The Exeter Times, 1920-7-29, Page 2GERMAN FRONTIERS CLOSED
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TO ALLIED TROOPS
A despatch from Berlin says; -Dr.
Simons, the Foreign Secretary, speak-
ing before the Foreign Ati'airs Com-
mittee of the Reichstag, declared that
in 'tri? c.vent the Entente contemplated
the c :catch of troops through Ger-
many for the aid of Poland, Germany
would, vigorously . protest.
A note on the attitude of Germany
in the Russian -Polish crisis was pre-
sented at Paris on Wednesday. The
German declaration of neutrality in
this crisis, said the Minister, was proof
that -the country was at peace with
both Russia and Poland and could not
assist in the plans of the Allies for
the aid of Poland.
Germany, -continued Dr. Simons,
would •protect her frontiers against
the troops of both belligerents, and
any forces violating this order would
be disarmed.
Vorwaerts says that Germany is re-
inforcing her troops on the frontier
by local defence troops and intends to
guard the frontiers of theplebiscite
areas with, German troops to obviate
the possibility of a conflict between
French and Russian troops, which
might bring the war to German soil,
FATE OF GALLANT MEN
KNOWN AT LAST
War Mystery Solved by Dis-
covery at Gallipoli.
A despatch from London says;--Oue
of the mysteries of the war, the fate
of part of a battalion of an English
Territorial regiment, the fifth Nor -
folks, in the fighting at Sulva Bay,
Gallipoli, has at last been solved.
Sir Ian Hamilton, in his despatch
on the fighting around Anafart : on
August 12, 1915, referred to the fate
of the battalion as .a very mysterious
thing. On the night of the attack they
found themselves less strenuously op-
posed than the rest of the brigade and,
under Colonel Sir H. Beauchamp, the
men eagerly pressed forward. Some
were wounded or exhausted and found
their way back to camp.
"But the Colonel, with 10 officers
and 250 men," continued Hamilton's
despatch, "still kept pushing on, driv-
ing the enemy before them, Among
these ardent souls was part of. a fine
company enlisted from the King's
Sandringham estates. Nothing more
was ever seen or seard of any of then.
They •charged into the forest and were
lost to sight and sound. Not one of
them ever came back."
The forest into which the Battalion
gallantly charged was never =retaken
by British troops.. A few men who
fell into the hands of the Turks, it
was afterwards found, had fallen out
of the attack earlier, and not a man
of Col. Beauchamp's force was made
prisoner.
Rev. C. S. Edwards has just return-
ed from a visit to the peninsula on
graves registration work. He says
that -on going over Anafarta Plains
he found skeletons of the men of the
Fourth and Fifth Norfolks, the Fifth-
Sutfolks and the Fourth Harnpshieel
over a mile in front of what was after-
wards the first-line trench.
Apparently the battalions, had ad
• vanced in perfect order and to all ap-
pearances had been caught by Ma-
chin e -gun fire. One man had taken
cover beh'nd a stone, and a large pile
of empty car i:ridge cases round his
skeleton showed he had defended him-
self to the last. Just behind the Nor-
folk front Iine Mr.. Edwards carne
across the remains of about fifty men
who had fallen in a grim hand-to-hand
struggle. Touching each other lay
the bodies of Britons and Turks, the
heads of the latter facing the sea and
those of the attackers toward their
adversaries' lines.
Live Stock For
Prince's Alberta Ranch
A despatch from . Montreal 'says :-
Live stock for the Prince of Wales'
ranch in Aiberta have arrived in
Montreal on the Montcalm. The ship -
meat consisted of eight fillies, eleven
Dartmoor ponies, eleven colts and two
pens of Suffolk chickens. These ani-
mals and fowls ars being shipped to
the -West on a special car, in which
running water and electricity have
been installed. They are in charge
of the foreman of the ranch. It is
stated that a number of cows.will be
sent from England in October.
POLAND TO RECEIVE
MILITARY AID
Allies Arrange for Prompt
Check to Bolsheviki Plans.
A despatch frons. Paris says: -The
allies have decided to take measures
preparatory to giving military aid to
Poland, if that should prove necessary.
A French mission headed by Jules
3. Jusserand, French Ambassador to
the United States who is home on
leave, with General Weygand, right-
hand man of Marshal Foch, and M,
Vignon, a close collaborator with Pre-
mier Millerand, left on Thursday night
for Warsaw to arrange for prompt
succor to the Poles.
On the same train and with the -
same abject there was a British mis-
sion headed beg Lord D'Abernon, Bri-
tish Ambassador at Berlin, General
Radcliffe and Sir Maurice Hankey,
These missions, it is learned, leave
with full authority to say to the Poles
that whatever aid is necessary, either
military or financial, or in the nature
of supplies, will be forthcoming if the
Bolshevists persist in a design to
march into distinctively Polish terri-
tory.
It is stated unofficially, but on high
authority, that this means help for
Poland in the form of troops if they
are required.
Already a large number of allied
officers and subalterns are with .the
Polish army, which, it is declared, will
be increased according to circum-
stances with as many divisions of in-
fantry, tank detachments, air forces
and artillery as may be transported
in due time.
Europe Getting to its Feet.
During the war it was often hard
to tell from the articles in the news-
papers what the precise truth about
the military situation was. To -day it
is almost as difficult to tell what is
the precise situation financially and
industrially in France, in Germany
and in Italy. Correspondents are
hopeful or depressed according to their
temperaments, to the course of their
information, or to the effect they wish
to produce on their readers. There is
still propaganda, eommereial and
political, mixed with the impartial and
conscientious news that some report-
ers send across the ocean, and it is
often hard to separate the trustworthy
from the disingenuous.
But it is clear enough that Western
Europe is getting to work again. It
is recovering from the condition of
shocked and dazed suffering into
which the war plunged it. The only -
question is whether the burden of war
debt laid upon the shoulders of the
people is too great to be successfully
borne, even by willing and thrifty
workers. The bast opinion is that it
is not. If Western Europe does not
fall again into the chaos of war, it
will gradually work its way back to
sclvency and prosperity. The weak
spot is Germany, for the morale as
well as the resources of Germany has
been sadly weakened. And yet in Ger-
many it is political rather than busi-
ness incapacity that menaces the
state. The present government is
timid and ineffectual; yet any other
would be still more dangerous, for the
radical socialists: would `- inevitably
Greeks Repulse Turks swing Germany nearer the fatal policy
in Thrace °
A despatch from Athens says: -An
official communication, issued by the
Greek army in Thrace, states 'hat at -
ween the ages of twenty and forty
re gone, it is repairing the losses and
avages of war and beginning to cut a
gure again in international business.
zecho-Slovakia is actually prosper -
us -the brightest spot anywhere in
entral Europe. Italy has had • its
f the Bolsheviks, and the monarchists
would restore a Germany that no one
eIse could trust.
France is hard at work and doing
nobly. Although half of its men be -
tempts made by the enemy to shell
the bridges on the Maritza road were
ineffective and bombs were dropped
from, Gfeek airplanes on the enemies
batEeries at Lulu Bruges. An attack
on the. Greek right wing, in the Kara-
gagr section, was repulsed. C
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Ware the Death- ealin Mushroom
Those who, unadvised or ill-advised,
would gather wild species of mush-
rooms for the table should remember
that they are embarking upon an ad-
venture that may lead to a sudden and
horrible death. To asic a person to
gather his own mushrooms for the
table, without previous instructions
that will enable him to avoid the dead-
ly finds, is equivalent to, if not worse
than, inviting him to put his unpro-
tected hand into a den of rattlesnakes.
General rules for the guidance of.
mu,ehroom hunters are trustworthy
and serviceable only when formulated
by experienced botanists. The follow-
ing six rules by the late Professor Far -
low will prevent, if scrupulously ob-
served, the eating of notoriously
poisonous Species:
First, Avoid fungi when in the but-
ton or expanded stage, also those in
which the flesh has begun to decay,
even if only slightly.
