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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-9-12, Page 2HOW WAR CORRES- PONDENTS WORK THE MEN WHO TELL US •WHAT THE WAR IS LIKE. Here a Distinguished Special Writer Alves Some Impressions of Old and New War Correspondents, Just like the British Army, of whose deeds Wm is the Chrotueler, the Bri- tish war correspondent has his an- cient and honourable traditions. Loyal - 0* to the cause, which is Itis news- paper, and eomplete ludiirerenee to danger in the exercise of his calling;, are part and parcel of the traditions he has inherited from the Wren who created this now familiar type in modern war. Made in Britain, The war correspondent is an essen- tially British creation. "Trill" Rowell, Archibald Forbes, Bennett. Bnrlelgh, turd George Washington Steevens were the types on which the great Conti• nental war correapondents, such as T tragi Earzilit er I.udavlo Naudeau, and Amarioaus Tike Richard Harding, Davis ttd Frederie Palmer, modelled ane Idol them -.elves. ff one reads the Iiees of these groat teal' aorreepondencs of the Twat one eannot fail to note that they pos- plumed in common one etriking charac psrlstic, s, cnusc^ rmtioustie,e in the exercise of their peofessien wwhiell ready to take all risks, endure all , hardships, !n the v a. he of their .w Masters, this Beitlah puhI,r. ::lis con, bine it will be covered with a scum teientiousnese Is sva •u right thro;411 authorities on the snot they renew they : MOSUL„THE MODERN NINEVE,i. TAN—AND LIVE LONA. STRANGEBIRDS IN AUSTRAL/A.which, on examination with a mircroc- TOGETHER ,AMOK and CAPITAL SI1 DOWN Top Row (reading from right to left).—Sir George Bury, V•iee-President, Canadian Pacific Railway; Geo, tit,. Wttrk, Vico-Presi. dent, Brotherhood of Loacenotive Firemen and Enginenlen; F. F, Backus, General Manager, Toronto, Hamilton & 1311.fYalo Ranlwuvt H. Shearer, Michigan Central Railroad; J. M, Mein, Deputy President, Order of Railroad Telegraphers; S. R. Payne, Ottawa and NeW York Railway; S. J. Hungerford, General Manager, Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines; W. V. Turnbull, Vice -President, Inter• . national Brotherhood of Mantenance of Way Employees; C. A. Hayes, General Manager, Canadian Government liailways, Eastern Lines. Bottom Row (reading from right to left).—S. N. Berry, Vice -President, Order of Railway Conch etora; Ash Kennedy, Asst, Grand Chief Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; D. B. Hanna, Third Viee-President, Canadian Northern Railway; Major G. A. Bell, Acting Deputy Minister, Railways and Canals; J. H. Walsh, General Manager, Quebec Central Railway; James Murdock, Viee-President, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, O work for four years with which ail Canadian Railways are the application in Canada of the Mo. operating Bice -President of the 0, le greater speed, cheaper, and with operated nowadays, strove to avoid Adoo Scale of wages, as well as any R„ whose report on the railroads of only brief and ioeal lnterrana and finally did overcome by creating, other controversies that may arise Russia brought him knighthood, tions compared to the choked tran- with the assistance of the Govern• between the workers and their otla The picture was te}wn in the Gant, sportatlon of neighboring countries, went and the labor unions, the Rail• core, ellen Railway. War Board offices ettet to be cited In those foreign countries way Labor Board of Canada. The In the picture there are shown not this group had formed the Railway, as an example of competent long -die• aecempanying photograph was taken only the senior executives of some of Labor Board of Canada, which .will tante operation—and then to be atter the mooting between railway the most powerful labor orgaeiza. handle In future all railway labor blocked or hampered by labor trouble! labor leaders and the railway manag- tions in the world, but an equal num- trembles and will edjast the McAdoe This was the anti•climae which the ere, at which the new Board was finally ber of great railroad managers, in. scale of wages to Canadiga 4.47,00e Canadian Railway War Board, under formed and conuulesioned to adjust eluding Sir George Bury, the expert railway employee% HOSPITALS IN TI.3E ^ AIId. Famous thestelt Phylticlan Suggests Aetna"•, Operating Booms. Arot-marketable suggestion has been offered by a Scotch phyaielan of eminence, to this affect that Hying ma- WIIAT CO.OP'GRATTON HAS (TONE chines may be utilized for hospital purposes. FOR THE DANES The surgeon, above all things, de- sires a germ -free atmosphere In which to do his work. It is an ideal Nine -Tenths of Farmers Own 'Their over sought, but rarely attained, de - Land and Country Leede sul"P""11111141! WHY DENMARK HAS PROVERS) spite the expenditure of endlese care, labor and money. He needs It for his operations and particularly for the healing of infected wounds. 