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The Brussels Post, 1915-11-25, Page 6N IO of CANADA LOAN Ws will issue a circular fully explaining this Loan and will receive subscriptions in your name, or otherwise, as desired, delivering the bonus to you at the Government's Price. If you are interested in the success of this Loan. write. us immediately. Can ada Bond Corporation ''b+lT GOVERNMENT & MUNICIPAL DEBENTURES 59 Yong.{ Street Ib. onto, Ont, IRE storm, and as the courier galloped clown the long lines of baggage-wag. ������ ORDERS gons, stacked rifles, ammunition- SECRET and Iced Cross vans, blue and red flashes made the night as bright !as day. 1 Then came rain in a blinding down - PERILS OF THE MEN WHO PER- pour and blue -black darkness, as the rider reached the end of the baggage - lines, and began his gallop across a long stretch of open country towards a point at the front, where lie had to Specially -Selected Officers Carry De- gather up another despatch from a spatches. To and From the brigadier -general. Battlefield. Right ahead of him he �•,•'. ever and anon, the flashes of light on the A constitution of iron, nerves of skyline, and a few seconds rater Luc steel, inexhaustible energy, and the thud of guns would reach him, for ability to ride or drive anything, the enemy were that night shelling from a buck -jumping, half -broken -in our trenches. After nigh three hours colt to the fastest motor -ear on the in the saddle, a challenge brought the market, such are a few of the quali- courier to a standstill, and then came fications of the men who are daily a few questions, hastily asked and ' hearing the despatches. between the answered, and the courier made his headquarters of the British Expedi- way to a low wooden hut, that shel- tionary Force and the War Office, tered the brigadier and the staff. says London Answers. Here he received his second batch They are picked men—men whose of despatches, drank a cup of boiling rank is never lower than that of a coffee, and then set out. to continue his captain, and often higher. journey; but this time in a great 50 Encased in Steel. h.p. motor car, for the mare was dead beat. The despatch -bearer is dressed in Clear of the Trenches. the ordinary khaki dress of an officer, but he is easily enough recognized After getting clear of the trenches by the wallet he carries on his back, and patrols, the courier got on to the fastened to a leather strap running road, which was in a vile condition across his body from the left shout- from rain and shells. To get a better der. The despatch -bearer's wallet road, the courier drove towards the consists of a steel case, about twelve German lines, meaning to double back inches in length and six in depth. It at —, where he knew he could get a is bound in very thick leather. long, level stretch of road to his next The steel case inside this leather stopping place, where he had to gather covering is opened and shut by means up some further despatches. - of a spring lock, and persons unac- • As he was speeding along, without quainted with the manner in which a light showing, a hoarse, guttural this lock is operated would find it al- challenge reached him, and he sped most impossible to open it. on faster than ever. Then a search= If by any chance the- enemy cap- light dodged up and down the road, tures a courier, the latter must de- found him, and there was the crackle stroy his despatches, if it is human- of rifle fire. Still he sped on, when ly possible to do so, ere he is caught. suddenly, with a loud report, the rear A courier early in the present cam -off tyre burst. The car turned half paign, during the retreat from Mons, round, then ran up a grass bank by was very suddenly surprised and cap- the roadside, and turned over. tared by the enemy, but, nevertheless, The rifle bullets crackled and the • he managed to destroy the despatches searchlight played about him, but he had about him before he was taken having landed in a ditch, he was con - prisoner, cealed from both. He was galloping through a wood Nothing for it then but to make his when he rode into a group of Uhlans way to our lines as quickly as he could The courier knew that escape was im- en foot. For half an hour he made possible, for his horse was dear' his way slowly, for he had to keep to beat, but he managed to snatch the the ditches to avoid the searchlight; despatch from his case before he then he was able to get on the road, raised his hands up, as he was bid- and an hour's walking brought him den to do, with half a dozen revolvers to the British outposts at —. Fif- pointing at him, and, while his hands teen minutes saw him on his way were in the air, he tore the despatch again, this time on a motor -cycle, and to pieces in the face of his captors, the worst of his journey was over. one of whom, when he saw what the The rest of it was made within our prisoner had done, fired his revolver own lines, and he reached Ostend at at him, though without effect. 7 a.m. At noon he was at the War Office, Off the Scent. and that night was again on his way But it is the duty of the courier at to headquarters. the same time to avoid destroying A courier may, and often does, have any despatch, unless it becomes abso- lutely imperative to do so. A courier, a few weeks ago, was chased by three Germans—two in mo- tor cars and one on a motor cycle. The courier himself was on a motor cycle. Between the courier and the safety of the British lines lay almost eighteen miles, and he drove ten miles of the distance in twelve minutes, but still could not shake off his pursuers, who were slowly gaining on him. They did not stop to fire on him, but kept up pursuit at full speed. The courier, after the tenth mile, discovered he was running short of petrol, . At a sharp bend in the road, when hid from his pursuers, he stopped, and ran with the bicycle into an empty cottage near the roadside, where he awaited the approach of his' pursuers, keeping his despatches in hand, ready to destroy them if his capture became certain. The Germans came round the bend about three minutes after the courier hacl reached it, but they did not stop, but sped on at full speed. Those Crowded Hours. Then the courier replaced his de- epatehes in his wallet, and made his way across country in safety to our lines. FORM .THE DUTY. RXCTITIOUS 'GERMAN AT'T'ACK. ON BRITISH SHIPS S'h+s picture from the nustrate 'Zeitung is being published in the United- States under tile caption "Bow' the Germans Harnassthe British Fleet at Sea." It is supposed torepresent Q German airattack upon a flotilla of British torpedo boat destroyers in the Lnglish Ohiumel. BEHIND THE GUNS. Comparison of British Naval Men and Other Nations. NO LACK OF AMMUNITION. Lloyd -George Works Wonders in Sup- ply of Munitions. RISKS LIFE FOR SCIENCE. Man Will Enter a Den of Snakes, for $100,000. The British naval man, of course, The success attending the appoint- Thomas Wanless, an Australian, is needs no praise. His great qualities, ment of David Lloyd -George as Bri- to enter a den le the most poisonous be he officer or Hien, are well known tish Minister of Munitions is testified snakes of India, and if he lives will and appreciated. What, however, of to by the London Times Parliamen- receive $100,000. the fighting prowess and cbaracteris- tary expert, who says that the produc- Wanless claims the discovery of a tics of his naval friends and foes in tion in munitions has increased four -1 serum which will neutralize the ef- hu - this great struggle? fold and in one highly important feet of any 'snake poison in the If the officers and men of our Fleet branch more than thirtyfold. man system. A drug in India are approached at all in all that "The Ministry of Munitions," the! has agreed to pay g house for the makes them what they are, it is by miter adds, "justified itself in the formula if a test proves its value. the officers and men of the French recent heavy fighting on the western Wanless, confident that he will win Navy. The majority of French naval front. There were no complaints this the test, has agreed to risk his life. officers are descendants of the old timeof advances having to be stop- He offered to sell the secret to the French aristocracy. Theyhave ped for lack of ammunition. shed the vices and faults which so "It is a feather in the cap of Mr. often disgraced their ancestors, while. Lloyd -George, who set himself up in retaining those qualities of heroic an old fashioned house in Whitehall, courage, intense patriotism and ab- with two chairs, a table and a secre- solute devotion to duty of the old tary, and in a short interval has Trench nobility. Further, the created a wonderful organization in Australian Government for a few thousand dollars, but they hesitated too long. He is without doubt the most dar- ing fighter of snakes in Australia. Handling snakes is almost an exact science. Most men use a long stick. French naval officer, aristocrat the Ministry of Munitions. Gathered Wanless never uses a gunor a stick. though he be, has moved