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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-8-15, Page 3r WHEN THEIR TANK WAS SMASHED WAY HAPPENED WHEN "SHE" WAS PUT OUT OF ACTION. Incident In Day's Flghting on leritieh Front Described by Lieut. J. ES Morton, It war a misty day and the wood twits hardly kknee. The British in- fantry hurl teem held up an the road, and ahem] of -theta tames uredo Ihmir way into the mist under a heavy ellen lire, one of them wan at1v11netng nit tho wood tylion a 5,e shell smashed Be track. The driver turned round to the oliim', The tank would not, Melee. They ,fur that. the only thing to do was to lave her (It. IMP a "female" taelt, armed only with Lewis guns). The crew trot out and crawled into ellen mess, winging their gulls with them. They were seen froth the wood, and ume man was 1111 in the leg by a machine-gun bullet. They ar- ranged their guns with a view to ob- trhiing the Ira fielder fire, and pre- pared to wait for the infantry. The wwmded mutt W43 bandaged up and sat .etrolilttg in tLe bottom of a hole, The (){Meer lay on Itis stomach and cursed the luck that had deprived him of his tunic, which was attrueting a certain cumber of shells as it lay in the filial behind theta. Qut For An Adventure. Presently the-afilcor, (trawling up mid down, paused behind one of the holes. "Can „4 go -out, sir?" asked one of the Wren, „Ont where?" "Jest to see the Ile of things, sir." "Ali right. Don't go and run your nose into a trap, Hamilton." "Very goad, sir." The man took his revolver and drawled off. "lie's slaking for the wood, sir," snid elle of tad rash nresently. "Good Lord!" ejaculated the onl- cer. "it's full of Germans." They waited, wondering when the infantry would come up. Ten min- utes passed, and IIamilton was still away. They began to be :afraid that he had walked into a trap after all, but still they could not quite believe it, for he was an old hand with a big reputation for little "stunts" of ids own; the typo of man who is always !restless and inactive. A quartet' of an hour passed and still no sign of him, and still the infantry did not come. Then suddenly in the mist a blurted mass appeared. It came nearer, and the meu recognized German uniforms. The Lewis' guns were quickly turned en them, whoa the. officer realized that they were unarmed men. IIe directed his men to keep their angers oe the triggers in case of a surprise. Then he gut up, revolver in (land, and walked towards the party. Their hands went up at once, and a gruff voice from their rear shouted out: "It's all right, sir. They're all priaoners." Behind some thirty men walked IIamilton, very cool and collected, with his revolver in his hand and a smile on hie face. "Not bad," said the officer. "Thank you, sir." When the infantry game up the prisoners were seat to the rear, and two bearers tools the wounded man away, The rest of the tauk crew at- tached themselves to a cherry young company commander. "Tate more the merrier," was his greeting to them. In front of there a sound of tiring marked where the other tanks were doing their wont. The infantry ad- vanced In their waste to the outskirts of a village, while bombers were clearing the wood. UP the village street the leading tank went, a "male," with two six -pounder guns, It took a strong barricade at the top of. the street in its stride, and passed on over it, spitting Are viciously all the time, Behind the other tanks follow- ed the infantry clearing the houses and cellars. Among there, with a rifle and bay- onet be had picked up, was Hamilton, When he was last seen that day he was lying down behind Sonne bricks, sniping at Germans who were running down a slope outside the village; he was quite happy and akmost consoled for the loss of his tank CARE IN CANNERY Canadian Housewives May Thus Avoid Danger of Poison "Botulism" has an unpleasannt ring in the ears. In plain English it means poisoning from the eating of canned vegetables or fruits, There is no reason why there should be one case of botulism in Canada this year provided„ the war garden produce is properly handled No bacterial life exists, or con ex- ist, in successfully canned