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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-06-05, Page 7• **-4-+-4f++,*+ + The British Navy In Ilystory JI r. I. Oto.stelt 'Hopkins.; .r..114(l. Aetna*, ot "The Cltadadialt Aunital *Se+,4**4-414-41t .44-.1*. It 0 ******-* < T9 the bOy or girl or youth of Can- ada Me record of the British Navy phould be one af tbe most Attractive of all possible studies, The career of the Britieh seller, the course a a Britieh slate :whether in War or peace, Whether patrelling the &ries ill armed alight or itt! Meerut Mieslon sal - int' from part to port, amebas all nettons and maces pad conditions, Tbe Bretsie Saila meets with countless natural proelents of earth and alr, eeveriencee every kind of climate. VieWe every sort of berntng tropical heat or bitter arctic *old, viewevery sort of scene in beauty or uglinees, in etaine or cant, comes into contact. train Said to Vladtstale, from Con- ethatinople . to the Horn, from New 'Yak to Caleutta, from Quebec to eleteourne, ,frem. Halifax to Liver - D00), with all forme of humanity; he cara prove al the problems of our Vast Empire with ite ownership a a quarter of tbe earth% -surface, or 15,- 000s000 square ranee, and its contra (at present} of a third of the world's popalation, or 450 millions of people. ettell proleems are too great for a calla •to consider seriously, too„ big fer a youth 'to master; bet even the fritiae of them, the eutlinee of world am:Widens, the nature a the mea and women of ow day, the couutless races atat .creeds, he vivid inctdents and stireing even ,swhich are met by the settee' or sea an as be traverses the i ll world of wat rs, should prove a source of Intense nterest. The Canadian else; in factawho reads elarryatt, or Kingston, orallenty, or our own Mac- donald Oxleet, mill find stories- teem- ingswith Metall the attraction of sea- aoleer, with, esIl the brileiance of Brit - telt', amities, • ', 'The Navy'. is called the "Silent Sere Vide because the destinatien arid lact- atikrn of its -*great war-ehipe, crui,3ers. torpedo -boate, destroyers, eatinuarenee, ete., are unknoWn to the euhtle; be, cause its officers never talk in ROM tat naval teaks, policy or diepesition , dot :fleets; becan,se the press dees it , ellecites the destributiou. aumber cod •,auelity of mires or armamept er the :action and aeraileleility of war-ehips An general; tesereuse . seareecY •Is .essea- - liar to all cletails of the SeavIce in time of wars and ueeful ae le MAU •7 f ttiem, in nays of peacebeeause •it And •not been- or niany ye ere a• eant- •letilly debatable subject -ail flritain -*Agreeing as to the Vital need of a pow- . arieri, dominaat tleet; because. in days eeff Saanish malry upon every eaa and esthete, or or Napoleonic greeres of eFreiach world -power, or of the -tater end'openly-aeowed German deign to emee the greatest .Navy,in tae World - eine 'which Weald eventuallydominate eadd. bver-power that of neitahe-the les e said et, construction, chaise.* -antladispositicia of ships the better.' Hence it is, that great diyistons of 'Abe,. British Empire, 'such ade Canada. Aitetralia, South Africa, India, have • eieeree quite realized the tremendous Vora of the. Royal Navy in peace or eseataSomethieg our people aave learns erle'of Naval 'traditions area history, . latra ' not enough to inspire them with 'the. same enehuslastic peiception of tbe value of sea -power and Naval. i Place and pate. Victory of Shwa June a4, 1340 - British over Prencla . -,1Ittrfleur, Aug. 15, 1416 French over British and Dutch. . Spedish Armada, July 21-23, 1588 British over Spaniards. Doiter'Straltee Nov, 2e, 1652 British ever Dutch. .Saatee Cruz, awl' 20, 1667 British over Spaniards. Mouth of the names, July 25-9, 1666., British over Dutch. eleiteery Heade June 30, 1690 Dutch over British and French. Care Le Hoge, May 10, 1692 •English and Dutch over French. Carthagena, seug. 19, 1702 British over French. :Vigo, Oct. la, 1902 „ British over French. -Centavo of Gibraltar, July 24, 1704 ... British over Spaulards Cape Finisteere, May 3, 1747 .. ... ..., British over French, ' ealliberon1313Nov, 20, 1759 British over French. Defehee of -GI z•altar, Sept. 13,1782- _British over Spaniards and French. elteicatey's Victory, April 12, 1782 British over Preneh. Ilewe s \elate*, June 1, 1794 British over French_ •eatfetIshant, eurie 1, 1794 . British over French. Ceentreadowhejoet. 11, 1779 British over Dutch. • Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797 • British over Spaniards,. _The •Nile, Au/; 1, 1798 Oft Cadiz, Iut 12, 180L Peet& over Frepch. e , 13raish over French add Trefalgars 01. 21, 1805 •British over French. eilperthagett:. ept. 2-5, 1807 • British aver Danes. •'Algiers,- Aug, 27, 1816 • .. .... :British over Barbary Pirates:" Wavering, Gee. 20, 1827 . British over Turks, Aare, Nov. 11,41840 British over Egyptians. *Alexandria, July 1143, 1882 ThiUsli over Egyptians. Ditiltlattd Isles Nov, 1, 1914 ...... ...;Brittsb. over Germans. Dogger llankaelan. 