HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1918-01-04, Page 2Preparedness "
By Itettor Haynie'
Copyright, by W, G. ehapmau,)
A STRUG:GLE FOR L1F.E
Zoologien' Park Keepers sattacic ?d� ids.
Three Pythons,
For some day the three big ; pya
thons in the New 'York Zooloiieal
; far is had een ailing, Accorcii •,iv'.
'Preparedness is the keynote of the, trembling fingers, she perused it with ;the management decided to give :Orin
hour," react Miss Letitia Parker in the ' longing, eyes. �a close Y of medicine, Three keepers;
weel.ly n: wspaper of the little village "Oh, he is coining!" she br aathetl. Cook, Carinon and ~Snyder, entered the
in which 'sire lives!. "Will he remember the, old days?" cage, locked the door behind them to
She scarcely Linderstoocthe full;Abel had written a brief respectful
! ;~vent the iython
s from . escaping
meaning and specific application of; note. He was coming to Wayne on and found the snakes atiparerxtly
a . placid life l,usines s, he said, . and Would be glad, • ,,—
the avoiding far hers was a ; s}eeprng ane 1nY curled on the floor,
war's alarms, She never! to meet her again, Iter reply was and the other''trva were Oiled round
forgot that word thereafter, however,':, formal, but it put her in a flutter all'
for directly below it was a tour-lineday long. Then her day of days! She; they brae hes of an artificial tree,
local item that mads the color vise! had chmnod her new gown with all ; (.,oak advanced toward the python
to her cheek and her breath come! the pretty ornaments she possessed. on the floor, intending toa grasp hint.
quick It ran: ! She might well feel a thrill of pride tightly round the neck, neer the head.
"Oise former townsman, Abel Drake, as she glanced at the rnfrrai. Aregal- ;The two other inen stood near; gen
is sw'o•arning with some relatives; ly beautiful woman showed, Letitia held the syringe charged with tile Joie
down Gosport way., Five years is a; was not vain, but she could not but,and the other was ready to give' nny
handshake. good fr]endl,r a g r. e
realise_ the tact.assistance that -might be needed, Winn,
n• r t . Neig hbor ` She feigned to be trimmingtrimming., the.
long time Drop availedanti get a•
rose Bushes lining the fence when,' she the speed of lightning; the snake's
,,, saw her expected visitur earning down , head shot out and Cook's clutch fell a
"Hee-hes_-.dome-••••batt,., bieatned. 1 t. H breath came 'nick foot , than , had intended:
Drake!"
SO ERSAULTS
IN TH WWE
SENSATION O.I+ LOOPING
" LOOP 5,000 1� IET •UP.
DS
THE ',
Ilerbert Sykes, the Well -Known Brit-
ish Air Pilot; Recounts Some
Experiences.
Why do I like looping the loop'? SI
�. t •�1 1 seetu s Famous Hotel
reason, andT bt,ca;use a fcilaw inns
,:%;arto 4;�7;� c�i,nvir,v^�"0uti• ntiecarvl mo
`� Many
People
l ake a
Tavntu's.
Fan na fiotr6 B,-T.ttfC
,ox the 1'V`alli:er klousq (The 7elotisq
of Plenty) as soon as they arrive in
Toronto. The meals, the service
and the home -like appointments
constitute the magnet t'.hat draws I
thein there.
Noon Dinner 60C.
Evening Dinner 5c
g
75 .
, r THE '4� LK E r�• g� ,
'1Vell, because I !rice rt, that s -the � JI,,A��J>��i
have something to amnuse himself with r'; TORONTO, CANADA
up in the clouds, where it's pretty A Rates Reasonable
lonely if you are content to set on an ,C� Geo. Wright ar Co., Props.
