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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1919-10-16, Page 71.• "g7e'r."'re,itereere ,Peeteettic se eye, *see 'etre, te: emesetieststem+retteste 4 Buddet of News_ From the Oid Land ;, The, War MettiOrtat for Berkshire le On the beach at Allhallows, Kent. to take the fent of a nutuutnent, On etr, alarke, a Strome ehemiat, picked a'atell Over SAO 'lames will be record- up a mussel shell, in which he foetid ed. ° four email pearls, two black anti twe John Web, Aeyal ArtillerY, One of white, the few remaining Crimeau veteratet, lute died at the village et Bere Aegis, in Dorset, aged $4, air. Andrew IrViue, Liverpoel, hae rldden on a tnotor-Ceele to the ton Voel Fres, oear Llanfairfechari, Witicheia 3,000 feet Melt, Polir German guns, tvhich had been preeented to Farnham, were removed lam the reereation ground (luring the night and pitehed into the river. Tbe Captain, secretary and membere et the Bargoed Fere Brigade have ten- slerett their resienatione to the Gelli- gaer Council, decliniug ate be further treated as serfeat Mrs, Ann 3/terrine, of Strait Geri - loch, bas celebrated her 102nd btria- dee, ahe haa oaly once travelled in a train, going tram Dingwall to Nairn some 50 years ago, When be aces to Wrexham to re- ceive the freedom of the borouelo the Premier, instead of the mai silver eaeket, will, at his own request, 'have a ellyer tea service tor his tette. aet tee farm managed by 'women at Great Bidtake, Devontildre, the price reeentla offered per acre for corn was the' bighese for any Food Production Department farra Dever). Tbe fig- ure realized for pate was R13 10s, per acrbe aturing the dentolition of au old boa a stone coffin wae (Recovered coa- tis/tang human remains which are Ms patria,ehal length, - posed to be these oC one or the monks Thomas Antieell, 23, a Canadiari living in the Abbey over a thew:tend eoldier, was acquitted in the Old Bailee yeare ego. The Kingston Coroner ' of a charge of attempting to obtain 1;4 lb. 5d. by means of a "Bank of Engraving" note. During a violent thunder:aerie 17 black -faced sheep belonging to Mr. Richard Wharton, farmer, of Bullgill, near Kirkby Stephea, Westmoreland., were killed outright by lightning. They were sheltering under a syca- more tree at the time. Bangor County aounell has instruct- ed a• committee to negotiate for the sale of a number of oil painting% said to be the works of Italian masters, which have come into their possession. They were brought to 13a.ngor e see. captain many years ago, A woman Is in a serious condition in Abergavenny- Hospital rroin being bitten by an adder. Mr,. Henry T. Rutherford, aoroner foe South Northumberland, has died suddenly while on a holiday at Gils- land,, aged 61. Sir Patel Makins, of Rotherfieid Court, has presented an open space to the town ef -Henley-on-Thames ae a memorial -to the. tate Lady Makins, The electric- lighting station at the Lotbian mansion house of Thursted has been struck ly lightning, set on fire and totally destroyed. Nearly 100 tons of hay and etriew were destroyed by a fire on a farm at Orton -on -the -Hill, near Ashby-de-la- Zoueli. The- farm build'egs were saved. It has been decided that the Ber- mondsey war memorial shall take the form •of monument and a children's hospital. An effort is being made to collect R100,000 for the purpose. Cottneillor, George 'Wright has ac - °opted the invitation to become Mayor of Lancaster in succession to Coun- cillor William. Briggs, who has held the -office for' the "record" term of six years. During the -war the lifeboats of the Royal National Lifeboat Aesociation were launched on more than 1,800 oc- casion.% and eaved more than 5,300 lives; 552 a the launches were dir- ectliy due to the war and resulted in ectly due to tee war and resulted i Goodall et White, Limited, Brook The Women'e Freedom League has streeteGeasgow. Au extensive build.- written to 'the Home Secretary ask- ing and much valuable machinery was log for the release af the W.R.A.F. clerk, Mae Kathleen Smith, who was eenteneed by Mr. Justice Roche at the Old Bailey to four months' int- prieonment tn the second division for attempting to smother her baby. Mr. R. C. Flint has been eleeted Master or the 13athet elakere' COM- pany. For three yeato bees have made a hive in the porch roof of lelitwick (Beds) Parish Church. Tbe extra pollee pay will coot the Deueech Deer Forest, Ross -shire, Cap- ratepayere or Somereet. ea3.000 per lain George Warre, of Glendfield. Ard. annum, involving an aatlitional rate gay, brought down two stags with one shot, o f2a.d, in Um Me, Harold Lansdowne, curator of the Victoria Art Clattery, at Bath, committed suicide while sufferittg se- vere prostratiou following an attack - of Influenza. Veterans whose meted ages total 1,- 750 years, played a cricket match, 16 Miss Frances Statiley, of Itotheeter, aged 19, swam in the Medway from Aylestord to 1.ochestereeten mile—in 3 hours 52 minutes. The last three miles were eovered in the dark. °Otte of His Majesty's bad bargains," is how Trumpeter O'Brien, a Crimean veteran, described himself at the "Vic- tory" dinner of the 4th Hussars. He has bad a pension Once 1880, Feeding that the voting of Limerick County Council on the appointment of a rate collector was go'ng against a eaudidate named John O'Gradte 300 laborers broke in and wrecked. the council chamber. leaving lost hie medal In an explo- sion many years ago, Private John Richardson, a Mutiny veteran, who will be 94 in December, wae presented with. a specially made replica at the Tanner street institution, Bellowed. say. Sir John Henry Kennaway has died at his residence, Escot, Ottery St, Mary, Devon, ;teed 82. Born in the year of Queen Victoria's accession, Sir John was a member of the House of Commous for an unbroken. period of forty years, repreeenting the Honiton division as a Conservative from 1870 to 1910. For the last two years he was "Father of the House," and was a man of notable preftenee, etanding 6 feet 3 inches, and wearing a beard of die. not consider tin inquest neeeseary. During the demolition of an old twilit); long unoccupied, in the High- etreet, Eltham, a number of coins, , ..bearing dates from 1648 to 1807, have ',been foOnd in the rafters of an upper room, to -ether with curious knives ana lorkst-cif an early Englieh pattere. A remarkable story was told to the or 'Wight coroner in connection with the death of Charles Cowd, a gracera assistant, who, it was stated. cut eta throat on August 20 and laY aatitsused shed on Gurnard Cliffs tor,* days without food. He was alfve when found, but died In a feW hours: A doctor said Cov,-d's =eclat- ed.condition bore out hie stateraeut... acalloroughte prosperous holalaY seaseh has resulted in the cleat -Me oft of heavy rate arreare accumulated dun- lug:war, years. Iheritig a recent power breakdowri in liateast a newspaper firm bought a tan% engine and quickly linked it uP with the dynamo. Dr. Charles Mercier, the `authority on Mental diseases, who has died, aged 67, atepournemouth, was in hie youth Whip:boy, waxehouseman, and clerk. • Five Pounds a lb. hairbeen obtained by _tee Epsom Rural Council for the pepaermiet ell from the crop of pep- permint grown at the Counellte out- fall -Works at Cobleam. it was stated in Hendon Revision come that a woman entitled to a vote ettra,a so tired of filling in forms that ehe did not wish to be bothered any more. Her vote was allowed. 31r. David Harriet. chairman of the Tweedmouth sawmills and of the Chirnside paper-mille, and a director of other Border companies, died sud- - denly at Berwick, at the age of 63. Edward Sims, 51, a baker's foreman at Cheltenham, was killed while sonat- ina the Inside of a dough -kneading machine. His head was caught by the revolving knives, and he was pulled Into the machine. , Damage officially estimated at aboat £50,000 was caused by a fire at the lace curtain factory of Messrs. destroyed. Mrs, Brimfield; a 'native- of Oxford, died within a few mouths of reachilig her 100th year. Wigan has given notice to tramway- .. car • conductresses, whose jobs are to be given to ex-soldiees. Aged 70, Mr. John Fitzgibbon, Na- tionalist M. P. tor South. Mayo 1011- - :18, bas died at CastIerea. . DeerstaIking for the* first time • in Mr, Jamea Fairlie Gemmill, lecturer an. zoology at Glasgow Provincial Training College, bas been appointed to .the chair of Natural elie,tory University College, Dundee. The mew Ealing Polite Court, er- opted before the war, to eerve the die- triets of teatime, Han:well,. Greenford. a -side, In aid of Wycombe's- War Me. and part of Southall, will be opened at mortel Hospital. The yoUngest play. the end of October. er wits.50 end the oldest 72. 'rhe death lute taken place in Lon- - don of Mr. Tom .1tobiuson, tor Mr. Arthur BroWn, engineer of Note Many years Wile the. orgatazitig eecre- thigham for 39 years, and known as tary of the Postmen 6 Federation, and the "Maker of Modern Nottingham," wee some time ago took over the gen- has reeigned his Post. eral secretarya duties of the fedora - Sister Hannah ITudson, who has be- Hon. gUn her ministry at the Unitea „Meth- At the launeh of the P. and 0. odist Church, Pettypool, is the first steamer Eaton, the largest yam'. yet woman preacher appointed to built at Goole, the vessel lett the waye eburch in Monmouthshire. at such a epeed that ehe was carried With a crew of nine, the traveler acmes the elver Ouse on to a wall eo ('Yrano left Grimsby on. August lath the opPosite Ode. Sho was palled oft ra, week's tithing, but has not been on the next tide. heard of, She makes the fourth Grimsby trawler to disappear recent- ly And ia thought to have struck a Mine, Aged 78, maii 'engaged in the har- vest at Ash.weil, Herts, -who le de- eerily:id as an expert worker -With the seythea earns enough money to dis- qualify him for ad old -age penelon. A eaval pensioner Ann June, 1856, apish Westoby, of Great Yarmeeith, Who jobied the navy in 1852, and had part of his right shoulder blown away at Sebast0p01, has died, Aged 81. Ito death has occurred at TraMore Of Mr. Martin j, :Menthe, feetaerly tloitalist Member of Parliament for East Watertord. Mr. Murphy, who Waft in Ms alst elite', was a native of the. city of Kilkennte where hie father Wele an aotel proprietor. 'Potirteen thouleaud Denali:lave wait. tag for passage to South AfrIce, and alr \Valiant Hertley, et SeethpOrt, Med Aintree, has been invited to be alnyOr of Collie next year. Yealterilre Wold farm. near Dria field, bele/eerie to Mt J. J. Calder. hare been sold, chicly to tenant& 2,3411 Acres fettihing .1:89,000. arriatield Council, Yorks, pays 2d. tigeh rat toile, and ea Bridlington pay* for beads, orie member teen that eitchere may get paid twin. Vahen Colcheeter star hery watt Opened the learnt' nitde the firet haul from a dredger, rani then leek the erne n anel fine -rimed. The Rev. Crawrord, father of ateears. J. N. and V. P. S. Crawford, the cricketere, retires this month from the chaplaincy of Cane Dill Cie C.C.) Mental Hospital muter the age - limit. He le aloe resigning the local councillonship beeattso he cannot find a hotute near. Itammeremith branch of tbe Posts Mona Federation have rreeolved to refrain from the "degrading and per- nielous ettetem of colleethig part oa our wagea awn the public in the ebape of Christmas boxes." FRANCE SPEEDS HER REBUILDING Ras So Par Restored 60,000 Rouses Of the 550,000 Wrecked in the War. Paris Cable---alaptain Andre Tar- dieu, member of the French Peace Commieeion, epeaking at a meeting of the Freneh-Ainerietal Club, ?cave in- tereeting figurer; on the recenetruetion trorit eeeompliehed sin,* the armies Bea allay thoutiand of the 550.000 lioueeti in the bettie area, wreekett ehelitire, have been rebuilt, 2,016 alto- nietrtes ot 3246 kilometree ot railway deetroyed have heen repaired, and 700 et the 1.675. itilometree Names rendered useitee in the course of bee: - titian are again in contuaselon. Ot the 1,160 plante deetroyed be the th- eme, 588 have been repaired, Rqu all F remarkable progrree le be- ing made in restoring to cultivation the vast areas in the devastated re - gloat, which the end of the war left with their rich surfaee soil plowed under by artillery fire, eown with dangerous uneeploded sheltie and cut up by trenettes and tholleands of melee of rusting barbed wire. The devastated area. entbraeed 4,500,000 acme. -Of thee approximatelY 1,000,- 000 man