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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-08-23, Page 1Leh' AY- ItYs ing .tst- ain re ou rst MA- . low amt. ••••., wre 611. VAR - W. M. 11.50 A. r .; • MO& A. AM AM M. e no ass- ess. ,The , $3 - able. ba *ed rtain bu t- phion r to or. re at 5c ;and oc and ec. Vhite >read 15C. ba i 8c-1 i der_ °hare i 35c eoid- t per 6c •11••• NW. NO. 1110. am, Mir• gra. wow _ •••M .0 .1111. AOW •••0 .0 WA AM 0. 0. 11110 •1110 pOt soN. 61•11F so. Now sam, gm. sp. ••••• aro. ar. ors - •••• of. Apo 1100 .10 11.0 a F1FTY-SECOND YEAR 't NVROLE NUMBER 2645- 1 Second ,kone-°' Our Aqgust Clothi le is the "Last. Call" To get Clothing for Men, Women and Boys at anywhere near OLD PRICES, Our stock is large and r) contains many thousands ot dol- lars worth of GOOD OLD RELI- ABLE QUALITY In Suits, Overcoats, Trousers, , Boys', Suits and Odd,Knickrs, Woinen's and Girls' fall Cots, Men's and Boys' Underwear, Rain Coats-, Coat Sweatrs, Fancy Shirts, Work, Shirts, Overalls; Smocks Caps, Haig. We are giving the pulilic the opportun- ity to -buy all these goodsr at muth less. Imoney than than the present wholesale cost. Wide ay, ake people will even al-, t low home work to go unfinished in ord- er to get clothing at these LOW SALE PRICES. The earli r you come, the hater your seleetion. Gre g SEA10 i TH • 041440410•000400904K>400404*004004000400.00040 Gold rr Tw ne Call early and get our order for Twine Just received a carload ofcern ent and one of rock wall plas-, ter and lime. Now is the time to procure hay fork rope and harvest tools. We are sole agents for Martin Senour Paint 100 per c. purei paint, See our _colour card. See our nice assortment of win- dow screens, screen doors, oil stoves, etc.. - 10 per cent off Hammocks this week IMMO The Dt:g Haraware Store H. Edge 41 Seaforth .11111111=111111NOW SEA.VORTH„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918 THE COTiTY LEVY Schedule Showing' Amount Each Municipality has to Payin 1918. The following figures show the amounts the various municipalities in Huron are called upon to pay this year as a county levy. The figures in the first column are those of the general county rate; ,the second 01*n:shows the war tax, the third the rate for the improvement ofhighways' in the„ county, and the foiirth, the total. Ashfield. .............e..$ Colborne .. •, 1 •Goderich Grel. . . , . . ,0 Hay....`. .. . .. .. , ... ... Hoivick ... s . Hullett Morris . , ...... - . .... . McKillop ' Stanley , Stephen • . . Tuckersanith .... , . ....., Turnberry . • • Usbome Wawanesh East Wawanosh West „ley •Beyfield •. .Blyth .. 4,3 • Brussels. • . Clinton.1 Exeter Goderich • Hensall 1 - Seaforth ... . .... . . . . - . . ,2475.00 I•Wingharn ....... ...... ,. ... 2321.88 Wroxetdr ' 495.66 • '• • • 8569.44 $ 2596.80' •! $2596.80- 5022.60 7288.38 ' 9429.75 7943.10 11160.27 8484.30 • 8222.94 8840.04 7045.83 9038.04 7963.89 5379.00 7977.75 5295.84 5325.37 466.62 .893.64 1059.30 2258.52 1776.06 4694.58, • 826.32 ."$140254,62 1 1522.00 2208.60 2857.50 2407.00 3381.00 2491.80 2491.80 2678.80 2135.10 2738.80 2413.30 1630.00 2417. • 1604.8 1613.90 141.40 270.80 321.00 684.40 538.20 1422.60 1422.60 250.40 250.40: 750.00 750.00' 703.60 f 709.60: 150.20 • 150.20 1522.00k . 2208.60 2S&7.50 2,467.00:' 8381;90 2• 571.00, 249480 2678i g0 . 2135.10 20.3e801 1630.00, 2413.30 '2417:* 1604,8 ' -141e r- 270.8 c:- 684.40 684-. 538.20e 03'763.04 '8060.60 11705,58 • 15144.75 12757.10 17924.07 •13626.30 13206.54 14137„64 11316:0; 14515.64 •-12790.40 - 8639.00 12813.75 • 8505.44 8553.67 743.42 1435.24 1701.30 ' 3627.32 . 2852.46 " 7539.78 1327.12- 3975.00 8729.08 06.06 1 $42501.40 $42501„46, 22525'7..42 THE THEFT OFA NATION The vilest campaign 'of the whole war is being carried on in Serbia, at this moment * All countries that have fallen into ethe enemy's power have had to face massacre, oppression, de- portation; and of 'all these Serbia has had her share -fir more than her share. She has lost outright about twenty-five per cent. of her popula- tion since the War began, and, tin Ad- dition, hundreds IA thousands of her people have been carried into'bopdage -in Austria-Hungery, where they the like flies , in pestilential internment - camps, starved, half-eled, diseased, and, overworked:- in Bulgaria and in Asia *Mina where they Iliad the fate ,of the Armenians in the deserts. Her - little girls, the future ratithers of that .Serbiefor.which the Serbs today are fighting and dying, have been carried off .ii, thousands by their tUlgarian masters. and -geld (or -given, I 'knovr not which) Into the Turkish . harems of -Constantinople. The irideceneey ,of thisbetrayal-. of Christiani by Chris" Vane to the Turks needs no cerement to emphasize it - ' But -WS -is . not, all - There 'is A de - foot^ o'iti3i:;,he-f° Sthertaien kt.naltien altogether from the Balkan Peninsula where it belongs as fully and completely as.any nation belongs anywhere. The mass- acres ar - eetations, the starvation and misery, have remoyed a vast MIMI- ber of the people; but you 'cannot destroy the whole of a nation by such a meani as these. Tutkey has tried it for generations with the Armenians, and there are still thousand e of peo- ple alive who are passionately and vociferously Armenian. Austria and Bulgaria . which. between them control Serbia.-.-tOday, have subtler methods. Bulgaria, in every phase Of the work, goes much further than Austria, (whet- her because she is more -wicked or •less afraid, I cannot say); but there is Such overwhelmning evidence of full co-operation between the two that Austria, cannot escape her share of • the blame, not only for her own in-. iouities, but for Bulgaria's too. To --et the matter in a nutshell, the two allies are seeking to denationalize all the Serbs that they cannot kill. 'There are eractically no men in tlae country now -*wept the old iand in- firm, who can help the* own people little more than they can harm the in- vaders. •With all the forces of star- vation, suffering, and the constant fear of deportation or 'death to -aid in the work, it shoul&not be difficult to rob a , population of 'hungry and lielplesh women and children even of • their nationality. If thereare -still Serbs in Serhia-r-Serbs, as distinct from mere nondeserint humans -it is be- cause the innnate. heroism and tena- city of the race support even these lonely women and desolate children. • Austria and Bulgaria are removing from the Serbian territories every- thing. tangible and intangible, that is specifically Serb. Every -museum in the country 'which continued national treasurers has been rifled and its ,con- tents scattered through the enemy • countries. The ancient ,-, monasteries, superb specimens of medimval Serbian art and storehouses of seared relics of the great days of the Serbian Empire, hate been sacked and ruieed. Even • the • Turks throughout their long and cruel rule in Serbia respected the Monasteries. It remained for Chris - tin Austria and Chrietian Bulgaria to lay on them, the hand of desecration. • Detchani, above- all, :held in such reverence throughOut the Balkans that • Turkish sultan , even issued special • firearms to protect it, and legend said that whose laid hands upon it should come to certain death-Detaehani the • Rheims land more than the Rheims of Serbia, where gems, jewels, manu- scripts, banners, all testified to the • gleey that was her -in days gone hy- • Detchani - has been sacked; and the stained hands that sacked it are fight- ing already among theMselves for the loot. • Not alone the national treasures are gone, but every ihscriPtion carved on the stones of churches, monasteries, bridges, that bore witness to their er- ection by old Serbian kings, has been erased by hammer and ax. In short, every silent witnees to historic Serbian occupation and Serbian culture has been removed. There are no evidences left of the splendid days of Stephen ! Dushan,, of Mrlth the King's Son, of 1 Saintly Lazar, and the great Knights i but a ravaged land, filled with tor- 1 of Kossovo Field. • There is nothing - • , tured women and children who dare not Oen mourn in their own tongue. That is the drOviniligil*rocity. They are trying, to the *eery language of the land. ' They IneeSe-none bet-. ter -that so le/lap-as there are people speaking the Serbian reatimg Serbian books, tie Sill there be a Serbian- nation., -ami------ land *11 be Serbia, no matter:ye rnestees may call it. Mere; Pliaieleal hardships 'cannot destroy a peoplbItt whim the natienal spirit- flateee.asjiligh as in the Serbs. : - Austria has e6o.fiScated all boo that are distinctively Serbian in char -acter. Under, bcr ban ewe. all the woederful collections erMediteval bal- lads ---probably **every' renege achieve- ment of Serbian, art. These ba/las, by their heroic.riberaeiees,Of oid Serb- sia.n glories, tontribajed'.40.2.0; -than a elketo the preserv-atiWorehernationat ankle!. through- the dark'centUries. of Turkish-. oppiestierkeafld ' i perhaps not surprising. -6 - should. fear then's' now: lens of .„Oltt Serbiin4terattaliti rifled.; and heavy Pe e whe losq8;9, The;46,64.0rIk: .e. eer , WWI!' Poets Beatiko Raditelieviteleaiteroyare Yovanoviteke4f4 have been •placied: on the -mune- Index Expurgatorius. ' Bugaria goes much further., Her authorities have invaiLed,every houee in thei two-thirds of Sethia which they control, and laid handeon everything -printed or written in the Seabian lan- guage -books, magazines, nevespape,rs, Prospectuses of stores-eveeSething from the Bibke and the children's text -books to the ancient manuscripts in the inonasteriee. Bonfires were started in each town and village; into which there went every evidence of the Serbia tongue that was capable of be- ing burned. (The canny Bulgarian mind soon realized, however, that a source of .tangible wealth was in the fury of the moment being burned into nothingness. Thereaafteie by order of the Minister of Commerce, all -Serbian books and MSS :were. sold to the piper factories at..a cent and a. 41f a pound to he used for pulp!) Even this was not enough; they ;:have prohibited the use of the Serbian -language even in private borrespoeidence. They., have removed the Serbian names from the streets of Serbian cities and hat substituted Belg,ar names! they e robbed the very Serbian dead of their tombstones. They have, in. fact, sup- pressed the written language alto-' gether: They are now engaged in kill- ing the spoken langtutge. They began with -the children, as the least .ab e to offer resistance. Al] Serbian schoois have been closed, and, the Serb tea° ,oes removed. many Ineenerder the rest by. deportation, Which is iirnpl a -sloweri form of murder. Austria, while thd has removed-all'Serb teach- ers reorganized the schools on. HU warian lines,made -the study of Geri - man and agyar compulsory, a dressed the Serbianchildren an Aus- trian military uniforms, has at least respected the laxguage to the extent of allowing the children to use it for most :of -their studies. -Bat Bulgaria} prohibits it altogether. She declines to reeognize that Serbia or the Serbs exist any longer.' There is no ex- aggeration in this statement; fantastic as it may seem. Only 'last ;February the Bulgarian Premier, in an interview with a correspondent of the Austrian "Nene Freie Presse," said • frankly: "For us Serbia has disappeared. We are Ali the Morava (eastern Serbia), and the Austrians ccupy the rest of the country. Serbia no longer exists, - and she gives us no anxiety." And a German "Liberal' statesman (Die Mueller-Meieinger, of Bavaria) said after a visit to Bulgaria, `It is COrir sidered everywhere in Bulgaria that Serbia must be radically exterminated. So they proceed to "radically exterm- inate" her by denying the nationeilty of her ohiltlren. If they are not Bul- gars, they must be made Bulgars. $o the children, who are the Only hope of Serbia's future, are sunimene ed to schools where Bulger teacher instruct them in the Bulger tongue (with special- emphasis laid on cor- rest pronunciation), and teach them that Serbia had to right to exist at all, and that the people who called themselves Serbs were only rebel Bul- gars deserving the heaviest punish- ment This by way of explanation of the.. unspeakable horrors these same ehildren have witnessed in the mass- acre of their parents and the destruc- tion of their homes. hie is indeed AP 2496 trtWo0.1.§ /roma, of all the bitter sorrows which the Serbs are fighting still. on. the Mace- donia' front or exiled in Allied and neutral countriee have to endure -to know that the minds of the children, for whose future they are. fighting and. Working, are being poisoned a- gainst their own country and their own race; that they are being trained as loyal subjects of the nation that has destroyed their people and robbed them of the long and splendid heri- tage of courage and chivalry that is the birthright of the Serbs: It is wholesale child -stealing of the vilest, the most cowardly, and ' -withal the -most scientific. kind. There is, se far as I can discover, no parallel for it even ix the darkest Pages of. tile World's history. It ,is infinitely to the honor oft the brave Serbian women hat the attendance at the schools las been so sxnalrthat in a number f ectosst :pc; u g ar s have simply had The propageida does not end with he - childrenThe adults are being ttacked by means of the reading- s. Rereendier, these helpless wo- en and old men are cut off from all ennumteatien with the outside world. hey can receive no news from their c I anpatriots outside Serbia;, they are el it even allowed bo communicate with ti e districts under Austrian control. iey knew nothing of what is happen - g in the - test of the world. Has rbia still an army or a Goveisarnent? is she really- dead?' Is the war .11 going on? How is it going? Have t ey any chance of release? They do t keow. They know nothing but t the Bulgars choose to tell them, d they chooseto tell them lies. Ever ee the beginning of 1916 the Bul- rian Government has been opening flee rooms in the oecupied districts (i May.1916, there were already 130), d filling thein with Bulgarian Met- e, chiefly' of the ultra -chauvinistic d. Many " pamphlets have been *tten specially for this purpose, fill- ed with a mass of false evidehee tend - to show that the purely Serbianecities of Nieh, Vrania, Skoelje'Pirot, etc.; ar historically and ethnographically gar. Large credits have been lrOit.. for the purchase of books for these ing-romsi which are quite frankly nded to Bulgarize the country. blame for these pleasures cannot laid at the door of the Buklgarian,. ernment alone, for in the debates he Sobranje every politica party. supported the- Goverment in its , y of Bulgatizing Serbia. The.nze. pet Serbs, heingein theit bitter deeeee te of isolatien, hungry for any lit - crumb of news Oat they. might in -a printed page, might- weUbe to Slitettilib to Buell methodt se -that are left in ±he-countrv a- $ 51 Id ed in Th be e I ha pol ha ne tie flea Ce 4, Th . f:Vsit''' aPrelgik-4ef,l'ffSadetf4ientatitee.: (t e eneere took Care" at the'beginning' to eliminate the leading citizen a of ev ry district), who haVe not at hand th answers to the lies spread out be- fo ie.' them in the reading rooms. It is. infinitely to their credit that, so fa as can be distovered, they are re- m, leg to the utrnest all efforts to confuse and mislead them, and aid...as va iantiy and- loyallly faithful to their own race as they ever were. The People are even being made to ei 6 up their own names. The ehar- acijristjc Serbian _termination "ie" (i h) has disappeared, and the Serbs of eastern Siberia have had the Bulger "off" tacked on to. their names. You Iy not find an Ivanic or Savic or a Pe ovie in the whole country to -day; th are all, on pain of death, Ivanoff, Setoff, Petroff. The Bulgars go fur- ther yet. Serbianschildren born since the Bulgaeati occupation have had to be baptized with Bulger names. The. Seibian priests have been removed ( •• - y of them massacred with un- sp kable brutality) and the whole Se bian Church has been placed tinder an intedict. Bulger priests celebrate B gar services in the churches and ref e to baptize the Serbian babies wit Serbian names. - inep even these methods have fail- ed 0 Bulgariz_e the Serbs, the'Bulgars ha e invented a yet raoreeirastic pro- ced e. ' 'They. are fOrctageethe people in • erbia to sign documents, printed in Bul ariate demanding "to be united for ver with Bulgaria, theirmother- 'ant, and, to be delivered by her from Ser ian tyranny"! 'Phis in lands pas- • -:tely and indisputably Serb: from the earliest 'days of Balkan history! A iiecent despatch from the official Serbian Press Bureau at Corfu, where the Serbian Government is now etab- lishekl, in reporting this atrocity, says: Propganada with such documents woul4 be laughable when one remem- bers 1 that the Serbian populatien is in t e hands of the Bulger soldiery and omitadjis, but it it sad -when One thin s of the number of victims of these proceedings; Whoever refuses to si these documents presented by *Bulg rian functionaries and soldiers Al pi ilessly executed. A large num- ber o persons have already been shot in o4ler that Bulgarian newspapers ;may bublish declarations extorted un- der the 'menace of -death. We cannot quotel the whole list of these victims, but we will say that, so ler as the priest only are concerned,,even were exocuteI in Zayetchar and its environs alone. These were: Sima Yovanovitch and George Petroviteh, of Zayetchar; VIadal Rachitch, of the village of Vrago tze• Jivoine Tassitch, of • Kralrvo Selo; George Jiykovitch, of verbi e; the Pope Radissave, of Grlae; and Strachimir Boulitch. Thre ere fact that the Bulgars dare tod of making -the world forget with hat enthusiasm these popula- • tions hlave defended their native soil against all aggression, and principally against the Bulgars, and the revolt of -these p, pulations against them last spring ---a revolt -which was stifled in the blobd of innexaerable victims - proves heir heir complete lack of scruples The Bulgars are forcing the Serbian populati X to choose between death and the igna,ture of documents whose odiousne s and absurdity they do not see, but which will have to be /*mein- bered on the day of settleinent. That is the point. palgarjg is • -7•Towaggiiitob•• IMcLEAN BROS., Publishers $1.50 a Year in Advanie ' ......--.....-___. playing safe. If the Central Powers win the war, she will retain these Ser- bian lands, and the sooner she kills the sense of Seib nationality in them the easier her control of them will be. On the other hand, in the now certain event of an Allied victory, Bulgaria's course is equally plain. She Will come to the Entente representatives at the Peace Conference, her hands full of such "documents" and, "proofs" as those I have described. She will have evidence galore to submit of the pure- ly Bulger character of these Serbian territories. She will say -and if the war - goes on much longer she will say with truth: "The people of Mo- rava do not even speak Serbian; there is not a Serbian name nor an indica- tion of Serb culture in the land -not a book Dor a monument, nor even a name - on a stree; couree not ethen she has burned the books an ,vriecked the MOTIUMODi S, 8r,ppreSsed the language and fersed the people tine der pain of death to change their names. Al this would have no poss- ible effect if it were a. matter of a country about _ which- the world at large is properly informed. Germany could not come to the Peace Confer- ence, no matter what methods she had employed in Belgium_ and try to persuade the delegatas that the inhabi- tants of Belgium were Germans. But the) world has alWays been incredibly ill informed as to con&tions in the Balkans. -.Because parts of Macedon- ia are filled with a mixed population which attaches itself with ease to whatever nationality has the greatest irdiuence at the mon.ent, the public-, even the educated public, in other countries has -been only too ready to -assume that such conditions ex'st all Over \ the Balkans. That is utterly false. In temperament and character, in historical background, above all the ,Balkans nations have each • the most distinct and unmistakable iden- tity,/ But unless the public- of the Entente countries takes the touble to keep itself properly' informed as to what is'g,oing on now in Serbia, it is Quite on the cards that in the end of a hideous, injustice may- be 'done to her. Bulgaria has friends, even in the Entente countries, Who Cai see in her -Only the victim of ancient Turk- ish cruelties, and shut their eyes to al proofs of her present iniquities. A is perfectly possible that she will be able to bring some influence to bear even at the.,Peace Table, that will insure her being at least let. off lightlY, unless public opinion is so well informed that it can refuse to be fooled or to allow its representatives, at the Conference to be fooled by. Bulgaria's "proofs" and, odoeuments."- • Ails:tile, bad'.ese** treatment of -Sevba.ha no • evens, ea' -di/wrote stiluPS apart from the probability thee she Will al- together fall to piece S by the end of - the war, she entertains no such hopes of 'eliminating the Serbian peo- -ole completely is those which animate Bulgaria. She has. too many Serbs and kindred Jugoslays already under her control to iniagine that the race can be wiped out, though she is doing her best. It will be an indelible stain on the honor of all honorable nations if, through indifference or lazinesa or failure to understand, they allow the faintest injustice to be done to Ser- bla .as a 'consequence of this prfsent campaigfl of destruction and lies. Ser- bia has borne infinitely more than her share of.this war. She- has endured, with the utmost dignity and enicence, sufferings and losses heavier than any other nation has been called on to lace; and, in spite of all, she has scorned every offer of pettee that in- volved a. desertion of ‘her allies. If we exact for her less than the fullest and most far-reaching reparation for her sacrifices in. our common cause, we shall be as deeply disgraced as if e ourselves had made a dishonorable veace with Germany. . A DEFENCE OF THE Y.M.C.A. IN . FRANCE The fololwing are extracts from let- ters of a Seaforth boy, giving his opinion ofthe operations of the Y. M.C.A. in France, which has fecently come under considerable Adverse crit- icism: France, Slily 8,1918 I had the good fortune to be able to attend the Canadian Corps Sparta on Dominion Day. The weather -was very' good, but a trifle hot towards noon for the tunics, bandoliers and gas `helmets that we were carrying a- round. The sports were held in a six acre field. The arena and grand stands occupied two acres. There was a Jig YiM.C. A, marquee with a great eupply of canteen goods Nyhich had to be received at intervals during the day. The Y.M.C.A. also an four free drink counters-leraonacle, lime - juice, cherry and cider. There was also a restaurant where a plate of eggs and chipped potatoes was sold* fee a franc. You may guess the crowd there was, when 1 say that you had to wait two hours on the line-up to the canteen, half an hour to get a drink and half-a-da.y -to get a plate of 'chips and eggs. • Of course there wes' a varying lumber of men from every unit in the Canadian Corps and we had all kinds of chances to' see old friends or get news of them. We had •a splendid celebration -en Dominion Day and I would not Have raised it for a good deal. • j Some of us have been enuljoYlrith yiegour spare time lately 'with indoor baseball. A set has been provided for us by the kindness of Captain Swanston; my old Toronto friend; this being only one little item out of many ways in which he has looked after the welfare of the artillerymen of this division whose YMOA offieer .lee- is. It is a good game, following the rule of baseball and played with a large soft ball and a men bat, • . July 24th. From tirae to time I have seen in the Canadian papers, slurs tm the Y. M.C.A. east by returned soldier. I am -certain that they do not represent the opinion of the soldiers here. The Y.A/1 . C. A. is, doing a great and -Won- derful work. ;„ It is the only organiz- ation that gots beyond the zone of the wagon lines. There are lots of dug- outs' in the support trenches, around battalion heacluarters and even in. ad- vance.- Last November, there was a tYhe-MZOnGnebAeliesiarotatne4tIta.gaIv-pereesoCoona and biseuits to all coming oat of the lizie„ and many there were, coining from the lineitS of the,edvancing. sal- ieet, mud from head to fo6t and to • weary that they f;01114 scarcely put one foot before the other), and that cup of cocoa and biseuits *wak a salvatiox. Last May a year ago, the Y. was the j first to collie down below the ridge end establish a canteen in the zone a the batteries. All -winter, the Y. huts were free to all coiners. They- f_re- uently leave pianos, gramopleories and libraries. .1. the wagon. line zone the Y ssflicers have various outfits fer games for the troops. 1 have etold you of what they did on July 1; it Was the4- flrfie on all sports' days. The . only complaint I ever heard was• the ,price of a package of biscuits gold for one franc (20c) and marked in print on the package 5 •cents. All other articles are sokl 'at Canadian Prices. CANADA -The tenders for the two mail routes south from Muirkirk, have been • refused by the department, as the mounts asked are considered exces- sive. The present couriers have re- fused to renew at ,the present rates, and others have not as yet been found; to take thein over, unless reimbursed by largely increased pay. , -The Harriston furniture factory and the casket factory have closed down for ten days and all -employees of both factories have 'gone out to as- sist the farniers. e Monday morning some 70 Men were taken out by autos to the different farms rqeuiring help. The managers of the factories deserve the highest -Praise for the help they have handed over. This year's ?rop, which will be harvested soon, is the largest and best crop that bas been housed for years. -Devotees of the light fantastic at Big Cedar Point suffered an intereup- tam t'their favorite pastime, owe :the 'Weekend when a squad of the Demi- - - nion Pace raided the resort in search. Of defaulters under the Military -Sere vice .A.et The raid was made follow- ing inferenation, that there were a =Aber of yoUng enep, in the district velao were exading tae military ser- vice act; but it preyed abortive as tbe pollee failed to find anyone -who coUld be. beert741-li .,egle Nixiesitta-44 Ole „ait 4St yenuie. men were ao-, cested andall satisfied thwaeithorities as to their standing under the att. -Coroner Dr.''IsTerthinore, of Bath, following an inquiry into the -circum- stances ef the death of E.P.Wood, manager of the Northern Crown Bank ail Odessa, sinnoimced that the unfor- tiMate man had taken a dose of car- bolic acid in mistake for a preparation which he bad been using to 'relieve a bad attack of asthila, from which lie was iufferhie. 'He went to the office - of one of the village doctors and as the doctor was busy at the tune, reach- ed up on the shelf and helped himself from a bottle from which he had seen thedoctor take medicine freuently. An •antidot-e was immediately used, but without avail. The late Mr. Wood is a nephew of Archdeacon MacKenzie of• Brantford, Ontario. - -Three childeen were drowned in full sight of thousands of people at St. Vincet de Paul, neer Montreal, on. Saturday afternoon, when a motor boat, travelling at high speed; crash- ed into a -rowboat in which were Mr. and Airs. Vaillancourt, theireliree chil- dren and the child, of a frieed. . The Vaillancourts were watchime the re- gatta, which :was in full sw:ng, and when the accident happemg many boats in the vicinity closed aeolmd the scene of the upset, while the judges of the events even. jumped into the water to rescue the ehildren. OXibr one of the children, that of the friend, was saved, together with Mr. and Mrs. Vaillancourt. The regatta was in aidof the Child Welfare Soeiety of St. Vincent de Paul. -Instructions' have been ' received from' Ottawa forbidding the corres- pondence of all ranks in training in Military District No.'lesith strangers. Frequently- notices -appear in news- papers inserted by local soldiers re- questing that -parties correspond With them. The recent order cancels such . notices and the following order is sub- stituted: It has been brought to the attention of headquarters that offers or requests to correspond with soldiers are frequently made through the press • and otherwise. While many of these offers and requests may he bona fide, it is pointed out that such correspond- ence raight prove a means of obtain- ing military information of value to the enemy, or of instituting eller* propaganda. Accordingly, officers and other ranks are forbidden to. insert advertisements or letters in any publi- cation inviting strangers to communi- cate with them. -A new ruling relative to the coin - position of class 1 un,der the M.S.A. regulations, which was made public through C.R.F. routine order e on August 16th, states that, "any man who becomes resident hi Canada after a proclamation has been issued calling out the class under the Military Ser- vice Act, 1917, to which he would: have. belonged if he had been in Can- ada at the date of such proclamation, shall within"ten days after becoming resident, report to the fegistrar or deputy registrar for the province or part of the province in which he is resident!' It will be noted that the phrasing of the ruling makes it appli- cable to any class that snay be called out for military Service at any time during the war. The order also states that any man who fails to register accordance with this ruling, "within the prescribed period, nia,y be, dealt with as A deft -tater." • 1