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An Englishman returned troll'
Franco, tells hdw, utaking Iris way p.
the banks of the Aisne in an atterapl
to take ci arettes to the troope, lta
camo across a eolitnry grave n ,at
Cltoisyau-i?a '. 'i'iv:ee he Weed it
tnd his attel.thee was at'ro'ted by tht
tact that kiih1 t hands each dee
strewed ;re;tlr raeet s :tr._r it. On Uv
pontoon brid,:;o nes..by a I•'reneh de
Melia -tent was keept'te ;;;utu'd, end til:
Soldiers explained that the lonely
gravo was the last resting plac.'h
Ion English soldier who, quite alone,
had there fought his last fight tit:
overwhelmed by numbers.
During ha great retreat ho had
strayed from his comrades end fallen
exhausted from fatigue, Unable to
find there he took up his quarters in
an abandoned carriage, but thirty-six
hours later the Germans appeared on
the other side of the Aisne and fired
at him. Undeterred by the fact that
he was utterly. aloae he replied, and
such was his determination and ac•
curacy of aim' that, the village de-
clared, he accounted for six German
officers, one of them a general, be-
fore he fell under a volley. The
French burled frim where he had
fought, ereted a cross, and in honor
of his gallantry laid fresh 2104
each day on his grave.
Standit g beside it uncovered they
told how the soldier died a soldier's
death, and then showed the inquirer
the ruined carriage, in which the shot
marks bore testimony to the fierce-
ness of the fight. At theMairie a
certificate was issued that- there was
buried on September 10th, 1914, David
M. Kay (No. 3654), of the 5th Lancers.
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issue— 6f- "l' auticu's,-' c'--teiuef.::
article in which rittsli, .g111:nce .
AT HRI'I�AIN'
RAP inethotle wdeeal gated with supercil-
ious contempt. It was the personnel,
however, which these critics pro-
fessed to consider responsible.for the
alleged decline of British. naval
power: Certain amiable writers, who
were supposed to know the sentiments
of German naval officers, were wont
to assure us that these gentlemen had
a high respect for the personal char-
acter and professional attainments of
the British naval officer. Such, how-
ever, was not the impression one gain-
ed from a perusal .of German service
literature, in which our officers were
uniformly set down as lacking in that
zeal* for 'hard work and the purely
professional side of their• duties
which were held to distinguish th•
'German "seeaffiziere." As for the
anen, they were mercenaries who had
taken to the sea because theydere
r
'lot much good for anything else.
prenkenness was rife among the'
land insubordination frequent, with t
'result that discipline was at a
ebb, and the war training of the ::(,e
suffered in consequence.
Before the War it Was Held In Con
• tempt ,But Now it Looms up as
a Real Fighting Power
A journalist who is particularly
well informed with regard to naval
affa lisjr, Hector C'llywater, who
-7-7-1131: someyears was the Berlin cor-
cl of "The Navy," the organ
eof the Navy League, and of the Naval
- and Military Record. In the latter
paper he 'not long ago made sone
e -interesting remarks upon the German
attitude towards the British navy.
He said in part:
"German papers recently to hand
have contained allusions to the British
J
navy which
read semervlat strangely
el
Y
!II",
when contrasted with German Press
utterances on the sante subject be-
fore the war. We are • now given- to
'understand that the enemy entertains
-•'"a Wholesome respect for our fleet. A
great change 'in the tone of their
• Press comment set in after the fight
off Heligoland. The consummate seal
dash, and courage which distinguished
the conduct of that engagement ob-
viously came as an eye-opener to the
Germans. Even the leading German
papers now admit that the Fatherland
must look to the land campaign both
for its laurels and substantial succes-
ses, as the prospect at sea is not en-
couraging. In .a word, they are be-
ginning to realize that the British
Beet es eter' whose power had
grossly toOler-rated, and it is
Clear from their guarded admissions
that they l sve no great confidence
flit the ability of the German navy to
" of
i i n o
v � tfsed mission o
fulfil its }nUE,2 act C.. 1
protecting the .commerce and the
eoloniee of the Fatherland;
German patriots', we may well
imas lrlte, are beginning to ask th em-
selvez what reruyn they are getting
for the enoiemoue expenditure on naval
ermaateflte flexing the tact fourteen
years, , It is literally true tht up to
the present this great fleet has been
utterly powerless to affect the course
cif the campaign in any direction
whatever. It has, perhaps, prevented
;a hostile `landing on' the German
.coasts, but this elementary form et
defence could have been equally
k t byoff la
It 'f�11,I�'ta et small fl i S
Costing but a fraction of what the
high sea fleet i',it. Indeed the re.-
Hance
e.Hance which has alwaYt3 been placed
on shore batteries and mine fieide
rovca that the navyy was never
he-
tended for Coast defence, In the nor-
row sense of that tern.}.
