HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-6-13, Page 7TEE BARRAGE OR
CURTAIN OF F FIRE
b1ILATARY DEVICE OF REPENT
URIt1IN.
lavewioa of the qui/it-Firing Field
11,m Made Jewe llrle the time of
This Life -bating Tactic,
tku,ix gmmers thele there Is as much
danger from their approaching their
own gunfire as there is from their
being wounded by enemy fire.
Second Barrage Now Used.
The last meastn•e whieh has been
AIDING THE
ENEMY TRENCHES
they were and forced all who were
able to stand to follow us and at once
started back for aur trench.
The whole uffair from the time we
leaped into the Lrench till we started
back had not taken more than ten
taken to increase the efficiency of this, minutes, but it hurl given the art&
Guile is the adding to the first of a STORY OF ONE PROSAIC NIGIIT lery time to find .out that something
second barrage. The objective of this ATTACK.
had hnppaned mal we ]red jn L start-
second
• barrage is the comrnluilcatiou ed blade for our trench when the ehelle
and second line enemy trench system I — started to fly around No Mans land.
any taints that may be i e W. N. I3ickle Fifteenth Balla- We were headkal,ped by our pti:•.ou-
Fm 1, 1 y 1 1 ata Y I, r t t. ,
within range, The theory is that it . lion, C.E.F„ Gives This Account
will prevent re -enforcements from I
aiding' the defenders of the first line.. Of a Successful Raid
ur:K, but wa .!111•1('.1 them at a run
across and reached uur otvn trench
with only ane man wounded. One of
fareof the Metoreysle. �r ;u velli cu:1 oil e,rry thou;.turd
by r ec•uee for prat«stent.rf iu 1r tuns rine do,•rl, serf II11 ub•,tix
alit.t.le adviser colt the earn otter of the i c,vii;ea r-, witft rurtl alit
zn;•toreycko is that: I hove ridden :veil I3y the next morrring the oil will
enhave vuri(1drtrat , . • etared for feet• of them eaee 1elte.; he r•vlin-
:
NEW CHAPTER OF
GERMAN CRUTITY
!'.ItITI€ TIERS AT:SCRII3E CONDI-
TIONS IN PRISON CAMP.
Cold, Vermin, :starvation, Typhus and
Cruelty on fart of .GFit rde Made
Life a Horror.
the prisoner:: laid been killed Auel eat my first wa:; of il", vitae *. a tome e to til alt l tee r re,e, 1 01(a v;v r
n• barrage artillery As soon as the creeping barrage is I' i Ft r'h •e rdcr have heard much
`dire l,ar,t„ i For nearly e. week we had been left him where he fo1L It was ant; You remember alta: tyf.e•, i:u mnrr•'clenou;rc kr01h. 12m:<e .lie rt a ,Berg
e , the most algal- lifted from the front lino enemy a toes the rtrid n ch mere thanfifteen)ti i u « lore meek I• roe • k,' ta(-.,n• iter local ;::"r;t, tile horror of Witten
die, tort, been one of trench it is added to the recon] bar- practising behind the 1 n t • , t a mn Les :dace rtebi-_.every time poli r>a:r (t:t,�bt «.aL'':f ih. t .o. :d y ,,;,,lin, bet I en) et>.nre.d by Sergeant
mutt, e,:••,elepments of the war, we knew we were to make lire evening the foul left these. trenches and hero, in tae rail) Ft sheet ret (tato' h soul«{ ,«-; r •+i.,r. Iia tar by s%+s 3, l:c, rt z';at
t•' rt; the Brit- la;,e, Ttt this way counter artillery s. Thera 5'_ gee ft u••lo -o:ri ,,a a; a rhlatr of theI^'tato-t d'uld;treame,
Ile. (lore, or ew tial rive c we moved up to the . n • e. we were mice ag1411, with thirty-six •e cur nal the ewe tine• e,:, ee inf„,,, to ,.tat. reeve^ with
rilcrcnvn a faty years fire m attacks are prevented, giving tet whet. tea weed in S kitekdemuhl,
i -h , H ?I, fait, t t , Y were nearly fifty of us, and the week prisoners, and wa knew we hal 1,:'ft ratan --and no rluti'h. Lt ••- , , (,� si:,Fr,. b t '^-,, ,"'t. t , i „,4,,„ i. my �.'; r,,,, :•.
