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SEAFORTH, 141RIDAY, SEPTEMBER7, 1917
•THREE TEARS AND AFTER.
(London Times.)
'After three yestis of the greatest
war of all time we cannot fail to
lpause for an instant in order to
glance back over the hard and stony others, the perfecting of our arma.,
road over which' we have traversedmat and the 'victories that it has
We recall with a 'shudder the truly enabled us to vern.
lamentable military situation in Which The co-operation ef the British Are
we found ourselves when we were for-- my with the French, in certain event-
ced, against ouritsvM, by the deliber- utelities had been the subiect of con -
ate and planned aggression of the Cen- versations since the year 1905, and all
tral Powers, to take up arms. An was prepared for the dispatch of our
small ExpeditionareeForce to France.
Army which was merely the armed
police of a great Empire, neither de-- Mobilization and nia.'vent?nt were ad-
mirably, secretly, and expeditiously
ad-
vised nor fitted for aggression, an&
aceomplishedi The Navy covered the
able at first to place in the field onlY
movement. There is no proof that
a few divisions, contemptible indeed
in numbers and armament, but en-
tirely the reverse in gallantry and
devotion. Behind them our .few re-
serves, and behind them both an un-
armed and untrained people, and a
polieYcommon to all parties, of peace
and limiting armaments to the strict:
est Miall1CLUM. Neither guns, rifles,.
munitions, clothing, equipments, nor
a thousand other things needed for
the adequate "expansion of :the 'Aeinn
outside the reeular forces of the
Crown," demanded in vain by the
Commissioners Who investigated our
military procedure in South Africa.
For a fortnight in August, 191,1, it
rained ultiinatums and declarations
of war. We were stupefied for an in-
stant. The day had come. The day
against which great soldiers had warn-
ed us to prepare without avail. We
had lived so long -under the menace
of German 'militarism that we had
almost ceased to believe that its open
and avowed aim of mastering Europe
would ever begin to reeeive practi-
cal application, In a flash the 'truth
was revealed that we had falseli es-
timated the whole European situation,
and that the state policy ofourfront
benches was bankrupt. We had. not
even thought out what we should do to
create a great national Army In such
a crisis, and our Committee of Imper-
ial 'Defence proved as bankrupt as the
rest:
high eitplosive sb.eils that the Lib-
eral Government fell, and it is to our
present Prime Minieter, who applied
a match to the tea* of powder laid
by The Times, that we owe, above all
The military answer proposed by
Russia to the German military laws of
1911-18 was probably the reason why
the German military caste and the
German Great General Staff determint.
cd on war, and won over the Kaiser
and his Ministers to their views.
Austria-Hungary had often project-
ed aggression in Southeastern Eur-
ope, and Germauy had restrained her.
Now she was slipped from the Zeal*,
with the murder of Franz Ferdinand
as a useful pretext, and Germany
took care' that nothing should arrest
the course., of bostilitieewkenit had
begun. She kg r, and be1eved
a rapid -mid -Wu
thespeedy overthrow of France, a
transfer of German weight to the East
and the immobility of England, or at
least her impotence. An England un-
armed and torn by internal dissensions
was to Germany the mostcontempt-
ible of antagonists. She counted so
much on our failure to march that
she was not prepared for, a war at
sea, aid a large part of her merchant
fleet became good prize or was intern-
eci .
The dastardly invasion of neutral
Belgium by the German Armies was
the immediately determining cause
of .the entry of England into the
lists, and this act of infamy united
opinion in England and throughout
the world against Germany as noth-
ing else could so entirely have unit-
ed it. But Germany's aggression a-
gainst France was also treacherous
and base. 'France had withdrawn all
her troops ten kilometres from the
frontier in order to give Germany no
pretext for war, and it was at tthis
distance from the border that • the
first Frenchman was killed. Italy de-
termined that her alliance with the
Genteel Powers did not compel her to
march in a war of aggression. Serbia
and Belgium resisted invasion with
all thtir might.
The uprising in England, and of her
great Dominions, to met the Gernaan
challenge was )entirely spontaneous,
and cannot faithfully be ateributed to
the influence of any single great figure
either in politics or war. If Lord Kit-
chener may loom large to history, and
if our present Prime Minister has most
completely erabodied the fighting spir-
it of the peoplel in presence of a
great wrong, it was the people them-
selves, and all the people in all clas-
ses, who regarded the panel as their
own ,and Almost before we knew how
'we stood a great national army was
in the making. There joined by May,
1915, no less than 1,239,812 Regular
recrui cc and 46!),511 Terri torials, and
the largest intake in any one week
was in that ended on Seeptember 5,
1914, when 174,901 Regular recruits
enlisted. .No question of compulsion
could arise while this tide wriS flow-
ing, and all home staffs were com-
pletely overwhelmed by it.
Everything, from the commonest ne-
cessity upwards, was wanting to house,
clothe, equip, atm, and train these
masses of men, who uncomplaingly
suffered many hardships while all the
things needed by them were labor-
iously collected. The want a rifles,
in particular, caused immeasureable
anguish, for our peace output did not
amount to 150, 000 rifles annually. It
was soon found that the tools and
guages necessary for the construction
of rifles could not be rapidly provid-
ed,and for months, if not years, many
battalions remained unarmed. The
tragedy of the rifles and the shells
scarcely bears telling even now.
It was not till May, 1915, nine months
after the declaration a war, that
the first division of the new Armies
diseonbarkd in France, and it was not
until after the lapse of two years of
Isar that the guns, sheils, and other
munitions required to place our
troops on an equality with the enemy
.in point of armament were found
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Everybody Admission
the Germans knew that we were in • Welcome Free
their front until Augifst 20th, and our
soldiers had taken einng without the
goneeal publie at herne being aware
of what had happened. Thrown into
the midst od the boiling cauldron of
War, and opposed te the immensely
superior force S and. beter armament
of elle main opeiiattite wing of the
German Armies, rield Marshall
French's troops foUght 'like heroes,
and even after a bloody retreet re-
tained the discipline and the spirit
which enabled *ma to aid the French
at the Battle of. the -Marne, to cross
the Aisne, and then, Side by side with
General Fetch's valumt troops, to de-
feat decisively ttte culminating effort
of the measly at Ypres.
The aderdnistration of ineird Hal-
dane had nOt only given ns the Expe-
ditionarsi Force in -Derfeeted form,
but had established tehind it the
Special Reserve as a feeder, the Ter-
retozials force as a supplementary
field army, and the Officers Training
Corps as a reservoir of YOUTLIZ officers.
Alt parts of this 'machinery noweame
into play and enabled us to carry on
while the New Armiee were maturing.
Many a Special Reserve Battalion has
by now given 400 officers and 15,000
trained men as drafts, and their ser-
vices have been beyond praise. The
Territorials took over home defence, that hitory will speak well of our
served first as units, Ind then in divi- generation and will count it worthy a
sions in France, f.ound our garrisons, the past. The Dominions and India
notably in India, served in other (Ifs_ have been as steady and courageous as
tent fields, and soon became indisting- the Mother Country. We have spar-
uishable from the Regulars. Great ed nothing to help our Allies even
haye been their merite, and valued in- in moments of our most bitter need.
deed have been their services, within Not one square inch of British terri-
the dreadfully narrow limits assigned
to it by policy and finance the organ-
ization of the Old lletmay and its re-
serves was excellentaand we can look
back upon it with jOSt pride.
From the day when it first set foot
in Franco until the, present hour our
Army bas steadily -grown in numbera
and improved in =eminent. - With
these us*. adVaMieigeratensi under the.
siOnalLnit Yi..44Waholllit • Ppug-
las-Haig, it luislikiniulda Very terrible
instrument in battle. But the flow
of volunteers began to ebb in the
year 1915, leaving us dangerously de-
pleted at its close, and we were event-
ually compelled to pass the Military
Service Acts in order to secure an ade-
quate supra-, of men.
The Service Acts perinitted about a
million men who should have served
to be excepted, amongst others the To His Holiness Benedic' XV, Pope: nee ss a the common right of conscientious objectors, who were In acknowledgment of the comnsem-
authorized by Parliament to Place icatien of your Holiness to the bell* - 4e. cannot take the word of the
private judgment above public duty, erent people, dated August 1, 1917, , present ruler -s of Germany as a guar -
a claim undreamed of in any other the President of the United States antee of anything that is to endure
state. The Board of Trade was also requests me to transmit the following
permitted to ciretdate long lists of I reply:
exempted trades, •Wiaich served to de -1 Every he,art that has not been
feat the intentions of Parliament blinded and hardened by this terrible
and the country, and from the first to war Must- be touched by this moving
last Departments combined against appeal of His Holiness the Pope, must
the Army to deprive it of men. Never feel the dignity and force of the hu -
has recruiting been on a perfectly sat- I Inane and generous motives which
isfactogy footing from an Army point] prompted it, and must fervently wish
of, vie*, and it is not so now. But that we might take the path of peace
all these exceptions and exemptions1 he so persuasively points out. But
have had the effect of leaving us to- , itt would be folly to take it if it does
day with some four or five MiniCal I not in fact lead us to the goal he pro -
able -bodied men of military age in poses. Our response must be based
civil life RS a potential reserve, and i upon the stern facts, and upon noth-
if the war goes on we shall have to I ing else. It is not a mere cessation of
call upon them. The 'raising of the , arms he desires it is a stable and en -
age limit to the Gerina.n standard is I during peace. This agony must not
also open to us, as well as the draft- be gone through' with again, and it
ing to the front of youths under 19. must be a matter of very sober jung-
The campaign in France has been. inent what will insure us against it.
the only one of our military opera- His Holiness in Substance proposes
tions designed by the General Staff that we return tO the status quo ante -
which • sank into oblivion when' our
leading soldiers went abroad. Lord
Kitchener's Predominance in. the Cab-
m+iethen ganged Isis to be the only
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at 9 o'clock.
WILLIAM HARTRY, President.
AD. SUL HARLAND. Sec.-Treas.
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not been displayed in vain. Geemany
and her dupes have been. hard. hit.
Germany has lost four and a half mil -
temporary zest to the dominan'on of
its purpose- but it is our business to
see to it that the history of the rest
of the world is no longer left to its
handling.
To deal with such a power by way d
peace. upon the plan proposed by his
Holiness the Pope, would, SO lar as
we can. see, involve a recuperation of
its strength and a renewal of its pol-
icy; would make it necessary to cre-
ate a permanent hostile combination
of nations against the German people,
who are its instrumenta; and would
result in abandoning the new born
Russia to the intrigue, the manifold
subtle interference, and the eertain
counter-revolution which would be at-
tempted by all the realign influences to
which the German Government has
of late accustomed the world.
Can peace he based upon, a restitu-
tion of its power or upon any word
of honor it could pledge in a treaty of
settlement and acconimodation?
Responsible statesinen Mud now
everywhere see, if they never saw be-
fore, that no peace can rest securely
upon politieal or economic.restrictions
m.eant- to benefit soon nations and
crimple or embariass others -upon
vindictive action of any sort, or any
kind of revenge or deliberate injury.
The American people have suffered
intolerable wrongs at the hands of the
lions of her best fighters. Her marl- Imperial German government, but
time trade is dead. All her colonies they desire no reprisal upon the Ger-
are lost. Her finances are in disor- UM) people who have themselves se-
der. She has incurred the hate (ix tne fered all things in this war which
- - i i . . .
world for generations to eome. Her they did not choose They believe that
resources are reaching the stage of
exhaustion, and her people are htmgrY peoples, not the rights of governments
Peace should rest upon the rights of
and sick of the war. —the rights of peoples, great or &nail
We Allies, despite the Russian weak or powerful—their right to free -
chaos, remain superior in numbers, dom and security and self -govern -
armament and resources. . . ment, and to a participation upon fair
We hav-e made many mistakes in terms in the economic opportunities
the war, and some reputations have of the world, the German people, of
been lost. But, viewing the war as course, included, if they will accep
a whole, and taking inth .account .all equality and not seek domination.
the immense responsibilities which, The test therefore, of every plan,
have been thrown upon us, we believe,: of peace is this: It is based upon the
faith of all the people involved or
merely upon the word of an arabitious
and intriguing government, on the one
hand, and of a group of free peoples
on the other? This is a test which
goes th the root a the matter. and it
is the test which must be applied.
tory is in the occupation of the The purposes of the United States
are limown to the whole,
iesnemasy,detanderminthede spairindt set
tonhe vipeeoporyle in,...,,,.t.hhis ever
world—to every people th whom the
as it was when the trumpet note of L'it has been Permitted t° e°41°'
duty called England into the field. They do not need to be stated again
a firm belie We seek no material advantage of any
In that spirit—in-
% the justice of our cause, and with kind. We believe that the intolerable
implacable cleternmation to achieve wmnga done in this war by the furious
and brutal power of the Imperial Gees.
our ends, we have reached the end of
man Government ought to be repair -
three years of War. Whether hostil-
ities continue for a longer or shorter ed, but not at the exPeme of the "V'.
rime' we can- go on. We are coollit ereigltirtli of anylfefillie—rather a 'vin-
dication of the sovereignty of both
convinced of our ability to win, and
Shall,go forward in that conviction un- of these that are weak and a those
peace. that are iitrong. Punitive darpageei
the disinembennent of empires, the
til we reach the haven of a favorable
establishment of selfsh and economic
leagues, we deem inexpedient, and in'
THE PRESIDENT'S RLY TO the end worse than futile, no proper
ritE POPE ,e, basis for a peace of any hied, least
Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 1917 of all for an enduring peace. That
must be ld based upon Justice and fair -
helium and that then there be a gen-
eral condonation, disarmament, and a
concert of nations based upon an ac-
ceptance of the principle ,of arbitra-
military opinion to. carry weight, and tion; that by a similar concert free -
until Oetober, 1915, the ftmetions of dom of the seas be established; and
our General Staff were virtually in that the territorial clainis of France
abeyanee. Within this period there I and Italy, the perplexing probkens 01
were launched three great oversee ex- the Balkan States, and the restitu-
editions which have caused us heavy tion a Poland be left th such condi-
unless explicitly supported by such
conclusive evidence of the will and
purpose of the German people them-
selves as the other peoples of the
world would be justified in accepting.
Without such guarantees treaties of
settlement,aieeements of disarmament
covenants to set up arbitration in the
place of force, territorial adjuetments,
reeonstitutions of =all nations, if
made with the German Goverment, no
man, no nation, could now depend
on.
We must await some new evidence
of the purposes of the great peoples
of the Central Powers. God grant it
may be given soon and in a way to
restore the confidence of all peoples
everywhere in the faith of nations and
the possiblity of a covenanted peace.
Robert Lansing.
Secretary of State of the
United States of America
CANADA
—Owing th the ohortage of men for
section bands, a gang of women has
been put to work by the Canadian
Pacific Railway at Regina, They are
engaged with scythe and hoe in cute
ting grass and weeds along the tracks.
The women are mostly of Austrian and
afternoon, followed her to the Chest-
nut street house, and there twice
struck Lawrence over the head, and
then turned on Mrs. Brenn, whom
he hit once. Each rtite the ane tam-
ed in Brepnan's hand, and althungh
Lawrence was for a time feared to
be in a pretty bad way, both viefdarts
will recover. Mrs. Bremen. and Law-
rence were removed to the General
Hospital, but the woman was able
to return home the same evening.
—During the heavy storm agout
five o'clock Sunday morning, light-
ning struck the barn of Mr. John
Black, on the 4th concession of King,
near Newmarket. The structure,
with all its contents, was conipietely
destroped. Almost all the season's
crop of wheat ,oats, barley and hay
were in the mows, as well as the har-
vesting machinery aid wagons. For-
tunately the horses and cattle were in.
the field and, in consequence, escaped.
The loss is placed at about $4,000,
partly covered by insurance. Mr.
Blatk is one of the oldest and best
know a farmers in the township.
oTf frontof
.t000ful:ciamabtieer enynie r y:ai nhaoesLov playingarrnceerpepialzt the eeroenur ne seri I;
ured when an automobile owned and
driven by John Mazor, a FORM raimi-
tious worket, ran amuck, and after
circling the road a couple of times
suddenly dashed over the sidewalks
where it etruek a pole and then carom-
ed into a vegetable stall in. front of
a grocery store. During its wild car-
er the ear dashed into a party of
four small boys, imocking them down
and pinning one araid the 'wreckage
of the vegetable stall.
—Richard Coghlin lost a fine colt
on the farm of William Schott% near
Atwood, where it was pas:turing,
through a sliest etartling cause. It
was found dead in an old barn after
it had been missing for a couple a
days. The barn was used for the her-
oes and cattle to go into for shade.
This year it was necessary to use
for putting in hay. ft is not known
whether the animal *as in the barn
at the tie the hay was put in or
whether it went in afterwards. as the
doors were left open. However, it was
discovered deep down in the hay on
its back. It was nearly roasted from
the heat of the new hay. Mr. Coe -i-
lia valued the colt at $150.
—Charles Wilson Graham a chem-
ist employed by the Dunlop Tire and
Rubber Compriney, in Toronto, was
suffocated no death on Monday night;
when he was thrown out a -an auto-
mobile on Bayview avenue, near Don
Mills road, and the car pinned him.
aerOSS the throat With him was Mr.
Ja.mes aijammgroomer, und =able
to move the heavy tar off his friend,
he was forced to watch him suffocate.
Clinktinbroomer was driving, the
couple being on their way back from
Bradford, where they had spent the
holiday. It is stated that the driver
took the wrong side of the road and
in endeavoring to turn, -the car went
over the embank/vent. Deceased was
a young man and is survived by his
wife,
--Henry Rowland, a Toronto Rein-
bition visitor from Woodstock, aged
about sixty, was fatally injured on
Monday afternoon in a street car ac-
cident. He stood at the corner of Col-
lege and Elizabeth 5treets, apparent-
ly' waiting for a street car, and for
some reason, attempted to dash across
the street in front of a Carlton car.
which was approaehing. The motor
man in. charge of the car stated that
the man ran across the tracks so elo,se
to the car that he had no opportunity
to avoid the accident. Rowland was
thrown some distance and etriking
head with force against the pavement,
sustained a licadtme at the base of
the skull. He was removed to the
General Hospital in a dying eondmtion
and succumbed to his iniuries shortly
before eight o'clock.
—The young bandit who suicided at
Lachuth, near Montreal, on Sunday,
when wounded by a posse, has been
identified as Joseph Leduc, one of the
gang of anticonscliptionists who blew
up Lord Atholstan's country house
at Cartierville. WEIS discovered on
Monday morning that Leduc,with sev-
eral companione, who are being hunted
through the country by posses, decided
to waylay and ,murder Lord Athol -
sten on August 7th on his way to
Montreal from Ids country house but
were frustaated. Henri Mour:ette,
alias Girard, another alleged principal
and J. A. Tremolay, also declared to
loss of life, money, war mathrial and iatory adjustments as may be possible German birth. be a dynamiter, on Monday were be -
tonnage; have diepersed our resour- in the new temper of such a peacet —During a severe electrical storm ing pursued by a poss.e of epecial
ces; and have not yet brought the due regard being paid to the aspire- which nassed over -n ti police from Lachute and were said
war nearer to an end by a single day. tions of the peoples whose political Sunday hundreds of fish `were killed
The epic of the Dardnelles with its fortunes and affiliations will be invol- in the river Moira, about nine miles
futile heroism, the sufferings of our ved. ently paralyzed and were gathered
troops in Mesopotamia, and the long- It is manifest that no part of this from that city. The fish were appar-
drawn. out tortures of Salonika, are program can be successfully carried up in large quantities while the storm
stories of heroism PIO of eehstienev out unless the restitution of the status was in progress. The residence of Mr.
which will add many bright pages to GTO ante furnishes a firm and saes-. George Collins, of Plainfield, near the
ly political campaigns; two of them this war is to deliver the free peoples and considerably damaged.
factory basis for it, The object of river batik, was struck by lightning
military history. But they were large -
were prompted by our Allies; and all of the world from the menace and the —Mrs, Bertha Pe, who gave her
withdrew force from the Principle actual power of a vast military es- address as Oehavta, at an early hour
theatre. where we needed every man tablishinent controlled by an irrespon-
and every gun that we could get. sible government, which, haying se -
All our Allies leave remained firm in cretly planned to dominate the world,
the cause. France has covered herself proceeded to carry the plan out witb-
with glory. Italy has never wavered, out regard either to the sacred obli-
Belgium remains implacably hostile gatipes treaty or the sonp-estab-
to her violator. Japan has helped lishecl practices and loneecherishei
us much, if not with her Armies. Per- principles of international action and
tugal is once more at our side. Ser- honor; which chose its own time fer
bia still remains in arms, though her the war; delivered its blow fiercely
territory has been overrtm. Rumania and suddenly; stopped at no barrier,
is in the same case. The United States either of law or .of mercy; swept A
after unexampled patience in pres- whole continent within the tide of
ence of German affronts, has come in- blood—not the blood of soldiers only,
th line with us. If the Russian Revo- but the blood of innocent women and
lotion, followed as it has been by children also and of the helpless poor;
dissensions, indiscipline, and anarchy, and now stands balked, but not de -
has proved an event tmfortunate in feated, the enemy of four-fifths a the
its immediate consequences, we recall world.
the heroism a RaSda 1914, 1915, , This power is not the German peo-
and 1916, and rtfuse th despair of. her ple. It is the rutbless master ee the
until she despairs of herself. German people. It is no buidnees of
The fine conduct and co-aage of ours how that great people came un -
for them. It was on the question of tb Allie Arndos ed Navies hays der its control or inibmitted with
to be beaded toward the leturesitians.
—A shocking tradegy =tined a-
bout four miles from Orangeville, a-
bout 12 o'clock on Saturday night,
when Joseph Oliver Fisbo a young
farm laborer, deliberately eoromitted
suicide before his wife, be wing out
his brains with a double -barrelled
shotg-un, despite ber efforts to pre-
vent him. Fish and his wife had
been in town all evening, returnfiag
Monday morning deserted her three to their home m Mono towns p about
months'
nM infant child by leavine midnight. On his arrival Fish went
is upon the doorstep of a residence
n Belleville. The woman was appre-
hended as she was leaving for the
West and admitted the offence. She
claimed ill -health was the cause of
her act. Her husband is doing service
overseas.
—Dearing a heavy- rain and electric
sthrin on Saturday morning, lightning
retruck a barn owned by Joseph Pells
of Harwich township, near Chatham.
in ften minutes the large structeie
was a total loss. A large quantity of
unthreshed grain was destroyed. The
loss will be about $8,000. This Is
the third baits within a querter of a
mile to be binned within a compara-
tive. Short time.
use his wife went to visit
Ian leiwrinee, -who ?Nu in the rear
of 116 Chestnut street, in Toronto,
Janie s "Irennan, seized an axe Monday ,
into the house and got a double -oar -
relied shotgun he had borrowed from
a neighbor a week ago, ostensibly to
shoot ground hogs. His wife followed
her husband to the gate, suspecting
he intended suicide. Fish placed the
gun to the left aide a his face and
discharged both barrels, blowing the
top of Ida head off, while his wile
beld his arm hi a frantic effort to stop
him. The victim fen to the gzod
deed, and the body lay on the
night beside the gen, as the wife was
too terrified to notify tlie neighbors
until next morning. Deceased VAX
about 86 Year; old, and leaves two
sraall -children. He never gave arir
*widow of inearai, but am set -sres
evidently premodtated, as, be ssdcl
wten drawing in grain that
the last eisy he woad he mote-