One of the most widely -Yield opinions
in Germany before the war was that
stish navy
tos a thoroughly oug1l e�
etc
intitetion. Time aftertime
it bac
f,fen the wviter's dirty to -record state•
rents by prominent Germans which
"bowed iidw c".olnpletely they believed
tilts to be the case. Every type of
vessel in
the Britr
t navy, from super,.eY.
Dreadnought to subntar:tic", was sub
tied to the most scathing crltleisnt
German wiseacres. Our ships
/ere ill• lesigltett, badly built, unstable
sad unseaworthy, owin principally
liti► the absence of ecientific methodsdt
flit zeheall Oen, and tate decadence, ref
List WWII Verltitenitn. "fats hurls Were
gt very inferior quality, inacetlrete,
ATTACK OIa
ALLIES
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GAINS MORE GROIN
LIEUT.-COL A. W. CURRIC
of Victoria, B.C., commander of one
of the infantry brigades of the first
Canadian Expeditionary Force. Be-
fore the war Col. Currie commanded
the 50th Fusiliers.
CHUMS WOUNDED BY SHELL
in china 'and Africa the Germans Re.
hetrreed. Fee Selelen Campaign
Louis Livingston 13eantati o!
York. it will be remembered,
• ea to Neat York from Antr' erp an
seri protest gsalnst the bola-
nt t,,, that city by ZePpelins•
Is a well known figure
Ile figured conspiouous•
:gee, in the work of. the
•.,inittee for the celebra-
'entury of Peace. An
:atilt bad en interview
Taaai, part of which may
raid the interview,. has
rushing out to Wars—
•a his country is ell"
of ;ally otherwise, With .
`, 'o pursue his Nobby, and
a:.:a' pistil which makes hila
t;•r me in any hospital, he has seen '
every war of his generation from the
feline." He came to Antwerp in-
stinctively, and the next day was
tending the Zeppelin wounded and
working to roue the United States to
a sense of the atrocities of German
war methods,
"It is not exactly news to me," he
laid,.. "that these rermans are war -
mad barbarians, I have seen a good
deal of them before this. In Pots-
dam I saw proudly displayed the as-
tronomical instrnmonts which the
Germane, under Von Waldeisee, stole
from Peking. That was a vandal trick
against which General Chaffee in
China Arotosted at the time. The
German general sunt his letter back to
him without any reply.
"In that Boxer campaign (I was
there) the Germans practised on the
Chinese the game they are playing
now on the Belgians. 'Their army
came when all the real fighting was •
over. By August 13 there was no
more fight left in the Chinese than in '
so many jack rabbits. The Germans
-arrived Niovember 20, and for want
of any fighting began a policy of
systematio murder. They'd sena puni-
tive expeditions all round the come
try, levying on each village they en-
countered a war tax. 1! the tax were
not paid the village was fired, and
the inhabitants fired upon. From
ac counts which came in to us the, -
native population was in some cases
almost exterminated. That was to
give the German soldier his taste or
blood, to fit him for the work he Is
doing no* in Belgium, and might be
doing in 1J"ngland if the luck had
gone that way.
"I saw more of the Germane in their
Colony in East Africa in 1904. I was
out there investigating sleeping sick-
ness. The German's had imposed a
most oppressive hilt tax on the na-
tives, a tax which could only be paid
by six months' forced labor each year;
and the natives were stirred up by
their priests to revolt. G`erwan
atrocity in reprisal was something in-
credible. One day, before my very
eyes, the Germans collected 208 of the
chief men of a village, assembled all
the rest of the inhabitants, including
women and children, strung the men
up to trees and then fired volleys tato
their hanging bodies. The firing went
on until the bodies were riddled with
holes."
Congratulating Themselves on ienckV-,
Escape When Shell Buret'
Private F. S. Smith, of the queen's
Royal West Surrey, wrote to eS`friend
at Forest Gate: n`
Germans Hard' Pressed and Probal. n
Preparing to Withdraw to Newly
Fortified Line In t3etgium
The French Government's official r
port on Monday contained the tnc:-
important news that has been give..
out for several weeks. They shows
despite cautious phrasing, that t.. -
general offensive movement by tl
allies is getting results all along t.
battle front.
The three
features that stand c
}host prominently are that the Fren
acid British have succeeded in pushi •;.
d driven
the wed
forward e they ha g
u
_ ztto the German line southeast
gFes'
; that the Germans have all�,
arently' ,been forced to withdrew
h r'env artillery farther nome Y
w•arcl on the heights of the Metes
;tliereby weakening their position a.
pt. Mihiel, and that the French have
advanced their whole line in Alsace.
The superiority' • of the a:lles in
artillery and infantry, so posftivcly
;asserted ;by recent official report:,
-was again manifested Sunday, wse.
the i•'rencli and i,ritish dealt stagger
ing bloat to the German forces '
Pleaders, in Artois, between the 01
and the Aisne, and in the Argon-,
thede-
tailed
features of
The outstanding
tailed reports were the victories gain-
,ed at the Yser and at the lainee 'of
the old beetle line,
1-Iammerod night and day by the
%eavYguns of
the French
and
Eng.-
fish permand constantly
assailed ed by
e.
Germans.
have been
of t - the Ge a
an
Y
r
+
forced to evacuate the positions they
held on the west bank of the Yser,
A withdrawal whieh Can have no other
Th position
to d
effect than tawweaken it ly
farther 0u h izt ttlb region of Yprat
There, Is'credible unofficial news which
states that the Gerniane are so hall
pressed that their withdrawal to the.
newly prepared fortified Hite from
Antwerp through Brussclti watt ro Ns,
follVititelalega o+`aataf>tAbllo W.long
allayed =-
¶35- ire' toughing it all right, but
are having a hot time in the trenches.
You remember Dennison? Well, we
were side by side when a shell burst
above us; a piece of it caught me in
the right shoulder and came out be-
low the right arm, knocking me over
properly. A 'bullseye five' wasn't in
it. Another bit caught poor Denni-
iron in the leg. His foot was almost
blown off. We had been soakea•t
through with rain all the week, and
had only just said to each other how
lucky we were not to be hit, when
'bang,' and we were hors de combat.
It would have done your heart good
to see our chaps advancing under a
deadly fire without flinching, every-
body bent on the immediate bueiness
before him. The Germans can't stand
either our rifle fire or our bayonet
chargee."
T -
W nd-
oued Hearts GeV, tip
A Russian si:rgeon named Zeidler
repotted thirty-one patients who ro•
icovered from stab wounds of the
heart in the hospital at Abuehow.
Prompt and rapid operation is the
probable reason for this good show -
Beg.
The patients were all put under the
influence of ether very soon after the
injury, part of the chest wall was
removed, the heart lifted from its
bed and the stitches quickly intro.
Ahmed between pulsations. The bony
chest wall over the heart was not
put back in piece, that organ being
left covered only by skin and muscle.
This was done to give the heart room
to expand and to prevent adhesions
from embarrassing the heart's action.
HOW A DEEP
3NOfBY1THALoNE'1
It is right to exercise economy, but
gnietakes ecenomy is out of place. The'
nation is made up of individualtil
National business is made up of Ind
victual business and the national we c
fare of individual welfare. If five'
thousand people lack Fath In th
aconomic'strength of -Canada, that 1'
dividual „who makes the problem of
Living more difficult for another, =ken
e problem still,more difficult for 0.
°oup. They in turn make it harder
r the whole community.. Sentiment
1:, ays a goodly part in business. I},
sentiment is prior, business will suffer:
Waving a flag with one hand and
closing the factory gate with the other
does not help. Cutting the wages d�
tile' workman in just As disastrous to
hhn as th:: withdrawal of a busing,
.::,en's beak credit at a critical mote --
eat
levery en'-: 'yer'should do Itis belt
to koop the :nbor sitiiatton es nearly
norn'al a,s p••se'ble. An array of
employed is a dangerous wound int e
nconomte body. Unemployment cr -
;r
1 i
r r
t i •: .
2•, : t d-sat,.s.a.t an and s -
nf , c .•
'ear, It eats into the s
zt:d in the post ofii e,
goverm' r and chartered banks in
trillions of dollars. Ti t
netroe e: a it ls, helps to carry n
eels .-e* . 'he indididual does s
par,; and • .:ins even the so -call d
tacrlfieo, the entire community is
Mg it: part automatically.-4opet.,
Times.
A . + s tY ;.. �.;;S G
Important t: forrnaUon Carried in
nocent Locating Cable
I was shown a specimen of
cables which the State censorship
prevented being sent, says a Lon
newspaperman. An innocent loo
c:.ble it seemed in all cont•liettee
it was handed over the counte
the cab., c• .r piny. I won't give
cable itsa.:, but 1 will give one:
sign for 'i.n. n11i h will explain
s.,t ,.,:tit_,.
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EATED
GOUGH
...rd aristocratic conn
kirteL:a pit, .UrJ offered.- -Olive 1J
say."
riind Sore Lungs Were Over. ' Imagine a message like this ad s'
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BISMARCK AND THE WAR
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Iters Chancellor Resspenolhle For For•
th'atlon of the Triple Alliance
The hand of Bismarck, the greatest
Statesman Germany ever produced,
can be, largely traced is the present
war. One of the great aims of Bis
marck's policy in the 'sixties and
'seventies was to secure his countr,
againdt attack from without through
alliances and political combinations
Gurlous}y enough, it was the Monne
In whie}t the engineered certain flung
pettn alliances which led to this "mar.
Of blood and iron"—the pareso is
based on the Iron Chancellor's ow
use of the words in a speech in 186.
—being termed the "Peacemaker" o
Europe; for while itis foreign polio
aimed principally at isolating Francs
and rendering her incapable of for'?^.
Ing anti -German alliances, lee gradu-
elly combined the central Powers o'
Europe into a Peace League„ the
nucleus of which was the Austro.
German Treaty of Alliance, which
Italy joined in 188G.
So successful was he in counter.
acting the aggressiveness of Bessie
that the latter Power remained pas•
sive during the great Franco-Prussian
War of 1870; when Alsace and Loa
raine fell a 'prize to the Germans.
•
sed to a hotel in any city. W uld
come by Vinol--Mr. Hill- It evt-t strike one that it was
man's Statement of Facts • port from a spy telling a superior
P"
English warships? The authorlt
Follows: whereabouts at that time of cert
I' ,Camden, N. J.--" I had a deep seated however, were suspicious of it, a
eough, arun•clown system and my lungs just as the example I gave,when o
I�WCre awfully weak and sore• I am an 'S 1 1
lectrtclan occupation and ray Cough
by i?
e the first letters are read, makes
word "Blackpool,' so the real ca
e t lite awake nights soY thouht at P
ptheyfound, when read in the s'
g d
I tree
;tunes I would have to give up.
i e name 0f a
everything everybody suggested and ' way, th y, dlosed
'had taken so much medieme I was dis- known port,
gusted.
"
"One evening I read about Vinol and
decided to give it a trial. Soon I ,ilotieed
an ifnprovement. I kept ons taking it
!and today- I ani a well man. rhe sore -
peas is 101 gone from my lungs, 1 do hot
ave
any cough and have
gained fifteen •
in weight andT am telling tr
r
ands w 1g1 g Y
end�s that Vinol did it."-ntatat1✓
MMMArt Camden,N'. 3
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It is the curative, tiSsua-lettliding in. t
'finance of cods' lic''ers aided' b y the blood- ,
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SHRINKAGE OF CATTLE.
