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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-3-7, Page 6Automobile !lofts. Never drive where your wheels will follow on rails of a street -ear track, Never hit any crossing at any high clip. Keep on the very best pint of the road, and i! rauth drive r1ow. Tram your wheels --that is, see that your front wheels are one l nor':. inch wider in rear of the ceetre part of the wheel than the front centre, Of course a half-inch will not mike any great drlerence. TO tram change steering rod (mostly on let. ;ideby taking out your cutter pin and givi.lg it a turn around either ono way or the other, depending on what your front wheels face. By keeping your front wheels trammed it avoids the tires from wearing on the side. Many auto factories do not pay enough attention to the above matter, the car leaving the factory not properly trammed. The best remedy for finding out if your front or rear wheels need tighten- ing, grab the top of the wheel with your right hand, the bottom with your left, and jerk aceordingly. Never let your wheels get loose; it ruins the bearings and the tires, and will some-; times play hob with brake band, Don't be afraid to fill your tires.' Beep them full. • As for gasoline economy, you can't get mileage uut of your car going' 34 to 45 miles an hour. Beep arnund, the 15 -mile limit and it will save you dollars yearly. If you don't use your car during the I , wint z; jack it up end till your tires, keeping it dry. Keresene in !radiator. "Would you advise the use of ker)- sene instead of water in the radiator of an itetomenile for winter." writes a realer; and it not, why not?" Kerosene will eausc the rubber hose connections to rot and leak. Further- more, it does not have the cooling pruperties of water, and the engine is likely to overheat. causing the radi- ator to steam a d boil. Some users who have tried kerosene for cooling Ago claim that it entries rust and clogged tubes. On the whole, it is an unsatisfactory substitute for an alcohet .tnd-water mixture, disagree- able to handle, and probably Injurious if used for any length of time. 011 -Can Top Lets .'lir Oat. Some deem ago a tourist with a big "six" stopped where I was working. His tire was down. After he tool: the tube mut of the casing I expected to eve him take the core of the valve out to „et the air out of the tube be- fore patching it. But he didn't do that. Ile foetid the hole and stuck the tep of a little oil can in the nail hole, rend as he pushed it in further the air went down in a hurry, He kept this in his repair kit for no other purpose. Any tube that is funnel -shaped and about an eighth of an inch at the email end would do as well, but the top of a small oiler is just right. 1 HEROES p tS W THE VICTORIA CROSS STORIES FROM THE OF>iICIAL REPORTS. Showing How British Soldiers Excel the Germans in Daring and Indtiative. !right throo.gh the fire, studying the entanglements and trenches. At the )eft flank, ,,where his men lay nearest the enemy, a thick belt of wire pre- vented any attack. Racing to this quarter. he called for volunteers to man a machine gun and follow him. , Without waiting for them he seized a :pair of wire nippers and attacked the obstacle. Calmly he cut the strands, while the bullets "chinged" against the ' steel all about him. Through the hole he cut the four volunteers followed, !lugging their gun and ammunition. The colonel, seeing two of the four go down, worked like a madman, and the wire parted in the last fence. With his automatic he cleared a knoll of the two Huns who defended it and a mo- ment later planted the machine gun upon it. An instant later it enfiladed the German trench and halted the fire. Lieut«;nano-Colonel John Sherwood - Kelley, commanding a battalion of fu- sileers, moved out at the head of his men one afternoon to cross the Yser, Canal. Moving according to the time schedule, they arrived at the banks to find the "shock" troops who there due to have cleared a passage for the fu- siliers held up by a terrific German rifle fire which prevented them from taking pusitions covering the bridge. From the high ground opposite the Huns were pouring in a galling ma- chine gun and rifle fire. All the Eng- lishmen were under cover, replying as best they might Time was precious, for the Hun on the ridges must be displaced before the major advance yet! to come could take place. Bullets Fall Like Snow. Lieutenant-Colonel Sherwood -Kelley suddenly sprang to hi., feet, yelling to his men to follow him, and dashed to- ward the bridge, The bullets from every machine