HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-11-21, Page 3MARSHAL FOCH TAKES FORMAL
POSSESSION OF METZ FORTRESSES
In the Presence of President 1?4iitlatire altd ]ot'culter. Clenialleean
rile Sleara+rne Cwtniiandei; M€Lice Solemn Entry
• into (;ern -late Seronghold.
A despatch .from Paris says; Ger-
mAnyts troojn began to evacuate
Trance and Belgium on Tuatsday. The
allied troops then moved forward, the
Americans advencing h the direction
of Metz and Strassburg.
Marshal Foch, commander«in-chief,
•of the allied armiese-wi11 make solemn
.entry into those German fortresses oi?
Sunday in tee presence of President
Poinonr•o and Premier Clentenceau.
-The Marshal will ride into the cities
•on Croesus, his favorite charger.:
rt is probable that the departments
in the re -won territory will i:eeanie.
'their old .names, eamoly, Bas ethip,
pre'ees,tdt`e of Strassburg; Haut Rhin,
prefecture of Colmar, and Moselle
prefecture of Metz. The Government
already is considering the establish -
anent of provisional administrative ar-
rangements.
The -occupation of the territory on.
-the teat bank of the Rhine and the
bridgeheads will not be undertaken
by the allied forces until Iter.
The liberation of Belgium premises.
to be rapidly accomplished. On the
occasion of the re-entry of the Bel-
"gian sovereigns into Brussels, the
Trench Government has •decided to
present to the Queen the -Grand Cor-
don of the Legion of Honor, and to
-the heir apparent the :Chevalier's
'Gross and the Cross of War.
In conformity with .the agreement
reached between Marshal Foch and
the Garman delegates, a period of five
in which $o hand :over ail the arma-
ment ince-tenet stipulated In the arm{-
sbice.
The French command asked the
Germane for information asto where
mines had been laid, and was inform-
ed that Nolle hadbeen placed in the
Ostend station and timed to expiodo
on Wednesday. The Germancommand
accordingly was asked to send oitioers
to locate the explosives;
An ndditiopal day, making 1.5 days
in all from the date of the armistice,
hag been girante5 to the enemyto
evacuate Belgium, Luxemburg, A1-
sace-Lorraine,
Marshal Foch has directed the Ger-
mano to send officers to the King of
the Belgians at Bruges to give infor-
mation regarding the German and'
Luxemburg railroad and canal sye-
teas and the navigation of the Rhine,
The Germans on Thursday sent ate
officer to Chjmay for arrange with
French officers for the handing over
of the arms and material which Ger-
many has to surrender.
The •gteatest enthusiasm prevails in
Alsace-Lorraine. Thousands of Ger-
anans are leaving the provinces. The
Gernlati authorities are being hooted
by the crowds, French and American
troops are expected daily.
Receptions on a huge reale are bee-
ing prepared for the allied troopa, un-
der the noses of the. German officials.
There is also joy in the Rhine towns
because of the cessation of allied air
'days has been allowed. to the enemy, raids.
:Markets oftho World
Breadstufs
Toronto, Nov. 19.—Manitoba': whoa
•--No.. 1 Northern $2:241fz; Nee
Northern $2;.21};,; No. 3 Northern
:$2.17%;. No. 4 wheat, $2.11%, in
;store Fort William, not including tax.
Manitoba oats—No. 2 C.W,., 821/%c;
No. 3 C.W.; 791/e; extra No. 1 feed,
:81 %c; No, 1 feed, 78�%ac, in store Rate
Wflliani.
Amerioan corn—No, 2 yellow
$1.53; No. 3 yellow ,$1.50; No,
;yellow, $1.44; .sample corn, feed,
:$1.30' to $1,40, tzack. Toronto.
Ontario oats, new crop—No. 2
`white, 76 t"c 78e; N. 3 white, 75 to
-77c, according to freights tocebside.'
Ontario wheat—No. d Winter, per
',car 1ot,'$2,14 to $2.22; No.'2, do.,
;2:11 to $2.19, No. 3 do., $2.07 to
:82.15, No. '1'Spring., .$2.00 to 82.17;
.No. 2 Spring, $2.06 to $2.14 No, 3,
Spritvg, 82.02 to $2.10,,f.o.b., ,ship
'ping points according to freights.
