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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-10-25, Page 7------------- THE WEEKLY WAR PICTURE is lfi!/J.`r/AsSe ob/ sesi )! 13. Machine gunners waiting in an anti-aircraft ambush on the Marne front., This sandlZag-walled and web-like pit Is placed below one of the routes often followed by German Mr pilots, French official photograph. GREAT BRITAIN PERFECTS PLANS FOR MR EPR ISMS ON GERMANY Reconstructed Air Ministry Will Mean Better Machines Among Flight Units. A despatch from London says: Great Britain's reconstructed Air Ministry, which soon will be an- nounced in the House of Commons, probably will act as balm for several Commoners who have been greatly wrought up over the Government's delay in conducting reprisals.for raids upon • London. Under the reconstruc- tion plan it is belived there will be a bettter and far more equitable distri- bution of machines among the various flight units. It is known many land machines controlled by the Admiralty Distribution of could be used in raids upon German towns. Coincidental with the reorganization of the air service there will be several changes in the flying men's uniforms. In future pilots probably will be pro- vided with garments far more suit- able for high altitudes than those worn to -day. Owing to the groat heights airmen must attain under modern conditions they need clothing that is heavier and at the same time is adaptable to quick change or re- moval. FOOD SHORTAGE T REAThNS ITALY Require Imports of 3,000,000 Tons of Wheat Before Next Harvest. A despatch from Turin says: The Italian Parliament has reopened its sessions at Rome under peculiar cir- cumstances, two facts being so prom- inent as even to make a Ministerial crisis possible. Owing to their nature they will probably be discussed only in secret session. One has to do with serious riots which occurred in Turin the latter part of Augus"t, due in part to the delay in providing the town with sufficient bread, and, in part, to political discontent. The other question concerns the general food crisis throughout Italy, which led to the resignation of the food controller, Guiseppe Canepa, *hose place has been taken by Gen- eral Alfieri, • WOUNDED SOLDIERS - IN HOSPITAL CARE A despatch from Ottawa, says:— There are 9,468 convalescent soldiers on the strength of the Military Hos- pitals Commission Command, accord- ing to the report issued by the Mili- tary Hospitals Commission on Octo- ber 8th. This figure, .,which includes 7,612 men in the convalescent homes, 1,128 in sanatoria and 728 in various other -hospitals, chiefly general, shows an increase of 329. over the previous week. The report upon Canadian patients in English hospitals for the week ending Sept. 28th, shows an enrol- ment''of' 20,303 men, an increase of 218 over the previeus week. MOSQUITO IS ACTIVE ON MACEDONIA FRONT. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The activities of the. mosquito along the Macedonian fighting front are de- scribed as unbearable by a correspond- ent of the Bulgarian newspaper Mir. The correspondent fully approves of the British evacuation of the Lower Struma, CAR OF WESTERN WHEAT BROUGHT $4,458.10 NET. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A car of No.1 Northern wheat was re- ceived here weighing 129,000 pounds, and containing 2,150 bushels, with no dockage. The net proceeds of the car, ;less freight and commission, was $4,- 458.10. The weight of the wheat per measured bushel was 65 pounds. The car was loaded by George H. Hum - moll, of Nokomis, Sask. HUNS PUNISH VILLAGERS People Gave Their Only Food, Apples, to British Prisoners. Amsterdam, Oct. 18,—The Germans have punished Isegem, English pris- oners traversed Roulers Street, a thickly populated quarter of Ise - gem, stepping out, says the Tele- graaf's correspondent, with head erect. The people rushed out a doors. They h'ad little food left but apples, which they gave the British. The wo- men and girls ran to the prisoners, slipping apples into their hands. The Germans threatened the civilians with the bayonet The people then threw the fruit from a distance. The Ger- mans ordered the dwellers on Roulers Street to clo all their errands before nine in the morning, after which they must remain the whole day indoors, with windows closed. The German authorities were furious, and posted a notice on the walls forbidding the least demonstration when prisoners pass. TEN PER CENT INCREASE IN COAL A despatch from Washington says: —New regulations limiting coal ex- ports to Canada will be announced in a few days by the fuel administration. The control will be through special permits to shippers, who will be al- lowed to forward cargoes up to the amounts prescribed by the fuel ad- ministration without obtaining special export licenses. Permits will be granted only to shippers who sent coal to Canada last year. The plan is to hold Canada the rest of this year to supplies not exceeding ten per cent. more coal than was received last year. This arrangement is based on a ten per cent, increase in production in the United States this year and per- mits Canada. to share equally with the States. AUSTRIAN REGIMENT JOINS RUMANIANS. A despatch from Washington says: An entire Austrian rggiment, with of- ficers at its head and carrying its own arms, has surrendered to Ruman- ians along the Russo -Rumanian front, according to cables received on Fri- day. The report stated that the regiment was composed almost entirely of Mo- hammedan Serbs from Bosnia. The colonel declared that they were all Jugoslays and surrendered voluntarily in order to enlist in the Jugoslav Le- gion now being formed out of the re- organized Serb army. SEVENTEEN MACIIN S BROUGHT DOWN IN A DAY ON DRITISE FRONT A despatch from London says:— The British official communication dealing with aviation says: "Early on the morning of Thurs- day the weather was brilliantly fine, but at nine o'clock low, thick clouds lifted up from the west. Artillery work and photography were carried Out by 'our aeroplanes, and in the course of the day two and a half tons of bombs were dropped on a large gun position in the rear, on railway sid- ings near Ghent and on various billets and hutments. "At night another ton of bombs was dropped on the Courtrai railroad sta- tion and a German aerodrome in that vicinity. "In air lighting six hostile ma- chines were downed and fou' were driven down out of control, while an- other was shot down by anti-aircraft' gunfire. Seven of our machines are missing." GERMAN RAIDgRS RETURNING FROM ENGLAND RROII HIT DOWN IN FRANCE One Big Dirigible Taken intact With Its. Entire Crew—Three Others Captured or Destroyed.. Paris, Oct, 21,—Although at first ed by French observers as being defin- it was believed that the visit of the Ito proof of the superiority of the, Zeppelin fleet to France yesterday was airplane over the Zeppelin, The day an independent raid and the first step of the Zeppelin for bombardment, one toward carrying out the threat .made expert says, is over, The sudden re- in a German wireless message, which sumption of the use of the German i said, it had been decided to destroy dirigibles is explained by the theory Paris in reprisal for French air raids that the raiding Zeppelins belong to a' on German towns, it is now generally new type, which lately had been re- believed that these eight Zeppelins, ported to be in the course of construe - fear of which were destroyed or cap- tion at Lalce Constance. No reports tured, were returning from England, have yet been received that any dam -I. and had lost their bearings owing to age was done by the Zeppelins, or fog, and probably had lost touch with that bombs were dropped anywhere in their wireless communications. Trance, The log -book of the Zeppelin which. Of the four Zeppelins lost, two were' landed intact shows that she had been destroyed and two were forced to descend. In Friday nights Zeppelin raid on London 27 persons were killed and 53 injured. There was little material damage done, to England, and prisoners from three other airships confirm this, One of the men captured said it was the want of gasoline that forced his Zeppelin to descend. The raid is widely proclaint- Markets of the World REVAL HAS Breadetuffs Toronto Oct 28—Manitoba wheat— No. 1 Northern, 32.293; No, 2 do. 2.2055; No, 8 do., 32,17E No. 4 wheat $2.007, in store Port William, including 25c tax. Manitoba oats—No, 2. C,W,, 668a; No. 3 C.w., 888e; extra No, 1 feed, 6380; No. 1 feed, 025e, in storeP,ort S1'llllam, American corn—No. 3 yellow, nomi- nal. Ontario oats—No, 2 white, 63 to 84o, nominal; No, 3 do., 62 to 630, nominal, according to freights outside. Ontario wheat—New, No, 2 Winter, 52,22; basis, In store, Montreal. Peas—No, 2, nominal. Barley—Malting, 31,16 to 31.18, ac- cording to freights outside, Rye No 2, 31.72, according to BEEN EVACUATED Naval Station at Gulf Entrance Deserted by Civilians. A despatch fron3 London says: It is officially announced that the evacu- ation of the fortified port of Reval, on the Baltic, at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, has begun. The schools et ants the city closed. The inhabit- ants the GERMANS FALL ants of the city are being sent to the GERMANS interior of Ru THE BEST CARTOON OP TBE WEEK dw t �wsasses"be:wir The Three Queens, or The Wit5hes' Sabbath -_.London Passing Show rilan tobafiour—]First patents, in jute i ssla, $11.60; 2nd, do., $11.00; sting Revel, a city of about 65,000, two bags, bakers', do., $10.00, Toronto. - Ontario flour—Winter, according to sample, $9.80, in bags, Montreal; $9.00, Toronto, prompt shipment. Millfeod—Car lots, delivered Mont- real freights, bags included—Bran, per $46' toG;346 shorts, feed flour, middlings, 53.25. I3hy—No. 1, new per ton, 312.50 to 313.50;• mixed, do., $10 to $12, track To- ren to. Straw—Car lots, per ton, $7 to 37.50, track Toronto. Country Produce—Wholesale Butter—Creamery, solids, per lb., 421 to 43c; prints, per lb., 433 to 440; dairy, per Ib., 36 to 86c. Eggs—Per doz„ 39 to 40e. Wholesalers are selling to the retail trade at the following prices :— Cheese—New, large, 23 to 2330; twins, 232 to 231; triplets, 235 to 24c; old,large, SUCCESS c. 410 utter— cry 0c; ine, 302c; p Tints, 46 to 46e; solts, ids, BRITISH ]3utter—Fresh datry, choice, 40 to 44 to 45c. Eggs—New laid, in cartons, 51 to 530; out of cartons, 450. Dressedpoultry—Spring chickens, 26 hundred miles south-west of Petro- grad, is a naval station, and with Hel- -- singfors and Mango, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland, guards the approaches to the gulf. While the small fleet the Russians had in Riga waters apparently has been penned in by the Germans as a result of their land operations on Oesel and Moon Islands and the dis- position of their superior naval forces at strategic points off the gulf, the main Russian fleet remains in the Gulf of Finland through' which runs the water route to Petrograd. RACK SLIGHTLY IN MESOPOTAMIA to 30c; fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs, per doz., • `',.. $4 to 34.60; turkeys, 28 to 320; ducks, Spring, 22o; geese. 160. Live poultry—Turkeys, 220; spring Turks Were Driven Across the chickens, lb., .200;.. hens, 15 to 20e; ducks, Spring, 10c; geese, 120. Diala in Retreat to Jebel Honey—Comb—Extra fine, 10 oz., I'IamTln Ridge. $3.26; 12 oz„ 32,76; No. 2, 32.40 to $2,60. Strained, tins, 27's and 5's, 187 to 100 Per Ib; 10's, 173 to 18c; 60's, 17 to 1730, Beans—No Canadian beans on the London, Oct. 21.—British troops in hand picked, $760 perObush; Limas, ocr Mesopotamia on Friday began an en - lb„ 17c. veloping movement near the Persian to $1.05.frontier northwest of Bagdad and Potatoes, on track—Ontario, bag, $1,65 drove the Turkish forces in the vicin- Provisions—Wholesale ity of Kizil-Robot across the Diala Smoked meats—hams, medium, 30 to River. 910; do., heavy, 20 to 27e; cooked, 41 to 420; ro11s, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon, An official statement issued to -day • backs lain 39 0 4 c• clear banon, 273 "We have carried out successful 38 to 400 p t 400; bone reporting these operations says: less, 43 to 440: Cured meats—Long1 - to. 2$o lb; clear bellies„ 281, to 27o. Lard—Titre lard, tierces, 263 to 27c; tubs, 269 to 273c; pails, 27 to 273c; com- pound, tierces. '22 to 2270; tubs. 221 to 2210; palls, 227 to 230, Montreal Markets - Montreal, Oct. 28—Oats—Canadian operations in the vicinity of Deltawa and Kizil-Robat. Our columns began an enveloping movement on Friday, and drove the enemy across the Dials. The Turks destroyed the bridge at Ki- zil-Robat and retreated to the„ south - 44/ to 76e oexera No. 1Ifeed; 745'to 76,1 ern hills of the Jebel Hamlin Ridge. do„ No, 2 local white, 72o; do., No, $ We took some prisoners, and eaptur- 131,31. Flour Man. Spring wheat local white, 710 Barley Malting, $1,30 ed waggon -loads of ammunition" firsts, $11.60; second11.10; stn ng9'bakers', 310,90; Winters, patents, choice, 311.26; straight rollers, 310.70 to 311.00; do„ bags, 35.20 to $5.35. Rolled oats—barrels, $8.30 to $8:40; do„ bags, 90 lbs„ 34.00 to 54.10. Bran, 335, Shorts, $40 to $42. Middlings, 348 to 360. Mouillie, 365 to $00. Bay—No. 2, Per ton, car lots, 312.00 to $12.50. Cheese—Finest westerns, 212c; do., easterns, 2120. Butter—Choicest cream- ery, 46 to 4630; seconds, 402c. Eggs— Fresh, 53 to 54c; selected, 47 to 490; No. 1 stock, 43 to 44o; No, 2 stock, 40 to 41c. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, 32.15. Winnipeg .Grain Winnipeg, Oat. 23—Cash prices :— Wheat—bro. 1 Northern, 32,21; No. 2 $2.18; No. 3 Northern, 82.15; No, 4, 33.07; No, 0, $1.86; feed, $1,80. Northern Oats—No 2 C,W., 669o; No. 3 .W., 631c; extra No. 1 feed, 638c; No. 1 feed, 0250; No, 2 feed, 6230. United States Markets Minneapolis, Oct, 23—Corn—No, 3 yel- -loW, 31.33 to $1.87, Oats—No. 8 white, 573 to 563e. Flour—Fanny patents, 510.60; first clears, 39.75; second clears, 36.73.Bran—$30 to 530.60, gg $3 Duluth,;s.rivee, 33.54 OOctobe , $3.060 bid Noventber, 53.06 bid; December, 32.995 bid; May. 33.02 asked. Live Stock Markets Toronto, Oct. 28-10xtra. choice heavy steers, 311,60 to 512.25; do., good heavy, 111 to 311.85; butchers'' cattle, choice, 10 to $10.60; da., good, 39.40 to $0,75; o7.76 to butchers' bullscoc common, $33.90 to 08.75; do,, good bulls, 37,40 to $7.86; do„ medium bulls, 30.86 to $7,10; t 0., rough bulls.- 33 20,46; butchers' cows, choice, 38.23 to 38,06; do., good, 7,50 to 37.75; do. medium, 65.00 to 40,76; stockers, 37.60 to $8.60; feeders, 78.50 to 30.26; canners and cutters, 85 0 30,79; milkers, good -to choice, 390.00 to $125; do„ tom. and fined„ $75 to $85; Springers. 390 to 1126; light ewes, 311 to 318; bucks and culls, $9 to 310.60; sheep, heavy, $6.76 to 37.50;. yearlings, $12 to 513; calves good to choice, $16 to 315,50; Spring lambs, 510 to $16,550 hogs, fed and watered, 518 to 513.96 de.,weighed off ears, 518.25 to 318,60 do., f.o.b., 317.25. Montreal, Ott. 13—Choice steers, $10,60 to 3v.10,75; good, $10 to 310.53; lower grades, $8.7; butohore cows, $6.75 to 38.60; bulls, 37.26 to 38;75; Ontario lambs, $16 to 415.75; Quebec lambs, 314 to 314,50; sheep, 30 to $10,30; choice milt` -tied calves, $14 to 316; lower grades, 38;- selected hogs, 517,50 to 318,26, British West Africa exports near- ly ear- ly 20,000,000 gallons of palm oil alt- nually- DAILY FADER FOR CANADIANS Meets Overseas Soldiers' De- mands For Home News. A despatch from Ottawa says:— Although the large majority of Cana- dians are probably unaware of the fact, soldiers of the Dominion over- seas, even those in the trenches in France and Belgium, receive a daily paper filled with news from Canada, This little publication, which is of such immense value to the boys at the front because it contains news of home, is published in London, and goes by the name of "The Canadian Daily Record." It is the latest development of the Canadian military authorities in Canada and overseas to meet the de- mand of the Dominion's soldiers for news of their own country. GEN. AIG STARTS ANOTHER DRIVE Heavy Artillery Fighting in Pro- gress on the Flanders Front. London, Oct. 21.—The report from On Small Part of Anzac Front on Passchendaele Ridge. A despatch from London says:—C. E. W. Bean, official correspondent with the Australian troops, telegraphing from France, says that the Germans retired opposite a small part of the Australian front to the next spur of high ground about 1,000 yards back. The German main position now is astride the ridge somewhat south of Passchendaele, with one leg down a spur running westward toward Poel- capelle and the other leg down a high spur running to the south-east and ending in a knob known''as Keiberg; thence curving south-east over the lower slopes of the southern portion of the main ridge before Becelaere and Gheluvelt. TWO BRITISH WAR SHIPS LOST Sunk in North Sea By Two German Raiders. London, Oct. 21.—One hundred and fifty lives were lost on Wednesday when five Norwegian, one Danish, and three Swedish vessels were sunk by two German raiders in the North Sea, Two German raiders attacked a con- voy in the North Sea on Wednesday and sank two of the British escorting destroyers, it was announced officially yesterday by the British War Office. The British torpedo destroyers sunk were the Mary Rose and the Strong - bow. HEAVY FIGHTING IN EAST AFRICA London, Oct. 21.—Heavy fighting i going on between British and Teuto forces in German East Africa, Th British War Office announced to -d that the mission station of Nyanga was occupied by the British on Oc tober 17, after which the battle wa resumed to the west of that place The British force sustained consider able casualties, and the German losses also were severe. U. S. Exporting Dyestuffs Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—The Amer- ican dye industry has not only grown big enough to supply practically all domestic needs, but is now exporting important quantities to other nations. In July nearly 3500,000 worth of ani- line dyes was shipped abroad, accord- ing to figures published by the the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Com- merce. This is the first time that separate statistics for aniline export have ever been issued, the innovation resulting from the recent striking growth of the trade. , German; Losses Total 8;250,000 Amsterdam, Oct. 21,—The Cologne Gazette correspondent of The Tijd re- ports that the German casualties lists, comprising killed, wounded, prisoners nd missing, from August, 1914, to eptember, 1917, fill thirty folio ohtmes of 22,000 pages. He calcu- tes the total number of names at ,230,000. MOON IS ND SEIZED BY HUNS After Lively Battle Between Russian and German Fleets. A despatch from London says: Ap- parently contingents of the Russian fleet—in all about twenty warships of various classes—are bottled up in Moon Sound, with a cordon of Ger- man warcraft barring their egress northward back into the Gulf of Fin- land, or to the south into the Gulf of Riga. Brave, but outclassed by reason of superior gun -range and heavier ton- nage, the Russians gave battle to the Germans and attempted to force back the enemy armada off Oesel Island. Standing far outside the shell -zone of the Russians, however, the guns of the German Dreadnoughts sank the battleship Slava—a relic of the days before the Russo-Japanese War—and so badly damaged other units that the Russian flotilla was forced to seek refuge in Moon Sound—lying be- tween Moon Island and the Esthonia coast. Nearly all of the Slave's crew were saved. GREAT CATTARO MR RAID Squadron Flew 1,000 Miles Without Accident. A despatch from London says:— The Daily Mail's correspondent with the Italian armies says that later de- tails received of the great Cattaro raid mark it as an example of rare organ- ization. The fourteen Capronis which took part in it started together from near Milan, flew to the Appennines in a gale and arrived in a body near Rome. s There they rested a while and then n flew to their taking off camp on the o Adriatic shore, and thence to Dalmarie aY and Montenegro and home. o The squadron afterwards flew to- - gather something like one thousand s miles without failure on the part of • any machine or any hitch. a Field Marshal Haig to -night indicates S heavy artillery fighting -in Flanders. v The text of the statement says: la "Irish troops carried out a success- 8 fol raid at noon northwest of Croisil- les and eaptured a few prisoners. Our men returned without loss. "Our patrols captured twelve prig- h oners this morning southeast of Poly- gon Wood. "There was 'great artillery activity to -day on both sines on the battles heat." Women to Care for Graves. About 20 women gardeners who ave been trained at Kew, England, are going to France, where they will take up the duty of tending the graves of British dead soldiers. It is the first contingent, and others will fol- low. TRAIN CROS `•'^QUEBEC BRIDGE. A despatch from Quebec says: Even after the successful linking of the two huge cantilevers of the Que- bec bridge by the central span last month, there were still skeptics who feared a mishap when traffic was al- lowed to roll across the largest bridge in the world. Well, their fears were knocked to atoms when, without the slightest hitch" or inconvenience a railway train crossed the Quebec Bridge from north to south and then north again over the two tracks that have been laid from shore to shore. The supreme testing had no official character, only a few of the Quebec Bridge Commission and the staff of engineers that carried the work through being present. HEALTH OF SALONICA ARMY BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. A despatch from London says; It is understood that the health and sani- tary conditions of the Entente forces in Salonioa are better than ever be- fore. There 18 no epidemic, no plague, and no typhoid. In the suppression of typhoid, use has been made of a new serum based on oil, which has given very satisfactory results. A French -army report estimates that for the Whole French army the average num- ber of typhoid cases has been reduced to less than thirty. • NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL A13Q'CIT JOAN BULL AND 3 -XIS PEOPLR,. Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Commer- cial World. Liout,Col, R, Chester Masters, D,S.O., Chief Constable of Gloucester= shire, has been killed in action. Three nephews of Sir George • Cave, the Rome Secretary, . have wen the Military Cross. "Summer tune" came to an end in England on September 17th, when all the clocks were put back or stopped for an hour. Field Marshal Lord . French and Lieut, -General Smuts were guests Of the Ring and Queen at Windsor dur- ing a week -end recently. A discharged soldier was fined 210 at a northern Police Court for taking two matches into a high ex- plosives factory. Leon Bull, a Shoreditch furrier, was fined 020 for offering' a policeman 25 not to report him as an absentee. Lord Bute and Ford Wharton have disposed of a large portion of their woodland estates in Glamorganshire. Private David Westacott, Glouces- tershire Regiment, and a noted foot- ball forward, has been killed in ac- tion. Among the applicants for the po- sition of organist at Burton -on -Trent Parish Church were five blind musi- cians. Lady Jellicoe recently opened a fete at the Gordon Gardens, Graves- end, on behalf of the Royal Merchant Seamen's Hospital. Lewis Missenbaum, an east end baker, was fined £50 at the Thames Police Court for selling bread less than twelve hours old. The Board of Trade has awarded pieces of plate to two Spanish mas- ters of vessels who rescued a ship- wrecked British crew. By a recent order the Ministry of Munitions has taken possession of all lead in the United Kingdom, ex- cept in special cases. Hop growers are required to make a return for the purpose of .the scheme under which the Government intend to purchase the whole of the year's crop. An allotment holder at Sheffield has pulled one root of potatoes which contained two hundred and forty-six smaller potatoes. Sidney Collyer, of Ewhurst, Sus- sex, has been appointed manager of the Kelham estate, Newark, by the British Sugar Beet Growers. Albert Hunt was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at a London police court for unlawfully wearing a discharged soldier's badge. The first prize at an angling match, in which there were 125 competitors, was won by . George Beals, a blind Lincoln news agent. "Comrades of the War" is a non- political organization which has been formed for the promotion of the wel- fare of discharged soldiers and sail- ors. Field Marshal Lord French recent- ly presented a number of military awards on Southsea Common. CHURCH SERVICES IN HUTS. Canadian Chaplain Tells of Earnest " Devotion and Keen Interest. "I have had an extremely interest- ing time since coming to France, and yet my experience as a chaplain have -been very different from what I ex- pected," writes the chaplain of a Canadian labor battalion. "For one thing I thought that the religious work among the men would be easy and regular. I found it both difficult and irregular. Unlike an infantry battalion, our unit gets no rest days except for a certain period every month or so in some comparatively quiet billet back of the line. We work every day and often at night, too, and if we get one Sunday a month we do well. This, of course, is accounted for by the urgent need for railways wher- ever extensive army movements are being carried out. I have no hesita- tion in saying that our work ranks in the scale of military importance as second to 710 other branch of the ser- vice. Thus you will see that the chap- lain has to do what he can for the men in the few spare hours that fall to their lot. A11 winter I held church services on Sunday nights at 7 o'clock in one of the large living huts, and often these meetings were of a pic- turesque character, "Imagine, if y l,l can, a long, low hut with wire beds Sown each side, heads to the wall, and feet to the centre; a big wood -burning brazier smudging furiously in the aisle, an atmosphere of smoke and gloom, interspersed by the glimmer of a few ;candles and lanterns. A crowd of men are gather- ed around the chaplain and the stove, sitting upon many kinds of improvised seats, sticks of wood, Jloards, beds. Overhead there are line after line of shirts and`soeks drying, a khaki fres- co work of miss -cross. If you can picture such a scene, you have the stage setting for one of our evening,, services. And yet possibly you would be surprised at the heartiness of our singing and the earnestness of the de- votion that springs up spontaneously, in these strange surroundings, where the simple address is listened to with an interest not often shown in better places,"