have been returned to tbe farmers and 500,000 aeres of it are ready for the Heed. Ten million metree—over 6,000 milee—ef barbed rat etzt.le allenave? etihl ed olltisenrtaatillog-tita. d and Car" The yield of taxes, what was 5,000,- 000,000 franca in 1913, lute been raised to 12,000,000,000 francs in 1019, ,Commiesioner Tardieu addea that a Country which had lost uearly e,000,000 workere killed or ineapacitated be . war, which had been deprived by in- vailon of one-fifth of ite proatukive -capital, and which nevertbelees of ite own efforts had accompliehed quell a showing at; that recited above, has a right to rely on the effective belp of Ito Allies to restore completely its economic and financial etatue. Small but Potent—Parmelee% Veg. etable Pills are entail but they are effective in action. Taeir flue quali- ties as a corrector of stomach trou- bles are known to thousanas, and they are in constant demand every- where by those who. know what a safe and Mantle remedy they are. They need no introduction to those acquainted with them, bat to those who may not know them they are pre. sented as the 'best preparation on the market for disorders or the Mon:each. HOW CARD NAL FOO ED HUNS Mercier Sent Out Letters by Shrewd Ruse. Germans Thought' Them Cheese Wtappers. • New York &op:Acta—In the comae of a speech to the eferthanls' Association at tee Hetet Aster to -night Cardinal Mereter told them a story of a round Dutch cheese that, as an instance or top -grade ,Imeiness :melon, and ,effi- ciency set every practical man of them rubbing his hands with a relish that none tried to conceal. "At the frontier between Holland and Belgium -we have a senithary with seven or eight hundred students in it, and for their living their receive very frequently a number of Dutch theeses in boxes. I had there a very good friend, a priest, Many of the boxes come to Belgium from Holland for commerce. And ae the Germens liked the cheese, temy allowed it to pass into our country. "Well, I thought I could send •my letters in a very sure way this wee'. When the chenes teem to our Bel- gium seminary from Holland they arrived -wrapped. In papere whicb. were afterward carefully sent back. By thens of course, they were old end stained. So I wrote my letter on paper watch I had carefully made old and filthy and soiled looking, and my friend in due time reeteved it. lee took it and published it, and had it sent to Franee and England, and You in America got it. from England, and it was pebliseed here 4 on the same morning that German officers were , upbraiding me for it at home." ONE MORE HUN tiE EXPLODED See : . Origin of German Pretext for Declaring War. Flew Over Nuremburg, Dr.opped No Bombs. Paris Cable —.The origin of the Germajt story that French airmen flew over the city of Nuremberg and dropped bombs on Aug. 2, lel& which was made ono of the pretexts for de- claring war on Prance. was brought Out yesterday at a heartng by a court- martial in an army airplane case. Tee man who settled the historical point was M. Unne, ,forinee edministra tor ta the Salmson Motor aeorporahoti, ono of the witnessee, Toward the end of Ju'y, 1914, teeti- fled Unno; the Salmson .Compaity had, put a machine in the hands co Aviator Laporte for a flight from Paris to Conetantinople. Engine trouble compelled' Laporte to land la Bavaria. He intended Untie of Ilto mithap and the latter, he said, 1 took a train and went ta the plaee where Laporte had eame down. The machine was repaired, and Laporte was about. to start off again when he was prohibited front doing so by the German authorities. On Aug. 1, how- ever, he was released and told he might realm to France by way of Nurneemburg. Lerma:, in making his way home, flew over Nuremburg, added M. __Ilene*, ....a.and 'was tired at several times while so doing. Women and Asthentee WOuten are nuntbered among the sufferere asthma by the ethntleas thoultands. In every climate they will be founda helplest; in the grip of tills relentless dieease uhless they have availed themselves of the proper remedy, Ter. ,T. It, Kellogg's Asthma Remedy bas brought new hope and life to mann much. Testimoniala, sent entirely Without solicitatioil, show the enore Mous benefit it has wrought among women everywhere. .40414.0,-. 140011Ste a Palatable r ood, 'rho Greeks valued grasshoppere very higitly as delicate, according tit Perkin, and mane tribes of Indians est theist with relish: and MOM. Scien- tists on field work have dined with nee (Ives on locust Coshes end report thent edible and nourishing. E.gypt bait a railroad which rune in etraight line over the &mete for a dietanee of 4,1 Miles. Dalmatia • Soniethisi as to lite Country Ole bases sad Juia.Slava Are Quarrelini About• • The following Inforietation colleen- ing Bolebeviet rule in Russia beei been obtalned partly from official hourcee and partly from reeponsible Publica- tithe, The Bolshevists hare set up reign of anaroby itt Russia. They Maintain. that one elase Of the van - Melte, the taecalled proletariat,. thouid monopolize power; thee dellY to all other einem any part lu the manaaement of their conneetnity, and indeed any of tno ordinary human rights. When a Constituent Assemble was elected by oniversal suffrage it was found that the majority of the inembers were not in. Moor of the Boa sheviki; and the Bolshevists, happen- ing to be in possession of armed forces, dispersed the Constituent As- sembly, Their theory is identical with Tearisme the only difference is that, tvhereas under it onFO cla,ss of the community ruled harshly but achieved scene Progress (such as the building of the Siberian railway), under the pre- sent state of affairs another elase of the community rules cruelly and de- structivelY. Indeed. Leuine himself quite lately has used words which seem to imply his intention of estebliseing a new aristocracy, Not so long ago he wrote a pamphlet entitled retitle Next 'reeks of the Soviet Power"; this was issued by a Boleitevist publishing houtie Berne. Ia it he defends Ma methods and his theory of proletarian dictator- ship, end says: "Not only long weeks, but long months, years even, will be required for a new octal class, up to the Pee - .sent subjugated and oppressed be misery and