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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-5-16, Page 6��HISTORIC 1�� again. General Hai in his report How a Spy Was Caught. 4 for 1017 explaine his reasons forthe REPAIRING � A� One cirty u lin'tnau pressing along, great offensive begun by him on Jtrly w v r tt the toad noticed a lot of cable lying SALIENT � pR S 31 at Ypres, ZONE TELEPHONES at one aide. Ile attrted to coil it up "'Che positions held by us in the awl found that. tt pncn of wird had Ypres salient since May, 1916x' he m Y, - been tial to the main ling. Whin Ue dj { s,l .: r^r says, "were far from satisfactory. traced it lie found that ran to a hay- •wHAT Loss OF YPRES WOULD They were completely overlooked by LINEMEN RISK LIVES 7'O 1i1+,F.I . steels. Ho resat. on, tapped the line. 4f : eery y -y ?1s,,}fA Mae. the enetny. Their defense involved a UP COMMUNICATION. and sent in word to headquarters curd' "*' MEAN TO THE ALLIES' considerable strain an the troops oc- 1 -� P an urmad escort futuni a spy hidden cranlchrg ra- ttle engine slowly by hand, copying them and they were certain ^- in the has, with suveral clays supply Hints For Buyer of teed C•ar, to be costly to maintain against a °f fund, "Buying a second hand car is like l+:ash cylinder should give gaol ra- Possession of the City Itself is of serious attack, ht which the. enemy Vital Lnportance of Blahnlaining the Each e ht order to develop full ra- Y They re autocrats in their ways the oke, :LA ill rase nF baying a Pig in ars If one or more vel weak, ahoy Moral Rather Than Mildtary would enjoy al) the advantages in ob- Linea of Information on the these wire repairmen, and no one is . a pule, as the most iwpurtunt Ixtrtn servation and in the plaeing of his Battle Front. permitted to interfere with the swift the not readily viatblc," sna an ea- mu i. be remedied. Where piston Significance. artillery. Our positions would be execution of their work. li'ard cons- pert. "The eagles c+un be dncrtored,�rirrgy xtnci cylinlera are badly worn, •ahistoric much improved by }Ile Calrtnrr' e£ the "'.incus are sail] people of intelli jag °ecru the line that the wire to a the gears sikstced and a camntaiiagc. ?t is possible to use tut extra heavy oil all of the Ypres salient n. Messina-ltytschaete ridge and of the *once who think that the transmission • hatter • was r r 'r nl 's n e n e of fresh paint will cover a multitude!M.m order inr rr,;ture eomprzssron. `ground, hays Colonel J. A. C'urrir, high cretin,' which extends thence of military thought is summed u in at• , � sound el n: c ft r th- of ns so that. the . • 1 •- I "dren the engine at difl'arevrt speeds adiaD its account of the First vers- g tt p u uc test m the world to an oU sins, , 1 the un, lctUed parent n Division 'u Flanders, "and over northeastward fm• same seven mile, the use of the notebook, the orderly servation °nicer up front, even if it er is readily &ve oed, On the other' and listen for any knnc•ks. 'Pito 1»e- adian Divisto r I nl , Y t renes of a knock would indicate lease foot is rich in sentiment. Every farm- end then trends north through Brood -:and his harm," writes Brig. -Gen. comes in a rough bungee which hand, good used cars are hard to get,' s a hon or latae ala , If the house, every field bore the sears of relate and Passchendaele." ;Geoge P. S+riven. "But these are trench weather has not improved, and they always command a good crit„'ueclear heenPoverhaul 1 all car- n'sr--the houses and barns with their The Messines ridge at its highest passing, and the trained soldier and . So when anybody else breaks in on price. s broken tiles, the fields with almost leas an altitude of 250 feet, The ridge the Mumma volunteer understand the the line and interferes with the roe "These are several sources of sec -I bon will have been removed soul all of Passchendaele reaches a height of vital importance of information rairman lie gets riled, especially if he beeriness tightened, so that n. knock every hundred feet a `crump hale' I 1 g P and hand ears available. One may beers indicatetight piston slap, which is where a shell had fallen and explod-' level). 