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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-10-14, Page 3RUSSIANS HAVE UPPER HAND ALL ALONG FRONT OF BATTLE i'eutons Suffering Setbacks in Fig,htiiig, Goth at Dvinsk and in the Volhynia Region A despatch from Petrograd says: The only parts of the Russian front' that display any great activity now , are the Dvinsk 'sector and the sector' ir on the middle Styr in Volhynia. At Dvinsk, despite unceasing ef- forts, the Germans are still held at gunshot distance, and• whenever they make a vigorous', attack •they suffer repulse, with heavy losses from the Russian artillery fire. Yet Gen. von Buelow is taking ' Dvinsk very seri- ously. Along the Vilkomir road the field .railway runs for over 20 miles, and heavy guns and animuitition are being brought up continually to the front. The German force immediate- ly opposite Dvinsk.is being strength- ened, but the flanks are wavering. North of Dvinsk the Russians are harrassing the Germansand driving them out of village after village, South of Dvinsk the enemy's front is being . steadily pushed back towards Sventsiany, and almost daily the Rus- sians recapture a village or two and lead off German prisoners. The action of Daniusuavo, on the Viliya, is typical of this kind of.;fight- ing... The, battle lasted several days. The Germans were driven from the trenches, but repeatedly counter- attacked, only to beflungback every- where by the Russian fire. They broughtup reserves and succeeded in advancing to wi4hin 200 yards' of the Russian lines. Then two 'Russian companies caught the advancing .Ger- mans on the flank . and held them while the artillery ,dealt with the enemy's supports. The result was that the isolated advancing group was annihilated by the_ Russian bayo- nets. Prom. the Viliya to the Pripet there is effective skirmishing all along the line. . South of .the Pripet the sting has been taken out of General Po- halio's temporary success on the mid- dle Styr, and his army,for all that it, was reinforced from the neighboring armies of Generals Lisingen and'Mac- kensen, is being propelled back into the swamps. FROM SUNSET COAST WHAT THE "WESTERN i EOPLE ARE DOING. Progress of the Great West Told, In a Few Pointed Paragraphs. The city ferries of North Vancou- ver are losing $50 a day. A big find of copper ore at Jones' fake is reported at Hope, B.C. J. C. Edwards is Vernon's, B.C., sew city clerk at $125 per month. The market is growing in England for B.C. frozen salmon and halibut. The apple and plum crop in New Denver will be the largest in years. Cranbrook, B,C., hospital had six operations for appendicitis inone seek. An Italian at Kelowna was fined $100 for shooting four ducks out of season, - In future all day labor for the city of Kaslo, B.C., will be given to .mar- • The interned aliens at Fernie, B.C., are to be put to work on the roads in that district. A cabbage that weighed 25 pounds was recently shipped from Creston to Fernie, B.C. Ifaslo, B,C. saw its first 'motor cycle last week, It carne from Nei - ion for repairs. It costs $3 a head to take cattle From Slocan City to New Denver, a distance of 18 miles. The snowsheds on the Kettle Val- ley, B.C.,' railway .will require 900 carloads of material. For being drunk and disorderly, a woman at Revelstoke, B.C., was sent to jail for :six months. At Cranbrook the 'Canadian Pacific railway has raised the wages of all laborers to full scheduled pay. The total apple yield' in B.C. this year is estimated at 600,000 boxes. Last year it was 684,000 boxes. At the Old Dominion. Mine near Colville, 13.C., silver ore has been struck that is worth $400 to the ton. The Blairmore Enterprise states that freight over the Crow's Nest Pass line is the beat in two years. Seven cargoes of lumber; totalling over 20,000,000 feet, were ordered by the Imperial Government ' from B.C. dealers. It is expected that by the end of the year smelters at Greenwood will turn out nearly 15,000,000 pounds of copper a year. Phoenix, B.C., citizens are ; now contributing $2,000 a month for pat- riotic purposes. They have also two machine guns. Three diamond drills are working at Copper Mountain, near Princeton, eton S.C., and more than 6,000,000 tons of ere are in sight. This year the acreage devoted to growing vegetables in B.C. was 17,- 000., All but 2,000 acres were devot- ed to growing potatoes. The employes of the Dominion Government dredging fleet in B,C. waters have given $7,419 to patriotic funds since .the war started. Mr. Hodder of Rosie, B.C.,.is the owner of a .,geranium 12 feet high, whose foliage covers,- at least 9 feet --according to the Kootenaian. Vosberg and. Carlson have a con - ;root to build 32 bridges on the weat- u.'n end of the Kettle Valley, B.C., . •ails.+gay. They have already built 26 rf the number. A plant to utilize the by-products rf coal will be built in Fernie. It is ;stimated that every year in B.C. 115,000,000 worth of coal by-products are wasted.:, Provincial fruit inspectors at 'Van- :ouver, B.C., condemned many cars rf peaches, sent from the State of Washington, because they were in- fected with San Jose stale. Lt June, 1914, the, Lake Louise, B.C., hotel served 6,0,00 meals. In lune, this year it served 16,000.meals, an indication that tourists are be- ginning to discover B.C. The salmon run in the Fraser River this year has been below ex- pectation. Not more than 45,000 cases are expected for the season. Four years. ago 58,000 cases were packed. A wildcat was shot by Nelson Goldwin within ,100 yards of his house at South Westminster, B.C. It had been driven out of the forest by the fires. MANY TYPES'. OF BOMBS. Handling of "Cricket Ball" Explosive Requires Cool Head. The various kinds of bombs now being used in France and Flanders are described by an English officer in a latter from the front, There are, he says, four main types -the "hair- brush," the "cricket ball," the "police- man's club" and the "jam -tin." Boriib throwers are alluded to in trench slang as "anarchists." "The hairbrush," explains the wri- ter, "is very like the ordinary hair- brush, except that the bristles ave re- placed by a solid block of high explo- sive. The policeman's truncheon has gay streamers of tape tied to its tail to insure that it falls to the ground nose downward. 'Both .those bombs explode on impact, and it is inadvis- able to knock them against anything -say the back of the trench -.when throwing them. "The cricket ball works by a time fuse. The removal of a certainB in 'releases a spring which lights an in- ternal fuse timed to explode the bomb in five seconds. You take the bomb in your right hand, remove the pin, and cast. the thing madly from you, The jam -tin variety appeals more par- ticularly to articularlyto the sportsman, as the ele- ment of chance enters largely into its successful use, It is timed to explode about 10 seconds after the lighting of the fuse. - It is, therefore, unwise to throw it too soon, as there would be ample time for your opponent to pick it up and throw it back. On the other hand, it is unwise to holdon too long, as the fuse is uncertain in its action, and is giveh to short cuts." THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY. Temperance and labor are the two t o real physicians of man. -Rousseau.. Hold faithfulness and ' sincerity as first principles, Sincerity is the way. of Heaven. -Confucius. The surest way to be imposed upon is to think oneself cleverer than other people, -La' Rochefoucauld. Nothing brings people together more closely than a common grief; it is the great bond of sympathy.- Globe. The yoke of care is worse than the yoke of men; yet he who hath shaken off the one bears the other patiently. -Petrarch. - The authors of a nation are like an advance guard, pioneers of friendship and intimacy, who accustom other lands to ideas and peoples otherwise remote, -Mr. Arthur L. Salmon, Compulsion is only justified when theexperienceof thecountry has proved that uniformity in individual conduct is necessary for common well- being and national progress. -Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. SERBIANS BRING DOWN GERMAN AEROPLANE A despatch from Nish, Serbia, says: Seven aeroplanes flew over Kraguye- vatz recently and dropped 30: bombs. Sharp -shooters of the Prince Regent's Guard lift one of the- aircraft, 'which fell` directly.' in front of the palace. As it fell the fuel tank exploded and the machine and both of its occupants, who were German officers, were burn- ed. Kraguyevatz is some 50 miles south-east of Belgrade. It is a town of 15,000 inhabitants and has an arsenal,a powder mill and 'factories for the making of arms and ammuni- tion, TURKS RUSHED TO BULGARIA TDEEN.. ® DEFEND THE PORT OF VARNA Believed That Russia Contemplates the Landing of Large Forces at Once A despatch from London says: A news agency despatch from Athens says that Turkish forces have started for Bulgaria, and are moving toward Varna, on the Black Sea, to assist in preventing a landing of Russians at that port. The despatch adds that Bulgaria has. asked Turkey for more troops. WHERE THE FRENCH WON IMPORTANT VICTORY; SOUCHEZ REFINERY ANIS REMAINS OF VILLAGE Tho bale and broken rafters of the roofs of destroyed cottages to the left, and the burning houses in the centre of the photograph mark the site of the village of 6ouchez, nortl, of Arras; which for weeks has formed LSse centre of continuous hard fighting between the French assailants and the entrench- ed and fortified Germans..To the right are .visible the scarred andgaunt ruins of the now -celebrated) sugar factory of Souther, the key and.. citadel of the German fortifications in that sector of the. field, for �the •possession of which attack and counter-attack have been proceeding ever since the taking oil Carency and Notre triune - de Lorette gave the Frencha footing within the enemy's lino of entrench. 'mints. The photograph itself was taken from the French advanced lines actually during one of the earlier attacks, The Leading Markets Breadstuifs. Toronto, Oct, 12, -Manitoba wheat, new crop -No. 1 Northern, $1.07/; No, 2 do., $1.06, on track lake ports, immediate shipment. Manitoba. oats -No. 2 C.W., 481o, on track lake ports. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 701/41 on track lake ports. Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, 70c, on track Toronto. Ontario oats, new crop -No. 2 white, 37 to 38c; No. 3 do., 35 to 37c; No. 1 commercial oats, 31 to 34c, ac- cording to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No, 2 Winter, per car lot, 90 to 92c; : slightly tough, 80 to 87ci sprouted or smutty, 65 to 80c, according to sample. ' Peas -No. 2 nominal, per car lots, $1:25 to $1.40, according to freights outside. Barley -Good malting barley, 52 to 54c; feed barley, 40 to 46c, according to freights outside. Buckwheat -Car lots, nominal, ac- cording to freights outside. Rye -No. 2, nominal, 87c; tough rye, 60 to 76c, according to sample. Manitobaflour-First patents, in jute bags, $5.75; second patents, in jute bags, $5.25; strong bakers', in jute bags, 55.05, Toronto. Ontario flour -New Winter, 90 per cent. patents, 58.80, seaboard, or To- ronto freight, in bags, prompt ship- ment. Miilfeed, car lots, delivered Mont- reaI freights -Bran, per ton, 522; shorts, per ton, $24; middlings, per ton, $25; good feed flour, per bag, ountry Produce, _. Butter 1'xesh dairy, 26 to 28c; inferior, 22 to 23c; creamery prints, 31 to 82c; do., solids, 29 to 30c. Eggs -No. 1, 27 to 28c per dozen, in case lots; extra at 30 to 31e. Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 30 to 111/2c; do., retail, 121 to 15c. Combs (wholesale), per dozen,. No. 1, 52.40; No. 2, $1.50 to $2. Poultry -Chickens, 11 to 18c; fowls, 14 to 15c; ducklings, 16 to 18c; turkeys, 22 to 24c. Cheese -Large, 141 to 15c; twins, 15 to 151c. Potatoes -The market is firm, with car lots quoted at 95c to 51 per bag, on track. Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 14 to 141 c per lb. in case iots. Hams -Medium, 181/2 to 19a; do„ heavy, 141 to 15c; rolls, 15 to 15%c; breakfast bacon, 20 to 23c; backs, plain, 23 to 24c; boneless backs, 25 to 251/2c. 1 Lard -Tubs, 111/2 to 12e; do, pails, 12 to 121/4c; compound, tubs, 91/2 to 10c; do., pails, 111/2c. Business in Montreal.. Montreal, Oct. 12. -Corn, American No._2 yellow, 75c. Oats -Ne. 2 local white, 441c to 45c; No. 3 local white) 431/ to 44e; No. 4 local white, 421/3 to 43c. Flour, Man. Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $5.85; seconds, 55.35; strong bakers', 55.15; Winter .pat- ents, choice, 55.40; straight rollers, $4.70' to $4.80; straight rollers, bags, $2.20 to $2.30. Rolled oats, barrels, 4.85 to 54.95 bags, 90 lbs., $2.25 to. 2.30. Bran , 23. Shorts 525. Mid- ,$ ,t ouil ie 0 to liii •s ' 30 to , 31. M ] 3 g 5 $ ,$ 33. lliaY, No, 2, per ton, car lots, $17 to. $18.. Cheese, finest westerns, 141/2 to 14%c; finest . easterns, 141/2 to 144c. Butter, choicest creamery, 321 to'321/ c; seconds, 311/ to 311c. Eggs, fresh, 83c; selected, 329; No. 1 stock, 28c; No. 2 stock, 25c. . Pota- toes, per bag, car lots, 75c. Dressed hogs, abattoir killed,. $14. to $14.25. Pork, heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces 528 to $28.50; Canada BULGARIA, WARRING ON ALLIES, Short cut back, bbls.,.45` to 55 pieces, • $27 to $27.50'• Lard, compound, MAY FACE RUSSIAN INVASION tierces, 375 lbs. 10c; wood pails, °20 lbs. net, 101$c; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 111/4 to 12c; pule, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 121/ to 13c. ITALIANS NEARING R OVERETO WHICH IS RE PORTED EVACUATED Many Smadi Engagements Around Gorizia, in Which. Austrians Lost Numerous Prisoners A despatch from London says The Italians record another advance to- ward Rovereto, which has so many times been reported asevacuated by the Austrians. On the plateau of Folgaria several villages have been occupied, by the invaders, who drove the enemy from the neighboring WEAKEN GERMAN SECOND DEFENCE township of Prazza and forced' his re- treat toward Potpich. On. the Sealass crest •and on the northern slopes of Carso and Gorizia a number of small engagements have taken place, the Austrians being' everywhere repulsed, leaving a num- ber of prisoners in the hands of the. Italians. milkers, choice, each, $65 to 5100; do., common and medium, each, 535 to $50; Springers, •$50 to 595; light ewes, 55.25 to $6.25; sheep, heavy, $4.25 to 54.75; do., bucks, 53.60 to $4.50;y earling lambs, $7 to 57.50; Spring lambs, cwt., 58.25 to 58.60; calves, medium to choice, $7.30 to. dol' fehogs, s and waoff te510.40 ed, 4 to $10.15 do., f.o,b., 59.80. Montreal, Oct. 12. -There continues to be a scarcity of good to choice steers, but the, offerings of fairly good stock were fair, which met with a good - demand and sales were made' at 56.50 to 56.75, while fair sold at $6 to $6.25 and the lower grades at from $4.60 to 55,50 per cwt. 'There was an active demand from packers for canning stock, with sales of bulls at $3.75 to 54 and cows 'at 53 to $3.50 per cwt. Lambs -Ontario stock, 58 t0 $S.25, and Quebec at 57,25 to $7.75; sheep, 54,50 to 55.50 per cwt. Calves from $3 to $13 each, as to size and condition. Bogs, select- ed lots, $9.90 to 510 per cwt., weigh- ed off cars, and the rough -heavy tots from that down. to $8.75. JAPANESE DOGS BEHAVE. Coming Coronation of .Einperor Caus- ing Reform A'--ong Canines. Indicative of the minute care taken by the Japanese to prevent untoward happenings on the occasion of the cor- onation next November, it may be. noted that the police authorities have decided to 'kill all vicious and stray dogs in the prefectures through which his Majesty will travel during the ceremonies. All the dogs in Japan are, therefore, on their good behavior - and reformed and rcpentent dogs are reported daily in great numbers. The police have already killed 374 irre- claimable dogs in Kyoto -the bad kiyis,of Kyoto. The Imperial Household Depart-• ment has already procured from the Sanryusha •at Okazaki in Atehi pre- fecture three kan of the best' raw salt,, with which the ceremonial dress of the Einperor at the coronation this fall will be woven. At the Sanryusha silk -worm weaving room, the selected silk worms were reared with utmost_ care. The raw sills was reeled and was sent recently to the' Im eriail Yp Household Department through, the Aichi Prefectural Office. On Sunday the cleaning Work was started in the reel room. Forty girls wearing white working clothes were employed. The working girls • began- their work' in the morning at 6 o'clock and finished at 4 o'clock. ALLIED TROOPS LAND` IN GREECE They Proceed to Frontier Without Regard to the Cabinet Crisis. A despatch froin London says: Greece is to have a coalition' Govern- ment. After virtually dismissing the foremost Greek statesman, Eleuther- ics Venizelos, from the Premiership, and asserted personal control of the Government, Ring Constantine, bro- tlier-in-law of the German Emperor, sentfor a former Premier, NI. 2aimis, who has consented to form a coalition Government. M. Venizelos will not be included as a member. The possibility that Greece may try to remain neutral, fearing to stake the nation's fate upon the suc- cess of either party to the great war, is recognized in England, although it is considered small. The hopes of the Entente powers are that popular sentiment is with them, and that the King may find it test to bow before the will of the people,,,as he,has done before. Landing Proceeds. The landing of French troops at Saloniea and their prompt' despatch northward acmes Greelc territory to the Serbian frontier will proceed without regard to the Cabinet crisis at Athens. ' The downfall of the Venizelos Cabinet is considered' here as relating to formalities, rather than to 'deter- mined 'opposition to the landing ,of French troops., Statements evidently based on offi- cial information relate • that King Constantine received the French Min- ister• at Athens after the landing of French troops had begun, and made no mention of the incident' or sug- gestion of a protest. Itis therefore said here that the -Ring has not taken a stand against the landing, : but merely differs with 14I. 'Venizelos in regard to the fixed policy of Greece in supporting the Quadruple Entente. Gold weighs nearly twenty times as much as its own bulk of water. One always gets full measure when .one acquires a peck of trouble. Ornamental handkerchiefs used frequently to be worn in the hat by gentlemen as tokens. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Oct. 12. -Wheat, tiTo. 1 hard, $1.1014; No. 1 Northern, $1,051/2 to $1,094; No. 2 Northern, $1.014 to .. $1.061/s ; December, $1.031/2 ; May, 51.07. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 62 to 63c. Oats -No. 3 white, 331/2 to 341%e. Flour advanced; fancy patents, $6.20; first clears, $4.85; second clears, 53. Bran -$19, Duluth, Oct, 12, -Wheat, No. 1 hard, $1.07; No. 1 Northern, 51.06; No. 2 Northrern, $1':06; Montana No. 2 hard, 51.061/2; December, $1.021/ May, 51,05% Linseed, cash, 51.87; December, $1.791/4; May, 51.83. New York, Oct., 6. -Flour unsettled; rye flour firm; fair to good, $5.25 to 55:40; choice to fancy, $5.45 to $5.60. Ilay, steady. Hops easy, Pacific coast, 1915, 13 to 15e. Hides steady. Leather firm, Live Stock Markets.. Toronto, Oct. 12, -The quotations were: -Best heavyt s, $ 7,75 to seer $8; butchers' cattle, choice, $7.60 to, 7.75; do.,good,$ 1 o $ .50; do., 7. O t 7 $$ medium, 56.50 o $7; do., common, $5 ,to 55.40; butchers' bulls; choice, 6.25 to $7; do., gond bulls, $5.75 to 6 do., rough•bulls,"'.'4.75 to 55.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.45 to $6.75; do., good, $5.25 to 56; do., medium,:55 to 55.78; do., common, 54,50 to 55; feeders, good, 56.50 to $7; stock- ers, 700 to 900 'lbs., 56.25 to 56.75; canners and cutters, $3 to 4.50; ()CRACOW pQtEMBERfi O PRZFMYSL Budapest AUSTRIA - co ft -rr' H N � R,Y r9J .J � RUSSIA ODE55 AgRt1Asi onNoOt (. res .BUCHPRE`? rhe l �.. 5 c rr•-�:_ yy kj poi f .ENEGRO R F31I . CJ U G A. • b ! /o RUMELIA' • J1y}�. r�=' .• ADR14:0• r et: TU .. 1 rV• HELGRADI. .1;np shows how Bulgaria will he inenmceci by Russia on ib,• 9e :els .;ea, '1» Lase she throws in het fnteriests with •the Central Powers. Another Important Gain IIas Been Made By the -French in Champagne. A despatch from Paris says: Fur- ther important gains by the French troops in Champagne are announced by the War Office. The village of, Tahure, less than two miles south of the railway serving the German trenches along the district between Rheims and the Argonne, has been taken by assault, and the victoriotis French infantry pushed forward and reached the heights north of the "vil- lage. These heights form part of the German. second line. As in the case of the previous great success in this part of 'the front vic- tory followed an incessant bombard- ment of the Getman trenches,, French bayonets completing the task. More than 1,000 prisoners were taken by the French in these opera - lions, which included progress in the environs of the Navarin farm. ' A Rotterdam despatch says: "Al- though the majority of the German. papers shriek loudly about the allies' offensive being smashed, Major Mor- aht, quite the coolest of the German military critics, sounds a strong warning in the Berliner Tageblatt, ,-clearly suggesting that Germany has. as yet experienced only the beginning of things, and much • more serious at- tacks may be expected on a much. more extended scale. He says: 'What has been the result of the Franco British offensive which has been go- ing on eleven days ? Our higher com- mand remarks that the offensive is a failure. This judgment will satisfy wide circles in Germany who have not concealed from themselves the seri- ousness of the western situation. We must, however, add to this, declaration that the great struggle in the west has not yet found its conclusion.' It is a . questions of several armies on the French side, and even if one of them can be booked as lost already, France will not leave the others in- active nactive behind the' front. Enormous supplies of ammunition, supplemented by what still comes from neutral America and the massing of heavy g artillery will, without doubt, lead the French to new action, for which she has madeenormous preparations.' ,1 FRIED FOOD VERSUS BEAUTY., You, Cannot Look Pretty If You Eat It, Says a Writer. CAMP, COOKERY AT THE FRONT IIOW THE KHAKI -CLAD "CHEFS" CARRY OUT THEIR WORE. Field Cooking Is Hard Work, for Which Only Trained Men Al'e' Suited. Throughout the whole twelve months of the European War which have passed, no British soldier . -had been able to say that he went ill fedi says. London Answers. It is a bold statement, but it if true, save in the case of stragglers or 'small parties of men who were cut off from their, regiments. Even in thes6 cases they usually had their "iron rations." The "iron ration" consists of 12oz. of biscuit, 11b. of preserved meat, loz. of meat extract,'3oz. of cheese, and tea and sugar, The "iron ration," however, is strictly reserved, to be used only in emergency, and may not be touched except by the orders of an officer. "pixies" Vary in Size. The deadliest foe to a good com- plexion is fried food. One of the rea- sone that English and Irish girls- in the Old Country frequently have. such wonderful complexions, is that fried food there is little used. One of the principalreasonswhy so many Southern girls -who otherwise might be beauties -have such sallow com- plexions is because they eat a great deal of fried chicken, fried "hog meat," fried corn -fritters and ail the rest of it. Whether one likes fried fare or not it's a sure tiling that sI' diet of it will spoil one's looks. Food is of value to the body in pro- portion to its digestibility. A food that is readily digested is quickly turned into good red blood, and good red blood brings pretty red cheeks. The Highland lassie gets her peach - bloom complexion from oatmeal. And oatmeal is perhaps the most easily digested food on earth. A breakfast of oatmeal porridge and milk will be digested in twenty-five minutes; a breakfast of fried hast and fried pota- toes in about three to four hours. What, then, is the trouble with fried foods? It is the grease When anything is fried the grease makes a coating round it, like a piece of armor -plate. And if once :you try to figure out all • the chemical changes :that have to happen to that layer of fat before the digestive acids have a chance to get in to the food that is inside it,.yott will see why it Inas so little chance' to be changed quickly in- to biood, Fried food is sus armor -plated var- iety of comestible which doesn't make anything. In the effort to absorb it a large amount of bile is produced, and the typically yellowish complex- ion of the billdous person is the result. Neither man nor women can eat fried food and have a good complexion. MACHINE GUN CORPS IN THE BRITISH ARMY A despatch from, London says: British military authorities have re- cognized the importance of machine guns, which have been such a strik- ing feature of German warfare, by the formation of a special machine gun corps with :the King's sanction. Announcement of the step is made in the Official Gazette. Canada .already has organized a machine gun battalion -the 86th of Hamilton. AIL BRASS.; UTENSILS IN .VIENNA TAKEN UP A despatch from Rome says: The citizens of Vienna have received warning that all brassdomestic uten-. sils will be sequestered on November 30, when houses will be searched with 1 the; object of ascertaining whether the, present requisitions for such utensils are being evaded. The Inventor of Shrapnel. It is lnterestms to :recall just now (says. The Westminstt Gazette) that the inventor of shrapnel -Lieutenant - General Henry Shrapnel --- gained much of hie military experience in Flanders. He served with the' Duke of York's army there, and with, af- ter the siege of Dunkirk invented the ease' shot, "a destructive engine of war used by the Royal 'Artillery, and known by the name of Shrapnel ro Shell." So rains the iinscrnpti♦oinr•- on a large slab at the floor of the chance' in Bradford-on-Avon; Church, Wilt- shire, Where he General was,burled. The inventor's, reward was a pension of 51200 per annum. The Shrepnels were for. "three generations cloth weavers 'at Bradford -oft -Avon. On active service rations are pre- pared in camp kettles, known in Army parlance as "dixies." These kettles. vary in size, and their cooking capa- city is smallest for eight men,,largeet for fifteen men. One camp kettle is allowed to every three officers. Another method of cooking, while the troops are on the move, is by means of "galloping cookers." These are ovens mounted on wheels and drawn by two horses. Beside the oven is a platform on which the cooks stand. The method of cooking : food in "dixies" in interesting. First a nar- row, shallow trench is dug, and filled with fuel. On either side of this trench are ranged a line of "dixies," surmounted by a third row, which fills in the space between the two rows on the ground. When the "dixies" are arranged the fuel is lit and the food rapidly cooked. Troops in training at home 'ane either under canvas,in huts, or billet- ed. Soldiers in camp or huts have their food prepared in field kitchens. In some 'cases special ovens are is- sued, but as a general yule the cooks construct their own in which case the oven is set and encased in wet clay, which rapidly hardens. Tommy Has a Hay Box. Old soldiers know all the tricks of the trade. For instance, it frequents ly happens on active service that fuel is bard to obtain -indeed, fuel is far more likely' to give out than food. When this happens the soldier partly cooks his meat, then, when the kettle is boiling, he pops it into a box, pack- ing it round with hay or straw, and the pot gee on stewing for hours. The system of cooking for soldiers in billets is naturally different from that restorted to at other times. When soldiers are billeted the meat is issued .. raw and in bulk from the regimental quartermaster's stores to company quartermaster -sergeants. The store - men then cut the meat up, and issue it to the men, who take it to their. billets, where they cook it -or, as more often happens, get it cookedfox them by their landladies. It has been said that women would be far more usefully employed than men as Army cooks, but that is ridicu- lous. In the first place, women would never bear the strain of field cooking, which often necessitates standing for hours in the mud and the rain. Nor have they the strength and hardihood needed to quarter and cat up a car - cess, Each sergeant -cook is properly qualified at a school of instruction, as well as a certain proportion of Thie assistants. To qualify at these courses of instruction is by no means a simple matter, One of the most amazing features of this most amazing war has been the marvellous efficiency of our Com- missariat and Supply Service, and the excellent' way in which meals have been prepared under the most adverse circumstances. An officer who was wounded early in the war stated, when writing :tome from hospital, that,the thing which most heartened the men to endure the terrible rigors of the retreat from Mons was that a cup of hot soup could be obtained at almost any time, and that a plate of "pontoon," as Tommy calls his stew, would be ready at the end of the long day's march. '1 Paying Our Debts, Any man making a pretence at be- ing honest will try to pay for what he gets. But having admitted the , justness of the claim that he do se he may be surprised at the wideness of the application of the, principle that lies at the back of it. The earth pays for what it 'gets -the rain and the sunshine, and the breezes, of heaven - with fruitfulness, waving`' grain, buds and blossoms and fruits, and the smil- ing green of fields. It is not a'mere sponge, receiving always and never responding to the giver. It gives. back everything, with an added some- thing of its own. The earth is honest, generously honest. And a man ought not to be any less so. He is getting every day and hour and moment of his life, getting from :all sides and in all possible ways. LUXEMBURG PROTESTS BECAUSE OF AIR RAID A despatch from London says: Thee Grand Duchy of; Luxemburg, accord. ing to Amsterdam advices, has pro- tested to the Entente powers against air raids over that country aimed at the German' headquarters, Less Than 290 Warless Years. i ( From the Christian era tilt the e- aeiit ne as ;tatists and historkis; tell us, there have been ievi'er that 240 warless' years. Up to the middle pi the nineteenth- century it was rough- ly'compnted that nearly 7,000,000,000 men had died in battle since the be- ginning of recorded history, a' -num- ber equal to almost five tines the pre. sent population of the globe.