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Wolioded, Weaponless, In a War Ilospittal, Be Played Hie
"Little Joke Glorloge Courage.
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By Edna Howell. I
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A7ter a Trialasms
Consumers are possessed with a faith ,and
enthusism entirely lacking before the quality
was ,actually dernon?trated,
Is the best flavoreil and the *nest
ever oftered for a1e: sop
Bueyou" 1 Ongetting the
Milet,Insist J Genuine tor
conomical tea
A Community, Library. As the twig is bent, so will •the
Deplorable as the great woad con
thee may be the feet eeragins that
' harrSdrawn the population togethe
mentally as nothing Os° imuld, eve
have dooe. The draft, Victor
Bolide and Red Crest work are al
'common triples. There is no logalit
so email that these subjects•have no
penetrated. Minds that forneerl
gave hours to idle gossip, perhape a
times for lack of a mere common sub
jet of conversation, have not this
opportunity now. People who al
rnost never touehed a newspaper ar
eager for news or pictures because
of loved_onee who may be heard
from.
The general advance of all price
has deprived many people Of the pub
Neatens that they •formerly enjoyed
In the cities this is not so lamentabl
for, by taking a few extra minutes
one may gain any amount of informa
tion at the libraries; but in many
small placesa library is considered a
luxury, and people who once passed
magazines or newspapers along are
selling them now, or sending them
away. Thie method Is extremely
commendablee but the fact remain
that there are thousamis of people
particularly in rural districts,' wh
are left mentally starved. '
White many of our country towns
eat not have a large -library, , there
are few. that can not have a smal
one, if the need is recognized. In a
little Ontario town a few years ago
there was a crying need for just this
sort of thing. The library ,whiel
had been used had fallen into decay
so the energetic inhabitants deter-
mined to have a reading -room With at
least a few books of common intereet.
To -day, after only a few years, this
ranks as one of the best small libra-
ries in the province.
First carhe a little afEernoon•tea in,
a tiny room, ever a paint shop, where
the beginning was made. At this
the first public meeting, the project
was presented, thoroughly discussed
and the committees appointed. From
that modest •start the interest spread
until the room was soon outgrown and
a better one secured.
A thorough canvass of the township
showed that every one was eager to
help. Those who could not give
books or maganizes, donated a chair,
a table, or a lamp. Others gave
their time and assisted the "house
committee! in cleaning, painting the
roam, or in building the necessary
book shelves, The town made a ap-
propriation. Soon hundreds . of ree
ference and information books were
placed on the shelves and gladly
used by the grateful patrons. All
ages are catered to, with pattituar
attention to the needs of the boys and
girls and the problems of the com-
munity.
The small fee charged for. member-
ship is inadequate to meet expenses;
hut the fines imposed for keeping
books out overtime augment this
fund, and donations five townspeo-
ple make up the deficit when any oc-
curs.
There are few small places that
have no meeting rooms for Red Cross
work or commienity meetings, and if
these were used as reading -rooms or
small libraries they would add meth
to•the enjoyment of the inhabitants.
In maty instances we' find that
amusernetts are not satisfactory
Quieter forms- of entertainment are
regeired, and there is a thirst for in-
formation of aewider range than bas
been nobiced for many years. -
If this experiment is made in a
very small way at first, the inte•rest
shown Will be a great surmise. Many
people are well informed but have
' had no chanee to make use of their
knowledge, while others are really
thirsty few general topics of conversa-
tion but have few opportunities, or
think they heve nod the time, to read.
Both classes of people find pleasure
and a common interest in garbing a
reading -room or a library that .would
add tb the enjoyment of the general
population.
No matter how small the undertak-
ing, a committee should be dermed
and the work carried on systeinatical-
ly. If only newspapers are donated
they must be eared for, then sold, and
the motley need toward defraying exe
pensee. The poselbilities 'are very
broad, but the intereet will be almost
in direct proportion to the thought
that le given to working out tho
first; details of oven the maul: trial.
tree incline --in the wee of a boy
No matteie how the man- loves order
and system when theture years have
been. reach•ed,' he will be helpless to
achieve 'these things in his Personal
belongings unless the habit has been
.formed in youth.. To the end of.hie
life, no matter. hew ordeily and ace
curate the pievesses of his mental. en-
deavor, he will be dpi to.flingehis cel-
lars and .his neckties about his room
t toss away towels in crumpled heaps
_ in his bathroom and be a little bit in -
e different to rents in his underclothes
and knots in his bootlaces.
All these things are in the power
of his mother • to. determine. Some
s boys are naturally neater and more
e fastidious than others, but all boys
• may be trained to give care to their
e belongings and to "pick up things"
, instead of flinging them down for
_ somebody else to put away. The lad
of eleven—even of eight—May be
taught the essentials of good groom-
ing, not only grooming of the body,
but of the wardrobe. Soiled collars,
unaressed trousers, ripped gloes and
dusty boots should be made 'as ode-
s jectionable -to the growing boy as
they are to the mother'who is respon-
O sible for his future good habits in
these reepecee; and though et:ticking
up" after a boy is usually easier than
eternally remonstrating and ssegping
1 With him; habit's of perietal neatness
should be as carefully insisted upon
as habits of truthfulness tiled petite,.
nese.
Terieli The Boy To Be Tidy.
It is most important ib the ineul-
caltion of habits of personal neat-lee:1
than the boy shall have his individual
belongings, not to he !elicited by any,
one else. The lad who has to bon -
row mother's hairbrush and father's
collar buttons.; sisterie Manicure
scianere and the family, whIslchredra
banging oe the hall hatrook, will not
he as apt to gequite fastitliOtte pet-
eoned habits eet glen:Melee; as he would
if he telt a strong teeped for hIs pest
kielenglegs; eitSeed to the efet of to
nlie but hineeelf,
Making
The
Children Pay.
Just what war mean to' Austrian
children is disclosed in a report pub-
lished in the Arbeiter Zeitung of
Vienna. Of children of school age
more than one-third are engaged in
sbme kind of work; in some districts
all such thilcIren are at work. Out
of every 100 children from 6 to -8
years of age 18 are at -work, frpm 9
to 10 years 35 are at work; between
11 and 12 Years, 50; between 13 and
14, 52. Saddest of all is the fact
that two-fifths of these children have
been working IT0111 the time they
were five or six years of age. An-
other startling fact is that 95 out of
every 100 children at work were em-
ployed steadily during the school year
as well es during holiday periods.
Fifty-two weeks each year marks the
employment period of three-fourths
of the children workers and much of
the work is performed at home with
the parents. Night work claims
about one-fourth of the toilers. Even
Vienna sees the crime that is being
committed against its 'ownflesh and
bleed and is considering legislation
that will prohibit chird labor before
the age of twelve except on farms
and in -the household.
VENTRILOQUISM
How the Successful Performer Man-
ages to Deceive HisAudiences.
One of the oddest of popular mis-
takes is the notion that a ventrilo-
quist "throws his voice" to one place
or another at a less or greater dia.'
tance. No human being can do that.
The secret of the succeisful per-
former in this line lies in talking
without moving his lips and in so
modifying the spunds he utters as to
give them (to the audience) the ef-
feet they -would bave if they really
did come from the places to which
he -directs the expectant' attention of
his hearers.
Them, for, instance, if the voice is
supposed to come from the cellar,
he inclines his ear correspondingly;
while the ufterance teems .senothered.
If the ventiloquistis doll is thrown
into a box and the lid is sbat 'slowly
and then fastened, the .worde the
manikin•utters' are modified gradual-
ly and suitably in soundeeffeet. For
the ?est, reliance is had upon the
imagination of the auditors. .
The main effort of the performer is
always to draw the attention of the
audience away from himself and to
the plaees from which the sounds are
expecten to proceed. A talking doll'
with a, moving jaw (operated by the
ventriloquistic hand) is a most effece
tive device because it really does
look ash' it were ectuelly talking,.
In immerses:ion with the doll.—os
peehaps with two dolls, one on either
knee—the performer acts ' as a
"feeder," asicing gusset:ions or making
remarks that elicit Viety and amus-
ing replies from the manikire, Al.
Ways the latter leave .the batter of
the itgument, which mei:1y delights
the audience,
'Ift. beeintid.od watelling the done,
the auditor 'Will keep rep eye on the
performeeds aim iv wilt aga that
theg do loso oinowhait--401.1 afsols
tilbtt 60 'Iliad 10 articulate cpaet
and the Illuelote wflI ateressirablY io-
appeae,
nellit in the hack -10100
044 init'esi"thnie n&wi melte toad-
ilY•
They nrought bios, Topio, the
clown, feet grist from the Red Grose
train to the hig motor ambulance,
His was the last stretcher to slide in.
to the deep -gray van.
The motor" slipped through etch)
streete of tale norm,/ housee and
clrewnip at a broad door with e Teeh-
01001 School written ebove it. From
the bare flagstaff no 'banner waved
lest the eye of an enemy's aeroplane
should see the scarlet gross on the
whine ground:
Two hospital ordrliee, gray heads,
came and solemnly tugged at the
stretcher of Tonto, It refused to
budge, Carefully they pulled oue
Leather in the seemed to lift
itself up into theawiElte IneePital walls,
His eyes, "like dark °piste, were fixed
on the purse above hien. He saw
her blue eyes and a lock of hair that
had slipped opt from the closeefittioff
veil and Tonio' glances settled on the
rod Cross, She wore the scarlet
symbol on her breaet and on her arm
and in the centre of the white veil
that fell down her shoulders to her
waist
Phenurse wee now thrpsting this
uniform, bleek with trench -dirt, torn
with %hot, the arms by the first
into a great white eack. Big
boots and garter% too, went in to be
the throe other :Stretchers, For a disinfected. Tonle with his twenty -
breath each streteher touched the four wounds watehed her easy avato
ground before it was eased to the mete.
supporting leather straps hung from He knew no
the shoulders of the bearers. The ed in his amazement athwhhaiedevAtedesths-:
three wounded opened their Oyes) lead the joy of a roof and this white
their laughter mengled with the shouts smiling creature. The present wip-
ed mit 'unnamable horrors he had
wee
Tonio sighed softly, and dared
turn his head to survey more loving-
ly the scene about him.
He zaW the orderly rows �f white
eete. and the siniling faces -of the
The sun shot its dazzling white Merle -their feces : washed. In one
bees on the motionless form whose Wrier. a transforniation • svelte was
eyee alone were never gill, taking .place 'es two elderly ;Mack -
He was swathed like a mennueY bee -Med men became youngsters un -
from head to foot in dirty white, his- der the razorii swiftnees. A mie
twenty-four wounds still in their with a white -winged bonnet of Saint
field bandages; acroes his breast lay Vincent de Paul was gliding down the
his Bersagliere hat, the longdreop-, aisle, her soft whiVe elifitte seeming
Ma wela plumes of bottle -green ting- whiter fan than the angel's wings and
ed With Milk red. At his wide lay bearing no harp but it great bowl of
two monstrous boots, tied together broth. A soldier *as calling for a
pair of socks and a boy with blee
eyes from the Vento was pirouetting
on a crutch.
(To be continued,)
ea -ea -no --
from above.
Tonne's streteher would move neith-
er backward nor forward,
The big- corporal came, blond and
a giant, lifted the slight boyish:figure
of Tonio in his arms and tenderly
laid him down on a waitine•stretcher.
with white cord and :caked with yel-
low mud.
Tonio's bright eyes, round and
brown and remarkable for their light,
encountered the big corporal's. Tonto
raised thelittle finger of hb right
hand. That and his eyee and .nocee.
.were all that the field-eurgeon had
left exposed.
. The big corporal flung back his
head, and the waiting crowd of on-
lookers tiptoed at the great laugh
that rang. out.'"