with the around him is perhaps the strongest He emphasizes the fact that he is a times. France has led the way in company of business and scientific nake expert, for he believes no one scientific discove•-. and as a "seien- brains that has ever been applied to tific" sailor the i' mch officer need any Government Department in this fear comparison with none. country. The French bluejacket is splendid, "At present a thousand industrial works and factories have been sche- duled as controlled establishments, and the number of men employed in them is little short of a million. In addition 5,000 skilled soldiers have been released for munition work." It is announced that shipments of shells manufactured in private fac- tories and workshops in British India Navy be judged by what happened in have been begun. This is regarded the Russo-Japanese War. Admiral here as a decided advance in the in- Rodjesvensky's ships were doomed dustrial capabilities of India, the work from the day they set forth on their having been carried out successfully long voyage to the East. Moreover through all processes from iron ore to they were extremely ill -manned. So the finished product. great at that time was the shortage of Russian naval officers and men can charm snakes. In hunting snakes Wanless is un- armed, and his only protection a pair of high leggings. When he finds 'a reptile he waits his time and drops on it with lightning rapidity. He then grabs the snake by the back of the head, pressing his fingers against the jaws and choking it until the reptile is unconscious. If the snake succeeds in biting him he quickly applies a ligature, scari- fies the wound, sucks it well, and ap- plies his antidote. The arm may be- come very black -and swollen, but in a few hours he is quite. recovered. Once Wanless vas bitten on the jaw by a tiger snake, and, not being able to apply a ligature to prevent the circulation of the blood, he lapsed in- to unconsciousness after he applied his antidote. He was unconscious for nearly two. days and nights, but recovered. He has been bitten all over the body ex- cept on the top of the head, where the hair seems to be an effectual armor. The only place where he is afraid to be bitten is in the ball of the eye. Snakes have the power of poison- ing themselves or each other. If a snake is badly wounded it turns im- mediately and bites itself, and the end is sure.' Wanless claims to be the only man in the world now alive who. has been bitten by the death adder. The death adder is the most deadly of all the Australian reptiles. It is very deaf and does not hear a foot- step unless it be close. For this rea- son travellers through the bush are most careful. A cat bitten by one of these reptiles was dead three seconds afterward. simply splendid. He is drawn almost exclusively from the hardiest seafar- ing and peasant stock of Normandy, and while on a modern battleship there may not be any great scope for. seamanship of the old days, it is a mighty good foundation on which to build a modern naval fighting man. On no account should the Russian that the gaps were filled by military RIFLE SIGHTS. officers and soldiers. — All this has been changed. Ever Enable You to Keep Your Eye on the since the Russo-Japanese War the Mark. Czar's Navy has been silently but The average person if asked to ex - surely remedying its faults and de- plain why a rifle is sighted would veloping efficiency. The spirit of probably be unable to do so beyond both officers and men is first-rate, some vague remark about taking or - and with a fair chance the Russian rest -aim, ships may be expected to give an un- Sights are necessary because a bul- commonly good account of them- let does not travel in a straight line, selves. but, under the influence of gravity changing his clothes, snatching sleeps Little is known of the Austrian and friction, begins to drop almost as only during a few hours in boat or Navy's capabilities. The officers soon as it leaves the muzzle. Thus train, and living on such food and have the reputation of being good the bullet of the British Service rifle drink as he can pick up anywhere. "ships' husbands," while the men are drops six inches in the first 100 yards, Time is ever the uttermost considera- smart and well-behaved. But, as was but when it has gone 200 yards it will tion in the mind of the courier, and until recently the case in Germany, have dropped not twelve inches but he is always and ever in a fearful the Austrian navy has been and still two feet. The drop