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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-10-29, Page 6TIROS IRISH REGIMENTS •FIGHTING THEIR COLTelTBY'S BATTLES. " Have Taken Part in Britain's Wars in Many Parts of the World. Among the most famous meet's of the British Army are sev- eral hexing their 'heedquarters in Ireland. For two hundred years • Irish regiments have distinguished themselves on the beetle field, bringing glory to their brave rata, and doing nota little to buiild up the mighty fabric of ehe British Empire. The Royal Irish Regiment. Among the finest of Irish :troops is time corps while at the ,siege Namur in 1695, received from Wil- liam III. the proal title of tile Royal Irish Regiment. Alter the Grenadiers had been beaten back by the overwhelming force of the defenders ot Naanur the Royal Irish dashed on, and sweeping through a breach in the walls planted tear colors on the amenit. 'Wouldthey bed been at the defence when Nee our fell the other day ! In all Maxiberougles victories the Rona Irish did splendid service: Their charge was se fleece that the finest troops on the Continent fell back before them.. At Venice they drove the enemy from the outwork of a fort and chased thern across the moat to the very raarupartte, when the garrison was eo dis'n"yed that it immediately laid down its arms, the whole thing being over in a few miniet,es. At the siege of Tourney the Royal Irith fought with pick and shovel in subterranean galleries, and lost many of their numbers by the explosion of the enemy's nines. The gallant regiment saw service in the American War of Indepen- dence, and later on at Toelon, where Napoleon first faced the Bri- tish. They fought in Egypt, China and in ehe Crimea, where they took part in the famous assault on the Redutn. They saw service in New Zealand, in Afghanistan, and, under the eommand of Lord Weise - ley, teak part in the. famous night march over the Egyptian sands at Tel-el-Eebir. In bhe South African War the Royal. Irish figured in many s desperate fight. They de- fended a little fort near Belfast against dreadful odds until half their men were ldlled and wound- ed. The place was captured, but a private ol the regiment would not leave until he had made his maxim gun useless when it fell into the enemy's hands. For ;this brave deed he received the Victoria Ones. The "Enniskilletters." Another great Irish corps dis- tinguished for 'dauntless couraee and daring deeds are the Enniskil- len Dragoons and Innisidliing Fu- siliers. Baited at Enniskillen in 1689, the Fusiliers fought in Flan- ders, in North America, and in the Welt Indies, in Holland, and in the Peninsular War. In Spain the En- • nisitillene'rs were 'confronted by a regiment of French Grenadiers. A French officer came in front of she firing line and challenged eny of the Enniskillen regiment to single combat. Instantly a captain of the Irish regiment aceepted the chal- lenge, and after a. little brilliant sword play laid the Frenchman kw. With a cheer for -their brave chaan- pima the Enniskillen•ers rushed for- ward and trestle one of those ter- rible charges which ne enemy could withetand. It turned out that the F-rench officer's weapon was a sword of honor whieh had been presented to him by Napoleon hiinself. This trophy the .champien of the Enneskilleners bore with him proudly off the field. • At Weterloo the Enniskillen Regi- • ment had to withstand a fearful • eannonade, and et the same time • were attacked by French cavalry from La Hoare Sainte.. All that • day they stood in a eampreet though ever -lessening square, anti St nightfall every tater and two- thirds of tho rank and file were ewd or wounded. No British regi- • ment suffered so severely. No won- der the, 18th of June, -Waterloo Day, is en anniversary which the regi- ment keeps with great pride. In • the Boer War the EnnisIdlieners &aught at Collenso, where they made a desperate effort to cross the river under the muzzles of the enemy's guns. Nor did they tome back until Sir Re,dvers Buller gave he order, and then they retired ex- tremely disappointed. At Railway Hill the Enniskilleners had to 'climb • a steep ascent among boulders and rooks, and then rush aortas a bare • pima of ground before they -could reseh the enemy. They *limbed up the slopes in the faee of thousands of Boers, each one n practised • marksman. It was