HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1916-9-7, Page 2FRESH FRIGHTFULNESS
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f Hindenburg Stroke of Kaiser to Revive Spirits of
People, Who Are Becoming Skeptical.
A despatch from London says:
Well-informed opinion here is that the +
true measure of the effect which Rau-
reanie.'s_entry into the war has had
upon the German higher Councils fs
given by the removal of Gen. Von I
Falkenhayn and the appointment of
von Hindenburg. The supersession i
of von Moltke after the battle of the
Marne was purely military in its
bearings, while the appointment of
Hindenburg because of the failure of ,
German diplomacy to keep Roumania
out of the war is regarded as an "ex-
cited effort to satisfy public opinion"
in Germany.
A despatch from The Hague
says the change in the General Staff
has caused a sensation in Germany,
where the censorship so far does not
allow the publication of newspaper
comment. In the same despatch it is
suggested that the plans of Hinden-
burg and Falkenhayn clashed because
the latter did not wish to send troops
to the eastern front, holding that the
decision in the war would come only
in the west, and that Roumania's
move caused the Kaiser suddenly to
take Hindenburg's side. The view
here, however, is rather that in plac-
ing Hindenburg the Kaiser plays his
last trump; that the German people
are losing faith in the reports of their
own press and the Kaiser hopes to
revive their spirits by invoking the
magic of Hindenburg's name..
Hindenburg's task in 1916 is com-
pared with that of Napoleon in 1814.
The Westminster Gazette draws at-
tention to the fact that "von Hinden-
burg, von Tirpitz and von Bulow have,
as the readers of the German news-
papers know, become associated in the
public mind with a policy of ruthless
war to the end as against a hankering
for peace, which is attributed to
Bethmann-Holweg, Falkenhayn and,
the Emperor himself. The latter has
apparently thought it necessary to
clear himself by a dramatic stroke
from complicity with the moderates,
and with Hindenburg in supreme con-
trol and all the extremists raging at
Bethmann-Holweg we may look out
for a fresh bout of frightfulness."
ROUMANIA SH', ES
ALLIES' RESOURCES
Men, Money and Munitions to be
Handed Over Freely
for the War.
A despatch from London says:
Roumania already is being taken into
the heart of the Entente alliance and
is beginning to experience the great
benefits of having an open account
with such powers as France, Great
Britain and Russia. She is sharing
in the funds and general resources of
the allies.
A consignment of French 75 -milli-
metre guns and munitions for the
Roumanians has been shipped from
Russia into Roumania. Other French
war material, consigned eventually to
Roumania, has been lying at the port
of Vladivostok, and has now been or-
dered immediately routed to Rou-
mania.
France's chief contribution to Rou-
mania is thus in the form of war ma-
terial. Roumanian artillery is at pre-
sent equipped in great part with
Krupp guns, many of which were
received during the last six months in
part payment for the 681 cars of
grain and fresh meat sent from Rou-
mania to Germany.
Russia's contribution will be in the
form of troops. Besides undertaking
to guarantee Roumania's security on
the side of the Eastern Carpathians
and apart from the prospective oper-
ations of Russian forces through
Roumania against Bulgaria, Russia is
to provide 200,000 men to co-operate
with the Roumanians in Transyl-
vania.
ERASE KAISER'S NAME
FROM ROMAN PALACE.
A despatch from Rome says :-
Workmen on Tuesday chopped off the
marble memorial names of Emperor
William and the German Crown
prince, Frederick William, which had
been placed in the Senatorial Palace
on the ancient Capitol hill during a
visit of the German Emperor to Rome
twenty years ago. The names were
ordered removed by the city Govern-
ment.
OLD AGE PENSIONERS
TO GET AN INCREASE
A despatch from London says :-
In response bo prolonged agitation re-
garding the hardships suffered by
Government old age.. pensioners by
reasonof the increase in the price of
necessaries, the Government has de-
cided in special cases to make an ad-
ditional allowance not exceeding half
a crown per week.
FRENCH RECOGNITION
OF HER NEW ALLIES
A despatch from Paris says: -For
the first time since Italy entered the
war the French Gbvernmenb on Wed-
ne qday ordered that flags be raised on
all official buildings in recognition of
the declaration of war by Italy against
Germany, and by Roumania against
Austria-Hungary.