increases by hurry. is entirely secondary to the Army..leaps and bounds with the distance. A Mile a Minute. Therefore, it has .not attractedthe Were there no sights on the rifle and Not long since a courier, when cam best men, particularly in the commis- you wanted to hit a mark at 200 yards ing from headquarters to the coast on sioned ranks, while it has been stare- you would clearly have to aim two a motor cycle, had a breakdown ed of training and such necessities feet above it. Where it was impossible for him to as practice ammunition. This would be awkward, for you obtain any other means of convey- But, of course, it is the German would lose sight of the mark aimed ante except an aeroplane or a rail- Navy that counts for everything in at, to say nothing of the difficulty of way engine, but he had to be his own our eyes. It is no use belittling an correctly estimating a distance of two. driver whichever he chose. He select -opponent, and the German fleet may feet at 200 yards. ed to try his chances on the railway prove a formidable foe. For one The sights of a rifle enable you to engine, and covered seventy miles thing, the relations between officers keep your eye on the mark although safely, in about an hour and a half, and men are infinitely better than in the muzzle of the rifle is actually when he reached —, where he was the German Army. Incidentally, the pointing above it. The movable slide able to obtain a motor car. utter lack of sympathy, indeed the of the backlight enables you automa- One of the most exciting races active dislike, between the German tically to point the muzzle just so against time that adespatch-rider has Army officers and theirmen must many feat°above the mark aimed at had during the present war was on a tell heavily against Germany should as is necessary to counteract the recent occasion when Lord Dalmeny she meet with reverses, known drop of the bullet at various was the bearer of despatches from - ranges. General French for the Secretary of HUMANITY AND CHIVALRY. •I4 --- Wai'. When Lord Dalmeny set out John and the Doctor. in his motor car from headquarters Russian Hospital Care Wins Austrian he hadThe country doctor in Scotland one just three minutes over the Archduke. day meta Highlander who boasted he two hours in which to cover the hun- The Austrian Archduke Joseph, in was a staunch teetotaler, and resoly- dred miles that lay between him and pp ed to put him to the test. Passing an token of . is a reciation of the ex - Ostend, if he was to catch the morn- cellent treatment accorded to his inn he asked him in and ordered two Here is the recent time -table of the ing mail boat. aide-de-camp, Count Batthyany, in a glasses of whisky. After they had journey of one of these couriers; A slight breakdown delayed him on Russian hospital, has ordered that a drunk these and two or three more "Left headquarters midnight. Arr'iv- the road for a few minutes towards number of seriously wounded Russian at the doctor's expense his friend be- gan to get a wee bit "glib o' the gab." The doctor then, feeling he had him, bluntly asked, "How does this square with your teetotal preten- 1 Count Batthyany, who is one of the tions?" "Weel,"'quoth John, with a quiet smile, "though Pm a staunch teetotaler I'd be a Ade to refuse whit the doctor orders." ed --•--• 3 a.m. Arrived --- 5 a.m, the end of the run, and he covered officers shall be transferred to his Arrived Ostend 7 a,m." the last twelve miles in actually lesspalacein Budapest., there to be given Behind that time -table lies the story' than that number of minutes:: the best possible treatment by his own of four hours packed with ineidett He reached Ostend just in time to doctors. And adventure, • see the boat beginning to swing ' The story as related to the writer, away fromhhe pier, Jumping out of wealthiest landowners in. Hungary, Degan with the dbparture of the his car, he made a dash for the pier, - was picked up seriously wounded by courier from headquarters on the,hurled his bag on board, and then, Russians pat:els, and transferred to a raking roan mare that had 0£ ten ear - taking a running jump, cleared the hospital in Kiev. ' From his hospital hied hila in front of the whole field ' ten feet or so that lay between the cot he wrote a letter to the Archduke 1 .i ,. 