gun. and rifle across the canal centered upon the bridge. The lead swept across like snowy in gusts. The colonel bent his Bead to it and plunged in. Splinters flew this way and that. Balls panted hot, quick gasps past his face, through his clothes, but he raced an, turning• and yelling to his men. The fusiliers, with a cheer, dis- carded the protection of the covering party and came on, Their feet broke out in sudden thunder on the bridge, Some of them splashed tragically in the canal on either side as the bullet gusts blew them down. The colonel, untouched by some miracle, raced ahead, breasting the wind of lead. One-fifth of the first company fell moments on the German side of the canal, Thereafter the remaining com- panies of the battalion came across with lighter losses,; for the colonel, dis- tributing the first company in shell holes, distracted the Hun fire. Captured Five Machine Gars. Unless his men got better shelter they were doomed, for there was no hope in attacking the German position. from the frontal position. Coolly be reconnoitred the ground, walking up -1 This enabled his men all along the fine to attack without further serious loss and take their objectives. But even then the colonel's lust for danger was not satisfied. A little la- ter he leer an attack against some shell pits from which the Buns were killing his men in their new positions and single handed he killed "a large number" of the enemy, capturing five machine guns and forty-six prisoners, Led a Gallant Charge. Captain Robert Gee of the Royal Fusiliers was he a sector of trench that was captured by a strong German at- tack, He. was in brigade headquarters where a great quantity of ammunition was stored, and was consequently des- perate when he found 'himself a pris- oner, forced to view the confiscation of the precious munitions. Watching his chance, he seized a spirted stick (for executing opponents at close range) from one of his captors and swung it fatally upon the ,German's head. Leaping out of the trench, he dash- ed for liberty, and by some miracle es- caped the bullets of his late captors. Springing into the second line trench among his command, he ordered a charge and, still armed with the spik- ed stick, led his men back upon the Huns, driving. them out and killing or capturing the most of them. Later he the day he led an attack: upon the vil- lage from which the Huns had made their initial assault. At the end of one street crouched a machine gnr squad, commanding the approach. Cap- tain Gee, seizing a revolver in each hand and followed by one mat armed with a clubbed rifle, charged down the street, replying to the gun with their meagre weapons, Dodging from side to side of the street, the two men made for their enemy. Captain Gee was a crack revolver shot and accounted for five of the gunners before he reached the gun. The remaining five men fled andas the)* ran Captain Gee killed I to:a ff !way, and with initiative he ordered These Shull Peevnli. three of them. Hie man swerved the fl� ��� � ,�1 , I than to stay on guard oxer the rest i wee laid bugle to his lip:,, blew nue about 0 held off the _ a hie prizes machine gun al t and t 1 tt r ,i s "t f r pl ire while he lei half' it hone ),lair-• and then enemy until the command had mesa, ON THE V C Bred of them a short dietance back, The seas answered i,itn with ships, the dated their position. Captain Gee ti 4 xe • a One Hundred and 'i'ero. earth with mea! ' was found to be wounded, but refused •--The fifty prisoners were taken to leave the post until satisfied that I ,,, Straight, heath cuughl. his tickle up, the defense was organized. A NAVVY WHO 'ROSE TO THE 0C- sinirle handed to a place whore l0<1 -I called his rc aper : grim, SOLDIERS AND A NAG AWAKEN . ne......._.._ CASION. ' i ill 'rr'd 0;t kap. CF OUR C1717,EN ARMY ger" was certain they could da no famine with his empty cup mune after (harm, and the bustling, sweating him. LONDODiERS. SURE OF THEIR MEAL. Chester mrtn reappeared to gather in __ I the rest, The real voices, the chatter Down tate stairs of Per:Wise len:tenet `" When. the Bann 11—Y Timetable Allowed Greater Initiative and Finer Courage, of his comrades, was no better deter- angels three, (humiliate:Ael, hunt Only Stare, a Five -Minute Stop. Has Not Been Displayed in ;meat to the Bung than "Tod€ errs" van- Pity, tux! Self -Sacrifice evil Charity. When Animal Slrtllr oil a triloeuist camouflage. The enemy New ern is a rural uponewhfeit is a line hi the Trenches. � was thoroughly intimidated, and e oon Whet: here renle !dammer c to: stir cop, .Steep hill. England ..... i