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The Exeter Times, 1919-1-23, Page 7A Cure for Pimples "You n,tIze el azrcery, potash or any other strong mineral to cure pimples caused by poor blood. Take Extract of Roots— druggist calls it "Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup—and your skirt will clear' up as fresh as a baby's. It will sweeten your stomachand regulate your bowels." Get the genuane. 50c. and $1.00 Bottles. I At drug stores. y < [ CANADIAN RECORD • AUG. 8 TO NOV 11 MIME SUMMARY OF EFFORT IN LAST 3 „MONTHS OF WAIL and ;?reed. Over 300,000 French and Belgian Civilians. , The following despatch is forward- ed from the the office of Sir E. Kemp,, terdeinallon figures clothed in the Canadian Overseas Minister of Mili- oddest collection of old rags and bits tie, by Fred James, 'official corres- of uniform, supporting one another, •pondent with the Canadian Overseas leaning on clumsy sticks cut froin the 1Y7,ilitary ,Forces: ; hedgerows—each is the sight that Canadian troops have furnished a meets the British Army in every road curious coincidence in British ;Pili by which it pursues its victorious tary history. The first troops to enter march into Germany, writes a British Mons the clay the arniistiee"".was officer in the early days of peace, signed wort hose of the, 42nd Royal These sad and suffering figures are .Highlanders of Canada, .which bat- the prisoners of war whom the Cer- talion, through the . parent regiment,' mans, in the panic of their ruin and the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, defeat, e hastily released from cap - is affiliated with the famous Black tivity, and turned out without food A PRISONERS FII.- GRIM'S PROGRESS NO. ONE WILL READ .UNMOVED THIS STORY The Long, Ragged, Starved., But Un - Captured More '1'tin 150" Small Towns, daunted Procession of 'Pris,oncars Returning From Germany. A long, limping procession of tat - Watch. On. August 23, 1914, the last or adequate clothing upon the high mur the other day, some German sol - British battalion to leave Mons was road tomake the best of their way escaped •death on the principle of the survival of the fittest, The strong have tonne through the ordeal; the weak,one fears, succumbed. The Spirit off Britain. But for all one's deep compassion; with their sufferings, one cannot con- template these prisoners of ours with- out a feeling of elation. however much the Germans tried to terzz nt their body, the;, utterly failed to crush their spirit. It is time that a public tribute were paid to the magnificent " Staunchness of soul, the unsha-cable self-respect of the fritish soldier in captivity. There is no doubt that his proud refusal to knuckle down to his oppressor angered the Germans,and ledthem te redouble their .efforts to break his pride. But the .German failed --failed as egregiously as he •has done in every psychological problein he has tackled in this war. And so, for all their wasted looks, for all their noisome rags, these prisoners of war have the bearing of free men. They salute punctiliously, and look one straight in the face when they are. addressed. As a party of British prisoners of war were tramping back through. Na- the 42nd Highlanders, the Scottish hack to the Allied lines. Black Watch. Of all the Allied prisoners of war, Captured 381,000 Germans. I think the French—to judge by their • appearance—were the least ill-treated. From August 8. .to November 11, the They, like the rest, are thin—for thin - date the armistice was declared, the neas seems 'to be universal amongst .Canadian Corps captured 34,000 oris- the dwellers in .Germany of to -day- oners, 750 artillery guns of all calf- but their faces do not reveal the signs bres, 3,500 machine guns, hundreds of of a systematized course of brutality trench mortars, and huge quantities as do the faces of our men, whilst for of all kinds of material, ; the most part they have preserved In the last three months of the their uniforms intact. war the corps advanced in depth .to a I The Road to Germany. distance of 95 miles, covering.an area Theieture of the bands of re - of approximately 450 square miles. turningpprisotiers will, I believe, re - The principal towns captured by the. main indelibly fixed on the minds of Canadians in that time were Cambrai all who have taken part in the victor - and 'Le Coteau on Oct. 9; Derain, ions march into Germany. The set - Oct. 20; Valenciennes, Nov. 2; Mons, ting is the broad, 'tree -lined chaussee. Nov 2 At least 150 smaller towns The line of marching battalions, Biers left a marching column and ran towards them, offering them cig- arettes and food. One and. all the prisoners declined the gift. -"We wouldn't be Navin' anything to do with them!" said the Irish sergeant who told the story. What