ignorance, to adjust itself to a new situation. take up its work 'again and find its organizers." Not only is the Bolshevist rule un- democratic; all the infOrniatioa which COMOS hi is to, the effect that to a remarkable extent, it is non-Ituss slam It is fairly well known that very few of the Boiehevist leaden be- long to the Russian people; additional .facts Which bear onattris curious state of affairs constantly become known. For example, tO teke recent items of news alone. the eomminder or a Bol- shevist army near Petrograd is a Greek by birth; two other Bolshevist armiee are eommanded by Austrians; A fourth army is led by a German cot thel, an officer of the Gerrami Gen, eral Staff; one diplomattennesiOn de. spatched in May leet-to Switzerland watt headed 'hy a 'Lett earned Derzine; another, sent more recently to Switz- erland. is headed by a man who is a :German sate -act. The case of Trota., ky is notorious. The difficulty rath- er is to mentiou )3olshevist leaders who are of Russian blood. Yet these aeople bear sway over many, many millions of Russians. When we pass from the leaders to the armed forces we find that ethis condition still holds good, These al- ien leaders maintain their control over the part of Russia which they hold — perhaps half of what Once was the Russian empire—by means of an el - len, mercenary soldiery: The Bolshe- vists have two sorts of troops: (1) alien, highly -paid mereenavies; (2) conscript Russians, forcibly enrolled and driven by the fear of death, The latter type of force is increasing rap- idly, but the Bolshevists keep their grip upon it by means of the mercen- aries, and these latter form the core ot the system and. form the real streugth ot tile Bolshevist rula The mercenary troops receive wages whieh are reported to amount to betWeen. 400 and 500 roubles—in face value from $200 to $250 —a month; in addition, they are given abundant food, while most oe the po- pulation are starving; tint sin effect they are highly paid. aitho are these People? Thousands of them are Ger- mane; thousands of there are Wag-- Yars; these Men fought against' Rua - els., were captured, and have been armed, fed far better than the vatit majority of the Russian people, paid lavishly, and emoloyed 'against the Russians. Others are Letts, a non- Russian people living near the Battle, whose soldiers for the moot part haYe a good record in the war, bet 60111e of whom fell under the eway of the Bolshevists. Yet more are Tartars. Strange as et may seem, some are Chinese; it is literally true that the Bolehevists are using armed China- Rmuessie itae oppreee the native Russians in To giVe a Concrete Instance, an Eng- lish newspaper not long ago men- tioned the experience oe a, partieuear Russian wonean; she was a widaw, livingein Moscow with one chile, a littleboy; who was obliged to take into her 1101)6 and wait upon several Lettish eoldiere; they caroused every night, and amused themselves by tolling her horrible stories of the tor- tures they had infileted that tlay Upon "bourgeoleid." Tee weenan Waa Ruesiara the people whore. they boasted of torturing were lees- Sianel, the men Were not Ituseians, Were aliens in latuteow. This alien, mercenary, Gerrean, Magyar, Lettesh, Tartar and 'Minato array, as already stated, is the main- epring of a military astern whieb, maws stopped, threatens to beconse Very forMidable. Having control of the civil population by Metals of these tones, the Boleheillets are re- introdUcing conscription; cote of the tango irenies of the eitetatioft ia that' these Men, lift° began the deWriftel of old RUSSIA by abolifiblag the death acinity in the army, lutee brought it back new that they are in MO eaddlea They are 'tieing it on the slightets pretext, old are forcing Ituatiates to serve Ithder a rigid die- tipline. 'They have German and Austrian officere to- Rid thent, sand have forced Many Ites.sian offieers of thie old army, bythreatening to kill their wives and eltildreri, to help to train the neW conscript army. Thua, if lett alone, they 'Will in tinea develop, aroend their janitisary come of Chinese and other foreigners', a large, well-tralried conscript army. Trotsky bee Annotmeed that be alms at an army of throe millione; at pro- em -it they (teem OS have aseetebled end under trebling, about half a Million 1nfin. this mass of then is 111 -organiz- ed And badly trained 'ea yet, bat it is hardening rapidla, 'While these forms are in eight, they ara 110t ready; at the moment Writieg one of the afterlife; things Abotxt the Whole fade of atfaire the ellIallneess of the erndee 'which are eerrying en that dreadful inter - tactile war. White Russia hats It FLA tpopuiatton, of perhape a ImOdred Mut thirty millions, and before the reV0- IntiOn pUt into the field armiees of anent millions, it le ito lamentable ill -organized that all thi etorturing el the land has so far been done by core- paratively email nutubere, including the Germans Who are helping them, the total forces in. eo net and mu- ll:Me a colintre as Russia at the ais- le:teal of, or in fiYmpatiat with the NJ,* Omelet rulers at +Moscow have awe between 150,000 and 209,000 men; in- arIllie6 often are 5,000 or 6,- etreng; and yet they terrorize the mass ot the population. Every :week wee their numbers increaaed and their etrectivenees enhanced, The Bolshevists have robbed, 1111 prieoned and raureereti British sub- jects wantonly and brazenly. The ouost atrocious cese was the attack Luton the Britislx Embasey and the murder ,sof Captain Cromie, It. N. The Embassy was raided for vulgar Motives of Meetings; ite employees were being paid their weekly wage when a band of ruffians entered and ordered those Inside to hold up their bands; Captain Cromie resieted, and was murdered. Had any country under a normal Government com- mitted an outrage like that upon Great Britain, or any other country, a deeleration of war would inietantly have followed. These outrages are not confined to official people; for example, the Bolshevists not long ago decreed that Russians must ren- der vompuloory labor, and followed this bY applytng the order to foreigneee • as well. If a Canadian citizen found himselt in Petrograd or Moscow to -day he would be liable to forced labor. Horrible misrule marks the aloe shevist ontrol. Is compulsory labor a desirable Oleg to Maid? The Boa sheviets have deere,ed it. From econ- omic concerns let 118 vase to spirituel ones. The Reagens are a religious people. Not eontent with stripping the Russian. 'Church Of it8 propertY1 the Bolshevists bave in many cases prescribes(' Its. serviaeS, and people who wtsh to worship are driven from the churches with bayonets and bullets. A. miuority effect have ordained that the majority , must not worsbiti in the way id Which theaedestreeAgain, certain. of the Soviets—including theate at Vladimir, Lege and Kolpin—hale ordered -the prostitutioh of all wo. men. They have ordained that every girl when slut attains the age of 18 must register at thg "Bureau of Free Love" and. there follow disgusting pro- visions, the eesenee of which may become the property of any one tvho wants her. 'For the text of the decree of the Vladimir SOviet, publisbed the official Soviet organ Investia, the reader may be referred to the Issue of the New Europe of Oct. 31. 1918, page 70. There has been murder by whole- sale, and meiversal robbery; it will suffice on this point to note that on Ost, 18 last the Pravda, the official Bolshevist newspaper in Moscow, pub- lished a report from the commander at Kazan that: "Kazan is deserted. Not one prie.st, nun or bourgeois re, mains. There is no one whom We eau execute." Incidentally, liberty of the press has utterly dieappeared; no tewspaper which &wee not advocate the Bolshevist cause is allowed to appear. The effect upon the people is mere starvation. Famine stalks the etreets and the fields, and there is a 'sober prospect of deaths by hunger, not by the thousand, but by millionss. Be the fore the revolution Petrograd had 2,300.000 people; to -day it has about 800.000. The towns have 'ceased to pro- duce goods, and the peasants, who in any event have not tilled the ground effectively, and so have insufettierit foOd for their own heeds, refuse to sell their producth to thg towns. The strangest and most . tetaible- conse- quences follow. The Boleheviets make perloilleal raids from the cities into the farming eountra to seize food; they march out with machine guns, attack the villagee which the farinere live, kill a certain' ntunber, and seize what foodstufffs they can lay their hands upon, Plod gained by such methods is uot likely to be either abundant or good. Ail is rationed; the principal food issued is bread 01 exceedingly bad qualitY, Much of it straw. The Bolshevists have lately adopted a sliding evale taLlone, Whish for bread is: First category*. Workmen doing hard =total labor, 3.-4 pound per day, Second eategory: -Woramen doing light manual labor (poetmen), 1-2 Mild per day. Third • eategory: People doing trade In food sprung up hawkers secret - pound. per day. Fourth category: The bourgeoisie, termed "parasites," 1-8 pound per day; Onethe basis of the official rations the bourgeoiste—lawyere, teachers, shopkeepdrs, etc.—had to eaist on an occasional smoked herring and feei ounces of black bread. Surreptitious trade in food sprung up, hawks secret- ly selling it for fabulous prices, and people dieposing of their clothes, fur- niture, and other belongings to get It; moneyatit the bank and similar save legs long ag0 have been eonfiscated. In this misery workmen whet are not part of the Bolshevist organization leave their share, and, accordIng to a 'Writer in the New Europe of Nevem. bee 2$ last: "Another niethod, very largely prac- tised by the worktnee, was to make Hour -and -provision excursions to dee- tricts, where supplies were more plen- tiful. This involved a three or four days' ithrney and, morcover, needed eertain amount of enterprise and courage owlng to the oPPosition tile Bolehevika who, Olt the groutule that these, expealtione upeet their wheal relining tit Mem, took the meet recit- e:al measures to stop them, hatalle- ining posts of Gm Red {_Wards were entrenched on one or other ot the railwdys every day. These men Mop- ped the train by opening fire on it, and sollle of the messengers were in- -variably killed, All previsions' were taken away from travellers, and the wretelf ed workmen (among wheat stem filWayS SUMO or tbo ftlutated elassee ill disguise) tame home miens provisions and Money. end having 108t several days' work, Thie pro - nature watt, 'of course, particularly rialto for the bourgeoisie, as, owing to the stroug clam feeling, the Work - leen considering allele executions as their natural right, were mare tO throw 011t of the train -any one belouginee If'ularli"thelr tireitikir nntnaieYwitlitleit cover Mem" Title laiit tletail, the interneeine etrife UM the train, Mese to the Writer a particularlY sad kia Well as Partteularly terrible tottch. 'So dread- ful haft the social eystent of Attests, ftrst under (me GeVernment and then under another, failed, te train her peo- ple to work ,together, even in the keenest adveretty. Thus eve see that in the toweis the people suffer greatlY; werOingneen as well as former caoltallsta On the lane the peanuts are terribly short of the commonest and most incessary agricultural implemente. Transuorta- lion has been taterle demoralized, Production in factories lias all but ream& Treat, is at a etandetill. The country wants food end goode. It lathe the Mous of fighting want. If we were to send food and 1111Plements lute Dioreder and Petrograd, starvation would in no wise be lesseued, Last September several shiploads of sup- plies withal Were desperately needed. were shipped from Sweden into Petro- grad; they comprised agricultural im- plements, dairy utensils, and ether things for producing food, First of all, no M45 could be procured to be hent back to Sweden to pay eor teese; the ships came back with nothing but paseeneers, and. some ot us would be inclined to think a Bolshevist a poor exchange for a perfectly good plow. Secendly, the railroad system and roads are in so bad a state that these ertiales could not be got out of Petro- grad to the peasants who coule uee them, Thirdly, the 13olshevists seem to have fallen foul of the men who brought these things on the ground that they were enpitalists. The prac- tical result was that the