Second. Avoid all fungi which have
death cups, stalks With a swollen base
surrounded by a sac-like or scaly en-
velope, especially if the gills are
white.
Third. Avoid fungi having a milky
juice, unless the millc'is reddish.
Fourth. Avoid fungi in which the
cap, or pileus, is thin in proportion co
the gills, and in which the gills are
nearly all of,equal length, especially if
the pileus is bright -colored.
Fifth. Avoid all tube -bearing fungi
in which the flesh changes color when
cut or brcken or where the mouths of
the tubes are reddish, and in the case
of other tube -bearing fungi experiment
with caution.
Sixth. Fungi which have a sort of
spider web or flocculent ring about the
upper part of the stalk should in gen-
eral be avoided.
Professor learlow adds that "rules
one, two and three may, for the be-
ginner, be regarded as absolute, with
the exception to rale two, Amanita
caesarea, the gills of which are yel-
low. Rules three, four and six have
more numerous exceptions, but these
rules should be followed in all cases
unless the collector is content to ex
perinent first with very small quanti-
ties and learn the practical result"
Other rules that vel help to protect
from serious poisoning are:
Da not collect mushrooms in or near
wooded areas except for study pur-
poses.
This rule is very general, as it does
not protect against the green -gilled
Pepiota, nor against an occasional
Amanita and some other,,, but it does
prevent the beginner from entering
the very `lair" of the man -killers.
Do not accept nanshrooms from a
self-styled expert, even if you have to
disoblige a dear friend. Learn the
subject yourself.
That an animal (insect, squirrel,
,turtle, etc.) has eaten of a mushroom
is no crltertdn cf the edibility of that
mushroom for man. Insect larvae
thrive and grow fat on the violently i
poisonous Amanita phailoides.
Soaking or boiling in water does riot
render a poisonous species edible.
troubles and' las more before it, but
it seems every week to stand a little
firmer omits feet. Belgium is in good
case, working steadily and industri-
ously. Only in the dismembered frag-
ments of the Austrian. Empire, in de-
feated and humiliated Germany. and in
Red Russia is the economic situation
discouraging. Russia of course is the
key to the situation in Central and
Eastern Europe, and that key will not
unlock the -gate to industry and pro-
duction while the Bolshevik theorists
prevail. Western Europe meanwhile
struggles to its feet slowly and pain-
fully but with courage and determina-
tion.
Adrianople Occupied
by Greek Forces
A. despatch from Constantinople
says: -The War Office announced it'a'`e
had learned that the Greek vanguard
had entered Adrianople. The Turks
have destroyed the bridge over the
Maritsa River near the junction of
he 'Constantinople line with the Ad-
rianople-Saloniki line, and have also
.destroyed four bridges within 20 miles
of Tchatalja. The Turks are entrench-
ed at many points along the railway
between the Maritza River and
Tchatalja prepared to harass the
Greek advance. '
Hon. 'ri rr•y Mins
Labor member for Fart William, in
the Ontario Legislature, and Minister
of Mines, who has been elected by ac-
clamation.
Thirty tint:sand starving cats are,
rescued from London streets every'
year. They are painlessly killed, theirs
,skins being used for muffs and
glove's.
"REG'LAR FELLER S" ...:By Gene Byrnes
swo^ - ua-- assn. -•
152 Per Cent. Above
1914 Living Cost
•
A despatch from London says: -
The Ministry of Labor statistics show
an increased cost of living in the Bri-
tish Isles of 152 per cent. above the
level of 1914.
Turks Will Sign Peace
g Treaty.
A despatch from. Constantinople
says: -Turkey has decided to sign the
Peace Treaty, it was announced offi-
cially..
The opal is more difficult to imitate
than the diamond.
PHONING moivi
SHIl' TQ • ENGLAND
Traveller on Atlantic Liner
Tabs With Friends at Home.
A despatch from S. S. Victorian
(bearing ` Imperial Press delegates to
Ottawa), says: --"You are wanted on
the telephone."
With this astonishing request my
eabin steward left me wonde ing
whether I was really on a liner hound
for Canada or in a lunatic asylum,
I was shown •the way a ;few minutes
ago to the Vieto?ien's Marconi apast-
ments, where, sure enough, Was a
wireless operator wearing the familiar
ear -pieces,,, apologizing to someone
somewhere for my delay in appearing,
"Cholnisford in Essex wishes '-'to
speak to you, s:r. Chelmsford is
apologizing for the 000 miles between
us and wishing the journalists on
board a pleasant voyage."
The result ofthe subsequent con-
versation, conducted as clearly as if
I were talking from room ±0 room,
is that I am able to forward for
publication this message, one of the
first ever spoken from a passenger
ship at sea to the United Kingdom,
This message was received ht the
Marconi wireless telephone station at
Chelmsford this afternoon and trans
mitted to London by ordinary tele-
phone.
British Exceed Record
in Shipbuilding
A despatch from London says: -
Total tonnage now building in the
United Kingdom exceeds the amount
under construction in the United
.States by 1,672,000 tons, according to
returns published. 'by Lloyd's Register
of Shipping. The aggregate amount
now under construction in Great Bri-
tain is 3,576,000 tons -the highest am-
ount ever' recorded.
$10,000,000 Damage
Wrought by Sinn Fein
A despatch from London says: -The
cost of the property destroyed by Sinn
Feiners in Irelandwas estimated at
$10,000,000 in the House of Commons
by Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief See- -
retary for Ireland.
Weekly e�
Wholesale Grain.
Toronto, July 27.-Manitobo wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $3.15; No. 2 North-
ern, $3.12; No. 3 Northern, $3.08, in
store Fort William. Smoked meats -Hams, meds, 46 to
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, $1.151% 49c; heavy, 40 to 42c; cooked, 68 to
No. 3 CW, $1.131/2; extra No. 1 feed, 66c; rolls, 34 to 86e; cottage rolls 39
$1.12; No. 1 feed, $1.10%; No. 2 feed, to 410; breakfast bacon, 48 to 52c;
$1.071, in Store Fort William. backs, plain, 52 to 54c; boneless, 58 to
Manitoba barley -No. 3 CW, $1.75; 64e,,
No. 4 CW, $1..45; rejected, $1.35; feed, Cured meats -Long clear�'b. 2.
$1.35, in store Fort William. to 280;clear2 aeon, �Z
American corn -No. 3 yellow, $ tierce ,. to 2to:
nominal, track,Toronto,$s ship- .30; Laid _Pure tierces,. 28 to 28i4 c;
prompt ship .•tubs, 28 ,2 to 290; 'mild, 2S?� to 292/�c;
ment. prints, 29/ to 30c. Compound. tierces,
Ontario -oats-No. 3, white, nominal. 25 to 251/2c; tubs, 25% to 26c; -pails,
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Winter, per 25% to 2624c; prints, 27 to. 271/2.c.
car let, $2 to $2,01; No. 2 do, $$1.98
to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.92 to $1.93, f.o.b, Montreal Markets. Montreal, July 27. -Oats -No 2 C
I gal:, $3.40 to $3.50; per 5: •imp. gals.
$3.25 to $3.40 M 1 7
to 30e.
Provisions -Wholesale:'
shipping points, according to freights.