th6 atlndcin, infante fiat to over_ r t r.v'.} or �e :aye a
,u, t oatpen',d'da, It menthes the e Y o had been one of haul work, every Fcbout the, same nume!.er kitl(•cl iu the t f(:r lilt creel-. + i:« A .n es b !,•
mine the confusion of the run across rt we necessary to p <1 the thee, e, c::; r, twriFultt from Am-
crntfin• ,,1. 1t of :hell fire GI a narrow , w'a1' moment being or. eecl .. dugout Hero -s the way. a r, nrt�' 11'. t r , al: r• ,t,.
No Man's Land, send back prisoners g p [ y I until the engine 'mai tern -lee fest. en lee. :' :ee 3 i , ' , •, _.• .'' e,•: ,'.'' `IV Ile+ r(l there
steel o' d,1c•rlained lene,tlt of enemy, some way connected with the rapd. ids had been :u ee pt.iur,ttlly ra.;Y cu;rim to stat.. It was lu lay f;,r u,;. ran:;hx eel -nriy rat L`,lt:, Pati: -:natters
and consolidate the new] won
rusti , ;1., b,
.. Len, is e,l'.. .lint V.,{• (,fling :xh c'Ils m that' Y I Lectn••ea on aUl' objective and every raid Ulid we hall every 1'eetinll to ' be tht't ,t! thne•> (11;: tit(' t_r,l ii ,:c... 1` j I ell y':< ('e,+ I t. .; ,,{ . e ••t.it',�;. 1: -titin I'Y'P.11r'Ir
I thankful for the way ii had carne oil; , 1•.;, e i:•, ;,:,,1::1:111.,:, hue{ net come. Lao eta ct c, for it . of nr, a there, inti
and et to think: the ,eneation a eer I ,h Di It r'r. ' [ 1 "If < t ei t: Aga 14. ,
Y t, iii h 1 1' t sigh t
i(rrit.e,ry sb (untnuie,telt' that no live tmous,
_�__,;. _ _ , phase of our work in reaching it;
cul". th'" e:ur V"' tlo•nll^h, or can-' SIGNBOARDS Ole BATITEF1P1,1). what to do on entering .the enemy
t.imee t i t e t den b reituty. Such' _, trench and how to retire from it after
a tack u wee in r: ethic bat fore iia' in. Humor is Displayed b Placards our work was finished; practice in
yarn) i) ,i; of the quielediring field gun ! Y I raiding a trench as similar as possible
—the (• lem.:bang. The rate of fire of j
Posited by the Troops. to the one to be attacked—all this
the eel field grime was not sufficiently! Among all the legends that appear kept us busy, and any spare time we
rapid to npevele a barrage, even!on sigtrbomels at and near the Front, had was spent in getting to know the
though z extol:. number of the picce,e, a few plainly show the American tnen we were working with, so that
wee e oncentrated; mud' these gums I spirit newly at work, says an English no case of mistaken identity should
did not absorb their own shock; relay- writer. • interfere with our plans. "
ing nal repoirl ing was rn [ cssary of -1 One of these I came across at a With the fact that soon we would
ter each shot because the shock (hovel railway sicking that formerly had been late making this raid against an enemy
the tail into the ground; shifting the! part of the depot yards of a bustling staring us always in the face it was
carriage, But thj" piece in use to -day, , little town, C--, now thoroughly ob not the most pleasant work in the
which eliembs its revolt without in the; literated. American engineers were world, but knowing that some forty -
least. (hanging its position er Ellin, c operating and maintaining this divi- odd good men would be right along
can be toed almost as rapidly as iL j sion of the military railway, and at kept one from worrying very much
can l reloaded, being subject only
to the Ceeting Of the breech to a point
where there ie,, danger of a premature to mark the former site of C-•—. The , Our squad was divided into three
diseher g e II: i:( said that the quick- agony of desolation of the prostrate
ficin guns in use now fire u> to sections. Four pickdd men were to
1 town was cheerfully answered by a
1 d t th 'ale of tho advance ahead and cut the enemy's
the siding a lean-to lunch room had about the final outcome.
been propped up—the only structure , Plants Well Laid.
Gurty shots a minute.
