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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-3-7, Page 6I1C ` IOMEN'8 PART IN THE GREAT WAR MANY DEEDS (F BRAVERY' AND DEVOTION, ,.`vv JAS. NORMAN UAL, I�, '" CHAPTER VIII,--(Cent'd.) "llfiosed 'the blighter!" he said, Then he told.me that it wasn't a good place for a sniper's nest at all, For one thing'„it was too far back, nearly A half.mtle from the German trenches, Furthermore, it we.s a mistake to plant a nest hi a solitary clump of willows such as this: a clump of trees dims too good an aiming mark for artillery: much better to make .n ositiolt right put in the open, T•IoW- ver so far he had notbeen annoyed , a - gun h hell fire. Amachine d searched for him, buhad dequate cover from machine-gun fire, "But, blimy! You ought to 'a 'eard the row w'en the bullets was a -smack- in' against the sandbags! Somebody Was a-itnockin' at the door, I give you eny word!” However, it wasn't such : a' "dusty little coop" and he had a good field of fire. He coop," registered four hits dur- ing the day, and he proudly displayed four new. notehes on a badly notched butt in proof of the fact. "There's abig-'ole w'ere the artill'ry ushed in their , parapet larst night. hat's w'ere I caught me lent one, / 9 )Oke goes bout a 'arf-hour o ag by every little wile' an' fergets to duck 'is napper. Tyke •yer field - glasses an' watch me clip the next one. Quarter left it is, this side tho old 'ouse with the 'ole -in the wall," I focused my glasses and waited. Presently he said, in a very cool, matter-of-fact voice:— "There's one comi»', See'im? `E's carryin' a plank. You' can see it stickin' up above the parapet./ 'E's a-go'n' to get a nasty one if 'e don't duck w'en he comes to that 'ole." I found the moving plank and fol- lowed it along the trench as it ap- proached nearer and nearer to the opening; and I was guilty of the most unprofessional conduct, for I kept ,thinking, as hard as I could, "Duck, Fritzie! Whatever you do, duck when you come to that hole!" And surely enough, he did. The plank was lower- ed into the trench just before the. opening was reached, and the top of it reappeared again, a moment later, on the other side of the opening. The sniper was greatly disappointed. "Now, wouldn't that give you the camel's 'ump?" he said. "I believe you're a Joner to me, matey." Presently another man carrying a plank went along the trench and he c ducked, too. "Grease off, Jerry!".said the butt- notcher. "Yer bring -in' me bad duck. 'Owever, they prob'ly got that place taped. They lost one man there an' they won't lose another, not%if they knows it." I talked with many snipers at dif- ferent parts of- the line. It was in- teresting to get their points of view, to learn what their reaction was to their work. The butt-notchers were very few. Although snipers invariably took pride in their work, it was the sportsman's pride in good marksman-. ship rather than the love of killing for its own sake. The general at- titude was that of a corporal whom 1 knew. He never fired hastily, but tvhen he did pull the trigger, his bull let went true to the mark. "You can't 'elp feelin' sorry for the poor blighters," he would say, "but' it's us or them, an' every one you' knocks over means one of our blokes saved." • I have no doubt that the Germans felt the same way abput us. At any rate, they thoroughly believed in the policy of attrition, and in carrying it out they often wasted thousands of rounds in sniping every yard of our; parapet. The sound was deafening; at times, particularly when there were ruined walls of houses or a row of. trees just back of our trenches. The ear-splitting reports were hurled against them' and seemed to be shat tared into thousands of fragments, the sound rattling and tumbling on until it died away far in the distance, III. Night Routine Meanwhile, like furtive inhabitants of an infamous underworld, we re- mained hidden in our lairs in the day-' time, waiting for night when we could creep out of our holes and go about our business under cover of darkness.' Sleep is a luxury indulged in but rareel ly in the first-line trenches. When, not on sentry duty at night, the men were organized into working parties,' and sent out in front of the trenches to mend the barbed-wire entangle-' meats