Todger" and his soldier pile gather t, where, about ., The horse was manitm .tiy old; and the cart was piled mountain high with a miscellany of bozos. II. w:l,4 a typi- eat London winter day of hall' rain, half mist; the Fleet Strout hill, riving from Ledge te (arcus toward- the Strand, was slippery. Dobbin melee(' as if he had been 011 1'atiolla fel' a long period and tut if the equine necessaries of life had been es shy ue sugar and cream and meat have been for the rest of us, says a war correspondene Mg', one car is expected to wait for V.C. in sky fig'hte and °there have won there were ONE HUNDRED AND; come these of wings, another to pass. It does so; but it it on the water, but none has won it TWO Germans, and these "Todger"'When the red wrath perjshc•th, when does not always proceed immediately on land through greater initiative and jealously insisted nn leading back tot the duod swards fa, i These threellwho hrtt•e wilalked ,with grandmother lives just across the road fred Jones, of Chester, Eileen& "Mine!" said "Todger;' with .lust and al ._y has ready fur him. a de- known now to all his countrymen as pride, when he was asked by an officer Death—these shat) prevail, lectabke and sustaining piece of pie, "Todger" Jones. You speak of "Tool- whole prisoners they were, and also hell bade all its milliues rise; I'ara- whieh he devours to the last crumb. If ger" Jones in London and everybody perhaps to explain the lack of other' ditto semis three; an impatient passenger, as occasional- ]mows who he le, Before the war soldiers in the eseo}t, "Todger's" Pity, and Self -Sacrifice and Charity. ly happens, begins to gz'owl, anct'then there were precious few persons in comrades, who had guarded the mouth—Theodosia Garrison. shouts, and then yells, and finally Chester who even gave him a thought, of the dugout while he tools the first --- ------ clangs the bell for his return, he may :aside from his family and a small )latch of men to safety, were. $o proud hasten his luncheon, but will not thane circle of friende. "Todger" Jones f "Todger" tl t they wanted 1 l THE FIGHTER'S FAITH, when the line is elear. The motorman's courage than did Private Thomas Al- the lines ALONE. don it; and his countenance, when he was a navvy, who hoped to be some - 'swing's aboard, will certainly wear an thing better. A navvy is a sort of aggrieved expression and probably a;road builder or a bricklayer, a man smear of squash or a dab of apple. I who wears a strap under each knee Such easy-going ways hardly, it to keep his trousers of corduroy from seems, extend to the brisker and more . dragging in the mud, a strap in which businesslike realm of railway travel; he places his pipe. but Mr. Julian Street has recently re-'. Mr. Jones despised his job and will- lated a parallel experience, which he ingly enlisted at the first call of the enjoyed on the journey between Meri-' country, thinking of the bob a day and dian tend Jackson. jthe fine series of fights he'd be having When we asked the brakeman about 'over in France. dinner, says Mr. Street, lee told us that there was a lunch room in the station at Jackson; and when we re- monstrated that, according to the tune -table, the stop there was of only loaded rifles and fixed bayonets, when five minutes' duration, he replied: the dirty dawn came along, So over "Well, the conductor gets his sup- ' 'went "Todger" with bullets and shells I per there, anyhow. You watch him splattering, whistling and whining iand you won't miss the train.' above and on the spongy earth. The Accordingly, we alighted at Jackson lights were cutting the darkness like and hastened to the lunch room, where fireworks in a peace carnival—but we ordered roast -beef sandwiches and there of that battlefield they showed coffee. Unfortunately, however, there there the carnage. was only one waiter behind. the lunch The great bulk of the former navvy counter, and, although he made all was sticking to the letter of his in - possible haste, several precious min- atructions, and then he began to play utes passed before we were served. with his bombs—thinking of the Meanwhile we watched the conductor cricket games at home as he bowled macho had the droll, good-natured look them on to a machine gun, which, of some figure from a drawing by 1 point where it would, could not knock: Maxfield Parrish, The first thing the i out the Cheshire private. He finally conductor took was a cup of coffee, felt a punch on the shoulder and rose and moved toward the door. As shook, but did not stumble. The ma - he passed us my companion gazed up chine gen men heard the yelling