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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• 1t1 7j 6\1--i--L , Y—1 eta! '• i•','A6EeilebO(�o 1},. ue s " eoe-- �Ale41- tT Doc Op-- ,t 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