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TRIED BY ALLIED COURTS
. The -Fenner Rulers of; Bulgaria', 'Austria' and Tnricer Will Be
Brought 1.1, Iute:tice as well as the Hohe.trzollerns.
A deepatell from, London seee;e-
fler Auckland Geddes, Preeldene a the
Locial Government Boni del Mile,.
(er of National Sorvice, in public fl.d.
klreSfig• 881(1 that the line of pollee ad-
vocatea by the Conlitime GOV01.1181ent
VA1F3 a peat* within, so ear as the
enemy powere were coned:reed, (Mould
be based, on stern just'
ice and so ear
asthose men who plannedawe started
the ewer were concerned, sbould be
emulated on jesetee of the nature
meted out M the bisect:it mute ef the
land, Simile men as the eoruier Ger
-
"flan En:Devon Enver Pasha and the
former rider; of Belgaria and Aus-
tria, would be placed on trial and if
fettled guilty their liges would be for-
feited.
eMei guilty a unepeakaele Mina -
ties upon Ziar PrIsenere and upon the
civilian inhabiteute of the Weeded
lands," he centinuod, "Mest fitand tele!
end le they are otinfleenied must fed-
fer death,"
et bad to be proved how far the
Commanders oe Imbue:trines acted un-
der ordere, wheeh they had to carrY
out aincler pain of death, oe haw far
they acted oo their own eminent, he
Pointed out, ,bot JR • the etgocities at
sea were donhuitted. ell the volition ne
indleidual comnididers, /to • declared,
Sum too, must =ger the extreme
penalty, •
"To -day is the day'of reckoning tor
out enemiem," :mid the Mieleter, "and
they will have to pay to the uttermeet
earthieg what it is possible to bring
out of them."
QUEEN'S MESSAGE
TO BRITISH WOMEN
Her Majesty Calls on Women of
• - Empire to Work For Good
of Country.
_A despatoh from Ottawa eays:-
The foliate -lug message from her
Majesty the Queen to .the wpmeri of
the Empire has been receivedehy his
1 Exeellerecy the Governor-Generel; .
"A few menthe ago, at the height:
r.-
Oleg- of our anxiety and strain, I sent a
message in the name of the women
of our lands to our men fighting for
es aerate the seas. • New, in an hour
of thankfulnese and hope, I should
like to give a enes,sage to the women
of the Empire. During the war they
have been given the high Privilege
of service; they have risen to the
great. opportunity, and have proved
th;ir •coteraie; steacifaitness`and abil
. • ity. I have been allowed o watch,
and appreciate their week in many,
parts of the country, and my heart
is 'eull of 'admiration and gratitude
for what I have seen.
"I earnestly trust thab though the
thrill and glemor of war is over, tho
spirit of self-sacrifice and helpfulness
which it has kindled will not wane in
the 'coming days. A now era is dawn-
ing upon the world, bringing with it
many difficulties, fresh reeponsibil,
itiee and serious problems to be faced.
Parliament bat secured for the whole
country greater opportunities of more
thorough and varied edueation, but
it Neill depend upon the parents
whether these oppertunfties aro used
to the full,
"Mee all rejoice that plans are afoot -
for bringing: to an end the existence
makes home 14e,alinost impoasible.
2,475 of These Sent to Bottom
To -clay more then ever the Empire
needs her daughters, for, in the larg- With Their CreWS Beneath .
et' world of public and indus trial Them.
_ work, women aro daily taking
more important place.
A despatch 'from London says:-
"As we have been united• in all our
work, evhether a head or hands, in a
real sisterhood of suffering end ser-
vice during the war, let ue go on
:working together with the same unity
of purpose for the resettlement and
• reconstruction of our country.
"(Signed) Mary R."
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MANY LANGUAGES
AT PEACE TABLE
Diversity of Races Will be Pre-
sent' at.Wersailles Conference.
A despatch from Paris ',says:-
Translators in 23 eanguagos, inelud-
ing Chieese, Arabic, Torkisli, and
some not even so well known, have
been called for by BrigoGeneral
William W. Harts, who is direating
the equipment of the American peace
delegatee,. The number required is
indicative of the diversity of the
races anel countries before the Peace
Conference, either through participa-
tion in the war or by reason of
teeatiee. or other relations.
The full list of languages com-
prises French, Italian, Greek, Japa-
nese, Spanieh, Montenegrin, Nor-
wegian, Bulgarian, German, Hun-
garian), Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese,
Neigh,' Swedish', l'etsiang Russian,
Serbian, Armenian, Czech, Rumanian,
Daniell and Arabic: This; with
English, makes the quota 24.
-The 'knowledge cof c the .languages
possessed by translators must be
complete in order to get the precise
meaning of treaties and documents,
and not the ordinary -speaking knowl-
edge.
The first effore will be directed at
obtaining translators from e aniong
college men or army men, and should
these be lacking others from various
civilian occupations will be taken. '
5,622 BRITISH
oe such ba and crowded housing as
SHIPS SUNK
RUSSIA' TURNS BACK
1,500,000 PRISONERS
despatch :from London says -The
Russian Government has refused to
. «draft 1,500,000 Russian soldiers wive
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have been prieonets in Germany and
'Tia s turned thorn back to the frontier,
according to a Berlin despatch to the
Espeess under date of Monday. The
incident is serious for Germany be.
cause of the necessity of feeding these
111811. Canada has contributed over 4,00,-
Tt es teported that the Russian 000 men to the war, and her soldiers
prisoners have seised four ships at have been, since February, 1915, in
Danzig, West Prussia, which the Brit-
the forefront of the struggle. At
present there aro 295,000 Canadiana
ish Red Cross had obteened from the
Germans for the perpoie of housing on the other side of the Atlantic,
British prisoners.
During the war 2,475 British ships
were sunk with their crews beneath
them, anti 8,147 vessels were sunk
/led their crews left adrift, accord-
ing to a statement by Si; Eric Ged-
des; First Lord of the Admiralty, in
an addressin support of a fund by
the wcirnen f theEMpire to' erect' a
memorial toe Britieh merchant • sea-
men, Fishing vessels tothe num-
ber of 670 had been lost during the
period of, hostilities, an& the -mer-
chant marine service had sufeered
casoatties exceeding 15,000 men, Sir
Erie added.
WHAT CANADA HAS DONE
Her Contribution in the Struggle for
Justice and Freedom.
AGle.EEMENT IS EXPECTED
ON TWO MAIN QUESTIONS
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A despatelt from London says -
Iwo questions, understood to be en- _required for war have been raised in
gaging tho minds of the Premiers the Dominion, the voluntary contd.
especially are the freedom of the sees bution for the war amounting to near-
= which they expect to arrive at anly a hundred aiilhion dollars. The
epee:nein for presentation at Vey:: =gent, need of ehepe brought the
..uoilles,eandeltalyte claims on the Adm.- clevelopment'in building, and 20 eihips
atic, affecting the new Juan -Slav are now. being: constructed, with a
State, me which an • understanding totAl tonnage} Munched this year of
eateguarding italees position without 450,000 dead-weight capacity. -
Canadian war work has been not-
able. Two thousatid nurses baye
gone OV.C1.%eti.f4 and 80000 women em-
ployed in inueitiolie. Sixty million oe
shells and 18,060 tone of componeet
parts and 100,000,000 pounds of high
explosives have been produced.
CANADA KEPT
IN BUTTER TWO MONTI/S
A despatch from Ottawa says -The
dairy industry throughout Canada
will rejoice to 10:11.0, says a rood
leofird sbatement, that its patriotic
service, rendered in the rowet eupply
of butter tor export, to Greet Britain
to runt a pressing: divergency there,
has met with the most cordial ap-
predation from the British earthed.
ties and the people generallee
It is =Only due to Camulit that
A deepatch from Ameterdem sap: the- 131"Htell lettl;et ream.
-The Dasseldeee Naehriehten, though it wao, was maintained in
copy a which ba e beeu reeeivod beim, the lest two months oe, war.
Y$ (Ida Nuclant, president of tire • .4
leverich .ATIXIISLIGO commission at Spa, ileatited to Help Both,
hoe on:dented a tido to thc: eidigatin
eutionission denier:cling for ille first
' month 1.01! the Iteiti*sh troops of cc,
cupation 40,000,000 marks, end for
the French troops 54,000,000 nnitece.
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Conscription en leurepe
• May be Abolished by Congretee
under the command of Sm Arthur
Currie. One hundred thousand or
over are marching toeverds the Rhine.
Canada hue established a fleet of
patrol vessels, and an aircraft branch
is under construction. A largo part
of the financial eeSources of Canada
coffipeoutising' the. Stego-Slaes' terri-
torial aed ethnological righte is being'
, worked out.
Canadiae Army Saddle Home
Beings $1,600 i Loudon
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A despatch from London says -
Canadian erinec horses brought satie-
factery returns at a sale here, The
= Clenedian =Miele brought double the
price Paid for New Zealand animals.
The Catradian teams Wete well matche
rd and groonmeand were at tho top
. tho London market. A pair
ecddinge was sold to a London cartage
eampitee for $1,600, while, o Weeteen
Kiddie Meese eold eel! $1,600e
'GERMANY'S FIRST PAYMENT
TO VIE ARMY OF OCCUPATION
A deaptetch 'from Dintelen slayer --
IVO lbetish eepreeentativos at the
• Peace Confeetige 111111 eleteanch
eral end absoltite abolition oe eon-
eeription theettgliotil, lIeerope,
'
A little boy at school saw his' leach-
er faint awl foil. In the coefueion 11.
1111])014:411)10 to lecep so inaey heads
cool, end the litthaones flocked round
the 111180118(11011fi lady and her smut-
thetie colleaguem. I3ut this Wall bey
kept betel hie color. arid Iris epolnces,
Standing on a bench and eaising
his liend, Ile exclaimed; "Please, tea-
cher, can 1 run and fetell father? Tee
nulece
Dampneee is the greutest CALM
clii!CaSe 811101)P pouRty,
"'"'" • r-kets !"",,r
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thelorlo SPECIAL ORDER:
• TO• • CANADIANS
CTIMBING THEIR DELIVERETtS-Sehool'boye111 Ostend;'oephaneeladur
Ing the our yews of German occupation, demonstrate ender the leaders le)
of their eeseilter Similar scenes havo Woe witnessed in all the delive ed
towns, . •
"EVACUATION
SEMI"
STRANGE SIGHTS THAT WERE
SEEN ON YIELDED GROUND.-
ReeesetinghFamillar Territory After
Enemy Withdrawal During
Final Days of the War.
We were be a timber shaft sunk in
the hilleide 'behind trees, The ob-
serving -sergeant sat on a stool•behind
the great telescope,
"Fritz is evacuating this salient,"
he said.
"Tell that to the' marines," I
laughed.
"It's true enough. Every night you
can see the fires behind his lines."
"This ground is too valuable to
give up," I objected. "And he still
shells heavily."
"That's bluff -easily managed with
a few circus guns. Look!"
He pointed over the vast plain,
pearly with autenm haze. Even with
the naked eye I could see smoulder -
wrack and smolce-sereens dvifting
1181`Oss Jerry's front, They.. trailed
alc;ng like heavy plumes of smoke be -
heed steamers.
"It's some Deck of Johnny's," I
murmured sceptically.„,
"It is. Bat not*the trick you think.
He's got to -go. In a week's' time
you'll see."
I did. One day our lorries, howitz-
ers and travelling kitchens parked
up where, a few hours before, it was
forbidden to show your nose. Brigades
had mysteriously vanished forward,
and dug -outs were vacant. It was
intoxicating to be able to move *da-
y, with tin• -d
about a village through which earlier
in dread of hostile observation and
fire, you flitted in *irking suspense.
Fritz had withdrawn, fighting
rearguard actions.
Revisiting familiar ground after
enemy occupstion shocks the sense
and thrills it. The Uwe has been
wrecked. To identify the waste you
muse close your eyes and bring up
front memney the square it once was.
you rnuat iovisuallse in the ' d the
proud streets that are now mere lanes
between rank rubble -heaps.
There, where some green shutters
swing on shrapnel -bitten walls, was1
Jeanne's famous fruit shop and aign-
1(15 111S0.
I
B I • 1 tl d fe front
of our old estaminet the tinsel ball
and glasses and chairs appear to bide
durably our teture. sewing
machine lies rusting on the pavement.
that • • t d
ing, the intimate interiors are a mess
of smashed furniture, with bookslet-
ters, and pietures scattered round.
Out beyond, laber companies with
piek and shovel, R.E.'s with 'cable for
telephone lines, salvage men and
gunners, wander about, casting niece-
tified glances :wee the sloping fields
towards Fritz's observation balloons
topping the distant scarp.
Triumph of Advance.
Later exhilarated soldiers sit along'
the roadside like'ftee and easy pick -
flickers, for while both sidee are mov-
ing their g'1111S the atmosphere is
quiet, care -free, and tinged with the
triumph of our advance.
The untidy road =deletes over
ridges between burnt hutments and
etricken trees. eferre's signe-"Acti-
tung," "Beobeehtungstelle," "Gas-
gefahr," etc., stencilled black on un-
painted board, stick up by the banks,
holes and log &ohm% where he deg
in, Tank .mbiet, boobyetraps, and
waste Shells abound, but explosiorice
are rare,
',the groups of workers move ot, and
these reeaptured roads,. patched and
cleaned tfp, stuck with the signs and
flap of our lorevard units, await
tha ex:canticle their will soon surge up,
--tea--
Never trim a:lamp-wick with scis-
Sere. It is almost:impossible to cut
it cleen and straight, • Just rub the
bur led part of it with an old cloth.
Squash, thenip, 'carrot or potatoes
wil be muth ,beeter if cooked ie the
eve 1. Add juat a little water: and
ecivee tight le an earthen digit.
HOW ROYAL FAMILY
MET DEATH,
Roxuaneffs Shot One by One no
Convent Cellar at
Ekaterinburg. •
A despatch .from. London seys--eA.
despatch to the Exchange Telegraph
from Ainsterdarn says the Kiev hews -
paper's publish a story, given by tee,
valet of the former E'mpress of Rus-
sia, of the murder of the entire
Romenoff family by the Bolsheviki.
According to this story the once -royal
family was compelled to live., in a
single room of a convent at Ekaterin-
burg for weeks before the murder,
=der guard of Bolshevik soldiers who
insulted them shamefully.
The valet said on July 17 all the
members of the family were taken to
the cellar of the convent and placed
against the wall and 'shot one after
the other. According to the story the
murderers granted the east request of
Ureecistelfe
„1.:;56ont;o,NDO:104, 1 ;0v1.-:::1/11:120,1510.1 ive41:eietn
-14o, 1 Northern $2,24% No, 2
Not:therm $2,21h, No,. 'lefertheen,
store Fort Wilfiam, tiot 'including tax.
Menitolea oats -No. 2 C.W., 801/20;
No. U,W., 171/2e; extra No, feed
77%e; extra, No. 1 eed, 771/80; No,.
1 feed, 751/8c, in store Port William,
81 A. 71110;e r 300;41-01Ny,0,40,,626; yisie19174,
$Y1e,1.14°0\%o$1$1.6.055; trsagnIcleP1Teerocr°1troll,' 1
8e8
fi
Onterio oats, new crop -Noe
White, 75 to 713e; No. 3 'white,. 74 te
770, according to freights outede,
Ontario Wheat -No, 1 Winter, per
car lot; $2,e4 to e2,2e; No. 2, doe
$2-11 to 82.19; No, $ do„ $2,07 to
$2.10; No. 1 Spin, $2.09 to $2.17;
No. 2 Spring, $2,00 to $2.14; No. 8
Spring, $2,02 to $2.10, Lohn selPe
ping points, according to freights.
Peas -No. 2, $2,00,
parlee-Malting, now cfron $1.00
to $1,.06, according. to freight* out-
side.
Buckvelleat-Ne. 2, 81.40,
• Rye -No. 2, 4,38, nominal.
Manitoba tour -Old erop, wee
quality, $11.35, Toronto.
Ontario flour -War quality, old
crop, $10.25, in begs, Montreal and
Toronto, prompt shipment.
Millfeed-Car .lots, delivered Mania
real freights, bags included: Bean,
$87.26 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton.
Hay -Ne. 1; $22.00 to $24.00 per
ton; mixed; '$20e00 to $21.00 per
ton, ,track Toronto. e
Straw-Cer tote, $10.00 to $1.0,80,
track Toronto.
Country Peoduce--Wholesale
Eggs -No. 1 storage, 53 to 54e;
selected, storage, 58 to 55c; cartons.
new -laid, 70 to 76c. Button, -
Creamery • solids, 51. to 53c; do.,
Prints, 53 to 65c; choice deire Printse
45 to 47c; ordinary dairy prints, 88
to 40e; bakers'; SO to 83e; eleomee-
gearine (best grade), 34 to ,35c.
Chee-se-New, large, 27 to 2Teeel
twins, 27 to 2714c; spring mede,
lame, 27 to 27e1ie; twins, 27 to 28e.
Comb Honey -Oleic°, 10 oz., $4.50
to $6.00 per dozen; 12 oz., $350 to
$4.00 per dozen,
the former Emperor Nicholas that Maple Syrup -in 6-pl. tins, $8.25,
his wife, who W88 ill, should die in
his arms. Provisione-Wholesule
According to the valet, the Greed Barrelled Meets -Pickled pork,
Duchess Tatiana was only wounded ;$48; mess pork, $47.
by the shots of the riflemen and was Green Meats -Out of pielele,, le
killed by blows from their rifle butts. less -than smoked.
All the bodies were burned in the out-
skirts of Ekaterinburg. •
Smoked Meats -Rolls, 32 to 33c;
hams, medier'
e 28. t o29e; heavy, 30
to 31c; cooked hams, 51 to 52c; backs,
plain, 40 to 47c; backs, boneless, 5
AN UNKNOWN LAND0
to 62c. Breakfast bacon, 42 to 47c.
Cottage rolls 35 to 36e.
Dry Salted Meets -Long claim, in
tons, 30e; in cases, 30%c; clear
bellies, 28 to 28%c; fat baeice, 26c.
The man in the street is, perhaps, Lard -Pure, tierces, 81 to 31%e!
more interested in Siberia to -day tubs, 31.34 to 32c; pails, 31 to 321e,e;
than ever before. 1± is an extra.. prints, 321/2 to 33c. Shortening,
tierces, 251/2 to 261,6e; tube, 25 to
ordinary land -one of the biggest,
and certainly the loneliest, on the 26c; pails, 26 to 2674c; 1-1b. prints,
globe. It contains nearly five million 27 to 27%c.
square miles, being bigger than Eur-
ope, and about forty-five times bigger
than the British Isles.
Siberia Contains One of the Seven
Wonders of .the World.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Dec. 10.-Oats-Extr3
Although ii, is about seven thousand ; 1 feed' 92%e. Flour -New .stan-
dard grade, $11.25 to $11.35. Rolled
times bigger, yet the population of oats -Bag 90 lbs, $4.86 to $5.00.
the whole of Siberia only exceeds by
a million that of Greater Loudon. an, $ S or a $42.25.
ouillie, $6S.0O to 87 0.00. 0. , Hay -
That means that there are hundreds No, 2, per ton, ear lots, $25.00 to
of thousands of square miles where a $26.00, Cleeese-Fincse easterno,
union being is need seen. 24 to 25e. Butter -Choicest cream -
The railway which connects Siberia ery, 51 to 52e. Eggs -Selected, 55c;
with Russia forma the peetest under- No. 1 stock, 50c. Potatoes -Per
taking of its kind the world.. The., bag, ear lots $1..70 to $1. (5. Dross -
111 total distance it covers 'from Petro- ed hogs-Ab'ette'dr killed: $24..80 to
gemcl to vadivostock is 6,621 miles, ti26.00. Lard -Pure, wood palls, 20
t 31 I
end to Port Arthur, 5,913 miles. s ne , to 32,4c,
At Yatusk, one of the chief cities
'of Siberia; is one of -the seven wond-
ers of the world. It has a frozen
steers, $18 . 50 to 814.00; he tcheri'
well of which no one has been able cattle, choice, $11 .30 to $12 .00; do.
to:find the bottom. In 1829'a Russian good, $10.75 to 811.25; do. medium,
merchant tried to find the depth of 3e,25 to 89.50; do. common, $7.75 to
the frozen stratum,' but thirty feet
down he gave up the task. Then the
Russian Academy of Science, took up
the digging, but at 382 feet the earth
was still frozen as. hard as arock.
The scieetists were puzzled. Natural
cold, they urged, could never periee,
trate to such a depth. No explanation
of Yakutsk's frozen well has yet been
found.
Live Stock Markets
A Marvellous Mask.
Science is making such rapid
tsrides that it seerns as though every
affliction before long will have Borne
sort of • remedy: Orie of the• most
astonishing of recent inventions is a
mask which aids' the blind to see.
/t has been invented by a Pole
narked Krinn-a soldier of the Foreign
Legion --and although its seepe is it
present limited, greet hopes are en-
tertained as to its Possibilities.
The face of the blind man is cov-
ered with the mask; connected with
which is an electric indention appal,
ates comprising prismatic lensee, a,
chamber for the filtration of luminous
rays and phosphorescent, plates. The
blind. man can distinguish all the
colo, White lights, and shatiows and
obiects in a white' light, •
In ote experiment a blind mimes
able through the mask to detect the
difference betweeu ;two and three
lingers when held up before him, and
also to distinguish different pleeee o.f
fueniture.
The world's richest ruby mine,
*which is in Remelt, is known to have
boon operated for at least two cen-
turies.
' AILIDS OE Tale feleAA--leritiale French and-Americhn sailers Colebratieg
the defeet of the Goemane by a littlo'party at Ostend, 'Phu din 10 Or; impor-
tant neneber of tho party. , . .
,
$8,00; bull, choice, $10.25 to $11.00;
do. medium bulls, $8.75 to 89.25; do,
rfrough b1ls, 47.50 to $8.00; butchers'
cows, choice, $10.25 to $11.00; do,
good, $9.25 to $e.50; do. medium.
$8.00 to $8.25; do. common, $7.00
to $7.75; stockers, $7.75 hi $10.50;
feeders, $10.25 to $11.25; canners,
$5.35 to $6.50; -milkers, good to
choice, $90.00 to $160.00; do. corm
and med.. $65.00 to $75.00; spring-
ers $90.00 to $160.00; light ewes,
89:50 to $10.50; 1:endings, 813.00 to
$18.50; spring Iambs, e13.50 to
$14.75; calves, good to theme, $16.0(1
CO $17.50; hogs, fed and watered,
$18.25,• do. weighed off cars, $18.60.
Montreal; Dec. 10, -Steers. $7.00
to $11.00; butcher's' cows, $7,00 to
$10.00; grass calves, $6.00 to $7.00;
milk -fed stock, $14.0.0 to $16.00.
Did You See Ilim?
Oh, did you see lay handsome son,
As he wont Marching by,
With head and hope and courage
• high?
IIe looked at me and smiled -and I-
I would not let him know • -
A sword had pleated my soul, and so
I met Me germ right eteadily.
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Oh, did you see my darling soil
As le Wa3 lying 10w?
The beget that SiINV 111111 laugh and
grow,
And sent him forth Lo mee± the foe,
Knows that. he bore him steadily -
But yet it sees him lie, and die •
And will until I go. -
(MI, yes, I eaw your handset= son
Come forth 'with conquering tided;
And I have eeen your darling son
Fend life tho' he were deed --
Yea, mina I've seen the glad surpriee
With Which he aliened Paeadiee,
What Foch --Said.
An amusing: story is told above
Marabal ;Poch. When the America:,
jouthaliste Were hi Ermice they once
encountered Poche chauffetre end
piled bier with queetions. Said one, "1
suppose you have often heard the
gorierel talk about the ware"
said the chauffeim, "he is a
versr silent man."
'Surely you have boned him shy
semething cebout the war?"
"No, monsieur, ho eavely talks," ,
"Do you mean to saY," aleirPed one
of ethe journalists, "that you never
hoard him say a single word about
the war or when it will end?"
. "Olt voe Oneo when be came
out of Goneral headquarters (hao all
the journalists took out their nbte
books) ,and was stopping ihto the
car, he said, 'My bravo ,Ttterities, when
will this terrible WWI' 8118 f "
SIX ARTHUR GURItele . ISSUES
STATAMENT TO TROOPS
'Asks 11ls Soldiers to Nolatain Tholr
Glorieue Record While Occupee
lug Gerinen Territore,
Sir Axle= Currie has issued tba
following epeeist order of the day to
the. Canadian troope fortning part of
the army of oceePationl ,
-"Soino of you have alreacly com-
Pleinced, while others are about to
march on the Rhine, liberating Bel- from the Pacific on an ice pack, are
giara in your edvefice, 70a few days both believed approaching the New
you will enter Germany and hold Siberian Islands, which jut out of tits
eertain parts in order to secure the Arctic Ocean off the mouth of the
fulfilment of the terms of tbe Lam'., River in Siberia. Atli:km:Mee
aemietice prelirothary to the peace credited with knowing the Aretie =-
rents believe the two will reach the
islands eaely next year.
No other explorers are new in' the
Arctic and it is thought very like)'
that neither Amundsen nor Storker-
son knows the other has the same
atrocities. on land as well as on sea, goal in mince They probebly will not
is heaten, famished, and at your meet, for Storkerson is expectedeto
mercy. Justice hae come. Itetribution arrive ahead of Ainundsee tendpro-
bably will land far west of Amend-
sen's course.
Amundsen, the discoverer of the
South Pole and navigator of the
difficult northwest passage, is on the
Yui, comrades are avenged. . You first lap of a journey to. the -North
hero demonstrated on the buttlefield Pole. Be expects to make the last
your .superior courage ana unfaltering
energy.
No itelaxatioa of Discipline.
By theeevill of God you have won,
marching tritunphantly through Bel-
gium. You will be received' every-
where as liberaters, but the kindness
and generosity of the population must
AMUNDSEN ADRIFT
. IN ARCTIC la
STORICBRSON ALSO IN NOMA
17014t SBYRRAL YEARS
Both Are Seeking New Lands and
Stndying the Careents end Lite
of Northern Ocean.
Two- Arctic explorers, Itonld Am.
erred= noted Norwegian, drifting in
Me ice:looked boat eastward from tho
Atlentie, end Storker Storkerson,
lieutenant of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
Cienadien oxp/orer, Boating westwof d
treaty., The 'rulers of Germany, hum -
Meted and deny/mile:4, have fled,
That uneetupulous nation, who in 1914
stet at naugirt every treaty and violat-
ed ever* moral obligation, who has
since perpetrated the most ferocioes
commences. During four long years,
cc:node-tee of the righteousness of yone
cause, you bave fought ninny battles
and endured cruel hardships and now
your mighty efforts are rewarded.
lap by airplanes. Storkerson is hound
hack in the general- direction of idyll-
ization after speediug several years
in the Arctic, Both are seeking .new
lends and studying the currents and
life of the torthern ocean.
When Amundsen _reaches . the Si-
berian Islands, the current, it is be-
lieved, will turn and carry him north.
not cause any relaxation 01 your dis-
He is expected to remain with the
drift until it lands him on the 1(11-
not yet completed and you muet rm
e-
armY ovable. ice far up le:neared the Pole.
main what you area -a closely knitted relieve,
according to his plans, he will
in grim and deadly =meet.
establish a •base and attempt to fly
German agents scattered through the the rest of the distance to the top of
cotnitey must not be able.. to report to• the 'globe.
their masters any -weaknese or ed.-. Storkerson, acording to his plates,
dence of dieintegration of your fight,
1115 130110V; I6 is essential that eta will leave his ice pack when it reaches
the Siberiau Islands. With his five
111011 he • will" come ashore' and .malce-
his way bach to Alaska. His friends
expect; to hear of him lending scone:
time next summer near the Lena,
However, they say he may chenge his
plans and come ashore before 'that
time.
. Steel:inseam when he was in the
north last winter, planned to mak.e
the trip Storkerson is now on. After
he completed arranigments and pur-
chased all the necessary supplies and
dogs, illness forced him lo .come out-
side. When he left, he put Starker -
son in charge.
The Canadiaa explorer thinks
Storlcerson's trip ie ono of the Moet
elating Arctic feats veer endertaken,
"He is up there camped on the ice
and practically living oir the lee pack,"
Stefansson says. "Other explorers da
their Work from their ships.. Ships
are little less than. floating hotels.
Storkerson has no ship. If Storker-
son doesn't get homesick. we should.
bear from him nat year." ,
Stoikerson and his five men tvere
landed last May on the ice pacbc about -
150 miles northwest of Herschel Is-
land. Rough estimates show that the
ice at times drifts more than ten
miles a clay. Thisenureent, Stain*
son thinks, carried Storkerson weet-
ward until in October he probably eves
about 200 'miles' due north frem
Wraegel Islend, off Siberia and eeet
of the New Siberian Islands.'
The Karluk .Stefailesons lirst boat,
which was lost, was cal:vied westward
from off Alaska, When it w-ae crushed
in the ice, it was off Wrangel bland.
Store:creme expected to get caught in
the game cuereot •ancl go on 1107(1.. -(1
Wrangel to the Siberian Islands.
.the march and at the halt discipline
must be of the higheat standard.
Every possible protection should be
taken at all times to guard against
hostile acts by organized bodies and
to lessen the possibility always pres-
ent of isolated murders- or d-esperato
_guerilla acts by factions.. To the
:enemy, drive all, it is of capital im-
portance to eetablisli in Germany the
aensoof 70111'overvelielining moval
and 'dwelt:al standing: so as to cone.
plete by the presence of your pote1)-
U41 strength the victories you have
won on the battlefield. All external
eigns of discipline. must be insisted
upon and the example in this as in
all else must come 'from the leaders.
Justice, Right and Decency.
"Clothing &el equipment meet be,
if possible, spotless, well kept end
well put on. Badges mid distinguish-
ing marks must be complete, while
the transport should be as dean as
the ciecurnstances will allow. In
short, you must continue to he and
appear to bo that powerful force
vehich has won the fear and respect
of your :Coes and tho' admiration of
the world. It is net necessary to say
that the population and private po-
'petty will be respected. Yon will al-
ways remember that you fought for
justice, right and decency, that: you
cannot afrovd to fall short oe these
'essential,- even in • the - country
against which you have every right to
feel bitter.
"Rest assured Duet tle evimes
of Germany will receive adequate
punishment. Attempts will be
11188e by, iesidious ' propaganda to
undermine the source of your
strength, but you, the soldier citizens
of the finest and most advanced demo-
cracy in the lkovid, will treat such
attempts' with the contempt they de-
serve. You know that eelf-imposed,
stern discipline has made you the
hardest, most successful and cleanest
fighters of this war. Beginning by
the inuecntal stand at the sceond bat -
Ile of Ypres you befiteingly closed by
the capture of Mons your fighting
mord, in *Melt eery battle you
fought is a resplendent page of glory.
I trust you and the memory of your
:lead comrades demands of you to
bring back that glorious record, pure
and unsullied to Canada."
The British Fleet, in the Dardanellee.
The spirit X those fine lines. \vas
surelyin the heart of all our men
when the 'British Fleet eailed Re
torious Way through the Dardanelles
to. Constautinople. An invisible hose
of men returned their sad salute.
No Britons . will 'ever melee that
-voyage without thinking, of the men
\vim died to nyike it safe. •
When the Peed goes by
With the engines 'theobbing slow,
And the brave Whito Ensigns float
hi the dragon's very throat,
Will you waken there below
Dead men of Gallipoli whose iftime
will never die?
When the I'leet goes by
And the frowning • forts are dumb,
Will the lads from British leas
And their kin from overseas
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NATURE BREAKS mo:NoPour
•--
Pigeon Carried Nutmeg Seede
.0ther Islands," _
One of the queer things about the
nutmeg is the romantic way in 'Aide
nature thwarted the Dutch attempt
to establish a complete monopoly of
the spice. They own the Banda
Islinids, where most of the nam5
trees pow, and at ono time they
wanted to prevoot ce-eryono from
raising the epice. So to keep up
prices and to induce _other planters
on cram islands to cut down their
plantations, the Dutch at ono . time
burned three piles of nutmegs, each
of them said to have been as big as
1)11 averego church. They induced
other elantets to join with thein, and
it soon seamed asthough they were
'killing, all dempetitiom •
Then nature took a hand in the
game. A lane pigeon of the islands,
which NV extremery fend of mace,
carried the seeds to all the minuend-
ing lands, even to the mainland of
Asia. Nutmeg troce began to grow
wild in numerous places and all
danger of a monopoly WAS removed,
Cr MIN N HANDSTO ALLIES
300,000,000 FRANCS IN GOLD
A despatch from Patis sayg -.The
Germaits havo begun restitedions.
They have delivered to the allies
800,000,000 trams gold, which came
from tho Rue:shin twasovy. The
Vreneh havu meovered 11 melt collee•
Fo PT"el'' the 1'") 62 viete"Y ""ev ''''e" tin of art works by Quentin, Delmer,
in the ehe?
When the Fleet goes by
Every num abieuel Weal turn
And -delete ogress the wares
Tiro laml 02 mney graves
Where foe everrneee shall burn
The shining light of glovy where the
bones of heroes lie!
Ilfonur At. Lasl,
To an open house in the evening,
11 fumous etcher, stolen tram ett.
Quentia, and pointioge by Antoine
Wanda:, tahen from the mueeum et
.Valenciennes. The value of the re-
turned masterpieces is olimatril at
2,000,000,000 francs.
15,033.780 GROSS' TONS
'SUNK BY SUBMARINES
deppateh Lomion eays: -
The tvertifs total loses of merchant
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And e. taller inner than. Retire. enemy «diens and niatino ri de wee
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