which are being constantly de- stroyed• by artillery Are; or, in sum- mer, to cut the tall grass and the tweeds which would otherwise offer concealment to enemy listening pa- trols or bombing parties. Ration fatigues of twenty or thirty men per company went back to meet the bat- talion transport wagons at some point several miles in rear of the firing - line. There were trench supplies •and stores to be brought up as: well, and the never -finished business of mending and improving the. trenches kept many off-duty n1en employed during the hours of darkness. The men on duty in front of;. the trenches were always in great danger. They worked swiftly and silently, hunt they were often discovered, in which ease the only warning they received was a sudden burst of machine-gun fire. Then would come urgent calls for "Stretcher bearers!" and soon the wreckage was brought in over the parapet. The stretchers were set down in the bottom of the'trench and hasty examinations made by the light of a flash lamp. "W'ere's fe caught it?" "'Ere it is, through the leg. -Tyke 'is puttee off, one of yon!" "Easy, nowl It's smashed the bone! Stick it matey! We'll soot ave you as right as rain!" "For Gawd's sake, boys, go easy! ft's givin' me 'ell! Let tip! Let up eust•a minute!" Many a conversation of. this sort did We hear at night when the field-tdress- engs were being put on, But even In his sufi'ering Tommy never forgot a) be unrlghteotiely indignant if, he ptad been wounded when on a' work - log party. What could he say to the 'women of England who would bring inn fruit and flowers in hospital, call Jul a "poor brave fellow," and ask Ipow lie was wounded? He had enillsi and as a soldier, and as a reward for. his patriotism the Government• had given ]nim a shovel, "an' 'ere I alai avorkin' iiko a bloomin' navvy, fnllinl Sandbags full o' France, Wen rue) an' get plugged!" The men who most bitterly resent the pick-and.shovel phase of army life were given a great deal of it to do for that very reason, One of my comrades was shot in the leg while digging a refuse: pit. 'Phe wound was a bad one and he suffered much pain, but the humiliation was even harder to bear, What could he tell them at home? "Do you drink I'm a go'n' to s'y'i a-1 a e r e n a sandbag full of old was a ryi sa dbag jam tins back to the tj'efuee pit w'en Fritzie gave me this 'ere one to the leg? Not so bloomin' likely! I' was afraid I'd get one like this! Ain't it a rotten bit o' lack!" If ho had to be a casualty Tommy Wanted to be an interesting one. He wanted to fall in the heat of battle, not in the -heat of inglorious fatigue duty. But there was more.heroic.woi'k'rto be done: going out on listening patrol,: for example. One patrol, consisting of a sergeant or a corporal and four or five privates, was sent out from each 1 company. It was the duty of these. men to cover the area immediately in front of the company line of trench, to see and hear without being discov- ered,• and to report immediately any activity of the enemy, above or be- low ground, of which they might learn, They were on duty for from three to five hours, and might'use a wide discretion in their .prowlings„ provided they kept within the limits of frontage aPetted to their own mine pane,: and returned to the .meeting - place where the change of reliefs teas mode. These requirements were not easily complied with, unless there were trees or other prominent landmarks standing out, against the• sky by means of which a patrol could keep its direction. . The work required, above every- thing else, cool heads and stout hearts, There was the ever-present danger of meeting an enemy patrol or bombing party, in which case, if they could not be -avoided, there would be a hand-to- hand encounter with bayonets, or a noisy exchange of hand -grenades. There was danger,.. too, of a false alarm started by a nervous sentry, It needs but a moment for such an alarm to become general, so great is the nervous tension at which men live on the. firing line. Terrific fusillades from both sides followed while :the listening patrols flattened themselves out on the ground, and listened, in no pleasant frame of mind, to the bullets whistling over their heads. But at night, and under. the stress of great excitement, men .fare high. Strange as it may seem, one is comparatively safe even in the open, when lying flat on the ground, Bombing affairs were of almost nightly occurrence. Tommy enjoy- ed these extremely hazardous ad- ventures vvldich he called-s`Carryin' a 'app'orth o' 'ate 16 Fritzie,' a half- penny worth of hate, consisting of six or a dozen hand -grenades which he hurled into the German- trenches from the far side of their entangle- ments. The more hardy spirits often worked their way through the barbed wire and, from a position'close under the parapet, they waited for the sound of voices. When they had located the position of the sentries, they toss- ed their bombs over with. -deadly ef- fect. The sound of the explosions called forth an immediate and heavy fire from sentries near and far; but lying close under the very muzzles of the German rifles, the bombers were -in no danger unless a party were sent out in search of. them. This, of course, constituted the chief element of risk. The strain of wetting for developments was a severe one. I have seen men come in from a "bomb- ing stunt" worn out and trembling from nervous fatigue. And yet many of them enjoyed it, and were sent out night after night. The excitement of the thing worked into their blood, Throughout the summer there was a great deal more digging to do than fighting.d'or it was not until the arrival on active service. of Kitchener's armies that the construction , of the double line of reserve or support trenches was undertaken, From June until September this work was pushed rapidly forward. There were also trenches tp be made in advance of the original firing -line, for the pur- pose of connecting up advanced points and removing dangerous salients. At 1 such times there was no loafing until we had reached a depth sufficient to protect us both from view and from I fire. We picked and shoveled with might and main, working in absolute silence, throwing ourselves flat on the ground whenever a trench rocket was sent up from the German clines. 1 Casualties were frequent, but this was inevitable, working, as we did, in the open, exposed to every chance shot of an enemy sentry. The stretcher, ;bearers lay in the tall grass close at hand awaiting the whispered word, "Stretcher-bearers this way!" and they were kept busy during much of the time we were at work, carrying the wounded to the tear, •(To be continued.) MAKING *AR WASTE .USEFUL. How the British. Have Solved This Difficult Problem, To dispose of the enormous quan- tities of food -wastes of great military encampments has always been the most .difficult problem, But the Brit- ish in this war"Iiavc solved it very cleverly. • All bf the fat, says Mrs. Humphrey Ward, is boiled out for tho mane -face turn of glycerine -a harmless, sweet, colorless liquid, which, when mixed with nitric acid, makes an explosive. of. enormous }power. Many millions of shells have been loaded with nitro, glycerin derived from this eotiree. All the. bones are calcined for use as fertilizer, and the by-products are shipped to France to help feed the P1.813. Mrs. Weed says that all the cotton waste of the military hospitals (bandages, old surgical dressings, etc,), is disinfected and converted into gun -cotton (likewise for war use) by treating it with. nitric and sulphurio 'wide, Thug that which feeds and that which heals becomes in the end that whdeh kills, 'Sow a few cabbage 'seed in with 008 row Of the Mengel crop and thee redone the labor of production. -.--• ' A New Era Fpr Womanhood Has Been Brought About by the World Conflict. "Women," said a noted general re- cently, "have truly surprised the World in this terrible war, and they are of all nationalities:' Certainly, if 'bravery and devotion to their country are the tests for the r an award of the cross of courage, many women would have received jt, says a London correspondent. Think of such hefoines as that little seventeen -year-old French girl—a modern Joan of Arc --who, he addition to tending' the British wounded, fought side by side with the soldiers -in an hour of crisis and was seen to hill five Germans with a revolver and with grenades. Her valor inspired the men and led them on to victory, Her name is Emilienne Moreau, and she has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. There are the heroic women, too,- of