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a which the sudden the eh1•tek of ,-hell f ar-•ules
tte.
i roar ward whlc --es . "I wish to espreee to all troops now _.__� _ -
sl:l.tlght of .n:r men rapidly pit-} -! t' n, disconcerts a man more as he fighting in the 1 111dirul Corps my, THE'v1I1II'T'El 1' NKb
acids, ..les `*.a Frye out the land, t tae photo- high apt:10c!a1iun of the splendid
The ( , a,i.,n troops pushed we:. !graphs. ,]'reit art].lery fire. or take •fighting qualities ,]splayed by theta
east of r ,.masa' :long the line to the "''n thrnulrh a hntnl sight than to in the successful Lefties of the first
ental. S;•:•• 111 lent he til, liras h,nr this noise and perhtlps he lifted eee1- in Octo1ea', The mission as-
, crossing :,f the demolish) l.r!iwny a h'mlrerl fent or en when n shell signed to the ro•ps was protection of
bridge. Two men coma e .eas the 1"''''''''''close nnde,•n0'1th. And nit'. is the flunk of the Third rand I•'ollrth
renal, brenbccl ill, enemy out of his haunted h' the knmrlet.i„•n that. unlike ermies in th:,ir advance, and that
brideeheed and then lie' • 1 •r•r) intee • nlite,•r fire of ether gena, the mission haat 1 1 catl•ried mat to the
WHEN CANADIANS bombs with time fuses attached, and P AISE FOR DIE
a1 all times been devotedly seconded
theee were followed immediately by 1 with great skill and deicing by our
ttteee•••111 y�,•] ��A1 yyy''�pp �•�Ip� ,gnrya LORAL
k��t':77�f������'�pttrroq yyy+++��� ++t� cntbuxets of fire, In epe short street CANADIAN
® y tltlVhh�p ,1 11 .tt+••!! ,,,���cccyyy---III nnaelarue grouters, while the artillery
�11TaD CAiiap( , ; a doled houses simultaneously buret CAJf DIAN FORC&, S i lent th(.1r puwel`ful and never fa)lhtg
ei® ila� p a into flames, The Hotel De Ville, the 11i Ul support. Thq inikialivo and rc ourcc-
_ bishops' palace, and other buildings fulness displayed by the Engineers
—
were blown to pieces. contributed materially to the depth
lOi.1,"f7.1) 11IFLP2 IN THE VAN I The Cathedral still sttw:le. but whet tt't'.11E(1111R)' 0F GENT,RAL SIR and rapidity of our advances, The
OF VICTORIOUS BItITISHI3Ii5 j the ruined chanes] only. There is HENRY 1IORNE devotion of the medical personnel hen
lien the great belfry tower, but 11tt1' I been Worthy of eveity praise. The
free lappinm its ha e. 4s the ]:isles
° administrative eery( o, working nt
went by the universal therm—ter of all times ender very great pressure
Destruction of Cerebral 1a Anotherthe holocaust developed. The scut was General ('orrie Sets Forth in Sjirrhtg• and adverse conditions, surpassed
Outrage Added to the Lung List obscured and seemed like a fiery ball . Terms the Recent Achievements their •usual efficiency. The chaplain
int the stroke and the thick dust of 00101100 by their continual devotion.
of (#ermany's Crimes. of Our Dorinion Soldiers.
