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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-6-17, Page 7War Time Scenes in England eiefieeeiraid�i!v3!awiel�.8U8nee!'vii alie`b"'suBsl2 iae?Ka!e� e R v !ateisielne e Every little asommunity in Eng- land has its own set of war •or- ganizations. These vary from so- cieties giving the man at the front comforts and necessaries to so4iwl purity ;brigades, S•onie of •these organizations have been ,formed by women to assist -in recruiting. Ono •of the methods some of them have used• was to present a 'white feather to each young fellow wearing civilian • clothes, accompanied with the ex- hortation that he should strive to prove himself a man. Often they have gob hold of the wrong men; for tbausands of apparently fit men have been refused by the mili- tary authorities as not coming u•p to bhe sbandard. Partly to'. pro - toot themselves many men who can- not join the army wear badges, inhabitants that they must extin- guish all lights and go to 'bed, While tiirose workers are 'benefit- ing to a. remarkable degree cis a re- salt of plenty of work at higher wages, some are !faced with inCrees-. ed cost of living and smaller re anuneration. Among these are newspapermen and they have just taken to what to them is an as- tounding step. When the war be- gan advertisers book fright and newspaper revenue dropped, wages 'were reduced and men. were ,put on parb time. The mechanical workers ,suffered na wage reduc- tions as they belonged to a strong trade union. One of the events that always cause excitement is the arrival in a town •of a batch of war prisoners. When prisoners are expected a such as " liar service,denoting " crowd gathers along.the streets which they mutt pass from railroad they are employed on Government to camp. As the prisonersemerge work, 11 has acbually ;been the case that white :Feathers have been given to men returned from ,the front on short furlough because they wore ;private clothes. One man thus presented was a naval officer whose ship had; been sunk by a tor- pedo, and who, had lost his uni- form. Public opinion in England is strongly against bhe white feath- er method applied to men the army does not want. Many Belgian refugees in Eng- land are following King Albert's ad ' by Id ' t df ly vice • wor ng ms ea o re - ing on the hospitality of English folk; King ,Albert has told his peo- ple that he does not want them to live in idleness, as that would be bad for them. The unmarried Bel- gians mostly prefer to live in•ludg- • Ings rather than in the established Belgian guest houses. • So organiz- ations have ;been formed to keep them in the straight and narrow path. Unofficial daylight saving has came into being, fpr which many express indebtedness to the Zep- pelin. The Horne Office authorities laid down some precautions which had bo •be observed in case of aerial invasion. The military com- mands in various parts of the coun- try added to these. The county au- thorities made still other additions and the local police and other bodies completed the work. The days of partially restricted lighting are gone so far as most cities are concerned. In addition to green lights, the street cars are now shrouded in green 'blinds and the lights are shaded. Nearly all street lamps are unlighted, street after street being in pitch dark- ness. In. one city a storekeeper was fined because a policeman found that by 'bending down he could look under the window blind and see a lamp; no light must show on the footpath. The result is that when the sun sets one must either go hams or run the risk of collision in seeking a place of amusement, All vehicles down to the common ,bicycle must be provided with a red lamp at the bask which mast not throw much light. People go 10 'bed at a very early hour; in fret England is ac- quiring new habits, going back to ;he clays of old when the curfew rang at 8 or 9 o'clock to tell the a vast scale from the railroad sbation, guarded by soldiers with fixed .bayonets, there is almost complete silence. In one ease the women in the crowd laughed at the curious pita helmets worn, by prisoners from 'the tropic- al German colonies, but :the only demonstration was when one pris- oner stood on the top of a car and shook his fist ab bhe• crowd, and that was by children, Indeed, many in the crowd ex- pressed compassion. The working girls had a certain amount of chaff for the smiling men. "Where's your Iron Cross'? Willy wilhsend a Zeppelin for you!" "You'll get ,plenty of good food now!' "It'll be betterthan the trenches, mate —Aye, and better than our poor chaps are getting!' and so on. There is, however, a growing re- sentment at what is termed the "palatial way" in which the pris- oners are treated, especially as English prisoners in Germany are constantly writing home for treacle, 'bread and clothing. Recruiting goes on apace, many men being released from industrial pursuits by economies and by the drafting in of men and women who need not work save to let young workers free. Public services are being restricted and amalgamated for the purpose. One interesting feature of re- cruiting is the formation of special units such as the "Pals" Batta- lions. There are now 100,000 men serving as "Pals," each battalion consisting of men normally engag- ed in the same work or in the same walk of life, Thus some are cam - posed of lawyers, others of store clerks, and se on, while .big cities form their own battalions of men who are chums in private life. Uni- versity graduates, clerical workers, miners and others thus are kept to- gether in war as in piece. The voluntary workers who made it their hobby to found hospitals for wounded soldiers now have their grievanet, The War Office has come to the conclusion that the wounded in ,private establishments were getting more coddling than was good for them and that many ladies were treating them as pets rather than soldiers. So it has been •decreed that the Government hospitals must be used in future and these are being established on [FUTON INTRIGUE FAILED ENVOYS WERE ASSIDUOUS 11 THEIR VISITS TO VATICAN. Tried in Vain to Induce Pope Not to Permit 'l'heir Departure From Rome. Since the outbreak of the war, Prince Schoenburg - Hartenstein, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador ac- credited to the Pope, paid a daily visit to the Vatican. Besides his frequent audiences with the Pope he invariably conferred either with Cardinal Garparri, the Secretary of State, or one of the other high officials. Baron von Ritter von Gruenstein, the Bavarian envoy, and Dr, von IVluehl'berg, the Prussian envoy. were -equally ,assiduous in 'there visits to bhe Vatican, and their activity was in a way rewarded, as many of the subordinate officials of the Vatican, lay and eoclesiastic- al, are pro -German. The anti -clerics say that these Austrian and German diplomatists spent a great deal of money in eon- verbmg Vatican understrappers, but no doubt there is exaggeration In these reports, 1b is a fact, how- ever, that the Osservatore Romano, the official organ of the Holy See, although supposed bo be impartial, published •feature items of news from Berlin and Vienna, and often omitted official eommunieabions from the Allies, especially when erman atrocities in Belgium•were ylenounced or Austrian 'defeats were reported. German and Aus- trian denials to such communiene ions were sure to appear in the Os,servatore Romano. The work of the Auebro-Germans at the Vatican was greatly hamper- ed lately by the British envoy, Sir Henry Howard, whom :the British Government sent to Rome on a spe- cial mission since the war started. Sir Henry, with the Belgian envoy, M. Van der .Hueval, and the Rus- sian Minister, ;Count Nelidow, re- presenb the allied Goverumen.bs at the Vatican, and they have been kept busy recently neutralizing the work of their Teutonic colleague,. The Austro -German diplomatic representatives accredited to the Vatican were until recently most optimistic and insisted that Italy's intervention was out of the ques- tion. Their optimism, however, disappeared when the news leaked out that negotiations were goingon between the Italian Government and the Vatican about the position of the Diplo.matie Corps in case of war. The Italian Government no - tidied the Pope that the Austrian Ambassador and the Bavarian and Prussian envoys would have to leave Rome. A modus vivendi in- tended to save appearances and. to avoid complications was suggest- ed and the Pope was asked to pro- pose a •satisfactory solution of the merit was willing to accept. queetion which the Italian Govern - Austria Makes Suggestion. Before slaking any •suggestion the ,members of the Diplomatic Corps at the Vatican were eonselt- cd, The Austrian Ambassador, as dean of the corps, ,suggested that the Pope should first of all ;protest to the Powers against Italy's threatened violation of the law of guarantees and the refuse bo al- low the departure of the diplomatic eepresentatrves of the countries at war with Italy. The suggestion of sheltering the Diplomatic Corps inside the Yeti - San appeared practical enough and ib would have been communi- cabed to the Italian Government Quite a Simple Thing by the Map. Clever cartoon of the German Crown Prince from the London • Bysta nder, and probably accepted had not the British, Belgian and Russian en- voys vigorously opposed it. They informed the Pope that since the Italian Government had not re- quested their departure in case of war, evidently because Italy's war would not be against their •Govern- ments, they would not seek shelter inside the Vatican. Meanwhile the Pope was study- ing the question in the hope of fiinding a satisfactory solution and the members of the Diplomatic Corps were again consulted. The representatives of the Central Em- pires urged on the Pope that their presence in Rome during a war would insure the independence of the Holy See. They pointed out that so long as they remained in Rome and diplomatic relations with their Governments were not sever- ed the Pope in case of danger could protest against Italy's threatened violation of the law of guarantees with the certainty of obtaining re- dress after the war was over. Hints were dropped that the question of the Holy See, as well as that of temporal power, could be brought up at the peace conference and that the Pope's claims would be supported by Germany and Aus- tria. These arguments, however, failed to impress the Pope. The Valle:in Proposal. Finally the Italian •Government was notified by the Vatican that in case of war the Pope would request the diplomatic representatives of all theBeiligerent Powers, whether Italy's allies or enemies, to leave Rome, so that only the Spanish Ambassador and the South Ameri- can Ministers would remain ac- credited to the Pepe. The Austro - Germans were elated at the suc- cess of what they considered a dip- lomatic triumph. What they fear- ed was that they should have to leave Rome, while their enemy col- leagues remained. ' Their elation was short lived, as the British, Belgian and Russian envoys opposed this solution also and addressed joint notes to the Secretary of State informing him that unless they received imme- diate assurances that the Pope would ,not request them to leave Rome in ease of war between Italy and •the Central Empires and that the Pope would not protest to the Powers against the departure from Rome of the Austre-German diplo- matic representatives, they had been instructed •by their respective Governments to leave Rome at once and sever diplomatic relations with the Holy See. The assurances demanded by the allied representatives were given withoub delay and the second solu- tion of the question was abandon- ed, Now the question is settled de- finitely. The importance of this solution is considerable, owing to the fact that 'the Pope will no't Pretest, and thus there will.•be no danger of future complications bebween the Vatican and Italy after the war, Besides it will be impossible for the so-called :Roman question to be raised during the poaoe conference and the intrigues of Germany and Austria in this direction, intended to punish Italy for joining the Al. lies, will be useless. •1' Dartmoor Convict Prison was originally built to receive pei Doers of war during bhe struggles with Napoleon, General Joffre only became Gen- eralissimo of the French Army in 1011, on bhe refesml of General Pau to accept Bleat oi'fioe. BEMA.BI{ABLY STRONG POSI- TION OF THE MERCHANTS MANIC OP CANADA. SHOWN BY ANNUAL REPORT It is significant that after more than eight months of the severest financial strain Canada has ever experienced, the Merchants Bank of Canada, comes forward with a report &owing not only the great- est strength in its history coauper- ing 1avtrrably with the strongest commercial bank throughout the world. Perhaps the' outstanding feature of the annual statem•e•nt as at April 30th last, is the assets which are or can immediately be convert- ed into Dash. These amount to $32,086,571.61 exclusive of $1,000,- 000 deposited in the Central Gold Reserve, and $335,000 deposited with the Government for the pur- poses of the Circulation Fund. Al- together the immediately realisable assets amount to $33,421,571, or over 46% of the Bank's liability to the public. What this means will b•e appreciated when it is remem- bered that last year these ibems totalled over $8,000,000 less, or less than 37% of the liabilities to the public—and this was a very good showing for normal tunes, The total .assets of the Bank are $86,190,464.51, an increase of over three millions from last year. It is worthy of note that there are no mortgages, while overdue debts and real ;•:stabe, other than Bank prem- ises together amount to only $263,- 638.40, or less than orae -third of one per cent. of -the total assets. The actual cash, coin and notes, on hand were over $21,000,000, or twice what they were a year ago. Thus the Merchants Bank of Can- ada is in a position of great strength, which enables it to face any possible development of the war situation with perfect confi- dence. During the year the Bank's de- posit business expanded very con- siderably. Its deposits bearing in- eerese increased over four millions, to $50,037,101.80, and its total pub- lic Jiiabilities grew three millions to $71,`769,813.81. The capital paid up and the reserve fund stand at $7,000,000 each, Profits were necessarily affected by the efforts to maintain so high a ratio of liquid reserve Or assets that could be converted into Cash immediately. Current commercial Inane in Canada, the train source of a Canadian bank's profits, were reduced by $6,200,000, and the net profits for the year were $995,431, against $1,218,694 for 1914. These were still further reduced by ap- propriations for patriotic purposes, by the war taxes and by $250,000 written off for depreciation in the market value of securities. There is every probability that the latbe•r ansount will be in co,nsuderable part recovered in the future, when se- curities resume their normal value, The appropniution for patriotic purposes indicate the sacrifices that the Bank is malting dor the general good in these exacting times, and the shareholders are amply compensabed in the fact that the Bank's immense strcngth and constantly widening connections enable it Ito look forward to greatly enhanced prosperity as soon as business, Canada resumes its usual aoti.vity. Meanwhile a bale aaoe sheet such as Shis, after near- ly nine months of war, is the hest evidence of solidity :and .sound management that :a bank could pos- sibly 'have •k HOW 1411011f English Gnide (showing,plaoes of interest); "It wed in this very room., sir, that 'Wellington received his first oomm.isseon !" Arireriean Towed: "Indeed! And how much did he getl" FRONT, ERIN S GREEN -181E NEWS JIY . MAIL I''IIOI LA.ND'S SII(►It.ES. Happenings 1rt the Emerald Itele of Interest to Irish. 111011, Dr. John 'Edmonds, Nationalist M.P. for North Tipperary, 'has died at his residence, Dronrinagh, Berrisokane, after a short illness, The Dublin Master Bakers' Asso- eiabion Committee have notified the public that the price of the 2 -ib. loaf has now been raised eo 7% cents, Owing to the attitude of a meal of four ;hundred. people the police were unable to effect the seizure of cattle• lands near Loughlin. A serious outbreak of fire occur- red in Tyrode, resulting in the com- plete des,bruction of the saw and flax-scuteli.ng Mills belonging to Mr. R, J. 13e11. Dr. - J. J. Murray has been -ap- pointed certifying surgeon under the Factory and Workshop Acts for rho Downpatrick district of County Down. Mee R. MeN, Reid, son of Mr, Charles Reid of Dublin, the inven- tor of the Reid patent targets, has been gazetted as a second lieuten- ant to the Highland Light Infan- t A ship'•s boat bearing the name SS. Merse and the address Fleet- wood, No. F.D. 62, was brought into Du•blan by a patrol trawler, who found it drifting in the Irish Sea. The efforts of thirty men were required to raise •a tramcar front the body of an aged woman named Halloran who wee run over and killed when, crossing a street in Cork. It is stated that there was an all-round increase in the trade of Dublin last year. Registered ton- nage that entered the port was 2,427,207 or 651,374 tone, more than the previous year, Owing to the stringency of the stoney market, the Local Govern- ment Board have refused a loan of $20,000 to the Athlone Town Coun- cil for the repair and extension of the town waterworks, The Harrison liner Wayfarer was brought to Queenstown after being torpedoed off the Scilly, Islands by a German submarine. She had a rir� - I 4c a mp wirm~r THE STANDARD ARTICLE SOLD EVERYWHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES large hole in the Portsidc extending nearly forty feet in length. The Right Hon. John Francis Moriarity, Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland, has just died. Previous to his appointment as Lord Justice 'he had been Solicitor General and also Attorney General far Ireland. The Dublin Corporation at a re- cent aneeting adopted a resolution calling on the Local Government Board to hold an inquiry into the question of amalgamating the North and South Union Districts. The death is announced of Cap- tain Roger Hall, D,L„ of Narrow Water, Warrenpoint. Deceased was one of the most extensive landown- ers in South Devon, and also an the counties of Louth and Mona- ghan. At a large and representative meeting of the Retail Purveyors' and Family Grocers' Association at Dublin, it was resolved that the price for Danish and Irish cream- ery butter be 34 Bents pee pound. At a general meeting of the, Dub- lin Committee for the Prevention and Relief of Distress, it was stated that the Local Government Board had sanctioned an increased scale of relief in connection with the Na- tional Relief Fund up to 15 per cent. 3 It requires no fewer than 1,550 miles of great embankments to pre- serve the Netherlands from the incursion of the sea. The official' inventory of the clocks at Windsor Castle fills two large volumes, and contains en- tries of 230 timepieces. Pure Ice cream ITIS GENERALLY CONCEDED that Tuberculosis is transmitted by unpasteurized Ice Cream. City Dairy Ice Cream is Pas- teurized and therefore safe for even the youngest child. The Purity and healthfulness of City Dairy Ice Cream is guarded in every way. The matter of flavoring is an important one— City Dairy uses no imitations or synthetic flavors—we flavor our "Maple Walnut" with pure maple sugar—we use Pure Fruits in our "Fruit Ice Creams" and flavor our "Vanilla" with the Pure Mexican Vanilla Bean. The minute specks in City Dairy Vanilla Ice