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NOTED FLYING
taped collar,
olla on b i that n
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with the taped collar and the bell -bot J'J rev ei nen sun pFtsset , F
tomed trousers of deek hand, engineer, f !to his skill and bravery le needed. Ho An Incident of the British Raid on The Immediate Construction of Much
trlmmer, and greaser rat ngs n 1e _ ' like a nes. Needed 'runnel is Urged.
FOR MINES i i tt MEN OF THE WAR ilew, apparently, by in tinct, ZeebruggeB
, lvoi eats Capt. Ball eland n t o P9tablishing their shattered R.N.T,R. The skipper of H.M.
!bine- bird flies. rmans are talking of
• • � d ' 1 ecce of IIat•rawant, details of the destruction � While the (*P rad coin•
sweeper X -40e7, of the group to, -- any eulogy. IIs was a mere boY, of one of the largest and mars iecen - r - ,
h' h the Little Boy belonged ha was 1 •
h• constiurted German submnrillos merco after the war by nt0ans of en- Z+HESE hull, DEATH WXiEN
phone and the vent- I ' the Allies
B5 STRUCK HOSPITAL.
' loalrecl after his rl. n , t ; • with other nations, tl
able best
to o of of -the skins. He over
' ed beat to go aft alone, scouting over slrutPh. This submarine was one of lam approaching the samr. subject lit a
0 ore practical way. The Inter -
t
HEROISM OF
CANADIAN NURSES
BRITISH FISHING VILLAGE' X l' president oft the group's ReliefmF�nda DESCRIBING HO\i' `C13L1F WON quite as modest as the mechanic ver
to ore given in a despatch t'rurn a neutral' forced preferences and long-term
z d tt 11
WARTIME. had
had been killed. Some four the Garman linea, looking for seven- the last to lents Zeebrugge a oro �m p ,
hours before, the rest of the group, Major Bishop, the Great Canadian entrance to the harbor was blocked by national Parliamentary Trade Confer- Had to Wear Gas Masks for Some
its t d sweeping completed had titre, and whether the enemy was British tureen (arca has already Jaid the foundations Hours While Carrying err Their
'its 11i
had been blown up by amine that RENOWN. 1 correspondent bays a London a ltrea is
BOMBS
morning, and all his crew but one
b before th
A
When he fell it was In a great barrio The roe struck c l mine, al 1 Work of Mercy.
of the crew of 40 only two survived �aud is about Co hold a third annual
Graphic Description
d Places
May I3o
Applied to a Hundred Places in tont
en days' sweep •
e back to the baso for its coo days' Ace, is a Finished Master of the or ten it made no difference to a Tl II 1 t t I and out of an inter Ally commercial league
in rovisaonin ,engine -room re- Art of Gunner .
Great Britain.
coal g p g Y against odds.
, pairs, and Mae, and the surviving Equally gallant, but of a different
on reaching the surface after s tore !meeting m London. A remarkable story of the heroism
The main street of this little coast:skipper and greaser who had been In the London Aeroplane Mr. C. Cr.'mentul t re wus M nor Hawker, an cable struggle with loath for an hour' At this gathering which will b° of Canadian nurses is contained in a
town --now a mine -sweeping lyase mined were given ten days' leave to Grey, the editor, writer interesting engineering officer who was learning iuld a half 30 fathoms below the aur -;hold during the Rrst week in July, Cha of C adian nurses
the Department i a
twists away from the shorn, as it has forget it. ly about some of the greatest flying to fie when war broke out. He was
face. Some of the crew committedicreation of an inter -Ally trade coon- Militia and Defence from overseas,
for some centuries; and down around The Ominous Telegram. linen of the war, and explains how suicide, having lost all hope. 04 lest- til will he proposed, which is intend- whish tells how women of the Do
the won renown. The first t0 attract the first British flying man to win the ing the boat alive, ed to be to the expected commercial minion had to wear gas masks for
the fish -beds, its little red -tiled houses " "f g ' V,C„ a soldier of rare gifts as a lead-
lwasn't the less o' the old Cap- int ,national attention was Roland fhe only chance of escaping was;war what the Inter -Ally Supreme War
with sparkling flint walls --sparkling stns ISing, and 'twasn't the curseFl er and administrator and inventor of hours while carrying aux their gentle
i., the ,, shines across theta, mine, neither!" the skipper was say- Garret, not because of his particular new "stunts:' His fighting abilities to force open the conning tower and Council is to the Present conflict, By tasks. The article was waitron by Ro-
b e he was brought t1tP forward hatches and Cruet to the far the most important question to be land Hill from War Correspondents'
,
which isn't often along the changing .ng "'Ttvas the way it happened! exP el e, etaus and his knack of training and msptr-
North Sea --still huddle up the narrow Why, we fetched up the infernal thing down and made prisoner before he
:Tali
under !traininghad much to do compression of sit in one part of raised will be that of the immediate
snores in the hopscotch tangle of laby-:on our kite of our own accord! Didn't could run up a big score, but because;vvith the British supremacy of the the vessel to furca each man like a construction of the long discussed
rinthine walks and worn stone stair- know the thing was there, and it blow- of his daring and the great fame be air in 1010. lie died in a duet with torpedo to the surface. The air pros- Channel tunnel.
ways, and the halt air which fills them ed the stern out of her! I wish it'd , enjoyed as a birdman in the days of .Richthofen, when a west wind drove sure in the submarine had become so Sir Arthur Fall, for years a fore -
is heavy with the malt odors of the been a torpedo!" i peace. I the combatants for behind the German high that the great majority of the most advocate of the great engineer-
brewery—built in 1706 -and the acrid I could imagine the savage, ghastly I German flyers, Immelmannhe first of twith nth° eat
! lines, and Hawker had the option ro4 Geom� ns could not keep thou mouths Pe to betresdgd has prepared thediscussioas
n
amell of a farm of gas tanks bullring fury of the skipper's face as he held . y landing and surrendering or fighting
up against the grey sky. up his pale, sunburned greaser in the Fokker, but whether the Fokker made ;to a finish. He chose the latter The compressed air shot them to the showing how .rapid and cheap com-
And if you watch almost any area sea while his chum sweoper came ; Immelmann famous or the pilot made 1 course, surface, and hardly had they reached municatiot between Great Britain,
1 ea level when the afr pressure France and the Continent will help all
the Allies to recuperate from the
crushing losses they have suffered
through the war, and will tend to
make them more independent of the
of the empty sky, presently you'll see ploughing toward them from 400yds, : the machine famous is a moot point. Major Bishop, the great Canadian t re s o
a speck hovering which materializes away—held him up, snarling to him From the point of view of the expert ace, is to be reckoned among the finest burst their lungs and abort 0 of them
into a pair of drooping wings, and to "keep yer hair on!" , designer of flying machines, the Fok- flyfng fighters the war has developed. sank like stones. The survivors de -
glides with a whining "minow" dawn He was going down to Deal on the ker was more or less a joke, but it was I His nerve and his mastery of maohine scribed the yells of the men when the
to the water to join a cloud of other 10,14 train, his greaser in the base: admirably adapted for its own per-� ons—in the latter respact he is not end came, as the most horrible noise
gulls screaming over a herring head. hospital, and the rest of his crew gone', pose, and had advantages over mans surpassed, if, indeed, he is equalled, I thePihad ever lle ttentioneofd. Central a British trawler Sir Arthurvers ahowsiitha�ard to trade.
n spite of the
But you'd never know the old town down to Davy. He hadn't sant the ash machines that helped Brit -
I by any man who ever drove a plane—
now, says an English writer. For the, wife a telegTam advising her that he'for some time to claim mastery of the are his chief characteristics. He has was attracted, and it hastened to the feeling against Germans engendered
quays which have been slowly ratting was coming, however. It seems that t air. The Fokker was light, and it had II th 'i h h b towed rescue. The condition of the survive by the Franco-Prussian War, Gorman
away under a railroad monopoly has the men of the aweePers don't send;° good engine, and as a defence ma- ors ahovved that their expeutnces m trade with Fiance from War,
to 101
lasted ever since railroads were in their wives telegrams when they are I, chine was hard to beat,
vented, are now spruced up, and given leave. They merely go home,' Famous German Airman.
there's a cosy little dr dock, and the just as you do when our day's work
warehouses flaunt a startlingly fresh y y y 1 Being lighter it was swifter and
coat of paint. For the Royal Naval is done. Women whose husbands are
coat mount more rapacity than the --*
Trawler Reserve runs them now. away on the sweepers don't care about
:British machines, which, built for DIRTIEST TOWN IN ASIA.
receiving telegrams. voyages over the German lines, had
Keeping Watch and !Yard. A few corners down the dark street; to carry enough gas for four and a Hit, Reesenajr Captured, Looks Beau -
=
in front of the Royal Hotel is —for night is really night on the war ,half hours'
flying. The FokkPii epee= •
tiful, Only From a Distance.
an empty embankment of weather -col- . coasts—the dark structure of the base sting always behind :ke Merman lines,
1• h u fed recent
won a e Brits oilers e3
on Ball and Hawker, and he survives the submarine had been of a dreadful er cent., while Anglo -
as the commander of a squadron to increased sixty p
add new laurels to his magnificent re- character. French commerce expanded Only half
- - — as much, He attributes this difference
cord. BELGIAN VILLAGE IN leNGLAND.
to speedy railway tragic opposed to
the slowness of transportation by sea
Wounded Refugees Make Shells for and urges the construction of the
British Army. Channel tunnel as the surest way to
New townships have sprung up in avoid the latter. At a meeting in
all parts of England, owing to the de- London recently he explained the im-
mand for housing for munition work- portance of the subject and said it
would be practicable for through
trains to run between London and
Constanbinople.
Had the tunnel been completed be-
fore the war the struggle might have
been victoriously ended by this time.
Obviating submarine perils, it would
have saved hundreds of lives and
BeOree of cargoes of supplies lost be-
tween the. English coast and the
French ports. Had it been begun even
during the first months of the strug-
gle it could have been completed by
this time. Now it is proposed to be-
gin in earnest the great work, which
will not only help Europe but be re-
flected in many channels of American
trade, particularly in raw materials,
which, worked up in England, will be
passed on to the Continent as finished
products.
ored wood, with a fire -step and sand hospital rises three stories from the carried only enough fuel for two , Fitt, w uc wa ore p
bags and barbed wire. And down on street, all its windows darkened to hears, - ars Mr. Raymond Levin, who plan-
sun
I ly, viewed from a mile or two down- sed the Rust garden city at Latch -
the long beach; where trippers used to', screen ft from aeroplane attack. Men Fokker, Immelmann used to stream, reminds one of a town in
sun themselves in one-piece bathing don't talk about the sights and 58ti13s' Iii his eit up at an altitude of 10,000 feet and Italy, writes Edmund Candler, British
worth, hoe been appointed by the Min -
suits while the beach -barkers barked 1 of the little base leeepital, and the swoop down like a hawk upon the Press representative in Mesopotamia. istry of Munitions to superintend the
acid the bathing machines formed hospital's a cteglur"haves no hint of the Brftfsh planes flying at 7,000 feet. It But as one enters it the enchantment building of these model townships.
queues, is attend an„a=ney Wench in the . Malan' salvage within which is being :is not to be wondered at that with this that distance lends disappears. OneThe War Pictorial says:after
sand with a barbed wire entaangleinent mended as skilfully as lies within the advantage in position and in machine cannot escape from refuse in these Eliz a ilfens some 4,000 the
in front of it all, all empty and watt- power of the finest medical, men in the he should have made a formidable ; small, ancient Biblical cities. It is the . 'Queen Belmaking gians,
el-
ing. i land. Most of its cases offthe sweep- .score, but even so, Mr. Grey notes, he i salient thing. They are built on re- ; gian soldiers aresh army. Of these Oells fore to
And if you undertake to walk on the i ers are nerve cases, for if you escape has never heard any R.F.C. man say fuse. The Hit of to-do is built on a have seen service in the field, and
pleasure pier, an armed sailor of the death when your sweeper hits a mine i that the German was not a great air strata of Hits dating back to the ,more than three-quarters have been
Royal Navy will stand in front of you usually you suffer from no more than fighter. Ava of the Bible. The debris without;
and ask you where you're going, and ',"nerves" and 'submersion—if you, He had a letter from a crack Brit-In
grows until it threatens to dominate 'townshi s, ElLikiza
bhe other a munition
the walls of the tow• yet the debris Pproduct
why.escape death.
And scattered over the little fish- r
ing village are a certain number of,The Song of the Land Army.
old wrecks of dwelling houses, cont- The smell of rich earth, plow up-
fortable houses wrecked by German 1 turn'd, the rain from soft but
shells. persisting skies,
And high over the village, at the' The starting wheat in its velvet green,
top of a long, slanting cable which you the sounding wind that the damp
can pick out against the sky as thin as earth dries,
x hair, if Your eyes are good, the bol-• The white-tail'd lark with its liquid
loon -watch is watching and waiting note, the bursting buds and the
to see what it can see.
I used the phrase "fishing village"' streams afloat,
Give me Thy passionate 1
ove of these,
a couple of paragraphs back. But the Lord till I diel
manager of the hotel remarked a few
minutes ago, "I wouldn't fish now for
a pound an hour, You oughtto see
some of the stuff they bring up." For
this is "nineteen hundred and war-
time," and you have to have a permit
to fish. There are only one or two
crews fishing here now—i.e., fl:;hing
for herring—and they go out and
come in at specified times and fish in
specified areas. And if they neglect
to observe the specifications, they lose
their permits in a jiffy and are bund-
led off into the Army.
But the few of them that are still at
it are minting fabulous auras from the
Reserves, which fishes for German
mines.
ish flyer when Immelmann's fame was: !of the war.
at its height, and he said: et had a within never decreases, and being; „Elizabethville is situated in one o4
scrap with Immelmann the other day. more recent it is more offensive, i the most beautiful i valleys of northern
of
He flies a monoplane, fires through One would think that bitumen must
his propeller and flies beautifully. We have a purging effect. The Arabs' England. Its population is entirely
got off drums of ammunition at one used to call these bitumen wells, which Belgian, possible repeveroduces as faith -
of Bel -
another, apparently without results, are scattered all over the desert, the _
Bel -
except plenty of holes in my ma-' mouths of hell." There is one within : the town
own life.
havehe c t provided by
all
chine." ,half a mile of Hit, and it hives up to ,the
Ministry of Munitions, and each
Bolcke was another Folcker flyer, its reputed origin. One need not ask . cottage has a garden attached,"
and a contemporary of Immelmames,'the way to it, one is guided by the, g
though he did not rise to fame so soon.: smell; and when one reaches the j JEWS TORTURED TO DEATH.
To him is said to belong the credit of spring one is bald there watching it
developing the German system of with a horrid fascination.•tt The •sh s Jurke Claim Germans Instigated
' training a number of airmen to fight gas spurts up m m ermi en fru Atrocities to Bagdad Residents.
The golden grain to the harvest white, in regular formation on the lines of raising the scum in bubbles like g1
the whirring fall of the firm- what later on came to be known as a frantic black boils which distend and I Details of the brutal treatment of
Zion -
bound wheat, "caress." His circus became famous. ;burst with a hissing sound. The pitch; Jews in Mesopotamia are given by a
The burning suns in the azure skies; discharges itself down a slope, where 'correspondent of the Provisional Zion -
the peewee's earn -call wild and Richt.hofen's Circus. I it is collected and carried away. One ; ist Committee who accompanied the
sweet, One of his pilots was Richthofen, finds it on the roofs and stairs and 'British army. The Jews in Bagdad
The black clouds rent by the lightning probably the finest of all German fly- streets of Hit. Boats are caulked ;were ordered by the Turks to hand in
pale, the daisies whitening every ers, who was killed by a Canadian a ; with it. It is invaluable for boat their gold and silver money, for which
dale, few weeks ago. Richthofen would ap- bridges. 'notes were given in exchange, The
Give me Thy passionate love of these, pear to have all the qualifications for 1 The pitch is the bituminous rest- sudden addition to the paper currency,
Lord, till I diel success as an airman. He was a cave due of the asphaltic base oil distilled already depreciated, caused a further
The des'late winde on the browning airy officer by training, a horseman, . by the sun. The nature of the surface ,decline, and the Turkish Government
wastes, the red full weight of the and a game shot by family tradition. discha'according gestin the age and
!oho d varies
One rebuked the local officials.
