The Lucknow Sentinel, 1915-07-29, Page 6'40 st4riTgt
der*,
knx
the laud eioopeiga
leas with-
IasC ilsatilton** friend,
arid has ap-
pointed be G. Goursoll,
wits by leedership a Mo
-
room aad more recently in Western:
Fromm, wet for hin' --lf the ea
Frl-
See Limn of the Argonnehlt
hemi fireihs scar.
greeter portion of • their troubles. for travellers will eete be out of dote,
*rhea . Goalies-
quiet of "
Rosehen ehessisosle.
Within the last t week newa has
enise by etible front Petrograd of the
of
"Meat treat reetarta ca trash
eseattleaa hi Brithile Cohdene which
home tent been mosived by ettimin of
itht couttittt Northern Railway coot WORKS AT LE CARUSO? TURN.
pens, tlesit the war in Europe was not ING OUT MIGHTY GUNS.
the entire muse of the bustmese de-
pression from the effects of which -
not/441 Pe<1;44" rining. Representative Wilt"1st p1144ne* *" New lakee Gen Will threw Sit,t4ls
w recoves
Mims raen from Vancouver *ad Vic. the She et a Deenstie
teria almoit einudincomily *Ow* the Water Heater;
opinion, that speculation* Pt the beam,
period in real estate, account for the
04,11.401.
Earl Baedeker, whom bend-boolca
They add that the European conflict tellone that the flourishing town of
he* hied the effect ef tomplicating Le Creusot, with 80,437 inhabitonts,
have been
lle conditiona of trade, but contend that owes Us prosperity to the Selineider
shelved; wiethe mem%
ba. rt&Nuiy deprived
'the stowing' down of provincial com- Iron Works, "the most importanta
of
their meweende andp1asd eit the rot removal a Gm Suolthorelluow from niece may justly be attributed' to the the kind in Fence," founded by Eu.
-. ubbsinalant, tha post of Ifiniker of Wails:which he economies British Colombians were gene Schneider, • Who departed thin
poohopo oho itrtat,soo hotecoosto of hos held sines toe beginning of the forced to. resort to in order to meet tife ii t000, omit then eeoenty years
hesempoteat geoesals Its* bseti tltat 4**Inet 1210 i* charged by. grand the payments for, the real estate they the her, oot,old, "Tbe works,' says Herr )3aede-
toein , had purchased long before, rapriett °coat mines; furnaces!
Meade Ynorive, or 'intim' by tier Duke Nicholas
teeseleteedly sible ecalMantlertia-- MailterfUl *rid brilliant Generalissimo ihope of obtaining a prompt and ex- and workshop e for the _constructiort
Wee, Jomle. Jeftre. at, the of the lituecovite forget, with being cesSive profit. But it also.seema from of loconiotivet and other. methinerY,
p
sad of August, hat he 1itm.Md his reeponaible for ths serious shortage the, reports, that the dere of die+ giving occupation in all to aheut
IVO* Call Genes= he had of Atria!, and especially of animunit
*very reason to look for victory. But tion, which hos ',rendered necessary
*whet to fleeter* alluded to above, the temporary. retirement ef the
and *44% ly the test of weir con
remelt lie austairod defeat
The WMe to tK, fikiinva of. the
*film tots distributed attionit all
ranks. Pke men exposed **wolves*
In the moat foolhardy manner to lire.
The reservist .officers *hewed ' by
their conipsny leading that they hid
forgotten many Of the lessons a their
trebling.' .Battalions• were launched
aerosol firceeneet fields Ao attikelc' iln""
Pregnable positions. Theta were
premature advances and Premature
- retreats, Above ell scores af generals
thawed themselves wholly incapable
ef holding their comma.
Jeffre was thereupon Urged that
pline, have resulted. in the formation 00
PeePle," Writes, Henry Beach
of a new perspeetive towards busi- . Needham *or ,correspowdent, ef the
ness geaerellle and the revival which
New Teri Tribune. . • "
now appears to be imminent will Ana Not 4 word about cannon or shells
a people without illusions and with a or any of the death -dealing %stria -
mere, intelligently directed , courage 'netts. in Which Krupp seeks a World
monopoly. The ' reason for this
strange omission in a German hand-
book he if. 'Herr Baedeker would put
it, into words, "Why advertise. our
great rival . • ^ •
• , The Schneider IrereWorkgeare dem-
petiters of Krupp in the business_ Of
eupplies for: the .ciiifitted
world. Already_ Creusot guns, whieh
figured first in the cable dispatches in
the Balkan War, are the deadly rival
of Krupp Vine. If the• allies win, at
the ',allies mean to Wire! Creusot 'guns
will have contributed tremendously to
the victory. Creusot guile constitute
the Main, . defence pt Russia,
and Serbia. Creusot guns, indeed,
are 'assisting in Many te'British ad-
vance; So when the war is over and
normal trade' in war playthings re-
sumed, it is highly probable that Cre-
usot, and not Krupp, will be the name
'velnellS°BuaththAe !neer:: 172=re, t"lie-:
ittontroth4enx
gun of the government de-jure.