74 eetn(bcath heights b being above°.aea "Hence the necessity for a signal has been sitting for several hours in buy a car `as is' from the ordginal' clue to wear of pistons and cylinders. ed! Some of these holes were ten )• Most o Flanders s the north corps or its equivalent, far without a shell hale with A icy rain dripping owner; one that lues been taken a. This can only be iatoneremovecnhylinderegrind- the deep and thirty feet across. Life °f this point -the sea coast at Os- ,its aid modern armies can no more be down his bark. An English officer trade by a dealer in new cars, or one tat°urs was cheap in this great salient and tend being about twenty miles away--- controlled than can great railway sys- told of what happened to a General that has been overhauled and is fur ing cylinders and replacing is onl a few feet above sea level, The tens the commander in the field re --who hr oke in onto, and rings by larger ones, an erten- Canadians were given 'the pest of chief reason whyoperations went so 1 ” sale by a dealer who makes especial- ales process. danger, the post of honor.'" p mains blind and deaf to the events os, A General came in the but and ly of rebuilt caws, Buying from an ,, he battery and acro its con - His reference is, of course, to what ' slowly last fall are set forth by Gen- curring round him, incapable of main- told me I rang up the telephone just owner is risky unless one knows the Test t scat Ilaig in his report: tainin touch with conditions and out now and said, "Give me the — Bri_ dition. Turn on the lights to see if is known as the secoud battle of . g a itds'tory of ileo car, knows what they blutn e full brilliancy tett to not con - ' on April 22, 1916, often called I Canadians Captured Passchendaele, of reach of his superiors or those un- g de, please," but some one with a vicissitudes it has been 'through and dim much when skaz tar is used. Also the battle of St. Julien. Both the first "The low-lying, clayey soil, torn by der his authority upon whom he de- loud voice replied deliberately and dis- what amount of care the owner has and the second battles are called by shells and sodden with rain, turned to Pends for the execution of his plans, tinctly: "Git off the blinking line," Of given it, A car that has been tuna note if starter cranks the rugine the French the battles in Flanders,,a succession of vast muddy pools, The The brain lacks the power to control course I got off, but as soon as con- year by a careful owner, has been noterapidly and if the engine starts engine Which seems a better name for these valleys of the choked and overflowing because the nerves are lacking. neolonizIl Qho Q1X ;take to speak.' I carefully looked aftox, kegk tuned up meterWndhammeter to see that am - cutout operate properly. and subsequent engagements which , streams were speedily transformed "Time is the main factor in war; P g ec d p net that the line and minor repairs made when needed, But a complete inspection of the en - have involved the adjacent area. i into long stretches of bog, impassable to arrive first with the greatest num- had been down and was being repair- such a car is but; little inferior to a p The first assault by the Germans i except by a few well-defined tracks, bee of men and with the clearest un- ed. He event off with a merry twinkle new one. The engine bearings will fire electric system usually requites a which became marks for the enemy's derstanding of the situation is to suc- in his eye: have worn to a cod fit and it will skilled man. Watch the oil gauge against Ypres in what is known as g to see than the oiling system wades the first battle of Ypres occurred on • artillery. To leave these tracks was to coed. The last and often the first of have fully as much power as when October 24, 1914, but the Germans had risk death by drowning, and in the these conditions depends upon the Air Raid' Paralysis.properly. Run the engine a few mi - new. The real veto° of. such a car notes card feel the bottom of the occupied the city on October 3, only to course of the subsequent fighting wr, fines oP information of the army." Child educators and psychologists is usually above its second hand rice. several occasions both men and g y P radiator. If it gradually grows warm - be driven out of it by the British on pack ; Moved With the Advance. in London have been called upon re- Anter a little overhauling and a jell- er and then lust, you know the pump October 14. i animals were lost in this way. In i When the battle moves forward fast Gently to restore the speech of chil- cions application of fresh paint, it a pulling the otter down ash ancon, Of Little Military Value. !these conditions operat ons of. any dren suffering from nervous shocks will be found to be very satisfactory, otherwise rtes heat would stay h the magnitude became impossible and the and the telephone and telegraph wires sustained during the Gotha air raids. But a oar of which one knows nothing top of the radiator. The Germans then, as