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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-07-06, Page 3"ef's:irses SITY OF BRITISH FIRE FRIGHTFUL AT CERTAIN POINTS First Line Enemy Trenches Straightened Out and Munition De- pots Five Miles in the Hear Blown A despatch from Paris says :-The correspondent of La Liberte at the British front Says ; The intensity of the British artillery \ at certain points is frkghtful. Shell follows shell at only a few seconds interval. The efficacy of the fire has been noted by reconnoitring parties. Not only first line trenches have been ,wrecked over a considerable area and some of them entirely straighened out, init the second line and third` line defences have come under the British fire. Two munition depots five miles in the rear have been blown up. The prisoners brought back by the British appear to be stunned." The correspondent after highly praising the British trench raiders and the general spirit of the army, adds: "The British flying corps lately has been very successful. Time and again German aircraft have attempted to cross the allies' lines to spy out pre- parationsy and each time has had' to retreat, pursued by British airmen. Since the beginning of the week Bri- tish aircraft have destroyed five German aeroplanes." Major Moraht, the German military critic, c6mrnenting in a reext issue of the Berlin Tageblatt on lie Bri- tish activity in Flanders and Northern France, says 'We believe that when the English really make up their minds to undertake a great stategical offensive the end of the British army will certainly be in sight. We do not wish to underratethe seriousness of such a fight. 'Neither, on the other hand, do we want to allow the British to frighten us. The British army has not, and never will, have the opera- tive strength to drive us out of Northern France and Belgium." -.. • ^ SIUSIIIIIG BLOW ITALIANS GAIN ON TEUTON LINE MORE SUCCESSES ^ Austrians Hurled Back on the Kolomea Front and South- ward.' A despatch from London says The Russians again are hammering their way toward Kolomea. With slow but sure strokes, before which the Austrian lines, weak without the supportesd German troops, are crumb- ling, the Czar's forces are closing up- on the Galician stroithold, the key to Lemberg. "On Thursday General Letchitzky, after artillery preparation," says Pet- rogracri official statement, "inflicted . upon the enemy, despite his desperate resistance, a great defeat in the re- gion between the Rivers Dneister and Pruth, and took possession of three lines of trenches." Over a front of 25 miles the Rus- sian masses Were hurled at the oppos- ing lines. Fierce battling followed, in which artillery combat gave way to hand-to-hand -fighting. Austrian re- serves were hastily rushed to the threatened sector. With these new forces the Russian onslaught wff's halted, but in the evening the Czar's troops renewed the assault with fresh vigor, and drove their wedge through the Austrian line. Vienna admits that the 'Teuton forces were compelled to retire "from part of their front at Kolomea and south- ward." ROUMANIAN FOOD RIOTS Four Killed in Fight With Police at Galatz. • A despatch from Amsterdam says : -According to Bacharest despatches in German newspapers received here, four persons were killed and five wounded by the police at Galatz, Roumania, Monday,. while represent- ing a demonstration of workingmen against the high prices of foodstuffs. The despatches add that the working- men of Galatz declared a general strike Sunday, owing to the authori- ties,having prohibited meetings and demonstrations in protest against the high cost of living. ' SPLENDID BRITISH GIFT TO CANADIAN SOLDIERS A despatch from London says :- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, presented a silk Union Jack and a sil- ver shield to the.General Officer Com-. mending the Canadian forces on Sat- urday, The colors and shield are the gift of women and children in the United Kingdom and will remain at Shornclifte until the close of the war. when they will be taken to Canada. A souvenir, in commemoration of Lord Kitchener, was also given to each dis- abled, soldier.... QUEEN VICTORIA OF SWEDEN HAD A NARROW ESCAPE I A despatch from - - Berlin sayse--, Queen Victoria of Sweden, sister of Grand Duke Friedrich II. of Baden, I was at the Castle in Karlsruhe during 1 the recent French air raid on that a German city, when 110 persons were killed by bombs, says an Overseas News Agency despatch from Karig- ruhe. She escaped harm, however, as o on the 'occasion of the' previous raid, r when she also was in the city. Three Lofty Heights Taken by Cadorna's Troops A despatch from London says :- Further successes are claimed by Rome, The lofty heights of Monte Giamondo, north of Fusin, and Monte Caviojo, have been seized by General Cadorna's troops. Lying between the Posina and Astico, these positions give the Italians command of it wide stretch of territory. A further gain in their sweep across the Asiago Pla- teau also is claimed by the Italians. They have occupied the southern side of the Assa Valley and now are storm- ing the slopes of Monte Rasca, Monte Interrotto and Monte Mosciagh. In addition they have reached the Gal- tamara Valley, having carried the de- fensive position of Monte Colombara. HALIFAX GOES DRY .AFTER 169 YEARS \Pierty-six Bars Were losed Last Night -Liquor Men May Fight. A despatch from Halifax says:- The 46 liquor saloons in this. city clod - ad up on Thursday night to remain closed, in consequence of the prohibi- tion law passed at the last session of the Legislature making Halifax "dry" as well as the rest of the province. It is 169 years since Halifax was found- ed, and for the Best time it will be impossible legally to obtain a drink in any public house. KEEP POOR KITCHENS OPEN INDEFINITELY A. despatch from The Hague, via London, says: -The municipality of Berlin has decided to keep open inde- finitely the municipal poor kitchens, which in previous years 'were ,open only during the winter months, 'clos- ing at the end of March. This year the closing has been postponed, month after month, under pressure of the needs of the poor people, and it has now been finally decided to keep the kitchens open for an indefinite period. The Vorwaerts says the kitchens are crowded- as in mid -winter, cud that there are many complaints regarding the insufficiency of the rations served. THREE PEOPLE DROWNED. Canoeing Tragedy on the ,Jacques Near St. Catherine, Quebec. - • A !despatch from Quebec says:- Three persons were drowned on Thursday morning while canoeing on the River Jacques Cartier near Saint Catherine, They are Mrs. Guillot, whose husband is manager for Nan- ceau and Company, dry goods dealers, of this city; M. Jobin, formerly a farmer of L'Evenement, and his son, aged sixteen. It is thought that the canoe capsized in rough water. 4.••• .RISH OUTLOOK IS MORE HOPEFUL A despatch from London says The Irish outlook generally is more mpeful. The Daily Mail predicts an mieable settlement. The Daily Chronicle, on the other hand, says that Lord Lansdowne, Minister without mrtfolio, and Walter Long, president f the local Government Board, have esigned. Some other papers say that to one has resigned from the Cabinet xcept Lord Selborne. • KITCHEN REFUSE FOR GERMAN COWS A despatch from - Amsterdam says : -German newspapers received here T contain an order of the Federal Coun- cil cOmpelling towns and communities L exceeding 40,000 inhabitants to collect 'I' kitchen refuse from all households. t The refuse is to be sent to a Govern- d ment factory, there to be converted t into condensed food for much cows. f 'URKS DRIVEN BACK • IN BAGDAD DIRECTION A despatch from Petrograd says :s- he Russians continue to make pro - Tess in the Caucasus. "South al ake Urumiah we pushed back the 'inks from the regioe of Bann toward he Turco -Persian frontier, I the traction of Bagdad we have defeated ho Turks, driving them toWard the °stifled region of Kalavstrahine." GERMAN PAPER PAYS TRIBUTE CHATSWORTH HALL, DERBYSHIRE OWNED EY LUKE OF DEVONSHIRE a MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY RESIDENCE OF CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL --- LOST STRIPES, NOT HIS LIFE German Socialist Dismissed From Army and Given Thirty Months. A despatch from Berlin says :-Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Socialist leader, was sentenced on Wednesday to thirty months penal servitude and dismissal from the army for attempted high treason, gross insubordination and re- sistance to the authorities. The court adopted the view that Dr. Liebknecht was guided by fanaticism and not by unpatriotic feeling, and therefore im- posed the lowest penalty on him. Dr. Liebknecht is entitled to appeal from the sentence. 