Peas—No, 2 82:80. •
Barley—Malting, new crop, $1,02 t
:$1.07, according t, freights outside
Buckwheat—$1,65.
Rye—No. 2, $1.70.
,Manitoba flour=Old crop, torn
•quality, $11.50, Toronto.
Ontario flour—War quality, old
crop 810.75, • in bags, Montreal and
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeer1--Gar lots, delivered Mont-
real .freights, bags included: Bran,
'$37.25 per Moat;, shorts, «$42,25 per
ton.
Hay --No. 1, $23" to $24 per ton;
mixed, $21.50 to $23.00 per ton,
track, Toronto.
.Straw Oar lots, $10.50 to $11.00,
track Toronto.
Country ' Produce—Wholesale/
Bubter—D• tiyy, tubs and roll's, 38 to
89c • prints, 40 to 410. Creamery, fresh
macre: molids, 51c; prints, 52c.
Bgge—New laid, 5e to 59e; store,
52 to 540. ..
Dressed poultay—Spring chickens,
28 to 30c; roosters, 320; fowl, 27 to
800; ducklings, 30c• turkeys; 31 to
34c; squabs, dec., $4r50; geese, 25c.
Live poultry—Roosters, 18 to 20c;
fowl, 24 to 250;,ducklings, lb., 22c;
turkey, 27 to 300; - Spring chickens,
25 to 26e; geese, 20c.
Wholesalers are selling to. the re-
tail trade at the following prices:—
Cheese—N'ew, large, 261% to 27e;
aline, 2631e to 27i/t,c; old, large, 28
to 28'5c; tsvin, 281/a to 29e. •
•Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 48 to
480; creamery, pr.thts, 52 to 53c;
creamery solids, 51 to 520; prints, 52
to. 53e,
Margarine -34 to 350.
Eggs—No. 1. storage, 51 to 520;
selected storage; 53 to ,54c; new laid,
in cartons, 70 to '75C.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens,
24 to 28c; roasters, 22c;' fowl, 24 to
28e; turkeys, 33e: duckliuge, •ib., 30c;
squabs, doz., $5.50; geese, 25e.
Beane—Canadian, hand-picked, bus.
$6.00 to $6.50; imported, hand-pick.
eded, Burma or Indian, $5.00 to $5,50;.
Lima, 17 to 17%e.
Honey—Extracted clover; 5-1b. tins,
31e lb.; 10 -Ib. tins, 300 lb.'
Proviseons—Wholesatie
Smoked meads—Hasns, medium, 37
to 39c; do., heavy, 30 to 32c; cooked,
51 to 52c; rens, 32 to 83c; breakfast.
bacon 41 to 45c; backs, plain, 46 to
47o;. boneless,: 51 to bac,
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 30
to 31c; . cletar bellies, 29 to 30e.
Lard—Pare, tierces, 31. to 313f,c;
tubs, 313;; to 32c; pails, 31% to 8214e;
prints, 33 to 33�c. Compound,
tierces 25%/s to 25% to 26Vic; jails,
26 to 261/0e; prints, 27% to 27?yuc,
Montreal Merketa
inga, $13.00 to $13.50; spring lambs,
$13.00 to $13.75; calves, . good to
choice, $14.00 to $17.50• hogs, fed
and watered, $18.25 to i18.50; do.,
wei"lred off cars, $18.50 to $18.75.
re, itfontreal, Nov 19,—Choice eteersa c
2 $11.00 to $12.00; good 'steers, $10.0
to $10 50. ,, 4t,,m $8 50 to 9 50•
common, A7,00 to 8.00; ehoice cows,
$8,50 to $9.00; good, $7.00 to $8'00;
medium, $6.50 to $7.00; choice bulls,
$8.00 to $9.00; good, $7.50; medium,
$0.00 to $6.50; canners, $4.00 to
85.00;' lambs $12,00 to , 14.00; sheep,
, , p,
$9,00 to $10.00; hogs, of cars, selects,
4 817.50; grass calves, $5.00 to $7.00;
milk -fed $15.00 to $16.00.,
WAR MAKES THEM BIG
Important Battles Hare Made Small
• Villages Famous.
War -brings .into . prominence many
places small and insignificant in them-
selves. , The names of tiny villages
__like Givenchy and Messines, for in-
stance, will live for all time in the
history books of the future,
0 Similarly, Blenheim the scene of
• Marlborough's most famous victory,
is but a hamlet of some half-dozen
houses straggling trlongt the Bavarian
bank of the Danube.
Waterloo is a small place, with few-
er than 4,000 inhabitants. Austerlitz,
where Napoleon defeated the combin-
ed armies of Austria and Russia, falls
into the same category. Agincourt—
or Azincour, to give it' the modern
spelling—is a mere hamlet of a few
hundred souls. So are Fontenoy and
Malplaquet.
Abu Klea, where, itt 1885, 1,500 Bri-
tish troops defeated 15,000 • of the
Mandi's picked warriors, ie a 'ram-
shackle collection of Arab huts clus-
tered .around a group of wells.
Ma'feking, CoIenso, Stormberg, Mag-
ersfontein and Paariieberg, places
famous in the South African War, are
quite unimpbrtapt villages apart from
the historical events associated with
them,
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BR.ITISIT ELECTION DATE
FIXED• FOR DECEMBER 14
A despatch from London' says: A'
proclamation will be issued on Nov-
ember 25 summoning a new Parlia-
ment, Andrew Bonar Law announced
in the House of Commons on There -
day. Nominations will be made on
December 4, and polling will take
place on December 14. The counting
of the ballots may be postponed until
December -28. Prorogation of ParIia-
ment will take place on Wednesday
or Thursday of next week, at .the
lateen
NORWEGIAN LOSSES
AS RESULT OF THE WAR.
A despatch from London says:—
Norway lost during the was 831 ves-
sels, aggregating close 'on to 1,250,-
000 toms,-atccording to official s'batis-
ties. In addition 33 vessels of .ap-
proximately 69,000 tone were dam-
aged by German tsubmerin:es.
One thousand one hundred/ and
twenty jives were lost 3a these dis-
asters.;
WILL MAINTAIN DISCIPLINE •
IN NAVY, SAYS GOVERNMENT
A tieepgtrh from Copenhagen says:
—The British Government has issued,
orders in which ft says i't.w'ill stip-
port the officers atmaintainingtlle-
cipline in the navy. The or.det• calls
for ail tanic;s to co-operate in -carry-
ing out the tern's of 'the armistice.
WILL ADMINISTER
ALSACE-LORRAINE
A despatch from Paris says: Leon
Siben, 'Advocate -General to the Paris
Court of Appeals, has been appointed
Director of Sustice for the provinees'
of Alsace laid L ori'dine,
The Ane,aes'' t)istributeita of Iron I
Cr'ossea.
One of Pie moat gallant officers tells
me, 4Jayd a writer in the "London
Evening News, than' an Augtralian
platoon had a gay interlude during
tire.tecen, t
a�i
0 or tons in which they
so severely drubbed "Jerry." Thep
rushed a German General's heed
junrterit, and found there, among
other soneenirs,,•it box of brand new
iron crosses ready for issue to the
Hong. The Anzacs rose to the oc-
casion, and as soon as they got a few
minutes •"breather•" they held an in-
vestiture of their own a0ooed,' Tho
men 'Med up, and each oil them had
on er 'q'
aII 11 oS. selOratnl
pinned to hie
s
breast by a N,C.O.
Montreal, •Nov. 1.9, ---Oats, extra No.
1.. eed, 98e. Flour, new sierac and
grade,. $11,80 to $11.40. Rolled oaten
bags 00 lbs., $4.85 to $4.90, Bran,
$87.25, Shorts, $42.25: Mountie,
868 to 370. Hee No, 2, perton. ear
lobs. $24 to $25, Cheese, -finest
easterns- 24%, to 25c, Butter,
ohoiceat creamery, 49 to 50c. Eggs,
selected, 50 to 54e; No, 1 stook, 49e.
Potatoes, per `b }g, ear lots, . $1.60.
Dreosetl hogs abattoir killed, $28.50
to $24,00. Lard, pure, wood pails,
20 lbs. net, 81. to Sir.