Animals Dose 3 to 6 Per Cent In Going
to Market.
After weighing 10.000 cattle in 205
shipments, government experts have
concludeIl that the normal shrinkage
of cattle in shipment is from 8 to 6
per cent. There are no exceptionsto
this rule. and no one can• say before -
band just how much cattle will shrink
in going to the market. It depends
on the treatment of the cattle, the
length of time they are held without
feed or water, the nature of their feed
before loading, the character of the.
trip to market, the distance shipped
and the time .of arrival.
The shrinkage of the first twenty-
four
wentytour hour's is greater than for any sub -
Sequent twenty-four hours. Steers gen-
erally shrink n little less than cows of
the same weight. Fed cattle and range
cattle shrink about equally. There is
no way to prevent shrinkage, but care-
ful handling and good feeding will
keep it within reasonable bounds.
One ;of the chief causes of heavy
shrinkage is a too severe drive to the
loading pen, especially during the hot
weather. -� . -.--
EDUCATIO'I GROSSLY STUPID.
English Educational ~;stem Strongly
Criticized by Criminologist.
Dr. Albert. Wilson, the eminent
criminologist, lectured at the Inter-
national Club for Psychical Re-
search recently, and there was some
curiosity as to two exhibits on the
table until the lecturer explained
that one was a half of a human brain
preserved in formalin; the other an
ape's.
Dr. Wilson's subject was • "The
Physical Basis of Psychle Manifesta-
tions." He apologized for the length
of the title.
He referred to forcible feeding,
and said that, by t',e simple plan of
.Introducing food into the hollow of
the cheek, the "greatest refinement
of torture"• could be avoiced. Some
applause greeted this announcement.
Ig introducing a series of micro-
photographs of brain sections,
shown to the audience by limelight,
Dr. Wilson remarked that unfortun-
ately We had in this country been in
such a state of barbarism for the last
forty years that instead of turning
out useful people from our schools
we produced people with starved
brains or brains crammed with use-
less information and fit only for
' blind -alley employment,
"The way we have educated chil-
dren," he said, "is so grossly stupid
that there are no words in the Eng-
• lish language bad enough to de-
scribe it. Young children with
bright, cheerful faces, can be seen in
London alleys who later grow tired -
looking, and then quite exhausted.
They haveno thinking brains;
but
they might have been useful citizens.
Starvation or education by the school
board brought about this state of
things•
"Lovely cells!" "nice," or "good-
looking brains!" were some of the
expressions used by the lectiireir to
'lescrtbe his illustrations of the
hrain of a child e.g five years,
The atltlienoe laughed; but were
thoroughly appreciative when the
significance of the photographs was
expi,.ined by comparison with others
of healthy and unhealthy adult
brains.
"It is no 'yonder we want to hang
!itis sort of man," remarked Dr. Wil-
son, as a murderer's brain section
was exposed to view, "but it is ob-
vious that he Should be treated as
sn undeveloped child and kept in a
'uratic asylum."
THRILLING .NEDIS
WHICH HAVE WON V.C.
Hoot Coveted Honor Which Britiih
Soldier or Sailor Can Ga1n-,,.
indlen Mutiny Heroee
About sixty years ago the Russian
fortress of llomaraund in the Battle
Sea was beingbombarded by anAnglo-
French force. Suddenly a shell fired
from the .fortress fell on the deck o!
H.M.S. Hecla. In an instant a brave
young mate seized it, and, with the
fuse hissing between this hands, l,.O
hung it wltli a jerk overboard. That
young rnate--he ultimately became
Rear -Admiral Charles Davis Lucas,
—
Who died a few days ago—was im•
atediately promoted lieutenant and
awarded the V.C., being the first to
win that much -coveted decoration,
although, owing to three other officer's
being senior rank, he was the fourth
actually to receive it from Queen
Victoriaof.
