'Pete' turned
and attacked. Simultaenou.sly others
of his men appeared on the flank. The
Germans could not deploy. Those who.
left the road crashed through the
melting ice. A terrific fire cut up the
Germans. Thirty out of a hundred
got away, The rest perished.
"Yard deep snow which has hamper-
ed the German movements is 'Pete's'
friend. Swathed in white sheets, mov-
ing silently on skis, the guerillas ap-
proach and snipe or pour volleys into
the German trenches. Germans dash
out, shooting wildly. They try to
charge, and only flounder in the snow.
In the darkness these attacks have
succeeded again and again."
61,
BULLET IN HEART FOR YEAR.
French Sergeant. Wounded in Battle
of the Marne. Recovers.
After carrying a ten -gram, one-
third ounce shrapnel bullet in his
heart for a year, a french sergeant
was operated on, and to -day is in
good health. The case was reported
to the Academy of Science. The
Remarkable Article Published in the Rotterdam
Socialist Newspaper Volk.
A despatch from London eeysi The military measures, especially the stop-
i the troops,
otterdam Gorrospondent of the Daily page of ]caster holidays to h t ops,
Holland now writes in a different strain., say -
ail cables that the crisis in H ing :
"After an interview betweenn a
continues to cause great anxiety. It
ie and Weed that Germany has in- Socialist leader and the Premier we
oritte Rolland that Great Britain in- hold that these mnilitery precautions
books to attack her and proposed to are very necessary, Val enple must
, 1'
Y
i a to Tolland. support the Goverment a it 1
ata s 1= t ex tkrsst re
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The
er a p � �
to p p
ocialist news paper cogniz Holland Ma.. be at wa+r fix'
s newspaper p Volk, e e that3'
which. first protested.against :'Dutch oight days."'
Marne and lay une nscious etas.
the lattlefiold Ear 2 boua's. He hnel
ly was sent to a hospital in ti'nnteiat
y"'x
and appalentlee21'veracl
wound. 'Later, manifesting andomn
troubles he wa.s operated on for ap-
pendicitis.
(k'ave boort enable developed, and
a radio examination revealed a pro-
jectile lodged in the right ventricle.
'rl;he bullet war extracted) successfully
m Septhinbe , 1915, and a year after
the battle of the Marne, and the heart
was sutured or sewed together.
In January, 1915, tho same military
surgeon, Dr, Beanssenot, removed 3t
grenade splinter from another sal.•
dier's heart: