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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-09-19, Page 31 e RUMANIA RULERS IN UNHAPPY STATE C6!ftMAN INSULTS HEAPED ON QUEEN MARIE. • Sill Persecuted for Swinging Her Country Against the Ilolienzollerns. Threatcmd with the bludgeon of One of the strangest things in all with both the Scats and the Welsh, German militarism and with loss of The excretion has been the share, thin lighting is the way it thrills borne by the New Zealanders, to .or from the limit of its endurance, so the throne of Rumania if they offend one'e memories of 1916• whose performance in the Miraumont far as the civilian population is con - of their the sensibilities or oppose the fatelo'{ire again have conte into posses- area I paid tribute in an earlier mos- ecrned. en' c1t i man masters; the fate of f 81°We rind made temporary use of sage and whose later great advance, This is the substance of a report King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of ,in eager which used to he p made to the Associated Press by a Swedish journalist who has just re- turned from an extended stay in Ger- /many and at Marienbad, Bohemia. Be is an intelligent observer and corro- borated reports from other travelers in the last month. In North Germany, particularly in Berlin, there is a marked scarcity of foodstuffs. Nevertheless there is enough for existence, and the restaur- ants of. the better eines still serve ample portions of meat without a meat card. The farmers generally still have plenty, even in North Ger-. many. Conditions improve, the Swedish journalist says, as one goes south- ward. Soine 6,000 guests at Marien- bad hotels were served with unlimited quantities of white bread, butter, milk and creams. Hungarians' who made up a minority of the guests brought such a variety of foodstuffs with them that they displayed "an almost osten- tatious luxury." Conditions in Austria Bad. Conditions in Austria are very bad, except for those who receive extra food because they are doing tear work. This class is earning very high wages and is satisfied with conditions, but the rest of the populationislonging for peace at almost any price, The Swedish journalist doubted the possibility of any succesful uprising in Austria because of the lack of organizing ability among the lower classes. He said: "It sounds paradoxical, but it is tl ' l ] f i ' b•1't MEN FROM SEVEN SEAS WIN GLORY the last two days able to melte splen- slid advancros on both sides of the �N Somme In the region of Bray and Two Charming ,Chuignolleas and beyond, .one finds it STORY � � DENIED ° � " hard to get words to do justice to as pt .—.,t their, fighting qualities, whether it be _---.- a dash or tenacity, Pozierea itself was NOT REACHED. GROUND REGAINED BY ALLIES FOOT) IS .SCANTY BUT LIMIT OF `�.'"` ' � '< not more glorious. RECALLS THEIR V.ALOR. Gallant Mon From "'Down Under:' Later in the. successive movements of the offensive, including the great Over the GloioLF Battleground of sweep toward Baupaume, they have, except in one particular, been at work with troops of the British Isles,7'ilMg- l.ishmen chiefly, but in co-operation 1916 Again Sweep the Victorious Armies of the British Empire, Berlin Is Worst Off—Railroad Service Reduced But Punctual, • Says Tourist, Germany is still far from starvation Rumania is most unhappe, ecermanY crowded with Germans in this same has resorted to every means of male- month two years ago, says a war cor- inf; their tut as uncomfortable es pa. i respondent on A+igust 96. When we br lL .in • to -day in the little village of I lecoverecl thein grass gri,v rank in- whenever they had been in action Bicaz, ion the Rumanian -Austrian i srde wire inelosures, but already it since `the beginning of the war. frontier, in' what amounts to a self- is �ieh1g tte,lecn down. Sadder it is, I believe there is no commanding imposed exile, every convenience or those were l.i�i^ed some of our reeent officer in our army who would not at accommodation that might be con- dead in an old graveyard betide their any time be rejoiced to know they sidered a privilege has been taken comrades in the first Somme fighting. were fighting on his left or right in Much of the agricultural machinery any operation, Their fighting in the from them un the Germans, who now have the country and the people con_ and similar aliiimgs we left behind in last few days has only been in her- pletely subjugated and shackled. our retreat of 'March "this year be-- mony, with their whole record. Censor Queen's Leifer to Mother. came om s again. Tanks were re- Then the Guards! captured in one of their familiar So with the Guards. It is absurd to No opportunity has been Lost by the tankodromes (it one of which I saw praise them again. Besides those first Germans to exact retribution froni, the tanks before they want into ac- dreadful days in 1914 and 1916 one the Queen for her action in bringing tion for the #fret time ip September remembers especially their achieve- Rumatuia to fight against the Central before lest)_ ments in..., September, 1916, when Powers. No discourtesy er slight is This Is Now n Welsh Custom. troops on their right being held up considered too great for the Icing for in a quadrilateral, they s +e 'what idle Germans consider his be- What memories come thronging in q • e •pt on for trayal of the Hohenzollern fami'y and the sentence of the communique, two thrusts of 1,800 yards flato nk the his own blood relatides. which tells us: "Welsh troops have bine with a totally exposed , When the Queen sought recently to , captured Mametz Wood!" Capturing One remembers them in every great write to her mother, the Duchess of Mametz Wood will become a habit battle of 191'7, ending with their Edinburgh, who is now living ere with the Welshmen if this goes on. punctual advance to whatever objec- Gotha, Germany; the German anther- In the first scene of our offensive tive was set for them over the more ities told her she could do so only on August 8, the actors were chiefly asses and streams of Flanders. One by selldiog the envelope unsealed and troops from oversees. Men from the remembers how they stemmed and having the contents examined by the British Isles had only a small part in bloke the advancing German tide of censor. In the letter the Queen at- the attack north of the Somme. to march last in the subborn fighting at tempto<} to describe her anguish of protect the left of the .Australians Boiry and how in April, furt'ier north, endingin the capture' of Lout art wood, was mentioned in the official communique, The New Zealanders neteP failed to do extremely well mind and heart and the harshness of south of the river. It was a thankless the Godman rule, but every such ref- difficult part. You already know how ercnce was summarily cut out by the well the Londoners behaved in the Censor• first advance at the. Gressaires Wood, Again, when Her Majesty cabled to at the Chipilly spur. Later a few the Amerism Red Cross, appealing Americans were used here, the only occasions on which they were called in these operations; and the Austra- lians spread north of the river so as to have a liaison with themselves ;across the stream. Valor oY Overseas Troops, 1 Below here on the main battlefront, the honor of the first advance was shared by the Australians and Cana- dians. It was chiefly a Canadian bat- tle; their advance was the care of the operation, and on their progress the advance both of the A.usfralians' left depended and that of the successive French armies' right, each of which bed for three days and insintad he was was thrown in only as the advance nbt equal to the task. On the third above prospered. day M. Margl:iloman, the pro -German The Canadians are of right claim - Prime Minister, came to the palace ing the fighting of the first two days with an ultimatum. In the most un- was the biggest thing Canada has compromising manner he said to the done in the war, not excepting the Xi ng: capture of Vimy ,Ridge. Certainly "Open Parliament to -day or you nothing could have been better. will be forced to accept my resigna- tion as Premier, which I now hold in fell upon the Australians. They had my hand." incidental co-operation, some of the The King realised that if Marghilo- time with English units, both in the man resigned a new Cabinet would be region not much below the , Somme (• . formed, with M. Carp, 1»s bitterest antagonist, as its probable head, and that his dynasty would then be over- thrown. So he yielded to Marghilo- man's threat and went to the National Theatre, in Jassy, where the sessions in its later phases was the Austra- of Parliament are held, and delivered liens' battle. When it is remembered a perfeinctory address, which occu- how. long and brilliantly they have pied not more than four or five min- been fighting before this offensive be - tries. Only the members who were avowedly German were present. 'Toward the German authorities the Xing and Queen are forced by circum- stances to maintain an attitude quite contrary to the innermost feeling of their hearts. The royal family—and, indeed, all the loyal Rumanians— place all their hope in the Allied na- tions. Fate of circumstances will compel them, for the present, to tol- . erate the dominion and yoke of Ger- many, but they look finally to the Entente Allies to deliver them from the bondage into which the German Emperor has forced them, for the sympathy and support of. the people of the United States, the Ger- man officials in Jassy threw every ob- stacle in the way end finally passed the 'message in an expurgated form. • Forced King to Leave Bed. ' The .icing Iikewise is made to bear many unpleasant experiences. When recently the Rumanian Parliament was preparing to reassemble for the purpose of ratifying the German peace treaty, King Ferdinand was asked to open the proceedinf• •. His Majesty found it a very pain:: 1 duty. To avoid fulfilling it, he b,pt to his and their extreme right, in the latter of which two areas, especially, there was very hard fighting. What the "Anzacs" Did. In spite of this, however, the battle • Then and Now We are all rather inclined to think 'that people living to -day have struck a bad patch, and are inclined -to im- agine that those who lived a century ago were lucky. But where they? If you were suddenly put back a eon- tury: just ono hundred years—you would find life full of little annoy- ances. You couldn't travel to town on an electric train, a street car, or motor - 'bus. You couldn't mount to your third -floor office in an elevator. You couldn't switch on the electric light, nor strike a match. You couldn't send a telegram or talk over the 'phone. You couldn't call in a typist and dictate to her or use a dicta - phone. You couldn't deal with your correspondence on a typewriter, You couldn't go to a moving pic- ture show after your day's work, nor even enjoy a musical evening with a 'gramophone. You couldn't go for a bicycle tour for your holidays, or take a trip up the river on a steamer, You couldn't watch an aviator looping the loop,.or buy your wife a sewing ma- chine. Of course, on the other hand, a war life this would have been impos- sible a century ago. You wouldn't " have had bombs dropping from the skies; or guns firing seventy-five mi- les. But in spite of that, this age isn't so bereft of blessings, after all. gan in the Morlancourt. area up 'to Meris and the magnificent way in which they swept across Santerre plateau, and how since then they have borne the brunt of the struggle on a wide front and shown themselves in has always beer, known e s pure and wholesome Gaut few people, could dei superior barley flour to mix with their wheat. The barley flour used in making m �>t tai is all milled. at our own factories and when you taste the rich teen f this `grain l� Gape:Nuts you haves uaran- teed assurance of wholesomeness, ,there's a r?eeso s" Cenndo Food board License No2-026 Canada rolooda a-92.0 d one brigade bore the weight of the oncoming German masses until the Australians could come up and de- train behind them. In thole last days hey have shown the sane old quail - ties. The Guards are the Guards still. Finally, among the rest of the stout English troops the Londoners have been named more than once, with es- pecial mention of the Royal Fusiliers. It only for --the sake of those who have gone and to comfort those who -grieve fpr them, one would like to mention each battalion and each company by name and number. Local pride is much, but zilch more im- portant it is that England, the empire and 'the world should have a vision of these armies in the mass, including men from all parts of the empire and every walk of life— townsmen, coun- trymen, men from the mill, the farm, the factory, the shop, the office and moor—all fighting side by side and each proud; of his comrade and all worthy of the cause. So it is that our men fought this month. ' FISHING FOR EGGS. How the North Sea is Kept CIear by Mine -Sweepers. w The landsman who has never had the joy of exploiting a "Fritz -special No. 1" after a six hours' trawl has a very incomplete idea of life aboard one of tib mosquito craft engaged in minesweeping in the forth Sea. For four years—winter and sum- mer—the motley fleet of tugs, steam packets, yachts, and even fishing trawlers, which collectively form the minesweeping flotilla attached to the Grand Fleet, have been fishing for the devil's eggs sown b ythe undersea pirates -and keeping clean the foot- paths --of the seas. In blinding snow and sweltering heat they are there; pacing up and down the thousands of watery acres which stretch from Dover to Denmark—braving submar- ines, mines and weather. And of the three, I think any old hand will agree with me it's the last we fear most. It was just this combination of weather and sea which gave me my first "shake-up" before I bad been egg -hunting a month, We were look- ing for them in the midst of.a typical North Sea swell when the mate yelled that we'd hooked something, and sure enough up popped a beautiful egg on our left. The usual way to dispose of the mine is to fire on the "horns" with a rifle, but the high seas made a hit impossible, and we decided to tow it inshore. Midway to land, a huge onrush of water caught the mine and literally pitched it right into tis. It exploded amidships with a ter- rific report, and we bad about three minutes to abandon the ship before she sank. Fortunately; no one got more than a wetting. At one time the Germans sent out submarines to raid the minesweepers et their work, and some valiant lit- tle battles were fought before the U-boats decided to leave us alone. The next Hun move against us came from the air. Seaplanes would sweep out of the clouds and engage us with machine-gun fire, until they learnt that an "Archie" on A tug can be as deadly as its brothers on the Grand Fleet. However, hardships are repaid with interest when a resounding crash somewhere close at hand tells of one more pest cleared from the ocean.. track, An apple tree that puts all its hig- hest apples on top ought to be asbam- Lioense ed of iteelf1 - , •. ns very ac c o organ zing art y that keeps the dual monarchy from falling to pieces." The railroad service in Germany, he declared, although greatly reduced, appears to be as punctual as in tines of peace. The rolling stock has been repaired and repainted and appears to be in good condition. The traveler had the following meal in a dining car on 0 meatless day: Soup, fish with potatoes and butter, macaroni with tomato sauce, a jelly tart and tea. The meal cost five marks, or about eighty- five cent`s" at the .present rate of ex- change. Talk Little About War. Asked what the civilian population thought about the war, the journalist said: "They have stopped talking about it. They talk about food, sports and theatricals. Berlin theatres are filled nightly and the hotels, by the way, are being redeoortaed and repainted. I asked the rason for this anti. was told they were getting ready for the com- ing of peace. Max Reinhardt is even building a new theatre. "I asked many people what they thought about the recent German re- verses. Their replies were almost stereotyped: 'Hindenburg knows what he is doing. If he goes backward it is because he has an object, and not because he has to.' I think this fairly represents the majority opinion." The Little Brother In his new Scout attire he felt a man: The hat, its leather strap beneath a chin Where still some dimples flickered out and in, Placed on a haughty head; his face all tan. And pompous looks; his steady legs apart. We laughed to see him strut, but now—but now We cannot laugh; we half forgot- ten how, And his trim brown equipment wrings the heart. He is so like his brother, and his coat This pygmy brown one, is a copy true Of what his brother marched in, striding through The cheering streets with dancing flags `afloat. The ship that bore that brother over- seas Above the hidden death that men- aced him, To that red shore with, "smoke and trouble dim— Took all our calm of mind and pleas- ant ease,' The Boy Scout's graver now. What pact he made With that big brother, he has never told; Bat they were comrades those last days, Would • hold Low talk, the strong hand on the small one laid. If any bitter news should leap the Apace, Saying he fell—this brother, young and slim Will take the big, big part assigned to hints Grow worthy of a son's, a soldier's, place. Youth needs no frills or trimmings to set it off, in fact it is enhanced when set in relief with simple, even severe, lines as in this charming new design, McCall Pattern No. 8443, Misses' Dress. In 4 sizes, 14 to 20 years. Price, 20 cents. Panels are still the supreme favor- ite. This new design also shows the peg -top effect. McCall Pattern No. 8510, Ladies' Dress. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 25 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCaII Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. e e b o e o o—o o o o o e e WOMEN 1 IT IS MAGIC 1 LIFT OUT ANY CORN O Apply a few drops then lift o corns or calluses off with • fingers—no paln. e o 0 0 0 0-0-0--0 =o—o-0 Just think! You can lift off any corn or cal- lus without pain or soreness. • A Cincinnati man dis- covered this ether com- pound and named it freezone, Any drug- gist will sell a tiny bot- tle of freezone, like here shown, for very little cost. You apply a few drops directly upon a tender corn or callus, Instantly the soreness disappears, then short- ly you will find the corn or callus so loose that you can lift it right off. Freezone is wonder- ful. It dries instantly, It doesn't eat away the corn or callus, but shrivels it up without even Irritating the surrounding skin. Hard, soft or corns between the toes, as well as painful calluses, lift right off. There is no pain before or after- wards. If your druggist hasn't freezone, tell him to order a small bot- tle for you from Iris wholesale drug house. ti "Its Ne Passeront Pas" (They shall not pass!) They shell not pass! A wall of steel prevents them! The lino may bend, but it can nev- er break. Tor outstretched unseen hands shall thrust against them. The impious Hunnish hordes in terror quake ' Because they know their efforts are in vain! They eannot pass! God will the ,yic- sory gain. Minard'a Liniment laalieveo Neuralgia, The British Ministry ot` Pension has 1,145,000 eases on its books, MA Tlle Lieutenant Awakensin Ilocpltal 1 know my own mind, doctor! Let me bo! Let go my waist. We must retake the farm! Ihty hiss like redbot beetles in my ears,. They crush, they never stop. No, no, no, no! Olt, not my leg!Oh, doctor, not my, legs Damn you, sir, let me up. I want to walls, The Captain fell, I tell you—through the Bead. Already dawn is creeping past the church And down the pasture lane. They come too late. I hear machine guns eonghing in the mist, Write this report: the color 0f pain is red And black on hills of gray. lie died a man. - Grenades at fifteen yards! Now, boys, once more! I charge, with all my heart, with all my soul! r LEMONS WHITEN AND BEAUTIFY THE SKIN Make this beauty lotion cheaply for your face, neck, arms and hands. At the cost of a smell Jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare a full quar- ter pint Of the most wonderful lemon skin softener end complexion beauti- fier, by squeezing the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. 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One slab is used for a mantle - piece in the small replicas of a Can- nadia log cabin built by the Canadians in Windsor Park as a tearoom for the King. A number of souvenirs have been made of the wood, One is a carved plaque of Windsor Castle background and Indian's head. Minard•s Liniment Cures Dandruff. Where He Was Dense. At a dinner in Edinburgh, Baron Kickuchi, principal of Tokio Univer- sity, was a guest. An Englishman present told the story of a Scotchman who went to his dentist with an ach- ing tooth and was asked if he would have gas; he replied that he would, but should like to count his money first. Everybody laughed but the baron, A Scotchman attempted to ex- plain the joke as to the alleged foibles of his raee; the baron remained im- passive. Others tried, but the baron said, "I do not understand." Finally he stopped the explanations. "Gentle- men," he said, "you do not understand what I do not understand," His listeners gave rapt attention. "What I do not understand," he went on, "is not why the Scotchman said what he did, but how any Scotchman should not know, at any tine, with- out having to count it, how much money he has in his pockets." The laugh was on the hosts of the "dense" Oriental. MONEY ORDERS. Pay your out-of-town accounts by Dominion. Express Money Orders. Five Dollars costs three cents. His Revenge. A busy housewife came into the sitting room with a determined look in her eyes, "I really shall have to punish those children," she began. "What have the little beggars been up to now?" asked father, looking up from his newspaper. "Why, they've made a mess of my sewing room," explained his wife. "Needles, reels of cotton, scissors— everything has been hidden away in the most unexpected places. It is really exasperating." Her husband laid down his paper, and smiled benignly. ' "I did that," he said ealmly. 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