1- when hunting in hie native shire,' pier and ,he deck, on which ,e safely warmly praising the humanity and the ride began it} ti fearful thunder.' landed, (chivalry of the Russian doctors, The descendants of a single pair of rabbits would, in four years, amount to over. PTI, millions. WAR SONGS. The Number Is N- o- w - So Great That Few Appeal to All. In olden times soldiers went into battle crying the slogan of their king or their lord, and, more recently. songs have taken the place of the war -cry, although "Remember Ma- juba" was used in South' Africa. CANADA INSURES PEPZF'ECiT FAKING RESULTS GUADAN'1'EED TO BE. MADE FROM INGREDIENTS SHOWN ON THE LABEL AND l'IONE OTHER. xt ITCSTLIG117OI (M1,1n+ �<. MAGIC �1 ilKtNG POSER CONTAINS NO ALUM MADE IN CANADA E.IVALL_�TT CO Lfl TORONTO ONT. WINNIPEG MONTREAL ODD FORMS OF GAMBLING. Many Ways in Which One May Take a Chance. A new game has appeared among the newsboys of London, England. It is called "flyloo." Any number can participate. Each player has a lump of sugar which he places before him, together with a penny or whatever the stake may be. He on whose lump of sugar a fly first settles wins the game and sweeps in the stakes. The Mexican Yaquis employ the jumping bean for purposes of gam- bling. It is a seed resembling a bean, which bounces up and down and all around on a level surface, A ring' is drawn with a piece of chalk on a flat board or a table and then the ring is cut into sections of equal size, like cuts of a pie, there being as many divisions as there are players. Each player then puts a bean into his section and the beans begin dancing overthe circle, which is enclosed within a hooplike arrange- ment, so that the beans are confined within the circle. The moment a player's section is empty he must place another bean down, but when- ever several beans are dancing on his section he must take them, leaving only one bean. And so the game goes on as long, as the players choose. Na- turally each bean represents money and is sold for a specified amount by the banker of the game. Another form of gambling is prac- tised among sailors. The oldest sailor in the forecastle is usually the stake- holder and he takes the bets on whether R, or L. will win. Those who put their money on R. are wagering that the pilot who comes aboard when port is made will put his right foot on deck first, while the others bet on his left foot. 4, CHANGE Quit Tea and Coffee and Got Well. A woman's tea and coffee experi- ence is interesting: "For two week? at a `time I have taken no food but skim milk, for solid food would fer- ment and cause such distress that I could hardly breathe at times, also excrutiating pain and heart palpita- tion and all the time I was so ner- vous and restless. "From childhood up I had, been a tea and .coffee .drinker, and. for the past 20 years I had been trying differ- ent physicians, but could get only temporary relief. Then I read an article telling how some one had been helped by leaving off tea and coffee and. drinking Postum, and it seemed so pleasant just to read about good health 1 decided to try Postum. "I made the .change to Postum,and there issuch a difference in me that I don't feel like the same person. We all found Postum delicious and like it However, the number of reall3 better than coffee, My health now is gr?at war songs is very small, and wonderfully good, "As soon as I made the shift to Postum I get better, and now my troubles are gone. I am fleshy, my food assimilates, the pressure in the chest and palpitation are all gone, my bowels are regular, have no more sto- mach trouble, and my headaches are gone. Remember, I did not use medi in these daysof popular ditties, tends to grow less. In the past, a single song would seize the imagination and go right through the land until every- enu was singing it, whereas now the number is so great that few appeal to all. . • Perhaps throe' songs have had more influence on their countries than any cites at all—just left off tea and cof- others: "Lillibuelso," the "Marseil- fee and used Postum steadily." Name laise, and "John Brown's Body. The given by Canadian Postum Co., Wind- -first sang James Ih off leis throne sor, Ont. and defeated him in Ireland, the sec- ond not only had a radical influence on France, but has fired the imagin- ation all over the. world. The last; which was the war song of the Federais, in the American Civil War, consisted of four lines only, but is popular with all English- speaking troops for its tune alone, as is "Marching through Georgia." Only one woman in a thousand mar- ries after she is sixty years of age. Postum comes in two forms; Postum Cereal—the original form— must bewell boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant. Postum—a soluble