1 S, - t
even. keel, with nothing but the no.s- .,..,�, , ,,, n:
of the engine to keep you company; '" ve'd :'1 ''` :•l`';• 'I'l :;,'' I, ,�;
says Herbert Sykes, whoee duty it is
to test aeroplanes before they are de- . I know it i:•s difficult to convince lands-
�i
aoae. I'a a.,. tumultuously, ,. Keri Aht he had stopped to gleet an old. ewe iol '1 ni ac inc livered to the fighting forces. Imen that this is so, But, come up
handl grasped lire paper v;ith a nems , p r jaws with their rows `•aft ,
g i?c I'' p ~;lend, Then a neighcxor, a woman sharp, curved teeth elo eel on is Looping: is .the joy of my existence, . with me, and I assure you that you
our t.witchnu� of the tinkers. and her stamihrg at hcr };•etc, detained hint so p' s hr and it is my intention to keen on do- won't want to go horn without doing
eyes took to ihoir depths a yearnirl t', ion that Letitia •'Fairly stamped bar hand. At first the frantic,eftorts 'of one Lao stunts to mini h a the trin.
ging it until 1 have created a record p 1
£lune, ing faraway expression. srn,a. - ' ir,vt, in ;•eaalon. And then ---he seine, all three ilei to release the imp ison-
which will take a lot of beating. What f 1 have taken three girls up who had
..e For it, wee indee i flea years eine' end his bronzes!, handsome face' 'filled ed - hand were :useless`; the teetTla-.only clever seen an aeroplane in their lives
Abel Drake had gone away, acid ell . hie,. :iagg, and :she was happy, sank deeper, Just in time they pr•em I wail~ to do is to climb upstairs to p
...that time he had been club,;neo in. F r•ont the that she detected a ser- vented the snake £rorty coli about five thousand feet and do some;- before, and each one of them finished
lief heart of hearse s the model, the ~air, eonatraint in - his manner and inn„ his. saults all the Way home. slay record up with my machine tying a lever's
idea5l I:oat-what r t it. He was distinctly tail eucce.. , . • ) ymg , and finally they. stands at thirty in one circle; and be- knot in the air. ' Fact, I assure you!
at her e rtriri� Itstx tics t int fl'* !
" He was tw.enty..t o th,,,u, she two. formai ant? insisted that he could stat; with the
in prying •the jaws ap it fare I a4hievecl it I did about twenty- The first girl 1 took upstairs was en -
i. ,younger. Nov she was twenty-; for eel: a nice/101A. !ler heart sank rr'ith the syringe. L �.
l al 1 g . Cook then seised the Ave, and finished up the everting by joyfng herself imnnensely till I gave
five, but time had not hee of n o the . o ee teal t ter West.
he was icing 4b n a` *ping in the loo en quite a different my machine aR dip and looked round,
velvet softness ut, her ~heel; nor the to return in the SI7e t. Then—s-idly, neck, and .Shannon teas: lout to c e p q
�, quite ., Made her a { `; *chine to any 1 have ever seen in the , with a glance which could easily bein-
gelrtle luster of her; eyes. +h_� had .1:e. fans:it�c., luri, sadly-- ire minister' the lnethcnne�'���vhan •:,�2it* , �, « „
C dawning ` r_ ale. Like to hear the story? It is terpreted to mean Shall we reverse?
�,rorvxi a trifle •>iih the cl:ttriirr2�, w,� by :rine was ;,One. m >"lanring• round, Satin the- dtlrer�',t
of womanhood, but her heart was still: .'•t was ail -0 nasty, so different to ,lather amusing. Her face went very pale, she looked
snakes rrth distended jaws acid 12
youn •. what she lied anticipated, rhe sat { larorried, and shook her head frantic -
g ing eye • ready to dart at the lee A Fly! -Eye. 4 tern
' loch on the rustic bench --alas! so '
She had always liked Abel,despite! i ; etc ^=,time.-Ic,trl;in now. The teampicked p t; i One . ally,
his quiet rete m ' aiay. • hA. al, e y ex-, , g Quickly alc�d 1x his c , •night, • when I was on my way i Away we flew, dins! when I thought
pression of e friend of Abel, sliming crime.. Her proud woman's heart thefloorand dangled. it es; tt n
to- her ears second -hard, had cat the, sought to sten the overpowering tor- the first python, and, as he h'
die that fixed liar life's lame - i:i d: crit Of despair vainly.„ angry snake darted at it an
aspiration. `'1'm going away to, "J loved him so oh, 1 loved hien :3o, ded his teeth in the cloth,' Ati
wrestle with fcsrtune, Abel ryas r e Y ie sr bbed !Orth, "and he is gone for-• teeth bend inward, so `that
4"led
ported to •have said. l t •1 make. a go: c - they close upon' cannot.eae
of it 1 am going to ask the woman 1, " Ol . Miss Parker, please n'ianlina
most admire and respect. to be ni ' wea.2_t� to borrow three eggs, if you've leered. So the snake wee*t
wife and that is Letitia Parker” Y! got them. We're going to have cons-
himself about on the Holiinp;!
And upon this frail snn1<fn, d Letitia. 1afy for supper, iird she didn't ex- effort to,ri'd himself of him
had existed during the long patient pact it, and she'll seed to a: back to- Holding in front of tit+,
years. At the first she had honed M2 nidi. ort•, and please don't cry. Are remaining coats; the the
Drake. would write her from his new; you sick, Miss Parker'?"
,,_ , led the attacks ef th ,' it
place of sojourn in the West, but he It was quite natural that the little i,,Tith half their lengtheioii
had not done so. Then she had folded • prattler, when she returned home, trunk of the tree the
her hands and sighed, telling herself' should tell of the kind lady she had, p3'
that it was "better to have loved -and .reeled in tears. Her neighbor, 14Trs• eel their heads ovoi and
lost than never to have loved at alt"i Earle, at, once divined the reason. outstretched coats.., With a
Just now all the old romance was i Abel rake got a new viewpoint of , and widespread jaws they.
revived. The newspaper. announce-! things in general. His hostess tor- `fix their needli»tike teeth in
ment stirred her magically, nightly.1 rested some false iznpressions he had throats of the !reaper , •
Of course,. sooner or latex he veouldlreceived. .
+lxome with ray embus I thought I would she had settled down a bit I jammed
1?''.turn over, just by way of relieving the ; the nose Clown again and shot round
•emb a', : inotonony, and so I jammed her nose my head. Her reply was even more
python s , down and got her over comfortably on emphatic, so on we flew until I thought
rnythint;';Iter back. I would snake a third attempt to win !
1"' ; Almost simultaneously I heard a her consent.
''t,4 fling .euack behind, and,'juni'ping to the con- This time there was a rl'arkle.of an-
fl„Lirt O ;a: ttsion that there had been an accident ticipation in her eyes, and though her
to 'the rudder, I turned. my head round face was still pale, it looked deter-tlle twar!to. look. °" mined. At a nod of approval from':
It was a till" I had never done be- her I began to loop,and before we
„ 1?
COMBAT CHILD MURDERLIIIS,.
�altfeguarding School Children a1' 'Fangs
land During Air itaidai.
A. bell rings sharply in the; echool
room. Fifty oh bby, childish faces are
turned toward their. teacher. Some-
where overhead drone the motors of
• airplanes, British and German. The
children at a signal slide from their
desks and lie prone in the aisles'.
Their :little faces are preternaturally
solemn, save where hero and there an
irrepressible youngster. persists in
giggling, For the half a hundred chil-
dren are lying face downward to save'
themselves from the splinters that will.
ensue upon a 'German airman'u bomb
alighting upon the school,
When the Huns are abroad in Eng-
land—and air raids are a froctueet oc-
currence—every precaution is takep
to safeguard the school children, says
Popular Science. The, whole nation
shrinks from the consequence' of a
bomb alighting in any of the :'oast
town grammar schools. Vet every
step that British ingenuity sang. ;rrg-
gest has been taken to saf epaai'ij: the
tiny youngsters from the slants,
bombs and shrapnel of the Il:r;itrih
airmen.
The desks theiinselves afford t�'n-,
siderabie protection fror,i flying sprin-
ters or falling beams. Edch child is
coached, accordingly, to lie prone upon•
the floor in the shelter of h'^ or her
desk as soon as the police aiginal
flashed to the 'schoolroom. In the
back yards—whrsre they run if the
danger is not too imminent—ares hug
concrete dugouts, well sheltered wi
sand bags.
"I know of no other spectacle,
says a British army officer, "that bet
ter epitomitres the brutality of these
slaughterers of children than a roly-
poly British youngster in an unforti-
fied town, lying prone upon the floor
to protect its body from Hun bombs,
and a little child in Belgium trying
with terrified and inexperienced fin-
gers to adjust its own gas mask as
the hell -spumes! green gas rolls
nearer."
sz.a ,1 foie, and what I saw was one of the reached the aerodrome that little lady
d about else ii greatest revelations of my life. My had made three somersaults, She told
tans': tl ;range of vision was amazing, and me she liked the sensation immensely,
round .dh' ! e-zerything I saw h4 d such a weird ef- and would not have missed it for
ryring t Ce !fief that I realized'I had made won- worlds.
eight: ' • A 141ild Flirtation.
"That. is What they all say," said I.
I suppose I must have the knack of
come to Wayne to see.his old friends. t rIf d • wheel heard ' ti Suddenly the fir at python,
hfmse .a}io
< ' entre from
1 I� u2 1e a.hn
lie might not have succeeded in . his; t,,,vn and the general air' of prosper -if ut< orr tyre
plans for ,getting on in the world. He ity about the '!place; that ISIiss Parker Snyder s leg a`j,a..
might be only making a flying visit-! had, got far out of niy sphere of rim_ ° ground:.
lie might have forgotten all about heal itcd means." and then frond• what sh pert -matt
a\ qt:' -es V;,
m
d
gy.
told him 'ie le ,,ted the 'truth
i�ietr41,, c' ea 1 ,q;�.,,i�.xr ri tt,, r9
a ' d`erful-discovery. What I had eard
"was merely a bit of mud, which had
dropped down and struck the tail, and
-as the latter- seemed to be coming up'inspiring~ confidenee,' for people who
!towards me, and everything below talc- have vowed that nothing will ever
ing on: a new Zook, th' excitement of persuade them to fly express the de -
the ne'xv exp 'itcnce gots su :v1'ho1 r0 ` 's're for me to take them upstairs
e that 'T •' r T have talked to them for a min -
o - of,the two is much the •same"=one
sons~ octal.: s rnea'?N ei,se`tai,, Jr4,aeat,`!.;eamans, the .,,,_x e-neAtC-.
same time,. and the trip was one of the' animals. What the Red does
for the soldier, the.Red Star does for
the war'horse.
There are 4,500,000 horses engaged
in this war. On the western front the
losses have averaged 47,000 a month.
In eight hours fighting along a three.
mile front at Verdun the French lost
5,011 horses.
Every `eight miles behind the lines is
an animal hospital with veterinary
what there is of me into small bulk, I quarters, convalescent wards, operat-
am forced to use cushions to enable ing rooms, medical supplies and other
me to see over the front. So I sun- equipment. The Red Star must have
ply removed the three of them, put similar equipment and an adequate
one lady in the pilot seat and sat on
her lap. Her friend sat behind us.
't , i e` *r titan has o i a �' rrii
eam of tobacco juice.
ccincched on th�„rave€path. 1 ,.,
1 d
"I could not gas a way without see- 11 eesnakeeretlimlie5 of dthetlx eel "tin
ing yolr once more, spike Abel, seas -I.
Isms] steadily, "after coming so fax came quiet. Snyder then sue,,edeci'
only to say to you what has been in freeing himself _from the coil; of-
+ my heart ever since ;1 left here five first python, and went back tto fig
iyears ago. the third.
And Hien he told 'of of his hard work In one of his bashes about t re" 'which
and.
I, to acquire i1 few thousand dollars— the first snake hit his head . ;t teat In the meantime there was the
Seeming to hire pitifully small when realest consternation at the aero-
! " the trunk, of the tree, lay stunted ; a g
l the w compared with the apparent wealth O£' moment sand then slowlyclimbed u 1 dr orae. All my friends, who had been
the woman he loved. lx, .
And then the truth cane out—she cnveloping,,;the third fighter so ekisel ; watching Inc coming down in somer-
"ss" 1 was poor, and glad of it, for he was in his' folds tha't•she could' strike from `,saults, were hurriedly throwing
I .'
t
t xch- -oh infinitelyn•i •1•t in love! � •'trete er into motor -cars t a e and '•s s a s and
a Mance of:.onlyh
l four
t feet. '�s�nitdashing
Abel Drake did not leave forthe Nest. •ryas the .1 eepers' opportunity i, ',est Neff to find anything that might be left
1' 'seized the her poor Sykes.
! SHIP SCUTTLERS
ne third snake unwound
.
THE RED STAR.
A Society Which Does Efficient Ser-
vice for the War Horse.
In the war the soldiers' wants are
cared far by a number of agencies —
chiefly the Red Cross; the animals,
too, have a li'elping organization
working along Red Cross lines, but ,
known as the Red Star. The 'mission
most enjoyable I have made, although
mg dark, Iwas tickled to death most of the
yhangar, I time. The girls weighed about ten
on for ,miles stone each, and as one would not go up
,.e out a safe plate in without the other, 1 was at a loss what
to do at first. There was no room in
the machine for them to sit side by
side, but, as usual, I found a way out
of the difficulty!
Nature having compressed what
Uiid , y ' of
from the tree and flung• her into 4,' e 1 • Hither and thither they went scour -
`'s water tank where she Tay finite •,* • ing,,,the country, and., to make natters
staff.
In the first seven months of 1917
and then proceeded to adlnf5risteJ the 1"'the worse, it •took me about an hour Everything went well when we were the value of horses shipped to Europe
.�i ; Mechanism of Interned German Liners P , climbing,but when we were in the air from American ports was $26327,833:
•1 f ! medicine to all three subniesive pea find a phone, and another to get a
` >l 1 Wrecked by Orders From Berlin. ~lents, connection when I found it. I met. I found my cushion a bit nervy. She For the month of July alone the value
'part of the lamenting crowd on my was t;.'embling in every limb, and was $1,377,202. Wastage of horses
Ivey home, convinced them that all every time the machine rocked she means an enormous loss, which mere
!was well, and 'after supper I decided put her arms round my ,waist and money cannot now replace. Thirty -
'to go back to Shepperton, where I had hugged me tight.
i lin orders came commanding the des- , of the doom of the old sailing ships, left my aeroplane, and put a cover The Tale That Failed.
•= ! truction of the internal mechanism.' The arrogant steam competitors hare' over it for the night, as it had coin- , Oh, yes, it was nice andall that, and
' �•°d „.1 , The engineer loves his engine. To f been swept from the sea by the thou.r rnenced to rain. as I had never been hugged in the air
4; 1 many a bluff sailor the order to wreck ! sands since`lthe war began, Th,-, gold An Unexpected Loop, by a girl before I took my hand off
;the engines was as a command to stab f square riggers and multiple -masted We set out on a light tai, and
as the control, and, slipping it into the
his sweetheart. Each engineer had 1 schooners are again coming into their the roads were muddy and full of hand of the lady, I squeezed it in the
ant•; been instructed in advance what to do own. Formerly they were too sIory h les I made the journey on the a rad'
fashion most approved by readers of
There were scenes of mingled sad-
; nese and exultation in the engine-;
rooms of the German liners interned
in United States ports, when the Ber-
Clipper Ships.
War has not touched a finer pinrxnele
of romantic thought than the staying
Below It Was a Four -Line Local I
to put his engines out of commission, for most trans-Atlantic freight traf- ator. Everything went all serene <un- Aunt Ermyntrude's penny novels, and
til the journey back, when; with your thus assured the maiden that she was
humble servant still sitting on the safe in the air 'with Sykes.
radiator, the car dived into •a particu- It's a pity there isn't a sequel to tional administration and the ainer•-
larly deep pocket. in the road, and be- this story, but although I'm a daring
Stt
fore it stopped dead turned' over three enough chap in the clouds with a lady, encies which crop up every hour. ipl
times. I was still sitting an it whenI'm not a bit of .good at love -making is the volunteer adjunct to a conscript
$ force. Wherevere- there is fighting,
wherever there is a wounded 'aniniitl,
there must the sign of the lied-•. .pr
be seen.
-- I and as he put the tackle in place for I fist T'1any of them were gathering
Still, hope burned brightly in her
`longing heart,
"Anyway," whispered Letitia to her -
'
self, "1 shall—'prepare..'' " She flushed
a trifle as she said it, her self-con-
•sciousness causing a sensitiveness
;that made her shrink from anybody
guessing the motives that lay under
her secret plans.
s
Then the neighbors began to talk.
- They all knew that Mies Parker had a
comparatcvely small income and that
e surplussparse her s, 5 was s ars, and•i
pP
ret+. dental
The .old house was given a new coat
of paint, the interior was neatly but
cheaply redecorated. Sonic chairs and
a hammock adorned the porch. A
cozy lover -suggesting rustic seat was
set under a shady tree in the garden.
"She must have more coming in
than we thought;" gossiped a neigh-
bor; "to go to all that expense.,,
They little knew the hard paring
and scraping the frugal Letitia exer-
cised to ear'.ry nut her project of "pre-
paredness." Mies' Porker blushed
again when she -finished saint soft
downy pillows for the hammock. She
Was not planning fon' her own corer-
ort, • She was "preparing". for "vis -
tors,"• and. if through her mentality
here ran a vision of a s'talwar't, mans
• young,.fellow lolling' in the ham-
rcle, her good,, kind soul titres at fault,
of vanity nor the baso manoeuvring
f a really designing • woman.
Now her inocent, tender heart fiat-
i cel as the postman handed her a
tit r i, i.rnarked "Gosport" That.
a :tkrc towra where Abel Drake weal
;this folk. i:lho opened it with;
!the cruel job he felt like an unwilling i barnaelee at the empty wharves of de
jhangman preparing the gallows. En- cadent shipping centres when the
gineers and firemen wept as the cyl-1 submarine warfare began. NSw they
inders crashed,oand many a senti- !are scraped and painted and fitted with
mental fellow was prompted to record :white canvas and sent out to foil the
his love for his mistress of power. ' U-boats of the Hun. 'Tonnage has be --
1 With chalk they scrawled their :Colne so important that ships . that
sentiments on the great machines they' were virtually in the "boneyard," es a
were first to maim and then to leave. sailor would say, have been refitted.
"Farewell,
sweetheart, till wemeet
The sailing shipn9
cheaper to
operate
again," wrote one engineer. than a steamer and has hung an dog -
"Forgive r
I'Ui ive n1e n 'despite tl
n1 ne r '
edrapid
bonnie,d
g , ;� for the in- gedly,1? increase in
jury I do you," wrote another, steam -propelled bottoms. The war
"To break you is to break my has accentuated the importance of
heart," scribbled another sailing ships. The veterans of the
ores are fifties
f'a < n e <tgalln coining
into their, own.
"May the parting be brief, dear
one," said a fourth.
There is no doubt that ninny en-
gines would have been. wrecked far
worse than they were but for this love
of the engineers and mechanics for,
their line mechanism. However, no
such sentiment affected the masters
of 'the policy of ruthlessness; with
th-ni it was a question of pure logic
and cold calculation,
Steps have been taken by the Food
Controller to conserve breeding stock,
as part of the campaign for increased.
production of food animals.
Tri pruning cut limbs close, so as to
leave no stub or knot. A protruding
knot will not; heal. .A wound cut
close will allow the growing layers to
close over the wound.
The King of Space
An .albatross in a ,store is a won-
derful . sight. No matter how furious
the gale, no matter how fierce the.i.lur-
rieane squalls of Cape Horn, -the great
bird soars up against the blast grim
and serene. Then.wheeling, he comes
sweeping down on the wings of the
gale at a speed so tremendous that
it 'cannot be less than 80 or 90 miles
an hour, when, 'describing a low but
immense circle, with the tip of his
lee -wing just brushing .the top of the
giant waves, he again takes his flight
upward against ;the storm. No livi g
erestturo convoys the idea of bound]
freedom so perfeetiy as the Ring
Space, the Wandering Albatross,
three thousand horses have died in,'
America while awaiting shipment and
6,000 have died at sea in course • bft
transit.
To replace an average month's
losses of horses on the western front
would require fifty large ships for a
full month carrying nothing but .
horses, horse supplies and horse at-
tendants.
The Red Star work is a national ne-
cessity, It is the bridge between ` na-
it settled down •peacefully, so I think on dry land.
I can lay claire to being the only avia-
preserve Chinese poultrymen. ire
for who liar looped the loop on a mop 'y 1 .,ere e darck
tor car. eggs fresh for many months by coat,.
There is really nothing- except ex- ing them with a mixture of ashes,
hilaration and excitement in looping, tea dust, clay, salt and line.
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Sprinkler System:
AMERICAN PLAN
JOHN 3 HERNAN, manager
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BRITONS AT 'TIE mom
A Table of Percentages Showing
Fighting Representation.
It is officially stated that the
portions of troops holding the -3
front in France are as follows:
Great Britain . , • .. , 82 per; c
Australian , ........ 9 per
Canadian . 7 per c
Now Zealand 2 per e
The respective nationalities o
fighting Men of the British Isar
a more difficult ,subject. The
tion presented below i i careful
official. It is for all fronts:
English . , .. 59 per:
Scotch ... . 10 poi
Australian . .. 5.5 pe
Canadian : —5.5 pe
Irish .. ...... 5 pe
Indian .... 5" ss
South African ...... 2{ li
New Zealand