FOE TROOPS HAVE
A NEW DRILL
Prisoners Say They Have Had
Enough of War -Shell
Craters Are Ponds.
A despatch from the British Front
in France says: An Army officer and
ninety Germans surrendered in a
body near Guillemont on Wednesday.
They were sent out as usual with or-
ders to stick under the British shell
fire and against British infantry at-
tacks to the last man. But when the
British worked their way up on either
side of the exposed trench they held
up a white flag without making any
fight for it. They said that they had
suffered enough hardship and hadhad
enough of war and preferred to be
taken prisoners. The heavy down-
pour of rain continued all clay, making
ponds of the shell craters and turn-
ing the trenches into mudholes.
While the German press is saying
that Roumania's entry will lengthen
the war, prisoners taken say that it
will shorten it, as is evident now
that Germany cannot win and had
better compromise than prolong the
struggle.
"But we are not going to consider
any compromise," the British soldiers
tell them.
The British who have received the
surrender of Germans say that with
characteristic organization they now
have what the British call a "surren-
der drill." When they come out of
their dugouts to give themselves up,
as in the case of the body on Wed-
nesday, they have all their letters,
papers and valuables in their hands,
ready as a peace offering to their
captors.
TWO LEPROSY CASES
FOUND IN VICTORIA, B. C.
A despatch from Victoria, B. C.,
says: Hardly had the medical auth-
orities taken in charge one case of bhe
dreaded disease leprosy, in the per-
son of a Chinese who had been a re-
sident of the local Chinese colony for
the last year, than the discovery was
made of another case, one more seri-
ous than the first. Within the last
day or two this second case, that of •a
man who has been a resident of
Canada for some years, and who is in
a deplorable condition through the
ravages of the malady, was discovered
by the Dominion medical authorities,
and is now incarcerated at the Isola-
tion Hospital.
THIRTY TEUTON GENERALS
HOISTED.
A despatch from The Hague says:
Despatches from Berlin received here
on Wednesday state that thirty Ger-
man Generals have been dismissed as.
a result of the appointment of Field
Marshal von Hindenburg as Chief of
the General Staff. Field Marshal von
Hindenburg recently removed the
Austrian Major-General Puhallo from
command of the army corps defend-
ing the Kovel section of the front in
Volhynia, and gave the command of
the troops there to Gen. Friedrich von
Bernhardi, the famous author.
BRITISH MACHINE-GUN FIRE
SMOTHERS PROJECTED ATTACK
French Extend the Allied Front. South-West of Soyecourt Wood,,.
in Picardy.
A despatch from London says: A'
French advance south of the Somme,
resulting in the extension of the al-
lied front south of Estrees and south-!
West of Soyecourt wood, was the only l
change of position the past 24 hours'
bave bre'aght to the battling armies f
of' Picardy. North of the river, a
German grenade attack was easily re-
pulsed.
A projectedGerman infantry at-
tack near High wood was smothered
by British machine gun fire. The
German War Office report admits the
loss of a trench on Wednesday.
Markets of the World
Breadstuffs,
Toronto, Sept. 5. ---Manitoba, wheat -
No. 1 Northern, $1.60 ; No. 2, do.,
$1.58.; No.. 3, do., $1.54, track, I3ay
ports.
Manitoba oats-No,`d C:ViW., 56c ;
No, 3, do„ 551lsc ; extra No. 1 feed,
55%0 ; No. 1 feed, 543/40, track , Bay
ports.
American Born -No. 950,
track, Toronto. t
Ontario oats -No. 3 white, 50 t o 510,'
nominal, according to freigh $ out-
side,
Ontario wheat -No. 1 commercial,
$1.15 to $1.17 ; No, 2, do., $1,11 to
$1.13 ; No. 3, do:, $1.07 to $1,09, ac-
cording to freights outside. Ne
i No. 2, $1.20 to $1.22.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -Malting, nominal
nominal,
�,
3 yellow
t
x
w crop,
feed
Buekwheat-Nominal.
Rye -No. 2, new, $1.05" to $1.08, ac-
cording to freights outside ; No. 1
commercial, nominai.
Manitoba flour --First patents, in
Jute bags, $8.40 ; second patents, in
} jute bags, $7.90 ; strong bakers', in
I jute bags, $7.70, .Taranto.
Ontario flour -New Winter,. accord-
ing to sample, $5.35 to $5.45, nominal,
in bags, track, Toronto, prompt ship -
meat ; $5.25 to $5,35, nominal, bulk
seaboard, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mon-
treal freights, bags included -Bran,
per ton, $27 ; shorts, per ton, $29.;
middlings, per ton, $30 ; good feed
flour, per bag, $2.15. -,
Hay -New, No. 1, per ton, $10 to
512 ; No. 2, per ton, $9 to $9.50, track;
Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, $6 to $7,
track, Toronto.
Country Produce -Wholesale.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 29 to
30c ;; inferior, 24 to 25c ; creamery
prints, 34 to 36c ; solids, 33 to 35c.
Eggs -New -laid, 30 to 31c ; do,,. in
cartons, 34 to 36c.
Beans -$4.50 to $5, the latter for
hand-picked.
Cheese -New, large, 193! to 20c ;
twins, 19% to 20140; triplets, 2Q to
203e:
Dressed poultry -Chickens, 25 to
27c ; fowl, 18 .to 20c.
Live poultry -Chickens, 18 to 20c ;
fowl, 15 to 160.
Potatoes -Jerseys, per bag, $2.50 ;
Ontarios, $2.35 to $2.40 ; British
Columbia Rose, per bag, $2.
Honey -Five -pound tins, 121, to
13e ; do., 10-1b., 12 to 12%c.
PToy isions-W ho1esa1e
Bacon -Long clear, 18 to 183o per
lb.
Hams -Medium, 24 to 26c ; do.,
heavy, 22 to 23c ; rolls, 19 to- 20c
breakfast bacon, 25 to 27c • backs,
plain, 26 to 27c ; boneless backs,' 28
to 29c, Cooked ham, 35 to 37c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 17 to 17%0;
tubs, 171%4 to 17%c ; pails, 171/z to
17%c. Compound, 14 to 141/2c.
Montreal Markets. •
Montreal, Sept. 5.-,-Oats-Canadian
Western, No. 2, 60c ; do, No. 3, 591/2e ;
extra No. 1 feed, 591/2c ; No. 3 local
white, 54c. Flour -Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, firsts, $8.50 ; do.,
seconds, $8 ; strong bakers', $7.80 ;
Winter patents, choice, $7.50 ; straight
rollers, $6.90 to $7.20 ; do., in bags,
$3.25 to $3.40. Rolled oats -Barrels,
$5.05 ; bag of 90 lbs, $2.90. Millfeed
-Bran, $25 ; shorts, $27 ; middlings,
$29 ; mouillie, $31 to $34. Hay -No.
2, per ton, car lots, $16.50 to $17.50.
Cheese -Finest Westerns, 20 to 2034 ;
do., easterns, 19% to 19%c. Butter -
Choicest creamery, 344'4 to 35c ; sec-
onds, 33% to 34c. Eggs -Fresh, 36 to
37e ; selected, 34 to 35e ; No. 1
stock, 300 ; No. 2, do., 270.
Winnipeg Grain.
Winnipeg, Sept. 5. -Cash quotations:
-Wheat-No. 1 Northern, $1.52,, ;
No. 2 Northern, $1.50 ; No. 3 North-
ern, 51,46 ; No. 4., $1.393 ; No. 5,
$1.34% : No. 6, $1.24% ; feed, $1.17%.
Oats -No. 2 C.W., 49%c ; No. 3 C.W.,
49c ; extra No. 1 feed, 49c ; No. 1
feed, 48c ; No. 2 feed, 47%c. Barley
-No, 3, 82c ; No. 4, 79c ; rejected,
73c ; feed, 73c. Flax -No. 1 N.W.C.,
$1.87 ; No. 2 C.W., $1,84.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, Sept. 5. -Wheat -Sep-
tember, $1.49% ; No. 1 hard, $1.56% ;
No.. 1 Northern, $1.50% to 51.53%
No. 2 Northern, $1.46/8 to $1.51%.
Corn -No. 3 yellow, 86 to 87c. Oats-
No. 3 white, 43% to 44c. Flour un-
changed. Bran -$21.00 to $22.00.
Duluth, Sept. 5. -Wheat -No. 1 hard,
$1.54%4 ; No. 1 Northern, . $1.52% to
$1.531/ ; No. 2 Northern, $1.481/4 to
$1,501/4 ; September, $1.401/ bid.
Linseed -On track and to arrive,
$2.06 ; September, $2.06% bid; Octo-
ber, $2.07 ; November, $2.07 bid ;
December, $2.06.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, • Sept. 5. --Choice heavy
THE MOST likAPORTil, ITEN
YOUR GROCER ORDER
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steers, 58,15 to $8.75 ; good heavy
steers, $7.75 to $8.00 ; butchers' cat-
tle, good, 57.35 to $7.75 ; do., medium,
$7.00 to $7.15 ; do., common, $6.00 to
$6.15 ; butchers' bulls, choice, $7.25 to
$7,50 ; do., good bulls, $6.40 to $6.50 •
do,. rough bulls, $4.50 to $5.00 ; but-
chers' cows, choice, $6.50 to $6.75 ;
do., good, $6.00 to 56,25 ; do., medium,
$5.60 to $5.85 ; stockers, 700 to 800.
bsl „$6.00 to $6.50 ; choice feeders,
dehorned, $6.30 to $7.00 ; banners and
cutters, $3.50 to $4,50 ; milkers,
choice, each, $70.00 to $90.00 ; do.,
com, and med., each, $40.0'0 to $60.00
springers, $50.00 to $90,00 ; light ewes,
$7.65 to $8.50 ; sheep, heavy, $4:50 to
$5,35 ; spring lambs, per lb., l0c to
10%o ; calves, good to 'choice, $10.50"
to $12.00 ; do., medium, 59.00 to $10.00;
hogs, fed and watered, $11.65 to
$11.75 ; do., weighed off cars, $11.90
to $12.00 ; do., f.o.b., $11.15.
Montreal, Sept. 5, -Butchers' steers,
good, $7 to $7.50 ; fair, 56.30 to $7 ;
medium, $5.50 to 56 ; common, $4 to
$5, cwt. ; butchers' cows, good, $6 to
$7 ; fair, $5.50 'to $5.75 ; common, $4
to $5 ; butchers bulls, best, $6,50 to
$7 ; good, $6 to $6.50 ; fair, $5.50 to
$6 canners, $4,50 to $5 ; sheep, 7c
per pound ; lambs, 91/20 to 1010 per
pound ; calves; milk -fed, 8c to 9c per
pound ; grass-fed, $5 per cwt. Hogs,
selects, 511,75 to $12 ; roughs and
mixed lots, $10 to $11.25 ; sows, $9.75
to $10 all weighed off cars.
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MORE MEN NEEDED
FOR GERMAN ARMIES
All Men of Military Age Hitherto Ex-
empted are Being Examined.
A despatch from Amsterdam says :
-The Frankfurber Zeitung says that
the meeting of Socialist electrical
unions of Greater Berlin proposed for
on Tuesday, when Deputy Haase hi -
tended to speak on peace, was prohi-
bited. The Kreuz Zeitung says that a
general examination of all men of
military age in Germany who pre-
viously were exempted is now taking,
place. German officials who hereto-
fore had been declared indispensable,
bhe newspaper says, also are being
examined.
NO BOOZE ON TRAINS
AFTER SEPTEMBER 16th
A despatch from Toronto says: -
The nine railway companies operating
in the Province, in reply to a com-
munication from the Ontario License
Board, have given the assurance that
when . prohibition comes into effect
they will discontinue the sale of liquor
on their trains. This decision re-
moves any notions that may have been
entertained that the railway com-
panies might take steps to contest the
authority of the act in reference to
such sales.
NEW PERSIAN CABINET
FRIENDLY WITH ALLIES
A despatch from Petrograd says :-
According to despatches from Teheran
a new Persian Cabinet has been form-
ed under the Premiership of Vest
sough-ed-Dowleh, who also will take
the post of Foreign Minister. All the
other Ministers in the Cabinet belong
to the. Moderate party and are report-
ed to be friendly disposed towards
Russia and Great Britain.