powder dissolves quickly in a -cup of hot water, and, with dream: and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30e and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious' and cost about the same per cup, "There's a Reason" for Postum. sold by Grocers, TIIEY SEE-NAUGIni BUT VICTORY WITH BISITISII SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT, The Flower of Kaiser's Army LieS Dead in Flanders and Poland, Here at .the base one is fairly in the backwash of the war flodd,`writs$ a correspondent. As storms at sea strew the sands and shore rocks with evidence of its fury, so does the war record its moods for all to seeand understand at the base. Regular as the tides, the battle -worn and scarred Come down to rest awhile before .plunging back into the torrent of war, or be flung high and dry beyond its reach,. The' latter are they who go to "Blightie." They are those who sing most fervently: "Blightie, dear old Blightie, Fair land across the foam, Some people cal it England, . Some people Ball it home.. Tommy, just calls it Blightif, His home across the sea, Where Kaiser William hopes some day, Isis Hymn of Hate he'll fondly platy, In Blightie, so dear to me," (Please note that the reference to "Blasted Bill's" ambition is sung sar- castic). Light -Hearted Newtroops, eager for the fray, put. into the base- for final perfecting. They go "up the line" with those whose wounds and ills are remedied —and they go light-heartedly still. Be they from Bombay, Birming- ham, Barbadoes or Bow River in Can- ada, their spirit; is the game. Up they go with a song on their lips, young men and fit, mature men of other wars, all with one hope and one aim—that is the shortening of the War by the only practical method, fighting. Some "tee prisoners of war at the compound near the camp before they go up. They question these men who have met and been worsted by, the lads on the line—and they go oway more than ever convinced that Bri- tain's sons must always beat such men as serve in the Kaiser's army, To -day the German soldier seen in captivity looks poor fighting material. He is either young and immature, or old and failing.+ The flower of Ger- many's manhood lies rotting in Flan- ders or Russian Poland—and those that remain are beginning to realize that the fight is nearly done. End this Winter. They frankly admit it. This win. ter, they say, will break the back that is already bending beneath its load. They have abandoned hope. Not so the British troops; not so the French. One may see them come back bro- ken and battered from the fray, but assure of ultimate victory as the new troops that go to replace them in the firing line. Those who have suffered ,from shrapnel wounds are as sure of final victory as the men who have not yet heardthe screaming.shel. People of such a mind cannot be beaten. Even if they were, they wouldn't know it; and because of that happy evasion would fight on till. they turned : defeat into definite vic- tory. As a general rule the up -going sol- dier cannot advance any argument in, support of his faith; but he is almost fanatical on that one thing. "They'll be beat,' says the average man, "just because they've got to be beat—and that's all •;dere is to it." Critics can rend such an expression of opinion to tatters with rhetoric and writings, but its truth will remain. Victory Sure. The . Germans will be beaten—be- cause be- cause it, has to be. Great Britain -- never as truly great. as now is the main implement in that work of de- struction, The soldiers who say. Germany will be beaten, do not argue about it with tongue or pen. They have reverted to the sword- and the hand grenade, and other iin- plements of modern warfare — and they push their arguments' home—as. German prisoners can testify, and their dead do prove. TOMMY ATKINS' WAY. Inconsistencies of Soldier Amaze Young Officer at Front. "The British Tommy is the most amazing person you could possibly meet," remarks a young officer at the front in the course of a letter to his father. "He will cheerfully suffer frightful pain and laugh about it, I saw sew era'. chaps without arms cheerfully ymoking cigarettes and taking it as a huge joke, and yet if they get cold potatoes for lunch they are positively awful and altogether horrible. "They will walk all day in the rain with a wounded: head in order that a chum may ride if they think he le worse than themselves; and yet if they get taken off in a splendid mote ambulance they abuse the driver it they think he is not drivingfast enough."