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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-9-19, Page 3GERMAN GUILT IN I VALOR OF AN USE OF POISON GAS •••••••.•••••-•••••••••.• that ,besides the hurriedly 110re:clingA DIV' " TY.'" CHENS soldiers pouring along he road ril, ITALIAN CAPTAIN retreating. Nobody anew whist might ; PRIDE OF BRITISII happen. The feeling was growing • that the war was Mei. That we 15 would moon make a new titan& and a 151PffitTAN" 01' Goop Vo0J) brilliant one, Along the Piave, and 1 ltECOUNI%ED. later retrieve everything nobody real-; heti, You mild not have told them ; THEY STILL TRY TO FASTEN DE al ALTED WILD FLIGHT OF BLAME laPON THE ALLIES. I 1Q0,000 SOLD110114. • Have Discovered That This Outrage Francesco Gui ardabaesi Gives Graphic that, , "King's Regulatione" Cull for Rigid ' "Foetunately my general and I ; were dose to a very important cross-; 1 . I Bally1 the ing of the Tagliamento, the bridge ati Comm enders. Latisano. Marithee were on every 1 ' , • t •o 1 The importunee of elle kitehen de - Willi a Moral and Political, as . I Picture of heroic Deed That Well as a Military Blunder. I Saved an Army From The 13ritieh Ministry of Information the Austrians. ubund. has issued through its wireless service, . tile following with reference to miss Back of the meagre. official des- foot bridges, a 11111r:eel bridge and Partallont a the army cannot be ever - statements on the original employ-111MA announcing the award by the one for foot passengers, Soldiers and rated, for if men me to work herd and effieiently they must be fed pro- ment of poison gam sent out by the Italian government; of ER silver mend people were pouring over the latter. ealy, For this reason the "King's °Mein) (lerman wireless: for valor, virtually the highest mill- Xt was seven o'clock in the morning, P The German press and propagandist Regulations' provide that it is the t;recognition that can come to an The rain -driven air was filled with a egeneices still c:ontinue to give cur- Italian soldier, Is one of the most sense of the unexpeeted and of gloom.ifieet duty of every cemmanding officer rency to the falsification tient the thrilling and romantic episodes of the At any moment our men were likely; to see that the soldiers meals are I "propeily and sufficiently provided." it Allies anticipated Germany in the f•111s entire war: one which, in fact, may to break into panic. ordered Out an officer mast ploymenl of poison gas in this war. be said to have had a dietinet and "Suddenly from out of nowhere„ 13 further , , inspect the kitchens and cookhouses On July 17 the German wireless again , definite bearing upon the success of down the rails, came a locomotive, everyday, while the same officer must circulated a statement to this sired the Italian arms. locomotive alone, crowded with sal- 1 :visit the barrack rooms and mess and refeiged to "historical facts" toi The cable message announcing; the diers. They were waving and yelling. tents :luring the breakfast, dinner prove that "the idea of using poison award read: "Awarded to First LieusiThere was no sign of a train. I never; , and supper hours to find out if there gas originated with the British Ad- I tenant (he later received his cap„ imagined so many men could get on i ie any cause for complaint. miral Dundonald." talecY) Francesco Mario Guardabassi a locomotive before. 1 The kitchen establishment of a Bri- ef Perugia, while on the staff of ,the Cry of Austrian Cavalry Raised. , tieh army camp varies widely under commander of division. Energetic "The locomotive shot over the rail- ' eifferent -circunistancem. Ai garrison co-operator of the High Command of road bridges. It disappeared, leaving censers in France it cookhouse the division. First Lieutenant Guard,' behind a great uneasiness and added a largebuilding, shared 1 by "se 151 abassi gave an admirable proof of depression. Then the cry arose: "The ' units, and is undeis• thecharge It may be true that Dundonald, who was born in 1775 and died in 1860, and was an expert chemist as well as a great tailor, warned the British Gov- ernment in the early part of the nine- teenth century that it wan tee mea I determination, enery and bravery in Austrian possible to produce an asphyxiating a very difficult circumstance during I 'That cry increased. EverylsodY epeclal course in military cooking. gam which could be employed in milt- the drive from the Carso to the Piave,' took it up. It epread through the It Is his duty to superintend person- tary operations. Its employment by firmly checking a sudden and threats:ranks of hurriedly marching soldiers, ally all cooking done in the regimental the British Government: was never ening panic, aroused among the troops , it swept through the disordered cookhouse. Each unit, in its turn, seriously considered, as such a method Carso-Tagliamento Bridge of Lati-'groups of country people crowded in has a chief cook, who is responsible of warfare was condemned as too In- human. h 11cavalry."sergeant-chef,who bas been through Added New Horrors To Warfare. The fact that the Hague Conven- tion of 1890, to which Germany was a party, expressly forbade the use of asphyxiating gas is sufficient evidence that the possibilities of gas as a weapon of offence were known to all the war offices. The point is that the Allies obeyed the dictates of humanity and the rules of the Hague Convention by refraining from Its use, whereas the Germans deliberately added this new horror to wavfare. The German wireless message re- ferred to says: "It is a point of fact that poison gases Were dfSt used in the 'War on March 1, 1015, by the British and French, and British army commun- iques could not announce a German attack with poison gas until April 24, 1915." The first portion of this statement is, of course, a deliberate falsehood, for which there is not the slightest vestige of justification. If it were ac- cepted, it would obviously imply that between alarch 1, when we are ex- pected to believe that the mind, of the German General Staffs was inno- cent of any intention to use poison gas, and April 24, when they used it on the battlefield, the whole elaborate preparation required for the projec- tion of gas upon a large scale was completed. The gas was invented and accumu- lated, the cylinders in which it was etored were manufactured and tested, and the large number of men employ- ed in projection were trained and instructed in the technicalities of the business 4111 within a peeled of eight weeks. But on April 24, at the sec- ond battle of Ypres, when the yellow- - green clouds of chlorine crept slowly over from the German lines, the Bri- tish and French were caught absolute- ly unprepared. They stared uncom- prehendingly and without protection at this strange phenomenon until they fell, chocking and gasping with black- ened, agonizing faces, to die, without knowledge of the plague which brought them death. Greeted With Delight. In. Germany, at the news of this surprise, with the atrocious sufferings inflicted by it on the French and Bri- tish soldiers, was greeted with delight as a new triumph of Teutonic adroit- ness and military science. But why, it may be asked, does the German wireless now give the specific date of March 1, 1015, as that on which the gee had already been employed by the Allies? The answer is best given in the words of Lord French. In his report of May 8, 1915, ten days after the gas was first used by the Ger- mans, he said: ".a weet before the Germans used this method they announced in their official communique that we were mak- leg use of asphyxiating gases. At the time them appeared to be no reason for this astonishing falsehood; but now, of course, it is obvious that it was part of the scheme. It 'shows thq recognized its illegality and were anxious to forestall neutral and pos- sibly domestic criticism," Ir his dispatch cf June 15, 1915, ord Prenclt said. "The brain power and thought which have evidently been at work htfore this unworthy method of mak- ing war reached the. pitch of efficiently which has been demonstrated in its practice shows that the Germans must Clave harbored these designs for a long time " Since those early davi the Germans have learned to their sorrow that gas is it weapon two can use. 'Forced to employ it in self-defence, the Alilies have done so with m1411• effect that tie Germans have had r lasen to re- gret cyceeclingly their dopa tura frail the rules of civilized warfare, they have discovered that this outrage r,gainst humanity WAS a moral and political as well es a military blunder. Th.1 explains why the German(wire- loss still displays such anxiety to dis- claim Germany's guilt and to fasten the flarno open The Allles. sane, 26 October, 1917." 1 among them, it was half believed, for all the meals of his unit. Captain (then First Lieutenant) I then belleve4, then it grew to be a For a Long or Short Stay. Guardabassi, by his action, prevented ; certainty. Nobody knew, and the I In the field, however, the cook - the Italian retreat from the Cargo to ;doubt made the fear. The panic be - house Is a thing of mushroom growth. the Piave from becoming a disorderly gats. When a unit is on the• march the rout and transformed it into an ord- I, "I did not know whether the Arts- aimplest method of constructing a erly retirement, which enabled the ; trian cavalry were coming or not, temporary kitchen is to place a num. Italian forces to re-form and to make . but I did know that this panic must her of kettles on the ground in two theh• position on the Piave impreg- I be checiced and at once. I sprang parallel rows, block the leeward end nable. It was Captain Guardabasei , forward, through the soldiers, and - of the passage thus formed with an - who, standing virtually alone on the I ran to the front of the bridge. other kettle and light a fire in this bridgehead of Latisana, inspired the I " 'You fools,I yelled out, and improvised trench. As soon as the troops of the Third Army to hold I again and again I said it, waving my You fools, get into line! The fire has been started one or two rows ra their ground when overwhelmed with ars. of kettles can be placed on top of fear and panic, lAustrian cavalry is not coming,. That those already in position, ia a lie!' I had to be believed. I had "You can imagine the spirit of our , H the stay at a particular spot is I army last October," said Captain' to make them believe me, „ likely to be for any appreciable length Guardabassi, "when our generals of ss, 1 It took hours, two, three ,never left the bridge. I shout- nearly na narrow trench for of time a good field kitchen is impros four the fires and placing the camp kettles above this. Sometimes a chimney is built of sods. For a stay of three or four days riiigular "field ovens" are constructed. the river, trample me, kill mem their An arch of sheet iron is erected and excitement, I do not know. All I on top of this a layer of clay is piled. knew waa that the panic must be With this oven it is possible to give stopped, And it was. Before the the men roast meat for dinner as g ranks. Were we to be beaten? morning was over the troops were dam as the "The Piave line was stronger -it joints are forthcoming was our natural line. There we could moving over in an orderly way. from the supply column. Enough hold off' the Austrians coming down gave me the silver medal"That was svhy the government bread to feed a whole battery can be. I am from the north and prevent their baked in one of these ovens, breaking into the Italian plains. It proud of it --more proud than I have over been of anything." DEVELOP THE FISHERIES. , . the third army announced that we vised by diggig were to fall back. We a worked ' ed and shouted. It was forcing an idea through the heeds of a hundred so hard to establish our line on the Tagliamento, and WEI were so proud, thousand men. " Now the orders came that we were Why the %Idiom and the country to get back on the Piave. There were people did norsweep me down into no finer fellows in the world than in the third army, but a wave of dis- couragement swept through the was only forty miles back, yet our army, none of us, could realize this. It was a retreat. And it became more and more difficult to keep up the sol- diers' morale, to hold them together. "The third army numbered 400,000. It was reduced during the campaign from 400,000 to 70,000, but that was its size when the retreat was ordered. There were complications in the re- treat, for clown from the northeast began to come detachments from the second army, mingling with our men, tending to produce disorder. Rain Drakes Retreat Difficult. "I shall never forget how it rained during those days. The Carso-Tag- liamento region is a marshy country. Where we were was not far from the sea. In the retreat we had to keep to the roads. This made our falling back all the harder. "I could never have done what I had to do had it not been for my gen- eral, General Petillo, and the fact that that besides the hurriedly retreating has always been known as pure and vvholesome but few people could get superior barley flour to mix with their wheat. The barley floia- used in making , is all milled at our ovvn factories and when you taste the rich tang' of this Crain in GraPe:NUtS you have duaran- teed assurance of wholesomeness. "there's a Reason!!' Conado rood board llatar,56 Ns 2-020 canada good emir.] lacet,e, No, 2.020. CHEWING CORDITE. A Habit That Is Increasing Among „Practically all fish are edible and A Source of Food Supply In This Time of Scarcity. Prat. t ical and Comfort a Te The kiddies always just love Nor- folk dresaes. Perhaps because of their eemfort and loose -fitting lines. This little model is easily made and very simple in construction. McCall Pat- tern b. • , 'e Dress. n , 4 to 14 years. Price, 15 cents. "Little White Prayers." At. the end of the day when suulight Mos, Suint* little Wilde prayers go up to the flies einem from the babies in baby guazie Who kneel by cot,' in the "dimee" light; Each little while thought beide a little white plea leer "Daddisuca 411 land 41' ill air or on sea. 'rhotic little white lerigiugs all Raping 1y told, Suelt it little medley of baby - Tuve hold. But wuthers bend low o'er the little clasped hailda, They know that the loather of all uni derslands. "Colored Convalescence." I "Hospital blue" is not the only LEMONS WHITEN AND color which identifies our wounded BEAUTIFY THE SKIN. I meta When they have shed their !blue they have to pease through three -- Make this beauty lotion cheaply 1" rther color phases before they reach your face, neck, arms and hands. the fighting- green, red, and yellow. These colors are stitched on to thole At the cost of a email jar of ordiaare !caps, arid they mark a man's progress cold cream one can prepuce a full oar. along the road to recovery, ter pint of the most wonderful lemon i From yellow to the fighting zone fa skin softener and complexion besot!- a stone's -throw, Eleigho! Carry onl ter, by squeezing the juice of two fresh.; lemons lute 'bottle containing three I °mime of orchard velait6'. Care should ; latnare,s Linimen_t_for sale everywhere. bflettotaokienothtosost2170intottoheoujuipcoelpthrerougtallioa, A man 'in the blues has an easy then this lotion will keep Malt for ' time. He is required to do very little, months. Every woman knows that and he is referred to as a member lemon Juice is used to bleach and re. I of "the creeping barrage," from the move ;such blezniebes as freokles, sal.; fact that he spends most of his time lowness and tan and is the ideal skin ; walking leisurely about. The next I step 15 indicated by the red ribbon. softener, whitener and beautifier. Just try it! Get three ounces of , This means harder work, more strenu- orchard White at any drug store and , ous exercise, and route marches. If two lerdOPIS from the grocer and make the man is not up to these things, he up a quarter pint of this sweetly fra- reverts to the green group; but if he grant lemon lotion and maasage it stands the strain he is placed among daily into the face, neck, arms and the yellows. hands. It is marvelous to smoothen rough, red hands. eaf.ANS--D15INFECTS-USED FOR 160FTENING WATER -FOR MAKING 'HARD AND SOFT OAP gee-1E1XL eDIFtECTIONS WITH EACH CAN, Deny not help to those across the foam By saying, "Charity begins at horse.' Those very words are proof that aid To lands laid. waste by warfare' should go cul woe: Charity Selina at Home. 6 aw- tette, and it healed all up and disap- LannmumY number of remedies without any 1 peared altogether, HENDERsox. i' mgoontIlreamBLINTImwnitNsT. advisediaftteor atrya. Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. Dear Sire, --I had a Bleeding Tumor several bottles ft made a complete face for a long time and tried For whore ie home? For all the human Belleisle Station, King's Co., N.B., The Architect hath made one dwelling The roPolfacoeihts blue sky is overhead, I Sept. 17, 1904. And one foundation under all is spread; In brotherhood we share this home of Spraying is of no avail unless it reaches the under sides as well as the All are8artGoh;d's children all of equal tops of the leaves. Burn all diseased and infested tops and roots of plants; worth to put them on the compost heap is to But if perchance you wish to make it choice supply a. comfortable breeding ground for more trouble. Water your plants Which brother or which sister to re- , only when they require it and then do joke it thoroughly. Mere surface wetting The one who sits within the banquet hall , does more harm than good. If not at table yet in reach of all, I Or else the one whose Joy and hope , %Tr!' 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Not long since when a boy of six- ing in the fat content. which varies These patterns may be obtained teen working on munitions was taken t but eason- f local McCall dealer,or Yon SA.T.D W. xnewLy NEWSPAPER Fort SALE is New Ontario, Owner going to Wherever you may help another live, ; There is no place beneath the heaven's Home paritybeginsthat is not home ill, it was thought that he had been ; not only with the spec et: s Wbere c from your -es-- • , drinking, says an English nowsPaper, i ally." That is the dictum of Dr. H. F. from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St,, The suggestion was denied, however, I Moore, Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Toronto, Dept, W. 1 and it was proved that the lad never Bureau of Fisheries. : Wizard's Idnimen_t Cures Dandruff. I I , touched alcohol; but the cause of the WOMEN 1 IT 18 MAGiC I I 1 mistake lay in the fact that he had the I only a small percentage of the several Surely it is o, great misfortune that 0---e--.--,0,-0--......,0 Fingers Made Hammer -Proof. inhemisphereApply a few drops then ilft and quickly revives weary nerves, be. drug, 1 on our markets, mese present world shortage of meats. It fingers -no pato. For use by persons of the ' against the much objurgated tack Cordite is a very stimulating hilly during the 0 corns or calluses off with hammer. sides being extremely attractive to the 6 - 1 i a condition that has resulted from ° gentler sex it is specially reconunend- I "Finger armor" d -new is the bran habit of chewing cordite the smoke- hundred species and sub -species of LIFT OUT ANY CORN rIfish to be found in manufacture of small arms. I northern the waters of the less explosive so largely used in the for defense in war, but a protection invention of a Kansas man, It is not • efind any demand o theta; but the more fact that it is the conservative attitude of fishermen 0....1.3 9 0 0 0 ed. the public concerning the food value lift off any corn or ea • wrist of the wearer is connected by pus without out pain or metal bands with steel hoops that cover the thumb and fingers between , A Cincinnati man dis• the joints. The hoops being connec- covered this ether cote- I ted together in the same way, there ' ie no interference with the move - composed chiefly of nitro-glycerine ' and fish dealers in failing to educate Just think! You can I and guncotton makes it a most deadly and dangerous drug. It is a drug, too, which speedily gets the upper hand of those svho take it. There was a rather memorable in- stance of some soldiers discovering the stimulating effects of cordite dur- ing the South African War: but the called "new" varieties of fish are find• drug was really unknown in this conn- ing their way in the fish markets and try until the last two or three years. many others will in due time meet To -day the habit of chewing cordite with a similar success. The time is is quite common, especially among all most auspicious for a great expansion sections of munition -workers whose of the fisheries industry and It is de - work brings them into contact with voutly to be hoped that those engaged the explosive. Medical men in multi- in it will avail .thenucelves of the op- tion areas know the prevalence of the nortunity, habit, the hold it has over the work - ars, and the harm *Ilia it is doing its ONE OF GLORIES OF SPAIN. victims, particularly among women and girls. King Alfonso's Ruined Palace Was Many munition -workers start chew- ing cordite in complete Ignorance of Result of Ancestor's Whim. the harm which It ie likely_to do them, King Alfonso's ruined palace of San while many who start the habit so Mamma at La Ginnie, is one of the • quickly become dependent upon it that freaks and one of the glories of Spain. they have not sufficient strength of It wee a. Bourbon monarch who in. will to give it up. vented it -at the begimiing of the More than one munitiontere has said A leather strap buckled about the of hitherto unused species; and also in the proper methods of handling and cooking ilsh that require special treat- ment to prepare them for the table. Happily, the action of food boards in Europe and America is rapidly chang- ing the situation. Already, many so. that chewing a bit of cordite occasion- ] enablee them, to Carry on at hard work when otherwise they would have had to give in. It is only afterwards, when the habit goes from bad to worse, that they realize their foolishness. There is no denying the fact that cordite recreates force and energy in a way equalled by no other stimulant; but it is a wholly harmful drug, which eats away both the mental and physio cal systems -a drug which should never be allowed to gain the mastery. In many cases, too, cordite gives Its victims the appearance of drunken- ness: more than one person had been thought to be drunk when really they had been chewing