The Clinton News Record, 1918-1-31, Page 6• r.
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• CHAPTER VT, . work deyolved cipoli the pioneers
Trivial* liollewara Profaaeor of whoas hosinose it Wall to 1Ceep the
, Hygiene . letiebee,sanitary,
alihe following morning we wander- uilie fire trench was huitt in 'rnaell
C1 through the trenches liStelling to the ennui .way as those whieli.we had
the leareed-diseouree ef the genlei reede during our training in England.
Professors of the PeraPet-etic Salloole In Patteva it; WAS Something like a
storing up much useful information tesselared border, Vor thh space of
for eutine eefeeenee. I made10 erie five _yards it ran etiaight, then it
ous Winner when 1 asked Cqle of thiemetorned at right angles (mound it triti-
a queetion about lairds for pro, erse of solid earth 'eix feet inmare,
notinced the name Fre'nch *tenon, then avound abethei.' troveree, and eo
which put me under suepieion as it throughout the jength of the tine.
Eaell five -yard laegmenteivhich is tall-
"dwenker."
"Della try to comet,son," he said. ed A ",h4iY," offered firing room for five
"S'y 'Wipers.' . That's wot we 'call teen, eThee.traverses, of conrse, were
it."
for the puypoile of preventing enfilade
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Henceforth it waS "Wiper" for me'i fare, TheTheyalso limited the eXecu-
although I learned that "Llepe" antHon which might be done by one shell.
, "Yipps" are sanctioned by seine trench Even, so they ,ware not an unmixed
authoriticia, 1 made po further mis- blessing, for they everigalwaysin the
takes of this nature, and by keeping! WaY when yotiewarited to get'atywhere
silent about. -the names of the town* iu a bulgy. ,
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and • villages along, one front, 1 wont "An' you ere in a exerY wien you
learned the adcepted pronouncietion of sees a Minnie [Minnenwerfer) comin'
• all of them. Armentieres ie called your w'y. But you 'gets trench legs
"Armenteers"; 'Bangui, "Ballyall"; arter a -w'ile. It'll be, a funny `eight
Hueebrouck, "Hazy-Beook"•'and -what to see blekes along the street'
More natural than "Plug -Street," At- in Lunnon wren the wer's over. They'll
kinsese for Ploegsteert? be so used to dodgint ,in an' out Ce
As was the case wherevel. 1 went, teaveraes they won't be able to go itt
my accent betrayed my American a -straight )Me.'larthi and again, as an Amerimin Ex- As we walked through"the firing-
peditionary Force ()Lone, I was shown line trenches, I 'Cohld quiteeunder-
• many favors. Private Shorty 'Hello- stand the possibility -of one's abquir-
way, upon' learning that 1 was a ing trench lege. Vivepaces.ferward,
"Yank," offered to tell nee "every" two to the right, two to the left, two
bloomin' thing about the trenches that to the left again, then five to the
a bloke needs to know." I wee only right, and sp on to Switzerland. Shorty
. too glad to place myself -tinder his in- Was of the opinion that rine eould enter
struction. • the trenches on the Channel coast and
e "Right you are!" said Shorty; "now, walk through to the Alps without once
sit down 'ere wale Pm goin' over Inc coining mit on top of the ground.
shirt, an' wok me anything yer a mind Tim not in a position to affirm or to
to,e, I began immediately'by a.sieieg question this statement. My own
him what he meant by "going over" experience was confined to that part
his shirt: . ' of the Britistefront which lies between
"Bliley! You are new to this game, Messinea in Belgium and Loos in
mate! You mean to ,s'y you ain't got. France: There, certainly, one could
any graybacksr walk for miles, through an intimate
I confessed shamefacedly that I /old maze of. continuous underground pas -
not. He stripped to the waist, turn- sages.
ed his shirt wroug.side out, and laid But the firing line trench was eleith.
it 'upon his knee, . - ° er a traffic route aor a promenade.
"'Ave a look," he said proudly. The great bulk of inter -trench business
The less said about my discoveries passed through the traveling Veleta
about fifteen yards in rear of the fire
' the better for the fastidimmly minded.
trench and running parallel toe it. The
Sulfite it to say that`I iflade my first
acqueintance with annbeis _ of a two were connected by many nassage-
ee
13ritisli ExpeditionareeForee which M ways, the chief difference between
them being that the firelrench was
not mentioned in official communiques.
the business .district, while theAravel-
"Trench pets," said Shorty. Then
Tug trench was primmily resideutial,
he told nee that theywerenot all gray -
Along the tette,: were -built most of
backs. Thdre. is a gieat-variety, of
the (Rigouts, laveteries„ and trench
species, but they all belong to the
sarnm parasitical family, and wage a kitchens. The sleeping quarters -for
non-dischiroinating warfare' upon the the .Inen were not very elaborate.
soldiety On both sides 'of No -man's- Recesses were made in the well of the
taet
- Land. Germans, British ,
a. trench bout two egfabove-the
French
Belgians alike were their vietims. - floor. They were not andierthan three
"You'll soon rave plenty," he saj
feet high, ep that one had to crawl in
reassuringly"I give
you abtat a 'bead first when going to bed. They
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week to get covered with em. Now, verc partitioned ni the iniddle, and
wers supposed to offer accommoda-
wet' you w,aet to do is this; always tion for four men, two on each side.
'are an extra shirt in-STer 'pack. Don't But, as Shorty said, everythind ric-
he a bloomin' ass an' sell it for a pended. on the xation allowance. Two
packet (et fags -like I did! An' the next
time you writee to England, get some
one to send you Ot t some Keatings"—
he dieplayed a box Of grayish -colored
e powder. "It won't hill, 'em, mind
you! They din't:nOthire but fire that'll
ltill 'em. But Keatingi tykes all the
ginger out o"em .•They ain't .near
so lively artee; you strafe 'mil with this
'ere powder.'
I remembered Shortyte adviectiater
when I :hemnne a reluctant:host' to a
prolifica colony of graybadks. For
nearly six months I was never with-
'', out a- box of Keatings, and .1 was
never without the need forl'S .
Batheti wire had a new and terfible
significance for ine.frqm thd,first clay
which we spent in the trenchea. I
could more readily miderstand why
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there hatlibeen so long it deadlock on resounding wallop.
I backed oat in all hatite.
the western *elite The entanglem-ents •
e° "Get the idea'? That's tow • they
in front of the' first- line of trenches
were from fifteen to twenty yards
evide,t.the wires being thristed froxn
post to post in such a hopeless jaimble
that no man ' could possibly. get,
• through them undee fire. The posts
were set firmly in the ground, but
there were mov,able segments, every
fifty or sixty yards, which could he
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puttoone side in case an attack was
to be launched against the German
lines.
At certain . positions there were
what appeared to be ope.rangs through
the wire; but these were nothing less (To be continued.)
serviceable in eerie et an enemy 'ate CANADA
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than man -traps which have -been found
tack, In on 'assault' men foljeW the
line of. least resistance when they Australia, However• - iStill hi the
Is
, reach the barbed wive. These ap- Lead With Thirty-four.
perent openlngs are V-shaped, with
the open end toward the enemy. The By gazething several new Victoria
attacjcing troops think they sema clear
-passage-way. They rush into the
trap and, othen it is 'filled-NOE,
etrug-
gling ' • -
ince, machine •guns are turned
upon them. aud, As Shorty said, "You
got ion cold."
That, at least, was:the preeumption.
Practically, man-treps *eve not al-
ways it euctees. The intensive
bombardment!) Which preeedd infantry
attacks play havoc. with , entangle-
ments, but there 18 alWtiyo a chalice of
the eleatructioh being, ineoMplete, as
upon one • occasion :Walla novae.
whetee Shorty told me, a mae-trap
Might a whole prfitoon of Gerinans
"dead to rights." •
"But oao, to wet glares' you-the'pip,"
he said. "'Ere we got 'three lines of
trenches, all of 'em wired up so that
a rat could nit get through without
seratchin' hisself to death. Iseitzie'e
got betereevive than wet, we „lave, en
more ,pf it, Ant. 'e's got More ma -
King Honors
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Arthur ii•
Harris, avlao
Corana";aestilerilee eon:
made a Knight
the Dritieli IDM -
etre fer his per-
Yetscest)IirtootCoarnadoat
Overamea
Pert, it son a
the late Henry
• Vinton Hanes of
Devonport, Dev-
, oa.ineadlueeetattellidoliattehile.
Devoriport n d
\Stoke Grammar
tf7e1 Q:elhe y t eon':
couetry in ' a
teeing the see-
yteee of the
Grand. Trunk
Railway, and riee
hag to the peel-
tfini or General
Frei g.h t Agent
Through---Trettle.
, In 19(12 he join.
ed. the Canadian
Rallevay,
since which crate .
to aa.ugust, .1914, Sig AliTilun
he vras actively •
engaged in Intl -
4:7 .11ARKS, Director if Overse'ae
Transpor t.
110 is a member of St. James' Club',
Montrek; Rideau Club. Ottaen.; and
the Montreel Golf Club: ' ..
In 1888- be niarrlett a daughter ot
the late Witham B,"Lambe, BOL, of
Montreal, -granddaughter of the late
Hon. 'Wm, Morena -let one time Re-
ceiver -General of Canada, and niece
of the late Hon. Alexander Morris,
Find Goverecta of Manitoba and the
North West Territorieri.
