HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-10-17, Page 2PATRIOTISM OF
FRENCI WOMEN
HER -SPLENDID RESPONSE TO
TJJE CALL OF HER (:'OUNA1tY
,before the oncoming Hun, Boys and GERMAN METHODS
ETHODS
girls by the thousand are lost forever pr
to the Hun, To help these tragic
eases of cruelty is the special work
of the Women's Societies.
The whit of French women is
shown in their attitude towards the
Women's ('.ougress of the Hague,
whl;h met ie April, 101x. Not a
single French Society seat a delegate
_^ to than Pac•ifiet meet.inlr. The 150
• feminist associations and the 80 suf. British Report Cites Ilridenet o1
Dike '!'heir British Sletere. the Wo- fra,-.:t societies refused to accept the
Mee. of France 1'altutteercd For Proposed program. eke long as that Atrocities in Hun Treatment
ip 1 r11 ri:: :•f Labor. spirit survives, victory is assured to of the Aborigines.
the Allies.
A what„ volume oottid not be _••_•—
enou;it f., te'1 sew;: et;ts of every
REVOLT AFRICANS
NATIVES HORRIFIED AT IDI'.A OF
RETURN TO TEUTON RULE
evert police ofli«ws becont8 guilty of
sue+ offenses, and that such offensesare not punished by the courts of law
in a way that they ought to be ace
cording to a sense of jnetiee to the
natives."
THE BIBLE AND THE WAR
British and Foreign Bible Society
Iles Distributed 7,0(10,000 Cvples,
Dr. J. 11. Ritson, of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, states that the
actual combatants and labor bat-
talions on the field of war speak 72
A report on the brutal methods em- languages. The British and Foreign „heap Biis Injun" is proving a
all
ployed by Germany in the adminis- Bio is of t}1e e Seriptu es Was ready nwith
these mighty ally of "white man" in the
tration of her colonies in Africa , re- . ,rttee, It is a remarkable fact that great fight against the enemies of
THE REDSKINS IN OCTOBER 31, 1914,
MODERN WARFARE' MI HEROIC DAY
PROM: A MIGHTY ALLY TO THEWRITE MAN
American Indians Are Real heroes
In the Desperate Struggle With
German Militarism.
div u r neta nee t �,E �j y public I y Edmond 1 H L.
ions response to the r.,.t .,i ]tet ST. ��jtaiVTi.li
ti b `�C Gera Actin Seel'etAl• • of the In-
terior, Union of South Afrlca, const}- tyav of replenishing and maintaining alt a pipes o peace were Scriptures for the sailors,' It was Che man in the trench who • wawa of their own she remainder
to war-
wantrof
2. ., "' t= a g' stocks of Sc•tiP saved the l mpiro. their spending c
^� to the assertion of Dr. W. S. Solt, the soldiers or civilians in the battle of the West.
f ,eell'yt German secretary of State for the roes. This one society alone War seems the natural business of Such is Lord French's comment on thele lifetime grieving, these noised
day. c o :n c t all fat. t 1 21 ,, swept < the Forst Bottle 1 Ypres, their l forget grieville: ...omit 5128
Women of er.rld� mei of I)A'1'I''R BACK. TO ANCIENT D.1i'S Colonies, that Germany would de_ distributed more than seven mil- the Inthtui t t 13 HI of Y res, little pressing need of rescuing those cliel-
day lin
every y le ofoL t( a Iw-:l. From . Oh
the vara: air La Belle France they
had absorbed as truth that every wo-i
toes must give une:rurigingly of her This Inte.esting French Town Form
dear.'st :sod of herself for defence of are fresh evndt.nees story day a
Immo mei eountiy. First of all they,. ed Part of the Dowry of considered- as en indiettnent of Ger- . SEcn fare to face with death are ;
like the porton women of old, hand- • Mary Queen of bents man fitness to rule the natives of searching the Scriptures for realities.j singular important part they are
ed to each soldier his shiel,l with the' Africa The evidences upon which never before. Between 300000' Playing in the role of scouts and in
mos -,age: "Come home with it or on St. Quentin enjoys the advantage the
u cent] (nada 121 e 1 rmonc no Government, friendly or hostile, the ci'ilization tow ler m,o r� .,«.
