HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1917-10-12, Page 7GREAT BRITAIN'S
PRESENT EFFORTS
HAS SEI''ZED ANIS MAINTAINED
MASTERY OVER ENEMY.
American Military Writer •Gives a
....,Frank Estimate of British Ol?era-
tions in Europe.
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It is perhaps an.appropr'iate time to
Gall ;attention to the fact that at., the
present tine the main work is being
done by he British... In the Marne
operation and in all the first +dam -
pale
M
' n of the war the British share was
sznall, useful as it was, and inagniit-
cent as was the British stand at
Ypres, writes -Frank H. Simons, the
great military critic 'of the United
States. 'A. year later the new British
army just coming on, was still in-
capable of a mighty .effort and the
French, first in the offensive in Cham-
pagne and then in the desperate de-
fensive at Verdun, were compelled to
carry on, only in dart aided by the
British.
At the Somnze the proportions be-
gan to..change,.but even at the Somme
it was the French that made the first
considerable gain, and all through
this battle the French part was ma-
terial while the defense of -Verdun had
to be maintained. But with the Battle.
f Arras in April of, this year, the
itish practically took over the main
k of the western offensive., The
itish task was materially increased
en the French attack at the Aisne
ailed to make decisive- progress and
incurred enormous casualties:
To -day the British are doing the
ain job on the West. It is no re -
roach upon.the French that this is so,
the French have certainly done
it share and more than their
are. Yet it is only just to the Brit -
to recognize that they are making
big sacrifice now after delays that
ere long, but were inevitable, given
British unpreparedness, and are be-
coming more comprehensible to -the
American people . now that we are
struggling with the problem that
confronted Britain three years, ago.
The British have arrived and it is the
British armies that are delivering the
heavy blows.
The New Ypres Offensive.
The measure of the British effort
is not the respective fronts held by
British and French armies; but the
amount of action on the two fronts.
Already we have seen this year three
considerable British attacks—the Ar-
ras battle; which was the most suc-
cessful in size and ground gained of
any western attack, one of the most
successful in artillery captured in the
history of the war, the retaking of the
Messines Ridge, and now the new of-
fensive in the Ypres sector. With
these three, one should perhaps class
the IIill 70 exploit of the Canadians,
which was brilliant and of perman-
ent value.
If anyone ever doubted that the Bri-
h would arrive, these doubts have
en answered. Britain is now pay -
the price that France paid over
bloody years. Her artillery has
zed and maintained the mastery
er.the German. Slowly, steadily,
rely, the British are breaking down
e material and the moral resources
f Germany. Because the Russians
ollapsed the chance of a decision this
ear has been banished, but the Bri-
sh strategy is that of Grant, wear-
down, and there are unmistakable
gns that the Germans are begin-
ing to weaken, although their resist-
ance must still command admiration.
The new British campaign seems
certain to be one of the great cam-
paigns of the war. It already shows
greater power than that at the Somme
and it is notmarred by the early
blunders of that foriner'battle. The
Somme "show," as the British call it,
was the training school of the new
British army. It was expensive, it
was bloody, it was protracted, but the
resultswerevisible at the end; they
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Hamel victory last autumn, anti' in the
Arras offensive this year.
Finest Army in the World.
To -day the British army is umnis-
takabli the finest army in the world.
All the other nations suffer from the
lose of the younger and .physically fit-
ter moll, The British have still a con-
siderable share of their youth left and
the flower' of the manhood of Great
Britain and the Colonies is now suffer-
ing .and achieving as did the flower' of
the Freneh'at the Marne and at 'Ver
dun.'
To -day the British have taken over
the main task from the French; they
have also had to assume much of the
Russian work. They justly expect', a
measure' of relief next year, when
American troops are available in con-
siderable, numbers for time final cam-
aign. Then Trance, too, will be able
o spend reserves; a new class will
have come on, the field. But until
America ,arrives the'British task will
be of goat importance to the Allied
cause.
Jain the Home Defence
znovelllmllt for the conserva-
tion of food. Help to pre-
vent waste by demanding the
whole wheat grain, in break-
fast foods and. bread stuffs.
Substitute whole wheat for
meat, eggs and potatoes.
The whole wheat grain is the
most perfect food given
to man. In Shredded
Wheat Biscuit . you have
the whole wheat grain made
digestible by steam -cooking,
shredding and baking.
Every particle T°,. a 1Ce a
f thewhole
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wheat grain is used including.
the outer bran coat which is
so useful in keeping the bow-
els healthy, and active.For
any meal with milk, and fresh
fruits.
Made , in Canada.
PATRIOTS ENFORCED.
Women of Russia Exercised Compul-
sion in Regard to Deserters.
When, during the immense and be-
wildering confusion of the .Russian
revolution, many hundred soldiers de-
serted, not from disloyalty, but mere-
ly because they wished to go home
and see their families; they did not al-
ways meet the reception they expect-
ed. The wbmen were no less weary
of the war than they; but they had
sometimes a clearer idea of the neees-
sity of continuing it, czar or no czar,
than had their men.. There were fairly
numerous instances when the hien re-
turned' to duty in abashed squads un-
der the escort of an Amazonian guard
of village maids and matrons; oc-
casionally a lone husband would be
marched back under the sole but suf-
ficient compulsion of a resolute wife.
The influence of women has always
been important in holding the -soldiers
of: a nation to their duty, or discourag-
ing them from it. Usually ,it hasre-
niained influence merely, and has not
e
become compulsion. Sometimes it has
been exerted in a manner halfway be-
tween the two.
In the days of the American. Revolu-
tion= there was a patriotic matron of
New England whose husband did not
volunteer when his neighbors did. He
gave his "pindling" health and -feeble
constitution as an excuse: He was, in-
deed, a slight and small man; .but
tough and wiry, and better able to en-
dure the hardships of •war than, many
bigger men, as his spouse well knew.
nut she did not remonstrate or shame
him in the community by expressing
her opinion. Instead, she devoted her
attention to his diet. If he were not a
well man, he ought not to eat like one,
she decided; and she reduced his
rations to such as befitted an invalid.
In vain he protested that he required
extra nourishment; the hotter and
angrier he got, the more firmly she in-
sisted that he was feverish and cho-
leric, and that a light diet was the
thing for him, with nothing solid or
heavy or rich. In fact, his diet grew
daily lighter and lighter. First, dough-
nuts disappeared from his breakfasts,
then flapjacks and cake from his sup-
pers, finally even meat from his din-
ners—and at.that he gave In and en-
listed.
He proved to be a good soldier, who
was never sick, and recovered with
unusual rapidity from the two honor-
able wounds that he received. Owing
to his littleness and leanness and to a
gradual leaking out of the story of
how he came to join the army, he bore
through his military career and ever
afterwards a nickname, which after
the first he accepted ed without resent-
ment, and to which he answered quite
as a matter of course. He was known
as Starveling Jones,
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THE I+11OST KING.
The Frost King is surely coming,
Itis spies are throughout the len
I can trace their stealthy footprints
As I look on every -hand.
I saws where they camped in the to
lands
This morning the ground was whi
With the ashes of their campfires,
Where they gathered through t
night .
And everywhere there lingers'
,A. smoke -like purple haze
That must have come frtim the, e
bers
They left in the woodland ways.
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And every and nd th cket
Bears a signal torch aglow,
Where the vanguard. of his armY
Iave blazed the way to go. .
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The birds are winging southward
They love not the Frost King
reign;
The, wee folks of the forest
Are hoarding their nuts and grafi
In garden, wood and meadow,
Wherever I may peep,
The leaves are falling softly
And whisp'ring "Down to sleep."
'Tis wondrously, wondrously lovely
This glorifed Autumn land
But the Frost King is surely eomin
I see it on every hand.
Mildred M. North.
WEAK DRYS AND GIRLS
It is a mistake to think that ariaemi;
is only a girl's complaint. Girls pro
ably show the effect of 'weak, water
blood more plainly than boys. D
layed development, pale faces, hen
aches, palpitation, and a feeling o
listlessness, call attention to ,wen
blood in the case of girls. But -man
boys in their teens grow thin an
"weedy" and have pimples on the fat
showing that they have not enoug
blood.: The anaemic boy is justma
likely to ,become a victim of censum
tion as the. pale, breathless girl wit
her headaches and worn-out look. Le
the bog'"in..this condition catch col
and „hd will lose his strength and hi
healtli lie comes ' precarious.
To prevent serious disaster to thus.
of the rising generation, let both boy
and girls be given the new rich bloo
which. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are f
mous -tire` world over for makin
'When giving .these pills watch,ho
soon the appetite returns and how th
languid girlor the weak: boy become
full of activity and high spirits. R
member„ th"t the boy has' to develop
too, if heis to make ,a strong heart
man. Give both the boys and girl
a fair chance to develop strongl
through the new, rich blood Dr. Wil
Hams Pink Pills actually make. Yo
will then see active boys and girls, in
stead of weakly children around you.
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold b
all medicine dealers or may be ob
tained by mail at 50 cents a box o
six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Wil
Hams Medicine Co_, Brockville, Ont.
TELLS TALE OF TORTURE.
Belgian Girl Says Most Terrible Tor
ture Was Inflicted on Youth.
A young Belgian lady, the daughte
of wealthy parents, who for ove
three years has suffered at the hand
of the Germans in Belgium, and wh
succeeded' in escaping into. Holland
whence she journeyed to London, ha
related her experiences to a repre
sentative of the Central News.
The girl was arrested as a sp
because she had Written letters to her
sweetheart who is serving in th
army, andsent to prison for three
months.
"I had to work from seven o'clock
in the. morning .until,: nine o'clock at
night, and tolerate the most abusive
insults," she said: "A very large
number of my friends were arrested,
including a young man. The Ger-
mans did all in their power to induce
him . to speak, promising him a - free
pardon if he wouldimplicate others.
The rens resisted all theirpersuasive
methods, and they inflicted the • most
terrible torture. Then he was tried
and sentenced to, death. Belgians
sentenced to death have the right to
appeal to the Kaiser, and this young
man made the appeal
"We learned later, that the reply
was: 'If he will speak his life . shall
be spared; if not, then he must die.'
The day before he was taken out to
die he was put in,a•cell decorated with
flowers and given the most costly
food to eat, Everything was done by
the Germans to persuade him ,to
speak at the last monied, even when
he was standing before the firing
party he was told it was not too late.
Although only a mere youth of
twenty-one years, that brave fellow
died for Belgium without tittering a
word which would give the enemy any
information." '
"Be the day never so hard and long',
At length itringeth to evensong"'
ils#»atd's 141ainieiat, cures ielaaittenti.
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he Urs. John Babineau, Brest, N.B.,
writes, 'I have used Baby's Own Tab-
lets and have found thema•perfect
medicine for little ones." The Tablets
are sold by medicine dealers or
- mail at 25 .cents a box from The
Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont,
The readjustment of international
boundary lines after the war will not
problem facing the
be the -only greatob a a n
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nations. The readjustment of wages
and of prices generally will be neces-
sary, and to readjust wages, and
the same time preserve thier relative
ss buying poti!er, will call for the best
forts of the best men to be found,
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Grain Yields of the Provinces.
The estimated total production of
in the .three Prairie Provinces
(Manitoba, Saskatchewan_and Alber'
spa 225,778,700 bushels from, 13,619,
;$70 •aures • as' compared with_ 208,846,-
000 bushels from 12,441,350 acres in
1916: In -Manitoba the total yield of
wheat. for 1917 is 41,642,200 bushels,
s as compared with 27,943,000 bushels
- in. -1916; in Saskatchewan 130,356,000
bushels as against 131,765,000 bushels,
• and in Alberta 53,780,500 bushels
against 49438,000 bushels. Oats yield
224,199,000 bushels in the three
- prairie provinces as compared with
269,258,000 bushels in 1916; barley,
43,168,400. bushels against 38,296,000
bushels; rye, 2,498,850 bushels, again-
st 1,636,000 bushels and flaxseed
9,951,500 bushels as against 7,269,-
000 bushels.•
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' Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the earn a few drops' of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
Per little cost one can get a small,
bottle of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid one's feet of
every corn or Callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
it is -applied and does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
/his announcement will interest
many of our readers. If your drug-
gist hasn't any freezone tell him to
surely getea small bottle for you franc
his wholesale drug house.
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HIS SIVIIX.E.
He wasn't rich as dollars go,
He didn't have a pile of dough,
He didn't own a motor car
He couldn't often travel far.
He couldn't dress, in costly. style, •
He just possessed a kindly sniiie. -
Be had a -happy sort of way,
Knew how to work and bowl° play;
And be respected women ftiir
And dealt with Men upon.the square,
And people thought him Much w
oith
while
Because he lied a kindly smile.
You do not need a store ,of good
The lo'le of real friends' to bold;
Be honest, boy, and kind, and true,
And do the work you find to do;
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openly not by guile,
And folks will like you for your smile.
—E, A, Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
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Never bale damp hay.
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DRINK HOT WATER
'When food lies like lead in the stom-
tch and you have that uncomfortable,
listended feeling, it is because of in-
,ufficient blood supply to the stomach,'
ombined with acid and food fermenta-
:len. In such cases try the plan now
ollowed in many hospitals and advised
y many eminent physicians of taking a
easpoonful of pure bisurated magnesia
n half a glass of water, as hot as you
an comfortably drink it. The hot wa-
er draws the blood to the stomach and
he blsurated magnesia, as any physician
an tell you, instantly neutralizes the
:cid. and stops the food fermentation.
Cry this simple plan and you will be as-
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t times to secure hot water and travel-
:rs who are frequently obliged to take
tasty meals poorly prepared, should al -
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Ste of lisurated Magnesia after meals
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Soft twilight of the slow declining
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But dearest month of all to pensive
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