Many a gallant deed on land and
sea has, since that day, been reward-
ed by the bestowal of the little Mal-
tese cross of bronze which bears the
pimple inscription, "For. Valor,"
The Victoria Cross had its origin
in the Crimean War, and was primar-
ily intended. to be coaferred upon
juliior commissioned officers and the
rank' and file. Neither rank, length
of service, nor wounds,or any cir-
eufhstance whatsoever can, qualify for
this noble badge, save a personal ac,
of signal bravery performed in the
presence of the enemy, The decor -
alien was i:,a:itutcd by Queen Victori.
itt 1856, the Prince Comfort being, it
!e said, its originator and the, designer
of the Insignia o! it.
Where Crosses Were Won
Rail S litting.
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Finished splitting the winters rails
T �,
•-Mimtt eiaty. have never been able
t., dt'termiee whether they Split best
,?(••,. to 1 ur 1)htt. `0111Pt1111OS Otte sue -
1
l'e'is, ..nut'titue:l the otht'r. In split•
low, posts the usual plan is for the
me•n to rave ont•h other, ouc' slowly ed•
vun('iug while the other backs away
and the Moly of each 111to the cleft
loost'niug his iuu'tner's ax. -Pella "r.
i armer's Note Gook.'
Symbolism In Japan.
When n (.tilt' is L"t'n in ,lapan the
pnrcets put ftp outside the house the
sign of a fish or ti doll. according tis 1
a boy or a girl. 'i'IIe fish represents
a beta,., •n bo drns td srvinl n„ainst th1
strett10 sail mallei' his' ' ay fit ' t'he
vorldl" `Tlie'doll start& for one Who If
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It would require a volume to de•
Scribe the litany acts of personal
bravery which have won the V,C.;
but perhaps the most heroic deeds
were those performed during the In-
dian Mutiny, which provided the most
V.0.'s. Altogether during that cam-
pairjn 182 heroes won the decoration.
The Crimean War -accounted for lee,
the• war in South Africa for sevelty-
eight, the Zulu War for twenty-three,
the•Afghan War (1878.80) for sixteen,
the New Zealand campaign for twelve,
and the operations on the North-
west Frontier of India (1897.8) for
ten. These wars• acpounted for 432
crosses, the remainder, between nine-
ty and one hundred, being dietributcd
among the many other campaigns in
Africa, India, and elsewhere that have
been fought during the past half -
century.
Each V.C. is made from bronze which
onde formed part of some Russian
guns captured during the Crimean
War, and although the medal itself
is intrinsically worth only about 9
cents, a number of• them have been
sold at sales for $500 and over. The
winning of 'the V.C. carries an an-
nuity of $50, which may be increased
to $250, -to all except officers, but in•
cluding those who have risen from
the ranks.
Boys' Gallant Deeds
Several boys have secured the medal
for valor, There was Buggjer Haw-
thorne, of the 52nd Light Infantry,
who gallantly tried to save Lieutenant
galkeld at the blowing in of the
Cashmere Gate at Delhi on the morn-
ing of September 14th, 1857, and h
was at Delhi that young Bugler Wil
Liam Sutton, of the first battalion 60th
Rifles, on the eve of the assault or
Delhi, voluntarily were close up t
the walls to ascertain the state o
the breach. He succeeded, and b- ,
the whole regiment was elected fol
the V.C. Like Hawthorne, he was t:
mere lad,
Later at Cawnpore we find Drum
mer Thomas Flinn, of the G4th Sout'
Staffordshire Regiment, actuall
charging the guns of the rebels wit
the short sword, the only arms of h.s
rank, with which he slew in hand-to-
-hand combat two stalwart gunners.
In a few rare instances the V,C
Itas been won by more than one mem
ber of a family. The most conspicu
ous case is that of the Gough family,
which calx boast of three V,C•'s—
General Sir C. J. S. Gough, Genera;
Sir H. H. Gough, and Lieutenant-
Colonel .7. .E. Gough. The first two
were brothers, and the last named
is a son of the second. Major-General
ID.. Je. Sartorius and Colonel R. W.