products. Baciltus hotulinne will never be found in proprye canned goods. found in properly canned goods Cooping castled vegetables for ten minutes at tho boiling point after opening the jar for use will remove any datnger in cases where complete suecess has not rewarded the efforts of. the amateur canner. Two ounces of fat per day is as much as any person needs.. Venice is called "The Queen of the AdrIatic," from its position on that Sta, and its historic and artistic dis- tinction. WAF ETY A Mechanical Perfection There we many remons why the intoStrop is the ideal Ryle t t ', tu,r, hilt Ona Mantle ant nude r snduenny than Not others and µt 1 Landon* appeal to (Ivory "linlnht rf ihn Air", that Is, its methanic lnet ruction. I : cry at lator know., and apProniates whet rnechanical peacetioa mean3— hi,'plane most he perfect In every dutatl to avoid acctdentu. Ilia razor must be posfecticn {Writ to ohm compute i ,fectian, Tao Art litr p le the nue r eor that will 1:1,0 c-nthth •us s r roe without the atm acs of loping now blad,a, Levan,. It is the onlY taro' that €harfeus it own id lea Put"n,10'- 0-11 --the 12 Ila lyes you receive tvti,rm AuteStr ep µd11 /dive you at i least -00 oloan, comforta/10 slovens. Special Military Outfit Price, $5.00 At Caseins Stare, Everywhere AutoStrop S acetyRazor Co. I mitad 53.87 Dute St., Toronto, Ont. 55 -5 -Ib NORAH THE RAT -KILLER. Astonishing Record of a Dog Owned by a Canadian Private. "Dogs of war" are again in the fore• ground of the news from the battle- fields in France. It is timely, accordingly, to tell of a dog which holds ono of the most in- teresting records that has been made on the western front sin:o the war be- gan. It is the rat -killing record, The dog that holds 1t is a little browny -yellow Irish terrier, of the feminine sex, whose name, though it ought to be Boadicea or Amazon, or something equally warlike, is the eminently maidenish ono of Norah. Norah, until her arrival hack in )ng - land a few weeps ago, had been in I`rmee for two years and ten months, and in that time she accounted for over 100,000 rats. Norah, who is just over three years old, went to France with a British sol- dier when she was a poppy aged three weeks. Before she was nine weeks old she had killed her first rat, and she has been killing them steadily ever since. The best single dny's re- cord that she put up In that time was 628 rodents accounted for. That was near St. Omer, in August last. Her naturally proud owaer, Pte. Thomas Radford, of the Canadian Veterinary Corps, ]rept a record of her perform- ances, rat by rat., up to August last, at which time Norah's total was the astonishing one of 74,119, since then her record has been largely by esti. mate. Every married man can name one woman who has a fine husband. Sones `' our OWilTaste 4 OIL Cali vary �p the strength of your iNSTANT ' OSTU by ustntj��7, either w� a• more or less or the powder to r, the cup. A. level teaspoonful see/: s to please most people. n A DELIC101J$ DRINK MORE HEALTHFUL 7t1ANYMOR COFFEE r ' x• Attractive • t Quite as smart, as her older sister's costume is this of the small girl, Mc- _-_- Call Pattern No. 8430, Girl's Sleeve- less Coat, In 5 sues, ti to 14 years. AMONG THE ISOLATED PEOPLE Price, 15 cents, No. 8236, Girl's OF BELGIUM. Blouse and Skirt, In 5 sizes, f to 14 years. Price, 20 cents. -- The "Magna C Marta Table" On Juno 16, 1215, King John set his seal to the great charter of Eng- lish Liberty at Ruunymetle, on an island in the Th,uuee, well knowtl as YIagna Ghana island. The table at which he sat is Still presm.vtid. HARD CONDITIONS OF LIFE This design has quite a novel idea in hip drapery. McCall Pattern No. 8400, Ladies' Dress. In 7 sizes, 34 1 i to 46 bust. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St,, Tor- onto, Dept. W. -- FOREST FiRES IN GERMANY. How Our Enemy Conserves His Forest Wealth. If Canada presented Germany with one hundred machine guns, the Gov- ernment responsible for the act would not only be deposed but thrown luta prison, Any weakening of Canada's natural resources is equivalent to direct gift to the Teuton adversary, says the Canadian Forestry Journal, It adds to our handicaps and to his relative ad- vantages. It saps this country's power to bear up in time of war and during the trade struggle of peace times, for the natural resources are the great keynotes on which the na- tional arch depends. To have our forests burn down by wanton acts of our own population is quite as pleasing to the Hun as to send Paid bombers into our munition plants, To see the national strength re. Anted by stingy lire protection serves the German aim quite as handily as to submarine our ships If German remits were disappear - Ing as fast fie our own, some sense of military satisfaction might be felt at the present time. But such is not the case. In Saxony, with 486,000 acres of forests, the loss from fire is rarely more than $300 per annum. Wurtem- bnrg, with 418,000 acres of forest, losses about $660 per annum. The Duchy of Baden, with 240,000 acres, had only 99 acres burned in ulne Years. Thus, in about 1,828 square miles of German forest, the loss tune about $960 a year, Similar figures ap- ply to other German forest areas. Canada, of course, millet hope to eetablksh conditions of tout manage- ment analogous to those of Germany, and the fire hazard will long remain alartningly high„ certainly until the great peril of logging fault fa thoroughly removed. But even with all allowances for our peculiar edtua• Gen in whiclr all steps toward conser- vation must be gauged by the likli• mood of immediate profit in terms of cash, Canada's forest fire losses re. mttin ottt of all proportion to our "fr. reducible minimum." Not Taken Any Tommy (to Hun who ingratiatingly offers Iron Cross)—No thanks Frits,. !SunVot? Yon won't ]ntnf it? if you vas a German you'd haf to hat it, Description of the Present Situation by a Prominent Brussels Lawyer Who Has Just Eeicaped. The rich people are spending their. capital, the people of the middle class are completely ruined and the labor- ing class, the majority of whom ar unemployed, are on the verge o starvation and entirely dependent o relief from outside. Most peopl have lost 25 per cent. of their weigh the cases of tuberculosis have increas- ed by 100 per cent. and the doctors in spite of their untiring devotion can no longer cope with the work. Th mortality, which was 8.5 per 1000 in 1913, was 19.30 in 1917, and the birth rate has decreased from 17 per 1000 to 13.7. The shortage of coal is due mostly to lack of means of transport, the railways and even the barges on the rivers and canals having been requisi- tioned. In Brussels a ton is worth anything between $50 and $00. In Flemish communes the Germans have given special facilities for transport and purchase to their "Activist" friends, who are monopolizing the trade and are able to sell at a much lower price ($20 to $30 a ton), realiz- ing at the same time a net profit of over $30 per ton, They insure in this way the fidelity of this little band of traitors. A similar organiza- tion teas set up for Brussels, but it was boycotted by the public. Belgian Patriots Lose Positions A similar policy with regard to the "Activists" has been pursued lately in every department of public life. Some of them fill several offices, being at the same time professors in the Ger- man -Flemish University at Ghent and chiefs of some department of the new Flemish Ministry in Brussels. The place of every patriot who resigned was promptly filled by some "Activist" without any claim or right to it. Young undergraduates have been made professors and small employes are at the head of important offices. This policy is not without some in- convenience when dealing with such a motley crowd of shady characters. About a dozen "Activists" who had been given important posts in the new administration have had to be dis- missed for accepting bribes. e f n, weight ,i I The importance of the separatist movement has been greatly exaggerat- ed abroad. At the demonstration which took place at Antwerp in Feb- ruary Test, and to which the rank and file of the movement had come from the smallest village in Flanders, only between 300 and 400 men formed the procession. Altogether at that time the "Activists" certainly dirt not num- ber 1500, out of a population of 6,- 600,000, Since then, after the anti• Activist campaign started all over Flanders, their number has greatly diminished. Secret meetings of patriots were held at night to 'take the necessary measures in view of the forthcoming visit of "Activist" load - ors. At Ghent they were booed, at Antwerp stones and laud were thrown at them, and for two days they were hunted from house to house: at Tirloa moist peasants armed with whips broke up their procession, and the garrison of Louvain had to be called out to rescue them from the hands of mob; at Mantles an infuriatedthey were beaten. I am inclined to think that tho sop- aratist movement has strengthened the morale of the Belgians instead of deteriorating it, The pact made by the "Activists" with the enemy has 'stirred the people's deepest energies, "We have lost everything," you hear them say; "we have lost our liberty, our comfort, our flag, our King, to preserve our honor. Shall we allow this band of corrupted spies to pose ns our representatives and to stain our good name?" By shaking hands with the. German Chancellor the mem- bers of the Council of Flanders have prevented many from having anything ED, 7, ISSUE 82-••.'18 i • The 1 -le That God Forgave, 'rhe smoke of flu battle, flying, cleared! The dead and dying Lay strewn, DO more their guns to weld, llelplens, on a livid field! 'Nild the hying bullets moaning, l.ay ;n11'1'11'11 wsu yotrng t'mldkc+r, groaning. His pxiznt'ul brrtttltiug caane iza sighs: The Mtn of death crept into his eves. Then suddenly the boy Emitted a !Ty of joy. "Mettler!" he cried, with outstretched hattda, Then fell !mirk, weakly. cin the shell uu•n sand.. A ltnr!, ai (lod'a behest 1)1•ow 1:/111 to her brevet. Front her heart was torn a tear, As ehe wideperten softly, "Mother is here," Ile knew note that she lied: lie smiled in to nee . then died. Ate! ee/e mer% ler beyond the sky, l iia All -seeing one forgave the Ile.. LEMONS WHITEN AND BEAUTIFY THE SKIN Make this beauty lotion cheaply for your face, neck, arms and hands. At the cost of a small ,far of ordinary to do with the humblest of his re- "'Id eream nue can yropare a toil guar presentatives in lieigium, ter Pint i,f rile mr t wonderful iculnn Huns "Doctor" The News skin softener un,] t�owon l�•u demon The same result has been produced jiki be often e in^ tar' jui<;• nt two fresh l ut nc iare a 1),.: tie containing three by the enee then g fate -heed under- ,tutees of orchard will e. Care: should talren, since the l,egnnnarr of the war, be taiion to ,strain the juice through a by La Belgique, Le Bruxellois and tine cheat so no lemon pulp gets in, other newspapers published in Flemish then this lotion will keep fresh for and in french by the Kommandatur, ri,,,,,tlis. Every weinan knows that Taking advantage of the. recent offen-'iemen juice is seed to bleach acid re - sive, they de,..lare that the French and: move such bismishes as freckles, sal. English are starving, that Paris is! lowness and tan and is the !deal akin threatened by another Commune, thatlsolteuer, whitener and beautifier. England will never give back Calais! Just try it! Got {.gree ounces of to Franco and that America is arm-, orchard white at any drug store and ing not so much against Germany as � t5so Iemans from oke grocer and make against Japan, The people read tale up a quarter pint of this sweetly frag- communiques and laugh at the vain'rant Leman lotion and massage it daily boasts of the leading articles. Even • into the face, neck, arms and hands. after the recent successes of the Ger-IIt is marvelous to smoothen rough, man armies in France they remain ab- red hands. solutely confident in the final and con .—. elusive victory of the Allied armies. !}'omen an the Farm German propaganda floods the coup- The women on the land at present try with caricatures of President Wil- nut he hundreds of thousands present son, u. Lloyd George and M. Clem-' out counting farmerettes. The farm- with- enceau. On the other hand the Kaiser ere' wiveh and the farmers' daughters appears in their illustrated papers in have been Bard at work all year; their striking heroic attitudes. One pie- div is never ended, milking, feeding Lure showed him reviewing troops in poultry and pigs, butter making, hand - seen the signboard of a shop: "GuiI_ ling eggs for market, etc. Their chor- laume, Boucher"; this paper had a es are innumerable and in addition to great success, and all the copies were that they have their own family tasks, sold within a day, cares and responsibilities. At harv- What the Belgians feel comet is be. est tone they have the additional• bur- ing cut ori from the outer world and den of feeding the harvest hands. being deprived of news from the arm There is plenty of room for war ; er- y vice on the part of town girls who and the Allied countries, The only want to help in the war in volunteer - messengers from behind the lines" ing to help farmers" wives on the which reach the Belgians from time to time arneighboring farms during the harvest e army pigeons. Recently in the Hainault province, two work - 'rush. Tari:• would release the farm - men found a pigeon carrying a ties- er's wife from her household duties and sage asking for certain information, add her effective labor for outside They could not give the information, work in aid of her husband who will but they thought that they had at last be hard put to it to get in his crops found means of communicating with this season. Helping the farmer's some of their relations at the front. wife this year is just as important as any other war work that women So they promptly wrote to them and can take up, let the bird loose. Through some ac- ^_ olden the pigeon fell within rho Ger- Production and Conservation Essential Ger- man lines, and the two workmen were condemned to be shot. eso shall That rigid economy and the elimin- ave die for a pigeon," the first said. The ation of waste in the consumption of second asked to be shaved before ap- all food stuffs must be continued peering before the firing squad, a'If throughout Allied Countries to guard they have my akin;' he declared, "I against harvest failure and the possi- want it to be cleaner than theirs." hof having to feed larger mili- tary drafts from America to Europe, forms the substance of a resolution passed by the Food Controllers of Great Britain, United States, Franco and Italy and forwarded to the Can- ada Food Board at Ottawa, The Al- lied Food Controllers assembled in London on July 22nd. After full con- sideration of the food resources of the Allied Cuntries, on hand, in transit e— 0—e—o—m—o—o--o WITH THE FINGERS! SAYS CORNS LIFT OUT WITHOUT ANY PAIN 0-0—e—e--0---0— o--o—o--o--o—o—o Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or any kind of a corn can shortly be lift- ed right out with the lingers if you will apply on the corn a, few drops of treezono, says a Cincinnati author!tY. At little cost one can get a small bottle of treezono at any drug store, which will positively rid one's feet of ovary corn or callus without pain or soreness or the danger of infection, This new drug is an ether com- pound, sad dries the moment it is ap- plied and does not inflame or even Ir- ritate the surrounding tissue. Just think! You can lift off your corns and calluses now without a bit of pain or soreness. If your druggist hasn't freezone he can easily get a small bet, tle for you from his wholesale drug house. Are You ITsing Wild Fruits? Fruit is going to be scarce this year, Winter was hard on fruit trees and the small fruits have not been plenti- ful so far. In England the crop for jam malting is also reported short, and the soldiers require vast quanti- ties of jam. People who live near wild berry patches should make a point of picking all they eon. Get tlie children out in the berry patch. Wild raspberry jam and wild bine. berry jam are two great Canadian delicacies. Use wild fruit and there will be more tame fruit for the can- neries to ship as jam to the soldiers, rlitard'r &Mutant Ottror Winton:gm 'The Explanation Instructor --Look here, what'a the matter vitt{ you mon? There hasn't been an inner signalled for the last tan minutes. Bright ISeeruit--S think some one must have shot the Marker, lair, t MANGE CANADA Soda Fountains Restricted. Since July 15 proprietors of soda fountains and ice cream establish- ; meats have been ordered