Live Stock Markets,
Torbhto, Nov, 19.-•0hoice ;leave
$'t
steers, 3.00 to $13,50; butehors'
'rattle, o leo, $11.,00 to $11.75; do,,
cod, $10.50 to $10,75; do, medium,
8.50 to $0.00; do, eon -Anon, $7,50 to
7,75; butcliers-
, bulls theme, 89. f
$10,0 `
, 7i
n 0, do, medium bulls, 58.50
to $8.75; .do. 5'oagJt bullar $7.25 to
$8,00' butchers' cows, choice, $0.50
to $10,00; do, good, $1,25 to ;rail
cep, legion, $7,50 to $8,00; de, eteete
Mon/ $6.50 to $7.00; s'tockees, .$7.50
to $10.25; feeders, $10,00 to $1.1.00;
canners and eaters, $4,50 to $5.00;
milkere, geed to choke, $00,00 to
$100.001 do, corn, and teed., $65.00
to , 75.00; •s rig' ere 890
00
$ , g to160`
li3itt oWos, $ ,
00 io $21,001 ."eerie;
Swed .Frani 'The than— hese ievc L tti@,
French ch
ildron writ •rejoic..
at the downfalls of the enemy. "Hod they eived nest door to where they
did 'they would have been blown to atom's; as it was they lost both their
parents in the deetrncbion of their home.
WARSAWIN HANDS
$Fri �
OF POLISH TROOPS
German Civil Governor Has Fled
For Protection.
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A despatch from Berne says:Vienna
advices say that Polish soldiers have
occupied the Royal Palace and Bel-
videre at Warsaw, and also the mili-
tary commander's quarters..
They also have taken possession
of the German military automobiles
arid' arms and munitions. Polish offi-
cers are directing the German de-
mobilization.'
Poles hold the post and telephone
stations ' connecting with Vienna.
The German police have been dis-
armed.
Count Lerchenfeld-Moefering, the
German civil administrator, has fled
to Brigadier -Generale Joseph Pil-
sudski, of the Polish legion, for pro-
tection.
GIANT • WAVES
In Mid -Ocean and in Cold Regions
the Waves Are IIighest.
It is not only in winter weather that
gales are experienced at sea. Some
of the most terrible storms occur dar-
ing the heat of summer, andthehigh
seas that run ashore after the event
ere the delight of holiday -sightseers.
Waves at the seaside are, however,
totally different and very puny oom-
pated with those in mid -ocean. A
Queenstown steamer reports waves
of 100 feet in height during a recent
Atlantic .gale:• Waves of 50 feet to
75 feet high are common to the At-
lantic; but it is to the Indian Ocean
that we look for those of really 31-
gantic stature: Cold regions also ex-
perience immense seas. Wasberg,
Norway, can claim a wave of 400 feet
in height.' Even' in England a mon-
eter of approximately 300 feet once
bombarded the Cornish, coast:
Chebucto, Nova Scotia, has an -in-
genious device hp whhich:the velocity,
length and height of waves aro tested.
This apparatus extends some distance
along the sea-bed, and earthquakes
far-off regions can be judged by this
means.
BRITISH CASUALTIES
LAST WEEK OF WAR
A despatch front London says:—
Casualti•es in the British ranks re-
ported in the week -ending on Thurs=
dsy total 80,535 officers and men,
divided as folloons: Officers ---Killed
or died of wounds, 387; wounded or
messing, 1,040; 'total, 1,436. men—
Killed
enKilled oe died of wounds, 6,237;
mounded or missing, 22,862; total,'
29,099.
40,000,000 PEOPLE
FACE FAMINE
impossible ,to Send Relief 'to
Central Russia.
A despatch from Washington says:
—Relief for the suffering millions in
Bolshevik -controlled Central- Russia
furnishes •a problem which the allied
and Anneecan Governments`irave se
yet been unable to •solve. Itt feet,
one official says, that not even a me-
thod of eo'luti.on had been' determined
upon.
It its now regarded as practically
certain that it will be impossible 'to
get food to .the 40,000,000 people in
this territory this winter. With food
now scarce and anarchy rampant, of-
ficials here fear that famine is inevi-
table-, and that the toll of 'death may
reach astounding figures.
Officials said that conditions ' in
Siberia and Northern. Regia were
rapidly improving, while .in Bessaree
bi.a and Ukrainie, good order is being
m'aintain'ed. The lJlt•rainians are
said to have viotuelly cleared their
country of Germans, while . Besserae
bre, by a plebiscite, has determined
to become a part of Rumania.
GRAND FLEET CELEBRATES
SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE
A despatch from London says: A
marvellous night scene was witnessed
oaf the Scottish coast when the Grand
Fleet celebrated the armistice. On 'a
30 -mile line 'warships of every des-
cription were' simultaneously illumin-
ated. Myriads of sirens blew off cre-
ating an awesome sound. Hundreds
of searchlights played fantastically.
Fireworks and star shells were light-
ed. The celebrations, after lasting
an hour, ceased as suddenly as they
began.
ALLIED FLEET HAS PASSED
THROUGH THE DARDANELLES
A despatch franc London says: The
allied fleet has arrived off Constan-
tinople; having passed through the,
Dardanelles Tuesday, the Adimiraity
announces. British and Indian troops
occupying the forts paraded 5t the
ships passed. r-----._.-
LIBERATED ITALIAN CIVILIANS
BEING FED FROM THE SKY
A despatch from Washington says:
Capron{ airplanes are being used by
the Italian Supreme Gourmand to
transport emergency nations to the
famished citizens of the liberated
cities of Italy, and also Polo. and
Fiume, said an official despatch from.
Rome. .
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The Fatal Lotter Which Started 'The War—NoTisza .is ..dead
.from
tho pistol of an assassin and he ICaier wishes 'that the stealer er 'batt never
been written.
COLD, CALCULATED
HEARTLESSNESS
Germans Assembled Civilians
Under, White Flag. and
Opened {+ire.
A despatch from the Eritislt-Am-.
orican Armies in the Yield eci's: In.
stances of German mistreatment of
the cavil population of villages in
France which Were recently taken by.
'the British -American armies are num-
erous,, but perhaps none shows the
cold and calculated hoaxtlessnoes of
tho enemy than -the' following story,
which was :.related to the eorreepond-
ettt by one oil the initabitttnts of the
littlo town of St. $ouplee, near: St.
Quentin, ,.
An atteelt her. the Ileitislr and
American forces was impending'. The
Germans expected it, and informed
the population that if they gathered
in the local church and put up a
white sheet as a flag, they wo 1d be
spared by the advancing allied troops,
They did so. The Germain sweet were
driven out by the British and Amor.'
Mans. When they reached a point: of
vantage, however, they turned their
guns on the church. Several persons
were killed and many wounded.
When the allied troops entered the
village they found the church shatter-
ed, the occupants terrified, and ;many,
of their number ,lying prostrate ort
the floor, dead or wounded.
THE SAD TRAIL HOMEWARD
Thousands .or French Civilians Trudge
Back to Ruined Villages.
Gunner W. ,,A. Murton, Canadian
Yield Artillery, writes the following
from France, on October 20:
It's a long way from Amiens to
Donal and Gambrel. It's still longer
when the road is wet and muddy and
it's raining. But when. you have pas-
sed the age of three score years, and
ten, And you've got to lug all your
household goods and penates it surely
is a tong, long trail. Add that was
done last week by several thousand
french civilians. Iieinie- got all he
wanted from them, and he got the
wind up and let them go. He told
-them the British would be along in a
day or two and that would' he the
end of the civilians. The civilians
doubted our ability to improve on Ger-
man methods of illtreating them.
They watched Roinie take all their
horses and cattle and produce end
start for the Rhine. Then they asked
him mildly, "Ou allez-voue 'deuce Au
Paris?"—toParis
(Where?) are you going new
When the British reached the, lib-
erated ones it was early in the morn-
ing. Soon they all started ball: to
their homes, or back from the hated
belt where for four years the iron
heel had' held them fast. Old men
and women poured down the Cambial
road all day. Whenever possible the
army trucks and.wagons gave them a
lift, the army cooks held cups of trot
tea to their thin, bloodless lips; sol-
diers carried little tots barely able
to walk, while women clung to babes
on the breast as they trudged along
over the wet cobbles. And .every one
of them wore that half -nourished look
of a people who had known real bond-
age unci real hunger, and who must
indeed have wondered often when the
hand of vengeance wonli rise against
the foul thing that was in their midst.
I saw stern Highland faces, faces of
that great Highland, division,
which is now immortal, grow very
white and bard as this wonderful pro-
cession passed. On every side one
could bear a ntutttered curse et the
nation who had committed this' cow-
ardly crime, and human nature cried
out in wild indignation that this must
not "go. unpunished, that a day of re-
tribution would have to come.
POTATOES AND GOLD
Variety Known as Irish Really Was
Found' in Peru.
The gold of the Indies was the at-
traction that led Columbus to snit
westward, that carried C,a'tez to
Mexico and Pizarro to Peru. The
Incas had largo stores of the prec-
ioue metal, representing, no doubt;
the accumulations of many centuries.
The capture of such a booty resound-
ed through Europe: Spain Weenie
foe a time the wealthiest, as well as
the most powerful, nation of Europe,
and this was ascribed to the gold of
Peru.
But Peru . had another treasure
much mole valuable for the nations
of Europa than the golden booty of
Pizarro. Carrying the potato to
Europe was an event of much more
profound significanco in relation b
the subsequent history of the world
than sending tbo Inca gold to the
coffers of Spain.But nobody under-
stood the value of tho potato, and
its Peruvian origin was generally
forgotten beforethe plant boctune
well,itiown. Instead of Peruvian po-
tatoes we call them Irish potatoes.
Tl' !
Mc potato was' the basis of ttte I
a'mitont Peruvian nation, and has
attained almost the same import-
ance in _other "Barts of the -world
witbir, the last l0(1 years:
Best lie Ceuld I)o.
Ie was mother's birthday, and her
small son,' Bobby, was vory anxious
to give hor a present. Thifertunatoly,.
however, the recent holidays had
somewhat depicted the change In Bob-
bp,
„1 say, mother,,' he asked, "would
nay drawing slate be of 'pity use to
yotl ?0'
"No, dear; I don't think it would," t
oho replied with a smile.
"Well, do you thinle you would' like
to have my tin steamboat?"
"I'io, thank yea, my: little man,"
answered mother.
"I say', mother, ie a happy thought
struck, hini, "I'll toll you what I'll do, b
I'll take a dose of custom cit for you w
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PLANS ARRANGED
Cabinet Committee and Depart,
'mental , Officers l'fold
Conference,
A despatch from Ottawa says:*
Deteile. of tbo plates under which
Canada's troops et bonus and over-,
zeas will Be de'ntobilized and return-
ed t'o civil life were discussed by
the Cabinet .committee on 'reeonstroo-
'tion and de•Nelopntonit nue departmurlt
offieiftle in cotrferenee and by the
Mini Eters 'itt eouneiI. The problem
which weal in the near future cop-
front the Goveynmettt involves, first,
the mdlltary pre/eves, of tranispoeting
the men.aud did'darging them front
the army; and s�eoondby, their as -
emulation in the hid/menet life
the country. In the sohition of th
problem three departments are co
corned: the Depa'rtmeiit of 1liiItti'a,
the Department of Soldier's' 'Civil Re
establlsbmeitt, and the Soldiers' Lan
&ettlemennt Board, a branch of tit
Interior Department, That being so
the Government is, it is. understood
appointing a committee whose da
will be to co-ordilnste-,tate action e
these various bodies,
Steps are being taken to 'ascestai
the previous oece/nactions of the eel
dietrc, arrangements' Which any
them have made to return to thoi
:fernier' employment, and the prefer
maces they may have tie to their fu
biro place in oivil life, Simulbano
ei
tq y there will be created agaane
whereby the Central Gdtrernmen
may be kept informed of opporetunitia
in different parts of •the country fo
absorbtion 'ef returned /soldiers
into industry. The effort then wit
be so to regulate the release of men
from the army that the labor marks
rimy net become congertod.
In .connection with le military pro-
cess of demobdiza,ien 7t is under-
stood that tele' ,troops in Canada will
be first disbanded. Of thcsc there
are: some 40,000 on duty, 10,000 in
hospitals, and 16,000 who have been
freed from military service. Move-
ment of invalided soldiers in hos-
pital •chips from Engle -eel to Canada
will continue nes during the years of
War. Some • other troops front
overseas', moreover, nary be tram -
ported to this country before many
itifIAZING DEED
DF A AIRDIAN
NOVEL METHOD .0I+ DESTROYING
.AN BN'tC'i14IY B1W)GE
An Aeroplane Ohxerror Placed EX -
plosive Charge While Pilot gaged Atte:WWWon o1' Grturd,
The bridge was thirty miles bee
hind the German linos. It had ee be
destroyed, and quickly too, So it was
decided to do it in rather A. novel tvay,
A Iwo-seatot' aeroplane teas detail-
ed for the worts, and after careful
study of the map of tbenoighborbood
of the bridge, the two airmen flew
away in the moonlight across the Ger-
man lines until they arrived at the
e river over which the railway passed.
n• The pilot throttled the engine, swept
down to the ground, and landed in a
fish near a wood: Out jumped the
d obs rver, arid the pilot put on bis
e engine end climbed up into the air
again, while the observer ran to the
, wood and began to creep quietly
ty through it to the river.
f Arrived at the bank a few hundred
yards from the bridge, he waded waist
n deep into the water, and made his
way as quietly as he could in the
of:,shadow of the bank toward the bridge,
✓ Meanwhile the pilot was drawing
the attention of the guards of the
bridge by flying round and round a
few hundred feet above, and continu-
e ally diving down and letting them
have a few rounds from his machine
e gun.
or Pried Out a Brick.
A loaded troop train which was
1 about to pass stopped, and the men
crowded to the windows to see what
t was happening. The airman then
entertained, them with a couple of
bombe which he dropped uncomfort-
ably near the train.
All this time the observer had been
creeping unnoticed to the bridge, and
was -now' underneath it, feverishly
prying out a brick from one of the
arches. At last he got it out, and
.put in the cavity a strong explosive
charge.. Above him he could hear the
clamor of the circling aeroplane, th0
tapping of the machine gun and the
occasional crash of a bomb. He start-
ed the fuse and waded back till he
thought.he was far enough away from
the bridge, climbed up the hank, and
hurried through the moonlight and
the dim shadows of the wood till he
reached the place where he had drop-
ped from the aeroplane, and waited.
Soon he saw' the machine coming
down. 1t landed, ran along toward
him, and he climbed in. .lust as he
bed got settled down in his place
he saw a great red flash light up the
woods, and he heard the roar of the
exploding charge under the bridge.
The pilot pushed forward the throt-
tle, the aeroplane, rushed over the
'grass and. shot into• the air. Below
lay the dim wood and the glittering
river, now crossed by no hard black
line; for the centre section ,of the
bridge was missing, and the damaged
Willi faced a g'ap it could not pass.
A "FREE CITIZEN" OF RUSSIA.
An Incident Which Illustrates a Rue-
eian's Idea of "Freedom."
The Russians were so long unac-
ignainted with a reasonable degree of
i freedom that It is not astonishing that
since the revolution they often carry
their new-found "Iiberty" to fantastic
lengths, A member of tine first Ameri-
can Railwray Commission to Russia
tells in the Journal entitled Russia an
amusing incident that lie observed.
While walking along the Novsky
Prospect in Petrograd one morning we
saw, he says, a line of street cars that
had evdently been blocked; in front
of .the foremost car was a crowd of
people. As we entered the crowd we
saw a roan standing on the track and
arguing with tho motorman. The
niotorman was pleading with him to
got off the track so that he could pro-
ceed with his car, and the man was
maintaining that Russia was a free
country, that he had just as much
right on the tra.cic as the ear bad, and
that ho did not intend to move until
he was personally inclined to do so.
A number of soldiers looked on, but
no one attempted to remove the man
from the track, and neither the mo-
torman nor the conductor attempted
to move the oar, but-resortod solely
to moral suasion. The argument that
finally induced tho man to move was
to the effect that the motormen was
a lrard•working man and had to get to
the car barn; the longer he toes hold
them the longuer it would take him
to got through his work, and would
not his brother workman. please get
Off the.track so that ho could get the
cal' to the barn? With that the "free
citizen" politely bowed, folded Ills
arms and moved off the track, the
erowd dispersed and tite cars went on
their way,
KILLING GERMS IN BOOKS
Simple Apparatus Used in Conduct-
ing the Gra Attack.
Almost the first thing to meet the
eyes of :French hygienists in their
war -time cangaaign for protecting
the younger generation was their
old enemy, the circulating book, well
known as a carrier of disease. The
many obvious solutions of the pro-
blem showed one disadvantage: while
killing the germs they destroyed the
book also.
For the method perfected by Dr.
Marsoulan, and now practised in the
Institute for Wounded - and Infirm
Workmen at Montreuil, it is claimed
that for one-fourth of a cent for
each book, and with safety to op-
erators, books can be sterilized with-
out the slightest injury. Two pieces
of very simple apparatus are used:
a heater and a disinfector.
The beater is a long box open at
one end and communicating at the
other with an ordinary stove. In-
side the beater are wooden rods so
arranged that the turning of a handle
will cause them to strike on the books
placed on a sliding frame. As the
rods beat the books, the heavier par-
ticles of dust fall out firth a tra of
disinfectant below, and the lighter are
carried by an exhaust fan to a stove,
wher they arc burnt.
Thr. books are hung. open, by
spring clips from a skeleton frame-
work. and wheeled into the disinfect-
ing' chamber, which is equipped with
a tank containing a solution of tor-
maideltydo. The temperature is
raised to 120 deg. F., the formalde-
hyde kills the germs, and the fumes
are carried off by a funnel.
"- Ui'il<hl-�N CANADA.
portions of the Dominion Which Are
Not- Fully Explorer.{.
,/t is seldom realized that about a
fourth of the continental part of Cana-
da, or nearly a million square miles,
must be regarded as unexplored. That
is the estimate or Mr. Charles Cain.
sell of tate Canadian Geological Sur -
Ley, who doscribes the principal unex-
plored areas in a recent issue of the
Geographical Review.
Me. Camsell classifies them in three
types. Two thirds of all unexplored
Canada lies in the Laurentian Plateau.
—a net area of ancient rooks that ex-
tends in a U-shaped conformation
retool Hudson Ilay froth the Atlantic
Coast of Labrador to the line of great
lakes conaitting of Winnipeg, Athabate
ka, Giett Slave and Great dear, Its
rocky lake -studded surface makes it
unsuited to agriculture oven in the
south, where the ethniato is suillciont-
ly mild. Minerals forte the resources
of the region. Tile second type'ol
country is represented by the great
central plains of the continent, About
one hundred and ton thousand square
utiles of the unexplored regions on
both sides of the Mackenzie River are
of that typo, mttclt of it probably suit.
ed to agriculture. The third type Is
tbat of the Cordillera, whirh htcledes
territory west of the illaekenzio River
—about ono Needled and thirty thous.
mid square miles. The chief valae of
hat area is probably its utht,rae re«
sottrdits.
Canade, Wins Fifty Crosses.
i Seven Canadians a
No fewer, that p
pear in the recent list of VC.'s. Title
rings the number of Victoria Crosses s
on by Canadian soldiers in the
'esent war to fifty, It le a wonder• t
fu record. The fleet Canadian V,1, l
as Lance -Corporal Fisher, tvho was
tenvied the Cross foe e. deed of mage .1
ficent courage at the second battle 1.
'Ypres. Australia follows closely
t the noels of Canada with thirty o
fVele
is
emoteSix v.C.•, have gone t
tos, . a n u New
it end two to South Africa; Wand., t A n,
can
To Develop Natural Resources.
The Greater Winnipeg Water Die-
trict is planning to develop its own
r "stt f es and at immediate
P uzc n t survey of
those wilt be made. Heretofore, it
has been the praettee to approve of
permits to private parties to cut tim-
ber in the District, It is expected
Brat large quantities of cedar posts
and poles, pulpwood• and other timber
will be cut and ntarkettel urxder tho
new plan. The resulting traffics will
also Iralp to pay the running expenses
of the construction x'ailway tvlii,.h
cost over $1,000,000 to build stud
which it is now hoped to make perm-
anent.
,
"4lnun sin o l 1
t t f Salt Cr „ta .
I'rlostino possesses a remarkable
mountain situated at rho south
encl ai the Dead Sea. The length of
he ridge is six mike, with an ttvmr•-
t ge width of three-quarters of a '.uric',
and the height is not fur from sit
tuntlged ;fact. There are planet where
he overlying earth deposits :aro
irony foot in thiglcnees, but the meat •
E h • t tt ' •mg' r se 1 of :tend .
tc.tnottatnist ac
1
'tiltt salt, eoree of which is as elver
�.e crystal,
'The tree knows its truth and drops
the unsound and evinces take no
stock in unsound nuts and rats desert
a wining ship, ?ot a men with his
God ivon factltioa will acep cows
that produce less, than 150 pouttde of
buttereCat In a year,
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