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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-09-26, Page 344KC5 TNEWHITEST, IGIITIS E .W. G 6 6.t.ETT CO. LTD. wlN NpTc0ONTO,CAOADA M°NT0EAt HORRORS OF HUN PRISON CAIVi?S moo E THOUSAND SUFFERING es PROM DISEASE AT ST8NDAL. Iilard Labor, in Mines anal T laewhere Without Food Wrecking Con- stitution of Captives. yr Another batch of British prisoners for repatriation has arrived from Germany, says a war correspondent at Itotterdmn on Aug. 31. It was stens posc d of nth ty-six stretcher wee, ,58 men who were able to walk and three who were insane. I understand that on August 16 the Germans took from crippled men on the frontier the crutches they had used until then and thus rendered them more helpless. Time men returning to -day came from many minnps and included a num- ber who were captured last Mareh. Frain them I heard many serious com- plaints of bad conditions in the Ger- man camps, These applied to Zerbst, Quedlinburg, Stendal and Wittenberg among others. One prisoner -from the Stendal camps said 3000 British prisoners had been brought there at the end of May and the beginning of June, mostly suffering from dysentery and septic poisoning. They had been\�forced to work behind the German litre on the shell dumps when the railways were under British shell fire. Starving at Stendal About 200 died soon after arriving at Stendal, several hundred of whom were in a starving condition. While they were behind the line they march- ed to work six utiles daily and back with virtually no food. This treat- ment lasted from the time of the cap- ture of St. Quentin until their arrival in Stendal. My informant said a British doctor had reported these facts to the Dutch commissioners. From several camps come stories of the terrible sufferings undergone by aur mon while working in the mines with inadequate food. Unquestion- uhly these, abuses are wrecking the constitutions of many of our prison- ers. Two mines particularly were mentioned, one the kali works at Hallberg and the other the Mar - A. 6ON TO THE RHINE," OUR BATTLE CRY CAN AI)1.ttNS PASS THROUGH NO MAN'S LAND, Capture Territory Where Enemy lead Settled Down for Winter, With Wee Material., Some idea of the tusk Performed by Ontario infantry in their advance on the north of the Cambrai road and between the Sensee River when, with Imperial divisions, they- stormed the QuesntDroceert line on time morning of Monday, Sept. 2, can be gathered front a trip along this road up to the villages bordering on the Canal du Nord, says a Canadian Press cor- I espondeat. Vis -en -Artois, a ruin of rubble, was then in our hands. Thence the ground climbs gently upwards east to the sunken road connecting Iiendeeourt and Dory. Through here, there are no less than five enemy trench sys- tems, with wire everywhere. The sunken road was hold in great force tool one Central Ontario battalion was somewhat cut up before it captured the -14 machine-gun posts in front of it. This was the same battalion that in the Amiens show captured Le Quesnel in the .face of very strong enemy defence, including whizz -bang batteries and machine-gun nests. That success Was accomplished by a bril- liant turning movement and the result was the capture of a complete divi- sional headquarters and vast stores, which gave all ranks in the battalion a change of underwear and new hoots. Nothing of the kind was possible here, but the battalion went grimly forward till it carried the crest by as- sault and turned in a large number of prisoners. This battalion belongs to the brigade that: captured and has since consolidated the apex of the Sensee River and the Canal du Nord triangle. Excellent Work of Various Units. A Quebec battalion fought through the marshy ground along the river. This area is dissected by ditches "and was filled with machine-gun posts. Some Jeritish Columbia troops also guerite coal mine in the Ilfersfberg had very stiff fighting before this district, Three men died in a fort - had nest was cleaned out and we night from brutal treatment receired lead established ourselves solidly be- in the latter, tween the river and the canal. • I Novel and brilliant recon naissance CONFIDENTIAL VOLUMES. work for this attack was clone by a trigaclie•, who advanced 5,000 yards in front of bis line in a whippet tank. "He's always trotting about the front line," said a member of itis staff, explaining his absence. 