THANKSGIVING DAY
TO BE OCTOBER 9th
A despatch from Ottawa says :-
Thanksgiving Day has een definitely
fixed for Monday, October • C., by an
order -in -Council.
CHOLERA IN TOKIO.
A despatch from Tokio says :-Ten
cases of Asiatic cholera are reported
in Tokio. The disease is abating at
Nagasaki, but increasing at Osaka,
where the cases now number.406.
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The "Contemptible Little army."
Willie: But, daddy, why don't you sweep away the contemptible
little army?
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Kaiser, Go away, and don't worry me Willie!
Go to `V'erdunlFiom
"The Westminster Gazette."
BULGARIA IS DISTRUSTED
BY THE GERMAN NEWSPAPERS
Betrays Eagerness to Allow Her No Time to Reflect or Attempt
Secret Negotiations.
A despatch from Milan says: The
latest information from trustworthy
sources leaves little doubt that the
political situation in Bulgaria has
been profoundly affected by Rou-
mania's intervention. Persons in
touch with diplomatic conditions de-
clare that events may be following in
rapid evolution in Sofia.
King Ferdinand's journey to Vienna
to join the High Council of War on
the new and grave situation created
in the Balkans is natural, but his
traveling incognito is mysterious.
Another strange factor is the in-
decent haste of Germany to declare.
war on Roumania, as if to create an-
other situation de facto in the Bal-
kans.
The imperative summons of the
German and Austrian press to Bul-
garia to declare war against Rou-
mania is a further curious symptom
of the general uneasiness. It be-
trays considerable eagerness to leave
Bulgaria no ,time to reflect or ,at-
tempt secret negotiations.
TWELVE -STORY FARMS.
Rocky Island of Greece. Supports
25,000 People.
"It is easier to build a house than
to build a farm in Andros," declared
Prof. J. Irving Manatt recently; and,
since he describes a "twelve -story
farm," but no house of more than
three stories, it is easy to believe that
he is right.
Andros, one of the famous "isles of
Greece" of Byron and Homer, is a
mountain island twenty-one miles by
eight, which supports twenty-five
thousand people, to whom both
wealth and poverty are unknown.
Every foot of land must be made to
produce to the uttermost where farms
are half quarried, half built on a
rocky mountain side. So, in a lesser
degree, are the farmhouses.
"To get foundations you simply
quarry out a section of rock slope un-
til your horizontal and perpendicular
meet, and you have a fine rock shelf
with floor and back wall that will
never need repairing. In fact, you
may sometimes economize your • end
walls out of nature in the same way;
but as a rule that is avoided for sani-
tary reasons."
Quarrying the cellar for a house us-
ually affords the main part of the
building material for the house walls;
and quarrying to make the flat ledges
for a terraced farm provides stone to
build the necessary retaining walls.
Andrian industry "has through pa-
tient ages, turned the bleak moun-
tains into smiling gardens. God gives
the rocks and the rigorous winters
and sweeping summer winds. Where
a thousand shiftless souls would
starve, twenty thousand and more by
toil and thrift have enough and to
spare."
The island rocks are slate, which
sucks in 'water like a sponge, yield-
ing it again in abundant springs;
moreover, ' as they disintegrate they
weather into fruitful soil. The farm-
er, histerrace and aqueduct ready,
"when he has got his footing, so to
speak, in one little shelf of soil or a
dozen of them, plants his olive, fig
and vine, his bit of barley or wheat,
his patch of onions, potatoes and
beans. Against the north wind he
sets his break of cypress trees with
intertwining vines, or of tall reeds in
triple ranks. He keeps half a dozen
goats and sheep fpr wool, milk .and
cheese. . . There is always, too, the
household pig, to be salted and pick-
led for winter. After the Feast of
Saint Demetrius in October follows
the pigsticking throughout the island,
and in this land of simple living a
bit of pickled pig is a luxury. A well-
to-do household will have its donkey,
possibly a cow or two for draft and
breeding, rarely for milk."
Fruit, especially lemons, of which
the annual yield is estimated -at
twenty millions, is the leading crop.