a contrast to the lickspittle servility of the Bache in captivity. A Debt Repaid. Our prisoners unanimously testify to the kindness shown to them by civilians in Belgium. The peasants dared blows from' the rifles of the guard, and risked heavy fines, to -press bread into the hands of the prisoners marching through the villages. And on their long tramp through Belgium on their way to the allied lines after their liberation,. the and villages were captured in addi- prisoners depended entirely on the tion to those larger centres, which spruce and clean aid fit, with trans- food and clothing freely given them released from German domination port in good shape,; and strong, well- by the Belgians in the towns and vil- over 300,000 French and Belgian groomed horses, fills the right hand civilians. 1 of the highway; on the left, coming The three outstanding battles fought from the opposite" direction, defiles an endless procession of civilians pushing by the Canadian Corps since August, 1918, were: Amiens, which began little hand -carts piled high with their Aug. 8; Arras, on Aug. 26; and Cam- belongings, and surmounted by the brai, Sept. 27. In these three battles, Belgian i"g, interspersed by these and in the advance from Cambrai to little groups of prisoners of war. Mons through Valenciennes, the Cana- Sheer Inhumanity. dian Corps engaged and identified a The hunted Took ii the eyes of total of fifty-seven German divisions, many of these men tells the whole He has just turned them adrift, the several of whom were so badly deci- story of the system which the Allied well and the sick alike, and left them mated as to render them useless as armies' set out to smash, and have to shift for themselves. fighting organizations. - . smashed. I will not horrify you with And when the German people are At Amiens we advanced in less the repititiono f the stories you have called to account for their inhuman than two weeks a depth of 15 miles. read in such ghastly detail in the treatment of their prisoners of war At Arras and Cambrai the depth of British official report on the treat- this last act of callousness must not penetration into the enemy lines was ment of our prisoners of war in Ger- be forgotten. 25 miles, and from Cambrai to Mons many, the brutality of the guards and s9 55 miles. At Amiens we captured their superior officers, the lack of JAPAN'S POPULATION 12,000 prisoners; Arras, 10 000; Cam- food, even of the disgusting quality lages through which they passed. The'Boche treated his prisoners as a bad -minded rustic would not treat his cattle. He had treated them monstrously to the end of the chapter. He has not even sought to lessen the exemplary retribution which the Allies are going to exact from him by making adequate provision for the re- patriation of the prisoners of war. brai, 7,174; and from Cambrai `to Mons, 2,826. On the Last Day of War. On the morning' of,the llth, at four provided, the long liours of forced labor,often under shell fire. But what we must insist an—and it ap- pears in the statements of almost all the prisoners is the sheer inhuman- oclock, the 42nd Battalion (the Mont- ity of the German attitude towards real Kitties), the P.P.C.L.I., R.C.R's their British victims. and the 44th Battalion, of the Seventh If it were inconvenient to start ra- Brigadg,- attacked at Mons. The city tioning a party of prisoners on a was actually captured by the 42nd certain day, the party would simply Battalion and the Princess Pat's, and be confined without food or water until the R.C.R.'s also had some troops such time as the rationing of the Production of Rice Has Not Kept Pace With Increased Birth Rate.. The shortage in the supply of food- stuffs'in Japan has caused the' extra- ordinarily high price of rice and other food, says the Japan Advertiser. It is true that the production of rice has been making more or less increase has not been at such a rate as to keep pace with the steadily g'rowing popu- lation. Moreover, the yield of rice enter the city. By eleven o'clock, the prisoners became convenient. There is at the mercies of the elements and Jibe NVoex 'c1y ashion,4 © docALL it PRINTERS' PI.S,. t #I Me- lnterestins War -time Sam,pl'es, of Typographical Err ra . ; 'The grim and often sorrowful details -9 I that war nova hiinF a home to most of t lie are now and ,;gain unwittingly lit up by the mist11 5 Of the compositor. These typographical error„ are termed "printer's pie." Sometimes the omis- ion of a :Anglo letter snakes quite a startling ehaugo from what is really meant, as, for example, in this new view of the Buns' humanity: "The newest Gothas carry bombs of a. ton weight, but' the German machines that aid hospitals in France continue to use smallish bombs," This one 'from Sheffield paper seems muoli nearer the truth, "Three bombs wore dropped upon an ammunition. train and a direct: hit obtained. The train contained 15,- 000 hells." To which our airmen ap- pear to have obliged by adding an ex- tra one. The unintentional alteration of a letter also works wonders; as in the case where "Mr. ---- wept through the Gallipoli campaign and was awarded the Military Cross," or where more German frightfulness is suggested by the statement that "Hindenburg sent a large number of bug guns to General Boroevics," or, again, in the somewhat startling notice from a "Deaths" col- umn In another newspaper ---"In loving memory of our dear son. 'He nobly answered his country's call, he gave his wife for one and all: " The origin of many suck items may not always be laid at the door of the compositor, but often are the Product of one who wrote them. In many of them our trials and tribulations aris- ing from the war make their appear- ance. When the milk difFioulty crop- ped up in Dublin the Lord Mayor de livered himself in these terms: "It would be a crying evil to leave the spoor people without milk. It would be a wise thing if the Corporation would take the hull by the horns and deal with the matter." It was a Glasgow paper that wrote on the coal question thus:—"One wise virgin, the father of a large family, has laid in several piles of wood against the coming of coal -rationing time," whilst a University journal threw cold water on the musical abili- ties of our fighting men by announc- ing that "a capital military band will discourage music throughout the af- ternoon." A very practical little apron in- deed is this one which slips on over the head and fastens under the arm. McCall Pattern No. 8682, Girl's Apron. In 6 sizes, 2 to 12 years. Price,, 15 cents. Transfer Design No, 891. Price, 10 cents, This new design has the basque effect waist which opens on the shoul- der and at the underarm. McCall CHARACTER OF THE 1.4 TE CZAR 1' yclaological Makeup of the ;Last Emperor of the Russian. ,E1.s a result of an interview with the well as from various other sources, Charlcs Greene Cumston, 11x,; privet -docent at the University of i Gei:c'va. and Fellow of the Royal So - I l• of Medicine of London, etc., has gite n .Mus the following sketch which will no doubt prove of interest: "The most marked trait of the Czar I was his absolute lack of will power, Personally insufficient to govern so great a country, Nicholas II was also an egoist and suspicious of all things and persons. Weak of character, the Czar was both a fatalist and a mystic, and when affairs of court or state did not go well he believed he was aban- doned by God. This always increas- ing conviction since the' Manchurian War paralyzed all his initiative and annihilated the little will power which he still possessed. All foreigners' who approached him in 1016 gathered this. impression.. It explains the ease with whicsh Nicholas II abandoned his power and the absolute absence of any effort on his part to recover pos- session of it. When the revolution of the people arose the Czar regarded it as the judgment of. God upon him and his people and he accepted it as a divine decision and as an expiation and an atonement for his earthly errors, and it is undoubtedly true that he died in this spirit of internal sanctity. "I believe that when history shall be written Nicholas II will be Iooked upon with pity an dwith sympathy rather than otherwise. Only time will tell." Keep Your Health TO -NIGHT TRY Mhiard's LirneDI for that Cold and Tired Feeling Get Well, Keep Well, Kill Spanish FIu by using the OLD RELIABLE. MINARD'S LINIMENT CO., Ltd, Yarmouth, N,S, Might Be Improved. "What do you think of the array as Complaints about the inadequate far as you have gone?" inquired a ser- geant of a newly arrived recruit at camp. "I may like it after a while, but just now I think there is too much drill- ing and fussing around between meals," was the reply. grants to soldiers' dependants caused a Yorkshire correspondent to remark, "I hope that if the Government grant an increase to soldiers' wives, they will increase the wives' of soldiers all round." Even the Times adds its quota with this:—"The Canadian force is wearing the smile that won't come off. The nature of the ground is en- tirely favorable to suck an operation." The opinion has often been express - Pattern No. 8712, Ladies' Dress. In ed that the best German is a dead one, 6 sues, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 25 but I think it has been left for a Bir - cents. mingham paper to tell us of those who These patterns may be obtained have been "permanently" killed, which from your local McCall dealer, or' one would think should satisfy the from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St,, Most