First Use of Barrage.
!'late speed and accuracy with which
shells could be fired from these guns
made the harrage possible. The
French artillery developed the gun
and needless to say, all the warring
nations were mil& to make use of the
new tactic.
When first used the barrage only
covered the advance of infantry; the
fire was rigid, laid down and taken
off along the entire front attacked, at
a single order. The idea was new and
the commending officers were not sure
how advancing troops would take
shell fire coining over and near their
heads from behind, and exploding so
near in front of them. In the begin-
ning the barrage, or line of exploding
shells, was ahvays at least three
hunched feet in front of the troops.
As time passed practice and theory
have greatly refined and improved the
barrage. Signaling has improved and
with airplane photographs of enemy
positions and increased accuracy and
quality of shells the curtain has been
shortened until troops advance within
twenty-five yards of the exploding
shells.
The Creeping Barrage.
The barrage, which has been pre-
ceded by big gun fire, keeps the en-
emy in his dugouts and gives no
chance remaining machine guns op-
portunity to open up on, advancing
troops. The nearer attacking troops
can approach before it is lifted the
less chance has the enemy of putting
up a strong: fight, When the barrage
is lifted the troops have but a short
distance to run -less than from base
to base on a standard base ball dia-
mond.
But the development of the barrage
did not stop here, The creeping bee -
rage, a British improvement, came
next. Trenches are never exactly par-
allel, and usually there is considerable
difference in alignment between op-
posing front lines. The gunners are
supplied with photographs, possibly
with a large seetle map, of these front
lines end detailed instructions. At the
proper time they lay down a bar'r'age
in No Man's Land which conforms to
the contour of their front line trench,
gradually this creeps forward and
conforms to the front line enemy
trench. The great advantage of the
eeneping barrage is that it gives
maximum protection to advancing
troops and allows them, regardless of
the curves of the trench attacked to
approach equally near to it before the
,btu rage 1•i lifted.
Tho creeping barrage requires an
even higher degree of skill on the part
of the gunners, for each gun acts in-
dependently, has a separate task to
perforin, than did the rigid barrage;
it was developed very rapidly and has
reached an exceedingly high degree of
ac.eulacy. The creeping barrage is in
general use to -clay and the number of
shells that go wild is remarkably low,
h'neb confidence have the troops in
�w
bold sign nal e o e sr barbed wire makingthe way clear
lunch room: "Boost for C-- Watch for us to the trench. The rest were
it TheGrotbiggest war sign is at the
divided about equally between bomb -
Butte do Warlencourt, on the Ba- exs and `rifle and bayonet' men,
When the time at last came for going
paume-Albert road. It reads: "To Be over we knew exactly what to do and
Kept Intact by the French Govern- ,knew every square each of the ground
ment.'' Do Not Disturb. The butte,' ahead of ns.
a 'rocky cone hillock, is surmounted t The boys holding the trench gave
by five crosses elected to the memory ;its a great welcome and we knew if
of British troops who lost their lives anything went wrong that they could
by the thousands in storming the right, it would be done at any cost.
butte in October, November and De -
Everything was so now and we had
comber, 1910. The big signboard is been trained to such a fine point that
a moving testilnoniai of the apprecia there•was very Iittle nervousness in
tion of the French for their loyal Al- the crowd and when the wire cutters
ly's sacrifices. I as last crawled over the top, just af-
One of the most common signs near ter midnight, we cheered them on
the Front is: Poisoned Well. Boil their way as if it were a picnic.
or Chlorinate." The interval between the time they
Wrecked towns and cities are now left our trench and their return to say
plastered with signs in English and the way was clear was rather trying,
for we half expected every minute to
hear a rapid-fire opened by the enemy
telling us our stunt had been discov-
ered.
Across No Marl's Land.
As soon as we heard the way was
clear we crawled over the parapet,
and, keeping as low as possible, si-
lently moved toward the enemy. Our
trip across was a rather trying ordeal.
The slightest sound might mean our
discovery, and as we neared the Ger-
man trench we were almost afraid to
breathe. A stray bullet whistling
past me nearly scared me stiff and far
a fraction of a second I could not
move.
As we came within some twenty
yards or so of the enemy's trench,
having passed the barbed wire ob-
struetion, it was with a feeling of
actual relief that we heard the bomb-
ers hurl their bombs into the trench.