Ontario wheat -No. 1 Spring, per
car lot, $2.02 to $2.03; No, 2 do, $1.98
to $2.01; No. 3 do, $1.95 to' $2:01; f.o.b:
shipping points, according to freights.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -Malting, nominal
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Rye -No. 3, $2.20 to $2.25, accord-
ing to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -Government stand-
ard, $14.85, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Government stand -
W., $1.35; No. -3 CW, $1.82/. Flour,
Man. Spring wheat patents, firsts, new
stand. grade, $14.85 -to $15.05. Rolled
oats, 90 Ib. bag, $5.85. Bran, $54.25:
Shorts, $61.25. Hay, No. 2, per ton,
car lots, $29 to $30. Cheese, finest
Easterns, 261/2 to 27c. Butter, choicest
creamery, 571/ to 571/2c. Eggs, fresh,
60 to 62c. Potatoes, per bag, car lots,
$4.50 to $5.00.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, July 27, -Choice heavy
ard, $12.90, nominal. steers, $15.25 to $15.50; good heavy
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered Mont- steers; $14.75 to $15; butchers' cattle,
real freights, bags included: Bran, per choice, $14.50 to $14.75; do, good,
ton, $52; shorts, per ton, $61; good $13.50 to $1425; do, med., $11.50 to
feed flour, $3.75 to: $4. $12; do, coin,, $7.50 to $9; bulls, choice,
Hay -No. 1, per ton, $31; mixed,, $11.75 to $12.25; do, good, $10.75 to
per ton, $27, track. $11.25; -do, rough, $6 to $8; butchers'
Straw -Car lots, per ton,•$15 to $16, Lows, choice,.$11.75•to $12.25; do, good,
track, Toronto. $11 to $11.25; do, coni., $6.50 to $7.50;
Country Produce--Wholesale.stockers, $9 to $11; feeders, $11 to
$12.50;canners and cutters, $5 to
Cheese -New, large, 31 to 32c; ,$6.25; milkers, good to choice,$100 to
twins, 311/2
o3 23 to lets; 2v t $165; do, corn. and rimed., $65 $75;
332, , large,34c, , , lambs, yearling's, $12 to 13; do,
c3to 34'1c; •Stiltons, old, 36 to spring; $16.50 to $7.50; calves, good
86%c;new, 34 to 85c, to choice, $16.50 to $18; sheen .5
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, . 49 to to $9; hogs, fed and watered,°to
50e; creamery prints,. 59 to 62c. $21 to
$21.25; do, weighed off cars, $21.21 to
M argar .e-35 to 39c. $21.50; do, f.o.b., $20 to $20.25; do,`
ggs o 1, 57 to 68c; selects; -60
do, country points, $19.75 to $20.
to 6_c. Montreal, July 27. -Butcher
'Dressed poultry -Spring .ch:ckens ti r steers,
50c;roosters 30c fowl 35c;turkeys,
mod., $10.0 to $12; coin., e8 to $10
53 c 60c; ducklings, 3$ is 40c;squabs, butcher heifers, men., $9.60 to 811.50;
dor„ $6.50. com., $0 to $9; canners, $3 to $4; cut-
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 45e tees, $4.00 to $5.50; butcher bulls,
, 30c; ducklings,35e; earn.; $5.50 to 88. Good veal, $12 to
roosters,26c; :fowl $13.50rmcd•
Beans -Canadian, hand-picked, , > $7 to $11. Ewes, $7 to
a, p hiss., $9. Lambs, good, $15 to $15.
$525; primes, $4; Japans, $5; Limas, $13 to $14. Hogs, selects., 50, come
t. mfr car
Madagascar, $i� /Zc
Japan, 10 to 11c. weights, $21. bled. l:i• ht hogs, 21.50,
Maple products -Syrup, per imp. mixed lots, $17.50 to $19.50, '
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Incompleteness,.
Few things are finished, and that
which has attained the rounded full,
ness of perfection is not always
supremely interesting. We all know
of many lives that were eut short amid
general exclamations of pity. It was.
said 'that theyouth was of
Y great
promise, and doubtless it was true, ^'
Our human hearts have borne an al-
most intolerable weight of grief foe•
the lives of the, young men taken in
the war -the young ineu With whom
the world's* destiny and the hope of
the future eeemed4.te lie. A .sheen
piteous 'waste' o£ man -power., it Was,
and it robbed posterity as well as our
own time. But in these lives ended
so soon there was not promise 'merely
-there wase perforniiuee. l\fany «'hose
term of years has been comparatively
brief have done more for the welfare
of their fellows than those who spent
their long, long time upon earth chief-
ly in ease and self-indulgence and the
habitual. avoidance of 'hard things.