25, 1915 ,,., , ;British over Germans. • , Junand, June 1, 1916 ...... . ,... ...,Braish over Germans. , neiellee ea is held by 'the people of the British Isiese • To the Britleh people in thetr Wand • fume Oval strength has ;Owens been • vital. The navy has safeguarded. an ever-growing commerce Upon the meat distant seas and with •every caatIttent 'tend every nation. It has had for a century to- protect the transpert of British settlers to new •countriee awl far -away regions; where, in time, the BrItisla flag WAS to fly and prosperous settlements, colonies, natious, were to aevelelt. It has carried spielers to guard BrItish dependencies aro erni. grants in countries smelt ite India, British America, the thirteen colonles which became the puttee State, Seuth and East teed West Africa, BSYPt lord the Seatdan, Australia tura New 4eaft- min, the Malay Peninatia or IlarMale Perste or Mesopotaraie, Bouth Amer- • ica or the West fueles. It has doue much to -onetime treaties made with an • infinite variety of nations, Tem, tribes and peoples all oyer the world, Everywhere, In every port and 'har- bor, along every coast and national water, In every ceau and sea and on Most of the great 111142)4 weterst an every great river and national water. way, it has plow ea a silent path, a POW-er, made the British 'flag respect- ed, kept the peace at 'tines, and pre- served local 4therties at other seems. Everywhere it has been the force be- htnd British diplomacy, the power most feared by the ambitious auto- crats or robbers of the World -weth- er It was Philip •II. of :Spain or Louis XIV,' of France, or the greet Napoleon or Wilhelm H.; whether it was the gold ships a the Spanish Main, the Pirates of Barbara, or the bigoted fol- lowers of Paul Kruger, Howard and Grenville, Raleigli and Drake, dAnsoa and Havae. Beabew and Nelson, Cole, lingwood and St. Vincent, Rodney and Blake, down to these later • days og Jellieoe and Beatty, Tyrwhitt ansi Keyes, Crathlock andSturclee have, • with malty another leader of the seas, Passed down the silent way e a the navy to some inunortal achievement and to the balls of British. fame. As Newholt sowell puts it: Admirals all, they said their say (the echoes are ringing still),, • Admirals all, they went their way to the haven under the hill. d• But they left us a kingdom none mat take, the realm of the circling sea, Eat -ruled by the rightful sons of Blake, and the Rodneys yet to be. . ;., Admirals all, for England's sate, hon- or be yOurs and fame, . And honor, as long as waves shall Weak, to Nelson's peerless name. IIn the many years and ceuturiee representedby these names the navy: 'made, .tae British Isles seeure and made possible the expansion inte- e world-wide empire; in tha battles an wars covered by the fame of these Ada tiaras Britein was frequently •figatiag seeeral powers at °ace; in. each,case of naval development by a great Euro . - peen nation the Island kingtiern had, sooner or later, to face the issue and win supremacy at sea or . fall to the lowly and feeble place in the • world 'which her small islaad territory would otherwise occupy. Spain in ita great days of world empire, Prance under Louis XIV. and Napoleon, Holland In its time of naval power and eolanial . expansion when Von Troller) Banta to "sweep the seas with a broom," Ger-e many in these •later days, had all, in turn, to be met and beaten. Tae fol- lowing table shows the spleadid re- cord of British naval battlec-all vie tortes with two specified exceptions: and French. .• Spanish. • There were many smaller actions in Geese, veers and in the conflict with "thesttnited States and some of them evere defeats but, as a rule, British ships and officers and sailors won the tatee In the Frencit war ending 1802, during which reat Britain as ,also figirting tb.e Dutch and Spaniards, a total of 541 ereenry ships 'were ceptur- ed; -ln •the War ending 1814, during Wald. 13r1ta1n. Was fighting France, *fan, Denmark, Russia and the Unit - •ed States, all the sane tine, 569 hl were" ce,ptured; hi the 1914-18 aVar with tlermatty enemy shipping Wee witted off the seas entirely and, on Neve 21, 1918,,without a fight. and Izneminittis aceeptance Taefeat, the, bulk of the areal German Navy suraendered• to Sir David Beatty and the airitislt North Sea Fleet. to thet later war the tacts setapower may be briefly minunarized, Witholit the liritleh Navy /Nance ecethl not have been Imbed by- the Mil• - liege of men ,who Poured across the Channel and .the Atlantic aud, indeed, train all parts 0 the world, to its een- tral battle -fields; without the British' Navy our Empire could never have • oonducted simultaneoes campaigns in Egypt, Watt Africa, the Cameroons, South West Africa, the Balkans, Pales- tine and Mesopotamia; Without the • British Navy Germany's colonies toad not have been conquered ahd heldevith Germany quite impotent to rescue them; -without the British Nava the Belgieh Army eduld never have been • re -armed, re -constituted arid' re. • equipped, or the Serbian tomes sim- ilarly saved and reeniade; without it leussia, would not have been munition- ed for three long years or Italy ens abled to overcome her natural eidetic'. eencies of supply end industry, or lerance remain a great manufacturing nation; without it Greete mad not have been held to the Allied cause and Blilettria and Turkey eventually troreed to yield; without it the dietant -emwer of Ameriee could net have been rendered effective or the Allies modhled to import heels* from the nen- teal world alt thut they needed or ould obtain. U. S SfARANE COMPLETES HER TRANSATLANTIC tOYAGE And May Fly Back By the Direct lion4topeRoute. Plynrouth Cable - The eeaplane • It C. 4-a0tnDleted her on :light from the Matted' latates to -day. She arrieed here from Perrot, Beath, On the lest Junla of her jourrrey at 2:28 Dane hetet time, Reen Interest in the event that the fide weather vehleh stseceeded * rainy Awning tretinsteet out lerge .erowen to t tete Ariving eeallteentt, the greet ins Or -Atter were made out off herbor et 2: 4 o'elock. Ph* me, hies etakin.ga 4,ubi,g finish, ewept teatekly eseedwarti, and three minutes • later had settled nown on the waters of the harbor, to the steeompaniment of ceeere front the crowds and salvos from Ail the stent craft within sight --her trans-Aelantle trip ended. The N. C. 4 left Perrot at 6:27 o'- eloek Greenwich, time, and made the distance of approximately 500 milefo thie port In six hours, 50 miautes op at tho rate of nearly 72 miles an hoar. . MAY fox DACE DIRECT. ITlymetith Cable It hats been teamed here unofficially that there is& proapeet that the Ameriean Kea - plane N. C. 4 may fly home over the dIreet Atlantic route from Ireland to Newfoundisnd, tt j understood is coeferearte will be arid 'hero airma- n,. to gisenss he profrzt. HA HONORS -OCEAN FLIERS AFTER RESCUE Hawker and Grieve Got the First Air Force Crosses Given. Vi kUSSNEEO Is Big Thing, Says Grieve - More Details of the • Trip, London cable says: Harry Hawker and LeeuteCommander MacKcarzio Grieve, who reached nere from 'elan, - so, Seetlend, after being resene Du mid -ocean when the airplane ted whicie they were attemptiag to cross the .Ate tattle alighternettr the Danish steam- er ;tlary, were received by MLlg George, at Buclangnaux Palace, tias moraluee elalieetY beetowed on Hawker tUtel Grieve the insignia of the Air Force Cross, They ere the trot actual reclpiente of tells order, An immense erowd gathered la front 'a Bucalngham Palace to wit- ness the arrival of Hawker and Grieve. Who were loudly cbeeral wimp. Oen, made their appearance, Tee crowd sa gave an ovation when they left the palace. The Air Cross with whica King George decorated Hawker and Grieve is a new honor, wench is bestowed for "devotion to duty." M1 JT PERFECT WIRELESS, London cable: The Sopwith air- plane driven by Harry Hawker, on bis unsuccessful attempt to fly across the Atlantic started from St. John's with a gasoline supply of 340 gallons. Half this amount had been used when the airplane alighted In the sea near the Danish tramp steamer Mary. In, talking of the voyage Lieut.- Commander "MacKenzie Grieve said re to -day that, in bis opinion, the futu of aerial navigation lies. in the per- fection •of wireless egalpment for etre planes, by which •the machines may be guided. MORE DETAILS OF THE TRIP. 'London, cable: Describing fur- ther the trip of Hawker and Grieve In their attempt to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, the correspondent of •the Daily Mail SAYE that. Hawker res planed seated the wleole time, but that Grieve •moved about. kneeling to examine the drift indicator, standing up for observation or going forward for the wireless. Each a them ate sandwich and drauk four cups of cotteeliut of a vacuum task. "And 'the next time I ate," said Hawker. "was about seventy-two hours later," adding with a laugh, "yes, we didn't „jam _enough calories, The fact is. • I was very seasick when we get down low, and afterwards for two days in the ship. It was like being in a small motor boat in a bevy :sea when we flew down to look for a ship," Hawk- ed adder. "We were between bigh waves, and were bumped about quite badly." Describing their position when the plane allghted, Hawker and Grieve said that they were in water up to their knees, and the waves were close to the upper plane at times. Tho nose of the machine was turned into the wtntl, and now and again a big wave cleated over R. "I had to laugh," sald Hawke; "when one _big wave, a. real big one, Caine up ilneer the top plane, which up to that time had been dry and shining, tilted eis right out, and 1 aw the trailing edge of the top Diane break clean away." Grieve asked the captain whether he could salve the machine, but the cap- itate regretted his inability to do EO. "We lost everything," he said. "Nee wet aboard the Mary 'without caps a boots. All my log lead been washed out of my poeket except one small ege of rough notes." Both were reluctant to tleecribe thela eelings at the time, but summed them up as follows: Geleve-"I didn't feel excited in the slightest, either at the start or,wheu rescued." • Hawker -"It seemed a very unevent- ful affair. When we started we felt 11, was a 100 to 1 chance for us." Hawker said they spent their time discussing how the Mary was handled, and whether she could salve the Ina - ague and lin appliances. All this ame the tittle boat carried by the Sopwtth inaebine Waa entail beside the Diane, daneing about like a cork. "When the ehiper boat reached the Plane," eald IIttwiter, "site banged eight lute the machine and we hopped on •board. The ship slung a rope out and heeled, the boat bade, and we climbed aboard the Mary. "From a navigating pant of vicar I Placed no reliance on the wireless other than a means of asking the Positions of ettch ships as we might pass," nal Grieve. "The ships had Previously been asked by wlreless from St. John's to make known their Poet. tions It they saw us by day or if we fired lights by night. As we saw no 'vessel, ne ligat was fired. Oe vessel has reported having seen a light, but the 'observers on board may have descried the red glow of the exhaust. "We -preferred to navigate chiefly by celestial observettons, and my posl- tion, as I worked It out by the stars, was virtually correct, I found vixen picked UP. I used a cloud horizon Instead of a sea horizon, as the sea was hardly vistble any of the time we wore in the ah'. During the flret four hours after leaving we passed • over fog banes. The clouds below were like a see, giving a perfeet bora Am. I had only to judge our eistanee above them and take the sun As on a sea horizon. "tip to 1015 o'clock we steered to • make It true ettst course, not magnetic east. During that period I took sights every hour. At 15,25 2 ulnae out that • we were 400 miles from St, John's. We then altered our course to aorta 73 degreee east true, to keep in track of ships, which, we Should Just have entered at that Um°. The clouds were badly broken up, and made agate Im- possible until about 1.30, when 1 Man- aged to get the pole star down to a fiat piece of cloud, and was surmised to flied we were about 150 miles south of our course. We immedietely altered our course a little to the northward to counteract this drift, but from 4 further sight obtained half an hour later I found we were still settnnu southward, and, realizing that a very strong northerly gale must Imve been blowing, made a dechled alteration to the northward, and worked the Ma- chine up to latitude 50 degrees north and into the track followed by ships." Spare the children from suffering .from worms by using Miller's Worm Powders,. the Most effective vernal- fuge that can be got •with which. to combat these insidious foes of the young and helpless. ' There is noth- ing that ,excels this preparation as a worm destroyer, and when its quali- ties become larawn In a household no other wilt be used. The medicine acts by itself, requiring no .purga- tive to aesist it, and so thoroughly that nothing more is desired. LLOYD GEORGE TALKS PLAINLY 'London Cable - (lReuter,$)-In his speech to the Weislt division at Ami- ens, Premier Lloyd George concluded; "The futirre of the vvorid depends upon this aeace •being imposed upon Germany. If it is necessary for you to march toward Berlin; if your leave Is Cancelled, or if your doarture or England is delayed, you will kaow that I alone am responsible, so you had better get your firing party out now. See that the seal is put on the document you helped to write and we shall have a world-wide peace." . GERIVIAN GOLD. Peace Experts Plan to Reg- • ulate Its the. Ca.ble.-geenomIe experts with •the different delegations at the Peace Conference are melting a Close study of the disposition to be made of the gold which the Germans are paying for feed supplies. This gold is being shloped in- to Belgium and stored in the 13elgiunt- Nationa1 Bank. Realizing there wouktbe a general disturbance of world credits If this gold shoutd be taken to the United ;hates, economists have advanced a plan to hold the metal where n is as security ,whIch 'will be gradually redeemed by shipments of eoinmodlties to various parts of the world. They say this would band up a eyele of ,,ereclits which wonid assist in stabilizing mtorld.cornmerce and eventually Make the gold available for the allies who need it as a basis for their r When Holloway's Corn Cure is ap- plied to a corn or wart it kills the roots and the callosity comes out without injury to Get flesh. Boozy 33rennan (trYlag Itlarney)-Pes a faille day, yer honor. Judge -Von are right, and the- amount of yours will be $1.0,--Detroft Free Press, v AIRPLANE LUNII3Elt DEMAND CREATED HUGE INDUSTRY Type of Magnificent .Spruce which Is being cut in Itritteh Columbia. When thenecessary reedjustelente following upon the close of thp war are caMPleted. Vice-Preeident and General Manager W. P. Hinton, of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, predictthat the lumbering induetil in Central and Northern British Columbia and on the Queen Cbarlotte Islande will develop In truly wonder ul fashion, The demand for airplane spruce led to the creation Of d a huge news, un B stry in regions iritish Columbia that were practieally Me. developed. ,Very little exact information was nvailable as to the extent of the spruce areas, but large stuns of money have now been spent obteleing thie valuable data. Scores of logging planta were placed in operation on the Qtteell Charlotte Wanda where little lumbering had previously been don A it tette Of water trtt Won Woe created to facilitate the towing of itcro the liecafe 9tralgjite to the mainland at Prince Rupert, B.C,. Where MOW hoe erected to etree gorge* excluetvely. The oteordination of I UP- MTV 17e4 1l to ever Increasing monthly rail shipmente run Paelfic out of Priece Rupert, these shipments, when the -mac spruee was at its height, being double the entire British HUTTT of normal threw. A new market for the magnificent "pram of 8ritith ist row beteg developed by the creation at Prince Raped of large ithipbuilding plants for the construction of wooden and steel vessels. -NREE YS .NOTICE TO• form le timed, utte oue-half tide quart. ate of lime in paste form tif the dee and At faoprwed? otrrOpillantft ibiletinagre pireeseesottet: TREATY• N • OT SIGNED InDoll'At delay the application until UN F phate Mid Ireplaco the Bordeaux enixe-ttlard or a, pint of nicotine sul- Their Army of Occupatio Will Move on Berlin, ad Blockade Enforced German Counter -Proposals for Peace Make Strong Fight for Colonies Paris cable: Gay one or copies of Inc German countee-Dr ;saw to the Peace terms, printe German, will be !tutted to the A and Assocleted repreeentatives at settles to -morrow. It is probAble document has 'been. - translated . French and thiglish, but the trait tions have nbt yet been px•inted. W ready, 800 -copies will be furnished Allied delegation. The document comprise one hundred and eight PA twe of right for a lasting peace, "of a opo- right waleh was agreed upon," It d in SaYa that the treaty involvee de - BIN etruetion of German econornie life Ver- and subjects the Gamut people to the a financlei elavery, "unparalleled in into the history of the world," elae hen It sUerhRX8a tHreitett'retoTeirniftoiiL force, Wth117 citatiasstareoeplhaeretrittltweottvilhdoltielavnorfld,frg ges, Ilerman statement adds:: "A dying peilosoPhy of inveriale °eke letie end capitalistic tendencies is etea here celebrating its last terrible ting triumph, We appeal to, the innate tO right of men and eatiens under oat- which the Iteitlele state developed, for the Dutch people liberated tame - tee selvtel, the North American nation tee esta iehed its- Indepentlence . and ay, France shook off abeolutism, The ta sustainers of a sacred traditien can- at- not ranee it. to a people whicli has 0,a just won the power to live accord - two rag, Ing to ItelpoonnatRee cwolL110.'N' the The propose' regarding Gerniany's apt forma' colonies points out to the Peaee Conference that an absolutely erg". imPartial settlement of all colonial -be claims was promised In number five • of the fourteen palate mentioned in • President Wilson's message to Con - grass Jan. a 1918, and,elaims that "an ac2!d,,. • pit:Pe:ryti, al settlement proposes a hear - taken, and such hearing has not taken hear- ing of both sides before a decision is er.While appealing to the promise, and especially to the principle that the regulation of colonial claims should take place with due regard egually to the interest of Oovernments and the London. cable: The Allied bl ale Council at Paris has ecnnol ell areangements for again put the blockaae of Germany into tome sign the peace treatY, while c plete plans have been worked oat the fullest co-operation between military and economic forces wh will be employed in case of neeese Immediately following a failure the Germans to siga the treaty, p ting the allied and Assoelated ernments to the necessity of eat Germany will be giveu seventy - hours' notice of the termination of armistice, On tile expleation of t period the Dritteh, Preach_ and Am cans will advance -Into Germ°. Shnultaneously the blockade lent entoreed as tightly as possible. On the amngements .perfected Mg the aver to proteet es far as p sible the tntereets rteutra natio while preventing .the 'entry of fo oe raw material into Germany, tee again be braught into play and G Inany will find herself adequately. off frora the rest of the werld, "PEACE ON A NEW BASIS." Berlin cable: The German co Ler-proposals to • the allied erea terms were published m Berlin day, The reply asserts the willingne of Germany to reduce her armame tthoeaa.ginieeast,er extort than demandee Germany, tbe reply says, refuses accept the punishment terms fixed the, peace treaty,• And it is darter that the Allies cannot -emelt accuse a sentence Germans Minty of respon Witty for punishable 'tads. In 'spite of the great length ti counter -proposals, the • meraorandu does not go into all'eletalls of tee a lied terms, but alinselo place the e tire work of pettee Ma a new basis." Germany offers to disarm all her battleships on condition that part of ber inercahtile fleet be r • stored to her, She proposes that there be no te ritorial chahges without eonsultatio of the populations affected. The cession of laver Silesia an the claims to East Prussia. West leru selacier. d Nernel are emphatically r It Is stipulated that Dantzig sha become a free port and the rive Vistula neutralized. Occupied territory is to be evaeuat ad within six months. 21 the League of Nations is estab ished with Germany as menthe 'Iermany shall continue to adMiniste er colonies in accordence witheth rineiples of the League as its mantle 017, OFFERS TO PAY. Germany offera to pay 20,009,o00 00 marks in gold by the year 192 s indemnity, and to make afueua ayments front 1927 onward to a eta' not in exceas 1100,000,000,000 arks in gold. • , Objectfon is expre,seed to the de and that Germans be eurrendered ✓ trial in enenly.courts, the reply ntending that an impartial author y ought to be instituted to eatab sh all violationel of interuational w by whoever committed. FOR TERRITORIAL GAIN, It In declared bY the Germans that though the speech made by Prost- nt Wilson in October, 1916, reoge zed that responsibilitY for the war sted on the entire European eye - in, the treaty requires •Germany to knowledge that she and her allies re responable for all damage sta- red in oppoeing tountrtes. • it is eerted that it is incontestable that me of the Allied sled associated wens, such as Italy and Rou- ania, eutered the war for the sake territorial conqueste. The German eounteteproptxtala ar- e that there is no baste of riget the obligation to make conven- tion which is to he imposed on rrnarty. Complaint le made that amount of compensation is to fixed by a hostile etranniesion ose powers would enable it to Ininiuter Germany as a bankrupt te. This,at is declared, le incompa- le with the inate right of natione. ONTJNITATION OF COALITION. he Statutes of the League of Na- na, it le further asserted, contra - t nuMerons declarations male leY Governments OPosed to Ger- AY, alld the league es"Merely a tinuation of the eneity coalition, Is added that there is no realize - n of a real league of uatione and t in Its present form the team eetablieltee eftect the alliattee 1814. he reply Plaintaina thet the atr shows elermetty ae a nation. icb einiPlY to be destroyek mut 8: This is a complete repudiation of idea, that every nation has a ht te existence, ana violates the, it tot Oaf -determination." 6E1,10 DETiortalINATioN, he stetenieut then iletaile, tong ectiona to the proposed treat- rit of the Saar region, Itaimedy, ()snot and Alsace and the eastern Wen, and argues that the worst nifestation a the disregard of the t of eelf-deternainettion Is the aration of Danzig from- the Ger. ti Empire. Other abrogatione of right, as eited In the etateMent udo the refusal - to allOw the ions of GerMene in Gerinan- tria to unite with Attetria, while er millions of Germans are ed to remairt under the new cite -Slovak state. etIon III. of the -counter-propos- reiteratea the declaration that draft of the Peace Treaty Is la meat tontradietion toe the bade Ite- governed," says the•German note, "the t* proposal Is made to refer colonial •questions to a :Vale' committee. This its committee, to be formed of manda- by 'tortes and experts of both parties, shall take as the subject ot its delib. to eration the aforementioned point five by and other points rpeintioeed• in Presi- dent :Wilson's four speeches of ,1918 ed referring to the subject; Secretary nd Lansing's note a. Nov. 5, 1918; the article of the drat of the peace eon- s, relating VS- colonial questions, 4' and section nine of the German League of Nations proposal, es well 1- as the interests . of the populations 11- and the Governments concerned." The proposal argues the demand of that Germany renounce her overseas a possession cannot be reconciled g. with the armistice terms, and holds the view that Germany's claims toetere• r- restoration of her colonies is just. a Germany, it says, "Is ready, should the League of Nations be formed in d which she is immediately elected with 3- equal rights, to carry on the adminis- e- tration of her colonies, in accordance with the principles of the League of Nations, and in given circumstances as 1,1 its mandatory." Point five in President Wilson's fourteen points for peace were as fol- • low"lesr;ee, open-minded and abeolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial r, claims, based urion a strict observance r of the principle that- in determining 6 all each questions of sovereignly the • interests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equitable' claims of the Governnaent - whose title Is to be, determined." GERMAN PRESS COMMENT. 1 Berlin, May 28. -The newspapers comment at great length on the Ger- man counter-prOosals. Taeodor Wolff, In the Tageblett, says that the whole - counter -draft eorresponds to the demo- cratic ideals of right, and in no way to military nationalist conceptions. The - demand that the occupation troops - shall return home in six months the latest, might also be reckoned as meant to effect the preservation of German sovereignty. The Vorwaerts saYs: "Everyone in Germany has read the text with heavy henrts. If sober reason prevailed at Parts, it would *jump at this pro - emit." The Vorwaerts, however, thinks that the signing of the Entente draft be insisted upon. • Attacked by Asthma, The first fearful sensation is of sUffoeation, Watch hour. by hour becomes more desperate and hopeless. 'l'o such a case the relief afforded` by Dr. e. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy seems nothing less than miraculous. Its help is quickly apparent and soon the dreadful attack 15 mastered: The asthenttie who has found out the de- Dendability f this sterling remedy will never be without it. It is sold everywhere. ft 11 0 ID -a 18 fo co It 11 la al de ni re te ac we 85 fe so 121 of gu 54 for ale the be wh ad sta Lib tio die the inc con It tio the, re - of tre wh add the rig obj me Mor trot Ma tittle sep Ula this loci mill Aus oth fore Sr tie the eh* 0 • 4 14+-4-4-14 44.4-444.444-4 0-4 a YO U R SPRAYING (ExPerimental Ferns' Note). At this stasoti of the year partieue tar attention shottld be paid to the Prevention of ravages by disease and insect pests. It is possible by a timely applleatton of the proper sprays to colitrol effectively many of out worst diseasea and pests, Spray materials may be elivided into three Messes, First, there are the fungicides, such as Bordeaux mix- ture and lime sulphur wtash, which are need to control or to prevent the velopment of fungous diseases euch as Apple Seale and Potato 13light. See- ondly, there are potion sprays, •such as lead arsenate, for the -control a biting insects such as the Potato Beetle, Tent Caterpnittra, etc, and, thirdly, the contact sprays, suck as keresene emulaton or nleotine tut- pliate, for the control of sucking In- sects like pIant lice. By seletting the proper under Niel of these three headings, a combined spray conteining all three can be used and, thug, In a single applieation, one has a fungleide And a comple in- secticide totnbitted. A good com- bined spray is made up as follows: 4 -4 -40 -Bordeaux, eonsIsting a 4 *ponds unslaeked linte, 4 pounds sop - Er sulphate, and 40 gallons of wie- the diseese .or pest lute become eve tient by Its ravages, but make the application in time to prevent the tlamage, An application or Spray ls not a euro, it Is a preventative. Do not think that one applicetion is sufficient. Remember that at this season of the rear follagey grows rapidly and it large anuMnt of new lee! surface is soon expostel atter an •application is Tirade, and it is this new uucoated :white which is a source of Infection. Three to four epraye dur- ing the SOASOn will be necessary to keep the beeves covered and the plants free from disease etra pests„ Melte the applications thoroughly, drenchlua all parts of the Plant with a fine, mieWthe spray. A coarse spray Is not as effective as a finely divided one, You have not already done so, make aPPlication at once to yeur nearest Experimental Farm or Dis- trict Representatives for A Spray Cale ender, or apply tilrect to the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, These Calendars will give you full instruc_ tons as to mixing and applying sprays for the control of all pests and diseases, Don't delay. Do it now. • ANY ENGLISHMAN WORD 00 !'.AME Hawker Tells Why He Speeded His Start. Wanted to Beat Americans in Crossing. . London cable Says: Speaking et it Tluncheou given to -day in his and LieuteCommander Grieve's honor, Harry G, Hawker deprecated the organization which had won for the United States the honor of the first crossing of the Atlantic by a heavier than air macheae. 2e declared tha,t it was not a serious atteraPt, with a ship stationed at "every twenty Yards," Hawker continered: "If you put a ship every fitty miles, it shows you have uo faithan. your motor," Hamater diselOsedthat on Seturday night, immediately ereceding his start, he and Raynhain had agreed that un- less the wind chauged they would start on Sunday for a flight by way of the Azores aid Portugal, The wind veered slight eatarday night enough to give Hawker and Grieve the chance to start from ;their airdrome; but it was unfavorable for Raynham. He declared • that although the weather was itofavorable, the suc- cess of the Americans in reaching the Azores forced hint toestart. "Any Englishman here," he added, "would have done the same thing under the seine eircumstances." Lieut. -Commander Grieve said he was very nervous over his navigation abilities when he started, but soon ascertained that the navigation of an airplane was the same as of a ship; there were no difficulties unfit the clouds precluded the taking of sight- ings, He predicted that the navigat- ing of airplanes would be a simple matter in the. future. The Daily Mail's a5,000 consolation Purse was presented to the two air- men. After their reception by King George awkor and Grieve sa,w Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales. The ear of the aviators was be- sieged by the crowd as it left. the palace, and it was with difficulty it was able to proceed. - STRAWBERia SHORTCAKE The genuine oldefasleioned straw- berry shortcake, made by the real Southern book, will always dwell as a wonderful memory in the minds of those fortunate enough to partake of it, and if the !following directions are carefully followed any careful house- keeper can prepare and serve it hi all o its glory exactly As it used to be "down South before the war." Two bons ot beerles should be used in making shortcake for a final- ity of four or five persons. Divide the 'berries when they are hulled and e reserve a little more than a third of " the largest and most perfect ones for m the top. Crust the remainder lightly. m sprinkle with powdered sugar end set aide. Make it about twenty minutes before it is to be served. Sift together one and a half cupfuls a of pastry flour. three level teaspoon- e fats of baking powder and half a tea.- - c spoonful of salt. HaVe ready a scant halfecupful of chilled shertetneg (com- posed of half 'butter arid half butter • substitute), rub this quickly but taor-e a oughly into the flour with the fieger ad tips and Wet to a soft dough with cold milk, Pat or roll out liglatly, so that it will tit an oblong pan that has bean well greased, brush over the tert with a little melted butter and bake; In a very quick oven. Be Very care- rt, Ad not to handle the dough more than possible, to work quiekly and to got it in the oven as, soon as you ean after the liquid is added, at When baked, Split apart and spread th NRIS OF THE *AY The Hoffman Ministry, of Bavaria;Has B,esigned •Office. OREM& BANKS ,Obicago Packers Predid ' Immediate Drop in Beef' Prices. Wilulam Wedd, the. last ourearate the old Upper Canada College, 4104 Toronto in las 950. year. Hawkeret airplane, which watt sal- vaged„ is to be Placed On eellibltien in London. According to a statement made in the British /Rause of Conurions there are under a nedillon Idle la the 'United Kingdon. The Canadian Trader," a 251.foor freighter for the Department of blur - Me, waa•litunched at the Port Aethur shipyards. At Thautesford, fourteen. milea' -east of Lander', John Fitzgerald, 'aged twenty-five, whose home Is at Iadian River, near Havelook, Oat., Wee drowned. After serving the city faithfully for the past 38 years, Chief of Pollee P. W. Randall is about to ,relinquIelleette duties as head of the Guelph. Arno Department. Ituli tiremen went -on strike': Sat- urday morning to enforce a demand two:3r jaaindoatibule-nipodleetoaonad so.ystena the eight They were granted thbevairlisdtitinTs. ,Sunday. There was a brilliant scene 'at -the Guildhall Saturday, when H. R., H. the Prince of -Wes was admitted- to the freedom of the city of Loadera Swalloceriag a small raetal lino in a package 'at daatlY she was eating led to the death ot 'slanted Yvette Richard, two year ojde of Montreal. Tao Hafieraa Ministry has resigned, according to a message from Bam- berg, BEve,arlas It' is expected that a Ministry on a broader basis well -be formed, - A Hungarlan eleteetation, in behalf of the Goaerament of Herr ItrmeubeY, Leader a the Independence pert); and Gabriel Baron, has offerea the Hungarian throne to the Seabian Crown Prince, Alexander, Mellione cif hand grenedes, Manu- fectured for 'use.against the Gamlen aemy by „the 0144 fighting units, will be used dada banks to endoorage thrift among' the school children of the United States. A decrease in the price of beef is "Immediatelwat'hand," according to a statementIssued at Chicago byethe Bureau of Public Relations, American MeatExilePsateAke.rvs'inA.tsoadtiotc;iawthioon.m et waith• . a serious accident early last week•evhile heisting a arate a the Speedwell:Iles- pital, Gualah, Idoeirtg his balance, and falling on his heed to the paver:tient Is dead. • The Poles breve occupied Stanislau, - Macke seventy-fiye miles south-- south-east of Lemberg, accordieg to an official anneanieement from -War- saw. The Ukealnlan garrison. of Stanielau was disarmed by the Polish forces. Mr. Mark Sheldon, of the New South. Wales Chamber of Commerce, has been appoiuted to succeedelion, 4. Braddon As the Comratinweatles catrunissioner to the •'United States, Three nurses, one from -Toronto, , and two from New York, were killed in an autoneobile accident near Chateau Thierry in Fiance at Sunday, aedord- ing to cable despatches received in Toronto. Miss Ella Walton, was the Toronto girl killed. • The giant aliship R-34 has been for - many taken over by the BrItteh Ad- miralty, and It bee been announced that an attempt will be made: to flY across the Atlantic from England within the next fortnight. • The Pan -German Union proPeees to ntroduee in the German National As- embly a resolution inviting fiat -for- mer German Daimler to return to Germany, accordlng to an Exchange Telegnaph deoatch from Berlins An emergency meeting of the * Do- minion Executive of the G.W.V.A. Is alled for June 5 ao discuss "the pre - resent ;rational situation. Announce - eel to •thie effect was.male be. Do - !Won Secretary C. A. Macneill. The GoVernment. apparently alai - fixates trouble in Berlin in the • near uture, tor the Minister Of Defeeee, ustav Nceke, liar tightened up the crews ore martial law under whieli the ity still Wee. The 'Union Natural Gas • Co., Struck nother well in Dover field, Kent ounty, and it Is believed It will be s good as thetas, whleh le now pro- uelng two million cable feet Of gas very 24 henna Harley,Sliepard, Agee 20 yeas, son 1 Freak Shepard, Was drowned at raraford 'Allot,' bathing ttbove the rand Trunk bridge It is believed at the young tallow bad a fit to Inch haaves eubjeet, The Australlart aeamen's etanpulsorY &mance has adeouened until June 9, ter deciding fo saanit to a plablacite e queetion of Maturing the ship genercneely with butter, •Pill with a eo thief layer of the sweetened, mere:red ta fruit and cover the top with the Lula Belated berries and sprihkie with in powdered sugar and serve the remand.- a or of the fruit and j1110e in n pitcher, ee so that it may be used with the cream to as a sauce. Seine housekeepers, In w the very far South, pour thet. rentainie er of the emitted' fruit over the cake before it is eaten, as atherwise It •ea rendei•s the cake soggy. de Thick chilled cream is the ilecnue pe Treatment Dar excellence to serve with ea, any shortcake, and if you would tot e thie delicacy at its beat have the take ,na lukewarm and the ereatit as sold as itit. 1)08040. rthwitla peneing refertuce to a Mutt arbitratian of matere dieputte rt is offleitally anhounced that 0W4 g to the development of the (taus. - en in Um Baltic States, it has been ailed to despatch a British, lilisalen Vetonla, LatVea, and Lithuanla, ith branehea Revel, labau ant ovno. A victim, it Is alleged, of an auto se between two grocery. trueke, Pre rick Antm nine-year-old eon of rey A:Mos, Alma Street, Bee dead At antford, walla several etrione Argos hang over the head of a lad med :Walton, age.' 15, evIto was ming the tar which struck the bee. Dr. William Nichol, one of the old. t and beet known of Brantferd'e Yeletans,• died after a long illnees. I2, U100 down With influent& t Caolner, Dr, Niehol 'WM out of o originator e of the Mate- nt in Canada. No word hae yet been recanted of • the fate of Captain MAneell R. James, Watford, Ontario, formerly of tbo Yal Air Force, who has been nligi* g since Wednesday, wbGn he at" melted a flight from Atitortie rite '3oston and re urn n ompetition the Pulitser ea001) AvlatIon Tro- Y, SHE LOST IT, Oh "sedenuret." said 8 -year old Pitizabotht "dive ine 1iiee6 ut tautly. teepee." ''Itte "Why." SW mamma. "what did you th do with the pleee itult gaVe you?" losed it," replied the little InlAa. "I Me Jess put It In rny mon: and It failed right down in My 'tontach." ea of Mr. Styles -You know if women get Ro 1110 vote they will have to serve eel juries. Mrs. Styles -Well, suppoee we te er, to whielt is added 2 pounds or It do, I euppoe fa wouldn't Mite us as t for pb ng to diesgree as mime of the men.- Onkere Statesman. mete of lead or 2 ponds or emu- 'X