One lone German was all the enemy
WO could see, and he was doing his
best to crawl into a dugout.
Following instructions, we quickly,
On account of the shortage of other spread out in the trench, the end men
materials, hardened whale fat is to be —that is, the man on the right and
used in Norway for the manufacture left respectively of our party—hurl-
of margarine. For this reason whale ing bombs over the traverse to keep
catching off the coast of Norway, the enemy from attacking on our
which has been prohibited for. a num- flanks; the rest of us covering all the
ber of years, will be undertaken fqr dugout doors, The bombers started
Government account. at odea to throw bombs through the
"In 1914 Denmark used 20,000 bar- latter.
rets of hardened whale fat in the mar- Thin six Prisoners.
garble industry," says the weekly bul-
letinof the Department of Tracie and This account does not sound o
Commerce, Ottawa. "This product has methodical or exeiting then this affair
proved to be well suited for making really was, for on finding only one in
a margarine that keeps well and the trench to fire at, and he was try.
tastes well, and to be even better ing to get away, we settled down to
suited for malting lard. For the late business as if we still there praetis-
ter purpose it is only necessarytoadd ing well behind our owls lines•
a smaller part of vegetable ozl, such A bomb or true do each dugout Call-
as cottonseed oil or soya oil, to make ed forth guttural' sounds from within
the lard thus produced fully as geed
as the imported American lard. In
Denmark, where this fat has been
used for nearly three years, no in-
jurious effects on the human organ-
ism have been observed,"
"A minute's success pays. the fail-
" rt
French to this effect: "Standing
Brick Walls. Not to be Destroyed."
This shows the thought that is be-
ing given to reconstruction.
Men's outfitters—of the high-class
sort that has shops in Fifth Avenue,
New York, as well as Piccadilly, Lon-
don—conduct travelling bazaars close
to the Front, and you find their sighs
over battered buildings.
I saw in all devastated areas road
directions and designations of locali-
ties; also signs on ruins at entrances
to bomb -proof shelters.
Signs in trenches remind soldiers
of "Gas. Aler•tl" and mark directions.
Tho front of a support trench had
been bashed in by one of the Bun's
biggest packages of violence. In the
centre of the wide crater a sign at a
sporty angle warned: "Dump No Tea
Leaves here."
TO MAKE "WHALE FAT" OLEO.
Norway Decides to Use I3ig Fish .to
_. Overcome Fat Shortage.
and "Kamerad" was plainly heard
above the hubbub. We let the men
come out one at a tome, their panels
uplifted above their heads, and when
tho last man was up one of our boys
jumped into their dugout and came
up with the news that there were six
or seven dead and a few wounded
• ](blow. We left the dead wheat
•
Blown
ure of years. Robe t ng. lot e
most in our minds was that. of the dis-
appointment, for things had been so
easy that it left us little cause to
regard our enterprise with the pride
of achievement.
'MAKE PRISONERS WORK.
Further Instances of German Bar-
barity Have Been Revealed.
An official report on the treatment
of prisoners of war was published re-
cently. It says that on April 11 the
report of Sir Robert Younger's eom-
mitt'ee revealed a few of the most re-
cent examples of German inhumanity
and broken faith. Referring particn-
larly to breaches of agreement that
prisoners should not be employed
within 80 kilometres of the firing line,
the report says that since the issue
of Sir Robert's report there has accu-
mulated a long list of atrocious viola-
tions of this agreement, One man
captured on the morning of March 28,
1918, was made to work two hours
immediately after he was taktn pris-
oner, serving a German field gun with
ammunition and digging out a posi-
tion for it under British fire, In the
working party were warrant officers,
non-commissioned officers, and Royal
Army Medical Corps men, who were
made to work on roads and light rail-
ways under shell fire and knocked
about with rifle butts or sticks. One
MEM was beaten as he lay on the
ground groaning. One working party ,
had a corporal killed and three men
wounded by shell {ire. Many men.