Professor' Manatt pays tribute to the
island housewives when he declares
that "this commerce might be in-
creased and the world given a new
delight" if they would only export
their "preserve of green lemons no
bigger than a walnut, and still more
delicious lemon -blossom sweets."
There are figs, too, and grapes, with
the picturesque festivals of the vint-
age and fig -stringing.
A. fig -stringing, which occurs after
the figs have been gathered and dried
upon: the housetop by being spread
upon beds of clean rushes, is, he ex-
plains, a sort of sewing bee. A jolly
company of women and girls gather
in a great room heaped with the dried
fruit, like a garner full of corn, each
vying with the rest in transforming
the piled confusion into graceful and
convenient garlands. They string the
figs upon reed grass, used as thread,
and fastened into hoops, gossiping
and laughing as their fingers fly, and
celebrating the close of the task with
Simple feast and dancing.
SERBS DEFEAT
BULGAR ARMY
Latter Attacked Entente's Left
Flank With Most Disas-
trous Results.
A despatch from London says :-
While official reports from the fight-
ing front in Greece and Macedonia
are very brief, from other sources the
news conies of severe encounters. In
bhese, which have occurred principally
on the allied extreme left, held by the
Serbians under their Crown Prince,
the Bulgars, •according to an Athens
despatch, have suffered a repulse.
The. Athens despatch says bhe Bul-
gars attacked in close formation, and
it is estimated, lost 15,000 in dead,
wounded and prisoner" They were
compelled to call for reinforcements
from Kasboria and Valbankeni.
1 The Bulgarian regiments attacked
the Serbians in close formation after
the German style, near Borovitz, and
suffered severely. They were com-
pelled to ask for reinforcements from
Valbankeni and Kasboria.
The Serbians appear to be masters
of the situation at Gomicheve, says
the. Athens correspondent, and Bul-
• garian officero of Roumanian origin
1 who deserted said the Bulgarians call-
ed Gomicheve "another Verdun."
PHENOMENAL RISE
IN CUSTOMS INCOME.
Receipts for the Month of August
Show Increase of $3,610,000.
A despatch from Ottawa says: A
further phenomenal rise in customs
indicating the maintenance of this
year's remarkable trade increases is
shown in the monthly statement is-
sued
ssued' by Hon. J. D. Reid, Minister of
Customs. The August revenue from
customs reached a total of $11,941,000
as compared with $8,330,00, an in-
crease of $3,610,000. . For the five
months of the fiscal year the in-
creases in customs' revenue has been
$21,723,000, the receipts having ris-
en from $36,731,000 in 1915, to $58,-
454,000
58;454,000. during the present year.
FOOD PROSPECT GOOD
GERMANS ALLEGE
A despatch from Berlin says: -The
outlook for the food supply and the
general economic situation in Ger-
many are highly satisfactory at the
present, and bhese are no indication
that these considerations will assume
at any time an aspect which will in-
fluence the military plans and opera-
tions of bhe Empire; said Dr. Karl
Helfferich, Secretary of the Interior,.
to the A.,.sociated Press on Wednes-
day.
Disobeying Orders.
The porter of a small hotel being
attacked by illness while on duty, his
kind employer sent him upstairs to
be and called a physician. When the
doctor came down after having at-
tended his patient, bhe proprietor ac-
costed: him:,
"Well, doctor, how did you find
him?" he asked.
"He's coming down with the grip,"
was the doctor's reply.
"If he does, I'll send him back to
bed. I warned him nob to lug any
more baggage to -day."
What She Wanted to Know.
"How long did you stay in your
last place?"
"Two weeks, mum, and before I
agree to come to work fel, you I
should like to know how "long yon kept
the East girl you had."
FUN' NATIVES
AT BRITAIN'S CALL
OFFICERS - PRAISE MEN AS
BRAVE AND DARING.
Sir Harry Johnston Wants Provin-
cials Called to Serve
in War.
The drain of xnan power on the
population of all the Allies is enorm-
ous, though, , of course,. Great Britain.
with her teeming dependencies is• tree►
yet feeling the strain like some of
her friends, But the wastage grows
day by day. France has felt it, espe.
cially at Verdun, and of all the Allies
only Russia with her teeming millions
can lopk forward to the future with
absolute confidence; -she at least will
have an ample supply of men to draw
upon to the end, writes a London
correspondent.
The famous explorer, Sir Harry
Johnston, computes that there are i
1,500,000 native troops from foreign
dominions at Britain's command, and
demands that this material shall be
made use of. The actual white popu-
lation of the whole of the British Em-
pire is under 60,000,000 in number.
On the other hand, King George rules
over or protects something like 370,-
000,000 of yellow skinned, brown skin-
ned, black skinned arid neutral skin-
ned men, women and , children, of ,
whom a large proportion of the men.
would make excellent soldiers. Sir
Harry Johnston says:
"I am glad to note that General
Smuts has already testified with real
conviction in his tones to the ex-
cellent quality of the King's African
Rifles, whom he has found ready to
his hand in carrying out the conquest
of German. East Africa. The King's
African Rifles are, or at any rate
were down to a few years agore-
cruited from among the Christian,
Mohammedan and pagan ne;roes of
all that part of East and East Central.
Africa which lies between the Za.'ei-
besi on the south and Somaliland on
the north.
Make Excellent Troops.
"The Somalis make excellent, intel-
ligent and brave soldiers, but are not
perhaps quite so steady, so doggedly
loyal to the British as are the men
of pure negro race. There is, in ad-
dition, that remarkable recruiting
ground the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
"But there is also much fine sol-
'
diery among the Bari, and their dis-�"
taut allies, the Masai of East Africa,
make first class fighting men, of great +...,e•
ee
intelligence and dauntless bravery.
Even allowing for the necessary-
maintenance
ecessarymaintenance of law and order not
only in the more settled provinces of
the Sudan but in the recently con-
quered sultanate. of Darfur, and all
contingencies in • Egypt, it ought to
be possible to send from within the
limits of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
to the war in Europe a contingent of
at leas. 200,000 picked soldiers. The
King's African Rifles, already refer-
red to, are recruited mainly in Ugan-
da and British East Africa andin
what may be generally termed Brit-
ish Central Africa -namely, Nyasa-
land and the adjoining districts of
northern Rhodesia.
"The Yao people of Nyasaland "'
(British and Portuguese) have prov-
ed over and over again their fighting
value in British campaigns. ' They
were my toughest opponents in the
years between 1889 and 1896, wherein
I strove completely to suppress and,,
extirpate the slave trade , of Eats,''
Central Africa and to bring law and
order into the lake regions. But once
they were decisively beaten by the
aid of Sikh troops from India they
turned round in that abrupt way so
characteristic of the negro and enlist-•
ed in our armies and proved them-
selves in Ashanti, in Somaliland, in
Uganda and East Africa the best and
bravest negro soldiers we ever had
under our command.
"Any one who was at all known to
them, like Sir Alfred Sharpe, recent-
ly the Governor of, Nyasaland, could
recruit promptly 200,000 good fight-
ing men among the Yaos, whom three
or four months would train sufficient-
ly for service, say in Egypt, and six
months for service on the battlefields
of Europe; in Mesopotamia or in the
Balkan peninsula.
Praised by Officers.
"Then there is the splendid recruit-
ing ground of northern and southern`'
Nigeria. Here we have the far fam-
ed Hausa soldiery, whose praises,.
sung with almost wearisome reitera-
tion by British and French officers in
connection with the thoroughly suc-
cessful Cameroons campaign. I have
met many British officers returning
from that campaign andnot one of ..
them has tired of tendering a tribute
to the bravery, the resourcefulne-s,
the loyalty, the discipline of. the
Hausa troops.
"But the Bornu soldiers 'nowadays
are scarcely to be distinguished from
their Haausa speaking neighbors and
the Hausa type of Mohammedans ne-
gro soldier extends right across from•
the middle Niger to the far interior
of the Gold Coast.. In the northern
territories of -the Gold Coast and
Ashanti we have another fine re-
cruiting grouiad which might supply
us with 50,000 picked men. There
are in southern Nigeria itself fight-
ing races that have already pro-
vided us with `excellent soldiery
(chiefly Yoruba and Igara), on whom
we might draw for perhaps 100,000
for the purposes of the present war."
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