fulling walla. to the spirituel welfare of the troops
Troops ur•lgioally re,.r,trced as Can , The Canadian Engineers sought to I Gan. Sir Henry Horne, euminan,ling' and their otter dlsregard of personal
adlatl Mounted 1 lu11es au the honer pen in the coeflagratiou by dynamit- ; the British Fiat Army, wired as fol risk, have endeared themselves to the
to be the tires to enter Can b(l i. It !ng the buntlines, but the flames brokelows to Lieut. -Gen, Sir Arthur Cur- hearts of everyone. The incessant ef-
fell to the lot ut: an eastern to'.v:.: I'itye • nut at their backs, 1 lie, Commander of the Canadian forts of the Y,M,C,A, and their initia-
battalMn to leml the, ).rj. ...,:y:- 0 nbrai to -night is a smoking ruin. Corns, Oito1er 3: live in bringing comforts right up
Callahan Press S_orrc.-1,.''V. •:.. •flr••e remained in the city, Father : "I wish to express to you and the . to the front line in battles, are warm -
Two eemeeh 'l sent 1,1-r'.- .,- Tiai,•', priest of 11,1' Church of St. troops my- apprecltaion of the, de- ly appreciated by all. The victories
the canal at rive minutes (1( , ! op Dillon. Two days alio he was ordered .1.11 (1 e•1 fighting of the ('an eliau You have achieved are the fruit of the
Get; IUth. ale; establish_ t a-.,; • le evartlate. He refused because he Corps during the prat live clays. Dur- iron' discipline • you haveaccepted
heeds. Half ail ]lour later num pew- had to attend to a dying woman. They rag this time the canrl�t( ((1 corps,' freely aunt of fife high standard you
petted the city to (:rar:11 Ree hru'I.,ri hreatened to shoes him, be he persc- • lI000.te•d by ilia Eleventh Division. have re riled in technical knowledge
and thence haste their tray into Place vered and to -day he was raring for and portions of the til'ty-sixth Di. of your arms and the combined tnc-
d'Armes. Auotilur ou!uhul 0041100 Civilians who had hid for ten days in Haien, ear'ressfully carried through tical employment of all your re -
over further up amu 4eaured the line cellars: 'the difficult task of forcing the sollreee, You must, thcr'rore, -with
of railway op Buulevnrd de la Liberte.' --.._.. Canal dh Nord in face of a .deter_ relentless energy maintain and per.;
A little after six 1'1.111!% this bettalionMIRACLES OF THE AIR 1111+d enemy. and captured ];ourlon feet the high standard of trrtining.
was in possessi an of the harraeks, , --_ 1,t'oor and the high ground north and you have reached and guard with j
hospital and gets works, and l,y nine - Marvellous Escapes Due to the Self- northwest of C atnbrrti, The import-' jealous pride your stern discipline. -
o'clock o . ,:pie,] the entire city. Possession of British Airmen, unci which the enemy .attached to Under the lasting protection of Di -
A Coeval-01(10rio Battalion mean-: these positions is shown by the nen-I vine Providence melted in 0 burning
while worked acres: the canal lower It the Titans ever had an epidemic her of divisions which he has employ- desire for the victory of right over
dew•r1 ;o,d secure:.] the net th.e:atof whooping rough and a score of rd and by ih: violence of his counter- might, uselfieh in your miming, you
fr]nge of the .,11y along the line of. .hent ehmused in emisnn, 1011000 Capt. attacks :iurlag the last two days, ere and shall remain a mighty force,
the Douai railway. The C.'ar .daft en -''Matt Bott in Cay11117 of the (']olds' T Troops of no less than twelve clivi- admired by all,. feared and respected
gineers established a porno +1 bridgeshmnld imagine that the nose was like Bions have been engaged daring this by Your foes. I am proud of your
over the east at six o'clock. :duel the bursting of a black shell from a perir-1 ip an nttempt to stem the sue- 'seeds, and I want to record here my i
of the '.uricee or the operation ea •m
C 'an anti-eilcr'nt eun. • eess,,,t advance of the corps." i heartfelt thenlcee for your generous
dun to flu' ve1u effective ('minter- a'ew airmen e 'rdene( to the • efforts and my unbounded confidence
berrage our artillery laid down en 'iilct'nM1e woof! 0.1 1! of gunfire at Gen. Curries Apprtriatinn• it your ability to fight victoriously;
i tlno energy _tan positions. twelve thousand feet, especially when General Currie addressed the Fol- earl crush the enemy wherever and
The enema: held the City with l: c• it is mea« snuff h to l e fr+llntvel by lowing order to the troops: , w•hellevel• you meet him,”
arm, the leas' 1 men of tee t.,;" -n11 4-11.1:rri-al.e n1- gun keep; tt ares on complete 3ati fl(•tintt of the Cont-
scramblel over, :Ind in a short thee ;t e tat at and cell t,aer+'e :111 s1:•e,1 es minter -in -chief. Tn your advance
and 4 ales for afcty.