walking behind the lines died of
weakness. When fresh batches of
prisoners were captured they were;
t (u r ,e tl I' y"_ a rat^ ' ,.: r .... .. - .. , i. I.t.> -
..rt( dirt trete.t tar.'. ,r le -ea e tF..r- eihe,•e t,: ._e;r ft•• - - � they lived
1 t
•
nl,"nte,l an one of 'the old iypet eat et,kue, '1'I''°rc c' •- �'
1 tin butes
ln„rbiacv, - 1. hill I te'av:elle+•{ n., •,;. r•' 1. - + i , �- ! t t:ut uy cower•lrlg
eb i ed enol Baru]?i t„ ;.e, rtur•1, lnerlr ; Ih ,cn 1r,•rre;l ran .' 1,ho-
l'•iow f sato gain,: to tell ...out. a. f�•w, t, „
�.r r. �, ,±'n•r this cnedit.ion of
e. ' it t" cat i :I li au I dee:le , t
wears out reri<l t it tt,_h <,n over_l::a motor get �;
1 ,,t m c;:1I { ict•c the prisoners
tire; if passible, a rt•�;nfar sat+;mc':itn' kno(•1; I'i;tally ,• i t r• :,< 1
i ,ie r; tat u•, r iti.:.' Treads.
tire. It pays in .,atiafFr•ean, le!rt's:ary to shell t, L,i. t� 1 to et le ,•hc ,en•; vn• . n br.�l the Luti.'r never
mot of all in mnrey, to do this;. I the imp. That wee 1 m c.,;cl•7 eat it. Ier hr•neml,tcr, 1tiY4, a
have a freind who re r' eed his worn_ si:lnal to ,crape cariee, .and l mei the
1 t. s ,.,,;,;,. role began and continued
out rear tire with x eexee, •imeh rough velvee a riti?e And whet a ch n e `t
trend auteinmelle Lire that he never rt reeving a little carbo a mega:, f,,e feta. flee remithe.
cure out. It CrF n t ,t •.ts tt _ h 1:1. tear: Thirty toy Died Daily.
Ani keep the tires hart{. I reahre It
toy eta u tilt.{ rf girt, .1 .Se. � int C 1::' ._ia.rru?il camp, containing
this is very old advice, bat it is j:.lst Removing the (:t.rl•'!n 1 t .` of c , - the daily average .e of
as good as it ever seer In my ear -j c ,., a1,. (l .r ' a r.' :r,ly .vas n. n. irmlel t.ntty.
1 rer(1 i• net I
prints. After , ecu• het, rear tire A:bcnt oat e a ti , th -,.'a i
t 1, t••l n„• irme i
crapmg re art 'eeaari me ,=rattier photo -
Mb days of motarcyding, before i b se I hepefully tried tett c.. la nc a c•n
r o ass• . n of
spring.; saddle posts or spring frames srhr•me feat r, m „artg c2r;, :n. I; t T r t. the 1 •.•g { r
were dreamed of, there, was an exeuse hate •et' tn'find un• Lhr tl.:t'. w:t{ te.ei r dui ire. tilt epidemic.. A gigantic
for keeping Liras soft, A rider won{c{ y feerme i, carrying a rifle, headed the
approximate tdre a :alga ( c:l 1,
have been shaken to Ir{saes wear harii nrfbss, and you till be well emir,'d l [' e, nn stat h was mainly come
tires. So in those days near'y a:l.Flueh out the erenk ease as fell , t l of I.usstnn pati-one`s. Anything
tires were discarded en account of On bringieg in the meter after'a ride, more pathetic. cannot be imagined.
rim -cut long before the tread eves h 1- the amine is Stilt rut drain the The Ilrotn; l:tphs showed many being
tt
hile
r b„ d et rate tame rot one long teener.
worn through But naw with the •1 f fiery ark e• ^(• Aftw• tri.
motorcycle in the same class as a oil is all cut closer the stop axle again, After the interment, eturing evhich
high-grade automobile, as far as rid -;Rem eve the phF_s Tram tl-_ (^3inder l.o.l,, tv,.re departed four deep
ing qualities are concerned, keep the' earls turn overAtha en im> until beth above another, the Germans.- mads
tires well inflated. I h ,• meun.ls stirmourteel by crosses, in-
tremnving the cylinder and clreppin6 tit.,atint that oily Lilo persons were
It took mo years to learn that the! out the accumulation of carbon with
manufacturer usually knows what he; buried beneath each mound.