Workse Park' • -
. Certainly when Belgium is restored
and her neutrality again fortified as
Well as guaranteed it will be by Veen -
sot guns and not by the "seconds"
suPelied bays.c.ibireffloprtpp.
e Krthueininvasion ,o
Belgium f
Having 'other- - information than
Baedeker; X knew when the French
Minister of Weir invited me to visit
Le Creusot, with the .Government
Arsenal' at 'Pourges as a way 'station,
that I Was to be Shoivii Artillery- and
shells, in the making -perhaps, given
a "private view" in an atelier (which
.serves in French for beth stddio an
'workshop), of a new mammoth, gun,
something, Jules., Verne would have
been proud to imagine. I 'wasn't go-
ing to see locomotive'S building, ,•or
the concoction of things to serve the
huindrunt of peace, but the art of do-
mesticating high explosives. •Never-
tinee the atteMPt te emah the Ge.r"'
hum centre bad foiled It Wm VS 4*Y
ging every available mon, on the
Teuten deft. But he decided against
this eaurse, and iletetinined before
anything else, to pull his army to-
gether.
Preach Reorganizati.
Ile wanted time to remove Weenie
tri and to choose a. place for slo-
g battle again Which satisfied hira
in all raiment& '
• But in order to Obtain time for
this and. in order,tteghoole ins own
-field of battle Was itecestatY to
carry out a retreat—a, long retreeto--
which meant tremendous draught
upon the morale of his troops. For-
, One* armies frOM. the Austrian Pro-
vincee of Galicia mid Buloovine. '
The general.; who is one of the chief
reorganizers of the mede Ruesiatt
rk
allnY 4m4 who' haat A seen record
as a commander ef csiviihT, never
been Pastrami grata ' at - °Vale
owing to his ruthlosneos in ,ridding
the army of ineon/Petent Midi bleep -
able officers', no matterfhtsvi lofty
4
their social rank ondoeourt.' encet
Another "Walden general *h. .. has
been • jettisoned by his Government
ante, the beginning ef the. present
war is Paul Charles von Rennen.
Iiimpf. He was one of. the most
brilliant figures of the Manchurian
canipaigit againat Japan ten years
agoowas indeed the rele ceallnaneer
on the Russian side who wen 'faille
end honor in that struggle. - At the
head of his cavalry, and especially
of his Cossacks, he gave more .trou-
ble to the Japanese under Field Max,
ihel Ayaroa, than all the other gener-
als put together,
' Ton Melthe's ReVeval• '
„....In Germany the Most notable ' in-
stance of punishment inflicted upon a
• general has been the virtual disgrace
of Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke,
Who . was -summarily. removed from
his post of Chief -of the General.Staft
of the German Army. last autumn,
superseded by *court favorite, Gen.
• tunately for France Mire • had the von \ Palkenhayie and sent back to
• 146mA to adopt WS CaurSe. The verlin, in order to recover from a
retreat was of a purely . voluntary wholly imaginary malady, from which
Character and not under compulsion. ,he mode no attempt to pretend to be
• Durig thie retreat Joffre found suffering- dismissal is ascribed
. 'time to purge the army of incompet- to his differences with the Raiser, and
• ent co 'rninrirdere in the most whole- to his determined opposition -to those
, sale taShieni. No less than forty-three plans for capturing Calais which were
generale, Were removed from poste so largely responsible for the failure
that they -held at ausrlerol alone and of the march upon Paris. . •
In the month of Seetemi3erllie Paris In Austria, the " two most signal
%Official Gazette contained the, names- cases of militaty distrace during the
• of 120 generals who .had been placed past year have ,been those of Oen.