Attila traffie for the Compane's rail
and ocean atervieet
On, the outbreak 01 the sitar, the
.President of the CadadJan Pacific
• offered Mr. Deride' riervices to the
Imperial and C'anadian Governmtente
for the puepose ef organizing and
directing an Cremes ,TransportDe-
paetment, the. successfell adminidtra-
Doe of, which is now recogetzed by
Ufa- Mateestere
HOW_BISHOP "GOT"
HIS HUNS'
TELLS OF THRILLING,EVSNTS IN
exin*B.
Ontario's Heroic Aviator Explains
Soule of the Tricim Useatin
Winning Hie Spurs:
The: major (Weighed the exciting
events which followed his 'second at-
temPt ,down a balloon. "I was the necessity for the use of more fish must be cooked m such a, variety of
thinking of nothing but my balloon, and the Fish Committee has promoted ways and so attractively that they
as was so afraid of finding the 'a vigorous campaign for the pentane- will make an immediate conquest of
Wrong one, and never' thought there ization of various kinds of fish hither. the family palate. By doubling our
would be Huns in the sky looking at to .deprived of an honotable place me coneumption of fish we could send
overseas 23 shiploads of beef and pork
ole," he said. "I got over it, and div- the Market.
ed down, As I did so, I bedame con-
acious of two machine guns rattling,
close behind Inc.,. I pulled back and
described a halloop, add the Hun
went by 'underneath me. Every ballet
I had was precious for the banana
but I couldn't red*. the machine: The
; WA.li AND FOOD tiERIES, No, V. --FISH.
.Qranted that beef and burn aro to etaltifY the fish teade, A fevv var.
being gradually °gaited inanY homes
Where ttey bete hitherto beim popular,
what then is. To he subetituted tIS a
eileple food, cane whieh ha e the riourish-
ing properties of meat Arid whielt
may be bsecl without any qualms of
copeeleece over depriving the arnaies
Med the needy•of Europe With thiLS11.s-
telitinCO-WhiCh toy require'?
The realizatIonila being forcearlionie
on the people of Canaula that flab
"comes fleet in\supplying this need, and
that its possibilities `are ,prebtically
limitless. le this the. Dominion is
engularly fortunate.
But it eeeential that the women
takeethe matter setiouely to -heart.
Veirtually they areegeing to control and
broaden the fish market, ' They roust some and palatable, ;fhe fisherman
letuae bave been etandardned and have
mane to represent the fish saPP1Y of
Canada, evhile all the time there have
been as goodifisti le the Fiell es CVO
came out of it
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The °thee day pollock wee serve(' av
10 luneheen, in Ottawa to it group of
mon Who did notIcnow what kind of
rash they were eating. When asked
how they liked it, they .ddclared-it to
be better then mei or even halibut, of
whieh Canadian honeewrves, make
stich persistent use,
• There are the grayffsh, thesAtlantic
Bine Rack, the cuelt, the hake, the cat-
fish, the mackerel, the alewife, the
shad and the swordfish. All of these
if well cooked are extremely whole -
remember that they are not neceeeerr.
tly 'puying fish Means° it is cheaper
than meat but because meat is needed
ein Europe. The,appeal of the Allied
people is one which can neither be
depied nor ignored. And there is, the
°thee consideration that .the armies
musthave the strongest and most sus.:
tabling foods.
The -war should be the means of
bringing fish into its true and peeper
place in the diet of •the people of
Canticle. • Fish has been Much neglect.
ed aind it it' only pow that it is being
seriouly thought of ,as ee national
source pf food supply. The Food
Controller haat repeatedly emphasized
knows then vietueS and marvels at
the women inland who scorn them.
Ile is ready to supply them„. The
dealer ie ready to caretr them if he is
assured that there will be, a market
for ,there. '
Thus it is "up to" the women of
Canada to create ,the xnaeket,' They
Can do it by persistently demanding
'the tinfamilim, vavieties. -"
They will'soon find then) making
their atipearatme on theMairket 11 the
demand is leePt, up,
The responsibility of the weemen
does poe end' there. Once on the mar-
ket the fish mnst be bought'. They
' Cestont and tradition have combined of five thOusand tons each,
THE "VERY HARDEST AGE."
It was a very young mother who
told, me yesterday that her child was
just at the hardest age. She'ls just
learning' to walk and_is into every -
"Yes, mother dearest," sweeter than
helm bedauee be was in wrong,
"Do you knoW what the I.W.W. is?"
"Yes, mother darling." .
"One day WheneI was oue I saw_ Hun went to the some place as he thing, bevee no doubt every mother "Very well, 'you're ale outlaw and a
four enemy machinee," said Majoe . would have gone if I had asked him': 'I of a real; live child •of any 'given age, member 6f the I.W.W. .Yell can go
W. A.' Bishop, V.C., D.S.0,, in wae so excited about the balloon did would claim loudly that her offspring up to bed."
the course of a recent speech at Toe not watch him fall. The balloon was was at the very hardest age, for at "Don't I get any supper?" ho bel -
lento. "1had already seen three other sitting on the ground .with people afi any age the child presents problems -lowed: All the cloying sweetnese
that turn one's bait -gray; unless the euddenler vanished. .'
child hAppens to be of the sort that , "No, I don't feed, the LW:W. If
dies young, or the mother is one whose your want to belong to Wil -
way is alwaye right. a -- helm's Warriors you can get your
meals the. best way you can." • •
"But I don't want to belong. I
ain't. , he good. Can't I have
even a sandwich?"
"Absolutely no quarter to aimed.;
11 you can't obey laws you don't
deserve to eat Go on -to bed."
I had scarcely got into the kitchen
groups, but they did not look good, so round waltingjor me to come down,•1
I passed then ay. I was 5130 thousand came down to .800 feet and opened fire
feet 'above these four, and I followed on ft.
them for about twenty minutes. The "1 suddenly realized my engine was
four machines kept .gomg up and down not running at all. I tried every de- I am positive that no age could be
ei. certain beat fro/IA-onset° Oambrai. • efice I knew, hut Mothieg happened. I harder to menage than that at which
I followed for some time, and then I was flying at 200 miles per hour, and one of my boys has now arrived, the
caner deem ,As I .did so they swerv- this carried me to the fields beyond age when he is too old to spank and
ed, having seen another of our Ilia- i and I picked a field to land in. Just too young not to need it -occasionally.
chines, and I had to go back. 'I care then one cyliildee gtarted, then an Just what to do with a boy who is al-
dowe again after they resumed their other, then all went off with . a roar, most as big no you are, and yet not
course. I Was flying about 150 miles . and ow I went. . old enough to have arrived entirely at
per hour. They were flying about • self-government, VI -admit it beyond
the next morning when a still, small
inen who had eaten to repletion could 110, but I was flying a -slowor ma- • me at times. It wouldn't be quiteeso voice at my elbow said, "1 don't be-
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not hope to occupy the same apart- chine and bad to make ofT in case they "The return tit/ from these raids Phard if this particular boy didn't have long to the I., W. W. this morning,
ment -One had a.choice of going to saw :me, and turned on me. I came is not as dangerous as it sotmds, We quite sca much 'masculine contempt for mother. Pm 'a peaceful law-abiding
bed hungry or of eating heartily and down and glided along ten feet under-
,. fly anywhere under ten...feet from the a skivt. He has more than the usual citizen."
share allotted to man. And while he "Perhaps, but you'll have to sliow
is fond of his mother in a very tolere me." Still very lotfy and remote.
ant, superior, patronizing sort of way, "But I am, mother. • Don't be so
it is really more than he can do to cruel. ', Smile a little at a feller, eclat
'Ereeepia% OUtSiUt 010 1400 a funny thing," he said neath one of them. I kept gy nose 1 Remind and dodge over hedges as they
--- sa--' about ten feet, from the Hun, got MY ;appear. We follow a zigzag course
"W'y do you" suppose they -makes the .
Megoati open at eneend?" sights on the 'exact spot wheee the :and make for any part of our lines, as
I had no ex -planation to offer! .
"Crate] inside an' I'll show you."
-I stood my rifle Against the side of
the trench and Crept in.
"Now, yer supposed to be asleep,"
said Shorty, and with that he gave Inc
a wrack on the soles. of my boots with
his entrenching"tool handle. I can
still feel the pain of the blow.
a"Stand tot Wirke up 'ere! Stand
te!" he shaded, and gave me another
Wykes you tap at stand -to, or nem
your tarn' comes for sentryee Not
bad, wot?"
I Wei that it'all depended on
whether one was doing the waking or
thes sleeping, and that, for' my meet,
When sleeping I nevelt] lic evith
head out.
"Yon would a..% if yam belonged to
our lot.' They'd give it to yen on the
napper just as gunk as"it you on the
feet. You ain't on to the game, that's
all. Let me Show oyu
pilot was and pulled the trigger. .. 1 We cannot piek out landmarks that low
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"My position was rather clanger- doom Why we do this is because,. render unqualified obedience to a you?" .
oua, ms he nearly hit me as she • fell. after We have attacked a balloon, we mother -who. only weighs ninety-five "I'll have to see a change. Just a
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1 skidded to the right and he just are subjected to anti-airceaft guns and
missed me. The other three heard machine gun fire. If you are on the
my shooting, and turned, • At this mo- ground they only see you in the par-
ment the. falling machine burst let° , ticulax field you are in. They will spot
flames, and they muat have turned for you three fields away and wait for
it moment to watch it for it gave nie
my chance. It was over in fafteen sec-
onds at the most for one of them. The
other two did not wait to realize. They
were two to cam and were flying better
machines: than 1 we's, and off they
went. Unfertunately I could not catc.h
either of them."
'Fought he Own Air. •
The Major described another Attack
Ile had Made from below on a Hun ma-
chine "veer our lines." It was ench a,
rare thing to see a machine over an
lines. Only tee -fights out of 500 would
occur over, our lines last spring and
Slitanter. This machine was taking
photos or' something. "I.climbed im
in. the hope he wouldn't see me " said
the Major. a case like this, 'he ex -
planed, the ascending plane was
caught at a disadvantage if seen and
the only. way to escape was to watch
tbe machine gun on the enemy plane.
Creases, announced on January 12; When it pointed over one • side the
Canadians are Ooming reachlof plane below would dodge to the "other
side, "It is one of the little things
the Australians., °attune started first
but the Anstraliate estsi.blished a lead
in Gallipoli. Auetraliene have now 34
Cvosses and Canada 28'.
Captain B. G. Guy, Royal Artillery,
awarded the Militaty Cross, beloegs !gun, .I noticed several holes in my
to Clapperton, He originallY' enlist- wings within a few feet 0±incThen
ed in the Strdtheonas, A brother is a a bullet hit my engine, and another
Commander in the navy and W011 the went theough my petrol tank, mid
veb, in China. Another brother has, down 1 had to go, It was lucky . it;
won the Militaty Croes as tank 'mem- bit that instead oil me. This just
inand-er. A. thircl .biether is a eaval
chaplain.
Official particulars are now avacil-
able of the. deeds for which several
you have to watch carefully, he said,
"I wasenot paying particular attention
and When I evae 2,000 feet lielow him,
too. ear off even to hear his anachine
pounds_ when lots of the "fellersq night's sleep doesn't prove anything
younger than he is. don't have to mind to me."
a m'other that weighs one hundred and "I'll change. I'll tidy my room and
fifti. Every once ie a while he makes eat slowly and get home at 3.45, and"
a clath Inc liberty. • " —he spied the table with one vacant
you. You approach et 120 miles per The last titne he was told to be chain. "Don't I get any breakfast,
hour, dodge over the trees, into the home from school at four o'clock, either?" he wailed. -
field andgly straight at them. By the there Was a soccer game he wanted to • "Yes; if you get it -for yourself,"
tithe' you reach their battery there is see, and at 5.30 he pranged into the "0, I can do that." And he did,
not a man within 50 yerds of it, and kitchen. Dinner preparations were un- For one wink be gottall-his meals and
every one going hard." ' . der way, with aundry smells ealcunt- sewed can all his own buttone, BY"
• Comparing the man in the street' ed to enrage theappetite of a hungry 'the end of that time I agreed to take
who, because he had to go witlfont boy. He fairly explained that he had him on trial again. That was six
some luxuries,- called_ for peace, lie t stepp'ed to see at game, aed begged fair weeks ago and to date he has not had
mentiened the heroic self-sacrifice of a. bite, all in one breath. a bad lapse. A. ewe' allusfon to
an English aviator called Bewere who In the hour and a half of waiting I'd the I. W. W. at any indication of an
was in ,his squadron when it was in had time to go through .all the stages, upheaval has brought. on, a spell of
a hand -to -band 'fight. He Wa's shot of maternhl wXath, and was very go- meekness and sobriety.
through .the spine by an expleswe lite and Gahm
bullet, which exploded in his stom- "Do you know what law is?" I ask-
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ach. "For'ten minutes he fought On, Ad.
then he saw a chance' tctilip away for "Yes, mother, dear."
help," he said. "If he had landed be "Do You know what an outlaw is?"
would have saved his life, but Ile •-thd
not think of it. He headed for home,
' come' entirely within the jurdisdtetien
but dazed .freln loss of blood he lost Food Control . Control Corner of the Provincial Governments and
his way. For forty-five minutes - he that communicatione relative thereto
shauld be addressed to them.
