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COCKSURE OF VERDUN.
Germany Claims She Will Occupy
Town on Date Arranged.
A despatch from Berlin says: The
German- General Staff figured that
Verdun would fall in five months.
German military experts now ex-
press the view that all expectations
will be even surpassed. In quarters,
where facts, not feelings, acts, not
assertions, count, it is confidently pre-
dicted that Verdun will be in -the
hands of the Germans in the first
week of July.
NEWFOUNDLAND TO REPLACE •
AIM N'S II•LITARY IDT
ER FAILED IN. DIS SERVICE
Kitchener Was in Franco-Prussian War Before; He Entered
British Army -Most of His Life- Was Spent
in Foreign Climes.
Irishmen like to claim Lord Kitch-
ener as a countryman of theirs on
the ground that he was born at Guns -
borough Villa, County Kerry, on June
24th, 1850. But although his father,
Col, Ilenry I•Ioratio Kitchener, had
migrated to Ireland from Leicester-
shire two years before the birth of
his son Herbert, the family is East
Anglian. Even before he entered the
army in 1871 he had had a taste of
actual war•, tart,,le still a Woolwiclh
gratulations.' Two weeks after'. Om,
Burman, Kitchener's forces met Mar-
chand ,at:Fashoda with eight French
officers and 120 Soudanese`tirailleurs,
and their withdrawal left the whole
of the Soudan in the power of Eng-
land. ICitchener at once began to
build up the; .country.
Boer War.
Within a year the Boer War broke
out, and after the British disasters
cadet he was staying ;'during a vasa- ford Roberts was sent to South
tion with his father in Brittany, for Afrfca,> terd, Kitchener, while still
the Irish estates had been sold. Sirdar pf Egyptian army, was
noted lieutenant -general" and made
France's last desperate struggle chief of staff. He arrived in Cape
against the German .hosts was being
fought out by brave but ill -organized
armies of hastily -raised levies. Young
Kitchener offered his services to the
French, was accepted, and fought un-
der General Chanzy in the operations
around Le Mans:
Learned 'Value of Organization.
Town in January, 1900, and in Novem-
ber took supr,eine command after Lord
Roberts had loft for England. He went
to work with systematic thoroughness
and built across the Transvaal a line
of blockhouses connected by wires
charged with: electricity; sixty mobile
columns were put into the field; all the
In that terrible winter• campaign women and children and non -combat -
Kitchener saw miles of stalled freight ants were taken off the farms and
cars loaded with war material; sol -
diets freezing for lack of overcoats
stored in plenty half a mile away, but
which theme was no one to issue, .and
starving foil food that rotbed because
there was no machinery for its distri-
bution. That is why he later fought
the Dervishes with Nubian track -lay-
ere and American bridge builders and
hemmed in the Boers with blockhouses
and charged wire. His first campaign.
ended by his catching a severe cold
after a balloon ascent made when his
, clothes were wet, In three months
he was near to death with pleurisy.
With British Army.
He joined the Engineers in the
spring of 1871 and began the long,
hard toil that England exacts from
the men who Serve .her. For three
years he worked at Chatham - and
Aldershot and then was detached to
MEN LOST IN NORTH SEA.
A despatch from St. Johns, Nfld.,
says: To help make up for the losses,
suffered by the British naval forces
in the recent North Sea battle, New-
foundland authorities began malting
plans on Friday for a special recruit-
ing campaign. An effort will be made
to send forward one thousand men as
the colony's share.
Persuasive. '
Uncle Tobey was a hospitable soul.
He wanted no guest in his house to
be stinted. "Have some, have some,"
he invited cordially at the supper
table, sanding around the platter for
the third time; "we're going to give it
to the pigs anyway."
`w P
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Nearly everyone has
ripping, tearing headaeheP
at times. Disordered stom-
ach -sluggish liver does it.
Cheer up I here's the real
relief -CI, amber lain'e
They put the Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They
stomach and bowels right.
All druggists, 26e.. or by mail from 9
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Toronto
CHAM BE R[AI N',
TAB LETS;
There is a
Cold. Day Coming
Why not prepare for it by
ordering your winter supply
of Lehigh Valley Coal. None "
better in the world.
House Phone 12.
Office 'hone 49.
A. J. HOLLOWAY
THE,
CHILD
REN
OF
TO -DAY
fust as they are -in their in-
door play, or at their outdoor
play -they are constantly of-
tering temptations for the
KODAK
Let it keep them for you as
they are now.
Let it keep many other hap.
penings that are a source of
pleasure to you.
BROWNIES, $2 TO $t2.1.
ROOARS, $7 TO $23.
Also full stock of Films and
Supplies. We do Developing
and Printing. Remember Remember the
place:
THE
REXALL'STO �RE
placed in huge concentration camps.
Slowly and with much less loss of life
than would otherwise have been pos-
sible the Boers were worn down, and
in May, 1902, the struggle ended.
Kitchener was made a viscount, ad-
vanced to the rank of General, given
the thanks of Parliament, and $250,-
000, also the Order of Merit.
Sent to India.
No sooner was peace signed than
Viscount Kitchener was sent to In-
dia as Commander -in -Chief, and in
seven years he revolutionized the In-
clian army, and freed it from red tape.
This stern, icy man put an instant end
to the old round of polo -playing garri-
son life. He made every one work
and thanked no one for working. Just
as in South Africa he had shipped
back to England more than 400 ofi- that I will have thegood luck to
cers as "useless,"he started in to get
work in a semi -civil capacity on the weed out the incompetents in India. out of here alive, because there is no
Palestine survey. For four. years he He never played favorites, means here of even being properly
passed up and down measuring the After leaving India with the rank buried."
land of Canaan and learning the ways of Field Marshal, Kitchener succeed- A letter from a woman in Apler-
and the -speech of its people. In ed the Duke of Connaught as Com- beck to a soldier made prisoner re -
Palestine, in Cyprus, in Egypt, Kitch- mander-in-Chief and High Commis counts incidents indicating a very forty-five. Quick, tenacious, and en-
ener managed to adapt himself to the signer in the Mediterranean, and effervescent state of mind among the terprising, he knows the conditions
ways of the natives. He acquired not made a tour of England's colonies to population of Dortmund. of fighting in Africa from A to 5, and
only their language but their very in- organize their fighting forces. On "A woman asked for more help, be- there can be no better certainty of
tonation, and could live among the his way from Australia he visited cause her husband is in the army and success in German East Africa than
Arabs as safe from detection as Kim ,japan and the United States, return -
ren.is unable to support her six child- the fact that Genera] Smuts is in
ren. As further help was refused, command. -
she slapped the commissariat of police Several good stories of Botha's
who killed her. A crowd of women right-hand man are told. When he
collected in the Lentenstrasse to wait visited England some years ago -it
for the commissariat of police but was to bring the Cullinan• diamond
mounted soldiers came and dispersed over for King Edward VII., by the
them. Here at Dortmund and at way -he found himself sitting next
Cologne and the environs the popula- to a rather supercilious young of-
ficer at a public reception.
"Let me see," said the officer;
"haven't we -alt -met before?"
"Yes," replied General Smuts
shortly.
"Thought so," returned the officer,
and added in bored tones: "One meets
so many people, don't you know. Let
me see, where did we meet?"
"In South Africa," retorted the gen-
eral. "You surrendered to me dur-
ing the war."
Once the iron determination of •
General Smuts broke down. He was
appointed by President Kruger to be
Attorney -General for the Transvaal,
and he attended the Transvaal 'Par-
liament in grey trousers. This shock-
ed the Boer Ministers dreadfully, for
they all dressed in sober black, and
the clamor was so great that the State
Attorney had to go back home and
change his "breeks."
FRENCH ARE STUBBORN.
Letter Taken From German Officer
Captured at Verdun.
Letters found upon officers and sol-
diers of the German army taken pris-
.O]'lers around - Verdun are given out
at French headquarters as indicating'
the state of mind of the officers since
the failure of the first assault, and of
the feeling of ' the soldiers' families,
at home. A letter written by Lieut.
Hordes, of the 81st `Genital/. Infantry,
to his parents, says:
"Our losses in officers are so con-
siderable that:I was obliged to take
command of the -8th Company. We
are. now in the first line, and I am
crouched in a little mudhole that must
protect me from the fragments of the
enemy's shells that come uninterrupt-
edly. I have seen a great deal in the
course of this war, but I had not yet
been in a situation so indescribably
frightful.
"We are day and night under a
frightful artillery fire. The French
making a monstrously stubborn re-
sistance,. On the 1.1t:h, when we made
an assault upon the French trenches°
after' a considerable preparation of 12
hours, we found the French machine
guns were still absolutely intact, so
that our first wave of assailants was
immediately mowed down on leaving
the trench. At the same time; the
French opened up a barring fire than General Ian Christian Smuts is the
made it impossible to think of any greatest man South Africa has pro -
further attack. duced in the last ten years, with the
"We were unable and are still un- exception, perhaps, of General Botha.
able to bury our dead. There they He is -always spoken of as the brain.
lie, a most lamentable sight, the poor of the South African Government, the
devils, in their muddy holes, for all man who draws up the policy which
the routes are swept without ceasing the others carry out. He was the De -
by the French artillery. We have fence Minister in South Africa when
dead and wounded every day, the war broke out, and he it was who
Whether we are taking our wounded destroyed all Hope of success for the
back to safety or whether we are go- German paid plotters who tried to
ing back for our rations two miles in stir up rebellion there.
the rear to the movable kitchens, the Though General Botha brilliantly
danger of'death is the same, until our crushed the Germans in South-West
men prefer to suffer from hunger Africa, it was General Smuts who ac -
than to go after anything to eat. tually drew up the plan of campaign
"I addition to the danger of death which resulted in the end of German
from shell fire, nearly every man in rule there. •
my company is ill, exposed as they are General Shuts has proved himself
to the rain all day and obliged to lie an exceedingly clever army leader
in the mud all night during eight con- time and time again, When the Boer
secutive days and nights. I hope War broke out he. was a private.
During that war he rose to he a gen-
eral and one of the very toughest
nuts General French had to crack in
the last stages of the fighting.
He is one of the youngest leaders
in the present war, for he is only
TONE • UP TDE BLDOD
Hood's Sarsaparilla, a Spring Tonle-
Mediolne, is Necessary.
Everybody is troubled at this sea-
son with loss •of vitality, failure of
appetite, that tired feeling, or with
bilious turns, dull headaches, indi-
gestion and other stomach troubles,
or with pimples and other eruptions
on the face and body. The reason is
that the blood is impure and impov-
erished.
Ilooil's Sarsaparilla relieves all
these ailments. Ask your druggist
for this medicine and get it today.:
it is the old reliable medicine that
has stood the test for forty.ears
years,-
that snakes phase, rich blood -that
strengthens every organ and builds
up the whole system. It is the all -
the -year-round blood-purifler and
health -giver, Nothing elso-acts like
it. for nothing else is like it; so be
stare to get Hood's.
GENERAL SMUTS VERY CLEVER,
The Brain of the South African
Government.
in the crowded streets of Lahore.
Malting a Mummy Fight.
ing to England in 1910. His latest
service prior to the war had been in
England acquired Cyprus in 1878 Egypt, where he went to continue
and Lieut. Kitchener was placed in Lord Cromer's great work. He suc-
charge of the exploration. He had seeded in restoring the Fellah to the
neither money nor powerful friends, land, and, with a grant of $15,000,000
but the maps and reports he sent back from the British Government, created
to London were models of their kind. a great cotton -raising industry.
In 1880 he was made British Vice -
Consul at Erzerum. I3is real chance
carne in 1883.
After the bombardment of Alexan-
dria England had to reorganize the
Egyptian army. Kitchener volunteer-
ed and was one of the twenty-six men
chosen for the work of raising a force
of 0,000 men for the defence of Egypt.
The Fellah does not come of -a fight-
ing race and the job seemed hopeless.
Capt. Kitchener was told to lick the
cavalry into shape and was attached
to the Intelligence Department. He
proved that the Fellah was like a ricers were typical:
bicycle, incapable of standing up "Never mind about drill; it doesn't
alone, but very useful in the hands matter if they don't know their right
of a skilled master. In ten weeks foot from their left. Teach them how
after the arrival of the first batch of to shoot, and do it quick."
raw recruits 5,600 men went through Striking Appearance.
the ceremonial parade movements as In appearance Lord Kitchener was
practised by the British Guards in six feet and several inches tall with
Ilyde Park, and they did it with un --a brick red glow to his cheeks, due to
usual precision. years of exposure to the tropical sun.
He was as straight as any soldier well
For fourteen years Kitchener serv- drilled in calisthenics.
ed in Egypt.. He was with the Gor- During all the years the British
don relief expedition in 1884, and people had looked on Kitchener's
stayed till; the hero of Khartoum had silent but effective work; they had
been avenged. At Handoub he was. never been able to fathom his person -
severely wounded by a bullet that ality. A cockney non-commissioned
shattered his jaw and buried itself officer, who had seen much service
in his neck, and he was invalided under him, summed up the general
back to England, In 1888 he returned opinion when he said of Kitchener:
to Egypt as adjutant -general to head "'E's no talker, Not 'im. 'E's all
the First Brigade of Soudanese troops steel and Vice:"
at Toski, where he led the final charge. Demanded Deeds.
Time and again he was mentioned in
When War Began. tion is very excited on account of the
lack of provisions- If it continues
When war broke out Kitchener was thus, something will happen. We have
had enough of misery."
Another letter dated Loham, March
30, says: •
"Sunday a long train full of griev-
ously wounded arrived at Straubing
from Verdun. Things are very bad
in England to accept promotion in the
peerage to an earldom. The Prime
Minister made him Secretary. of State
for War, and he had responded in his
wonderfully efficient way; His first
question when lie got to the office, "Is
there a bed here?" He was told there for us here. We can get no meat ex -
was not and said, "Get one. It was cept with the meat cards, and no one
said he slept only five hours out of has the right to kill any more hogs,
the twenty-four and left his post A young pig now costs 80 to 90 marks
every morning at 1 o'clock, returning ($20 to $25), while a milk cow costs
before 9. I -lie orders to recruiting of- from 800 to 1,000 marks ($200 to
$250)."
14 Years in Egypt.
despatches. From Governor-General His face was that of a man who
of the Red Sea littoral and Command- neither asked for sympathy nor want-
of
of Sualtim he was made Chief of ed it. He hail steady blue -grey pas-
sionless eyes and a heavy moustache
covered a mouth that shut close and
firm like a wolf trap. He believed
with all his might in the gospel of
work. - IIe had illimitable self-confi-
dence. For bungling and faint-heart-
edness he was incapable of feeling
faint -heart -
conquest of the Soudan. The Don- sympathy or showing mercy; an offi-
gola expedition won him the rank of ser who failed him once got no second
major -general, anal the next. year, chance,
1897, he started to avenge Gordon's Nineteen -twentieths of Kitchener's
death, Hie first step was a railroad active life were spent outside of the
from Cairo to Khartoum. It had to British Isles, and for that reason it
cross the desert from Haifa to Abu has been said of. him he didn't really.
Hamed, 230 miles of sand. Experts o
scoffed at the idea; it was absurd; ! ouknt.w England when the war broke
the entire carrying capacity of the ,
train would be up by the water
supply necessary for; the locomotive. Sign of a Fish Market.
But Kitchener built on, and as he The proprietor of a fish store• hail
built he bored, and he struck water in a new sign:
the sands just where he needed it; and "Fresh Fish for Sale Here."
the work was finished on October. 31., "Why say 'here'?" said the first
1897. In April of the following year customer. "It's unnecessary."
Kitchener won the battle of the At, He painted "here" out.
bats, and on Sept. 2 caught up with Said, the second endorser, "Why los
the Mandi's forces at Omdurman and sale'? Of course, they're for sale,"
sealed This termer victory • and the. He painted put two words more.
Khaltfa's doom. Gordon wits -avenged. "Why 'fresh'?" said a third ens -
After the fight was won he cut off the omen. . "You wouldn't sell them if
Dervishes' retreat, and as they huddled they weren't fresh, would you ?"
At last the sign realt'i; just "Fish."
Along came a fourth customer.
'What't thee' use of having that
sign," he asked, "when you can smell
them a block away 7"
Police at Cairo, and on Lord Cromer's
recommendation was promoted to be
Sirdar in 1892. IIe was only a colonel
then.
Slaughter of Dervishes.
Form years later he began his re -
around their standards he ,played his
machineuns upon .thein, 'Oiling about
15,000. The •Itfandi's tomb,- was • the
great shrine o£ the Dervishes. Kitch-
ener demolished the tomb, the holy
place, and scattered the mummy so
that no part' of the body could be gob
for re -enshrinement to be a focus for
future trouble. 'Ile gave peace to
Egypt,
, Congratulated by Kaiser.
He was created Baron Kitchener o;f
Khartoum, i•ecet•
i e 1the
. y • Grhnd 'Cross
of the Order of the Bath, the thanks
of Parliament, and was voted $150,-
000; also it may be recalled the
Kaiser telegraphed his sicere con -
Eleven, Sure Enough.
The teacher asked the class, to
write down 11 Antarctic animals. Jim-
my. Jones quickly wrote down his ans-
wer and took his slate to the teachers
desk. This was what she read. "Six
seals, four polar' bears and one wii,l-
rsu.
The range of shrapnel is very
much grater than that of a shot -gun.
Innocent Merriment..
Wife -Are my doughnuts like those
your mother used to make?
Hub (sampling them)-Well-er-
the-hules are just the same. '
VICTORY ' BY RUSSIANS
WITHOUT A PARALLEL
Matters Begin to Look Serious for the Whole Enemy Line
in Russia.
A despatch from London says: "The Blare that matters begin to look seri-
victory wort by the Russians is with- sus for the whole enemy line in Rus -
out a parallel in military history," sia.
Col. Shumsky, the military critic of
says a Petrograd despatch to Rey -
Hie Bourse Gazette; declares the junc-
tion between the Austrians and Ger-
mans hits been cut clean through, thus
exposing the right flank of the Ger-
mans and the left flank of the Aus-
trians and malting them almdst de-
ter's Telegram Company. "The Rus-
sians now occupy the whole triangu-
lar fortified positions of Kolki, Lutsk
and Olyka.
"Military writers dwell on the
great strategic importance of this tri- fenceless to further Russian attacks."
angle, which includes some of the Another despatch from Petrograd
best Austrian communication lines, says:
and connects the centre between The Lubsk victory changes the
Poliessle, Volhynia and Poland and whole position on the Russian south -
the roads to Galicia and Bukowina. western front. hardly less important
is the Russian success in Galicia,
where the Austrian positons• between
Trybuchovice and Jaslovitz, south of
Buczacz, have been forced and the
Austrians driven beyond the Strypa.
In Bukowina again the Austrians were
throughout the winter and springdriven back south of. Okna, and the
There is still no response to the Rus -head of the railway leading to Czerno-
sian thrust, and military writers de- vitz is in Russian hands.
"The Russians fought their way to
Lutsk, a distance of twenty-five miles,
in three days, through forests and
marsh lands and over battered de-
fences, tine invincibility 'of which the
Austro -Germans had been boasting
- E SALIENT
YPRES SAL E MUSTBE HELD
DESPI-...INVOLVED
LOSSES.IN D
Canadian Authorities Communicated With the British General
Staff Concerning Its Abandonment.
A despatch from Ottawa sitys: In
view of the heavy 'losses sustained
during the past two weeks by the Can-
adian forces in defending the position
known as the Ypres salient enquiry
has been made by the Canadian au-
thorities of the British general staff.
The information obtained in reply is
o ition is an important one,
s p
and that notwithstanding the serious
loss incurred, it isthought necessary
to defend it,
The German losses in the various
attacks, according to the information
communicated, have been greater than
those of the Canadians, and at other
points on the British line where the
Germans have attacked the losses on
both sides have been no less serious.
No additional details of the fight-
ing have been received by the MiIitia
Department, but an eye -witness ac-
count is expected to reach Ottawa
from Sir Max Aitken in a few days.
The losses, according to the latest of-
ficial statement, have been over 6,000
of all ranks.