is talking about when he recommends t,. screw valve'
It is impo_ shale to estimate how
As the valves lift only "i,e-Eula Flt atian were buried altogether, but
n certain brand or grade of cylinder�ineh, a close adjestm+mt of the valve Y
oil. T experimented with r_1T surly <,f; lifts is necessary. 'E'r'hen the: valve is, many thousands died of this typhus
cheap, doubtful oils. But when I' seated, there •should he enough play elriaemic, When the epidemic broke
bought my fourth machine I decided 1 1 et»rat and valve lift out a terrible condition quickly en -
between the valve
::.. o .sued. It was not until after it had
to give the high-priced nil reeom-Ito slip a heavy piece of patter he- -
mended by the manufacturer a try -
To
accent If there is ton mrrcn play the
1'eani raging a fortnight that Russian
and I never went back to the low- valve will nut open to its full cepa- (loci°rs arrived. Sarno patients were
priced oils. city, while on the other h nd tea little then first sent to the hospital. The
T CI the Crank Ca 11 1 the valve from seating
condition of the camp, even after the
Testimony of Ship Captain.
veil The captain of a British merchant
sarin who suffered internment in a
o .can to se play rl keep
doetors' arrival, was perfectly awful.
•1 —Vv. E. C.
r nk properly.—W. eat
Use a good oil flush out the e a y
�p P
g
kept working behind the lines instead 1.13
of being sent to registered camps. ; • 11 9
One man died in a but and the body
was there for three clays before be-
ing removed.
BEAUTIFUL FRANCE.
Battlefields Take On a New Dress
With Coming of Spring.
"The country now is as beautiful as
spring can mance it,” says the London
Times correspondent writing from the
fields of death and slaughter recently.
"Under the iniiuence of the sof;, rain,
all the beechwood with which France is
so lavishly clothed, after being held
back by easterly winds, have shaken
out their leaves together, and the land
everywhere is of the tenderest shades
of green.
"In woods which were shattered to
bits by shell fire, and which have
again and again been drenched by
poisonous gas, it is extraordinary to
tee how every remaining twig strag-
gles into leafage, and how the ground
is carpeted with wild hyaclnths and
wood anemones as fresh as in any
English spinney where gas is un-
known.
"Migrant. birds also have returned
to their accustomed woods, even
though there is•nothing left of them,
and once more one hears with the
same wonder as in former springs
birds singing their hearts out amici
the thunder of the guns. The first
nightingales have been here note for
five or six days, and the gunfire has
no more significance to them than the
familiar thunderstorms:"
\ Cost of Food Control.
Over and above the small license
fees charged to dealers in foodstuffs,
the total cost to Canada of the Food
Board, since it was organized by Mr.
Hanna in June, 1917, has only been
$57,480.80, according to a statement
made by Mr. II. B. Thomson, chair-
man of the bosrd at an address in
Toepnto on May 15th.
Paris wraps itself in a blue ,
A .L.)witch is very
becoming.
TEE"The eleetric arc lights, the gas German prison camp describes his fel-
lanterns of all descriptions are paint- low Prisoners as skeletons in rags
Jtt9 Y ed blue. In tram cars, in the snh:vay, and their treatment by the Germans
in the suburban trains the light is as brutal, says a London despatch.
blue. Brisk auto traffic is net without
6S'hen this ca.ptain's vessel was tor -
BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTS ARE
HIDDEN BY SAND BAGS.
People Accept Privations in Cheerful
Mood; Saving Considered a
Patriotic Duty.
"Who would have thought possible
before the war a wo••Id city in exist-
ence two days march behind the bat-
tle front? During the first war weeks,
after, the Government's departure to
Bordeaux, Paris had been somewhat
deserted. But since then everything
is back, The big hotels never did bet-
ter than just now, In the streets
there is a traffic that has never bean
beaten. The stranger notices the
many uniforms; he thinks the French
capital a big army camp, where mili-
tary men from ail colliers of the
world meet.
"The Parisian long ago became used
to the uniforms and forgot that once
there was a time when women were
the only ones who added color to a
street scene, Man gets used to every-
thing. After a while one found the
dark streets quite natural. One paid
the high war prices without bldrticing.
One submitted to the necessity of a
sugar card and learned to get along
with a moderate coal supply in win-
ter.
Measures for Protection.