now, sought resumption of our offensive was noes- I have to be moved at top speed to keep The bomUs from the raiding airplanes will need a thorough overhauling and the Channel ports and regarded Ypres . racily postponed until a period of fine up with the advance the importance of have occasionally buret so near chit- may prove to be an expensive invest- "Have the covers of the gear case as the stepping stone to Dunkirk,' weather should allow the ground to !the signal service is demonstrated in dren that their vocal organs have meat, and differential removed to see if the Calais and Boulogne. But to -day recover." a way as impressive as the onward been paralyzed from the concussion, "Dealers in new automobiles take proper lubricant is being used. Noisy Ypres is only a heap of ruins and as a , The final movement of the British rush of light artillery going into Re - and errs bel these tiny sufferers used cars in art gears may be silenced for a time by Experts p p payment and these using an extra heat mase, Pok the base it is of little value to either side. toward Passchendaele began on tion. and in practically every instance have may be earlier models of the same g g If the Allies give up Ypres they will Thursday, September 20. I met that When a division is ordered to move loosened the muted tongues. 11 ' E. make or of other makes. They over- gears into low and intermediate oppose the same steadfast resistance ! evening behind the lines General Char- to another position with it go two Fogerty, an authority speeds and rock them to see if the between Ypres and the coast that the g Y. yin the as been haul them to some tee. t, but usually teeth are badly worn. There should offered to the Germans in the autumn feria, General Haig's chief of intelli- attached at one Tendntocableesma eat tion of the deaf and dumb, has been sell without guarantee. It stands to be no appreciable click if the gears Bence, and he showed with the aid of p most successful in this new work, reason that they Will be more careful are in good condition ` of 1914 and the spring of 191'5, when maps that the Australian, English, line. They have the right of way over guiding the affected children to nor- with cars of the same make as the the latter tried to wrest Ypres from troops supplies, and at rapid "Jack up both rear wheels and test thelBritish control. p i Scottish and South African troops i p pp p nudity again by lip reading and plac- ones they are selling, as any dissatis- for lost motion between engine and over a distance of eight miles of the trot dash through the roads, the men ing their finger tips on her throat so faction will hurt the sale of their new drive wheels. This should be done If the Allies chose to sacrifice all front had penetrated on that first on the wagons paying out the cable, that they might feel the moevments cars, wiiv gears e. mesh. If sherd is much other consideration to holding Ypres afternoon to a depth of 1000 yards- Back of the wagons ride men on of the vocal chords. "The dealers who make a business wear it will be quickly discovered: they could hold it. But Foch and, exactly what was required of them.' horseback who with hooked sticks - of handling used cars generally over- "While bath rear reheats are on Haig think more of the conservation! This initial victory was followed by toss the cable into ditches and behind Mother Moon-A�Lie-Awalce Song. haul them themselves or have it done jacks put l b emergency brake esu of men than of real criers and are steady advances till on November 0; hedges out of the way of troops and The moonlight is shining elsewhere. Here a very important half way Try to turn each wheel; twilling to let the enemy come on and , the Canadians, who had already won' transport wagons, while further beck So `whits through m window. factor is the standing of the dealer, kill themselves till the strategic mo- i imperishable renown in the fighting . other horsemen tie the line and make g Y they should turn ttukh equal' re el; anent comes for the counter -thrust. it secure. The moon has been walking Some are coersciewtiovs in the matter tense. To test fire foot brake leave is - round Ypres, captured the town of All night through the sky as they have a reputation at stake, tIto demonstrator to or put it t while you So that Ypres lost does not mean passchendaele, on the eastern end of They are in the forefront of every The way that my mother whereas the others -well, they neverthe the wheels again. Take hold of that all is lost o Flanders. British the ridge, about seven miles to the advance and in