We think we see wreckage and ruin
round about us, In precious lives as in
perishable material, but it is for a
Power infrn.tely greater and higher
than our own to pronounce a' verdict
as to whatis whole and what is in-
complete. Our knowledge is but par-
tial, our vis:on is blurred, our verdicts
are qualified y our many and serious
limitations.
Much may have been done in what
looks to our mortal sight like the frag-
ments of a lifetime. If we cannot in
our term of days have all that we
desire, let us learn how.mtich we may
do with the portion that is granted in
answer to our petulant requisitions,
The Chinese have a proverb, -"Half an
orange tastes as sweet as a whole
one." There is wrapped up in that
aphorism a deal of wisdom. We learn,
when we have little and must make
much of it, how foolish we were when
we lead a great deal and complained.
When we must use what we have in-
stead of repining for that which we.
have not, 'v"o develop all 'manner of
unsuspected resources. We surprise
ourselves with the discovery that we
can do what heretofore was ..looming
formidably among the impossibilities.
If the work of -the world had to be
done by machine and tools utterly
perfect, or if society had to depend on
complete and flawless individuals, the
life of this planet would be at a stand-
still. The responsibility for carrying
forward the business and mahhtaining
and repairing the social fabric rests
with agencies and individuals far fires
ideal, doing the best they .can,
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Plenty of Thne in Dublin.
Ireland is a country in which the
people take politics energetically and
business casually. George A. Bir--'
inin b m(Canon Hannay) ) in his IAA"'
g � Y.
Ane'Irlihman Looks At IIis World, il-
lustrates the leisurely methods cf Dub-
lin bydescribing the experience a
stranger who wants to hire a house is
pretty sure to Have with his house
agent. Everywhere e're -the house
agent is •a striking citizen; not so
in Dublin.
House agents are agreeable and
friendly men who have long printed
lists of possible habitations on which
the number of rooms, ren.a1 and other
details are' plainly ,set forth. The as-
piring tenant takes- the list and go -es
to Howth and searches cut 'a house
that seems• to be the thing he wants.
He is met at the doer by a smiling
parlor maid, who telir him that it was
to be let once, but was taken on a long
lease six months ago. Still hopeful,
the searcher goes to Rathfarnham and
finds another house: It is indubitably
to be let. There are bills to that effect
in the windows. But there is no pas.
sible way of getting inside it. The key
le, perhaps, somewhere. Perhaps
there is aro key. The stranger goes
back to the house agent, after fiveor
six of these experiences, in a furious
temper, but the house agent is agree-
able and friendly,
"Do you tell me that naw?" lie says,
when he hears that the house al
Howth has been let. "i%Iaybe then I'd
betterserateh it off the list"
But he does not scratch it off. After
all, it niay bo vacant again some day.
Faced with the fact that the house -
at Itathfarnham is lnaccessibl •, ho ex-
presses astonishment.
"Well, now," he says, "aren't some
people the very devil? You'll hardly
believe it but it was only yc„terdey
the owner was asking ane was. there
any chance of getting it lot.. How is
a gentleman to take a house if he can't
see . the inside of it?"
'.Che stranger of course is asking the
same que„tion himself. Dut his -temper
is` oozing away. He. is beginning to
realize that a house"agent must not be
pinned down to the printed statements•
of his lists. That would be unfriendly.
As for the'lotla cf time It is a :=u•
premely silly thing to fuss about a day : !
or two.
In 'fake Season.
If night should come and find me at
my toil,
When :all Lffo's day i had, tha'
faintly, wrought,
And ahalrow furrows, eioft in stony
soil. ,
1'Vere, all my labor, shall I count It
naught?
If only one poor gleaner, weak of hand,
Shall pick to scanty sihdaf where i
have sown?
Ndy, for of thee the Master cloth de.
mand
Thy work:. the harvest rests with
Ilan alone.
r-Go1, Sohn 1MIeCra+i,