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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-4-19, Page 6PHOTOGRAPHING HEROISM OF THE cloud% Happily, our aeroplanes are much ONE WOMAN WORKER IN THE OLD LAND —1 too numerous, end have put too much ENEMYTRENCHES fear into the hearts of the Hun air MERCHANT MARINE r"oog am, • P.- ago Jr or '..ot pe P. goo r go. or to' os co so s 'pa ft P. la or_ olo ,..or agar mg, MADE POSSIBLE BY BRAVERY OF FRENCH AIRMEN. Deacribing Wonderful System of Trench Photography From Sickness and death have always ex- isted in the world and always will so Aeroplanes, long as mans physical ronst.itution Lady "jninperS' remains what it is. The body is evid- The Most wonderful photographs of the war are taken in the airand very In pre-war days I used to travel ently intended to last only a certain , from nty suburban home to the City few people see them. They do not tune, although man himself has un- by the District Railway, says an Eng - appear in the picture papers, but they questionably greatly shortened the nisi woman. are constantly before. the eyes of the length of its endurance, The liznit threescore years and ten, set by the And when I was oblivious to every - generale. 1 o ' .thing except the contents of the latest een be, Psalmist, deprives us of many years As near as they possiblymagazine, I would suddenly be that are our due. they are kinenni pictures of the daily brought to earth by a whiskered an - thing of longevity have estab-life in the German trenches. Every- ' .twilit standing before me and de- ---- ' - " - --- ' - thing that is going on in the enemy's !jelled the rule that the animal body, been invited out to dinner and the !mending "Tickets, pleasel" He would lines that can be seen by the naked including man's, should endure, bar.; been threatened with violence, eye is pictured by the marvellous ring accident, five times as long as it , pop in at irregular intervals at vari- , theatre, French air photographers, says a talces it to reach full maturity, ous stations inspect the tickets, and ' and ones I was actually assaulted by a mini who refused to show his tieket. as:pop out agaln at the next stopping- ; marked by the complete ossification of writer in London Answers. Had I prosecuted him he would have i place. Sometimes I would go a month If a new gun is put up in a Ger-' the bones. In man that period is been sent to prison, for magistrates I Without seeing him, and I have re - about twenty years, ass man should 1 man trench one night, and any part ', ceived two separate visits from him . . of it ahem to the observer in the air, therefore, live to round out a century. That he usuany lives only a half or in one week. you can make a bet that the flying-- I conceived an antipathy to this three quarters as long is his fault and men will get a picture of it the next bearded gentleman. I wondered he the fault of his ancestors. day. could not find something better to do men, to enable them to take satiefac- toey photographs of our lines. THE LENGTH OF LIFE. The Secret of Health and Longevity is Moderation in All Things. TICKET -INSPECTOR ON RAIL- ROAD INTO LONDON. Telling of the Mirth, the Money, the Misery in the Life of a COG TTES astrArviekte 'The Mending P 6vcsotional gm. 7.3•,,gmg rig 10,4 7.rolitommeogwg sad mot= pow g-po ogralgr• gr,a,PP, .Sata, Nor gorsogo... or.g.mg r' gm, ,rogi, THE SENSITIVE APES. Wild Animals Thrive in Captivity With Exception of Gorilla. So well do the keepers of the mode Approximately '7.5 new industries , as best they could. Sometimes the dis- ern "zoo" care for their charges, the capital investment of twice from land was so great that the everywhere are determined to protect . . . wild animals, that much of the sym-1 1-re°1134°08070t0iOnghanve been located along 'majority of the survivors mrish cl be - women who are doing men's work. r . cpaapthtlyvethhaetasttsheisvoisuittoorfs pfleaecle.f or Any i itnheeal Vern of the Grand Trunk Railway :fore succor came. Sometime° the On the way to the stationmaster's ; Germans shelled the boats as they office, where he was to be given in according to the report of the the' •stricken Canada during the past ; sympethy that soft-heatted person according to ships, murdering the charge, however, he chanced to let out e Commissionerof ; Industries for that occupants in the most cold-blooded How is it done ? It is made possible a man is as old as his arteries, mean- than to be constantly popping in and , / the front and to drown his grief had not mis 1 c d Miss' Ellen Vet ' 1 p a e , says vin endelefr.es wa-, cm- manner. No respect for the custom of ey left A French writer once asserted that that he had just lost his only boy at has for captive gorillas, however, is i reilroad. These i 4 4 i by a wonderful system of organize- ' tion in which every section of the mg that the degenerative changes of 1 out, worrying honest passengers like . . taken a little to drink. in From Jungle to Zoo, I lo 10 000 MANY NEW INDUSTRIES. • Developments in Eastern Canada's Plants Since 1910. •,-- DEVOTION AND ENDURANCE OP BRAVE They Have Risked and Often Given Their Lives in Discharge Of Their Arduous Duties. German submarine attacks upon merchantmen is the subject of a chap- ter in ',History of the War" just is- sued. The history says that, although the German methods varied, their treatment of the crews of the ships de- stroyed was substantially the same in every ease. Ships were almost always attacked without warning; the unfor- tuna° seamen and passengers, if there were any, were eeldom given sufficient time to take to their boats, and they were left to reach the shore myselfo en authority to Geririan trenches is minutely mapped old age were dependent upon or .mea -1 trare/. urable by the degree of hardening of out. Every photographer who "goes Defrauding For Fun. barity of the callous Germans. the arteries. That is undoubtedly somehow I feel happy even to this time,There seeme a ive more than a comparatively ,! short Devotion of the Mariners. up" has his little bit of enemy ground ' t° be n°14 000 men,‘have been made in the 1 to photograph day by clay. He sits true to a certain extent, but epigrams the war havingchanged ever thine I Now I sympathize with him. For hour that I did not prosecute. ieular ailment from which they1 ' .1 The ;orte feature which stood out in 000 000 and employment for another ' behind the pilot, with a large camera do not solve problems or even explain. f ..., , It is no easy matter to keep an even Part , . !same period. Among the plants ender construe-lbright relief against this picture of fixed in front of him. ; facts. It affords slight comfort to ',eared antipathy, and am a lady now ho d the once hsid by my • I position temper when your fingers are stiff suffer; nothing except intense home or il heartsickness. They grieve them -1 tion is a large refinery at Port Col- , black cruelty was the heroism, the The Prey of the Germans. know that we are as old as our i ; arteries if we do not know how to peeelejumper," otherwise a ticket inspector receipt for a. grumbling passenger, with cold and you have to write out a selves to death. ' borne Ont , for the - International devotion, and the endurance of the The camera has a very powerful vent them from aging prematurely. 1—or should I say ticket inspectoress? —on the District Railway. who blames you because the fares .k.,, At first they show some interest in 1 gliekei comp' any of New York aed , brave and hardy mariners. They never lens, and the seapshots are taken Fortunately, we 'do know many of Ihave gone up fifty per cent.; but I 'hat goes on round them—perhaps . through an aperture in the floor of the causes of the presenile clegenera- ' We work in pair% and it is our duty for the Army. at all events, have released one man way of escape. After a time they '' lio because of a feeling that there is some • • New Jersey. This plant, which 1011 cflaeisleeili,hLiiibilfeacsettfroefrethvger, y tcloangeNeirliabnitd tiinl; n dollars, places within the o- n ofseveia nip' -; i splendid discipline of their calling and the chassis. The aeroplane is built tion that cuts us off before our time I to board trains running anywhere on 1 the unquenchable courage of their mean Ein investme t • 1 1 more for stability than for speed and Heredity counts for much. Some 1 the strip of line between Barking in show less and less interest and take' minion the refining of invaluable nick-, fighting. !families are long-lived; in others, the east and Acton Town in the west, • smaller quantities of food. Thera in minion ore and the distribution of the fin- ; race. with its innumerable branches, to see ......—_ variably comes a time when they re- • A Wonderful Record. Its business is concerned solely with most or all of the members die young, ished nickel, work which was previous- photographing. It has to fly low, and That sounds hopeless, yet we can do / that the company is not defrauded by ; passengers travelling beyond their dis- becomes hopeless. They spit, their , large ; I y Othercloneoutsidec oonf Canada.eeinsscle c t in g loca- moved up to October :30, 1910, across fuse food altogether. Then the case ; The total numbers which have been emy guns and a prey for the enemy our days even if we come of a short-1tance, or riding first-class with a fighting machines. is consequently a target for the en- much by hygienic living to lengthen knees ander their chins and their • their shoulders bunched up, tions in this district during the past the seas has been 8,000,000 men and . 1 lived family. More than that, we I third-class ticket. • • Many Forillas have been captives, 1 tion, E'xtensions of alrea rtela-; the seas, the laws of man cie the Tears cams came into my eyes. I grasped tates of humanity, restrained the. bar - his hand and tolcl him to go home, and but in spite of the greatest care none! plants representin t y eels ing BRITAIN'S SINGLE OBJECT. An English Faatery Twenty Miles Long and Four miles Wide. For protection the aeroplane is at- can transmit to our descendants a still You may have seen us in our neat Everywhere I travelled in England I . . tended by fast "chasers," that keep higher degree of stamina. The oth-lblue uniforms, with clippers to clip hovering near by for any sign of an er causes of early aging may be sum-, each ticket we inspect, and the shining black satchel in which we keep the money we take and the little receipt - book for excess fares. We have to keep a duplicate of all money transactions, hand it over every evening, take the names and addresses of those who refuse to pay, and re- port any irregularities. to headquar- ers. I have learned quite a lot since I have been a lady "jumper." One thing is that men and women who attend church regularly, and who would hands hanging listlessly in frontyear Ltd„ at Chatham; British Munitions,1untoward incidents, when the vast do- wn Sugar Co., I although there has been two or three saw new factories being built. In a of them or else raised to their heads, . Ltd., Montreal; St. Catharines Steel main of sea over which they were journey of three hours I saw six dif- as if they suffered from headache. 'and Metal Co„ at St. Catharines; Kel-; moved was considered, it might be ferent factories of great extent in They never lif t their sad and weary ati?Deotineribnoiroon; aDniaistWilliamlessSweKeleihm: i atialmostppli oseviandtIut expmishap,,osives, nogg Toasted Cornflakes Co., at To- ; said that these men were transported i coin•se of erection in the vicinity of eyes for hours at a time. If you in- ronto towns and villages where there were duce them to look up, there is an ex- Co,9,I4n20r,e0g0nOrtdontos no other factories. In the great pression in their eyes that haunts manufacturing centers new exten- you, so immeasurably sad and forlorn nonny and Sons at Collingwood. These have been moved, with 47,504,000 gal - stens are being hula. All these mew it is. They even cease the little six plants represent an investment of , lens of petrol and more than 1,00,000 factories are for the purpose of in- futile show of temper that previouslyapproximately e3,000,000, i horses and mules. The sick an(Kound- Siece 1910, eve hundred industries, ; ed moved also numbered more than 1,- creasing the munition output, says an broke out at intervals. American visitor in England. All the anthropoid or man -like apes, with a total investment of about 1 000,000. Although the manufacturing ability such as gorillas, orange-utans and $100,000,000, have been located along ; King George King's Tribute. of England has been greatly increased, chimpanzees, are extremely sensitive the Grand Trunk Railway, with the co- i , . George recently said he felt both by greater activity on the part of to surroundings and environments, operation of the railway. • ---ga--- levee "the country at large joins with workingmen and by increased facil- In order to keep these big apes in ities, eighty per cent. of all the manu- good health it is absolutely necessary facturing facilities in Great Britain to give them plenty of company, eith- is devoted to munitions and alma- er of their own kind or of nien—aey- rnents. thing, in fact, to relieve -tire -tedium of One of the establishments I visited captivity, which they undoubtedly feel, et, gold wanted by the Allies?" ; often given their lives in carrying out . • la% e i 'steed and employed 10,000 persons. Seven When a chimpanzee gets a new com- eigo,,, says the Bank of France eni-. their arduous duties." thousand of these employees were wo- panion he goes into the wildest state phatically. "Many patriots possess. What Jellicoe Said. men. It was a small portion of the of extitement; he thumps the floor in - plant of a great munition concern ancrwills, scampers round his cage g valuable gold ornaments and: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe in a re - others having family jewels have of- / and simeams with delight. ' cent speech, referred to the merchant fered to lend these or even sacrifice e i service in the following terms: "In them on the altar of patriotic duty,' the old 'days it used to be Said that QuEmz CRAFT ON TIGRIn. says a Paris correspondent. Those — there was jealousy between the mer - who approached the Bank of France eantile marine and the Royal NavY, enemy 'plane on the prowl for the med up in the one word excess -over - scalp of an air photographer. work, mental or physical, worry, over - If he gets back safely his plates are eating and even oversleeping. Mod - developed. He and the experts who •eration (not insufficiency) in all examine the pictures are so used to things—eating, drinking, working, these daily photographs of the shell- playing, sleeping—is the secret of ploughed land and battered trenches health and longevity. that they can piece them together with infinitely greater ease thee a DYNAMITE AND PEACE. jig -saw puzzle. They will detect a slight change in the appearance of one Donor of the Famous Nobel Prizes In - particular trench. When the photo- graph has been enlarged it will be- vented a High Explosive. come apparent that extensive barbed The Huns were recently boasting scorn to do a dishonest action in other violas day. In the few hours during the rest of mankind because she had 1PanY fair wire has been put up since the pre- that Germany was vastly superior walks aosf rgeagmaer d ft ohie cria.ard,nyNcuomm berl ess men whose income runs into Num - the night the Germans have made the been awarded fourteen Nobel prizes, trench stronger. while France and Britain had only hundreds a year will chuckle with glee Trench Histories. when they have bested the railway been awarded six between them. This company for three -halfpence. Now, this particular trench, like all statement anybody, if he takes the the other trenches, has its own his- trouble, can verify for himself; and The Would-be Lady. tory all carefully recorded in a book anybody who does so will find that up My work is full of varlet and GOLD ORNAMENTS REFUSED. rendered by the officers and meet df the merchant service since the begin - Bank of France Declines Patriotic , ning of the war, and the heroism dis- 'Offer of Jewellery. 1 1 d b • him in appreciating the noble servicea,.• 111. In one factory it was almost impos- ictures and records—how many to date the number of N....roheal.hpriz.es. tercet, and I get good money and rea- sible to see the boundary wall in eith- 01 P awarded to France. an _te rc , 3n sonable hours. When it is remember - times it has been shelled, how many er direction, and this factory, as big shells fired, what damage they did, , stead of being six, is twentyt-ene• f ed that several millions of People ase as several city blocks, is occupied al - what repairs the Germans did, and so the most piquagi The Nobel prizets cthoriistituine ho the District Railway every month it is most solely by women, working at that trench was last bombarded. tell you the (lay and the exact time for they were institutencr by thelate entor of dyna-; --gel nmet fun from the "we Id- • mime, met with a quiet `No need navy for anything but the most sin - hardly, necessary to state that I meet their lathes, producing fuses. on. The experts, if they eared, could some