to use, shire ing melt of the months of July, Aug., ust and September, not more than 78 per rents of the average monthly amount of sugar used during the year 1917. No retail grocer Shall sell •agar to any manufacturer unless ueh manufacturer has obtained a speelel hermit from the Canada Food. Board to purchase sugar from retail grocers. Proprietors of soda fount. .ains are requested to use fresh fruits in season. No person shall use sugar in making popcorn products, Refin- ers' syrttp may be used as a substi- tute. Can All You Can It would he a thousand pities to produce vegetables or fruit in re- sponse to the l'i'ar Garden appeal and then have more on hand than could be used so that quantities would per- ish . All surplus vegetables over im- mediate requirements should be can- ned, dried, and stored away, for win- ter will follow a season of plenty and all the world will be short of food. 'ki=nona's Liniment Onnas Dluhthartn. Linseed Oil Cake Arrangements have been completed by the Canada Food Board with the United States Food Administration by which 16,000 tons of linseed oil cake and ureal will be distributed to dealers, to relieve the scarcity of feed and fodder, Applications should be sent direct to the Canada Food Board on regular import appli- cation blanks, with sworn state- ments of quantities sold during the three years prior to January first. MONEY ORDEPS. Send a Dominion Express Money Order. Five Dollars costs three cents. Ration England's Hens Next. The British. Ministry of Food has released all the low-grade flour per- mitted by the War Cabinet for making food for dogs, and it is believed the amount is suiflcient for the manufac- ture of dog biscuits on an adequate scale for some time. When the 5,000 tons of flour has been used the IV* Cabinet will consider the question of a further supply. A scheme for rationing hens not more than 214 years old is under consideration by the Ministry of Food, POS SAraii _hPau�Db7lldhing sell aWcJooiSn.itlEHNeYw NOEt1M,,ATwIeFryxR imiteiToronto.tamouunt ApolYJBWir.sLotnIDo tiVELE LIJI-ni /ED NEWSI'Al'Stt CP and jab printing plant in Eastern tlntario. Insurance carded $1,500. WWI tV for 1'011 1 gvtok Talo. Bnx 89, tt'?Iron Put•nshing Co., LTA!. Toronto. 10 1•: to r tilt 10 E 1, NEW POI-NDI.A3,71) 9. 1•unpies, f.hut noble breed now so nearly nstinet, W'e have, some very flop one.. t;iltesplc, Abbutst'ord, true. a.WENTs WANTED Ae UENT9 W'_tNTb:lt--gi,o.09, You `it clan rnui:e It In y"tu• c0uuty with our and in prospect, it was ec et t a feat seuing c`ombinatton Ce,.Rcr. Ono ea tesmen banks $2v. .85 tlta flr�t mt•nth. Another agent uells 2e in two h., re Others cleaning LIP 5fit daily. No laid- tal necessary. Goods hipped to reliable Men on titian. Territory rrefng fast. 'Write quick to secure your field. Com- bination Products CO.. Thomas Inag., increased food production and conser- vation were still vital to the success- ful prosecution of the war. Montreal, May 29th, '09. Dlfnard's Liniment Co.. Limited: Sarson .r.ANSo'ns Yarmouth, N.S. 1NCER, TUMORS, LIIM Pa, Bra. Gentlemen, --1 beg to ler you know 'ti+ internal and external, cured with. pain I our home treatmant. tivrlte last I have used MiNARD'S LINT- us befnt•" too lute. Dr, ltenimnn 1l0dtcal MENT for some time, and I dud it the al Ll e!tr,! ,`, Illnrwnnd ttr.r rester. one ]ours very truly, THOMAS J. HOGAN, The Champion Clog and Pedestal Dancer of Cauada. Epidemic in Sweden. Sweden, like Spain, has been strielt- en with a serious malady, "a sort of dropsy caused by insufficiency of food," says one prominent authority. Several- thousands of men, women and children have been taken ill during the last few weeks. The epidemic is Characterized by decreasing muscular stlengh, slow pulsation and Iow tent• perature. These en/minuet seem to agree with tho form .of dysentery known as hunger typhus, which has been in evidence in Germany for some time. to hmrd,,, *motels:A lentos Gluxgtot la OOWe Sugar Conservation Imperative There 1011 be no sugar from Java• available this year for British con- aumption, according to a recent statement of the Clutirman of the Sugar Committee. 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