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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-09-12, Page 701. SURRENDER OF HAM AND CHOP It inee within -the Oita twee, who would be in clatle 1, by men PhYsieally diequelitied or uniagee WA A BITTER pia To ,THE Hutt .nr...vi,c,chah. Chrang, former Vice -Prose Ant- of the P.Ivy Council, has been elects!' President of the Ohineee Re- Intblie been. 'large majority. Yesterday's Gains Meant End of His Retreat Plans, Paris, Cable.—The Allied troope are continuing to keep the Germans On tile TIM end as a result of yester- day's operations have pushed them back to the positions they 000uple4 on March ielst, When the first leg enemy offensive of the year was launca The Germans stilt eujoy a little lea - way in the Vermand region and Oefore St. Quentln, but elsewhere they are extremely dose to it, if not ectually In their old lines. The rupetre of the right band hinge of the German line at Peronne was in awkward blow for the enemy, but as long as the left hand hiuge Iteld on the •Sassons plateau he could play for time by invotting around It, an.1 cling- ing to A temporary line ien the heights between the Oise and tife Somme. Tee moment that General Mengel knocked down the defensive of the Allette, however, that makeshift combinatinn becalms impossible, for the ran:se cf hills on the Oise -Somme front was turned on the side of Chantey and Tregnier. Then the enemy was ob- liged to return immediately to the so- lution of a similar problem adopted by von Hindenburg in the winter of 3917--a retirement to tbe balf-finish- ed canal an the front from St. Quentin to Cambral ,and the line of the Canal du Nord, and he lost no time in exe- cuting his plan, The French progress yesterday in following up the enemy was rapid, 4S - may be seen from the fact that troopa engaged on the Oise at 'tinnily, tut re than six vales aoutheast ot Guts:AO, moved norteeastward to VirY-Noureu- ii, the extreme point reached on the Oise yesterday by the Allies, which accounts for the advance of gm leas - metres mentioued 11 last night's Frencll commul4cation. The eilemy also was obliged to has- ten his retreat in the sector of the ;Somme between Ham and Peri/rine. The Withal Progresse4 southward along the PeronneeHam road towards Athies. At- the same time Cleneral Debeneyei troops, watti had crossed the river at Epenancourt, got a foot- ing on the highway, and finally cap- tured tbe beights of Verennes and Offoy, breaking the line, .A general re- treat in the direction of Vernaand and St. Quentin became inevitable tor the enemy, as dM the abandonment of Ham, which was outflanked on the north and south, the latter by Gen- eral Humbert's advance north et the Oise. The progress realized in the St. Go- bain region south of the river by General Mangin's left had the same consequences for ChaunY. The giving up without a blow of such places as learn and Chauny must have been a bitter pill fbr the Gor- man staff, for it is considered un- likely that their methodical retreat called for the complete abandonment of these two positions, the one of which constituted a bridgehead on the reverse side Of the St. Gobain range of bills, and the other stood as an out- er defence of St, Quentin. Turkey hes sent a not to Bertha protesting against imeelementary Brea -Litovsk treaties Interlaue to Turkish interestin the Caucasus, Notice Is givea that Rodolphe Bole - (Irene, Toronto, will lenity next sea - Won for a divorce from Rose A.deline Boudreau, 'Montreal. Freight handlers., railway Oinks . azul storemen of the C. P. It. in tlie West wont on strike to enforce recog. , ultimo The use of automobilea in Detroit on Sundase for pleasure riding will . be unlawful after the police, depart- ment are aethorized by the Common Council to act. The condition of Nikoiai Lenin°, the Boisbeviki Premier, against whose life, len attempt was made Met week, is weaker, according to a Rtuislan wire- less despatch. . The German great general staff, which had been Metalled at Spa, Bel - glum, for morethan a year, and one - pied six of the principal buildings in the city, was removed Monday. One officer orisoner taken by the - Canadians produced a dectenent iseued 1 by the German General Staff, de.clar- 'Ing thee no fewer than 52 Canadian divisions had been identified in France, Mater W. A. Bishop, V. 0., D. S, A.. M. 0., the noted Canadiaii airman, has been gazetted a 'lieutenant -colonel, The now steel steamer Wer -Witch was launched at tbe yards of the Col- lingwood Shipbuilding .Company. The . steamer is of standard sire, and a dup- licate of the War Wizard, launched a few weeks ago. Confideretal messages from General Perohing and other reports from France indicate that the American army now is sueplied with eufficient airplanes of kinds to protect its men in battle. The Hole -Proof Hceiery Company has purchased a large site in London, Out., on which to erect a $250,000 Can- adian branch tactory. . The death ot Prince Ferdinand of Solens-Hohensolme-Li th is announced by the German eewspapers. He was killed on the battlefr tat ' Met Sun- day while in command of an infan- try battalion. What will preataibly prove a fatal accident happened at Brantford, when Chas. Armstrong, aged 70 years, lost his balance while repairing a roof on Erie avenue and fell to the sidewalk. Pollee ing out a recommendation from its finance committee. Windsor City Council has agreed to discontinue ,payment of pretiliums on the policies ot some 175 soldiers which were taken out by the city at the beginning of the war. A total of 2.43 inches of ram fell in Ottawa during a period of 20 liours, ending at about 7 par. on Thursday. The greater portion of the downpour occurred during the ten-hour puled from about 2.30 aan., until early In the afternoon. While Mrs. Leyton Goodwill, wife • of the C. P, R. telegraph operator at Nigholson's Siding, near Cbapleau, Ont., went to call her husband to din- ner, their little daughter Mona, aged three and a half years. was so serioug- iy burned that she died shortly after being brought into the Oatmeal at Chapleau. •cial,t110AWOMMEIVA10112111111/25V121116.115133.1147.01301N1611311111:1,•, ossamosaramaitanuausegoafflemems* 1THE UNBOASTING BRITISH 1 114-41-9.4444-4-404,t+.44.4-4-0•40++44-4,4-4 (A. R. 'Carman in Peiledelphia Public .Ledger). We mud not let our delight in the astonishing achievemeuts of our bays, bearing themselvea like veterans on the bloodiest battlefields in history and against the 'nest intensively trained troops ever sent into action, blind us to the other "big things" that 'lave been and are yang done in this tremendous tournament of the nations. Even in our appraise- ment of the great deeds of our 'Antes, we have naturally dwelt chiefly upon the unexpected and the 'orioles bizar- re—the slaying of the aliatim by the daring Davide. We have not stopped to comment .on the solidity of Meet Mange But it is after all on the solidity of the Mont Bianca that we build, We all know the stuff of which Old Eng - laid was made. What she has done. M this war—queetly, unboastiegly Is her wont—has sprprised no one Who knew English character, English gamine and English history. Imeg- liaative writers Imre xnentioned -var- ious moments at which the bluederireg belly of Berlin lost the war and his chance to conquer and enslave the world; but those who take long views of things and recognize the primal forces which have shaped the „destiny of nations since the disintegration of the Roman Empire will agree that the doter of Germany's despotic sembitioe whs gealed on the day that Britain's ceutosillors wheeled that nation into line witb the tones of frceddie. If the Kaiser possessed prescience -or had read. his history, he must have shivered—as tradition says we do if some pne steps on our grave—When he knew for certain that his spies had Iied and that the stubborn, sticeetee-it, 4111- bulldog British had decided to live Or die With the French. The Britten have a bad record or %an Ambitious; depot to faete They broughe of -Spain to his kittens—thee' Wield the power of Leeis; the Greet at France— they arapplee With the rn1i11t Na- nd neYer let gm Bo they entered upon the teat Of hritiging dotexi—to paraphrafte ' lillg--the Beast that walked like e Man, They were tinder obligations to kend some eighty tiaoimand ooldiers to help the ?rehab; The "Kaiser, Measuring their honor by his own, though they Would Perfunctorily and liters -illy redeem this pledge, and let it go at that. Hence his remark about • their "contemptible tittle army." The fact is that Great Britain alone has Sent on land and sea a total of six and a quarter minions. Her Empire etas tickled twoand a quarter millions more to °Geis. Over eight Millions instead of eighty thousand—a hundred id place of one. That is the British way. When we send fifteen millions we will hate done as well—but not till then. England was no more a military nation than America when the war began. Othe learned to fight by fight- • ing—and dying. We are profiting to- day by her tragic experiences. Thou- sands of American lads 'will come home to us alive and whole because thousands of blood -brothers from the British Isles hate been killed and mutilated—and have taught us how to escape. Britain Made her armies. while France and her men navy held the gap, and then she poured them into France and Flanders by the mil- lion to fight back the eruption oi Cave Men that threatened to subnierge What the English have done in thie war its too recent to eeed reeapitithe, tion. They gradually took over greak er and greater sectious of the front. They first fought defensive actions with all the dogged courage for which the British are fantous—then they created that early turn in the tide Which the British are famotts-,then they created that early turn in tec tide Which released the seriee of Al- lied Oftenelves that tinselly seht the Geritaris back to the lAindenburg line —and beyond. They rose to the rank of a full military partner of France— and there is no higher rank, For all this they paid. There le ci hardly a hate in Great Britain whicb does not have Ito uneleited grave le France or Belgium—not a street on Witten the permanently Maimed do not IIMP to uttaccusitomed tasks. And the figures show that the pertentage of eaSualties front the Mother Country exceed the percentage front the Over- seas DetiiiniOng, thus disposing Of one Of the Itileat, meanest, most dastardly Iles of the Whole Wank German pro, Datanda, wliieh charged that the Eng. ihth Were putting their Colonials mid theai Mlle* in the forefront of the battle. Lord NOrtheliffe eatimatest IL S. Seereettry at War Baker has their killed atone at 900.0001 melered the t hief of tub bureau in hie colatributIons mita& the department 10 repiece by Bee. 31 all weetern front have been worthy of a great nation, even if they stood alone. Her navy has kept the seas free for the commerce and the troop transports of the Allied world. It has bottled. up the Germany navy from the first.. Her ships have coal- ed, fed and munitioned the Italians— for a time fed and munitioned the French—brought legions and food supplies from the Seven Seas, We are proud of our own swift ehipe ment of troops to the firing line dere. Ing the days of the soul -staking dan- ger this last summer; but well over half of them went in British bottonas convoyed by Britisb warships. Then where have not the 13ritish fought? The Suez was in danger. It was tlie British' that protested it. There were German natal stations in the Pecifice The British mopped' them up. Russia asked help bet way - of the Dardanelles. The British tried to giye it. Intervention was needed on the Tigris. The Britisk supplied it. The British were at Saloniki. British ships were in the. A.driatic. The Britisb Colonial troops' freed Africa Orem the Germans.- Bata !eh diplomaey steadied the Moslem world when. the Turkish Sultan aud his Shiek-ul-Islam proclaimed it holy war. The British to -day are moving south from Archangel and are at Vladivostok. Britain financed the Allied n'Otiona till we came in to share the titante task, Her industries have elethed, munitioned and supplied them • in' various vital ways. The Germans say that she has "prolonged the, war." By what they mean that she ha e kept. up the fighting spirit of the Allah and supported their Ili -orate, 'The Briten Is a dour fighter, and knows oo end to a struggle •Save victory or death. He stover fights a liMited liabilitY war —he goes in with hie Whole soul, The day that Britain knelt" appeared up, an the battlefields ot France it Wee detente that there (Mind be but one of the tWO end.s, to this contlictoethe collapse of the BrItiell Empire or tit* fine' Waite Of Germany's dream Of world eoligOeet. Bet no Mitt, Fleet the Galati In- telligence Deptirtmetit, has kneter, or ever will know halt of what Britein has clone. When it doilies to belt - laudation the tiritieh are the pooreet advertisers the World hits ever seen. SHORT ITEMS CiF THE NEWS OF THE DAY German Leaders Declare 52 Canadian Divisions Are in France. ME WEAKER Hsu Shih Chang Elected President of Chinese ' Republic. ••••••••••••••••••61.... Contributions to the Sailors' Fund from Ontario amount to $675,636. Liquor la barrels labelled "sauer- kraut" Ohipped into Toronto was seized by the police. Canadian bond holders havg deaded aot to sell Victory bonds until nitea. the next loan is floated, Andrew Routiedge, of Lambeth', 78 Years, of age, was instantly killed by the bursting of a flywheel in a mit- :line shop. A one acre plot at the Ottawa ex- perimental farm has produced 84 bus1i. ale of oats this year, by far the record for oats in the Ottawa. 'district, end the main oat field of the farm beat all past yields with an average of /7 bushels to the acre. Five Ameriathe have been deeorated with British honors for consplemme gallantry in action. The IL Se Senate panted the twelve - million -dollar emergeney agrIcultural appropriation till with its rider for natienal prohibition froM July 1 next Intl' the IL et armies nre enmebilized 'Nee the war. I HALF FLANDERS • U-BOATS ONE British Navy Has Been Do- ing Great Work. in Mu Other Ways Beside This.- teintiOn, Cable,—,A nellther et in- teresting developmente in and aspects at the present naval situation have just boon made 'Available Orem an authoritative Beene. For ono thing, when German sub- marines first appeared off the Ameri- can coast naval experts in Londou formed the oPinionethat the move was merely a feint to draw off American anti-submarine craft from Europeen waters. They argued that it was im- possible tor Germaily to maintain such long-distance operations. However, it Is pointed out, both cruiser eubmar- Ines and minelayers are working far afield and worrying American shhe Ping along the Atlantic coact. . The general tendetcy of the U-boats is now to operate further from the shore—at some points from 200 to 250 miles out. There are no submarines in the Dardanelles, it is revealed, while the movable barrier established by the Allies in the Stralte of Otranto, at the entrance to the Adriatic, is responsible for the diminution of sinitings in the Mediterranean. The losse3 to German submarines in the Adriatic since 1917 ha,v beon 25 per tent. of the total nUnlber operating. The British aro active in the Hell. goland Bight and are carrying out operatione with 'various kinds of light forma lit the North Sea, the average number of stub operations being no less than five daily. The number of Gurnee surface craft destrayed in the Bight during the year runs into three figures, The German short -distance entente. - :tie fleet making ito bases in Belgian ports has been virtually *wiped out. The enemy reinforced the Flanders flotilla with longedistauee sUbMarines, commanded by captains with daring Proclivities, some of whom have dashed through the allied naval Ma- rne. but between the end of March and July the Allies definitely destroy- ed more than GO per cent. ot the flotilla. Shift the Outlitild battle, the Geri man high twee fleet has not been in the North See excePt for some "tip - antigun" •dashes of a few ships. A °WACO 'railer, Mrs. Day, a young Matron, was seated one sprilei morning on the piazza ot her pretty ouberbate tote tage, hulsily engaged In plying her fteedie. A eitat of her husband's Was in her lap. Looking. up from her *work, What her husband appeared in the doorway, the young Woman ex- claimed, somewhat fretfully: "IteallY, Eugene, it is too had, the careless way your tailor put this but- ton on. VIM Is the !sixth time 7Iwo bad to sew it on for you."----liarper`a MorithiY. ••••le 4,11.1 ORB HUNS FOUR TIMES THEIR NUMBER What Canadian Corps Ac- complished On the Pa, mous Switch -Line. ELEVEN DiNONS Smashed, and in Powerful Defences—Force is Resting Now, with ti:o Canadian Forces, Caine.— (By J. P. B. LiveSaY, Canadien Press Correspoudent)—Our patrols report the enemy is holding the Canal du Nord in front of us itt strong fierce, He has very strong machine-gun poste in the wood of QueaneY, on the border of the Sensee River valley, an4 nortb of this valley he holds strong ground. He holds the villages and woods front- ing us across the •Canal du Nord, which, is hero, in some parts, tittY yards across. The enemy has blown up the locks and nearly every bridge. The British troops have crossed the canal further south. Meantime the Canadian corps is having a well earned rest, Some of its units suffered heav- ily from enemy machine-gun fire. Nothing in tbe desperate infantry battle of last Monday was more re- markable than to see the enemy troops streaming away eastward, while down these beaten masses came his picked corps of machine gunners, prepared to sell their lives dearly. The extent and significance of that great victim' when the Canadian corps stormed the famous Queant-Drocourt switch, hith- erto regarded as impregnable, may be beet judged by the fact that the Can- adians and Britieh fighting in this sec- tor met and overwhelmed on that day the elements of no fewer than eleven enemy divisions, including picked troops and divisions brought in fresh from reserve. These elements have been all positively identified, by pris- oners taken from them, antt they may be recapitulated in detail with profit. BATTLE 1N TWO SECTIONS. The battle divided itself materially into two topographical sections, north and south ot the Arras-Cambral road. Chronologically it was regulated into three stages by the prograname pre- paredebeforehand by tho corps cora- mender and his staff. • This pro- gramme, despite heavy losses, was carried out to the letter, and that ac- coMpliment in Mete renders un- necessary further Waist:ea to the, wonderful spirit of the troops en- gaged. Each unit was imbued with the fixed idea that it must be on its objective at the dot, and it was this spirit that wrung victory from the masses andOlespetately fightieg enemy MOM North of the rthiti eer Cele* lone ettlyege4 MOUntered. in the firet etige, tuella?, front the nye tainteeit kickeoff, the Voerth EreAte diVisioni inelenling tee 214th, 362nd mid the 360 Regimente, ell the bettalione of theee bang identified ass 14 adieu, thet morning. Paesina onto the 'teemed ;stage, it encountered the 15th and 91st Regiments et the Second guards reserve division, all theee battalions being identified,. In the third step ewC oyerweeltned all the battalione of the First and Second Guards mane regiments belonging to the Float Mule reserve division, 14 addition to flee there were encountered and beaten on this front, the First and Third Grenadiers, and the Tiara 41 - vision, and. the 43rd Regiment ot the same division. South or 'the Cam- bral road the taste eves no ligliter. In the first stage our troops disposed ef the eneneY's ;Sixteenth Divielou, eluding all the batten= of the 2tith, Geth and tetb. Regiments, as Well AV 103rd Regiment, some attention also being given to the Fifty -Eighth diyis. ion. In the second stage they defeated and Dowsed over the enemy's third re. !serve divisions, including all tbe bat- talions of the 34th Fusilier Regiment and the 49th Reserve Regiment, and all but two battalions of the Secoed Grenadier Regiment, Advancing atter a halt to reorganize for the third and final stage, the melts engaged overthrew the enemy's One Hundred and Eleventh Division, conasting of all the battalions of the 164th and 73r4 Regireente, as well as all but one eif the battalions of the 7Gth Regiment, In addition to these three eivisicns our troops south of the Gambrel road withstood and detailed counter-ete tacks by various enemy elements, identified, from prisoaers captured, as. followe: eist Regiment, 167th Re- giment. 70th Cavalry Divielon, consist- ing ot the 26th Dragoons and 4th and 15t1L Miens, and the 4th Jaegere. A.I- lowing for the weakening of the en- emy divisions, the force opposed was still abcut four times that of the Canaelan troop actually thrown into the assault. The enemy was co - trenched on chceen ground, among fortifications whose construction datee back to the battle of the Marne, and vvhich year by year have been im- proved and strengthened bringing them up to the latest developments of- defeneive waretare. FOUGHT GREAT OMB. Even yet the elopes are dotted with concrete pill -boxes perfectly conegale ed in front, but from the rear expos- ing a maw of reinforcements from within, where a single gunner can hold up a company. Blazing a trail through the jungle of wire, tenks peep by these deadly fortresses* unbeknowe, Ing, leaying them to reserve their deadly fire for our advance infantry. Behind theee are the German trench-. es, and elaborate dugouts, and these yielded their quota of prisoners only after the machine gunners had been silenced. It wail against thole great odds that the indomitable spirit tit the Canadian corps triumphed On Monday last, by far the hardest daa's fighting of the past month. it nmet remain a day of high renown in Can- adian hietory. • it - The world is apt to iaugb in its sleeve when the plumber gets a doe-• tore bill. HAM, GREAT RAIL JUNCTIQN, NOW Ili HANDS or TRENCH Who Have ,Reoccupied Their Old TreRches North of the Aisne German Positions an Chemin-de-Dames Prac- tically 'Untenable Paris, Cable.—The Capture of Couoy-le-Chateau by the French makee the German positions on the"Chemini des -Dames precarious and, practically untenable, according to French mili- tary Officers. With the French Army in France, Cable.—The French have reoccupied all their old trenches along the whole front to the north of the Aisne River and also captured the towns 01 liam and Chantey in the salient southwest of St. Quentin. South of the Aisne the American troops have made further progressi in the region of Villers-eneltrayeres and Revilion. The French advance east of the Canal du Nord at some plates has. reached a depth of more than ten kilometres. At the present rate of progrese the Entente allies. will soon have driven the Germans from all the ground gain- ed by them this year and the offen- sive operatione may • enter a ,new phase. lereneh cavalry Alter passing through Chauny this melting are In the region of VIry-Noureuil and are advancing towards Tergnier, which la 274 milee west of La Fere, • The enemy is retreating all along the Ilam-Guismard lirie with the ut- moat speed. South of the Oise Gen. MangIn's troops are pressing in close to the enemy's lines from which he launch- ed his ;wring Offeneive. In the region of the lower forest of Coucy French troops are within a nnle of that lino at Hill 75 and in front of Emmett. Near, Laffatne Gen. Matigin's men are within four miles of the Martin- des-Dalnes and only about ten milers Preen the citadel of Leon. ° The forest of St. Goraie wide!' fillet- tered the first long ratio gun that shelled the Paris region an 1 wh eh wee the eornerstone of the Hinders. burg position at letaele where ttle line turns to the oeetward along the Chemiteles-Dames, te under the fire Of French gnus over its Whole extent. Ouse south of the River Oise the Germane this morning were still re- sisting at Sineeny, between the river and the lower forest of Coney, with the evident object of gaining farther tinui to Bete their material further BLOTTED OM. London, Cable. ----With the capture of the • important jonetIon towns of Ham and Manny, with their railroads end highroads leading rcapeetively into St. tertantin and Lafere, across the Canal du Nord, they have pene- trated at various points to a -depth of pexeeeding sty miles. The Uttle forest of County, the Weatern Perna of the great wooded sector' cast of Leon, tant has stock the barrier to it "direct advance eastward, has been en- tirely 'taken and across the Ailette River Gen. ManLrin's forces, which hale re -occupied additional points which hate brought them abreast the old German defence line, outflanking the present German line in this region and that north of the Alen% which is now pressing backward toward the Chemin- des-Dames. The old Noyon salient is consequently now virtually blotted out. The latest French official cominuela cation reeerds the fact that the French troops on the north hank of the Aisne have reoccupied all their old trenches and say also that eaet- ward. the Americans have made furth- er progress in the region of Villers -en•-• Prayeres and Revillion, which brings their front appreciably nearer the Aisne and also giveo them a. position whicti dominates the territory south- eastern toward Rheims. Much probably will depend on title dominating position, together With the pressure that the French to the east may bring, in starting a retro- grade movement by the Germane from the Rheims sector. FRENCH TtEPORT. Paris, Cable.—Friday's War Office reports read: Night—"On the whole of the front between the SoMtne and the Aisne the adeance of our troops has not slaelten- ed during the day, in spite of the ef- forts of the Germans to stem it, par- ticularly to the north of the Ailette. "We had Ham and Chenille "To the oast of the Canal du Nord we have brought our front on it tine running past Lanchy, the forest ot IeteiSt. Christopher-SstouillY, east ot Ham; Brouchy, Villeseive, Ugny-le- Gay, Viry, Louroull, and north-east of ChaUrli. "Since yester(1ay our troops have Made progress in Went) places to A depth of ten kilometres. "To. the north of the Allette ete have occupied the ilassee forest ot Couey up to Petit Barises. The Get - Mans were compelled to abandon in the forest materials and considerable munitions depots. "Further to the right we hold the outskirts of Eremite Quiney-Bassee, Listens, west of Vauxaillott and the 'Lathier Farm. "We have reoceupied our old trenches on the whole of the front to - the north of the Aisne. South et the Aisne the Amerielas have made ferthi er progrese in the region of Villeres- en-Praces and Boonton." FRANCO-AMERICAN FORCE AM DRIVING ALONG ON AISNE FRONT •••• 1,11•0•1.". • Advance Resumed To-day— Ally Guns Tearing Holes In Foe Lines. With the American, Army ou the Alene Front, Cable.—(By the Ati- ' soclated Prese)— (Morning).— Aadi- tional forces and supplies were brought up by both the Americans and the Frencb during last piglet, tend early to -day the Frence-Americen line was age:a advanced. a he Allied ar- tillery, of both beavy and email •ealibres is being end to Wee bolo e in the enemy lines, New forces were brought up along • the AlStte to the west of Flames, where the Germans are entrenched along the canal wallet to the river, The big guns behind the Franco -American rine were set in play upon fornation far to the rear, while every eroes-road was subjected Wa punishlui Mee FraecoeAmerican line twain - ilea to close slowly, but with unerring eertainty, about the German, lett flank, that Lad clung to the sector to the west of Mittens. Partieularly de - tenanted reatstancewas displeyee by the enemy remaining at the point le the angle Made by the line Winging upward towards tile Aisne. The .Cier- mans used their artillery late on Frl- day with all Possible vigor, and thelr machine gun crews deteuded the re- treating army point by point. Never- theless, the lines of both the French and the Americana were itevenced ear- ly to -day, Reports brought into headquarters indicate that the Gerroan, divisionin this sector are as certainly bowed for the Aisne as those already armee that river further to the west, but that the foe are determined to exact as big A Pr.e0 as possible before yielding the territory which has already cost them so much to hold. 4+• -*4.*****-.4-•+•-•44 IN TilE•-•-•-t44-."-++.4+÷" London Undergroundl (Christian Sciente Monitor). The railway earriage on the Lon- don Underground was very crowded. As every oue works in these days there were about three times as many passengers as eeats and ithe woman • conductor was unable—such was the acrush—to get near the swInging strap meant for her seat and eeen11 'she could have done so there was not room to sit down, The pressure glued ner to the door and prevented the .exercise et her authority in the diroc- tiott of forcing back the mass of hu - inanity to the centre of the car By her side stood a ger', or rather a ..witerean, of obvious; culture and intelli- ,gence, going 'home from work. "They work yeti pretty hard, don't • they?" she remarked to the girl, while the rest of us listened, as we all do, to a conversation which seems.likely • to become personal, yet does not in- - valve those who listen. "Pretty weil, was the reply. "We don't mind the hours, but it's tiring to have to week ycur day in two shifts of four hours each and then only to get very much less time the men rrho do the same as you." I didn't know I was smiling, and if • I was I'M sure it was only a coinfort- , detmon-committal smile, but . the questioner turnedato me and remarked iirt tithuenrny, tajtly: "I suppose you think • "My deer madam," I rejoined, "I wasn't thinking about it at all." • "Then," said she, "you ought to," and I saw I hate searted her on a tack • to which she was leo stranger. She literally bubbled over with earnestness and words. • "You men"—I know she'd start witb • that designation; a woman always does,when She is indignant—"You men suppose we women are doing just what we have always been longing to do. Look at the crowd of us in this carriage. Wage-earners! All out, I suppose you belieye, for what we get tor it. Rubbish! We are all doing jobs, useful of a sort, I dare say, but none the less jobs which you men consider either as beneath you or of no particular importance. It's the port of work anyone can do with a decent education. e Wants plenty of rarrineltn, do doubt, but not, too • much b Nobody seemed inclined to expostuii late, so I plunged inerashly; "I thInk yeu judge us a little harshly—are stO little, shall I say, unfair. A woman getsevery chance, just the same as e man. Nowadays the old prejudice 1143,i0fro,nhelals' it?" She retorted, "then dearly Yoe have liet, studied the ques- tion at ell. Look At the etettvd of Us here. All of us in more or less taen- ial potitsi. Stenographers, ineseeileere, shop assistants, Waitresses, postgins— jobs any man thinks he can do a deal sight better if he 'tries—oh, yes, he 'does; you needn't shake vier head— only as there are not enough men to Oo around he ealls back on us. Tells els we have the chance of our lite to slum what we can do. Crges us to be patriotic. Pationizingly praises no when we show that we can dolt welt' 'Is good enough to intorm us that if We can keep it up we shan't be pushed out later on. How would you like that sort of thiug if you were a woman?" "Well, it's trueisn't it?" observed tophatted geatleman in the corner. a01i, it's true enough as far as it goes, but how far doee it go? Your class sees it doosn'tigo too far. What - you want is women' as industrial elave.e, You tee, they don't get much chance of Doing anything better. Put them in the jobs where they don't comPete With men, where you can pay them less than men. It makes 'inet tired to read the papers and see them calling. attention to how women are doing the rougher Intel of work— thtiusands in the factories and on the land, or as poatmen, as etation porters, wiudow cleaners, lamplighters, con- duetors, motor drivers and the like. It's siekening, when women replaee men as 'welters in your swagger hotels and in your stuffy old clubs, how some paper gots up and exclaims: 'Wonderful! Marvellous! Better than the men! Why didn't we do it be- fore?' What' a there wonderful itt it? The only wonder I can see is that you hare teiter .done it at all. And would You eV lieNe done it if the job had been e 'really importaht one? The womeh wouldun bevel had the °haute." At this stage some waloneaning, but tiot very disceriting, youth pointed out to the lady tbat there was a vacant goat. lerlitink you, no," she answered. "We women like courtesies, but I'm afraid they're sometime shown from a teethe; et superiority.. That's what we eislike." "Well," rcimarked the tophatted etero, 'Ice% there a superiority?" **Superiotity? Superiority? If you think there Is, why are YOU still eo • afraid of our eoraDetitiott? Why are women still ahut out from the equal exercise of their Minds With men? Why can't you allow women lawyers, women berrietere, women members of Parliament, Welters anetIonee,rs, women elergymen, Women stock brok- ere? Why will no organization ever give women a Chance? Only the Other dny7 eaw the Blshop of London was 1i:twitting the lack of use reade by the elettreit of tenittle Intellect. It you are so very sure of your, superiority wiay not show it by permitting cotatietition? You're not sure, that's why yeti don't do it. Men want to keep the beet jobs for thernselvets, Why, there aro the teachers! Do you know any case of a woman teacher doing the same work with the same or even more suc- cess, being paid as much es the man? I never did. Then some aseert woman is autocratie—can't manage a staff or impose authority. Ase most husbands! How ran you expect a woman to possess all the qualities oe man if slit never has any experience, aince you're not going to let her try?" "That's all very well," said a hith- erto anent working man standing near by, "but If you let her try, are you. going to do so at the expellee of tbe community? How do you know shoe; going to answer?" "I say you ought to try her, any- how," was the reply. "I'll give_ you a case," he said. "Some of the big railway men want to- make women guards on the steam trains. I say that's brain quite as much as muscle. The guard is the man, Outside the station, respousible for the train and what it does. He's sometimes pretty tough points to set- tle. Are you going to make a woman responsible? Are you going to place a trainload of people under the ,sole iand chief care of a woman?" "Why uot? Try her and see. That's the old argument of the police licens- ing women trane and motorbus driv- ers. I'd let them do just the S9.11;t0 as men. Then if they couldn't you could stop them trying. Why you and your trade unions are the worst ene- mies or women. Why won't the car- • penters and the compositors -1'h •on- ly mention two—admit women at all? Because you'reafraid of them. Equal opportunity is what we want. And equal wages. No privileges and no ad- vantages." "And how de yOu• think you're go- ing to get therii?" remarked the man with the top hat. 4,1f you ask me, the average woman -outside the jobs you reter to hasn't* bean a success. -Of course there are exceptions. The best women will always find a market for talents and abilities, but as to the rest, there'll be a clean sweep. You are not going to change the charac- istics of the Sex in a few years. Call in again about' the year 2500 end see how things are then getting on." "7 dare say then you'll find 'women Meanie running thins together," and the chemplon pf Annele prow. ass, "Wee going to adt what We Want When we can make the Woe..., there ere more WOMOA than men and we ;shan't tol'inetiefied iivith only we mon above the age of BO voting. 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Ineedays, f 14 !IAA; OM* *ifiti,b7 Itintotatyunut. • -0:07;ehl,., 'Hospital (Linder ,Olotierninent Inapeetki). toautIrully hr. nistla:ed-OlIettilio all regularly' 114eage4 Oyele int. %AWL for Patients ("taW MitOD ;ter.b'6,4•171iritclaiol•rdtn:1;12a44 , pomp; further In for motion—, Addrsie ' PIESS•L; MATHEWS,' •. Rupert ntendIiiit. "Sex 223, Wlegtharn,'Ondi • I SELL TeWit'sid Pitt* propertielp. OM 04 $snfltibitlitat my prleee. VIm J. •STEWART . . . wittelime, • • OT4t," let ems in ?Own Hielk •VY. (Successor to J. ringe WEE, and HEALITII P. 0. Box 166. O., Wm:WART) • ACcileENT INSURANCE, ?holm 198 NANcopANI, • Tioskfq WALL Phonss—Offio 241 Restdenee tee, U. S. Transport Hit Off the French 'Coast. Was German. Kronprinzes- sin Oecille. Washington, D. C., Report..—The United States army transport Mount Vernon, formerly the North German Lloyd liner Kron. Pringessin Cecille, was torpedoed by an enemy submarine yesterday. 200 miles from the coast of France while homeward bound, but was able to return to port. The re- port to the navy department to -day made no maiden of ally easualties, and it was assumed that no Ono wee •injured by the explosion. No military units were on board, but -the big liner probably was carrY- Ing some sick and wounded American soldiers in addition to her crow of probably 600 or /00 mery men. he extent of the clametge was not given in the departmedt's advices, but from the fact that the vetted was able to return to France at a speed of 14 knots, offic- ials eoncluded that she was uot tautly damaged. The Mount Vernon is the second of the great German linen taken oter when this country went to war to be torpedoed. The first was the Pro- sident Liman, which was sunk ree- entle some 400 miles off the coast of Preece while homeward bound. Before the war the Kron Prinzetola Nellie plied between New York old • European ports and whett the war 1 t - San she was on high seas bound for 'Cherbourg and Pleonouth with $12,- 000,000 in gold Otillion, in addition to many passengers, Instructions were sent to ter nutster froM Germany by radio to return to this 'country, and the liner iminediately put back, erri,i- Mg at Bar Harbor endue. She later was Moved to Boston. The navy fin- ally took the ship over and she was fonverted Into a transport to carry Alltericalt trOoPe to rfallea. DARING DEEDS UNDER FIRE •.•••••••• •••••••••,..... Brave- Acts tWon Distin- guished Conduct kocials Por These Men of the -Oan- din 'Porce. London, Sept. S.—The following vivid details of personal bravery are narrated in connection With the con- ferment of the Distingulshed Con- duct Medal on Camila= Serge C. V. Unser, Prince Reports took command of a. platoon during a raid after the oiticer waa wound- ed. Ho tut a gap in the eneenyie Wire, led his men through, and tone!: with bombe and bayonet, and although wounded Itt five places tarried out an- other wounded map, and the return- ed and halted to recover a Wounded officer. Sergt. A. E. Chatwin, Quebee, bohibed st machine gun for fifteen minutes and rushed a trends, pet- snaily aCCOuntIng for four of the enemy, Sergt. A. W. Cooke, Quebee, oaten ft shell dropped Monte the gun ere*, woundifig three and burying the gitti, promptiti dug the gun Out eta organired a new crew. Corp. R. Earl, Saskatoon, e eine one party et the OUOMV to re. tiro by bombinit them. fie that Pay the Workman hetet() his awoat drie3.--Mohapmed.