HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-12-04, Page 7NEN SOLDERS
ARE CAPTURED
RULES WHICH GOVERN PRISON-
ERS OE WAR.
While He May Think Himself .Badly
Used, He Has Something to be
Thankful For.
Every campaign conducted on a
large scale means prisoners of war.
Soldiers who happen to find them
selves in this unfortunate position are
dealt with in accordance with a spe-
cial code, to which all civilized na-
tions have subscribed.
This code lays it down that "the
object of detaining prisoners of war
is to prevent their taking part again
in therof
operatlo., the war. So much
restraint, therefore, and no more,
should be applied as is sufficient for
that purpose."
This, then, being the case, the con-
finement in irons, or the fettering in
any way; of a prisoner of war is im-
permissible, so long as no attempt is
made by him to rejoin his own party.
For this reason the detention of such
men is usually considered adequately
provided for by merely keeping them
in an enclosure that is surrounded by
sentries.
Customs of War.
When, however, an attempt is made
to escape, the enemy is justified in re-
sorting to practically any means of
securing a captive's confinement that
it pleases. In connection with this
subject, it is interesting to note that
in the chapters on "The Customs of
War" in the "Manual of Military
Law," it is expressly laid down that a
prisoner of war who is justified in an
attempt to escape, or who is frustrat-
ed after escaping, is liable to no pen-
alty whatever on this account, pro-
vided he was not on parole at the
time.
This is because the Act in question
has very wisely decided that "The
Customs of War" do not regard an
attempt to escape . a crime. Indeed,
rather the .reverse seems to be the
case, for the punishment of penal ser- f
vitude may, in the British Army, be 'ii
incurred by any person subject to 1 i
military law who, having been only
taken prisoner, fails to escape when a
suitable opportunity presents itself,
or, as the Act has it, "fails to rejoin
his Majesty's Service when able to re-
join the same."
Of course, when on parole the
above ruling holds good no longer, for j
a prisoner of war who has violated
his pledge naturally forfeits all claim g
to' consideration of any sort. This
• "paroling," by the way, is a purely
voluntary and mutual contract, and, i
therefore, no obligation exists on
either side to receive or grant it. see
�TO.�� WORRIED FREAK Mai;
14IORY REVEALED. ( POTATO AND FORAGE CROPS.
WOMEN
Her- Many. Duties Affect Her
Health and Often She Breaks
Down Completely,
It is little wonder that there are.
many times in a wornan's life when
she feels in despair. There is no
nine -hour day for the busy housewife.
There are hundred thing about the
home to keep her busy from the time
she arises until it is again bed time.
what is the result? Often her nerves
give way, her good looks suffer, her
blood becomes thin, her digestion is
disturbed and her system threatened
with a complete breakdown. Every
woman should do all possible to pro-
tect her health and good looks, and
there is one way in which she can do
this, and that is by taking Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills. These actually
snake new, rich blood, strengthen.
every nerve and every organ, being
the' glow of health to the cheeks and
brightness to the eye. These pills
have done more to make the .lives of
thousands of women sunshiny than
anything else in the world. Mrs.
Daniel Theal, Waterloo, Ont., says:
I was very much run down, my bloo
was thin and watery and I woul
faint at the least excitement. I suf-
fered from headaches and dizziness,
and often it seemed as though there
were clouds before my eyes. Finally
I was forced to go to bed with weak-
ness. I doctored for six weeks while
in bed without receiving any benefit.
Finally I was induced to take Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and when I had
taken ten boxes I was completely
eared, and never felt better in my life.
I am convinced that what Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills did for me they will
do for others, and I warmly recom-
mend them to all weak women:"
You can get these Pills from any
medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents
a box or six boxes for $2.50, from The
Dr: Williams' Medicine Co., Brock-
ville, Ont.
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Jap Statesmen Are Old.
Of the older statesmen of Japan
who have for the last thirty years
constituted the principal conservative
once in that country, only four are
left. They are all men of great age,
ncluding Field Marshal ,Prince Yarfra-
gata, who is 82; the Marquis Matsu-
kata, who. is 75; Field Marshal Prince
Oyama, who is 73; and the present
Prime Minister, Count Oluma, who if
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A Man 'Who Can 'Recite Walpole
"Old English Baron."
The possession of a freak memo
was revealed during the course of
case of robbery tried recently at Me
bourne. The prisoner deelafecl• the
when the crime was committed.he wa
in the hut of a Man named Lan
hearing him recite Walpole's• 'x01
English Baron," which occupied tw
hours and a half in the delivery'., Th
Jury disbelieved this statement, s
Lane was .called to prove that he .wa
capable of the feat. He stepped int
the witness -box and started reeitin
the story in a way that showed h
knew it thoroughly. • When be had
gone on some time without a /no
ment's hesitation the judge wante(
him to stop, but counsel for the de-
fence insisted upon proving his case
by having the whole story repeated.
Eventually, it was decided to admit
the evidence if Lane could repeat the
last page of the book. This being
satisfactorily accomplished the alibi
was allowed, and the prisoner received
his discharge,
INSTRUCTION IN LANGUR
''s I So Abundant as to Compensate Short-
age in Wheat.
ry Senator Jules Moline, former pre -
a sident of the French Cabinet, preside
1- ing at the annual meeting of the Agri -
I
t cultural Assembly, presented statin-
s ties showing that the potato and for-
e, age crops this year are so abundant
d as to compensate the shortage in
o wheat. The excels of hay produced
e 1 over other years will enable the feed -
o J ul�, of. enough live stock to Make up
s for all the necessary requisitions of
o I meat fol• the army.
g "The culminating point in the meat
e crisis," he says, "Will come after the
war, when all the belligerent nations
will have pressing needs with re -
1 , (limed means of production. Conse-
quently the forage crop means quite
as Much to France as its production
j of wheat."
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W You a
Il r Glasses..
The
wenn statement is ntnda ih;lt thousands
GES.
Englishmen Are Learning Polish and
Balkan Dialects.
Classes in Russian, French and
Spanish are prospering in London as I
never before.. It is recognized that;
Germany's great gains in trade were '
l due largely to the pains German i
clerks and business men took to ac-
quire foreign languages: S
g ectal
1
P
, courses in the Slav tongue, i
g 1lcluc]]rrg ;
, Polish and the Balkan dialects, are
now established at King's College, ,
IUniversity of London, T. G. Masaryk,
professor of philosophy in the Czech 1
University of Prague and formerly a
prominent politician in the Austrian 1
Parliament, is the head of the school.
Instruction in the languages will be i
accompanied by lectures in Slavonic
history and literature. Spanish • is
rather the latest to be taken j
tltrm yrglasses eau do not really need
Lr you are one of these unfortu-
, mates, then these glasses 'nay be ruining
; your eyes instead of helping; thorn. Thou-
! Inds who wear lln`OC ''windows" may
1 prove for . themseltts that they can ills -
f
followense ing with
isses ription f they fillets at will
get: Co
to any active drug store and get a bottle
of Bon-Opto tablets; fill ti two -ounce bot-
tle with warm water and drug in mle IIcn-
Opto tabiut. li'[th this hrtrmlrss 1Jgtila
solution bathe the eros ttvo to tour
times
dally, and you are likely to sae astonished
at the results right from the start. Many
teat sm,v ebeen
e5xi•t l,, �t t at rat t, so Sore eyelids,
weak eyes, conjunctivitis and other eye
disorders, report wonaerfltl benefits from
the use of this prescription. ' Get this pre-
seription filled and use it; you may so
strengthen your eyes that glasses *ill not
be riecrsssrv. Tllnll�
up; just
.as Russian was the first after the out-
break of the war. The Welsh people,
on account of being bilingual, are the
cleverest students in language and
the Scotch next, according to the
teachers.
A VALUABLE MEDICINE
FOR LITTLE ONES
Mrs. G. Morgan, Huntsville, Ont.,.
writes:—"I wish every mother stead
more than eighty. especially young'mothers know the
value of Baby's Own Tablets. They.
FARMS POR SALE. have certainly worked wonders with
our baby. She was •troubled with
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rampton. Ont.
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colic and constipation and cried all
the time, but the Tablets soon put her
right, and she is now a fine healthy
child." The Tablets are sold by medi-•
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wns. The most usetta and interesting I Brockville O t
On Parole. ! application to 'ivitson Publishing Com -
If a i pang, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
all businesses. full inforri�ation on Co.,
y
n enemdoes not choose to e
tend parole, his prisoner has no choic
but to remain in captivity. If, on tl
other hand, he is sufficiently magnan
mous to offer parole, the prison
accepting it thereby binds himself t
accept certain conditions. -Thos
usually favor the form of a pledg
not to attempt to escape or to engag
POR SALE.
i0 100 tc 11:5. 14 IN STXT11. CON-
._ et stenulkliu. ,$5000.
Louisa \Vilticl , :13Jrlcendale, Aluskoica.
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m acts of hostility against his "par
ole" during the continuance of th
war.
Any such promise, however, mus
be confined to a limited time, as a
soldier cannot divest himself wholly
of a duty which lie owes to his sover-
eign and country.
However much the present-day pri-
soner of war may feel inclined to con-
sider himself as being hardly used, he
has a thing to be profoundly thank-
ful for. This is that he is living in
the early portion of the twentieth cen-
tury instead of in the far-off days
when man first went forth to slay his
brother,
Indeed, at that particular period of
the world's military history a soldier
might as well have died on the field
as have .fallen into the hands of the
enemy. As' a matter of strict fact,
it is not at all improbable that the
former rate was infinitely the more
preferable of the two,
To the Lions.
Without knowing precisely what
• their lot was at that time, we may be
certain that it was a distinctly disa-
greeable one, if only for the reason
that a wounded man frequently com-
mitted suicide rather than be taken
prisoner,
With the advance of time, however,
softer influences were, we know defi-
nitely, permitted to manifest them •
-
selves. Thus, the ancient Romans
satisfied their natural desire to gloat
over the; overthrow of a :fallen foe by
•merely. •leading their prisoners in
chains, in a triumphant procession
through the streets.
At the termination of the day's fes-
tivities they would, as a mule, be solei
as slaves. Occasionally the more suit-
able among them would be reserved
for matinees at the Coliseum, when
they would be rogtd'ed to exhibit their
Oat:VOSS as amateur lion-tamers.—
London Alrewers,
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LATEST GOVERNMENT ORDER.
English Must Be Spoken on 'Phones
in London.
• The English language must be
used over the telephone, according to
the latest order of the authorities. In
this, the British 'Government is mere
-
y following a rule long enforced in
he other belligerent countries. Eng -
and is still full of Belgian refugees,
SELP WANTED •
WN 1ELa,C'IRI J'.UITiTa; TO KNIT
ii mr n's wool socks for us ,tt haute.
either with machine er by hand;send !1
'tams, lot information. The ('auadia,t
_ 'Wholesale 'Din, Co., Dept. S., (Fiske. Out. It
e 1 n=rscr:i.l.Arfeous
; of whom only the children and ,youths
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t ii l\Clar, UA1o1,s, LUMPS/ ETC. !have learned to spear: English and in
�i internal and external cured with
pain by home treatment. 1
•ve r
I us clove tan late. Dr. 13e1]nian Medical Co... Limited, Collingwood, Ont,
.
outtb b.''Write T
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the Soho district of London French is
I still the language commonly heard on
the streets
Furs Have Advanced
full vtalue 1), enshandgctu ckreturnsAWa
h the best market in Autet•ica for b'ut's, $idea, oto.
No commission. Write today for free price est.
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uc rtion; strop demand for graduates
.'1118r now; write for ralendtir.
W, J', ELLXO e1r, Principal
DON'T CUT OUT
A Shoe Boil, Capped
}lock or Bursitis
will reduce them and leave no blemishes.
Stops lameness promptly. Dees pot blis-
ter or remove the hair, and horse can be
worked. .,*2 a bottle delivered. Book 6 M free.
AIISOttel ' E, Jfl., for thudded. the antiseptic
litdotent fotr3alle.Oroise, sores, Swcllinye, VarieeSeVeins..
Allays Pain and Inhuatmation. Price 81 arta 82 a bottle at
drle:lets or delivered. Will telt you more if roe mate.
W F. YOUNG, P, 0, F,, 516Lyrans Bldg,, Mdnireni, Can.
4hsorbiec sod Absorblec, jr.. are made la Csaadt.'
i The new rule is expected to cut
!down telephone receipts in the foreign
colonies, but the increase from 4 to
6 cents a call will add immensely to
the post office revenues in the son
run. The telephone system is Govern
"Ment owned, '
One Effect of Prohibition:
"The rapid increase in dry territor
lin the United States has resulted in
shortage of tea, according to Geo. I'
Mitchell , supervising tea examiner o
Treasury' Department, Tea stocks in
the United States are lower than they
have ever been. The price of tea is
advancing steadily."—=Chicago "Tri-
bune," April 22nd.
Unnrasculine. ,
Tommy had a profound _ contempt
for the little boy next door', who
threw a ball like a girl, seldom had
on any but a clean shirt end who
generally wore gloves.
"Do you know why he's a sissy?"
asked Tommy of his aunt. "It's
'cause he looks just like his mother,
and that shows he's got girl blood in
him."
or nearly so, 0r• who wear glasale blind,
ses might
never stare ref] uirea their If they had cared
fforer their
it is t o latetime.
Do not become avo �r eyes
onebof
these vietluis of neglect. Eyeglasses rue
only like crutches, and every few years
they must be changed to fit the ever-in-
creasing weakened condition, so better see
if you can, like many others get clear,
h oug the
prescription here given The Valmas Drug
lionby An. of a If to your rl finuggI tocannotscrip
ealihy,
strong magnetic eve nth
BULGARIANS IN LONDON.
Would Rather Fight for England Than
Own Country.
With war between England and Bul-
garia, one may see in London the curi-
ous spectacle of Bulgarian citizens in
British uniform. Some of them, in
the light blue, hospital uniform, which
15 worn by the wounded, have return- ed • from fighting in Flanders, and
I
others have just enlisted and are
about to go to the front.
Most of these Bulgarians have had
an ardent admiration for England
nd have, without becoming natural-
ized, contrived to enlist in the Cana-
dian force. The Bulgarian colony in
London is not large, but it is said that
most of the Bulgarians of military
age are enlisted in the army.
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was cured of terrible lumbago by I
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
REV. WM. BROWN.
I was cured of a case of earache
by MINARD'S LINIMENT.
MRS. S. K:AULBACIC.
I was cured of sensitive lungs by!
MINARD'S LINIMENT, -
MRS. S. MASTERS.
Funny Story.
"You might as well admit your
guilt," said the detective. "The man
whose house you broke into positive-
ly identifies you as the burglar.
g "That's funny," said the burglar.
"What's funny?" asked the detec-
tive:
J• "How could he identify me when
he had his head under the beci-
Y I clothes all the time I was in the
aIroom ?"
As Usual.
"How was the lecture ?"
"The subject matter was good,
but the lecturer hadn't taken the
trouble to arrange it intelligibly."'
"What was the subject of the lec-
ture?" •
"Preparedness,"
Mayors of London used to be elect-
ed for life.
,'6lixlarci'9. Tiininier
The Bride's First Biscuit.
}"Lucille, what are you going to
make?"
I "Some"
bisetilt.
j "But why have you brought out
ithe fashion plates as well as the
took book ?"
"Well, T'ni a little 'r
I green at this.
1Do you make biscuit from a recipe
0r a pattern'?"
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YEASTCAKES
MARE PERFI CAT 8REAE
Bread made in the home with Roy
yeast will keep fresh and moist lenge
than that ]rade with any other.
Food Scientists claim that there is
more
nouraliment in a pound of good
home made bread than in'apouncl of
meat, Consider the difference in cost,
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'TORONTO, ONT
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MADE. 1N CANADA
Winning Is Ail Nonsense.
One day, y, whist; her granclfatlrer• was
paying a visit to Florence's borne, the
little glial said to him:—"Gran'pa,
your talk about perseverance winning
is all nonsense." - "Well, well," cried
grandfather', "why do you say that?"
"Why, said the little girl, "I've work-
ed all the afternoon blowing soap bub-
bles and trying to pin them on mo-
ther's hat."
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, &c.
Johnny's Alibi.
"Johnny, how did you hurt your
hand? I hope you haven't been
fighting again."
"Willie Jones called me a liar,
mother, an' then he hit me. on the ;
fist with his teeth."
Close,
"Is he a ;close friend of y our;t
"Yes, indeed, I can't borrow al
from shin!"
Minard's Liniment Cures 37iphtlil
Contrast.
Aunt—Your bride, my dear . bo
i wealthy and all that, but T
think she'll make much of a be
show at the altar.
Nephew—You don't, eh ?
wait till you see her with the br
maids she has selected.
m fr Granulated Eye
Eyes inflamed by expo
to Cold Winds and .
a,#�r quickly relieved by lig
Eye Remedy. No S S.
1 ing, lust Eye Comfort. At Your Drugg
I 50c per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve inTube
For ite
Minard's Liniment Cues; Distemper. ! IV/urine Cyjoolfetheciy Company, of the Eve Free Chit
When a girl says she has lost her
head over a fellow she generally finds
t on his shoulder.
German trade in clocks was vas
atone and a quarter million you
a' eon
p 1 ye i b f e the war.
Ice] wait
c , e, Blue, Cross, Silver. Black Poxes, Beaver, Lynx, Etc.
Wante
RAW ]±:very raw -four shipper
r vrltull, lntions olcing frr aabeda
tter ,cutlet f.or
his raw furs should write at ,,nc•e for our prtcelisf. WGe are
Fg i itt a positron to Nay top market prices, and will do so at fall
times. Let us hear from you.
Send for Our Price List,—tow ILeadt. We Ba-' eiueeng,
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