predicable ern :in :e rn t ne. ] ,tp you overcame the very formidable
Th? err m y began his es*ae.100111 at 1n n"0i-a11craft. gin w0un,1e4 a obstacle of the Cantil Du Nnrd. You
• mnit(feht, a1 1 as cur trro;s ent.rr.-d 'let from our airdrome in the hsr•.1 carried by assault the fortified lhour-
ye.. t rdny morning fires sneerer up all i,1 1 leg end 1111001 an op' n'nt1• the
size of r e s see• in the petrol ion Wood. the Marruin lira, and
der.•
over the The Came -Pans dis- seized the basil gen+md r,acnding
in the cellars. and en did the engine prier. The t0000 of O. sy-le-S"erger, Epinoy, I for evervthin exec t progress over _ )rips without allowine them to ae.
A Long -Coveted Position. lines :vele so distant that he could flayn -0court, tIarge;n Seine -les -'Tot` shell -tore ground. p - n T+�•
rings their )fl')ira and teeing on
not pencil them in a glide: the only ']gins Sancourt, Rendon, Fontaine- These new tucks tanks—whippets, ets the' l y
The entry of the Canadians into ming for h]n• to (10 0010 t° plane d+nvn de -Notre Dame Rrillencourt, Sailly,
' Cambrai fulfils the legitimate am_ toward German territory. He was St. Oils, Neurine St. Remy, and Til-
bitien of the corps, for the achieve-; gran] c. weak f+om los, of blood, holt lov a^e now oars. and your patrols
t ment of which they had been fightirg It occurred to him that if be stuck entered Cambrai itself. •
i hard ever since they Stormed the ; his knee ;oto the hole in the tank be
t Canal du Nord and took Bourion might be able to pump up pressure. Engaged 36 Enemy Divisions.
Ruud nn September 37. 1 1 -le tried'it, and the engine came back "How arduous was the tads assign-
Canihrei fell to a night attack. «o At Villers Bretonnenx seven of them In Jerusalem there was nothinglike
that height h flew in a semiconscious h d
The British Have Developed a New
Variety of "Tank."
The great lumbering . trunks that '
played so• remarkable a part in the
British victory at Gambrel last fall
are by no means the last word in such 1
vehicles. Similar contrivances are •
now in use in all the armies; the Ger-
mans have imitated them successfully,
and they are in continual use for of-
fensive purposes. But the British, 1
who invented them, have gone further
tar,]• f h1 �. fie nl a �t're t •eat, t 1 now and have introduced a ditTeeent
(0 0+11x1 a nigher of ci••(ti••na t•]t,lea elong the Douai- rembral marl. the typo, which is even more ser•viceable'•
Dry Roarings
If tho obi groove's 111 the bu:,hings
become clogged the oil wi,tl not he
abbe to reach the e u•fates which
need it. The use. of an excess quantity
tel graphite sumet]mes t'erves to Pro -
three thin condition.
Split Washers
Where castellated nuts and cutter
pins are not supplied in automobile
tenatruction well tempered split
washers may be placed under the
heads of the bolts to keep then. from
rat -ling loose.
Starting Systent Troubles
The starting motor takes its cur-
rent from the storage battery
through bl'u•.hee. It sometimes hap-
pens that these brushes for various
rowans are not making proper con-
test and this means mere or less fail-
ure of the systani, When :trouble
arises k th}s syeteen these brushes
should be cai'efuldy examined. Again,
one of the 0e'110 of the storage bat-
tery rune down before the others,
which are therefore called upon to do
more work th;an they are able to
handle. Also a grain 'trf .grit or
foreign matter may get.hetween the
contact points of a switch and make
a world of trouble before it is discov-
ered
iscov
ere'cl and' dio(odged.
Fill the Radiator
In the thorme-eyiphon cooling sys-
tem it is important to keep the radi-
ator full or vary nearly so, in order
that there may be adequate back re'
sis0ance to keep the water forcing its
way forward. It is better to add a
l'i'ttle w'a-Ler frequently than to let
the matter go until the engine be -
gine to knock for help.
Carbon Remover
A good many motorists bald that a
few teaapoonfbls of denatured alco-
hol squirted into the cylinder.. when
they are hot, after which the engine
is run fast for a couple of minutes,
is the best carbon remover to be 11nc).
This simply amounts to substituting
denatured alcohol for the kerosene
that k rotnmouly used for this per -
pose.
'10 het at 13ol.ts
Ill some in1tanree a �rUt is +0 placed
that 11 is extremely difficult to reset
with a wrench. Often this may be
obv'lated by reversing the bolt, where-
by the rut is brought within eaasy
reaele
Carry Thermos Bottles
Thermos or vacutun bottles m'o'pe•
eu'liarly -tache to fracture from the
jolts and jars of' travel. The:se bete.
Iles should lea carried with all: top
o -n1 downward met 11:1 held 1h'at they
will not more st.l, .+';•o•,
Push 101110
The proper time to eXatill1+0 11311
rods is when the engine is s fel hot
after et run. If these pu1•00 are. tub
justte•11 when the: metal i0 relit it rnaa,
well be that because of expa1111011'rho'
Valves will not. vent properly w10111
the parts are heated.
To Adjlst Brakes
here ;:s a eimirle malted of g:(.ting'
correct brake adjustment.c, Push the
pedal forward about two inches and
keep It in that 11a(setlon by meant of
a small 11110110 of wood. Now tighten
up the turd buckle or ether adjust-
ment
djust
ment lentil the Mikes are snug and
when the .block of wool is removed
it will he found that the sleek ]raft
been c•nrrectl) taken u:p.
The Utility of Paint
Bo not fori;'gt that plaint on l'ea'
motor car is not elielly for Took:,
Paint •p0otects the urfaee helo,' i,
from the effcrs of moisture or find.
And this is true whether the surface
be metal or wood. For instance the
conventional wooden wheel will quiet --
Ty go to pieces 1f it le not coneervel
by a coat of paint. ' And so, by 1 11
+Pane When wilt the wire wheel if it
is not similarly pre•orted. Do ()('t
!et the paint wcilt about else (•lar
flake off and permit the elem nt to
work their way with the nido.ial
underneath.
HUN AND TURK
BROTHERS IN HATE
RESEMBLANCE IN (7IAIRAC'L'Elt
IS VERY STRIKING
First Hand Testimony on German
Inspiration For Atrocities in
the Near East.
The recent victories of the rallied
arms both in Palestine and Macedonia
have brought the Eastern. 'rent into
prominence again and draw the usual
parentheses around Hun and Turk,
writes the former American Ambas-
sador to Turkey,
For Huns and Turks are .fighting
together for the cause of the Faiser
in the East. That is to say the Turks
ere officered and commanded by Runs,
This association of the Hun and the
Turk is intelest]1•g. For the Hun and
the Ttrk have proved brothers in fer-
ocity. I was struck with this resemb-
lance while I was in Constantinople
'ruin 1111" to 101(1. I had every op-
portunity to make the comparison,
sh c•e I w•as hltinrately associated with
Talent, the "boss" of the Young
Turks party, and Enver Pasha, the
Turkish Minister of Wer, as well es
with other Tu111011 eunctilnnries,
World Knows German Ways Now.
The world i=. now familiar with the
German 'ode of dea111(0 01(11 imputa-
tions which ere in the W11 2r, as d]r-
1losccl ht Belgium al., Prance throtieb
the deportations. Thr P11111s Are tel-
mittedle creel and thrive political];-.
when they thrive at all, by 1 ::nssina-
lion'. 111 11,1 have f cusses]
of the dvpo•t,.tiou of G;rel, frim the
lelandee (.1011e to the port of Smyrna.
They have else l 'a i gn„111"1 a= the
instigators of the deportations and
,(tn.•snrl('1 of the Armenians.
Yet the Germans wore a p0rhaible
primaliv f,11 theee h+rneful events,
The Gu,ke o l the1 t :, lend of Ash,
Minor and on the' 111 s elm •e
.forme, :,n obstacle to till (Ivenieln
-plan for a i1.rman empire stretching
to the T'e:si.an Gulf. So the Germans
suggested to the Torko Hutt the
Greeks be moved.
