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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1917-10-25, Page 3WEERLY WAR PICTURE , 7 SOMika;),,4:0415....AggiSaaWkr.,4 B. Machine gunners waiting in an anti-aircraft ambush on the Marne front, This sandbag -walled and well -like Pit is placed below One of the routes often followed by German ah. pilots. French official photograph. GREAT BRITAIN PERFECTS PLANS OR AIR REPRISALS ON GEN Redelisteticted Air Ministry Will Meati Better Distributibil Of 1111aChirfeS Among 'Flight Units. • A despatch frem London says: I could be used in raids upon German Great Britain's reconstructed Air town.e Ministry, which soon will be an- Coincidental with the reorganization flounced in tke Reuse of Commons, of the'air Service there NOR 51o:several probably will act as balm for several changes in-the'flyibg-rnen'e uniforms. 1111050$14 Commoners who have been' greatly In future -pilots probably Will be pro- . 'wrought up over the Goverinnent's vided With garmmtts. far more suit- delay,a:nailed/ie. reprisals for rade able for high altitudes- .than ...these ., . tip8M London Under the reConStruc- wornto clay Owing .* to the' great tion,:plem it is belived there will be a heights alhrien must attaiM, under Vatteraid f more equitable distri- modern con'ffitiene they MOed crothinl bution of machines amonFtlie various that is heavier • arid at the:sage' tiin flight units. It is known many land is adaptable to quick- change or' re= machines controlled by the Admiralty moval. • FOOD SHORTAGE THREATENS ITALY Require Imports of 3,000,000 Tons of Wheat Before ; • Next HarVest. A. 'despatch from Turin says: The Italian Parliament has reopened its sessions at Rome under peculiar cir- cumstances, two facts being so prom- • inent as even to make a Ministerial crisis Possible. Owing to ,their nature • they will probably be discussed only in secret session. One has to do with serious riots which occurred in Turin the latter part of August, due in part to the delay in providing the town 01101.111' with sufficient bread, and, in part, to • political discontent. 'The other question Concerns the general food crisis throughout Italy, which led to the resignation of the food controller, Guiseppe Canepri; whose place has been taken by Gen- eral Alfieri. TRAIN CROSSES QUEBEC BRIDGE. A despatch from Quebec says: Even after the successful linking of the two, huge cantilevers of the Que- bec bridge by the central span last month, there were still skeptics who .,,fared a mishap when traffic was al- lowed to roll across the' largest bridge Hospital at Calgary has now a very $7.75 to $8,25: butchers bulls, choice HUNS PUNISH VILLAGERS Markets of the Wail!' Bresdatuffi' ,a4erentO1'.0.41i, S24-4'iranitoba wheatr, Np, 1 Nord:bro, 82225; No 2 do,. $2020.1 4404'0,‘,Fa;$ I joi'Uding tai,' No,'8 do 22:114 o. 4 whotit g',fit„p0?! it mat:Reba, eats—No: 2403Y., ieM 3 C.W., 6019; extra, No, 1 feed, 'Polio,' No. 1 feed, 6260, imetore Vort American corm—No, 3 yellOW, nami. net ,ontarle eats—Ne: 2 white. 33 20 00, according to freights out;4149. npmlnaI Isio, 8 eq., 62 to Um nonlinal: Ontario wheat --Now, No. s Wimer, $2.2s; basis. more, Montreal? Bitale—y—NOMu2itinnbeh2411.''16 to 5148, ac- cording to freights outside, No. 2, 21.72, according to freights '0Utside, difanitoba ileur—Firat Datente, In b(1433„ $i1,3p; 210, 811.90; strong bakers', do.,"210.60, Toronto, ,Ontario flour — eeoorgiostO Munple, 29,80, in begs, Montreal; 29,60, Toronto, Prom% Mildnient. _ Milifeed—Car lots, deliVerea real freighte, bags included—Bran, per ton,135; shorts, do., 242; Middlings, dot, a3i0.to $46; good feed flour, par bag. Hay—No, 1, now, *per ton„ $12,60 to $13,50; mixed, do., $10 to 212, Creek To. teasetirot'Twotonatro:IPts' 9" ton ' 87 to $7.50, Country produce—Who/mit 40 Buttei—Oretiinery, •solids,••per, to .48el lint? eer lb. 431to 44c; dairy, .per lb., Eggii—Per,doz., 80 to 400. Wholesalern, are soiling to the retail trade at the following prices Cheese—'NOW, large, 23 to 2310; twins„ 213i tq 231; .triplets, 238 to 24o; old,' large, 300; tiv,ine.`30te; triPlet0, 900. Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 40 to 41c; creamery prints; 46 to 460; 44 to 46c. , Bggs—N411v,,Inid,' in cartons, 61 to 636; out of cartons, 450. Dressed; poultry ---Spring •chickens, ,26 to 30o• fowl, 29 to 220; savages, per doz., .$4. .to .$4.50; turkeys,' 28 60 120; ducks. Spring, 220;;,.geese, 12c. Live pbultry—Turkeys. 22c; Spring chiCkens, lb., 20e; hend„ 16 to 800; ducks,, Siding, .160; ,ggese, 12o„, Honey,--CombExtra line, 16 oz., $3.261; 12eoz., $2„75; ;No. 2.42.40 to $2.52. Strained, tins, 28'S.and l's, 188 to 19e Per kb; •10's`178 toile; CO'S; 17 to 1730. Bbans—hToi Canadian • beans 941; market until haat of October; importhd hand-71geldid, 27:60^per bigih; Lim'ap,' per PotatoeS, on traoli=-Ontarto. bag: 11.95 'to 21.66. Smoked ineritellama, medium. SO to Slo; do., heavy, 26 to 27e; cooked, 41 to 42dr rolls;"23. •to. 2.8.6;..breakeast,,baeOl.h. 38 to 400; backs, plain, 14°4 to 40c, bone- less, 43 to 44o. Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 278 to 280 lb; cleat bellies, 268 to 270. Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 260 to 270; tubs, 261 to 2780; pails, 27 to 2760; corn- 3ounct, tierbes, 22 to 2280; tubs. 228 to People Gave Their Only Food, Apples, to British Prisonbra. Amsterdam, Oct. 18,—The Gerniane have punished Isegem. English pris- oners. traversed Roulers Street, a thickly populated qintrter of Ise - gem, stepping out, says the Tete- graaf's correspondent; with head erect. The people rushed out of doors. They had little food left but apples, which they gave the British. The wo- men and girls ran to the prisoners, slipping apples into their hands. The Germans threatened the ciViliani oath the bayonet. The people then threw the fruit from a distance. The. Ger- mans ordered the dwellers on Roulers Street tcr-do. all their errand's before nine in the morning, after which they. must remain the whole day indoinle,- with windows 'closed. The Gernien authorities were furious, and posted -a notice on the walls forbidding th,e least demonstration when prisoners pass. TRAINING FARMERS AT OGDEN. Calgary Makes Fine Return For Plow- ing Done by Soldier Students. The vocational training department of the Ogden Military, Convalescent 29c; 228 to 290. Montreal. Markets Montreal, Oct, 23 — Oats —Canadian western, No. 2, 76 to 7680; do., No, 8, 748 'to 75c; extra N2, 1 feed, 748 to 750; do., No., 2 local white, 72e; do„ No. 8 local 'white,'71,o, Barley—Malting, $1.30 to $1.81. Flair—Man, Spring wheat patents, firsts, $11.60; seconds, 211.10; strong bakers', $10.90; Winter patents, choice, 911.25; straight rollers, $10.70 to 211.00; do., bags, $6.20 to 25.36. Rolled oatsbarrels, 2830 to $8,40; do., bags,' 90 ibti, 24.00 to $4,10. Bran, 285. Shorts, 940 'to 242. Middlings, $48 40 $50. Mmtl111.3,, 255 to $60. Hay—No. 2, per ton, Oar lots, $12,00 to 212.50. Cheese—Finest westerns, 2110; do,, easterns, 211e. Butter—Cholcest cream- ery, 46 to 4680; seconds, 4560. Eggs— Fresh, 68 to 540; selected. 47 to 4.80; No. 1 stock, 43 to 440; No. 2 stook, 40 to 41c. Potatoes—Per bag, car lots, 27.15, Winnipeg 010471 •Win,rtipeg, Oct. 23—Cash prices Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 22.21; No, 2 Northern, $2.18; No, 3 Northern, 22.16; $3.07; No. 6, 81.436; feed, $1,80. Oats—No, 2 0.w., 661c; No' 3 C.W, 681c; extra No. 4. feed, 000c; No. 1 feed, 0280; No. 2 feed, 6280. United States markets Minneapolis, Oct. 23—Corn—No. 3 yel- low; 2186 to $1.87. Oats—No. B white, 676 to 5980. Flour—Fancy patents, WM; drat clears, 25.75; second clears, $5.75. Bran -230 to $30.50. Duluth, Oct. 23—Linseed, 23.06 to 28.09; arrive$3.07; October, $3.06 bid: November, 21.06 bid; December, $2.998 bid; May, $3.02 asked. Live Stook Markets Toronto, Oct. 23—Extra choice heavy steers, $11.50 to 212.25; do., goOd heayy, 511 to $11.35; butchers' cattle, choice, 210 to 910,59; do., good, 99.40 to $9.75; do:. medium. 28,75 to $D; do.. 0000011011, in the world. Well their fears were fine basic equipment for. teaching re- 11:18; thdos.8;11'. afg, tt7.0.1O knocked to atoms when, without the turned solders gas and steani engine do., roturh bulls, 26 to $6; butchers' slightest hitch or inconvenience a railway train crossed the Quebec Bridge from north to south and then north again over the two tracks that have been laid from shore to shore. The, supreme testing had no official character, only a few of the. Quebec Bridge Commission and the staff of engineers that carried the work through being present, HEALTH OF SALONICA ARMY BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. A despatch from London says: It is understood that the health and .sani- tary conditions of the Entente forces in Salonica are better than ever be- fore. There is no epidemie, no plague, and no typhoid. In the suppression of typhoid, use has been made of a new serum based on oil, which has given very satisfactory results. A French •army report estimates that for the whole French army the average num- ber of typhoid cases has been reduced to less than thirty. 18 BRITISH SHIPS WERE SUNK BY SUBMARINES. A despatch from London says: Twelve British merchant vessels over -1,600 tons were sunk by mine or sub- marine in the week ending Oct. 17, according to the statement of the Brit- ish Admiralty. . Six vessels tinder 1,600 tons and one fishing vessel were sunk. In the previous week fourteen ves- sels over 1,600 tons, two under that tonnage and three fishing vessels were sunk operation as applied to farming, and °nig, fohoiri5f8.2560t.o1:15u;hi,dool000ttid the men have had considerable prac- 16.75; stockers, $7.50 to 58,50; teeters, tics in breaking and stubble plo$ving $8.59 to 29,n canners andcutters, $5 to $2,76; m ers, gotgl to ch Mee, $90. 0 under practical conditions. ...' to $125; do„ corn, and med., 975 to $85; A small field -near the Institute was , .r.igirratut7,95 to 8125; to 110,50; plowed for a farmer who paid for the sheep, heavy, $5.75 to 27.5e; yearlings, 2si wll:0Vgas and oil consuned, and the garden t1$1g:Ms i good tse6.5 plots at Ogden hive been plowed. Now hogs, fed and watered, $18 to 818.25 arrangements have been made with do., 4.0,11., 217.26. do., weighed off ears, 918.25 to 218.50 the municipality to plow a 50 -acre plot Montreal, Oct. 23—Choice steers, $10.50 tfor the city of Calgary, which in re- ,ora.2drs:70$;0.7rdiuMeg Mt!' 28.17°5w t; turn is to extend certain courtesies to 93.60; bulls, $7.25 to 58,75; Ontario the Institute, among which are enu- 12aabt 811 to 91s5bleeii, Qgbeteo merated the promise of concrete choice 1011k -fed calves, $14 to $15 blocks with which to floor the garage,' Sower grades, 28; selected hogs, 217.50 to $18,26, and the loan of some steam engine equipment and a water tank to go with the Institute's steam thrashing engine. Plans are madefor the men -to plough a 50 -acre plot for the Veteran's Club this fall and during the winter, Dr. James Miller, the vocational train- nesday between the French and the ing officer, expects to be able to se- Germans. Eleven German aeroplanes cure the temporary loan of traction were driven down by French aviators, engines from practically all the firms making a total of 36 destroyed up to dealing in this line of equipment. that time this week. The German FRENCH AIRMEN DRIVE DOWN 36 MACHINES IN THREE DAYS A despatch from London says: In- tensive air fighting took place Wed - MOSQUITO IS ACTIVE ON MACEDONIA FRONT. A despatch from Amsterdam says: The activities of the mosquito along the Macedonian fighting front are de- scribed as unbearable by a correspond- ent 'of the Bulgarian newspaper Mir. The correspondent fully approves of the British evacuation. of the Lower Struma. 4. British West Africa exports near- ly 20,000,000 gallons of palm oil am- nually. War Office asserts that thirteen French °machines were sent to earth, Numerous air raids also have been carriecrout by French aviators against German positions behind the lines, while Nancy again has been bombed by the‘Germans. FROM OLD SCOTLAND prcorEs OF XN'PEREST PRO111" TIER • BANKS AND BRADS. What' is' GoineOplia the Highlands and!' Lowlaiidd• Atilit Seale. The Victoria Cross has been award- ed to Seedncl Lieutenant John IVfoutson Craig; Colarie. Colonel ,MaC.Barnett is spending his four, menthe of sick leave at hie home, Altrua,InveFgloy, A, three'dayir fill held at Strachur, Loclifybe,' realiied £800 for comforts for Highlancrseldiere. The late CaPtain P. Haile; K.O.