Cream are pieces of the ground bean—"the specks make the flavor." So far as we know we are the only manufacturers in Canada using the Pure vanilla bean, and no other make can compare with the delicate flavor of City Dairy Vanilla Ice Cream—the cost is about double but the selling price is the same - Ask for the Ice Cream in which "the specks make the flavor"--. City Dairy. For Salo by ailsarFminating shopkeepers evorywhero. Look for the Sigel. TORONTO. Wo want an agent In every town. FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE NEWS BY RAIL FROM IRE- LAND'S SIIOJUiS. Happenings In the Emerald of Interest to Ii`iaN- 0100, Ieislioraneu in Ireland who use a salmon rod and line have to pay is licensee duty of $4.80, The Dub/blend General Gas Gen- eureers' Gas Company have reduced the pries of gas in Bray by 10 cents' peg thousand fees. The Dublin bakers have again raised the price of the 2-1b, loaf to 8 cents, Ib is noticed that foreign ships now lying in the port of Dublin have their names and national col- ors painted promine•nbly on tliseer sides, At a meeting of Dublin cowkeep- ers it wss deckled that the prigs of milk should be continued this sum- mer at the usual winter rates. .A fire broke out in the Shipyard stores at B•alfasit docks and muoh damage was done to the stores and some motors and dynamos. The students of the School of Surgery, Royal College of Sur- geons in Ireland, have distributed to departing troops over 11,000 clgarsttes. The casualty ]ret recently issued by the War Ghee, contained the names of 216 Dublin Fusiliers, who had been taken prisoners by the Germans. The North of Ireland Shipbuild- ing Co. have launched from their Londonderry yard a vessel specially designed for service in the St. Law- rence River and Great Lakes. Temple Hill House, Blackrock, has been formally re -opened as an auxiliary for wounded soldiers and sailors. Mr. Hubert Wray, D.L., of Faithd•egg, County Waterford, is the donor, The recent flag day in• Belfast, arranged by the Belfast Rotary Club for the benefit of wounded sailors and soldiers is Belfast, was most successful, over $14,000 being collected. Captain George Malcolm Dunlop, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, youngest son of the late Archibald Dunlop, M.D., has been unofficially reported as killed in action in the Dardan- elles, A Russian creamer, "Svorona," of Meripol, laden with 4,700 tone of coal, bound from Port Talbot, Wales, to Archangel, was sunt: by a German submarine off the Kerry coast. The Brew were saved. Lientenan+t Robert Bernard, 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, youngest son of the Bishop of Os- sory, and Mrs. Bernard, has been reported killed in actaon in the Gallipoli Peninsula, in his first en- gagement. On the suggestion of the Chair- man, Mr. T. Johnston, J.P., Omagh Urban Council have detad.e,d to curtail the lighting of the town during the summer months, owing to the excessive Lost of coal. At a 'meeting of the Connell of Agriculture in Dublin Mr. T. W. Russell announ<ed that at the next meeting he proposed to submit esti- mates reducing the annual expen- ditures out of the Department's en- dowment fund by $155,000, An Irish deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, T. P. O'Connor, and several others, wait- ed on President Poinea,re, in Paris, and presented him with an addreiso expressing sympathy with Franco and the desire of Ireland for the emcees in the present struggle, 010 The World's Greatest Choir. Russia possesses the world's fin- est choir. This is in the Cathedral of Alexander Nevosci, in Petro, grad, and is attached to a convent erected in honor of the patron saint of Russia. It consists of about thirty members, all monks, chosen from the +best singers in all the Russian 'monasteries. Their voices are sweet and strong, and every member of the choir can, it is said, shatter an. ordinary glass into fragments merely by singing into it, so powerful are the vibra- tions of each voice. These monks are trained as rigorously as any opera singer, and their whole duty at the monastery is to assist at the music at mass in the morning and vespers in the afternoon. Two Vegetables. Diner—Isn'it there another vege- table that goes with this beef, be- sides potato/ Waiter—Yes, Asir—there's horse: - radish, The hCavietst rains occur in equa- torial regions, and the srnalieeb quantities fall in the desert dee- tricts of Asia and Africa. Th,e society- with the long name should find a way to stop the annual sledge race with doge than is known as the Great Aaeke Sweepstakes, This year, as usual, the route was from Nome til Candle and return, a distanee of 412 miles, From Nome out and as far as Gold Run on the way back the leading beam mads mores than eax miles an how' ifor nearly thirty-eight ;hours, Thedogs are always nrge.d and lashed to: the last ounce of endurance, rind the whole thing is a disgrace to oivili- nation.