pri- at him with sad, appealing eyes and vete, and as he haled another hand urged him to "have a heart. ' grenade what was left of. them fled. The conductor regarded our humble That having been accomplished, repast of doubt. "Wh trare¢yousfolks having there?" , "Todger" looked around and finally his he asked. "A banquet?" ' quick eye espied a dugout. He was "Just sandwiches and coffee. And along in his particular spot, and had we're starving." !had no end of "fun," but he was ready The conductor turned and addressed •for more. Incidentally, his action had a man in overalls who was passing the .not escaped the eyes of an officer and lunch -room door. several colleagues. "Got much express to -night?" I "We wants yea all to come art d "Right smart heap of it, cap," the there, wot . he shouted down the other1' d month of the dugout. Zero Hour Comes. Zero hour had come and the men were standing to, ready to go in waves over the parapet with their bombs, rep re . "Well," said the conductor, turning! Noise for a Company. to us, "go on with your gluttony, ! There was no word, no sound. Sus - young 'fellows. I'll send and tell you picious, "Todger," however, was not when we're ready." ;lacking in cunning, and he next in - When he had left the room a man formed the silence that "they" above from our car leaned toward us. :were about to shower bombs in the "It's all right," he said in a confl- dugout to make sure that no Germans dential tone. "We've got the engineer were lurking around. here, and I've fixed the waiter to ' "Kamerad!" came from the abyss - Dobbin tackled the hill manfully, or 0 lit .lay vvan e< tar o hersefully; strrlined at tate traces, have all the glary. I Spiritual Atmotsphcre Surrounds wiggled his load forward n few feet, How many of 'em are there?"ask- , stalled, slipped; and then. the cart be- ad the officer, attempting voucher- French and English Soldiers. ansa. I A Harry Lauder tells in the January gen slipping backward. hutn},er 11 A" bus ::werveci vio- "Abart a 'undred," replied "Todger." American Magazine of his. experience s lently in p Being the lurching craft, "Good egg," said the officer, in France, and he says: clearing it by inches, and went on. And "Todger" was one of four who , "I spent many claye in the trenches, , Two Canadian soldiers, seeing the received the Victoria Cross some time ! the rest camps, the hospitals and 'in plight of the rm tea's horse. leaped nif afterward from the King. I the surrounding towns, and the me st the bus and rat to help. Each sei-red It is probably the only instance on. definite impression I carried away was ia rear wheel of the cart and braced record where witnesses of the investi- one concerning the spiritual atmos -;himself to take pant of the strahl. But time dared to laugh, It seemed mirth I phere which surrounds the French and' they were not strong enough. The malting to look upon a man who had captured single handed one hundred and two Germans. English soldiers in France. I talked 1 outfit continued sliding ominously with some of the men for hours at a'rearward. time about their experiences in battle, I Crowd in Ehuld Enlarged. And Chester is now proud of her; about their thoughts of home, about.; navvy soldier. The very roads he help- their feeling toward the enemy, but Then the soldiers b Kan lttalm iuliz- ed to mend and the bricks he laid are; the one thing I cane away with, above ' ing from every direction. In • three precious to that city. All That's Worth Seeing. all other impressions, eves the comic - in khaki there. were half a imam chaps lion that all of these then, no matter Int khaki tugging at the wheels o 'what manner of lives they had lived pushing at the hack of the cart. The before, now possess a calm, clear con- !number grew to a dozen, and men in e, s:- "You and I have seen all in the viction that If they fall in the thick antra who ordinarily would fait' t a., world that's worth seeing."—Sir Ar- of the fight, they will pass into the, ed by on the -other wide without thur Pearson to a blind officer at St, life be once thought for the pram old burse joined punstan's, "'T11at's why we take not! shamefacedly in the rescue work. chances,' one man told me simply. 