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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-06-15, Page 2IF 0. D. McTAGG ART Id. D. MoTAGGART McTaggart Bros. RANKERS A GENERAL BANKING BUS!• NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED, INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES rUR- CRA SED'. - H. T. RANCE - eg NOTARY PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANCIAL, REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. DIVISION COURT CFFICE, CLINTON. W..BRYDONE, BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. Office-- Sloan Block-CLINTON B. G. CAMERON K.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street escaped by Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap- pointment's are made. Office hours from 9 a•m. to 6 p.m. A good vault in connection with the office. Office open every week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments for Mr. Cameron. CHARLES B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Publlo, Commissioner, Etc. 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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 H G.�1 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.