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The Clinton News Record, 1917-10-11, Page 3RIGIDEMBARGO 4 .1-g BY ALL ALLIES Sending of Supplies. to European Neutrals Absolutely Fhohibited, A despatch, from Washington pays; Great Britain's embargo on the ex-. Port of fill supplies teethe northern BOMBING OF GERMAN TOWS French Prop Projectiles an Baden -Italians Attack Aus- trian Naval Base. A despatet from London Says: 'While British and; iormich airmen con - tinge their bombing operations against European neutral countries, just an- Germany's submarine hese at Zee- nouneed, was declared after every brugge and points of military import - phase of its possible effect was gone mice behind the lines, the French over in conferences between American aviators are keeping up their attack and allied statesmen, on German towns and cities, in re - American officials initiated the dis- prieal fo ilheUiug by German aircraft cussions, and insisted that the British of the open town of B;arr1e-Duc. More real fre ghts'ba 0 included a Brn, per Step be talcentomake sure that there than 15,000 pounde of explosiveat are ton, $85; shorts, go. $421 Middling:1, de!: be no nuhification.ef the purposes the reported to have been dropped! on 48.26, to $40; good keed flour, per ban. United States Government had in numerous Geunan settlementa, among ' Fray -No. 1, new, per ton. $13 to $18; view in putting into operation -its own them the. famous town . of Baden, mixed, do., $9 to $11,track Toronto, , Straw -,-Car lots,/per ton, 57 to 57.50. embargo. famed as a health resort, track Toronto. The step indicated that the allies Likewise the Italians are giving - have united in a decision that the the Austrians little respite from country Proanee-wholeaaie drop' toVot.er-ereamery solids, Per 10., 414 neutrals mut cut off the ehipment aerial incursions, again having prints, per lb, 42. to 42$0; dairy, of all supplies to Germany. Ameri- ped four tons of projectiles on mill- per Ib,, 35 to alt. can officials and some of the allies tory objectives at Pols, the great . es, 2 !' ' o.... VhoiesPitie'rr azr,o3psoning to the retail herei.liave hesitated as to just how Austrian naval base on the Adriatic, trade at the following prices: far to go in demanding ceasation of and bombed other points of military 281 to 23T 28120 Ywit.t trade between the neutrals and Ge- advantage. • .. large, 80o; 'twins fine; • ',inlets, 3030. plets, as to a, 0 , many. At one time it appeared they Butter--Presh iairy, choice, 40 to 410; •• , creamery prints, 4 to 45c; solids, 43 to would ask no ,more than that neither THE APPLE INSTINCT. 439e. allied goods nor materials supplanted out of cartons, 450. .19gifs--New laid, in cartons, 51 to 5201 . Bac i Autumn ThisDelectable ----Fruit pring chickens, 25 by allied commodities bo sold in Ger- . iDressed poultry -S many by the neutrals. to dee; fowl, 20 to .220; squabs, porgies, 1:.. f/./ • ,1.......4,..4.....i. -.L..... . Has Old -Time Charm , t ' 1 SPring. g20, $4 to $4.60; turkeys, 28 te 32c; ducks. Markets of the World • Meadettiffie TOrente, Oct. 9,-Itanitoba wheat - No,' 1 Northern, $2.23; NO. 2, do., 52.20; No. 8, do,, $2.17, in store Port William, inclnding 20 tag. graPititim_Batro--No. C•W., 08ic, Ip store Vert , Ainerjoan eern-.Ne. s yelloW, no:Timm. Ontario oats -,--No, 2 white, 02c, nomi- nal; No, 5, do., 610, nominal, according to freights outside. Ontarle wheat -New, No. 2 Winter; $2.22 beats, hi store, MOntree.1, Peas -No,. 2, ilMninal, 13arley-malting, new, $1.18 to $1.20, according to freights outside. Rye - No. 2, $1,76, according to freights outside, Manitoba ilour-Pirst PatentS, jute begs, 511.50; 2:161, do., 511.00; strong bakers', do„ 810.00, Toronto, Ontario ,fiour-Winter according to sample, $9.80, in bage, Montreal; 59.60, Toronto, prompt shipment. ¥1111e 4 -Car lots -Delivered Mont - GERMAN -ASSAULT serpent, chose ,an apple for the temP7 du, S'Pring, 200 . • • Tt is not withcat reason- that the ohti &ens, ailberT-Turkeys, sza: SPring . Mc; hens, 20 to 22,s; tation (of Even thereby insuriag hie imnieY--Comb-kixtra tine, 16" oz., El) BY HAIG the race ofof success.mnfau Inanewdue a course, 12:18,,No553,84,011: 1Lyear per lb; 10 s' , 17 to llic; 00's, 16i to 17e, RE -PULS when the first shiratig beautiee. an- unBltiean117-t October nudism beans on market im orted, hand- - pear. There is something about an lit:n.6:17.76 per busk; dines, per lb., Enemy. Attack in Polygon Wood apPle that starts a Mighty longing in potatoes, on track-Ontarto, bag, 51.35 Region PrOveS Futile. the human breast; perhaps a tang of to $1.45. A despatch from London says:-.A.n the,high and far -ea times of youth . , morning between TowOr Hamlets and long grasses, wet with early October 81c; do„ heavy, 26 to 27e; cooked, 41 to Proviriono-Wiolesala , attack by the Germans Wednesday which' never quite fade; days.when the Smoked meats -Hams, Medium, 30 to Polygon Wood, following. a vigorous dew,...reluctantly revealed to.the late - 420; rolls, 27 to 280; breakfast bacon, 8c62043t 40et backs, plain, 39 to .400; bone - artillery fire, was repulsed either by rising sun the treasures hid in their 1. s to Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 275 barrage or by British infantry, ac- tangled depths. Days when you utsdinwgarlal?..eris4gg %rot.. 27a. eroding to the report from Field munched apple after apple on your tubs, 261 to 27$0; pails, 27 to 2790.,: 'Marshal Haig. All the British' posi- way to school -and how they chilled 22c; tuba. 213 tions remained intact. The text of your front teeth! -always finishing a ':13tUndi3at'°:28•tg12b2itg. the statement reads: core in time to hit the tenth fence post Mont. 3: e -Eta Tdarketii - "Shortly before dawn the enemy beyond.Oats-Canadian heavily bombarded our positions be- Blit you saved the ripest treasure, N-yrsotnrk Oct.,n,fi' Western, eed,976c,;: No.;2N1C:Caal. iv61131;te,V tween Tower Hamlets and Polygon polished with care and dubious sleeve, No. 1 11,:itelcf111.7111.1,e, 710. Barley-Manito- Wood; afterwards his infantry at- for the adornment of Teacher's desk. gartZ.,0146004.seconds, 511.10; strong opened vigorously, and on the greater choicest offering upon the altar of pe - the Menin Road, where a few of the neglected. When the tutelary deity 48:8°. te--$5°.°1 mcainie e53.00`gi8 o nr2,.0r.o. c21,.:sear tgle:tr leout enemy succeeded in passing tlumugh turned from the blackboard and actu- 11.50ito 1 erns, 2iie; finest Easterns, 213o. Bisit- the barrage, they were completely re- ally droppedber chalk in her delight, ter -Choicest creamery, 45 to Oho; tempted to adVance, Our artillery Was it always a bribe, that best, that Flour-Manitoimmgrtlin4 N8vtgilit tiVeln3ts2; patents, part of the front the assault broke dagogy? How you pined for it in se- $12.00; straight rollnetresr. do., bags, 55.60 to 56.75. Roiled oats - down before reaching our lines. cret, longed to bite into ite seductive Bbls. 58.30' do., bags 90 lbsildh00.. "In the area immediately north of redness; but only while it lingered 13ran: 535.00'. Shorts, 54'0.00, Mi pulsed by our infantry. Our posi- tions are fated. "There has been great artillery ac- tivity on both sides during the day east of Ypres." GERMANS HAVE NEW TANK ARMED WITH 8 -INCH CANNON. A despatch from the French Front M France says; The Germans are ex- perimenting with a tank armed with a throe -inch cannon and machine guns. The forward end of the tank is fitted with a spur -like ram, while the upper part bears a superimposed cupola, and the armored plates descend suffi- ciently to' protect the caterpillar wheels, which thus are almost in- visible. EX -KING OF GREECE GIVES •-• TO JEWISH FUND. A despatch from Zurich, Switzer- land, says: Former King Constantine of Greece issued from his retirement to announce a gift of 1,000 francs to the Jewish refugees from the Salonika fire. NEW GOVERNOR NAMED FOR NEWFOUNDLAND. A despatch from St. John's Nfld., says: The appointment of Sir Charles Harris to be Governor of Newfound- land is officially announced. He will succeed Sir Walter Davidson. HOUSES IN TOKIO WRECKED BY TYPHOON. A despatch from London says: A Shanghai despatch says that as a re- sult of a typhoon which swept over Tokio on Monday, 100,000 are home- less, and that 138 are dead and 217 missing. Testing Sense of Touch. There are feelings and feelings, Some folks have very sensitive feel- ings; others are morally tougher. But if the question is physical merely, how delicate is your "feel -sense" -in other words, your sense of touch? A simple contrivance used by the psycho -physicist to determine this point is a little stick with a thread-. fishpole and line in miniature, On the end of the thread (in lieu of a hook) is a bit of cork. The fishpole is held in such a way as to allow the bit of cork to come gently into contact with your skin. If you don't feel it, trial is made' with a big- ger piece of cork. It is really the weight of the cork that tells the story, and the smallest piece you are able to feel registers the degree of delicacy of Your touch -sense. it wasn't a bad world after all, and seconds, 4.4ac, Bggs-irresh, 58 to 64c, you wouldn't have the prize back for teileletgc1. r.tgot,sT0 g0.411e.stfgfLt2sto a king's ransom. How the heart warmed and expanded when you per- mitted it to be nosed about that the mysterious donor of the Biggest 4.pple was none other than yourself, Little did the admiring populace realize how your Eivid little soul reached out through your proud and haughty •de- meanor to gather up hungrily every atom of glory. If Teacher knew her pupil -and it is surprising to remember how thor- oughly she did understand your shy boy soul -she would detain you on a casual pretext at recess time. She "never could eat all of it herself," but if you would help her out? Of course, if she put it that way, the magnanim- ous benefactor must comply with the lady's request. Which circumstance may help to explain the daily pres- ence thereafter on het desk of a suc- cession of apples; until the grass dried up and the frosts came, and one's nand turned to other things than wo- men. The mists of memory dissolve, but the apple comes every year, bringing joy to the hearts of all who love its personality even better than its taste. Whether ono knows a Baldwin from a Spitsbergen, a King from a Russet - whether the autumns of boyhood found us answering the bell on the little red schoolhouse or the summons of some metropolitan hall of learning, they bring to all alike the instinctive apple hunger, which we must satisfy, as willing victims of a worthy passion, Neutrals' Exports to Germany. Of the total of animal fats used in 1916 in Denmark for the manufacture of margarine, 90.9 per cent, were im- ported from the United States. The total Danish production of margarine in 1916 was 124,781,620 pounds, ac- cording to data received by the 'United States Food Administrator, The sub- stitution of this margarine for butter allowed the exportation of all the but- ter produced, except 8.6 per cent., much of this ,exportation going into Germany. Holland, also a dairy coun- try, in 1918 produced 396,828,000 pounds of margarine, of which 330,- 690,000 pounds were exported. Of the 154,322,000 pounds of Holland but- ter produced, the exportations amounted to 92,593,200 pounds, How greatly these exports were to Ger- many's benefit can only be surmised. When making bread always warm the basins and flour. The bread will he much lighter. Plough early in the autumn and then disk the land thoroughly where corn is to be planted next year in order to combat the corn root aphis. 0.01[2131WWWW511.1151211.a=,,W.R.,... Per bag, oar lots, 51.60, winnieeir Grain Winnipeg, Oct. 9. -Cash prices: - Wheat -No. 1. Northern, 52.21; No. 2, do., $2.18; No. 8, do, $2,15; No. 4, ;1.94; No. 5, 51.85; feed, '51.73. Oats -No, 2 C.W., 6810; No. 8, do., 6530; extra No. 1 feed, 6530; No. 1 feed, 6400; No. 2, do., 6330. Barley -No, 8 C.W., $1.22; No. 4, do., 51.19; rejected and feed, $1.11. Flax -No. 1 N.-W.C., $3.10; No, $3.04; No. 3, do., $2.93. Baited States Markets minneapons, Oct. 9. -Corn -No. 3 yel- low, $1.91 to 91.92. Oats -No 8 white, 682 to 609o. Flour-Panoy notents,-511. Bran -530 to $86. Duluth, Oct. 9. - Linseed -53.211; October, $3.21 asked; November, 53.211, asked; Deceniber, 53.155 bid. 'Live Stook Markets Toronto, Oct. 9. -Extra :Moles heavy steers, 511.76 to 512.60; do., good heavy, 111 to 511.60; butchers' cattle, choice, 10.10 to 51040; do.. good, 59,50 to 9.86; do., medium, 58,60 to 58.75; do., common, $6.75 to 57.40; butchers' bulls, choice, 58.80 to $8.75; do., good bulls, 57.40 to 57.85; do., medium bulls, 56.85 to 57.10; do., rough bulls. 55 to 50; butchers' COWS, choice, $8.25 to 58.75; do., good, $7,50 to $7.75; do., medium, $6.60 to 50.75; stockers, 57.60 to $8.75; feeders, 58.50 to 59,26; canners and cut- ters, 56 to 56.50; iniliters, good to choice, 90 to $1251 clo„ com, and med., $75 to 86; Springers, 590 to $126; light ewes, 9.60 to 511.50; sheep, heavy, 55.75 to 7.80; yearlings, 911 to $12; calves, good to choice, 515 to $15.50; Spring lambs, 516 to 517; hogs, fed and water- ed, 518.76; do., weighed off oars, 519; do., f.o.b., $17.75. Montreal, Oct. 9.-Ohoice steers, 510.25 to $10.50; good, 50.76 to $10; letwer grades, 58 to 59; butchers' cows, $8,50 to 58.25; bulls, $7 to $8,501 canners bulls, 56.40 to 56.60; canners. cows, $6 to 55.25; Ontario lambs, 514.60to 514.76; Quebec lambs, $13.50 to 914; sheen. $8 to 50.50; milk -fed calves, $10 to 514; selected hogs, $18.25 to 518.75. RUSSIAN FUEL GROWING SCARCE All Street Car Traffic Has Been Cut One Hour a Day. A despatch from Washington says: Strenuous efforts are being made in Russia to conserve all fuel resources. Petrograd, according to a despatch from W. C. Huntington, United States Commercial Attache at the Russian Capital, is being brought under strict fuel regulation. All street car traffic has been cut one hour a day, A fur- ther regulation compels the railroad companies to observe a rate, of speed that saves coal. The decreased speed rule is credited with surprising re- sults. It is reported that it saves eighteen per dent. of fuel, that thirty per cent. fewer cars are laid up, and a decrease in daily expenditures of 3,000 roubles is secured. Turning something up beats waiting for something to turn up. Remarkable Photo Shows Bombing of German Munition Depot IrrHIS remarkable photo was taken inside the German lines front the aero- plane of the aviator who made a mid on a great Bootie ammunition depot. The daring aviator 4tarting out on the apparently reckless adventure of get- ting by the Grerraan lines and successfully bombing the Teuton stores 'of Munitions, flew to a point above the depot and dropped quantities of in- bendiary bombe while the Germans keptfiring a terrific fusilade at him. despite that danger he kept at his task and earned his reword when he kaw the munition store house burst late flames. The smoke from the burning tepot can be seen ascending in the photograph. The aviator returned to bis own linea safely but his 11'4...chine was badly damaged. • PROGRESS OF U.S. SHIPBUILDING Ten Months Gained in Building of Destroyers -Ready Early in 1918. A despatch from Washington says: -Such remarkable progress has been made in the quick building of the im- mense flotilla of America destroyers to cope with the submarine campaign that the Navy Department now is as- sured of much quicker delivery of the ships than was contemplated at the last estimate, which in itself was far ahead of the original time. Progress on the ships now building and arrange- ments for others to follow, it is said at the Navy Department, are such that the American navy will lead the world with its destroyers within eighteen months. It is now certain that all destroyers now building will be delivered ready for duty in European waters early next year. Many of then had not been expected until the winter of 1918. Approximately, ten months had -been saved. SOLDIERS ALL. "Fisherman, mend your nets For the day's trawling! Cod and menhaden run Thick for the hauling!" "Yes, but beyond the mists Bugles are calling." "Writer, the world would count You with its sages! Far from the shock of war, Toil for the ages!" "No -I must write my life On Freedom's pages!" "Surgeon, you cannot go! Hear the sick pleading! 'Tis not for such as you Bullets are speeding!" "Hush -for I see in France Liberty bleeding!" "Mother, keep back your lad, Though his mates scorn him! Better their jeers than that Your heart should mourn him!" "Cease -for his country's cause My arms have borne him!" "Pastor, now more and more Men need your preaching! How shall they find their souls If you stop teaching?" "Yet, on His battle line God is beseeching!" -D. M. Henderson, Efficient Agriculture With the most efficient agriculture in the world, Denmark is devoted al- most exclusively. to crops and herds. It not only obtains the highest aver- age results per acre in the cultivation of the soil, but also uses the agricul- titrel production as raw material for a national industry In further manufac- tufe. It is in the finished form of butter, cheese and other food products that contain more labor value and less raw material that Denmark exports the output of its agricultural and herd- ing industry. Two-thirds of the population are engaged in agricultural pursuits or in handling agricultural products. From Erin's Green Isle .01.4.•10.,111 NEWS Fa MAIL FROM IRS LAND'S SHORES. atinPenings In the Emerald Isle 01 Interest to Irish- men. Farmers'. societies have been form- ed at Ballycullane, Adamstown and Rathmoro, in the county of Wexford. The Cork I.D.A. Executive have under consideration the establishing of an aircraft industry in that di:1- trict. At a mooting of the North Dublin Tinton it was decided that all women workers be given four shillings a week as a war bonus Solna of the Dublin retail tea es- tablishments had to close their doors on a recent Saturday, owing to the heavy rush of business. The Islandanny bridge, which spanned the River Peale from there to Duagh, has been swept away by un- usually heavy floods. Lady Barrett, wife of Sir W. F. Bar- rett, has been made the recipient of the new Order of the Commander of the British Empire. P. Nolan, secretary of a local enter• tainment, was fined 112 at the Por- tarlingtOn Sessio'ns for failure to col- lect the entertainment tax, Owing to the great scarcity of milk, the price of butter has increased thir- teen shillings per firkin at the Nenagh butter IAarket. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed S. C. Perry, J.P., Dublin, to be an hononary lieutenant of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The allotment holders at Cherie- ville passed a vote of thank e to Dr. Robert, of Sanders, for securing a field and providing seed potatoes for the poor. The sum of £37 was raised at Portadown by th.e sale cif flowers in aid of the Cripples' Institute and Homes of Rest at Belfast and Bangor. A very successful fete was held on the grounds of the Howth Lawn Ten- nis Club in aid of the British Red Cross Society and St. John Ambulance Association, No Advance Payments. You'll never make • A single sou By any deed You're going to do. On what you've done Lies fortune's chance Life never pays Us in advance. The Sunshine Path. A sunny path winds past my door, 'Tis brightened either side By flowers of peace and happiness, And nooks where songsters hide. I planned the sunshine path myself, Its borders and its bowers; I planted little seeds of love, And God sent me the flowers. 'A spoonful of lard in boiling starch prevents its sticking in the ironing. Beeswax, covered with several thick- nesses of cloth rubbed on the hot iron prevents the starch collecting on it If clothes are sprinkled with hot Water they iron better, WILL eb•cid. 2i. 11 NEWS FROM ENGLA ,ND NEWS xi* num A/301.110 JOHN .nrAb 4NP ram PEQPLE Occurrences in the Lund That Reigns Supreme in the Comma - Lodgers in England who buy their own food, Will be allowed to get their own sugar cards, The Parkinson Stove Co.; of 1341:n- 121511am, were fined £112 for improper - 13' using 001/Per in the manufacture of Waiter heaters. , _Lord Rouudway has become presi- dent of the Association '(..f Wiltshire - men in London, in euceesaion to the late Sir It Burbidge, The Board of Agriculture says that children under twelve years of age should not be released from school at- tendance, M. C. Luschene, P.S.I„ of Farnham Common, has been appointed honor- ary secretary of the Royal English Arbor' cultural Society. Capt, P, Hurley, who was photo- grapher to Sir E. Shackleton's Antarc- tic Expedition, has been appointed photographer to the Australia forces, The British Government have had 437 aeroplanes and seaplanes given as gifts from different parts of the Em- pire since the beginning of the war. The Royal Humane Society's cer- tificate has been awarded to Marie Sharrat of Windsor, for jumping into the Thames and rescuing a child. Col. H. B. 0. Savile, one of the old- est officers in the Royal Artillery, was buried with military honors at Bristol. Owing to the shortage of paper the new London telephone directory will not be published before January next A memorial to the Southend air raid VictilusiS being erected in the grounds of Prittlewell Priory. Of eight new magistrates appointed for Dudley, Worcestershire, three of them represent labor. An Army Connell order has directed the release of a certain quantity of sole leather for civilian use. At an education conference at Bed- ford, Lady Betty Balfour stated that it took her children nine years to learn to write aud,nine more to learn to spell. W. Courtald, of Essex, has given 12,000 to the Braintree School, as scholarships, on condition that no son of a German parent shall ever benefit by them. For rescuing two of the crew of a British shipwrecked vessel, Hans Jer- genson, a Swedish captain, was pre- sented with a pique of plate by the British Board of Trade. -0-- END OF A FAMOUS LINE Almost a Century Since the Allan Line Had Its Inception • THE STORY OF THE ‘`TANKS" BOW iWS INGENIOUS PEITIcE GOT ITS -NANO. Col. E D. Swinton Tells Of Origin 114; Caterpillar Traieter a Decade Ago. The following are extraets from an 'article on the "tanks" in the Strand Magazine by Col. 10. D. Swin-' ton, their instructor; "Why 'tank'?" Why should a fight- ing automobile have been so inappro, prjately named? The reply can be given in two worde-for secrecy. In its experimental stage the machine was known as e "land cruiser" or. "landship." But it is a military plati- tude that the "element of aurprise"-1 Eta it is always called in the text-booka -has immense value in war; and MI was naturally realized that the great- est results to be expected from the launahed un- expectesily, be attained if it could be ..1 employment of this new weapon would expectedly, so that the enemy might be caught unprepared to meet it. Various rumors about the new ma- chines were current amongst those who got wind of them, One was that they were intended to carry wa- ter for the troops across the deserts of Egypt and Mesopotamia. A second hinted at snowploughs for use on the, Russian front. Those German Nicknames. With the complete merger of the Allan Line in the Canadian Pacific company, one of the oldest of house flags disappears from the seas. It was in 1819 that Alexander Allan sent out his first little brig, the Jean, from Greenock to Quebec. Soon after he had five ships in commission, and from that day to this the Aliens have play- ed a large part in the development of trade between Great Britain and Canada. Later on they established services to Philadelphia and to Boston, but the line remained, essentially Canadian. Although it was not a direct com- petitor with such great lines as the Cunard and the White Star -for the former remained out of the Canadian trade for many years and has only re- cently returned to it -the Allan Line was nevertheless a pioneer in a num- ber of improvements in steamship con- struction which travelers have long taken as matters of course. Thus the first steel steamship to cross the Atlantic was the Buenos Ayrean, built in 1879, two years before the Cunard- er Servia. The Parisian, built in 1881 was the first to have bilge keels. The Allan Line left to others, to be - sure, the amazingincreases in size and speed which have marked the last quarter of a century. It did not join in the race for records which be- gan with the Etruria and Umbria, and which led to the building of the Teu- tonic and Majestic, the City of New York and the City of Paris (now the New York and Philadelphia), the Deutschland, and finally such mon- sters as the Lusitenia and Mauretania, the Olympic and Vaterland. But in 1881 the Parisian was the most famous ship of the whole At- lantic fleet for beauty -a fine staunch vessel, still afloat in the service of the British Government. And the later and larger ships -the Virginian was the first steamship in the At- lantic service with turbine engines - were always well equipped and com- fortable. These will probably cross the ocean for many years to come under the Canadian Pacific flag. But many will regret that a name with such a record of honorable achieve- ment as Allan is to be only a memory. Up to the present 49,600 Iron Crosses of the first class and 2,200,500 of the second class have been awarded. WICRE212.t.C.II.I.StIWISRIGWWWW11WPIIWAVISWWWWW 0+0 llaRz cokiEs DELLA PAD1 Ib LOT SiLL4 TALK I sUkPoSa ,tles.1.11/N4P-`1"01-Istsa Oa 6 &ICA A GIDW 'VW DELL A 16 A MIGHTY isiSLE GIRL 14tdIrT4 01-1 11E0.0- I JUST STOPPED To SOW 10V HJIM)41 ", )41 NEM PET - 685 I CARRM 41114 141 MUFF 114 SAME.- AS MRs. 081211011 CASTLE BS DAR/MP Itilud ISA Lotel I MUST gUld ALONG NOW, I'Vm GOT To GET HOM5 AND GIVE JI/41.41 NIS BATS- eoov »1 E w 1 , cos. AM 111 nfiLLA3, i., GOODEME I RN/U. NUTHINC To SAI -- N011-611-1G 10 le' 3. '71%" One good point common to both the German home-made equivalent terms' of "tank" is that they do not lend, themselves to the making, of lyrics, for neither "Pangerkraftwagah° " nor " Schutzengrabenvernichtungsautomo- bil" is likely to be used as the refrain' of a topical song id concert halls. The machines were yet otherwise miscalled. During the summer of 1916 an enemy agent, trying to tapi the wires in England, might havei been mystified to pick up some such' messages as: "Twelve Willies reach you to -day," or "Send tails for six females." "Petrograd, With Care." To help to conceal the destination of the tanks at the stage when any allusion to their purpose was preclud- ed, they were painted with the in- scription: "With care; to Petrograd" in large Russian characters. This, of course, was merely following up the line suggested by the snowplough fic- tion. It is true that certain people who are not soldiers have played a very large and valuable part in creating the tank. It is also true that others who are soldiers have not done so. But the first to appreciate the neces- sity for it, to urge its provision, and to insist on the feasibility of its con- struction, wore, in fact, soldiers. So far as tho writer is aWare, the first definite proposal for a fighting machine on the lines of the existing tank was due to the appearance of the Hornsby -Ackroyd- caterpillar trac- tor, which was tested for military traction purposes in England in 1906- 1908. It was made by a military offi- cer and was carried up to the stage of the preparation of sketch drawings, when the project died for want of support. Like Mr. Wells, he was ahead of his time. Are of Both Sexes. The tanks are divided into males and females. The male is par excel- lence the machine-gun hunter and de- stroyer. He carries light, quick -firing guns capable of firing shell, and is in- tended to be to the machine gun what the torpedo boat destroyer was de- signed to be te the torpedo boat, or the ladybird is supposed to be to the aphis. The female, which, in accord- ance with the laws of nature, is the man -killer, carries nothing but ma- chine guns for employment against the enemy personnel. Her special role is to keep down hostile rifle fire. Act As An Antidote. The tanks have supplied the touch of comic relief and excited the mirth of the British soldier, always blessed with a keen sense of the ridiculous. They acted as an antidote to the ef- fect of the "Jack Johnsons," "Weary Willies," "Silent Susiee," "Whizz Bangs," "Sausages," "Rum Jars," tear shells, gas shells, and all the other frightfulnesses of the unspeak- able Botha. They counteracted the wearinesa, the hunger and thirst, the dust, the mud, and all the squalor and filthy discomfort of war. FRANCE AND BRITAIN. Whole -Hearted Co-operation Existin All Ranks of Both Aratiee. Ono of the perennially amazing features of this unprecedented war is the closeness of the co-operation between the British and French sol- diers from the highest ranks to the lowest. There is a solidarity on the French front which extends from Switzerland to Belgium, and which could not be closer if the occupants of all the airplanes were of one race and one language. The people of "La belle France" have widespread among them the courtesy of their race, while the Briton is apt to remain the typical overriding "John Bull," but that mat - tars no longer. Linguistically they get along as best they can, and when words fail they can always find some effective subsItutet This singular international bon-, homie is based on the mutual admire.; tion of the soldiers for their respective, achievements as Allies. The French have a profound admiration for the British, and that this feeling is re- turned with interest is well shown by Col. Itepington's recent whole -hearted but rational appreciation of what haa been accomplished by the Verdun French army under the masterly leadership of General Potain. ' "The science oO French gunners,", said dol. Bepington, "has a world. Wide reputation, The French infantry, in attack are still peerless. The tor, rent -like rapidity of their assault II( like nothing else cm earth."