Zurich Herald, 1919-01-10, Page 3• ON 'HE FIELD
OF WATERLOO
COMPARISON OP RATTLE WITH
THOSE OF GREAT WAR
Canadian Troops tested and • Had
Luncheon otir Ground of Napoleon's
Last Stand.
Lieut. D'Arty 0, Higgins, of the
Canadian Headquarters Stall', writes
as follows to his mother, who lives
In Toronto.
'Yesterday I had a most interesting
trip in the Signals car. 'We left
Mons about 10.30 a.m. and went via
Waterloo to Brussels, where wd wit-
nessed the magnificent reception
given King Albert by the city' -=-his
first official visit since before the
war. I think it was, without excep-
tion, the finest sight I ever saw.
We had lunch on the famous field
where Waterloo was fought 103 years
ago, and it is one of the most inter-
esting spots I have seen.
The most amazing points about the
whole battle that struck me were
the extremely short distance and the
vast number of inen involved.
Area of Waterloo.
(a) The whole area on which Wat-
erloo was fought was less than twelve
miles in circumference.
(b) Wellington's front line was
only three miles, along which 85,000
troops were concentrated.
(c) While the battle was being
waged a distance of only 925 yards
intervened between Napoleon and
Wellington, the two army com-
manders.
(d) 45,000 men were killed or
wounded in seven hours' fighting, of
which 8,000 were French, killed in
the attempt to take Hoguement
'Tatau, a very insignificant place de-
fensively, but one of most import-
ance strategically.
These facts to me were very im-
pressive, especially when contrasted
with some of the great battles of this
war, just finished. All sorts of relics
of the equipment used for fighting
then can be seen at the little
museum near Lye. _
Built by Women.
Another place of the greatest,;in-
terest was the Mound', built entirely
by women. It took them seven years
to coli Tete their task,receiving g only
font-pcnce`a day. The -earth was all
carried from surrounding -'fields in
baskets, balanced on their heads. The
Mound resembles a conical slag heap.
It contains 165,000 cubic metres of
earth, covered by nice green
grass
and surmounted by the English lion,
carved in stone, this being
supported
by a pedestal containing 3,000,000
bricks. There are 300 steps up the
side, and the view from the top is
well worth the climb-Quatre Bras,
Waterloo and Brussels standing out
clearly.
The town of Waterloo is three
miles distant from the field, but the
battle was given the name because it
was from there Wellington sent his
reports.
We went through the famous for-
est of Brussels to Bois de Boulogne.
We drove down the main boulevard,
put our car in one of the -big hotels,
and walked down to the Palais de
Ville, where we stood talking. Both
of these buildings aro very historic
and represent the finest; architecture
in Brussels. There were very few
English officers in the city, and we
being Canadians, were the cynosure
of all eyes. Bands were playing
everywhere, the favorite being "Tip-
perary." Everybody was dancing and
having the time of their lives. After
dinner I went up to the second floor
of one of the largest restaurants,
where there were about 300 people.
The moment they recognized me as
a Canadian officer they gave three
ringing cheers, to which I responded
"Vive la Belgium,"
fl'ornets Give Tip on Weather.
The age of prophets is not past, at
least not the age of weather prophets.
It's right here. Tho most recent in-
stance of this is a Pennsylvania
hunter called E111 Vanzant. Bill learns
allabout the weather from the hor-
nets. Here is the way tho narration
runs: Pointing up to two trees along
the Baltimore Pike, near Swarthmore,
upon which high up hang big hornets'
hives, Bill said•: "See those, hives?
They are high and dry and that indi-
cates little winds but we aro going to
have deep snow and plenty of it, and
you can, tell the world from me that
I am right when I say deep snow
and plenty of it." Velment declares
hornets never like to get into deep
snow, and their nature always bed'.
cstes to them how to protect them-
selves for the winter months,
"A lean only understands what is
cutin to > omething already existing
in himeelia "-.-An)ie],
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WHAT SOLDIERS
WAN ,t,4
eUgq s ion t^ goat
:who,eare sending g;fis to,
soldiers overseas comes
front i.t,•Cot. (Canon)
Frederick George' Scott,'
Senior Chaplain of 'Ihe.
First Division,, in a tabu:
received by friends ill
Montreal. He says "Tho
men' want•.playing cards
anti chewing tobacco."
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TERMONDE A CITY
TO SHAME GERMANS
THIRTEEN HUNDRED HOMES
BURNED TO GROUND.
Unspeakable Privations Suffered by
Seven Thousand Inhabitants
For Four Years.
The name of Termonde 'will be a
thing of shame to all Germans for
generations to come, says a correspon-
dent on Nov. 20. The world will never
forget the story of the deliberate, sys-
tematic burning of more than 1,000
houses of harmless inhabitants or of
the murdering of innocent civilians.
That has been followed by four years
of servitude to tive Germans under con-
ditions of such tater discomfort that I
doubt if any persons of France or Bel-
gium have suffered more than those of
Termonde.
I have been in the place to -day, be-
ing the first Englishman to visit it, as
I must have been almost the last to
see it in its long agony four years
ago..
Of the 2,400 houses which composed
the town before the war about 1,300
Were destroyed or
burned wantonly,
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honse by house,.. by- the Germans -on
their first entry atter. they had been
there without molestation from the in-
habitants for twenty-four hours: Of
the something less than 1,200 houses
which C remain in the town and the im-
mediate'environs, nearly all are of the
poorer class and small, and the great
majority sorely of them more or less dam-
aged. A large number would not bo
considered fit to live in hi ordinary
times, but the standards of Termonde
are not exacting. Of the original 10,-
000 people nearly 7,000 have continued
to live there, and any ruin of a build-
ing which could be patched up to give
shelter was accounted good enough.
Two and three households crowded in-
to one small cottage. Rooms were
partitioned off to make homes for two
families. To live thus in one dark
room or two with the windows filled
with planks instead of glass and holes
'Ehe
handiest
kind of lunch
for a hungry -
boy or girl, is
a dish of
Grape nuts
Eaten direct
from the pack-
age it doesr +
bother Mother
and with milk
or cream Atfs
delicious.
Have you ever
eaten
Grape:Nus?
Canada rood 1303rd license rlo 2.026
In walls partially and roughly filled 1
has been the normal eondition of th
people of Termonde for over fou
years. When the town was burne
of course, all the furniture was burne
and there remained ,not half enoug
of the ordinary necessaries of life.
Re-entry of Belgian Troops.
The last Germans left Termonde o
Nov. 15 and the first Belgians reache
the town the following Sunday. Al
Flanders to -clay has lain under a title
blanket of white fog, which added t
the dismalness of the landscape; an
the pathos of the place was indescrib
able. One Is familiar with towns u
terly ruined in which no man lives, a
Ypres and Bailleul, but Termond
where 7,000 people still exist amon
the four-year-old ruins, seemed to m
to surpass in sadness even those ter
rible wastes, yet it was not a sad day
for Belgian troops were passing u
teasingly through the town on the w
to Brussels to assist at the entry o
the King, and the people lined th
streets, where a few poor flags flutter
ed, and tried to cheer them and brok
into demonstrations of enthusiasm at
the sight of my. British uniform. But
the four years of privation have lef
their mark on the population, an
never, it seemed to me, did the whol
people of a town need pityand sym
pathy more than they. .
Suffered for Food.
In the course of the four years Ter
monde las
del. a+fivec
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... h• d., ,Bdants, a�rr�
air were equally be- erb ink b'rutal;""�ri
in most places, It is solely the Inter
national Relief Committee who have
been able to furnish the inhabitants
with bread and fats enough, and tin-
ned milk for infants, at least to keep
the spark of life glowing. All the lo-
cal ar
icultur
g al produce, whether p w h vege-
tables,
tables, meat, or real milk, was. of
course, requisitioned by the Germans
for themselves. Many prisoners, in-
cluding numbers of English, were in
the neighborhood, and during the last
few weeks there has been a constant
stream of parties of all sizes arriving
from the near front to be quartered
for a few days and moved on again to
Germany. A local soup committee, of
which Mme. Bruyninex, the Burgomas-
ter's wife, was president, has minister-
ed to these with German consent. The
prisoners, while in the neighborhood,
all received a good bowl of soup each
day, without which they must have
starved."
The church of Notre Dante of Ter -
monde contained, with other paintings,
two rather famous Van Dycks, both of
which were hurried off to safety be-
fore the Germans entered the town,
and have been preserved, as, in a
similar way, have been the pictures
from the Town Hall, including the
mammoth canvas, representing the in-
auguration of Mr. de Keyser, who was
one of Ternionde's most famous sons,
as Lord Mayor of London. Of the pri-
ate collections in Termonde, however,
and it was a town of considerable
wealth, practically nothing remains ex-
cept such things as individuals man-
aged to hide. I described the criminal
wreckage of the fine houses and of
Ile Museum and Art School In 1914,
and what little escaped then has since
been requisitioned or looted.
Termonde was a pitiable sight as I
aw it four years ago, when the ashes
f the first burning still smoked. As
saw it to -day, with the old ruins
grown cold but unrepaired, the wreck-
ge of the big iron bridge still lying in
the river where the Germans blew it
p after their drunken carousal on the
first night of their entry, and the poor
kelton of the old Town Hall still
oniinating the Grande Place, it seeni-
d to me sadder still. 1 do not think
he gaunt people in the knots who
heered their returning soldiore with
itele an enthusiasm know how sad a
fight. they are, or how droadfui has
een the environment in which they
ave grown accustomed to live.
SAFETY -FIRST COLORS
n, the merchant ships of the nations?
e Sly s of the Allies are either
r
d,
d,
cams_ lagecl or painted grey, and are
aen re --no beauty about this. It is
wvheilwe see neutral steamers that
wo tit something of the colors of
war., With great dignity these ves-
sels‘ aunt their national colors on
hull. nd stern.
The iron -ore ship from Bilbao has
red and gold bars painted on her
side, while the timber craft from
Drammen or other Norwegian ports
n
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d bears a large red patch down her
- hull, on which there stands a deep
t- blue cross.
s Greece has her blue and white
e, stripes, and Denmark her red with
g white cross. Sweden boasts a golden
e cross on a marine -blue background,
o and Holl, nd bars of red, white and
, blue respectively.
n- It does not seem so Ione" ago that
aY the trim United States merchantman
f , blazoned her identity to the
seven
e seas by means of a mighty "star-
- spdnglod banner" on her hull.
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Step On Your Feet
this ' yourself then pass
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to others.
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:kiss the War he:ratifie,d or disfigure
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Olich I '? I ? 1 1 This kind of rough
talk Will be heard less here in town if
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice of this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a few drops
of a drug called freezone when applied
to a tender, aching
corn `tops soreness
at once, and soon the corn dries up
and lifts right off without pain.
He says freezone is an ether com-
pound which dries immediately and
never inflames or even irritates the
surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter
of an ounce of freezone will cost very
little at any drug store, but is suffi-
cient to remove every hard or soft
corn or callus from one's feet. Millions
of American women will welcome this
announcement since the inauguration
of the high heels.
Compressed Paper Fuel.
Italy makes excellent use of her
waste paper. It is made into a cheap
and portable fuel for the soldiers.
Boys and girls go about the cities
collecting all the discarded newspa-
pers they can find. These are brought
to establishments where the sheets
are converted by machinry into little
tight rolls about an inch in diameter
and two inches long, which are packed
into small bags and dispatched to the
army.
. This compressed paper fuel is most
Convenient whenever an individual
soldier wishes to warns up a mugful
of soup or coffee.
Kinard,' Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
The world's census of sheep runs to
well over 450,000,000.
Age makes some people wise and
others only stubborn,
MONEY ORDERS.
When ordering goods by mail send
a Dominion Express Money Order.
Compared with last year, the num-
ber of new settlers entering Western
Canada during August showed a de-
cided increase, 1,598 settlers having
crossed the line through the prairie
entry ports, the uniform object being
to take up land for farming purposes
and the total wealth brought with
them being in the neighborhood of
8600,000.
SetsiutT•4'e liniment Curate etistcmuer.
The Ogilvie Milling Company has
donated a hundred thousand pounds
of flour to the Canadian War. Hos-
pitals rued for Serbia, Montenegro
and Macedonia.
ISSUE No.
9
ARMY miaow LOTTS
Novel War -time Vee for LondonMator Busses In France,
One of the many uses to Villa
London motor, buses are put in France
is as a home for pigeons. The ad -
side of the omnihwi is roofed in to
form u cage, while the men occupy
the inside—or rather, three-quarters
of the inside, because the front part
is also part of the cage, which is
entered by a door front the men's
room, and also by a door at the top
of the back staircase.
'there is an opening in the front of
the cage cleverly arranged to let the
birds enter when they return from
their flights, but not to let them
eseape when they are inside. A board
is deftly poised just inside the open-
ing, so that when a bird steps on it
an electric bell rings inside the om-
nibus to tell the men that a pigeon
has come borne.
The pigeons are taken out in bas-.
kets to the trenches to bring mes-
eages back in case the wire cummuni-
cations'should be cut by the enemy's
fire. If not wanted for this purpose
they are sent flying back after tweny-
four hours with a message, just for
practice. Each pigeon has a ring put
on its leg when quite young, and is
known by the number on the ring.
A Health Saving
Reminq�
der. Don't Waituntil you get the Spanish Influenza- USE ,1
iflard's Lillfmert
At the first sign of It. Its Healing Quali-
ties are amazing. THE OLD RELIABLE.
MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., Ltd
Yarmouth, N.S,
Nearly ane hundred vessels at
Prince Rupert, B.C., are occupied in
halibut fishing, and during Septem-
ber 28 fishing vessels arrived, bring-
ing in a total catch of 1,094,000 ib.,.
of halibut.
ffilnarWs Liniment Cures Colds. s+e.
Sweden is using less than ane -fifth
of the 5,000,000 horsepower it is be-
lieved it could derive from its water-
falls.
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HOW to Prtril�
the Blood
"Fifteen to thirty drops of
Extract of Roots, commonly
called !Vieille; Seigel's Curative
Syrup, may be taken in water
with mealsand H rc at bedtime, for
the cure of indigesbora, coimti-
pation and bad blood. Persist-
ence in this treatment will effect
a cure in nearly every case."
Get tho genuine at druggists,
6614'T CUT OUT 1QI 111^
A Shoe Boil, Capped "!
god or Bursitis
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Sixty per cent. of the work on a
ship is in constructing the hull, and
the remaining 40 per cent. is install.
ing .mechanical parts, deck furnish.
ings and other equipment that goes
to make the finished vessel.
Holland's nines are now producing
coal at the rate of about 2,000,000
tons a year.
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DON'T NEGLECT A
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Go after it with Sloan's
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Apply a little don't rub, let it pene-
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Keep a big bottle ready at all times.
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Also On Back, Kept Awake, Cuti.
tura Healed at Cost of 75c.
"My face and back were all brokers
out with pimples, and my face was a
fright to look at. The pia..
pies festered and were scat.
tered, and were so itchy
tbat I scratched until this
skin was sore and red.
They kept mo awake at
Tright.
"When I saw Cuticura
Soap and Ointment advertised
thought % would try them. I was corn.
pietely healed after using one box of
Cuticura Ointment and one cake of
Soap." (Signed) Miss Mary Hastedt,
Cottam, Ont., August 19, 1917.
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toothache and earache. Equally effective for relieving swollen joints.
srgraine sore throat end ether RpwetnfnI ailments. For over 40 years tB
Tamityfrie> Don't ospel-imeet—buyHir t'a—alevayshaeeetattlein
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