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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-7-6, Page 2ItiiiNSITY OF BRITISH FIRE PRIG HTF' L AT CERTAIN POINT . First Line Enemy 'Trenches Straightened Out and Munition 1)e. potsFive Males in the Rear Blown Up. A despatch from Paris says :-The correspondent of La Liberte at the British front says : The intensity of the British artillery at certain points is frithtful. Shell follows shell at only a few seconds interval. The efficacy of the fire has been noted by reconnoitring parties. Not oely first 'line trenches have been wrecked over a considerable area and some of them entirely straighened out, but the second line and third line defences have come under the British fire, Two munition depots five miles in the rear have been blown up. The prisoners brought back by the British appear to be shinned." The correspondent after highly praising the British trench raiders and the general spirit of the army, adds : The British flying corps lately has been very successful, Time and again I German aircraft have attempted to cross the allies' lines to spy out pre - i perations, and each time has had to retreat, pursued by British airmen. Since the beginning of the week Bri- tish aircraft have destroyed five German aeroplanes." Major Moraht, the German military critic, commenting in a recent issue of the Berlin Tageblatt on the Bri- tish activity in Flanders and Northern France, says ; "'GV e believe that when the English really make up their minds to undertake a great stategical offensive the end of the British army will certainly be in sight, We do not wish to underrate the seriousness of such a fight. Neither, on the other hand, do we want to allow the British to frighten us. The British army has not, and never will, have the opera- tive strength to drive us out of Northern France and Belgium." ITALIANSANS I N 2,500,000 WOMEN IN INDUSTRY, GAIN rese in British FemaleLabor Raises a Future Difficulty. 1 Women the world over may be proud of the fact that in answer to Three Lofty Heights Taken by ' the call of duty and patriotism some- Cadolna'S. Troops thing like 2,500,000 women and girls have entered the industries of Great VL O E SUCCESSES ! A despatch from London says Further successes are claimed by Rome. The lofty heights of Monte Giarnonda, north of Fusin, and Monte Caviajo, have been seized by General Cadorna's troops. Lying between the Posina and Astico, these positions give the Italians command of a wide stretch of territory. A further gain in their sweep across the Asiago Pla- teau also is claimed by the Italians. They have occupied the southern side of the Assa Valley and now are storm- ing the slopes of Monte Rasca, Monte Interrotto and Monte Mosciagh. In addition they have reached the Gal- tarnara Valley, having carried the de- fensive position of Monte Colombara. sponsible for this desertion of the KEEP POOR KITCHENS less well paid jobs. Domestic ser - OPEN INDEFINITELY vants, laundresses and waitresses are at a premium. A despatch from The Hague, via "They don't seem satisfied unless London, says: -The municipality ee they are making something that ex - Berlin has decided to keep open inde- plodes," remarked an employer, who finitely the municipal poor kitchens, found it difficult to get women work - which in previous years were open err. only during the winter months, dos- This fresh industrial revolution has ing at the end of March, This year brought with it new problems and the the closing has-been postponed, month Women's Labor League is doing good after month, under pressure of the service in imitating systematic in- needs of the poor people, and it has quit•y and discussion upon them. One now been finally decided to keep the speaker at the opening conference -in kitchens open for an indefinite period. ' Londop hazarded the prediction that The Vorwaerts says the kitchens are at least 2,000,000 men now in the crowded as in mid -winter and that army must be regarded as lost to in - there are many complaints regarding dustry, since they would be either in - the insufficiency of the rations served, capacitated or would refuse to go back to their old occupations. Nevertheless the labor world will QUEEN VICTORIA OF SWEDEN be confronted with the necessity' of HAD A NARROW ESCAPE adjusting its whole basis and policy to the new conditions. It is clear that A despatch from Berlin says :- the woman worker cannot be exclud- Queen