'Do The outfit, with Uneee reinforce - you thunk for a moment that if wt'. ments, started, lurched rand wile on its thought that life held nothing for us - way again. All the way upFleet than true earthly body we possess we Street hill into the Strand, ani,t on up ruld fight with such a confidence to Wellington Streets-widthappr'opri. d eagerness? We would not be to enongh, marks the turning tn- le to, because we would be doing ward Waterloo Bridge—the volunteers `everything in our power to preserve bolped to drag the oeerlanded wagon !this life of ours, But seeing men die' along. There were Canadiem , Austra- j as Ihave seen Cham. I !;now better , bane, a New Zealander, Landon Terri- torials, a kilted Seotchmen and a There is no sun in the sky, The stars return no more; No blue clouds on high, No white waves wash the share. Spring comes not again, Radiant and green; Yet is life not in vain— We have seen. There is no flame in the fere, The rose lights are out; To beauty of heart's desire Blackness gives rout. . Glory of golden hair, Gone all your sheen; Yet is your presence fair --- 'We have seen. 'than to disbelieve in a future life•' " i 1 HUNS FEAR BRITISH GAS. --• • !That's Why They Are Agitating for a cavalryman understands. Discontinuance of it. At Wellington Street the upgrade Gen. Maurice chief director of milt—.enols, and with a cheer for driver and There is no light of the day, tory operations at the British War OP- horse the soldiers deserted and the No eve in blush, flee, said recently: I voyage continued sans convoy. Fading in pearl and gray, "Tote Germans have recently been! That incident told a volume about ".Chen in the hush, exerting great pressure on the Gen- these soldier chaps. Not only do they Rising at empress moon, eve Red Cross to put out a protest love a horse, but they Tire always Splendid of mien; against the use of poison gas. Our ready to lend a hand to distress in Stir) through the years about— chemists did so well that today we whatever shape it appears. They We have seen. have attained distinct superiority over: don't stout on the curb and wait for —Louis J. 11eQuilland. the Germans both in the deadliness of somebody to tell them what to do. our gas on the offensive and in its ef- They do it, instantly, cheerily, with fectualness in our defensive measures.;abvious pleasure in the doing. It was not until we won this superior-' Citizen :irate Works ('hnnges. Mass of Bloom Has Sprung Up On Ay that they started a propaganda The citizeu army is the greatest Somme. for the discontinuance of gas. I mutual aid organization ever known. "If we agree to abstain from theIti$ going to be the sametray here - serve Inm slow" like depths of the earth home of war. Instead of dragon's teeth springing use of gas, have we any guarantee,' atter. It has put a newspirit. into its -ea_ _ I Wot I thawt," mumbled Todger up on the Somme—as legend says can we have any guarantee, upon I people. The old alooFnes:; and shY- ]1IAItINC, WAR \VAS'PE USEFUL. 'to himself, they diel on ancient battlefields—there which the commanders who are to -mess that Englishmen used to mention I One of yer at a time art' if more is now flourishing on that blood -stain- sponsible for the lives of their men • apologetically as their worst failings How the British Have Solved This than one shows 111 ave my men take ed site a great mass of vegetation and , could rely that Germany wilt -not again ! but that secretly they were tremend- I yer back a bit and yer'Il stop a bullet" floral beauty. try to spring a surmise on us es she ously proud of are disappearing, Difficult Problem. I I. They seemed to understend, and Names of some of the more fa- dict in 1915?" There's no time for baelrfulness in To dispose of the enormous quail- then "Todger" macre enough noise for nether plants that have been observed I - the trenches or in the hell strip of No tities of food -wastes of great military a whole company. He changed his in their seasons on two brief visits re- I Line of Fire. Man's Land; and ha hfuluess is a encampments has always been the voice, as if somebody was talking to cently are given in the Kew Bulletin. There eves a clticlren to be killed bail; number. most difficult problem. But the Brit-. him, roared for another private, and a They are:—Poppy, cornflower, scarlet' at the Browns but Mr, Brown, •n d A Bus goes beet an the street, 'L'lze ish in this war have solved it very third, and when the first meet: look- pimpernel, dogs mercury, nightshade, ! was nervous, did not like to wring its driver, who nowadays is likely to be cleverly. ing foe appeared Todger" saw that he eharloclt, white and yellow, goosefool, neck, nor could he sever its head with Mona too expert in handling the big All of the fat, says Mrs. Humphrey. was disarmed, warned him to stand camomile, thistle, forget-me-not, neaxe. motor, opens the baud and speculates Ward, is boiled out for the manufae- quiet o `the man in the shell holes' speedwell, looking -glass flower, hemp -i as