suffering peas sante, did not eet the hopierneuts and. the starving townspeople will not get the adlcitional food WM& they would have produeed, And the net result? Weil, tf a horse falls down in the streets of Petrograd to -day the people figbt for its latish. So much for the Bolshevists. Next let us consider *Oat the native Res - :slam are doing, The Bolsbavists bear sway over a part of Eurnpean Russie, roughly cir- cular In shape; it has Moscow unit Potrograd for ite two chief points, and extends east and west from about the Volga to some distence west of Petro- grad, To the north it extends to the outpost lines of the Archangel Govern- ment; to the south lies the Ukraine, which has broken away from Itussie proper and. is conductiptg a series of orders peoulihrly diffieutt to follow, This area contains aerhaps sixty or seventy millions ist' the one hundred and thirty millioits of souls within 'he borders of what once was the Rus- sian Empire. To the north they are fighting with the Archangel forces; Ithput tee:Volga with those of the Omsk Govenment; to the southeast -al% Certain Cossack forces; in the west they have attacked Finland and are invading Poland, listhonia, and others ef the emalanationality ceun- tries -which intervene between Russia itend-eirele altiat this RBalintiliclissYshGlinaneovgi organizations, tryin to make .111slitnantea;Y;ritory is a set of native head against this tyranny. In the north is the Archangel Government of Northern Russia. This is headed by al, Tchaikovekei it comprises men of varying political views, but the President, at Tchal- koveky, le a, Social Revolutionary. It is important to notice this fact; aa adminietration with such a man at its head can. scarcely be described as reactionary. Not long ago in, Tehailtovsky published a maelfeeto, from which the two following pare- grapbe may be quoted: "Bolshevism, unfortunately, is a danger eot only to Ruble, but. to the wbole world. This danger le the seize ure of the governing power by a eraall minority of the population, pro.. Ming by the armed force of the re- volted army and fleet, in order ter subject the majority to the will of the leaders of one party, not recog- nized by the population and not elect- ed by it to govren the nation." "In Russia this usurpation takea the form of the eontinuous govern- ment of the' country under the 'atate of elege 'and 'state of war' with which the Tsar's Government ruled the the country from 1889 till 1917, with the Alert interval of 1905-1906, at the time of the Reasian revolution. 'The Soviet power re-estab- lished this political regime after the October coup d'eciat of 1917. Since then it has eueceeded committing Moro crimes and acts of violence than the Teat:Let Government 411 the twenty-seven years or its unnatural military dictatorship." Under the iGovernment headed by this life-long Socialist of extreme views is a. local Russian armY, Which le helped by certain Braid', which is helped by the Allies. least of the Volga, Siberia and Dart of European Ruble, is under the ()task Government, Bemoan:tea term- ed the All -Russian Government, It proposes as 600h as poseible con- vone,the Conetituent Assembly, which the Dolebevists dispersed. At present headed by .Atimiral Kolshalt, this Gov- erneneut has a coesiderable army of Russians, which is etiffened by the CzeelicaSiovak forces. who were per- eistently attacked by the BolsheVists, appatently to keep them from help- ing their native country, Bohetnia, to emancipate herself from the Aue- trians. This Rebate army hae been MoVIng northwestwards so as to join the Archangel forces; not long aeo by the capture of Perm it made a long step forward towards this goal. southeaetern Ruesia, are ten other centres of resistance to Bol- shevism, led by Generale Detilkon and Kra.snoff; these leaden diepose or a coOsidere.ble number of neet, largely Cossacks; hitherto they have been III -equipped, In the Ukraine ctilposition to Bolshevistu has grown of late, altd Odessa eeetne to be In tit oe'r eh aonrdclaer.of foreee which will la- nce° are Russian 00Verilillents. They reprefient the Russian people, as the Bolsheviste do not. They cane not be deacribed at; Deflationary, in any Pane of the word Whielt Cage.. diteie Weald recogtaze, They ere largely aocialistie. Tchalkoyeke has been Mentithed; eteterel Mein - ben, of not the majority, of the ()meek Goveroment are Soeiallets Vat -toed types, (tome of them 'Main- ing pretty far to tha Left. Efforte aro being Made by then Of varithe shatiee of politiral thought to get together and give the tountry ettible inletitailtration. It is 11601553 to dis- guise the fad that, PartlY owitig te thexperithee reatsgoveritineitt, and partly to the general disorganize - tion, theee efforts have to encounter gnat elifficuittee; this is a &tato Of affairs wbieh probably eatt be attri- bated to Ruaidan inexperience IA eel t-gove meta t. Tbe fewer ,our wante the tearer we teanble the gof11.•-•Sn'efai es. ork of the Mystery Ship Of the nurneroue mieteliowe of the Brit - hal Neva during the war of the paid tour and a hale Years, the Meat amazing the part played by the "a" beat Or nere• tery ship. The story of the wet* done by these special vosele, as told by Lien- tenant-Contemn/el* Aueten, whe wee one of the first officers. gasetted to them, truly forme romentic chapter in eireut Britain's naval history, Between them and their opponents, the U-boatn, It ovelcitreleagev.eritalbIlleeyWalv,* .oerm"sttuynpyc'aaindtictitonoli; stem -nevi front Bristol Channel ports anti speolally fitted Mit for their InIselon in naval dockYard. Itt 1016, when the boat menace wee Inventing serlotte. It was itot until Weber of that year thet they were ready for their roving cont- mieelon, to tieeoy and sink enemy sub- marines. Although they meowed the SeA8 for many montia or wearying strain. without ever sighting' their 'O'er, they were ultimately rewarded with conspie- eons sUceess, Their task was made none the eattier by the knowledge which the (jerinans bad of the types or Faigusb xnerchant ships hailing from the different ports, for many ef the men of the enemy craft had been trading with the porte before the war and were welt acqualuted with the sort of craft likely to be on a particular stretch of the sea. So, "Q" boat commander had to be earefut evoia steering a couree which would not agree with the eppearapee or his ship. Once the (me- myec euspicions were aroused, the sub- Mat'in0 remained submerged and fired heAr s t otylpeedwooaritt tolife ttip.rnytdery ship de. .1/eloped, every type of merchant veseel upon the seas was preesed into the ser- vice; and, concurrently with its develop- ment. the trustfutnees of the Germane WAS Changed for -distrust and extreme %eeriness. There was no outward sign In any or the vessels to arouse thie distruet, which was the result solely or unpleas., ant experience which centributed in no small degree to the success of the "Q" boat service. It was twofeld, material and moral. They not only destroyed many U-boats. but by the eaution they Instilled in -the Germans they enabled omtahneirwirlise6rwetio4uldt ivia°6vseelbseett°1 leosseta, Puend"tliceyil caused the enemy to waste numeroue costly torpedoes and fumed many of their boats baelt to port and so shortened their Period of activity. In fact, the influence of the "Q" boat upon the war must not be measured soleir by the actual number of enemy craft sunk, coesiderable though It was; as the author saYs, "It WM caso of the moral outweighing the materiel effect of the new warfare." The most, astonishing real -two of this campaign was the berolent and unflage ging perseverance of the crews, who were all volunteers, eager te meet a submarine and try issues with her, It was verit- ably a. service which demanded a self- restraiet anti courage which eould only be found amidst the surroundings of the sternest diecipljne. It was only perfect discipline, conibined with sporting in- stinct, which could eneble. men to put ap with dire discomfort, te Nei sometimes for hours under shell fire, .often wounded and uttering no eomplaint; waiting for the, supreme moment when they could give the euemy knockout blow. TJn- ler the cloak of apparent gross Indiscip- line, these erews, &mad as merchant service men, readily submitted to ''tbe most Iron diecipline, and It seems little short of marvelous how readily thole adapted themselves to their unwoated condItio»s. Throughout hours of abnost unendurable tension and excitemeas they **preserved their self-control, and, more wonderful still, their serise -OE humor." Their spirit will be understood by what one et Lientenant-Conmeinder .Austen's men scald -to a visitor to the Suffolk ship to people, sir, but hey expect us to tClasal:bot'itWoeurp,cleiceNt_ots.:1,111 .1 explaining the Forearost Bites} Chilblales, come f to slush ahd car the icy wInd171 went of eithes paration Chat 011, as it eau ,racts the inflamnia- tion and relieVes the pain. The action of the oil is bastantarte011e, and its application is extremely simple. ntl Chilblains.— ra undue exposure and frost -bite from inter. In the treat - re is no better pre- . Thomas' Eeleetrie BRITISli UNREST. Not All Labor 'Troubles ' Ended as Yet. Loncion Cable.—(Reuter Despate1O— Leading labor men with whom the set- tlement of the railway strike was dia. elthilegd.in. cussed yesterday issued warnings against the ending of the dispute now being re- garded as final and as ending all the la- bor troubles. It Is pointed out that tho protracted strike of iron moulders, which is ecrlously affecttita: itsilewelni guinnse dITtsltileTncifvetile ont°111O disquieting incidents, shbwing that the temper of labor was still on edge. It is particularly com- plained of that the Government delayed putting into operation tile Joint Indua- trial Council establishecrat the beginning of the year to secure a universal living wage rine a 48-hour week, NEAR BANROPICY Many German Industries in a Bad Way. London Cable Reporte reaching this city from Germany relative to the Litipsie Lair throw light ou Germany's economic poeiticin, Awarding to the secretary of the exhibition, there wore 7,00D tenon buyers preserit. Conversations with exhibitors gave observere the impression that many German induetries were near bank- ruptee, owing to the shortage ot coal and the toes of export trade, their only hope being to trade with neutrals and America. Pear was expreeeed that the eontinued hostility of the Bri- tish would prevent trade With Eng- land. 4 • SCIENCE NOTES. There are 782 varieties of ,Aretie flowers which have but two tenon, white and yellow. Compared with Ito area the it:muta- tion of Norway is the smallest of any country in Europe, Gasoline prodnetibn in the United States has increased from 35,000,000 to 70,000,000 barrels a year slaw 1914, The weaves of India show the great- est interest in phonographs, and it is considered a good raarket for these ia- steuthentit„ rn coffee -growing eotintries a settee Oen of the leavea of the plant is held by rimy to be superior to that made from berries. In Trinidad there are berries as latge Ss a dinner plate. They are en- couraged by the natiVes beeattee they keep the houses free of reaches. A metboa bas been diseovered ot distillieg valuable products from the chips tbat accranulate woed-work. Ing establishments, end of making paper out of the residue. - +40 - If Millen; Worm Powders needed the support of teetimonials thee weal' be got by the thousende from mothere who )(tow the great Virttle of this ex- cellent Meditine. But the powders epenk ter themselves and i • Stith a Way that there ean be no que ion of them, They act speedily anti thoroughly, end the ehtid tit whom they are adminietered will ',how au, Movement front the tint dome orLIWO RIVERS (Christian Science lioniter.) In the Wort Riding of l'Orksbire Wire Are two rivers. 