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SAYS ,A CA.NAIt`IIAN PHYSICIAN,
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Colonel Le Biel $peaks of the Excellent
System of Caring for Victims
Ott l3ei,
The highly developedattlleldssystem o'f car-
ing for wounded in battle has not been
upset by•the terrific firing of the pre-
sent action in France, in the opinion
of Laeutenant Colonel E. Le Bel, of
the Canadian and Royal Army Medical
Corps.
"One may be sure that the men
fighting so bravely against the Ger-
man advance aro gutting as prompt at=
tention as battle conditions permit,"
Colonel Le Bel said. "That means the
highest possible morale,- The medical
service system of the allied armies
can not be upset by any attack such as
is now in progress, ;It is automatic,
Under heavy fire the stretcher bearers
often can not get into the front
trenches to remove wounded, but at
the first chance they do it,
"What is going on now is this: Sup-
pose a man is wounded at the front
line, He has his emergency kit, the
Britisher's sewed in his coat and the
American's secured to his belt. Im-
mediately he can adjust a temporary
bandage. If he is too weak to do so
there is some comrade near to do it
for him. Then at the first opportunity
the stretcher bearers arrive,, often
through heavy rifle fire,
An Effective System.
"The stretcher bearers •pick up. the
wounded man and carry him by a
safe route, taking advantage of the
cover of buildings or woods, to the
first medical aid post. At once a new
dressing is applied to stanch the flow
of blood and to prevent infection. Then
the man is moved to a service station
further to the rear, where there are
beds. Eventually he is moved to the
large hospital far at the rear. The
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ous organization work was done in
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CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd.)
III. Rissoles and a Requiem
At the close of a gloomy ,October
day, six unshaven, mud -encrusted ma-
chine gunners, the surviving mem-
bers of two teams, were gathered at
the. C Company gun emplacement. `'D
Company's gun had been destroyed by
a shell, and so we had joined forces
here in front of the wrecked dugout,
and were waiting for night when we
could bury our dead comrades. A
fine drenching rain was falling. We
sat with our waterproof sheets
thrown over our shoulders and our
knees drawn up to our chins, that
we might conserve the damp warmth
o£ our bodies. No one spoke. No
reference was made to our dead com-
rades who were lying there so close
that we could almost touch them from
where we set. Nevertheless, I be-
lieve that we were all thinking of
them, however unwillingly. I tried
to see them as they were only a few
hours before. I tried to remember
the sound of their voices, how they
had laughed; but I could think only of
the appearance of their mutilated
bodies.
On a dreary autumn evening one's
thoughts often take a melancholy
turn, though one is indoors sitting
before a pleasant fire, arid hearing but
faintly the sighing of the wind and
the sound of the rain beating against
the window. It is -hardly to be won-
dered at that soldiers in trenches be-
come discouraged at times, and on
this occasion, when an unquenchably
cheerful voice shouted over an adjoin-
ing traverse,—
Wot che'r, lads! Are we down-
hearted ?"—a growling chorus ans-
wered with an unmistakable,—
We were in an open ditch. The
rain was beating down en our faces.
We were waiting for darkness when
Iva could go to our. unpleasant work
of grave -digging. To -morrow there
.would he more dead bodies and more
graves to dig, and the day after, the
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sante duty, and the day after that, the
same. Week after week we should be
living like this, killing and being
killed, binding up terrible wounds,
!digging graves, always doing the
same work with not one bright or
pleasant thing to look forward to.
These were my thoughts as I sat on
the firing -bench with my head drawn
down between my knees watching the
water dripping from the edges of my
puttees. But I had forgotten one:
important item in the daily routine:'
supper. And I had forgotten Private
Lemley, our cook or, to give him his:
due, our chef, fie was not the man
to waste his time in gloomy reflec-i
tion. With a_dozen mouldly potatoes
,which he had procured Heaven knows,
!where, four tins of corned beef, and a •
canteen lid filled with bacon grease
for raw materials, he had set to worn:
with the enthusiasm of the horn artist,
the result being rissoles, brown crisp,
and piping hot. It is a pleasure to
think of that meal. Private'Lemley
was of the rare souls of earth one of
the Mark Tapleys Who never lost his
courage or his good spirits. I re=
member how our spirits rose at the
sound of his voice, and how gladly, and
quickly we responded to his summons.