to what he ought to do. Before he ture of glycerine --a harmless, sweet, near by would slay him. Another came nettle, sow -thistle. shoot oI have it," ria finally decided. "I'll has i6 open for inspection a soldier is colorless liquid, which, when mixed up and was likewise warned. The ground, over which the Bettie So, armed with a gun, he took the on the scene. He has driven 'em at with nitric acid makes an explosive 'Not so fast there or bomb—un- of the Somme wee fought in the late I the front, where there is botiomlees mud instead of pavements and where he has been compelled to learn the symptoms. He thrusts a hand into the works, gives a twist ilea, a wrench • tonere, asks for a couple of tools, and in two minutes clamps down the hood and tells the driver; elt'e all right:; go ahead." That's the army ;spirit. We a new one in England. Nobody knows whet it bodes; everybody wonders, s, The mei. diens are more and more a community apart. Everybody know•e that if they stick together after the war and gm on helping themselves and other pee• ,ple they will be bossing the empire. What; will they do with it•t Belgian in the curiou.e throng of punt- ers. A yunnt; cavalryman went to the horse's head and tool: hold of the Bridle, imaxing Dobbin in the tray only BATTLEFIELD'S FLOWERS. of enormous power. Many millions of derstand?" warned "Todger," summer `and autumn of. 1.919, was chicken into the yard. Little Willie, shells have been loaded with nitro- "Todger" rubbed his forehead when! during the winter and spring of 1917 e �xious to be in at the death, follow - glycerin derived from this source, he saw twenty Huns stand rap in line tee dreary waste of mud and water, A.11 the bones are calcined for use as and still more coming. His rifle was and even in the height of summer' Some time passed, and a$ neither of fertilizer., and the by-products are pointed at the mouth of the dugout,, was covered with innumerable ponds. I time missing couple. had ralit •net , hl - shipped to France to help feed the and simultaneously at the coteries of The clothing of this loge tract of tle Willies mother began to get anxi- pigs, Germane. To "Todger" it was like an country with plant life is remarkable °us�Villie " she called out, "hasn't Mee. Ward says that all the cotton avaricious dream when he saw fifty of when it is remembered that, for the waste of the military hospitals the Germans as his prisoners. Then most part, it has been out of cultiva- ' your father killed that chicken ,yet?" (bandages, old surgical dressings, he thought he had bitten off possibly tion since the autumn of 1'914.' No, Ina, called bark Willie, rt etc.), is disinfected and converted into more than ire could chew. He shouted - It is considered impossible that I w'on't get in tite way!" gun -cotton (likewise for war use) by down the dugout for the men to cease quantities of seer], sufficient to cover treating it with nitric and sulphuric 1 coming up, and to strike the fear of these thousands of acres, could have � Before chopping suet flour it Dior - acids. I God into any more who might be bom- been carried by wind or birds, and the I oughly. Thus that which feeds aur that! ed in it he tossed a grenade a short scientific explanation is that the plants which heals becomes in the end thatdistance away and fired off a shot. To must have grown from seed lying dor- Before baking apples strati' them which kills. This ,joy, four other Tommie:; came his mint in the ground, • with raisins. 01»17W, ,..SS.r.n- a WAFT Is TlteScoRi= NOW, MR, DUFF ? Fk_ i"�pf Tr lea X firma G.sa SANid. �Fc�ON 10113'0 �n�� , s MRS. DUFF I. s✓ t�y �, z _ i1 on-tI6YE (5HEs ANGRN ila MINDS vasr.L! otecurrawarheresse ", . Il' YOU WANT TO AUDRI?S5 ARYD0D`I AS`41.0VE1;Yote CAN coni. 1011. AND I'LL LISTEN To ALL per NAMES YOU ONE. 76 oi;FRRIB r ---- }7 4 "Loo 15Al'Etzt4 USED IN KneP1NG SCORE, i `JELL a l Wou 'i 1' J retli;^ ',C! traria., Not Well Informed. During his early clays in Sheffield, Dr. henry Coward, the English musi- cian, organized a quartette from tine Igen employed in a war :house. Anx- ious to make a little money, he ap- proached a showman who was visiting the city and suggested to frim that a party of singers would be a g'l'oat ad- ditkon to flim sh. "loin ye sing?"owasked the show man. "Yes, sir, very well." "!lave ye dress suits?" "Xes, sir." "I#ow much will it most?" "Five shillings eaalt per night will satisfy us." "I know," said the sbowman, "but how much is that? :Flow• many are ye in tills quartette?" Sow a few oabbage seed in with one row of the manaV crop and thus reduce the tabor of production,