1 ,iv ti, for o .. s' 1 1 has deliberately put hindrances in the have subscribed in these later years try through those desperate hours on of Hun cruelt "$ and 211 t t .
country. A(. re ?=•A^'q
1 " th f o smolder( October 31 and November 1, 1914. thing short of wotdcrtul. With sur-
moUi?izntu,n French v.nln' ..t , ? , `� on the plains and in the rocky valleys
81121 nane,1 It evith 'heti t, �t' ti i Im the
MARES ONE OF 'I'IHE SUPRI?811,
CRISIS OF .1.ISTORY
At the First Battle or Ypres the
Super Valor Of 1.14e British Sol-
dier Saved the Empire.
'MOTHERING" T ''E
WAR CHILDREN
1•'Rl'NC.'II AND BEIAiIAN WOMEN
CARS FOR UNFORTUNATES
ohlo Work of Rescuing Youthful
Victims From Stan anion or
From Slivery.
It wee the obstinate tenacity, the - The manner !n which Belgian and
superb spirit, the refusal to aclenaw1- French women 11avc 128821 able to
edge defeat which has ever animated "mother" the children who have bee
the British soldier, that saw the cogs- come victims in one way sed another
„usttnd,x of
In -
and not onra have nh.y 1 t.,
tutes the British Governments reply•
mond the return o£ her 80]02112)5 at the hut, -The story of thein paVZ e10atlon in the 1 i s P
Rt)\lI eau conference. lion Scriptures among those nd involved the war for democracy is a new as. we knew of it for long afterwards, dren from starvation or slavery, peace ' " in the great struggle, end the Bible of
The report is Ore of the meat sen- nen still remains open at Berlin,; Odyssey. T+rain Canada they went marked howrldn115e)f tivourboors (ilhonor,
atl8 o!'he wurlofa1st71without
starCeluthu
salioual ever issued in connertio
House t fight with and of t
with German colonial methods and is
Vienna, Budapest, mol even Capstan
-' forth 121 great numbers o g
le, the overseas expeditions, and them of the supreme crisis of history, says French women in the worts of caring
tiriP i f the Ehe London O for the child victims of that 5]1218.
report is basad are taken from as
and 900,000 Jews are among the! their spectacular surprise attacks,
' 1 G d ume t• t R'ind
ds of these i An Exploit in France,
Due of the novel stories that came
out of France recently had to do with
a band of six brave young Sioux
warriors who one night penetrated
the German lines to a depth of three
miles. Coming upon a fine old French
chateau they found Inside a great
gathering of German army officers
hilariously imbibing the varied menu
of a french wine banquet. With the
same bloodcurdling warwhoops that
their sires once invented upon the
it." Then they turned to the pen or; of beteg situated at the juncture of oflicta etmnn oc n a a fighting forces ---two thtr ,
the n'•.ugh. whichever task they could ; two {prat 21111111(1 with the Somme, hnek, from sworn- statements by na ],slot With the Allies; and thousands
do ]:eat of all those laid down by the one feeling to the north and tapping tele chiefs and by Europeans familiar of these Wren, free from the restrict -
•tis , eeldies5. Tecanee slim le the Scheldt, and the other flowing with the country, and from the writ- ing influences of the synagogue and
cap's i; (rigs of Governor Leutwein, who held
always her husl,anl'a coin]+•lrnn •curl •,,,nth to the Oise. Thus this centre }ghetto, are reading the New Te:,ta-
comrade, the French woman is 81w1174 of the cotton and woolen fabric in nffee of,
1894 to 190o; Dr. Paul mertt for the first time.
thoroughly acme:IOW t4 with the Masi- dustry has direct water connections : Rohrback, Dr. Carl Dove and others.
the t refutes in detail Doctor
Hess side of ])11211. with :1utr,erp and
Perls. 1e repos re nes u
The County and the Countess,
Managers of Big Businesses. 1 Known 111 Roman times as Augusta Solf's assertion that Germany's treat -
F eromaiedurottm, St. Quenin re- ment of the native races won for her Similarity in the sounds nI certain
It 21:14 not difllcult therefore (ex- reeved its prte ent name in honor of the mm;al right to be a great colonial , words often lead to confusion. The
ceP1 for forst+oding and anxiety and (;al (lhristha,s, who was put to power, Secretary Georges says: ; Weekly Telegraph tells an interesting
real ta:'ro") to assume entire control de+h herr in the third century ' The native opinion here is unstni-'rase of that kind. At a party the other
' t d ed
of shop,. cafes, and even 9f farms. while prenching the doctrines of { mously against any idea of their ever evening a young mein was m ro uc Plainsmen of America, the Sioux sol -
running them 1.0 the benefit of the . t•hrietianity. Four centuries later) being handed back to the tender mer- to a lady whom he understood to. be dices ascended upon the chateau,
sol -
whole community. Field;, vineyards, . ins tomb became a shrine and the' cies of Germany. Any suggestion of -the daughter of the C0unt088 of Ayr. crashed their grenades through the
s •d By and by lee ventured to aslc after her windows and let loose a fury of rifle
and orchaloie were tended. and crop:, nalvent if many pilgrims served to the possibility of an act 'of th! kin
W011' 1121 sere,]. 11•: women with • nr^1•rnify the importance of the towel„ 021 the part of Great Britain produces
scar"'a hint from Lh : gavernm^nt.. while Its industrial prosperity was 1I the utmost consternation."
Free Y. women hecnmo+ manager; of ' materially advanced during the Record of Oppression.
Lip,' I> ieinsasss, and there is a long Middle Ages by the introduction of leas stskmg a er y u ly reported:
rec:n1l ,,2 women 11:1,0 ore acting as _
cloth manufacture, , The report shows that the est Con 05," of Ayr., P
mavmrs, 'here teachers, p•,::t mistress- twenty-five years of German rule in mets;' ]vas the reply, "bol that's ntS "Heap big noise inside; perhaps
Before the walls of St. Quentin, in heap big dead now.'
es, and servants in nn.^-te by no means 1 67, was fought one of the great record
Afrlca was an unbroken father.' OF a brave Indian lieutenant who
devoid of danger. They have per -
}rattles in the struggle between Henry record of cruelty,
bad filth, private op_ 'Whereupon the young man rushed fell leading his men forward with the
formed their w•crk WytIl an efl'le]e ble 11. of France and Philip II. of Spain. Pression, cruelty, barbarities and rob off and told his hostess that the young that is not qualified by any charitable berries, culminating in the Her w and - lady must' be quite mad, as she told Americans at Sergv, a subordinate
ey
The latter. having previously married 1 officer said:
ullnwalwee lee-et/se of emereeneY. : Mare Tudor. Queen of England had Hottentot rebellions. During the first _him the Countess of Ayr was her fa-, „Chief so active last three months
ren::� +,.c
sic of ire's conductors and drivers, s s hili_ She natives. Such protection as the So he is, swaweied thehostess. no one to stay in
tailor to 8811 service and wound
stripes upon his coat sleeves. We
buried him in his blanket without
them,"
Friend of the White Man,
mother, the countess. and revolver fire. When the patrol
"11y father you mean," said the lady.
No,"' said the bewildered youth, "I returned shortly afterward' intact to
ft n r mother, the the lines the Indian corporal modeet-
bserver.
We can now mark not merely the
day but the very hour which decided
whether the Gertnaus should break
the allied line and reach -the French
coast or recoil in failure from the thin
but indomitable melte • of Western
chivalry. We can identify the man
whose genius, thrown Into the t,•emhl-
ing scale of Fate, turned it to the also, the the "mniernal cn:a.one" at,
the "Goutte de Lett" old h twee
greatly increases] their it"tiiewe !.:•-
ing the war.
Homes for 15,000 Children.
theht point between two and three But quite apart from the three so-
istence solely because of the unpr::-
cedented brutality of ]ltrisa]s11 war-
fare, is an organization of Fcencli wo-
men known as "L'Acts:eil FrAlleai;r
right
From infancy, through schunl :tee,
thous bays and girls were guaeie,l
and guicled so that thee might limier
worthy citizens of France. 'that se-
clety, known as the "Oeuvre de la
Chaussee du Maine" has hr„ac!: , • ,i
into an inestimable furter in nations]
life. Dating bank to pre-war temc,
side of civilization, never agate so
let the final, though far, issue be en-
compassed with doubt.
When General FitzC.'larence sent
the 2nd Worcesters into the line at
cieties named, and epringi:,g into ":-
dcloek on the afternoml of October
31, 1914, he turned the current of wet•
so that it never again Slowed back -
oar .
ack-
oard,
But if one directing act could thus
bear upon destiny, it was because the whose sole object is the ''aia at ,:hil-
valor of thousands held the tense dren belonging to 411” inemliel die -
balance upon which it descended. To tricts, Madame 1imus, 8, the secre-
give the name of Ypres its meaning tary, has managed to fin,! hooses for
the British Army poured forth its 15,000 such children. if one bu
blood as never upon any of the fields Pauses to recall the leo; ;8ation of
which enshrines} its glory. Here it well known toevne and villa(')'s it be -
11105 that the British soldier of tra- comes possible to realize ill a faint
clition fought 'his greatest fight and degree the task French women 111'. 1
sealed his testimony. taken upon themselves. :•- n emberi:le
Emphasizing the vital importance also that the number of deem.' ed
F n have t"d er ndvi the e1 support of the English when the seventeen years there was no law for thew t t' t y dugout for the of the battle, the London Times points children in this dr trim rs, o into the
th p 1 cut that on October 31, 1914, the 13ri- hundred thousand Velem a ids ir;'o
two S uma" -e, unc.er emmenic] P '
ticket ,:,Ile,^totes, Over tlnd semen P, town. levy eventually provides indicated con- "Let me introduce you to him. He is fish Etnpv a was in )treater pertil than wife of the Governor of P. • t . •
were 114 eyed as tramway cnndnctors belt. of •.army, invested the siderations of humanity, the miler
fhe incompetent Constable de Mont-
1.800
ont- > ale. Smith, the county surveyor:" p p ti has ever been before or pence. president of r'L'Assislnu :• a la ;tlrr•d
in Poria ;]lone in •January, 1915, and mmrttec led sx French army to the to exploit the natives as laborers re- : _ury - h mtr at large still c et 1 Enf< t,
1 : mire in the i stands far too little about t mg the first }
was First African
The cot. yunder- an " which un- („mord ,i1' -
300 'l by Metro -tube.
Over marred Explorer.
he tee- year of the a;: , by unit-
e 00 we+.•e polo s11 ove• d b• railways• and in ro r,, noft Barris who a When the Germans arrived they en- .
re command Admiral the ligny,ow The' mendous impoitance of the first bat- ing several societies all f, r imnvdr-
t.iu,u.=suds in r11r carintls hanks. �'htni-. is a crushing defeat . roved onto agreements with the native The first 111] 10 man to explor the � If ever proof was heeded that the Ile of Ypres, and about its unalter- art work in 1914. In this way ov�'r-
tire workers am r0rruete 1 almost, en- allies administered g chiefs, but these scraps of paper and interior of Africa and to reach the s American Indian's heart was in the ,able effect upon the whole course of ]apniug was tvoided.
tirciy from the ranks of ranmsn. Lace- ; to Montmorency, but the besieged the natives trove fraudulently de- previously well-nigh fabulous waters i right place and that he was the friend the war. levo English ladies long resident. in
maker;.:lressmakers, pnrcelslin Werk- forces, inspired by the intrepid Col-' priv ed of their best land. Traders and of the Niger was ]YIungo Park, boot in of the white man of America with The critical period was between sures have rendered t•alual•te sereice
ors from T.:minsin, embroiderers from ' rmy
after held the town for 17 days i whom he has fought in every war two and three o clock in the after -
after the rout of their deliverers.' Settlers robbed them of their cattle Scotland 147 years ago. Park was lip- in the care of Orphans "f the : vise
the Vosoee. rile ratters, those whose which was their only wealth, and the preuticed to a surgeon, and started his that Americans have ever fought, his noon,. when, with the First D]Disiot by ca -operating with Frrr..'h w•nmrr,.
