The Clinton News Record, 1919-1-2, Page 3•
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° KTAI TO E RESENT
DOMINIONS AT PEACE CONFERENCE
Allies Decide Against Further Intervention hi Russia for the
' ..• Present at Least,
A despatch •:from London says:— A despatch from Paris says:—
'The 11lanellodor tivartiitul Believes le The Allied ,Governments have decided.
has been decided regueding the re- against j'urtlter intervention in Res -
presentation at the Peace Ceenfeeetice site, at .least for the present, accord: -
thee eaeh. of the four great powers big to indications from official cis-
will . probably have five seats at the tiles. . Great Britain and the 'United
-Conference, ba. these will not neces- JStates, it is represented, while re-
sarily aiways'be occupied by the sane cognizing that Russia should be ae-
:men., The -Dominion representatives, sisted in a way to permit her getting
The Guardian understands, willbe back to normal monditions, point out
in the Grand Committee; of the In- that military lntet'vention en a
er- 1liccl C nferenee,-hut will pro- large scale would involve difficulties
tie A a
sent their case as sinall nations be- and'dangers of all kinds,
.fore the Cenfet•ence, and ewill, o1; Stephen Piehon, the'French lrhreign
•cameo, be in close touch all the time Minister, -explained the situation ate
with rho .Imperial Cabinet. The length to the Committee on Foreignl
Guat•tiian further understands that Rolaions, IIs said be solution at
• Labor will not be asked 'to nominate present favored was to guarantee;
.a representative, but a Labor man moral support to the governments
lulls probably be asked to go to Paris which have sprung' up at various
to sit on ono or mare of the Com- points on Russian and Siberian, tee •
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' Atom,.- -
SPMN WANTS
GIBRALTAR BACK
-Proposal That Britain be Otiered
Ceuta in Exchange.
A -despatch from Paris•says:—Dur-
• ing the recent visit here of Count
•liemauones; the Spanish Premier; ex-
tendell consultations are reported to
have-been•held by. the Premier with
French and American statesmen re-
garding the 'Moroccan question, which the Russian Embassy from the. Omsk
-was discussed in both its military and Government. The message said the
financial phases. The future status disorganized Bolsheviki were retreat -
•of Gibraltar le said also to have -conn ing northward toward Perm, and that
•up for eotsidoration. this was the first independent action
On his enit'al at Madrid Premier of moment against the Belabored, and
Rontanonee • is understood to have part of e campaign that was expected
expressed great satisfaction over the to unite some of the local districts of
emelt of his conferences. Russia and Siberia. Much war equip
It was reported in 'Paris on De- meat and booty Was captured.
cember 23 that Premier. Rontanones Tho Embassy also wae informed
planned to return to Paris in the near that Attaman Doutoff, Commander'
-future to confer with allied and Am- of the Cossack troops of the Oren -
oilcan representntives over questions burg region, had asked Gen. Semenoff
vitally concerning Spain. In connect- to submit to the authority of Admiral
tion with the status of Gibraltar, it Koichak, Dictator of the Omsk Gov -
BOLSHEVIK ARMY
BEATEN IN URALS.
•
Disorganized Troops Retreating
Northward Toward
Perm.
A despatch from -Washington
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says: nefeati of the Bolshevik . c arm y
on the Ekaterinburg front in a decisive
battle by an army of loyal Russians
was reported in an official despatch to
The Canadian Pioneer—This Is a photograph of. the 8,100 ton steamer
launched at Vickers yards in Montreal, 'the first of the fleet being con-
strneted by the Federal -Government, This was taken just before the ves-
sel was launched; since then she has been got ready for seai'in record time.
'She will be operated in connection with the Canadian National System of
Jtailwayc.
WISH TO BECOME
a 4
A��EKED TO ITALY
)<talian Deputies From Redeemed
Provinces Present Memorial.
A despatch from Paris say s:—It-
alien deputies of theredeemed prov-
inces who represented their districts in
Vienna and Budeipest•Parliareents and
came to Paris expressly for the pur-
pose of submitting their case to the
American mission, have been received
by Col. E. M. House, Through Col.
House the deputies presented a mem-
orial to President Wilson. The dapn-
tie's• are Pitaeco for Tri''tie, Bennati
SAti�.�a
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KIJL�DR 1
LEADER
BY FRENCH
GERMANS HEAR HOW MANKIND
VIEWS CRIMES,
Mainz People Silent Like "Criminals
In Dock" While General Fayolle
Tells Them, the Truth.
Three infantry regiments of the
Te11111 French army, ns well as cavalry
engineers, artillery and armoured cars
formally entered tho garrison town of
PEACE PARLEY
MAY BE DELAYED
Appointment of Delegates 'Likely
to be AnnotWeed Within
Ten pays,
A, despatch eromParie says;---Of-
fielal n00'11eatien of the appoint>nont
of the vete:ems delegates to the Peace
Cenfei'enee, it is believed, will chino
within ten days, nithongh It is` Mt—
We-ed that the British delegates may not
be chosen until the elections are out
of the way,
The coming of the German dele-
gates is still In an indefinite stage,
while eta question of Russian re-
presentation has gone no further than
some informal discuselone between
the American commissioners .and
prominent Russians here. Millets aro
being. expressed by some dijj'.omatiats
that the conference actually can be-
gin work the first week of January,
as expected. Some of them aro in-
clined to' think that the first meeting
might not be held until' February. •
CAPTIVES PRESSED
INTO ARMY
From Erin's Green Isle
RTlssian Prig Sonei..s From Ger-
' pmany ,loin Tiolshesiki• •
A -despatch from Warsaw says:—
The flocks of released Buneian psi-
Boners who are. making their way
I
homow'nrii through Poland, all 0f
whom appear to be tainted with Bol-
shevism, and- aro recognized as 0
danger in this respect by tbe Polish
entllorit'es, are in fact, already caus-
ing much 'nimble by their lawless-
ness in their search for food.
The 13olehev'ki -are taking advan-
tage of the plight of them first thou-
sands of reeved. prisoner,, whose
total numhet• is actinialed at 2,000,-
000, and have pfeked •up several
thousand of them for their army by
offering the nein clothes, food and
money, of the. last of which there is
plenty, since the holshoviki control
• the printing pte,ecs for the penduc-
Con or rubies.
Mainz. on Der, 14. Generals Etienne,
elangin, Lo Compto, Tatin nnd Gour- CELLULOID
d wore 'asent. No crowds with
was deelored in some quarters that the ernmentt. It was indicated in the f;. I.tr', Zanella for Gi.�me, an•i au pi The story of the greatest bluff of
Spanish P1'etnier contemplated raising cablegram that the people of Siberia Ghiglo Arcivch for Zara, The mem-
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ens- flags appeared: no cries of welcome
the war is told by the Blanchester
the question of in return to Spain, were united in support of Kolchak, o c is that t .. country were hoard. A great silence brooded.
After ,,, restew, General le ynna re. Guardian, a well informed newspaper
N17,.ws '$ Y MAIL FROM ensu•
#>s1N11'S S}IOXiUL
Irappeninga in the Emeretd,• Islx of
Interest to eriah.
men
A piece of land containing six and
throe-gniertea' acres, near Newton-
•
;deme, was sold lately ter i0GG0.
A successful house-eahmnse collec-
tion was made in the Dungannon dis-.
trice in aid of the 1'teti Cross Fand,,
Tito Arm Lgh: •history Society have
decided to start a donee' war mesa=
in came -Mien with the society.
Letters formerly sorted at.Ballybey
for Creevo,and ether places will now
be sent direct from Portadown, -.
Private ,iuhu Locke, Canadians, who
died from wounds, was the sou of tree
late W. H. Locke, Lucan Co., Dublin.
13. II, Thompson, Ultimo Howie,
•
Omagh, has been appointed to the
Commission of tho Peace for County
Derry,
- Ex -King Manuel of Portugel recent-
ly paid a visit to Belfast, incl was the
guest of Lady Shaftesbury at Belfast
Castle.
Mr. Shortt. Chief Secretary for Ire-
land,
reland, presided at an exhibition of Irish
standard goods, held In Molesworth
hall, DuUlin. ""
The farmers, of Randalstown have
puased a resolution asking for an in-
crease of five shillings a stone In the
price of flax.
About four hundred tons.. of crab-
apples, whorte and 1'aspberrles have
ni,
Eng-
land
r
been sent from Cannelnei district to I�-
land for jatn malting.
It is believed that Laurence O'Neil,
thee preseut Lord Mayor of Dublin. will
seek election for a. third term as Dub-
,s
c:itief mn.Bistrato,
Tice total tonnage of vessels arriv-
ing in Derry Harbor in Soptcnnber was
17,349, as against 20,119 in the swine
month last year.
Tho Armagh Soldiers' Federation
lave asked tho Clovornlnont for a
larger separation allowance, as the
presct't 0110WatlCC to inadectnate,
GREATEST BLIMP OF THE WAR
Paper Barrage of Straits of Dover
Stopped Germany for 6 Weeks..
vial re it' t heir• unt ' has
ctaI.rtnarinc campaign begs
An Extremely L'>tetul untie
Whose Basis ie Cotton.
that Conroy oxpresnng Its willing been for 2,000 years Italem; that
tress, if necessary. to concede Ceuta, on —...—..„1, 'Mese° suss esufeerea under Austrian ceivecl the municipal and ecelesfasticel
r n. the strait to NO. FE:1.R OF ACOAL dignitaries in the palace of the Duke
ihe 1lioroctan sr ]e f > oppression for five ceuturiee, and Dal -
f feat• Britain fn exchange for Gib- FAMINE IN CANADA
of Hesse, receiving petitions on behalf
matin since 1797 has sto i 1 all kinds of the inhabitants.
Paint; holding: that poesession of of persecutions to defend its nation-
Csntee by the British ' would afeord A despatch from Ottawa says: i alit'. The leo rle of the disciiris esus General Fayolle took occasion far
equal strategic advantage in -modern The return to peace conditions, and t t the fleet time since the war began to
o especially the exceptionally mild;
tell the enemy's representatives face
o p y p 1
01 celluloid collars it Inas bean cus-
tomary- to speak derisively. Bat it
really deer seen, possible that, in a
net. _and impeeved form which they
have assumed, they may find accap-
tanw by well-dressed men for summa.,•
weer. They < entetfelt linen so per -
\''hem her .
in entlncst, t;crniany was getting many
submarines through the ;traits of
nova -despite tall the British anti -sub
marine boats could do againet them
ie .s n g, A wonderful fired baragc' was the
tha memorial, have -ou; ha in all wars c. s,gt ed fir the Straits—aniy de
warfare. m t fcr Italian independence and partici- to,face, plainly and with cold dignity, fectly that closest i�s ection would cede -Mitis extra y y
- +--•• weather so far have greatly lessened rated in the
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Controller. I 1 present war with 4,000 what Frenchmen of high atn'nling in • 1 'the difleren e• and while appliances, alarm signals,. contact killed in action, was a 6011 of H. R.
famine this winter, and unless Jan- thought of what Geimanv hacl done iu I 1 undermg A brief scrub with a „ ,. .ecxrt clevl et cont
- A despatch -from Washington shys: nary should prove to be a very severe
Stveepinp� relaxation of restrictions
-on the exports of-food'stufs, fedders
. and feed to the Pan-American repub-
. lies, Canada, Cuba and the. West In-
dies has been amtounced. e.. 'Chair-
, man McCormick, of the Wer Trade
Board,
The list of exceptions name:, only
' wheat anis what flour, coffee, sugar, fated production and transportation,
corn, batter, cheeso, eggs, linseed but greatly lessened consumption. A
meal and eel e and cotton seed meals
and- cake. To avoid any misappre-
pension as to the amply of these
articles to the eomntriee namad it was
emphasised that - medially all of
them are available in desired mantle"
ties • through Goi'ernment channels.
