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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-10-10, Page 7s 4%. V•••••• HUN RETREAT IN FLANDERS riot PPROACijF UT Riots Break Out in German Units- British Fah Is ix Are NGW But Six Miles From Lille- No Fun Reserves. London cable: The British bay° driven their lines within six miles ef linie at 1,Vavrin and Equinghem, ay. Golding to Field Marshal Haig's coni- Mtaileatton lesuecl to -night. Between Lens and Arznentieres the Germans are continuing their retreat. London cable: Tfie retreat of the )th Germans in the region between Ar- mentieres and Lens has reached a depth of six miles. The allies are taow within six miles of Lille. The British are now well to the east of Lens and are within six miles a Lille, Mericourt, seuth-east of Lens, haa been captured by Ilaig's men. The Belgians, together with French tamps, have reached a point UN Yards south of Hooglede and 1,00e yards south-east of the Chapelle- .Roniers road. Civilians are being nweed in a hurry from Courtrai, 15 miles east of Ypres There are no signs of fresh Germaa reserves anywhere. There is every indication of disorganization not only in the enemy infantry but in the ar- tillery. Riots are reported fie have oc- curred among certain German units In which even their officers partici- pated. A British officer familiar with the entire German situation in Flanders said: "Nothing would surprise us. This may turn into a rout now." The advance of the allied troops is slow, because the bad made and seg. gy ground made it almost impossible far'. them to negotiate ;the terr In at many places. The soldiers fighting here are caked with mud. Many of them had to wade hip deep through the (rote while fighting their way for- ward. In the Lille scan: the Germans are d. falling back eastward leaving tily rearguards behind to protect their ret treat. Apparently they are headed ter the Canal de Haute Deule, which has almost been reached, especially in the southern portion of the sector. CAN TAKE ROULERS ANY TIME. It is now definitely established that the Belgian troops did not actually hold Routers tut, because it wes the peak of the wedge which they have driven into the German lines here, the advanced troops were drawn in a itt- tie in view of the pessibility that the Germans had a sliget opportunity of cutting them off. Meanwhile the wedge in this region has been widen- ed and still is being widened, so that it seems that at. the proper time the Belgians will •take up their Routers positions again, vhich they apparently can do at aey time they desire • ADVANCED NINE MILES. A supplementary statement from Field Marshal Haig says: "In operations undertaken by the 2ral British army In Flanners, on Beptember 29 and subsequent days, the 9th, 29th and 466th divisions ren- dered distinguished service,. Under most unfavorable conditions or the weather they .advanaed to a depth of aver nine miles timer extremely difficult country, etc ring the whole ridge east and south-east of Ypres and taking a pro.minent part hi the cap- ture of more Utast 4,000 prisoners and 100 guns, "The 9tb division on the first day of the attack took Becelaere, five miles east of its starting point, and three days later reached Ledeghem. On the first day the 29th division passed beyond Gheluvelt and captured Kruis- seeke, having advanced over five miles along the Menin road. On the right the 25th division passed far beyond our old positions of 1917, and took took Zandvoorte." The country behind the German lines is ablaze virtually everywhere. From prisoners comes the information that the Germans are making hurried -preparations to evacuate the Dune country of Belgium, along the sea coast.- Dugouts aro being blown up there. There is every indication. according to authoritative naval sources, of an early abandonment by the Germans, of the entire Flanders coast. The Ger- mans already are removing their guns. The Belgian coast has been under a heavy bombardment for the past few. days. ONLY POSTPONED. On the British Front cable: In the terrain immediately behind the Hind- enburg system, air reconnaissance has found no further system of trenches or wire entanglements, and the enemy is holding c•nly lightly wide stretches of country, an indication of a -precipitate getaway. The number of our prison- ers will exceed the earliest eetimate. They include men from more than 40 battalions of 20 different regiments of 10 different divisions, which were urriedly brought together to present some kind of an obstacle to the attack- ing British. Despite the desperate enemy, counter-attacks on certain por- tions of the British front, he has been yielding under the British onslaught and is being followed closely by the British and other Allied troops over a large area. DRITISH REPORT. London cable: The, War Office re- ports: (Night) -"Fighting of a local char- acter has taken place to -day in the neighborhood of Bea.urevoir, north of Gouy and south of Cambral. Our troops progressed. "On the Lens -Armentieres sector the enemy's withdrawal continues. Our troops have reached Wavrin and Equinghem." CA'ADA'S RECOilD HOLDS PROMISE FOR FUTW (Francis II. Sisson in Detroit Free l'zeas.) To Canada the ear has meant self- reatization. That a meagre population, stet largely In the agricultural stage, snouta be able to lend more than $Se0,00,000 to the government, to tans war orders aggregating nearly e2,000,000,000, and to expand foreign trade by more than. $1,00u,000,000, waa certainly beyond the calculation of the most sanguiue. Canada has crowded into a few years an experience ueuatly timed by generatione. While nothing like a coninete traneformatien has yet taken place in the economic life or the country, .nevertheles•3, the world struggle has forced cbangee in the relat.ve impertance cf 'various activi- ties, and if the sugnestions therein contained are judiciously availed of, Canada will move forward to a new e.nd unassailable positian among the manufaituring and trading nattons oi the world, Canada has hardly yet considered the after -war period a3 a cepetate pro- blem, Lacking the experience of Great Britain or Germany, she is incapable of the nice dieeriminaticaes that in those countriee have creamen ela- borate .inachinery for each peesible phase of the economlc eituatien. Yet see is not merely bluedering into the future. In her case the immediate Ueeds and those which meet be at- tended to later are so interwo:en that for the most part programmes give Way to performances, and the coun- try grows into economic power before Creating the formulae for attaining it. liar hopes for the future are measur- ed by the dutproportion between what ebe has done and what it was theught .ahe could do four years ago. The financial achievement cf 7,- 000,000 people, various hi nationality, scattered over nearly 4,000,000 square milee of territory, is the more note -- Worthy in View cf the effect cf the American deciaration cf war. 13efore that there was a restricted market for Dominion goverument bends in Canada, and municipal bonds soul bet- ter in England and the ttnitea States than at home, so that Canada paid out annually not less than $125,000,000 to British and e50,000,0e0 to American investors for interest chargee. In the fiest year of the wer a bond issue of even $ad,000,00a would have been re- garded as an impoeeiblity except for the existence of surplus funds in this country. With the aid of American Investor, a loan of $100,000.000 was aetually rioatel in 1015, and another of !limiter amount a year later. In March, 1917, wheat it dill appeared patellae that the tinited States would not enter the nar, a third loan total- ing $150,000,e00 vele neterminen mein. Erich loan wax' lectted below per with intereet at 5 per cent. !tett financial obeer'versi thought teat the declaration of war by the Vetted States would meet' Inane and sleavy tanation and undoubted cur- tailment Of the Atnerican market for foreign securities. Exactly that hap- pened, anti yet in Noveinuer, 1917, the Canadian people subscribed tor $418,- 000,000 of the Victory loan, issued at 100. Meanwhile lea.ne totaling more than $19,000,000 had been madefrom Great Britain- and the United States, and • war aavings certificates to the amount of $12,000,000 had been di.spos- ed of. That the net debt of the country has Increased from $335,996,850 in March, 1914, to $1,010,70,470 in March, 1918, is no small matter, but that 75 per cent. of this indebtednese represents the savings of theca who believe in Canada's ability to Pay is an indication of reserve strength tbat overshadows; every liability. The output of Keel products has more than doubled since the war be- gan, despite the shortage of raw ma- terials, labor and transporfation. A large part has consisted of munitions, but progress' has been made in other directions, notably in agricultural im- plements. Along with manufacturing is growing the shIpbuildieg industry. From the outset there have been car- tain difficultica in the Way of both these developments. In the case of the steel industry there are compara- g tivoly few places which afford easy e access to the market, and at the same t tim in quantity of such meceseary materials a shipes adVanced by the Dominion and, for the firat One, largt, mash: are being built in Canada with Can- mita)/ money for the Ganedian Govern - mole 'When the yards have finished with the Aim for the Imperial Muni. Wins beard they are to centlime builds Ing Under new goverment contra:lie; sanounting, et:cording to Present plane, to from $30,090.000 to $50,000,000 a - year. These later ships will probabiy come under the centre), of the minis- ter of Marine and fishorlea. The inialster of Marine and Fish ?Mee ban made an agreement with the Dominion Iron ana Steel Corporation to provide for the manufacture o 150,000 tons Of ship plates a year. The Government will not contribute to the eost of plant extension, but will take 50.000 tone of the product annually, Canada is much in the position of other Countries Which never realized the value of their natural resource* until the world-wide ithortage of raw *materials and manufactured articles brought them into international tree() created now commerell roaten, and inspired them with goldeu visions of the future. In the last Meal Year Canada's exports of domestio and foreign merchandise totalled $1,586,- 169,79e, and her imports $962,521,847. Hee foreign trade • has more than doubled in two years, In 1914 her exporta to the United States totalled $200450,375, and imports from Me country were valued at 200.780,001. In 1913 exports to the United States reached *40,370,90, and imports from here $e23,887,573, Canada desires not only to enlarge and improve her new enterprises, but also to develop more efficiently certain natural advantages which war conditions and the mos - Peet of an extended period of competi- tion have emphasized. One quarter of the world's supply of fish conica Mtn the United States and Canada. The value of the Cana- dian yearly catch is e40.000,000, as comparewith $1e3,000,000 for the United °States, 452,000,000 for Great Britain, $50,000,000 for Japan, $50,- 000.000 for Russia and .733,000,000 for France. Germany's annual production Is valued at $12,00-00, and that oi Norway, Sweden and Denmark at $25,000,000. The Canadien yearly catch, before the war, was 112% lbs, a per- son, of which 29 tbs. a person was conzumed by the Canadians, while 83% lbs. a percon was exported; chief- ly to Great Britain and the United States. The suggestion is now made, therefore, that tne Government turn to the Canadian fieherics as a debt - paying source. Exploitation of Canada's timber re- sources is also contemplated. Grtat Britain uses 650,000.000 cubic feet of lumber annually and will use a great deal more in carrying out her building epcgranime aitert Hereto- fore, 85 per cent. cf this *supply has come from Russia, Norway and Sweden, because their rates from Baltic ports are less than one-half those from Canada and the United States Lebo • costo are alsolower, and the result is that Australia, New Zealand and South Africa also have bought largeiy from northern Europe. Lumber merchanta in both eastern Canada Ara British .Columbia are hoping that somewhere in the recon- stiestion programme arovision will be made to offset the factors in lum- ber marketing that have militated against Canada. The Canada Wool Growers' Assoceation is developing a ache= to bring the various provinces into co-operation in selling and mar- kettng wool. An organization limited •to sheep producers and agriculturiets has received both Dominion and pro- vincial incorporation, with ,powers that mean ultimate control of the business and privilegeto the direc- tors than indicate the permanence of the arrangemext. In the manufacturing field the Ex. port Aseociation of Canada is working %sett the Dominion Government tc formulate plans for the development of the country's natural resources, their conversion into finished pro - dusts, and their sale in world mar- kets. The Canadian Mining Institute :s on record Its favoring a national organization of all technical and in- dui:trial bodies to prerare for after- ti.e.war problems. ',the institute rayon two organizationo within each induetey, one to encourage production and the other to secure trade. Em- ployers and cmployecis in equal nem - tors, it is suggested, will be appointed to the produetion boards. The Canadian Industrial Recona etruntion Aesociation is how being organized. Its object ie to maintain Industrial stability and to consider reeonstructional problems as a whole. It will investigate industrial condi- tions, labor, price, market possibilii cies, and transportatton facilities. Under the general head of raven- struction, the association will Inquire inta the condition at technical and general education, land cettlement, co operation among ruval producers, rural condictons, differences between capital and iabor, anti tile welfare of women in Industry, The Canadian National ftecinistruz- tion group ie still another organize - tion formed to •study the problems which will arise after the war. Tho department of , °idlers Civil te•establiehment has already done a reat dcal for those who have return - d maimed or in poor Plineleal colidI- lon from the battlefield, . These men re being nureed back to health and elf-contedence whenever it is pus- ible. Altogethea Canada le making a ecard thet liolde tie. brightest pro - mice for het. future •• U.S. FORCES IN - RF ARE RPM AHEAD • Renewed Smash Takes On. tral Defences of Kriem. hilde Line. omieal assemblage a as ec al, ore and limestone, and such places as there are leave. allaaely been taken. For shipbuildieg there are in- adequate facilities and lack of exper- ience in the machine shops from marine eng nes am produced, • h fore Canada has produced no steel which marl FaiNC-11 TANKS BUSY While French Troops Make dood, Progress ii Two Sectors, (137 Lincoln Eyre.) With the American Forces on the Argonne cable: The socoutl stage of the Meuse -Argonne battle was initiat- ed at 5.30 this morning, when the in- fentry or the ist Army, supported by a powerful fleet or tanks and prececl- ed by a devastating barrage from. ' thousands of guns, asealled the out - Poet recleubts of the Kriemhild Pane One of the %strongholds of the ene- my's defensive system between the Meuse and Hill 201, duo north of •Exermont, fen betore the assault launched. against it by a ycteran •sion., The foe fought savagely., bringiree, hosts.of machine guns into play with - due lioweveri checking oue advance for mote than brief intervene In Perot Wood, on the left bank of the Gen, Bullard'e treope reached • the central defences .ef the Krionhild line. The battle Is more violent than any In willeh atmericans hitherto have • been engaged. It is still at its hetght. EVACCJA'rED THE TOWN. London cable: The American and French troops "In the Champagne ' gained mare ground to -day north of the important height positions of Blanc Mont and Medealt Farm, giving.. them a secure hold an the impoitant gositicete won yesterday. The brilliant attack which rcsulted In tho capture of Blanc Mont was sup- ported by French tanks, The French have advanced about 2% miles north of Auberive and alma five miles 'north-east of Somme -Py, taking a /amber of villages. accordine; to the French °Medal cominunication issued. to -night . The Amerleans resumed the attack ' . a en of the eleuee and advanced their liners from two to fiVo kilometres. They captured Hill 240, north of Exermout, and the villages of .Gesues, Chehery and La Forges. . 'One of the most important successes yesterday was in the fighting on the height on which Medeah Farm is situ- ated. (Thee point was centured by American troops aiding' the French in Champagne.) This height gives the allied artillery eommand or a wide stretch of territory sloping westward toward the River Suipppe and the val- ley of the Suippe and the River Ames, north of Morronvillees. guns posted on the elopes 01 afedeah height will be able to bombard tbe rear of the 'Gorman positions on the Monte or Champagne, east of Rheims, and to enfilade their lines if retreat toward the north. The German reserves brought up to defend that height and who could not do it are continuing to -day to make vain counter-attacks in an effort to stop the Allied advance. West of Rheims Gen. Bertheions army now holds the cntiee line of the Aisne Canal between Rheims and the River Air,ne, except bits in the salient at Sapigneul-aloseou and near the road from Loivre to Courcy. The canal has been croseed at La Neuville, La God:at and Lettere, while the posi- tions in the region cf Betheny have been improved With one after another of their lines ot communication cut by the Allied forces operating in Champagne: com- bined movements northward m that region and eaetward from St. Quen- tin would make their position gravely critical. The enemy protection againet such a manoeuvre. is a line secondary to the Hindenburg position that passes tat Fie:alloy and Sissoune with a sharp angle from La Fere along the valleys of the Myers Sure and Oise. The railrcad town of -Chalieranee luta been evacuated, but bas not bent occupied by the enemy. Both artilleries are firing upon it. The Berlin official report de- clare's that the Germane have. driven the French out cf Challorange, cap- tovea by Gen. Couraud's • forres Thursday, and bave wrested the vil- lage from the Allies. Two • con era° emplecemen ta for big runs were discovered west rtf Vareune3 when American troope an - veneer' along the eastern edge cf tee Argonne, forest a few davs aim. The Mine liae been renvivesi, but en• gineere believe that they were Atte- trian 305*e. Many of the roada leading front the ArgOnne foreet to Mont:Cauca . and to Malaucourt have been fegun to- be barred be concrete- inhere as preeautien agalnot the operation •of Watts. At :safe distance behind theze piliara antistank. gun potiltions have been fauna. These, In, many pintoes,. Were built et con- crete. . FRENCH REPORT. A Parte eabie: The Wan Of.fico re- ports: Night -"I: Chainpagne, the Frencb. and AmerIcan troops, in the course ot the day, coMpleted their adyantagee of' yesterday "On our left we pushed -our lives Lour lellometree north of Luberive. and °Jena kilometres northwest of Somme -Py as far as the Arnett River. "We took the villages of Vaude- sincourt, Dontrein, St.. Souplat and the woods in the regien et Grand Be- tels, Further east we reached the borders of St. Etienne -Antes and gain- ed a footing en the plateau of ()r- amie wbieh village was captured. "We evacuated Math:mune, whieb haa not been .occupled by the enema. It le undergoing an intense fire by both ale:Werke." SEE TURKS QUIT. Germany Expects Her Ally to Follow :Bulgaria. • London cable; A •deepatch to the Daily Express from its Amsterdam correepondent, dated Thursday, says: The Information reaches me that In the course of the Crown Council, hold yesterday in Berlin under the Kaiser, the question at Turkey's pesition and that of a general point offer were discuseed at length, atter _Hinden- burg had reported on the military situation. Reason for this was that tee alarming news received from Con- rtantinople that the peace party there had been considerably strengthened since Bulgaria's move, and gow reach- ed tho higherater marl: owing to the capture or Damanctin. • Capitulation of Turkey le cousid- tired in Berlin to be impending, and the Crown Council discussed the pos. sibility of avoiding this new blow. it' decision is not yet known. as regards another peace offer I ant Jaren:mei] the suggestion har, many eupporters, including Prince Max, but the Kaiser and Hindenburg vetoed anything or the kind at present as no Peace acceptable to Germany could be obtained in present military situ- ation, - ,•; uir Vfflt Sends Solemn Warning for Burning Towns. British. Also Favor the Same Plan. Parte cable: The French Govern- ment has issued a solemn warning to Germany and her allies that the devastation of territory from whigh they retreat will be punished inexor- ably. The warning says the Clerman pee - pie who share in the crimes will bear th.t 'coneequen.ces with the authors, ael that those, who order the devas- tation will be held responsible mor- ally, penally and pecuniarilly. It is added that France is now dis- cussing with her allies the steps to be taken, BRITISH FAVOR, REPRISALS. London cable: The •Cermans' liberate destruction of hiatoric French tewns, with their irreplaceable artistic treat:In:ere, for which no species of military excuse is pas:dine, is kindling a feeling of fiercely bitter resentment both here s.nd in France, and a. gen- eral demand is made not only for rep- aratien, but eor the exemplary pun- ishment of thoots respensible. The burning of llou101•3 shows that the foe intends to take a mean revenge on Bel- gium in aaditton to all the preced- ing aborninaticue committed there. This wanton destruction .is heitcved tobo a part en a set pollee en the part oh the Clerman militarist autecracy, with the hope of arousing such a bitter feeling between their peopien. and those of the Entente that all hopes cf peace would lie abandon- ed. WOODSTOCK REJECTS HUTS. Woodstock, Ont., Report.—The appeal made by* the Knights of C.,Iumbus on behalf of the Catholic Army • Hut Fund, was to -night turned down at a meeting of the Executive of the Woodstock 5,000 Ciub, an organization formed to care for all ratriotic funds, the existence of which eliminates all personal canvassing. The local council of the 'Knights of Co- lumbus, to -night stated that an- far as they could learn this was the first case th, oughout the Dominion -wide drive where the.appesl did not meet with a iesponre from similar organizations. :141:73:7.efitifiettcolitifett3.:' \ 40 ... Eil2r1Y. 4 . • VeaCilitille ielotuelyetter: 21:4: • it/06.9101w /114,044.Ertse,rriks)rlesiore ,1114:01) I , Assign inavteeir s'''"•••••\. Sebagiou teA•e; °ttlir !fey Nslinvi Ile Alt gill' 411044*n fettsommt • No 334904 off 11.1utewl rostoorrAta fierast ,loje oerirrf and materials are expensive. Hereto- fl hi [ y raion.”* plates and shipbuilder:, must Pan $`.5 'Ramat a ton for them as against 1e5 Paid by the United States Emergency Fleet age • OF $ Ton rotrapw..„.1 "te4.. .31:44„ 4 640$ corporaLon and $80 in England. Itt r To solve both problems it -has been . Ize the exieting steel plants which possess the neceseary economic advan- tages. The variety of products 1,1 to to be enlarged. 'Wbereas ateel rails have heretofore been ntanutartured inostly, hereafter plate will be rdiled and other connnercial shapes now im- ported from the United States will be turned out. Attention is given also to the small Industrie& in Quebec and Ontario which produce tool steel, ern- eible steel and alleys. As for ehip- building regairemente, there tette been pereat increase in the number of machine shops of all kinds, and for Lour years there has been going ter - warn a transformatton of labor that meane eventually a sufficient number ef trained nmehinens. Trt int there were preanced in Canada, 190,756. t but that Was when the wooden vessels held sway. In 1014 then - (Olen procluetten had fallen to 43,i146 tone. Saw Mortal 1, 197, eontraeto to- tailittg Itti4,500,000 have linea let for ereetruetien tit snipe in it:mallet varde. Fourteen tingle are at nee* en eteel sham mostly for the Imperial. Munitions Board. The money thece ..d. &mei -'9nY . ' 0.1mart London calif e: Repo: t3 published .00arsiawefLmsritc s mesh:Irene, law 40-0/44:1'84.- etTato !n the 'rageblatt, of Berlin, to the ef- Vern—Tr-Cita' ettearge, e feet that Great Britale hen rePliel to t.'„\\ erinemeeat4 • • isrgie/ he Austrian peane preeositie, and the 1," there *Wee ' . decidel, first) to extend and modern-. 'neat • b • .1 Monk izirlf(ersi; •UPY wrenyAtboy 410.4c • eatent. -request lame Ausir":1 that 'Tolland :twit° the belligerent ustioes to enter pence neptiations, aze elven promin- .nee be the eetvepapers here'. - The, Telegrainth elnint to be able ne- itivtly to deny that Great Britain -'ha' Ititvered ally sort of reply to Count van turian's note except the epeech by A. .T. Palliate% neeretary ter For- eign Affair -3, on Sept. 16, RECORD MONTH't- aellFniNG. Warbbigtori, Iteport.,–Otte hundred cert. g'oing vemels, 40 Steel and 54 wood, grocnting 301,433 grow; toli,. weto coin- . Otte in Arnerieln shimards during' Wu. 7 twitter, and officially number tist the Intreatt of Navigation. In addition 71 going vessels of '4637 gross tons a ere - built during tho same peiied. Th:s la gr ate.' tonnage than was built lho • whole Meal ytar of 1615. Daring the nine month.; elided Supt. 11 tliii tottl of con - going and ritp•m:,rF14.0:rn.r vet,!•(4.1 1.11nt was 1,317, .of 1,722,133 .gro.4.4 toLn. Ccrtantee smliea nrietriht eithialta anay.-13yron. Alnee9 14, eve tarok 41, Heppe ,telynke. .0001;111ty 15 -*VVIihtte rrgt SIss rstres , Montour& Verdi ts Chard lona • \ Meverts e/kotia irtlerrut °mixt " rremp'S : estrir .01Iey tauwarcidor 1 eerlecourt • --64 Broth" /14.0:15dotonent Oral mg/ taw 4 tiny acR: freorso Oaat3 • . eaetnteet aest-t Ors .."" Ce 1' flerre'les 'Memo *Sofro fri Dew? - a -,Ntresi f t Ad:rys34:4771t • • *"411111111r t ne tut ve peo Ile atvr. • fes .Moregefiletlerps• 4 W4r$ MS 0 41 AROUND 8 The decimation of ruined 8t. Quentin Ina around that city. Seth Britoil • etrady eueceeeee at various paints, on both side*. Thle trisp will he tel battle went)) te the (Met Of at . QUENTIN. cities not le, any means end the nieht- and French connentidere report very tut at a fearful' pried In eatualtlea eful foe same deys to Come as the isantln. 44-4444-44-44-44-e-O-Hine+4-44-+++44-+4,e 4 +++++4 -.+444 -*4 -++++++4 -4 - Kultur at Darkest As Seen in Africa Pirrit Hand Story Tens Why Milt% Ofla Never Put Ratives Under Run Rule. , 4-.4-4-44-44-0-4-r-4-+++44-4-44,4-4.-+++++-4-01-0-0-•++44-4r4-r-44-4-044+4444-+ ,kles Vera Simonton, African Traveller , mans, expecting, of course, the same and Student, in N. Y. Sun). The return of Germanyhi Afrlcan I tre.atment they had received from the British and other Europeans with colonies Would not only be the crown, I whoin they had traded for years.•They Mg crimes to long ilst of crimes come i were usually friendly to Missionaries, witted by the white Man upon the too, and professed a sort of Chrietians between. caioiatainvand to e i line 11 Gentian), ever had a ehance , rAefbrolcuainon, butitcwajoruoldloeatubsee ap"civilize" a nation whichI woult endanger the life of every white man work to the utmost for her a terrts For Germany's actions in Africa so tory half again as large as her home outbarbarized the most barbarous area and potentially rich beyond eorn, ' atrocitiee of the savages that ineracttc- Ham ; Putatiou, she had it In Southwest M- able hatred of the German is implant- n the African, and now that he is ; But in her conceit,. and. arrogance ed iman barbarity and versed she thinks there IR Only one way W free of .Ger In European warfare he will never 1 rule a subject people -and that is through the abject 1v ey born of again voluntarily eubmit to PrUssian the mortal fear. G a r inn rI. uT°11ie I know froni own personal ! Bismarck foresaw failure if to, observations in the AfrIcan colonies. much "Iv n" were introduced into col' haves= youth and old age chain- ,onial rule, and he warned against it. ed neon and neck, •ankle and waist to But the traders, the capitalists, were waist with shacktes reminiscent of the too strong for him, and suddenly the elidille Ages, goaded with riflo butt Hereros found themselvea under Strict military dtscipit and bayonet point, flogged with the ne, emnething they sjambok-that dreaded lash of rhino- had never before experienced and dld d to labor from boten appeared underetand . The German ver- ceros hide -and forcesunup to sundown • on, the land that red everywhere, and the lute been theirs from time out of mind! eativre were flogged, fined and in) prisoned for attempting to continue in the freedom and the rights which had been theirs front time out en 'Mild. I've seen youth and old age drop dead in their tracks, their bodies drag- ged on by their helpless companions in agony because th.e Gernian over- lords would not let them rest long enough to remove the dead body from i PROTESTS TO COURTS FRUITLESI3 Protests to the German colonial courts brought neither relief nor jus - Is sliacities and give it burial." NEW MOTHERS MARCH UNDER tice; for the natives it became the LASH. sjambok humiliation and force,d labor; I've seen youth and old age, women for the Germunbrldled an it was champagne, traa little children, atter .a daY of liceannsde • Hob the earliest kind of labor -road mak- ir )01 tal :1st t Yu upon The Hermes also tried to stop the ing, jungle clearing and working tim- cattle reserves by "humbly" petition- Ing, without windows or beds. slieuld have a territory where we ing Governor. Le,utwin. "to transfer all bcr-crowded for the night into huge / filthy and vermin ridden beyond de- the rest into a great re-eerve, for we , could live and cultivate our farms." scription, veritable hotbeds of con- Into Lcutwin's brain was beginning tagion and disease and charnel houses to percolatea little coraraon sense. He for more wretches than could be realized that cnly 6 native can atm counted! I've seen'mothers, ten minute.s after easefully work under Africa's blasting sun, and that if Germany were to gain the experience of maternity, hurry the richee which were to be had sh piteously to catch up math the cara- must not only placate the natives, van of :which they were a part to but conserve their health and guard avoid the sjamboking they knew their lives. Hence he was incllned to would lie theirs if they and their grant the Herero petition, loads did not arrive at a given fac- But at home Ile was publiely rePri- tory on a given day! mended for his "humanity toward I've known girl children from 5 the black swine," and in Africa the years up me victims of German sol- colonists, through Herr Karl Dove's diers; I've seen girls still in child- Deutsche-Sudwestatrica, baldly and hooxi set adrift in the hope that they untruthfully and covetously declared: and their young might perish! "The Herero cattle reserves are an • For the cowardly Hun hasn't the obstacle to the econanne development courage of bis crimes. He feared a of the country, for it Is without doubt race of Euro -Africans, a race that owing to this reason that so few of would • In time become powerful the Hereros cuter the service of the enough to exact retribution. Any Europeans. The -country must be in - babies who survived were blinded, mu- habited by white colonists. Therefore Witted and ealsoned for life with the natives must dleappear or else put germs. themselves at the diaposal of the But the German's bestiality was not whites." confined to his treatment of his half. Leutwin was obliged to refuse the caste children. To overcome the Euro- petition of the Hereros and they were African -danger the Government, under forced into a congested space border - the pretence of offering lucrative Do- ing the Kalahari Desert, ono of the sitions as barmaids, typists and tele- most hostile strips of land to be, found phonists, lured young, healthy, Ger- anywhere on the globe. While the man peasant girls to the colonies, and beat and biggest part of their reserves denied matrimony, they were forced to were sold to colonists for the ridicu- live with German soldiery and farm - bus sum of fifty pfennigs per hectare, ers. Many of -these women and chit- the natives were forced to labor on their own lands far the paltry surn den, 3,000 of them, if memory serves, of ten marks a 'Month. which they were deserted by their men wheu were ecninelled to spend at German Britain and Boer invaded Southwest Africa in the present war. factories. because these were the only Accustomed tothe inhumanity ' et places where food was to be had. . those formerly in power over them, HAD TO WEAR BRASS TAGS. they put no faith in Gen Botha's stern And that no native might essape order, given when his troops occupied forced labor, every man, woman and Windhoek, the capital, for the scrup- child was compelled to register and to ulous protection of every German wo- wear a brass disk with a number on man and child. the name, of the town in or near TOGOLAND TOWN LOOTED BY which be was condemned to dwell, and TROOPS. when labor was required the police A Colonial official was escorting me were told to send it, and woe to the through a native town in Togoland. It nativca who did not respond, in - was the most poverty stricken place I stanter! Twenty-five lashes with the sjam- every beheld, the soldiers having rob - .couldn't. made of bamboo and cotton wood, and ed a.bichi, a small musical instrument was playing elPon it in her cheerless away and destroyed what they" - bed it of everything they could carry An old woman, however, had secret- • bolt starvation branded with hot irons, meal as slaves. They rebelled in 1904% able These were their portion. wholesale as warriors instead of piece - and for two years the bush ran red hut, heavy shackles, imaging by their thumbs and other outrages unspeak- At last the liererca preferred to die with the bloodieet race war known to "Yon hear?" raged the Hun. "These history. The, Cermatis deliberatele miserable black hogs, they claim they and cystematically get out to destroy have nothing to pay their taxes with, and face which their cruelty ante re- act there's a bichl, a biciai we can tented oppression canto not subdue, sell for a mark! But wait -I'll show Gen. ton Trotha was in supreme thew) cattle how a German deals with Colemand of the German forces, and deceit. treachery, robbery!" his conduct in the field was marked He 'burst into tho hut; he knocked by a fiendishnees new even for a the old woman senseless with the Ivory handle of his sjambok; he took the bichi, and with what he thought. was Chesterfieldian grate, he actually offered it to me for my collection of African trophies! striking terror into the heart of every black man, woman and thild and im- Huh, planting ineraddcable batred ot the Eta bas travelled the hems 02 (ter- m a ny's blackest wholesale crime, Over the. length and breadth or AC - And that crime was the slaughter, according to Germany's own flaures, of 200,000 Heroics, that most mei, 'it:necessary and most systematic ex- termination known to lenstory! And while Africa and the ret 01 the world etood appalled when they learned of it, it remained an occasion of rejoic- ing in Germany for a decade, since German. No matter what were the batbaritie3 of the Hereeee, the Hun 0u:zee:age:I them at Very turn,, and on Oct. 20, 1904, Gen. von Trotha Issued his infamous peociamation: - "L the great general of the German soldiers, send this tete: to the Herero nation. The Hereros are no longer German subjects. They have mur- dered and webed and cut off the ears and the nosea and other members or wounded soldiers, and they are ;IOW too cowardly to fight. Whoever bringe one of the chieftains as a soidier to one or my stations shall receive 1,000. marks, and for Samuel Malicrero I will pay 5.000 malts. "Tne Herter° nation must now leave the .cauntry. If the people do not I will compel them with the big tube. Within the (Iceman front:er every timer°, with or wIthout a rifle, with en January J2, 1914, speaking before or without cattle. will be, allot. I will li Ttoya.1 Coionial Tnstitute., Prof- not take over any mom women and Vieritz Penn Of Munich boasted: "We have Weed the native prob- back to your people or have them Hercroe rina"titioneno.f ehildren, but I a..111 either dive them lenTilibtz dieutneillilitusgsiatrliberalayliftehte." ttrilliceeieIeraerreostuy words to the, for valunterily placing their counter "The great General of the Mighty /tam s rale nl, itt eOU thw es t Africa, no. EmP0f0v, Von Trothrt." der Ncrman protection. The Ilereros would not surrender - This was as receut a' 18R, for unt their chiefs, rild Von Trotha made hie t!I about 1830, Unlike England, France, throat; good. Ile shct end hanged and Portugal, Spain and Holland, Ger- crucified and outeaged and poitioned many made no serious attempt to se- and stared and- buried alive. So cure African torritcry Principally renclish were his act a thatheb e beyeatnbtle for two manna: the lack of. a navy the obJect of bitter o and a merchaat merino and Ms Soeial Demeerata at home, but he was marek's Oppesition to colonies. Ills- vigorously defended by the Inwerian Mares claimed that every cmigrAnt Clisnee'ler/in tho Reichstag an Dee. 8, nem Cermany eve' a traitor and 1005, wIlt‘n it wrA officially stated mighr. to be ehet. and he was sin. that he hail "given wooat great 'ere, tee. for he wlinensed with envy bumenity during the peeitel of hit -nd Jettioney what such -emigrants eammandl" :lin enites and Stripee. ste. td ee.tione to help 'Mini nur own eses tented ntates, sit:tering allegiance to FORCE BOURSES TO OPEN. Genially went to Southwest Africa. ide. _nli.r1(11114 Oth o ,re • na she went to other portions, under on the Benin. Prenerort, and TraDmourg the tones of trade, and under that Muriel.) that .the military eommandors guise alio stole Meet of her African iitertrigc,111!..T‘'te"1,1,,iiittiM the • Poseeseione. as An dill her . topm.i..Es t,) :hp fiont and to tho mune• poettessiOrts in Other Parts. et • the Iti(cran a.:!1,10.1itittwlifn itIolf•yttstlilIh”,ot.iwTohe nign114taxt • e world. Herer08 WeleOlned the Ger- NC wet: wilt l'imitotnel- a fiasco, ou sta etoee HORT ITEMS Of PIE *WS, OF DIE DAt Indescribable Panic On B. lin fiktocic Szchange Saturday, METZ RAILS BOMBID Another Two or Three Gas. less Sundays for Canada. Three aviation lieutenantWere las ed and a Mirth Injured when tyro planes collided near Kellett, Texas, Despite the epldearilo et SPaniell ts• fluenza, embarkatfon of .A.ntericare troops is being cent/fined at the rids of more than -250,000 per month. All factories and bitetness hoeties *- St. Quentin which were likely to annte. Pete against German industvi rios tro methodic -ally destreyge hy tho Ger. man% • The Britieb. Independent British Me Force obtained eleven direct hits nist the Metz-Sabions raileraes that morn- ing, It was officially announned Anthony'n't;rnbull. etghayear-old sera of Anthony Turnbull, St. Thoraas, may die as a result. ot inittries sustainek when he was•struck by an automobile The master, barbers of Lcinden, Onth have announced an inereane In wage* for their men and an advance in IA* price of hair outs to 40 cents awl, shaves to 20 cents, Dr. Edward David, Socialist leaden' of the Reichstag, has been appointen Under-Secretary for Foreign Affair, according to iseivices reCellted .1•11 paten papers from Berlin. Clarence' dook, a young man, wee sentenced by 'Police Magistrate Wept sem of Belleville, to three months,lit Jail and ta recelve fifteen lashes tot an attack on a clergYmau'a riPN whose husband is cinemas as a chnitri lain. Irish, Toronte, a C.P.R. engineer, deed an engine at Lantbton yard, Jahat when knocked down and run over tble As the result of injuries receinee In the Western' Hospital. While returning Immo In an aut3C-41th bile with three others Iran a Saturday night dance, Raymond Stephens, agent 25, a 'foreman employed by Walken.* Sons, Walkerville, was almost instant,. ly killed when the car struck the curie and ceupsized.. Lawrence Geyer, of Belleville, while duck shooting, seized a gun by 144i muzzle and it expfdded, With the erne sult that his left hand was terribly mangled. Three flagon' hate to be alit- putated and be may lose the handa . te. An indelie'rib"able panic, without viite• cetlent, broke Out on -'the • Berlin Stock Exchange Saturday, according to Vie Neuet tre Nachrichten of alunielae Shipping _and armament -Cenipkiii shares especially were affected. The American steamship, Lake City, was sunk in atcollision with theassit. tanker James McGee off Key Wen Thursday night. The majority of the crew, it was said, went down with the vessel. • The Canadian Ferward, published at Toronto and edited by I. Bahian:lige, has under censorship regulations been folbidclen circulation. Clieulatton le els forbidden to "A reply to- the press lies concerning the Russian situatioons published be the Alberta Provincial Executive 'committee of the Socialist Party of Commie. e The ruel Controller reports that en- quiry at Washingtett elicits Informa- tion to the effect that "gasless Ran - days!' will be continued In the Untted States for another-twoor three weeka. The same policy will be followed I1 Canada. Lucia Godfrey, a yOung returned soldier, was found on the Thompson fart% near Perth, with life extinct, as of death. On the previous day he went tac;relic:es.v.tuveilontIeuirionnf;iy. ainn ilaiescilideean4t was stuhiec Mc:use-A. slit shooting, but failed to return In Dalziel, M.P., a strceig Lloyd George supporter, acting for himself and his, business aseOela tent hae purchased outright •the bushieas of the UniSed•neempepers, Ltd., who are proprietors elebeiDatle Chronicirr which has lately 'been teriticizing the Premier, and Lloyd's Weekly News- paper, in addition to a number of other impeetant A. fatal accident Recurred one mile south of Cottamatear Essex, when a Ford car, occupied, bar..:Urs. Willttun Reeves and her daughter, Miss Ella, who lives two and a half miles sonth EtuCect:tab.ym'a- an!aeircetr.4.7:4•ol'ar°t.efr!aadtlie'lag and and theikeennante titstantly killed. , A Tribute'. Britain and French and Belgian. lAtill= Ctivottird14'1'114rbictietetip_nlett To you. who have held the linel You fought •when the fight was fiercest, You spilled your blood like vine, Bleeding and dying and alritost demi lou fought -but you held the. Hoot We aro contlng hundreds of tho strong, We will fight till we reach the Mina. But, comrades, Vo know the debt wo owe To you wao have held the line! -New York Munn A New Study. Mis Alma was; rather a talkative young, lade, and her bosom friend, harem messed - her for •seme thee, called to inquire the reason. "NO, mum, Mies Alma la not in," the maid informal her. "She has gone to the class." "Why, what class?" inquired the caller, in sunprise , "Well, mune you know Mies Alma going,to get married Poen, So she'S taking a cOlirEig of lessons in domestic slicnce."-allecton Globe. Suit Cloths. Serge. Cabardlne, Iret.edeloth. Tricotine. Oxford cloth, Wood Inninhi 14;iveretone. Inamtede bine, To ray that figurat net et' lie ntity e a Mere figure of sPeoch.