impossible to soak the bare ground ; the Colonel and half the battalion fell killed or Wounded in the attempt, but the brave• Enniskilleners stuck to the rocks and -held on until an import- • ane niovemen'tlied been inarde, a,nd •;victory was won a dray or two later,. The Connaught Rangers. Clic Connaught :Rangers, raised at Calivey in 1793, heve won death - lase fume on many a hard fought Aeld. They Quilt pare in meet of the Na.peleenic Wars, At Bittlejoz and *1, ie.,•-•ieirieetteetele A-NTWERP. A. General View of the City, and a View from Quay Van Dyck, show- ing the) Cathedral. Cuidad Rodrigo the Connaught Rangers fought -with desperate gal- lantry. At bhe fanner place the regiment's bugler boy was wound- ed, but continued to sound the "Advanee," until the enemy had been completely subdued. The Official Record stated ths,t, "the Connaught Rangers gave a display of British velour payee- exceeded in the annals of war." In the Critrcuea, the Indian Muti-ny and at the: Zulu War the Connaught Rangers pur- sued their brilliant oareer. In the South African War the Connaught Rangers suffered severe- ly. The Boers attacked a party of them before they knew that was had • been declared, and Roared in such murderous fire that the gallant Rangers had to surrender. Mk took place while the regiment was marching to Pretoria, and theme were women and ehildren with them. The Banclanaster's wife, though she saw her husband killed and her little child wounded, nobly devoted herself to the wounded and dying. Amidst a, hell of ballets she calmly went on with her noble work tearing up part of her teething to bind up the womids. Of the two companies of the Connaught Ran- gers concerned in this affaer, num- bering 250 Teen, 150 were killed or wounded, the remainder being taken prisoners. Another achieve- ment added to their laurels when 75 men of their regiment held out at Lyclenberg for twelve weeks against an opposing force of 700 Boers, At the end. of the war Lyd- enberg was still up -taken. Isa thiS war these and other Irish regiments, inspired by the glorious traditions of the paet, will un - 'questionably do famous de-eds of valor, and cover themselves with fresh renown. Boer General With British. It is announced that the Boer General, Francois Jeubert-Pien- tax, has arrived at Bordeaux France, to offer his -weed to the Allied armies. "I fought against General French in South Africa. Now I am goring to fight with him," said he. "I commanded a Boer army opposed to him at Blonde- laa,gte, where I received my bap- tism of fire, I have offered my eel -ekes unconditionally, end do not know GS yet how I may be em- ployed, but expect that I will be attached in an advisory capacity to General Ir'rencles staff. Thaw war wiJl be long and fierce. The Ger- man Array is the finest ffehiine nate chine in the would, but we 'shall beat it in the end, because tint armies are something better than a machine." Unlucky. Cynicus'--I once knew a fellow Who gave a girl an engagement ring of opals. Sillicus —Gr ache) s I Wasn't ib unluelty Cymeus—Fou bet it was ! She married him, Its almost impossible to decour- age the man who thinks he etre tell a funny story. AMAZING INDIA. Emperor William's Calculations • Went Wrong. The Secretary of State for India was sore perplexed during the first half of the present year. Hindus in South Africa were in revold against the menneir in whidh they were treatle.d by other British subjects. Canada, had refused to admit si ship- kad of emigrants from India, and the Hindus had declared their in- tentioe ito return to their native land and preach a crusade, 'against British rule. The empire of the, East was filled with unrest and revolution seemed Imminent, says the Boston Advertiser. The Kaiser is believed to have calculated on the sealousness of the Indian situation to keep Great Bei- tain out of the European confliot. His adeisers said that if the Eng- lish forces were removed from the East Moslems and. Hindus would rise against bhe foreign rule and overthrow it. England did not un- derstand India, The country 'was held by force of arms . The Kaiser need only send a few regiments up from German East Africa and he would be looked upon es a deliver- er. Me l3retieh army was removed from India and nothing' liappe.ned. The government brought native In- dian troops to fight for Great Bri- fain on the Continent and nothing happened. The Cabinet told In- dia that England was in need of money and. soldiees. That was the signal 'that, awarding to the Kai- ser's calculation, should have started the uprising, What hap- pened India immediately sear -bed to raise an away of seventy thou- sand to go to England's aid. In- dia, immediately 'gave $8,000,000 to England's war chest and premised more. Me princes of India offered to contribute their 'analyst jewels and asked p,errnisedon to serve in the King's army. Nob only Germany, but the whole world has been wrong about Eng- land's position in Indas. The Eng- lish Viceroy is more severe in the government of India, than any pee eve ruler that held 'sway before the conquest, England will rul,e In- dia so long as the prince's of that eountry can command their ettb- feats' respect. When the people de- velop a spirit of independenceand rebel against their native rulers., then, and not until then, the King of England will cease to be Emperor of India, Egoism at its Apex. She—Your friend is a bit of an egotist, islet he? Ile—A bit! Why if he hadn't been born he would leave expected people to en why not. Styles that turn WO/11,1)1'S leads also put, kinks in the necks ef gin - firmer'. Sepleigh—"I shall never have clic courage to propose to a girl -- never !" Miss Pere—`'Well, yon will be saved one disappointment ln life, anyway, Mr. Sapleigh I" MOOTS FRY OF FLIES CENTRE OF THE MUNICIPAL LIFE THE METROPOLIS. The Guildhall is at Present a De- pot for Red Cross. P or aphernalia. As you come into the courtyard of the Guildhall you see the gleaan of laneeepoints, the flutter of red and white pennons. These aro sen- tries posted over the centre, the holy ol holiee, of London's muni- cipal life. Through the *centuries and in every land the city, the municipality, has been first the °rune, then the stronghold of free- dom, order and law. Seven hun- dred years ago the stout citizens af London were on the side of liberty against lateen and King, just as to- day the municipality of Brussels, in the person of M. Max, its Burgo- master, sturdily refuses :to cringe beffire the brutality of German militarism. It is natural that the city of Lon- don, most favous af municipalities, should be .ardent in support of the national war against a despotism by right of arena most fitting that in this hour of 'stress the precincts of ithe Guildhall, famed for an age- old hostility to milkarism, would glitter with steel and echo to the rattle of spur and sword. Spared by Fire ef 1666. while you watch the pennons there 'acmes out beeween the sen- tries a nurse in the uniform of the Red 'Cross. Far part of ihe Guild- hall is given up now to the work of those Who minister to the wants of England's tunnies. Under the hall, which echoed recently to the stirring call of patriotism, you go down to the crypt, with its fine clustered columna and groinecl vaulting. Spared by the great fire of 1686, which worked so much ha -vie among the memorials of old London, the orypt is a remnant of the Guildhall whirls was built 500 years ago, 'before ever Diak Whit- tington was Lord Mayor of London. Now it has been granted to the city branch of the British Red -Cross So- ciety, and is being used to splendid purpose for the work of than organ- ization. Devoted to Red Cross. At this moment the crypt is a de- pot of all the thousand and one things of which a Red Cross de- tachment stands in need. The or- ganization is under the came of Lady Wynne, wife of General Sir A. E. Wynne, keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower. To the crypt come flannel and Ibsen, ,gifts of the great firms of the city and of pri- vate people. These fabrics are to be cut out, and then, through local org.a.nizations, anade up into neces- sary garments by the capable work - people whoa) the outbreak of war has robbed of regular employment, But it is not only tweets mater- ials with which the authorities of the ea'ppt can deal Into great bas- kets all sorbs and kinds of things aseril to ehose at the hetet or on active service are being packed. There are baskets of two species, surgical and comestible. For the first, 'besides such matters es lint and aprints, hair brushes, sponges, and macho are needed, For the second, aibu,ndant crockery and such groceries as tea, coffee and biscuits. It would be superfluous to praise the forethought and care with which all the lessons of experience have :been brought to bear upon the work. Surely in all the five cen- turies of their existence the arches of the crypt have never looked down upon in enterprise more beneficent. No man wibhs good conscience is ever eland when a policeraa,n rings his bell, , Mother—And so my •libble Pan didn't cry when be fell down, ,That was brave, Little Man—There wasn't anybody to 'hear 1 "Subules declares," . said Oea,k. ley, "thee out his way one night the temperature 'dropped to zero," "That's nothing," said Joakke. "Whet's 'nothing?" "Zero," • ,o. PAI(e5 Tifftefill' L READ THE LABEL OR THE PROTECTIoN OF THE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. er i 8 THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BAILING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS •PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL. • MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL. PHATE OF ALUMINA OR SODLC ALUMINIC SULPHATE, THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED /3Y THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ON.T. IMONTREAL FRIM WARY OL ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Coin- inercial World. Newbury racecourse is being malt reedy for the reception of German prisoners of war. Gifts of fruit received at Ipswich have been made into half a. ton ref jam for :the benefit of the National Wee Fund. A chauffeur maned Ernest Thorne was 'shot by a sentry ae Renney Fort, near Plymouth, for failing ,to answer a chaleenge. Eligible, single men in Mr. George Lembten'e stables who refuse to of- fer their servioes to the •enmy aro being disehaeged. Queen Mary has inaugurated a fund to provide employment for wo- men who have been -thrown out of work by the war. The City Corporetion has planed at the disposal of the War Office the south count of the Guildhall fox recruiting purposes. The Lord Mayor ef Birmingham, Lieute,n.arnt-Colonel Martineau, 9185 resigned ofece, having volunteered for foreign servioe. Seven thousand families in Bir- mingham have applied for relief, ale but 15 per cent. having their bread- winners at the liana The Array Council have accepted the offer of -the Ohesehrough Manu- facturing Co. ,to supply 50,000 tons of yeas:Brie for the troops. At e meeting of the council of the South Wailes Miners' Federation it was stetted ;that over 7,000 minera were idle in the coalfields. Substantial offers for fine ya,rna, which beve hitherto been executed at Lille, in Pronee, ars being car- ried out by a Manchester spinning firm. Mrs. Giesapool, of Ashton, Bish- op's Welliman Hants, who has four eons at tale boot, has reoeived a letter of congrattudation from H. M. ;the King. Alt Blythe, recently, Ertel Grey announced that it was the inten- tion ol the military authoreties form a miner's battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers. About 500 members of Ithestaff et the Leedom, City & Midland Bank have joined •the army and navy forces, and further large numbers, are enrolling themselves daily. In most of the church porches in rural Devon the wives of the local men serving at the front are posted with the request that prayers should be offered for their sale re- turn. An order has been issued by the Section Commander at Sheerness, authorizing the closing of all houseat Sheerness tat 10 p.m,. on week days and 9 pen. am Sun- days. M,r. lames McCormack of Uther Hall Gardens, Ethanebead, has of- fered 50,000 cigerettes for the use • !the tbrocip,s at the front. His of- fe,r has been gratefully accepted by the Army Coutreel. Calomel Greig, C.B., 11.1?., who relinquished the eamanand oi the London Soot:Wish four yettre, ago on entering Parliament, will command the 2nd Battalion which is now be - leg raised, • The death has occurred, ab Retie el Capeatin John H. Jellicoe, 6 father of Admiral Sir Jelin Teblieoe, who is now in supremo ooanmand of the Home Dleet. Captain Jellicee was in ,hie ninetieth year. The Stanton Iron Works Co., at Neteingharm, which eanieleye, •severel thousand hands, are. giving $10 to every workman accepted as a re- cruit, besides paying weekly $2.50 to each married dependeet. NATIONAL WAR SONGS. • Etitnitnitt" Is the Finest; Atilong Many, It may be intereeting at the prea ene time to recall those • national wax -songs that haria inspired the various countries of the world to die and dare everything in their cle- fense. Written thee) them both in eiords and musk le a passionate love fot ceentry a:Hell impels' to alleoet superhineen, deeds that tee 'cheater of liberty may nob be tow. felted is heir pers is Thizak nI the Austrian Anthem, one of the finesit in exatenee ; Day& a Cre- ation" in which reins the eplandid ahem)), "The Heavens Are Tell- ing," Germany merelies to bailie = N • V- --a to the soul -stirring eemposibion, "The Watch On the Rhine." Rus - 'site has perhaps the most etately anthem in. "God the All Terrible," whose very !title strikes a heroic ‚strain. We are told that, Played upon the great organ in the Cathed- ral at MOSCOW, it sounds like a pawn-. Our own national anthem has probably the largest eirenlatrion oi any tame in the world, while in "Rule Brithainia" we have perhaps the flue*, national song possessed by any nation. Norway finds her war spirit in :the Song, "Yes, We Love This Land of Ours;" whilst America, to the strains of Jan Brown's Body," with its refrains of "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," to the Quilling "Sten Spangled Benner," or ±0 the famous "Yankee Doodle," could not heap marohing anywhere. But the greatest wax songs, pure and simple, is "The Mars.eillease." What aneaneries it has clinging to its fervidly patriotic words. It was the song of :the Flan& Revolution, and did more Ito bring clown the de -nasty of the Bourbons than half a dozen army corps. It is now the national anthem of Republioan France, and it wile be heard all over that fair country as the French sew goes' marching on to -clay. POPULAR WITH TROOPS. Gen. Smith-Dorrien Trusts in Honor of the Soldier. General Smith-Dorrien, who has earned such high praise from Sir John French, is the most popular general in the British Army, be- cause during the whole of his career the eekliers welfare has always oc, cupied first place in his prograintme. Nine -tenths of his service has been passed in India, and it was there at Quetta that he built the first soldiers' chrb that the Army has ,known. The General's first public appear - Ince in England was made on a Wesleyan platform, from which ha delivered a lengthy speech in favor of ameliorating the discomforts of barrack life. He is one ol the few soldiers who can speak eloquenely and without notes. The acts which perhaps have en- deared him to Tommy Atkins more than any others were the repeal of piquet duty and the freedom grant- ed to soldiers during manoeuvres. Until General Sinhlh-Dorrien took command at Alders'hot piquets of four or eight men paraded the streets until midnight. General StraittlaDorrien put the soldier on his. honor not Ito misbehave him- self in the public streets and abol- ished the piquets. They have never been reinstated. -FOUND OUT A Trained Nurse Discovered Its Effect. No one is in bobber position to know the eatlue of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee a nurse writes "I ueed to drink strong oo'ffee my- self, and suffered greatly from heachiche,s and indigestion, (Tea is just as injurious as coffee because both combat' the drug caffeine.) "While on a visit to my brothers I had e good chence to try Postum, foe 'they drank ib altogether in place of ooffee. After tieing Postum two• weeks I:found 1 Nees meth benefited and finally my he,atesehss. disappear- ed and also the indigestion. "Naturally I have since used Poe- -bum among my patients, anel have noticed a marked benefit where cof- fee has been lett off and Poet= 115* observe a, cut -ions fact about Postural when used by motbliere. greatly helps the flow of milk in 0a.1106 where coffee is inclined to dry it up, and where tea :abuses ner- ":I "sneflinsa trouble in getting ease vante to make Destuin properly. But wheal it is prepared utecareling eo directional on package and served hot with *rem, it as oertainly clilliacitneteld1/48.67 b6sfeOc.'nedian Poseum Go, 'Windsor,. Ont, Read "The BeitraidoevintoiwaWr 000rlanielovaislilieiin,ni_aitiwntoupsigrvso.: well, A phocawleed.erA ', 16° Vit:iee:p1feooPnafetlicltile;s0)1'qs's Insitind P081,Ont-'1,4 luble p quickly in 45 eup of bob water and, wide crown end sugar, makes tielitimes beverage instantly. 