HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1923-11-08, Page 6SANCTUARY WOOD
By Major Frederick Davy, O.B.E.
It is specially fitting during this hundreds of once beautiful oaks not
be celebrat- one remains whole. Leaves? Not a
nig the in which we shallwith-
in the fifth anniversary of the Arm- leaf has escaped thscorching, across this
Mg ming
heroism recall to mind the sterling. ground. la Stumps,lsea sweptd and pitted
heroism and endurance: andsuffering'
1 united their i —some crowned by huge rosettes of
efforts C ring about. ,
of the Canadian Forties in the war is battered trunks lying at all angles on
full of stirring deeds such as the ex-
ample which follows:
In the Spring of 1916 the Germans
made a surprise attack upon the Can-
adian line at Sanctuary Wood. Ad-
vaneing under a terrific artillery bar-
rage, they took the Canadian trenches
overlooking the wood and inflicted
terrible losses upon the defenders.
Two Canadian guns were captured
and the gallant young officer com-
manding them, Lieut. Cotton, was
killed and the Ord Canadian: Division
sustained the loss of its general offi-
mer commanding, tides of battle. Here is a row of rifles,
m ices Imre-
. lowed to remain long in the hands of , z e with mud. The gallant fellows
the enemy, Speedily and resolutely; who held them were' annihilated` by
the Canadian General Staff organized{ ,the torrent of iron and lead that burst
a counter attack and before the Ger-
mans had time to remove the captured
guns they wer driven from their new-
ly acquired position by an 'resistible
attack by the 13th and 16th Bat wooden frame with strange charac-
talions. ters upon it. Not ours? No. An
The valiant advance, over rough enemy device to support the deadly
ground full of shell holes and strewn machine gun. Look at that huge shell
with military debris, was made on a uni ploded, that lies upon the surface.
pitch dark night in a pouring ra}n.
As a result of the irresistible attack
the wood was cleared of the enemy 0� LEST WE :FORGET
and the line re-established beyond and
over the brow of the Hill. , The fol-
lowing description of the contested
ground is an actual pen -picture of
the scene as viewed at the time of
the recapture:
of the brave men who
to bring it but The history' spreading splinters—and the spilt and
the ground, are all that remain tp to
that on this spot was 'once a' shady
wood.
The abomination of desolation
hangs over the place but a fatal fas-
cination clings to it also and grips the
mind despite an occasional sniper's
bullet or stray burst of shrapnel.
Scarcely a soldier enters here but
feels the strange impulse to remain
and prowl about. Look at that
ground plowed and pulverized in every
part by high explosive and bursting
shrapnel. What flotsam and jetsam
MajorGeneral l is strewn about, left in the varying
Merutr. some broken and splintered, some
But the captured ground was notal-
plastered all over from
Birminghamand Manchester kuew it
not; But touch it not, for death lies
enchained within it.
These two pits you see almost tell
their own tale. They screened two
gun positions—yon see parts of the
sandbag breastworks still remaining
and aleo a litter of ammunition that
caught fire. Canadian guns they were,
and the gallant fellows who worked
them stuck to their task until every
one was wiped out. Overthere by
that upturned tree was found the body
of the ':lieutenant, a gallant young
fellow, beloved by all. He was the
son of a Canadian general who had
lost another son in Action in the South
African War.
Every foot of this devastated area
is packed with human interest and
signs of human suffering. Over and
over again first ono side then the
other has turned its artillery upon 00
Over and over again has a torrent
of humanity streamed across it and
at last mingling with the clay of
mother earth lie friend and foe alike.
See that little heap over there? A
Canadian -so it is.
They, lie here uncounted. One pitch
dark night` in e' swirling shower of
rain they came across, two ballant
Canadian regiments, firmly, determin-
edly, and irresistibly, and won once
more from the enemy this blistered
and torn corner of the world now
known as Sanctuary Wood.