' en the retired list by Aare:, Von Potiorek, who; .after having been
After the shelving of- Admirals. Sir .praised to the •skies and honored' by
Berkeley Milne and; %areas Trou-1 his sovereign for his conquest of Ser -
bridge' for allotting. the German war,' "hie, was only A few weeks -After-
ward retired in disgrace 'for having
permitted his traoes, to he driireleOut
of KingPeter's-dominions-in-diaad-
troue rout; and Gen, von A-ufferiburg,
formerly cligt-of the General- Staff
ships Geeheirancl Breslau to escape
from the Hai ef Messina to,Constan-
tinople, Admiral- :Seieltville Carden,
who .was in command of the naval
Operations in the Mardernelies, -has
" been superseded by Mee -Admiral and. at ,the .outbreak of the Present
John de Robeck,,- France, in -warin-eommand of- the First Army
token of her diesatisfaction. with the Cotps.
soLprpits..AU".myr imam? OF
,
PROPER FOOD. •
plies for the troops. being 'up to etan-
dard, and concluded by saying:-"Gen-
tleinen, he who ,steals, I hang!"
They All Admire Hhn.
It it this ,carA for 'their itelllieingt
o lead than because of the Sizepli,
thy of one with so strikingly power-
ful a personality, that has won for
the Generalissimo the -admiration " of
• every indiYiaual soldier in his armies..
Also, othey have in their leader,- a
splendid example of fearless. bravery
Under the severest conditions. Oftel,
to the dismay of his staff officers, the
Grand Duke will go among' the men.
in the trenches ender fierce rifle Are
and hell • fire, talking with them and
uraging-them—without;-glying--a-
. Lives Almost as Simply as the „Rank-
, and File, Who all Him _
"Little Father."
• •
' "He is a huge man, certainly 6 feet
irtehes- hr-heighte-and--he improses
one greatly by his absolute lack of. thought of the great risks he himself
„affectation and his ,simplicity; His runs. Nicholas sseenis not to consider
expression • isthat of- a serious ,sober at all hispetsonal safety. During the
maif.giVing ins entire thought and most tei•rigc engagement he has 'malty
fort to his task." . It .waS thds tha times driven in 'his- car • backwards
one .of his 'guests recently described and forwards just behind the first-line
the 'Grand 'Duke -Nicholas- trenches; and under' heavy •shell -fire.;,
vita., "Russia's Kitchener," as he has One day, in the midstof an engage -
been termed, who is in suPrenie corn- ment•the stopped his gar irethe- shell-
- Wand of the Russian atnues in the
„ field, and who has recently been conk
• ducting the greatest retreat. of the
. War. The Greed Duke,__who was born
ori,November 6th, 1856,rin' the son of
later -Grande Duke Nicholas Nice-
- Iaieviteleheothei of thie,Tilar,Alexan-
der IT., and he is, therefore, second
to the present Emperor.
O.
weating to take advantage of its op-
portenities. These reports to the . C.
N. R. are supplementary to those
published recentler in connection with
the survey of trade conditions in Can -
ala, which was conducted that
company. •
• .In British, Columbia, the worst 'ef-
fects; Commercially, of the war over-
see, have been experienced by the
men engaged in the lumbering Mdus-
thy. The demand for building mater-
ial from the people in the Prairie
Provinces fell off sharply alinost im-
inediately after the outbreak of hos-
tilitiee; and has not yet returned to
its former volume. This undoubtedly
adversely affected a -number of, =Mil-
er operators, or at least those -enter-
prises lacking adequate backing, but
the larger concerns which were well
financed have been able to easily wea-
ther the re -adjustment . period.' , At
present; it would appear- that the
mifls in British Columbia:Would be
doing a much larger business if shies
were available to Metre the product to
its declination. A shortage. of bot-
toms as a matter of fact, appears to
be the chief handicap. While prices
have eased off somewhat, the shrink -
Age has been taken UP, possibly More
than taken by better, and what a
manufacturer: • describes as,. "More
tractable,'! labor. * remedy for the
price trouble is being sought in piens
for the 'organizing of a central selling
agency, _ . to that. operating
the State of Washington. ' •
The mill, men on the toast say that
stocks of lumber all over the world
are badly in "need of new supplies.