hands and twee; had been trained to ' This 'was the same Coligny who 15 law subsequently prevented the nue wandering career in 1792 as assistant ,activities in the world war have pro- forced back, the eosin was coming
years later was one of the first vie Y These women visited Art+rin, in 'iii`'
the daintiest, finest work turned out 1 Iassacre of St. Bartholo- tives from possessing herds of stock. surgeon on board the Worcester, an vided ample proof. No more loyal 1021 in strength. At this moment a and collected enough moae y to 1911
:•hells which on a random visit to a tiros of the b The natives were thus driven to work East Indianian. Later the Scottish for 50,000 children. Thep )
mew. Pis body was thrown frim and n4ilitant citizen fights in the dramatic stroke, of which the herotan •wee+ne,
workshop employing 840 women pro- a window and fell in the court- at ridiculously inadequate wages and surgeon was employed by the African, trenches of France and Flanders theft was Brigadier -General FitzClarencew }raves the children to pi,lorarc with
dncad hot ins had shell 8. She 80.000. his own often never paid. They were treated Association, and in June, 1795, lee the scions of the redskins. saved the day. their nearest kin. So rea.lossly hie
Like their British Aster. the French •Yne at the feet of theoDuke of Guise, reached the Gambia, In the following � The first Indian killed with the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his his- this world been carried on it is pray
Wmmen rotunteetecl unhasitatin,,ly for
one of the instigators of the great like slaves and trees women folk were
slauehter of the IT'lgenots• habitually }maltreated by the Ger-'December, accompanied only by two ; Canadian forces was Lieutenant Cam -
the most dangerous work Effective•
canteen •
work (vas from the start the . Figured to War of 1870.
mans who took them into forced con- negro servants, he plunged into the i exon Brant, of tho Six Nations, a
enhinage, unexplored interior of the Dark Con- i lineal descendant of Joseph Brant, the
idea of French women for their sis- In the Franco-German War t+t, These were some of the things that anent• A year later has was back , Indian genius who fought with the
tors, and has been most eliieiently Quentin played two roles, first sue- Loaded the natives into rebellion, In Britain, with the proud distinction British in the War of Ameriran Revo-
,ge,i ceaefully resisting an attach hi Octo- which 185 suppressed by ruthless of being the first modern European
By sheer merit women have won bee, 1870, but three months later cruelty, resulting virtually in the ex- to reach the Niger.
first place on agricultural cimmittees. Witnessing the signal defeat of Gen. termination of the three tribes, '1118 • r,. _�
There 15 on record the case of a girl Faidherhe's army by the Germans Hereros were reduced from 80,000 to
of fourteen. motherless, and with under von Goehen, just ten days be- 15,000, the Hottentots from 20,000 to The Nearest,
three vountrer children under her fore the general armistice was signed. 9,800 and the Berg-Damaras from 30,- The four mud -stabled privates had
care. After her father marched' St. Quentin is less than 100 miles 000 to 12,800. Thus 30 per cent. of come into possession of a mouth organ
to war thl:t brave girl negle21- . north-east of Paris by rail and is 17 the Herero people disappeared and by means unknown to all except one
lutiom, thereby wiping out a score
that reached hack more than a cen-
tury and a quarter. The first Indian
to die with the American forces was
John Peter, a Menominee Indian,
se•vmr with the First Engineers. All
of them are embued with the spirit
of the Indian, Wife when asked how
away
ted none of her accustomed duties, miles in an airline south-east of more than half of the Hottentots and rather sore Hun prisoner, he liked army life in, one of the U.S.
but managed her father's large farm Peronne, Between Perrone and St, the Berg -Damara tribes shared their t "00•s ter 'ave the hloomin' thing?" cantonments, according to tho story
so well that the Prefect thanked her Quentin the Somme River made a wailed Private Mentzer Moggs ((sur- told by President Wilson, answered:
Q fate. Governor I>entrreen was. super-
publicly. In another district two wide loop to the south, with rho' ,,eded },y the, notorious Governor Tro-'(lamed the Swiped. Too much salute, not enough shoot"
young girle. orphans. were left alone town of Ham at the bottom of the 1ha, fresh from Germany, who sup-; "Slimy! 1 know!" roared another Li every war activity the Tndiarn is
when their three brothers were railer] ; bend. The last-named town will be pressed an Arab rebellion in East of the nxud-stained combatants. "Let' writing his name large in the affairsup. They took over the cava of a remembered as the place whEre ,4frica by a wholesale massacre. Gnc- rive Swipes play so11lethin' on it, and of the world. Red man and white man
sixty-n^re farm, with twenty-five 2 Louis Napoleon was held a prisoner ether Trutha issued an "extermina- the one 'on guesses wot the Thune —allies in the common cause—are all
's endfive home. ; for six clays, following his abortive , tion order," the terms of which pro- Is tosses up between the Swipe• an' guo,1 Indians together.
The Spirit That Will Conquer. 1 attempt tt effect n military upris-, vided that. no Ilerero man, woman or 'Outwit"
All over Frolics it ,was the same ung in his favor when Ile landed at child, or babe, was to receive. mercy It was done, The Swtper trilled up
story. !:'here the Hun penetrated and ; Boulogne in 1840. or quarter, and down the scale.
suvved devastation on every hand, all: St. Quentin was given to Mary Brutal Excesses. "Well?" queried tete nin5181an, when
able-bodied women miler fifty, and dowry een in 1 CU, and it continuedf St'ofs as g Part of to"eT Bill every one of them; take no he had finished, baso conmiandant's, where casualty
boys and girls of fourteen and over, pixy her a revenue until the day of prisoners," he said, Evidence that
One private suggested "Boor, beer, reports canto from the line, A war-
boys
deported to Germany as slaves. her death at the trembling hands of the order was carried out is recorded glorious beer," but the Swipes shook weary Tommy, coming down for a
y non. in the story of. Governor Trotha's his heart. "breather," was accosted by a base
groom, who said he was ordered to "No," thehe
said, "that's not In it, but "wallah" with the remark:
kill a young Herero woman. He re- you're the nearest, and so you wins. "How's everything looking up
fused in disgust, whereupon a Gerd Conlin' Streams,' "
Hot Air.
It was somewhere in France, at a
It was the old women who set to e
work patiently to reclaim the land, her (_oue111 Elizabeth's headsman.
with the help of the little children. I
They planted vegetables among the Bargewomel.
f 1 burnt h i s and even
The chine was 'As Pants the 'cart for thereat"
"Nothing to (worry about," replied
the warrior, And then, as if he had
suddenly remembered it: "Heard
ruins u their urn o se , Among the latest Innovation; of ;man soldier carried out the order an
tiled to plough the any societies war are the bargewomen who run the then held the dripping bayonet in I
Many societies fields
d •ops any scene r s d h '' face.
an sow crops. He Wanted It Decided.
of French women are undertaking to taus] service between Mayes an the groom'a a e• "Ma! Mal bawled Freddie, as Lite'about the new gas 1 nits is sending
helpin the devastated districts. Malty Liverpool, some 300 milds. The girls i One of the most significant deco-
n- live entire] on board, looking after ; vents in the report Ss a secret cir- ' usual morning wash was goingon ! over now?" he asked,
� g r{ "
women have undertaken to work le
living with the people engines, steering the boat and work color sent out by Governor Reitz in i "do my otos belong to my face or my've N bad?nlied the base wallah. Is t
dependently, h z ging the lock, as well as looking attar 1912 to magistrates, in which bo re- ,neck? ' � "S
and sharing their hardships and ser -Mut tetnporirtrl. r. I "Rather," asserted the warrior, "So
rows • Thousands have disappeared their cabins and cooking (hair own ;ors to the desperate feeling
l "Why what is the matter?" she bad that It gets through your pay -book
from these villages never to return,
victims not of shrapnel, but of depor-
tatlon. Hundreds fell by the wayside,
and hundreds became separated from
the( 1 d t'
P.00d, usually four girls have charge ent among t e na sues, o and kills your next-of-kin,"
of two barges, one motor or horse- he stated, "which is given for tiles asked.
barge being used for towing. The Fact is that the brutal excesses of "I want itt deckled 1uew. Every - -
boll for food Europeans against natives are alarm- time you tell Mary to wash my face, Prunes and toasted barley bread
barges are used wholly!ugly increasing. It is reg'retable that of any neck she evarshes my Dare, too.":art good supper dishes.
r families in the ma evacuation
tory of the war, gives to this. fine
soldier, who was killed a few days
later, the credit of the initiative in
the vital movement which led to the
tame of Gheluvelt by the 241d Wor-
tieally impossible 11018 to find a war
orphan unprovided with a hone. Do
what they will, 210 one in France, or
the whole world for than matter, ran
ever 21151101 the dark rin1d that heaps
centers. The latter were not under over France—the tralrt'd+,• of thnu-
his orders, but he saw the urgent sands who can never r,•t•m•22, +hose
need of t]]]ong the gap of 500 yards who hnve died by the veleweie when
between the northern edge of the vil-
lage and the South Wales Borderers,
who 'ha(j not retired. The Worcesters
were in reserve in the south-west
corner of Polygon Wood.
On being called upon, stays Sir Con-
an Doyle, they made a brilliant ad-
vance under Major Hankey. One com-
pany (A) was dotarbed to touted the
right flank of the advance. The other
three companies came on for a thou-
sand yards. At one point they had
to 81'088 220 yards of open welter
heavy shrapnel fire. One hundred men
fell, but the momentum of 'the charge
was never diminishe(i. Their rapid and
accurate lire drove back the German
infantry, while thein open order for-
mation diminished their own losses.
Finally they dashed into the trenelte5
and connected up the village,tvith the
line of the Welsh Borderers. It was
a fine advance at a critical moment,
The struggle went on, but the de-
fence made by the vastly outnumber-
ed British Army on the day of Oc-
tober 31 turned the tide.
Passing It Up.
Mr. oold1ax (viewing the Niagara
taract)—"yFbat a tremendous vol -
transport, ug
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forced to flee from 1,nm" a', ore the
oncoming berries of Gerti en=, or who
could not survive in tl'^a 1,'112 and
ehameful pilgrimage into la••cry
worse than death. Than nt I e letee
(Reappeared becs'ise 14E7 witted I 'un
their families, and year., will be need-
ed to trice their wheeenteett;;.
.Saved 300 Young Gir1N.
The Women's Soeietie: in 1•'r:n, •
have taker over this tale which es
far too heavy for the e;ovsrnment et
preeent. The Nat.innal Council of
Frenchwomen have 010 people work-
ing at the :lead Mitre in Paris co-
ordinating with the prefects of the
Provinces and the feminist soeieties
in every district in T'renre. So far
they have made over 400.0(10 investi-
gations, and have traced over 50,000
cases. This same society 8ncceeded
at last, by appealing to She. Pope avid
to the King of Spain to interfere, in
getting 800 young girls who have
been descried to Germany sent baric
to their Nimes, 'Thos number is a
"mere drop in the huolo't." bot it is
nevertheless ernouralrilig to the
workers.
Closely related to this ryvest.inn 4
the children is that of their nnf"r-
tunato relatives 1110 have }weenie
ume of water! Can you tall mo the reftt>rees. "L'Euvre Partsionne" has
number of tons whish go over the given hospitality in Paris to over
brink each second'?' 1,000 free of charge. They aro hnu.8ed
The Last Haeto sir,h eyes ain't
in blocks of model flats with every
what they vae(1 to be, but you can convenience, everything done for their
count 'ern for yourself," comfort and happiness, and emrlcr-
meet found for those able to work.
Their children ere also raved for, if
necessary.
ggete" ea,
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Trick Flying.
"Why is trick flying or '„mitt' flying
tmces5ary 7' people mom et11ne8 lisle
when they see an mimeo allpaseetiy
' gailtbling with his invaluable ]ito by
more joy tricks its the zenith, looping
the 100P, doing stelliug. none and note
'diving,
A0r.la1 gymnastics are essential to
the work of air aeotit5 of battle pilots,
because when they go over the lino
and engage enemy enirareit they urn
' - unopened to do aerial gymnastics Tee
:'•,Soy flight" that the 018111an witches
'at home, with solnotimee a 109.11en of
!anxious disapproval in his 1111m18111110,
will Servo perhapS 115 6110 lifo llleht
of that aMrnte;li whom inn 1110e411 1111 that
over 11•an80 Sir 1i'hulllel's seal {entente
as hie enemy's (loath flight, -