1.civre ar emirs,/ many more than two in tire) divtaton ceunty of broad Awes, but there sie two in pat tieuler that nave a altereet elk their own. One I* OalWit the Witerfe and the other called the Aim a"orktitigir:ntibolIrtiluellkelel'''eate*BP"IdliaiiiielY, atoll; need ito further introduetion. Tho camel) Immediate coneure a *VW of pictures. There le the Whittle, over the river of the cotantryolde, of moor and tell, of field and glade. And there la the Alre, never Many lace away. in the neighboring valley, or dale, ea It is eefied in korliehire, ever the river or the town, wfudifet its way past mitt end fee. tory, etealing under the shadow. of great wa,rehoesee, bearing barge and coal 1/trat "IlroUrle miraWnayYyteoartshehaaeet Lire igloo* water)) of the Aire been e butt for the eester. Ask a Leeds "loftier" about the Aire at Leede Bridge, and If lie le anything of a wag, as he le almost sure to be, be will rap out some standing joke which never ofittilriateglieettLseexaaglagaegmht,iQinf.onlAynbay yretettetohao Iseede "Joiner," like nuthy another wora- er all the way up Airedale, 'has a curious affection for the turbid stream, whose watern in their Journey from. the bine to the sea, have Eir Aare in so much labor. Atter all, it Is a very honest grime that the Leeds "Joiner.' look)) down into ofe Leeds Bridge, and it is with a kind of pride that be will point out to you. amidst the strange, heterogeneous shinning* bo- na, ne as act ha..itoyibiloartshhoeivpro,e. etathbfleartei Nstvillawut,airisytt.deafoawci itny. the Aire to the (Mee, clown the ouse to the Humber, and down the Humber to the seY4e.ars age, in the days before the bleYcle or the cheep half-day excursion, he would. have looked at You hteredulously if you had told him that there wee a plaee wbere the waters et the Aire were clear 4kitiloatrvisd Ian Igl. abBouutt ntreagdraga 0ffelrerkslee; high up near 11Talharn Tern. Where the Aire, a little brown stream. tumbles in and out among the beether, hurrying and plunging down the valley on Its war to- ward Sktpton, and the stern work whleh stream, and that, le no hint of a mill or a faaboottiotIsT% thae,rheent,s rnouehiisn oefinab aas he is quite likely to be, and if he Is COTO- lwie.::heytOhriedA, iy.oaus oa.frnaolb,euinnidtatgLli.en, municative, as he Is almost sure to be, not far the other side of SkIpton, under this Leeds "Miner" le certain to that at Skipton the Wharfe, in the nelg boring dale, is only a few 1111108 awcty. And what a dale It is, to be sure: For nothing has eVer persuaded the Wharfe to follow the Aire's example and go to the town. From the time when It bub- bles up out of the bill side on Cam Fell gtooetshneeatlimae pw1141ceen oirt arnoyllasilzaez.11y,rlinletontttnioe Ouse, not far from Tadcaster, it never village, the sleepy country town, the old castle or abbey mark the limit of lieu bclueashilnegsss wmiathn,ththe bbieg sa.dfrfect,irws lour xnmearkt.eTuhies home on its banksd, dbralvziktigaogvaeirntihlelt:rtetaibt ridge into the hunt and stir of Airedent ellma lonf°11.Vnlintagi'leadnale or an evening. But the business man must come to the Wherfe, the Wharfe nevo goes to the bustne,"s man. Mexico's Floating Gardens. The so-called floating gardens of Mexico do not live up to their names_ for they have never been known. to float, but they do supply the capital ot Mexico with a large part ot Its flows ,ers and vegetablee. To get to these Mationary floating gardens you Mre a canal boat, and are sleeved and poled along the Viga Canal as part of a boat paradeewhich cannot be escaped because it is per- Petual. The gardene are far up the canal. They are square patehes island, covered to overflowing, some with flowers of every hue and other*, with homely vegetables, They are literally the earden spots of Mexico. Though the gardens do not float, they have their unusual points. They did not just happen like most islands, but are home-made by the gardeners or their predecessors. Masses of water hyacinths and other water plants were thrown. into the water, and oe top of that a layer of earth. The hyacinth roots floated down to the canal bed and. moored the garden, arid the gardeners immediately went to work. Products of these patches can be seen travelling back up the eanal to the market of Mexico City. Some boats going to town are loaded with human freight, but the majority in the returning parade are piled high with sweet peas, lilacs, poppies and other gorgeous blossoms, or with radishes, turnips and the odoriferotte Onion. WINTER STORAGE OP SQUASH. Squash to be carried successfully in storage must be wed matured arid free from bruises, broken.stems, cuts or frost injury. g one disposes Of the well -colored, best matured squash and tries to keep those not well ripeo- ed, failure is likely to result Wider the most favorable Mora,ge conditions. A squash may be •suffieiently matured for immediate use, but not be suitable tor Menge. In selecting` fcirstorage, therefore, pick out those which have had the longest period of growth, and just here it might be said that to get a large proportion of the crop for storage, due attention muse be given ,to having the plaets started early. It is well also to turn the squash ocea- sionalty when growing let order to develop a hard ahell on all sides. They :should be handled carefully gild plated immediately in a well-venta- ated, dey, Warm roOm With. a tena Perature around SO degrees. until the shells and bard and dry, and then reMoved tO a 0001 111.1t dry, light and well -ventilated room. Under such eonditions we have been tale to keen scittaeli until spring in perfect tion.—W. S. Blair. SuperIntendent, Experimental Station, Kentville, N.& The Knuckles' as a Calendar. Most persons relnerriber the inutile.; of days m any particular mOntb. by recatung the ryuice taey learned In chirdlioed. Anottter Inetnod is praee Med in Iceland, and 11 is so Siluple and ingenious es tO be worth know- ing. Shut the fist and let the knuckie of the foretinger represent January with its thirtY-one data, and the Jo- peession between that and the tiext knuckle will retina:ea February with smaller number of days. And tame every mouth. that correopeeds to knead° will be found to cente.in thirty-one days. and every month that corresponds tO a depression a mailer number of days. The little finger kneekle will repre- eent July; begin again With the fate- fleger knuekla which Mande for An- emia tout front this on continue to vount through the monthe of the year. TIM IsiaTOnte ANtieVent. eT,00k. here," cried an angry subserlber. "Yotete been telling /les about me In your paper!" "I know it," replkd the editor coldly, "but What AVtItlia you do 11 we told the titillt aimed you'r IThe Romane kesieted their allies and triends, and am:aired friendehine by giving rather than reeelving kind - :tee, 'Satinet