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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-12-02, Page 4200.000 SERBIANS FIGHT ON TAKING HEAVY TOLL OF ENEMY Losses Thus Far 35,000 Killed and Wounded and 20,000 Prisoners -Allies Have Surprise in A despetch from Athens says: The newspaper Hestia publishee an inter- view with the Serbian War Minister, Who is at Salonica, in which the Min- ister said!' , "Although we have lost 35,100 killed or wounded rind 20,000 taken . fMoiler, the operations are anything ht ended. Our forces now number - ng 200,000 are still intact. We are Only deficient in heavy artillery. The morale of the troops is unimpaired. The commissariat is working splen- didly, thanks to the French organ- izers. "Nevertheless, the situation is diffi- cult, though not hopelass, from a strategic standpoint, and as regards munitions we shall remain on the de- fensive, holding the passes and wear- ing down the enemy until the Anglo- French forces are sufficiently strong to enable us to theme the offensive. "The participation of Italy meets with difficulties owing to the diver- gence of views regarding Albania. Russia's intervention will be effected after the concentration of the allied armies in the Balkans, and it is ex- pected that this will produce a change In Roumania's attitude. "I can assure you that France and England are preparing surprises in the Balkan." The Leading Markets Breadstuffs. Toronto, Nov. 30. -Manitoba wheat -New crop, No. 1 Northern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.09; No. 3 North- ern, $1.05, track lake ports, imme- diate shipment. Manitoba oats --No. 2 C.W., 48c, track lake ports. American corn -No. 2 /yellow, 77%c, track Toronto. - Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, 76c, track Toronto. Ontario oats -New crop, No. 3 white, 38 to 39c; commercial oats, 37 to 385, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lots, 94 to -96e; wheat, slightly sprouted and tough, 90 to 930, accord- ing to sample; wheat, sprouted, smut- ty and tough, '75 to 88c, according to sample. Peas -No. 2, nominal, per car lots, $2.25; sample peas, $1.50 to $2, ac- cording to sample. Barley --Malting barley, 56 to 58c; feed barley, 49 to 52c, according freights outside. ,75 Hogsh-edSeolireceteadrs.lots, $9.'75 per cwt., Buckwheat ----Nominal, car lots, ' to '770, according to freights outside.. Rye -No. 2, nominal, 86 to 88c; rye, tough, 80 to 83c, according to sample. Manitoba flour -First patents, in jute bags, $6; second patents, in jute bags, 55.50; strong bakers', in jute bags, $5.30, Toronto. Ontario flour -New Winter, $4.40 to $4.35, according to sample sea- . board or Toronto freights in 'bags, proinpt shipnient. Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights -Bran, per ton, $22; are of almost daily occurrence, and shorts, per ton, $23; middlings, Per involve fighting between civilians and Lon $25; good teed flour, per bag, the German troops. to:$7.60; do. good, $7 to $7-.25; do., medium, $6.26 to $6.60; do., cominon, $5,25 to $6; butchers' bulls, choice, $6.25 to $6.75; do., good bulls, $5.75 to $6; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.80 to $6.50; do., good, $5.'75 to $6; do., medinm, $5 to $5.50; do., common, $4.25 to $4.75; feeders, good, $6,50 to $6.75; stockers, '700 to 900 lbs., $6.25 to $6.50; canners and cutters, $3 to $4.50; milkers, choice, each, $75 to $120; do.; common and medium, $35 to- $60; Springers, $50 to $100; light ewes, $6 to $7; sheep, heavy, $5 to $5.50 do., bucks, $3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $'7.50; Spring ,lambs, cwt., $8.90 to $9.50; calves, medium to choice, $7.25 to $10; hogs, fed and watered, $9.65 to $9.70; do., weighed off cars, 59.95. Montreal, Nov. 30. -Choice steers, $7.25 to $7.50; steers, $5.75 to $6.50; eommon, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows and bulls, $4.50 to $6.25 per cwt. Canning stock --Cows, $3.15 to $3.35; bulls, $3.'75 to $4.25 per cwt. Ontario lambs, $9 to $9.25; sheep, $5.25 to $6 per cwt- milkied calves, '7 to 8c, and grassfed, 3 to 6c per lb. STARVE IN WARSAW; GERMAN FOOD SCARCE A despatch from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company says: Food riot are frequent in Poland. The shortage of supplies is so great in the towns around Warsaw that even the wealthy are unable to obtain sufficient food. As a consequence, outbreaks Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, 28 to 30c; in- ferior, 22 to 24c; creamery prints, 32 to 34c; do., solids, 31 to 32e. Eggs ---Storage, 30 to 32c per doz- en; selects, 35 to 36e; new-ltsids, 43 to 450, case lots. Honey --Prices in tins, lb., 10 to lle; combs, No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $2. 13eans-$3.50 to $3.75. Poultry--Chicicens, 14 to 16e; fowls, 11 to 13c. ducks, 15 to 16c; geese, 14 to 16e; tdrkeys, 80 to,. 325. Cheese -Lame 179e; twins, 18c. Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario quot- ed at $1.25, and New Brunswicks at $1.40 to $1.50 per bag, on track. . Provisions. Bacon -Long cleats 15% to 16c per Ib. in case loth. Hams -Medium, 3.7% to 18e; do. heavy, 14% to 15C; X0115, 15% to 16e; brealdast bacon, 21 togrown weary of war. If he is denied 23e; 'backs, plain, 24 to 25e; boneless backs, 26 to 27e. admission, he prolsably will he held Lard -Pure lard, tubs, 14c; coin- here indefinitely, as to deport him pound, pails, 12c. would result in his capture by the British. Schultz deserted, he said, after his father and brother had both been killed. REFUGEES MASSACRED ON THE ROAD TO VAN The situation has been made worse by the refusal ef General von Besse. ler, Governor-General of Poland, to allow the Polish Relief Committee to work except undet German control, to which the committee declines to as- sent. The mortality among children has doubled knee the cold weather began, GERMAN SOLDIER ARRIVES. Tells U. S. Immigration Authorities He is Weary of War. A despatch from New York says: Heinle Schultz, late a private in the German army, reached New York, a deserter and a stowaway aboard the. Dutch steamer Noorderdyk. He wore a uniform which bore the earth stains of the trenches, and said he had Business in Montreal. Montreal, Nev. 30. -Oats -No. 2 local white, 46%c; No. 3 local svhite, 45e; No. 4 local white, 441/ac. Bar- ley -Manitoba feed, 65e; malting, 66%c. Buckwheat -No. 2, 78 to 80e. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, $6.10; seconds, $5.60; strong bakers', $5.40; WintemSpatents, choice, $6; stvaight t'ollers, 56.30 to $6.40; do., bags, 52.50 to 52.60. oats-Bbls., 55.20 to $5.25; do., bags, 90 lbs., 32.45. Bran, 522. Shorts, 523. Middlings, $29 to $30. Mouillie, $30 to 532. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots, $17.50 to $1.8.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 17% to 17%c; finest easterns, 16% to 17c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 31% to 32e; seconds, 309t to 31c. Eggs -- Fresh, 42 to 45e; selected, 80c; No. 1 stock, 80e; No. 2 stock, 27 to 28e. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1.20 to 51.30. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $18.'73 to $14. Pork -Heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, 528 to $28.50; Canada short-eut back, Melee 45 to 55 pieces, 527 to $27.50. Lard--Compouncl, tierces, 375 lbs., 10,4c; wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 103e; pure, tierces, 375 lbs., 12% to 13c; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 13% to 18%c. United States Wheat. Minneapolis, Nov. 30.---Wheat--De- cember, 99% to 99%; May, 51.0214.; cash, No. 1 hard, $1.05%; No. 1 Nor- thern, $1.01% to $1.03%; No. 2 Northern, 97% to 99%c. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 68% to 69%c. Oats -No. 3 white, 35% to 86c. Flour unchanged. Bran, $18 to $18.50. Zuluth, Nov. 80. -Wheat --No. 1 hard, $1.02; No. 1 Northern, $1.01; No. 2 Northern, 97c; Montana, No, 2 hard, $1.01; December, 98c; May, $1.021/4. Linseed ---Cash, $1.99; De- cernbei, 51 . 97% ; May, 52 .02 . Live Stock Markets. Toronto, Nov. 30. -The quotations were: Butchers' cattle, choice, 57.35 A despatch from London says: News of further Armenian massacres has reached those in charge of the Lord Mayor's Armenian Refugee Fund. It tells of 'the mascaere of 500 refugees by Kurds. The refugees succeeded in reaching Russian trans- Caucasia, but nearly 200,000 refugees were already there, and the 500 tried to return to that part of Armenia in Russian occupation. They were MESS - sacred on the road to Van. URGE PROVINCIAL LEVY FOR PATRIOTIC FUND • A despatch from Winnipeg says: The Union of Manitoba Municipalities, represented by over two hundred reeves and councillors, in annual con- vention at Stonewall, resolved to peti- tion the Manitoba Government to levy a tax of one mill for five years on all assessable property in the province for the Manitoba Patriotic Fund, in aid of the soldiers' dependents. .5. HUNGARIANS KILLED RUSSIAN PRISONERS Number of Victims Is Placed at Two Thousand. A despatch from Bucharest says: According to trustworthy sources at Debreczen, 2,000 Russian prisonets confined nearby, who revolted owing to bad food, and killed two sentries, were shot by Hungarian troops. An official communique attributhd the disappearance of these prisoners to an epidemic of cholera. •BRITISH ;ACMES ESCAPED • WITH THE SERBIAN ARMY Naval Brigade Which Assisted, in Defence of Bel- grade Heard From A despatch from London says: The safety ot both the British and French naval brigades which recently were in Belgrade is now essured. The French eection arrived at Mouastir, near the Greek border, a few days ago, and a telegram has been received Irom Ad- miral Troubridge, commanding the p Siassons. PAFas 4(9 • 4 i • • jOcariBuftG NOtEr- • 0vRkssn..6 0 1 • bCOLIOd :•/••••-•-• nuracs • ILL CASAL 55,50.0011 * ") .7 oatc / BERLIN p0055 • 'C, tor:t „ a' \pieta s a , ene eaaceslo.,,,,,sess ‘s, ity /TA, I-11 rn \ 7c,. \ -1 •t's'• BAq' • tioti t .3> 1 PERSiat,‘ • /3/wri5# APPANee h. 1440-11/A, /8 AfILS O 69e40 04 0. RasSIANS,RellES IN REAMNEs1 ODESS , BUL,$).•- BeiteaRS !SOFIA <4,9 • NY,or ONSfAHTS C'S 0 . neureentso :5/1 ,/ - /see t .///,"*"- h 1//4 cypRu5t6 tip The Week's Developments in the War. The Balkan States and the Austro -Italian front have held the chief interest in war developments during the week. After four months of terrific fighting with heavy losses in a mountainous country where -operations were extremely difficult, the Italian armies are reported to have captured their iramediate goal of Goritz. This news has not yet been officially confirmed, but if it proves -true, the Italian victory ip'one of the greatest a _ importance. An immediate advance against Trieste may be expected. " In the Balkans the Austro -German and Bulgarian advances have continued, the Serbian army making a tnasterly retirement. It is now pretty definitely believed, that the Serbian army has escaped the trap set for it, although both sides suffered terrific losses. Large forces of French and British troops are now in Serbia, and the defence is becoming very much stronger. At the Dardanelles the Turks have made desperate efforts to drive the British and French into the sea, evidently depending upon the reports that the Allied forces there have been greatly weakened to provide ve- inforcements for the Balkan campaign. Russian armies, thoroughly equipped, are now concentrated near the Rumanian border, and will be fighting in Bulgaria next sveelc. Greece has complied with the demands of the Entente nations, and after the Allies have succeeded in checking the invader, it would not be at all surprising if both Rumania and Greece should assist in driving out the enemy forces and in punishing Bulgaria for her ,part in the war. On the Western front winter conditions prevail, and fighting has been largely restricted to artillery duels. The Eastern battle -front is almost entirely unchanged. •Considerable naval activity has been reported in the Baltic, a squadron of the latest British submarines having passed though the Cattegat, according to repeated reports. A. German super -dreadnought is reported to have been sunk by a. mine. - ZAR'S MESSAGE TO THE SERBIANS Reported to Have Promised Their 'British brigade dated from IVIitrovit. za November 20, stating that all was Presence in Bulgaria a Week Hence. A despatch from London says: The Russian Emperor has addressed a personal telegram to the Serbian Pre - mid, M. Pachitch, according to a Salonica despatch to the Daily Tele- graph, in which he promises the ap- pearance in Bulgaria shortly of Rus- sian troops. The Italian Government, according' to this despatch, has also promised to send an expeditionary force of 40,000 men. According to the latest news from Salonica the French line is still un- btoken, the report that the Bulgarians have occupied Krivolak being un- founded. On the contrary, till their attacks have been repulsed, The French official statement re- ports- an engagement svith the Btil- garian forces near Brusnic, to the east of Krivolak, in which the Bul- gars were, repulsed. Great Britain and Fresice are pre- paring to establish a great military position at Saloniea, where large bar- racks are to be erected for the allied troops, and where a great electric power station is to be built to enable the allies to carry on their repair work. France and Great Britain have notified Greece thaefull indemni- ties will be paid Greece for any dam- age to Greek preperty that may be caused by the allied armies. : The change in Greece's attitude, to- gether with the impressive military preparations by Russia, are under- stood here to have caused a marked reversal of sentiment in Roumania for the allies. It is believed here that Rournanio will grant full permission to Russia to send troops across Rou- manian territory for an attack against the Bulgarians. Many heavy field and siege cannon from .'Japanese armament factories have arrived hi Southern Russia. De- spatches received in Berlin state that largo coesigntnents of these cannon are now at Odessa. This news has caused a deep impression in military eiveles at Berlin. German military authorities state the Russians are about to strike the blow for which they have been preparing in the, Near East for the last month, The fact that Russian troops are being con- centrated at Odessa, the principal Ruisian port in the Black Sea, has given rise to the conviction that Rus- sia will attack Bulgaria from two poinis, one of the Czar's armies marching through Roumania for a direct assault On the Bulgars, while another seeks a landing -place on the -Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea. ' • PARENTS AND SISTERS Nv,e1'131;itish and French naval brigades Were sent to Belgrade last fall and took part in the fighting against the O erinans aud Austrians preceding the evacaation of the capital by the Serbs. KILLEI) BY GERMANS A despatch from 'Kingston says: Pte. Vervicke, a Belgian solcier who returned from the front, says he lost his father, mother and three sisters when the Germans destroyed Belgium, and that he and his brother, who is training in Ottawa, wish to get to the front to avenge their deaths. Pte. Vervicke was with the Canadian En- gineers. THE MAN OF THE FUTURE. War Is Expected to Breed a Warless Race. Discussing the queetion "Has t'he war any advantages?" the Medical Samna says: "The only apparent redeeming feat- ure of the present' war is the work Of the physicians and nurses; and yet their labor seems pitiful and abeurd, fOr they are engaged in picking out ftom the scrap heap of fine body ma- chines those which are not beyond re- pair and in returning to the front as many as possible of these for future destruction. "To those who believe that there is a wise purpose running through the universe and that everything that happens has a meaning the phenomen- on of war seems to have no place; and yet it is hardly believable that wets with all its bonds does not serve some purpose in the general scheme of things. "The destruction of fine physique by War has seemed by all ordinary ha - man standards of measurement by Russians on the enemy near the wrong; the preservation of the feeble village of Semikovthe on the Stripa. and sickly pa accomplished by modern The Germans Were Clriven to the medicine has also, judged by a similar river and those who escaped Russian standard, seemed to be bad policy; ballets were drowned in an attempt but if there is a purpose in it all both to cross the river. Over 100 killed or• must be for the best. Certainly both wounded were found on the scene of tend toward the same end, and if one the action. is good in the long run the othee must On the Minsk front, the Germans be so, are now upon the defenrive, although "Following thisstrong counter-attacks have been teed, the purpose of war as established by and continued .launched north of Illoukst tut by nature woald seem to be the effort to capture the ground lost to pros duction of a race of beings less to - bust in body, though this does not mean that they are less persistent or short-lived, and one in which the bod- ily energies are directed towardmental development. Whether or not war is for this purpose the develop. • ITALIANS TAKE PODGORA PEAK Capture of 'Heights (growler rive Month' Campaign Againet • Fortresa. A despatch from Rome says: After five months of fighting the Italians have taken the Podgora heighte, the key to Goritz; :now known to the Ital. Ian eoldiera as Monte Calvario, be- cause of the heavy losees suffered by them in their efforts to conquer 14 as well as by the ;Austrian defenders. These heights, just west of Goritz and on the oppoaite bank of the Isonzo, command the stronghold. Their capture meane that virtually the Wit step in the taking of Goritz has been accomplished. The I:talian official statement con- taining the announcement of thls, the moat impo•rtant victory won by the Italians in many months, follows: "On Monte Calvaeio (Podgora heights), west of Gbritz, our attacks continued, and we reached the sum- mit, which we held under the furious and concentrated fire Of the enemy. "On the Carso plateau, after re- pulsing sveak night attacks, the oper- ations were vigorously resumed in the morning, and a strong entrench- ment was taken nilar the San Mattino Church. A total of 7 officers and 86 men were taken prisoners." Following their suceees in the cap- ture of the heights of Podgora, the Italians are now storming the heighte of San Michele, on the edge of the Cargo plateau to the south of the Aus- trian stronghold on the Isonzo. These heights form the only important forti- fications south of Goritz, and the Ital- ians have been making desperate efforts to occupy them for several weeks. In the official repot, it was an- nounced that General Cadorna's forces succeeded in occupying the fourth line of entrenchments near the summit of the mountain. „ This victory was achieved after a. teerific bombard- ment of the Austrian positions lasting all night. When the artillery fire ceased, the infantry charged from the district around the church of San Martino. The Austrians were unable to retreat in time, and most of the de- fenders of the fourth trench were made prisoners. Since the beginning of the Italian offensive, svhiell is now known as the fourth battle of the Isonzo, the Aus- trians have delivered a series of artil- lery and infantry attacks along the whole line of the Isonzo in futile at- tempts to regain some of the fround lost to the Italians. These attacks were in every case broken down by the terrific bombardment of the Ital- ian big guns. Every day sees an in- crease in the violence of the bombard- ment in the neighborhood of Goritz. It has been learned here that a council of war was held recently at Laibach, at which it was decided by the Austrian commanders that Goritz RUSSIAN RIVERS ARE FREEZING UP Austrian Battalion Attempts to Cross the Styr, But Is Anni- • bilated. A despatch from Petrograd says: Intensely cold weatha is prevailing along the front in the eastern theatre of war, and already the rivers have begun to freeze up. Athens& of the Austrians to use the ice on the Styr River for fording could not hold out any longer without Purposes resulted in the annibiration aid from Germany. of an entire Vat:tenon. ' While the A later despatch says: The Italian troops of the battalion were crossing advance against Gorizia made seine the stream the ice gave way amid all further progress to the south and the were drowned. north-west of the city. The forces At other points on the front, Rus- which took the summit of the Pod- * elan artillery is breaking up the ice gore. heights extended their conquests with shells in order to prevent the north-west of the city, taking fur - Germane and AustrosHungarians ther trenches in the course of vigor - from crossing, ous fighting, and holding them against An (Maul report tells of an attack an Austrian attempt at a counter- attacic. South of the city, on the Cargo pleteem the Italians gained some ground to the north of Monte San Michele, between Boschini and Pete- afio, and to the south of the mountain, In the direction 'of San Martino. Austria's utgent appeals for' Ger- man aid on the Italian front are still unheeded. Germany has two reasons for refusing to aid her ally in this quarter; the neeessaty troops Sr C not available, and Germany is not at war with Italy. As a remit of Germany's position, it is possible that the Aus- trians will be eonipelled to retire and give tip the despetete resistance which they have been interposing to the Italian advance... This Italian offensive, heretofore belittled by the Austrians, now evi- dently is pressing them hard. Germany's refusal to aid Austvia on the Italian front is said to have been Instigated by Prince von BueloW, for- mer Imperial Chancellor, whose visit to Switzerland is believed to have had for one of its objects an attempt to learn whether appreciable Italian suc- cesses, including the permanent occu- pation of Gorizia, would satisfy Ital- ian public opinion. It is evident that Prince von Buelow hopes that the war between Italy and -Austria will not be continued longer if considerable ter- ritory le gained by the Italians before Winter, Hence Germany would be benefited in the future if she now re- fuses to aid her ally. • , FRANCE FIRST WITH MOTORS. PINCH OF HUNGER SHARINS TONGUES1 The..Problem -SupPlYin-gr German Stomachs Is Placed Upper - m A despatch from°Betologne says: The', „ Vollts Zeitung in a sharp article urges' the Reichsteg to call the Government to account for its failure to ,deal ado- citioadtff tselyuwBith the problem of supplying fo "To supply the German nation with, provisions is at present the most im- portant military question, and one' which must be carried through before' winter," the Volks Zeitusng says., "This doubtless will be recognized by; the supreme army command, whose' orders will find no opposition. We re- commend the appointment of an eco- nomic dictator in military clothing.", The article doses with an attack on Herr von Stein, recently appointed Under-Socretary of the Interior, or, She ground that he has not dealt energetically enough with the food, (problem. MADE AT HOME. Some IJseful Red Cross Hints on Cookery. AUSTRALIA WILL HAVE 200,000 114.EN IN KHAKI A despatch from Melbourne Aus- tralia, says: The Oommenwealth Government has decided to .raise an additional 50,000 :mem This will. 'bring up the Australian cOntthgent: for the war 40 300,000.. the Russians. Field Marshal von Hindenburg's army has been driven from important positions in front of Dvinek and the Germane have suffer- ed severe losses.: Notwithstanding this, the Germane still are making desperate efforts to advance ia the direction of the Dvina. relent in peaceful pursuits tends in They have built a 110W road for the this direction, The inventions of ma, transport of ammunition and heavy ehinery for work and for getting guns. Huge quantities of ammunition about are making constantly for 50- recently have been forwardedto the dentaries . and diminished muscular- regions of Ikskul, Eriedrichstadt And ity, and mankind takes with apparent Jecobstadt. readiness to a change in this three- 1.1cs position of the Russian armies tion. has been enormously strengthened, "If War has any real biological Pur- , however by an abundance of ammuni- pose it must, therefore, be intended I don, the correspondent says. Gun - for the end of bringing about it 310W 'nen now show to infantrymen in - type of man in which the combative quantities that ineke for war are be- ing gradually done away with, and the elements which make for peace ;see being steadily brought forward. If there is any theory which will make War a good thing and reconcile the work of bullet aacl splint it would seem to be this. If those two factors scriptions written by workmen on am- munition boxes, which read in sub- stance: '"Don't spare shells. Plenty more are coining, comrades. We are working hard to keep you supplied. Cheer up." FACING FEARFUL ODDS. are to produce, some clay, a tYPe of Victory Does Not Always Go To Big man who will be so peaceable and so Battalions. wise as not to care to go to war, but It is a fatal mistake for a command - content to settle hie differences 151 03' to despise the army in front of milder ways, then we could perhaps him, even though its numbers may be become reconciled to the present much less than his own, as the Ger- stritggle" - The Time to Matey. Ilepsey, the maid of color', had told the mistress She was to be married. "Well, Hepsey," said the mistress, "I'm sorry to lbse you, but I suppose it is all for the best. How 'king have you known the man?" "About two weeks ago, "lVly! No longer than that.? Don't you think you ought to wait ana get to know him better?" "No, ma'am," exclaimed Hepsey, 'Sf I )(flowed him any better I sh& ,never would marry him." • Her Chance Good. "It's a cage of love'at first sight" • "Well, maybe it will work out all right. I took few' years to select my husband, and look what I got," . The first ironclad was the Warriot. Constructed` in 1858, she was ht 188'7 still 011 the active list. man general before Liege found to his cost, and as Edward II. learned at Bannockburn. Ftom deselectl times to the present day, victory has by no means always gone to the big battalions. Garibaldi and his two thousand or so i•ed shirts made the kingdom of Italy possible, while the, British Army has nothing finer to show than the defence of Rorke's Drift, when eighty men of the 24t1m, with a few men of other regiments, defeated some 4,000 ZulaS, and saved Natal. One of the hardest fought battles of the Franco-Prussian War was Worth, where the French were out- reembeeed by nearly theee to one, but made such. a gallant resistance that their losses in killed and wounded were fewer than the Germans. At Agincourt the English were outnumbered by five to one, while at Crecy they put to flight a force rather More than twice ae Stvong. Lord Kitchener speaks Arabic like a native. An authoritative statement from the Red Cross Society's Nursing: Manual says: "Beef -tea, chicken -jelly, calf'ssfoot': jelly, etc., should always be home-; made when given to invalids. The, . bought preparations are not just as geed, and should have no place in a' sick room, unless the home-madel products cannot be obtained, as dur-:, ing war." The present war has meant tha0 many men, wounded in battle, or suf- fering from disease, aro being: brought home. It is well for all of us) therefore, to know exactly how to: make the home-made products. Beef -tea need riot be 1:he flavorlese concoction it so frequently is if the following recipe is rigorously follow- ed. Take one pound of beef, no fat or bone, cut into entail squares ansi place in a lidded earthenware jar, with exactly one pint of cold water. Close the lid and place the jar in a saucepan of hot water. Stand it by, the fire for three and a half houre shnmering. Then strain through muslin, and squeeze out all the beef tea from the meat. Add a pinch of salt, and' stand aside to cool. A tea- cupful, five ounces, ie the umal doze ROW meat juice may be ordered, Here Is the method. Finely minc& half a pound of beet lean rump steak, home -killed meat, with no fat or, bone, and with no outside Wind or: sun -hardened pieces. Pour over the mince one wineglassful of cold Wa- ter. This must stand in a jar for two hours. Then transfer it to a cloth •and squeeze the juice from the mat. This must be prepared daily, and should be kept on ice, as 14 will not keep more than a day (twelve hours)-, The following i$ an advance on raw meat juice, subject, of course, to the doctor's orders. Scrape the edge of it 91000 of best lean rump steak, SO that shreds come away. A teuepoon- ful of this, with the juice that has escaped on to the dish, can be placed between layers of one -day-old bread, cut very thin. Chicken broth is inevitable ae part of an invalid's menu. Cut a chicken into small pieces, break all the bones small, and put into ith earthenware jar with a pint of cold water wild pinch a salt. Close the jar tightly,r and stand it in a eaueepan half full - of boiling water for a three hour's • simmering -not boiling. 'Then strain' in the u'eual way. Dose -one teacup; fut. Calf's -foot jelly is made as follows:' Obtain two calf's feet, clean thor.: oughts', cut them up, and put in es saucepan with cold water -just' enough to ,mover them well. Bring to' the boil slowly and skim several times; Continue the boiling for quite! three hours until the bones are quite: separate froTh the meat; then etrattni. through coerse muslin, and pouts into a basin, or mould, Which shouldi be first wetted with cold water. The; jelly will turn out when it is wanted! if the mould is stood in cold water. ' STUDENT LIFE IN FRANCE. -- - The Attendance at Schools Exceeds That of Last Year: Used Automobiles in Field Day War Started. The student life of France goeeseir, uninterruptedly, though somewhat modified by war. The mobilization' drew more upon professore than pu- pils laet year. Thie year's reopening of the schools shows heavid drafts have been made upon the students 051 colleges and universities. In thel primary Scheele and lyceums the at -m tendance, though less than the aver-. age, exceeds that of last year; tit increase is inede up largely -olss' fugees that did not attend school last year. At the Louis -le -Grand Lyceum, the To the French 'belongs the credit oldest in Paris, there are 900 studentai for the first use of motor transport as against 800 last year. More than in the present war which according 150 of last year's pupils at this ly-' to the "Fremdendatt," which says ceum am in the army.Only 25 per that at the very outbreak of hostilities cent. 07 the ustial number of sfude. the French General Staff seized 500 are registered at the Fine Arts, Paris motor buses and sent thorn off, School, and other sections of the tali-. packed with soldiers, to the Belgian frontier,' and 1,000 other motor transports similarly improvised fol- lowed next day, As "an approximate estimate" it is e34 tte hehdrsttliawt"eeitthoofbtehneigwearrie.nmt ntowleirsas it has been cleared of frealts andee - of some 250,000 motor transport wag- ' travagances. The artist student is gone, apart from the great numbevs taught to take naturo and improve, upon what ordinary mortals see of 14, of automobiles de luxe and touring but in such rational form that any ca:ra Whieh were pressed into service." Of this 250,000 motor wagons France had 90,000, Germany' 70;000, England versity have suffeved equally;'the medical school eveis move, moat of the Professors being in the sanitary ,ed-, vice, In the art schools the tenifeney to modernism has not been Shaken, but.: one can readily distinguish :forms mull featuees. The subjects are serious. 55,000, Aastria 25,000 and Russia 10,- The material is largely rearm% vers 000, Tit* :OW value: is estimated- little of battlefields or othev. Wari at $200,0001000. . Sure Proof. Ilokus-I can always tell a wo- men who 4511008,,.thingsjust because they look cheap, Bo:km-How? Hokus-eSimply by looking at her husband. scenes, excepting in the work of stu- dente who 'itave beep 9v still are et, the front. In all schools, primary a advanced, there is an increased ie est 10 history, geography' Mid- • tic economy. March 261h tmed to be the 111.4 dasi of the year,