If frem the confidence engendered by
the harvesting of .a good crop, build-
ing, resumes its fernier activity in tl:e
Prairie Provinces, and vessels' are
able to dear to newly developed mar-
kets in Great Britain, the Wedt,
dies, and the American Atlantic Coast
States, thev expect a business which theless I was unprepared for the in -
will tax' all their available 'facilities. augural of the tour of. inspection:
In the' nteantime, it is shown that one
rnill in Ireilionver is _working -Ovens
time :on neNv orders, which will keep
it busy for .a considerable -period; and
other lumber men are in daily expec-
tation of orders for large -quantities guarded by.a man in -uniform., .t.am
of building materials for reconstruc-• told that there has_ been but one
strike, that a flash in the pan, in all
the history' of the stoneltockaded•
The Schneider Iron Works front a
:roreitte_Stred,z and ,a-walt Teit stone-- a
least ten feet high encircles the giant
plaet.---completely,---Entrance,---there,
fore,' is through immense ire!' gates,
tion in Europe. There are evidences
that the clear spruce of .British Col-'
urabia is meeting with favor for the Plant.
construction of aeroplanes, and . apt,: :Upon entering "the weeks" It saw
.. •
oral small .supplies have been deliv*. nothing but a most beautiful peek. In
its ,splendid 'Oaks, and aged turf ad,
The credit situation in the Province to the eye„ -unendeigness, • this, :. -the
is improving, and it seena to be the smiler'splayground, much. resembles
general opinion that daligations, have 'a .great English estate: ,But it was
been welt met ,when conditions. are planted as Petit is planned with an
considered. Lumbermen repork, that eye to Vides. One way a: forest; an -
their. collections are salisfadtdry.. The other, sloping afar •off to distant fel-
weakenalealers are not in the market lige, a', carpet 'of young green; an -
to ,any extent,. arel the stronger firms other, a glinapse of a °belied river
are able to meet demands made upon (Which turned out to be in artificial
them. Export lumber is sold on. A pond). '
basis ot 'cash on delivery.. • New Siege Gun.
The Department of Agriculture for Take the ,cluinamon'.field-quilixo At
British. Columbia, reports by wire the tient 1 have seen the seeenty-five,
hatothetagricultural 'situation is ade in the French arsenal fired. It
inctly encouraging, and that weather lacks merely n belt or ribbon to-1-'4We
Conditidiee arefavorable for growth.- shells to Make it an automatic as a
Increases" are reported in land clear-' rnittaill•eusel But the- Schneider
. .
ing, and in the areas devoted to crops seventy-five is a machine :gun.' ' The
of The profits of poultry breich-block *opens (throwing out the
raising have been reduced to some es -
tent owing tothe--high price-of:grain;
but there .has been satisfactory in-
crease in dairying. In small fruits',
used ,cartridge -case) and closes: with
a -double -continuing motion of -n pint
gle levee, much-, as this ' typewriter- j
am ening,. "clicks up"- the paper and
swept „rond;and addressed - his sol- there is a faircrop. The selling mei
4. , lkit
improved, and; shifts tone doesn't go first to the.
he carriage with one levee.
btust within tofeti Yards of :the :royal prices have been excellent ‘S.o far: proving -ground, or to the.foundry; or
diere.; On that eneasiun one tshell gemzetions have been .
ear,' killing three- men and wounding Trick farming is increasing, And the to the atelier for slightly undersized
several others: :. - - '. - - British COlunibial•Troduce-irlargel 42Zcentiiiieter howitzers,:in, an excel -
It' was after -the -War with '71iPtin displacing imports _ from • theunited tently.eirganized: personally -conducted
Viarthe7,-TGenied Duke undertook the Stites -, The prices- for beef, pork arat survey of Ctendot!!..ThereWasatrifg.
complete regeteretion 'eV Itossitt'S mutton are -good.ond likely to so eon.- ing: incident, As -We gathered for the
military sestein He caused three tinuei There' is a satisfactory In: tart that toliriteith.. • : •••! ''
,
. The Grind (hike's- physical strength, eenerabe and over a thousand other crease in hog -raising. The establish -
and endurance are marvellous. He officers to be placed on the retired l' t. meet • of public markets' is proving
' Will .allow but little regard to be, paid' Within Six weeks. He worked day lien* satisfactory, and is reducing the
to bis royal rank riew that he is in and - night • to reorganize the` Tsar's scost . of living. Unskilled labor at:
the lidd, and it fa no exaggeration to 'forget, and gradually gathered ormma. kw Prices is Plentiful; skilled labor
say that he lives almOst as simply as hinithe best generals, many of whom is difficult to obtain, and fairly good
his tank and 'file. He deeps in ;his have- since proved the value • of his Prices are paid. The report- add i that
inotttr. -ear, or in a 'small 'bell -tent, judgment • by -their _prowess in:. the
,
even though the temperature has hov- present conflict. . . •
„ era strolled 40 degrees below zero as, ' --L----te--
for 'Instance, in the-Mazurian LE:kes . . i„rince et. the Front..