1 ' At bleb levels in the air t this Ideal In Dairy Industry. Denmark le a Tittle more Omit one- half the eine of New Brunswick. At; conditimt exists, There aro no die-. ono time much of it was a bleak waste Baso gornrs and there is no dust. of sand dunes. Only the eastern por- Make_ airplanes big enough and tion- of the mainland and the neigh - table enoygh, aad there is no reason boring Islands were considered fit for why wounded soldiers or outer per- agriculture. In addition, the coma- / sons requiring operative treatment try was impoverished 1,y the Napol- should not be kept aloft to be surgical- . conic wars and by the robbery of the ly dealth with, - Conceivably, they province of Schleswig-IIoletein by imight even be kept there while infect- Germany in 1806. Yet ,to -day, Den - ed wounde were healing, if provision mark, in proportion to its population, were made for alighting once in a is the wealthiest ocuntey in Europe, whilo to tape aboard gasoline and It is essentially an agricultural conn - other supplies, i try and poverty is very rare, Owing From a physician's point of view, to the excellent system of land tonere, consumption the deadliest scourge of 80 per cent, of the families own thea• temperate climates, is it preventable own farm houses. disease. But it is not prevented. In One of the chief reasons for Den - the germ -laden air of cities it cannot mark's phenomena proeperity ie to he prevented; and its cure is difficult be found in the system of education. largely because sufferers nre con- This includes the long -terra element- stantly reinforcing themselves, taking ary schools, circulating schools, ern - into their pulpe fresh supplies of tub- yelling experts, 'wheel and state hnl- ercle bacilli with the air they breathe, letins, farmers' cli hs, eiucatienal i wo breathe is dirty. If camp meetings and the ilaivereity of The air 1 you want to realize how dirty it is, set eclat-a:me n. There are now 70 ia glass of fresh water upon the man- schools and 9.9 agricultural colt, ve, tel -piece and leave it there for three in Denmark and old as veal as yoular or four days. At the end of that people attend them—the former for periods Jif a week or to at a time for the purpose of shmlyine :Aid prob- lems and kindred subject,; a they an. tbo records of „nr greet liritieh war stood a good chance of being event ootreepondc-n ., t deme, Life6 t "Bird Day” might w' n we cope proves to be a masa of living smiting the story of 5ednn in the old The aunth Af lean War was the Met i Htato ry. micro -organa ms Many of these aro + r•t from trrhfb,lld Foripas :The Scene of Many Events bt Past The Length of a Man's coma o Custom of " n• ay e + "- Depend on the Work He Docs. lrallatved in Canada. pear in Other countries all over the 1)aii5 Ives'" oriels, wh:ra hg had jest war in which war correspondents en-' disease makers. (world. After complctini; the high Mosnl, the modern Nineveh, toward I Some people say that tanners, on the It may not be generally intown that Far aloft in the atmosphere there school and ugricultttt•al Coll ere courses arrived .at tot from iron battle, till he motto the hdnfreedom of the old days. The ., which at last accounts the British whole, live longer than any other chase a certain day is set apart in Ausralia can be no such thing as infection. studente enter the University of Cop - down ate to sleep lino exhaustion, motor -car had nor. then made its ap. e gallant Ste vene dein- so or had the Brothers ' forces were moving, is a picturesque of workere. Whether tbis is so or not anti° celebrated as Bird Day. On this There is no dust and no germs. Fresh enhageu. There they come to melee- The oel. r^ down t, t1. g a pettranca iii war, n n . „tv.: • + e c•.eri-' but not altogether attractive city, as ; is a matter for discussion: but lulu day the boys and girls of the Coni- air and ennehtno are available with -island the complexity o3 Ruoiorn itur.,i- patient.y in beleaguered L...,. math. ' W right begun those gliding meats in Ohio which were destined to ' cording to Sin William Warfleld, who ; who work at tanneries certainly do monwealth receive special instruction out limit. The conditions, in short, nese and to regard agriculture nut. Always Obstacles. describes the town in his book, The 'live to a green old age usually. with regard to the habits of their na- for hospital purposes are ideally per. only as a science of production, lett give file world the aeroplane. It was ;Gate of Asia. The houses am built of ' IC is a remarkable thing to discover The drtYerence between lh w: r +•nry bondeatd-saddle fur the` war caries- ; ivo birds and their economic report- foot. as a system of distribut on. respondeat of the past and the, war ondr it still --long ride:: with columns , irregular blocks of stone laid in thick ' low the length of n man's years seems once to mankind. Bird songs are sung The Scotch phystvian above quoted i The success of rural co-apertat lout eoiTaspon.tent of te•dav is the dhvcr• across the treeless void, with occasion' mortar• They era usually corered'to ba intlusueed by the character of by the children on this day and bird is of opinion that at no distant day depende in a very large measure upon sues bettee?n the world !'n which they al dashes for a remote telegraph of- with a white 'inose, made by horsing the work ho dpes' stories aro told to theta by their teach- every city will have its aerial oiler- Cho feints and conditions of l:,n.l lived and our modern 44e. With the gee to put an exclusive "start'" on the the local gypsum rock. The roofs, of Scavengers, for tustance, are among ors. A quaint feature of a Bird Day sting rooms and wards aboard flying tenure. Co-operation cannot well ptroguess of modern 3ncentinns the wires in London. the same material as the walls, are ;the "]ung livers," This !s a fact bout celebration is the bird -call competi- machines, this service being establish- auceeed in a reentry -where tenancy world has been drawn closer together, i usually flat, with a wuist•high parapet, indisputable and inexplicable, for tion, in which prizes are awarded for ed as an integral part of the munici- predominates. In Denmark, leRieln- The telegraph, the wireless, and the %{ New Lease of Life. ' but are not infrequently domed. Door- scavengering among., gutters and telephone. with the aeroplane, have ?Wren came the Russo•Japaneee war, 1 ways are often made of slabs of the sewers, and such unpleasant places, is revolutionized watears. In an ago .and with one accord the tear corres- , easily carved gypsum• not exactly the sort of work which one when the Prime Minister In London Pondents lifted up their voices pro- I The streets are narrow and aimless, ,would select with a view to living long. can chat on the telephone with the claiming that the glory of their profee- forming,a maze of tangled lanes, As ' On the other hand, chimney -sweeps, Commander -in -Chief of the British ; sion had departed, i there is no system of sewerage what- as a rule, rho not reach any great age. Armies on the Contineut, the move- The Japanese lied made a profound I ever, they serve as repositories for If you notice, you will find that bar- ments of an army cannot be screened study of modern war, and wore keenly all the With of the houses that border hers rarely reach more than tbirty or from the enemy unless tits abeolute alive to the necessity of screening the Ion theta. They are rarely so wile forty. otvn nests and to hatch their own eifensnve seems to be a weather screen Control of publi city and its agents is movements of their armies from the that tnoro than ton Wien can walk Stat threcscoroall caratain and lheir al- ieu, or Young; birds that run but cannot fly; : which will hide their movements and appm•oximately x.10,000 farms in Den - in tite hands of the belligerent Gov eyes of the enemy. They had no use abreast. Aa a result of the nue dust, lotted y mocking birds and laughing birds; enable them to push up close to the tnnrlc, averaging a little over 10 a. roe eraments And thus the paradox has mr the war correspondents, and they !the filth and the glare of the sun on thereabouts. Hard work seems to brilliant honey eaters and flower oat- opposing linos. This screen on oe- each, and varying in sine frnm 1 t i were kept waiting for weeks at Tokio ' the white walls, ophthalmia and lung agree with men in politics, and to acid erica to 1u0 acres, not including a enure hay steadily ers• ventriloquists! These are all to casions has been a snowstorm, but few large estates. Titus it will he seen that land is not so evenly dis- tributed se to destroy per: -oral Mitia- tive, one of the (hangers pointed • out by the opponents of co-operation. On the contrary', co-operation in Denmark has encouraged personal initiative und, in doing srl, has eh -.eked the °vile of individualism, a moat important and beneficent result, Results of (en -operation. Agricultural co-op:teat-Ion bogan in Denmark in 1882 when the first co- operdive creemery was established. Practically all the milk produced is now handled by the hundreds of co- operative dairies Theee, with the aid of cow -testing' asr,odetipns, have me.le Donmark on oef the leading; detiry countries of the world. Model butter has, for a generation at leant, com- mended a premium ur. the Briti :h market. Then, too, co-operativ: hacmt-curing and egir-eeport societies hncc developed the pork and poultry industties respectively in splendid freider . Co -incident with the growth of ea - operative maeketing there tae de- veloped 0o -operative wholesale pur- chaeng of such commodities as scmds, fertilizers, machinery, and, in feet, every necessity for the mice:Ulan and upkeep of the farm. In 1908,.tha central wholesale agency transacted a huelnese valued at $1.7,500,000. . -_--.