anti German amongst us. Toronto, Dept. W. The food question is hardly a sub- ject for mirth at present, but one can scarcely resist a senile when we are '• told that "the markets are empty, and prices of such things as remain T impossibly high." Tells how to loosen a sore, tender corn so it lifts out without pain. It Works! Try II the are imp time the armistice came into effect, was apparently no recognition even in a country like Japan, which is sub-—a—a—Oly anal rug we had established a line five kilo- of such an elementary. principle as 1 jest to frequent visitations of ty- Good news spreads rapidly and drug - metres east of the city, . so that in that you must feed the animal which phoons at the most critical period for gists here are kept busy dispensing • r f a Cin - MONEY ORDERS. Dominion Express Money Orders are on sale in five thousand offices throughout Canada. The ham will not dry out and get hard if you fry out some of the fat and let it become hard. Then spread it over the cut end of the ham about a half-inch thick. This will ex= elude the air. Scrape off the fat before slicing the ham and after- ward spread it on again as before. ESinard's Liniment Cures 33ipZtthsria. An old Latin saying got a new turn British employers who are paying in an advertisement which lately ap- less than the minimum wages have peered an a leading London paper as , ,. been warned that they will be pro - follows :—'Buy a £o War Bond. He gives quickly who gives twice." The to proceeded against by the Government. most up-to-date one deals with recent According nine days the Canadians advanced is to work for you. "Necessity knows I the corp, the precarious nature of the fleezonethe ether discovery o , war successes, and describes our government figures, thirty miles. 1no law," says the German, and of agricultural industry may be ;magi;;- cinnati man, which is said to loosen, moderation in the display of national the number of 'hens in Holland has I anyearn so it ,lifts out with the fingers, decreased from 8,000,000 to 3,000,000 On the afternoon of the nth, Lieut. there is no food for prisoners—if'the ed. In this connection, continues the feeling in this little sentence, if this ; . 4 Ask at any pharmacy for a quarter in two years. General Sir Arthur Currie and his transport, for instance, is required Advertiser, it will be interesting to were Germany, the bells would be rung stair made a triumphant .entry into more urgently for ammunition then note the tremendous rate at which ounce of freezone, which will cost very . threadbare over to -day's splendid Jaan's popu aton is Increasibe sufficient to rid ng. ; Mons, and were welcomed by thou- , the prisoners may starve. And starve . little, but is said to news.„ sands of civilians in a most demon- they did, and die of exposure and ones feet of every Bald or soft corn way. General Currie pre- neglect and under -nourishment, so sented to the city a , Canadian flag that it seems probable that the for - tied to a lance, which now has a tunate ones who are making their way prominent place in the council chain- . back to happiness and liberty have 'tier of the city hall. The bodyguard of the Corps Commander was a sec tion of the 5th Imperial Lancers, all of whom wore the Mons Ribbon and were among the last to leave the city on August 23, 1914. It was at Mons that the British began fighting in the war and it was there the war ended. Throughout all the advance invaluable assistance was given by the Canadian Railway Troops and the Canadian Forestry Corps, whose work was extremely difficult owing to the. devastation and dam caused to railway tracks, bridges and, roads. 1 The Power of Speed. The destruction wrought by the bursting of a flywheel in an electric light plant in New Rockford, N.D., U.S.A., recently, indicates vividly the disastrous results which may follow failure to control the speed of an en- gine. The engine in question was of the Corliss type, and for some midis.covered reason the governor failed to work. The speed of the flywheel which normally was 100 revolutions per minute, was increased to many, times that number. Eventually the big casting burst, and fragments were hurled many hundred feet in all directions. The engine room and the niadhinery it contained were coin- pletdiy wrecked, except a small gene crater which, almost miraculously, was unharmed. A great bole was torn in one of .the brick walls, and a piece of the wheel, weighing about 450 pounds, was thrown high in .the silt. Ti, landed in front of a furniture store 500 feet from.the,power plant, burying itself deep in the concrete aidewalk. The enterprising furniture Merchant hastened to paint an advere tlsesnent ,on the side of the fragmefl . The Popular Choice People of culture. -has+e and refine - men+ are keen for heal+h, simplicity and contentment, Thousands of +hese people choose +he cereal drink I°�`STANT P' STUM as their +able bev» erage in place of 'tea or c-offee. eaal'fhfvll or sical TM CSp'A. Delicious p Until a few years ago the rate of You apply just a few drops on the increase was a little more than 500, - or callus. 