They carried out the Garman sug-
reestion and marched the Greeks to
rolls to us to give not onl the sweet.
These i1 p • • L 1• y' � of our brows but oar blood also," pains in kelp farniltes together. Thi
British call them—travel very much ; '5010vice of P m-Clermani=m, of movie+;
1 r 1' Rely on Balfour Declaration, whole populations which were in the
faster than the old tanks, and can be }� e
l• Jaffa recruits show a much rater German way, was carrier] out by the
steered or car. as raspy as an oldfn-, t- greater •1e Turks,, who wished to plane the
ary motor car. They can easily keep uniformity of type. Their physis]
up with. any infantry advance over I is remarkable. Out of the first los Cheeks nn wholly Greek islands.
rough ground and can manoeuvre with : TO FIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY OF examined by the doctor 100 were The same policy was carried out in
a good deal of ease and promptness.; classified A --fit for general service the platter of the Armenian deport/1-
7' to life fifty feet from the ground, At rd to you and 1•mv vahtahlo to the 1HEIR FUTURE
kicked off at half meltone.The g e enemy waste ground you canture
, ea as , eonditicr ttvelve miles over mere= bore almost the whole brunt of an
morning .vas tetchy dark, but care- i can be judged by the tact that
r country and crossed the lines with attack on a brigade of Germans, and
1 fol peegett!nns to their in all the whereaq, in the operation of the they are said to have smashed the Recruits From Jewish Youth of Holy
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troops getting their destinations his machine scarcely touched by the First. Third snit Fourth British arm-
ies thirty-six enemy divisions have brigade completely and killed about Land Join Jewish Battalions
had the honor of crossing the canal• Escapes from bodily injuries have been engager] to this date, twelve of four hundred men. Since then they
been (mite ars strange. Apiece of have taken part in many actions; they Sent From Englund.
And penetrating into the city. The . 'beep- divisions, supported by eleven were used, it is said, in Gen, Foci's
element of surprise assisted in over- :high explosive hit a machine sidewise, independent machine-gun units, Great enthusiasm has marked the
t whelming the enemy defence in the • passed through the observer's (melt- have been met and defeated by the , victory on the Marne last July. recrditing of Jews in Jerusalefn and
{ streets. Once Place d'Armes was pit and grazed the two kneecaps of Canadian Corns. As you formed the
r,---Jafi'a as reinl'�rcoments for the Jew-
1'e:irl+ori they spread out over the en- as friend of mine. He was left with (lank you suffered enfilade and frontal Lend the Way They Fight. ish battalions sent out from England,
tire: arca, and by daylight had passed nothing tyOraB than two cuts and mild ,
artillery fire ell the way and the I says the London Daily Chronicle.
t.hrouah the city to the south-east, shell shock. 'hundreds of machine guns captured' To lend the -way they light for me, This volunteer movement began in
1 well out on the Avcrue de Valen- Scottie, another observer (now a testify to the violence of the opposi- What splendid lending that would bel palestina some weeks before the ar-
- ciennes, while on the south-west they nrieoleri, leaned forward to look at time from that source; every evidence Such radiant strength of heart and -rival of the Zionist Commissioner of
' hail established themselves at the his map while on a reconnoissance. A confirms the fact that the enemy i hand the First Jewish battalion 'from File-
: of Boulevard de la Liberte and dainty morsel of shell hurtled suffered enormous casualties, He' Lights up the waste of No Man's jam i. It was the spontaneous move -
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Porte de Parts. Some enemy ole- through the air and grazed the back 'Freight stubbornly and well and for
rents apparently were caught be- of his neck. He finished the recon- that reason your victory is the more+
1 tweon the city and the Imperials fur- noissance, made nut 'his report and creditable, You have taken in this;
1 ther south. Our troops began at once had the scratch dressed at the hose"- h;lttlz over seven thousand prisoners!