coreite. —.as...a...a-- Primulas for early flowers should saes, . . vu ca o,a that amount. Apply R., c/o Wilson publishing Oe.. Limited- Toronto. ISIXISCMLLANDOrre LV1ES WANTED TO DO PLAIN and light sewing at home, whole or Snare time, good pay, work sent any dis- tance, charges paid. send stump for par- ticulars. National Manufacturing Com- pany, Montreal. TUMORS, LUMPS with- out pain by our Immo treatment Write niv before too late. Dr. Bellman Medical to,. Limited. CollIngwood Ont. WANTED I HEALTHY pound and named it ments of the joints or with the flex-; freezone, Any drug- ibillty of the hand. The terminal gist will sell a tiny bot - hoops extend a trifle beyond the nails, I tie of freezone, like here while exposing the tips of the fingers shown, for very little The "finger armor" is put on like I cost. You apply a few for grasping. drops directly upon a a glove. It is meant to be worn onlY tender corn or callus. on the left hand, Provided with it, Tostantly the soreness disappears, then short. the most hammer -shy lady may drive ' nails fearlessly._. 017r You willaaa find loosethe cornotat you can lift it right off. Preezone is wonder- ful. It dries instantly. It MONEY ORDERS. PaY Your out-of-town accounts by Dominion Express Money Orders, Five Dollars costs three cents. doesn't eat away the Your Third Eye. corn or callus, but shrivels it up without New Zealand is full of remarkable even irritat ng the surrounding skin, things, and one of the oddest of them Hard, soft or corns between the toes, is a species of lizard that Bias a third as well as painful calluses, lift eighteye on the top of its head, eighteenth century. Philip V, was out off. There is no pain before or after. I It is interesting in this connection hunting one day and rested at a sunny wards. If your druggist hasn't ,to consider the feet that every human Yarm called the Grange, occupied by froezone, tell him to order a small boa 1 being possesses it rudimentary third WHITE RATS Must be between 31/2 and ounces. 25c, each given. EX - press collect to E. N. MACALLUM, 243 College St. Toronto iSta,MM '-'11.1 • '1'04,1Wft monks. The monks had hamored the tie for you from his wholesale drug ;eye ---a remnant of what must have '"„mz"'easee' hoose. mountain upon whose slopes the form• been a seeing eye in some excediegly house was built, and had made their beautiful gardens conform to the ways of the giant, But the King compelled the moun- tain to obey him, He blasted smooth Places on precipitous slopes, carry- ing away thousands ,af tons of earth and stones; and from the valley be- low he brought up miles of fertile earth to form new fields and gardens. By the time he bud -finished creating a. new landsettpo Mid filling the new Versailles with the beet pictures his taste siiggesied, Philip was ready to die in debt to the tune of 45 million pesetas, For that is 1111, ,,11111 Which the 111011:Ira 61,0111 011 Sall 11(1(40110(1. - In planting strawberries see that the plants are set firmly in theaaroued Loose planting means poor stands. Place the crown of the plants level with the surface, letting the roots hang at a slight angle, so the eon may be packed down upon them. Keep the rows taraight. !Jae a garden line in setting. nisbudding Is an operation per- iistaarats Liniment nolloVels Neat -Met, formed to Seelife larger sized flowers from the buds allowed to remain on Hard-boiled eggs, cConhined with finely chopped sweet peopers, season the ;Sleets. Exhibition chrysentlie. ed and moistened with mayonnaise, mums, roses, dahlias and sweet peas are almost always the result of dis. makes an excellent salad. bedding Time to begin thinking about cold coupled with careful crilture. Larger fruits are obtained in the same remote ancestors, If you place the tip of your finger just above the tip of your nose You may reckon that directly behind that about live inches at the base of the brain, is this third eye. Anatomists call it the "pineal gland," and an• ciently it was imagined to be the seat of the soul, _ _ he in 2144 or d inch pots ant moved and hot 1;01. with which to pm. into larger pate as fast as the plants Ill" 11°!1' In II"' ihrur,o of it:nl} is 101,r; Ihr gardelliiP.• season. This is are ready. styled "Um Prince of sapie,s." just a warning, manner, but this is called thinning. stinerws Linnaeus Oates Burns, Eto. jelials-11/E8D1datif , berniatteta, teludirtgiibiletentifao iefee lames, simbeVal braless, apt anilanimetion.r It dee swi dr Yint'xii Hotstimilsk CSOPAIIV.808Plikt4 ED. 7. 118811)11 87