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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-12-19, Page 7PEACE MONUMENTS FUNERAL .OF GE. .11 MAR LANDS • MEMORIALS AFTER GREAT WARS OE THE PAST Symbol of Perpetual Peace in South America—New York Statue of Liberty—Bristol Monument. The only joint peace mcllorial in the world is one erected by the two South American Republics of Chile and Argentina a few years ago. .A. long and bitter dispute regarding the boundary line between the two coun- tries had brought them to the verge of war, when they finally decided to refer their ease to Queen Victoria for settlement, 1 -ler Majesty forthwith appointed n commission, whose deci- cion was announced by King Edward and accepted. In gratitude for their deliverance from sanguinary conflict; the two republics entered into a treaty of perpetual peace, and, to symbolize their resolve, erected au the new boundary line, where it crosses one of the highest passes of the Andes, a great figure of Christ cast from the metal of discarded can- non. The figure is so placed that its hand is outstretched in benediction over both countries. France's Gift to United States. England can boast a peace monu- ment in the form of an obelisk known as Stoodley Pike, a notable landmark near Hebden Bridge, half way between Leeds and Manchester, Its construc- tion was commenced in the summer of 1814, but when Napoleon escaped from Elba work was suspended and was not resumed until after the de- claration of peace following Waterloo. By a strange coincidence the column fell on Wednesday, February Sth, 1854, the selfsame night on which the Russian ambassador left London. When peace was again restored after the Crimean War,' a new Pike was designed and $3,000 collected for its erection. The total cost was over $4,000, and the balance was defrayed by a Todmorden worthy. The second 'monument—the existing ane—/vas comnletod in the summer of 1857. The famous Statue of Liberty, world—or, let us rather say, a stu- erected on Bedloe's Island, New York pendens monument of civilization's Harbor. was, at its unveiling in 1.580, shame. It is the waste of war Meer - heralded as a prophetic symbol of the ending of all war. This colossal porate, a pregnant illustration of the fieure of "Liberty enlightening the appalling futility of war—of that world," is made of bronze, and, in- which for forty years and more the eluding the pedestal. has a height of r t ar at the andOf e 3o.,ft. Sin., ,s 4 t. snare base. It is the work of Auguste Bartholdi, a native of Colmar. in Al - NERAL EIPSETT Funeral of General Lipsett near the lines. the Prince of Wales following the coffin. Ys Canadron OI(iardi !Vole (Capyrip7,t) Taking the coffin from the gun carriage, H.R.H. THE DESERT BELT OF EUROPE STRETCHES ACROSS FRANCE AND FLANDERS A Wide Tract of Land Over Which War Has Passed and Left Be- hind Desolation and Death. The broad belt of ruin and desola- tion, which years of stationary war- fare have spread right across France and Belgium, is an extraordinary, a dreadful place. For years to come, to a generation to which the present great cataclysm is a mere name, it will be one of the wonders of the German people have worshipped as a national ideal. The Hun has left be- hind him mile upon mile of trenches and acre upon acre of barbed wire sate. It orrnrrnd to him in 1874 that entanglements. These are the char - France should present to America acteristic features of the desert zone. some oymhnl in connection with the The whole countryside of France and eentenery d'f American Inrlenendence: afitBelgium is scarred with the crumbl- The erheme took shone, ad the ercat ing evidences of our eny s.beaver- monument was eomnleted in 1884. like industry. A Plumber's Lasting Work. Dugouts Made To Last. The oldest outdoor statue in Eng- What thought must have been ex - land incidentally commemorates the Fended on the laying -out and siting defeat of the Armada, and is to be found at Bristol. It is a leaden sta- tue of Neptune, cast and erected by n patriotic plumber of the cii:y in the fed prlsonexs of war m their digging year following the triumph of the What long nights of relentless work English, and occupies a prominent in the dart.—often under fire, often posttron in the main streetof the sea- interrupted by the dazzling brightness 1 ort. of the star-shells—do these innumer- t aboundwith able belts of barbed wire,be Westlndnster Abbey s 1t sec - all sorts of curious things, but one ceeding bolt, now rusted and broken lookfor tetegrave of n useless,represent! And the du v uld hardly and a o P g - e spy in the historic building. Never- outs scooped into the bowels of the theless, such a grave is to be found, earth, well constructed, timbered, which contains the remains of the often lined with sacking! They were most famous spy of his day—Major Andre, The monument was erected at the express wish and command of Ring George IIT. During the War of Independence, Andre was requested to find out all he could about the doings of the enemy; but, unfortunately for himself, his identity was discovered, and he lost his life, the Americans hanging him at Washington. For fatty years the dead officer lay in his spys grave, but his services, though `not- of an enviable character, were recognized. His remains were brought to Landon, and the Major was buried In the Abbey as a man who had died while in the discharge of an office entrusted to him by the State. FEEDING THE REFUGEES Beitish Army Furnished 20,000;000' Rations During November. The British army is rendering great assistance to devastated and impover- ished Northern France and Flanders. During November the army furnished to the American Commission for Re- lief in Belgium 20,000,000 rations, which were badly needed, for quick distribution among the hungry peo- I;Ie. This aid came at a thno when the commission, was unable to get • pro- visions through speedily enough :from holland. British officers and soldiers are also giving largely from their own stores, and the British army is providing great quantities of kero- sene and candles for the homes and shops; otherwise clarkness would pre- vail in most of the towns. Succor of a different sort, but equally valuable, is being afforded by transportation of the refugees. This timely aid saved mauy who would otherwise have perished by tiro wayside. a On seldom sees a lorry nowadays without seeing it jammed with re- fugees, both French and Belgian. The Governments tried to prevent the re- fugees from returning to the de- vastated cliiltriete, but they preferred their own commsnSD, even though ruined, and so the pitiful procession continues its cruel march to the only ;hoes the reepro know as ;tome, on either side; shelters roofed with corugated iron, fitted up as messes, as orderly rooms, as sleeping apart- ments, have been built into the pro- tective banns. All about lie scattered the flotsam left by the ebbing tide; remains -of old furniture looted from French villages, pieees of German uniform, discarded shirts, battered steel helmets, cartridges (loose and in their clips), rifles, shells, gas hel- mets—each and every one in itself a sign that the Hun has met defeat. The British army wastes very little to -day, and step by step the salvage men follow the Army, sweeping up the litter of war. "The Deserted Village." The German made himself quite comfortable in France. During the long munbhs of comparative quiet, When on the drilling grounds and in the factories of Great Britain and France the day of reckoning with "kultur' was being prepared, the in- vader made himself quite at home in village, field and forest. .How bitter- ly he must hate the British, who, on the glorious First of July, when the guns of the Somme roared out their challenge to German supremacy,.pav- ed the way for the Nemesis which has overtaken Germany's crime against civilization. In a forest clear- ing one may see where the invader built himself an Arcadian settlement of log houses, each with its little verandah, comfortably furnished and. lit by electric light. Into this peace- ful spot, where the Germans in spring and summer must have lived a truly idyllic existence, the great British shells came screaming, smashing the The Weekly Fashions 8 cwt is tea r• eeee SAX Y t /moi A Great Nation's Tribute The United States Govern- ment has conscripted the entire output of onr factories in order toseppiy the "Yanks'• with Aato- Strop Razors as part of their regular equipment. This tribute is worthy of your consideration when next you send a package Overseas—your soldier's comfort is your first thought —• the AutoStrop, because of its automatic self -stropping device, is the ideal razor for his use. Price $5.00 At leading dorm everywhere 22c, ¢ostergc will deliver an AutoStro{, Overseas by first class reb',stered matt, AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Limited 83-87 Deka SI., Taranto, Ont. 62-3.18 • eevree vs for home, with a fleet of British 'planes hanging on to their tails. ' a "The Canadian Service Flag." The neat tucked vest is a novel foo- Dear little flag in the window there,Hung with a tear and a woman's ture of this new model and the cuffs prayer, attached to a foundation to corres- Child of the Maple Leaf, strong and pond. McCall Pattern No. 8663, true, Ladies' Drys. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 Oh how proud we are of you. bust. Price, 25 ceps. BRITISH ARMY TRL'C'KS Great Service Rendered by Corps Which lied Small Beginning. One of tete lesser-known branches of the Brinell t Ails organization, but whish Iias played a roust important pert in tin: war, is the mechanical tranap»rt eertioa cf the army service carpe Before the war the British War (Mee owned only about ninety "O- hling of all kinds, but prlvete menu- lacturrrs had begun to build a "sub- sidy" type vehicle designed to meet military requirements. When war broke out steps were taken immecli- itteiy to construct the "subsidy" type in large quantities. At present the number of vehicles on the books of the mechanical transport branch run into five figures, and the personnel of the cures has grown in proportion. Overseas the motor vehicle is put to every possible use in maintaining the army in the field. The vehicles are used to transport food, are put to various servires in the medical corps, drays the larger guns and howitzers, carry ammunition and troops and die tribute mail and water. Special ve- hicle: carry anti-aircraft guns, while' othere are used for tethering obser- vatio)a balloons. To maintain this great number of vehicles there are hundreds of sta- tionary and mobile workshops with complements of merhanics. Both men. and women are drivers. It is said on one day one ammuni- tion unit of forty lorries, working twenty miles out and then home, can load, carry and unload nearly 500 tons in hvelve hours at the expendi- ture of 700 gallons of gasoline. 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What sweat poured out of German with the ancient trees sent crashing This pattern may be obtained And now you come in this frenzied YO[f GAIT OUT OUT d 006 ul IN soldiers' and poor persecuted, under- down, drenching the forest and stiff- from your - local McCall dealer, or day OUT if! T066060HPIN ! ing the vegetation with that deadliest from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., built to endure, built to last as long as Germany's enemies did not tiro -of hitting' their heads against the "steel wall of the West." The steel wall bent and broke; the dug -outs remain- ed, and are there ta this day—hor- rible caves, nntenanted,forbidding. The sunken roads which run be- tween the fields in so many parts of France bear many traces of the long sojourn of the uninvited guest. Deep clog -outs yanfn from the high banks The real food elements of wheat and bar- ley so made as to be rich in saggar, and ready to eat from packa e with milk or cream. Thai is rape*ts W A Substantial rood and Economical Canelo i,od Board License No.2-02b } IS,SU11 No. 50--'18 of all German inventions—poison-gas. Toronto, Dept. W. Now the clearing is deserted and mel- -.•-- aneboly, a sinister picture of des- "WHAT OF THE Hh IGHT? n in ion The ferns, havegrown tract — Silent Listeners Who Guarded Eng - of out of the ruined planking and ' The flag of your mother, I speak for the huts; the bark has crumbled off lands Shores in War•Time' her, c splintered verandah rail,the thick the s 1 p The santepaces slowly windowandwaits! v upandw y v y Who stands by the i undergrowth owi th whtc h almost conceals down along the sea-wall. Seawards and fears, To speak from the window, to spear: but you can clean them of promptly with and say, "I am the voice of a mother's son Gone, to be gone, till victory's won, of the service,sir, I am the flag g , the shell craters smell evilly of dead his gaze takes hi the stretch of But hides from all the unwept tears." I gleaming mttd that seems to rea'h o- out right to the limit of vision. For I think that the word "England" is this is the East Coast of England, merely used as a short equivalent for things. But the picture is comfort- ing, notwithstanding, for the aban- doned clearing speaks of the discom- fiture and retreat of the Boche. The Trail of the Serpent. The live German has fallen back from France, but he has left his dead behind. In the valley and on the plain, on hillside and on ridge, amid phone wires that run towards a small the desolation of empty trench and hut in the near foreground. The hut rusting wire, the German graves blends so well with the surrounding stand. Here there is a single cross drabness that only a sharp eye would hastily nailed together and put up see that it was there, over a filled-in shell -hole; there a No sound seems to break the still - more elaborate memorial—a handsome nese except the shrill cries of the solidly carpentered cross, with the sea birds as they wheel and turn over dead man's style and title set forth in full beneath a florid representation of the Iron Cross. In every village churchyard, beside the heap of ruins where once the peasants worshipped, but a . little apart from the broken and often violated tombs, the Ger- .t and the tide is right out, a very long "Great Britain and Ireland," which, way out. Landwards his eye sweeps a ) after all, is the correct n amens miles of desolate marsh -land, with no of the British Isles.—Lord Denbigh, sign of habitation, except for tele- If lemons are old and dry place them in a pan of hot water and keep the water at an even temperature for a few hours. As a result the lemons will become fresh and juicy again. MONEY ORDERS. the glistening mud. And yet the Buy your out-of-town supplies with sentry ha's stopped his pacing, and Dominion Express Money Orders. Five Dollars costs three cents. man dead are buried in rows, he dates on their crosses clearly record- ing the ebb and flow of the tide of war. . It is an eerie thing to wander through the desert zone. The Army has moved on with man and horse, limber and lorry, tent and hut. There are no civilians, no shops, no houses, is by the sound of its engine, which, tering from twenty-five to thirty per no barns. --The fields lie fallow, torn water -borate, reaches lits ear before cent. more 'hens and pullets this year and rent by the shells of four years' his eyes can pick out the 'plane's than last, This is not a general campaigning, gashed and seamed by shape ancj markings, condition, however. There will be trenches. The countryside has re- He watches silently for a moment little increase in poultry until fend lapsed into primordial desolation, and or two, and then: becomes cheaper, is waiting for man with ll the re- "Got`liiml Yes, British, 2,000 feet sources of civilization at itis hand to ftp, heading sou' -west now," lie says. build and plant and sow as be did While the sergeant is receiving this at the beginning of time. Ono may message he is repeating it aloud, and walk for miles in places amid every' the telephone orderly is entering it evidence of the recent presence of 101c the message book, with time and man—the cold, open-air hearths, tete date. The sentry's message finished, r eant ring t t tote s the se s t) 1 end t t t. g 1 9 odd bits of clothing ing scattered about, it If '1tmessage11 the remains of food—yet as far as and repeats the should in a semi -strained attitude appears to be listening intently. He turns about and hurries into a small, box -like re- cess in the wall, and, with his gaze sweeping the sky, he commences to speak into the telephone: "There, sergeant? Right-ol Sounds of aircraft from east, apparently British. Yes; all right. I'll spot him in a minute." He has had twelve months of this work, and his trained ear tells him almost exactly the type of 'plane it German steamers will do most of the ocean greyhound business for a year or two, but it will be under British and American colors. Tho Cunard and Anchor Lines alone lost twenty-three liners during the war. )metal's Liniment. Cures Diphtheria. A Dominion Government report states that in some parts of On- tario farmers are reported as win - the ,eye can reach there is no sign of anything living. The desert is a desert indeed. But its very silence tells of German (topes dashed, of Ger- man plans foiled, Soon will conte the be "apparently hostile," then tete whole of the machinery that defends niece islands from air -raids gets mov- ing, If the message is confirmed, pos- sibly from some other post, then the fruits of peace ,and once again the aitxrairt warning. "Take action!!" is desert places of France and Belgium iiaSTuccl far ti wide. The anthotitianes knew at what exact spot and time the raiders crossed the coast, and call isalle instructions ne- Foet and mouth disease has again cordingly, The sentry who peve were - broken out in England. ing of their entireat'il meg then heee Stinastt's Lfnitaent Ceres Sfarsat to cows the satisfaction of ening them flying will be filled with human habitations. and y0U work the horse same time. Does not blister or remove the hair $2.50 per bottle, del' e red , Will tell you more if you write. Book 4 R free. 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