Meantime, other problems have
cropped out, and I moose -will keep
cropping. That's why every age is
the hardest age with most of us
mothers.
flew, then landed in afield. As there
was no one to help him he got out of
his machine himielf. Had he stayed in,
the floaters say he still eould' have
been saved,. He managed to walk 100
Information received at the Food
Controller's Office indicates that the
ebortage of wheat ie. Fiance i; be-
comingmore and more alarming each
yards -and he died next day. Before week, A further reduction of twenty
he teat consciousness all he would talk per cent. in thebreaderation willeioon
of WaS to Send help to the crowd who -become imperative,' according to 141.
were.fighting against odds up theee." Maurice Long, Ministee for General
Revietualling of Prance. The maim -
facture and consumption of pastry
• regarded as a luxury has been entitely
FOUL AIR AND DISEAsE
peohibited sinceTartuavy 1st except on
Sundays and. holidays.
Winter Alla-lents Are Prevaleht lai
' Canada,
A iNying Daddy. •
'You've heard of my daddy, of course!
Right up in. the blue of the., far-o'ff
He flies
skiest
He looks likem tiny wee bird in thc air
In his brave ship sailing the distance
there!
:You've heard ef my daddy, of course?
e
serves to show that it does not go all wheat' ration cis anticipaeed. The For us at home! ,And in some of Ine
In . Denmark a reduction of the He fights
it was “Free as the air WO breathe" is in cereal hervaet, according to filial ' ... fights
one way.. At that distance -
moee good luck than gootfshooting."
The same luck applied to the anti- ;applicable to fon air, the most figtires, is only abont 62,000;000 He does such feud cy and marvelaus
othee commodities the latter exacts, a bushels, -which is ,20,000,000 bushels 'thingsi-
Catadians serving in the imperials aircraft nns. Smoke ':froan a shell loll nom even -one who usee tie TAM- less than in lei 6 and about 10,000,000 Ili's tiiileadsi‘alveirt8dIest daddy that a*Ver
Wove recently Mat OKI We Militavy I might ei velem an airman; who would erect Vitality, with 0 consequent 'pre. less Dian was estimated in the surnmee
Ctess, CapL. ' IL Hepleme, Royal be lunette hod , whilst an Mallet shell ease °slime fot -such 0 isenees ' as colds „ w hen the people were put on bread
Medieltq, well known in Montreal bursting several hundred yards awalY pneumonia and thbereuloeis, is the ratione. •
And Avery night before going to sleep
chine,guns more artillaw mere sheu and Edmontoile remained with a bat- well d . send seemel emcee of' sham)-
, , , piece that lil Ohl fOr'brottlhing tee. The food ,situation in Switzerland is I'vratch the stars as they twinkle and
' They an't any little old' inaelciller tery attending womuled nail its with.' nei throlagh the Planes. "The erital- pert) ale,
. It is wallaby true tbet a extrernelY serious. ' A new ration, peep,
liver invented wot they 'ave ea, got dtewal, His coolness, courage and ut.' airoraft gun fire reallY doeen't worry large neteentagn br the homes in come far below the consumption evee in And 1 whisper to One who owns the
• More of than we 'eve. An' at 'orne tee atisvegard of personal safety great:. us mech ha fighting 'machines, and it i'. tens nonmetal& it climate (nether to, matey of the 'count:vies at Val', has ...., air—sky—sea -
they're a-s'yin', `W'y don't they get on ;neari
ly ;
erted all the detachments. really no excuse' fee leavinga a JO., he Canada's ath, to 11 greater or ids 05 been ordered. The new regulations -"Please bring dear daddy hack safe to
e.a ,, a
with it? W'y don't they smash •Limat ,T. Menem:fie. Artillee . be- tlaid, ' ' OM. breeding places for such cligeases allow only one and one.balf pomade of -me,"
through?' Let some -of 'era come out- . '
eye, od Single.lignded the live on en lime. • This is the outstanding reasen for the is only oneehalf pound' a (ley. end but-
' • The major- deecribeil-ettacke Made method ateValenre •of sttch (lisenses tee ration one-fifth or a pomid per
I did tele shorty that e imd Munition pile.
not exactly ail armchair magic, 'fleet, Archibald Royalealedi- by-- airmen, telton caetive balloons, In Cainde, dieenees foe leit areeli month. .
e but at .leget a barrack -room eritie in eels; attended the Woutitiad throe ilayA 'which were attached by a‘eteel cable eir is the meet petted reneedy, ,
England, had woadered why Brit- at a beeeily shelled 'poet, ane eels, tit the grooncie end could be pulled Tightly cneed roome. consteueted The Food .Conteoller's Office hate
...isle and French tthops had failed to tienseif slightly 'wounded an them) down yery quickly. It was very hard flarihe i1018\5I11tp000 elf retaining heat, been receiving' Meters euggeating that
places, but ho carried oh. 'to cafe!) them le the air. In attack- soon became filled aeiter poisonous regulations in the dilTerent Provinces
'smash through. A few Weeks in the -
- Lieut. G. 0. Me.raggart, Engleeere, Mei:hero itmendiee y befflets were osed. genie eeheled by the imeatee, Tho the Dominion Protecting' game and
formerly_ of oanadte ameetamed a "il'hey do not always work, and 'then remedy 10, Or course. better vanilla- fish ehould be modified sti that tildSe
we have to take all the ehancesoand all hon. ran only be '..** reAllon 'of foods wagtail Im iviritilable ee greater
the risice without any restills," he said, time when cele ,goveramiones win ita extent, as subseitutes rer fieer and
The attack Was made doubly annuli; eist that srien }oh 'renneting systems bacon,
by rate'lipet that batteries of anti.air. be hastened ell 14 10', Windings, pub- 41,ellet•s are also •being reeeived urg-
ceeft galls were guarding the balloons,. lie tenth and puhile °Mane will' de. ing taxation and othor stops to rear d forest, survey and land classification, loth" ralluaY PAss•
The hai'dest thing the aviatorg had to Mood it, In, older buildings, wheio tbe le num al use oss dog'. tie 11; Nvaald also mean perentamm, tiro. The official, who chanced to he II
COntend With was 13 Peculiar kind, or only veetilation is obleined from Win- bOnStitllte meunee te sheep. egaiina 'stag with adequate fipaiutiai ,Seot, studied it sererelly. end Own
shell they named a(larieg onions," thiWs, ilie ritr may he 'flushed' by open- raising end comequeetie/theve support paetly derived from essese-,snid
These were belie of fire, diecharged 111g the window:an few responsible .fer ,keeping the industry milts on timber planers, its is clone `Th. man, Yatl'"? g°1' a tivk°' l'ol‘11
tritulls of ten, whieh were exceptional -I mamonis, Tide means rt 109101settle ninny *vets of the coutit4 to very other in•ovinces, toncganization tong( 'weavisonlo .1°11t110Y bill. 110 on
ly hated to face. 4'01 'Course elhbotly lloal. hul. 11 1110 Minima elO 1101 lert mueb smaller Prono r ions Ili 4111 wouiti mark it new era le Forest dome. 1110 'C''iouth Westan'n RanwaY,"
funka that, thotighe" he explained. telan't feo lona: the .atitillg doetor's ought to b4. eervation v and it lel t
'The quiekeet way is to bag your hal- bill,' will move. ihnA effent the e,Sinan All 01101E11 a Food Crilltnollet'S to be 110004 • ,'olo notion Will not Always Have sour cretin, rot cliiieso
loon and get oft again."'
1011g8 tti Duncan, „ extinguish- . captive /whoops. , ' .
eepomallv during the winter' menthe. etagee per month, The bread ration
'ere an' 'art a lo That's all I got to
tt ' New perimsevick Forests.
The Govermnent Neve Brunswick
'trenches gave me a new viewpoint: t
Could only wonder at the magnificent
fighting qualities of, soldier* who had
livid their own go effectively against bridge acYoss a river under, intense
, exudes equipped and armed mid mina boxellivedment Be twice repaired
the utterly destroyed Widget next day
sivinimimg the river with a rope, the
shells falling around him in ttloo river,
Lieut. X. H. floss, Horse Artillery,
belonge to lifonteleal, When 'WS bat-
tery ?ale withdrawn, he rcrutned alone
to the frOnt line with fuses, enabling
the game ta open fire on the arranged
time.
Tilvary Irienshould know sit least. a
Omit coneiug,
Vaned as the Gerniarie wore,
After be had linialted drugging his
t poach pot*, Shorty. and 1 made a tOtIr
of the trerichee.,' 2.t.tate much, Ant-,
prised at seeing how clean and com-
fortable they can be kept in ploaiatit
4innnior weather, hilet wisr.6 busily
t'tellectleig the rabble)), Whit+ was put
work. sweepinging up (he .walker
into siiiitlbagii littng 6n pegs,et ltttet'-
irals
along the fire troth. At night
the refuse WWI taken hack of Hie
fr riches and Invaded, Most of this
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gappenings in the Emerald Isle of
• Interest to Irish:
ment
The death has taken place at Water-
ford of Sir Wither!' Davis 'Goff, Bart.,
thriee High Sheriff of Waterford,
The British Parliament proposeto
apply a supplemental sum of` about
450,000 far the purpose of intermed-
iate education for ballot
'D. ar, S. SonibY, Dublin, has offered
two prizes in zoology and geology for
ten years to Belfast University.