le try and save the city from the tel. The next day he resumed week, and two hundred field and heavy;
fires that broke out at various points. and he was delighted to find himself guns, thus brinp•ing the total cap- I
The allies have not fired a single shell in the roll of honor, under the head three of the Canadian Corns since'
into ('arebrai, and these fires must nag "Wounded." 7 otee hear.] him .August 8 to 25.000 prisoners, 600 1
i bare been of incendiary origin. Mean- explain to a new observer that when guns, over 1,000 machine guns and
time our third division swept out due you were flyi11et,a cense study of the o, large amount of stores of all kinds.
east to the line of the Scheldt Canal, map was an excellent way to guard Even of greteer importance than .
so uring ail hridgelaeads as far as against losing your way, your head . these captures stands the fact that
1?swnrs. end capturing Morenchies, and your neck, you have wrested sixty-nine - towns',
Ramillies, Bleeourt and Cuvillers, with t For my part. the anti-aircraft gam and villages and over one hundred
meanly huedriels of prisoners. Their has given mea fellow -feeling for the and seventy-fivo square miles of ,e-11 1
victory was complete and glorious. birds of the air. I have at times tried from the Hun in the short period of
, light-heartedly to shoot partridges, two months. The Canadian Corps,
Another German ("rime. and even pigeons, but if ever again I to which was attached the Thirty-
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The German has never perpetrated fire at anything on the wing sympa- second Division for the battle of
thy will spoil my aim.. - Amiens, the Fourth and Fifty-first;
-- Divisions for the battle or Arras, and i
Lettin Her Glide. the Eleventh Division foe battle
g of Cambrai, has encountered and de-
an officer on board a warship was .feated decisively forty German divi-:
drilling his men. sinus—that is, nearly one-quarter of '
"I want every mat to lie on his the total. German forces on the West i
back, put his legs in the air, and move
them as if he were. riding a bicycle; front. In the performance of these
mighty achievements all arms and
more ruthless nor more premeditated
vandalism than the destruction of
C'anlbrai, now in progress.
:'Franco can never forget nor for-
• give this," rem irked a French officer
with tears in his eyes. "Torch in
hand he comes offering ns peace."
We stood early in the afternoon in
Place d'Armes, a great public square,
'vbsn the Canadians entered on Oc-,he explained. "Now commence.' branches of the or have bent their
tober 10th. It was practically intact,; After a short effort, one of the men
purposeful energy, one for all and all
Now it is like. unto Ypres. A11 is I stopped, forone,
ruin. At nine o'clock explosions be- 1 "Why have you stopped, Murphy'!"
gam nncl have continued ever since. ' asked the officer.
Ali day, in every part of the town, ! '"If ye glaze, sir," was the answer,
theme were explosions of incendiary I "O'im ceasting."
14ELEN'5•i3Ro'rHER CEC11. , MA`f Da
A1LftIGHT,eUT µDS N0T GOING 'TO
RDtt 1'1415 No(13GHoL9. Has Doter 'Ski
4,APEli uhrftt. !11E. PIN1$1reD WIT'B 1T
All Branches Efficient.
"The dash and magnificent bravery.,
of our incomparable infantry have
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an rent of a number of young Jewish
Such. scorn of danger as they go colonists, meetly of Russian si'g'n, I
With smile and song to meet the foe; who wished to share in the task of
Such zeal to know the Victory won, liberating their homes from the hated
To know a soldier's duty done; 1y, ,.
To lend the way they fight for me,
What selfless lending that would be! )'t'aup of young men
ie in Jaffa and
the neighboring colonies, under the
To foul the way they fight for ms, leadership of a well, known Hebrew'
What selfless lending that would be! I writer named Srnrliansky, a colonist
For ever through the battle's haze, of Rehoboth, presented n petition to
Th bullets' h '1 thefield ins' blaze Inc British military authorities ex-;
e f, . g pressing a desire '
They dream of home and love and lite,
Of child and mother, sweetheart, wife; "To fight for the liberation of
For these they fight and laugh at Palestina, which, according to Mt„
psi)), Baifnur'a declaration, is to be the '
And blind with blood fight on again; country- of our future, We desire
To lend the way they fight for me, to join 0113 Jewish battalions coming
What splendidlending•thut would bel
from England, and hope that Jewisle
units will soon he raised in all parts
of the Diaspora, and many Jewish
soldiers now serving in tho rarmies of
the Ent( r te Powers will he transfer-
red to the Jewish 'volunteer tlnits,_so
that a Jewish force will arise fighting
To lend the way they fight for me,
What glorious lending that would bel
For ever with them as they fight
Flames out the great white sword of
R{ght; all together with the British army For
And up above the bursting shell, g Y '
The pall of smoke, the war's red hell, the freedom of our nation and Pales -
It writes some mes0age in the sky tine.,
That makes it even sweet to die;
To lend the way they fight for me,
What glorious lending that would be!