Sartorius provide another case o;
brothers winning the decoration. An-
other instance of a father end son
winning this cross to sae}t in )l,ord
eherts and itis gallant son, Lleuten-
ant the Hon. F. H. S. Roberta, who,
lost his life In gaining the VA at the
battle of Co'"-enso• Lieutenant Roberts,
las all will remember, won the cross
in an heroic attempt to save the guns
at Colenso in the Boer War, his cross
by order of the late Queen, being
awarded to Lieutenant Roberts' 'par-
ents after his death.
Sailor in .a Tree
The navy has always been proud of
the manner in which Sir Nowell. Sal-
mon won :he V.C. at Lucknow by
climbing a tree, and front this dan.
gerous and exposed position silencing
the firing of a rifleman who was in•
Meting serious injury on the British
troops. No man distinguished nir;tself
more, however, during the Mutiny
than Sir Dighton Probyn. At the
battle of Agra, when Itis squadron
he rebel infants he
ha e t
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separated fro his a s rout>,d•,
ed by five or six sepoys. He deiead;edl
himself from various cuts made• olt
p.
m nd before his own .n a
hl a m
h
oined him he had cut down two 01
j
his assailants.
At another time, in single combat
with a sepoy, ho was wounded In the
Wrist by a bayonet, and his horse was
also wounded, but though the Sego;
fdught desperately lie cut hila dhwynl
rite same day lie singled„ but a stand•
aid bearer, and In the presence of
number of 'the enemy killed him anti
captured the standard. These eel
only ht few of the gallant deeds of this
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EARL KITCHENER •
AT CLOSE RANCE
Some Stories of the Famous Soldier's
Previous Campaigns—Photograp e
Won First Promotion
The "Mali of Iron." That exactly
sums up the character and career of
Lord Kitcbener. Thorough, resolute,
and possessing that virtue of virtues,
silence, the work Lord Kitchener has
accomplished stamps hint as one of
the greatest soldiers and adminis-
trato.ra Britain has ever produced.
Work, not talk, is his motto. His
thoroughness is proverbial; but he
likes things done his own way.
"I 'understand," a friend remarked
to hint as he was about to sail for
.tenth Africa,"thatyouintend to re-
ltorganize the transport as soon as you
•arrive,"'
"Reorganize?" replied Kitchener.
"I am going to organize its' And he
did, with the result that the army was
able to march on the Boer capital.
It was a cousin of Lord Kitchener
who told the story of how the famous
1s iehd-Marshal got his first chance. A
,tall, overgrown lad, nearly 6 feet 1
inch in height, he managed somehow
to scramble into Woolwich. He was
not high in the lists, and no ono
thought anything about hint. After
leaving Woolwich, young Kitchener
was gazetted tp the Corps of Royal
Engineers and appointed on t a pales,
tine Survey—because Ile, lc•Itert• here to
photograph. The ftuthor tees at that
time wanted someone to gr4 to Pales-
tine to take photographs, and it was
his knowledge of photography which
led to young Kitchener's appointment,
and gave him his chance.
His First Chance
Lord Cromer was one of the first
to recognize the abilities of the future
1?ield•Mar I 1the-
s a. He was struck by
1
,frequency whichthe name of
with e
Kitchener, at that time a comparative-
ly Tittle known officer, appeared in al-
most every document; that, was put be-
fore hint. •
eralii,t Kftchetter," lige remarked one
flay,' "wens to have st finger in every
pie, I must see him and find out what
lte is like."
A meeting was arranged and the
diplomatist was greatly impressed by
11 a
t9 c pz y .cit•which the soldier's direct-
hess of speech seemed to convey.
"That teethe got a lot in ilial," hie
Lordship afterwards rtnlarkcd. "Ile
should
r prove o•re of our best assets
in Egypt."
in
1- (less �i thesee CarKitchener (,hc, aur ryas
t
�
daring alItt(i:t t) rasutte s. Ile
thought nothing of disguising himself
es en Arab and living among the sons
of the desert for months at a tine,
,n order to ar• tti
roaknov:led knowledge g to
Mandi's s movctnent
and conspiracies.
i,nd so
clover was 1 t
tea disguising
tituseif that even his own comrades
lid not know hint, indeed, one day
a soldier flung a brickhet at Itit
(Shonc • t
".
t t:rn t
h the r tidtoo for
k s
')loornin' rillger," inflicting ng rather
a
utsty sCn}p attend.