000, but last year's increase is put tender, aching corn and instantly the Can 'be Manufactured of Almost Any at close upon 800.000. According to soreness is relieved, and soon the corn I Vegetable Substance. official statistics just published the is so shriveled. that it lifts out with- , total .number of the Japanese popula- out pain. it is a sticky substance Cii;ir•f gs from the collar factories tion on December 31, 1917, was re- which dries when applied and never I contri{-','te importantly to the supply of I STUFF UFF FOR MAKING PAPER. turned at 57,993.373, which were Bis- , inflames or even irritates the adjoin- tributed into 10,241,851 dwellings at i ing tissue. raw material for making high-grade paper. It is just an instance of waste - the rate of 5.7 per dwelling. C- . This discovery will prevent thou- elimination. pared with tem he census taken at the : sands of deaths annually from lockjaw Asbestos makes an excellent paper, end of 1916- the population showed anant infection heretofore resulfialg from which, being fireproof, might reeonl- mend itself highly for deeds and other increase of 799,096, and there can be the suicidal • habit of cutting corns. no doubt that. Japan should be seri- ously exercised by the food problem PEAT AS FUEL if its population continues to increase at such a rate. It may be added that It Also Has Many Other Interesting the figures are q,xelusive of the Sap - and Useful anese or Japanese subjects in Korea, Qualities. Formosa and Karafuto, who may be Peat is coal in the making. It said to be self-supporting as far as furnishes a perfectly good fuel. their food supply is concerned. RIVETLESS SI -IIP. Electrically Welded Craft Built in Britain. Largest There has been much discussion of Tate about .the feasibility of building electrically - welded steamships and thereby avoiding the time and expense consumed in rivOtIng' In am England.laud tonnes word of the coulpletioI I of a rivetless 275 -ton barge, supposedly the largest electrically -welded craft so far produced. It is 125 ft. over all, and 16 ft. of beam. The hull is rectangular in section amidships--onlythe bilge plates being curved. All water -tight joints as far up as the latter are con- tinuously weldedon both sides, while those' thereafter are tack -welded on one side. The proeess permitted an estimated saving. of from 25 to 40 per cent, in time and 10 per cent. in ma- terial. The expense of welding amounted to $1,500, $890 of which went for electrodes. In normal times this item would be leas by about 60 .per cent. Another experimental barge, With certain parts riveted and others welded, is to be .built. valuable documents. But, unfortunate- ly, no process has been discovered by which paper of this material can be made that has a smooth, hard surface to take ink from a pen without blur- ring. The inventor who solves this puzzle has a fortune awaiting him. There will never be a real peeper During the eighteenth century, famine, because paper can be made when the forests of northern Europe out of almost anything vegetable. It had been to a great extent cleared has been manufactured from banana away •(coal being not yet in general use), peat was the main dependence of the rural population. It is said that a ton of paper can be manufactured from peat at a cost of i20, leaving a satisfactory margin of profit. In France some Very beautiful tex- filafabries resembling Scotch tweeds and camel's hair cloth, are woven from peat fibre. They can be bleach- ed to snowy whiteness and will take any dye. One of the most interesting uses of peat is for packing and preserving perishable foods, such as fruits, vege- tables, butter and eggs. Even meats and fish have been shipped for great distances in peat fibre, arriving in perfect condition, thanks to the pecu- liar preservative qualities of the material. - porridge, A .marble boiled in milk, custards, etc., will automatically do the ” stirring as the. liquid. rooks and So prevent burning'. temeteeue !k:3eemeijt.Cures tlarreet leaves, pineapple leaves, beanstalks, cabbage -stalks, cat -tails, hay, thistle- down and even mummy wrappings. Sugar -cane refuse makes good pa- per: cotton stalks likewise, Of these materials incalculable quantities, are thrown away annually. Rice straw and flax stalks are available for the same purpose; also the wild hemp that grows over vast areas in the South-west. 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