Tonto was a ,genius, one of the
world's great artists. It was not 50 "Three cheers! People here are
much what he said or did but the way wild with joy, They'll do anything
he said it or did 11 that made him '
an artist. Hie little finger e.opld lo us, but vamt toe many souvenirs.
nee I have onle my het badge left."
hold and convulse an audience,
turn of an eyelash be perceptible to In a leter received at the some
a crowd. The square long head with time, but dated the 10th Nov., he
the lean lank jaw, the humerous says: •
mouth and the twinkling eyes, al).- "I am -finding it very hard to ane -
pealed but it was the man himself wer letters because in the present ad -
who drew..... He crierietlawith bios
atrnospheee as another Man on a .
anlvance we either work or march all
clev and we get to our billets after
dark way might carry a torch. He . .
darkettred 01 cl nearly -always without
tripped on his way as if to musk,
heht. When you have read in your
papers that. the Canadians were in
:Mel RUCi such a place; I was there
all rgiht. The Belgians will do any-
thing for us to show their apprecia-
tion for deliverance after four years
under, the Boche. Yesterday, as we i
marched through village after village,
we got smiles and cheers, enough and •
to spare. Some gave us flowers; girls
and women embraced and kissed some
of the boys here and there. 1 miseed
this, tot having evasbed for three
days. I guess they thought T was
too dirty. Many, while smiling, had
tears streaming down their faces. I
ed the port, footsore and weary, but wretched one old man who canto to a
they had already flown over the sea. window, drawn there by the sound of
The passage cost four hundred lire.
marching. At first he waved his hand,
That day Tonto had only half a lira
but in a minute withdrew with tears
in the worn little brown puree Rime
had given him.
It took him five years th save four
hundred lire, They were five years,
of unabridged abysses and black
caverns, no appreciation of the genius
thatmust have been bubbling up
within him like a spring of charged
waters. Then his fame leaped forth.
Hie laugh rang round the world. In
a night he could earn enough to keep
a faniily for a year.
Yet he left that life, to eaen two
cents- a day and full ration s when
there was not an advanca over the
ragged peaks of glacier Alps and
when provisions arrived in time, and ono of your slabs of chocolate. She
to offer his life. and hie all for his slapped me on the heed and shoulders,
country. mingling laughter with Merel, merei,
The hospital it gay when late-
-, Canadien, the children doing likewise.
comers arrive. Perhaps at night
throhgh the long salesflews a state- You cat imagine the emotions these
ly pageant of grief, the wistful long- people show when they realiee that
ings of lonely wives and old mothers, at last they are free, after four years
and the plaints of little childten of a terrible existence. If yot could
weeping through wards and corridors hear, as I have, whet they have bad
th tremble by each loved andtortur- to bear for the last four years you
ed body. But on the day when the
would agree with
Red Cites train arrives, .coming me that it h
'as been
from snow and rain and glory and
veteran and the jaws of death, the
corridors and eourts become festive
and light-hearted.
The orderlies marched with their
burden into Room 111 and the big cor-
poral lifted Tonio as if he were the
lightest feather and placed hire on a
cot with is real mattress arid two elean
white Sheets. After a rapid survey
Tonto closed his eyes, opened them
and shut them quicldy lest the dream
:should break. As he opened his
eyes again, the weal bed not only had
not vanished into space down a
tnow-white Alpine gorge but above
him leaned a woman.
With shooting pain, as keen as the
incredulity in Ins brain, the one free
fingee reached out and very softly
touched the white gown, S'he was
flesh and blood,.
"What do you call yourself?' ask --
ed the warm. His name with all his
papers would be long in coming up
from the Direction dowristeirs,
ronio Taglieno of the 12-th
Beesagliere. And semi, Signorina,
are you from Kansas City?" he ask-
ed in English.
There was a tueble from the col, be.
'side his.
The time laughed, One Maniere
Ignited'not at him. but with hum
"Ob, no!" she mild, "Pin not."
Tonio smiled back at her. 9
Ithew you were an Americae," be
slant and I like them all—:feont San
Francisco to New. York, But
Inansas City—you do tot knew it?"
Again 'hewn the cots beside him there
came the creaking of is mattress.