If there is any daylight the aver -
rage farmer doesn't use this year he r
would like to know how to save it,
the same standard, over one-third of
the applicants being rejected, There
were several hustanees of volunteers
who, failing to pass the doctor in
Jaffa, marched the forty .piles to
Jerusalem to try office more to get ac-
cepted. Numbers of boys of egven-
teen gave their ages as twenty¢ Re-
cruits come from all glades and
classes of the Jewish community
Jaffa and the cokonies•have been prac-
tically swept of their youth.
The example of Palestine Jewry in
their hills and plains of Judea is a
message to thole kinsmen in distant
lands, From Petach Tikvah (the
Gate of Hope) and Richon-le-7..ie1
(the first in Zion) these Jewish bids
are coining forward, willing sacrifices
on the altar of a new national ideal-
ism. They feel that the Balfourdec-
laration, which for them has only one
historical parallel—the decree of
Cyrus the Mede --is not a scrap of
paper. They believe implicitly in a
victory of the Entente and in the dee- ,
laration of the British Prime Minister
that Palestine • shall not go back to
the Turk. With this faith Jews from
Russia, Poland and Yemen, as well as
those born in Palestine, are now tak-
ing the oath to Xing George.
. Worth While,'
Jam tarts unlimited was little Rob-
by's idea of heaven, but since war
flour came in and fat was scarce he
hadn't been quite so fond of then as
before.
Mother, coming into the kitchen
one afternoon, saw Bobby gazing at,
a dish of new]q-baked tarts.1 y
"What are you'doing, Bob?" she
"We volunteers are mostly laborers asked sharply,
wort ing plough and p1110. We had "I was wondering, mother."
written on our banner the word ' "Wondering? You haven't touched
work,' beest•se in work on the soil those -tarts, I hope?" so
we see the. leaven of our national "Not yot, mother," said Bobby, r`I
enaissance. If eve now leave our was just wondering if they're nice
work it is because an inner voice enough to he whipped for."
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tions and massacres later. Tt wa•r the
policy suggested to the Turk by tl,'•
German. In these respects the Hen
has proved himself mere erne] thin
the Turk. The Turkish soldiers and
'heir German associates nndersteed
one another perfectly and were the
hest of comrades, for there was in
each the strain of savagery which the
world has learned to know so well.
Brothers in Fetar.ily.
The leadership of the Purl !sh arm-
ies was unhesitnt.ingly entrusted to
Germans, because among other 01.n-
scious motives there was the consc]-
onsness of fellow ferocity,
It seems to me that one of the hest
illustrations of the complete accord
between the Turk rind the Hen 111 tate
matter of character is to he fount] in
the holy war which the Sultan, and
later the Sheilc-ul-Islatst, proclaimed
in 1914.
A proclamation was issued by the
Sheik• which had en 01te110110 (gr..
culatinn in the territories of Prance;
England and Russia where there were
large Mohammedan pnprh:tinns. T1s
called foe the Moslem nerulations to
arise 'and slaughter the c1hri.tians
not under the protection of the bIn-
htunmedans or with whom the Mo-
hammedans lied made no compact.
That was intended to protect the Ger-
nuns.
That there might he aro mist(lk0
about this latter fact, a secret pam-
phlet Wats issu011 which was sent
throughout the Moslem world, 7t was
in Arabic, the language of the Koran,
end said expressly that those who
were aiding Tslatn in 1hr' holy war
were not to he harmed.
The pamphlet plainly showed a Cie r• -
Man' editorial pen. Ti)•, IV 111' was di-
vided into classificntiols. There was
to bo a hate war, cmu'ge-(iiia! the (;+: