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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. • 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 e Beaumont in the ' were dlscove • z able v 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 Y rt p 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, •yi=sM{tY41!'r!t" . <ta"Jdr"e. People +dp1•ik.�N. Tpeeri. ts because they like it and it's the .:..knew good for them 11111111111111 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. i And every and nd th cket Bears a signal torch aglow, Where the vanguard. of his armY Iave blazed the way to go. . A, p 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. A FERRO'. 1VIEDICINE ` FOR.LITTLE ITILE ONES d a-. g'wheat ', e, y u r• r r s 9 - y by Dr. 1 at ef- • Baby's Own Tablets are a perfect medicine for little; ones. They regulate the bowels, sweeten the stomach, thua. w' drive out constipation, indigestion, break up colds and simple fevers and te' Make teething easy. Concerning them 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 " t n3'.P b' nations. 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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.• • PUBS R UY PUItS AT WHOLESALE DEICES. Persian. Lamb, Mink, Al- aska Sable. Also Men's Furs. Satisfac- tion by mail guaranteed. Send for II- lustrated catalog, McComber's Limited, Manufacturers, 420 D St. Paul West, • ' Montreal. • NEWSPAPERS POS, SALM )ttOFIT-MAILING NEWS AND JOB Offices for sale in good Ontario towns. The most usefui•and interesting of all businesses. Full information on application to Wilson Publishing Com. pang, 73 Adelaide St., Toronto, The Soul of a' Piano Is the Action. Insist on the " OTTO H I G LF PIANO AOTION o-o•-o--o-0-c--o-o--0---•0-0-0-o .ANY,': CORN' LIFTS OUT, DOESN'T HURT A 511' ! 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