the retreat are some- Comes walking on tiptoe, expect to see you again anyway, the hubs and kryto shake filth axles pride would be touched by the with-' north-east of Ypres. times the last to leave the Prone line, „ drawal and Germany would do her ut- I The British troops in the last few where they stick to the end of their When I'm thinking how slowly No matter from whom the car is up and down. If they ase loose, the most to make it appear that a shatter- weeks have withdrann from soil dear- wires under terrific shell fire until or- The dark's going by. purchased it should be looked over bearings aro worn. Take hold of top frig blow had been struck at British dered to re cin their commands if very carefully. A demonstration is and bottom spokes and try to rock ly bought. But their morale is unim- j The Sun fs the father morale, But, like most German claims, I paired. They will keep faith with the they can get through alive. The Sun is the mother,always given as a matter of course, the wheel to see if it is properly fast - it would not be true. "An ex ppen- And the stars are the children This 'consists of a short run around ened•. Look over the Mires carefully dead and with the unborn. pershort of Chia kind ha the neighborho d starting, stopping, for cuts sand pockets, rim osttin The prestige investing the name of 1 ed to me n short time ago in a lone- Awake in the night. � ' ' g' Ypres is due to the three battles of I AN OLD-TIME PRACTICE. ly chateau of the Ypres-Menin road,"speeding up and a quick run up one etc., but do not place any reliance on She stoops to kiss them aecond hand tires. October -November, 1914; April -Map, an English officer wrote home. "The And tuck in the covers or two moderate hills. If the car 1915, and from August, 1917, intermit- "There is Nothing New Under the chateau was the centre of a perfect And when she is going shotes sufficient power,. flexibility, "Put up the top and nate its condi- tently down to date. Sun" is Certainly True. •hell of German shrapnel for pearl alight,etc., the average purchaser Ss satisfied tion. And last but not least, take an P Y She leaven them her and buys the cur. But the experienc- experienced friend with you on the In the first battle of Ypres the Ger- week, until it became almost unten- xnans tried to cut the forces of the: Many a thoughtless observer of the able and was abandoned by the head- Four-Leaf'Clover. ed purer investigates further. demonstratign. Such a person should Allies in two, that they might press ships that enter and leave ports at quarters staff. "Compreseion should be tried by know about how much to expect'for on to Boulogne resent will et the impression that T know a place tvhero the sun is like „ gne or launch an attack p g P A Thrilling Adventure, gold getting out the starting handle and the price stated. against the Allies south of the Lys- camouflage (deceit) in war developed much the same tactics that they have primarily to meet the ruthless U-boat "The General gave instructions that And the cherry blooms burst with been lately pursuing. The British campaign, but readers of history know a telegraphist was to remain behind snow, heroically held their ground and that even the American Indians, half , to transmit important messages from And down underneath is the loveliest blocked the advance of the Germans savages as they were, were familiar the brigades, and I was left in charge Crook, along the Menin-Ypres road. The bat- : with resources in deceiving their ene- , of the instruments in this shell -swept Where the tour -leaf clovers grow. tle was over when a desperate charge mics, by covering their bodies with chateau for a day and a night. One leaf Is for hope, and one is for of the Prussian Guard was repelled branches and using the skin of ani- On the second day the Germans faith, with tremendous slaughter November; mals for concealment. It is also on broke through our trenches and the And one is for love, you know, 11, i record that in a campaign between the wires were cut by the shell fire. I was And God put another one in for Moors (Moslems) and Spaniards given orders to evacuate the building Battle of St. Julien. (Christians) in the fifteenth century and smash up my instruments. Thera luck - If you search you will find where In April, 1915, the Germane made , in Andalusia the walls of a Spanish I saved by burying in a shell proof they. grow. /heir second concentrated assault upon city were destroyed due to a freak in trench, and then I had to escape be - Ypres. The feature of this attack -their construction. tween our