I
. district. For food he .invatilibly eats
,the -wet tettitto-rosteoe-ott totoo-wit ,iritereeting -Picture-2.,of
•'bread that Is served out to mg tat Prince of Wales at the 'Front is drawn ,Appear to be anxioes to leave the
liers; he tilket to •aleablieS, drinking 174 Sit :William Robertson -Nicoll, who° town and . engage in agricultural
only tea, water. Since the, war, tang es that His Royal Higheees eah:. Work. A lot& increase to prodoction
' Nicholas ohsoIutely put to one thines *hen circunistances permit, to is „looked for in the next few"years.
I.. aiWays been—a i3eldier before all Men asked if lie went. to bed very, The Whole ' •
At Creusot I was shown a new,
gun, a monster 'be -Witter, which, if
you will keep in mind the linen collar.
you wear, Mr. • Man, is described -tie
a "quaiter-size" smalkr than the
German 42 -centimeter knit you have
heard. agt.,,much about: I _saw A. 42-
,
cemparatively. littic. grain be m.te. „centimeter shell—one /tree the
ported from the Prairie ; Provinces' detain -is on the French positiont-itear
this year on eetotiet 'of. the 'larger Verdun, and hi did not esplode
C •
area sown. The tendenaTaPPears to ib had been cautiouslY rendered harm -
be for city people to exchange toWn. less by the French, and stood side by
ptoptoicatfor farm IstilsttendStmallY nith-l-the ;peojectile,- -of the, ittet
hoyritzerel. The nose-ef-the 42-centei
Men* shell Was, net so blunt; either-'
Wise it .Was scarcely tomer: then the
projectile to be fired from the new
French heivititt.
mi n Christened. "Le
-Orrthe eye of the battle iof the Vaineneiii," IS intended' WitieTieneli"
Marne the French officers, gathered for the bonibardment of Metz, Strad-
theitt Met about the liivaimet, and Ur' burg and the GerniAn .citioS Of the
the summer night, broken by the rear Rhine. I wish I might be permitted
of cannon, read to them the peoclare- to diedose Its Calibre. %But 1 may,
.atient issued by joffro. It .thrilled perhaps, convey some Potion of the
precaution when under shell fire is, every one with the thittight that the soft of projectile lited from this how -
according to Sir 'William, repte- fate 'of Prince lay in their 'hands.. itzer. ' •- •
Sett to him that serious inctinveni- "AdVance," read the oral', "and
endeS be caused if he were when You Can longer advance; hold
taken prisoner. For to any reirtaik, at all cot; Whit you have gained.' If
about' his being skilled; the Prince Yeti can no lorigee hold, die • On • the
aricleere ,cheetily that has maw spot. '
br'etliors ot hetet to ittemtildn't mats *t.' •
°ter. Great Britain ioitiated
' Why aid yen never 'merry 7" telel'rgPilY7
•
side hiS PriticeIY rank; he is—aS talre six,mile walk before breelefast.
elge. Ills teen address 141 as .1;ittlei early in order teaecbmplisli this? the
, Fetter ,(allatereska."); he • speaks to. Prince replied that he could net go to
•them as unly children" or "brother." 'bed Very early, as he wrote to his fo.
With his habitual thotteightestt. tiler, mother, and -sister every night.
arid his .care tor the slightest details The only way that has be bri found
" ever in his Mind, deepite present to hidttee the Prince to take some
Orineui responsibilitieti, the ataact
I)uke, a VW Weeks ago, during one of
his figedizen visit s gored et his
ditto' .cauerterti, staStecl
,t(etelite." Ale retiiarked that, *ere
• WAS notz entugh meat in it; and ttlitit
hve was also •a deAeletiey oat'
CA in the soup: That SUMe. eirefl•
rig 116 isstiec,V ottlet to. the effeet:
that all omits' eititiattorstwete tit at • !'
tend ',his heedquartera At le :eertain
„Ono a few. t At thir 'bed-
, tied hour Nicholas ilittrtieted them.
tpoko to thetti tternly' tor a .fete
moments on ficeettity of the imp.
"X ineVer found a • girl who would
have me" "Uncle, somebody's boon
fooling you. Our tex tliot; par.'
tieulat,"
*VP,.
Compare it With ...the hot water
boiler which etandrl '10 the average
kitchen. Imagine your. hot ' water
boiler, Made of heavy' steel ititid of
itidvanizeittiron, and paeketto Alt 'a
1
— Sigh '' explosive, Imagine thi a "hot
Water boiler" of steel so loaded with
melinito shot toilet .thiongli space
mid exploding over buildings oceipied
,
livod to en vt:e eft,- !.r plglity; thieS
,stittto lito.Geritiont. , That about it.
