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THIRD GERMAN LINE IS
SMASHED BY THE BRITISH
Haig's Troops Pierce, Shatter and Occupy the Enormous Thiep-
val-Combles Barrier.
London, Sept. 1L—The British tore
wide open the enormous Thiepval-
Combles salient. In a twelve-hour.
battle on the eight -mile front from
ThiepvaI to Gincliy, in the face of
twelve hundred of the Kaiser's most
powerful guns -16'0- to a mile—they
stormed, pierced, shattered and then
occupied that stretch of the German
front north of the Somme which
hitherto had acted as a block to their
advance on Combles and Bapaume,
The barrier broken down, Sir Douglas
Haig's troops pushed considerably be-
yond it to the north-east, carrying the
menace of the Somme drive almost as
ominously close to Bapaume as it is to
Combles and Peronne.
The end of the fighting' saw the
British in possession of practically
all the high ground between Combles
and the Albert-Pozieres-Bapaume
Iiighway. Three villages-Flers, Mar-
tinpuich' and Coureellette—and High
Wood, were completely captured, as
was the greater part of Bouleaux
Wood. The powerful German redoubt
called "Wunderwerk" (Wonder work),
because of its supposed impregnabil-
ity, was taken by storm in the turning
of the salient's tip near Thiepval.
More than 2,800 prisoners were tak-
en, including 65 officers.
The day was the most successful
for the British since the initial phase
of the Somme battle. For three days
their infantry load enjoyed compara-
tive rest, while the artillery paved the.
way forthe new crush.
French Co-operated.
The French, though not launching
an attack on a large front, worked
hand-in-hand with the British in
drawing the ring around Combles still
closer. The French War Office an-
nounces that General Foch's troops
took a system of German trenches
500 metres deep north of Le Frieze
farm, which fell into their hands yes-
terday. The British took by storm a
group of German trenches south of
Rancourt, two miles from Peronne.
South of the Somme they captured
three Teuton trenches near the vil-
lage of Bei•ny-on-$antero-e, taking 200
prisoners.
Apart from the results scored, the
resumption. of the British part in the
Somme drive was remarkable for
two features. Neverbefore has' an
attack been marked by such 'close and
successful cooperation by the "eyes
of the army," the aviators. The clash
of the infantry,legions on, the blood-
soaked ground was accompanied' by a
battle royal in the, air. The British
fliers were met by a cordon of Teuton
aviators, and two air fleets vieing
with one another in daring, tenacity
and skill. The British, according to
the night report . from headquarters,
proved their superiority. Thirteen
German machines were destroyed;
nine others were brought down in a
damaged condition. The British lost
four.
Cheered as They Charged.
The second spectacular feature of
the battle was the introduction by the
British for the first time of a new
type of armored motor car, whose
powerful traction enables it to cross
trenches and shell craters as if going
over smooth ground, A number of
these new "wonder machines" whir-
red into the battle with the infantry
and in the midst of the hail of shell
the men cheered as they charged.
OPEN DOOR IN
THE I D MIMO S
SIR RiDER HAGGARD REPORTS
ON EMPIRE TOUR.
Free. Land and Warm Welcome Await
British Soldiers After
the War.
Sir Rider Haggard's report on his
tour of the Overseas Dominions, for
the purpose of ascertaining what faci-
lities these were prepared to give as
regards land settlement and employ
ment to ex -sailors and soldiers domi-
ciled in the United Kingdom, has been
issued by the Colonial Institute, an
Iwhose behalf the mission was under -
I taken, says the London Times, It con-
tains a full account of his discussions
1 and the text of his correspondence
with responsible Ministers- in the
various self-governing States of the
Empire, and the mass of information
thus collected at fleet hand as to the
prospects overseas should do much to
facilitate the solution of a difficult
problem.
Summing up the results of his in-
vestigations, Sir Rider Haggard states
that, although for various reasons
nothing can be expected from the
Union of South Africa, and the letter
from the Government of New Zealand
is less definite than those received
from the various Governments In the
other parts of the Empire, on the
Whole the institute's efforts have met
with considerable success.
Depends on the Man,
"Indeed, I imagine I shall scarcely.
be going too far if I' say of.the self-
governing parts of the Empire at large
that everywhere there is now an open
There is
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a
CiIk Da Comer
Rhe not prepare for it by
ordering your winter simply
of Lehigh Valley Coal, None
tetter in the world.
House Thune,]:.
Oiflee Phone 48,
A. J. HOLLOWAY
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THECH1H!!