"'Ere you are, me lads! Bully beef
rissoles an"'ot tea, an' it ain't 'arf
bad fer the trenches if'1 do s'y it."
I can only wonder now at the keen-
ness of our appetites in the midst of
the most gruesome surroundings.
Dead men were lying about us, both
in the trenches and outside of them.
And yet our rissoles were not a whit
the less enjoyable on that account.
It was quite dark when we had
finished. The sergeant jumped to his
feet,
"Let's get at it, boys," he said.
Half an hour later we erected a
wooden cross in Tommy's grave,
strewn garden. It bore the follow-
ing inscription written in pencil:
"Now, if I was General French I'd
make 'Ulluch me main object. They
ain't no use tryin' to get by at this
part o' the line till you got that vil-
lage."
"Don't talk so bloomin' ignorant!
Ain't that just wot they been a-tryin' 1
Wot we got to do is go 'round 'Minch.
Tyke 'em in the 'rear an' from both
sides."
"W'y don't they get on with it?
Wot to blazes are we a-doin' of, givin'
'em a chanct to get dug In again?
'Ere we all but got 'em on the run
an' the 'ole show stops!"
The continuation of the offensive
was the chief topic of conversation.
The men dreaded it, but they were
anxious to get through with the busi-
Iness. They believed that now if
ever there was the chance to push the
Germans out of France.
In the mean time the day's work
was still the day's work, There were
nightly bombing affairssome of them
most desperate hand-to-hand contests
for the possession of small sectors of
trench. One of these I witnessed
from a trench sixty yards away. The
advantage lay with us. The enemy
held only the centre of the line and
were forced to meet attacks from
either end. However, they had a
communication trench connecting
with their second line, through which
I carrying parties brought them a limit-
less supply of bombs.
The game of pitch and toss over the
barricades had continued for several
days without a decision. Then came
' orders for more decisive action. The
barricades were to be deestroyed. and
the enemy bombed out. Itt under-
ground fighting of this kind the ele-
ment of surprise is possible. If one
opponent can be suddenly overwhelm-
ed witha heavy rain of bombs, the
chances of success for the attacking
party are quite favorable.
The action took place 'at dusk.
Shdrtly before the hour set, the
bombers, all of them boys in their
early twenties, filed slowly along the
trench, the pockets of their grenade
waistcoats bulging with "lemons" and
"cricket balls," as the two most effec-
tive kinds of bombs are called. They
went to their places with that spirit
of stolid cheeriness which is the won-
der and admiration of every one who
knows Tommy Athins intimately.
Formerly, when I saw him in this
mood, I would think, "He doesn't
realize. Men don't go out to meet
death like this." But long associa;
tion with him had convinced me of the
error of this opinion. These men
knew that death or terrible injury
was in store for many of them; yet
they were talking in excited and -glee-
ful undertones, as they might have
passed throughthe gates at a foot-
ball match.
"Are we di. .✓nhearted? Not likely,
old son!"
"Tyke a feel o' this little puffball!
Smack on old Fritzie's napper she
goes!"
"I'm a-go'n' to/arak fer a nice
Blightey one! Four months in Brent-
ford'ospital an' me Christmas puddin'
at 'oniel"
"Now, don't ferget, you blokes!
County o' London War 'Ospital fer me
if 1 gets a knock! Write it on a piece
o' pyper a)1' pin it to me tunic w'en
you sends me back to the ambulance."
She barricades were blown up and
the fight was on. A two -hundred -
piece orchestra of blacksmiths, with
sledgehammers, beating kettle -drums
the size of brewery .vats, might have
approximated, in quality and volume,
the sound of the battle. ' The specta-
cular effect was quite different from
that of a counter-attack across the
open. Lurid flashes of light issued
from the ground as though a door to
the infernal regions had been thrown
jarringly open. The cloud of, thick
smoke was shot through with red
gleams. Men ran along the parapet
hurling bombs down ihto the trench.
Now they were hi :den by the smoke,
now silhouetted for an instant against
a glare of blinding light.
An hour D1lssecl and there was no
change in the situation.
"Fritzie's, it tough old bird," said
Tommy. "'E's a-go'n' to die game,
you got to give it to 'im,"
(To be continued,)
• Most. "First" of Wonten.