interesting characters. There is one Government munitions t ie 1 Alfred Nobel, the inv.11 ite the first of the line of high ex- be's"—those people who, u works, where they deal with -in their successful advance on Bag- whatever in France ' as a veplea The cere admiration and respect fee the When they diecover that the barbed . their fellows ride firsteelass with a to irneiress eives, tliat it twenty inues in length dad the British used- some of tbt Bank of France said to inquirers that officers and men of the mercantile wire up, ' has been fixed they will sim- ! plosives winch have figured so .c.on- stantly in all our talk and writing thirdeei„, ticket, /Contracts for munitions are being gate the Tigris. the gold reserve is satisfactory, and marine. I think I know sufileient of •and averages four mlies in width. queerest ceaft in the world to nave. ply telephone to a certain battery that r leis little sector, and inl about the present war, and—most Women are the worst offenders. A1made b • t k that there was no intimtion of making those officers and men to believe that • Used by British Army in Advance With a.oe'reyr to the melting down of but Nvhatcver may have been tha ease to Bagdad. gold held 111 collections or in com- then th '• • • "'mike afte " t piquant of all—one of,, the big priees few days ago I overheard a stylishly- q y the Government that will re- These included the heavy ea - tragic appeals for go d ornaments and the feeling is I•eriprocated. Those of two minute,: all that beautiful barbed is to go every year to the person who dressed In. atrOn, who chanced.to meet England is devoted to one single ob- scribes as &las and of which the uire five years to fulfill. timbered craft which the Arab de- trinkets to keep up the splendid pyra- us who have been eloeely associated wire will be blown into pieces as small has done most, or labored best, for the an acquaintance at Charing Cross, exe jeet; that is, to waging this war. mites of gold in the vaults of the bank . with the (Acme; and men who man as pins. later, our friend • cause of fraternity among different plain in reply to a question: ship carpenters attached to the force after more than two yeays of out- our armed merchant veseels and pa - Then, a few hours friend cause it gets dark, peoples, foe the suppression or redue- "Oh, my dear, of course I always built 130. These craft carry about goings. trot craft have poetized from the firet the pho-lographer, before tion of standing armies, or for the travel first! I hate those third-elass Very Awleivard, 40 tons. They have short, stubby "These despei.ate appetite are left to ilny of the war how magnifieent were will fiv oat and take another picture t to peeve the barbed wire is no jus formation and promotio p n ofpeace baxeel How people can endure them Th th • , I do not know." e son ofe well-to-do family had German financiers in desperate their services, how courag th i • more. congresses."osaiasts aind Eijitmisitiaar bitdof sail. Leaarffeedr There are five prizes provided, sup -'"Well, I'm g'oin'g to do it to -day he- ; weacsenspyenedoggedhllperri,atmparsivlietnev, email ite;fpf::al.verAe tuosteadl othe ter states, thathbthe president , devotion to clay under the most us a e egiam by way of conchice, awl how unflinching their 'Phe Huns Can't Do It. I posed to be given annually, although cause I've had a bit of luck. In the , home, ;013, 1Prebigottts ofn t121: of the emman Rem s ank calls upon dengeions conditions. The value of - - dowel in his notebook how many shells candidate is considered to reach the ohm la all mf.travagance• ,W' eean go , espied a figure in tile kitchen with the base throughout the operations north- ' The battery commander will write any one of them can be withhold if nie ordieary course of events I thReturning from a walk, his mother ink first_ li craft kept in OUT) with the advanced the bank for paper all their gold the mercantile marine goes also far ' I advance on Bagdad. These queer all Germans of both sexes to sell et the services of the officers and men of —six or seven, maybe—it took to do highest standard. The five subjects , down to Ealing together,' said her , housemaid. articlee, and to (muse all their preeiou;'heyond their work in armee veeeels. the damage. and will perhaps discover ' are 1 Waortliefrrom craftt ePelu•ssieaciii Gull, ded tht excise office for diamonds. The semi- eases of tmarmed hips being sunk bY physics, medicine, ehemistry, ; friend. , , . 