L
OF
TO -DAY
just as they are—in their io•
door play, or at their outdoor
play -they arc constantly ..R
tering tpulittaddoue Inc the
KODAK
Let it keep Ihem L,ryou a.0
they are now.
Let it keep many other hap-
penings that are a source of
pleasure to you.
BROWNIES, $2 TO $i2;
KOUATiS, $7 7'0 $28.
Also full stock of Films and
Sni plies. We do Developing
and Printing.Remember the
place;
THE
EXALL$ 0 CH E
door for the British ex -service -man,
who for the most part will be admit-
ted on terms practically of equal a:d-
vantage to these which they deter-
mine to accord to their own citizens.
Wherever he may choose to settle he
will, I am convinced, receive the warm-
est of welcomes and much the same
assistance that each State or Domin-
ion ultimately decides to give to its
own returned soldiers.
"The rest is in his own ]lands. If
he Justifies the hospitality extended
to him as a fellow -subject of the
Crown who has fought for the Gam-
mon cause, lie and his family can do
well, and possibly rise to affluence,
Whether he selects Rhodesia, Austra-
lia, New Zealand, or the vast and
wealthy Dominion of Canada as his
future barn. If, however, lie lacks
character or shrinks from effort, suc-
cess cannot be promised to him. In
the end everything depends upon the
man himself, and, I may add, upon the
man's wife.
Group Settlement.
"I have not, either, In this report
or elsewhere, attempted so much as
to adumbrate any scheme of oversea
land settlement for soldiers. It has
seemed to me that to do so would be
foolish and even impertinent. The
agricultural conditions in Africa, Aus-
tralasia and Canada differ widely ; of-
ten, too, they vary very match in the
different States and provinces of those
huge dominions. This means, of
course that no one plan can be made
to serve for all the parts of the Em-
pire that I have visited ; it is prob-
able, indeed, that the same plan could
not be utilized without variation in any
two places throughout all that mea-
sureless area. Each country must de-
sign and use its own.
"Moreover, In every instance this
should be formulated, not in England
by an individual or committee, but by
the local experts of that country who
are familiar with Its peculiarities,
needs, and systems. It is true that,
so far as I am aware, this has not as
yet been done anywhere, at any rate
in detail, except perhaps in the in.
stance of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way. Steps are, however, being taken
in that direction.
Equal Terms.
"Perhaps, however, I may be al-
lowed to express a hope that the au-
thorities in them will give considera-
tion to the group system of settlement.
I am convinced that it would not be
wise to take men from home and put
them down by themselves in strange
and unpeopled neighborhoods, where
loneliness would produce its natural
effect both on the then themselves
and on their wives and families, and
,probably, in the end, drive them into
the cities.
It will be noted that in sundry in-
stances the Governments throughout
the Dominions also promise equal
terms to the British ex -service man
as regards empioytnent. This point
is more important than may at first
appear. Not all immigrants will de-
sire to settle on the land, and many
would, In the end, benefit greatly if 1
they could have the advantage of c
working for a while under the direr- s
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ATrue and Pretty Story ofSympathetica Queen.
WHIP other day, Queen Amelia of Portugal was visiting, one of the hospitals
ea for French soldiers. After having spoken with practically every man in
thedifferent wards,.. she was taken to a room in which a little "polio" hay
ying. The doctors and musses were greatly worried, because the poor man.
Was to have been decorated that day, arid the officer who should perform the
perernony had not yet arrived,
hould
Thethey 'poiho? u" might lapse into unconsciousness at any moment—whae.
d
The Queen, on being informed on the cause of their anxiety, asked
pimply: "shall I decorate hini, before it is too late, though it is not correct
under the circumstances?" e '
The doctors decided in the affirmative and Queen Amelia speaking lov-
ingly to the brave little "point" pinned on the much coveted military cross.
Then turning to the .doctors asked if she might not also give , him the
"accolade?" And gathering the dyingman in her arms, she kiesed him
tenderly and lovingly on each cheek—and he? - Well, he died that same
night—happy and smiling peacefully,. for had not a Queen and above all, a
mother, lightened his last hours of darkness? And the Queen? Well, on
leaving the hospital she met the officer whom she had misplaced officially
for a few moments,and told him in frenk and simple wordswhat she ha
done... Re,: though at first surprised, was so charmed byher kind and aweeWy(
manner that he could only say "she had done the right thing, and that hq
was glad she had been there to do it."
TIM ROMANCE
OF AUSTRALIA
IT WAS ONCE CONNECTED WITH
OTHER LANDS.
Island Continent Has Strangest Men
and Animals in the
World.
One of the oldest of all lands, Aus-
tralia, is the youngest of ail nations.
She is the reality of two thousand
years of wise men's dreams, the vast
southern continent which they
thought must be there to balance the
land in the northern hemisphere. No
one dared seek for her,• for they
thought that sloe was separated from
the rest of the world by an equator
of fire and demons and all -slaying
mist.
She must be there, they said, and
they drew fancy outlines of her on
all their maps and globes, and showed
her linked up to Africa and to Am-
erica, and stretching unbroken to the
South Pole, But when Diaz stag-
gered around the southern foot of
Africa, the Magellan found his way
through open water round the south-
ern -most point of South America,
and Drake, following., got blown away
into the boundless Southern Seas be-
yond, and none found southern land
—then they gave it up, and struck
Australia from the map. There could
not be a southern continent after all,
they said. But Australia was there
all the time, with the strangest men
and the strangest animals in the
world, lying, as under a spell of en-
chantment, asleep within her borders
of pearl and coral and her girdle of
salt sea foam.
For long, long years Australia had
lain preparing for the coming of man.
Her history is written on—her wide
bosom. Once she was part of greater
land masses, connected, perhaps, by
land bridges with Asia. Beneath the
surface this vast continent was boil-
ing. Burning mountains were heaved
up and blew their heads off, and thou-
sands of miles of lava and ash re-
main to tell the tale of her great
volcanoes -
Where Were the Men?
But her fires died out, and more
enduring mountains were formed,
which, age upon age, epoch after
epoch, have been attacked by heat
and wind and rain, have been worn
down lower and lower; their summits
ground by the agencies of time into
dust and powder. Their chemical
properties, contained in the boiling
lava from Which they first solidified
were released with the slowly gather-
ing debris, and this highly charged
rubble of shattered rock and wind -
lashed sand forms to -day, the barren
deserts of Australia. But smiling
verdure clad the greater part of these,
and greatforests grew. They sank
beneath the sea, and more changed
11 coal. Gold and silver, tin and
opper, diamonds and other valuable
tones, formed in the rocks, and the
remotas metals tumbled from their
ode as the mountains crumbled,
orming the great nuggets that have
ince been found in the soil.
But where were the men? The
men were not ready. They had not
emerged. But the animals had.
Warm-blooded animals which suckled
heir young load appeared upon the
arth, and, roaming far, had reached
Australia from other parts of the
world. Then came the breakdown of
the land bridges from Australia to
,ria.. The animals were shut up in a
ontinent which had become an island.
Tlie kangaroos and the wallabies, the
ear -like koala, the egg -laying mam-
mals, and many kinds of 'reptiles were
mprisored on the continent. These,
rid great birds which forgot how to
y, were the lords of this vast area
of the earth. The animals remained
the very lowest type—animals which
carry their young in pouches, which
have the smallest of brains. There
was no competition, no hard struggle
for life, as in the busier world with-
out, no need to improve. They de-
veloped on the old lines Some grew
to be giants, ars big as any elephant,
and then died out. The smaller types
survived, though, of these smaller
ones, the great kangaroo is bigger
than the tallest man,
The story of the Australian animals
is one of the wonders of the world.
The huge continent experiences in its
different ranges three climates-tio-
pical, sub -tropical and temperate, so
tion of others acquainted with local
conditions, especially at the high
wage obtainable everywhere in the
self-governing portions of the Em-
pire, cut of which they can save
money."
MILLIONS OF SHOES FOR WAR.
British Manufacturers Make 26,000,000 t
e
•
Orders for 26,000 000 pairs of t hoes
for the British, Serbian, French Ruts -
sten, halon and Belgian myrtles have A
been received by British morulae- c
truers sures the outbreak of the war.
One -fee th of the fetal, or mere than b
' 100,000 pairs a week, have been alone
supplied by the workmen of'Northamp-
ton, the chief seat of the English shoe i
' manufacturers, an hotu"s train ride a
northwest of London, The manufae- fl
tuners of this place are turning out a
second installment of 3,000,000 pairs of
footwear for the Jluseians, this time
boots Iteowrr as "Cossacks.•"
Owing partly to the preoccupation
with army contracts, partly to deple-
tion of their staffs of male operatives
and partly to rezebtdctlons imposed by
the Government on the disposal by
tanners and merchants of leather suit-
able for army purposes, boot and shoe
tatanufenettlrers are finding consider-
able difficulty an supplying the de -
mantle of the civilian market.
Beauty Is said to be only skin deep,
but many s,• woman's beauty depends
upon the also of her balance in the
book,
that we might expect to find then
animals resembling those of Africa a
well as of Europe. But there is noth
ing of the sort. There are no Iion
or tigers, or wolves, bears, cats, wea
cels—indeed, not a single flesh- muchwhispered
except a little:so-called cat. There is
that, and there is the wild dog, or
dingo, but he is a mysterious new-
comer, not a native. There are neith
er apes nor monkeys; neither oxen
deer, nor antelopes; no elephants,
rhinoceroses, pigs, camels, horses
hares or rabbits; no true mice, squir-
rels or porcupines; no hedge hogs or
shrews. And yet, lacking all these
creatures, Australian wild life is
amazing.
A multitude of forms follow the
kangaroo line of development; there
are evltat are called kangaroo hares
kangaroo rats, kangaroo mice, simply
because they suggest the forms of
these originals in other lands. There
were no flesh -eaters, other than the
so-called cats, in Australia, before
white man, and the domesticated ani-
mals arrived.
PUKE 'BLOOD MAKES
HEALTHY PEOPLE
Hood's Sarsaparilla removes
scrofula sores, boils and other et'up�
tions, -because it drives out a the
blood the humors that cause them,
Eruptions cannot be successfully,
treated with external applications,
because these cannot, purify the
blood,
Hood's Sarsaparilla makes rick,
red blood, perfects the digestion,
and builds up the 'whole system. In-
sist on having Hood's. Get it now.
BRITISH 66 WILLIES 99
CALLED WONDERS
New Type of Armored Car in
Use on the Sofisnse
Front.
A despatch from Lendo
u says
The reference in the official Statement
issued by the War Office on Friday to
a new -type of armored car, is the firs
official mention of a developme
Which, Inas been
t whin creel about .
recently in army circles, -Those wile/
have seen the new vehicles refer to
them as "taroks," while the soldiers
who have been banning 'them have
given them the nick -name of "Witless.","Witless.",The object which the designers sought
to obtain was to render a heavily
armored motor car capable of beteg
operated in the fhcll'torn and roadless
wfliderlress of trenches, where it is evi-
dent a vehicle mounted on ordinary
'wheels could not be used. Although
no details of the car's construction
have been published, the Times gays
riven ors have not hesitated
e boldly to tread unbeaten paths, We
s tray imagihe the feelings of German
infantry in shell battered trenches
a when iu .the uncertain light of dawn
- they saw advancing upon them an ar-
ray of unearthly monsters cased in
steel, spitting fire and crawling labor-
iously, but ceaselessly over' trendies,
barbed wire and shell craters.
- HONORS ARE AWARDED TO
NAVAL HEROES.
' Recognition of Service Performed In
Battle of Jutland.
A despatch from London says :
Honors awarded as a result orf the
Jutland battle are enumerated by the
Official Gazette on Friday as follows
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Order of
Merit ; Vice -Admiral Sir David Beat
' ty, Knight of the Grand Cross of the
Bath ; . Rear Admiral Sir T. C. D.
Sturdee, Companion of St. Michael and
St. George. The boy, John Travers, of
Cornwall, who remained on his poet
during the action, although mortally
wounded, was awarded the Victoria
Grose, Sub -Lieut. Prince Albert, RN.,
has been recommended for service,
BRITISH NAVAL AIR RAID WITH-
IN BULGARIAN LINES,
Damage Done to Railways, Depots and
Troop Concentrations.
A despatch from London says :
British naval aircraft raided railways
andtroop concentrations within the
Bulgarian lines of communication be-
yond Kavala between August 20 and
August 31, according to a report issued
by tine Admiralty on Friday night.
Considerable damage, the report states,
was done to the railways, rolling stock,
petrol and other depots and troop
, concentrations at Mame, Ckjiltar,
Berk, gavels, Perna and Augisia,
DICKENS' GRANDSON IS KILLED
IN ACTION.
1 A despatch from 'i.ondou says :
lilajor Cedric Charles .Diel<ene, greed -
son of Charles Dickens, was killed in
'action in France, Monday,
; BLUBBER AND PENGUIN.
Chief Diet of Men Rescued From
I - Elephant Island,
Life on Elephant Island, in the Ant-
arctic, as it Was experienced by the
marooned men of Lieut, Sir Ernest
Shacl<letores South Polar expedition,
'who were recently rescued and taken
to Chili, Is described in a message re-
ceived from Punta Arenas and pub-
lished in the London Daily Chronicle,
"Tire day began," says the descrip-
tion, "with breakfast which consisted
merely of penguin, fried in blubber,
with a drink of water. The morning's
duties consisted in clearing away
snowdrifts and catching penguin,
Lunch was served at one o'clock, con-
sisting of bsauit with raw blubber
The ai'ternoon was occupied with re.
ingular exercises oveovera track 100 yards
.length.
"At five o'clock, when darkness fell,
came dinner, consisting of penguin
breast and beef tea, Lacking tobacco
the men smoked grass from the pad-
ding In their boots, while the pipes
wore carved . from birds' bones and
wood. The members of the party took
turns in reading aloud from the only
available books, namely, the Bible, an
encyclopedia, Browning, Bacon's Es-
says, and Carlisle's French Revolution,
Saturday evening was ,always
un
a
rked
bya concert the feature was
banjo alaYing. A banjo o ryas the only
musical instrument in camp.
"On one occasion there was a wed-
come addition to the diet when several
undigested fish were found in the
stomach of a sealand greatly enjoyed.
"' When was the war' over ?' was
the first question we asked."
I.
Stuffed the Germans.
Liest, Jacks, an Australian V,C,, is
now in hospital in London. During
the Pozieres offensive he Ied a charge,
and when tti�e reached an enemy trench
he met a .>ktrty coming a out cC dug-
out,
$
orrt, and bluffed them into surrender
with an empty revolver, Later he saw
some Gerinans with a party of Austra-
Ian prisoners, and led a furious bayo-
net charge, overpowering the Bans,
vlro, in their turn, were captured,
Wonderful Plant Life.
The plant life of the sleeping land
was wonderful, too. The great feature
here is the eucalyptus tree, of which
there are 150 species, many of them
unknown elsewhere, Like the ani-
mals, they took to being giants, and
are often the tallest trees in the
world, reaching from 400 to 500 feet.
Their leaves stand upright, so that
the sunlight passes between them and
the trees yield no shade, but their
properties are indispensable, and their
wood is invaluable. They yield pre-
cious oils and gums, wood the white
ant cannot destroy, wood that water
will not rot and the deadly ship -
m will
wornot bore. Tlnen there are
the wonderful aceacias, with their
glorious blooms and perfume; and
there is the famous bush or scrub
which covers hundreds of square miles
at a stretch.
There are trees whose blossoms are
so brilliant that they seem to set hills.
on fire and can be seen miles out at
sea. There are trees that have no
leaves, and trees that are really giant
grasses. There is a mahogany that
makes railway sleepers and paves
roads; there are palms and figs; there
is a mistletoe which is not a parasite,
with [dke ours, but a true tree
blos-
soms of fiery scarlet. All these trea-
sures of plant and animal life remain-
ed locked up in tile enchanted land,
waiting.,
Then from somewhere, we know'
not from where, noen appeared at last,
naked, and cannibals, The lowest in
the human scale, they lived, and still
live, when away from white settle-
ments, much the same sort of life as
our old cave men lived in Britain
hundreds of thousands of years ago.
They had rough dint implements and
tools, and their successors have them
still; they do not possess houses, tui -1
less it be a rude, temporary shanty
made of bark or twigs. •
And yet these ancient savages made
one of the most wonderful of all na-
tural weapons, the boomerang—the
curved piece of wood which, when
cleverly tha'own, circles strangely
through the air, strikes dead a bird
or an animal or, if it misses, returns
to the thrower. And these boomer
ang men with their tools and flint
and their fires made by friction, sham
1 ed with the animals this continent of
nearly three million square miles,
stretching 2,400 miles from east to
west and nearly 2,000 from north to
south. With this primitive living
host for her keepers, the great land
slept on; she slept, like 'Sleeping
Beauty, until the prince should come.
—"My Magazine."
Selling Enemy Goods.
Air. Hughes states that enemy goods
imported into Australia before the war
are still being sold, The Government
has decided that wholesale houses
trust not sellsuch goods after Septem: 1
ber 30, nor:, retail houses after Nevem-
her 30,
' Mee a- •.er:, aa5S5+YJ
—if you feel bilious,"headachy" and irritable—
for that's a sign your liver is out of order. Your
food is not digesting—it stays in the stomach a sour,
fermented mass, poisoning the system. Just take a
dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and. Liver Tablets—
a they make the liver do its work.—they cleanse and
ewocten the stomach and tone the whole digestiwo velem. You'll
feel fine in the morning. At all druggists, Sic., or by mail from
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