Two tovereigna Engtatia
to on "rOst.ttt. -.vestto and .tea
. ' The; homely girl's face- is her
, • .61taperimo. •
4111116",./
BIG DALY OM
OF MAN SHELIS
VERT NEARLY RIGHT MILLION
PER MONTIL
Tremovolous Output. of imileunition
Ji Pointed Out by David
, Lloyd George.
' That the Teutonicmillet are turning
out 260,000 eheile a day was one et
the startling statements made by
David Lloyd George in Ida great
speech in:the British Route of COM;
MOUS n few daysago in moving the
adoption of the munitions of wet sup..
ply bill, The Minister of Munitions
said. in Part; •
..°Superiority .of Men.
• "We have an undoubted. superiority
in men '-'-(eheerti)t-in nuMberes—and
am 'assured by all those who have
been at the trent that it is net mere,
IY a superiority in numbers, butin
the . quality- of Pagik.:-(eliter4*'-aatd,
therefore, it is purely a queStien of
equipping them with the neeestory
amount of Materiel to sopPoot their
valor in the Attacks whieh th...ee. Make
on the 'lines • of the enemy.. I heard
the other day on very goeed authority
•—and this will git the House an idea
of the tiemend potations mode
-by the enemy s war, and 0! the
expansion ayhieli has taken plaetrev,e:
singe the War---that-the central tarot.
pean PoWers .are turning ant 250,000
shells. per day. .
Eight •Million Shell*
"That is very nearly eight milli:On
shells per Month. The problem of.
victory for •us is how to equal`, hew to
surpass,' that tremendous production.
(Hear, hear.) The problem of speedy
Victory is the aecoMplishraent of that.
alai With the least possible iviete of
time. (Cheers.) Any obstacle, any
mismanagement, any sleekness and
indiscipline, any prejudice whic.it pre-
vent or delay mobilization' of ill, our
resources at the earliest possible mo-
ment postpone -victory, -•The question
•which in the Ministry of Munitionsave
.have set cuteseiveg to achieve is: Cnn
we, achieve that purpose? I say that '
we can accomplish •that object of not
merely equalling the German and
Austrian output of munitions, but if
'
'Washable Clothes the Tiny- Tote
will Need. •
8691-8902.
; •
Partieularly in summer Must the
elutdren have a coPiOnes SUPP4r •bf
sturdy, gaol, washable...dresses., The
two shown above, Ladies' Home Jour-
nal Patterns 8691 and 8902, are ex-
cellent examples of the variation in
the winethoe' in children's clothes,
the former having an Empire and the
latter 'a Wench waist pattern 8691,
a -Girls' :Empire Dress, is suitable -for
challisolownohatiste, or any soft ma-
terial, with yoke and sleeves cut in
one, a shield opening in front, a turn-
down collar, three-quarter length
sleeves With band aid turn -back cuffs.'
s
•
we are in 'earnest we tan surpass it.
(Cheer.) • The central European
'powers have. tpiobablyattained
something like the limits of their 'pos-
sible output. We have , only just
crossed the threshold of our possibih-
ties,• • ,
Temporary Preponderance.7----
"Germany has achieved a tempor-
ary prep.oederance of material.# She
as done i in two ways : She accumn-
lated great stores before the wan She
has Mobilized the Whole of her. • in-
dustries , .after the war, having no.
doubt taken steps before the war ..to
be ready for the mobilization of the
workshops immediately after the war
was declared. Her Preponderance in
two or three directions is very not-
able: I Mention this ;because it is es-
jtoiett they should be 'underottiest in
.o.
vitinethe-assistince-of the tote. -
triunity to enable et to compete with
this formidable enemy. The superior-
ity* of the Germans in material was.
lnost rnarked in their -heavy guns,
their high ' explosive . shells, • their
rifles, and perhaps most of all their
machine guns. These have turned out
to be about the ,most - formidable
Weapons in the war. They have almost
superseded therifle and rendered it
unnecessary. - , • •
• , ••Germany's Preparedness: .
•
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Pattern 8902, 1. •Girls' Long-Waisted
i
Dress, opens • n front, has turndown .
collar, full-length t sleeves, with turn -
back CliffS and a four -gored skirt
with inverted box -Platte at each seam.