Victoria of Sweden, sister of ed wholesale, neither can she be ex - Grand Duke Friedrich II. of Baden, ploited for the benefit of unscrupulous was at the Castle in Karlsruhe during employers, but before the matter can the recent French air raid on that be equitably adjusted there will be German city, when 110 persons were trouble. killed by bombs, says an Overseas Meantime the - Womern's. Labor News Agency despatch from Karls- League has started a series of con - Lelia She escapea harm, however, as ferences in an endeavor to settle the on the occasion of the previous raid, question that the workingman is when she also was in the city thinking hardest about -the future of • the women who have been drafted KITCHEN' REFUSE into industry to take the place of men, FOR GERMAN COWS . and the effect on men's wages and the general standard of living. A despatch from Amsterdam says -German newspapers received here Better. contain an order of the Federal Coun- , Let it be said, once for all, that it is cil compelling towns and communities : better for both body and soul to be exceeding 40,000 inhabitants to collect obliged to go hungry sometimes than kitchen refuse from all households. ' to be full always; it is wholesomer to The refuse is to be sent to a Govern- be weary frequently from hard work ment factory, there to be converted : than to keep on a dead level of cem into condensed food for winch cows, fort, or to know weariness only from T t*- i the spinning dance and the daily TURKS DRIVEN BACK pleasure; it is cleaner to be dusty IN i3AGDAD DIRECTION `. and bathed in the blood and sweat E of battle than to be so sheltered as A despatch from Petrograd says :- not to know the meaning of hand -to - The Russians continue to make pro- hand conflict with a real problem or gress in the Caucasus. " South of fierce temptation; it is grander to Lake Urumiab we pushed back the break the shackles of exclusiveness. Turks from the region of'Bann toward and walk free in the dingy city of the Turco -Persian frontier. In the I social unpopularity, than to be the direction of Bagdad we have defeated idol of men and women who do not the Turks, driving them toward the count for, but rather against, the pro- fortified region of Kalaystra'hine." gress of the race: -Bishop Brent. Britain since the beginning of 1915, writes a London correspondent. With the exception of certain skill- ed trades and occupations necessarily confined to men, the whole world of work is now for the first time in his- tory open to women. The nation is undoubtedly benefiting largely in many ways by the influx of women into the labor world, that is to say, into that portion of it which up to the present time has been the special pre- serve of the male. Curiously enough there is a very serious shortage of women's labor in a large number of women's tirades, chiefly in textiles and clothing. The fact is that the high. wages paid to munition workers is re- iffLIN EXPECTS L :c OF WAR O ITISH FROG Impressed by Great .Activity or Haig's Forces, Which Includes Several Attacks With Gas. A despatch from Berlin says :-The intensified artillery ac'tivit'y on the British front is believed here to her- ald the long -expected great British offensive, If the British mean busi- ness at this time they should find the Germans in a state of prepared- ness. The correspondent is in a posi- tion to know that the German line in the far west has not been weakened as the i-' init of lend/ g to rush help to ' that operations at Verdun n r . } !Hued systema- tically i n, cf. the possibility of a Briti..e I Military circles here are d calmly confident that Great Britain's great- est effort will meet the fateof the previous offensives, but there is keen interest to eee Kitchener.'s new armies itu action, The general opinion is that a supreme test of strength between the Sritish and German armies dur- ing the coming summer will mark the climax of the war. - In the expectation of perhaps de- cisive military events on all fronts, peate talk has never been so dead as I it ie to -day. CHATSWORTH HAIL, .DERBYSHIRE OWNED BY DUKE Or DEVONSHIRL MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY RESIDENCE OF CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.. SMASHING BLOW ON TEUTON - 1 CANADA'S NEW COV.