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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1919-01-03, Page 1.FIFTY THIRD I WHOM NUM - ER.2 OP. 7“117 .77 70/7/ talk WIN 4.7.7 _ .77r.:•••••••••••••• t• ,•••••••••••••70•••••••••••./.7,1./.7'• unnin um nunPftmunnuniniffintunumumumnifini, ' °EY Cloth'. II Cr ta4 " Second to None " • C 09 y ,7110 1.7.▪ 117 7 • Mx ••111 OM▪ . The mild weather of past weeks has left us overloaded Futs., aim Inn = . **I E A surprising sale of all our beautiful new Furs commences Fri- g day morning and very piece of Fut" and every Fur garment will be sold at heavy discounts to turn into cult. /The earliest buyers will get the best pickings. — *reig 7,Jothin .SE A FORTH nume am/ • moni 77/•• n ow SURRENDER OF GERMAN FLEET v (By Olair-Price) Sea power is the slow growth of ?generations. Navies are hot made by rivetting steel . plates into battle- ships, dumping aboard a lot of square - headed 'longshoremen, to man them and using the result to make a brag at the moon. .One in history that Wild • venture was tried. The fleet which tried it lies in the gigantic British harbor of Scapa Flow, a fleet without a flag, an exiled fleet interned in .the long night of these northern latitudes. As long as navies endure, that fleet will be a stench in the nos- trils of decent sailormere. Frem th,e time in 1898 when it tried to bluff Dewey and seize Manila, the German navy has been a libel on navies. It was never mere so than in the greed for humiliation it displayed in its sheep -like surrender to the grand ileet on November 21st, Rather than surrender, the French navy rame out of Toulon .in 1805 to certain defeat at Trafalgar. Rather than surrender, the Spanish fleet I came out of Santiago in 1898 to cer- tain defeat. Rather than surrender/ the Russian Baltic fleet went down to certain defeat in nii905. By their dee feats, these fleets aye enriched the hard won traditions which make the navies. rich. In their defeatS they did honor to the colors they bore and to the eplendid estate to which their na- tions had called thein. But the tradi- tions of the world's navies meant th , noing to the German navy. Like the Geeman Empire, the German navy was a mushroom. growth without tra- ditions. , Navies are riot built for the purpose of waging wars. They are built for the purpose of preserving peane, for the furtherance ,en understandings be- tween nations, foe the carrying of light into the dark places of the earth. The. nany is the finest `thence. mat in the nation's service, But this, to, 'meant nothing to the German navy. The 'high . sea fleet existed of by and for the Purpose of waging war on the grancl fleet. . The conduct of navies, in time of peate and war alike, is denned by certain codes. They are not written down because they do not need to be written down. They are the very breath of the navy. Knightliness is native to the navy. But if there have been occasions when the German navy has shown those qualities of knightliness Which govern contending nations in the making of. war, there - have been many more oecasions when = its conduct hat been anything' but de- - en.." cent From the eime in 191,4, when, E after the battle of Heligoland' Bight, = German. officers spat in the face. of their Briteela resenere, the German. navy's conduct 'has-been a libel on navies. When it fled from the battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916,, it trumpeted its claims to a German vic- tory throughout the world a,nd se- cretly, at the same time';vit once for all abandoned warfare lith eurface craft, began dismantling it t older bat- tleship e to make submarines and be- came an outlaw among the navfies of the world. Just as it surface craft 'tie" • -= Ultilllit netputnnuttnnlinnunnimmuummumnimmai0 HAPP YE , To r many friend we tend best liv'ishes fora Very prosperous and ppy New Yea, The q3ig Harawqre Store dge r. Seaford' E had violated the decencies of sea 'war- fare,. its submarines began voilating , the most eletnentaryetraditions of sea- faring. , It is better that a nation should the than that this brotherhood of man in the presence' of the sea—one of the oldest and most sacred traditions the world possesses --should be violated. Only the German. military mind, which, operated the German navy, could' have held the senseless doc- trine that frightfulness pays, the doc- trine by which the more brutal as- pects of submarine -warfare were jus- tified. Logically, the doctrine ' that frightfulness p ys might 'have been beautifully So d, but tbe German mind has never learned that it is not logic which det ronnes the motives of 'nee and of , n tiont. Brains de not run the world. • It is temp r which runs the world. When the na al clauses o the ar- mistice ordered, Germany to fetch out certain specified units of her neny and ' hand thern over to the grand fleet for internment, a good many. leritish, and AMerican officers believed that the personnel- of the high sea fleet would have enough decency 'left ' to scuttle their ships before they would undergo the huinfliation of handing them over. "Suppese,"/ said ;one of them on the Texan as he/glanced about the snowy decks, the decks which were home to him, "suppoee we were ord.ered to hand over the Texas to the Huns!" • Had the German battle cruisers, ap- `• proachiag he grand fleet over the horizon on November 2Ist suddenly turned tre cherous and moved a tur- ret; there 's no doubt but what every British an American officer would have accorded them an atom of elev- enth hour espect. ,.. -• Against this possibility, the grand fleet was prepared. Not that the grand flee expected treachery. It is merely th habit of fleets to be pre- pared. The flee moved out of the Firth of Forth at we've knots but every boiler was fired up ready' to go to full speed. T ey went out at .general quarters 'th guns trained fore and aft and un ceded, but with the correct range and deflection kept on the sights and; in the turrets the cages up and leaden, ready for ramming nome.. They went out with battle flags fly- ing and he ships in that state of I nervous s spence in which you fire first and t II the bridge 'about it' afterward. The opeintion orders, circulated to the feet beforehand, Atipulated that eight flotillas of destroyers, consisting of about 160 vessels, would proceed to sea ahead of the fleet as a lookout screen. Behind them, the grand fleet was to proceed in twmeolumns about six miles apart, with- five 'repeating . ships taking specified positions be- tween the columns. At the rendez- , vous about 50 miles east of May Is- ' lard, the German'ships were to be led toward the Firth down the avenue be- tween each column of the getaindi fleet and the column of German ships i_aakFaiimovegiqt) AFORM, FRIDAY, JANUARY - 1919 for =1919.. Your Vote and influence solicited for my election to the position of Mayor. ha,v4 served on the Council Board for a period of 4 years audhave been on the Hydro CommisSion for 7 years. My recorq for past service is the- best asset that 1: I can Pffer, you;. Wishing u A Prosperous and Happy New Year, am, yours truly, J. F. DALY Vote .DALY Ntay...Or enough distance to nta,ke 'ramming impossible and tonpedeing practically impossible. In the northern column ere the Americans. Eleven Menths of grill- ing watchfulness in the -Firth • of Forth had won for them the privilege .,of participating in the .incepit of the 'German, surrender, They have played a good part in the work of the .grarici fleet, but it must not be for- gotten that November 21st was Pri- marily a British day. The Americans had waited eleven months for tne Ger- • mans to. come out; the, Brit had } waited eel months. The A erican personnel in the grand 'fleet numbers 7,500; the British numbers 100,009. The American tonnage. is. 125,000; the British is 1,300,000: Ships kept the same station going out as they did coining back, the First Light Cruiser Squadrons . leading the northern column going out and the, Fourth Light Cruiser squadron leading it corning back. In addition to the destroyer screen which -Om flang out far in advance of the grand fleet atinft the repeating ships ,wbich, waree formed •between the twe cc/berms of the fleet, three British 'tight cruisers, flying the blue ensigennevere desig- nated •ne guideenitiret tentneenermans, cate of them. towing a baloon. to take ; stationahead of the Gernean battle I cruisers an batleships, a second ahead of the' German light cruiser -8,1 and the thied ahead of the German destroyets. A British airehip and British seaplanes were also deneilecli The sixth battle squadron --that's the Am erkan—weighed anchor at 3.20 a; M., on the daylof the great surrender. All about it in the Firth; ships' talk punctured the cold night with silent, peppery dots of white. Its running lights were burning for the first time since it left the States: 'The, war's gonna be over in about en minutes now" It passed down the Firth, keeping station on that triangle of running lights which was the New York, and talking intermittently to tilt flagebip in a soft, rapid clack of searchlight shutters. Fidre Gap light blinked white at it, blinked gravely and went out, blinked and went out again, as it threaded the minefields. May . Is- land was abeam by 6‘.40. It Was still dark and the moon was high. By 7.30 the night was thinning to a cold gray. The New York was a monstrous shape 600 yards, ahead. The Wyoming•was a monstrous shame 600 yards astern. The Arkansas' arid Florida were out of sight still astern. There had been a gale warning the night befote and at bedtime the barometee had been droping like a stone. But in the thin gray of the waning night, the flagship's destroyer was as motionless as if it were riding a frogpond. Forward on deck, you could hear the purr of the paravance rigged from each boy as an antidote to mines. Colors came .at 8, just as colo comes in every navy on every sea e world over (except at Plymouth, where for some . unaccountable rea- son colors comes at 9). By 8, the rendezvous had been reached. The Germans were late. The squadrons inverted and steamed eestfor a spell, inverted again. and steamed west, in- verted` still again. and steamed east; "stamping our feet." Ahead and astern were long lines of monstrous ships. The southern column,•six miles away, was cloa.ked in the mist. At 8.45 the destroyer screen picked up the Germans and in a moment the wireless had netified every' bridge in the fleet. The Texas Went to general quarters} at once and ran Up its battle flags, the Start and, Stripes, at the e ' 1• St. Thomas , Church . . • Diamond jubilee., on JANUARX 5th and 6th SUNDAY 11 a.m. and 7 pane THE 'RIGHT REV, . BISHOP OF HURON will preach, assisted by ll'HE REV, CANON CRAIG , , MONDAY, JAN. 6 A FOWL SUPPER WILL BE -nERVED IN VTR SCHOOL -7- IlittigEi , Everything in Abundance Admission 50c. and afterwards at 8 P. M. A GRAND RECITAL ' and programme of sacred esong will be given in the church by 1 well knowil artists, Admission Free. 71111M•71711MMIIIMI111•7•11111•111/711110, 7 NON. fore and main. Officers and men off watch gathered at the starboard rail. Shortly afterwards the worelesS no- tified the fleet that the Germans could make only ten knots. "Spine speed!" "It was 9.30 nehen the Texas's fore- top. reported ' "a German. battle cruiser off the starboard bow, sir." The captain sent to the cabin ior his silhouettes in rder to identify it, and the range wen down to the turrets at once: "Eight thousand yards." In one of the forward turrets an officer snorted, "Oh, within rangen and sighed for a Morris chair to make It was the British light cruiser It -- himself comfoetable. ing as guide ship to the German bat- tle cruisers and battleships which first appeared through the thin mist that silvered the horizon. High over it, its baloon lay like a hernia in the sky, its observer observing things the like 0.77,77M/7.71.711•1•111 umummunumnnuninnummumn ' FLOUR. . 2 Friday) and Saturday . of this -week we are unloading a carload of :3 Five Rose `Flour,Bran • 111Mi. E. and Shorts. Special •Prices off car. *MN, VIM =IN NUB lam 070 - W. G. NEIL = WALTON •".+." iumnammmumaimmunammumiii .munnummunnnumummmunnummummimmmunnuniminnnitim , SOS IN:VIM INNS AMIN"' l'rime Dance 12" " SM. Cardno's Hall, Seaforth E.: Friday, Jantiary. 17th ALL INVITED Chesney-VanEgmond. Orchestra , • Will be in attendance. = E▪ , D.ancing. 8.30, III Admission 50 Cents E — E , timiliffiliTioimmilmiqpilynninniminimignmumninummul,nummiimr,-. i 4 - , • , -rein MeLAAN BROS. Feibeisliera 41.i0 a Tear ehaviice tte, bf whic had never been obserned- be- fore. Aste :of the guide ship appeared the man nettle cruiser Seydlitz. Every ye was fixed omit. Astern of it the Moltke, Derfflinger, Hinden- burg and Von der Tann followed in meek Silence. No ensigns were dipped, "You I couldn't kick them into a fight!'! Astern of the battle cruisers came the battleships, their flagship, the Kaiser Frederkh der Grosse, flying a roan anmirars flag and a white flag, - A fishing trawler 'nudged through the celuran of British ships to take a closer nook at the long line of •Ger- man. battleships which followed At 10 o'clock the grand fleet invert- ed course and began moving with the Germans, Pounding along at ten knots, towards the Firth. Abeam of tb,e American battleships. were the Gerinan battleships, Kaiser, Kanserhi and Krenprinz. At elenein the sun had broken} through • and the battleships 'were bathed in color—the steel gray of tile ships, the .blue of the sea, the dazzling_ white of the 'feather at the stem, the glittering 'necktie of a sig- nal hoist and the battle flags at the tore and main, standing out stiff as boards in a droning: wind. It • Was "Beatty weather," velien every pros- pect pleaseth and only Huns offend. ' The silent procession- kept up untl 3 °Week when -the Germans reached their • specified anchorage ground- in Largo bay and the Americans held ,on for their anchorages higher up the • Firth near the great cantilever rail- road bridge. It was 3.30 when the Texas anchored, with the strains of . Rule Britannia floating across the wa- ters from nearby British ships and ,its own band ;beginning to tune up below in the wardroom country. The captain said he was glad. it was over. He was -glad. it had ended as it had. "I'd rather take my crew hack home than, kat% half of there at the bottom of the North Spa," he Said. He wondered however, what the Minn would do now that the war WAS over. He rementleered that he had felt the same wenn after the Spanish war. , Among hisl officers there was a great - deal of curiosity about what the pre-- liminery inspection of the Getman ships would reveal. I Later in the day the things that the preliminary in- spection parties found aboard the Germans. became noised about. 1 . At sunsetI the German ships Oita hauled down; their flags on 'order, and eath British 'ship had become respon- sible far. a German ship. Each sent across to its captive a.party consisting of the captain, the chief engineer, the gunnery and torpedo officers and two . niterpreter officers. I They found that ithe inondition of ittin ' Genrean' Alien was as feat as their behavior had been. Discipline in the crews was completely absent, the men smoking cigarettes in ;the presence of their offi- cers and molly of them wearing red ' armlets, bearing the liners "S. A." (Soldaten und Arbeiter—Soldiers and Workers) and giving instructions to the officers. Cigarette stubs lay about the necks and ,in ' many places the •corticence flooring , had been worn through. As for the condition of the engine rooms, one British ehief hand- ed it down as his considered opinion that it was a wonder the Germans had • been able to make ten knots. Let's tura away: from this libel on navies and think of other thing -S. LETTER FROM MONS The following interesting. letter is from a former Collegiate Insitute Pulni, Pte. Robert E: Anderson, son • of Mrs. Richard Anderson, of Hal- lett, and was written to his mother from Mons after the signing of -the armistice:. Mons, Belgitim, No. 17, 1918 Mrs. Richard Ander-on, • .Londesbaro, Ont. Dear Mother,—It is some time since I wrote you a: Innen! although I have been sending you a fleld service card quite frequently to let you know that I had come through the various en- gagements up to that date. I have been spared to see the end of it, and what a' privilege, it is to. have come through all of the happenings of the last eighteen months and without even a wound. Needless, to say, I am bub- bling over with gratitude and the more I reflect on what has *happened; what I have seen and done, and of what the other fellow might have done the more thankful I am. The cam- paign of 1918 has been quite stren- 'nous one in many ways first in com- batting the onslaughts of the Hun dur- ing the later part of March, through- out April,. May arid June and into July. During that time the Canadian Corps was not generally engaged al- though some units on some sector of the front were in touch with the en-. erny all the time. On July 18, Mars- hal Foch turned ortI the common foe after carefully husbanding his men. • He pined the initiative and never kit it, but hammered the Hun first one place and then another but somewhere all the time, so that Fritz could not draw troops from one place to help anather. This was true of the Pales- tine front. and Serbia, where a very heavy drive in September forced Bul- garia to . give way. ;That broke the Hun chain of resistance and as no chain is stronger than its' weakest link, the whole line' bee= to show I • signs of weakeninganddrive after drive took place, ending for us on November lith, whennve marched: into Mons, where the Imperial soldiersfirst got in to touch with }the Irina hordes in 1914, , The 49th Was the Arst bat- talion to- get into Mo although an- other batalion of our brigade had been fighting close to t or .sentet hours. O Ir greeting by the civilians; was. in- deed a warm-hearted one. So was, our reception the othervillages which we took diceigethe Ese.ault Canal from near Vale e $ - ineeterMens, especially . I 7 • •/ • t 0 Satan towna ad:Mlle* gun p penetnate were the first Otitis_ - soldiers 'wit people had seen for four years and -when tom told that we Were they were very intere into which our • trill was the had told them_Ve were devlt to flgbt. Whey - " looked us overfrom head to foot -.and marvelled at our leather coats. 'Every soldier hifs,4Siie clueing cold weather; at our 'good beats our. rubber sheets us told s how' Fritz had neither rubber nor leather. Indeed he is so - hungry ter leather thathe cuts the seats' and bacics front lovely furniture in the beautiful chateaus and man- sions of such eities at Amin and Val- enciennes. They kissed us alid brought their children to be kissed, they gave • us beer, effinci coffee, and one fine farhily of Belgian peopne pinned five 1 - bouquets of chrysanthemums on us and gave us some fine big -canes to eat. They hung areund us as if we had. t• . dropped from the clouds. genie get our autograph nn cushion tope beside those of some -4914 soldiers .who pats - ed through here. ; In one village tlte people strewed the street with flowers for the soldie to :walk over. The haz a lenge number s and cities since the 1918, and thee freed n inane.fed' ;They also - til other relief clluld - • Northern Praneei • very fine settions of re both quite towebni mg only, a fent feet above neaeleven but Are very rich in soil al lots of moistureealthou h the sebsoi is quite -sandy. There* is not a stone' to be square blocks which Fine big row of pop- e beecb, line the roads, are perfect, gardens. • maant .of vegetable en 1 I hone never seen i -rots, beet, sprouts, artichokes, or cabbages. I saw one field of cabbages which I an mire contained over 100 acres and many of the heads were 15 Or 16 inches in di- ameter. It mut have broken old ve to leave all those e had /nose .of the d removed to Ger- ' ledhim so hard that threshing mac ,Innes . Canadian Cor of villages, te 8th of August, thotzearids of i those: people u be sent tiler and Belgium a country. They $ . found -except. th pave the roads. tar, elm, .oak or whiie the nleds A treinendeue are prodeced an finer turnips, c Frites heart to h things behind. grain :threshed a manytiblit we bus he leftimany of hi behind. In one town I saw seven, or eight Separators all lined upi At we hustled him more andemore he was forced to leave more behind and in one place I saw,a whole threshing outfit, engine, separator, 1 water tank and A stack half threshed. When he stunted to back out of France he took ever/pee thing with him, not even a pigeon: er hen remained, unless kept by stealth, hat .as we carried} OD neither, we gan seeing flocks I -of sheep, lots of cows, some 'horses and I won't forget the first time weiheard a rooster crow in this war -stricken area. Fritz WAS getting so scarce of horses that as he, moved backwards he wound onTv have two pulling a gun but helped on by about 20 square -heads, so the pee - Ole tell nneentetent prised to see o fat well groom& or cavalry hones; six on a gun; on a wagon and k s on spares led a- long. Our guns haenniered his roads in the back areas and killed his horses and men as they eveite passing. Now since the . armistice in on the prisoners are beginning to mime back —our prisoners—and they look pretty tough, dressed in any old thing .They 7,7 tell 'us we, don't know hew' badly Fritz is defeated. His nation is Wally ex- hatisted in every way -material, food, men. We hear something about the Canadian corps going to Germany as part of the army of occupation, but it doesn't seem to he settled yet. For my part I'm about tired of, sight-see- ing and ready to hi the ball for Can- ada any time, although I do want to have anether leave in the Britisla Iske - to visit Ireland and see a tittle more of Scotland and England. I -sent you a little Christmas box nester —a . lace apron made here ,hi Mons, ' giuin and hope it reaches you safehr. The Belgian Anent enclosed is a piece presented to me—tied (MO MY, equip- ment the day we marched into Mane. ° We are having quite a nice tinie now, doing just about enough tee in health, that's all. I tin about enough inow. I hone i you •welneso wishing you the en ments of the season, deo I remit, Yours affeetionatety, ROBERT Re ANDERSON CitiltMA,RTY Notes—Mrs i 1 D... lifeKellar was called to Brussels last week to nurie her daughter who was sick with the flu, At last cellulite -she was i nM proving -nicely. Miss Atrargaret W iie ' son visited at home of her bro- ther, MT . George Wilson, darting the Christmas holideyee-Mr. Doenld Gil- lespie of Dakot , is at preterit visit - n ! g relatives in he village and neigh- borhooc1.-}e-Mits Esther .Moore who - ' spent the summ e in the West returnedt- heme last week. -1 --Miss Mae Heggarth of London, is steentling- the holiday under the parental roof, 10 MANLEY • December We ding.—One largest wedding held for yeara place at the home ef Mr. Henry mann, when his only daughter,' was united in marriage to Mt. Calley, a prosperous young ft Logan township: It The eeremo •performed by Rev. Mr. Wig the Lutheran aurae Brodhag sumptuous repast was prepared whieh lasted from 5,to 9 pm The ,presents. were nutnero.tte andiozottly showing the' esteem in which the bride Was -held. She -"held the position .of orgardst in the Evangelical church here for a. number of years and as a choir, was hard to surpass. Her friends wish for her a smooth j deem the stream of life. Notes.—Miss Ellie Duffy misfortune to have her arm b -Master John Drstel, who with Mr. JaMes Marten -1 ears Past, lupe., -ii Tore Meeting t as to enheti or not. Th