. The Military Crose has been award-
ed to Lieutenant John Ross 1VieCterdie,
topuit, of the, High Sheriff of
' Dr, Kestich, physician te. the Royal
Victoria Hospital, Belfast, has been
caaplBpoionai
treccl.
peeiddent of the Web Mecli-
The Food Controller has issued an
order"forbiclding the sale or use of
cream in Ireland eXe-det upon it doe.
tor's orcAr. '
Sergeant Frazer, R.C., Portrush, and
other prize-vvinners,, under the allot-
me
to the 11.V.F...lioepital for Limbless
S
'Lieutenant-Colonel Charles James
oldiers,
jnotnisci3heamriecs,gave their prime money
,,.
Butler -Kearney, Threeeastles, has
been appointed a deputy lieutcna-nt 6f
the county of Kilkenny. -
The National Graves Committee
held a pilgrimage from Dublin to
Glasnevin Cemetery, to lay floral .tri
butes on the graves of men who died
for Ireland.
Miss Dense -stated in an address de
livered at Re -anilines on-taWar Time
Economy" that before the war '
land spent, £111,000,000 a year ou food
which could have been grown in the
country. -
of the Dublin Corporation have decid-
ed to hand over the metal .bridge to
the P011 Docks' Board.
. A large amount of money was
'
raised at the annual sale of work
en in Rathrnines Town Hall last week
in aid of the funds of the Soldiers' a
Club.•
on behalf of the National Institution
and Molyneux AeylumaDeblin.
'The Estates and Finance 'Committee, e
A. very seecessful concert was giv-
avhile engaged in felling
thebea itt Merifield, was struck on the
neck by a falliag tree, and clied with-
in an hour. -
Michael Murphy, 701.0.0.e chairman
of the Middleton Rural Counell, has
been appointed a Justice of the Peace
for Cork county.
a° users of petrol are delighted
over the announeement that the price
of ell grades of motor spirit eae been
reduced.
MINERALS USED 1111 WAR
Materials For Warfare Nearly All Dug
From the Earth's Depths. .
'and. any Pebbles that litippened (6 be
to warThe did his fighting with a nub
ha,W10.
157 tlie,,humaif manna first wen.
Nearly all of the aver meterlale of
to -day are clug from the behtlie of the
earth. Iron for an obvious lustonee.
But the warfare of to -lay would lie
ilnpoSsible Wit110111 certain rarer
metals which, added to steel, give to
the latter the requisite (mantes for
guns, projectile.% atirplatuee, nelanno-
blies and ahip tumor.
Among the most impoetint of these
rarer metals' are 1114111100 1580 tunas.
tee, chromium, nickel,' cobalt, inolyb•
clenum, vanadium and ernienti,
Of great importarice oleo are itptini-
llt1 to (fur airplane and automobile
partQ, antimony (to harden lead bal.
lets) and magnesium tbi 01.1101;0 shells
and illuminating- ale& le , 1,, nark th
point . at which they burn, , This is
noceseara ae a guide ror silbsoonent
The two greal basic! inetbrItils 'neves- •
sary for the proclection or high explo-
sives are nitric eon (mania furnished
by nitrates feom OM(1) and 1)01t0011-
trated attineurie,rield, (feria ed chiefly
Dom melte (iron disul)ihitli, imported '
from Spain. The Milted Slates ale°
possesses... a supply of OyritO,
Canada has niol;e1 aitd celnill in
abundance, And Mao asbestos:, All
Ihrce aro important tor 'war f1rt41ls68.
05 quit:Reiner (taulispenstahle'for
Unlade g Meta .e.xp load yes ), theellni tod
States hes Alelity. Mica, utilieablie
as o lrnaisearent innteriej eor gas
masks, is manly enaineble te any
quantity in the 'United States. Plata
num (whine must be had for makieg
eultainiele acid), ninthly derived
111:1inna1
tat17,"ti
1.sbere ate 01t6i1 inn 10414)-
1311111, which are prime (1081113119 lc In
the weenie or to -day.
18 11000 considering the entire reorpri• • • , Not on Tiud 1
nation of the various lines of forestry • , ' , .., .., ,
Lo combining them under a ap gqe trefiches of Irlandevee. Pte. Thomas
After two years ill tile matt 11 lie
and 'are peoteetion work with a view •
Aticins got his leave at last, and made
head. This evoulcl mean the establish-
ment of a genuine provincial forest: what he aonceived to be the best ase,
service with a co-ordinated slaty of his holiday by geteing nmeriar
himlitn,g 11 70 p it 0 teal a n, south*, en* On tile jouendy bark at Southamp-
forcomem, of , coiling regulation, on ton, he showed to I be inepector hie
()rOw» lands end continuatimi of th, marring( certificate in mistake ror lii•(
,
COSI Or f1)e1, OfTicm etales that those maids le• denyel. r cooking.
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