2,500,000 WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. Increase in British - Female Labor Raises a Future Difficulty. Women the world over may be proud of the fact that in answer to the call of duty and patriotism some- thing like 2,560,000 women and girls have entered the industries of Great Britain since .the beginning of 1915, writes a London correspondent. With the exception of certain skill- ed trades and occupations necessarily confined to men, the whole world of work is now for the first time in his- tory open to women. The nation is undoubtedly benefiting largely in many ways by the influx of women Into the labor world, that is to say, into that portion of it which up to the present time has been the special pre- serve of the male. Curiously enough there is a very serious shortage of women's labor in a large number of women's trades, chiefly in textiles and clothing. The fact is that the high wages paid to munition workers is re- :sponsible for this desertion of the less well paid jobs. Domestic ser - vents, laundresses and waitresses are at a premium. "They don't seem satisfied unless they are making something that ex- plodes," remarked an employer, who foupd it difficult to get women work- ers. This fresh industrial revolution has brought with it new problems and the Women's Labor League is doing good service in imitating systematic in- quiry and discussion upon them. One speaker at the opening conference in London hazarded the prediction that at least 2,000,000 men now in the army must be regarded as lost to in- dustry, since they would be either id capacitated or would refuse to go back to their old occupations,. Nevertheless the labor world will be confronted with the necessity of adjusting its whole basis and policy to the new conditions:: It is clear that the woman worker cannot be „exclud- ed wholesale, neither can she be ex- ploited for the benefit of unscrupulous employers, but before the matter can be equitably adjusted there will be trouble. Meantime the Women's Labor League has started a series of con- ferences in an endeavor to settle the question that the workingman in thinkilig hardest about -the future of the women who have been drafted into industry to take the place of men, and the effect on men's wages and the general standard of living. ONLY MUNITIONS FACTORY IN 11.01.1MANIA DESTBOYED A despatch from Bucharest to Lon- don says that, the only munitoins fac- tory in, Roumania has been dee' eyed.' The destruction is laid to s plot of German al Bulgarian agents. All the machinery in the plant and mil- lions of shells were destroyed. e • 'RUSSIAN LOSSES APPROACH 3000,000 • -- A despatch from Amsterdam says : " The latest Prussian casualty lists wring the period from June 8 to 20 Mg the total of Prussian loses to 740,190. This figure is not believed include the losses at Verdun." Handsome Prizes Will Be Given 'The Management of the Toronto Fat Stock Show announce their -in- tention of holding a Show at the Union Stock nude, Toronto, Decern- r 8th and 9th, 1010. We understand e prize list will contain many new Asses, and offer handsome prizes to ceders and feeders of cattle, sheep d hogs. , "This is an odd way girls have of tting into society." "How is it odd?" hy, to get in they first have to me out." CO hr • 2., TO CANADIAN GALLANTRY to One General and Several Officers, It Says, Preferred Death to Surrender. A despatch from London says The Cologne Volkzeitunge describing tbe gallant stand made by the Cana - tens at Ypres at the beginning of month, says many 'of them made an obstinate resistance, preferring to be killed rather than surteacler, One d6,nerAl and several officeis who re- fused to give in were killed. The general drew ifia sword, and when a sergeant demanded his surrender he cut him thienigh the face, whereupon an infantryman bayoneted him. Many such groups who resisted desperately and refused all mercy'. had to be cleared out with bombs. be th elm bo- on ge evy Co CANADA'S NEW COV. -GENERAL DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. DUCHESS OF DEVONS1-11RE. THOMAS KELLY FOUND GUILTY Of Theft, Reeelviig and Obtain - in by False Pretences. A despatch from Winnipeg says:- Thomao Kelly has been found guilty of theft, receiving, and obtaining money, by false pretences. A verdict of guilty on four out of the five counts in the indictment on the charges arising' out of the &entracte for bhe erection of the Manitoba Parliament Buildings was found by the jury in theidAssize Court on Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock, after it had deliberated for three hours. BRIIISH SHORT OF DYES - Manufacturers Can Make- the Com- monest Kind. - Ss_ ious difficulties are being en- eounteroi in all the dye using huhu- trise in Great Britain, as it is almost'iniposible to obtain the fine analine dyes which before 'the War we're manu- factured almost exclusively in Ger- many. Fabulous prices are being paid for the very limited supplies on the market, For beet fa.st dyes prices today range 'about fifty times as high s those that ruled before the war; for commoner dyes twenty times the. r war price is asked. Progress is being made be British Manufactueers principally with the commoner dyes but at the best it will be a long time before supplies from this source c be anything like satisfactory. German dyes is reaching the market from somewhat unexpeeted quarter. The sale has :lust been announced of a quantity of anal:lie dyes just landed at Si. Katharine Dock, London,. These dyes are being sold...by direction of the Admiralty, Marshal, Alexandria, and form' pert of cargoes captured at sea in August, 1914. The 'Government is taking great care to pvevent these dyes from fa:11- h% into the mends of dealers. The sale is by tender and firma desiring to obtain a tender form nuist first sat- isfy the authorities that the purpose for which they need the dyes is of national interest. A woman's work is never finished if, she is tryirig to reform some man. Markets of the World Toronto, July 4: -Manitoba wheat - No. r`Northern, $1,18; No. 2, do., 11.161; No. 3, do„ $1.121, track, Bay ports. Manitoba oats -No. 2, C. W.,52$0;' No. 3, do., 52c; eXtra No. 1 feed; 61e; No. I feed, 60c; No. 2, clo., 490, track. Bay »orta. American earn -No, 3 yellow, 81$c, tradk, Bay ports; 85c, track, Toronto, Ontario oats -No. 3 white 48 to 49e, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 1 commercial, `08 to 99c; No. 2, do., 04 to 960; No. 3, do„ 88 to 90c; feed, 83 to 85c, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Peas -No. 2 nominal, $1.75 to $1.80 se - cording to, sample, $1.25 to $1.50, ac cording to freights outside, Barley -Melting, 06 to 60c; feed GO to 62c, according to freislits outside. Buckwheat -Nominal, 70 to 71c, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye. -No. 1 commercial. 94 to 95o, ac- cording to freights outside. Manitoba flour -First patents. In jute bags, $6.50; second patents, in Jute bags T"cironttroa.ng baltere', in Jute bags, $5,80, Ontario flour -Winter, according to satnple, $4.05 to $4.15, in bags, track, Toronto, prompt shipment; $4. to $4.10, bulk, seaboard, prompt shipment. Millfeed-Cor lots, delivered Montreal freights, bags tnaluded-13ran per ton, $20 to $ee, shorts, per ton, 5-.4 to $25: flour, per bag, $1.55 to $1.60. middlings, per ton_, $2.5,..to $26; good feed Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 25 to 27e; inferior, 83 to 24c; creamery prints, 29 to De; inferior, 28 to 25c. Bags -Steady to firm; new -laid, 28 to 29c: do., in Cartons, 30 to 32e. Beans -$4.25 to $4.50, the latter for hand-picked. Clieeac-New, large, 150; twins, isle. Maple syrup -Prices are steady at $1.40 to $1.60 per Imperial Dressed poultry-Chlekens, 26 to 27c; fowl, 23 to 25, rotatoes-Ontareop quoted In car lots at $1,85, and New ran/wicks at $2.16, per bag; 'westerns, $1.95. --Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 4.-Corn-Amerlean No. 2 yellow, 83 to 54c. Oats -Can- adian western, No. 2. 544c; do„ No. 3, 53c; extra No. 1 feed, 53c; No. 2 local white, 52$c; No, 2 do., site; No. 4 do.. 005e. liarley-Malting, 75 to 76c. Flour -Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, MOO; seconds, $6.10; strong bak- ers', 56.90; Whiter patents, choice, $6. to $6,25; straight rollers, $6.11 to 15.00; do„ bags, $2.40 to 52.05. Lionel oats, barrels, $4.75 to $l.sst do., bags. 90 lbs, $2.26 to $2.50, 13re.m. $18 to $20, Shorts, $22 to $24 Middlings. $26 to $27. Mountie, $27 to $32. Slay -No, 2 per ton, ear lots, $20.50 to $21.50, Cheese -Finest Willi t el'IlEi • loll to 17e; do., east - stock, 26r. Potatoes per hag, cur lets, $7.0s5,. DM to 165o. Dotter, choicest creamerY, 30c; seconds, 22c. Eggs, selected, 33c; No. I stock. 250; No, 2 Winnipeg Grain. WheatlulNyeh-hoCrr quotations: - Northern, $1.09; No. 3 Not$11lielr0i11, $1131631 No. 4, Mee; Na. 5, 241c; No. 6, 005c; reed, Mc. Oats -No. 2 (1tV1.. 465c; No. 3 (LW., Ito; extra No, 1 feed, 451el No. 1 feed, 441o; No. 2 reed, 425c. Bar- ele0r-c; Nfee.ec13., Ge095Le; $1.571; No. 2 C. $1.041. r United States Markets, NI I n neapolls, July 4.---1Yheat-,Tuly, 51.055; September, $1.075; No, 1 hard, $1.131; No. 1 Northern, $1.074 to $1.095; No. 2 Northern, 51.055 to $1.075. :Corn --No. 3 yellow, 76 to 77c. Oats. -:-No. 3 white, 17.1 to 3711c, Moor unehitoged: s511101p01101.ents, 50,608 bbls. Bran, 517,011 to Duluth, buy .l.-1Vheat-On track. NO. 1 hard, $1.104; No. 1 No1'tho5n, $1.0011 No. 2 Northern, $1,013 to $1.001: NO. 1 Northern, to lire! Vs, $1.0011 No. 3 Northern, on track, 16110 to $1.026. bin- seemi-Ulu track, $1.7511; to arrive, $1.781, july, $1,751 asked; September, $1.811 11.001 asked: 11.801 bid; NovM ebet, Live Stock Markets, Toronto, July 4,--Chotee heavy steers, $10,00 to $10.00; good licaNy stoers, $0.40 to 0.00; butchers' cattle. choice, $0.50 Rtiolo( luln5; togood,4d10 oe., $8.00 to $0.25: Mitchel -P.' bells, cbolee, $0.20 to $5.50; do., good bolls, $7.46 to 7.65; do„ rough hulio,, 54.75 to $5,25; utchers rows, choice, 10.00 to $8,25; do., medium. $0.25 to -$8,75. stockers, 700 to 550 tbs. $6.75 to $7.75, choice feeders, clehorned, 950 to .1.000 11,s, 88.25 to $8.85; 1111P I'S, choice, each, $75.00 to $100.06; do., coin. and mad., each, $40.00 to Sce.0.0; seeingers, 150.00 to 5100,00; light ewes, $9.00 to $10,00; sheep, hears', $0.00 to $8.00; spring lambs, nor lb,. 12$c to 14c; calves, good It, rhoice $0.00 to $12.00: do., modloin, 87.26 to $5.61; hogs, red and watered, 811.40 to $11.50; do., Weighed oil' cars, $11.65 to $11.75; do., r. e, 0., $10.10, in -entreat, July 4,-13 u t, lie's' steers, choloc, 51,70 to $10; medium, $8.70 to 10.20; common to fair $7.70 to $8.25: rough, $0 to $7; bulls, choice, $7.50 to 50.25: fair to good, $0.7.5, to $7.15; med- ium. $5,75 to $0.501 cows. choice, $7 to ;‘i.t flirt 8. . o 4.05; !Aileen, 70 to 'n;0 t to goal, $5,111 to 56'0' ''' '00,1,0 ilog,t. selects. $11.35 to $1.1.00; roughs and mixed lots, $11 to $1.1.25, Better. Let it be said once for -all, that it is better for both body and soul to be obliged to go hungry sometimes than to be fan always; it is wholesome]. to be weary frequently ,from hard work than to keepon a deeri level of com- fort, or to know weariness only from the spinning dance and the daily pleasure; it is cleaner to be dusty and bathed- in the blood and sweet of battle than to be so Aeltere.d as not to know the meaning of hand -to - basal conflict with a real problem or fierce temptation; it is grander to break the shackles of exchr:venesd and Walk free in the dingy I ity of social unpopularity, than to Ito the idol of men and women who do not count for, but rather against, the pro- gress of the race -Bishop Br, :.t, A man advertises for "crmpetent persons to undertake the re's of a new medicine." and adds thi t "it will be profitable to the undertal:31`." BERLIN EXPECTS CLIMAX OF WAR ON BRITISH FRONT Impressed by Great Activity of Haig's Forces, Which Includes Several Attacks With Gas. A despatch from Berlin says': -The intensified artillery activity on the British front is believed here to her- ald the long -expected great British offensive. If the British mean busi- ness at this time they should find the Germans in a state of prepared- ness. The correspondent is in a posi- tion to know that the German line in the far west has not been weakened a6 the result of having to rush help to the Austrians, and that operations at Verdun are being continued systema- tically in the face of the possibility of a British offensive. Military circles here are calmly aonficient that Great Britain's great- est effort will meet the fate of the previous offensives, but there is keen interest to see Kitchener's new armies in action. The general opinion is that a supreme test of strength between the British and German armies dur- ing the coming summer will mirk the climax of the war, In the expectation of perhaps de- cisive military events on all fronts, Peace talk has never been so dead as it is to -day, BRITISH_ GUNNERY WAS THE BETTER GERMANS ACCURATE TILL THE FIGHT DEVELOPED. Officer Tells of Havoc Wrought by the Dreadnoughts' Fire. A gunnery officer, describing the Horn Red fight from his special point of view in the London Times, says: "One thing made evident was that ship for ship we are much more than a match for the Germans. A more accurate gauge of relative strength would be to say that if they came on two to one we could still be equal to them, I do not say this in any spirit of boasting. It is a considered opinion formed on knowledge very little of which I can divulge to you. Lessons From the Fight. "All sorts' of lessons can be de- duced from the fight. Lett one give you one point of consequence from my own observations. Our gunnery was much better than the enemy's. At the start, as a rule, the German fire was accurate and deadly and their guns were well served. So it remained while they were in superior strength and able to throw four or five ships against every one of ours, but as soon as they came under Alie fire of our Battle Squadron the Germans began to deteriorate and their marksmanship' fell off considerably, though they still worked their guns hard. I am not surprised that the crews became to some extent demoralized, as they apparently did by our gunfire, for our tgttennsh wrought awful havoc among h "On board our, own ships there were Many casualties from gun -fire. I am not referring now to ships that were lost, but to those that were hit. But this was nothing in comparison to what the enemy suffered from the same form of attack. Tremendous Hitting Power. "The following will give you an idea of the tremendous hitting power of our Dreadnoughts. One at our 12in. gun ships -the Hercules, I be- lieve -put her salvos into a German ship so accurately that the enemy vessel heeled right over under the heavy blows which the Hercules dealt her. Of course, that German went out of action. If the 12in. guns would do that to a ship, how much more de- structive must be the well -directed fire from the 18,5 and 15.ein guns. "The British people do not thor- oughly grasp the fact that of the Ger., man ships which escaped most cer- tainly the greater part of them were so crippled by our gun -fire that they can be of no further use for some months to come. They are like a pu- gilist leaving the ring with both eyes closed, his nose broken, and the wind knocked out of him. I do not know that I can find a better simile to describe, the present posi- tion of the German fleet, Importance of Gunnery. "One result of this battle has beep to fix definitely the importance OE gunnery. It was the big calibre that told, and it was a gunner's battle. I 40 not say that disparagingly, because I ant a gunnery man myself, but such is the fact. Our gunnery was better at all points than that of the enemy, and we are now absolutely certain of our suporioeity in markmanship. But We do want some big airships to eeout for us. The presence. of the Zeppelins was a great, advantage to the Gerinan fleet." German Scheme Foiled. A gunnery officer who participated in the Jutland battle, writing to the London Times from Portsmouth, said; "Something, I notice, has been said as to what the German object was. I do not think there id much doubt about that, The Germans meant to break through the blockade and throw a squadron of fast warships into the Atlentie, where they would have done tremendous damage and given immense trouble before they could have been rounded up." MILITARY SURVIVALS Fla... :Present Gontiict Has &Ought About Old Devices: In the close -range warfare of th,2 trenches the opposing soldiers are making use of means of offence and means of defence that long antedate the invention of fire -arms; some of them, indeed, ere older than history. The steel helmet hail reappeared after more than two hundred years of dis- use, fitly many .a soldier owes his life to the fact that the curved surface of his head covering deflected a. bul- let. The trench periscope is an adapt- ation of a device that was invented nearly three centuries ug0. The barb- ed-wire entanglement is only another form of tit i ancient abatis, and the fact that it is now often painted green I to make it leis easy to see is a link that joins it even more intimately to its prototype. The pits with sharp spikes At the bottom and the caltrops -four-pointed iron instruments that always stand with one point upward however they fall -are survivals of medimval warfare. The eatapault of ' the Romans that once threw stones now casts explosive grenades from trench to trench. The German flame projector goes back to the days when armies deluged each other with boil- ing oil and burning pitch, and the use of poisonous gases was anticipated by the Chinese, who for centuries used stinkpots. Mine, Counter -mine and petard, reinforced to -day by gun- cotton and trinitrotoluol, are revivals from the Middle Ages. Screening guns and men by the adroit use of foliage carries us back to the days of Mac- beth, when Birnan Wood came to Dun- sinane. But, as the Engineering Re- cord points out, the war has utilized one means of concealment that is strikingly modern: that is, painting ships, guns, and even men in streaks and spots of different colors, so that they are quite lost in the shifting light either at tea or on land. The trick had its origin hiLecent diecOveries concerning the protective coloration of animals. A PROFITABLE BUSINESS. Big Profits in Hotel Investments Without a Bar. Hotel investments in most parts of Canada, and particularly in Ontario, have depreciated very much in value owing to the spread of prohibition, and many owners are in despair. But there is no need for this, On the other hand a new and much better era should now open. • Hotel -keeping has proved to be, and may, in Canada, be made one of the most profitable eend reputable of businesses. It is the most promising field for business de- velopinent, we know of to -day for am- bitious capable young men. The trouble is that our hotels have been conducted on the wrong lines. The bar has been regarded as the chief object. Most hotel -keepers have not, been business men but liquor hand- lers. Lodgings and food have been merely en incident. Some of them ex- pected to lost money on their tables. The wastefulness was appalling yet the supplying of good food and good accommodation is one of the most pro- fitable businesses m the world to -day. In Canada it has been more or less of a disgrace to be associated with, or even seen in, an hotel. In Europe and the United States some of the richest and most prominent families socially are investing and naming hotels after themselves and the hotel is becoming a social centre. The most successful hotel -keepers are men who began in the kitchen and dining -room; who learnt the business from that end. The Ritz Hotel in Paris is probably the finest in the world to -day. Mr. Ritz, when the writer 'first knew him, had just bean Promoted to assist in the management of the Savoy Hotel, London. The pre- sent general manager of the Ritz, Mr, Ellis, was his head waiter. Like so many successful enterers they are both of Swiss birth. George C. Boldt, of the Waldorf-Astoria, and other big hotels in the States, is the largest hotel owner in the world, with a net income of well over a million; per- haps it couple of millions, a yeas'. He worked his way up from the kitchen. Fred Stony, manager of The Plaza:: and other big American' hotels also worked his way up through all de- partments. The departments, of which these men know least, in their business, is the bar. It is not only the big hotels that have been marvelously successful when managed by men of capacity, who learnt the business from the ground up, and svlio have developed executive ability, but some of the small hotels have been remarkably Profitable. We know of one hotel, in a town of orily 17,000, managed by a man who began, When it boy, cutting meat in the kitchen of a big city hotel, As a result of good food and clean, perfectly appointed rooms and off i- dea management, the profits of this house have steadily crept up, until, in 1015, they -.,reached $50,000. To -day the building is being' nearly doubled 'in size to meet the demand of good service. So little does this manager think of his bar that in his new build- i»g, he is plating it in the basement; as he is satisfied that, in a very short time, liquor selling. will be eliminated. Investors in hotel properties should dual with theM as a mannfiteturing and retailing proposition. Manage or have them managed, by experienced business men. Give a quality eervice, advertise it, and build a reputation JUS15 as a manufacturer does foe his mune or trade mark, The traveling, and local public will floek to them. rish Changes Color. In Siam there ars small fresh, water fish so pugnacious that when two of them are placed near each oeh- er they begin to fight. When the fish O quiet its colors are dull, but when excited it is of a metallic brilliance.