apple trees, When given command of a squadron ty. I The rich Jews were thereupon sum -
The bracing air of steely dawns the f h' h d 1 ped the Bolcke finds congealed lakes of asphalt, 'moiled to court and accused of a de -
yellow leaves in a twinkling
breeze,
Headquarters, France, and was cable
to Ottawa by Sir Edward Kemp, Min-
ister of Overseas Forces,
"Carry on" has been the motto of
Canadian nursing sisters since the
enemy airmen bombed their hospitals,
and their courage and steadfastness
has gunned them the admiration of
all British, French and American
soldiers who have conte under their
care. Night after night for over a
week two of the largest of our Can-
adian hospitals worked steadily. al-
though they were in the very centre
of one of the heavily bombed areas.
Several of the nursing sseveral of
iterwere
killed and wounded,
the staff were wiped out.
"We Will Carry On."
The colonel of one hospital de-
cided to send the blue -gowned girls
to a distant hospital on the coast,
practically immune from raids. A
few were started for this haven, then
from the others came a great protest.
"We will carry on," they •declared,
and the colonel permitted then to re-
main.
Each night the sisters on duty ever°
served with shrapnel -proof shields to
wear under their uniforms. Emergency
operationa were carried through with-
out a hitch, and many a soldier's life
was saved, although the surgical putt
rocked with the force of the exp
from bombs that dropped only a few
yards off. In other huts, when the
raid syren was blown, these indomit-
able girls from Canada went through
their wards and gently lifted helpless
patients to the floor, where, under the
shelter of tha eandbag barrier that
lined the hut, they were comparative-
ly safe from flying shrapnel. Then
and only then they sought shelter in
the bomb -proof shelters. If unluckily
a ward wan lilt by a bomb, one of the
first to rush to the rescue would be a
nursing sister as cool as she was cour-
ageous—° wonderful tonic for the
shell-shocked men who were in her
care.
Faced Daily Death.
BRITISHERS OF 51 CALLED UP.
Sir Auckland Geddes is Trying to Sup-
ply Urgent Need.
!ben of forty-nine, fifty and fifty-
one have been called up for medical
examination for the army, says a re-
cent London despatch. In this con-
nection Sir Auckland Geddes, the man
power controller, is quoted by the
chairman of the Bristol conscription
tribunal as °eying he is trying to
meet the urgent need for men fora
year or two longer, and expects that
the tribunals will do the same.
He is aware of the public feeling
about calling up older men while
younger ones remain, but some of the
younger men are essential to the
o is own a eve o munitions supply and cannot be re -
circus to a remarkable degree. His smooth and flat and hard as pavement, liberate attempt to depreciate the moved to the fighting forces until the
men were not only aviators, but gym -'standing a foot above grouted, and one Government credit. They were torture older men are able to do their work,
The cornfields brown and the chip- nests. Their machinee were painted 'finds imperfectly solidified stretches, ed to death and their bodies thrown Sir Auckland adds that there are
I spent an evening with a dozen of , muelcs, the far triangle of wild- in all sorts of harlequin colors. They .as
ocks Ain
iyoa walk on arkle it a Cha qt mi lane ' arta the Tigris. 60,000 fewer men an the government
thorn in the Old Blue Anchor. Half . duck honks, moved from place to place along the g i These discoveries were made when departments now than three years
ch
the number were skippers—one from; Give me Thy passionate love of the -e, front, and when the weather was fa -,lane theg. crudeogil from s of this
which petttol, 'the British entered Bagdad. Of the ago.
Deal, one from Milford Haven, one ;Ford, till I diel vocable they always gave two per- persecutions at Alvali, the correspon-
formanees a day, one in the morning ]cerasins fuel, and lubricating oil are dent says they were instigated and
when they were all together, and one prepared. I organized by the Germans. The Turks
later in the day, when the survivors ! Bitumen, water -wheels and dirt are have admitted this. _
gave solo stunts. !likely to he the abiding impressions -
R•ichtofen's circus flew Albatross 1 that the soldier will carry away from Forest Studies in New Brunswick.
biplanes, but shortly before the Ger- 'Hit. I have always thought of Hit prof. R. B. Mallet, of the University
man Spring offensive began, Rich.tho- as the dirtiest little town an Asan., and of Now Brunswick, will iia employed
in than judgment the sentiment of the jointly this summer by the New Bions- dreams
Preferred a Torpedo.
from Cardiff, one from Aberdeen, one
from Yarmouth and the other a
Lowestoft man, In their peace -time
days they used to wear earrings, and
gaudy mufflers, and straps around
their trousers just below the knees., As sure and bravely as a tree.
But now the Royal Naval Rererve• '
clothes them, and they wear the cross -II do not ask why tireless grief
ed anchors and crown in red of war-! Remains or why all beauty flies;
rant ofiieers, R.N,P.R., on their caps I only crave the blind relief
and on the left sleeves of their square -1 Of branches groping toward the
cut Navy-blue jackets. But they still ' skies,
cling to their earrings.
In one corner of the Old Blue An-, Let me bring every seed to fruit.
of H.M. Minesweeper X-6760, which' The strong persistence of the root, Richthofen was brought. dawn he cot ci
Prayer for Courage.
Why should I long for what I know
Can never be revealed to me?
T only pray that I may grow
The Sighing of the Prisoners.
The endless length of days,
So full of dreariness and useless
pain!
Interminable nights,
When even respite in the land of
f who had been in Germany, pre-
en, v Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force is_
lnew-pilots, returned wire Forest Service and file Botanical Is sought in vain;
gumab v training
!with me. But now, in one small cor-
to the front and he and the men un- Division of the Dominion Department The cruel hunger pangs
(ler him were equipped with Fokker atter of. the town where a familiar flag of Agriculture, in malting a study of That gnaw and grip and tear as
triplanes, which are said to be badly is flying, masons and scavengers are forest tree diseases in NOV Brans- wolf its prey!
made copies of the Brattish Sopwith, busy; immemorial sntelle are being w•.iek The burning, parching thirst
Their engines, however, were good, I esoreise<l, and the work of purgation - That no barbarism with a dripping
chor's public bar, the ship's orchestra Sharing, whatever comes to pass, and tate men expert flyers, and when'hFt• begun.
tel I
used to be the trawler Little Bay, was The patient courage of the grass, console himself with the reflection .
Poeling Tomatoes.
performing between its mugs of stout. ITeartetted by every source of mirth, that he had done his bit, and done it 1 Prick some holes in the bottom of
It consisted of an accordion, a mouth- 1 shall not mind the wounds and with a chivalry rare among Germans. 1 the tomatoes with a fork and hold
organ, a jeev's heap, and an old tin pan So much has been written about ' them over the fire for an instant. This
which was clanged with a couple of scars, f•,uynemer, the French ace, whose I will crack the skin and make them
spoons 1 the t ' ' ask All its Feeling the solid strength of earth, sante will never he forgotten, and f easier to peel.
m.
member
Scouring the Floor. sponge
Before scouring your floor, sprinkle Seeks to allay;
a good washing powder mixed with The wretched worthless years!
sand over it. Do this at least an hour The fettered soul—while soulless
before scrubbing, and wally over it so beasts go freel
the mixture will be rubbed into the The haunting memories—
floor. This removes all grease and Oh, God, in pity, send forgetfulness—
leaves the floor very white. Or liberty!
by a s lip s conk, ' The bright conviction aP. tlne�.mtxi0.7
•s wore the blue, flat hat with I
In the Canadian casualty clearing
stations closer to the lines girls faced
daily death and possible capture with
an ever-changing front. More. than
one hospital has been heavily shelled
during a battle when the teeth of
wounded was so continuous there
could be no thought. of et actin Hug the
place.
On some occasions (luring the
March -April offensive. the hospitals
were drenched with enemy gas, and
the sisters had to wear gas masks for
hours doing what gentle tasks they
could with such a handicap, 'When
forward casualty clearing stations
were swept away little bands of these
brave girls marched with the retiring
troops, occasionally getting a lift on
an ambulance until they reached some
other overworked hospital, and there.
they would forget their fatigue and
join mercy. their
Some aCanadia Cs in anadian sisters sisterwork
kwho
came through that ordeal actually did
duty ite ae many as five different hos-
pitals in the week, aeorev of miles
apart.
In the big base cemetery alongside
the graves of hundreds of the Tem-
pire's bravest; are the little white
wooden crosses that, snarl; the resting
place of those heroic Ceaudian sieters
who died on duty. ":Kane. t in nctinn"
is the simple inscription, :tea mothers
and fathers in Canada can be proud
of it, for it is the sante am that which
the fighting soldier earns when he
falls storming an enemy tr: nth. They
are of the sante breed, theme tender
valiant sisters from overseite,
?baking Potatoes Help.
In Belgium potatoes are more than
a food. When soap became-. unobtain-
able Belgium's housewivee were in a
quandry as to how to }get then. laun-
dry clean until 801110 ane diecovered
that by letting clothee soalc all day in
water in which peeled potatoes had
been boiled and then rutting them ae
you would in a lather the clothes
would eome out snow-white.
'Why not let potatoes help us as they
have the European couniti iee, if not to
launder our clothes at least to take the
place of wheab? The more potatoes
we eat the less wheat we meed. A me-
dium-sized potato, weighing about
three and one-half ouncee, su.ppliee
about as much starch as two small
slices of wheat broad one-half aunt
thick. In other reepeete, also, the
potato measures tip well with wheat
breed and even has the advantage over
it In supplying certain sante which the
body node to counteract the aeidity
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In the Canadian casualty clearing
stations closer to the lines girls faced
daily death and possible capture with
an ever-changing front. More. than
one hospital has been heavily shelled
during a battle when the teeth of
wounded was so continuous there
could be no thought. of et actin Hug the
place.
On some occasions (luring the
March -April offensive. the hospitals
were drenched with enemy gas, and
the sisters had to wear gas masks for
hours doing what gentle tasks they
could with such a handicap, 'When
forward casualty clearing stations
were swept away little bands of these
brave girls marched with the retiring
troops, occasionally getting a lift on
an ambulance until they reached some
other overworked hospital, and there.
they would forget their fatigue and
join mercy. their
Some aCanadia Cs in anadian sisters sisterwork
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came through that ordeal actually did
duty ite ae many as five different hos-
pitals in the week, aeorev of miles
apart.
In the big base cemetery alongside
the graves of hundreds of the Tem-
pire's bravest; are the little white
wooden crosses that, snarl; the resting
place of those heroic Ceaudian sieters
who died on duty. ":Kane. t in nctinn"
is the simple inscription, :tea mothers
and fathers in Canada can be proud
of it, for it is the sante am that which
the fighting soldier earns when he
falls storming an enemy tr: nth. They
are of the sante breed, theme tender
valiant sisters from overseite,
?baking Potatoes Help.
In Belgium potatoes are more than
a food. When soap became-. unobtain-
able Belgium's housewivee were in a
quandry as to how to }get then. laun-
dry clean until 801110 ane diecovered
that by letting clothee soalc all day in
water in which peeled potatoes had
been boiled and then rutting them ae
you would in a lather the clothes
would eome out snow-white.
'Why not let potatoes help us as they
have the European couniti iee, if not to
launder our clothes at least to take the
place of wheab? The more potatoes
we eat the less wheat we meed. A me-
dium-sized potato, weighing about
three and one-half ouncee, su.ppliee
about as much starch as two small
slices of wheat broad one-half aunt
thick. In other reepeete, also, the
potato measures tip well with wheat
breed and even has the advantage over
it In supplying certain sante which the
body node to counteract the aeidity
restating from the use of much eere-
tile, treat and eggs.
"Therms in the flesh moan noses in
the soup"e-••Wi'idiam H. Ridg eity.