own fire and that of the But you must have hope, and you which culminated on May 8 and last- I In order to deceive Moorish scouts enemy's across a field under a terrible must have faith, ed until May 20 -was the use for the in the vicinity, the Spanish command- tornado of shrapnel. You must love and be strong --and ,first time of poison gases, to the espe-' ant immediately set all of his troops"On the early morning of the same so, vial disadvantage of the Canadians.' and the town's people to work eon- day one of our cable detachments was If you work, if you wait, you will Colonel Currie describes this horror strutting scenery walls and battle- cut up and another captured by the find the place, eloquently. "Shells and rifie fire were menta, conning towers and all. They Germans, only to be retaken by our Where the four-leaf clovers grow. forgot in the scorching livid breath of used cloth painted to resemble stone, sappers and drivers after a desperate CHILDREN FATTEN IN WAR. medical inspections is less than half the pereentage found in 1913. Tltus Up to the Present British Babies steady employment, high wages and Have Not Suffered. increasing welfare activity have up Despite the fact that wars have to the present more than counteracts always starved children into lasting ed the possible evil effects of war con - defects, Great Britain to -day is bet- ditions upon the children. ter oft' in this respect than ever be- fore. The information available What the Jury Found. leaves no doubt that of all the na- The story of German spies moving tions now at war there are several about Paris disguised in French uni- that will feel for years to come the forms recalls that at Gallipoli the effect of present starvation upon the Australians were frequently deceived young. by Germans in British uniforms. One The elementary education commit- day a man posing as a major gavo tee has presented a report to the Lon- some orders about not firing in a eer- ALL Tt E IIONOR THERE IS WON I]Y A SUPER -Alli FIGHTER IN BRITISH RANKS. Brief Account of the Dtstingsished Career of a Twenty -Three -Year Old .Aviator. As never before in the British mili- tary service the commoner, the pri- vate in the ranks, Ilea his chance for promotion and for preferment, The non-com of yesterday is to -day an el - ricer, and he suffers nothing in asso- ciating with fellow officers who have come up through the time honored military schools and received their appointtneats in accordance with tra- ditionary methods. A super air fighter, Captain James Ryford McCudden, just decorated with the Victoria Cross and who has re- ceived every military honor that Great Britain can 'bestow, was born in the barracks, at Chatham, the son of a warrant officer in the Royal Engi- neers. He grew up in the barracks and received his education in the gar- rison school. When he was seventeen years old he began his military career as a boy iii the engineers at Gibraltar. He demonstrated his ability as a shot by tying with his captain for first prize in a shooting competition. Rapid Promotion, McCudden has been in the present war eine° the beginning, having gone to Franco with the first expeditionary force. He had had some experience of the air and was therefore pressed into service as an observer at Mons, where he was able to give valuable information of the enemy's move- ments during the retreat. Ho was made a flight sergeant then and was soon promoted to be an observer. In that capacity he distinguished him- self by his expert work with the guns in some very stiff fights. IIe was a first class air mechanic and a splendid shot -a fine combination. McCudden's favorite machine is a ehtgle seater scout, in which he con- trols the airplane and the gun. The V.C. was given to Captain Mc- Cudden "for conspicuous bravery, ex- ceptional perseverance, keenness and very high devotion to duty on various occasions during December, January and February last," Captain Mc- Cudden, who is only twenty-three years old, has been in more thgen a hundred fights up to January 0, when his last report was made, and had bagged thirty-seven enemy machines. Among his fights were three duels with the crack German pilot Immel- mann, in which neither was able to gain a distinct advantage. Received Many Honors. He gained the Military Medal for consistent gallantry, courage and dash during September, 1910, in attacking and destroying an enemy machine and forcing two others to land. He also twice crossed the enemy lines at a loWaltitude attacking hostile balloons. He' received the Military Cross the following