RETURNING leIONLY
STOLEN FROM FRANCE
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
w+•r•,
NEWS Ux n141L, ARO'OT JOHN
IlW44 MW UIS PI OVLB
Occurrences In the Land That ltei ai
Suprema fa the Comm.),
els; Wo:ld,
•
ced 'eee 1y
Tlta dealt was announced t ni ,
of Sir Joseph Towsei', British Ceneul
at Milan since 1902,
Partially disabled minters aro to tie
taught gardening In lfaw C9ardons,
]Shack scab lets 1>oelt discovered 11
1110 potatoee grown in the:Layton al;
lotinonts,
Actcal'dittg to an ofllcbtl uotlee 10-
eoived ht the Cheshire salt district.
salt exports aro to be stopped.
Dr. Janos Iters been installed Os Pro -
Yost of piton College with cite usual
ancient cerouioni(tl.
Pour German prisoners who `escap•
ell from the ltowiltgOtolt lutei'ltme nt
camp ltal'e been recaptured.
Among the donations to the Ring's
Punch :for Disabled Soldiers, was one
of 111,000 from Loris Farringdon,
At a mooting held In Manchester
over 410,000 was subeerihecl to the
Fling's Fend for disabled soldiers.
To attract lads into the Mercantile
Marine, hostels are being built by the
Seamen's Mission at various; ports.
The Kingston -on -Thames T o w n
Coancll, by vote of 22 to 3, have do•
clined, to elect a woman member.
Site London County Council hits of-
fered 260 trade scholarships.forboys .
between the ages of twelve and . six•
teen,
Mr. Clyne] states that the Food
Ministry has not considered any pro-
posal to set up national or municipal
bakeries.
The London County Council Tram-
ways Department distributed ,01,614 •
among the drivers and conductors 111
a bonus,
Queen Alexandra has sent to .lira,
'Lloyd George a beautiful Welsh doll
for the Welsh section of the Doll Ex-
hibition.
The Mansfield Co-operative stores
have been destroyed by fire, but the
flour mills and warehouses were
saved,
The Lord Mayor of Bristol handed
'to Sir John Taverner te2,000 as Bris-
tol's contribution to the Italian Rod
Cross.
Sir John Dickinson has consented to
continue es chief magistrate at Bow
• Street, London, although now past the
n li it
age m .
The new general secretary of the
Navy League is Rear -Admiral Robert
- Edmund Ross Benson.
The Town Council of Folkestone
n have for the' twelfth time elected Sir
- S. Ponfold as their Mayor.
aldinar electrical Lieut. R. Mansfield, R.F,A., rocentl
1 sTRICT70NII ON EXPORTS the problem of the Fuel mets- Re 'aiding the annexation of no n etea i ,
TED BY ILS. WAR BOARD .There is now no likelihood of a coal Franco and in the world generally perspiration prcnf, they need no mittos, electrical wires and ciore:,;, of Mansfield, A1,P. for Spalding.
REMOVED P'r eerie.. meant The cl,eatll tool[ place t e
month, little difficulty in pulling
through is anticipated. At• the same
time,- there is little prospect of any
Iet up in the restrictions fa some time
at least, The requirements of war in-
dustries for coal has naturally de -
craned greatly or disappeared, while
the fine weather has not only facili-
rpt. despatch from Paris says:—The
Germans hare returned stocks taken
from the banes in northern France
amounting to six billion francs.
Several safes weighing from five to
seven tons each. which the Germans
did not open and. are now in Brussels,
will be brought bttck'sllortly to Valen-
diennes.
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1 X20 b (f'atablislted-May,. t000.)
iingt•ued-January. 1019,)
great many people have been able to
heat their premises so far with soft
coal or wood. leaving comparatively over
resulting fluid y cep Banal Law has su Governments
a propos•
et their allotment. of anthracite. part of the Dalmatian Isles. Austrian have done us," he declared, "but we ! over' a thick and densely woven cotton had testi foisted upon Germany. Ent; al to the Dominion Governments with
inn statistics,- the memorial show will never hold women and children ! land had neither the right mines nos
No "heatless days" are looked fcr, says'cloth, which is thatch} convet.ed.inta regard to a Gallipoli decoration,
"Unless January proves particularly that the majolity of the population responsible or destroy for the morn
inn artificial leather, One ecce time- the. rteshaniem to make them ready at
are Slays in Spalato and Sebenico, but Pleasure of dafng damage. the time. This+story is not uaran-
severe My worries are about over," re- 1 days trnvehn; hags, women's S hand- g ,
marked Fuel __ Magrath .. they are actually as markedly Ttnhnn , The war' GArmean• had forced nnmt _ ,,._t. _ _.e -,u..e ..•,4:c7.,. teed b._ ,.s,.. Manchester Guardian.
a$ the populetion really is predomin- France ;said General Faye:die THE NAL sHoT.
Trentino, Trieste and 'Istria the mem-
mea says fere is no question that
can be raised, but adds that Plume
l there
f tl t a r.
the lest four years, As lie was speak- theist towel nnd they arc' b wi anal rem: designs fell into the hands r.'f} York of William Wallace Hargrove,
Ing he would move two or throe steps, ever. German >
being a fres city, similar to Bremen ; first to -one side gee then to another. clean as
and Lubeck, has the right to eecido iTia baso of ccllulotd is, of cnut•cc,
g No ono hero in the roam stirred a of cotton.Net baled •Catton, f however,
its own governmelil and any contrary ger, The row of burghers in front of 1 but the lint (formerly a wa.;tc. pro- o Des en, Thin we btu•ragc--on pa-
C1ecISlOtt would be against the pull-' 1111:1 stood as motfonloss as criminals ; tinct) separated from cottonseed. )'ce—wne too formidable and complete
cmles proclaimed by President Wilson, in the clock Ti.q tto i- soaked ins 1 tt t trc fee the German submarines in that
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n secret agents. .tt r.•as sn' owner of the Yorkshire Herald.
German' had paid $20,000 for them. Dr, J. G. Shipman, Radical M.P. for
Germany Northampton from 1900 to 1910, died
Then there was peace in the Straits
recently at the age of seventy. •
'mile Queen attcl Princess Mary re.
coney paid an informal visit t0 Pap•
Fiume already has shown -by a plehis Can Rely on French Mercy •` ttco ds td by it acid.- Nis .t,na of their development. Germany WOrtli House, tuberculosis colony,
cite hew determination to be united . General Pavollo assured the Ger• • f being e tt id the 1 nes -al their
est .ho <net w
of nitric
an. ' p c I v— hen The death took place recently at
1 process thus far ini .x r batt Honingllans, Norfolk, of W. 1,, Boyle,
with Italy. Y mans that, although they
hid feared , same as that used for making sal c'ke- site wa1 beaten, and .o_ more t
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Dalmatia has 310 miles of coast, of reprisals for all their ot•hnes, they •less gunpowder, which is tin rxplosiv^ six tter;ka titer,^ was no attempt to 11I.P. for West Norfolk since 1910.
which Italy deims les than 1.00 nvles, !might sol unol rho traditions of During one week the London
h y celluloid. It is then clissolti:d in rm71 break through the barrage,
comprising the cities of Zara,' Seben- Y.M.C.A. shipped to soldiers in France
ice and Spalato, besides the greatest
I'ra.nce for mercy. There :vas. hotve.er, na harts e, e.�-
"R o cannot forget the evils yeti acetate, to render it nOnexplos,e'c• g no less t • han 11,001 packages.
fl'd may 1?e poured t as it existed in the designs vrhich•
tl French those districtsf AI j most unjust and cruel humanity hadh' '
any 'rencn 1n cos 0 -
sace-Lorraine, where German sta- ever known, marked as it had been by serviceable and of handsome appear -
PRINCELY ASSETS -- tistics show 87 per cent. of the popula_ ? refinements of barbarity such as the ancc.
OF ROI7.ENZOLLERNS tion as German. Besides the ports of ++ whole world had contlemued. The The same celluloid
proems slightly modified
Andvari and Daleigno, formerly be -1 Germans had.ravaged Belgium and the produces a celluloid dough which may
A despatch from Basel says:— longing to Montenegro, and eventually i northern provinces of Preece, he con- be used in a great variety of ways.
Seizure of property owned by the that of Scutari, the districts will hare 'tinued, carrying off to Germany -any- ' It may he pr000csl i fir brusheshieh
nd
Prussian Royal family (the- the excellent ports of Pontos-o, Buceari, thing upon which they could lay their aro cut up into
Holten-
Segni,
Metcovieit Ragusa— Gravosa hands. It was simply robbery by hand mirrors. knife bandies, Combe,
the sum of 900,000,000 marks, accord- and the military port of Cattero,
ing to figures compiled by The Frank- capable of sheltering the entire Italian
fort Na'chrichten. army, Furthermore, it says in con-
clusion that Italy is ready to make
NAVAL SIGNAL.
' .�j> tt4T'd1 24( 4
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P.O. of Watch -
Read ly- /d
neporoad by -
Palmed by-
Logged by-
Syelam- �p
Data` -.'dl
Ae ie,/zeind Al., oat .rte /tizetme:of �gar!
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Al 441(Z .Cl/d.. v7 ...:Re .� -.4f,tom.
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fila. 5/14,
Are Historic Message ---Facsimile of the naval signal sent from the
'slueon Elizabeth by Sir David Beatty on Novetn•ber 21st, telling of: the
iurrendei' of the German fleet. It will become as historic as Nelson's
!armies message at Trafalgar.
'e
ear,` MOW. THAT'S
)tv Whips -1 CA1:.L
00
CLA S'
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Oxy
Trieste and Fiume free ports for every
country.
Battle Trophies.
Tho War Marmara, under the chair-
manship of Sir Alfred Mond, M.P.,
looks 0s 01.0ug11 it is going to ilevelep
into a very elaborate collection, but
there aro many who, having lived so
close to war clueing the last four
Yeats, will )lrefer. Madame Tussaud's,
biros; .quite oontont to learn the battle
and t peaceable
rl •faits o
trophies to tacit c t1
descendents, says a London writer,
Among the relics which at present
figure in the War Museum are the log-
book- belonging to Rs'uplia Yacht, eon.
tabling the ax -'Kaiser's autograph; tho
locker from H.M.S. Good Hope; a
Gorman dispensary waggon dated 1563,
but not captured until 19:17 on the
Somme; and ovor 10,000 autographs
of distinguished Mail.
Visitors may also see a. complete col-
lection of tho old raornitingyiostora
(how differently they will view them
ce. 7 o -day L'r nice anti Bel- picture fromos.. ,jewel boxes and all
n,urou iva
glum had thousands of families home- saris of toilet. nrticles. Lsualiy it is
loss and without resources. I white, but it may be made to coun.cr-
"Thitt is the situation which the in fait tortoise shell, m elle, amber unci
iquity of your cuss has created." even another -of -pearl,
Since July 15 last. General Fayette For collaus it is pressed white raft
proceeded, the German armies had against linen, 00 as to acquire the de -
suffered an uninterrupted scrim of de- ceptive appearance of linen texture.
feats, in the course of which s:voral Nobody would guess tbe fraud.
hundred thousands of prisoners and ---..'.- ---
thousands of gininto ls had fallen i t tl 1 An old rule for cooking sweet cern
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hands of the Allies until standing on eays it should be only half QM Both
the; brink of a•iinal disaster, the Gor- from the fneid to the table..
mans -had asked for peace.
"Now," Bald the general, "we are on
tho Rhine."
DETACIIMENI S FROM CRIMEA
TO REINFORCE ARMY AT ODESSA„j
A despatch from Odessa s•iys:--•
The volunteer army which is holding
Odessa, unciar French command, i to
be increased by detachments from the
Crimea. The main force of the re-
publican army, which la now ten
miles from Odessa. is reported to
have received reinforcements from
Kiev, who carte in an armored train.
More than 200 persons were killed in
the street battles here on December
. Ono
-
numerable
toicalt), portraits of'V.C's, and in- third of these were civilinow that their interest is merely hie -118, a revised count shows.
ans. Several
other relics or the war, school childt'en were wounded.
enentemennee
le'( GOLLY
'el fE'LCOKE
L)
astouisilieg than some authenticated
1.;;;cu<le of the great war:
The Casualty List.
Tach letter of your mono was strt.nge-
e ly lit
Be all the glntnoue and the glory of it,
'rite itcrolc splendor of your sacrifice.
Iliad not lemeg•ht that you would have
to die,
Nous look, your smile so recent to my
eyes.
I st'sn then still,
"And now you must be
proud
And glad." I heard a woman say aloud
With heartbreak in her voice -and It
was I.
neeneenemenereen. ; '! Ir
SHE OLD FU(ZNc\CE
DRAWS litCC,LY $(k a'
SANTA n, us
0..CsAN1:U
OUT TNE C1-1fMNE.'(
II
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.THE MODERN WAY.
eeennee
Who Fired the Last Volley in the
Great War?
So far no one has come forward to
say that ho fired the last shot of the
Great War, and seeing that the Front
extended over a record number of
miles, it is not likely that tate dis-
tinction is. likely to be ever seriously
claimed. Conditions were different
during previous wars.
Thus we find that the last shot of
the Franco-Prussian 'War appears to
have occurred a few tnotnonts before
midnight of February 13th, 1871, and
a certain M, d'Autry elatinod the dis-
tinction of having fired it on the
French side, the soldier who replied
fol' tiro Prussians being unknown. This
gentleman wrote to a Paris newspaper
some years ago during a contravene
on the subject stating' that about six
o'clock the order came to cease fire
at Midnight, and that shortly hefo'e
that iiour ho trained and fired the last
gun.
The last shots in the Russo-Japanese
War toolc place after peace was signed
in eine remote part oa tate field o1
operations, which had not received
the tows, and skirmishes took place
in Sotitlt Africa after the peace of
Vereeitigon had been made known,
Before the days of wireless made
oomnmatication easy at sea, fights of-
ten took place after paace was de-
clared. As an instance, tho end of the
war with the United States in 1813.14
might be mentioned, Pea•co was sign-
eel in Deeeusber, but on March. 28x[1,
1815, there was a fight off Tristan
d'Acunha between two light vessola,
the British Penguin and the American
Hornet.
The last. shat of the Spanish; Annie-
= War took place at the capture 01
Manilla, although an armistine had
ham signed the day previous; bet
there eves 110 wireless int those layer,
attd the cable from Ilon.1 hong hiui
been cut, 1)llt the end creno 111 Cuba
with detunntio scenes. Thus, while the
rl.ntevieans were bombarding Mao-
aitnlhto, the Spanish fort nee. battesles
hoisted. the white flag. Thinking it
nteattt sitl'rentlel`, the attackers i•e-
3oice,y and sent od cos ashore to take
the capitelation, schen they were con-
fronted with a telegram t,ts- s t.clni
the oil of hostilities.
Even more dramatic wee the amain
atoll of the Peniesniar War, NS'ellinin
ton itnd just wan Itis !eat triumph ei
T,mlanse, the cacntoltles on both Wee
ttuntbrl'hn. Seine fifteen- ihr,nsand, alai
the armies were rejctalnd ti1' ttOt'mt>w•
;nee whole le tired ceurler rade up to
shat+muse that Napoleon liar] abdlcated
eve 001,4 betero, find elle wen Was over,