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(Continued from our last issue.)
But the aftermath—the vacuum of
the stemach—the palpitating heart --
the deep breaths.you need, that, if you
did not take, it seeiped as if you'
choke the feeling yo must sit dowii
—the' desire for a d k—the
insati-
able way in winch yo ate up cigarette
after cigarette in long deep inhales—
the hope they would not start bomb-
ing again—the cheery voice you forced
. as you walked along a bath mat and
jokingly curbed, your own deeire to
shout by praising the men and bea-
ting "the show;" all these when your
emotions that had bubbled to the boil-
ing point again simmered down. That
night as I walked along and did my
best to restore the steadiness of my
men, ever and anon came those im-
mortal lines of Kipling:
'If you can force your heart and nerve
and sinew
To serve your turn, long after they are
gone
And so hold on, when their is nothing
in you
Except the Will, which says to them
'Hold 011,1 " n-
reaurend again and again, and I offer-
ed up to the Almighty, He whose
name a few minutes before I had tak-
en in vain, a fervent silent little pray-
er that I should be given the strength
of will and body to keep it up.
Then the interminable night with
every nerve and muscle strained in a
long "stand to," with the added exer-
tion of placing an additional platoon
that came up as reinforcements, and
the cramped, numb feeling as one sat
in a narow trench with the intermit-
tent rattle of rifle fire, the insistent
tattoo of a machine glen, or the hazy
smoke of flares that ever and anon
i'swized" up here and there, lighting
in their ghastly. magnesium the faces
of the men who, cramped and cold,
waiting for they knew not what. All
these factors, I say, broke the nerve
and strained the mentality.
And the wait for dawn. I sat and
watched the sky star-studded, if ever
it was, watched Ursus Major, Polaris,
The Pleiades, Andromeda, a star I
thought was Saturn, and one I knew
was Mars—Mars the God we're propi-
ating over here. I watched them and
untold millions more and into the
steel vault that, by the alchemy of
old Sol, melted into priscilla grey and
imperceptibly changed to whitey blue,
while rimming the Est was the or-
ange band that I knew some six hours
later would herald the dawn of day
to you in dear old Homeland. Then
the real diurnal "stand to" as dawn
homes up. Every man ready, alert and
anxious, until bright daylight dispels
an fears of an attack.
After that "stand down" and then
ldrea cry'
CAST° WI A
GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN
WITH LEMON JUICE
Make a beauty lotion for a few cents to
remove tan, freckles, sallowness.
Your grocer has the lemans and any
drug store or toilet counter Will 8upply
you with three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of
two fresh lemons into &bottle, then put
in the orchard white and shake well.
This makes a quarter pint of the very
beet lemon skin whitener and complexion
beautifier known. Massage this fra-
grant, creamy lotion daily into the face,
Beck, arms and hands and just see how
freckles, tan, sallowness, redness and
roughness disappear and how smooth,
eat and clear the skin becomes, Yes!
It is harmless, and the beautiful results
will surprise you.
$200.000
to lend on Farms, First, Second
Mortgages. Call or write me at
once and got your loan arranged
by return mail. No advance
charges.
B. R. REYNOLDS,
77 Victoria tit, Toronto.
Children Qrv
FLETCHEircv
gaz Ta A
With the Fingers!
t Says Corns Lift Out
IW thout Any Pain I'
Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind of a corn can shortly be i
lifted right out with the fingers if you
will apply:directly upon the corn a few
drops of freezone, says a Cincinnati ,
authority.
It is claimed that at small cost one
can get a quarter of an ounce of freez-
one at any drug store, which. is suffi-
cient to rid one's feet of every corn •
sr callus without pain or soreness or
the danger of infection.
This new drug is an ether compound,
an while sticky, dries the momeat it
'is applied and does not inflame or eyes
irritate the Burrounding tisane.
anis announcement will Interest
liana' women here, for it is staid that
Toe present high -heel footwear is puts
*lag earns on. praeticalin eviler
"sensate* tesii,
while aetually on the firing line. So,
E I -say, I, and I'm sure everyone else,
= was -pleased with the thoughtthat
for some time, except for working
= parties, we were free. A. "Thank God
= that's over!" feeling.
w I was awakened by ray Man about
• 4en a.m.—so blessed shave and wash—
some more breakfast, and then we re-
, ....r. veiled in the thought of a bath. We
=
rent from hut to hut laughing and
I
sting, here comparing notes, there
= • c' ndoling. with some chap who order-
.
= ed us to get oute7I didn't get in till
= 7,30," happy and free, little realizing
= what was going on a scant eight miles,
aveay. Always, always, there came
the dull boom of guns, perhaps more
marked than usual, but we jocularly
said that the "morning hate" was a
little worse, rather pitying the poet
'devils who were getting it. We didn't
• know whether it was the Huns or not,
for our guns were speaking more than
ordinarily. • As we heard ours, up
went that little wish one always had
that those shells wouldn't be "duds",
and the hope they would knock some
of our dear eneray. So, as I tell
you, we passed an hour, when the -word
was brought to be ready to "move
an hour." Every man must pack his
kit and not move from his own but,
Gone, of course, was the bath. We
rather regretted that. We felt, I think
rather upset because we had looked
forward to a rest land I remember
cursing, the Bosche for starting his
dirty work again so soon.
Gathered in anxious little groups we
awaited further word. Mier a couple
of hours, we heard some rumored re-
ports that told only to well what we
afterwards learned. Well, we "stood
to" till sometime in the afternoon, I
couldn't say just the hour for one loses
all sense of time then came the word
to "move off."
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Once more, with the slow step that
is used on the road to the front line,
we started. The first part of the
joainey was easy Oocasionally a lone
shrapnel would burst on the road, but
it was only whet we got up into the
area where the "heaviee'dweic that we
felt the force of the bombardment.
Steadily we marched in the bright af-
terncon sun, here and the ie. halting,
at this corner turning off tne imam
road nil° a by -way because .he Ger-
mans di-eie "searching" the road, until
just at twilight tide we arrived, by
devious by-paths ontside "Wipers."
• The order was passed "no lights, no
smoking, no noised': The' last injunc-
tion was entirely stmerfluous, for be-
tween the shriek end boom of our
shells, also theirs, tcoupled with the '
rumble of the artillery limbers that
galloped up with more "iron rations,"
one tould scarce be heard. Here we
sat or sprawled in the dewy grass
awaiting orders. Just as twilight fad-
ed into night amid the roar of an ex-
ceptional burst of artillery, the sky
lig.hfed up by what seemed millions of
"flares." The whole place was bathed
in the ghastly Magnesium white they
cast about, the scene here and there
being punctuated by a red and green
rocket. It was indeed, I can assure
you, one of the prettiest sights I have
ever witnessed. The average pyro-
technic display pales ciaasiderably in
comparison. This are of light was
continuous for some few minutes, min-
gled with the lurid yellow red burst
of shrapnel. The color of shrapnel
bursting at night, ie hard to liken;
it resembles 'more than anything a,
deep tiger lily which bloomed for an
infinitesimal space, then melted into
black oblivion, -
Ste as I say, we waited, as good
soldiers alwaye do, for orders. There
wasn't much talking, in fact, I imagine
that eevryone was rather too busy
with thought a of Horne. Somehow in
the veriest thick of things, there's
usually a thought of Home creeps.into
your mind. However, here and there.
a jest or a laugh came mut. One man
as I passed ,said to his mate—"Write
to her." Some "her" who I suppose
would have been thrice as excited as
he, had she known. Occasionally, as
a shell burst somewhere near, the in-
evitable question, "Where did that qne
go?" came mit; but eonversation was
at a premium.
Just at the night of night, an hour
beforeodawn, came the word to ad-
vance, and in extended order across
shell swept ground we staxted over an
area pitted and potted by shells, with
here a clump of scarred trees, or there
a few gaunt stones, the remnant of a
building. Everything, is patterned in
the Army by the, Guards. To do things
as they do is the aim of everyone, and
while I've never seen „ahem make an
attack, I have walked along the same
road under heavy gholling.Theref ore
'I admire them. -Albeit, I question if
ever the Guards went forward more
valiantly than did those civilian sol-
diery of ours The Guards' line may
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Rum. Ah, that Ruth! If some of those
carping criers at home whose protests
against Tommy geting his tot could sit
with his feet numbed and chilled by
eighteen inches of stinking water,
could sit or stand for twenty -fours a
day in a cramped etaofincet?rsfirpm
have felt, that a chance to stretch
, their lege and arms would be e, luxury
I rivalling the dearest wish that hereto-
fore you'd ever had; I say, if some of
those people at home could do thee
things, oh how I'd love to take them
for an eight d,ay tour,I feel sure they
t would never open their mouths again.
That mouthful of rum, about a half
wine -glass, trickles down warming and
burning, meanwhile restoring in a man
whose nerves are like the lace of a
window blind, a little viva; a further
lease on life, that in the grey dawn
seems cheap at best. If they want to
do away with their own drinks let
there, but until they have been thro'
the anid test of ninety-six hours with-
out much rest, ninety-six hours of
mental strain and physical exertion,
mayhap ninety-six hours When every
stitch of clothing has been wet thro',
please let there keep their hands off
the question out here.
After that elixir, "Stand down!".
when only the various sentries are
left on duty all through -the long day,
but every man cleans his rifle and
equipments, a,nd if any water is avail-
able shaves, washes and tries to scrape
some of the mud from his clothes.
And then breakfast. You who at
horee sit down to a half of -a succulent.
grape fruit or a sliced orange, with
porri and. CREAM (I had almost
forgotten that neord), or a brown and
sizling omelet with thin, crisp toast
and a cup of ,coffee, will never know
what it is to boil water over a candle
wrapped in sacking. The recipe for
this is: Fold a piece of sacking, pre-
ferably dry, if available, around one
and a half inches of waxed candle,
place these ingredients wick -end up
in an empty jam tin, which has been
p erforated with a knife on this one
places his mess tin full of water and
light u the candle. Then comes in
President Wilson's idea, "A watchful
waiting policy," Meanwhile, Fritz is
sending notes in the form of shrapnel
which, while conciliatory, are never-
theless likely to cause a breach in your
relations with the aforesaid can and
candle, or even in your anatomy, if,
you are in its way. Well, after you
have watched and waited and heaped
on more fuel, which is obtained by
cutting off the fat from your meagre
slice of bacon, the water bubbles and
actually boils. Then you Udd a hand-
ful ea tea and sugar mixed by a_
thmightful Quartermaster - sergeant,
and the ambrosia is ready to serve..
This with the thexpended portion of
your extraifuel mentioned above,which
is crisped in the same manner, forms
your matutinal feast, at least, with
the addition of your half loaf of bread
which is held in your left hand, and
eaten as a school boy does an apple.
I fear that this epistle grows weary,
so will start with lots of new things.
To begin -with, I received a parcel. of
socks, candy, coffee and cream cheese
from A.S., for which I wrote a note,
also sent a souverir. I am sending
a parcel whicit is for you, two
nose caps off German shells and a bul-
let which clipped a piece out of my
sleeve, afterwards burying itself in a
good old sandbag.
Read the bottom of a Grape Nuts.
Don't waste postage on newspapers
and don't send anyt
as we can buy he
than you, fruits; ex.
ettes always accepta
chiefs, cheapest obtad
vast quantities.
Socks are jake, for if we can't use
them ourselves we give them. to the
men.
illope this belly show will be over
in a short time. Yours,
Billy
P.S.--2-Later will send story of the
poor chap who died in my arms.
B.
g except cakes,
e, more icheaply
Canadian cigar -
le, also handkere
ble, as we lose
London,
August 8th, 1916
My Dear Mother,—I am going to try
to put on paper, my dear, a few of
the million pictures that are etched in
the gallery of my memory. '• The pic-
tunre Ian trying to pen for you is the
one which comes to me here in hospital
as I try to piece together the events
leading up to the time that I got mine.
I realize full well how difficult it is to
describe "the front' to anyone who
has never seen a trench, and I know if
I'm not explicit sometimes you will
understand, I'm only doing my best.
I fear me it will be a poor best at
that, for, so many, many times I have.
said that Only a Dante could describe
it and Dore paint it.
To begin with you must understand
that our brigade had been relieved at
night after eight days of very trying
times in which the Bosehe put over a-
bout every kind of projectile he owns,
from Minenwerfers or heavy trench
mortars, to his delectable whizz bangs.
He didn't fail even to present us with
some of his famous "Silent Armies,"
a large calibre shell which makes prac-
tically no noise till it bursts. Well,
as I say, we were relived and finally in
the grey "cooltb" of dawn arrived in
billets.
After some breakfast, we prdceeded
to go to bed; a most welcome. theught.
Off came the sticky clothes that for
sixteen days—eight spent in reserve
—had alternately been wet through
with sweat and water, only t dry
again; and after a few prelthinary
scratchings of sides and bacW and
shoulders, we dropped into t -
found sleep that only weary men lindw
about on that Bent morning in billets.
I don't suppose I am any bigger
coward than the average man, but I
alwaye felt fervently thankful after a
tour of the line, when. we arrived in
billets. There, while not safe from
long range gum, one could at least,
relax, throw off the harassing strain,
physical and mental, drop as like a
clog& the vesponsikility incurred .
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Kidney..and Bladder Troubles don't
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of these organs are generally the re-
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you notice a dull pain in the back;
you are dizzy, have hqadaches, feel
languid, tired and lifeless.
There is no mistaking the symp-
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Putting off never cures. Gin Pills
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, Among. our hundreds of test;nionials
is one, from Mr. B. C. Davi, King's
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I got a box of Gin Pills and they
helped me immediately. I have
continued to tdire Gin Pills, and
now the pains in both hips and
back are gone. I shall always
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and other sufferers."
Mr. David's case is only one of the
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perhaps have been straighter, but it
could waver no less. The psychology
oif a saldier in the brief moments of
an attack or counter-attack, is some-
thing beyond my ken In retrospect, I
come on the thought I had as I saw
that line move forward; that hie of
my men, the rnen whom I worked over
during mbnths of training, the men,
who' with ine, had laughed and lab-
ored, cried and cursed for many moons
slowly advancing to we knew not what.
A picture of a green sward in Canada
month'before came back, and I re-
collected -my exhortations on keeping
a line and steady pace. 1 eonjured up
also the visions of thousands in train-
ing who sweep over grassy slopes not
cut by shell fire or devastated by
warfare I only tell you this to show
the queer kinks in my brain. On we
went in the gray of the early morn-
ing past verdant stretches of fields,
rank with ungarnered crops, which
were besrpinkled with scarlet poppies.
We clambered through hedge -rows of
hawthorn in bloom, the arnell of which
mingled With the sweet sickly odour
of "Iachryinators" or tear „shells. We
dodged shell holes. or climbed in and
over the remains of trenches, all the
while drawing nearer, nearer the
ceaseless rattle a musketry,the rhyth-
mic rip of machine guns.
The order to fix -bayonets passed
along; this done, the elicking of bolts,
to ensure that every,,vittikazine-.had its
quota of cartridges, sounded. Over a
little rise ,we -came: just ahead was a
line of lurid light and noise. Now,
night was going and against the sky
we showed up quite plainly, a long
thin line Fof silhouettes, the lighter
fawn of the bomber's aprons, each
pocket bulging with its lemon- haped
So on toward the line of luridlight
grenade, distinctive from the thers.
and noise we walked. They don't run
nowadays; gone is the glory of the
charge with its huzzae and flashing
swords; it's slow and 'steady does it.
This doesn't take long to write but
it was composed of minutes, each age -
long; and looking at it now, I wonder
how I, or anyone, got so far amid the
pandemonium of bursting shells, siff-
ling bullets and detonating' bombs.
Frent somewhere, one of our offi-
cers rushed up and ordered me to re-
tire to ,a certain spot' about a half
mile, as they, I mean higher com-mand,
had decided to postpone the counter-
attack. Accordingly, back we start-
ed. Daylight with its turquoise sky
had come and as we plodded back the
Germans saw the irregular line. If
• before, we thought the bombardmeat
heavy, now it was tenfold, a tearing,
roaring inferno --as the Hun "seared/Led
and bracketed" the entire Urea in
which our lines were. Shrapnel, whiz
bangs, high explosives, hurtled and
burst, in nerve -shattering salvos. Ev-
eryone was mixed lap, some men of
anoter battalion. We walked stead-
ily on, until, the barrage becoming
too hot, the order was given to take
cover. Some few of us managed to
crouch behind a hedgerow, where once
a trench, was now a shambles. Here
for the first time the really hell of the
war came to me. That trench, or what
was left of it, was congested with dead,
and dying. Men crawled aleng, over
dead bodies distorted beyond only the
ken of one who has been there. We
lifted wounded, men a little to one side
while from each turn of the trench
came the heart-rending, throaty sob of -
dying, Ghastly! well, I don't suppose
there's a -words been coined in English
to describe it. Meanwhile, shtapnel
rained on its horrible hail, high ex-
plosive lifted sandbag and ebodies
house -high. Everywhere men ley half
buried, gaping. Some, reason fled,
climbed, only to be struck down a few
yards away. And all this, kept up for
what seemed aeons, but really was
only about three hours. One chap,
since dead, said to me, "I thought
these devils were runinMg short of
shells. Well, I'd like to let some of
those people t home feel this." Feel
is the right word, for you "feel" a
heavy bombardment. I care not how
brave a man is, I say it reduces him
to the consistency of a jelly fish. For
after all, life is sweet and when one is
a fraction of a second from his grave
he starts to ponder. Howbeit, the fire
abated and we gathered together what
few men we couldt What regiment
mattered not. •Messengers were sent
to report to the Colonel as to our
position. There were just -three offi-
cers left of the company, so we held
a council of war, and endeavored to see
to the wounded, sending • out those
slightly hurt, then sat down to wait. '
Oh! What waiting it was! Expect-
antly, nervously, sitting while the time
slagged on. After an hour or two
had elapsed, one of the "runaera" we
hanl sent crawled back to saytthat the
Colonel had been killed, he could find
nil other officers,and would we get
hi
im a drink—all n a breath. He was
flat a boy, eighteen I think, and the
Arai* was too numh for him. He was
completely unstrung„ for, after awhild
he laughed rather hysterically and
babbled incoherently. -.Suddenly he
jumped up, climbed into the open, his
sole thought to get away; but there,
. a scant hundred yardss we saw him
fall, He had found quiet and peace all
right. After a thne one of the boys
creserled out to And him dead.
• Gradually, as the morning wore on
liniping or crawling nien came up to
'report themselves. Men of other units
ran of our own, and one poor ebap
quite insane, who insisted that one eff
the officers was his brother. up a-
bove, aeroplanes purred, as, glinting •
in the sunlight, they kept off the en-
eray machines, whose object would
have been to: discover the pds-
ition of ourselves and. our
t other reinforceinents, I sat and look-
ed at a little triangular lake shim-
mering in the distance, and longed for
o mime fish, 1 reeollect resolving that
, when I got leave, the first meal in Lan -
dors would be fish. Looking back, 1
cannot rernernbet that I ever doubted
I would get leave ,the idea never
struck me that I might 'go on "The
Long Leave." So is the human brain
constituted.
• Regularly, at iutervals all morning,
- the'area was shelled by the Germans.
Starting in one piece they systemati-
cally blasted almost every square yard
of the ground ,and each- time seemed
to be worse than the former ones; tho'
God knows anyone was a cataclysm.
The day wore on. In mid-afteamoon
came word -to propeed to-- there to
counter-attack a certain part of the 4
line. We gathered together the men, i
eome eighty that were immediately at
hand, and started off. It was a trip
practically in the open; as any trenches
had been so 'battered as to be useless.
From every direction came long files
of men, all centralizing along a given
line. cannot remember the exact
time the thing was planned for, but
we started off. Of course so -did the
artillery. Ours opened up, and if we
got unutterable hill before so did the
Germans now. owever, they still
had some ion, and the shells
burst there --and here—and there—
and then—
A drink of water;
A scarlet cross fronting the vision
in blue and white;
Cool deft hands;
White sheetsa
The throb of or.
The swirl of wat r.'
The tiny toot of n English engine;
An other mato;
A bunch of roses mixed up with
eyeglasses and perfume;
A white handkerchief -
A, few jolts;
Abed; •
Familiar street noises with the
dawning realization of a •hospital in
Blighty, dear old London at • last, -
That's the best way I can ten. I'm
enclosing a couple of pictures of the
Red Hous. Win write again this
week.
Yours,
;
wmee
Moriturus Te Salutat
McCarthy was his name. On his at-
testation paper was the statement that
he was a' chef, and in the G.E.F. he
was usually to be found in the cook
house. The chef of • even a .second-
rate hotel iistould have blushed had one
linked his name with Mac's, for I pre- :
sume that he, McCarthy, in his entire
life' had never handled "hors d'oeuvre
varies," or that "Neuf froid" suggest-
ed to him anything but a joint dyed
end I yellow roasted yesterday. No,
iettac knew ;nothing of table d'hote
meals or French pastry. His cooking
was of thei kind known as Mulligan,
and a rattling 'good Milligan he Made.
I've stood and ivatched him many a
day last summer ,as under the canvas
cook house of a ;camp in Canada, he
diced onions; with a butcher irnifeerinn-
Chalantly stirring boiling rice with
the same knife—a perfunctory .;wipe
on an east,While white apron being
as it were the "entr'acte.',In fact,
Idea's culinary abilities had been fos- -,
tered hi carrips not military, but lum-
bering and construction. His was an
art that could set a p t of beans to
soak yesterday, and to -night, for 200
men, turn out .a dish of: "pork and" so
tempting that I was Often, wont to
ask for a plate of them myself. He
also turned out porridge in such quan-
tities as to stagger one who hadmever
watched a hungry kindred fresh
from one hour's physical line up for
their morning feast. What boots it if
there were lumps or if perhaps one
-got a email ladle full that could have
stood another quarter hour cooking;
it filleid b`p that insatiable rnevfr of a
. .
man n training.
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A4C1DENT3
PIAPPE
your first need is to end the pain—to
apply something that will give you relief,
and permit you to go on with your work
or pleasure, as the case may be.
Here's where Zam-Buk is so splendid.
Nothing 4 ends the burning sensation in s
scald or burn, the stinging pain of a cut or scratch,
or the ache and soreness of a bruise,like Zam-Buk.
' Another thing! Zam-Buk ensures you against
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A most important feature of Zam-Buk is its
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purity.
iettatieseeffectivela tee treat.
moat of oiriedisesoco.cicorio
gifts, etc. All dealer*
it Zoes-Sok C0.4
Many a Belgian mother could
have these words engraved on
her eluld gra tone-- "Di
of Starvation".
Perhaps the child has wasted away,/with Consurnp.
tion, or has been twisted into a m kery of happy
childhood by Rickets, but arvMiofl is at the root of
the tragedy. .
What else rrbi expeeted for, a growing child
whose daily ration the bowl of soup and two pieces
of bread provided b the United States loans to the
Belgian Government
The only hope for the destitute children of Belgium
is that we who can afford tree meals; a day will
- be moved to pity and send help immediately. Even
a small contribution will help to take some child,
sinking under its load of trouble, over to Holland,
where with good milk, nutritious food, medical care
and loving treatment, he or she may regain health,
strength and the wish to live.
GIVE—give until you feel the pinch! Don't wait
until someone asks you perionally. THIS is personal!
MAe cheques partble and send contributions to
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Huron County Belgian Relief Fund --Mrs. J. B. Thompson,
Treasurer, Seaforth, Ontario, or to ONTARIO BRANCH—
Belgian Relief- Fund, 95 King Street, West, Toronto."
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