ONo, Nol" elle laughed. "Arid
'wended 'Where ??' Her peiecell pole.
til Over the they tioteboole, "The
1211O Bereagnere, Wounded--" 'Kee
seIJ l, gavotte, voice pistited, "I ellen
Wait foil kite etiegeen," he added,
"bc-dmila elfkinded ell /taw, :wee arid
*Ye itut ftegeris if, not 00,
%lint 1"
e eyes twissieled Meek into the
ellen", el :Ear* be sun ShOt: it$
httjdlst bob ttrotegh the lotg
;4.orriteel, A deep sigh
iodbev4,Ca the Witter air Was gaff
nett ,
:broke' fidso lipe. SOft AC a
•
"CANADA" ON 'PHEW. LIPS
Sapper Fenton Writes of the Joy of
, Liberated Belgians.
Sapper W. K. Fenton, of Toronto,
writes from "Somewhere in Belgium,"
Nov. llth:
flushing honest- faces with , honoet
mirth as -a sun tinges its floneers.
Yet when he was is very young
man, unknown, in poverty, the buf-
foon of a traveling troup, Tragedy
had peered e flashing instant behind
his white mask. It was- the old, old
story. Tonle had vowed his eternal
revenge for the theft .eof the mate
that had 'been his SiTICO the world be-
gan. ITis best friend bad stolen leis
one ewe lamb. Tonio never knew
the particulars though he had found
O little slip of crumpled white paper
with the words Kansas City written
in pencil.
Driven by blind pain, Tonio reach.
RESCUED AFTER 57
HOURS IN SUB
THRILLING TALE OF ENTOMBED
EnrrisuEBB4N WOK
.Captaln. Died a Her .Attempt to
Reach the Surface Throsigh
Copning Tower. e
An extraordinary story of -the sal -
'Siege of a British submarine which
went doevinin Greerloch heck near the
Clyde has now been published. The
submarine had 73 peerioos on board,
including navel., conductors and men
from the yerd where sheehad been
built. The order was given to sub-
merge, arid she had descended just
beneath the surface when the water
neon AO pour into her aft, and she
deecended stern down -to a depth as
15 fethorns.
An inspect:Me- snowed that the
ventilating shaft had been left open
and 81 Persons in the rear of the
vessel were immediately drowned.
The fore part was shut off and ,the
42persont there were saved.How
their rescue was acamplitheil was
sensational. A few hours had passed
before divers were sent down on
what they considered a forlorn hope
so far. ail bringing anyone up alive
Was e.oncerned. Getting to the bot-
tom, tkey discovered -that the stern
of the vessel was embedded in smelly
feet of mud. Knocking at the hull,
they were amazed to, hear a re-
sponsive tapping. Then Ceptain
Goodhare attempted a task which
'reads like a tale from Jules Verne.
Tho MO -pressure. bottles were
brought into use and the captain
'undertook, with their aid, to be pro-
jected through the conning tower and
shot into the water with the hope of
reaching the surface and giving in-
formation regarding .those below. He
W1ELO shot'forward, but his head struck
a beam and he was Mstantly• killed.
Another officer volunteered and was
fortunate enough to reach the surface
and give information about the con-
dition of the others below. Rescuers
ieserted through a water -nap, a flex-
ible hose, through which air food and
chocolates were passed. The entomb-
ed men asked, by means of lelorse
signalling, fax playing cards "to be-
guile the tedium of waiting," as one
of them said.
Strong •wiree wore put round the
vessel, and the air bottles utilized to
blow out the oil fuel stowed forward,
evhfch enabled the vessel to drive up-
-weeds at high sliced lentil her bow
was well above tlie water in a per-
pendicular- position.
Immediately a big hole was made
lin hnr by acetylene burners and the
, 42 men brought out and conveyed to
an infirmary. They heti been below
24 hours when Captain Goodbart
made hie ill-fated attempt, and al-
together the perty wee' down 67
hours befove beine saved.
Captain Goodhart was post-
humously awarded the 'Victoria,
Cross.
in his eyes. The kiddies, especially,
are happy, and at the sight of troops,
and especially a band, they dance and
shout. Yesterday an old. man gave
us some soup and coffee. He also of-
fered us some scones, which we re-
fused, as he would not take money
for them, Giving that much he al-
most gave tho widow's mite. Where
I spent the night the woman of the
house couldn't do enough for us. The
youngsters are great. I love trying
to talk Freneh to them I gave them
some gum and chiclets, tend madame
O terrible existence. We, anti they,
can 'hotly thank God. but here, in our
sector 'Canada, Canada, Canticle,' is
on their lips."
BATTLE NAMES
Difficult Task to Give Suitable Names
to Those of Great War.
There seems th have been little
ttouble in the past in naniing battles,
although even Waterloo is called
Quatre Bras by the Freneh. But on
the whole a name minis to have at-
tached iteelf to is battle quite
naturally, like Blenheim,- 'Talavera,
Jena, Leipzig, the Nile, and Trafalgar.
But in the Great liVar, wherem bat-
tle extended over weeks of time over
O forty -Mile front, includieg many
villages, and sometimes several ob-
jectives in the shape of big towns,
the difficulty of naming a battle with
a name that is universally recognized
is extreme.
The names which have actually set-
tled dowte completely and taken their
Places in history are the Battle of
tit ealarne, the two Battle e of Ypres,
the Battle of Verdun, the Battle of
the Bight, the Battle of Jutland, the
Brittle of the Somme, and that aeons
almost all.
The battles of the later phase of
the wat have hardly settled down to
a name yet, Probably the battle in
which the Vimy Ridge wise sterpied
will be known by fillet name, or per-
haps at the flattleeof Arras; but the
Battle of Messines will prboably be
a sticker; just es the Chemin des
Dames will be in French annels for
all time.
Perhape the great battle which at
Ole tittle SeetYltil diSaattOUS tO tritish
ATMS, C00MINICMW 00 March 21, 1918,
will go down hi history as the Batele
of Amiens, while the Battle of Citm-
/nal May stand for all that lieemic
etletety whitli bemeght the British ,th
tilde final elebery,
ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND.
Proved to be Tobago in the Wind-
ward Group of British West Indies
A glance at a map of South Amer-
ica will show an island of consider-
able size in the Pacific, some hun-
dreds of miles due west of 'Valpar-
aiso. It belongs to Chile, and is
called Juan Fernandez.
It is commonly understood to have
been Robinfon Crusoe's -island, bul
that this notion is incorrect may be
easily proved by a reference to De-
foois immortal story, which (publish-
ed in 1719) tells exactly the loeation
f the patch of dry and on which his
hero was cast ashore by a hull -Mane
while on a voyage frolli liraail 10
'Guiana,
It svas not, theeefore, in the Paul -
fie Ocean at all. This lard nias in
the Atlantic and near the mouth of
the great Orinoco River.
Says Crusoo in Ms narrative: "The
master made en. observation AS even
as he could and found thee he was
oftthea northpariof Brazil, beyond
the ArditZ011p toward the Orinoco,
commonly called the Great River.
Ile began to content with mo what
course he should take for the ship
was leaky and inuch disabled."
Later on be says (referring to the
island): "I afterward understood
that it was occaeieeed by the great
draft and eefiux of the mighty Rivas.
Orinoco, in the mouth of which our
islandnay, and that the much larger
island'I Saw to the west and north-
west was Trinidad,
"I asked Friday a thousand ques-
tions, and he told me all be knew. I
asked him the n•arnes of the several
nations of his sort of people, taut
could get to other than ()nibs. I
easily understood th•at these were
the Caribbeee, which our reap places
on the part of America that reaches
from the month of the Orinoco to
Guiana and onward."
Defoe knew his geography, and it
has been definitely proved that, the
Weed of the fictional Crusoo was
etone other than Tobago, the south-
ern-moet of the WinclWarcl getup of
the Seitish West Indies. It is twenty
miles distant from Trinidad; and is
twenty-six ?Mice Jong by seven and a
half miles in greatestbreadth. At
the peesent One it has several thou-
sand inhabitants,
As is well known, Defoe derived the
idea for his store from the a.dventure
of a shipwreeked Emelishman, Alex-
ander Selkirk, who spent feet yeate
and four months in solitude on the
ieland f Jun Fernandez, being. nnal-
ly resented in 1709, Arriving in Lon.
doe, ne Wee much talked of •and writ -
tete about, his experience inspiring
Cowper's veeses beginning, "I an)
nimenich of all/ survey."
