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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-12-30, Page 3FRENCH VICTORY IN VOSES REGARDED AS IMPORTANT ONE Niumb,sr of Prisoners Captured Largest Since the Offensive of September Last A clespateh 11'0111 London says: The 1'renc1C6necess at Hartmanns-Weiler- kopf appears td have been of consid- erable proportions. The official French statement gives the number of prisoners ,s captured at 1,300. - A part of the positions stained, however, was lost again after a series of coun- ter-attacks. ' A possible niotiv'e actuating the French in making the violent attack may be found in reports from Orich coming by way of RoMe,'Which says that Field Marshal von Mackensen, who led the ,Austro -German armies to victory in Poland, and then cenquered Serbia, is to head a new German offeusive in umiel.• Alsace. According to these reports the Germans have all foodsteffs in the vicinity haye been requisitioned, and 22 villages have been evacuated to facilitate the opera- tions. These preparations have been continuing fol. 15 days, according ts the reports. The French gains, a part of which has been lost again were on the eastern' slope of the mountain, accord - Mg. to the Frehch commuaique. As described by the German War Office in. its official statement, the ground won by the French included the sum. mit • The French success resulted from careful artillery preparation and the dashing onslaught of the troops. The Germans hare been forced back smile distance on the eastern slopes of the masse'cl 300,000men in upper Alsace, mountain. VON PAPEN SAILS AWAY, SAYS "I'M INNOCENT" A despatch from New York says: Franz von Papen, Germany's recalled military attache, left New York for Rotterdam last week on the steamship Noordarn, bearing a safe conduct to Germany from the Entente allies. Departing he issued a final statement to the American people, in which he said: "I leave my post without any feeling of bitterness, because I know too well that when history is once written it will establish our clean re- cords and calumnies spread broadcast at present." ' Von Papen was appointed military attache of the German Embassy in December, 1913. Public attention was directed to him in September last, when a -letter which he wrote to his wife was found among the papers seized by the British Government • from James F. J. Archibald, while he was carrying them to ,Europe. In this letter Von Papen alluded to "Bloedsinnig Yanlfees," which was translated as "Idiotic Yankees." His recall and that of Capt. Karl Boy -Ed, the German Naval Attache, was re- quested by Secretary Lansing Dee. 2. Mr. Lansing described their offences as eismulative, but gave no particu- lars. It is reported that Capt. Boy -Ed will leave here for Rotterdam on the steamer Rotterdam. POVERTY AND SQUALOR NO MORE IN EAST END A despatch fromLondon says: Probably no part of Great Britain has been more radically affected by the war than the east of London. A so- cial reformer, desiring in days gone by to see poverty and squalor in their =test forms, naturally turned to the East End, knowing that there he would find both in full measure. To -day the East End has been transformed, If poverty has not been wiped out by causes due to the war it has largely disappeared, and toiling people are enjoying a degree of pros- perity such as before never existed there. For a long time past every able-bodied man had been worldng six and seven days a week, and all wo- men and boys can get all the work they want. VON EMMICH DEAD, LED ATTACK ON LIEGE • A despatch from Berlin says: The death at Hanover of. General von Em- mich, the conqueror of Liege, is an- nounced by the Overseas News Agency, General von Emmich was com- mander of the tenth army corps. He figured prominently in the early events of the war, being in command of German toopS which invaded Bel- gium. He it was who issued an ap- peal to the Belgian people not to re- sist the Germans. The heavy loss of life of the Ger- I mans at Liege was said to have shat- tered the confidence of the General, i and a reifort that he bad committed suicide gained wide currency in Au- gust of last year. .14 TARTAR FOR STATES ALLOWED BY FRANCE THE FRU.ITS OF WAR. - - Fifteen Million Dollars SM. Artificial Limbs. No industry, considered relatively to its importance, seems likely to pro- fit more by the war than the manu- iacture of false arms and legs. One Arnetican concern is said to have al- ready received orders from the Bri-, tish and French gosrernments for 315,- 000,000 -worth of artificial limbs. The normal producing capacity of this es- tablishment is 250 legs a month, but its output is expected soon to be mul- tiplied by five. Another American manufacturer, who has a factory.in France, has just returned to secure additional machin- ery and workmen. To obtain the lat- ter is not easy, for 'false legs and arms, espeeially the former, are com- plex pieces of mechanism, and to ton- struct them properly requires much practice and long training. The cork leg is familiar in works of fiction. In real life such a thing is not, pid never has been, cork being just about the most unsuitable ma- terial for the purpose that could be imagined. Artificial limbs are made of basswood or willow, supplemented to some extent with leather. Such false legs and arms as can now be bought are of course very mo- dern inventions. It may be taken for granted, however, that artificial sub- stitutes for lost limbs date back to a remote antiquity. Dr.' Ales Hrdlicka of the SmithsoniansInstitution recent- ly dug up. in Peru a false foot of wood, apparently prehistoric which was a mere bloth with a socket, evi- dently intended to be fastened to the ankle of a person whose foot had been amputated. . Famous in history is the iron hand of Goetz von Berlichingen, a knight of mediaeval Nuremberg; and therewas another nobleman of the same epoch who had an iron foot weighing ten pounds. BAD DIET CAUSES CANCER. Too Many of Our Desirable Goods Are Demineralized. Entrance of .a parasite or fungus growth is a cause of cancer, accord- ing to the opinion of Dr. Horace Packard, of Boston University, Who discussed "The Colder Question" be- fore the Surgical and Gynecological Society of the American Institute of Homeopathy at Chicago. Dr. Pack- ard emphasized his belief that the possible cause of cancer is dietary and argued that demineralized foods form a factor in the disease's devel- opment. The human family is under- fed in mineral food salts, he.said. "A. momentous fact, he added, is that the flour mills and the rice mills of the civilized world are busy eliminating every particle •ef. irons 'phosphorous, sodium, potassium, silica, calcium, chloride, magnesium and sulphur (mineral salts), from oursstaple food supply and sending out food material 'ich in heat units but pitifully meagre n energizing and immenizing mater - al. In a single flour mill of the Middie West, approximately one mil - ion tons of wheat are milled each year. Of this about 550 thousand tons go to the human family as, refined flour (wheat starch) and 450 thous- and tons of the by-products bearing lie energizing, immunizing food salts go mainly to feed domestic animals." AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT ARRESTED AS A SPY. • A despatch from -Geneva, says: The secretary of the Austrian Con- sultate here, Herr Taussig has been arrested on a charge or espionage. The charge, it is said, grows out of his alleged denunciation of Mrs. 111ferrick Hildebrandt: of Louisville, Ry., recent- ly expelled from Gentany after her arrest and imprisonment on a charge Nyhich she said was not made known to her, and who came to Geneva and causeda strong protest to be for- warded to Washington against what the declared to be the unwarranted treatment accorded her by the Ger- man authorities. 300 GERMAN WOMEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION A despatch from Amsterdam says: According to advices to the "'Tele- gra.af, a Powder factory and several ammunition depots were blown up at Muenster, ,Westphalia. Of the 600 women employed in the mill, 300. wern killed. • A despatch from Paris says: Upon the advice of Alexandre Ribot, Minis- ter of Finance, the Government has • rescinded the decree prohibiting the exportation to the United States of and its by-products, tri a large extent in /steaka ror read -raising. In ordi- nary years these asticles are export- ed to the United States to the value of about 9,000,000 francs, The tartar comes from deposits hi wine casks. Its exportation was pro- hibited because it was believed to be an element 'employed in the manufac- ture of certain explosives, and it was suspected the ultimate -destination of the tartar was Germany, GERMANY HAS SECURED ROUMANIAN GRAIN --- Arrangements Perfected for Exporta- tion of 50,000 Carloads. A despatch from Berlin says: Ac- cording to a Bucharest despatch, the exportation of 50,000 carloads of grain of various sorts has bean filially arrhged, a satisfactory agreement on • the method of payment having been reached between dm German and Rou- tnanian negotiators. ' Ultimate Channel of Peace Negotiations A despatch from London says: The reports of the Reichstag diecussions have aroused some interest in the En- tente capitals, where the Socialist atti- is being closely followed, many that some section of, the, n Germany may prove to be the ultimate channel of peace negotiations. A „Copenhagen daipatch declares ,that the Socialist party in Germany is now completely divided, 21 members having seceded and formed a new party with an in- , depeedent organisation. AT THE GATEWAY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN '411••••••••••00.21•1. ,•••s• sesesss•esassissaSts• Glf3RALTAR from -54pms/7 54o/*, bNite censorship has withheld now of British operations at the Straits a Gibraltar. but when the war is over there Nlin be an interesting story on the precautions taken to keep- German submarines out of the Mediterranean and the ruses. employed by them to avoid mines and nets prepared by Great Brit- ain. Above are several views .of this important key position, where British guns dominate the pass- age between the Atlantic and the litediterraneau. INTERVIEW WITH VON TIRPITZ WHAT THE GERMAN ADMIRAL SAID A FEW YEARS AGO. Professed Great Friendship -for Bri tain at That Time at a Peace Banquet. Yesterday I had what housewive call "a clearing up," and in the pro cess stumbled across some notes made a few years ago of an intervie I had with Admiral von Tirpitz, write Silas K. Hocking in the London News The occasion was a banquet given i Berlinly.Count Douglas to the mem bets of a Peace delegation represent ing the British churches, How it carne about that my seat was at the hOst's table and next to Von Tirpitz I don't knoiv. Scarcely were we seated -when he tritned and spoke -to me. "My name is Tirpitz," he said, and he handed me his card. For a moment the name ebnveyed nothing to Inc. I was not familiar at the time with the names of German naval or military officers. Professors and pastors had been more in my way. Then his resplendent uniform, richly decorated with gold braid, gave me a clue. I adjusted my spectacles and read his full mune, "Admiral von Tirpitz." A Peace -Loving People. "I am glad of the opportunity of talking to ,an Englishman," he said (To be strictly accurate; he used the term "representative Englishman.") "I am exceedingly anxious that Eng- lish and Germans should understand each other better. I have a great ad- miration for you English. I admire your customs and institutions. Two of my daughters are at present in an English school at CheltenInun. Eng- land and Germany have so much in common. Our commercial interests are almost- identical. We are one in Isteratare and one in religion. There ought never to be enmity between us. E welcome your visit to Germany. I hone it Will do good -I believe it will. We are a peace -loving people. Our greatest desire is to live in the friend - hest yetations with the whole world. Particularly we aye desirous of living in peace with England. I fear same - times you do not quite understand us." I looked a him while he was talk- ing --forgetting to eat -and I ano free to confess that I was immensely im- pressed both by his manner and his appearance. He.spoke fluently, and in quite correct English. His voice was pleasant and carefully modulated, and the impression he conveyed was one of absolute sincerity. I should describe him as of rather handsome appearance -tall and well built, though inclined to rotundity. He had a long blond beard only slightly tinged with grey, frank blue eyes.and a square forehead. His full beard hid his mouth and chin: Preparations for War. "I Ilene you have been pleased with your Welcome?" he went on. "Very pleased, indeed." "I am gad. I hope after this visit you will understand us better. Eng- land and Germany ought to be aloe frieride. Standing shoulder to shoul- der we 'Could' Preserve the peace of the world." s• "From one in your position," I said; "Such sentiments are peculiarly grad - flying. What we. in England fail to understand is your vast and feverish preparations for war." , "Vast and feverish psemardtions?" he questioned, with a gentle and (110 - ms -ding smile. I felt that I was in foil it now, to said quite blamtly: "There seems to us nothing in the. present condition of Europe to lead you to amass and equip such a vast army as you are doing. Moreover, we frankly do not understand why you have accelerated the buildirig of your warships. Who are you building against?" He looked at my eassls which he had MORTALITY FROM STARVATION IN SERBIA 5 APPALLING Before Aid Can Come Thousands of Non -Com- batants in the Interior Are Doomed to Death • A despatch from Rome says: The number of Serbians seeking refuge in Albania is daily increasing. In the interior of Serbia conditions are said s to be hofieless. The mortality from " starvation and exhaustion is appal- ling. The remnants of the army are W subsisting on horseflesh, and the non- combatants, unable to find means of • transportation, especially women and n children, are often absolutely without food - • 11,1...•••••••••=101•11.. In addition to the food shortage -the refugees are constantly exposed to at- tack from Albanian tribesmen, who are shooting down men, women and children a every opportunity. At the coast towns, food, especially flour, is available, but it is impossible to convey it into the interior because of . the hostility of the natives. Re- ports say- that before ail can come thousands of non-combatant Serbians are doomed to death by starvation. placed on the table in front of him, and smiled. "I can assure you, Mr. Hocking, on my word of honor," he said, "that there is nothing in this so-called ac- celeration. Our.hip a as% built by contract, and are to be delivered at a certain date. If in the meanwhile la-, bor or materials should happen to be cheap, we do not interfere with the contractors taking advantage of the cheapness; but the ships will not be taken over by the Government until the time specified." Unfriendly Nations. "Bat why do you need a big navy at all? You have not a long coast -line to defend." "But we have a considerable mers cantile marine," he smiled. "Also we import fifty million pounds' ;worth of foodstuffs every year -that' must be protected." "Against whom ?!.' "Against any possible contingency. We have enemies. France is not friendly. Russia is uncertain." "Bat neither France nor Russia will attack you from the sea, and your, army is sufficient to defend your land firontiene." "Every great nation in these days must have a sufficient navy," he re- plied gen Hy, • "But yours is out of all proportion to the coast you have to defend. Ex - 000e me speaking talite' frankly. We in England do' not understand it. There are many amongst us who re- gard it as a. direct menage to our na- val supremacy.," "I am sorry if they think so," he replied. "We have no desire, believe me, to rival your fleet. We could not do so if we tried. Let me , repeat again that we are anxious above all things to live in peace with England. Why, a war with England" -he added earnestly- would rina us for a gen- eration.' • THE POWERS SURPRISED. Taken Aback by the Duration of the War. Lord Haldane, the one-time British War Secretary, speaking at Hamp- stead, Eagland, declared that the Ger- mans would have reached Paris and perhaps Calais had' not the Govern- ment taken prompt action upon the warnings which he himself and others had given of German intentions. Tim British Government, he said, did everything possible to get aggressive ideas out of the heads of the other nations on the 'Continent, but that did not prevent the Government from tak- ing precautionary measures. Great Britain was not taken unawares, but was able to mobilize the army and navy at the first moment of the out- break of the war. Lord Haldane ex- pressed the belief that there was not O single Government among the Pow- ers that had not been wholly surprised and taken aback by the magnitude and duration of the struggle which has since developed, and that nobody has been so much surprised as the Getman General Staff, which "had ex- pected a walk -over in about thtee months." VEGETABLE NOTES. Yeast is a fungus. Vegetables should .nti, be given to young puppies. Orie coffee -tree yields about a pound of beans each season. Seaweed is sometimes used for making the handles of knives. Bananas take the place of bread in many of the countries in which they grow. To _save fireweed, dry your potato - peelings in the oven and use them for lighting fires. . Overgrown cabbage -stalks from the Channel Islands are used for making walking -sticks. The word "clove" comes from the Latin "claVus," Meaning a nail, cloves being very like nails insappearance. In. Russia the tea used is not ,,sold in loose packets, but in small or large tablets that look like pieces of wood or stone. Gooseberry -bushes were originally called gorseberry.bushea, from the plants having prickles similar to those of the gorse plash. The sneezewood tree of Cape Colony is so called because the dust which arises from it when it is being sawn, is ol such an irritating nature that it $ causes sneezing, Cinnamon bark.' will be found a simple and useful remedy for the odor of tobacco. ' The mouth should be washed out with water in which Some of the hark has previously been boiled, Date, grow at the top of such tall, slender trees that, in order to gather them, men have to swing themfelves up the trunk by degrees by means of a rope, one end of which they .fasten round their bodies, whilst they loop the other end so that it will 'catch on itethe notches in thee trunk of th It is mumble to detect the presence of chicory in ground coffee by allow. ing a few grains of the suspected mix - lure to :fall Mt° a glass of cold water. If it is pure, almost -all tho grains will continue hard and float on the water, imparting very little color; but if chicory is., present, the grains will be quite soft, and sink to -the botthm of the glees, coloring 'the water brown. . • SPEEDS CZAR'S RAILWAYS. New Minister of Intetior Adopts New Methods. . There has been a great speeding up of methods and men on the Russian railway systems during the last few weeks, a5. a result of investigations undertaken by the new Minister of the Interior,' M. Khvostoff. His in- vestigations were begun in 'the first place owing to complaints regardin scarcity of food supplies in Moscow. The minister's plans for remedying the conditions include the speeding up of managers and workmen, the use.of motor vehicles for unloading and de- livery, the Use of the electric street ,cars, for freight at night tirsi the fix - 'Inv of maximum prices fer distribu- tion service by private commis. The new measures are bsing ' but into, operation at Moscow, Petrograd and other pl4i0es where they are found necessary. easth's crust. Markets of the World Breadstuff. Torente, Dem 28. --Manitoba wheat -New crop -No. 1 Northern, $1,28%; No. 2 Northern, $1.26%; No. 3 Northern, 31.23, all rail. Manitoba oats -No. 2 O.W., 49%c; 4N7oul. e3; (11147.1, 4f7eeSid,c 4,• 6eiiixter,aalyor„ai1l. feed, American corn -No. 3 yellow, .now, 771/0c, on Track Toronto. - Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, old, '77e, nominal, Torento. • , Ontario oats -No. 3 White, 87 to 38c; commercial opts, 35 to 37c, Etc - cording to freights outside, Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per car lot, 31.05 to 31.07; wheat slight- ly sprouted, $1 to 31.04, and tough according to sample; wheat sprouted, smutty, and tough, according to sans - pie; feed wheat, 75 to 80c. Peas -No. 2, nominal, per car lots, 31.90; sample peas, according to sam- ple, $1.50to 31.75, according to freights outside. Barley -Malting barley, 57 to 60c; feed barley, 50 to 53c, according to freights outside, Buckwheat-Nominal,car lots,75 to 77c, according to freights outside. Rye --No. 2 nominal, 86 to 87c; rye, rejected, 70 to 80c, according to sam- ple. Minntoba flour -First patents, in lute bags, 36.60; second, patents, in jute bags, $6.10; strong bakers', in jute bags, $5.90, Toronto. • Ontario flour -New Winter, $4.60 to $4.80, aecording to- sample, sea- board, 'or Toronto freights in bags, prompt shipment. l freights. nm -t Ca rlroats dbliZper t dr Mont- realoi f shorts, 325 per ton; middlings, $26 per ton; good feed flour, $1.60 per bag. Country Produce. Butter -Fresh dairy, ga to 30c; in- ferior; 22 to 24c; creamery prints, 33 to 35e; solids, 81¼ to 32a. Eggs -Storage, 30 to 32c per doz.; selects, 35 to 36c ; new -laid, 55 to 50c, case lots. Honey -Prices, in tins, lbs., 10 to -11c; combs No. 1, $2.40; No. 2, $2. • Beans -4.15 to $4.25. • Poultry-Chickens,15 to 160; fowls, 12 to 13e; ducks, 113 to ,17e; geese, 15 to 17c; turkeys, 25' to 27c. Cheese -Larges 18%c•'twine, 19c. Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario quot- ed at $32.85, and New Brunswicks at $1.55 per bag, on track. Provisions. Cured meats are quoted as follows: -Bacon, long clear, 16 to 1634c Per Ib,, in case lots. Hams -Medium, 17% to 18c; do., heavy, 14W to 15e; rolls, lard, 13% to 14c; compound, 1.2 to 23e; baths, plain, 24 to 25e; boneless backs, 26 to 27e. Lar 31263i:m16%c; breakfast bacon, 21 to Lard -The arket is steady; pure 13usiness-iltiontreal. Montreal, Dec. 28. -Corn -Ameri- can No. 2 yellow, 80 to 81e. Oats - No. 2 local white, 45c; No. 3 do., 44e; No. 4 de., 43e. Barley -Man. •feeid, 60c; malting, 67e. Buckwheat -No. 2, 82e. Flour -Man. Spring wheat pat- ents, firsts, '$6.70; seconds, s$6.20; strong bakers', $6;Winter patents, choice, $5.20; straight rollers, $5.50 to $5.60; do., bags, $2.60 to 32.70. Rolled oats, barrels, $5.20 to $5,25; do.'bag's, 90 lbs., $2.45 to $2.50. Bran $24. Shorts, $26. 1Vliddlings, $28 to $30. Mouillie, $31 to $33. Hay -No. 2 per ton, car lots, $19 to $19.50. Cheese -Finest westerns, 1731 to 18c; finest easterns, 171,4 to 17%.c. Butter -Choicest creamery, 3431 to 851/sc; seconds, 3231 to 33e. Eggs -Fresh, 48 to 53e; selected, 38c; No. 1 stock, 30e; No. 2 stock, 28e. Potatoes, per bag, at lots, $1.30 to $1.35.- Dressed hogs, abattoir killed, $13.50 to. $13.75; do., country, $12 to $12.25 Pork--Heavy Canada short mess, bbls, 35 to 45 pieces, 329 to 329.50; . short rt back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $28 to 8.50. Lard -Compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 1131c; wood. pails'20 lbs. net, 12140; pure, tierces, 875 lbs„ 1454ic; pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 15c, United States Markets. Minneapolis, Dec. 28. -Wheat -No. ,1 hard, $1.20%; No. 1 Northern, 31-1731 to $1.1831; No. 2 Northern $1.1331 to $1.1531; December, $1.17%; May, $1.1831. Corn -No. 8 yellow -78- to 74c. Oats -No. 3 white, 40¼ to 40%e. Flour unchanged. Bran, 318 to 318.50. Duluth, Dec. 18. -Wheat -No. 1 hard, 31.1731; No. 1 Northern 31.1631; No. 2 Northern, $1.1231 to : $1.1831; Montana, No. 2 hard, $1.1231 o $1,14%; December, $1.16%; May, 1.1831. Linseed, cash, $2.11 to 21131• December, 32.0931; May, Live Stock Markets, Toronto, Dec. 28. -Butchers' cattle, choice, $7.60 to $7.90; do., good, $7,25 to $7,50; do., medium, $6.25 t $7; do,, common, $5,60 to $6; butch - I'' bulls, choice, $6.50 to $6.75; dos good bulls, $5.75 to $6.25; do., rough bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice, $6.35 to $6.75; do., good, $6 to $6.25; do., medium, 35.25 -to 35.75; do„ common, $4 to $4,50; feeders, good, $6.50 th $6.75; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs., $6 to $6.60; canners and cutters, $3 tO $4.50; imilkers, choice, each, 375 to 3100; dm, Common and nfedium, each, $35 to $60; swingers, $50 to 3100; light ewes, $6.50 to $7.50; sheep, heavy, $5.25 to $6 do., bucks, $3.50 to 34.50; yearling lambs, $7 to $7.75; lambs, cwt, $9.85 to $10.75; calves, medium to theice, $6.50 to $10; do., common, $4 to $4,50; hogs, fed and watered, $9.25 to 39.30; do.'packers' quotations,. $8.75. ISIontrea1, Dec. 28. -Choice steers, $8 to $8.25; good, $7.50 to $7.78; lower grades dowa to $5.50; - choice hutches cows, 36.25 to 36.60; and lulls from $5 to $6,75 per cwt.; lambs, $9.70 to $10; sheep, $6,25 to $7 per cwt.; "calves, 9 to 91/4c per IIF for milk fed and at.5 to 8c for grass fed; hogs, selected tote, $9.60 to $9.75 per cwt., weighed off cars. Prayer Days in Prossia. Two days of this month, the 171h and gist, will be observed through- out Prussia as special Occasions of fasting and prayer. In Berlin no pub- lic performances will be permitted ,in theatses or other places of public amusement, except such as are espe- cially designed to coat= to the char- acter of the day. Plays must have a serious and patriotic tendency. Mov- iag-pieture shows may exhibit only films illustrating sacred history, ac- companied by religious /1111Sie. In con- cert halls oratorios and sacred songe may be given. Granite is the 'lowest rock in the ABLE TO RESIST , ARY .OF 500,0001 Anglo-French Army of 200,000 dal Firmly Entrenched at -A despatch from London saga: The Athens correspondent of the Daily ivlail ays: "The outlook is more satis factory than at any time since thes Macedonian campaign started. Gen4 Sarrail said that he was fully ea -tis -1 lied. Heavy guns have arrived and are now in position. The delay in the enemy's advance has been of s -Ora, greatest value to the allies." The Salonica correspondent of the Daily News says: "Assuming that the reports of the dieposal of the Ger- manic forces are true, it is possible that half a million Germans, Turks and Bulgarians are available for .an attack on Salonica. It is understood that Premier. Racloslavoff, of Bul- garia, recently hinted that a smash- ing blonr would be struck in January. Therefore the period of calm here may be short. Gen. de Caetrinao arrived hero unexpectedly recently, '.He harl long conferences with General Sanaa and General Mahon, and visited the French and British fronts, The popu- lation of Salonica is quiet, reassured by Gen. Sarrail's statement that the city is not in danger." Despatches from Greece to the Lons don morning papers „add to the mys- tery surrounding the next move of/ the Central powers. Correspondents of the Times both in Salonica and in Athens, and the Morning Post's cor- respondent, suggest that the Bulgar- ians will be in the vanguard of the, Teutonic advance toward Salonica. "All pretended German guaran- tees," says the Morning Post's Athensi correspondent, "are mere se6ativea,1 intended to induce Greek public opin- ion to take the bitter dose as quietlyt as possible. The correspondent adds that there1 is a ruiner in circulation that thel Germans aro preparing to clothe thei Bulgarians in German uniforms so, that Greece cannot object to their entry. rer PERMITS FOR BURNING. Necessary to Overcome Loss Front, Settlers' Clearing Fires. Formerly, one of the chief sources of fire damage in the Adirondack mountains of New York was the set- ting of fires by settlers in forest sec - done for the clearing' of land. The damage resulting front the escape of such fires, set in periods of drought, was so great that a law was enacted providing for the regulation of set- tlers' fires, by requiring that it permit for burning be first secured horn a forest officer. The result is that it has become a rave exceptionfor a settler's fire to escape and cause damage. Out of a total of 413 fires reported in 1914, only 20, or less than five per cent., were caused by settlers clear- ing land, and of these only one did appreciable damage. This indicates clearly both the desivability and the practicability of controlling this men-, 1160 in such a way Os to reduce the hazard to a minimum, while at the same time interfering as little as pos- sible with the legitimate development of agricultural lands. The same lesson has been learned by all the prdvinces of Canada, and all except Ontario have made mater- ial progress in applying the lesson in a concrete. way, through improved legislation or regulations. Quebec and British Columbia have provisions requiring settlers in forest sections to take out permits before setting clears ing fires, and the same is true as to the Dominion forest reserves ih the prairie provinces. New Brunswick has recently made a similar provision, applicable to the settlements of Ha- zen and Grimmer, where serious dam- age was caused by unregulated set- tlers' fires during the past summer. in Quebec, notable progress toward securing better observance of the per- mit regulations has been secured by the Lower Ottawa and St. Maurice Forest Protective Associations, throughout some fifteen million acres of forest land, principally on the wa- tersheds of ,the Gatineau, Lievre &IA St. Maurice rivers, The organization of forest protec- tive associations by limit -holders, and the enactment of a settlers' permit law by the Provincial Government would constitute notable steps in the progress of forest protection in On- tario. -C. L., in Conservation, THE STRAIN OF BATTLE. Observer Describes Looks of Horror' on Soldiers' Faces. Prof. Ludwig Sehleich, one of Ger- many's prominent medical men, has just published a report of his obser- vations after several months' woth at the front and in military hospitals in various peke of Germany. He dwells particularly on the psychological ef., feet of the strain of modern battle on the private soldier. !There is frequently," he observes; Nees of those who have been ill battle] , "a strange, almost awful, look in the They aro still willing soldiers, some' of them eager to get back to thei trenches, but the more highly civi- lized a man is, the deeper his feelings, the more doe a ha bear that indelible something in hls face, the sign that he has seen terrible things. "Physically these soldiers may be hard as from" says Professor Schleielni "lint psychkally they aro not intact: The officers nearly always develop all uncanny,' marble, staring look, as though they had grown accustomed: to look unsbudderingly at the terrors and desolating osgies of destruction,' and finally felt that their eyes bad? bonnie a mirror of the horrible. 1.1 is as though tho claws of a demon had seized their faces and made their eyea sink deeper into their hollows. Theyi are all changed, they have seen the, hoed of the Gorgon In the Region oil Night."