shell -swept -Flanders, who lived con- stantly under fire in the Belgian Bobs in the famous cellar house of Pervyse —the Baroness de T'Serelaee and Miss Mairi Chisholm. Always in danger; with the German shells eontinuoasly raining around them, they kept the men in the trenches,supplies] with hot cocoa and soup and sayed hundreds of wounded men's lives by their first aid. There's famous Sergeant Flora Sands, also, who fought with the Ser- bian 'array and who showed amazing .resource and bravery in helping the Serbs to clear out an enemy trench -8 - in which action she was badly wound- ed by a Bulgarian hand -bomb, An Heroic Doctor. And now I conic to -one of the most heroic women of the • groat i' ar—one who laid down her life gladly for others—she was buried withethe high- est military honors and around whose grave congregated all the great ones of this world. 'I write of that intrepid woman doctor from Edinburgh, Scot- land—the head of. the Sceitl:ish Wo- men's Hospitals for Foreign Service— Dr. Elsie Inglis, who shared -in all the horrors and hardships of the Ruman- ian and Serbian campaigns, who refus- ed to leave the sick and dying in i Krushevatz under German onslaught, whose hospital was .bombarded night; and clay for three days by the oncom- lag Germans and Aurtrians,' who was! taken prisoner by the enemy, who'. never once lost spirit and who, j'hough' broken in health, headed another hos- pital unit into Russia and stuck to her post there till her work was fin- ished—when she died. . "She has all the great qualities of both sexes, and none of the small, ones," was often said of her, I have known her personally all my life, and' have never met a finer woman. When I attended her burial service in Lon- don and, looking around, saw ambassa- dors from every part of the world' come there to do her homage, states- men, princes, royalty—those whom the world calls great—it seemed to me that a new era for womanhood had been brought about by the great war.' Patriotism and Courage. The patriotism and courage of the I martyred Edith Cavell need no detail -1 ing, They are known already. And there are lots of women, too, like Mrs.' Harley, sister '•Of Lord french, who met a heroine's death at Monastir when in charge of a motor -ambulance unit. The th men who stay at home may, be doing work as noble, though per- haps not so spectacular. Certainly this war has brought certain women to^ the front—types that hitherto have been quite unnoticed. For instance, there's that new per- sonage in the feminine world—the woman who can work with women! She is a complete -revelation to men, and to most women. Women have al- ways preferred to work with men because they found their own sex to be too petty and jealous. A type of woman has arisen -during this war who is a born leader—and popular! Other women will do anything for her. She adds.understanding to the qualities possessed by men leaders. The Scottish woman -doctor to whom I have previouely referred was such an one, i'We would do anything for herr" the girl doctors who worked un- der her at the front often assured me. Another new war type is the middle- aged woman, who has come into her own at last! No one thought she was any good for employment before the war. She rather agreed with them herself, too—which was a 'distinct pity! Then patriotism fired her blood and she started to persuade people that common sense .Ind experience do count. The Meddie-Aged Worker. It took some doing—particularly in conservative 'Great Britain)—but •no war agency now dares to fix. an age limit 'for its workers. It is open to be persuaded that midcIo age is not a handicap. The middle-aged yeoman used to dye her hair when first she Wed the employment' agencies, but rho has • given that up 110W, Gray beads have won a place :for themselves in munitions, in the "Wears" (Wo- men's Auxiliary Army Corps), iu the 'Women's Land Arley and in Govern- ment offices. - , A. `much criticized being-e.in pre- war times—was that bugbear, the mothereln-law! Now a1ie`ie immensely popularl And why?. Before the war, few people found out her use, Bat when the trumpet of Mars sounded, and homes had to be broken up, elle held out her arms to *Ivor' and children. Everything else has changed but ber home, So when- ever there is a change elsewhere, or a heave; She is the refuge. Children have been tuft with her while the wife flew to her heebend in hespital, furnik ture hue been !dumped' upon hor, her house has been expanded like elastic, and all ata moment's notice, That is why she is popular, She knows how to rise to an emergency, Another type of war woman who has sprung into being is the domesti- Gated woman! Her talent was buried hefore the war -..particularly in .Great Britain, that home of the "cheap ser. vent," The domesticated woman felt the attraction of the kitchen --but der- od not go'into it. The cook burred the ways -and her own colossal ignorance macre her afraid. She did riot know rho had -'t great talent for domestic economy until the war came. Then it became patriotic and the fashion to cook and scheme, Besides, the cook left,Like hundred's _and thousands of other naturally domeeti- eated women, the "mistress" has come into hor own during the war, and it is a kingdom of pots and pails, She ham di:movored a now world in domes- ticity, and it is full of interest; Daughters will in the future be brought up to enjoy the game, too, and it je Rafe to may that no domestic Went will be hidden In a napkin• in future—to please the cook, Order Now .:,NTA1110 r RTILUZpfidy ielMITED WEeT; TORONTO �r CANADA SCIIOOLBOY HUMOR. Entertaining "Examples of .Youthful Reasoning. A contributor to the Nineteenth Century gives some entertaining ex- amples of the thought tangles and oddities of schoolboys, and introduces them with .the statement that as a rule the perpetrators of blunders see nothing comic in their mistakes, al- though they may admit that there is something wrong. ' To the question, "What: was the latus clavus?" one boy returned the answer, "An ornament on - the toga 44 WA3.1. AND FQOD SERI ES. No. 1U--YEGE1TABlehale more especially if they araemasiteo and put through a stove. t;Doetors claim that the tired -out feeling that comes over people as spring ap- proaches is clue to la* Of vegetables demand ti] o to which contain much mineral matter, are invigorating and serve as a 'tonne To stop using vegetables in winter to the system. is to deprive the body of the best of reales' and; in war time, it inearls us- The winter vegetables are .parti- ing emote than one should of other etilarly geed when coxnbinetl with na wl foodstafls which ought to be going moats: to make savory status. overseas. 6 could conceive of a tasty stew tvithotlt It is patriotic to eat eat,'otables. it its quota of carrots and stew W means that you save moat and wheat. f1rs winter vogotab es land tltem- Whon ,you eat potatoes and carrots selves to many farms of with $Otlg, Lind anions You aro not depriving, the They can be need in stew, with soup, soldleirs of anything, but you ars save or covered with a simple as do )oat andflour j Tho water -in which vegetables is g n n for them, cooked should never be thrown away. In. Canada great quantities of s es--'; It can be saved for soap or gravy, tables are grown, On the farms It is best of all to bake or st. padnlly the cellar is usually wall the vegetables. Then the valuable esene rntgrlcecl in wlnler with potatoes, car- saitq,are not wasted, rota, onions, turnips .and cabbage. • 1 It is real patriotism to use vege- Croat vnricty can bo given to "the tables. It is 0 rule that both the daily menu by the use of vegetables. farmer and the city dweller may safe. They are excellent Lor tho children, ly follow. In reparation Lies Variety. "e. Dinzier No,U. • >? - Rs V e y. Gonerally speaking, people are more inclined to eat vegetables in enamor than in winter. For one.thing they are not so easy to got; for another thing, the system does not seem to m the same extent, Too often the farmer's wife coin- Pork Pio Baked Potatoes plaint that her meal' lack variety and/Scalloped Cabbage with Cheese attributor this to the fact that she is Apple Fritters tot within reach of the city grocery; Dinner No, 7. with its infinite variety of foods, Va- riety Iles not so much in many kinds of food as in the, ways in which they aii prepared. With two vegetables, potatoes and cabbage; one fruit, ap- ples; two meats, ham and fresh pork, an almost infinite number of dinners Worn by senators in ancient Rome." So can be prepared, each appetizing and far he was fairly Correct, but he wi`hout repeating a single dish. The thought that his remark needed following are samples: rounding off; and so he et'clded, "It gave the the right of admission to the Dinner No. 1. Cloaca maxima." Roast Pork Sauerkraut A very 'diverting way of teaching English literature is to dictate Dome stanzas of a poem, leaving out cer- tain words to be filled in by the boys. Their conjectures are always interest- Pork Loaf Delicate Cabbage ing; and sometimes let down a shaft Potato Salad with Dressing into the abys of their mental' pro- cesses. A child of eleven was told to finish the quotation, ""Tie better to have loved and lost," and his experi- ence of life 'suggested the excellently metrical line, "Than uevor to have loved end won." A schoolmaster once read the -1641y serenade of Sir W. Davenant's Thi Lark Now Leaves His Watery Ne,t, Fried fresh Pork Mashed Potatoes and when he came to the end of the Ilot Slaw second stanza, "Then draw your cur-; Baked Apples and Cream tains and begin the dawn," he omitted the last two words and produced the 1 Dinner No, 5. hie:affable emendation, !'Then draw I Cold Sliced Ham curtsine o and begin to yawn." i French Fried Potatoes One examination question rend, Boiled Cabbage "Write an account of your life as you Apple Dumplings foresee it up to the. Lige of forty-five." The writer, with the snows of thirteen winters on his head, described the," . AN prosperous finish to his school and i 51 � 1 U i university career, the entry into a urofeeeion and the rewards of• labor. "Then at twenty-eight years of age," 1 he wrote, "I married, and when I was' twenty-nine my wife _presented ma With- a $on and heir. No one can nos- BRITISH COMPANY REFUSED TO sibly know the full joys of fatherhood SURRENDER. save one who has been a father." { A schoolmaster had fully explained to a class of boys the meaning of the Gallant Stand by 13th Essex Regiment saying that a prophet is not without - honor save in his own country, and When Cut Off From Main had illustrated it by a reference to Army. the parallel, "No hero is a hero to 1111 own valet" The explanation took a!Tho authoritative story of thogal- good ten minutes, but the result, when dant stated British troops made when the pupils tried to state the meaning the Germans attacked them in over - in their own words, was discouraging. whelmin' force near Cambrai is told Boiled Potatoes in their Jackets Apple Brown Betty Dinner No. 2. Apple Snow' Dinner N. 3. - `Boiled Ham Potatoes Cooked in IIam Broth Cabbage with Sour Sauce Apple Pie Dinner No. 4. FACING ThF E "This text means that no prophet is a prophet- to his own valet," said one boy. "This means that we ought to be very kind to servants." A Remarkable.New Psalm. "Three new Psalms tracing the founding of the British Empire and then the bur,ating of the storm in 101d, and how the, men of our blood came to o'ur aid, have been composed by eMr. A. W. Pollard, assistant keeper, in the library of the . British Museum. We give below the words of the third psalm, and," says the Church Family Newspaper, "we do not • hesitate to say that during the war, at any rate, these psalms ought to be used periodi- cally in our churches.: "Let us praise God for the Dead: for the Dead who die in our cause. "They went forth first a little army: all its men were true es steel. "The hordes of the 'enemy WWI hurled against them: they fell back, but their heart failed not, "They went forward again and held their ground: though their foes were as five to one. "They gave time for our host to muster: the host of the men who never thought to fight. "A great host ands mighty: worthy of the men who 'died to gain them times. mon who never thought to fight have not been found wanting: in the strength God has given them they are great of heart, "They fight against those who love war:, they fight, and by faith in God, t11e,,eha11 prevail, • "Let us praise God for these men: let us remember them before Him all our drays. "Let us care for the widows and orphans: and for the men who come home maimed, "Truly God has been with us: these things have not been done without His help. "O Lord our God, be Thou still our helpers make us worthy of those who diel" Where Ire Waa"At: A. certain British soldlefis lottery according, to Pnuehy rune thuet "I am sorry I cannot toll you where I am, because I sun not Allow- ed to say, But f venture to state that T am not whore I wee, but where I was before I left here to go where have just come from.". Minced Hone with Gravy Browned Potatoes d law DutchColAppSle Calve Dinner No° 8. Pork Croquettes Creamed Potatoes Cabbage and Celery Salad Ample Tapioca Dinner No, 9, Browned Hash Potato Soup ' Cabbage and Olive Salad Apple Pudding /° Dinner No. 10. 'Baked Ilam Stuffed Baked Potatoes Fried Cabbage Apple Sauce Cake Dinner No. I1. Fried Ham with Cream Dr•ossing Mashed Brown Pot�jjatces Cabbage and Green 'Pepper Apple Charlotte Dinuer No. 12. Rolled Stuffed Steak.^ -'Rived Potatoes Steamed Cabbage with Drawn Butter Sauce Apple tmd Date Salad Dinner No. 13. lfroiled Steak French Fried Potatoes - Creamed Cabbage with Cheese Apple Sauce with Sponge Cake Those dinners with brown or white bread, butter, tea or coffee and cook- ies make meals fit for the king's table.' ` but all attempts failed against the overwhelming strength of the enemy. The last that is known of this gal- lant company is that !t was ,fighting it out and maintaining to the last bul- wark their stand against the tide of attacking Germans. It is impossible. to estimate the value of this magnifi- cent fight to the death which relieved the pressure on the main line of de- fence, These Shall Prevail War laid bugle to his lips, blew one blast—and then The seas answered h:m with ships, the earth with men. Straight, Death caught his sickle up, called bis reapers grim, Famine with his empty cup came after now for the 'first time. The fiercest him. fighting of the bottle took place on the Bourlon-Moeuvres front, and the Down the stairs of Paradise hastenel story is so brimful of heroism that it! angels three, deserves to take its place in English :Pity, and Sell%-Sacriiice� and Charity. history. The most determined at- Where'he curved, black ridges sweep, tacks of four German divisions with ; the pale Famine clings, three other German divisions in sup- ' Where gaunt women watch and weep, port, were utterly crushed by the three u come these of wings. British divisions that were in line,.) November 80, 1917, will be a proud day , When the red wrath perisheth, when in the-ldves of all those splendid Brit- I the dulled swords fail, ish soldiers who, by their single- I These three who have walked with hearted devotion to duty, prevented Death—these shall prevail. what would have become a serious sit- uation had they given way. After considerable shelling during the night on Bourlon wood the enemy attacked in force. Four posts on the right of the 2nd division were wiped out'and the situation was critical. The survivors of the 2nd division's posts, however, succeeded in getting to shell-• holes farther back and held on,, and the enemy was eventually driven back after three hours' hard fighting. Fought to the End. Further west, the enemy's advance broke upon the 17th Royal Fusiliers, which was withdrawing from an ad- vanced,,sap and trench which ware judged too exposed to be maintained. in the face of an ,attack so powerful. Owing to the enemy being• concealed in dead ground, the attack developed with unexpected speed, and the com- pany holding the advanced position was ordered to leave a roe; -guard to cover the withdrawal of the remainder. Captain W N. Stone, who was in come mend of the company, sent back three platoons, and himself elected to remain with the -rear -guard, together with. Lieut. Benzccry, Thie rear -guard, assisted by machine guns, held off the whole of the Ger- man attack until the main position of the 17th Royal Fusiliers was.fuliy or- ganized, and they died to a man with their faces bo the enemy. Later in the evening another attack in force. was made southeast of Ittoeuvre, and the enemy once more effected an en- try, isolating a company of the lAth kleseit Reghnent. This gallant com- ppany, realizing the improbability of being extricated, held a council of war at whlell it was unaititnously detormin. ed to light to the last and have nor, sur- render, Two runners who siieceedod fo getting through were sent back to he- tify the battalion headquarters oC this docisdon, Throughout the night of No- vember 80 many efrerts were made to effect the relief of those -brave men, Hell bade all its millions rise; Para- dise' sends three; Pity, and Self -Sacrifice and Charity. —Theodosia Garrison. She Had. Not The Heart. A country \Oman came along the railway platform and sat on a seat beside a hospital nurse who was waiting for a train, 'With a sigh of relief she disposed of her parcels and umbrella. Then, she began to cleat, "Ale" site said, looking at the nurse's uniform admiringly, "I don't know what we'd do without the likes of you.". "Oh, you are ,too kind!" protested the nurse, "I'm sure you do things as worthy every day." "Not me, mise," said the old lady. "I can hill a duck or fowl with the best—that I admit, But when it comes to human bein's, my heart fails me," ---�- Kate, +rue. fdANES it Min t tI011rt51 j" 'rho butt r�� yeast in S C Glp thkES e world, ,,..--%�,_. Culp f�:et �uui lTonY CQQ i1A(�Y,rnc,°•:e A ,t ales:-• f;ANAD rh,.. •EIG L1ETl i3OMPANY LIMITED t(., TOrtONTo,ONT. I hwJNNIPeG MONTar4L t. R L Food Coatrol •CQN.zi° Rationing is a subject that is re- ceiving much newspaper attention in Canada at present, It a thing thee is as new to us it, theory enet I r't .lice as . war was three years and 1 b if ago. That must be the only onewie for soma things n hkl1 ere wiit'cn. The general assumption i; that ration- ing can be carried out, jue.t as seam people thought pric 1 • g could, by a mere wave of r: meek r pen. When it is remembered, 110, ever, that Canada's seven and 0 half minion pec' pie are scattered over al, area geesit. er than Europe the question at .race arises: "Who is to see to the every- ing out of the rationing 501100??" For rations mean that rash f •Drily would bo under aerlibligation not to eat more on any day or in any week than a certain setamount of particular foods. It would not be hard to make a rule that so much bread should be used by each person at a meal. But bow many million police would be wanted to attend to the execution of the order? Even the making. of orders that would be fair in a large city no compared with a country home of- fers difficulties little thought of. In the Maritime Provinces fish is plenti- ful and comparatively cheap as in the West, are wheat and beef. But more fish is not needed "at the front" to anything like the same extent that beef and wheat most urgently aro wanted. What rationing plan could ignore the "customs of the country"? Yet immediately here a discrepancy arises. One might prescribe the use of beef and wheat in Canada by decree but its in- cidence would be unequal from tho first. There is, however, one way in which the food saving could be made which is the whole end and object of rationing. It is by a voluntary pledge of each home. In three words this is nothing else than by unrent5t- ting patriotic saving of the foodstuffs that are known to be wanted by the allies. No amount of talking can make up for this, It is not a legal question at all but a moral one, which must be left to the conscience of each household head. There is no better way for the present in which those who cannot go to the trenches can actually help in the fight in Europe for moral uprightness and ;pure ideals of life than in practicing rin each home at all times of the 'day that honest carefulness to avoid waste which would have to be clone under a compulsory rationing scheme. In a way this is a new factor which hitherto it has not Been possible to utilise. The Canadian women .is here especially indicated to aid. Se far woman's work in the Dominion has had to do with Red Cross and similar works of mercy. This opens out the field enormously. Every woe man who saves bread, beef and porn products is in fact and deed wielding an unseen weapon in the war as truly as her sisters behind the trenches are in caring for the broken and the maim ed. .-. Before baking apples stun there with raisins. ' Seed oats are likely to sell higher this spring and be harder to find thar in any season within memory. Send it to Parker's OD' will be astonished et the re=' sults we get by our modern system of dyeing: and cleaning. Fabric, that are shabby, dirty or spotted are grade like new. We can restore the most delicate articles. Send one article or a parcel of goods by post or express. We: will pay car• rlage one way, and our charges are most reasonable. 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