It will be understood, thee. that
Jame Perin:oda is veal's.. Selkirk's.;
/eland, But it can herdly be euideto
have been really Crusoe'e island, le-
estnuch 'as Defoe brie placed the lat-
ter in at altogether different peei of
the World,
Newspepote Will give as brilliene
a finish to WinclOW glass as dr:Mole.
FAINTED IN TM
OF BOILING WATER
-BUNS TRIED TO .11413AK SPIRIT
OF BRITISH PRISONERS
German Red' Crow; Nurse !Kicked
Crutch From !Under a
'Wounded Man,
It fell to the lot ,of the Writer of
these notes to spend 'eighteen months
anion; the British prisoners Who evere
sent from' Geemany to Switzerland
for interhinent. During that period
he was in conetant daily intercouree
with theta and so had peculiar oppor-
tunities to bear the etory that oee or
another had to tell a his experiences
wbile M German hands.
In the hope of bilegiag home some-
thing of the calculated cruelties in-
flicted asi aur men, the following
stor* ate chosen for publication.
They are, alas! only a few out of
hundreds like them, and they aro not
the worst, for the simple reason that
manyof the indignities inflicted on
the prisoners are unprintable.
Case of .Aggravated Cruelty.
Descriptions of the journeys from
the point of capture to the . prison
eamps and Of tile filth a dettlo teucks
nIneady ,have ,been publeithed; but an
instance' of aggravated cruelty may
be added. PrivateFs--n who arrived
eyentuelly at Chateau cliOex— nad
had hie leg. shattered in the fighting,
and had done hia pitiful beet with a
lield-dressing before he was captured:
He spent three days with his com-
rades in a cattle truck without once.
being allowed to leave it, and there-
for had neither Med nor any attention
to his limb. By seine means or other
he had improvised a crutch, and when
the, order was given for the men to
leave the trucks and march across the
platform to it waiting room, he was
able to hobble after them. A -woman
Red Cross worker, seeing her oppor-
tunity, mado a quick movement with
her foot, and, aseE--idescribed it,
"criked" it under his crutch as he was
passing her, Ho fell heavily on to
the broken. leg, and he remembers
the. houts 'of delight from the on-
lookers at this clever bit of work.
The story told by Corporal P—
enn be recorded in his own .words. A
party of men had recentlY arrived
from Germany for internment, and
the waiter lost no thee in *netting the
men in their comfortable hospital at
Fribourg. P— was obviously one
of the worst cases; his deathly pallor
and shaking limbs indicated that he
had "been through it." On reply to
au inquiry as to what bad happened,
he replied:
"Well. sir. I'm a reprisal; I don't
luenv what for, but that's what they
told me. So one winter morning I
was fetched out into the compound
and tied to a post. Thee- -need enough
rope to moor a ship; when they fin-
ished tying nte 1113 I was all rope.
My feet were about six inchee from
the ground. Stayed like that for
eight hours—it was hither cold—and
when they untied me I fell clown and
they curried me in.
Repeated tho Torture.
"The elector came round next morn-
ing and said I was quite fit for it
further dose, so I had another eight
hours at the same game—some post
and •same rope. Only this time they
didn't tie me oll the ground; instead
they stood me down with my fact in
O bucket of water up to the anktee.
It was bitter cold.
"After that it was weeks before I
could move; but when 1 was a bit bet-
ter I got two of my chums to help
me—I couldn't 1120 my logs, but I
put an arm round the necics of nee,
chums, and they dragged me oet into
the compound for a bit of fresh air.
"But I never went out rsgain sifter
that once. It was told that if I could
not give the pamper salute to the Ger-
man N,C.O.se I was to lceep inside,
So I clid, until I was brought here on
a stretcher."
Apparently no opportunity WilS lost
that could be utilized fax breaking
the spirit of the captives and deaden.
ing their self-respect. This partly
explains why they were so often de-
prived of facilities for washing, and
were allowed to get into a verminous
condition. The Wittenberg victims
had no change of clothing from Oct.
1914 an May, 1915. 0.11(1 during that
time had 110 bath; shave, or hair cut.
But at other camps personal clean-
liness was made equally impossible,
though not for so long a period. One
man told how he seent three months
without .a bath or change of clothing.,
and had got inbo. a shocking condi-
tion. As he described it:
"I was a mass of sores and boils
all over, and so weak that I lay down
most of the dgy. One day I was told
to come and he tubbed, An arderly
took ene-1 was too tottery to go by
myeelf—and he made me undrees and
-get straight into a bath of boiling
welter. When he'd got me in, he scrub-
bed me froze head to foot with an
ordinary floor scrubbing brnsh. I
fainted three tines, and they carried
rite back to bed," e
Poured Water Over Him,
At aeotber hospital in Switzerhuol
-which I visited, the following story,
punctuated by the wheezes oll chronic
bronchitis, was told by a N. C. O. of
a Scottish regiment. He hail been
severely wounded in the leg just be -
foto captor°, but thanks to a splendid
physique, the IVOUIld healed slowly
end lie began to snake a good recov-
ery. He was still in hospital when,
without warning,. he was ordered to
get tip and go to work. He refused,
not only on the ground of his reek,
bet also became he could not stand
for more that a few Moments on his
damaged leg, For this refusal he was
fereed to get up ated drese and Was
taken to the basetnent of the build -
Mg Nil locked in a cellar, foul' by
five aeon with a Stale 11001'. Twice
eeel. day a coeporai visited hire with
beeiul and water and asked hnn di he
would go to work. On his refteal to
do ea 0 bileket of water was posned
rut isii ntil, ee Iv said:
"Dy the oral of tee.) Or three doe
I INN pretty well sopped thee)
Arel
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ADDITIONS TO THE NAVY
Twenty -One Battleships Join the
Grand British Fleet.
The names of tiventy-one additions
to the British battleship squadrons,
which have joined the grand fleet
seeInucte:ugust, 1914, have been men-
tioned in newspaper articles since the
signing of the armistice, according to
a resume published in London re.
Four of the vessels have been
known as the "Hush" ships because
of the secrecy surrounding their de-
sign and construction. They are re-
ported as the Repulse, Courageous,
Glorious and Frivolous. They are re-
ported to be nearly 800 feet in length
and to displace 80,000 tons each, and
to be capable of a speed of from thirty
to thirty-five knots. They were com-
pleted within a year. A combination
of great speed and heavy armament
on a:comparatively light draught per-
mitted them to use the shallaw watere
of the North Sere.
The Emperor of India arid the Ben-
bow'of the Iron Duke .class (25,000
tons); were two others of the vessele.
They belong to the. 1911-12 building
progrernme, as did also the battle
cruiser Tiger. The five vessels of the
Queen Elizabeth class (27,500 tons),
the Baeham, the Valiant, the War -
spite, the Malaya and the Queen
Elizabeth, rill of which -were in the
program for 1912-13, are also among
the additions.
In the battleship program for 1913-
1.1 there are five 'vessels, which in
armament ancl armor protection were
to resemble the Queen Elizabeth
class, but their displacement was to
be slightly entalle.r. They are all in
the fleet and are the Royal Sovereign,
Royal Oak, Reeolution, Revenge, and
Ramillies (25.750 tons).
Other additions were warships pur-
chased and appropriated. Two of
these were being built for Turkey
and were re.narneci Agincourt (27,500
toes), and Erin (23,000 tons).
At the outbreak of the war two
battleships Were being built in Great
Britain for Chile, and were to be
named the Almirante Latorre and
Almirante Cochrane. The Almirante
Latorre (28,000 tons), was purchased
and re -named the Canada. The
Cochrane (28.000 tons); is believed to
be the vessel christened hy Mrs. Page,
wife of the then Amerienn ambas,
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