1 "Clarence," she called to her son,stones abroad to be brought to the When One thinks of the innumerable that he might. have clone it just as well litevature, and peace, and it is a foot ' When the tram came in I hoarded it , "Mary's got someone in the kitchen. - ebaname 00 canoe, ranging from over (ice of gold and jewels forms part of torpedo or gun fire far fi•om land, in with only fiV, shells. Down it goes in , that Germans hage been awarded , from the roaerearuihefc'r..! l'iestmIllater She knows Perfectly well that I don't 100 tons down to the tiny craft of the necessary equipment of national a heavy sea, with the eldeel comeany the notebook, and the next time he has i fourteen .science prizes and not one I was readied I had w°11`ec my way allow followers. I wish YOu'd go and three-quarters of a ton, which causes forces, but the president of the ' dependent neon boats alone for their 1 along to the compartment where the precious ellen. to fire at that trench he will save one peace prize I The only English writer who has etw,o ladies were cha,ttering. tell the man to leave the house at Basrah to be described as "The Von- Reichebank regrets that many eiti- ' safety,,one is lost in acirn'rai ion or the 11 this is made possible by the ; carried off the literary prize is Mr. 1 Tiekete, please. I said sweetly, I 0005." ice duly departed to the kit-lhilllooetv the East"; petdhecr'afntaelhor f 7,1"2 vi _ a eons do not grasp the necessity of this , spb•it ,fif heroiem of those who oot graphere. It is their /easiness, like 1 the year bravery of the French air photo-jRudyard Kipling, who annexed it in : 1907. In 1914 it was not lady who never travelled tenrd-cleiss What I had expected happened, The' then but retunred in about hail a min.: gating the veed mazes of th • t sacrifice. The Reichsbank _does not only endure clangers end li. r 1'1 ' • Yet ( emand the sacrifice of gold erne-, without roMplaint, but are ever ready that of Mir OWn camera -airmen to awarded, and in eke it was (gelded had a third_eiaes ticket, and as she! "Sorry, mothe,, but 1 can't turn hitn basket, four feet deep and front four 1 • • • ' 11 m tell picture stories every day about between two Danes, one Swede. and , paid me the balance her face was the thegnovements of the Hung, and there one Frenchman. The donor was a ;color of beetroot, is very little of importance that can , Swede, and the value of each prize is 1 Threatened With Violenee. escape the camera when it is in the about 28,000, 1 have had proposals of marriage, 11E,Itt,isq16,AE.111.10 01,0. marshes, and the "guffah," a round ments of great historic value or of to take the leek.: vain end a ed 800114010 of en imenta worth, but -all I repeated voyages in other ships," "Can't then him out? Why feet to nine feet deep mid from fourlother gold jewelry must be forthcom-, on feet to nine feet in diameter, made ;ing. So much for the eleciehabatik 1 PATHETIC SCENES ENACTED, earth not?" the Bank of France." French Soldiers Greet Relatives LINT- of palmfrond nibs held together by ; after the firm and cenfidetit reply of "He's my sergeanLI" juniper wattles. ated in Advance. Hundreds of econee which(Well Bern hal Mt 00111(1 not approach hi (Mi- metic art were enacted in various vil- lages when the French soldiers, after the recent big advance, found them- selves oneo more in their home fawns and clasping again their perente, wives, and children after nearly three years' separation, Poilus, who had not heard from their familiee since the outIn•ealt of the war, when they had been invaded, found their loved ones safe although ainid scenes beg. garlingco(tte,ienL iPl4): Oany easee trench - hardened pollee sprang from the milks entering their native village and rushed to their old homee, only to find a gaping hole in the sell, where shell had obliterated the Inmate and to hear the neighbors revelled how the inhebiLants had been killed, In other cazes only 'deserted hoinee wee() found, as the people hrul been sent into Germany. '200 miles The longest river in :Ripen is the Ton, its being about 2'2V1 h. et, JO (c) rm. 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