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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-08-10, Page 2G. D. McTAGGART lacTAGGAR'11' McTaggart Bros. BANKERS , W GENERAL BANKING 111751. NESS TRANSACTED, NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES run, CHASED, •-• — II. T. RANCE -- NOTARY, PUBLIC, CONVEY- ANCER, FINANC/AL, REM: ESTATE AND FIRE INSUR- ANCE AGENT. REPRESENT- ING 14 FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. trIVISION COURT CFFI6E, CLINTON. W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITONe , NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC. OMee-- Sloan Block --CLINTON M. G. CAMERON K.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETO. Ofileo on Albert Street oceuped bY Mr. Hooper, In Clinton on every Thureday, and on any day for -which ap- pointments are made. Office hours from 9 am, to 6 p.la. A good vault in connection with the °Moe. Office open every week -day. Mr. Hooper will make any appointments for Mr. Cameron. , CHARLES B. HALE, Conveyancer, Notary Publies Commissioner, Etc. 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DIRECTORY Officers; J, B. McLean, Soetorin, President; J. coo. molly, Ooderioh. vice President; Thole E. Maya. Nealorth. Sec. -Treat, Directors. I) F. McGregor, Seaforta; J. G. Grieve, Winthrop: Win. Zinn, Be. forth; John Benneweit Dublin; J. laVand. Iloechwood: A. Rciinen, Srucelleid; J. B. McLean Se tlorth; J. Connolly, Goderich; Robert Ferris, Hariook. Agente: Ed. HiTiehley. Seatorth; W. Moines, h'imandville; J. W. Yeo, wills; Alex Leitch, Clinton; R S. Jar with, 13rodhagen. Any money to be yo.Jd in may be paid to Normal', Clothing Co.. Clinton. or at Cutts Grocery, Goderieh. parties desirous to effect 'insurance or transact othe- businces will be promptly attended to on application to -any of above officers addreeeed to their reepeot. sye poet -offices. looses Inspected by the director who lives neareet the k A Lyv.. • —TIME TABLE.— Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station ai follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. 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FORD ik McLEOD CLINTON. tr, w is Your Cutlery Supply? You know that Jewelry Store Cutlery it out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS le. It carries a distinctiveness -- an air of superiority, that.. comes trout being made with the greatest care and at. moat skill from the highest. priced materials. 11 you can use some of this Cutlery in your home, you will be proud of it every time you see it on the table. Carvers, cased, $3.00 up. Knives, Forks and Spoons., $1.00 doz. up. Knives and Forks, steel, white handles, $3.00 doz. up. Let us show you our Cutlery line. Let us tell you more about why it is the most desirable that you can put . your money into. W. R. COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER of MARRIAGE LICENSES. •NEIS-RECORO'S NEW CLUBBING BATES RIB 191 sr engrafts. 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Small advertise. menta not to exceed one inch, such as ''Strayed,'.'. er "Stolen," etc., inserted once• f6r 55 cents and each suhaequeut in- sertion 10 cents, Communications intended for pub. lit:olive must, as a guarantee of geed faith, he accompanied by the cattle of the writer. .W, .1. MITCHELL, Editor and Proprietors NOTES AND CbMinENTS It Is impossible for people to shut , their eyes to the casualty lista. Every reeord of names ls en argument In fetor of such a iluisle,Of this war at mase'preolude the possibility of recur, rence. The world will not now be . satigfted with hag measurefil It 111 Simply. astounding to •compare the , figures which are daily mounting up, with- those of other Euroeeen Warfk i Blenheim was a great battle" More than a quarter of the troope engaged were killed or wounded. SO was Mel- . plaquet. Vontenoy le a fanioue name. . At Zorndorf," out of -85,000 men en- gaged,. 32,000 were left on the field When Frederick the Great pursued the Russian army. In fifteen great battles of the , eighteenth century the lessee were 30500a men; according to etotis. tics compiled by Gen. Jacob Eugene Duryee, veteran writer on war. The great battles — of theenineteenth century were still bloodier, .Austerlitz accounted for 25,000 men; Eylau for ' 42,000 ; Friedland for 34,000 e Aspen , for 45,000 ; Wagrani for 44000 ; Borodino for 75,000 ; Leipsio, the Battle of the Natione, for 92,000 ; Waterloo for 42,000. Inkerman, the bloodiest battle .0f, the Crimean war, killed and wounded only 14,000. Thir- ty-three thoneand were killed or wounded_ at Vionville and 30,000 at drayelette, . during the Franco-Prus- sian war. The forty-five great battles of the bentury accounted for nearly 1,100,000 men. Yet all this slaughter, all these terrible battles, do not make halt the total of the losses of two years of the present horror. It is as if war, aware of its aproaching ex -1 Unction, were piling up a last, huge altar of human bones for its own final immolation. I'__ Perhaps- the strangest thing in Ger- , man policy before and during the war has, been its insensibility to the moral verdict of the world. Nothing has done more to alienate the sympathy of neu- • trals than the inhuman treatment of Belgium. Yet the Cavell case, and a hundred episodes since, have shown how little hoed the German Governor pays to protests not based on force. There is a similiar situation in Poland. The duties of occupation are disre- garded. According to the Polish societies, children are starving be- cause Germany refuses to guarantee that food contributions shall not be requisitioned for military purposes. This is a defiance not only of the laws of humanity, but of the laws of war. The inhabitants of a conquered coun- try have a right to life. To deny them this is to resolve civilization to a lower level than that of the brute. Germany Is not even asked to support the Pelee, which is her plain duty, but only to allow others to support them. When defeat comes, as it is bound to doe-ehe will find that she has sown the windl to reap the whirlwind. I, - Germans Eat Crows. Crovs and crows' eggs are recom- mended by the German -Ministry Of 1 the Interior as articles of food. Crows' eggs are described as having • the taste of plovers' eggs. No man is ever so importent or un- important as he thinks. ' ' eli101"— • rr 1, i , Nearly everyone' has hO ripp ng, tearing headaches . at times. Disordered stom- ach—sluggishliver does it, Cheer up 1 here's the reel relief-eChamberlain's Stomach end Liver Tablets. They put the stomach and bowels right. All druggists, 15,.. or by mail front 9 Chamberlain Medicine Co., To onto - I. .. 1 1- There is a. Cold Bay Corning Why not prepare for it by ordering your winter supply of Lehigh Valley Coal. None better in the world. Rouse Phone 12. Mee Phone. 40, A. J. HOLLOWAY 4smarseaumnuarsrarAzara=eranramnasasnicsa THE-GligilliEli - OF THY _ . hist as they are—in their its - door play, or/at their outdoor play—they are constantly of- fering t,inptations tor the • KODAK Let it kee'n them for.;od is • they aro.now, Let, it keep many other hap. penings that are a source ...4 pleasure to you. BROWNIES, $2 T0-812; KODA ES, $7 TO $25. Alto full stock of Films and Supplies. We do Developing and Printlne. Remember the place: T Pi M H-EXALL STORE FRENCH INGENUITY AT THE FRONT GREAT DUGOUT LIKE BIG HOTEL FOR OFFICJERS. Accuracy of 75s Marvel of the War— Shells Fall With RApple of Machine Gun. •'Ingenuitydisplaied by the French defending the 'Oise position is de- scribed- by .the correspoeclent of the - London Times. -Writing from Brit- ish headquarters at the front he eays: The French front in the region of the Oise lea most welcome contrast to the, flat country of Flanders. There are places on the • British front, such as near the Somme, •Where we hold the high ground which oyerlooks the enemy. But, the most part it was the Gerneans who chose the line on which to stand when they fell back, from the Marne, and over most of the front, eel:eel/Lily In the north, in the stationary warfare of the last year and a half, the enemy has held much the more advantageous posl- tions. At many places, however, the French drove him farther 'than he wished to go, and at such points the better grouni is in the hands of the Allies, Accurate Shooting. Recently I walked some miles in French trenches where. they run through woods and overarched with bracken, Wild strawberries and lily of the valley grow along their edges, and in the dusk rabbits come down into them, to the huge entertainment of the :nen. There I looked down from an observation post, so well con- cealed that the Germans might search the hillside with their guns for a month and never touch it, straight on to the German front-line trenches al- most at my feet. I watched a French "75," from a battery well behind me on the other side of the hill, amuse itself by knocking the trenches into dust. The rapidity of the fire was such that the shells fell almost like the ripple of a machine gun, and the accuracy was so excellent that, while I watched, only one shell seemed to fall as much as a couple of yards from the actual trench. There is, indeed, not much room for careless shooting, for there are places where the French and German lines are only 20 paces apart. Not far away I saw a most ingeni- ous "Bochetrap," the nature of which must be left a mystery, but the essen- tial element is a machine gun so placed that though it has been there foe several weeks in the Course of which there has hardly been a day when it has not been used, the en- emy has not the smallest notion where it is, nor is he ever likely to find out. The officer who invented it—a strap- ping fellow from Bordeaux, six good feet tall and every inch a soldier— takes great pleasure in his piege, as the•Germans certainly do not. Playing Box and Cox. The German has shown himself in- genious enough in this war, but in the constant struggle of wits which goes on along the front line trenches he is no match for the Frenchman. The French have reduced the displaying of posters conveying disconcerting news to the enemy to a fine art. Not very far away from the "Boche-trap" men- tioned there is a piece of trench which, the 'French discovered, the enemy oc- cupied only in the night time, presum- ably because it was too exposed. So the French took •tie occupying it for the other half of the 24 hours—play- ing Box and Cox as it were, and being careful always to leave no trace of their occupancy behind. The need of using it has passed now; but while the game went on the position—mere. ly because the Germans never thought of it except as part of their own line —had conspicuous usefulness. The same ingenuity the French carry into the construction of their dugouts and similar places. I have been through one monumental dugout which is to the ordiettry hole that goes by that name what a great London hotel is to an Irish turf cabin. There is 30 feet of solid stuff overhead as you go down passages, all beautifully timbered, past suites of bedrooms, those for the higher officers with easy chairs and telephones and writ- ing tals.es'to rooms which one calls apartments, for messing and for of- fice purposes. An elaborate system of ventilation has ben installed, and it is all so secure that the Germans have not got a shell big enough to awake a man asleep down there. TO KEEP ,FROM DROWNING. Bren7•the in Through Mouth and -Ex- hale Through Nose. There is more danger of drowning in not knowing how to breathe than there is in not knowing how to Mirth This may sound strange, but many cases have been known where persons • And I wordy], kinder be; Provided with good life preservers If you would stop to think before have drowned_ Merely because they 'You think of faults you see; time end the water, dulling intosthe With all with whom I'm hurled, had their mouth open at the wrong 1-'4f would show more patience, too, mouth, caused suffocation. ,To mere- Then I would help—and so Would you by keep afloat, lie perfectlY eat on To make a better world. the water, with the back of head well submevged. Do not strike a tense, ! If you would cheer your neighbor more rigid position, but lie easy and re -1 And I'd encourage mine; laxed, .and breathe in through the! If you would linger at his door mouth, and exhale through the nose.1 To say his work is fine, Fill the lungs to their fullest capacity And I Would stop to help him when by breathing in through the mouth, I His lips in frowns arc curled; eubmerge the head entirely and then Both you sind, I'd be helping than exhale slowly and steadily. The body ' To Make a better world, will rise to the surface of its owe ac- cord. • Courteous Princes. Sir Rider Haggard, the British novelist, photographed just before his departure from New York for London on the steamship St. Louis the other day. The English writer said: `;,15ven be- fore the war there were superfluous women in England to the number of over one and one-half millions. Now there are millions more, and these, at the Government's request, have gone into industry to take the places of the men at the front. These women are there to stay, for there will not be sufficient men to martyr them." THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Lord Buckmaster Was One of the Leaderi of the English Bar. Lord Buckmaster, recently appoint- ed the Lord Chancellor, who has been urging everybody in Great Britain to economize and save all they can in war time, is one of the most important men in the Cabinet; for it is through him that King George signifies his consent to anything signed in his name. The Lord Chancellor is technically "the keeper of the Icing's conscience," advising his Majesty in regard to signing all State documents. For- thermore, the Lord Chnncellor is the custodian of the Great Seal which figures on these documents. The Seal is kept in an elaborate purse made of the fitiest purple velvet, heavily em- • broidered in colored silks with the Arms of Eliglausd—the lion and the unicorn. Below is 'worked in silk a motto in Latin meaning "For God and My Country." e. - It is an interesting fact that the Lord Chancellor takes precedence of every temporal lord and anyone' who is not a membef of the royal family, and of all bishops, except the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. • The appointment of Lord Buck - master to the Chancellorship in 1914 astonished a good many people, for his promotion to the highest position on the bench with £10,000 a year came after only two years as one of the law officers of the Cvown. Line' Buckmaster, however, was, before his appointment as Solicitor -General in 1913, one of the leaders of the Chan- cery Bar, where he had a very large practice. For gime years he was Chancery "special." "Specials" do not appear for a less fee than -100 guineas. His Lordship, who is 55 years of age, is famous for his energy and youthful appearance, He only looks about 35, and it is related that on one occasion a client remarked, "It's a nice thing to pay a boy like that such a big fee." But after Lord Buckmas- ter had won his case for his client, the latter made a further observation: "There's no knowing what fee that young man will want when he reaches 60." 'Undoubtedly his energy and indus- try have been the secret of his Won- derful success. Furthermore, he is held in high esteem for his personal qualities, and, when his legal duties permit him to do SO, there is nothing gives the Chancellor greater pleasure than to hie himself to the country with a fishing rod and spend bouts on the FOR YOU AND I. If yOn would smile a little more Prince Albert . was seen recently coming out of a Regent Street (Lon- don) shop, end as the girl commis- sionaire swung open the foot for him e saluted and thanked her. Crur royal sons have been brought up to the highest notions of chivalry towards all women. When Prince John was a tiny boy he always raised his cap to a ower -woman who had her baaket in tickinghain Palace road. It is record- ed that the Queen said: "Pm very noes* I like my boys to respect all voinen." But just as long as you keep still And plod your selfish way; And I rush on and heedless kill The kind words I could say; While you and I refuse to smile And keep our gay flags' furled; SOme one will grumble all the while That it's a gloomy world. —Edgar A. Gout. It is estimated that the Canadian National Eifhibition attracts 400,000 people to Toronto annually, a large percentage from across the line. The hospital ship Salta recently ar- rived in the Liffey with about- 400 wounded aoldiere on board, and was greeted by a great crowd of people, THE "BIG BRIVe." ' By Charles M, Bice, Denver, Colo: Delusion, if not dikippointment, lurke In the phrase "big drive," as ap- plied to the offeneWe movement of the allies on the western front, The over -enthusiastic have visions of a veatearmy of millions sweeping north and east and driving the Germans be- fore them. The thing, unfortunately, is impossible. It was as nearly realized as it prob- ably ever will be in this wat at the battle of the Marne, but that was be- fore the era off trench wart' ay, North - 'em ri France and Belgium behind the German lines is now a vest area of prepared detensee and military trenches. A comparatively few men can hold entrenched positions agairiat vastly superior numbers of infantry. No army in modern warfare can advance much beyond the range of its heavy guns, nor any faster than they can be brought up to prepare the way. Thom, who conceive of the so-called "big push" as one great continuous movement along the whole front cher- ish an uninformed conception of the true situation. The big drive now tak- ing place is the composite result of many smaller drives. The main sig- nificance of this movement lies in the fact that these small pushes are a part of a co-ordinated plan, including the Italian, Russian and Balkan fronts with the western. The British drive between Arras and the Smite is not the hurling of an army of over 2,- 000,000 men against the German lines is interpreted by some of the headline writers in the papers. This vast army will not be hurled en masse. So far as developed, it is primarily a powerful, localized -attack intended to relieve pressure at Verdun. At least, that appears to be its object, but also to realize such strategic gains as will lead to further successful offensive movements after adequate preparation for them. In choosing the sector south of Ar- t -as for the attack, the British greatly surprised their foe. The sector north of Arras has been the favorite fighting ground because the positions held by the British are within close reach of important strate- gic points in the German front. Vimy- Ridge commands the plains that sur- round Douai and Lens. The capture of these cities would seriously menace Lille, and the fall of Lille would de- moralize the military organization of the Germans along the Artois front. But by striking south of Arras the strongly defended region north of it .may be weakened, and the way pre- pared for a second blow that will prove more effective than -those hither- to dealt on the sector from Arras to La Bassee. The significant thing is that the in- itiative on all the fronts is now with the Allies—and this for the first time sincelhe war b,egan. It looks as though the, first sen- tence in the first paragraph of the last chapter is being written, and the doom of the Hun is sealed. Let us hope that the _end Lnet_r. EFFORT. The things you cannot do to -day This is an olcl, old story, Are things reserved along the way To bring to -morrow's glory. So keep on trying anyhow, Don't sulk or wail in sorrow, The things that are your master now, You'll master some to -morrow. Ignoring the Bride. "Pine way for one girl to speak of another girl's wedding." • "How's that ?" "She says the church looked love- ly." DO YOU SUFFER FROM BACIAtRE1 When your kidneys are weak and torpid they do not properly perform their functions; , out be& &ilea and you do not feel like doing much of anything. You are likely to be despondent and to borrow troublep just as it you hadn't enough ale needy. Don't be a victim any longer. The old reliable medicine, Hood'e Sarsaparilla, gives strength and tone to the kidneys and builds up, the whole system. Get it today, SOLDIERS' PENSIONS CALL FOR BIG VOTE, British Parliament to be Asked to Provide $30,000,000. A despatch from London eaysi Parliament will be asked to vote Zee. 000,000, including £1,000,000 alreedy voted, to provide the full estimated cost of supplementary pensions widows a'nd dependents of non -come miseioned officers and men, of pat. tially disabled non-commissioned of- ficers and men. This sum, Williafft Hayes Fisher, Parliamentary Secrqs tary to the Local Government Board). explained in the House of Commend; on Thursday, is estimated on a num° ber of deaths not exceeding 220,000, but if this number is exceeded, the amount would be increased propor- tionately. An additional grant would be made for officers and MOO whose • general circumstances warranted as- sistance. FORCED TO REMOVE BUST OF EMPEROR. A despatch from London says:_The German administration of Belgium has imposed' fines amounting to 10,000 marks on the Belgian committee hi charge of the recent municipal art exhibition, according to a Rotterdam despatch- to the Exchange Telegraph Company. At the request of the Ger- man administration, says the de- spatch, the bust of the Emperor was exhibited among other sculptures. It caused such a hostile demonstration on the part of the visitors to the ex- hibition that it had to be removed. GOVERNMENT TO AID FIRE SUFFERERS. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Dominion Government will contribute some substantial form of assistance to the sufferers from the Northern On- tario bush fires of last week. In con- nection with the exact form of that as- sistance, however, the Government is still awaiting a report from Hon. G. H. Ferguson, Minister of Lands, For- ests and Mines in the Ontario Gov- ernment, who has gone up to the north country to investigate the situ- ation and ascertain its needs. LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR OF MANITOBA APPOINTED. Sir James Aikins Succeeds Sir Doug- las Cameron A despatch -from Ottawa says: Sir James Aikins, ex-M.P. of Winnipeg, has been appointed Lieutenant -Gov- ernor of the Province of Manitoba, succeeding Sir Douglas Cameron, whose term of office expired last week. Described. "Papa, what is money -mania 1" "An incurable disease, my boy, and your mother has it." A miser is a great lover of gener- osity in everybody except himself. FRENCH TRIUMPH AT VERDUN: RETAKE VliLLAG71' OF FLEURY General NiVelle's Troops P-emoye All Danger of the Enemy Get- ting the Fortress. A despatch from London saes: The French counter -offensive north-east of Verdun on Thursday reached its cli- max in a powerful blow which has re- sulted, in the complete recapture of Fleury and,the whole system of high- ly -organized defences from south- east of Thiaumont to the Froid Terre ridge. After a series of almost uninter- rupted attacks during the night and in the forenoon on the four -mile front from the Meuse to the woods west of Damian), the French concentrated all their power in a tremendous theust on the one -mile Thiaumont-Fleury line. They method forward on this point for a -distance of about a quar- ter of a mile through the most power- ful field works on the western front. Thursday night they had counted more than 650 prisoners. The village of .Fleury was attacked from two Oides, the north-svest and south-east. In previous attacks the French had advanced as far as the ruined railway station against furi- ous resistance. Then after the big guns had been given time to clear a path the infantry again went forward, this time to complete victory. All the gains made by the Germans in their attacke of Tuesday have been swept away. In an attack simultane- ous with that on Fleury the French in the Chenois sector drove the Teutons Irons the trenches they had seized in this wooded region, capturingsnore prisoners. Berlin previously had admitted theloss of ground recently taken CinapLtauurfeed1,5 e forest, Prisoners. risoners. In the last three days the French have captured more than 1,750 un- wounded prisoners. They have also thken a large quantity of military sup- plies, but from all indications they have done far niore than that. With the descent of the lull on the Somme the Germans seriously resumed their operations against Verdun, They had large forces at their disposal and all of their powerful artillery. But before they cortld get well under way the French launched their countee-of- • fensive. In other words, they "beat them to the punch." The French have regained a footing on two of the most important heights which look down on Verdun -Pepper Hill and the Froid Terre. The crest of the foemer is a No Man's Land, con- stantly swept by shell -fire. But Nom the latter, the Germans held artillery control of the heart of Verdun, They made much of the capture of Froid Terre, declaring it the most important position on the 'north-eastern front, Now the French are working' their way up to the ceest again. The com- munique from the War Office at Paris reports that French troops are fight- ing at the edge of Hill No. 320,. one of the heights of the' Froud Terre ridge. Fighting on the Somme. Stubborn fighting on many parts of the eighteen mile front both north and south of the. Somme is reported in the official communications. The British have made further gains across the plateau north of Bazehtin be Petit, but the greater part of their energy was directed towards consolidating the ground already won. During the night the Germans sent four strong detachments toward Del- ville wood. These were allowed to approach to close range before fire was opened. All were repulsed with heavy losses, and at one place fifty Germans were caught in massed for- mation by the British machine gun fire and annihilated, A German strong point between Pozieres and Thiepval was bombarded by heavy artillery and the garrison, fleeing across the open, came under the field gen fire of the British guns. Through- out the day the German artillery maintained a barrage west -and south- west of Longueval and 1VIarnetz and Calripillar wood intermittently. There was some activity elsewhere along the line, Germans shelled vil- lages near Arras and Armentieres and dropped bombs on the outskirts of some of the villages without doing"any darna;.Te. In the Loos salient there was trench mortar activity on both sides. . Tel ,.....