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The 014 SoMmA Front X 'd Vth' W �Wad_ecl In quite an, Fort MM Next moral -A we 'ere ch. in tile Amie4gi Down Amians Way heded out the lap,aume ed kimm.9 and lov a auld Due 'A $1 �41 P4 thwe W re given lun to, the crowd, ..++.ina tUPAQ4, no�,Ijqaa pest Tara Hill an down a eat tion and it w m to the otirlageling viuvkF,,e and tq eratch tk -Ow this seered 'Oftes"a hip we is faces of the women pligrimA the 13011 to vl� able to talie' pa 't t a t life. par,400 AXI a$, f La Boleselle. The great of like xeate a4e And Up; note,, m_ 4b w M P� 0141 W0 J ap the differeat courses appea, -ad
�PUTiA`g'tUQ,JpeciaIlj when long corlictrew r, loraves* ad is now a tbeL bac empallbrariC6, it seemed �q Ug.b_t. of I UUaA tv t % babits. ma",.y" eet lao�� a be party was tha,' 7 sl er, mounced arrival of )K 'lm he& -Jal bee�Ibu �:P: WQ90", is priv bome. Entering re- .Jug. F dwaimd Ut ea
are, ate Or , " ea., With our *Meial of brep& that reached copltely or yard hatted wltii P#Uials 'an eadt, guide. cros, t 6 te At- builb Pozierea the Tank Memoal 4p- who 0 1 d 00-v,06d Wh ble were brought In, Carnbral and Arras I . - j - � - �' Iem 6 ry. it p , Th&ir Othi#g, eX q ,r -Y the blind and 4 ., � ni ., , the right aricl the Australiau nutiful weather ter lunh w ofs of bqfore moving to beautiful, be- were detailed to busses Pears Nex iWitif A
actrning,, after the 140vitable la and ro4ed to -the particular cemeteries Memorial on ill q4, the pe Pe nou -a leMT The rO ad d o' ; It succes or xPoes. 444 ce" re he spoho me 'Ooblpeil tow ple hay 93 I � P'�p a usqC e 0,4, -a, QA llhe north, bOre gra, t bat we wished- to visit. Fi�rst we COurcellette show' 'from the 61vt tho,l3apau;n Ut 5, ve, it is a; ;tn( 0 Roa& again, b tiAc teats. to' kv: gad Jokigly -told, -us Ot Ing, I, 4 emor- t valor she awey- in 1. which has -uellt straight On 0 at* to'blame the we4thVr on irai- 4 had. 4wme from Loudwn 444 that her the dlgt�ance. a the Cathedim main road and the 0anachan M k the, bo'dyi it t J'drov' -1 ge, proper, but time. , , -it' 9 1 been full moi tre, forma a soft mass.. I �aigbt of luad)'faded 73 y restored, but like miny ial is 4vt in the vil Nothipeof importance was passed till sho Sent all 8cU'rry;.' Only oue of the misoling, * whose CLOU wer At. e 6ut on the Ill old world structunas it ist so hedged 'On te,north side of he Vapaume son Wa4, d qleAnses the system, AUrB we wer the (3opalmdu-Nord, whi0h is 9411 dry i.,g to shelter a few 'm pain appeas. on, id -W, Memorial, E.bi su�irorundiiig buildings tha have been, planted and un , ;epaired. In contrast, the can- week. If not 44.
aday arrived Wirth a light t it Is .Road. * New trees guaranteed. Try'it a
rbed of the along the main roads- and everywhere Back To Belgium that be had, COae" Over anl on satisfactoO,. our money will be tlb,'t distu the surface Of difficult to see the real beauty al at Canbrat was teaming with.. traf- , I anniversary of 'his death ever to the'ground is fully cultiviate& Apart fice. OW. uhrai I$ tully,.pestored and The g&Tden a�nty. ended the official the refunded by t1q Kellogg Company. -.p -4 the boat began to, di p Business appeared architei art of the to r in England, but a §ince the Memorial had been com Just eat two tablesp to lobi a. bit be brisk in the city and sidewalk from'Regina. Trench Cemetery appear- shrapasi,,soarred wall119 are the on -IV P u e erowd'mo -across Death the very interesting portion of te pilgrim- pleted. GradUallyt. th red a- Stubborn cases may
I-and.Otbers t00% on- a slekw cates were ding a ruslng bus' ng on, ti�iie x1sing ground reminders o Leaving f the wair ay, $01fte, to return again. and -again, BRAN Oftener.' Serve Heading north from aPp�lam in c our, .route a few ag h tinge and it'wasuft ne, es Amielis, our Valley, no sign of war - w e yet r6 Qqv at -invited all Who cared. in, drawn by some. irresistable force to or eb at . _elir ity, we retraced olc I ' to a ious reeipes�
captain, to tell them wh way 'led through unfamAlia roa�s to that stor, so tvightful in the fall'of mil, Burlon ainment hadL oher.
es ',then turned north o
th shriple ceremony that has become What an'improv They did'it anyway. A chilrell Frarivillers, where. we mad pped and 1VtuPR to Frane, a the -expense of at
e our fi rst 19:16. We continued on through Le -1 ind' drugs. ALL-BPAX is a foid—. here, our convoy Mt the French Governin 'r. ty British qpmet -was. arranged on deck, end &top at Oon �ry and Sars, where'ttliet'higher bank on the ent- nd enjoy 5 tomeL�n, scomuh, in -the ally. routine i
we, were giveq a, chance to cr,= iz a bui it at the grocery atom, ad to. leave quite had our first view of be beauty of left of the road marked the- spot Sys ightseeing In. Paris and -the -of life in.the Salient, and others like YO, several, b hill on the -edge -of the wod to he t ,*aqe by Kellogg,in London.' long with others, were hurt bably, never to, return, u service was well all over where 1, a Caadrian Memorial which Xe. c4teau country arpund about. Man MYGOf PrO thefe, Silent Cities scattered W�mo`ry long to forget the laiteUded. Canon Scott. War. the speak. the old Western Fro=t. ' Coutay Gain- when, the roof olf the ressing sta- ly,setting and commands a view back of the pilgrims, especjally the wo- w Ith 'a and his. remiiscences were much.. etery was begun by Casualty Clearing tiOn we were conructing caved in, Who all, wanted to see Patie'tok souludl of the Last Post as, you hear it over Inchy-en-Artols and Sains-lez- men . - grounds.. The lake is read. grawn-a" �tloft. at. the Menin Gate. Re
by all. Stations during the 1916 Somme Of- owing-bo.lack of timbaring. Next we Marquiii. The view is well worth the advantage of the, French invit t " It did go years ago. During the. following days, fficial fenslv� and, over 460 of its beadistones pase,,odt the famous Biitte de Warlen- . 1, but again but I dild not gG.-. Although,I had been As I had bad. very ittl to eat since looks jus the village I stmqk cumb up. the t6rilacedl hil t the turni 9 to
gr . o . ups were arranged and COTPiPtaftV are marked with the Maple Leaf. S!t- coupt, tlat mound, of earth, that chappr one of th6 very few veterans who -had an early'breakfast I proceeded o church and, by' the old =0 I th4 ground t .
-he fields cover al '6rdere dinner in Pas 'the Id ication buttons were issued and nated in well aWay ad -hands so often during the letter had, a glimpse at the old Amiens main square and I ilitsry cemeterie ards a quiet valley, bh=ardFj the Canal du Nbrd. Com- new m tanic.. As
the pilgrims"shook themselves Intel from tbvm, or yillage, one. could bard- MDUtl!19 Of the Somme offensive, and -from the Memorial I en- front, I was'disappointed at not see- thlI Splendid a -lid Bri ou-P told front billeti."'bil wUs.'dIs4P- tlet.'seelal groups. Deck games were ly'imgin a in , ore peaceful setting for on in -to rebuilt Bapaunne, where we ing dwayl InIg Bel ium, and, feeling that I I sat there Wing I do, not rl�cctllect_ " nt,,d in not finding them. New ountered civilians stiil�jiving in old .9
enjoyed, but our boat was especiall turned rorth'to Arras. y ones that oaulda't go back home satisfie1 with- a time.when such, conflicting emotions POI irely iffer�nt design Iy a cemetery. Nissen Ruts, the onl butildings of nt army I raced, hrough my mind.. It seemed Rich harvest fieldlk covered) the alient, een, h4y b built near their. locatiou. lacking in organized entertainmeA�. Reading south- we. passed through r saw in France still used as actual out having's look at.tbe S -t we used to, race for Ypres aft4 like yesterdE Many of the crew were musical and whole of the old Somme attlefield has "be n re- purchased 1. ttidket Ly tha The location of the Old dump Aear o our next stop dW61.1111is. ribe village a across that same square betwe Corbie and Fouilloy t while most of he. p.11grt wippa. ap an the Hllebast Farm where we made the implomptus ing-songs, in -many parts iit'Vilers-Bretourneux Military Ceme- ando.,elgris of war were evident but built "Oh! ... the original 'which, made it a thiaeus the plan, with, gut dined In Paris, I spent three days, e -of, the -s-bAp were enjoyed by passen- tery. Unlike Ooritay_this cemetery is t,h,e occasional feaced-off area in a ters 0 streets. and narrow side place, clay and night, and, r6y memory A frm a for Poyyl LEM6 wasveasily -w, and stretch Wag a deep ' depression 'wO)nl ering about the Salient,on foot, located and' the' course of the light ge. and crew alike.:' The'clima of long and narro es from field' cOn't walks raised a few inches above the . d rok- brought back, vividly those. awful old, dugout had cav- going where fancy till me and
the" �eniertalument came with the fare- the -road up a gently rising bill.fr ailway to Ridge 'ould be eas� cm showed where an cbblestone pavelments. my on the pian.k. roads and' duk- ' C well dimnerandthe masquerad'dane the top of w.hdch you can view the ed in and grass -covered, depressions Ing around ur old; haunts to ily trabe;dl._1 walked up the old fam- Utom, Burlson, we crossed to the Ar- walks up ahead' *the battered bodies ich- proved�very amusing. The var- -whol, horizon and look down in to in,the terraces, indliated the location hewt's content wh-' ras-Clambrat road and turnedi towards > illar road to Vierstrant. Two - war
I got caught In the August Bank Of poor Mul4el -and Smith, whose
cemeteries lie on the right side of that- -tons costumes were limited only by,Xmiens ix miles -away. It was on of Old gun pitRhd, shelters. The Son! Passing through Mairquio I the creet of the ridge me villages have a,pparerdtly ).>ftn rras- Station,, graves I thad just visll6ii, the rows road and near the presence of ladies -on board, and this hill that the Australians stopped re- Engineer'& Bridge had Holiday [crowd- at Vitoria It 'So. be pened, that Mr. and Mrs. the German advance . in April 1918 built on the.' same locations and i notecl that the which rivalled any jam I" ever saw. Of wounded, orD streteliers.behi , the is 0 of the U Demarcation Stone&
in been' r.eplaced by'a. modern one.. We. headed pill -box dressing stAtions, and. the D110,11fte and Dr. Dafoe won the first and was also their jilmpting-.i local' the aiMe, style Of architecture. Pass- passed,the 1)u6,CaV1ad1au Memorial, All, of London seemed, to be which stretch across France and, Bel- -end,. From mutilated horses and mulei we had gium to mark the furtherest advance t�i large doors in, the high walls 'for. sea. coast the week T.T, es. ity for the August Sth, advance and i1lg I e to remove from the -plank road. All of the eftemy.. Tui,ad-rig to t�be left at
1z which.la not at Dury but on. the. ft,orth
sturally, with such 'a crowd on 7 -as been choseA as the site of their impsst of the old familiar N onto gets gl si� of the ArnesCambrai read and is Dover we &Dssed.the channel -to Cal- the�"_ recolle(ctions Were_ intensinflli sL t the top Of the ridge. I *a1ked past
UTle iles ' with Its pigs, goats, identical with, the' 0ourcelette Qis in eUl hour and 10' Minute of the , e bcard,, a certain amount cf grumbling National Memorial. Men were', busy man and dogs aill parked DurI&Ikernotrials except for the word- Calais the, French porters owkrin Jsc�atisfacton was voiced, (main- digging the foundation for it while chickens and before d by the impressiveness several new farms to Ridge Wood and d g.rabbing every mony I ha just witnessed, while all
ly over accornmadiAtin), but on- te we were there. Although mainly an tLe f:ont door f he thouse and the i in -to the ship and and walking dovm.,a Path thrOughthe ing.. The field we were blllt��&`In as . r with round -me happy people were enjoy-' wood came to Ridge Wood Cemetery. Whole the bernavior of the pilgrims Australian cemetery, many-. Isolated same old odtars great the -nostrils, Old El Battalion near the aimuntion dump piece of baggagein, sight,.ran of) ening meal and Many- othT It lies In p- all lit hollow between the was excellent and, many did their best graves have been. brought in frDln all NiEsen Ruts or portions Of them are 'with it, then stood by till the owner came ing,tbeir ev .9 used for. Mtbousps or.slielters, for an- at Vis�en-Artois was ;covered were. drin4king at tables c6nvei- Wood and opeiv 'fields and commands to amuse their fellow travellers�. One over the Amies area an it now con- standing and f rom the hill, the and claimed -it, hen, the argument ers
Chp h . eld a P. T. class . on deck at 9 tains 263 Canadian �-graves, amongst wood piles and ruting cor- , grain Cvnj�,lps began in earnest. The�money ently arranged u the wide sidewalk. a view back over. Pichenusch and twin white shalfts.pf t Vimy Mem- In the square a band' played and peo- cac7_, ma_'Lni�ag -that drew large which is my lyrother-it-law, who dedi rugateAroft is, everywherd in evi- could be' .. plairtily seen. in the, we used has been replaced by entire- Hen:lfticl Hill. I diad no difficulty in
-rry-go,rounill and thew c7;, C4_nce, avd id, sorew stakes axe still ly diff erent voins and the'low value PIG 'lade the me locating the grtaves of our first casual- goodly number of re. of wounds received on August 10th�, liollow behind the villge is t ,he large r prizes and y6ung men and
crults. It was pathetic to ee how wbile sarving withrthe 47th Battalion. used flor'feaei posts. One ente s per daris fo ties, Side by," side in row 3E, lie 16 - W15- Vjsen�.Atorst memorial to the rraldens Who knew, no war Paraded civilian life had slowed up the ab,"I- Leaving the cemetery we-'pa.ssed irg brick and ile manufacturer near missing in' the a -zea. The high sore coins.to be discarded. I took in arm and made the evening 504127 Sergi. W. - D. Milligan, Aug. ity to 110n the,hands, etc., ad through Eaparne bas all bis rows of dr ng of libe, church in Monchy-le-Preux can Brussels express as,far as Hazebrduk, a*m 28, 1916.; 3276 I�-Cpl. J. Greer, Sept Villers-Breltonnaux Village yi rence of miftY Old ad alocig tbq I old August Sth front to brjcksr,she'�tereil by stalvaged elephant merry with* their laughtr. 9, 1§16, and -.504365 SPI�- M099Y, the pTes-ent circunife be seen. for miles, and yellow grain then changed, t9l local train that . , I I 3n Slept. '9, 1916. Ridge Wood W 411 a
soldiers sadly retarded their move- bur next stop at Hanard Communal i'-1 euported by wooden post&. The fiel-Cls covered Telegraph. Hill. Enter- ca,7�ried me -to Ypres. Belgium looks Passchendaele were'there. tangled mess Of second growth treesi.
ments, Parades were the order of Cemetery, which is built alon M, Ot g side of 'chief reted improvement is in ti!ie Ar e,,n the flags and &]�- just 'as it did when, we I had -a good look at the fine stores tug ed the day,, and seldom a Mlnutf,� passed 'the- French civilian cemetery -on. the water -supply. Bach village now sports videmce showed. that the Low lying, well, cultivatedfiels, num- d I walked through hop 117elds to er, ch around the square before retiring, sn' Without a lint-,uP for some trifle or aouthern putskirtry of the straggli a concrete water- stGrage tank and a I villages with their promintent ard was awakend next morning by the Brasserie, which is now a fi4ou— ng Ity bad given he pilgrims a much erous steel windmd1l. to supply the power c church Vpj-res, occasional itrindlmills ishing estanimet. Across the road.
other. Cook's Agency did a thriving village of - Rangerd, The village beiter wel-clome than- someof the ob-h- a tb-e carallon. playing hymns� aftd look- from it is the DIZenwalle or the P- -et& er,citiets.-Arms itself showi; no signs s, and Cassel, irig ut into, the . sunlit square, saw a busi�ss n heard sell1ing tick�lts for sti ,as� along the low swampy Poll Pumping. waving their long rn all over t.be old -a and 0. communication trench, so con- of War, andi the busy shops, and'side- Mont.de Cats and Kernmel Hill still 00iintry. ground- ' tb It had to, be crossed in the Vimy Ridge try religious procession, passing. After -We, had more women than, men on -early morning of August Sth, and a, passing thr k cafeit iade oneAbInk they Were the main landmarks of this coun - titued d1own the main. road.to Vier Stumps 4 'of _,ugh Arras we headed wal breakfast I caught the Passeliendwele, our ship, most of whom were on their part from tree.% in, the out the Lens Road past Ral-cicourt, near thei,:. Mediterraneon instead of side., From 'the train Poperingghe looks' bus and. passed through the Menin, --treat, and . much,, to my delight, found ame but. the large trees, that the old. willow stumps that% marked Way, to visit the grave of father, son, swamp which have. sprouted new to tbe Thelus cross road, tres�ted 'Gate and out the Zonn*beke Road� Wi� 3 where the: Nort-bgra. Fmndi�, We were n d -began ff''thin . the beiinnin-Of Poppy Lane,* ad. the husband or brother. Several couples lim-ba, ito signs� of wa can be'detect- ATtillery Monument still standg, and to a public dinner and then trans 'I e the main road 1. time re- passed, several cemeteries and mem- eral direction of'11ie- Old trench were taking qWte small children a- ed.' From tilils' cemetery we moved a little way beyond turnedtleft on the ferredto our same trains -at the madn cut soon*after, and by th-a orial as we spe out through Zonne- long, 'We hadi�our share Of notables back and upward,% -a half Mile, to Han- new maple -lined Toad which leads to railw . iyatation and at 2 p.m. headed. built I V . lamer . tinghewas reached. they belie and Broodseinde to rebuilt could be easily traced, and is I stood, ased to exist The asylmbla, been p there looking down in -to the yWley on board, including �Canon Scott; Dr. gard Wood Brit%h Cemetery. This the, Vimy Me Ips were asochendaele. The Canadian Mem. -des for Le, Havre, where our sh morial. From all &I Fal -11s; wb000k part in, the unvelling is a quiet little- frofif line cemete.,-y bus)Oad after busload f.plig,rims and awaiting to take uro to England. rebuilt and the badly destroyed, por- orial I& at Crest Farm, somewhat wher&,the old-fron-t line was located, ceremony; Mrs, Woods, who lost"five lying between Hangard Wood and thousands, of civilians: crowded' the To. the vel:6�arrs it seemet! Ahat tiOns of the roads reaved with con' west of the village, and is uniform I could not but, wonder ow the let us. sOns in the Gr6at War; Gregory Clark, broad wheat fields and contains the roaa'k-nd all crate. come out of it alive, so excellentwaii progress tb# last few miles something . was lacking, as we With those at Courcelatte, Burlon and
feature writer - for Th Toronto Star; graves of these killed the morning of Ypres and Memories 'his view from the high ground, around s'lw. While we waited f�;i the would, bave'been delighted to get out Dury., I was. anxious to,s:ee what that
Mrs. Hancock, s;ster f Mr. Alward, the big advance. ceremany to begin, we had time to and. hunt around for old familiar plac- As one leaves tile train at the tem- trac,t of 1, nd 76ng in. the hollow be- Wy.tschaete: The din we made ham-. 2� C1 -itw3i'-i56 - A� who deslgD0 th Viy blemorial; Gentelles V�oadt looked. quite. close tnspect the trenches blav,'Aa been es., 'but to. the ite-latives who had, at- peromy station, You step i,ztO iL lovely hind P-Asach-anael Ridge looks lik, the father, mother and, siaterof Pipr as we moved orn to Domart and turn- ectol in concrete, and, to,go, down teoded tb* of" the Memo . ria Low, . and found it to be a fully cult!- flames, Could be heard Iforilles, and mvelling I pa,f&k of, floWera and �dirus bordered Jas. Richardson who won the V. C. led up the Amiens-Roye road. All the into Vie. famous Gnang Tunnel; wh by watchinghe progress- of the work leb end visited. the, particular gmves. tey n three llis by large. new hotels vated area, �rich.with barvest.aud no could, tell exactly where We, Would be foripng t4,ti i6tlh Battalion, ver the large, trees have been removed and ' had conie to ee, the solorn in France and stres. I bad, to go direct to the visible signs of,the, unhealthy' morass has been light -ad, by electricity and every night. This sam thoughjt strue$:. top at Regina Trench; Eaton's Santa both ides the road-' planted Ndth many warNsouvenirs. It gave was plem-ty Igong enough an to us Cloth Hall to get my bearings. �ind that exIsted there in the fall of 1917. me also' at. the Smme, Vimy and Clausi and. many others. - Can Scott new trees which now have tops, about 0�e a queer, keeling to walk again along who had ridden all tailev miles 1 REtra hig MY route on foot; I entered Passhendaele, is at all places -he ap- appeared to thorouibly enjoy himself 12 feet in dahmeter and give, tile road a from there I first hnted up our old 6 t Cemetery, . th these long, damp, chalk -walled pas- buses r,ot overblieseed- with springs, billets. in the Powder Magazine and qc�-fta, Oct e iargest-QBri- peared to have thadropr on. -us, from an 4�ould be found in, all parts f the a., very uniform appearancL' as' it sages: but most of us were dliaxp- over cobble� statae roads, we w re glal,4 found " them In- the process f being tish., Military, Cemeterk in the wGNd. e ai higher ground. It was getting late ship chatting with "His Boys," as he stretches ov&r the ootintryside pointed in the Ridge. At tfils; late enough to get, back into the I in. tern down. About one-quarter still re. The Cress, of Sacrifice is built on.top b rolling called them. Cameras Were ever ut I continue on to Kemmel, and Y- as fa as one cant see. We c ntined, date it is next to impczAble to find Blighty and, a Reunion maie standing, showing the thick- of -a German pill -box and the, brass half Way I was attracted by, a fine,
"ere, afidhousans, of pictures must on, towards Roye for some distance one's. bearingsz Old" trenche ave The cics&3g -was unevettful and ness. of the ariche:1 masonery roof plaque statesthat it,was captured by monumen on the side f this roa4 have been ftakan on board. and turned 6ff near Beauval and cross- er to it discovered, it was caved in till they are just hollows as, we Pre-_,aed to diseml)ark at which, withstood s,everal direct hits the Australias, on. Oct. 41- 1917. Two and going Ov 'boxes are inorporated in
As all� became better acquainted ed over to Caix and, Roslepe and icn- -and they -are overgrown with tl rank SoubamPtOn, I was most, surprised: wldle we were there. From there I -other pill -
a memorial to the 30th and Uth Ain- time passedi more Quickly, and on the' tinued on mr-thward to A foUght'ift grass, briars,,bheliberry bushes and to -see Corp. F. L. Lloy f old No. 4 went to Ypres Reservoir. Cemetery the-cemeterry� with their machine gun erican. Divisions. who that
elghth day the "Duchss, of Bedford," apart from the presence of -War ceme- young tnees' t�at are nearly 20 feet sectiill an quickly made myself -over behind the Vail. It is a, beautiful openirtgs still pointing.down. the-sloPes area in) Septpmber and Oct6ber, which left Montreal a day later,. ap- teries no signs, of war exist, and, as high., 014 rusting and rotting � war knpwn,. only to l6arn to our mutual cometery.and the profusion of flowers of -the ridge, �_reimniug all of the en- Later, I learned that tbe German, re- grdilally one over the. miles -of harvest - tarialls..cam be, found.easilly, but it regret that he �hsd been, a passenger and, shrubs nearly hides., the gMye qrmous ,difficulties 4 to heL Q -me in Ma verec captured Ridge Wood, and Kemmell ipast. � The folowing dlay we sighted fields 'it was most difficult, to 'realize is a most unwholesome place to bmuse On 'the sawli boat all the'. wij'ffoln With rittle; � diff lenity. I '10catl -the capture of the ridge. -.On In the spring of 1918 and were finally a semi-
1irance and late that night tied u at that this was ' the same . country ove 2rtound, in,. on,s gun -day. -cothes., -Canatla without ---our ..bappening__to pd the gr IF �lar wall at -the east- side'.6f'the aven cut by the, Americans; inr -th di Harre ibebour. which we �hd'avaed and ha� been The Virny Memorial is away ahead Ifteet till- the last 1011 Ut so s M.M-., land Sergi. R. J. SpInkind took cem the old( front line and is,over on we. wen 'Z, toe orery stery' are inscribed the names of Qff to the wa� Zone so bombed.those nights. in of a ovej�. thii .'d. tim , we a analy of their head stonest. Beside 34,888 missing who fell in-Ifie; Salient (Continued on -Page 7)
'Everyone was astir arly and in� mid-August, 1§18. voliat'we kn,tt as the 3rd Ddvislon made thb,best-of w at we bad, 'and them lie twenty�one men of the old from August 16, 1917, until the end of the early morning light the city look- Half the Virny Pilgrinig, were rela- Wl we he W recalled, all'the names of tj�e old'bz)ys 123rd Pi6neer.-Battallon bo re t ar. ron, about'half way between, Giv ed much.as t had when we landed tives going over to visit solme par- end t ki led ut ght is th& same fateful day Leaving Tyne Cott I struck lout, LONDON and WING
by and Petit Vimy. It 4 right over we coud, and- memy amusing inciden a .1 o ri there on August 11 1916 almost x- ticular grave in France or Belgium c,,. the were brought I* light, ineludlngL the Of Oct. 21, 1917 when. a heavy shell .northesterly 'across Ab�raham edge of the Ridge, where -it South actly twenty years'befDre. Breakfast and that afternon raw groups 4 9imi- begins to drop steeply on the German time he W".crowded by passing am- caught them on'tbe stree't beside our Heights .to he Gravensta;e , cross- was early, and, disembarking on the lar to those in our bus visiting ceme- side. the location, is ideal, and from Munition tTn6ks. from the Mapaurne Sergeant's Mess P.M. I am told that five roads, where) the New Zealand Mem- Wingham .................... ilo5s opposite ilde of the. harbour this time terites all over the old war zone, and it tone gets a wonderful view -out over road into'?pi�-of the drainage,diumpa more died, Of wounds reehir6d from orldl is located. Aei too, rYe, wheat Belgrave ..... ................ . 2.11t
we ivere all in Our placei, in. the w�it-� we witnessed many touching ',scenes the Donal plain.- No silgil of Clucas 014, Soakea "to the neck in filth and the same �h.pliburslt. A Uttle: faii-her ,and sugar beet fields bid all Ing trains, alongside by 8 o7clock amd as mothers, fathers, broilierp, sis-t-ers, 11 ..................... 2.23 or Cyril- communication trenches can iirruPtion,. huff smelling so bedi that away I located the graves of ftlr- W. �grolind and one could only -imagine 'Landes 6-ni 2.30 b4ol ro .......... a few minutes later were -on, Our TaY sons or daughters, beheld, the last be seen,l,iamid harvest fields cover kli he could -had. to walk E Mulbearn and Spr. T. V. G. 81kittl
'the general locati. ................. 3.08 stad it, on of the l IduCk-
to the war zone. r�lstjg place of tl�e loved, one who the Irn- late area like a great patch J�aek'to camp, oil Tam Hill and Te- ;;ii�'we`re both killed by shell fire 94'bdard, tMelist ib-at'led, to t h ront. I
Brucefield ................... 3.27 In Ithe railway. yp;rds at Le Havre bad gone off to war many year's be- �work quilt. To tlie.northi dve a colnplete new issue of cl6th- October .27OZ Leaving the - c6iftatj!�;y. continued fn�- the, s one --plant see OE arne di Kippen ........................ Sias rection to
stood -many frellkht cars. itill beaning fore. I am cnfident that evevy per- the mine shaft of Angres, thit used to -16g. Also the Urne the, bawled McAl- I crossed the city to the Lille;,.Gate the Cla�aadian Memorial at 'Vancouver 11 Hensall ......... 3.41 the label, "40,H.ommes, 8 Che Son, On the Pilgrimage was, sa-tisfied, peep over the inorth.end oUthe Ridge, lister out , ior accidentally firig' off and exqet for the ruing Farm In front of St. Julian, and, vai�x,
peeping a ............... grim.reminders Of our mode of'�rail and, hi the case W elatives, grfttly 3.55
and a solid string of red,brick build- his, rifle wb116 'cleaning it;,and swiiag-,� tpve the rebuilt jail walli; and the it a beautiful inem6�lal in;a lovely North tnaveli iq the war.days. Once clear of comforted by. �the loving care given Ings Btrateh, across the. 6eatre of the Ing his own ram his 'shoulder and eaht -half of the Clotli'Hall, Wl.bdh .:a setting of dwiarf evergreens. This. the de- monument, showing the cillywe were in the beautiful roll- the cemeteries; by the caretakers. picture - as I[Aevin, Lens, Avon. and banging the buti down to ernoliasize being left as a rei(�ider of, A.M. 1 - a heimpted 801- E,etej . ..... ........... ddev resting on revel§ed. arms, 4d Hensall .... ing FrenliPcountryside rich with VK4 are really gardleas'. 'and their ap� X,ericourt� rftege� into one a.nother. his disaproval it went 'off and the v4station, 1, saw no ruins In, Ypres' 60 10AS
harvest and shwing ��Idence Of ov- �Peaftnide is a credit' to the Imarial �Mrtber t, r-gK ........... .... 10.55
the 1 the Ivillages ',;of bullet just missed his h4kh,,and went Well has it been rebuilt. The, tower and Wilth bwed-head a, though brooding Kippen er-abudane. of rilan. AS: the train- War' Graves Commission, OPPY, Parbuff and, Arleux show red through,the telat roof. W ........ 1 11.01 est, half of tIke Clth. Hal ha e been over has fallen y � Judged by Bruceffel*d. .......... -11.09 p v te& �.n at a speed unkrfbwn to n. Rebuilt Albert It was a pleasure to view . again the rebuilt, aod atykautiful Carillon W�ich 3, ................... - -amonot the giolitin fields of grain. many as one; Of triki n ............. I 11.54
chies.. the quaft , rs,* has, been memorials on 6 could view the 61d m- t, ng bunto
war tinav, on, I brick beautiful Engllt4 counryside as ou: or Ou We'
A sudden� shower had fiallei�, and, the CId§er in, long solid rows of redi the Wetern front. R� Lon4esboro .... 12.10 114ar scents, thatehed hay stacks, ome- firStting we noticed as *e approach. buildings mark rebut it La e sp rid recon- Blyth . ........... horsb wakona with two enormoust rear Coultte. -Niew farm buildings li��ve been estab-' w -pe given, a rcusing reception at cathdra E; a the south was th6 Vir- p we Imposing than'the 'structed Langtro ck-Zonnebeke M84 Be�lgrave ...... ........
1 train hurried us on to Ldntdon-wherb in -stalled 'in the tower. The. rebuilt turning along th, le Idly '12.19
ad Albert fr�om 1, more
ar
wheels, lack of fdnc�s, tethered cows 12.30 gin and Ohild nor,slanding perfect- IiAled t the cross Ti6ada below Giv� Waterloo Stdtlon- by' the British Leg-origipal one, &n sple�vdid shops- and I turned off at Kansas * Cross, '.as I Winibia ad: goats and blakberry hed,ges, s(J� I 'r - 1. , . y ere't, 9 isterting with the'slanting y, apd the -two buildirigs near our IOft, W�d taken in chartpred buses to hotels line all sides of the main waip most m .................... IL50 anxious, to Walk a al, that 'Ong fuizy-stenniletreV that remind iiillets'bave been,tebuntl 'our Was, I 9 rays of t -he sun as it broke through old gun,pit ocat,ed Jn, square and I found; accommo tion stretch of road lo S�Tee Farm Dump one f * fancy f eatheTlegged towl. the cludba.k. Before dierk I hur- and appear tb lie just bell th OW la the Abbey Hotel. at the south wid '6f axid�. meals as reasonable in r4ce, an and, found slame to, be a fully cobbled. .,C.N.U., TIME TABLE. Our tfain. appoachd the war zpae rid out to Tar Hill to see, 'it I ument. The' ;DId concrete gun 111POD Westminster. Bridge, and it was great as good a's thse in'Ltondou.;- Ypres -secondary ,road without- the 6lightest fmm-tha stouth and was r6iited,via could, locae. any signs . of our od'along the ObELudere Ro&di %Zv-e b,,,.,,, to walk alongthie-old familiar Stred, was n t6te that week and a tem6r- trace of the pl"king or the d1bbris East A.M, -P,x, railway riangle In Ploadilly and4 Trafalgar Square. The ary bandstand- and travellin midway 'thit 14ne& the - road.111 the fall of 1917. Godetich' ... ...... 16.40 i.t@ Aml Albert, Arras, Lens and, Lille, camp, but athlough I could: judge very removed,; and P c wb6re It was locate,d, it was front.of Viy village looks ver' Maple Leaf 01tib,and'Beaver Hut -were Was installed in the.,ceutre, of the Near Spree� Farm, ' c*w$ Pastured ilodnia' getting off accordLng to I.,,,,e to ..Where thie� had been -allotted billets - gible to detect the exat; spot peaceful. Away to the northeast the mdsnk,, as, iwere the. c�owde, . of 061- square. I foun be Lille Gate bridg. pea Clinton ...... 7.03, 3.06 impos cefully &round, pill box n the On my,6riginal appli-catint I sated ais the hill was all covered with. fresh- slag beeps of the rich coal mining lial soldiers and all the lady friends ea 'Over an from the. top One could 9� Seafrth ............... 7.17 3.1,6 out 511de of thse road; andi'ob) tho -at -1 woulld like- to visit my bTlAber- ly Dublin ...........
th hocked wheat and sugar 'beet ditrict stretch illong the hloriDon. as who used to Can&dA!" to us. look over miles of country out Z111101-porth side f�rmer"�wli6-cuttlng'wheat 7.21� 3.29 in-lawls. grave -in, Villrs'Bretonneux fields, Albert Ilooked very close, and far as tbe,eyL. cla sea. L Many Mit6hell ...... ....... 7.37 9.41
changes ram �be seen stound beke way,
ooking West- I fllowed the tamparts in A field In wbdch a row f pill-bo3oes Milltry Cemetery, accordingly I was the new red roofs gave it 'a much dif- ward, retfilt Neuville aaSt p- Regent nd, 'Ox re6ts, Menin qatF-weii� still close that there.barely seem -
West ford St but AV all the way back to the Mitcheil ........
ferent ppearance than in, 1916. A 1ohdon. lth, ....... 11.19 9.33
wapears very close *hIle, in the distanice still dar old and found them pl,&l1ted wi trees ed- room for the bind-er to go between over ithe valley. to the mortli appears the, towers) of t. Eloy, stand Jul-�'29th was. our. big day in Lon- And made into a pleaE(ant Oark with them. All over the arda new farm Dublin 11.27 9.41
.... .11.43 '9.54 the lainge, many arched Thielyval out as'nobl-6 'i'janatmirk as, -ever. dtow First We weregivon, an address shady walks. Th,6- gap% in the east buildings ihave, been erected, and I Clinton 12.1
Wood lbrokedf lovely and of welome.in historic old Westmn. *all I a e ee 10 Memorial to Britiph MisgIng N�hd ftffl Berthenal h v b n repaired inld,�he old found WIltj& and St.,.Te= ant rely re- 2 10.09 Odderich i2.22 iOJ4 in that ff.eetor landi'baVe, no known green, and to the, Vorthest the vil- stei Hall by Prie,,nakpr Baldwin,, then. dugGlIts in the *eat sl& filled in. The built, but *ar�,,Plgnsi Iniareasel one as The approximate location of 'lages of, carelicy, khlai, St, Nazalrd formed up outsid16 and, msrchad' t.O ramparts cottinue abo�t a I,OM� fet e,6ara Ypr aj cleftiet ri d. mrft� as e 40S 4F the)b;W Y`�M.C.A. eplee tent was easy ffnil Souhez, can be Plainly seen and the Cenotaph, here. the Bishop of Oak AT-6nin Ga
Ite, tnen come to an Orialg qreverywhere to be sben.. The CJ?.R,, TIME, TABLE to determier_ but ,the Daailime i-oad through field, glasses -the ruined church Lon -don conducted a Memorial Ser. abrupt end where the canal begiLus. city Was all astir as the blld�*&y itug- East ,has been. tranbitormed Into' a fully at AbdbAd looks just as it id When vice. All traffic was dilverted avd, The Canal apy.eat:§ 'to bbme been re. ment6d. by the gubday' -crowd gave it avedl, Without. thd'-s-Ilghtest' We ere there, and above. it an the Iiaft of the Xm�irels palred but 1810117,10t filinto dis,0916 as the a-poearanco -of a fair 4y. I spent Goderich p Lo�r� theno in J
bridges -have been thr;own across, at sevem-1 houisr In the. War Mu#,eu' ............ 4.20 the old, mud, war ieckage ette Ridge, riss the oble ]French 0aipital scarcely a sbuiffl,' could, � be. M Menset ..................... 4.24
Atreched between Memorial whostaevolving thirty thou-,,heiard during, the solebih, silenc et- interyala with, no thought of dralb. tbiatevening. It'!$ �dwhed by'former Mcdx* ............. 4 ........ built
eeage, and, tber - Imprisoned. wAter !has English 6ftid4rand, contains thusunid Atibur .... 4.4% band 0adlepower light can' b seen cept the duil boom$ftg� of Bi Ban it ..............
lb46601114 stagnant and foul. smeffin.g. 'Of war out' 61cl camo amd the city. for many miles. l everi direction. -. Which, -although. battlefields, of.. rB -savaged fr61A gie Blyfh ............... 4.52 fbo� Albert, I took a short Our Vlmy Membtial. Is a beautiful' peared to be �po_tftctly tined to strike Tram �Ibfes - have beb-ni relaid indi mln. he Salient and haft- ........... 'S.05 -tied , to 'Wonu lature, tri -Ins, an�d, troll"a rufi but f drads of p6sterg and Other kbrtfelbe- MeNaught. m6nt, 1huoh. Ulder than t�he'pj,re -5.16 th, city an, fa, 12 betwasto the,settioding -of the Last seb a ruffid building, so ell has # tuj�69 2.9 the, 0meta ftils o brin& out Polsf'a4id n6V611e.- 'Pollowing the lerj;. the city In 9,11 directions.. relative to. the ari makiijklt <Me of 1�6f'ol%D ..................... 9.00
ih6 rielit beauty of the, toe,. It is vice we w e led W'� the ban r had Just hoA- time to Inspiect tih� tho, Stitefit colleoti6tw In, West
been ebuilt, er d of the bu -at- m�at&ad through Oa* Mtdb6ritl , to In Albert, we h6d, billets both� g9.6d large I t. flial pfetfactly Iqhto Its kk *0114arful iMeblft, A00'Uhd 'Olt
412id poor and con&avy to be diswlas� ilt, Em- I t'66lt to Tronto lopAper Wig� The eathivit" *99� kitid., and Ho�so Guards Av&h,to anoifting ioports, -the effizeni"PrAd no virticu- the dodiaildit'- sertle6, Vag Simple but Old in, the J401*6"ati6fasp PlPe *bro fell I eI"A' the 'Sall � "di A., D16k6buath ind, foubdr it loolang ex-, Maaught .............
i "I r W6.sa It, - .'
1914, to a 1,6 19 �Idr attettloft. to us, -We were ofamply 'tn�&A Iresse10111grfiAg -*&4 timax^ Oil the &Y4 lattlVitled, -'Was 'the In 1010 djfb4pt Wdlfbn aasdiertem6hy. b ghbtheb� vlaftor6 similar to lined-ito Id, of the, f6hi� it 91i6i 14 den Ite0alr6d, I BI th ................
out;.thle id 'been '.havift eveSo, 69 (,area Voktw th6 u6inwil, the A A lftg�W,6 Itiat6d 4tWrdbig M O, ............. 12. - oon, the *#11ar*. h to� ah, ........ Iqob&t,i the aet 4 khdk1'betef6 n)kto a. Won. Duebeh wety, ,yeary thlb at Laird W A6 I Uth d I'' fid lo& 1A Y& Aftig Okbl' 4,94t, Ahig, EdWsdr dld,iia a af� AtW on the, to eib!,.Wand-hV great, hd#6r fix Opdfiig lovw, to Prance d Mid plibif- ni 9,90 and, 0 edfd& 12.44 491i i h hA'd W6'4 !:I,, A,. I