'He is a regular daredevil, who isn't happy if he isn't in the thick of it." Contributory to this success was the excellent work of our artillery, and in particular °"a Manitoba bat- tery did, useful service at a critical moment by laying down a smoke screen across the Cambrai road un- der cover of which the infantry pushed their attack. Down the Cambrai road, through trtant use, of course, but they ere Vis -en -Artois, past Drury on the kept in r special box, and the officer left, and Villers-les-Cagnicouret on ti,himself I the watch has to satisfy the right, allis desolate. It is a ofg , both when he goes on duty and when typical No Man's Land landscape. See— he goes off that the books are in the The countryside is pitted with shell box. Boles and scarred by trenches. The Special chests are provided for avenues of 'Aces along the road re - other confidential volumes, and the main blasted stumps. There is not keys of these are issued only to the a green thing. Everywhere is the commanding officer. He gives a re- debris of war, the litter and the ceipt for thermwhen the ship is put into• commission. Two keys are sup- plied f"a big ships, one for the com- mending officer and one for the sec- ond in command. 'When the com- mission ands the keys are tested by the naval store officer at the dock- yare to see that they are correct, and they are then placed in sealed covers until the chests are re -issued for an- other commission. The less of a key must be reported to the Admiralty at once, and an in- cident of that sort—rause enough fortunately—causes more commotion than would ten Zeppelin bombs in Whitehall. Confidential books sometimes have to be destroyed, either because they are obsolete or are worn out. A spe- cial ceremony is provided for such an event. Two officers act as sacri- ficial priests and the books are thinned. to ashes. Before they are put in the furnace the titles and numbers have to be checked, cegistered, and certified, the names removed from the register kept"Gy the ship, and the fact of the destruction entered ou nnother i'n,e of the register. .y_ .._._ The Right Sword. , A party of tourists were,examining the curios in a little shop on a back street in a certain European city. The aged dealer, desirous of making a eel°, picked up an ancient -looking sword and said! "You see, my friends, this most Wonderful sword. This is the sword that Balaam killed the ass with." "But," said one, "Belem didn't kill the ass; he only wished for a sword that he might kill her." "Well," said the dealer, "this is the one he wished fors" The Well Kept Secrets of the Royal Navy. Signal books are not the r :ly confi- dential volumes issued to the navy, though they are the ones most often mentioned. There are confidential hooks atout wireless, gunnery and torpedo matters, and volumes that are only issrod to commanding offi- cers. and ye "not to be communi- cated to persons below that position." The safe keeping of confidential books is impressed on everyone re- =sponsible. Signal books are in con - One of the most daring feats in the war—the bombing of Krupp's was carried .out by a pilot nearly forty years of age, who before the outbreak of hostilities had no flying or (81111ary experience, but was a peaceful grocer in a French village, , ruin. Broken lorries, shattered remnants of an armored car, the tw sted rails of a light railway, scrap iron of all descriptions—these things cumber the _roadside. Everywhere are horses in various stages of cor- ruption. Here and 'there are rows of our dead, awaiting the burial par- ILir TAKE PO `1 '°:e Uri! —you hear it more and more when one is asked what he'll have for his morn - ins drink, • Delightful aroma and tas•te,andfree- dom from 'the dis- comforts that sjo with tea and coffee. Nourishing health - fol, economical._ NO WASTE at all — an important item these days. Give INSTANT POSTUM ties, :Over all he a breeding steneb of decay And stale gas, Gangs of 088 engineers are et work mending the reedited, relaying the steel, dig- ging out the ditches,' 'i'ho betties field of yesterday becomes the hum- ming workshop of to -day. Pass over it again 110xt weep and there will .be an ordered highway, A Smiling Country Beyond. But a m11e or so beyond, and what a transformation is here. We have passed through No Man's Land to a a,nliliilg ountery beyond, a part of France held for four years In Wed - age. Away to the right are three villages. They are Saudemont, Rutnaucou•t and Ecourt St, Quentin. From a distance it Tooke as if a pooket handkerchief might carry them. -They stand intact, the lacurhees rising above the red -tiled roofs, The whole nestling .amid groves of green foliage, The sight of these villages and green fields is more eloquent than anything that has gond before of the success of the battle, for here, as in former years, the Beebe had settled down for the Winter. He had""fillod them with his material of war. Now all of it is in our hands.. Rumaucourt, particularly, was a great artillery dump. The enemy had large supplies of ordnance and material. IIe1'e, too, was a complete hospital train. In Acourt we cap- tured a vast quantity of supplies of all kinds. Tucked away behind the supposedly impregnable Queant-Dro- court line he had made of these three villages a great depot. They were beyond the area we shelled. Not a tile was out of place on Monday. But, no soon er had he got his wind afte'llis hasty exit than he turned With wrath on these villages. In- tact though they seem from a dis- tance, on entering there is evidence at every hand of the process of ruin. Windows are shattered and walls gape. A beautiful ,spire is that of the Chua'ch of Ecourt• St. Quentin, but even as one looks a shell hits 11 fair and square and it disappears in a cloud of dust. Nevertheless the fields are still green. Our soldiers gather pumpkins in the village gardens. Cattle wade in the lush pastures. Except for the destruction of his heavy guns the enemy could not have wreaked this desolation. Beyond are fairer fields and villages. A Hopeful Outlooks Itis the business of the Canadian Corps to do its share in reclaiming these villages to France. It has come from shell -torn Arras. It has' fought its way step by step over fif- teen miles of blasted wilderness, where even the weeds wither and die and the handiwork of man -through the centuries is blotted out. The re- ireatirg enemy has left behind him only concrete and barbed wire. Such is No Man's Land. It is the despair we leave behind us, the des- pair of the weary years ,the bitter Winters of trench warfare. All that is past. With each sunrise hope shines from the west. "On to the Rhine," cries .that gal- lant gentleman, the Canadian sol- dier. —4 se The Song of the Happy Warrior. Theesong of the boa who was brave and fair, Hee was young and 'lis eyes were grey, He was swift to run and strong to strive And ready for any play. He climbed to the top of the apple tree - When nobody else would dare; He couldn't get down and he feared he'd fall As the branch swayed in the air. 0! time ground seemed such a way be- low, But he smiled a doubtful smile -a, .And he grit his teeth and sang "Cheer -o1" Though the drop to the ground seemed .m mile -a. The son.; of the man • fn the khaki coat As h stands in the wet and snow, A smoking rifle in his hands And his feet in the mud below, The tale of the charge and the man that fell, Of the tunic dyed with red, The tight -clenched teeth and the clammy brow And the stain where the wound had bled. 0! he groaned as he jolted to and fro And wan, wan wss his smile -a, And ho grit his teeth and he hummed "Cheer -el" And he died at the end ofa mile -a. —S. Donald Cox, Rifleman, C. L. R., London Rifle Brigade. THE UNNECESSARY CAT. A Menace to Birds, Which Are Our Best Food Conservators. Nature has provided in the form of bird life a means to counteract the action of agents destructive to plant life. While artificial means may, to a limited extent, hold the multiplica- tion of insect life in check, no human agency can accomplish the results which are secured by the birds. Man, by his Owll action or inaction, is responsible for the causes which re- strict the increase in the number of our birds. Slaughter and the robbing of nests by men and boys and the ireaoherous family cat have made such inroads on their numbers that the balance provided by nature has been, destroyed. By the recently consummated Mig- A Great Nation's Tribute Th. United States Govern- ment has conscripted the entire output of our 11,5, factories in order to supply the "Yanks" with Auto - Strop Razors as part of their regular equipment, This tribute is worthy of your consideration when neat you send a package Overseas—your soldier's comfort is your first thought—tile AutoStrop, because of its automatic self -stropping device, is the ideal razor for his use, Price $5.00 m lending afore. everywhere 22c, boal"gc will ()diver wit AureStro, Overaerry by first chum rcg,,ter•c,l "rail. AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., Limited 83-67 Doke St„ 'reroute, Ont. 62.8-18 4 iy ryott,SF 1; Y,Wt Cona.>rtialitxon off' A clever little design for combina- tion of materials. The front panel is applied and stitched. as far as the belt. McCall Pattern No. 8486, Girl's Dress. In 0 sizes, 4 to 14 years, Price, 15 cents, , { ratory Bird Treaty, the protection of migratory birds from destruction by men has been provided for. No at- tempt has been made, however, to re- move the menace of the unnecessary cat. The elimination of it must, per- force, be left to the good sense and the public spirit of the individual citizen. The number of these prowl- ing destroyers, and their predilection for birds as their prey, cause the loss to Canada of last members of our best food conservators every year. • HINTS ON STORING COAL. Precautions To Prevent Loss Through Spontaneous Combustion. During tbe present year, consumers ars are storing coal as long in advance of winter as possible. It is important, therefore, that they should take pre- cautions in the storage loss through spontaneous combustion is to be pre- vented. There are certain simple methods of handling coal that ex- peerience has taught are necessary to obviate such a misfortune, especially where considerable quantities are to called freezone, applied directly upon be stored. Thus, coal should be so a tender, aching corn, instantly re - piled that air can circulate through it sieves soreness, and scion the entire freely to carry off the heat, or so corn, root and all, lifts right out. An excellent design for combina- tion of materials. Can be worn with or without overdress. McCall Pat- tern No. 8605, Ladies' Dress. In 6 sizes, 84 to 44 bust. Price 25 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LIFT YOUR CORNS OFF WITH FINGERS How to loosen a tender corn or callus so It lifts out withoutpain. ala. 00000 Let folks , step on your feet here- after; wear shoes a size smaller if you like, for corns will never again send electric sparks of pain through you, according to this Cincinnati authority. He says that a few drops of a drug closely piled that air cannot enter the pile. Low piles are preferable, if space permits, and alleyways should be provided to facilitate moving the coal quickly. Occasional ventilation pipes are ill-advised, but the practice of placing such pipes close together has been tried in Canada with effec- tive results. Different kinds of coal should not be mixed in storage. In quenching fire in a pile, water 1 bottle of freezone for you from hie should only be used if there is an' wholesale drug house. ample supply; a small amount is in- effective and very dangerous. Where available, under -water stor- age is recommended as it entirely eliminates spontaneous combustion. The preparation of a suitable pit for this method of storage is sometimes 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 him to get a small Experiments and Tests. The annual report of the, Dominion Experimental Farms for the year end- ing March 31st, 1917, is a compre- hensive document of some 150 pages, costly, but old quarries, clay pits and , containing matter well worth study - even prairie sloughs have been used. Deterioration of coal stored under water is negligible and it • absorbs very little extra moisture. 0 Good Reports of S.O.S. Boys. Ontario headquarters has reported as follows: "Ontario farmers every - whore are enthusiastic about the boys' services. The boys are making good. We estimate that 9,000 boys from the cities and towns and as many more farm boys are worsting as Soldiers of the Soil in Ontario," Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro ere the largest cities of South America. Waiter (to guest who has been wait- ing a very long time)— "Did you ring. the bell, sir?" Gent—"No, I was toll- ing it, T thought you vire dead." Nothing is more anitoyirlg than t0 have yot1i' wife's relatives borrow money from you and then piously re- mark "The Lord will provide." A very good plan..before tayhrg cloth la to cover the floor thinly with ing by progressive farmers. It des- cribes briefly and concisely the ex- periments and tests which have taken place at every farm and station, which practically moans all over the country, seeing that every province is represented. Just as there is not a branch of agriculture undealt with, so there is not a district the capabil- ities and possibilities of which have not been tried in the matter of better production by improved methods. In former years the report has been given in two end three volumes and Contained accounts of scientific ex- periments that have been trade during the year, or that were still in pro- gress, written by professional experts of the experimental farm system, but henceforth these are to be given in bulletin form and the Report confined to statements of the year's doings at the score and more farms and stations at different parts of the country. The Report, which, as has been said, will' si'.rmdy, can be had Erre on to thePublicat5ov Branch, m • of A ricuIture Ottawa. well repay application sawdust, Thin helps the oilcloth io 1�epantmea N, , wear longer and deadons the 8Ot1110. y,tnard's S,1niul.ent for sale everywhere, A NBP l Al J1 R M ROCE!'S. Tor the Making of Newsprint From (:round Wood -Pulp. The, Taggarts Paper flee, of (Mat Bend, N.Y., has developed it process for the lnakiug of newsprint from all ground -wood Pulp, omitting entirely any proportion of sulphite pulp, Mr. George C. Sherman, president of the company, in an interview given to the Paper Trade Journal, said: "It required two cords of wood for a ton of eulphite pulp, while one cord bf hood will make more than a ton of ground -wood pulp. 1t takes 20 per cent. more timber to make paper out of 20 per cent. sulphite than it does out of all ground wood. One-fifth more acreage of timber is required for the sulphite method," If this process should prove gener- ally feasibleelt will do much to con- serve Canada's forests. It would also effect a considerable saving in the cost of manufacturing newsprint and in the consumption of sulphur, which is in demand for the making of muni- tions, LEMON JUICE 16 FRECKLE REMOVER Girls! Make this cheap beauty lotion to clear and whiten your skin" Squeeze the juice of two lemons into a bottle contenting three ounces of orchard white, shake well arta You have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautl- fiat, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup- ply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face neck, arms and bands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and Potato Speculators Warned. Dealers and others who may be am- bitious in regard to this year's crop of potatoes and apples have been warned by the Canada Food. Board against speculation. "In negotiations for the purchase or sale of apples, potatoes, or other roots, due consid- eration should be given to the pos- sibility of some action being taken by this Board." declares their regent statement. Nlinard'rr Liniment Cures Dandruff, Exploring Africa. The first organized attempt to ex - how clear, soft and white the skin be- plore the interior of Africa was made comes, - Yes! It is harmless. by Menge Park, who set sail on his initial voyage to the Dark Continent The Change. 123 years ago. He returned twa I want you here little lad on my knee, years and seven months later after For my lips to touch and my eyes having explored a considerable see- to see; I want your hand in my own to -day, But instead, you scampered outside tion of Africa never before visited by a white man, although he failed in his main purpose, which was to trate to play. the source of the River Niger. And the house is still as I sit alone In the silence mothers alone have MONEY ORDERS It is always safe to send a Dominion Express Money Order, Five Dollars costs three cents. known. I want you here little lad to tell You over and over I love you well. I want the touch of your soft brown Flowers are more fragrant when hair a the sun' is not shining on them, it is But you're off for a game that I contended by a French scientist, be cannot share cause the oils which produce the per - While I wait and lonely and longing fumes are forced out by the walem- bide pr.•OSSum•e in the plant cells end this is 'Till the night shall bring you back diminished by sunlight. t0 n1y side. , Minard's SSaiment 1xcllevee 3leeuralfria. I want you here little lad on my knee But I'm glad you're sturdy and strong and free, I want your hand little lad to hold But I'm glad you're fearless of storm and cold. And I'm glad that 'tis Nature's and Heaven's plan That I've given the world a some -day man. St. Joseph, Levis. July 14, 1903, Mivard's Liniment Co„ Limited. Gell tlemon—Iwae badly kickeded by n1y horse last May, and after using g several preparations on my leg noth- ing would do. My leg was bluets as jet. I. was lain up in bed for a fort- night and could not walk, After using three bottles of your MINARD'S LINI- MENT I was perfectly cured, so that I could start 011 the road. JOS. DUKES. Commercial Traveller. Improving Bridge Floors. I was down in a part of the country IT, aq recently where a little creek winds its (! 11� r*a 6 way through the farms, where J,he Must be between 31,4 and 5 roads were numerous and there Were ounces. 25c. each given. Ex - many small bridges. One feature I press collect to noted particularly about the bridge E. N. ll1AC'.Ai.LL?R1, was that the floors were smooth and 243 College St. Toronto the wooden planks did not rattle as, they so often do after a new floor has ^--� been in service for a few months.W, ,ti?•kjr ��, Y� ' Lit' Loose floor boards are annoying and the looser they become the more dan- gerous they are to traffic, especially horses. Each of the bridges I saw had two fourteen or sixteen inch planks bolt- ed to the floor, so that they provided a smooth track across the floor for all vehicles, having been spaced far enough apart so that the wheels Tan over them in the centre. As few vehicles ever meet on these small bridges there is little difficult to the plan, and it helps wonderfully in preserving all the bridgework. The incessant rattling or vibrating of a bridge tends to weaken its whole 'structure. When our ear slid over these planks it was like riding 'on a pbavement and the bridges did not rat- oards.tie out their complaint of loose floor A single wide two-inch plank is bet- ter than two planks laid side by side.. Where two narrower planks are used they are likely to spread some time Slid catch a wheel between them. The ends may be bevelled to make a smooth approach. If tate planks are: bolted to the floor, in several Peaces, they will be secure. teemed s r,ininmeiil. 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