The first- is made in sizes 2, 4 and
yearst requiring to size O, 214 yards
.2/ inch, 1% yards 86 inch,. or 1%
yards 42 inch material; with efi yards
of 24 inch contrasting material. The
latter is made in sizes 4 to 12, requir-
ing in size 8, 4 yards 27 inch, 3i4
yards 36 inch, • er '2% Yards 42 inch
Patterns, 15 gents ea* can be pur-
chased at your local Ladies' 'Home '
Journal Pattern dealer,' or from The
Home Pattern Company, 183-A George
Street, Toronto, Ontario. .
Starving the Belgians. .
It is reported' ta Rotterdam ' that.
the Getman Military authorities in
'several of the Belgian provinces, in,
an effort to 'force the civilians to
work for the army ,of occupation,
have withheld food supplies sent In
hy the commission for the relief, , of
Belgium. '
I., In Malines the supply of food is
said to havebeen stepped- because the
mechanics refused to work in the
railroad shops. At ,Courtrai • the
'Workers are reported teliaire been de-
prived of food because of their ay.:
fiisal to Work in barbed, wire fac-
tories, while similar action was taken
At Roubaix on the refusal of the Work-
ers to make sandbags for ttreoches.,
_Geoetalt.v.on•Itittiog, Governor of
-Belgium, haa-lisuedf-a 'decree-pi-Ovid-
ing for the expropriation of thegrain
crops for ,the feeeing of the 'Civilian
population. The decree, it is stated,
aims at preventing speculative ad-
vance prices, and at an equable
distribution of. supplies.
. "The problem of victory is a prob-
lem of mobilizing Or reseukcesfor
the purpese of increasing the material
of war. What was the condition Of
.thipga with Which we were confronted
at the beginning of war? Germany
had been preparing for years. . (Hear,
'hear.) She had been preparing in a:
l
directione.tr
u ::11 yi vg hardlyanxious suspected. est, s
W
was making great secret preparations
to strengthen her nevi; and to de-
velop a. sudden surprise attack tipon
us. I think on the whole there was
nothing that she: has done for her
navy that We had not anticipat-
ed. 'There was nothing she had
done for her tatty that we were not
epared 'against.- • .There Juts. been
no surprise in the timing ,out of any
expedients of war which had .net been
fOreSeen'so faras the -navy was con -
coined. The strength developed by
the submarine* has been surprising;
but the number ,andthe feet that
they possessed _: their was no surprise.
That was net he case with her armies.
I 'Ventured to call attention in .1.913
to the feet that in ray judgment Ger-
many was concentrating upon:dee-el-
oping the -strength other armies and
not ofher navy; and I got rather • a
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She had been piling up meter,.
ial until' she was ready. She was on
the best of terms with everybody?"
Halite :Pretty "queen:
Pretty, dark very charming in her
,
own 'circle and very reserved out Of
it, the. Qucenof Italy is a devoted
inotherts..Msitors to Memo
are apt to comment , on the • fact that
she and the Sing ,elo not go driving
'tegether; strangers are unaware of
the trent etiquet that makes tt-impot-
tible for them to do se. "The two
(Lament it; salthe. street children d as,
Margheritta and her daughter-irelaw
go by,. the one in black, thd other in
the inevitable grls-perle. The pretty
daughters are sometimes with them,
the Xing never. The -Queen's pearl -
grey is the one complaint the Milian
people have against her. They ac-
cept 'her pretty shyness, they like her
looks, bit :her shopping habits they
wholly ' titeappitott. Dreetiog -tint one,
note, ate -never bilked A' stooge color
tishientible mid profitable for a,briet
season; :she is neter respeosibld for
'the whiffle that give- Pot tittle in-
terest to the crowd on the Pirieio, and
bring tUddesS to the dretsmokers.It
is e standing jest in the eapital that
every report . of a garden party or
bazaar attended by royalty gilds the
tame Phrate in print t "Re Majesty
was /Want, in a gown of grittperie."
... • -
An old soldier after leaving the
British army wrote to Ins Colonel.in
the following tering: - "Sir : After all
I've euffered you can telt. the .army
to go to Jericho.". -A week or do
later he received a reply in the usual
official mintier,: "Sir: Anyseg
gestions or inquiries as to the move-
ments of troops must be entered on
Ant** Form i87, a copy of which is
enclosed:"
What a High Explosive .
