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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-06-16, Page 641. WINGI^ , l4 AD",TA1ICE-TIA U WELL %7i.lt Q 1' 11101 U ; t ;IISUtlC `COQ '4 ]Eatabliaheix 1180. Read o£fic r, bdelpzi, tC)nt Risksataken on- ail classes of, insure. $J ce at reasonable rates. ABNER COSENS, Agent, Winitharn; J . DODD Office in Chisholm Block FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH --�» INSURANCE .. 4h'1, D • REAL ESTATE P. •O.. r34XIIVI1pirC' 24O INGHAM, ' . - `• • OIQ"T"ARIO. J .W . BUSHFIELD ' zrxzste olicitor, •Notary t -t 5 ,.. ' Mo>bey to" L b= Office ---Meyer Block, Wingham Successor. to Dudley Holmes RoVANSTONE. SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan.at Lowest Rates Wingbam, - Ontario .t A. MO '[WON BARRISTER,' ETC. Winghani, Ontario DR. G.'il.ROSS Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgedns Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry Office:, Over H. E. Isard's Store. .. t,; COLBORNE, M. D Physician and Surgeon "medical Representative D..S . C. R. Phone 34 - Wingbam. Successor to Dr. W. R. Hambly. Dr. Rob#. C. R e * it (,l fi d 'M,'.C.S. (Eng.) L.R.C.P. (bond.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Dr. Chisholrn's old'stand. • #R. Rt L. STEWART of Toronto, 'graduate of University Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario College of 'Physicians{ and Stargeoszs. Office in Chisholm Block oseP bine Street. Phone 29.. I Dr. Margaret C. Calder. General Practitioner Graduate University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine pffice Josephine' St., two doors south of Brunswick Hotel. ;1'eaephonesi Office 281, Residence 151 DR. G. W. IiOWSSON DENTIST Office Over John Galbraith's Store F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH .All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church. on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment Hours --o a. rn. to 8 p. m Osteopathy Electricity Telephone 272. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners; Chiropractic and Electro: Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto and National College, Chicago. Office opposite a Hamilton's Jewelry Store, Main St. HOURS: 2'--5; 7-8.30 p.m. and by appointment. Out of town and .night calls respond- ed to. All business confidential. Phones: Office -30o; Residence boa18. - J. ALVIN FOX DRUGLESS PRACTIONER CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Phone lot. Hours iO-12 a.m., 2-5, 7-8 p. sit or by appoilrtrtrettt, D. R. McINNIaS CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY Adjustments given for diseases of all kinds, ;'necialiae in dealing with children. • Lam;., attendant. Dight' Calls responded to. Office on Scott $t., Wingham, Ont. Telephone tse. �ttttlrranr acs ni,rt r b e+,"n„i„u,u u,iu'rnnnN, n on r,ttiro7,tti� Phones; Office z06, 1 esid. 224 A. 3. WALKER IetTTI.tRE OEAI,t 3 and -- FUNERAL DIRECTOR "otasr Equiptltent lrl'>lq Ag, 7 ONVAlt,ID aintidi ttinittlWintitint ntileWcttnenitddtenitin Ms1 By Percival Christopher "Wren reti THE GREATEST MYSTERY'.STORY EVER WRITTEN /1 We were .n' touch wide • the enerriy at last. At any moment we might Mie fighting for. our lives. We were d'e- liri-ous with +excitemeritt, ,At once ,out little farce' in the oasis and "this; Arab hailca became a niiciio eci nlcif the whole cvar,anti, our Lipp. tenant Debussy sent out a small rgg- '.dtinoitring force under Sergeant-Ma- jor.! ergeant-lt .a- jor Lejaune, which should ;she to the strung -out .battalion -what the battal- ion was to the brigade -at Do.uaigala. It was the good luck of our•escou- ade to be selected for this duty, aid Within half an hour of the arrival of the, gpuaniers, we were advancing 'en. tiraillteur in the direction.'froan whiglr they had come. Over the loose, hot sand we plodded, our scouts far ).n I ad-vance and our Hankers far out to left and right, . "Are • we the 'bait of a trap? Or Or would you call us the point of a spear," thegrowing roar of an advancing sea. A few minutes : Pater, i the man who.• had been sent off, . fired 'a •shot .and• exposed himself on the highest point of his rocky hillock'. To „rrxy surprise, T saw our scouts retiring and running—not back to us. but to him; and a minute, or two lat- er, I -saw a flutter of white on a dis- tant :sand -hill. Rallying .on the man who .was fir, ing from ''the top ' of the rock,. the scouts opened, fire at distant camel- mou.nted:figures who began to appear over the said -hill -s.. We received no orders, save to 'the effect that we should lie as flat as the hot stones that concealed us, Between two of these I watched ;the scattered fringe of Arabs increase to. tines, and the lines to masses of swift- ly -moving camel -rider, and soon their deep menacing cry of "Ul-ul-ul-ul-ul- ullah Akbar," came : to our ears like said Michael, marching,. between, Dig- As they came. on, the little party of by and ane our scouts fired rapidly, and after , „ about the thousand and range a'•cam-. Both, replied Digby, a bit t of Y g . meat on the end' of as` ear, say.", el would occasionally sprawl headlong P And I' wondered how many of -us to the ground, or a white -clad figure would be bits of meat before nightfall. fall like a sack and lie motionless on Not that I felt in. the, least degree the sand, apprehensive or depressed. If I had On swept the Arab harka at the,top PP c- of 'their's 'swift camels the men to analyse and describe '• lily feelings, Pae w' strongin front firing from the saddle, the I° should•- say that beneath a sensation of pleasurable excitement :others brandishing their long, straight was that undercurrent `of slight nery- swoid and waving their lances 'aloft. ous anxiety which one experiences be- . Rapidly and steadily the .little band foregoing oin into bat, or when seated in of scouts fired into" the brown of a corner of the ring, waiting for the them, and, by now, every bullet was word "Time" at -the beginning of a hitting man or beast in the :closely- boxing losely boxin contest. ' packed:irregular ranks of the swift - advancing advancing horde. I would not have been elstewhere;for qr * lds+but at the same time I wbn- It was- thrilling.' I: felt I must get V ... dered'what the smack of a btalletfelt a grip upon myse`If, or I should' be like, and howmuch chalice 'a bayonet Shaking with excitement, and unable stood against the.heavy Q `sword r the to shoot steadily when our turn lance of a charging Arab. , .. ; :^---• Titer -6 was no 'doubt about it that Sergeant-Major Lejaune knew his job, and I found myself wishing that: he were not such a wholly hateful per son. I should have liked to admire him as much as I admired his military skill, and .ability :as a commander, and I, began to understand how soldiers love a'good leader when it is possible to do s0. One felt that nobody could have handled the situation with more grasp and, certainty than hedid, and that if any kind of catastrophe or disaster ensued, it would be owing to no fault in the ability, courage, and prompti- tude of Sergeant-Major Lejaune. To watch him conducting operations that day, was to -watch a highly skill ed artisan usingThis tools with the deftness and certainty of a genius. On a low, flat-topped, rocky hill, we halted and rested, all except Lejaune himself and the scouts whore he sent to various distant sand -hills .and low rocky eminences which, while visible from the detachment, gave a wide range of vision in the supposed dir- ection of the enemy. Among others set to similar tasks, the Mary who was the senior in charge' of the 'scouts, The latter, one Gontran, vy,as promoted corporal, in orders next d'ay, and Sergeant-Major Lejaune made adjudant, The Arabs must have lost over hundred men in this fight, as against• our'thnee•killed an five wounded. ''Such was nty'first experience of war, my first "smelling of powder" and my blooding. 'I had killed a man with cold 'steel and, I think at least three with nay- rifle. . Refieetin'g on this•': T wa's'•-glad ''to remember' that these' Toirages are Human wolves, professional, Murder-. ers, whose livelihood is robbery; with. 'violence,. which commonly takes , the form' of indescribable: and 'animation - able tortures. •'-Nor is the. Roumi, the infidel dog, the favourite'object of'_their :treach- erous attack, save in so far as he is a more rewarding object of attention. They are as - much the scourge "and terror of 'the Arab villager, the no- mad herdsman, or the defenceless:ne- gro,` as ;hey are of the wealthy car- avan' or their :peaceful' ea -religionists; of the town, the douar, and the oasis, The man whom 'I had killed with my bayonet, had made it necessary to my continued existence, for he rushed at me with a great, heavy, straight, bladed sword, exactly like those used by our Crusaders of 'old W hifling this round his : head;; he aimed a bloW'`at rne` that would hate P Y s p lit• in skull had ,I not promptly side-stepped, drawing back ray bay Oneas I did so. As the sword missed my head. I drove at his chest with all nay strength,. • and the .curved hilt , of „ - . my Lebel bayonet touched his breast- bone as he fell staggering back, near- ly pulling the rifle out of my hands. I found afterwards that Digby had. his coat 'torn under the armpit by a' spear, which, as he remarked, : was notfair wear, but tear, on''a -good coat.,. e had shot ;his assailant t: a range which he estimated as being a good half-inch, and he was troubled with doubts as to whether this would be considered quite sporting in the best Arab circles. ams to take part in the fight, ` course" he said,' "the bird m z ent, I saw "Of, ' `sitting'—though. , And `then; to my a a eml he s warn t actually that our scouts were retreating. OneJ s i ,+ sitting ,ngty ; , t t•, ...�Uh by one, they sprang up from behind 1 beingarticularly good Michas , p rocks and fled to their right rear, 'with the bayonet, and a noted winner each man droppingand firing. as' his of bayonet v: bayonet competitions, neighbour rose to retreat in his turn. d used the britt of.4ds'rifle in,the Before long, the little band was again ha think it unfair in position, nearer to us and still fur melee, and seethed 'to a turban , that flier behind pis. With: increased yells, of the Arab wearto diminishes the neat' effectiveness of the Arabs swerved to their left and blip However, . net= ;this form of fighting. : bone down upon them, men and cam- they of them was hurt, nor were any els falling beneath the magazine -fire of our mare inme�li.ate friends. of their rifles. Having' buried our dead and oblit I could scarcelykeepstill. How aerated their .graves, we retired slowly long was this unequal fight to con toward EI Rana, .weary to death and 'time? None of 'the scouts had been 'thoroughly pleased with ourselves, to salt by then wild fire~ of the camel -rid haste our -report . ,ers, but in a couple of minutes they The pitched battle of El Rasa was would be overwhelmed by this wave fought nett day, our battalion hold- ing mounted Men, and, out -numbered' ing thie"oasis against tremendous odds by fifty to one, would have as ntuch' until supports came froms.the'brigade chance as has a fox beneath a pack of and the Arabs learnt what qurck-fir, hounds. ing little mule guns' can do, when As I held my breath, the tiny hand- given such a target as a huge mob of fill again rose to their feet, turned horse :and camel -men advancing en their backs '•upon the Arabs, and fled masse over a' level' plain: as one man toward a sand -hill in our As my part in this battle was con - rear. With a simultaneous yell of fined to lying behind the bole of 'a mingled execration and triumph, the palm -tree and shooting' whenever 1 Arab harka swerved again, seemed to had something to shoot at, :I have;nd redouble their speed, and bore down adventuresto relate. I 'might as well I was ordered to ivatcjl one particular, upon their prey. have spent the day on a rifle range, man and to report any movement on And then, Sergeant-Major Lejaune Butt saw a magnificent charge of a his part. I watched the tiny distant stood up an a rock, gave a crisp order, couple of squadrons of Spahis upon a vastly superior millibar of Arab caval- ry, which, shaken by artillery fire, ap-i, peared to be hanging in doubt ;as to whether to make one of their fterice rushes, overwhelming and desperate, upon the infantry lining the edge of the oasis. It was a thrilling' and 'un- forgettable sight. . After the signal victory of El Rasa, the brigade moved on'southward and we preceded it, the weeks that fol- lowed being a nightmare of marching that ended in the worse nightmare of garrison duty inthe ultimate, further- most desert outpost of Zinderneuf, where we had the initial misfortune of losing Digby and many of our friends, including'Hank and I3addy. They departed to the mounted -in- fantry schoollat- Tanout-Azzal, where the gentle art of male -handling was taught, and the speed of the swift marching legionary increased by mounting him on a mule. A company of ,such men was 'Wits rendered, as mobile as a squadron. a It was a cruel blow to Michael and me, this separation from our brother and from those best of friends, Hank and Buddy. However, we were certain to be re- united, sooner .or later, • and there was nothing to do but to make the best of this `:and tlae other drawbacks and anis- figure through the shimmering heat haze, which danced over the sand and stones, until nay eyes ached and I was forced, from time to time, to close them and cover them with my hand. Upon opening them after one of coolly as on parade and at less than fifty yards the Arab masses received the withering blast of our magazine - fire. Swiftly as our hands could move the bolts of our rifles and our fin - these brief rests, which were abso- gers press the trigger, we fired and fiel lately necessary;, I saw that he was field again into the surging, shrieking, crd wIing back from, his position. struggling mob, :that halted, charged, When below the skyline, he rose and. •a;etired, and then fled, leaving quite ran, stooping, for a short distance. He half thueir number behind. then halted and signalled "Enemy in But of those .who were 'left behind, sight.,, by no means all were killed or even The moment that l had pointed stain wounded, and our orgy of slaughter ant to Corporal Iioldini, Lejaune was rapidly turned to'a desperate hand- notified and he sent ,a man named, to -hand fight with dismounted and un, asti running to an eminence, wounded. Arabs, who, knowing they F gnae �' must die, had but the one idea of. gaining Paradise and the remission of sins, in the slaying of an infidel., With a shout of "L'ayonette au can- on," Lejaume had its to our feet, and launched us in a fierce bayonet -charge clown the slope of our plateau upon the Arab swordsmen, who weny'rally, ing to the attack, on foot. Our dis- ciplined rush swept them back, they broke acid fled, and, still keeping us in hand, Lejaune quickly had a double. rank of lcneeling and standing' snen shooting down the fleeing or still de- fiant foot -men, and making practise at the remains of the mounted harka dis-' a earin liver the sic'yliin pP g Qr well to our left rear, and a minute ^ later we were lining the edge of our plateau on the side to Which this man haat disappeared. Hexe we lay concealed, and waited. GEORGE A. SID1 A.LL ---Broker{-�••- , Phone 78. Lttcknow, Ontario. Money to lea on first and second mortgages an faun and other real es- tate properties at a reasonable tate of interest, also ort first Chattel mortga- ge's ort 'stock and on • persortal notes, A few farms oil band for 'sale or to tent on easy terri1.8. w THOMAS FELLS • AUCTIONEER .-• IZEAt ESTATE SOLD) ..M A thorough Ettrawledge of Varna Stork .�. iikotle d3t, Wittehne Within half an hour of the first• signalling of the approach of the en- emy, the only Arabs itt sight were those that lay singly and in little bloodstained heaps, in the shallovy' valley into which they had been de- coyed by our scouts. . It was a neat little action, reflecting the highest credit on Lejattrte and 'on pries of Zitrderneut. CRAFTER 'V. .. The Fort at Giriderneuf "They learn that they are not as othu. ere at -e, , 'rill some go mad, and some sink prone to earth, Arid 'Solite-Pugh s'tuz-ibing on 'without a star, Things began badly acid ralaidly' grew worse' ^in this ill-omened mud, fort; isolated in the illimitable desert like a, ttny'sland" in the midst of a vast ocean, Ca`fard' brake out early, and in a very virulent 'form; `both'suicida1 and homicidal in its' nature, It took this terrible form, I verily; believe,.1argeljr'bjr reason' of the fact that Captain .Renouf,, our Conzniand, ant; shot himself - after a month of life' in this dreadful, len of a :place. I do', not,: of course tow his • 'reason' for doing this,. but it wad r' moured that; he found he had contracted a horrible - disease. This. 'tiagcdy ., cast " a deeper gloom over•:al+'place':'and a'.conimunity already gloomy beyond description. Within a week of this disaster, for, a disaster it was to all of as, 'a most unusual manifestation • of • 'caiard waa. exhibited, when a corporal killed- a sergeant and 'thencommitted suicide:: What Corporal Gontran's grievance against the;. sergeant was, _, I do, .riot know, but this again was an exceed- ingly unfortunate affair,. as, like Cap- tain Renouf himself, both these men were on the 'side• of the angels, inas- much as they were decent, fair -mind-' ed, and reasonable peoplre. But the Fates and the Furies had. one more disasterin store for the un- happy garrison before they were ready to launch upon • our luckless heads the final torrent of destruction.; Lieutenant Debussy, tl1.e' new Com- mandant, sickened `and died, and . his pace .was taken by none other than Adjutant Lejaune.- Front the moment in which if was known that the\.Lieuteitant'was dead, the .atmosphere. of Zinderneuf chang- ed from bad to worse and rapidly from worse to the worst ,possible: , The lion -tamer had entered, the cage 'and the lions, sullen, infuriated, and desperate, knew that he held in one hand the whip that should drive them to .revolt; and in the other the revol- ter that shotil&''irtatantly -punish the first sign of it. Life .at Zinderneuf was not really life so much as the avoidance of death —death from sunstroke,heat stroke, monotony; madness, or Adjutant. Le- jaune. Cafard was rampant; everybody was. snore or less , abnormal and "queer" from frayed nerves, resultant upon, the terrific heat and the monotony, hard- ship, and confinement to a little mud` an nen were s overtofafort; m y lit- tle mad,' and Adjutant Lejaune, in the hollow: of whose hand were our iiXes ' and destinies, was a great deal more than a little mad. From theP aint•of view of the au- , TiMr d7ay, Junexfth,; zga7 /wii•i2t: r�illiLZ fl Y) COUNTS/ ++ New Stores Opened This Tear, rx� , viii, AO XOU 111EALIZe that, this meq or new store opening every •..i-h.'_eas...f t,ho wa s of h will-• ekn wry gilts •ythe(f,afctndingg Sundnyt t Spvenly� wco anii9,.ttd .alv}tiss h,to htMk'ng ��r.� pnt s "Where obesity CounW From many districts we receive mittens for us to place a store, which assures us dist we ate helping the public and supplying „:Q ALIl1C GROCERIES -CHEAPER, loin this •mighty t}trong ane .rive on yotu• groUlry;budget, 'dust ! ` t . v , luted "Now you'll relish Fr'txit Bleed After extensive a peritntenting we have ,2i 5 �„ tell, a r i1' ,r u it il3re t7. pp ee�� a 'k'novtr`�'ou#+v�ll et �� »�"�',..s if like it, Made TAST V)? at our dwn a x2 Bake 'e, tbA ;n.- A1ao Jell Rolls I C lf5egularly said e1s.- C,00d,Large Y ICC each. wherefrom,x5ct030c Chzb House ;z�allS.d 5.02. 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Quaker. q COainrFlakesI rpltg., .31,1b.:lJ,srtlt� Marmalade ' Fancy Blue Rose Rice-3lbs. 25e Mayfield Brand Meciilt.1!bead Breakfast These Prices in effect until Saturday, June 18 ' 6251 r then -ales, he was sane enough, for he could,; maintain an . iron. discipline;` Make all rep'ort's and, rdf+tirns, fo the minute >ait'ii to.tht•'letter;, and,, if ,at-, tacked, he could be trusted to keep the Tri -couleur flying while there was a;man;alive an the Fort. :From the,point of view of his sub o{dinates, he was 'nevertheless Mad, man, and a yery'dangero}ts, lone , (To be ;continued.) S. S. 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