Baptized with the clood of Canada's
sons, its earth pressed by their heroic
footsteps, its air sanctified by their
sterling devotion and lofty hope, how
apropriate is its name.
b h to z
above them. Here is a row of holes,
the birthplace of a trench line. It
stretches for hundreds of yards.. What
is that one stumbles over? A. bulky
* • 4.
Sanctuary Woodl The words con-,
jure a pretty picture, Leafy foliage,'
rustling in the breeze, delicate wind-
ing paths almost hidden in overhang -f
ing verdure, bird voices in the branch-
es and an ancient hallowed shrine
with perhaps a dainty spring and
rivulet close by—these are some of
the ideas conjured to view by the
words "Sanctuary Wood."
But the Sanctuary Wood of the
great war—far up near the point of
the blood -washed Ypres salient—pre-
sents a vastly different spectacle. How;
ghastly it looks from afar. Of then
A.rm i Lice
Da9
November 11th, 1918
FIFTH
ANNIVERSARY
November llth, 1923
BRITISH SUBJECTS
NOT ON AN EQUALITY
Conception of Empire as a
League of Nations is True
Basis of Settlement.
A despatch from London says:—
Premier Jan Smuts of South Africa,
i
Once again last year the writer
visited the scene: Sanctuary Wood
now presents a different appearance.
A low underbrush covers it and many
of the stumps of the trees that remain
have sprouted into foliage. Nature's
hand has been . at work' to' cover the
scars of war. A smooth, fiirm ma-
cadam road built by :the Canadian
Government under the direction of
Brig. -Gen. Hughes, of the Canadian
Engineers, connects the scene with the
Menin Road at a spot which, during
the war, was lmown as Hell Fire Cor-
ner. On either side of the road young
maple trees—brought from Canada—
have been planted and when they
grow to maturity the thoroughfare
will have the appearance of many a
country highway in the Dominion. The
high ground overlooking the wood and
a large part of the former Ypres
salient, has been prepared to receive
a noble Canadian monument that will
tell to all succeeding ages the story
of the heroic defence of the ground
by the Canadian forces.
simply and solely from the authority
of the state in which they live.
"The conception of the Empire as a
"League of Nations ought to do away
with these claims which are so dis-
turbing and unsettling in the Empire."
J. S. DEMANDS
SUPPORT OF FRANCE veil soldiers' monuments on Armistice
In his speech made at the Imperial Day'
Conference Monday, but only issued Britain Making Final Effort to As he will be absent in the Mari-
hereThursday evening on the politi- Induce Poincare to With- time Provinces it is probable that he
Armistice Day Occasion
for Numerous Unveilings
Dominion News or
Bae f Natural Res:L's
Bulletin.
Vancouver, B.C.—The crab apple contract, to forty per cent The forty
1, and when this percentage has been
secured, the signers are definitely com-
mitted to the pool, according to an en-
nouncemnet by John Ward, secretary.
of the Caned}an Council of Agricul-'
ondary grade apples in Norway, Swe- tare,
den, South Africa, New Zealand and Montreal, Que.—It is understood
$haeghai. If cold storage steamers that the Fernier Gold. Mines will in -
could be scoured for the Argentine, a stall immediately a plant with a ca
large market, according toreports, parity of one: thousand tons a day to
could also be found there, replace their present plant of in the
Calgary, Alta.—One of the new neighborhood of two hundred tons
uses of the Calgary Herald's broad- daily, : This, together with the fact .
casting 'station is to give prices of furs that they are driving a two -track tun -
for the benefit of trappers in the far nil of some twenty-four or twenty -
north. five feet at the twelve hundred foot
Edmonton, Alta.—APplicstions are level should reflect the improving de -
coming in steadily from seed growers velopment of the property,
of the province to have their register- Fredericton, N.B.—At the present
ed seed handled through the provin- time there is a survey of land being'
cial government seed pent at Edmon- made. about two miles from Frederic -i
ton this fall. To date more than 58 ton Junction, by A. E, Hanson, a vein:
seed growers have sent in applica-
tions. It is anticipated that the plant
will handle about six tunes as much
grain this season as last.
Winnipeg, Man.—Manitoba has de-
cided to adopt the Alberta form of
crop, which was approximately ten per cent. must be obtained U April,
1u•i1
per cent. greater than laet year,'has
been marketed. A considerable am-
ount of Wealthies are,on their way to
the British market and thews has been
found to be quite a. demand for
sec -
r THE EMPIRE MOURNS HIM
Andrew Boner Law, born in Canada
Sept. 16, 1858, and for seven months
of coal having been found in that vi-
cinity. The extent of the coal deposit1
will not be ascertained untilthe sur-
vey is completed.
Halifax, N.S.—Apple exports via
Halifax to European markets during
contract for its wheat pool, reducing the period October 1 to 14, were 90,-
the percentage of acreage required to 587 barrels, being probably the high -
put the scheme into effect from fifty, est in the history of the apple ship -
which is the percentage in the Alberta ping industry in this province,
The Week's Markets
TORONTO.
Manitoba wheat—No. 1 Northern,
$1.06. 50e; No.
Manitoba oats—No. 2 CW,
3 CW, 46%c; No. 1 feed, 44r/ac.
Manitoba barley -Nominal.
Allthe above, track, bay ports.
American corn—Track, Toronto,
No, 2 yellow, $1.26, .
Ontario barley -58 to 60e.
Buckwheat—No. 2, 72 to 75c.
Ontario rye—No. 2, 78 to 75e.
Peas—Sample, $.1.50 to $1.55.
Millfeed—Del:, Montreal freights,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $27;
shorts, per ton, $30; middlings, $36;
good feed four, $2.06.
Ontario wheat—No. 2 white, 96 to
98c, outside. '
Ont. No. 2 white oats -42 to 44c.
Ontario corn—Nominal.
PrimePrimeMinister of Britain, died Oct, Ontario flour—Ninety per cent. pat.,
t his London home, atter an ill- in jute bags, Montreal, prompt
ship-
p-
ment, $4.50; Toronto basis, $ ,
bulk, seaboard, $4.40.
Manitoba (flour—lst pats., in , jute
sacks, $6.60 per barrel; 2nd pats., $6:
Hay—Extra No. 2 timothy, per ton,
track, Toronto, $14.50 to $16; No. 2,
$14.50; No. 8, $12.50; mixed, $12.
Straw—Car, lots, per ton, $9.
wise which forced leis resignation in
May last. He was dearly belovedrior
his fine qualities. The honor of burial
. in Westminster Abbey is the signal
tribute paid to the first Canadian to
• bold the office of Premier of Great
Britain.
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
Hon. E. M. Macdonald, Minister of •
National Defence, has had requests j
from Hamilton, Toronto, Fredericton,,
N.B.. and New Glasgow, N.S., to un-'
wi
ll be unable to acrep
t the invite -1
cal and economic status of British In- draw
Restrictions.
diens in other parts of the Empire, A despatch from London says:—
made what is likely to prove a mo-
r The conference of reparations experts
mentons declaration regarding the now hangs by a thread, following the
relations of the component parts of Hughes statement from Washington
the British Empire towards each to the French Charge d'Affaires.
other, particularly regarding the Inde Lard Crewe, British Ambassador to
pendent self-governing Dominions.
Perim, Will make the final effort to
He strenuously resisted the Indian induce Premier Poincare to withdraw
claim to political and ecoaornic equal.
ity with citizens in other parts of the
Empire, stating that the claim arose
from a fairly general "misconception the phrase "Germany's rapacity to
of the nature of British citizenship, i a " and M. Poincare's insistence
a misconception, he added, that "all! tut the committee of experts be sub-
subjects • of the King are equal." He i ordinate directly to the Reparations
continued: Commission.
"There is no equality of Brrtielt A despatch from Washington
citizenship throuehoat the Empire.' says: --Premier Poincare will have to
The newer conception of the British ! make it clear that he will not insist
Empire as a smaller League of Na-' on crippling restrictions on the action
tions and as a partnership of free and; of the proposed committees of experts
equal nations under a common heredi to determine Germany's capacity to
tary sovereignty !evolves an even pay reparations if the Un}ted States
further departure from the simple is to take part. The Administrations
conception of unitary citizenship. has its back up and does not purpose
"Each separate part of the Empire committing itself to a conference until
will settle for itself the nature and in- it has before it the exact details of
cidents of its citizenship. The compo- what France will adhere to. -
sition and character and rights of its It was made clear at the White
peoples will be the concern of each
free and equal state in the Empire.
It will not only regulate immigration
irom other parts of the Empire as
two of the restrictions which most
worry the Washington Administra-
tion, the adjective "present" before
House and at the State Department
to -day that all the United States
wanted was to be helpful.in arriving
at the actual figures of Germany's
well as from the outside world, hut it capacity to pay. For this reason it
will also lso settle the rights of its citi was stipulated in our acceptance that
F p
zers is a matter of dornestic concern. the experts' findings should only he
"Tile common kingship is behind advisory to the Reparation Commis
the link between the parte of the Ern- sion, and it was further made plain
pire; it is not the sonece from which that the American or Americans on
private citizens will derive their the commission would not represent
rights. They will derive their rights' the United States Government•
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tions from Ontario, but may be able to
officiate at the unveiling *in his own
county, at New Clasp:- v.
•
Another heavy, cargo of British Col-
umbia forest products arrived in Mon-
tieal recently from Vancouver, con-
signed to the British Empire Lumber
Corporatic u, which has completed the
erection of a timber yard and re-
manufacturine plant on Bickerdike
pier. The cargo comprises about 5,-
000,000 Beet.
•
THEN -AND NOW.
From London Opinion,
iN RABB1 i'EO's O
Cheese—New, large, 24 to 25c;
twins, 26 to 25%e; triplets, 26 to
264 c; Stiltons, 26 to 27c. Old, large, $3.50 to $4; milkers and springers,
30 to 810; twins, 31 to 82c, $80 to $110; calves, choice, $10 to
Butter—Finest creamery prints, 40 $11; do, med., $8 to $9; do, con,, $4
to 42c; ordinary creamery, 97 to 88c; to $5; do, grassers, $3.50 to $4.50;
No. 2, 36 to 37c, lambs, choice, $11 to $11.50; do, bucks,
Eggs—Extras, in cartons, 44 to 45c; $9.50 to $10; do, con., $8 to $8.50;
extras, 42 to 43c; firsts, 38 to 39c; :sheep, light ewes„good, $6 to $6.50;
seconds, 31 to 32c. do, fat, heavy, $4 to $5; io, culls, $2
Live poultry—Spring chickens, 4 to 2.60; hogs, thick, smooth, F.W.,
lbs. and over, 25c; chickens, 3 to 4 $8.85 to $9; do, f.o.b., $3.35 to $8.50;
lbs., 22c; hens, over 5 lbs,, 22c; do, 4 do, country points, $8.10 to $8.25; do,
to 5 lbs., 150; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 16e; selects $9.75 to $9.90.
roosters, 15c; ducklings, over 5 lbs.,
20e; do,'4 to 5 lbs:, 18c; turkeys,
young, 10 lbs. and up, 30c.
Dressed poultry—Spring chickens, 4
lbs. and over, 38c; chickens, 3 to 4
lbs., 30c; hens, over 6 lbs., 28c- do, 4
to 5 lbs., 24c; do, 8 to 4 lbs. 18c;
roosters, 18c; ducklings, over 5 lbs., lb. bags, $3.05. Bran, $27.2b. Shorts,
28c; do, 4 to 5 lbs., 25c; turkeys, $30,25. Middlings, $86.25. Hay, No.
young, 10 lbs. and up, 38c. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to $16.
Beans -Canadian hand-picked, ib., Eggs, extras, 40c; firsts, 85c; sec -
7c; primes, 644C. onds, 80c; butter, No. 1 creamery,
Maple. products—Syrup, per irip. 861tc. Potatoes, per bag, car lots, 96c subjects will not make a year's work.
gal., $2.60;per 6 -sal. tin, $2.40 per to $L Why not take six subircts and prepare
gal,; maple sugar, lb., 25c. Com. bulls, $2.26 to $2,75; cam. yourself to enter an honor Course, or
Honey -60.1b. tins, 12 to 13c per dairy type cows, $1.50 to $3; fairly seven subjects and enter the Sicard
db.;; 10-)b. tins, 12 to 13c; 5 -lb. tins, good veals, $10; lighter veals, $1) per
year of the Pass Course?” Scores of
13 to 14c; 2% -lb, tins, 14 to 15c; cwt; hogs, thisk smooth and shop,Ontario boy i
comb honey, per doz., No. 1, $3.75 to $9,25, this advice a
$4; No. 2,$8,26 to $3.50, dr
Smoked meats—Hams, med., 27 to
280; cooked hams, 89 to 41c; smoked A Cross of Sacrifice
rolls,, 21 to 28c' cottage rolls, 22 to _ at Valcartier Camp
24c; breakfast bacon, 30 to 34c; epe-'
cial brand breakfast bacon, 84 to 38c; A despatch from Ottawa says:—
—
baclts, boneless, 31 to 3cls Canon Scott of Quebec has connmuni-
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 50 Gated with the Department of Nation-
9 l lbs., $18; 70 to 90 lbs., $1e,g0• al Defence with regard to. the erection:
90 lbs, and up, $16.60; lightweight
rolls, in barrels, $36; heavyweight
rolls, $38.
Lard—Pure tierces, 1744 to 18c;
tubs, 18 to 18%c; pails, 18% to 19c;
prints, 20 to 21c' shortening tierces
115% to 15944,c; tubs, l8i/4a oo16c; pails,
16 to 16%c; p
PRESIDENT OF CHINA
Tsao Kun, the new President of
China, who has issired a warrant for
the arrest of the Financial' Vice -ala-
ister of China, Chien Fang-Sliih, who
was educated at Harvard and is mar-
ried ,to an American wife. There are
alleged to be serious irregularities In
the Chinese finances.
The Natural Resources Intel-
ligence Service of the Depart-
ment of the Interior at Ottawa
says: ,e
Of all the many natural re-
sources which Ontario possess-
es the greatest is her people:
The natural increase from
births is her best , source of
population, and the growth and
ineintenance of this increase is
her first duty. peau of Sta-
tistics
Dominion Bu
has just' issued a report
on Vital Statistics for 1821,
which gives some interesting
figures on Ontario's birthrate.
In that year. there were 74,152
births, exclusive of 3,340 still
births. Of living: births there
were 35,307 males and 36,845
females, er an excess of males
of 2,462. During the same year
there were 6,763 deaths of chil-
dren under ono year of age, of
whish 3,918 were male and: 2,-
846
,
846 female; under five years iof.
age, 8,563, of which 4,874 were:,
male and 8,679 fe le• undeader
ten years of age,
of which 5,386 were males and
4,096 females, thus reducing
the excess of male birthsbefor'
the age of ten years is reach::
from 2,462 to 1,282
It }s also interesting to r
the lower rate of infant
tality in 1921 as comps'
1920. In the forme
every 1,000 children
died, while in 1920
1,000 births 103.7.die
first year of life.
University Enrolment.
At the beginning of the present uni-
versity session the new entrance re-
quirements in the Faculty of Arts
went into effect et the University of
Toronto. It had been thought that
the higher standards would have ma-
terially reduced the enrolment but
such has not been the case. In Uni-
versity College, the largest of the four
federated Arts Colleges, there are 338
First Year students, while last year
there were 397 and the total enrolment
in all four years is 1,042 es compared
with' last year's total of 1,111. In the
other three Arts Colleges the decrease
is even less.
Where are the 59 who would have
been in the First Year in. Arts under
the old conditions? Almost certainly
they are in High Schools and Collegi-
ate
Institutes throughout the province .
taking another year of education at
home at less expense and preparing
themselves to enter next year some
Honor Course or the Second Year of
the Pass Course. Next September
they will come, more mature and bet-
ter prepared, to present their creden-
tials to the Registrar of the provincial
university.
What' has been the effect of the
change? The boy who discovered in
MONTREAL. August, on receipt of his Pass Metric-
Oats—No. 2 CW, 56%c; No. 3 CW, elation certificate, that he had secured
5534c; extra No. 1 feed, 84c; No, 2 neither the necessary four "firsts" on
local white, 63c. Flour, Man spring that certificate nor the alternative six
wheat pats., lsts, $6:36;'2nda, .$5.80; "seconds," went to the principal of
strong bakers, 95.60; winter pats., the Collegiate Institute arid said "1
choice, $6.75 to $5.86; Rolled oats, 90 -
must come hack to school this year sand
take two honor Matriculation sub-
jects in order to be able to enter uni-
versity in 1924." "Taut," replied the
rincipal, "two Honor Matriculation
v,
' 711E LFAP£I'e of 't1 E. OietCHGSTRA� r
I is , utjr CRAZY At3OuT rY• HE . ;i -
le n , SAY: ler HAON4-T HINT , 'i • !�/
Heavy steers, choice, $7.25;' butcher
steers, choice, $6 to $6.50; do, good,
95' to $5.75; do, med., $4 to $5; do,
coin., $3 to $4; butcher heifers, choice,,
$6.75 to$6.25; d med $4 to 5 • do,
s and els have taken
nd will have the privilege
of taking much better university
courses than they could otherwise
have hoped for. Within two or three
years, it is safe to predict, the attefi-
danee at all universities in Ontario
will be greater than it ever was when
low standards were in force—and the
students will be more adequately pre -
of a cross of sacrifice at Valcartier pared to benefit by university instruc-
Camp to commemorate the valor of tion.
those who trained at that camp and But, it may be said, the Collegiate
fell overseas. If the proposal is ap- Institutes and the High. Schools will
proved, as it probably will be, Canon have more pupils this year, and that
Scott will proceed with a campaign to
raise subscriptions for the purpose.
Large deposits of graphite have
been discovered in British East Africa.
is true. However, the highest form
in the average Collegiate Institute, is
usually small. A. classroom equipped
for thirty pupils is often occupied by
ten or fifteen Honor Matriculation or
Upper School students, Tinder the new
com,, 3 to $3,60; butcher cows, choice, A new Government pier is to be arrangement there may be twenty or
$4 to $4.50do mid $3 to $4: can- erected on the Dartmouth side of Hae- twenty-five in that room sad the same
cies and cuttord $.1.50 to $94.6 'but-
cher
fax harbor at a cost of $75,000. The staff will teach the linger' member
cone $2.5, good .$3.60 to n5s ds,,. choice of sites has not yet been c00- quite as easily as the smaller.
cont., $5.60 to 50; ; feedingai,.50er to tided on but it is anticipated work will The new university entrance 're -
good, $5 to $5.50; do, fair, $4.50 uirenenis have xnot very noticeably
$6; stockers, good, $4 to $5, do, fair, actually commence in the near future. reduced the, attendance at the _•-- shies nor have they uclded materially
to the work of the secondary schools.
But they leave strengthened the fibre
of the whole. echicational system.
Federal lm1
WELL , I SHOULD
rriitv
KHAOi' HI
iector George Hill re-
( ports that inc shipment t t cf wheat from
l ircier;na, Alta., weleiled 6744, pounds
to the bushel. This is the heaviest of
the season
Paper menufactu cd from straw is
a possibility in the near future if the
plans of Sir Frederick Becker and his
associates materialize. These gentle -
Men operate a marl in the Maritime
Provinces es well as ie Europe, and
after exhaustive inquiries are plan-
ning to extend their operations,' to the
production of pulp from Western Can-
adian strawy : It is expentod that if
their investigations prove satisfactory
their plant will be located at some
suitable point in' the West