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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-01-16, Page 3to • 'fit CAN/ D R C'OR AUG:1, TO OVi;11 �3 • iP' 1 BRIEF SUMMARY OF EFFORT IN LAST 3 MONTHS OF WAR Captured More Than 150 Small Towns and Freed Over 300,000 French and Belgian Civilians. The following despatch, is forward- ed from the the office of Sir E. Kemp, Canadian Overseas Minister of Mili- tia, ' by Fred ,James, 'official corres- pondent with the Canadian Overseas Mi't - ', Forces: Canadian troops have furnished a curious coincidence in British . mili- tary history. The first troops to enter Mons the day ,the armistice was signed weret hose of the 42nd Royal Highlanders of Canada, which bat- talion, through the parent regiment, the 5th Royal Highlandersof Canada, is affiliated with . the famous Black Watch. On August 23, 1914, the last British battalion to leave Mons wee the 42nd Highlanders, the Scottish Black Watch. Captured 34,000 Germans. From August 8 to Nodember 11, the date the armistice was declared, the Canadian Corps captured 34,000 pris- oners, 750 artillery guns of all cali- bres, 3,500 machine guns, hundreds of trench mortars, and huge quantities of all kinds of materials In the last three months of the war the corps advanced in depth to a distance of 96 miles. covering an area of approximately 450 square miles. The principal towns captured by the Canadians in that time were Cambrai and Le Gateau on Ont. 9; Denain, Oct. 20; Valenfiennes., Nov..2; Mons, Nov, 2. At least 150 smaller towns and villages were captured in addi- ' tion to those larger centres, which released from German domination over 300,000 French and Belgian civilians. The three outstanding battles fought by the Canadian Corps since August, 1918, were: Amiens, which began Aug. 8; Arras, on Aug. 26; and Cam- Ural, Sent, 27, In these three battles, and in the rdvance from Cambrai to Mons through Valenciennes. the Cana- dian' Corns engaged and identified a total of fifty-seven German divisions, several of whom were so badly deci- mated as to render them useless as fighting organizations. At Amiens we advanced in less than two weeks a depth of 15 miles. At Arras and Cambrai the depth of penetration into the enemy lir was 25 utiles, and from Cambrai to -Ione 55 miles. At Amiens we r-ptured 12,000 prisoners; Arras, 10 000; Cam- brai, 7,174; and from Cambrai to Mons, 2,826. On the Last Day of War. On the morning of the llth, at four • ecloek, the 42nd +Battalion (the Mont- real Kitties), the P.P.C.L.I., R.C.Res and the 44th Battalion, of the Seventh Brigade, attacked at Mons. The city was actually captured by the 42nd Battalion and the Princess Pat's; and the R.C.R.'s also had some troops enter the city. By eleven o'clock, the • time the armistice came into effect,, 'we had established a line five kilo. metres east of the city, so that in nine days the Canadians advanced thirty miles, On the afternoon of the 1.1th, Lieut. General Sir Arthur Currie and his staff made a triumphant entry into Mons, and were welcomed by thou- . sands of civilians in a most demon-. strative way. General Currie pre- sented to the city a Canadian flag tied to a lance, which now has a prominent place in the council cham- ber of the city hall. The bodyguard of the Corps Commander was a sec- tion of the 5th Imperialerial Lateen,er, all of whom wore the Mons Ribbon and were among the last to leave the eity on August 23, 1914. It was ao t MODS that the P,ritish began fighting t s i the war and it was there the war ended. Throughout all the advance invaluable assistance was given by the Canadian Railway °i'reeps and the Canadian Forestry Corps, whose work was extremely difficult owing to the devastation and e'e..eetion. caused to re Jamey tracks, bridges and ,bads,' The Power of Speed. The destruction wrought by the bursting of.'a: flywheel in an electric light. plant in New Bulford, N.D„ U.S.A., recently', indicates vividly the disastrous results which army follow failure to control the speed of an en- gine. The engine in question was of the Corliss type, and for some undis- covered reason the governor failed to. work. The speed of, the flywheel which normally was 100 revolutions per minute, was increased to many times that number. Eventually the big casting • buret, and fragments were hurled many hundred feet in, all directions. The engine room and the machinery it contained were com- pletely wrecked, except a small gen- erator which, ahnost miraculously, was unharmed. A great hole was torn in one of the brick walls, and a Piece of the wheel, weighing about 450 pounds, was thrown high in the air. It landed in front of a furniture btore 500 feet from the power plant, urying itself deep in the concrete sidewalk. The enterprising furniture merchant hastened to paint an edger,' lisement,on,the side of the fragment., A PRISONERS PIL- " ROGRESS SRI` NO ONE WILL READ UNMOVED THIS STORY The Long, Ragged, Starved, But Un- daunted Procession of Prisoners Returning From Germany. A long, limping :procession of tat- terdemalion figures clothed' in the oddest collection of old rags and bits Of uniform, supporting ono another, leaning on clumsy sticks cut from the hedgerows—such is the sight that, meets the British Army in every road, by which it pursues its victorious inareh into Germany, writes a British officer in the early days of peace. These sad and suffering' figures e thea prisoners whom the ±- p soners of war a G mans, in the panic of their ruin. and defeat, hastily released from cap- tivity, and turned out without food or adequate clothing upon the high road to make the -best of their way back to the Allied lines. Of all the Allied prisonersof war, I think the French—to judge by their appearance --were the least ill-treated. . They, like the rest, are thin—for thin- ness seems to be universal amongst, the dwellers in Germany of to-day— but their o-day-but-their faces do not reveal the signs of a systematized course of brutality as do the faces of our men, whilst for the most part they have preserved their uniforms intact. The Road to Germany. The picture of the bands of re-, turning ping prisoners will, I believe, re- main indelibly fixed on the minds of all who have taken part in the victor- ious march into Germany. The. set- ting is the broad, tree -lined chaussee. The line of marching battalions,' spruce and clean and fit, with trans- port in good shape. and strong, well groomed horses, fills the right hand of the highwav: on the left. coming from the opposite direction, defiles an endless procession of civilians pushing little hand -carts piled high with their belongings, and surmounted by the Belgian flag. interspersed by these little groups of prisoners of war. Sheer Inhumanity. The hunted look in the eyes of many of these men tells the whole story of the system which the Allied armies set out to smash. and have smashed. I will not horrify you with the renititiono f the stories you have read in such ghastly detail in the British official report on the treat- ment of our prisoners of war in Ger-, many, the brutality of the guards and! their superior officers, the lack of food. even of the disgusting quality provided, the long hours of forced labor, often under shell fire. But what we must insist on—and it ap- pears in the statements of almost all the prisoners—is the sheer inhuman- ity of the German attitude towards their British victims. If it were inconvenient to start ra- tioning a party of prisoners on a certain day. the party would simply be confined without food or water until such time as the rationing of the prisoners became. convenient. There was apparently no recognition even of such an elementary principle as that you must feed the animal which is to work for you. "Necessity knows no law," says the German, and if there is no food for prisoners—if the transport, for instance, is required more urgently for ammunition—then the prisoners may starve. And starve they did, and die of exposure and neglect and .under -nourishment, so that it seems probable that the for- tunate ones who atte making their way back to happiness and liberty have The Popular' Choice People of culture,, .taste and refine. men+ are keen for health, simplicity and confenment. Thousands of these people choose the cereal drink INSTANT PSTUM as the' table � bey erage in place of +ea or coffee. 1 Healthful : Economical Delicious eeee escaped death on the principle of the survival of the fittest. The strong have come through the ordeal; the weals; one fears,' succumbed. The Spirit of Britain. But fox, al] one's deep compassion with their sufferings one cannot con- template'these Verthiners'of Ours out a feeling of elation. However much the Germans tried to torrllent their.hody, they utterly failed to crash their` spirit. It is time that, a public tribute were paid to tho magnificent stamjchtiehs of soul, the unshal'rable self-respect of'' the British 5oldilirt in, captivity. There is no doubt that his proud refusal to knuekle down rte his oppressor angered the Germans, and led them to reeldtible'tbehil' efforts'to break his pride. But the German failed—f?iled' as' egregiously, as he has done in every psychological problem he has tackled in this war. And so, for all their wasted looks, for 'all their ' nois'omo rags,'these prisbiferg'cf`'war hav'e the, bearing of free men. Tliey salute- punctiliously, and look one straight in the face when they are addressed. As a party of British' 'prisoners of war were tramping back througb Na- mur the other day, some German sol- diers left a niar'ehthg l eeoltnien and ran towards them, offering then cis,- Ore ttes and food. One and all th'e prisoners declined the gift. "We wouldn't be Navin' anvthiitm to do with them!" said the Irish sergeant who told the`etery. What a contrast to the l.icicsnittle servility of • the Boche in eaptivity. A Debt Repaid. OM. prisoners unanimously testify to the kindness drown to them by civilians in Belgium. The pea"ants dared blows from the rifles of the guard, and risked heavy fleas, io press bread into the herds o1! the prisoners marching through the villagee. And on their long tramp through Belgium on their way to the allied lines after their liberation, the prisoners depended entirely on the food and clothing freely given them by the Belgians in the towns and vil- lages through which they passed. The Boche treated his prisoners as a bad—minded rustic would not treat his cattle. He had treated ' them monstrously to the end of the chanter`. He has not even sought to lessen the exemplary retribution which The Allies' are going to exact from him by trakitsg adequate provision for the re- natriation of the nrigoners of wer, He has just turned them adrift the well and the :rick alike, and left them to' shift for themselves. ' And when the German neenle lire called to account for their inhuman tleatmeirt of their prisoners of war this last set of cailousnes; must not be' forgotten. '.JAPAN'S POPULATION Production of Rice Itas Not K pt Pace With Increased Birth Rate.. The shortage in the supply of food- stuffs in Japan has caused the extra- ordinarily high price of rice and oilier food, says' the Japan Advertiser. 'It is true that the production of rice has been 'inaldn'g more or less increase his'not'"beeti'at such a rate as to keep pace with the steadily growing'pojnt- lation.. Moreover, the yield of rice is at the mercies of the elements and in a country like Japan, which is sub- ject to frequent visitations of ty- phoons at the most critical period for the corp, the precarious nature of the agricultural industry may be imagin- ed. In this connection, continues the Advertiser, it will be interesting to note the tremendous rate at which Japan's population is increasing. Until a few years ago the rate of increase was a little more than 500,- 000, but last year's increase is put at close upon 800,000. According to official statistics just published the total number of the Japanese popula- tion on December ;81, 1917, was re- turned at 57,998,373, which were dis- tributed into 10,241,851 dwellings at the rate of 5.7 per dwelling. Cern- I pared with the census taken at the.! end of 19 population showed an 18 the p p increase of 799,096, and there can be no doubt that Japan should be seri- ously exercised by the food problem if its population continues to increase i at such a rate. It maybe added that the figures are exclusive of the ,Jap- anese or Japanese subjects in Korea, Formosa and Karefuto, who may be said to be self-supporting as far as their food supply is concerned. RIVETLESS SHIP. Largest Electrically Welded Craft Built In Britain. There has been much discussion of late about the feasibility of building electrically - welded steamships and thereby avoiding the time and expense consumed in riveting. From England eomes word of the completion of a rivetless 275 -ton barge, supposedly the largest electrically -welded craft so far produced. It is 125 ft, over all, and 16 ft. of beam. The hull is rectangular iu section amidships—only the bilge plates being curved. All water -tight Rants as far up as the latter are con- tinuously welded on both sides, while those thereafter are tack -welded on one side, The process permitted an estimatedsaving-of from 25 to 40 per cent. in time and 10 per cent. In ma terial. The expellee of welding amounted to $1,500, $890 of which went for electrodes.-, In normal times this item would be less by about 60 per cent. Another experimental barge, with certain parts riveted and others` welded, is to be built. The Weekly Fashions A very practical little apron in- deed is th ,cone which gips en over thee head and fastens under the arm. McCall Pattern No. 8082Girl's Apron. In -0 sizes. 2 to 12 years. Price, 15 emits. Tran-fer Design No; 091. Price, 50 cent. This nen' de_.gn has the it ..ee! effect waist wh eh opens on the shoul- der and at the Underarm. McC•aIl' Pattern No. 8712, Ladies' Dress. In ' 6 sixes,' 34 to 44• bust. Price, 25 cents,.. These patterns may be ' obtained • from your local McCall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toi'onto, Dept. W. ¢ It Works! Try It 0 Tells how to loosen a sore, o tender corn.,so it lifts o out without pain. Good news spreads rapidly and drug- gists here are kept busy dispensing treezono, the ether discovery of a CM.- , cinnati man, which is said to lo•isen ' any corn so it lifts out with the fingers. Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter ounce of freezone, which will cost very little, but is said to be sufficient to rid one's feet of every Bard or soft corn or callus. You apply Just a few drops on the tender, aching corn and instantly the soretless is relieved, and soon the corn is so shriveled that it lifts out with-, out pain, It is a sticky substance which dries when applied ed and never 1 P inflames or even irritates the adjoin - This discovery will prevent thou- sands of deaths annually from lockjaw and infection heretofore t f o e o.ore result.ng from r the suicidal' habit of cutting corns. PEAT AS. FUEL 'm If Also Has Many Other Interesting and Useful Qualities. Peat is cpal in the making. It furnishes a perfectly good fuel. During the eighteenth century, When the forests of northern Europe had been to a great extent cleared away (coal being not ye$ in general use), peat was the main dependence of the rural population. It is said that a on of paper can be manufactured from peat at a cost of $20, ,leaving a satisfactory margin of profit. In France some very beautiful tex- tile fabrics, resembling Scotch tweeds and camel's hair cloth, are woven from peat fibre. They can be bleach- ed to snowy whiteness and will take any dye. One of the most interesting uses of. peat is for packing and preserving'. perishable foods, such as fruits, vege- tables, butter and eggs. Even meats. and fish have been shipped for great, distances in peat fibre, arriving in perfect condition, thanke to the pecu- liar . preservative qualities of the material. A marble boiled in milk, Perridge, custards„ etc., will automatically do the stirring as the liquid cooks and so prevent burning. fginard'a Liniment Cures Geeeot in Coma 'PAINTERS' ' 'PIE. 'Some Interesting War -time Samples 1 of Typographical Errors. . The grim and often sorrowful details that war news firings home to most of us are now and again unwittingly- lit up by the mistakes of the compositor. These typographical errors are termed "printer's pie." Sometimes the.omie. sion'af a single letter, makes quite a startling change from what is really meant, as, for example, in this pew view of the Huns' humanity) "The newest Gothas carry bombs of a ton weight, but the German machines that aid hospitals in France continue to use smallish bombs." This one, front a Sheffield paper seems much nearer the truth: "Three bombs were dropped Mimi an ammunition train and a direct bit obtained.: The train contained 15,- 000 hells," To which our airmen ap- pear to have obliged by adding an ex- tra one. The unintentional alteration of a letter also works wonders, as in the case where "Mr. — wept through the Gallipoli campaign and was awarded the Military Cross," or where more German frightfulness' is suggested by the statement that "'Hindenburg sent a large uruuber of bug guns to General Boroevies," or, again, in the somewhat startling'hotice from a""Deaths" col- umn in another newspaper—"In loving memory of our clear son. ']Oe nobly answered his country's gall, he gave leis wife for one and all The origin of many such items may net always be laid at the door of the compositor, tut often are the product of one who wrote then. In many of them our trials and tribulations anis ing from the war make their appear - arm. When the milk difficulty crop- ped up in Dublin the Lord Mayor de- livered himself in these terms: "It would be a crying evil to leave the poor people without milk. It would be a wise thing if the Corporation would take the bull by the horns and deal with the matter." It was a Glasgow paper that wrote on the coal question thus:—"One wise virgin, the father of a large family, has 1u91 in several piles of wood against the corning of coal -rationing time," whilst a University journal threw cold water an the musical abili- ties of our fighting men by announc- ing that "a capital military hand will discourage music throughout the af- ternoon." Complaints* about the inadequate grants to soldiers' dependants caused a Yorkshire correspondent to remark, "I hope that if the Government grant an increase to soldiers' wives, they will increase the wives of soldiers all round." Even the Times adds its quota with tlrls:—"Tho Canadian force hi wearing the smile that won't come off. The nature of the ground is en- tirely favorable to such an. operation." The opinion has often been express- ed that the best German is a dead one, but I think it has been left for a Bir- mingham paper to tell us of those who have been "permanently" killed, which one would think should satisfy the meet anti -German amongst us. The food question is hardly a sub- ject for mirth at present, but one can scarcely resist a smile when we are told that "the markets are empty, and the prices of such things as remain are impossibly high:" An old Latin saying got a new turn In an advertisement which lately ap- peared in S. leading London paper as follows:—"Buy a S5 War Bond. He gives quickly who gives twice." The most up-to•date one deals with recent war successes, and describes our moderation in the display of national feeling in this little sentence, "if this were Germany, the bells would he rung threadbare over to -day's splendid news." STUFF FOR MAKING PAPER. Can be Manufactured of Almost Any Vegetable Substance. Clippings from the collar .factories contribute importantly to the supply of raw material for makinghigh-grade paper. It is just an Instance of waste - Asbestos makes an excellent paper, which beingr fireproof, might recent - mend itself highly for deeds and other valuable documents. But, unfortunate- ly, no process bas been discovered by which paper of this Material can be made that has a smooth, hard surface to take ink from a pen without blur- ring. The inventor who solves this Puzzle has a fortune awaiting him. There will never be a real paper famine, because paper can be made out of almost anything vegetable. It has been manufactured from banana leaves, pineapple leaves, beanstalks, cabbage -stalks, cat -tails, hay, thistle- down and even mummy wrappings. Sugar -cane refuse makes good pa- per: cotton stalks likewise. Of these materials incalculable quantities are thrown away annually, Rice straw and flax stalks are available for the same purpose; also the wild hemp that grows over vast areas in the South-west,. Wheat straw, rye straw, oat straw and barley straw make first-class news- paper and printing paper. There are always plenty of rags for making highgracle papers. Why,. then, all the recent fuss and rising prices? 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Weak 'cif character, the Czar was both a fatalist and a mystic, and when affairs of court or state did not go well he believed he was aban- doned by God. This always increas- ing conviction since t'heMdnehurian � War paralyzed ail his' initiative end . annihilated the little will power which he Mill possessed: All foreigners who approached him in 1916 gathered this impression: It' explains the ' ease with whicsh Nicholas IP abandoned his power' and the absolute absence' of i any effort on his part to recover pos-.1 session of it. When the revolution of the people arose the Czar regarded it as the judgment of God upon him and his people and he accepted it as decision' a divine .dec s o and a s an expiation an atonement for his 'e earthly a v errors, and it is undoubtedly true that he died in this spirit of internal sanctity. "I believe that when history shall be written Nicholas II will be looked upon with pity an dwith sympathy rather than otherwise. 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