The shell question for the British'
orms. cqncerns the supply not- of •
shrapnel, but of shell containiegliigh'
explosive. • These hightexplosivettt shells are ire strong steel cases With ,
fuse, usually placed in the base. The • ,
charge , employed . may „lie either lyd-
dite—which in a preparation of picric
acid—or treantrotoluol,
The Metal in the shell is fairly '.
thick. The explosion is very violent:
and had A thoroughly destructive ef-
fect upon anything. near the point •
wherethe ' shell explodes—concrete
Walls,. entanglements, • steel Shields
for the trenches, or for guns. The,
French and Germans use these shelle
to prepare the. way for assaelts on
hostile treechoLdemolislertg, vith
them all obstacles.: • -
Shrapnel are quite different Pro"
',
jectilee and are. serviceable against
infantry in the Oen. or lightly:
en-
trenched.- They-atet-thito -keel cases .
containing a very smell charge of
low or Moderate power • explosive, •
which opens , the cases and liberates
a large miether . of bullets in them..
These cover an oval area. . as 'they
scatter and 'kill ' unprotected 'men; "
-Shrapnel are useless against for* e
fled positions, strongly -built '-houses,
or deep and welt -planned entrench- '
mints:- • •
When flying &Union Jack, remem-
ber that the broad, white stripe;
should be on top in the upper ccirl,
her next the flagstaff. •
. _
t
.;
Vermin Proof Fences. that, he always found it profitable to
. .
fee° increasing the number of birds ' Protection is the prime requisite .1;ecialepepeithhweet fesoreelilvoersi.sngohozinlisewtouargueoutninliafawadaryoYfs;Z.
in any area, and the 'results of 'pro- h
teeti‘n are in direct- proportion to °eel ashes, -100 pounds of salt; 50 - •
the amount given. Besides -insuring poundsof sulphur, twenty pounds of
•irda'Against every form of porsecti ,COPPeras;, one barrelofhen by human, kind, we. must defend charcoal: and soft coil might help.
,
'them from various natural - foes. The
l:tresnt
td- efflteeetual singbe - bltred:P. LisS4taricttury • In
r4palakinntgabrt
ginL-tere
i
e to mke it grow
with a vermin -proof fence. Such a —and there should -be no ether ahn..-.4
• fence should prevent entrance either the tree should he Made jest as collie
by 'digging or by 'climbing, but Will fortable in 'its new...,enyieoninent as
serve its greatest use if it can not be possible. If the land is wet it sheet/1.'1
climbed, and is, therefore, cat -proof. be drained, for trees will never thrive
If it is impracticable to build' an int, twith wet feet. The best results .are
penetrable fence,' the :next best ..ile,..-obtained-hypreparing. theland---the
vice As to put :guards ,of sheet ntetal'peeyieus. year for the setting of the
on an nesting trees and on poles sup7! trees.. Clover or cowpdas plowed on.
potting bird houses. This, should be der in the fall Will make -hems the
done in any case `where squirrels or, following year and keep the soil about t
Shakes are likely to intrude, cis it is the, root. TreeSwibi often AO welkin:As,
s_ _ _
-fitnallY%irnptacticabbc to -fence • out •-wilm'and -unfavorable. conditionst-
tacks by hawks, owls, crows, or Lr so. • After they Once become
these , an ma s. red guar • s should if good soil is placed about their roots,
.be feet or mere above grated. At -1 so that they get a good Start thefirst
lother erielitie.M. are best :controlled bY, estiab ished they-eal'do ecenfielerable
eliminating ehe destructive indrvid-
Weit-Peepared goo.
Soil well' pulverized befote. the
crop iS planted is much - More pro-
ductive than cloddy land Or any "land
left. with an uneven surface, because
the plantfood.' already in the land is
Made More accessible and the little
root feeders which literally fill the
ground can better gather nourish*
merit from both oath ane air: Land
thotoughlo ,plowed and thoroughlY
piilvefited before plaritg . is not
only tendered niorotf ttile from a '
natural viewpoint, lint is in far het.
tor condition to, receive whatever sot.
tidal fertilizing one may with to ap-1
' Put This hi Your, fteropboolo'
A:breeder told hit county' inatitute
towards *long care of themselv.e8. 4Ir
The Farmer's Vetoed. -
e dietary of a 'toad contains /7'
per -dent. of InseetS and the remain-
der is composed of ipidertocrustacea
and worms. Baiting an annizinglY.
'active tongue, he captures lima' of hit
food on the wing. There is every
reek)* why farmas , and gardenerir
Should encourage- ,and protect.: the
toad." *European 'gardeners often put.
Anse. toads, considering tjnirjgflt
ante in hunting . insecta.
trtling outlay. Toads cortietvory
tame when treated with emitideta.
Cot, and as they tom do any "harm
beyond oceationally ,exeavating a bit
tle cav for midday retirement in e
few tits flower bud, while destroying
Vs.,. 'amount of insect life, there 19
why they should
wittcro guests,: