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Zurich Herald, 1928-11-29, Page 3Canada Paid years on it voluntary baste, but the voluntary sp irit gradually worked Ta i o 60,OeA self out and compulsory service WM introduced in. August, 1917, on the War Dead passim a the Military Service .het. Tenth Armistice Anniversary Stirs Memories .of Her Of ler to Send an Expedition, numerous other 'formations, had basil By this time the reinforcement situs, tion lead become 'very serious, 'Under the.. voluntary system 268 infantry battalions and thirteen regi- ments of mounted rifles, together with to Defend the Empire; 'and raised; on the introduction of com- o f the Large Army That Went Overseas. A nation husb.ed for two minutes! pulsory "service the policy was adopt— ed of passing recruits to depots, the Process of forming new units to send to England and be broken up' there "This is the tribute Canada paid to being abandoned, Altogether, under her 60,000 war dead on the tenth an- both systems, 619,086 men were re- cruited in the Canadian Expedition- ary Force, The official figures on casualties is one of which Canada is proud. The silence will be observed by not only list follows: those who knew the great war in all filled (including missing, now its grim reality but by that younger j Ptaesumecl dead) 39,488 12,260 7,796 175,841 3,870 43,436 664 471 iliversary of Armistice Day, The occasion has lost nothing with the passing of the years, and the generation which has grown up since and to whom war is only a faint echo Died of wounds Did e other causes py ra idl becoming fainter. , will forget that dramatic day ill 1914 1 Prisoners of war The heroes are not forgotten.Who 'Wounded and injured when .Sir Robert Bordon offered to iEnemy prisoners captured provide an expeditionary force for the Guns defense of the empire? This offer Machine guns captured " 3,154 was accepted by the British Govern- Enlisted in Canadian Expedi- ment. In response to calls for volun- dieted Force 619,636 tears, some 40,000 men assembled in al Number overseas from Canada424,589 few weeks at Valcartier; where land ;Served in France and other captured Trench mortars captured had been purchased, cleared, drained theatres of the war 344,596 d otherwise prepared for the assem- an o erw bling and organization of the troops. The principal battles in which Ca- The mobilization scheme prepared nadian troops took p in 1911 and revised later was ignored, lows: In 1915, Ypres, Festubert, but gradually the troops were formed Mount Sorrel; in 1916, Somme, in - into units prior to sailing for Eng. eluding Thiepval, Ancre Heights and land. This original contingent con- Ancre; in 1917, Arras, including silted of one division of infantry and Vimy Ridge, Arleux and the Scarpe, f mounted troops, to. C bras (cav Captain Remained With Ship in Accordance With Law of Sea New York.—The steamer Vestris sank when only about 80 of its 328 HUNTING In, September, 1918, a brigade of passengers and crew had been launch- t were as fol - one brigade o Hill 70 Passchendaele, am tin (cavalry gether i only), Amiens; in 1918, the Scarpe, units The immortal Princess Patti - th with' lines of communication alry only), Saint -Quem HgAVY WORK of HNTING Al' THEPORTAGE:. On the way over Cranberry Carry, ,with N.S., where the heart of the .moose -hunting =Tying guide c rying the canoe and leading the way, near New Grafton, country is ,located. Sea Disaster Laid to Delay cites Canadian Light Infantry was an• the Hindenburg Queen , independent unit, recruited throughout the Hindenburg line (including Canal du Nord and Cambrai, 1918), Valen- into ciennes, Sambre and the pursuit to and Mons. t line the battles of Canada. Surplus troops were organized an additional—Fourth—brigade also accompanied the force. The number of passengers and crew had to fling themselves into the water. Tan an told of geeing the ship sink two minutes after he jumped from the Asking kin Aid deck and there was a general feeling L', l� g L� that others may not have jumped in How To Keep Many Pots Boiling ed, after two boatloads of women and children had been Burled into the sea, and while the rest were leaping from the ship's sides and swimming fast lest they be dragged clown with the foundering hulk. Survivors brcught here declared that the traditions of the sea had been scrupulousl^ s b cave .ae to giving TYPICAL CAMP KITCHEN OF THE DEER HUNTER Stove consists of a few rocks piled on the ground to form a fireplace and cooking utensils consist of tin pails and a frying pan. What you eat in the woods must be cooked in one of the pails. tingent, with a total strength of 33,000, began to embark at Quebec on Sept. 22. The thirty-one transports gather- ed at Gaspe Bay, whence they sailed -on Oct. 3 with a naval escort pro- vided by the Admiralty. The contingent remained encamped at Salisbury Plain during the winter •of 1914-15, which proved to be an ex- ceptionally wet one. The First Cana- dian Division proceeded to France in February, 1915, followed in May .and June by the Cavalry Brigade (dis- mounted) and the Motor Machine Gun Brigade. Meantime other units were being recruited in Canada and passed on to England. The Second Caanclian Di- vision was organized and proceeded to France M September, 1916, and time .and were carried down with the captain. Of those who did get into the water cows against them; that if they will have gee to call a spade a spade ..eague aid Committees are Active at Lea. gale HeadquarternmMo..n Problems Being 1 vt.cti' gated by Experts , t Geneva Although the .��.rssesnbly of the. League of National, ',abaci) bringe eo many statesznea, journalists and oh - servers from the'four corners o1 the earth to Geneva, concluded its ,sittings some time age, the Swiss city still hums wit hact'lvlty, writes a comes- pondent of "Interdependence," month- ly review of the League of Nations Society of Canada, published at Ottawa. Commissions committees, sub -committees and, various bodies ale constantly in session delving into vari- ous- abstruse international problems whose very character are generally eo complex and technical that they bailie the common lay observer. But not a little that is romantic and inter- esting is buried beneath the mass of "shop -talk" that goes; on. The difficulty of collecting taxes from the natives in Western Samoa and the work of the secret "Citizen Committee" busy broadcasting false and fantastic news, were described, for instance, to the Mandates Com- mission, to whom report the various nations under whose control various remote and uncivilized areas have been placed. A report upon his stew- ardship was also given to this body by Mr. Werth, Administrator of the territory of Southwest Africa. Rail- ways were functioning, the port of Walvis Bay has grown and prospered, enter. For example, that lying won't and conditions have greatly improved, do, thieving still less; that idleness he said. will get punished; that if they are Eloping that the customs authorities Education What is the true purpose of educa- tion? To make plain to the young the laws of the life they will have to reds the whole world will be et the countries of the world may be and survive the actual sinking of the ship, the majority of those eventually rescued were mer.:ber3 of the crew, the greatest loss being among the passengers. This was thought to have Nome explanation In the theory that the crew were men accustomed to hard labor, nerd able to withstand the hardship of the long hours in the waves, and not to any general effort on the part of the crew to take posi- tions of comparative safety in the, boats rightfully belonging by the law of the sea to the paasettge.rs. first thane'lit to women and children,' •- --_ - —. and tri y ..•:..I a.a appealing story of Knowledge a is Power inadenttrt.' preparation for disaster. I: Ye shall know the truth, and the The filet two boats were filled with truth shall make you free." Does woman and children—there were 37 this not suggests the reason why women and 13 children on board some are unhappy and all are and the crew started to lower away. not equally happy? Many have been Then the sinking slop lurched, the delinquent in developing their minds boats crashed against its side and and hearts to entertain happiness. women and children were tumbled They have had no time and no enthu- luto the waves. Reports indicate that siasm. for getting wisdom, for discov- all the children perished and but 10 s ering truth. Vessels may be equally of the women were rescued. full, but the large holds more than the Began to List Saturday l small. Yea, knowledge:is power, but 'On the whole, the 125 ,survivors . knowledge alone is not happiness. arriving here on the Amo lean Ship- The man who spends all his time in per and the 23 on the Berlin agreed acquiring knowledge finds himself at that in intention the officers and last exhausted and standing still, with crew of the Vestris had been beyond !pie heights of happiness yet far criticism, but many of them blamed away. There is pleasure, often acute the captain, who went down with his pleasure, in acquiring wisdom. There ship, for indecision which they saw as is no happiness in knowledge with one principal reason for the large i out action. Knowledge without ac- numUer of fatalities believed to total tion is like steam generated. but car - 108. 1 tied off on the bosom of the wind, The ship began to list on Saturday unharnessed and uncontrolled. It is night, they said, • and its condition', like the blossom in the springtime, grew more serious steadily through- for the moment beautiful, but disap- Ont Sunday, and yet no distress call pointing when no fruit appears.— Daniel Poling. g t ; t. a encoura their own way they must fight for It. metaphorically—in all languages, a —Arthur F1vgh Clough. special sub -committee of exeperts artillery and some details were pro- vided from England for the North Russian front, divided between Arch- angel and Murmansk. In January, 1919, a force organized in Canada was sent to Siberia, consisting of two battalions of infantry, a battery of artillery and details; .in all, 4,186 men. Four hospital units served in'the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles (Lemnos) and Sa- lonika, and a bridging company served in Palestine. Forty-one picked Cana- dian volunteers took part iu the Bag- dad Mission, known as the Dunster - force, and practically each mail was detailed for an isolated mission iii the 'vicinity of the Caspian 'Sea. • Defence Against Failure together with the First Division ' .There is no end to the sufficiency formed .the Canadian Corps. The of character. It can afford to wait; Third Canadian Division was organ- it can do without what is called suc- ized in France in December. In Aug- cess; it cannot but succeed. To a ust, 1910, the Fourth Division, which wellrprineipled man, existence is vic had been organized in England, join- tory, He defends himself' against failure in his Main design by making every inch of the road to it right. ,There is no trifle and no ,obscurity to him; he feels the immensity of The Fifth Canadian Division, which the chain whose lost lick he holds in • his hand, and is led .by it. Having was formed in .England in the early nothing, this spirit bath all. It part of 1917, did not proceed to France makes no stipulations for earthly and eventually, in February, 1918, was felicity—does does not ask, in the • broken up and its personnel used- as lutetiess of its trust, even for the as - reinforcements, with the exception of the divisional artillery, .which Went to Prance intact. ed the Canadian -Corps, and for the rest of the War the corps was mains tamed on a four -division basis. Other Canadian Forces was sent until the middle of Monday morning, and as a result no rescue ships were on the scene until many hours after the ship sank at 1.30 that afternoon. Many persons declared that when Malty units which were used ht ex- cess of divisional establishments Were depleted and their personnel trans- ferred to reserve formations for use as reinforceinents. Other new `organ isations came into being during the ' course of the war, such as the Cana- dian Machine Gun Corps, the Cana- dian Forestry Corps, the Corps of Canadian Railway Trootss, etc„ and muck expansion and reorganization took place in the Canadian artillery. and engineers. Reorniting. in Canada was for three surance of continued Emerson, �' Worry It is trot work that kills inen; it is ,,worry, , rorlt is healthy; you can hardly put more upoit a malt than he can bear. Worry is rest upon the blade. . It is not the revolution that desroy3 the machinery, but the fric- tion.—lEleury Ward Beecher, A Thankful Heart A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other, virtues,—Cicero. m . SOCCER IN ENGLAND, A HEAD GOAL Hufton, West Ham's goalie, couldn't stop Dean scoring All desperate hazards courage do Upton Park. Hazards create, the captain did decide to abandon As he plays frankly who has least ship, shortly after the first SOS call, estate; the tackle of the lifeboats was found Presence of mind, and courage in dis- to be faulty. Ita'took hours to lower tress, them, the ones with the women and Are more than armies to procure children were crashed, and another success. —Dryden.' was stove in and put away with a gaping hole -in its side. Vessel Sank Suddenly Only two boats were successfully launched, although as the ship sank and were caught by deserve the thankfulness of a whole But , who is the man who swimming survivors. The greater life. --J. Collier. 1 angry? —Shakespeare. Blessings The private blessings—the bless- ings of immunity, safeguard, liberty others broke loose and integrity—which we enjoy, for Everton at Books Books are friends, and what friends they are! Their love is deep and un- changing; their patience inexhaust- ible; their gentleness perennial, their forbearance] unbounded; and their sympathy without selfishness — Langford. Anger To be in anger is impiety, is not Recalling ..-Happy Days in the Wilds .4,.;:.\r'h, 1T•M. .rw.n "nom .4\`fa.v \M'....:.v�.a mnu,,,maar►veii,` IN THE NORTH WOODS "PLAYING HOUSEWIFE" e heating dis Meose hunters must have mining water, for washing, the dishes, etre there Is plenty of it in t litli tricts,- This picture disproves the :popular `supposition th at hunters don't bother with washing dis es. have been sitting in Geneva for some time. Their task is to study the ques- tion of the unification of customs no- menclature and bring about a simpli- fled system of tariff terms that wilt facilitate commercial intercourse be- tween nations. The Committee of the Health Sec- tion forms a clearing house for infor- mation regarding every disease, plague or sickness that is affiliating any por- tion of the earth. An epidemic of dengue --also known as cedes aegypti —that is causing many deaths in Greece is at present under invsetiga- tion. Two other committees dealing with involved and highly technical matters are those investigating international economic relationships and double taxation and fiscal evasion, Daily Life The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are ab- sorbed before they are aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise and to break when the right time comes ---when an inward necessity for independent action arises, which is superior to all outward convert' tionalities.---Mfrs. Gaskell. (Ruth) Thankfulness There ill this difference between a thankful and an unthankful than: the one is always pleased in the good to has clone, and the other only itt what he has received; but there are some inen who are never thankful. ---A, Monod. Nobility Anything in any wise beautiful or noble, owes the beauty to itself, and with itself its beauty ends; praise forms no part of it, , , . true beauty needs no addition, any more tha'd law, or truth, or kindness, or self, respect. --Marcus Aurelius.