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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1915-05-27, Page 304 'i'h,ursda , May 27th, .1,91,6 • THE CLINTON NEW ER4 (inadian Soldiers Are PAGE THREE Doing; Their Easasasal:aiaiariaiaiasasa3aiaiaiaiaa. :s CANAD)ANS .aADD A Tn T(lnrr.I Flit Intense Zest Arises After SS SS a While, Says Lieut. R. og sa "',D. Ponton. io• or roiorornrorororororo.ororbrarororo• •ro a°iororuworororworo�ororo.w,* HE war mail bag with its grist of human interest stor- ies and oddities, humorous and grim from the front is of never . failing interest these days, the more so because let- ters are beginning toarrive from the Canadians in the trenches. "It was great," is the expression of Lieut. R. D. Ponton, writing from, France to his father, Col, W. N. Ponton, Belleville, in describing his first experience: under fire. "After the first half hour is over it becomes something indescribable. A great in- tense zeal arises and one immediate SORTING CLOTHES FOR WAR SUFI ERERS. ly begins to call all his thinking powers together in order to outshoot and outpost the enemy. Wewent into the trenches at 3 a.m. on Friday amid bursting shells and machine gun fusilades In addition to search- lights and huge "star shells. Such a sight and sound, it is wonderful." NIGHT WAS TOO FINE, Former Detective William Miller. of the Toronto police force, who ds attached to the 48th Highlanders, in a letter to Inspector Kennedy tells of bis experience in' the trenches in a most interesting manner. He says that he first entered the firing line on February 25. "We divided our men," he writes, "with the Westminster and Derby regi- ments. It was a lovely night, the moon shining brightly. I thought It was an ideal night, but soon found out It was the worst kind we could have had as the enemy's trenches were only about three hundred yards from ours, and it is In going in and out of the trenches that so many men are lost." "This is not a very healthy pas- time," writes Lieut. Conover, of Brampton, in a letter to his father, "as the Germans are fine shots with their rides. They are equipped with telescopic sights and they oan 'hit a man's head every time it appears. 'M. POIRET AT FRONT. Fortunately the Saxons occupied the trenches opposite us and they are rather less vindicative than the Pros- sians, who are regular devils." A ,HEROIC BOY. An instance of juvenile courage, worthy of a Henty novel, is related bf a small boy on board H.M.S. Tiger during the last fleet action in the North Sea: "The periscope glasses of a turret, wore fogged by smoke and spray, making it dif!icult, laot. impossible, to train•the guns o'a°a is 'ocrain'Ain o 0 oiooroio oir=.8 !i 0 IARCE SHARE io STORIES Of THE WAR otoo A Brampton Officer Calls is the Prussians Vindictive o Fighters. rorororororororo8oeorororSSin8g8g82 •oro.orororarorororororworororororor ro satisfactorily. A volunteer was ask- ed for—would someone venture out- side the turret and wipe the glasses? A boy, 1st class, climbed outside and cleaned the periscope. Firing re- commenced, andthe boy was forgot- ten. He remained on the •turret and cleaned the glass throughout the ac- tion, being practically deafened by the roar of the guns." AN ARMY DOG. The Paris Figaro makes itself re- sponsible for the foilovring story of the adventures with the French army of a dog that rejoices in the name of Fend 1'Air. Fend PAir, it ex- plains, was born in Algeria of un- known parentage, a street arab, that fended' for itself from puppyhood. Intelligent and affectionate, he de- voted himself passionately to the master that chance gave him. The war called his master, to serve under the colors, and the dog managed to get on board with him, From Mar- seilles he crossed France and went to Belgium, taking part in the grand retreat. He was in the victory of the Marne, shared the life' of the regiment in the trenches, and one night the trench which his master was helping to guard was blown up by a shell. Fend 1'Air's master was buried, wounded. The dog scented out the exact place where he lay and 'started digging until at last he suc- ceeded in summoning the stretcher bearers, who saved the wounded soldier from what seemed certain death. The man has been taken to the American hospital at Neuilly and is recovering, while the hospital rules have been relaxed so as to avoid the separation of the two friends. UNOFFICIAL NEGOTIATIONS. The Journal des Debats describes an exchange of messages between the io :a io mod Sava the k n g Haldane Sees (Conscription LORD HALDAIIE. King London May 14.—Viscount Haldane Lord High Chancellor, declared in the House of Lcrds last night that the British' Government might find it advisable to use some method of raising troops' !either than the t 0 UDe•r system. He add- ed that the country 6s {note:' lye't dace to face with problem. Chained to inane._ A French officer, figuling in the neighborhood of Rheims, writes: "Af- ter our battery had smothered the German trenches the infantry charg- ed, but the Germans had; lied. To the amazement of my L000 teo German soldiers remained fastened to a ma- chine gun half -covered with earth. It appears that the Germans are so- sear - LEE T 001 SHOES for every. SPORT and RECREATION EATION Worn by every member of the family I \d2' - SOLD BY ALL GOO SHOE DEALERS •sesssesette oorloosooseess O Te n W and Country ed at our shells that it is becoming customary to chain them to the guns, the key being kept by an oilicer." A New Grenade. Some of the German prisoners tak- en in France in reoen', weeks were wounded with a new instrument of warfare the Fre: ch are employing. This is a small metal box filled with a strong explosive and abo'it twenty ihrapnol belts. The box is thrown by hand into the npposir.g trenches, where it is exploded b7 a time. aonano neseoe0000esio0000000s WILL PRINT' i3RYOE REPORT" The British Government has decidi ed to issue a penny edition of the re pont of the committee on alleged Ger man outrages, of which Viscouht' Bryce was the president. Therrepor is being translated into the chief lana guages of Europe and India C'hildren Cr FOR FLETCHER'S CASTQRIA of Greece Seriously IllTheree have J!'ASHb S TO MEN ave een columns about the Athens May 14, --King C'onatan- r -- tine is seriously i11. Prayers were 'ordered in all ti e Chu: &les of Greece 'ho -day for his recovery. • The Kin; co:rtrceted plceurisyand and a very Savoie cold ands eon- sulvtion of royal physicians was held last night. To -clay an oific•• !al bulletin was given out, deny irg the report that the King's condition' had been can:Ater(d ns hopeless, King Constantine is 46, he br c:me ruler of Greece upon 'the assass- ination bf his father Bing tieorge March 18, 1913. The Xing was active r. cantly in overluri;ing the war party. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CAS T Co RA A Want Bishop Fallon GERMAN SENTRY NEAR YPRES. French and German soldiers, written alternately on a blackboard in the schoolroom of a village between the opposing lines. First the Germans wrote: "You French fools! Do you not realize that you are working for the English and Russians?. Sign peace with us, who do not Wish you harm. Answer." Nextmorning an adventurous Frenchman answered: "You poor idiots, used as tools of the ambition of William and the doddering Austrian! Come over here; you'll find a good supper, lodg- ing, and rest. Thesooner the war is ended the sooner you will rejoin your wives and ohildren." The Germans replied: "Brave Frenchmen, you are being fooled. Join us; let us light the British together, and afterward ,live happily, hand in hand. Answer." The French response was brief and unprintable. "Tipperaoy" is now so popular in Brussels, writes' a Dutch correspon- dent of The London Daily Express, that small boys in the street invari- ably whistle it when they pass a German soldier. One of the Land- sturm asked a boy the other day what tune it was they were so fond of whistling. "Why, don't you know?" said the boy. "It's the na- tional anthem of your allies, the Turks!" PAUL POIRET AT FRONT. An interesting figure among the notables serving with the French army is M. Paul Poiret, the celebrat- ed dress designer. M. Poiret, who, by the way, visited several of the larger Canadian cities recently on a lecture tour, is possibly the greatest of modern costume artists, but like most Frenchmen has done his time in the army and is: a highly trained officer. C,at S For Infants and Children lit 530 For Over 3) Ye r AIways bears Signatur e o2 Buffalo, May 10.—There is a move menet among •Oome of the most Prominent Roman Calhol:cs of )3uf felo 'fo overlie Bishop M.O. Fallon 1 of London, Ontario as successor to the late Bishop Colton. 1 BirAop ^allow was .for five years a price:: in Buffalo and was most popular with all. 'He is rec'ogn'ik- ecl as an outstanding figure in the Catholic Chu:c i in America. military Itattles Poi' Alarm. The sounding of military rattles is to be the signal at Gravesend, in the event of hostile aircraft appearing, for the inhabitants to seek cover. The military rattle makes a noise like machine-gun fire. It is used at train- ing centres to accustom troops to in- terpret orders under fighting condi- tions and to test the penetrative pow- ers of officers' voices. Rubber Sausages. An indication of the shortage. 01 rubber In Germany is that, in spite of the very severe penalties which follow upon detection, variour efforts are be. ing made to get consignments into Germany through neutral countries A quantity of supposed sausages, while being loaded for shipment to Germany at a Danish station near the frontier, was discovered, in fact, to consist of raw rubber, carefully shape ed and tied up to conceal its real character.. Bryan Has Aged Ten Years Washington May 11.--qriends Of Set retary 13: yiit• op,'aiv dre'are that he has eged tee years in the last weak. :His fea'tttiei are drawn, his eyes bloodshot ano his general appearance is that of a man Who has been through a Very .serious ordeal. Progress Not So Slow. The sIow rate at which the Ger- mans are being dislodged from, Froacb territory is apt to task some- what the patience of the British pub- lic; but the figures given in La De- peche, of Toulouse, show that the Work is being done steadily, and by no means so slowly as many think. The total in square miles area occu- pied In September last was 10,982; in December it was 8,133, less than one-half. +�N new things- for women this Spring, but never a word about the men's new bib and tucker. here are a few things though,'that are almost certain to be pope ex:— Fringe will be popular around the heels, the bottom of the trousers furn ishing this decoration Wire neils will still be in vogue in plisse of an occasional pant button Ties will be worn around the neck the same as formerly, slipping up be hind the ears and sagging down in front to show the bone collar button Cuffs can he turned upside down on Wednesdays and remain in this posi tion until tub Stiff hats are worn well down on the head, just resting on top of the ears, Ganes will only be carried by old men and those who have an income of over go a week. White dunk pants will be worn by tennis players and bricklayers Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R IA 17hen 'Norman Angell wrote "The Great Illation" pio•c'iding that there ciuld be no war with Ger, many he probal:ly had about as knowledge of the German charac- ter as a pig has about a l.oliclay, •••••••••••••••••••••••••• O • LAST CALL 0 O ® LOOK AT YOUR LABEL en O c i A 0000011111000009800 0080000000 CLUBBING RATES Era and Daily Globe $s.50 ,Jew Era and Daily Mail and • Empire 4.50 New Era and Weekly Mail and Empire 1.65 v' w Era and Daily World..._- 3.36 New Era and Daily News 2.85 New Era and Daily Star 2.85 .ow Bra and Family Herald and Weekly Star 1.86 ew Era and Weekly Witness 1.85 Yew Era and Northern Mes- senger New Era and Canadian Farm 1.85 :Yew Era and Farmer's Sun... 1.85 \Taw Era and !Daily Free Press, morning. 3.35 `:,iv Fh'a and Daily ;Fred Frees, evening - 2.85 Yew Era and Weekly Free Preset 1.85 New Era and Morning Lon- don Advertiser -,... 3,65 ew Era and Daily Advertiser 2.86 few ..Era and Weekly Adver- tiser 1.60 ew Era and Faim and Dalry 1.85 few Era and Farmer's Advo - 1.80 BAD BLOOD Is. 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B.B.B. is manufa:tared only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Share Fishing at the Front. An illustration of how 'Tommy" amuses himself at the front is afford- ed by the following extract from a letter sent by Lc.-Corpl., Fairlie, of the London Scottish Transport, to his wife. I received the fishing - tackle all right,"he says. "The gen- tles had very kindly come unstuck and fastened on some Christmas pud- dings. However, I got over that, and used up what remained. I got quite a respectable bag of roach after church yesterday: Several chaps mar- veled at my resource and ingenuity, and thought fishing for roach on ac- tive service the limit. So it is. 1 don't think they, did that . in the Crimea. The Uncrowned Kaiser. It is interesting to recall that the Kaiser has never been crowned. When the time approached for that great ceremony he made tremendous preparations. Everything was to be dazzlingly beautiful—masses, of uni- forms and gorgeous carpets. Unfor- tunately, however, this cultured ruler' overstepped the mark. He decided that he should not be termed the German Emperor, but Emperor of Germany. It therefore behooved him' to be crowned In the latter capacity. The rulers of the, German states re- fused to let the gentleman with the moustache to assume so haughty a title. "Very Well," said William, "I won't have any coronation at all, then:" Helping Reciprocal Trade. In order to satisfy the demands of the many French inquirers who de- sire to replace German goods by their British equivalents, the British Cham- ber of Commerce, Paris, has decided to publish, at its own cost, in French, a trade index of British manufactur- ers, merchants, and producers, which will be largely distributed amongst French firms. STARTING A LIBRARY. A Selection of Ten Books That Might Serve as a Basis. Laura Spencer Porter, seeking to show how the ordinary person can be- gin founding a personal library, makes this suggestion as to ten good books to begin with: "For those who are beginning a library and have little money to spend I would suggest that there be bought, say, 'one book each of ten .great au- thors, It does not matter who the authors are so long as they stand high and their books are well known and stundeu'd ones. Let us take as an ex- ample the following ten, chosen at ran- dom from a catalogue of standard writers: Emerson, Eliot, Bronte, Rus- kin, Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Low- ell, Shakespeare, Keats, and as a se- lection of ten of the books of these ten writers let us take in the same order Emerson's 'Essays; Eliot's 'Mill on the Floss,' Bronte's 'Jane Eyre,' Ruskin's 'Sesame and Lilies. Carlyle's 'Heroes and Hero Worship,' Dlekens' 'liovid Copperfleld,' Thaekeray's 'i'endennis; Lowell's essays 'Among My iBooks; a complete volume of Shakespeare or any one of the Shakespeare plays, preferably 'Lear' or 'Romeo and,Ju- iiet' and Keats' 'Poems,' ' "Here you have ten books by ten master minds, books widely varied in subject, style, treatment. Let those ten suffice for a time, Read them."— Woman's Home Companion. Burial of Sir John Moore. The death of Sir John Moore at Co- runa is probably the best remembered fact in all the checkered history of the peninsular war, for a good reason. There are poets, like Shenstone, whose fame is secured by a single quatrain. The poetical reputation of the Rev. Charles Wolfe, who eight years after the event wrote "The Burial of Sir John Moore," rests on that one produc- tion alone. Ascribed, before its author's name became known, to such well known poets as Campbell and Byron, the poem took firm hold of a nation's heart Dying of consumption at the early age of thirty-two, Wolfe's mem- ory will ever be kept green by just that one piece, which "Ingoldsby" parodied, which a million schoolboys have recit- ed, which Lord Byron pronounced to be "the most •perfect ode in the lan- guage."—London Spectator. What's In a Name. How we like to hypnotize ourselves with namesl Take, for example, the ease of the muskrat, an animal of most clean feeding habits, whose flesh' is sweet, tender and of delicate flavor. In the winter months muskrat meat to in considerable demand in the mar- kets of the middle Atlantic states, but it sells, best as "marsh rabbit" or "we.. ter So, too, the students of• the old Latin quarter in Paris when they expressed a mild doubt of the possibility of rabbit pie at so' modest, a price were reassured by the sugges tion that it might be the "rabbit of the. roofs."—Youth's Companion. Breaking, the News. "Sts won't be able to see youstonight,' Mr. Jones," said her little brother. "She's had a tur'ble accident." "Is that so? What happened?" "Ail her hair got burned up." . "Good heavens! Was she burned?" "New; she wasn't there. She don't' know about it yet."—Lippfircott's. Opinion of an Actress. Miss Ellen, Terry at a reception once' talked about the innumerable women who ask her, to help them, get on the stage. "The fact is," she said, "every • woman undai' thirty believes she is an actress. •And every actress," she add- ed, "beiieves she is under thirty." *******************, Dernburg tlas Made a Bad Mess of His Mission to Stater *******************,. ERNIIARD DERNBURG, late of Grunewald, Berlin, ano now of some in cons icu R ou place in the United State:. has had rather an'unhapp: role in the present war. True,`, he I better' off than most of his comps triots on the firing line, but his ca reer in the past seven months hay not been one of rosy success.: Hs. was sent to the United States to sup plement the pro -Germanic propagas da of Count von Bernstorff, Ambassa: dor from Germany to the Unite: States. Bernstorff, as official envo, of the German empire, had a serie. of diplomatic disasters, in one is, which he roused the people of thl adjoining republic by blasphemine against the :Monroe Doctrine and ii. several others of which he was'caugh; telling falsehoods. His last adventure esell2N.HART1) D1IEN13U1tG, was to declare that the Dresden was sunk in Chilean waters, and since his assertion was disproven' he has sub. sided. Dernburg started off with a lecture, in which he made certain claim* which Prof. David Starr Jordan de- monstrated to be untrue. He kept uie his lecturing and his pro -German publicity work until one day ho reached an American university where he was billed to deliver a speech. He explained the war from the German viewpoint and referring to the treaty guaranteeing Belgium':, neutrality remarked: "As the original treaty is in French I shall have to translate it for you." A professor cut in coldly, "Oh, that is unnecessary, we all under - French." Imeno way abashed, Herr Dernburg went on to explain that the treaty was a dead letter which Germany was not bound to observe, and Bel- gium should have allowed Germany to cross her territory without resist - "She had our promise of immunity from harm," said the speaker. A student rose to ask a question. "May I ask, Dr. Dernburg, what guar- antee Belgium had that Germany would keep that promise?" Dr. Dernburg has been high in thr Imperial service. He is now fifty years of age, and has risen through a series of important state positions culminating in the Seeretaryship of State for the Colonies. Since then he has been the Kaiser's unofficia: diplomatic agent to the United States, A New Mine. The British navy has developed a new type of mine, which, according to The Scotsman, marks a new e, in this branch of warfare. The Ger- man and French floating mines have not presented such a very diiiicult problem, because it has been com- paratively easy to sweep them up, ow• ing to their suspension tackle. The new British mine has no floats ano no tackle. It can be ejected from u torpedo tube or incontinently thrown overboard. If desired,; it can be to rest on the sea floor until the minute chosen by those placing i„ when it will come' up, not to the sur- face, but to the proper depth at which to meet, the rushing bows of a ship. As soon as' the mine, floating free, reaches,a certain depth there is ser up a series of movements, which put into operation a tiny propeller, and this promptly kicks the mine up to the proper level, anu then stops un- til again called upon. It is not a mine easily caught in sweeping oper- ations, as it progresses under water in a series of slow "leaps,", which never reveal it, as it cannot leap beyond its lined limit of buoyancy. HAVE YOU WEAK LUNGS? Do colds settle on your chest or in, your bronchial tubes? Do coughs hang on, or are you subject to throat troubles?' Such troubles should have immediate treatment with the rare curative powers of Scott's Emulsion to guard against consumption which so easily follows. Scott's Emulsion contains pure cod liver oil which peculiarly strengthens the res- piratory tract and improves the quality of the blood; the glycerine in it soothes and heals the tender membranes of the throat. Scott's is prescribed by the best special- ists. You can get it at any drug store. Scott & ilowee, Totonto, Out. f,enetall Villa claims a his* vio tory neer Cti nanza, IIow n bus.: isagst - murceiree like Villi es pects. to recon:ere atteenti'oni at this time boats" as. ,