-,..-.Y_ . .-._. the cleverest imitations of the notes pal hospital system. and cries of magpies, cuckoos, cur- + lews, wild ducic, Kukaburras, and other b1ISTS IN BATTLE. typical Australian birds. Mound building birds that do not Germane Chasse a Weather Screen who ares ono -teeth the pwchasopprt:e sit on their eggs, cuckoos (one of the When Starting an Offensive: of a parcel of land can borrow the 14 Australian species of. that bird) t other nine -tenths, either from a state tion has been in operation for a num- ber of years providing for the acqui- sition of land upon 60 -year loans at four per cent. At Ellie mute, a laborer that actually condescend to lay i:n their The first requirement for a German bank, or from, one of the G3o en operative savings hanks. 'there eat screen tnai tunnel set swept away the °eat :ties which the , whilst the great opening battles of the !diseases abound. The flies, which years to their age. Think of a met war eorrespondents of the past had to war on land and sea were taking place. i breed in the open refuse heaps in as- ston, Gladstone, and Beaconsfield— oontend with. so the military censor- Though eventually both sides allowed I touishing numbers, swarm over every- to mention just three of them. shipwar amrespoadcnts to go up to the thing. They cauee the button, com- Sedentary workers cannot be com- obst has perforce then placed even greater front, they were always carefully shep-: mon also in Aleppo and Bagdad, an pared with gardeners, farm laborers, respondents !n the way of tate scar tor• and shepherds, where length of life respondents with iln,• armies In the .horded bg staff officers, ailment that resembles a carbuncle field. , It looked as if indeed the day of the :and that persists for several months is concerned. The latter classes of tunntcl comparatively rani, Per- once, and it carries a now sugnittcauro, At the beginning the tsar carr?a• war correspondent was over. But It'and leaves an ugly scar. workers, and other similar outdoor' y' P• was nothing better than an was not, as the European Was was i Opposite Mosul across the river, are folks, including soldiers and sailors, I haps the most melodious songster of In modern warfare against trenches, pendent g eventually d•'tined to prove. Ithe last vestages of Niuevela capita! invariably live long in thedordivary the bush, the lyre bird is also a hum- wire turd heavy artillery, with aerial unconsidered and unwant.cd camp Pot• I observations going on overhead, the lower. Sir William Russell. the great.: -- , . of the second of the world's great ern• way of things, and are frequently as orous mimic, and is locally known as g Aires. In pbeee, great walls of the hale at sixty-five as the clerk of forty (the mocking bird. The bower •bird is mist acquires a high value. The en - tot of all with correspond?u-s, was only LAL;GH ETIMES f age Tbese outdoor workers another of rare beauty and unique emy cau creep up unobserved, cut tolerated with the army in the Crimea' owing to the immense pereoual ht Silence which his great editor, John Delane, of "The Times," possessed With the Government of the day, .Every petty annoyance to which an obtuse and hidebound military bureau- cracy could subject him was inflicter} on this impetuous, generous -hearted Irishman. But nothing daunted him, be found in the bush, more usually It is a mornmg mist. The lyre bird, whose curiously Of course, in military history there wrought tail plumage forecasts his are many examples in the wars of all song, is strikingly beautiful. Form- nations where attacks' wore carried erly a more or less charasteristic out under similar screens, but the feature of Australia, it is nolo unfor- Germans have developed this to a sci- 50hi mete city, built brick tremendous mass-' sears o —^ ! es of sun-dried briclt 1•r.id on a high,' share with medical Wren and clergy- habit. Its name is derived from its wires by hand, alt'f id neaeslwit ins and triIin distance of the Anvil Da Sive Need the broad 11 t t till t men the distinction of using nearly quaint practice of constructng a bring up g p In These sus ys roe, ova of cut sone, aro a trace. Medicine of Laughter !able. The city ons further protected , all their promised three -score years `'bower" or playhouse of interwoven closes g by a moat into wltielt the waters of a and ten—in most cases, anyway. i twigs, lined with flowering grasses , defending lines, and nothing but the Levity and frivolity, especially as small river eoulcl be conducted. It Millers represent another class of and decorated interiorily with shells, I very highest akill and courage of the. tilts hewn to a depth of twenty feet ,noon who aro not long livers by any ;pebbles, and even small hones! defenders can avert a serious break applied to the grim actualities of the wax, upon sober-minded Americans ; and a width of fifty yards and, like the ' manne`r of means. But shopkeeping I One of the world's famous song- through if the attack is in force. who feel that any thought or desire ;walls, is to et idencc to•da aI seems to encourage long life. Shop- !eters, the Australian magpie, Le, like t As a preliminary to the morning not centred upon the present calsis of rwo mighty mounds, situated ' keepers, whether in a large or small the lyre bird, a clever mimic. There' mists the Germans appear to like a rho nation and the world is a 'acct- mile to tate enst of the river and sone- , way, usually live to a good old age, ' is that giant of the Kingfisher family, I spell of fine weather as this enables lege, says a note very front &Fed ween rue G1nta came he a posed U d States newspaper. 1 t than that distance t t t th alit th i y 1 tH p 1 lilt fearless candour the disgraceful w na more tau a cis anco spar , competence o e m ary au or • They are right from one important contain tiro rinei pal ruins. The more sa viewpoint, but not stege er rightnortherly is culled Iivymtj?k, the LIKE CURES LIKE, ties responsible for the preparatlO4 from another. 1 and conduct of the Crimean expedi• shambles, because here a patty of Yez- tion. I One of the most famous Cabinet idis, fleeing from Kureieb persecution Remarkable Recovery of a Shell - meetings ever held in the White douse _ to take refuge in the city, were over- Shocked U. S. Soldier. Lald the Foundation. took plaee in the darkest time of the : taken and slaughtered. "Bill" Russell broke ground, as the Civil War, when Lincoln gathered in this mound Layard found the re- Many a soldier has been sholl-shock• saying goes, A gentleman, a brilliant with his stern-faced, gloomy secretar- , mains of Sennacherib's palace, built ed in the terrible battles of this war, flight. The parent buds, however, to mass. Writer, utterly fearlees, with an itn- ies to transact momentous business. about 700 B,C, Its finest trophies of but it Is safe to say that few have been i talcs no part in the hatching process, I In rainy weather over marshy re- enss charm of manner, be establish- The President came in, picked up a Assyrian art are note in the British started on the road to recovery in as but depend rather upon an improvised glens like those of the second offensive p Artemis Ward the great singular a• way as Mr. Walter M. Jones ed for himself a position with the book by , Museum, Layard was followed by the incubator composed of decaying vego•} a covering mist may prevail all day, army that eventually overcame all the ,humorist and proceeded to read a of the 69th New York Regiment, i but the advantage of this screen is • equally thorough Prof, King, who has table matter, the heat of decomposi- g opposition which his championship of chapter aloud. The atmosphere was tail nothing to be seen of the old While he was in s trench at the 'tion being the means of incubation.. i counterbalanced by the holding up of the cause of our suffering soldiery had. I tense with an r disapproval at this front a shall from the German linos transport over the mud sloughs. This g y palace except duet and a single broken I The gorgeous honey -eaters blend ofoated, And he ?nod the foundation apparent levity by the time he had fell close beside him, killing two ottl• i delaying effect is intensified b heavy bas-relief, destined, no doubt, to be cera Who steed near and wounding him perfectly with the Rowers among I g y OY the position of war correapmndonts, finished. I used far mortar before Lang, m which they hover like beautiful, big artillery barrage from the defenders, !u the leg, Tis was removed to a hos- p Might who aim at wining out roads and r {1 t is thanks to Itim that in this war of With a deep sigh, he laid down the I The southern mound covers the butterflies • while the lain ]i ht and , p G 4 - tq-day our correepondents at British , boo c. "Gentlemen," he said, "why ruins of Hlsarhaddon's palace. Be- Dotal, where it was found that he could shadow" markings of. the birds that ways. Without adequate transport (enornl Headquarters aro supplyin dont you laugh? With the fearful neither bear nor speak. In hospital cause it Is trio site of a village !n which inhabit the rocks and open spaces no army can advance deeply enough atter hospital nothing could be done neutralize their effect with their sur with sufficient material to make a de - for him to reetore what had been lost, rounding', the Kakabuna, a bird that laughs and therefore is popularly known as the "laughing jackass." Ho is greatly beloved by Australians and is quickly , adapting itself to city life. I f A curious bird is the Malice fowl, whose young are hatched out fully fledged and ready for immediate them to handle expeditiously the im- mense