Mary Ellen Smith was elected Janu-
ary 24 to the seat in the British Col-
umbia House of. Parliament last hold
by her husband, whose death caused
au election, Mrs. Smith is thus rho
first woman in the history of the
world to beeelected to het husband's
legislative chair. She is also the first
woman in the history. of British Col-
umbia to sit in Parliament and Was
elected in the first campaign .in his-
tory
is-
toiy in w tiah women had the vote in
p s rovbnce. She Ten on the inde-
pendent ticket, defeating by an over-
whelming majority two. returned sol-
diers, representing rival bodies of re-
turned men and la the first woman In
anadian history to Atgure in an glee.
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Pte. No. 4326 MacDonald.
- Pte. No. '1864 Gardner.
Pte. No, 9851 Preston.
Pte. No .6940 Allen. -
Royal Fusiliers.
"They did their bit."
Quietly we slipped back into the
trench and piled our picks and shovels
on the parades,
"Got yer mouth -organ 'andy,
Nobby?" some one asked.
"She's always 'andy. Wot'll you
'ave lads'?"
""[sive us 'Silk 'At Nat Tony' That's
a proper funera l'ymn."
"Right you are! Sing up, now!"
And then we sany Tommy's favor-
ite kind of requiem:— •
"I'm Silk Hat Nat Tony, •
I'm down and I'm stony:
I'm not only broke, but I'm bent.
The fringe of my trousers
Keeps lashing the houses,
But still I am gay and content.
I stroll the West gayly,
You'll see me there daily,
From Burlington Arcade
Up to the Old Bailey.
I'm stony! I'm Tony!
But that makes no diff'rence, you
see.
Though I haven't a fraction,
I've this satisfaction,
They built Piccadilly for me."
CHAPTER XI.
"Sitting Tight."
L Lemons and Cricket Balls
Throughout October we fulfilled
the prophecy of the officer who told
us that "sitting tight" in the German
trenches was to be our function. Ther"e
nightly counter-attacks preceded by
heavy artillery fire, when the enemy
made determined efforts to retake the
loot territory. There were needless
alarms when nervous sentries ""got
the wind Op," to use the authentic
trench, expression, and contagious
excitement set men to firing like mad
into blank darkness. In the day-
time there wore moments of calm'
Which we could not savor owing to
thnt other warfare waged upon us
by increasing hordes or parasitic
enemies. We moved :from one posi-
tion to another through trenches
where the tangled mass of telephone
wires, seemingly gifte with a kind of
malignant humor, coiled themselves
about our feet or caught in the piling"
swivels of our rifleb. There were
orders and ccuntekk-�__order@@, p�larun
and exelrrain s, 'Chrouglt them a l
Tommy kept his b n
T t Ala e0 A his al
y pd
of cheer anter cern but h e Wdel
y e i
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he might �o struck Pink"
thati k
g
he knew "wet we was a -doing' of any.
Our ideas of the tactical situatimin
were deeidodlyY vague. Het/rover, WI
11d know, ik fz general way, ou • Petit-
ion
t-
ion 1t xefereneo t impottani; Istili�
sty l m.rke afld the
ry an� a mateur
rittegists Were! busty at all times e ...
plainhig the stnationto fr ook1v
r�
ignorant; comm es, and outlining
plans for definite notion.
"Ws stood in a circle around the ad -
Venturous dead, 1 have rarely attend-
ed so moving a scene ---this brave ems
eade,
m -
rade, 30 beloved by all, one of the first
to go, a warlike to this experiment
of bombardment by night,"
WAR AND FOOD . SEli:1E
"How doth the May little `bee
Improve each shining hour" --
'While the country woman looks
after her dairy and her chickens, the
bee works away gathering flower-
juice, bringing it home to the hive
and tr'aitsforming it into the mos$ de-
licious of sweets.
There 'are two aspects to bee -heap-
ing. On the one hand it is a pro-
fitable war -time industry. On the
other hand, if the farmer wants his
fruit to be of the best, lie needs the
help of the bee.
Honey production has arrived at a
commercial halls undreamed of thirty
years ago. The world's markets are
clamoring_ for honey, and upon the
way in which this unforeseen op-
portunity is used; depends the status
of the industry when times again be-
come normal. .It is passing through
a phase which will mean either the
establishment of honey as a staple'
food or its relegation to the oblivion
of a mere occasional luxury.
Honey has about the stoma food
value as sugar, but it has also a far
wider range of uses. It should be
considered as a distinctive food and
not as a substitute for anything else.
It is a heat -producing food and in.
, ARTICLE No, 14—IbONEY
normal times the gzeatestqemand for
It is felt °around Thanksgiving and
Christmas, If the beekeeper can
supply the market though the whole
year, she will do much to remove
honey from the lint of seasonable de-
licacies anti put it into the class of
staple foods.
The equipment neceesai'y for bees
keeping is inexpensive and the bees
soon pay for themselves, providing
the season is a good one. They require
comparatively little attention and can
be kept as a side -line. When a woman
determines to go in for beelceejiing
on an extensive scale, however, she
will find her time pretty well oecupied
for several months in the year.
When the honey crop is removed
from the hive and the fall work of ex-
tracting and • bottling is done, the
technical end of the woman apiarist's
business is accomplished and her suc-
cess as a producer, provided the sea -
non is a normal one, is determined
largely by the number of pounds to
the colony and the quality of the
honey, she has secured. The second
half of .the enterprise is to get her
product on the market at a good profit
and this should be an easy matter at
the present time.
GREAT MEMORIAL
OF STONE
IN COMMEMORATION OF VIMY
RIDGE HEROES.
Cross -Crowned Column, Girdled by
Spent German Shells, Lasting
Tribute to Canadians.
When France smashed forward
against the Loretto Ridge, the little
Souchez literally ran red tvith blood.
Now the river is clean again, but runs
through a wilderness, and Souchez
church is a tumbled mass of ruins.
Under its shadow are the nameless
graves of France, says a correspond-
ent on March 15th. The shrine of Our
Lady of Lorette upon the ridge no
longer knows the worship of the peo-
ple of little villages, for what were vil-
lages are mounds of broken stone and
waste. Tradition says that when the
church same first under heavy bom-
bardment the French •poilus, toiling
in their trenches, made another, an
earthly shrine, for Our Lady under
their own parapet—and so worshipped
until they died in their thousands to
win a ridge. That ridge is won, but
under its protection lie many cemeter-
ies. In one, row follows upon row of
little earthen mounds—upon each
Mound a cross—over each cross the
rosette of the Republic—upon each
cross only the words "Un Inconnu"
(an unknown). The noon of Canada—
coming from overseas and speaking a
foreign tongue—have helped in build-
ing that cemetery to the glorious un-
known dead of the Republic.
Vimy Ridge Memorial.
All over this area from Loretta
Ridge and on to Arras are French and
British and Canadian cemeteries. Can-
adian soldiers lie side by side with the
dead of Britain and France. Here is
a little cross of stone. Its writing tells
that it was erected to one of the sons
of the Dominion by "his chums from
St. Cather'ines, Ont." Standing out
upon the Vimy Ridge is a memorial of
stone, enclosed with- German armor
piercing shells and. crowned with a
great cross. Only a few daysago the
commander of the Canadian Corps and
General Byng, another well beloved
leader, and many men of Canada and
the Empire, stood here while Canon
Scott read a simple service, and the
flag of the Dominion draping the me-
morial was lifted that men might read
what was written on the. bronze tablet
underneath.
Erected in Memory of
Officers, Non-commissioned Officers
and Men of the Canadian
Corps Artillery,
Who Fell During the Vimy Operations
April, 1917.
Canadian Field Artillery '
Royal Field Artillery,
Canadian Garrison Artillery,
Royal Garrison Artillery,
South African Field Artillery.
The whole land tells of death and
heroism and stern endurance to the
great end that frcdl'lom may triumph
and civilization endure. There are
graves besides the guns and near the
guns, gunners are tilling the land for
vegetable gardens, and farmers have
.ploughed the soil for the crop• that
the;.fall will bring. The guns are
growling louder every day for the
spirit of the living is not less than
of the dead, and it is in the minds.
of those who fight that whenever the
end be written, it will not come until
victory is won, Three and a llttlf
years of war find France strong ' of
heart. Britain, head of Empire, leads
it yet. Canada, stronger on the
battlefront than ever before, gives
the enemy little rest. On the outer
side of Vimy, in tens end Avian and
along a white line that cannot bo de-
fined, the captains and the sttbaltarns
and the men under veteran /cacdent
keep worrying the enemy night and
day, It is routine trench warfare,
There is little to report that stands
out amide` tits conimanpleces of the
period. Bob night after night, under
clotd ass skis an r
i 1 s d bright Moot -
light, or in blinding storms and
darkness,our reconnoitrin and battle
le
g b
patrols are out in iso Man's Land,
Flares lighten the landscape for a
moment and go out, adding night to
night. Snipers' bullets whine through
the darkness. 11Maeltino guns chatter
across the unclahned spam!!. An en-
emy raiding party attacks, is held tip
by one of our rests, is repulsed, Tho
raid has fallen before reaching otl0
wire; bat two men of the post ate
Wounded and the third will not return,
•
A party of pioneers is working in a
certain part of the line. An enemy
barrage sweeps that trench with shell.
The daily report gives it as an inci-
dent. The pioneers know the cost.
, The Progress of War.
The cry of "gas" disturbs the night
and the faces of men are hidden
under protecting helmets that turn
those who line the trench into gro-
tesque figures of some mediaeval
horror. • Men go, "over the top" with
bullets whining' around them, over-
whelm an enemy post and stealing
through opposing wire are into hostile
trenches with knobkorrys and revol-
vers, rifles and bombs and grenades
for ten minutes of hell. Then they
come back with their prisoners and
"no casualties"—or with their prison-
ers they bring back their own wound-
ed and their dead. A patrol goes out
and returns with prisoners—or it may
not return. A battery position—shell-
ed intermittently all day -Lis shelled
again at night. The daily commu-
nique tells little to the uninitiated.
The war is too big for incidents.
So the days and nights pass. Be-
hind the ridge are the graves of
France and Empire. Beyond the ridge
the keen of Canada fight with that
sure gallantry which countless gentle-
men have made the tradition of the
Dominion. The heart of France beats
high. America moves mightily to the
firing line. The guns as they mutter
and growl have that in their tone
which tells of inquiry as if they were
asking what the year `would bring
forth, but the undertone is one of con-
fldence. For• here in the battle line
men anticipate victory. Their mess
age to those behind them is one of.
hope. They ivill do their work, It
will be done well. They ask that those
at home should fight with them; be of
their spirit; share their courage; back
them up.
"RATS" OF VARIOUS DEGREES.
System of Promotion in; Vogue in
Germany.
One of the most successful ways of
disciplining the German people, says
former United States Ambassador
Gerard in My Four Years in Germany;
is by the Rat system. Rat means
councillor, and is a title of honor giv-
en to anyone who has attained a cer-
tain measure of success or, standing in
his chosen business or profession. For
example, a business man is made a
commerce Rat; a lawyer, a justice
Rat; a doctor, a sanitary Rat; an
architect or builder, a building Rat; a
keeper of the archives, an archive Rat;
and so on. They are created in this
way: first, a man becomes a plain
Rat; later, he becomes a secret Rat,
or privy councillor; still later, a secret
court Rat, and later still, a wirklioher,
or really and truly a secret court Rat,
to which may be added the title of
""excellency," which puts the man at
the head of the Rat ladder.
The system works insidiously. By
German custom, the woman always
carries the husband's title. The wife
of a successful builder is known as
Mrs. Really-TrulyeSecret-004 rt-Bulld-
ing Rat, and her social precedence
over the other women depends entire.
ly upon her husband's position in the
Rat class. Titles of nobility alone do
not count when they come in contact
with a high government position. Now,
if a lawyer gots to be about forty
Years old and is not some sort of Rat,
his wife begins to `tag him, 'him
his
friends and. relatives look at him with
suspicion. There must be something
in his life that prevents his obtaining
the coveted distinction; and if there
is anything in a man's 'past, if he has
shown at any time any spirit of oppo-
sition to the government,' as disclosed
by the police registers, which are
kept written up-to-date about every
German citizen, then he has no chance
of obtaining any or the distinctions
that snake tip so much of the social
life of Germany. It is a means- by
which the government keeps a :far
tighter hold on the intellectual part
of the population than it could if it
;used threats of torture and the stake.
The Soctal Democrats who of course
titave declared themselves against the
rexisting system of government and in
;favor of a republic, can receive no clis-
g overnmcht,
• unctions from the g , be-
mese
' c to lift their volees k
they dared
! and pens in criticism of the existing
I ortlor. For then there is the fear of
the law. Convictions of the cruse Of
lose majesty Are of almost daily oc-
' eurrenee, At the opening of the war
an amnesty was; granted in many Of
these eases, the ministry of war with-
drawing many prosecutions against
citizens who were waiting their trial
'111 jail becomes they had dared to
speak disrespectfully or !lie Army,
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