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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-06-20, Page 7A MONDAY I TO REMEMBER 'I.'IIE FOURTH STRUGGLE ON THE SITE OF YPRES. 1 o British, French and Belgian Barred the Channel Gates With !it 'Their Bodies. Monday, April 29, 1918, was a Monday to remember. In a meaner little realized the week br gh ieing April 28 was one of the 111,1,1! ,portant in the whole war, I reel se of the most a .eoni`aging for ti,o Atlles, For the British and a wia'gh :French and Belgian armies that Mon day was a very memorable day. They' won a magnificent defensive battle on a scale which, in any former war, would have made it stand out as one of the landmarks of military history. On the hill front round Ypres, but chiefly en the ridges just south of that spectral ruin, they met the heavi- est onslaught yet made by the Ger- mans in the north,' They not only repulsed and beat it clown at all points. They shattered it with such loss as may well give even the Ger- man higher Command furiously to think. The Worst Bombardment, )The onslaught was heralded by t'11e worst and widest bombardment that had yet pounded the Allies' nor- thern front. The storm of assault broke on that memorable Monday morning upon all three Allies. Wo follow the action downward from the north. Tho Belgians were assailed by two divisions, but again they were true to the great lighting form they had recently shown on the Yser. At Langemarck they were forced back for a couple of hundred yards, but returned to the charge with irresistible spirit and flung the en- emy out of every yard be had gained. Southward of Ypres the battle sway- ed all day upon a ten -mile front. To shatter it, if possible, the enemy em- ployed no less than eleven divisions' against three of ours and two of the French. The odds were more than two to one. Stood Like Granite. fiNeTipATI the melt eomrngn oflment the ILO a0er one rosponstbie 4or many serlous and often fatal dleeaeeve For the Bride's Wardrobe PURGATIVE WATER lq the solea', su'nit and most economical remedy for its cure. It flushes• thn lntostlane acid removes the scaumulated tvaete matter which wider mince health and endangers life, On Sale everywhere: 25 cents the bottle, RIGA PURGATIVE WATER 00. MONTREAL. The British sustained the fight from La Clytte—a mile Ecom the under slopes of Kemmel—to Zillebeke Lake, whi;al�Y is just south-east of Ypres. No- where that day did our men yield one inch, but held their lines, piling up German casualties before them. Our new drafts were worthy of the veter- ans. Our men stood like grail,' led, and did more. Nowhere was the:•apple fiercer than at Ridge Wood, near the Dickebush pool, and less 'wan• a cou- ple of miles from the northern fall of the Messines tableland. The Germans sought to come on in serried weight with fixed bayonets, by no means their darling arm. It was a fight like Delville Wood. The enemy was repul- sed again and again, mown down with rifle fire and Lewis guns. But when that work was sufficiently done our men took the Boche at his offer, fell on him with bayonets. against bayonets, and in hand-to-hand fighting swept him away. To com- pletee British part of it, let us take a, more' distant corner, passing over for the moment the French, who were in between. Meteren was held by Australian veterans. Is it necessary to say that Meteren continued to be held? The German waves dashed against it in vain that day, and the Australians spent the following days in rushing the outposts of their dis- eomfited enemy. What the French did. But nothing was more brilliant than the exploits of our French comrades guarding the range of heights just north and west of Kemmel. At first they seemed in danger. Once more they lost Locre, which has changed hands so many tidies. They were pushed back upon the lower slopes of Scherpenberg and Mont Rouge. But they only went back for a spring. Rapidly organized, the counter-at- tack came on, and the enemy went deism before it. Soon our Allies were amidst the debris of Locre again, By nightfall not only was it in their hands, they advanced fully n mile en the Dranoutre road beyond the line they had held when the battle began en Monday morning. Never did blue and khaki do a better day's fighting together. This is the fourth great struggle which the site of Ypres has witnessed. The first epic in its importance was decided in November, 1014, when the German march upon Calais was stop. pod, The second was fought in April, 1915, when by their treacherous use of gas the Germans drew very near to the city, but were in the end check- ed by the magnificent valor of the Canadians. In the third battle or series of battles lastwe we ear were y the assailants, a and but for thetoren s Y weather which arrested our advance we might then have dealt the enemy fatal blow." At the Cross - R- oads. He was a little Belgian lad Whom the war had somehow failed to mar, Almost a baby face he had, Betrglered now and vaguely sad. "Whore are you going in the wind And rain? And must you travel fart" Be said "I've started out to find The country when:, the mothers are." TRAGIC HERITAGE OF WAR CHILDREN MOST PITIFUL OF ALL WAR'S CONSEQUENCES. Their Lives Are Stunted, Dwarfed, Blasted, Says U. S. Red Cross Worker in France. "Can you imagine anything more pitiful than the lives of children who have never known anything but war? Is there anywhere on God's green earth a more dreadful tragedy than the tragedy of a blighted childhood? The most wonderful thing to me in America is to see little children run- ning about, happy and`unafraid. "I have spent six months in the nearest approach to hell that exists, I believe, in or out of the teachings of the theologians—the hell where ba- bies are born to hear the sound of bursting shells as their introduction to this world of ours, where little ones learn their mother tongue only fur- tively and in whispers, where children must learn to wear their little gas masks as soon as they learn to walk, where suspicion and fear rule and love and confidence are not. "What do we in America lcnow about war? We cannot begin to sense what it means so long as our children play. I know what war is, for I have just come back from the land where the children have never learned to play." When Dr. Esther Lovejoy went over to France she found the Ameri- can Red Cross had just established its children's bureau, joined the staff of that organization, and as the medical member of the Red Cross de- tachment wont to Evian -les -Rains, the gateway through which Germany pours back into France the old and the infirm, the maimed, the halt and the blind, all who, found in the invad- ed zone have no military or labor value—and the little children. Germans Keep Many of 'Them. "Not all the little children," said Dr. Lovejoy, "for there are many whom the Germans keep inside their own lines. "In the French territory occupied by the German armies there were, be- fore the war began, more than 6,000,- 000 people. Not more than 350,000 of these have been sent back through Switzerland into France or returned through other routes. Many of them were young girls, just rounding the corner into womanhood. Germans send back boys under 14, for the older boys can work. They keep all girls over 16 or who look as if they were over 16. "The older boys become slaves, those who do not die of starvation and overwork, but they do not become 111111lIIIIlI III = r�i I arleY Adds Richness to wheat and lendst art flavor, when the �€ ® sturdy cereal X � rae. rl , x a pIs No prepelrecd cereal food ex- cels xCels Grape Nuts in i ourishrnent, economy or digestibility', "There's a1easotl lh • Germans. The girls are lost to France forever.. "Men 'may be defeated, but thoy are apt conquered, Women through the strongest of all human emotions and attributes, the mother instinct, can be conquered, and the Germans know this. So they keep the girls over 10 with the mothers of but one child for their 'military value' as mothers to the next German army. "Tho rest of the children come back through Evian; thirteen thous- sand hou:sand and more of them came through while I was there. One there was a whole orphan asylum, carloads of children sent through alone. Life in Occupied France. "Wo piece together the picture of the life of these little ones inside tlfe German lines from the stories they tell, they and their elders, but more from the look in their faces when they find themselves in a world where the sound of guns is a long way off and where, wonder of won- ders, people actually speak French aloud without first looking around to see if the Roches are listening. "For the strongest impression one gathers from the repatriated of the life of the native civilian in the strange No Man's Land behind the German front is of a country where the people's own mother tongue is 'verboten,' but where nevertheless they all speak it and teach it to their little ones; a land where little children are taught from infancy to be sly and deceitful, to do furtively and by stealth the things that are their pro- per birthright but which are 'ver- boten' by the oppressor; above all, a land where hatred is sucked in with the mother's milk, where every stran- ger is an enemy to be feared, where the awful threat, `if you don't be- have the Boche will get you,' is not the invoking of a story book bogey man but a real, life and death terror, tangible, present, always lurking in the shadow just beyond. No Chance to Play. "These children ,do not play; they do not know how to play. That is the sickening first evidence we get at Evian of their stunted, dwarfed, blasted little lives. "There has been no chance to play over where they came from; play was dangerous; it might annoy the Boche. Besides, children play in- stinctively only when they are happy, and these children, born in sorrow and unhappiness, have never been happy in their lives. Think of it, that there are thousands and tens of thousands of little children in France, sunny, smiling France, who have never been happy, who do not know what happi- ness means! "It is not only mentally that these children show the effects of their environment from birth. All have suffered a war blight; they are under- sized, ill nourished and subject to all sorts of diseases. Shy in Their Gayety Even. "One of the most pathetic sights is to see the older children, those who remember France as it was before the war, when they get to Evian, back into France once more, where they can run about and play and sing and shout as they used to do. They are shy and awkward about it at first, but they soon recover their spirits and gayety. "But the little ones, those born be- hind the German lines or who were not old enough to walk and talk when the war began—to see them watch the others is heart breaking. Their first emotion is fear—fear that the Boche will seize them for speaking in French aloud, "They have all been taught French, thee° tiniest ones, They even have little French songs that they have learned toin undertheir g teit br cath. "But of French as a language to be spoken aloud, sung at the top of one's voice, shouted as one romps 4n the open, they have no conception. Romping and games mean nothing to them; they cling to the skirts of their elders and shiver with fear; it takes a long time to make them under- stand that they are free at last. "They never will be truly free, these stunted little rep t a rlee. All their lives the shadow of these early years will hang over them. The im- pressions fixed in infancy never van- ish wholly; these have been too firm - 1v impressed ressed ever to be erased. Of all the t tragic heritage of that of war these war children is to ane the most tragic. The Solution, For two weary hours the small boy in the railway carriage had howled, and the occupants were getting tired of it. "Oh, dear!" sighed the young mo- ther, almost distracted. "What ever shall I do with the child!" A gleam of hope shone in the eyes of the long=suffering traveller oppo- site. "Shall I open the window for you, madam?" he inquired. • There is always a place in every wardrobe for the the simple dressing saeque. McCall Pattern No, 8011, Ladies' and Misses' Tie -On or Button - On Dressing Sacquo, In 3 sizes, small, 32-34; medium, 36-38; largo, 40-42 bust, Price, 15 cents. Particularly attractive is this ki- mono with its contrasting top part. McCall Pattern No. 8109, Ladies' Em- pire Kimono. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price,'20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond Street, Toronto, Dept. W. GIRLS! WHITEN SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a beauty lotion for a few cents t9 remove tan, freckles, sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup- ply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white and shake well. This makes a quar- ter pint of the very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face, neck, arms and hands and just see how freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and roughness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful re- sults will surprise you. The Farmerette; Oh Khaki,Jack looks through the smoke, Of deadly barking guns, With thoughts that stray from trench and shell, And all the hate of Huns, His broken thoughts slide home again, As water downward runs. .Across the fields he sees her go, Behind the well-known team, And through the flashes of the smoke He sees the harness gleam, As back and forth she guides the plow— The w to — The woman of his dream! Too heavy far the cumbrous plow— Too hard the daily toil-- Too oil—Too wearisome the endless tram r 1> Across the yielding soil! Too slight by far the hands that seek To straighten out the coil! . Yet noble women -hearts at home, Make noble men abroad, o , Whose splendid deeds reflect the souls That strive with soulless clod. For women such as these men die -- And dying, they thank God! 5 The herd brill requires exereise. If a paddock is not available, give him the run of a large box stall. He will be more prepatent than if kept in cramped quarters, Items 0atear$'s Ydrrtm;eat In the house Punctuation marks were first used in i400,, $, 7. ISSUE 24—'18.1 -o^-a--o•—o•--o LIFT YOUR PORNS OFF WITH FINGERS How to loosen a tender cern or callus so It lifts out without pain. Let folks step on your feet here- after; wear shoes a size emaller if you Bite, for corns will never again send electric sparks of pain through you, according to this Cincinnati au- thority. Ile says that u few drops of a drug called freezone, applied directly upon a tender, aching corn, instantly re- lieves soreness, and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifte right out. This drug dries at once and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without even irritating the surrounding tissue, A small bottle of freezone obtained at any drug store will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's foot. If your druggist hasn't stocked this new drug yet, tell hila to get a email bottle of freezone for you from his wholesale drug house. Conserving the Apples. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired Puttey of his neigh- bor, Savall. "Fifteen bar'l," was the answer. Farmer Puttey took another sip. "It's a pity," he said, "that you hadn't another apple. You might have made another bar'1." Low-priced tea is a delusion for it yields so poorly in the teapot that dt is actually an extravagance compared with the genuine Salado Tea, which yields so generously and has such a delicious flavor. Might Lase His Job. _ .A. well-to-do Scottish lady one day salol to her gardener.: "Man, Tamales, I Wonder 'yeti 'don't get married. You've a nice house, and all you want to complete it is a wile. You know the first, gardener that ever lived had a wife." "Quite right, missus; quite right," said Tammas, "but, he didna keep his job lang after he got the wife." Minard'e Liniment ase4 by. Phr$olaae. Trawler Cre'tls'S' Ordeal." A trawler employed as a submar- ine chaser recently arrived at the Azores with 19 men oh 'board after having been at sea fbr setae,' weeks without bread, fresh water, or coal, and navigating, owing to a break- down, by means of sails. She was on the high seas for five weeks before being able to reach port. . MONEY ORDERS. ' When ordering goods by mali send a Dominion Express Money Order. Not What He Me'aitt. "My brother wrote me about a din- ner some of the soldiers gave for two visitors at camp, members of a fam- ous Canadian regiment, who were home on sick leave. The sergeant had been carefully coached about giving the toast, but became flustered, and this is what he made of it: "Here's to the gallant Eighth, last on the field and first to leave it." Silence reigned; then the corporal came gallantly to the rescue: "Gentlemen," he began, "you must excuse the sergeant; he never could give a toast decently; he isn't used to public speaking. Now I'll give a toast: 'Here's to the gallant Eighth, equal to none.'" At Sunday School. With an air of great importance the small boy of a Sunday School in Belfast imparted this happy fact to his teacher: "The devil is dead," the said, solemn- ly' "What makes you think that?" ask- ed the startled teacher. "Dad said so," exclaimed the boy. "I was standing in the street with him yesterday when a funeral passed, and when dad saw it he said, 'Poor devil! Ire's dead!'" Post offices were first established in 1464. The Magic healing He. ! g ng Oin meal_. Soothes and heals la alt inflammations, s,cis as burns scalds, blister cuts, boil, piles and abscesses -•1 sold for aver 25 sears, All dealers, or write us, makes your digestion sound. ro inc rr 5 eoihpr COMPA NI•, liamliten, canad4 0042p„0<`e.e^tn•3Pcn›,.Q,®,a.®.%.,e,Crd) Let Us Gire Thanks. For the courage which comes when we call While troubles likeiltiilsttines fall; For the help that io eonsehow nigh In the deepest, Sight when we cry; For the path that le certainly shown When we .pray in the dark alone, Let us give thanks! Per the knowledge we gain if we wait And bear all the buffet's cf fate; For the vision that bcautiflea right If we look under wrong for the right; For the gleam• of the Ultimate Goal That shines on each reverent soul, Let us give thanks] For the eonsciousness" stirringin creeds ' That love is the thing the world needs; ' For the rry of the travailing 'earth That is giving ' a new faith 'birth; For the God we are learning to find In the heart and, the soul and the mind, Let ue give thanksl For the growth of the spirit through pain, Like a plant in the soil and the rain; For the dropping of needless things Which the eword of a sorrow brings; For the meaning and purpose of life Which dawns on us out of the strife, Let us give thanks! 4. Mlnard'p Liniment Ltunberman's Pelona. Incorrigible. At a college in England it is against the rules for male students to visit the "resident lady boarders." One day a student was caught hi the act and brought before the headmaster, who said: "Well, Mr. Blank, the pen- alty for the first offence is four shil- ling's, for the second ten shillings, for the third 21 and so on up to 210." "And what would a season ticket cost?" enquired the 'culprit. MINARD'S LINIMENT is the only Liniment asked for at my store and the only ono we keep for sale. All the people use it. HARLIN FULTON'. Pleasant Bay, C.B. Many persons are unaware that the green and tender tops of many vege- tables, such as,eadishes, turnips, cel- ery and beets, contain .valuable min- eral and other food substances, and are excellent cooked as greens, or even as additions to salad's. Ask fop Mlaard's and take no Ohba The production of ferinyard ma- nce in Great Britain is estimated et 37,000,000 tons annually, valued at 29,250,000, compared with an annual consumption. of 26,600,000 worth of artificiala. 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