-CENERAL Austriaxts Hurled Hack on the Kolomea Front and South- ward. A despatch from London says :- The Russians again are hammering their way toward Kolomea. With slow but sure strokes, before which the Austrian lines, weak without the support of German troops, are crumb- ' ling, the Czar's forces are closing up- on the Galician stronghold, the key to Lemberg. " On Thursday General Letchitzky, after artillery preparation," says Pet- rograd's official statement, " inflicted upon the enemy, despite his desperate resistance, a great defeat in the re- gion between the Rivers Dneister and Pruth, and took possession of three ` lines of trenches." i Over a front of 25 miles the Rus- sian masses were hurled at the oppos- ping lines. Fierce battling followed, in 'which artillery combat gave way to i hand-to-hand fighting. Austrian re- ; serves were hastily rushed to the threatened sector. With these new forces the Russian onslaught was halted, but in the evening the Czar's trdops renewed the assault with fresh vigor, and drove their eveclge through the Austrian line. Vienna admits that the Teuton forces were compelled to retire " from part of their front at Kolomea and south- ; ward." -• HALIFAX GOES DRY IAFTER 169 YEARS Forty-six Bars Were losed Last Night -Liquor Men May Fight. A despatch from Halifax says:- ; The 46 liquor saloons in this. city dos- ed. up on Thursday night to remain closed, in consequence of the prohibi- tion law passed at the last session of the Legislature making Halifax "dry" as well as the rest of the province. It is 169 years since Halifax was found- ed, and for the first time it will be impossible legally to obtain a drink in any public house. THREE PEOPLE DROWNED. Canoeing Tragedy on the ,Jacques Near St. Catherine, Quebec. A despatch from Quebec says:- Three persons • were drowned on . Thursday morning while canoeing on. the River Jacques Cartier near Saint Catherine, They are Mrs. Guillot, whose husband . is manager for Nar- ceau and Company, dry goods dealers,. of this city; M. Jobin, formerly a farmer of L'Evenement, and his son, aged sixteen. It is thought that the canoe capsized in rough water. ROUMANIAN FOOD RIOTS Four Killed in Fight With Police at Galatz. A despatch from Amsterdam says : -According to Bucharest despatches in German newspapers received here, four persons were killed and five wounded by the police at Galatz, Roumania, Monday, while represent- ing a demonstration of workingmen against the high prices of foodstuffs. The despatches add that the working- men of Galatz declared a general strike Sunday, owing to the authori- ties having prohibited meetings and demonstrations in protest against the high cost of living, SPLENDID BRITISH GIFT TO CANADIAN SOLDIERS A despatch from London says :- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, presented a silk Union Jack and a sirs ver shield t,, the General Officer Com- manding the Canadian forces on Sat- urday, The colors and shield are the gift of women and children in the United Kingdom and will remain at Shornclifie until the close of the war. when they will be taken to Canada, A souvenir, in eom:memoration of Lord Kitchener, was also given to each dis- abled soldier. DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. THOILS FOUND GUILTY Of Theft, Receiving and Obtain - in by False Pretences. A despatch from Winnipeg says: Thonta•i Kelly has been found guilty of theft, receiving, and obtaining money by false pretences, A verdict of guilty on four out of the five counts in the indictment on the charges arising out of the contracts for the erection of the Manitoba Parliameat Buildings, was found by the jury in the Assize Court on Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock, after it had deliberahed for three hours. ONLY MUNITIONS FACTORY IN ROUMANIA DESTROYED A despatch from Bucharest to Lon don says that the only muaiteins fac- tory in Roumania ilea been destroyed. The destruction is laid to a plot of Germen and Bulgarian agents. All the machinery in the plant and mil- lions of shells were destroyed. • PRUSSIAN LOSSES „aa' APPROACH 3,000,000 A despatch from Anisterct ni says -" The latent Prussian casuality lists covering the neriod from June 8 to 20 bring the total of Prussian losses to 2,740,196, This figure is not believed to include the losoos at Verdun." Atotan's work isnev ^finishedhe d if elm is trying to reform sotto man. LOST STRIPES, NOT HIS LIFE German Socialist Dismissed From Army and Given Thirty Months. A despatch 'from Berlin says :-Dr. Karl Liehknecht, the Socialist leader, was sentenced on Wednesday to thirty months penal servitude and dismissal from the army for attempted high treason, gross. insubordination and re- sistance to the authorities. The court adopted the view that Dr. Liebknecht was guided by fanaticism and not by unpatriotic feeling, and therefore im- posed the lowest penalty on him. Dr. Liebknecht it entitled to appeal from the sentence. MILITARY SURVIVALS. The Present Conflict Has Brought About Old Devices;. In the close -range warfare of the trenches the opposing soldiers are making use of means of .offence and means of defence that long antedate the invention of .fire -arms; some of them, indeed, are older than history. The steel helinet has reappeared after more than two hundred years of dis- use, any many a soldier owes his life to the fact that the curved surface of his head covering deflected a bul- let. The trench periscope is an adapt- ation of a device that was invented nearly three centuries ago. The barb- ed-wire entanglement is only another form of the ancient abatis, and the fact that it is now often painted green to make it less easy to see is a link that joins it even more intimately to its prototype. The pits with sharp spikes at the bottom and the caltrops -four-pointed irsn instruments that always stand with one point upward however they fall -are survivals of media=val warfare. The catapault of the Romans that once threw stones now casts explosive grenades from trench to trench. The German flame projector goes back to the days when armies deluged each other with boil- ing oil and burning pitch, and the use of poisonous gases was anticipated by the Chinese, who for centuries used stinkpots. Mine, counter -mine and petard, reinforced to -day by gun- cotton and trinitrotoluol, are revivals from the Middle Ages. Screening. guns and men by the adroit use of foliage carries us back to the days of Mac- beth, when Birnan Wood came to Dun- sinane. But, as the Engineering Re- cord points out, the war has utilized one means of concealment that is strikingly modern: that is, painting ships, guns, and even men in streaks and spots of differenb colors, so that they are quite lost in the shifting light either at sea 'or on land. Tho trick had its origin in recent discoveries concerning the • protective coloration of animals. IRISH OUTLOOK IS MORE HOPEFUL A despatch from London says: " The Irish outlook generally is more hopeful. The Daily Mail predicts an amicable settlement. The Daily Chronicle, on the other hand; says that Lord Lansdowne, Minister withe t portfolio, and Walter Long, president of the :local Government Board, have. resigned. Some other papers say that no one has resigned from the Cabinet except Lord Selborne. SHOES ARE !WAIL FOR ACROSS THE BORDER "II<I'r IS GOING ON OV1II IN Ti1T STATES, latest Ilnppt' iings in Bir Republics co` ,Condensed for Busy ryg•'''iJ�tP ` �` '} 1'c+7MaA�r+,vuT.tA'OL«u�11 WOR Ev5lt'V L°ME3.2 &'L103 TIM FAMILY SOLO UV ALL GOOD SHOE DEAL4:RS ' ALWAYS RESTFUL AND COOL Marl ets ©f tdit'3 \k rde Breads -tuffs. Toronto, July 4: -Manitoba wheat - No. 1 Northern. $1,18; No. 2, do., $1.164; No. 3, do $1.128, track, Bay Ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2, C, ZV„ 593c; No. 3, do,; 52c; extra No. 1 feed, 61c: No. 1 feed, 60c; No. 2, do:, 49e, track,. Bay ports. American corn -No. 3 yellow, 81.§a, track, Bay .ports; 85c, track, Toronto. Ontario oats -No. ,,3 white, 48 to 49c, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1,commercial, 93 to 99e; No, 2, do., 9A to '96c; No, 3, do 88 to 90c; coed, 83 to 86.c, nominal; . ac- cording to freights outside, Peas -No. 2 nominal 31.76 to 91.80 ac- cording to sample, 31.25 to 31.50, ac- cording to freights outside. }3ar]ey-Malting, 65 to 665: feed GO 'to 62e, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Nominal, 70 to 7lc, ac cording to freights outside. Rye. -No. 1 commercial, 94 to 96c, ac- cording. to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, 36.50; second patents, in jute bags, 35; strong bakers', in jute bags, 35.80, Toronto. Ontario flour -Winter, according to sample, 34.05 to 34.15, in bags, track, Toronto, prompt shipment; $4 to $4.10, bulk, seaboard. prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Montreal i freights, bags included -Bran. per ton,' $20 to $21; shorts, per ton, 324 to 326:, middlings, per ton, 325 to 926; good feed'. flour. per• bag, $1.65 to 31.00. Country Produce. Two automobile bandits shot to death Herman Malow, a Chicego motorcycle policeman. Out of 181 restaurants inspected by .the New Ycrk Department of Iicalth, 175 were classed as bad. •" 1 Portland, Ore., man not only clop: with anther woman, but did it in his wife's new automobile. Mrs. Martin B. Bailey, wife of State Senator Bailey, of Danville, Ill,, shot and killed herself. The Arkansas peach crop is light. Growers estimate not more than 2,000 carloads will be produced -this season. Shipwreck of the steamship Bear off Cape Mendocino, in .the Pacific, is believed to have cost forty-seven lives. A bomb believed to have been ad- dressed to Governor Spry, of Utah, exploded in a mail car at Butte, Montana. There are forty-nine factories in the United States making needles and pins and all report an increase in business. Four persons lost their lives when the gasoline boat, Marion, bound from Bath, N.C., to Washington, N.C., sank in the Pimlico River. Dr. C. H. Mays, of Rochester, Minn., was elected president of the American Medical Association, at the convention in. Detroit. Lack of revenue may prevent At- lantic City Commissioners from mak- ing the intended reduction in the number of liquor licenses. Secretary Lansing wants $75,000 extra for the U.S. Ambassadors bo' Europe. One reports that his cost t of living has increased 200 per cent. Dr. B. 0. Miller, Akron, Ohio, sur- ; geon, went on the operating table at People's hospital and had his appen- dix removed without taking an anaes- thebic. I Nickel goes twice as far in Indian- ' apolis since the "cheapest man in the world" began sawing coins in two and using the halves in slot ma- chines. , 1 9. movement has been launched at Gadsden, Ala., to secure the location ' of the $20,000,000 armor plate plant gm, which the United States. Government Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 270:1 inferior, 23 to 24c; creamery prints, 29 to 31o; inferior, 23 to 19e. gg-s-Steady to firm; new -laid, 2S to 29e; do., in cartons, 30 to 32c. Beans -$4,25 to $4.50, the latter for. hand-picked. Cheese -New, large, 18e; twins, 183c. Maple syrup -Prices are steady at $1.40 to 31,50 per Imperial gallon. • Dressed poultry -Chickens, 25 to 27c: fowl, 33 to 25c. Potatoes-Ontarios quoted in car lots at 31.85, and New Brunswicks at $2.15, per bag; Westerns, $1.95. Montreal, July 4. -Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 83 to 84c. Oats -Can- adian western, No. 2, 54.3c; do, No. 3, 530; extra No. 1 feed, 635 No. 2local white, 523c; No. 3 do., 619c; No. 4 do..; 503c. Earley -Malting, 76 -to 76c. flour Man. Spring wheat Patents, firsts, 36.60; seconds, $6.10; strong bak- ers', 35.90; Winter patents, choice. $6. to 36.25; straight rollers, $5.10 to 95.60; do., bags, $2.40 to 32.55. Rolled oats, barrels, 34.75 to 35.55; do., bags. 90 lbs, $2.25 to $2.60. Bran, $18 to S20. Shorts, 322 to 394 Middlings, 325, to 327. Mouillio, $27 to 332. Hay -No. 2 per ton, car lots, 320.50 to $21.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 166 to 17c; do., east - erns, 163 to 163c. Butter, choicest creamery, 300; seconds, 29c. leggs, selected, 33c; No. 1 stock, 29c; No. 2 stock, 26e. Potatoes per bag, car lots, $1.95. Winnipeg Grain. Winnipeg, July 4. -Cash quotations: - Wheat ---No. 1 Northern, 31.108; No. 2 Northern, 31.09; No. 3 Northern, 31.059; No. 4, 31.00; No. 5, 943c; No. 6, 909e; feed, 859c. Oats -No. 2 CAS'', 463e; No. 3 C.W„ 460; extra'No. 1 feed, 4680;. No. 1 feed, 443c; No. 2 feed, 423c. Bar- ley -No. 3, 6910; No 4, 643c; rejected, 6030; feed, 603c. Flax -No. 1 N. W. C., 31.679; No. 2 C. 'WV.. 31.543. United States Markets. Minneapolis, July 4. -wheat -July, $1.069; September, 31.073; No. 1 hard, $1.133; No. 1 Northern, $1..073 to 31.099; No. 2 Northern, 31.069 to 31.071. Corn -No. 3 yellow, r6 to 77c. Oats -No. 3 white, 378 to 379e. Flour unchanged; shipments, 56,608 bbis. Bran, $17.00 to 318.00. Duluth; July 4. -Wheat -On track, No. 1 hard, 31.101; No. 1 Northern, $1.091; No. 2 trorthern, $1.013 to 31.069; No. 1 Northern, to arrive, $1093; No. 3 Northern, on track, 063c to $1029. Lin- seed -On track, $1.788; to arrive, $1.775.1; July, 31.783 asked; Septemoe., $1.821 asked; October. $1.803 bid; November, 31.801 btd, Live Stook Markets, Toronto, July 4. -Choice heavy steers; 310.00 to 310.50; good heavy steers, 99.40 to 39.90; butchers' cattle, choice, $9.50 to $975; do., good, 39.1.0 to 92.35; do., medium, 38,85 to 39.00; 'do., common, 38.00 to $8.25; butchers' bulls, choice, $8.35 to $8.50; do., good. bulls, $7.46 to $7.66; do., rough hulls, $4.75 to 5.255; butohersdo.,m'edium, cows 6.25 choiceto $6., $8.75, 00 tostoc38,25;kers, 700 to 850 lbs. 36,75 to 97.75; choice feeders, clehorned, 050 to 1.000 lbs, 38.25 to $8.85; canners, choice, each, $76.00 to $100.00; do., corn. and med., each, $40.00 to 360.00; springers, 950.00 to $100,00; light ewes,, $9,00 to 910.00; sheep, heavy, $6.00 to 38.00; spring lambs, per lb. 123e to 14c; calves, good. to choice $$9.60 to $12,00; do., medium, 7.26 La $2.50; hogs, fed and watered, 1.1.40' to $11.50; do., weighed of ears, 1 '11.75; do, 2. o. b. . ,$,.. M1.05ontrealto$,Butcher1s'0; 90steors, hotce, 39.75 to 910; medium, 38.70 to 9.25; common to fair 37.70 to 38.26; rough, 30 to $7; bulls, choice, $7,SQ„ to $0.25; fair to good, $6.75 to $7.15; med- ium, 35.76 to :0.50; Cows, choice, $7 to $s; fair to good, 35,00 to 56.05; Canners end cutters, $3,85 to 4.85. Sleep, 70 to 73c: spring lambs, 35 to 38 ea0h. Calves choice 08e to 10e; medium, 83 to 9e,' 1 -Togs, selects, 311,35 to $11.60; roughs and mixed 1pr tx, 311 to 311.25. will build. After a solemn hearing the Fed- : eral Trade Commission has discovered that the Standard Oil Company is re- sponsible for the increased price of j gasoline. Miss Magdalena Robinson, daughter of Philip Robinson, wealthy brewer, of Scranton, Pa., eloped with and was married to J. A. Rock, a street car conductor. Georgia convict camps are being consolidated because of a shortage of convicts. Sixty deputy wardens have already been cut off and further re- ductions are promised. Henry Bradley Yeats, 78 years old, and Mrs. Frances Julia Ganman, 70 years old, "eloped" from Danbury, Conn., to Brewster, N.Y., in a "jitney bus," ar:'1 were married. The Post Office Department " loses between $400,000 and $500,000 a year by handling parcel post packages that are never claimed. AID FOR FRENCH SOLDIERS. To Be _Awarded a Deceratis:n "Fos' Gratitude." The French Government has decid- ed to create a new medal to be known as the "medal of French gratitude." It is to be awarded to those who have aided wounded men, the sick, the fam- ilies of killed er those driven from their homes by invasion. The new distinction will be granted by the President upon thr report of a committee that will meet' at the palace of the Legion of Honor and will h•• formed of a member of the oilier of the legion, an Ambassador, a Council- lor of State, a. Judge of the, Supreme Court and a member of the institute.. The medal will recompense nets of voluntary and personal service end only services of at least six months will bo consielered. There will be three classes, silver gilt, silver and bronze. Those to whom the medal is awarded will be authorized to wear. it, suspend, ed from an official ribbon, which ,fdiir"' . the first class will bear a mu i.. It is feared that the institution of ..: this new medal will be a disappoint- ment to many who have counted on their work being recognized . by the Legion of Honor. Something approaching 120,000 war GERIVIAN PAPER PAYS PrifiTTE crosses having been awarded, the French Chamber. has at last decided to' quote adistinctive sign to be worn G' b+ thooe who won the cross while fac- , , i beg death. It seems rather late is the ,day to discuss such a point, but the fact that thousands of non-com- batants have -received the coveted de- coration was ,considered unfair to the real heroes Thus a proposal set forth by M. Maginot, which calfs for a special clasp bearing the word "coni - bat" has been adopted, A' special cam- ndeeion is to be formed whose duty it will bo to award the new insignia to those who are really cttit ed to it. "Then we knew it was a war cross or awooden cross for tis." a Paris cot- respondent heard a poilu cg permis- sion say during the interval ot, n theatre. TO UNMAN One General and Several Officers, It Says, Preferred Death to Surrender. A despatch from London pays t� ,.h. l olkz i 'e The Cologne V e tong, rleserl�.,,, the gallant stand made by the Cana- dians at '(pres at the beginning of the. month, stays marry of them made an obstinaate resistance �tref crrin r to , I i•, .. killed rather surrender. than be l c One general and several officers who • fused to give in were killed. Tho general drew his 'Sword, and when a' sergeant demanded his surrender he cat him through the face, whereupon ars infantryman bayoneted him. Many such group« who resisted desperately and refined all mercy had to he cleared out with bombs. •