$,B., hag won the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to dity. Captain J. Hislop, MIC., who was re- cently in action/ was a son of J, of Cabe,* formerly • of Peelings. - , RO'bert Guthrie' and T. B. Crichton Sinith.haVe 'been aPpointed' agents' for the poor by the Procuratore of Rox- buighshire. K. Fiennintle Stuart, Royal Scots, repotted' killed, was a cadet of the family of the Marquis of Bute. DavidtAnderson has been appointed sheriff of Renfro* and Bute, in the place of Jt.. 0: M. Mackenzie:. Captain. Joseph Patterson Lusk, R.A.M.C„ of Lochvale,, Dumfries, has been awarded the Military Cross, Captain J. D. Clapham, Royal Seas, has been awarded the Military Medal and praineted tO'the rank of Major: • Second Lieutenant Arthur roud- foot,' son of the Ostinaeter a Allort, has been mentioned in despatches from' 015 front: The death took place recently at his residence, Fotheringham, ' Dr. 3. Anderson, a well-known practition- er in Stranraer. Fire at Spittalrig farmsteatling burned the straw, cattle barns and granaries, doing damage in all to the extent of £2,100. .A. Red Cross garden party given at Otterburn, near 1.1oreland, was the means of realizing £140 for Red Cross work. The proceeds of an open air con- cert and dance given at Langholm in aid of soldiers' comforts amounted to £816. George Wight, of Ecclaw, and for the past three years a mining engin- eer in the Malay Peninsula, has re- turned home to enlist in the army. • Major George Harold Hay, Royal Scots, who has been awarded the D.S.O., is a cadet of the family of the Marquis of Tweeddale. Work has been resumed in the Sil- ver Grey and Globe Quarries, at Creetown, where work had been6sus- pended for sonie time. Private John .A.M.C., who has been awarded the Oliver,'Military Medal, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oliver, of Hawick. Private John McLellan, 7th Cam erons, Millhouse, is the first in the district to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the field, A sum of nearly £'700 was realized at a free gift sale held by the Lauder- dale and West' Berwick Agricultural Society and opened by Lady Waring. A concert given in French's, Hall, Reston, realized the sum of £38 in aid of the Red Cross Society. Captain Thomas E. Heron, only son of J. W. Heron, chairman of Stirling Parish Council, has been awarded a bar to the Military Cross. Mrs. Robert Forrester, of Anns- field, has collected '200 umbrellas, which she has forwarded to the larger military hospitals of Scotland for the use of the patients. CORNMEAL CHEAPEST FOOD. Heads List of Fifty Staples in Esti- mation of 11. S. Authority. Women to Care for Graves. . About 20 women gardeners who have been trained at Kew, England, are going to France, where they will take up the duty of tending the graves of British dead soldiers. It is the first contingent, and others will fol- low. 151011:5. 114 4::1031.11:21. ,,r161 The United States Food Adininis- tration authorizes the following: Corn meal, even at the present un- precedented high prices, according to a comparison of nutritive food values prepared by the Food Administration, continues the cheapest food found in a survey of 50 staples. There is twice as much nutritive value in a dollar's worth of corn meal, even at the prevailing high prices, as in a dollar's worth of wheat bread. The actual*figures show that 47.4 cents worth of corn meal now equals one dollar's worth of wheat bread in actual nutritive value. There are four bushels of corn raised in this country to every bushel of wheat, and corn meal is as good food for man as is wheat. It costs less, and is the richest crop in our country. CAR OF WESTERN WHEAT BROUGHT $4,458,10 NET. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A car of No. 1 Northern wheat was re- ceived here weighing 129,000 pounds, and containing 2,150 bushels, with no dockage. The net proceeds of the car, less freight and commission, was 84,- 458,10. The weight of the wheat per measured bushel was 65 pounds. The '-car was loaded _by George II, Rum- mell; of Nokomis, Sask. COX tame) Top REST CARTOON OF TOE WEEK -GrosrerS "".440\ir The Three Queens, or The Witches' Sabbath • —London Passing Show GERMANS FALL BACK SLIGHTLY On Small Part of Anzac Front on Passchendaele Ridge. A despatch from London says:—C. E. W. Bean, official correspondent with the Australian troops, telegraphing from France, says that the Germans retired opposite a small part of the Australian front to the next spur of high ground about 1,000 yards back. The German main position now is astride the ridge somewhat south of .Passchendaele, with one leg down a spur running westward -toward Poel- capelle and the other leg down a high spur running to the south-east and ending in a knob known as Keiherg; thence • curving south-east over the lower slopes of the southern portion of the main ridge before Becelaere and Gheluvelt. THE DREAD DISEASE. Consumption, or Tuberculosis, Can Be Cured By Special Treatment. . In view' of the fact that a thousand solders have already come back with tuberculoSie, it may be well to reiter- ate some simple facts with regard to this disease. Oonsumption can be cured, but it us- ually means a long period of treat- ment under the strictest discipline. It means in practical terms, living for several months in the open air, resting quietly, abstaining from all forms of excitement and getting plenty of good food. To all intents and purposes the treatment cannot be taken at home, but must be taken at an institution where he patient will always be under medical"supervision. Dr. Herman Biggs, of New York, has reported that in his opinion there are 500,000 cases of tuberculosis in France in men of military age. Scores of thousands of soldiers have already come down with the disease and are under treatment; yet France before the war had not more than 12,000 beds available for tuberculosis in the whole Adriatic shore, and thence to Dalmarie . country. In Northern France the peo- and Montenegro andhome. The squadron afterwards flew to- gether something like one thousand miles without failure on the part of any machine or any hitch. • MOON ISLAND SEIZED BY HUNS NEWS FROM ENGLAND 11BWO mApr., A.130'11T JOHN', BULL n,ND HIS PEOPLE Occurrences in the Llond That Roigml Supreme in the Commer- cial World. Lieut,Col, R, Chester Maeters, D.S.0„ Chief Constable of Gloupeater. shire, has been killed in action, ' Three nephews of Sir George Cave, the Home Secretary, have won the Military Crosol. "Summer time" came to an end in England on September 17th, when all the clocks were put back or stopped for an hour. Field Marshal Lord French and Lieut, -General Smuts were guests of the King and Queen at Windsor dur ing a week -end recently. A. discharged soldier was fined 410 at a northern Police Court for taking two matches into a high ex- ploaives factory, Leon Bull, a Shoreditch furrier, was fined 820 for offering a policeman 25 not to report him as an absentee. Lora Bute and Lord Wharton have disposed of a large portion of their woodland estates in Glamorganshire. Private David Wesfecott, Glouces- tershire Regiment, and a noted foot- ball forward, has been killed in ac- tion. Among the applicants for the po- sition of organist at Burton -on -Trent Parish Church were five blind must - clans. Lady Jellicoe recently opened a fete at the Gordon Gardens, Graves- end, on behalf of the Royal Merchant Seamen's Hoolpitat Lewis Missenbaum, an east end baker, was fined 450 at the Thames Police Court' for selling bread less than twelve hours old. The Board of Trade has awarded pieces of plate to two Spanish mas- ters of vessels who rescued a ship- wrecked British crew. By a recent order the Ministry of Munitions has taken possession of all lead in the United Kingdom, ex- cept in special cases. Hop growers are required to make a return for the purpose of the scheme under which the Government intend to purchase the -whole of the year's crop. An allotment holder at Sheffield has pulled one root of potatoes which contained two hundred and forty-six smaller potatoes.' Sidney Collyer, of Ewhurst, Sus- sex, has been appointed manager of the Kelham estate, Newark, by the British Sugar Beet Growers. Albert Hunt was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at a London police court for unlawfully wearing a discharged soldier's badge. The first prize at an angling match, in which there were 125 competitors, was won by George Behls, a blind Lincoln news agent. "Comrades of the War" is a non- political organization which has been formed for the promotion of the wel- fare of discharged soldiers and sail- ers. Field Marshal Lord French recent. ly presented a number of military awards on Southsea Common. After Lively Battle Between Russian and German Fleets. A despatch from London says: Ap- parently contingents of the Russian fleet—in all about twenty warships of various classes—are bottled up in Moon Sound, with a cordon of Ger- man warcraftk barring their egress northward badk into the Gulf of Fin- land, or to the south into the Gulf of Riga. Brave, but outclassed by reason of superior gun -range and heavier ton- nage, the Russians gave battle to the Germans and attempted to force back the enemy armada off Oesel Island. Standing far outside the shell zone of the Russians, however, the guns of the German Dreadnoughts sank the battleship Slava—a relic of the days before the Russo-Japanese War—and so badly damaged other units that the Russian flotilla was forced to seek refuge in Moon Sound—lying be- tween Moon Island and the Esthonia coast. Nearly all of the Slave's crew were saved. GREAT CATTARO AIR RAID - Squadron Flew 1,000 Without Accident. A despatch from London says:— The Daily Mail's correspondent with the Italian armies says that later de- tails received of the great Cattaro raid mark it as an example of rare organ- ization. The fourteen Capronis which took part in it started together from near Milan, flew to the Appennines in a gale and arrived in a body near Rome. There they rested a while and then flew to their taking off camp on the Miles ple are heartily infected with tubercu- losis, and I saw more cases of de- formities in children in an hour in one town of 12,000 people than I could possibly see in Toronto in a week. It was very depressing when one realized that it was all prevent-. able. What France needs most of all is a great educational campaign as to the importance of fresh air, sun- light and sanitation. They are a won- derfully practical people, and would accept advice from official ,sources gladly. Consumption is a house disease. It is spread by means of the germs con- tained in the expectoration of con- sumptives. A careful consumptive is no danger to anyone. A careless con- sumptive is a.public menace. Do not spit on the floor. Do not allow your fellow workman to spit on the floor. Do not permit your employees to spit on the floor., No spit, no consumption. Get all the fresh air and sunshine you can, Wash your hands before eating. Keep clean and live in clean surround- ings. Dirt and disease go together. A curved ladder has been invented on which drowning persons can be placed and drawn into a boat without danger of capsizing it, DAILY PAPER FOR CANADIANS Meets • Overseas Soldiers' De- mands For Home News. A despatch from Ottawa says:— Although the large majority of Cana- dians are probably unaware of the fact, soldiers of the Dominion over- seas, even those in the trenches in France and Belgium, receive a daily paper filled with news from Canada, This little publication, which is of such immense value to the boys at the front because it contains news of home, is published in London, and goes by the name of "The Canadian Daily Record." 11 16 the latest development of the Canadian military authorities in Canada and overseas to meet the de- mand of. the Dominion's soldiers for news of their own countty. k / • 0 CHURCH SERVICES IN HUTS. Canadian Chaplain Tells of Earnest Devotion and Keen Interest. "I have had an extremely interest. ing time since corning to France, and yet my experience as a shaplainhave been very different froth what,I ex- pected," writes the chaplain of a Canadian labor battalion. "For one thing I thought that the religious work among the men would be easy and regular. I found it both difficult and irregular. Unlike an infantry battalion, our unit gets no rest dap except for a certain period even Month or so in some comparatively quiet billet back of the line. We work every day and often at night, too, and if we get one Sunday a month we do well. This, of course, is accounted fix by the urgent need for railways wher. ever extensive army -movements ars being carried out. I have no hesita. tion in saying that our work ranks it the scale of military importance as second to no other branch of the ser• vice. Thus you will see that the chap. lain has to do what he can for the met in the few spare hours that fall to their lot. All winter I held churci services on Sunday nights at '7 o'clock in one of the large living huts, and often these meetings were of a turesque character. "Imagine, if yen can, a long, low but with wire beds Elown each side, heads to the wall, and feet to the centre; s big wood -burning brazier smudging furiously in the aisle, an atmospher( of smoke and gloom, interspersed 14 the glimmer of a few candles and. lanterns. A crowd of men are gather- ed around the chaplain and the stove, sitting upon many kinds of improvised seats, sticks of wood, boards, beds. Overhead there are line after line of shirts and socks drying, a khaki fres- co work of criss-cross. 11 you can Picture such a scene, you have the stage setting for one of our evening services: And yet possibly you would be surprised at the heartiness of our singing and the earnestness of the de- votion that springs up spontaneously in these strange surroundings, where the simple address is listened to with an interest not often shown in better places." Quite Simple. A pompous old gentleman upon reaching his home one evening found the street blockaded and a heap of earth piled against his doorstep. Ob- serving a workman wielding' his shovel in a nearby ditch, he accosted a passing policeman and complained that the laborer was trespassing upon private property. "What do yor mean by throwing (Ott on th' gintleman's steps?" demanded the officer, who was Irish. "There's no other place 8' throw it!" replied the workman indifferently. "Well, thin, in that ease, yea had better dig nailer hole an' throw 11 1999 there!" pR7olv,,,r1.1eN5A0Afrill,e -WHO oNczY NOW ,e,'.'"1 -D 014 A MIAPra , 1 WANT ro owl- THIS 'THE PooR WAS OPE1,1 T9E1 Wolii•Dtel" AMD MIME WAS A CHAkR. 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"I have had an extremely interest. ing time since corning to France, and yet my experience as a shaplainhave been very different froth what,I ex- pected," writes the chaplain of a Canadian labor battalion. "For one thing I thought that the religious work among the men would be easy and regular. I found it both difficult and irregular. Unlike an infantry battalion, our unit gets no rest dap except for a certain period even Month or so in some comparatively quiet billet back of the line. We work every day and often at night, too, and if we get one Sunday a month we do well. This, of course, is accounted fix by the urgent need for railways wher. ever extensive army -movements ars being carried out. I have no hesita. tion in saying that our work ranks it the scale of military importance as second to no other branch of the ser• vice. Thus you will see that the chap. lain has to do what he can for the met in the few spare hours that fall to their lot. All winter I held churci services on Sunday nights at '7 o'clock in one of the large living huts, and often these meetings were of a turesque character. "Imagine, if yen can, a long, low but with wire beds Elown each side, heads to the wall, and feet to the centre; s big wood -burning brazier smudging furiously in the aisle, an atmospher( of smoke and gloom, interspersed 14 the glimmer of a few candles and. lanterns. A crowd of men are gather- ed around the chaplain and the stove, sitting upon many kinds of improvised seats, sticks of wood, boards, beds. Overhead there are line after line of shirts and socks drying, a khaki fres- co work of criss-cross. 11 you can Picture such a scene, you have the stage setting for one of our evening services: And yet possibly you would be surprised at the heartiness of our singing and the earnestness of the de- votion that springs up spontaneously in these strange surroundings, where the simple address is listened to with an interest not often shown in better places." Quite Simple. A pompous old gentleman upon reaching his home one evening found the street blockaded and a heap of earth piled against his doorstep. Ob- serving a workman wielding' his shovel in a nearby ditch, he accosted a passing policeman and complained that the laborer was trespassing upon private property. "What do yor mean by throwing (Ott on th' gintleman's steps?" demanded the officer, who was Irish. "There's no other place 8' throw it!" replied the workman indifferently. "Well, thin, in that ease, yea had better dig nailer hole an' throw 11 1999 there!"