February when he followed a hostile machine clown to 800 feet and then drove it to the ground. For dash and skill from August 16 to Sep- tember 28, in many offensive patrols, more than thirty of which he led, and the destruction of five enemy ma- chines, he received a bar to his Mili- tary Cross. His next honor was the Distinguish- ed Service Order for bringing down an enemy two-seater within his Otvn lines at night, on November 29, both occupants being taken prisoner. In very bad weather conditions, at the height of 2,000 feet he encountered an enemy machine and feu& it down to a height of 1.00 feet, whore it was de - don county council based upon the re- fain region. The Australian officer stroyed. He received a bar to his suite of the medical inspection of the suspected there was something wrong D,S,O, for destroying four enemy children in its schools up to the end and said: "I say, old chap, are. you machines by bravery and clever man - of 1917. From this report it appears I fair dinkum 7" "Fair dinkum " is ocuvring, three of the machines fall - the chlorine. Scores of men died and mounted the canvas on wooden and glorious fight," Nays of Saving. that there has been a constant and Australian for "on the level." "Yes," ung within his own litres. Ile also where they stood, Some tried te' frames, with the result that, although The linemen also have regular pat steady improvement in the condition said the German, "I'm Major Fair drove his patrol against six enemy Small portions of leftover cereals „ machines and oboes them on'. Crawl away, The bearers brought the hionrdsh troops rode by close to rots, stretches of line which have to of the children througtout the whole. Dinkum. At the inquest they found. Ga taint LVIcCrroven also wear's the some out from the front line, but when them they were deceived by the ruse. be constantly examined not only for may be added to the pancake bat - of the war period, and that the re- that he had died of "lead in the head." g examined their pulses I £oval them .Solomon truly said, "There is nothing breaks but also to make surd that for and will greatly improve the sults of medical inspection during the I Croix de Guerre. fiend, Poor fellows, their features' new under the sun," and he might they have not been tapped by enemy cakes, or they may be rolled into balls third term of 1,9].7 are the best that Try all the new war dishes- -____-_-__.a___ Were distorted and their faces livid.; have added, because human nature spies in such a way that every bit of and flied or added to the soup stock. have ever been attained Not only your To the Dandelion. Mood -tainted froth clung to their lips, never changes. Their skins were mottled blue and - --a..------• White. They were a heartbreaking Save all pound tins which have held dight to behold." baking powder, ant.' use theta tv But the Germans were thrown back Y never can tell what you will lute. information sent over them finde its Just on the eve of the departure of are the numbers of children whom it Market white shelled and brottnt; Dear, common flower, that grow'st be- tvay to the Germans, In the Aisne two companies of infantry overseas, is found necessary to feed in schools shelled eggs in separate Packages. i side the way, once, where the hill country afforded the Willows Cam Victoria has lower than they were during peace g ! Fringing the dusty road with harm - good cover to spies, the wires were p' time but the percentage o found in a Uniform products command the best i lass gold, constantly being tapped. been quarantined owing to an out- p g prices. Never market small or ddrky First pledge steam brown bread and puddings. g pP break of measles, poorly nourished condition at the 1 g of blithesome May, eggs, 'Which children plucic and full of TOMO -URN ort -elle L161471 I HaAA2. A, 13URGI.AR !� 33 __..•- pride uphold, ,„��„ :g , `�`: 112L, .� '�� :moo High -hearted t they uecaneers, o'erjoyed An Eldorado in the grass have formol, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, thou art more cleat` to me Than all the prouder summer blooms may be, How like a prodigal cloth Nature When em, for all thy gold, so se 4"�s� _"•' . ` common art! Thou teaehest No to deem Moro sacredly of every humeri heart, Since each reflects in joy its. scanty gleam Of heaven and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wia- dant look On all these living pages of God's book. SEAR' I3iM 1 11 f TOM- OH Tom - Dora Gp ( . Trow!•!-rt4ERC P V i LCOM. oN DOWN! HE'S ON VW --.Tames Russell Lowell. 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