Saye WIlI Ole In Red
Por two -yearn 1iltClhen"r pract'ca11;
ived among the Arabs, terrylntg
in his hands, never knowing wilt!)
e `•-' brought face to face with
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TOWN OF WINGHAM
Synopsis of By -Law No. 715,
1914
PURPOSE OF BYLAW,
To raise the sum of $2200.00by the issvo of de-
bentures to pay for the construction of a
building for Road Machinery and another
for a Hose Tower. Amount of debt to he
contracted $2200.00.
HOW PAYABLE.
By twenty annual instalments of principal and
interest amounting to 5191,81 each. Rate
of interest six per cent.
- NOTICE
TA?i8 NOTICE that the above, is a true
copy of the Syn. -psis of a proposed By-law
waiolt has been token into consider -tion and:
bewhich will finally fl passed bythe Council f
the ltInniotpality lin te evenof the ssnt of
the electors being obtained thereto) after one
month from the first publication in the Wing -
ham Advance, the date of which publication:
was Thursday, the 10th day of December, A.
D., 1914, and that the votes of the Electors of
the said Municipality will be taken thereon at
the ensuing i.funicipal Elec•ion,
On Saturday the 2nd ray of January, 1915.
the Mayor of the said Town of Wingham ,half
attend at the Town Hall in the said Town at
0 !even o'clocn in the forenoon to appoint per-
son+ to attend at the various polling places
aforesaid, and at the final summi•.g up by the
Clerk on behalf of the persons interested in.
an 1 desirous of promoting or opposing the
poising of this By-law respectively'.
The Clerk of the said Town of Wingham-
sltt`I attend at the fat(' Town Ball at eleven,
o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday the 15t113
clay of January 1915 to sunt up the number or
votes for and against the By-law.
AND ALSO take notice that every tennant
who may vot eon tht3 By-law const deliver to.
the Clerk not less' atm lho Tenth day before
the day apt -Mime , for taking the vote. the de
claration provid,d by the Consolidated Mum
iolpal Act 1914,
JOHN F. GROVES, Clerk.
Town of Winghann.
ntui'Irrratlitg ;r tele neaas or the .H'gyF•
tion Int
1hr
ence Department inform
effete tae the utmost ortance.
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Curiously enough, Lord Kitchener is
tit. fatalist, and on several occasions
las expressed some very strong con-
victions s as to his future'
During the
souan;n Campaign he was once warned
net to expose himself so recklessly to
the enemy while in action. To this
remonstrance he replied, "I shall never
be killed. When my time comes 1,
shall die peacefully fu my bed."
During the South African War hog
seldom had more than three or Sear'
hours' sleep a day, rising regm''arly'
at Pout: or five o'clock in the moraine::
and working hard until night. Ofllceret
knew that Kitchener always meant'
business. lie had no tiSo 'for regimen-
tal ornaments; practicalsoldiers werr-
what he wanted. One officer in com-
mand of a column hall not been hear.it
.r
cif for � n
settle to
1 .>, Telegrams s tit were
e
seat i,t dt1 t*Ctiotts t:) find h}ttr„
beating two clue ,boons, "What ars sou
doing? 'Have ;teen taken any Beene
and •lints many?"
•.-..,.,....
End of Turkey, In E trbort
By attacking Russia, Ttir'.
'onlmitted nuicide as a Mt
'Power, The very suddenness o
let, with no formal declaration of war,
•ovc
e_al sits desperate natio, ' No one
'111 doubt that the original iratiot
acne trent 71erlin. cern could
nt wait long enoh's;l to respet the
^trtra,ity ' r 11,-'r:,,,4,. find Tt+rkeY
'till r:41 -- , ...v11 "he glee
e a ri ler war....
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