mass of transport which is nec- essary for the following up of the first blow. If very broken weather ollows after the morning mist or fog the•tranaport over the shell -pitted area becomes so slow that: the advance slackens and he defenders have time Us with a regular service of able and; strain that is upon me night 0.nd,is the reputed tomb of the prophet interesting accounts of the doings of day, if I did.not laugh 1 should dle,. Jonah it has been jealously guarded, our soldiers, and you need this medicine as much. In the old days the position of a ; as I." war gorreepoutlent with a British Then he turned to his tall bat lying Cleopatra's Pearl and ire was sent Noma, hopelessly in- canaeitated for soldierly duties, On the homeward voyage the trans- cision possible, Prom this reading we can take it that any German offensive pushed o port was attacked by a Gorman sub- Sugar Conservation Imperative flprwaxd in sot weather can only have ruty in the field depended very large., on the table near him and drew from Most persons Icnaw the story told mortice and a lively tight followed. shallow penetration, turd if the enemy all t, p raaA himself, special car- . it what Ssectotary Stanton after- ' of Cleopatra to illustrate her iuxur• The Canada Food Board has asked persists in assaults despite the weather „ Tho spidior was standing near ono of private househoklors of Canada still it only shows how desperate is his Sewn ent who has travelled much in I wards described as a little white , ious habits of living, that oho dissoiv- the iso guns a the transport when a r" The little white paper rues further to restrict their consumption eltuation. Rk-tho•Wtiy plaees Often finds him• , papQ • p p ed in her wlrio it precious pearl, NO shot was fired, and in the explosion of sugar for personal use to X ys - - •-- - OW thrown ,ogethor with a man who 'the Emancipation Proclamation. I ono seems yet to have questioned Lifter goers Is able, and Glad to be I The application to the present of 'What must have been the effect upon e1% to have the cooperation of his this historic incident and the example the drink but scientists 'coif at the farmer oonmanlon, Thus tho repute•' of the Clreat Emancipator does not poselbility of .such solution, The fact is yowls are not soluble % Molt of more thatt Ulla war corroapon• dent has been ingdo owing to hie friendehip with ono or other of our generals who leas glvon him pormiseion to join his forces and accorded hill} belittles which eaother man might not have obtained so easliy, The DAys of Romance, In those days war corresteudentg peg froudences with the arms, Mariy them had aulftelent Imowledge Of qr to refrain from giving in soon• ell to the mutiny is tholr alrticle% eat r tit. r a actor a 1~ A m t o h o .4 X170 p i It tit* them not to abuse the eonedegeO l p0eed In them, Moreover, it Wag so a (mention .pf expedlenoy; fur if ey wrote anything that wail ealetl• i41{t to embroil totem with the military need pointing out, wino, The most powerful vinegar Before tate ChArge, aftecta them slowly and never entirely to duty, disaolvee them, fol• the organic mat - Tho night is still and the air is keen, ter remains behind In the shape of a by original pearl, The Canadian hood Board ilea pub - and eoncusaion that ensued, to his pounds per month pelt person end to. amazement and delight, voice and uso a greater proportion of brown Roaring came back to him, He is at sugar. The Board also warns against i present in a base hospital, under hoarding, se unfair, unnecessary ands hopes for art early recovery end return treatment for nervous disability, but contrary to the law, The Cuban Drop at sugar has fallen short by 300,000 tons of the previous estimates; the! American sugar beet crop hay also roved disappointing as has the .Loule- lame cane crop, The recent Garnett drive wee til further cause of sugar shortego tie a ladle beet acreage was overrun and many eup;ar factories destroyed, Thousands of tens of Bum heve been mink by ouhmarines, including a 13,000 ton Cargo recently lost oft the Atlantic roast, Conaer- Tense with menace the time crawls apongy mass that ie larger than the Useful Canning Booklet In front is the town and its homes are Belled a very attractive and Wahl sGeit, little booklet on the canning, drying Blurred in outline a ainet the alcy, rxperte who have W[10111110(1 the ani{ storing of 'fruits tnd vegetables. lU g coal deposits of Spitebergen have mitt- P It is 1pelne; diptributod at ftvp amnia malted Diet they'eontain more than 1,- ppr copy as one of a series of four 000,00,000 Luno of fuel of remarkable ,similar hooklets dealing in addition to purity, canning with tho subjects of bread - a. amen but commute motien pia- making, eookht;r of vegetable;, and vation or sops is imperative, Thera I lnto flrenoial straits, tura machine whleh eorka sat..m+tie reolting of ft: