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The Huron Expositor, 1917-11-16, Page 1tange:rot eetetettereetneteeetnerte_. P on n Leads as possible elude We have sorate Many •different and weaves in Silk Waistiri Einellent One. R4mge from 35c to $0.50 a 'eard ves and patterns ear,- will be more Lection e from the 'our fator an ex - We ve4I welcome LEI IRE HS' RE- N EVERY WAY AWAIT YOU are a mark - Among the i" •••, Airies RI that we al Makes andi)oint-; n market ow, or we [ie prices. oating, shooting, nts and climates. Fifty inches ...$2.50 a yard wbieh ehrinks or ;elm, rain or sea, teaches us that e rectimmend it -$3.13'0 a yard Greig Clothing Second .None" Co' 'UMW, SE.AYORTII FRIDA.L!: NOVEMBER 161 ttik INVADED ITALY. (By Lieut. Bruno Roselli.) Like an unpetuous torerent the armies of Fleict General von ivtacken- sen hurled th.eraseives upon Italy. it to They have peneteateo the Venetian _Plains, _beyond eldine, the anneal of the verdant e'riuli region. No one can deny the skill, indeed the genius, of the great German leader who left the ,stanip of his destructive power upon -many a country before he suaceeded in 'occupying this corner of the Italian peninsula. it would seem only natural to blame Italy for this setback. 'et public opinion all over the world a- grees that Italy's share of responsi- bility is very small, and apologetically 1 ,t acknowledges that the blame lies mainly elsewhere. Italy exPected that ammunition and tinge guns, and coal to build them, with, and ships op. which to send this coal from America, would be provid- ed in time. The promises given her were definite, and they were not of very recent date. It is not necessary here to be even more definite in plac- ing the responsibility for such delay; but surely the interest, ! not of Italy alone, but of the Allied eause, lay on the side of a successful continuance 4 of the advance which had been eo brilliantly begun at least as far as the important railway and military center of Laibach, or, as we say, Lu- , 1 .4e biana, the capital of the Austrian pro- • (t t vince of Carniola. It is said that General Cadorna summoned. to him 'the military attaches of Italy's allies when his own troops had reached the highest points of the Bainsizza Pla- teau, and, showing them the valley, which lay before them, said to them, "It is in yoinepower to have me con- tinue this advance as far as the vital 'point Of the Austro-Hungarian Em,- pire." '- Our •soldiers, knowing that defin- ith promises had been made, had gone Fall Garments Hundreds of people are looking into our show ivindows these days view- ing the Fall Styles, and we hear many admiring comments on the beauty n d excellence of our New Clothes. But after all it takes the man inside the clothes to set them off to best advantage. The live, Moving Personality, only can bring out the possibilities of the vette-eel lines and elegant fab- rics of such choice garments. Overeoats $12, $15 to $30 SuitS $12, $15 t 22 There is no cop -fright on these prices, a n y store can quote them. . It's our clothes that tell the story. It's a pleasure to show you the garments. • WomenV C�ats It is 56 inches not fade in any , , ...$2A50 a yard - u SA ME lephole and k.esf: Prices 1 • • • • ake. Selections:. • ,Now. EXQUISFITLY FASHIONED _ LI.IXVII1OId4$1,;1.f TR:Wild/KO ' ALL GARMENTS AT CLEARING SALE PRICES. A chance to choose a coat from the season's best pro- ductions with a LARGE CASH SAVING Kerseys, Beavers, Velours, Sealettes, Zebelines, C u r 1 Cloth and Fancy Tweeds, in colors of Russian Green, Brown, Navy Blue, Block, Toupe, and any other shade which may be fancied. S121 $15 t() 130 We are well prepared to interest you in the Xmas shopping. To get in no, and make selections means that you get the best picking of the season. Choice Neck Ties Choice Neck Mufflers... Fine Coat Sweaters..... Fancy Suspenders Gloves..................... Handkerchiefs... 2 Fancy Shirts...... . ..... and hundreds of other desirable articles for the Vule-tide season. ips.•••1111 $ .50 to $1.50 1.00 to 3.50 5.00 to 6.50 .50 to 1.50 1.50 to 2.50 .2E- to .75 1.50 to 2.50 rogagemrogik Greig Clothing Co S,E XFORTH .0.0.0111.440h0e>0.0e>04teth. ces o be derived om o forward to these extreme points, re- lying on the help pledged andsuppose- ed to be already en route. The effect on these men can easily be imagined. The premised assistance did not ap- pear—not only the material aseist- ance, but the moral support as -well. It was obvious in conversing with the men at the front that, while their loyalty to the general cause of_ -the hence upon help coming at a timely that thty could fight Germans on Allies remained unshaken their re- talian territory if they so desired. moment from outside of Italy beeame less and less of -a vital factor in their It is an open question. whether the power of resistance. Franco-Flemish:front affords possibil- If really' we are to eak this the ides of defence on the German side • Allied family, it is tendons that the needs ofeone Wernher of the fain- ilY should placed. elearly fold specif- idallyebeforet the others and that a :iteiOatitool&ieof thetelliferentmenne' :of • *Ware ,,er the disposal of each should tole place. It is -true that Italy did not ask for any .help in men, but she did ask for help' in ma- terial.- There cannot, be any question as to this point. My readers heve on- ly to read the definite, urgent, des- front give point to General Cadorna s country. Militarily Germany chose perate appeal which appeared under ,.statement that the war could be won the right moment, because she knew an almost sensational heading on the on the Isonzo line: Hence a peculiar that Italy's allies were not deaf but front page of the New York "Times" pathos attaches to the fact that the only slow, and that therefore the.help on September 14th, Italy is not to Isonzo must be added to the list of promised would be provided, although disasters in this war caused by pro - not at as early a date as Italy had requested it. She also knew that the neutralist party of Italy (which,while small and contempible, is poisonous • and ubiquitous) had lately become more petulant, having taken advant- age of the last Pabal note to press the claim of peace before winter came with its terrors and its increasing difficulties on a mountainous front. It was not an uticoramon occurrence, te have the Austrian sbldiers on the Car- so shout to our men in the front trenches-ooccasionally not over twen- ty-five yards away---"Ascoltate il Papa" (Listen to the Pepe). Also the food situation in Italy, although infinitely superior to that of Austria, was nevertheless becoming acute at a speed disquieting to those vitt° had been accustomed to practically no pri- vations during two years of warfare. All these elements were undeubtedly weighed by the Austro-Geranans on. the eve of a momentous decision. But though the German General Staff chose the most propitious mo- ment from a military standpoint, it committed a great pyschologicai mis- take in trusting that the Italians would become panic-stricken when they beheld Mackensen's hordes rush- ing into the Italian plains just as the predecessors of these modern barbar- ians rushed upon the same territory 'when Roman civilizetion yielded to the Huns and Vandals fifteen centur- ies ago. True, Italy had played pol- ities too much during the last few months. True, the coalition Ministry wa4S too complicated an organism to succeed in pleasing all political parties, as had been the dream of its - : AIM ' 0.,m.sogrximetax...awszliswar.:thirogsoefro— ' CANADA'S TICTORY „ .-*,1ONDS MOM 4111108m1.18 It is your opportunity, your privilege and your imperative duty to invest, as largely as your means will allow, in the forthcoming CANADIAN VICTORY LOAN. The more fervently we desire peace, a righteous peace that will endure, a peace that will safeguard the rights of all, the greater should be our response. "Victory Bonds in Every Home" should be every Canadian's Slogan. JOHN RANKIN Chairman of CanvassArs for the Town of Seaforth, Township of Tuckersrnith and the Township ot McKillop. Subscriptions for the Loan will be Solicited by : J.M. Govenlock, for the Township of Mc-K.111°p ; George Ne Turner and D. F. McGregor, for the Township of Tuckersrnith, and John kankin, for the Town of Seaforth. 1 _ . IIgeLBAN BROkie publiekorn WO * Tear he Admit* emote I Orange Association of British Ame i • erica, to the Grand Mastership of which he was elected Upon the death of lion. N. Clarke Wallace in 1901, holding the position until about four years ago. He was also a prominent member of the British Empire League, and he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Conservative et , Union of Ontario. IThe most notable part of his- career was -the . time during which he held the position as Speaker of %he House. He was up to the time of his 1 death one of the most respected char - acters in Parliament and though he was a rigid disciplinarian regarding his duties of office, he was, when the silk gown. was cast a, jovial, friend-. ly, companionable. Once a decision had been made by !Speaker 'iProille there was nothing that could change it. It wen, during his term that the closure was first introduced. Dr. Sproule was Speaker of the House of Commons -during its wildest sittings at the time of the two weeks' day and night continuous sessione During the celebrated Saturday night when waves of bitterness and acre- mony swept the Chamber the Speak -4 el.'s task was not an easy one. Dm) Sproule was an ardent Conservative and an autoerat in the Cliiir.. Rift rulings during the riotous ecenes were, deemed so partisan by the Liberals that several times, 'pandemonium fol- lowed.. direet attacks upon the Chaim Dr. Michael Clark of Red Deer, was "named" by Dr. Sproule when the Britisher defied his ruling, and Hone W. M. Martin, now Premier of Sas-. kaecheware was threetened with exe pulsion from the House. Dr. Sproule was a strict Speaker* and paid much regard to the tradie tions and prestige of the office. He did not do miich "minglirig" with the members, and regarded his office an that of a Judge rather than a Mere Presiding officer. He was held in es- teem, but was never popula.r with the House; He was a stickler upon ques- tions of preeedents and rnles., and, for one not versed in the law,. was won- derfully well-informed on techinal procedure. a y. In the particular case a America, it is with a bitter feeling that we must defme the situation as follows: While Amehica was doubting whether she had any right to help her ally, Italy in the fight against Austria, Germany' was trying to bring her own lines so close to the "Sammies" which will make its definite piercing a problem hardlakterithin gee possibilid 'secondary . front,. as e --hen et ties of the All*. Itedee on the eon- Taper passive resistance, Ala an Orien- trary,- an undetil*ad404 that the ..tal adiinict to the one Occidental front Toonntnonazigt,nif$.444 terrain on on which the efflo of Menace ' Bel - the Austro -Italian fronketthdlois fader min -the, British - pirer-- mate -the of cohesion. of the Atrian troops (who can only occatictitelly .be rein- forced by German elements), and the nearness of vital of the Austro- Hungarian Empire to the Italian I war, which. gave time for the reorgan- ization of the armies behind them, and for the .raising of the morale of the fighting men to the point where vic- tory is no longer a question—it is a necessity, it is an alternative of death. The Tagliaraento defenses have not held, but the defenses built meanwhile iri the heerts of all Italians will not yield. For the first time since May sacrificed, if that should be necessary. The effect on the Allies of this in- vasion of Italy will tend to galvanize them too, if they do not persist in their blindness. ,In particular, it should make them see that it is un- fair to let Italy fight alone„ and then accuse her of fighting alone. As to the effect on America of the invasion of Italy, there is already evl- 25th, 1915, when Italy Joined the dent the conviction on the part qf great world crusade for freedom) the Americans that this, more than any country now feels that she is not be- other event of the war, has served to. ing left alone by her allies; that her make them feel that this invasion of . front is not being. considered as a Italy, is an invasion of America, se close do they stand to this elle. Neva', in the history of the world has fel- lowship by one nation for anotbar ,been "kindled eeat by the *Alai= of Itairthlthaee been here United States of A.AleriCa were commit but it has sufficed to show me that the country, has been aroused to such a trating their troops and lavishing their efforts. And this is jut what desire bar intelligent helpfuhiess as could hardly fancy before seeing con - Italy wanted most. ditions with my own eyes. America, The effect upon Italy, howeved, will about thf solution of the present world crisis, sees now with perhaps a clearer eye than any of the Allies in what directions the common good of our cause lies. With her usual spirit of far-sightedness, ehe sees that the situation is one which calls for two things: co-operation among the Allies and quick action. not being bound to ready-made ideals mean the galvanizing of the entire blame for not herself providing the means required by modern warfare, for she had not been endowed by nat- ure with °coal or with the iron from ,which steel can be manufactured ..The only combustible available in Italy be- side wood is lignite, and the produc- tion of lignite has grown in the last teeling of grievance which pervades few months to twelve hundred per me increases and takes a keener edge cent. of the totals for the period be- because of the vividness of -the re- membrance of what I saw. No coun- try had as difficult a terraan fer its military operations as Italy had—al- ways fighting uphill, always clinibing from the plains to the mountains held by the /enemy . • But no country had been do steadily victorious. General Cadorna deserved to continue at the helm ever since Italy joined. the war until now, beceuse his dogged determ- ination to win a defendable frontier crastination; Italian appeals for food, coal, rinedtiens, have long been insis- tent, have been heard have been ap- proved of—and have not been met. " As I look back upon my -own ex- periences on the Isonzo front, the fore the shortage of combustibles be- came apparent in Italy. Indeed, a sys- tem had been established by which all toldiers who had been miners before the war were to be recalled. from the trenches for fifteen days at a time to work in the lignite mines. Even the -majority of the Italian trains are now run by this inferior sort of com- bustible. But beyond a certain point lignite cannot go, and coal—the price of which in Italy had reached $100 a met with all but • complete success, ton—was needed more and raore every leaving very few weak spots in - the day for the war industries. Italian, armor, one of which was unfor- It is quite true that America had tunately to be used by our shrewd hut limited tonnage at her disposal, enemies while there was still time to and the coincidence of the Italian need do so. for coal with the sending of As I think of Monte Santo, once the majority of the already trained covered with vegetation, now bare and American forces to the French painted yellow by the' acid of shells front, was peculiarly unfortunate which exploded upon it by the million in that it made it impossible to find once topped by a Capuchin. monasteri sufficient ships for both purposes. which looked down upon the Gorizian There may therefore be a strange plan with an anneal of repose to the significance in the fact that .on the traveller who went from the heart very day when. the Italian setback of a Teuton world toward a Latin sea, took places the American newspapers now wicked -looking and revolting to printed the announcement that the all senses, I am haimteeby a ghastly United States troops had for the -first picture framed by the two shattered time been sent to the front trenches. tree trunks still remaining on the I de not mean to say that it would top of that terrible mountain—of the have been good _for the cause- of the bodies of the dead soldiers which have Allies to have postponed the date fallen across the coffins of the people of selling' of so many American boys who are only too eager to see at close range the theatre of their fu- ture glorious exploits; but the distri- bution of tonnage and the quantity of ships made available' during the suminer months show that there have been very serious mistakes made, re- sulting -at a critical moment in the im- possibility of tackling two problems at once. It ds stated that because of the German invasion the United States has put one hundred thougand ton- nage at the disposal of Italy, but the action comes too" late to meet that crisis. , • It must have been at an enormous sacrifice that Mackensen's troops wed- I had made a magnificent stan on ged themselves through the Santa I Tagliamento River, stemming the ad - Lucia sector. 'Olice more, therefore, I vance of Mackensen's German troops. it appears that the Central Empires, ' But that broad torrent (not in flotel) with their unity of command and of , does not *afford sufficient protection policies, struck at the right moment a for the Italians and for the Franco - blow at the gigantic but slow and dis- j British- troops now supposedly being connected power of the Allies. . They ', rushed t to their aid. However, - the did not stop to inquire whether the fact remains that a, week has elapsed Italian front was a good enough front . during which the resistance, psychol- on which to sacrifice their seasoned ogical as well as military, of the. Al- troops—and this at the time when -the lies has found a chance to mhnifest Allies wondered ,whether the Italian itself. It is merely a repetition of front ought to absorb any of the for- thenhe splendid resistance of the Bel- * • f • troops at the beginning of the once buried in the convent . cemetery and now awakened from their sluniber makers. But when the enemy knock - by the shells which searched even ed at the gates and the gates began their place of rest. And what did not to yield and the water sterted to rudii appear tragic on those days, because I in, all Italians united in taking a victory covered and submerged every- I hand in forcing back the gates before thing else in its all -sweeping train, 1 it was too late. The Italian nature appears infinitely tragic today when is made just for such crisis. Give it I think how needless was the loss of any regular development 'of events that hard-won mountain range and of and it will too often let matters take the surrounding territory — a loss their course, indulging in. a kind of which could easily have been atnided fatalistic dolce far niente. But let the had but Italy's allies supplied her in bell of the Campanile call for help time with the prime necessitiew of and the dormant vitality of the race warfare. will reveal itself. Italian history is From the most recent reports it full of such pages. Every Railer. city would appear that the Italian troops boasts such cases of immediate awak- he ening to impending danger and splen- did resistance at a time when hone *as all but lost and only a rairacle could save the situation. Whether such pages of history are called the Sicilian Vespers or the Five Days of Milan it seems as if the Italian nature thrived on the exceptional, on the heroic, on the resolve to sacrifice all for one's country. Death is beauti- ful then, stripped of all its sordid, materialistic elements. I myself know that my regiment has paid an appalling toll of life, and -my ardent desire is to renrn,so that I too may be CANADA- -Two residents of Peterboro John Henry and Wm. Grose, were &own- ed on Sunday in Rice Lake. They, had gone up to the lake accompanied. by Garside in Garside's launch, , .and in some manner the launch tap - sized, and the three men were thrown *into the. water. Garside was rescued, . by William Thonapson, a fish inspector at Rice Lake. The bodies of the twin victims have not yet been :recovered. Henry was a Meehiniee and umauerelede while 'Geese was married, ,and maven, ftee children- -Bignteen thousand applications for exemption under the Military See - vice Act were received by Deputy - Registrar Wiseman in the London dis- trict on Saturday. Only 72 reported. for service. The total registratiofls. up to noon were 26,382 asking to be e exempted and 779 reporting ter sent - _vice. ,Malting allowances for the day'a. registrations, it Woke as though many thousands have -failed to take any - notice of the Serve Act, as there an* estimated to be more than 38,000 mere in this district who come under thet Military Service Act. —Lost in the heavy mia that swept over the country on Sunday af- ternoon, Cadet B. Edmonds, of the Royal Flying Corps, swept too low int his flight, and crashing into the bane. on a farm near Richmond Ili% was sin, badly injured by the wreekage of bi naachince that he died within a few minutes. Cadet Edmonds was one of the senior cadets attached to the Lea- side Aerodrotne, and had en Saturday; . made a flight to Camp Borden. He was returning to his aerodrome whea. he flew. to his death, While it is not known just how he lost his way, the authorities express the belief that thet flyer became enveloped in the tbiele clouds of foe, and_ blinded by the mist, was unable to locate Ilis bear- ings A.reused by the crash of theg wrecked aeroplane the farmer rushed to the barn, to find the aeroplane lying beside his tattered building a hopeless; wreck. Edmonds was found uncons- cious amid the shattered machine. At doctor was b.urriedly summoned,- but. before his arrival Edmonds -had suc- cumbed to his injuriee. —The Ragged Rapids dant, on thee Severn River, from which Orillia has been supplied with- Power for fafteem years, was blown up on Saturday af- ternoon at 5 o'clock. Four tons of dynamite was used in the operattion, which fully met all expectations. More than two-thirds of the structure was entirely demolished. The remainder DR. SPROULE DEAD. Hon. Thomas Simpson Sproule, M. De of the Canadian Senate, and for- merly speaker of the House of Com - mens, also formerly Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Association of Brit- ish America, died °at his home in Markdale, on Saturday morning in his 75th year. Dr. Sproule returned to his lion% town from Ottawa when Parliament prorogued a few weeks 'ago, and up to Friday enjoyed fairly good health. On Thursday he attended a funeral in Flesherton. On Fridhy night he was seized with intestinal trouble and passed away early Saturday. Mrs. Sproule was with him when he died. One daughter also survives, Mrs. Turner, of Salt Lake City. The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon. Born in King township, York gounty, on October 25th, 1843, of Irish parent- age, he was graduated in medicine from Victoria College at Cobourg, in 1868, and after practising for a short while at Kalamazoo Michigan; and at one or two other places in Ontario, he settled -in Markdale, where, be- sides practising as a physician, he car- ried on farming for the past twenty- three years and during some years conducted a drug and stationery busi- ness, and at another time a planing and s w -milling business. ln 1 Dr. Sproule married May will be dealt with later. More thant Alice, daughter of K . W. Flesher, ex- a thousand yards of concrete were M.P. He was a Methodist. sent into the air. The operation, In Parliament Dr. Sproule was the which took place just at sunset, was older member in length of service, watched by quite a number of specta- with the exception of Sir Wilfrid tors from various points of vantage a - Laurier. Elected in 1878 to the = long the river bank. It was not, how - House of Commons for East Grey, , ever, so spectacular as had been atnti- when the Maekenzie Government was ; cipated a heavy pall of smoke shut - defeated, he represented that con- ting out the view for several minutes.. stitueney continuously until sum- I When the smoke cleared away the moned to the Senate on the 3rd of river was boiling down tb.e gorge ire Deceimbern1.915, resigning the Speak- I white cascades as it had done twenty- ership of the Commons to which he years ago, before the power plant had had been elected on the 15t1 of Nov- , begun. The present dam -was com- ember, 1911, For five years he was pleted about ten years ago, and was Chairman of the Standing Commit- • the third which Orillia had constructed tee on Colonization and Agriculture, for her power plant. the first one hav- and was for some years Chairman of Iing given way and the second one the Miscellaneous Private Bills Com- i proving unsatisfactory. It cost about mittee. I $65,000. It has now been blewn nee Dr. Sproule was one of the stal- t as a Part of the plan for canalizing - warts of the Conservative Opposition, the Severn River as part of the Trent; in the fifteen years Sir Wilfrid Laur-iCanal waterway, and a splendid new ier was in power, and there were few dam and power -house has been built debates in which he did not partici- by the Department of Railways and pate. He was recognized as an able Canals at the Swift Rapids, about a. . Parliamentarian, arid his appoint-1mile further down -the river. In this prise. I ipower-house Orillia bas %stalled new ment as Speaker occaeioned 110 sur - He was generally recognized as hydraulic and electrical machinery and leader of the Orange forces in Par- eguipment with a capacity of 6,000 nently identified with the Loyal etyff. povowerlif5oor,ohoero. industries, at a cost, horsepower, which will be abundance liament, having always been promi- tenetfeent>40********4°Gr*** . . 44 • -1 4 1