30e aninhe,50ecoel'ilillspe.r cup cf boith kindle le ec3' s aa‘rnle' teaLosaon'i tfile; GP-OrosoLtelro: NOTES OF SCIENCE .4.11110=2•0142, GISIUM111011.11. Holland precluces about 211,000,- 000 pounds ef cheese, a year. trio foghorns have been in- vented -thee eon be heard fourteen Kerosene, allowed to remain on the metal 'severed hours, will cleanse eine. Automobiles will replace horse- drawn vehicles for carrying' mail in Bombay. A new pineapple cannery in Hawaii has a daily oapeeity of 250-- 000 cans of fruit. In a new electric aeolcing eteve a. refie.ot,e,r is used to eopeentiate the heart nt the top. Bolivia will ,spencl more than $0,- 500,000 on drainage systems for five c'fitll:rbegeeirnelietsiteisM Itiaateci by experts that the iron ore deposits of Swe- den approximate 1,300,000,000 tons. It is expected that the dredging of 'elle Suez canal to a depth of 3G feet will be completed earnly next year. Only about ons in every hentleiie ceblegr.aans is a personal messrea, the others being official, business o: news. Motion pictures of lending British industries will be made by an Eng- lish company and exhibited throughout the world. The government of the Bahama Islancls is 'trying to revive the pro- duction of sea Islamic' cotton, once a flourishing industry there. Mere are no fours nor 44's in Japanese telephone direotories be- cause the name of the figure four— ehi—is the term for death, To facilitate milking, there has been invented a eubsba,ntial can that also serves as a ebool, the milk being drawn into a long -necked funnel. With ,a, view to the installation of oil -burning locomotives on all of its railroads, the Cbilium governraent will conduot exhaustive experi- ments. Three 100 -year-old tin mines in Bolivia have reached to a depth of se2,3e0m0feet, a.nd the richness of the ore increases as the workings de - d. An inventor has inserted an oil reservoir in the handle of a saw to enable its user to lubricate the blade while operating lb by pressing a button. An increase in perasitioal dis- eases among poultry and game birds in England is attributed to 'the distribution of dust through the air by automobiles. A Japanese army surgeon has in- vented a machine run by eleothicity that grinds as many beans into flour in 40 minutes es a man can grind by hand in a day. As a new life preserver whioh weighs but fifteen ounces and tales up 'but nibble room when folded is extended for' use air rushes in a valve and eurbormatioaely inflates it. As the resistance o/ grains to in- sects and diseases is due. to their hardness a Bohemian has invented a delicate instrument that 'measures bhe force needed to -curt them. 'Bo bring sleep to insemnia vic- tims an English woman has invene- ed an a.pparatats to flow eater or medicated liquids on the forehead gently until the desired result is o btained. Through the invention of a seek- ing devthe by it Swedish engineer 1.3 tone of pulverized peat have been made eo produce as much power in locomotive's in Sweden as osis ton of eoaa. A species of bird found in Bre tieb' Guinea as provided with dame et the ends of the wings to aid in elimbing -trees while young, but which drop off when a bird becomes old enough—fly..1. THERE'S MUCH IN A NAME. The French Honor the BraTevy of the Belgians. rile news that ths imunicipal council of Paris, aegis the Dburdy defence ol Liege hael a•roused its enthusiasm. bad taken time, in elle inkleth of the tremendous misis an affairs of both 'the nation and the city, to cheese the name of the Res do Berlin ito Rue de Liege, shows a quaint aide ol the French oherecter, a,nd calls to mind a acme -what simi- lar incident in the Franto-Proothan War of forty-four years ago, Miter the collapse oi the Envies at Napoleon. III. at Soden and the formation of the French 'Republic, the National Asecanbly, on whom the whole .theety of the countey de- pended, Spent mace of its tene—al- though the Germans were thunder- ing down on the devoted oily—in &leaving the naves of eltinge— streets, buildings, clepaxtments, ,and what nob—faxen 'Mope" end "lin- p•eriel" Ito "National," Finally, by solemn decree of the. Assmbly; the ham& ott tiltiloyell Bongo ik,er ifi the Peels Zoo was changed Eno the "National Bengal Tiger, and the cosi:oats% of the &mane] were aliened to the that the slens above the 'ones weals ,elineged in accord - /Men with the decree. s gram op -h o n 6 , ' ye reed the Halvslytan, ‘'needs no introduction." "Why net?" "It speaks for it- self,' -- "My .wife has that ewful,tlisesser kleptomania," "Is .,he trying to ours lb'?" she 'is taking something zill the whne," 1'