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The Exeter Times, 1919-2-13, Page 7GERMAN LINERS TO BRING ItEN 110 AMERICAN AND A'USTIZALrAN K. TROOPS RETURNED' New Armistice Agreement Places Large German Steamships at the Disposal of Allies, All the great German liners and the more important of the other German passenger steamships, the list ineluct- ing the huge Imperator, may be placed on the Nortlr Atlantic route to transport Ameriean troops home- ward, under the agreement for the extension of the German armistice. signed ,at Treves, The German mer- cantile fleet, virtually in its entirety, is placed at the disposal of the asso- ciated government to be distributed among them in acordance with the needs of the various nations, Only some of the smaller steamships era left to the Germans. The allotment of the steamships among the associated Powers will be governed partly by the respective, needs of the nations and partly by the suitability of the steamships for use on particular routes. The giant liners, like the - Iniperator and: the other big modern steamships finished during the war, are too deep in draft to pass through the Suez Canal. Hence Great Britain will take the moderate- sized . steamships for the Australian service, The smaller steamships that are left to the Germans are for their needs in the Baltic coastal traffic. Food to Pay for Ships. The money will 13e applied in pay- ment for the foodstuffs furnished to Germany under another part of the agreement. Equitable remuneration for the use of these ships is to be paid to Ger- many. The supplies to be furnished include 70,000 tons of pork to satisfy the rgent need of Germany for fats. The furnishing of 200,000 tons of cereals is provided for, but for part of this amount condensed milk may' ' be substituted. The meetings at which the shipping arrangement was elaborated were held separately from those of the regular armistice commission and were the first civilian deliberations between the Germans and the repre- esentatives of the associated govern- 'tinents since the`hanclusion of hos- tilities. They were marked by a less formal spirit than the strictly military deliberations of the armistice com- missioners. Germany to Deliver Ships. Marshal Foch planned to have the 'agreement drafted and signed at one short meeting, but the shipping ex- perts found this to be impossible. Three meetings, lasting over midnight on Thursday and several hours into Friday, were necessary for the dis- cussion of the details. -Another meet- ing is planned to be held at the end of the month. The delegates of the associated gov- ernments proposed that the Germans furnish the coal and the ships' stores. The Germans protested that this was impossible, specifying the lubricants particularly as something they were unable to furnish. It was finally ar- ranged that the Germans furnish the coal and the stores, and take the steamships to ports designated by the Allies, who will then take film over ,1nd man them. The Germans stated that the steam- ships were in shape for immediate service, having been kept in repair by the skeleton crews maintained aboard them during the war. Europe's Most Corrupt City. The Prussian capital has been known for many years as the :-aret corrupt city in Europe, but few Ger- man newspapers have spokei so frankly about it as the Cologne Volks• zeitung since the censor's ban was lifted. Here is its latest indictment: "We should rejoice to see a lire descend from, Heaven and reduce to cinders the horrible Babel of Berlin. "To hell with the Berliners, people without soul and without heart,' im- placable foes of all Kultur. In the great record book of humanity a mon- .!'skrous debt of blood is inscribed \ ' hgainst Berlin. He who has not yet ' made himself acquainted with the re- volting sentiments which have pre- vailed in. the Prussian capital for centuries is wilfully blind. Berlin is an immense moral cess- pool. We refuse any longer to be under its sway." Battlefield Coincidence. battlefield ocincidence is curious A related by the lieutenant -colonel of the 3rd Hussars. He states that in August, 1914, his regiment, after having been railed up from Rouen, got oust of their train at Houtnient, near Maubeuge, and' rode off to Bel- gium and the war. On November 11 last, the 3rd Hussars were riding through the same I•Ioutment in pur- suit of Germans when the telegram announcing the signing of the armis- tice and the cessation of hostilities at .. 11 a.m. on that day was received. The Women's sedition of the Mavis Ube, Grain 'Growers adopted a rase - intim asking the Dominion Govern - Meat to create a Federal Health Bur. R IG'SVALI/1MS E RUN "'OPE ISER'S GRAND OFFENSIVES OP 191.8. Wrecked by Presented the Unyielding Front !iy British Infantry, Teuton Ei>pert Aditits. thmknig of some caged beast tearing Wellington used to say he had spent his military life in trying to guess what was going on on the other side of the hill,• says a war correspondent. History has to estimate these stra- tegic guesses, and already the time has come when the .pioneers of his- tory are beginning to reduce the chaos o1 the war to order. ' I have before me evidence which shows more clearly than anything yet published what was happening on the Germanside of the Bill during those anxious monthsin the spring of 1918, Captain von Schwink began the war as a gunner; then he went into the air service and worked with artillery fighting and bombing squadrons. He received a staff appointment in 1917. When General von Below was on the Italian front in 1917, Sehwink served with him. When the scene of German activity and German hopes shifted to France,, von Below was put in com- mand of the Seventeenth Army, and Schwink went with him. The German Object. The main idea of the great German offensive in 1918, he says, was to break through to the sea, cutting the British army into two parts, one of which was to be driven back on the channel ports while the other was to be thrown southward in disorder upon the French. All that happened after- ward was in the nature of attempts to repair the plan which had gone awry, or to substitute some other which had not been originally con- templated. For the plan, acording to - Von Schwink, did go awry from the first day. Even while the Kaiserwas send- ing about telegrams, while the British public was reading anxiously of that hurried retreat upon Amiens, the Ger- man staff knew that they had failed. So different are facts from imperial desires, so different things look on the other side of the hill. For in that great offensive of March 21 the main weight of the attack was to have fallen north of the Somme. The Germans had no intention of massing divisions south of a Iine drawn from St. Quentin to Amiens, and so the actual results of the severe check to the northern section of the offensive and their great advance in the south were considered by the Ger- man staff—I borrow the very guard- ed phrase—"as somewhat in the na- ture of a failure." The attack, in fine, did not succeed as had been expected, except south of St. Quentin. The swift advance there was judged to be of merely minor importance. The Germans had hoped to gain an equal success all along the line. It remained to try again. The next attempt may be called another version of the original idea. On March 28 an attack between Oppy and Neuville- St. Yeast was launched in order to extend the southern success. The German staff were confident that they would recover Vimy Ridge and cap- ture Arras by the weight of the first blow. As is known, they failed com- pletely. Unyielding Valor of British. The reasons for the failure which appeared on the German side of the hill were: First, the artillery prepara- tion was not sufficient, because they could not bring up enough ammuni- tion fast enough; and second, the re- sistance of the British infantry went beyond all German calculation. If Coffee Disagree there's an easy way cut Eeres no head- ache, no sleep- lessness, no ner- vousness in INST t;v.. a fit, A pleasant co .=dee-lice flavor and an economy and ease in i1nakinsg will xoom make it favorite edrink . here's a Re ser Again itb(' mo necessary to res consider the situation, and this time more profoundly; the resistance had been so strong, the check co (liscoUr• aging and the losses so heavy that the German staff derided to give up altogether the original plan to break through to the sea north of Arieir . They looked for a new scene of ac- tion in which they could work with smaller forces and with some chancy of success, but still the sea was the lure. Reading this German history of the campaign of 1918 one finds himself and biting at the bars that shut him in, unable to understand how hopeless l the tfighting ie and yielding only when battered and, wounded by his own desperation, he sinks exhausted still in his cage. Still trying for the sea the Germans organized the attack on April 9, south of Ypres. This, says Schwink, had Dunkirk and Calais as its objective, and from the opening of the attack it was intended to push right through. Again, it seems, the problem of feed- ing the guns had not been sufficiently studied and again this branch of the service compromised in retreat. The difficulty of the ground, I am told, prevented the. heavy artillery and ammunition being brought up, also certain German divisions in their ad- ' vance found quantities of wine, put it to its natural use and got drunk. Finally and as usual "the resistance of the English. troops, especially about Givenchy, led to delay." i ROYAL ix.t lir S1 vie For Men, Women and Children Also BOOTS, SHOE'San I 4 AtPl4"9A'I'S., SENT FREE Write for a copy to BELL CLOTHING CO. P.O, BOX 426TORONTO dren pelted us With stones and spit ' at us, but they didn't hurt us much. j "The first six months I spent in !Turkey are about us slim as one could ( possibly experience. Generally speak- ing I think we fared better than the prisoners An Germany, but for the first while, it was pretty tough. As. I say, if we had no money we couldn't eat and I could not get in touch with home. Somehow we all managed the," Speaking of the.prices charged by the Turks to the prisoners the ex- prisoner said: "Tea was $50 a pound, butter $5 a pound, and bread $2 a loaf.. So you see, we couldn't manage long on a five-spot. "In Gedos we had to provide our own accommodation and our own food. The furnishings cost terribly, about $125 to fix up one small room. "We were asked to give our parole but refused. The commandant told us we would be sent away to another camp. Rather that have this happen we promised not to escape. So we had the run of the village. The com- mandant was a decent chap and when we got the prisoners from Kut-el- Amara.ave had a fine time. We all worked hard, studied and learned no end of useful things. We had an 18 - piece orchestra, a variety company, and put on some stunt every few days. "The other camps, however, were not so well fixed. In a great number the prisoners were terribly treated. The Turks, to save themselves at the armistice, hanged the commandants. Good job, too, because they were re- gular devils.". This officer was in Gedos twelve months and got to England on De- cember 16th last. He is at present on three months' Ieave, which he is spending at his home in Toronto. Two Big Miscalculations. It is curious how closely the story of this northern offensive resembles that of the first great attempt to the. south. Both began with a spectacular success which the general staff con- sidered a failure; in both there fel- lows an attempt to repair the damage,' to set the plan on its legs again. The attack of April, 1918, on the Given- + chy-Merville front was made to open k out the northern salient and give a chance of further advance as original- ly intended. This also failed and then the German staff threw up the gate in the north and put aside their hopes of the sea. Von Schwink, who may, perhaps, speak for one school of German mill-' tary opinion, thinks that this was a I serious mistake. His view is that if every man had been thrown into the offensive on the Bethune -Ypres front the Germans would "almost . certain- ly" have reached the channel ports. In the fighting of the whole cam- paign of 1918 what most impressed Schwink was the discrepancy between the German staff's estimate of the fighting value of the British divisions and the actual .value. The German general staff consistently and con- siderably underestimated the value of the British divisions which had been engaged. Last and most irritating of all these chapters of disillusion must have been the discovery that, as Schwink puts it, "the fighting value of the German divisions was generally overesti- mated." PRISONERS EAD TO PAY THEIR WAY BRITISHERS VILELY TREATED BY THE TURKS Canadian Captain of Royal Air Force Spent Five Days in Filthy Constantinople Jail. "Now my name must not be men- tioned," said a captain of the Royal Air Force when asked regarding his experiences as a prisoner for 14. months in Turkey. "Unless you promise not to mention my name I have nothing to say." Upon the promise being given the captain con- tinued: "It was about 8 in the even- ing on the last day of September, 191'7, three of us went up from Mud- ros in a Handley -Page to bomb Con- stantinople. We had only been up a short time when the engines went `dead' and we had to come down about tis miles off Sulva Bay. The Turks I soon saw us and began shelling us! in earnest. We managed, however, to get to shore and hid all night in a cave. In the morning they found us and we were taken. "They beat us with their rifles a bit and generally misused us and sent us on to the Pasha. Ho was a decent enough chap and gave us a good time. But that wasn't to last long. We were shunted off to Constantinople and put in the civil jail. Filthy is no word for it. The next day an officer came in and ordered us to give up our uniforms. refused,and.he went out to return x n with two soldiers with fixed bayonets. So we had to give up our togs. We complained to everyone, but it was no good. "The Dutch Legation fixed us up with 'eivies' and helped us along. We were in jail five days and then were sent off to Gedos. • They made us pay our passage across the Sea of Mar - mora ' and 65 miles along the road. That's the way they did in Turkey all along; if you didn't have money you didn't eat or do anything else. Of course the Turks dant know any bet- ter, They are pretty much heathens; they only give their soldiers a loaf of bread a . PelteddayWith Stones. o—o—o—e--o—o-- o--o--o--o--o—o•--o Sure! High Heels Cause Cons But Who Cares Now n—o--o•—o —c -- Because style decrees that women crowd and buckle up their tender toes in high heel footwear they suffer from corns, then they cut and trim at these painful pests which merely makes• the corn' grow hard, This suicidal habit may cause lockjaw and women are warned to stop it. A few drops of a drug called freer- one applied directly upon a sore corn gives quick relief and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts out without pain. Ask the drug store man for a quarter of an ounce of freeeone, which costs very little but is sufficient to re- move every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. This drug is an ether compound and dries in a moment and simply shrivels up the corn without inflaming or even irritating the surrounding tissue or skin. Clip this out and pin on your wife's dresser. QUEER WAR TRADES Certain Kinds of Business That War Made Profitable. Some queer and profitable trades have come into being since 1914. Small fortunes appear to be made in the streets. Hawkers, fined for profiteering in matches, have been found recently with large sums in notes on their persons. A vendor of camphor in London, who used to stand on the curb, has decided since the influenza epidemic to open a shop. There is a great market for the teeth of dogs in these days. They have a commercial value that is not disclosed by the dealers, but there is more than one firm in London making a good thing out of these goods. Inquiries by a representative bring to light other queer trades. There is, for instance, a firm in the Midlands , that carries on a secret trade in' "souvenirs" from France. tI A hawker, who made a poor living out of bootlaces and pipe -cleaners before the war, has retired on his profits made in the last three years in a different line of goods. He sold humorous pictures of Kaisers with trick moustaches. He. owns a cottage in Surrey now. What an abundlance of grace in the f soft folds of this draped skirt! And the blouse, too, has all the grace that simplicity gives to a gown. McCall Pattern No. 8676, Ladies' Basque. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 20 cents. No, 8677, Ladies' Three -Piece Skirt. In 6 sizes, 22 to 32 waist. Price, 20 cents,, Vests of all lengths are smart, but this one which hangs below the waist- line is possessed of an uamusual smart- ness. McCall Pattern No, 8744, Misses' Dress. In 3 sizes, 16 to 20, years. Price, 25 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. Field Marshal Haig. A man of iron hand, but gentle heart And humble disposition, lent his aid To 'overthrow the monster that had made Such havoc in the world, whose high- est art Was slaughter of the nations, with a dart Forged in the depths of hell by one who strayed From due devotion, and again essayed To lure the master from the better part. The great man is, indeed, the one that serves While in this rugged world, and never swerves Until the Talent -giver conies to claim His own with usury, and then bestow His guerdon on each faithful one below, , Surpassing far this transient earthly fame. MONEY ORDERS. It is always safe to send a Dominion ' Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. ate - "Preside" and Paradise. The Bulgarian word for "surrender" is "preside," but when Tommy Atkins was busy getting ,on with the war he couldn't be expected to remember a little thing like that. One day a soldier was called before his colonel, and asked if it was true that he had bayoneted a Bulger who had surrendered to him. The soldier denied this hotly, "It was this way, sit," he explained, "He come up to roe on outpost as mum as a hoyster, I says to him: ,Is it paradise --paradise!' And as he did- n't answer. I sent him there!" Sandwiches made of brown breed filled with honey and chole e..1 v el- "Inh ll, we got to .Gedos. The, chil- sl2fnarct's nirianont Cures C.::as, "That's nothing!" Tommy answer- ed. "At Zeebrugge there were three German submarines sunk in port." =nerd's Liniment Ceres Distemper. A "Yank" and a "Tommy," thrown together in France, were vying with each other iii telling tall stories. Fifty-two returned soldiers .diers a e tarki'nig a special agricultural course at Alberta University. 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At the outbreak of the war Great Britain had 166 airplanes, 45 seaplanes and seven airships, while at the close of hostilities she had 21,- 000 airplanes, 1,300 seaplanes and 103,; airships. Besides this there were 25,- 000 airplanes and seaplanes being built and 55,000 airplane engines under contract. The Women's Royal Air Force, which was not in existence in 1914, numbered at the close of hostilities, 23,000. of A Health Saving Rem Under. Don't Wait until you get the Spanish Influensa. rut t 1n[moit At the first sign of It. Its Healing Qualities are amazing. THE OLD RELIABLE. MINARD'S LINIMENT 00,. Ltd. Yarmouth, N.S. What They're Getting. "The Germans for the next genera- tion," said Mrs. Edith Wharton at a Y.M.C.A. tea in Paris, "are going to be pariahs. Wherever they go they're going to be abused. And it will be useless for them to complain. "A German diplomat spent the Summer at St. Moritz, in the Swiss Engadiuo. One morning beside the lake he stopped to talk to some neu- tral Iadies,and a little girl who was in the party whispered something to her mamma. "The German, smiling and twisting his Kaiserlike mustache, said jesting- ly to the little girl: " 'It's rude to whisper.' "She looked him straight in the eye and answered coldly: " 'But it would have been ruder still to say it out loud.' " arina.e's Liniment Cmea Garret :in Cows Deletion Anticipated. Aunt Mary—"Did Santa Claus I bring you everything you asked for in your letter my dear?" Little Ethel—"Oh, dear, no! But before I wrote I heard daddy say that ? • lots of letters are censored now'days, so I—well, I got more than I ex- pected:" Conservation of Heat. Heating a drafty house is like bail- ing out a leaky boat—for emergency only. A house properly ventilated without drafts takes less coal to heat. Chink all openings, but make proper provision for ventilation. Ell',, T QUIPPED NSWtilaAl>]11 7t andob in Eastern plantEasternOntario. 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Close folded to thy valiant breast, O France, our dead we leave, Knight-errants of a selfless, quest, For whom we dare not grieve. What lend and doth hold so rich a fee Of hopes in Britain bred? Our life, our love, our loyalty Thy fields have harvested. No thronged street, no village lone But sends a thought to shrine Sonic grave our eyes may never own„ Yet pilgrim hearts divine. O earth thrice hallowed to our race! Great memories challenge thee— Truth's liberty, hope's equal grace, • And love's fraternity. Pure and Simple. Percy (after the proposal)—"Have you ever loved before?" Edith—"No, Percy! I=shave often admired men for their strength, courage, beauty, intelligence or some- thing like that; you know; but with you, Percy, it is love—nothing else!" ttiaa=e's- misdateat Ceres DSniitheris. A mixture of two or more honeys always is darker than any of the original ones. LV 'RELIEVED WITH F' OaaHONEY REFUNDED ASK ANY DRUGGIST or write Lyman-Cnax Co., Montreal, P.Q. Pries Sic. 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