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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-09-28, Page 2G. D. MeTAGGART M. D. MeTAGGART McTaggart Bros. BANKERS A GENERAL EANKING 'BUSI- NESS TRANSACTED. NOTES DISCOUNTED, DRAFTS ISSUED. INTEREST ALLOWED ON DE- POSITS. SALE NOTES :PUR- CHASED. - 11. T. RANCE -- 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 AL G. CAMERON K.C. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, ETC. Office on Albert Street oeouped b1 Mr. Hooper. In Clinton on every Thursday, and on any day for which ap- pointments 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 Public, Commissioner, Eta. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Eisner of Marriage Licenses HURON STREET, - CLINTON ORS. GUNN & GANDIER Dr. W. Gunn, L.R,C.P., L.R. Edin. Dr. J. C. Gaudier, LA., M.B. Office -Ontario St., Clinton, Nighe sails at residence, Rattenbury Sr at Hospital. DR. C. IT. THOMPSON PHSTICEAN, SURGEON, ETC. Special attention given to dis- eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Eyes carefully examined and suit- able glans* premeribed. Office and resident*: 2 door* west of the Commercial Hotel, Huron St, DR. F. A. AXON - DENTIST Specialist in Crown and Bridge Work. Graduate of C.C.D.R., Chicago, and RODS., To. tont*. Bayfield on Mondays from May to December. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the Count? of Huron. Correspond.ence promptly answered. Immediate arrangements can be made for Saki Dab* at The News -Record, Clinton, or by *ailing Phone 13 on 157. Charges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed, he &Mop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Head office, Seaforth, Ont, DIRECTORY President, James Connolly, Goderich ; Vice., James Evans, Beechwood ; Sec. -Treasurer, Thos. El, Hays, Sea. forth. Directors : George McCartney, Sea. forth ; D. F. McGregor, Seaforth ; 3. G. Grieee, Winthrop ; Wm. Rhin, Seaforth ; A. McEwen, Brucefield ; Robert Ferris, Harlock. Agents : Alex. Leitch, Clinton; 3, 'W. Leo, Goderich ; Ed, Hinchley, Sea- , forth ; W. Chesney, Egmondville ; S. Jarmuth, Brodhagen. Any money to be paid in may be paid to Moorish Clothing Co, Clinton, or at Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect Insurance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on application to any of the above officers addressee to their respective post officer. Losses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. n H RAILW i G.RA TIME TABLE. -- Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton Station as follows: BUFFALO AND GODERICH DIV. Going East, depart 7.83 am. e e 8.03 pan. II II 5.15 p.m. Going West, ar. 11.00, dp. 11.07 a.m. depart 1.35 pm. at 6.32, dp. 6.45 p.m. " departs 11.18 p.m. LONDON, HURON & BRUCE DIV. Going South, Cr. '7.33, dp, 8.05 pen. departs 4.15 pen. Going North, ar. 10.30, dp, 11.00 a.m. (1°Partd 6,40 pan, DELAWARE, LACKAWANA AND WESTERN COAL COMPANY'S SCRANTON COAL, In all sizes CHESNUT PEA STOVE FURNACE Also SOFT COAL CANNEL COAL SM H INS COKE Standard Weight, Standard Quality. Its the good Coal. Do you need hard wood or. slabs We have lots on hand at the right prices. We always keep a good stock of Port land Cement, and 8, 4, and 5 -inch Tiles. TRY US. M. Lk M. FORBES Opposite the G. T. R. Station. Phone 62. Fertilizer We carry a Complete Stock of Stone's Natural Fertilizer, No better on the market. Hay We pay at all seasons the highest market prices for Hay for baling. Seeds American Feed Corn, Red Of Alsike, Timothy and Alfalfa. FORD & McLEOD CLINTON. How is Your Cutlery Supply? ton know that Jewelry Store Cutlery is out of the com- mon class. At least, OURS is. It carries a distinctiveness -- an air of superiority, that comes from being made with the greatest care and ut- most skill from the highest - priced materials. If 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, eased, $3.00 uP, Knives, Forks and Spoons, $1.00 doz. up. Enives and Forks steel, white handles, 83.00 do. up. Let us show you our Cutlery line. Let us tell you more about why it is the most deeirable that you can pat your money into. W. R. COUNTER JEWELER and ISSUER ot MARRIAGE LICENSES. MMICIMMIMMINnIN, ari61.11•Malp.....11=1•1 NEWS-RECORR'S NEW CLUBBING RATES FOR 1916 WEEKLIES Sews -Record and Mail & Ompire Farce -Record and Globe . . 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We can anntIll 705 al less than it would coat you to send (Dregs In remitting pleaae do so by Post -office Order Foetal Note, Express Order er 12s& (stared letter and address. Vi..L101TeilE14, publisher NOws-Reocorto . Gt. INTO.N, ONTARIO Clinton News -Record CLINTON, - ONTARIO Terms of :subscription -4S per year, In advance; 51.50 may be charged if not so paid. No paper discon• tinued until, all arrears are paid, toles. at the option of the pub- lisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted oe the label. Advertising Rates - Transient ad. vertisements, 10 cents per non- pareil line for first insertion and 4 cents per lino for each subse- quent insertion. Small advertise - merits not to exceed one Inch, such as "Lost," "Strayed," or "Stolen," eta., inserted once for 25 cents, and each subsequoae in, tertian 10 cents. Communications intended for pub. lieition must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. W, J. MITCHELL, Editor end Proprietor, UNSEEN HAND THAT FEEDS THE ALLIES THE COMMISSARIAT DEPART- MENT IN LONDON. Buys Munitions and Supplies For the Varied Needs of Eight Natiale. At the corner of Kingsway, Lon- don, where that royally wide and straight street merges into the semi- circle of Aldwych, there rises the great triple building which contains Empire House, India House and Can- ada House. It is in aspect half noble and half commonplace, the front hav- ing both strength and dignity, white stone columns and wide and high win- dow spaces, the sides being merely a raw and aching wilderness of red brick. But within its immense walls revolves one of the least -known and most important of all the many wheels of war. /t is the headquarters of the Commission Internationale de Ravi- tillement, the Commissariat Depart- ment of the Allies. The Universal Buyer. The Commission de Ravilaillement is the unseen band that feeds the many great fires of war. In all the markets of all the world -that is to say, all the world outside the coun- tries of the enemy -it buys the guns, the shells, the rifles, the ammunition, the saddles, the boots and the uni- forms, and all the rest of the multi- farious equipment required by the fighting ships of England's Allies. The commission buys in tons by the million, and pays in pounds by the hundred million. In short, a myriad quartermaster sergeants in one. But it rose from very small begin- nings. In August, 1914, a few days after war broke out, several French officers came to London to buy boots and similar articles for the French army. These were the first of a long series of war purchases, whose extent, beginning in thousands of pounds, rose rapidly to millions. They result- ed in the formation by agreement be- tween the French and British Govern- ments of a Commission de Ravitaille- meat (a revictualing commission, in the old blunt naval phrase), with the following objects: 1. To co-ordinate the purchase of food supplies, munitions of war and military and naval equipment by the two Governments. 2. To prevent harmful competition in the same markets and a consequent inflation of prices. 3. To place the French Govern- ment in communication with firms capable of carrying outorderssatis- factorily at a reasonable price; and, 4. To spread the orders in such a way as to distribute employment, and thus accelerate delivery. How the Commission Began. The commission began with a l3rit- ish staff of a dozen, established in a small office in Queen Anne's cham- bers. Since its inception its scope has been gradually extended to cover purchases made on behalf of all the Allied Governments, and it now in- cludes military, naval and civilian delegates from each of England's Al- lies (including even Portugal), to- gether with representatives of the War Office, Ministry of Munitions and other British Government Depart- ments, tinder the general direction of Sir Edmund Wyldbore Smith, of the Board of Trade. Its personnel is now numbered at nearly 500; its huge office has miles of corridors, containing about $00 rooms, Harbored happily on its many floors are no fewer than eight separ- ate national colonies -French, Rus - 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 Phone 40, A. J. HOLLOWAY THE CHILDREN OF TO -DAY Post as they are -in their i. door play, or at their outdoor play -they are constantly of- fering teinptatIons for th. KODAK Let it keep them for you as they are vow Let it ktep many other bap. peninge that are a source of pleasure to you. 1111.01V,NIES, 82 TO $1211 KORA 87 TO 825. Also full tterk of Films and Supplif”i M'o Developine ancl Printioe Remember the fiEX 817.68.E geese, A elan, -Italian, Belgian, Serbian, Portu- Japanese' and English. ESHER URGES A Multiedieity. of Arteries. • , • The commission, whose purchases THOROUGH .10g outrival in extent the most sensation- al of transatlantic deals, has been at work no for 22 rnonths---al lost without the general public becoming even aware of its existencej leering this period the orders it has officiallet placed on behalf of the Allied Gov- ernments amount to no less a total than £220,000,000, and this stupend- ous figure, if we add the purchases made by Allied 'Government contract- ors, which are submitted for the ex- amination of the commission, is in- creased roughtly to £300,000,000. Here is an approximate record of the quantities of some of the more common articles of war bought for the Allied armies: Ten million pairs of boots. Thirty million yards of cloth. One hundred thousand miles of telephone wire. One hundred million sandbags. The figures in respect of the more destructive munitions of war cannot, for obvious reasons, be cited here, but they are no less impressive. It is hardly necessary to remark - that is, in fact, the whole raison d'etre of the commission -that the sums expended, vast as they are, would have been much greater if there had been no official organization to regulate prices, to control the world's markets and to apportion the avail- able supplies of food and war mater- ial to the needs of each Government concerned. And always this main object has been kept rigorously in view, that none of the munitions re- quired for the adequate pursuit of the war should be withheld or delayed in transit by reason of any overlapping of orders or confusion of interest. Regulating the Supply. The services of the War Office in this connection in regard both to the purchase of personal equipment in the quantities referred to and the supply of munitions cannot be overestimated, and the completeness of a system of . organization which Is able to provide for the supplies both of the British fighting forces and of their Allies, not only in Europe but in Canada and America, is too little realized by the public. The revictuaiing commission also enjoys the full advantage of the experience of the agents of the Minis- try of Munitions in America and else- where, and enormous quantities of metals and machinery have been pur- chased all over the world by this means for the benefit of the Allied Governments. • All orders are placed it Such a man- ner as to avoid competition between the various purchasing Governments, to exclude the irresponsible specula- tor and to insure that the articles bought are obtained from reliable sources and are of the best quality. Co-operative Purchasing. This principle of co-operative pur- chase has been followed very close in connection with supplies of cereals, which are purchased on behalf of the Allies by a single committee consist- ing of members of the Commission Internationale de Ravitaillement and the Board of Agriculture. Then there is the whole tremendous question of the provision of tonnage for the transport of these immense supplies and of the regulation of freights -a question which demands the closest application on the part of the shipping advisers attached to the cominission. When all the ships re- quisitioned from the British Mer- chant service for war purposes are i reckoned, there remains only a limit- ed proportion of tonnage available for the carriage of coal, wheat and other commodities. This tonnage is of necessity most rigidly regulated and apportioned, and the existence of the commission, which can centralize all information as to the requirements of the the .dif- fer• t AlliedG t 1 the possibilities of meeting them, is of i invaluable assistance to those in whosehands rests the final . NOBLEMAN WHO SNUBBED THE CURIOUS KAISER. Ways of Emperor William Were Seen Through By Him In 1907. Lord Ilsher has recently Issued a very emphatic warning to the British relative to the desirability of their not being "caught a second time in the meshes of sleep" by the Germane. He is very insistent that the job must be thoroughly done this time -that the snake must not only be 'scotched' but killed. His warning was writ- ten from head- quarters at the front, where he had been staying for some time and whence he has written tome very graphic let- ters descriptive of the line work • done by British ammunition, and Lord Esher. urging the multi- efiffoonrtms.akers not to discontinue their His warning about doing the job thoroughly derives especial signifi- cance from the apporttruity lie pos- sessed for becomingacquainted with the extreme artfulness of the attempts made by the German Government to weave the meshes of sleep wherein they hoped to catch the British when the European war, for which they were steadily preparing, actually broke out, In the early winter of 1907 the Kaiser visited England, He was -as usual when he paid one of his frequent visits to England -overflow- ing with loving kindness towards the British. At Windsor Castle he was a guest of Ring Edward and was all grace and graciousness. Now, it so happened that Lord Ester, at that time, was Deputy Con- stable of Windsor Castle, and, in that capacity, was at Windsor during the Kaiser's stay there. He happened, moreover, to be as well a member of the Coinnnttee of Imperial Defence. Of this latter fact the Kaiser was, -or course, well aware. All urbanity, he sought to discuss with the Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle the ques- tion of British naval programs and defences. Snubbed the Kaiser. However, Lord Esher is no fool. He realized that "fine words butter no parsnips.," and that beneath all the Kaiser's soft sauder lay dark and sinister designs. Hence, although usually noted for his tact and charm of manner, he let the Kaiser see pretty plainly that he saw through his crafty game. He -put the Kaiser where he belonged. And the Raiser never forgave him. But at that time the late Lord Tweedmouth was First Lord of the AtimiraltY. And he either lacked Lord Esher's sagacity or was MOTO amiable to the Emperor's soft soap. Anyhow, he was ill-advised enough to allow himself to be drawn into a conference with the Kaiser on naval matters. This became noised abroad, and Lord Tweedmouth was popularly credited with something like an act of treason. On the 11 facts known it appeared that he had acted with the knowledge of his colleagues -Sir Hen- ry Campbell -Bannerman Was Premier -in replying to the Kaiser's letter, and that he had not (as was popular- ly supposed) prematurely disclosed the British naval estimates to the Kaiser, to whom, in fact., he gave no nformation which was not given to Parliament at the same time. Still there had undoubtedly been some in- liscretion and the incident led Lord Tweedmouth's relinquishment of the Admiralty. All this is of particular interest be- cause it wee in his notorious letter to Lord Tweedmouth that the Kaiser hewed hew the snubbing he had re- eived from Lord Esher several months before -the letter was written is the spring of 1908 -still rankled. . "Drains and Navies" In this letter the Kaiser venomously eized On Lord Esher's capacity of Deputy Constable of Windsor Castle o build on it a deliberate insult to he mart who had snubbed him. He xpressed himself as being doubtful 'whether the supervision of the foun- ations and drains of Royal Palace is pt to qualify somebody for the judg- -lent of naval affairs in general." • It vas rumored at the time that rt; was hrough this gibe at Lord Esher that he fact became known to the public hat Load Tweedmeuth was cones - ceding with the Kaiser For the eiret Lord is said to have thought the lap at -"Reggie Brett" -as Lord Esher n a still familiarly know -rather mart and to have talked about it at as to the distribution of the available s British mercantile marine. . SHELL BLINDNESS. Patient Was Cured Through Being d Hypnotised. a , One of the most perplexing injur- n le.s incidental to modern warfare is shell blindness, caused by shock. Nu- t onerous cases have been recorded t where a big projectile, exploding near p a soldier, has bowled him over and I possibly knocked him senseless. He s himself has escaped possibly without i a scratch. Upon recovery he has 8 been found to be sightless, blinded byi 8 the shock, !e The symptoms are invariebly iden- tical, The eyes have not been injur- ed-oronly slightly -by grains of 11 dust, which may merely have set up t more or less local irritation. The pa- tient has either been in absolute o darkness or could only distinguish a x alight difference between light and shadow. These cases however, have ctioi proved to be - exceptionally resistant h to ordinaryI treatment. S Two of our leading optical scien- tists Were attracted to the strange e situation, and, although neither be- a, lieved in hypnosis, both 'considered. N the field promising for its practice. la Forthwith the patient was hypnotised, g and he was induced to imagine that K he was only temperarily blind and that hecould see if he strove to do so. Strange to say, the treatm en le icise' vaxiably had the desired effect. When ' the man awoke from his sleep he was Ii able to see as .17011 as ever. Indeed, ; in the cases handled by the two above- mentioned ecientists the hypnosis . treatment has never failed -Fred A. Talbot, iii the Scientist in WartiMe, ome dinner, At the Kaiser's own court, how - ver, the "Map at Reggie Brett" yoked a good deal of laughter against he Kaiser himself, it being Said that e was not the man to have talked of he unwisdom of mixing of drains vith high political affairs, in view of ne of his own experiences. For it vas at the height or .one of his own olitical crises -after the dismissal f Cafrivi keen the Chancellorship - nit the Kaiser explained one day at is luncheon -table "Here is a nice tate of things ! This city of -- mining a small town) proposed to mpty its refuse into the river just bove the bathing establishment. obody in the Home Office saw the Wake, and it took me four hours to et out a better plan." Here was the aiser bothering about the sewage of little town, while his Empire was in me throes of a crisis. And yet, wilt Thiel lack of humor, that very man .oered at Lord Esher's dirty of "super - sing draine" na disqualifying him e, a knowledge of naval affairs. Not a Pigtail Left. The opening cerernimies of the Chinese Parliament marked the full turn of the circle to republican sim- plicity from the antique formalities and gorgeous ritual which President Yuan restored in the brief period when he was Emperor -elect. But the frock coat of the President who walked in Mild sat down while all the members were stemding around gossiping was not such a surprise as the geniality and courtesy which prevailed. ma rivals shoele - hands and chatted of the prospects in a manner which was impossible when everybody wae. wondering if his neighbor had sold himself or would sell hint There were prer,ent 456 legislators and not a pigtail among them, Very few were in uniform. To Be Candid. Gentleman (to butler who he.,s fast given notice) -"But why do yotiewish to leave, Podgere?" Butler-"Pci rather not say, sir." Gentleman -"But come, conic, I in- sist on knowing." Bueler-"Well, te you Mast knOW, sir, I've been 'ere now for twenty years, and I'm absolutely sick of the sight of you aed y0111' family." Yeeterdny we heard a man wishing Or p011ee, Ile was wishing his eredi- ors would lelehine have a little, GREECE WITH VENIZELOS BARON SCHENK ADMITS. A despateh from Amsterdam says; The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger aenounces that Baron 11011 Sehenlc, fernier chief director of German propaganda in Greece, and who was sent out of Greece be. the Entente powers, has reached Berlin. In an interview in the Lolcel Anzeiger, he is reported as saying: "Greece now is completely under the thumb of Venizelos, although the people are still our friends. When the gendarmes came to expel me, they wept, saying, 'Excuse us for what we are compelled to do under the stress of circumstances and of which we are very sorry," 55,800 GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN IN SOMME OFFENSIVE. A despatch from Paris says: It was officially announced by the War Office that according to new ac- counts the total' number of prisoners taken by the Franco -British troops since July 1, when the Somme offen- sive began, up to September .18, is more than 66,800, of whom 34,060 were taken by the French troops. This makes an average of nearly 700 prisoners taken daily in 80 days. KAISER ISSUES APPEAL TO GERMANS ABROAD. A despatch from Amsterdam says: Emperor William in the German of- ficial Gazette appeals to all Germans abroad to report to the Consular of- fices in order to ascertain if they are available for military service. FIANCEES "WAR WIDOWS." Though Unwed, They - Wear Mourning for German Soldiers. Many young women in the Duchy of Baden, Germany, betrothed to of- ficers and soldiers killed in the war, have taken advantage of a recent de- cree of the Minister of Justice that gives them practically the status of widows. They have adopted the , names of their dead fiances, and call ' themselves "Mrs." (Frau). They, wear mourning and wedding rings, and are known as war widows. They , wear head-dresses distinguishing , them from real widows. It is expected that this system will be extended to other German States. ! Marriage ceremonies are performed in many cases at Baden at the Regis- try Office in the usual way with wit- ; nesses. --a-- Really Careful. Natalie, aged five Years, for the that time planted some pansy seeds in, small boxes. One evening she rushed to water them., and, on her re- turn her mother: "You know, after a rain, you don't have to water them" Natalie's reply was startling: "Oh, I take them In when it rains!" Formerly the bridegroom endowed his bride not, as to -day, "with all his • worldly goods," but with his "cattle." DO YOU SUFFER FROM BACKACHE? When your kidneys are weak and torpid they do not properly perform their functions; your back aches and you do not feel like doing musk of anything. You are likely to be despondent and to boerow trouble just as if you hadn't enough al- ready. Don't be a victim any longer. The old reliable medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, gives strength and tone to the kidneys and builds up the whole system. Get it today. FOCII'S -TROOPS ARE IN CONIBLES Fortified Structure on the Out, , skirts of Germain Base Captured. A despatch from London says: The French troops have reached Combles. One building in the town is in their possession. In what is described by the Paris midnight communique as "a brilliant surprise attack," an isolated structure at the extreme outskirts of the important German base on the Somme was captured by the French. The building had been strongly :forti- fied as a defence work. Three officers and 97enien were taken prisoners. Simultaneously Gen. leech's troops pushed forward...to the south-east of Combles, tightening the ring around that town. In this section 40 prisoners were made. A semi-official estimate nays the German losses suffered in the vain counter-attack around Bouchavesnes on Wednesday were 30,000. The German commander tried vain- ly to stem the French advance against Combles by a sortie from the trenches south of Rancourt. It was nipped in the bud by the French barrier fire. The British, operating north-west of Combles, with the deal aim of breaking through to tapatime and closing in on Comblbs in conjunction with the French, registered a further advance on a front of a mile taking two lines of German trenclies and straightened out their front between the villages of Piers and Martin- puich. On the northern stretch of the Anglo -German front below Arras the British carried out a successful raid penetrating German trenches and inflicting many casualties. The French earlier in the day checked a violent counter -blow by the Germans between La Frieze Farm and Rancourt, driving back the Teu- ton storming waves with heavy losses. She Noted the Correction. When a little Belgian girl said, "Will you please shut my dress?" she was gently corrected and told that the word to use was "fasten." A day or two afterwards this little girl, while quarrelling with another little girl ex- vlaimed, "0 fasten your mouth!" -1 - CANADIANS IN BRILLIANT VICTORY TOOK OVER 1,200 PRISONERS Captured Foe's Defensive Position on Wide'Frout to a Depth of From 1000 to 2000 Yards. A despatch from the Canadian Corps Headquarters in France, says: --The Canadiaii troops have been ac- tively participating iii the greet Bat- tle of the Somme. Already, in a series ot brilliant attacks ,they have forced the Germans back for over a mile beyond their original line, Theyitave captured Mouquet Farm, haying filial- ly overcome a desperate resistance; they have .attacked and carried the sugar refinery arid its lines of connect - lug 'trenches, and Men, following up this success with a boldness of plan and action of execution not excelled in thin war, they have on the. seine day organized and delivered fresh 'at- tacks which made them masters of the whole village or Courcelette. The Canadiene have taken over 1,200 prisoners, inciuding 32 officers, together with Iwo guns, a large num- ber of machine guns and several heavy minenwereors, or french mortars, and in the course or the heavy and stri.,. Mined fighting they have infected very serioue losses upon the enemy. A monereaa battalion was the first to enter the battle, coming up through a hostile barrage to the 'assistance of , hardemressed troops praCtically in the .middlo of an attack. They were closely followed by the Canadian Scot- tish from Vancouver and by a Tor -1 onto battalion. These battalions, al-! though they delivered no, assault, Were given a very difficult and trying task' to perform, They were heavily allele; led in trenches newly dug or recently captured from the enemy, and the ex-, act location of which it WEIG almost,' impossible to deterMine. Despite ' very adverse conditions they consolidd ated their trenches and repelled eev- mail lunette bombing attacks. But these activities, important and emnineadable though they were, were only preparatory to the great offen- sive that was to follow. The morning of: September Ittu dawned bright and 'clear. Shortly after six o'clock our battalions began their attack. Before them the arta- ; lery barrage advanced stage by stage with a remarkable precision and a !great intensity of fire. In succes- sive waves our infantry moved for- ward, climbing over the shell -torn ground, leaping the battered trenches. ! Among them burst the enemy shells, The noise was terrific. Machine gun arid rifle fire oared into them Steadily they mounted the last ridge, I saw Martinpuich on their right and looked over to the brick ruins and ! white chalk mounds of the sugar ne- Pussy and tile trendies to the right i and left which were to be their ob. 13eetiove Nsooner were lime first lines of Gorman trenchee secured, than the as, , swilling waves pressed onwards. In tilar midst, moving ponderously, blot steadily, came Fieverel of the new ar- , atored cars, Ills Majesty's landslide "Creme de Menthe" led the way and the effect upon our men was eleari- cal. In vain the Germans rained a ! stream of, bullets: agains t the Inv Muer, able cars, bet they were powerless to stop the advance, Although our infantry were tne fist to peach the sagas Pefinory, the cars assisted materially in silencing the German machine guns and in en. Matting the enemy treadles, end the deep, strongly protected (haunts of the sugar refinery. Ten, officers, ha - eluding a battalion commander, were made prisoners. At the same time the trenches ,on either flank, known to 1.19 as elle "Candy" trench and time "Su- gar" trench, were stormed and cap - titre& In this attack mese from Toronto, London, Ottawa and Kingston fought side-by-side with men front Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver, and with men oh the Mounted Rifles from Eastern Canada. eieWelegfeeeljegeee. 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