"Lately, however, the Parisian ex-
perienced things that reminded him
of the war rather impressively. The
latest visit of German airplanes re-
sulted in energetic measures for pro-
tection. At all the beautiful monu-
ments sand bags are piled high, On
many large buildings tablets are post.
ed saying there is`e. bomb- proof cel-
lar there and how many people it will
shelter. When darkness appears
clanger unuer sure. of the srbnlarine where he was
"Measures of economy are now talc- attethe s d. ar he refused to answer
en up in earnest. Who wants to drink q
sweet coffee in the cafe has to bring he was locked up for twenty-four
his own sugar or be satisfied with the hour: without food eat water and then
�f bread tvth a
a. c r� edoed he was put into the forecastle
circumstances. p
saccharine tablet the waiter will hand 8- en n small pz
ham. Cakes, Pastry, sari candy. are tut of water. He was removed to an -
not made any longer. Confectioners'' other pari of ere ship on the follow-
not
• put entirely out of business. The
leg day and eves searched. As he still
tea houses, Leo, are n bad fix. 2vo refused to answer questions, he was
more sugar or sweetmeat.., not eaten sentenced to be shot on reaching port
ar before if he should cause annoy -
sandwiches, are to be had. And two
r�ce.
francs for such a cup of tea is tt peel After imprisonment underground in
ty good price. r a call at Ilelgoland he was marched
"Tire anthnriti,za figure ererybue•y ,.-t h a number of British sailors and
will be sensible enough to sec that firemen to a camp, 'While his clothes • is the patriotic duty of evrcy were being searched he was kept
non-combatant. Clef cat pot ter: tell
melted in the intense cold for three
the people tra nspertation of food hours, r:hilc German officers stood
takes up cargo space that ought to be •about laughing. Eventually his
used for Amer a ern trnopa and war
- material. So every citreen r tau see ho °miles were returned wet. He was
will hasten the err icon of Amerwan
ala, ed in herr acke, his only covering
help and thus support Litei : c h `a inFr tilanket ; railer abaundcd with
poilu by his own moderation and ab_ rernr'n. The captain adds: "Tate
stemiousnos c " treatment of prisoners here was bru-
tel and their condition was pitiable.
- - ,.t ,t They were skeletons in rags. If, oil
An Acreage Increase of 2,f 0,090. b: ink; put to work, they fell down
Me. J. D. Metre •or, Direetor of La- from weakness, they were kicked;
bor, Canada Food Solari, estimates clubbed, beaten with flat swords and
that the three prairie previeeee, of kept standing at attention in freeze
Canada -will have sowed an increase of eat; weather ns long as they could
2,000,000 acres in wheat, eats and eiand. Many had unhealed wounds:
btiriny Wo all lead to fight like ,wild beasts
water before them, cspee nall,v mat wenn
weather.• :tom• midi; to+d buttermilk
is also geed.
"When you are asked where and
how is your achievement going ante
God's plans, point to your blaster, who
keeps the pians, and then eco on doing
your litt.lre ererviees as faithfully as if
the whole: temple were yours to build."
--Phillips Brock:.
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for food a dog would refuse,"
Prunes are more witeleecme if stew-
ed withi,tlt sugar. His Responsibility.
Never neglect to keep fresh, clean 1tu.inr Jackson tells of the visit of
one of the generals to the trenches on
the end of the British line.
The general, who was a great
stickler for discipline, said to the last
man on the left:
"Do you know, sir, that you're the
most important soldier in the army?"
Pte. Perkins murmured some mode
est rejninder, but, as in duty-bound,
kept his eye glued to the periscope
with its vista of No Malt's Land.
"Yes," resumed the general
"you're the last man in the las
squad of the last platoon of the last
company of the last battalion of the
last regiment of the last brigade."
After this impressive announce•
ment the general turned on ills het
and departeq! Thext, the sorg'oan
major, lest Pte. Perkins should u(
ipuff edit tip by the suddenly conferred
mportance, added "Yes, and if the
army gets the command to form on
the left you'll marls -time for the rest
of your bloody natural lifel"
Any military man realizes what 1
would mean to be pivotmnn for a lin
t25 miles longi
Increase in our consumption 4`
vegetables means an increase in .Wt
export of wheat,
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the front by using potatoes, earrot4,
onions and turnips,
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