HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-01-17, Page 3CANADIAN RECORD
AUG 11
BRIEF SUMMARY OF EFFORT IN
LAST 3 MONTHS OF WAR
Captiired More Than 150 Small Towns
and Freed Over 300,000 French
and Belgian Civilians.
The following despatch 'is forward-
ed from the the office of Sir E. Kemp,
Canadian Overseas Minister of Mille
tia, by Fred James, official corres-
pondent with the Canadian Overseas
Military Forces:
Canadian troops have fnrnishecl a
curious coincidence in British mili-
tary history. The first troops to enter
Mons the day the armistice was
signed weret hose of the 42nd Royal
Highlanders of Canada, which bat-
talion, through the parent regiment,
the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada,
is affiliated with the famous Black
Watch. On August 23, 1914, the 4ast
British battalion to leave Mons was
the 42nd Highlanders,. the Scottish
Black Watch. -
Captured 34,000 Germans.
From August 8 to November 11, the
date the armistice was declared, the
Canadian Corps captured 34,000 pris-
oners, 750 artillery guns of all cali-
bres, 3,500 machine guns, hundreds of
trench mortars, and huge quantities
of all kinds of material.
In the last three months of the
war the corps advanced in depth to a
distance of. 95 miles, covering an area
of approximately 450 square miles.
The principal towns captured by the
Canadians in that time were Cambrai
and Le Cateau on Oct. 9; Denain,
Oct. 20; Valenciennes, Nov. 2; Mons,
Nov. 2. At least 150 smaller towns
and villages were captured in addi-
tion to those larger centres, which
released from German domination
over 300,000 French and Belgian
civilians.
The three outstanding battles fought
by the Canadian Corps since August,
1918, were: Amiens, which began
Aug. 8; Arras, on Aug. 26; and Cam-
brai, Sept. 27. In these three battles,
and in the advance from Cambrai to
Mons through Valenciennes, the Cana-
dian Corns engaged and identified a
total of fifty-seven German divisions,
1 .,f whom were so badly deci-
a s
x. c +o weeks a depth of 15 miles.
At Arras and Cambrai the depth of
penetration into the enemy lines was
25 miles, and from Cambrai to Mons
55 miles. At Amiens we captured
12,000 prisoners; Arras, 10,000; Cam-
brai, 7,174; and from Cambrai to
Mons, 2,82(1.
On the Last Day of War.
On the morning of the 11th, at four
oelock, the 42nd Battalion (the Mont-
real Kilties), the P.P.C.L.I., R.C.R.'s
and the 44th Battalion, of the Seventh
Brigade, attacked at Mons. The city
was actually captured by the 42nd
Battalion and the Princess Pat's, and
the R.C.R.'s also had some tioops
enter the city. By eleven o'clock, the
time the armistice came into effect,
we had established a line five kilo-
metres east of the city, so that in'
nine days the Canadians advanced
thirty miles.
On the afternoon of the lith, Lieut.
General Sir Arthur Currie and Ms
staff made a triumphant entry into
Mons, and were welcomed by thou-
sands of civilians in a most demon-
strative way. General Currie pre-
sented to the city a Canadian flag
tied to a lance, which now has a
prominent place in the council cham-
ber of the city hall. The bodyguard
of the Corps Commander was a sec-
tion of the 5th Imperial Lancers, all
of whom wore the Mons Ribbon and
were among the last:to leave„ the city
on August 23, 1914.
It was at Mons that the British
began fighting in the war and it was
thee: the war ended. Throughout all
the advance invaluable assistance was
given by the Canadian Railway
Proops and the Canadian Forestry
Corps, whose work was extremely
difficult owing to the devastation and
de"'r.tction caused to railway tracks,
bridges and roads.
A PRISONERS SIL
The Vindictive`
No sooner had the Germans evacu-
ated Ostend and Zeebrugge than the
2ibitish Admiralty authorities set
about cleaning the harbors of sunken
ships and other material intended to
block up the waterways to the docks.
1. waterway has already been cleared,
Allowing vessels carrying about 700
'tons of cargo to go right up to the
sleep water quay and discharge. It
is proliosed shortly to begin the work
of raising the Vindictive. It is not
lrnprobalile that her ultimate desina-.
tion will he the Thames. To get her
to the surface, however, will be ono,
tf, the stiffest pieces of work which
the salvage mon have b. d cast upon
them,
of such an clernc ntevy principle as
that you must feud the animal which _ r I
is to work for you, "Necessity l;.nows The % eokI
I
'S PROGRESS no law," sage the German, :and if. Fashions
tLV v5'"1�� ;r� thele is no food for prisoners --•ii' the
_ .. tian..port, for in.,tance, is required '--
5 UNMOVED I'l5J more urgently forammunition—then - ..
NO ONE WILL READ the prisoners may starve. And starve
THIS STORY they slid, and die of exposure and
neglect and under -nourishment, so
that it seems probable that the for..
Lunate encs who are making their way
back to happiness and liberty have
escaped death on the principle of the
survival of the fittest. The strong
have come through the ordeal.; the
The Long, Ragged, Starved, 13ut Un-
daunted Procession of Prisoners
Returning From Germany.
A. Iong, limping procession of tat- weak, one fears, succumbed,
terdemalion figures clothed in the The Spirit of Britain.
But for all one's deep compassion
with their sufferings, one cannot con -
oddest collection of old rags and bits
of uniform, supporting one another,
leaning on clumsy stirlc i cut from the template these psi; carers of ours with -
hedgerows•• --such is the sight that I
out a feeling of elation. Hotit ever
meet: the Britih Army in every road
bo
much the Germans tried to torment
by which it pursues its vietoxicus their dy, they utterly failed to crush
march into Germany, writes a British their spirit. It is time that a public.
offices • in the early days of Ileacs. tribute were paid to the magnificent
These sadand suffering figures are i Staunchness of soul; the unshakable
the prisoners of. war whom the Ger- self-respect of the British soldier in
mans, in the panic of their ruin and
I captivity. There is no doubt that his
defeat, hastily released from cap -
proud refusal to knuckle down to his
oppressor angered the Germans, and
led them to redouble their efforts to
break his pride.
But the German failed failed as
egregiously as he has done in every
psychological problem he has tackled
in this war. And so. for all their
wasted looks, for all their noisome
rags, these prisoners of war have the
bearing of free men. They salute
punctiliously, and look one straight
in the facewhen they are addressed.
As a party of British prisoners of
war were tramping back through Na-
mur the other day, some German sol-
diers left a marching column and
ran towards them, offering them cig-
arettes and food. One and all the
prisoners declined the gift. "We
wouldn't be Navin' anything to do
with theml" said the Irish sergeant
who told the story. What a contrast
to the lickspittle servility of the
Roche in captivity.
A Debt Repaid.
Our prisoners unanimously testify
to 'the kindness shown to then by
civilians in. Belgium. The peasants
dared blows from the rifles of the
guard, and risked heavy fines; to
press bread into the hands. of the
prisoners marching through the
villages. And on their long tramp
through Belgium on their way to the
allied lines after their liberation, the
prisoners depended entirely on the
food and clothing freely given them
by the Belgians in the towns and vile
lages through Which they passed.
The Boche treated his prisoners as
a bad -minded rustic would not treat
his cattle. He had treated them
monstrously to the end of the chapter.
He has not even sought to lessen
the exemplary retribution which the
Allies are going to exact from him by
malting adequate provision for the re-
patriation of the prisoners of war.
He has just turned them adrift, the
well and the sick alike, and left them
to shift for themselves.
And when the German people, are
called to account for their inhuman
treatment of their prisoners of war
this last act of callousness must not
be forgotten.
tivity, and turned out without food
or adequate clothing upon the high
road to snake the best of their way
back to - the Allied lines. ,
Of all the Allied prisoners of war,
I think the French—to judge by their
appearance—were the least ill-treated:'+.
They, like the rest, are thin—for thin-
ness seems to be universal amongst
the dwellers in Germany of to -day --
but their faces do not reveal the signs
of a systematized course of brutality
as do the faces of our men, whilst for
the most part they have preserved
their uniforms intact.
The Road to Germany.
The picture of the bands of re-
turning prisoners will, I believe, re-
main indelibly fixed on the minds of
all who have taken part in the victor-
ious march •into Germany. The set-
ting is the broad, tree -lined chaussee.
The line of marching battalions,
spruce and clean and fit, with trans-
port in good shape, and strong, well-
groomed horses, fills the right hand
of the highway; on the left, coming
from the opposite direction, defiles an
endless procession of civilians pushing
little hand -carts piled high with their
belongings, and surmounted by the
Belgian flag, interspersed by these
little groups of prisoners of war.
Sheer Inhumanity.
The hunted look in the eyes of
many of these men tells the whole
e, of the system which the Allied
set' out to smash;' and have
I will not horrify you with
the repititiono f the stories you have
read in such ghastly detail in the
British official report on the treat-
ment of our prisoners of war in Ger-
many, the brutality of the guards and
their superior officers, the lack of
food, even of the disgusting quality
Provided, the long hours of forced
labor, often under shell fire. But
what we must insist on—and it ap-
pears in the statements of almost all
the prisoners—is the sheer inhuman-
ity of the German attitude towards
their British victims.
If it were inconvenient to start ra-
tioning a party of prisoners on a
certain day, the party would simply
be confined without food or water until
such time as the rationing of the
prisoner's became convenient. There
was apparently no recognition even
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People of culture.
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health, sim� Berry
and conten±mend:.
Thousands of these
people choose the
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I" .y^ . 'T,
P�Il TU
as their -Fable bev
ere in place of
tea or coffee.
Healthful
Economical
Delicious
JAPAN'S POPULATION
Production of Rice Has Not Kept
Pace With Increased Birth Rate..
The shortage in the supply of food-
stuffs in Japan has caused the extra-
ordinarily high price of rice and other
food, says the Japan Advertiser. It is
true that the production of rice has
been making more or less increase
has not been at such a rate as to keep
pace with the steadily growing popu-
lation. Moreover, the yield of rice
is at the mercies of the elements and
in a country like Japan, which is sub-
ject to frequent visitations of ty-
phoons at the most critical period for
the corp, the precarious nature of the
agricultural industry may be imagin-
ed. In this connection, continues the
Advertiser, it will be interesting to
note the tremendous rate at which
Japan's population is increasing.
Until a few years ago the rate of
increase was a little more than 500,-
000, but last year's increase is put
at close upon 800,000. According to
official statistics just published the
total number of the Japanese popula-
tion on .December 31, 1917, was re-
turned at 57,998,373, which were dis-
tributed into 10,.241,851 dwellings at
the rate of 5.7 per dwelling. Coln -
pared with the census taken at the
end of 1916 the population showed an
increase of 790,096, and there can be
no doubt that Japan should be serl-
ously exercised by the food problem
if its population continues to increase
at such a rate. It may be added that
the figures are exclusive of the Jap-
anese or Japanese subjects in Korea,
1' ormosa and Karafuto. who may be
said to be self-supporting as far as
their food supply•is concerned.
The pendulum in New Zealand
sheep breeding is rePertcvl to be
swinging in favor of the Down
breeds.
A very practical little apron in-
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McCall Pattern No. 8682, Girl's
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This new design has the basque
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Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter
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one's feet of every hard or soft corn
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You apply just a few drops on the
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This discovery will prevent thou-
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and infection heretofore x siilting from
the suicidal habit of cuttiing corns.
About Boys.
Show me the boy who never threw
A stone at someone's cat;
Or never hurled a snowball swift
At someone's high silk hat.
Who never ran away from school,
To seek the swimming hole;
Or slyly from, a neighbor's yard -
Green apples never stole.
Show me the boy who never broke
A pane of window glass;
Who never disobeyed the sign
That says "Keep off the grass,"
Who never did a thousand things
That grieves us sore to tell;
And 1'11 show you a little boy
Who must be far frein well.
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