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The Clinton News Record, 1918-2-7, Page 67 - I 'ORMAN , CHAPTERVIa•a(Cont'il.) , Petted With 101111ePe. 1°P steel Ile creptleside anti drew Ms 'teethe girders eothared - tater with many lay.: UP to Ids chest so that hie feet Were .ers a eandbogsa l'here were stave well out a reach, At his suggestion ' carefully concealed loopheles ,1 ttled to uze the eetive serviee alarm out to -a flank, hut footle for frontal cloth on hire, bet there was nob room fire, ag thie /1;0'401'01M little weapon enough in „weir to wieldit: my aeet, bbst enjoys 'catching troops in enfilode . were ilegliiiagftom the effect of his owing to the o.apiality and the natrow blows, and I felt that the reputationeethe of its fire Its morn front is Pro- , 1.or reathreefulness of Kitchener's tectecl by the gene coo Ms- right , Mob: was at. steke. a mornent of left, . At each emplthement there•W ni-nisatation I Seized my vine, gaive. him 'a earhe chart giving tho ranges to a dig in the shim; with the bott, -end perts of the enemy's trenches, and a anted, "Stand to; Shorty!" lie them eveay prominent objhat both in fr 'mot rubbing Ms leg fneftilly. ' of and behind then, ' within its 11 , "Yea got the idea, mete," he saki, of fire. When not irtauth the gun w "Thoths jnst, wt they "does w'en you kept mounted and ready .foe eation ' tries to double-el•ose 'em by pullin' the battle position: Yer feet in, 1 ain't sure w'ere I likes -"BM' remeMber OM," flakr•Shel' it beat, on the shins or on the feat." "you never fires from your bottle po This explanation of the reason" for tion except in ease of tittnek, W' , building three -sided deputes while you goes out et night to hive a lit " net, of course, the true one, was none go at 13'ritzie, you always tykes y the less intereeting, And certainly, gun soinniets else. If you dot the task of arousing sleeping -men for you'll 'ave Minnie an' I3usy Bertha sentry duty was greatly facilieetech all the/test ot the Kenai') thildred co - with rows of prottuding 'haute soles in' over to eee v'ere youdive." 'simply to be eta, as Shorty 'This was a' wise preeaution, ') put it. . • were . soon to learn frora, experien All of the- dugouts for privates end Machine gun; are objects of spec N.C.O.s -Were of e-qual size and beilt Interest to the artillery, and the toe on the same model, the reason'jming ity from whjell are fired becom That the ovens and floors,which'were very unhealthy for some little ti made of Wood, and the roofs. which :thereafter. were of corrugated iron, were put to We stopped. for A -moment at "T gether in se.ctione at the headquarters Mud Larks' Hairdressing Parlor," qf the Royal Engineers, who suierin- /very important institution if o tended all the eworlt of belief). con- might judge by its. patronage, steuctioe. The material was brciught was housed ifi a 'recess intim wall up at eight ready to be fitted into ex- the travelling trench, end was open cavations. Furthermore, with thous- the sky. There I- saw the late ands ofainen to house Within a very faihion in "oversee" 'heir cuts. T . limited area, space- was a most im- victims sat on a ration box while t portant coesideration. There was no barber mowed great swaths through room for*indulging individual .,taste tangled thatch with a pair of Mosel in dugout architecture, The rooks ctitting clippers. But instead ea were covered with bone -three to :four makidgea complete job of it, a thic feet of Korth, which made them proof fringe of hair which 'resembled against shrapnel or shell splinters, misplaced scalping tuft was left f In case of a heavy bombardment with decorative purposes, "just above t high explosives, the men took shelter forehead. The effect ayes's° grotesq in deep and narrow "slip trenches.", that I had to invent an excuse f' These were blind alley -ways' leading laughing; It was a lame one, I fee Off from the traveling trench, With' for Shorty 'leaked at me ovarning) room for from ten to fifteen men in When we had gone on a little way he each ' At this part of the line there' • / - • were none of the very deep shell -proof, "Ain't it a proper -beauty parlor? shelters, from fifteen to ttventy feet But you got to be careful about Malin'. below the surface of, the ground,, of Some o' the blokes thinks that 'edge - which I had read. Most of the men' row is a regularmanament." seamed to be glad of this:. /They pre; I had supposed that a daily shave ferred taking their chances in an open Was out of the question on the firing- . trench during heavy shell fife. line; but the 13ritish Tommy is no - Realists and Ronfanticists lived side thing if not resourceful. Although by dicTe the travelling. trench. "My tvater is scarce and fuel even more so, Little Gray Hbme the West" was the self-respecting soldier easily sur - the modest legend over one apartment. mounts difficulties, ena the Gloueest- The "Ritz Carlton" was next door to e'rs were all nit e in matters pertainin "The Rats' Retreat," with "Vermin tothe toilet, Instead of draining their Villa" next door but one, The canteens, of ten, they saved a few Suicide Club" was the duburban re- -drcips for shaving purposes. sideime of sonie members of the bomb- "It's a bit sticky," said Shortye"bu ing I remarkedthdt-the bomb- it's 'ot, an' not 'arf bad w'en you get ers seemed to take rather a peesimietic used to it. Now, another thing yo view of _their profession, whereupon don't want to ferget is this: Wien ye Shorty told me that if there were any movin' up fer yet week in the firs measlated ortheOrder of the -Wood- line, alicays bring a bundle o' flrewoo en Cross, the bombers were those un- with you. They ain't so moth as fortunate ones. ---,In an assault they match -stick left bathe trenches, The were first. at tile enemy's position. you wants' to be %win' of it. Don They had dangerous work to do even go an' use it all the first '11'y ,or yo' - on the quietest of days. But theirs rave to do without yer -tea the rest • was a post of lionar,aand no one' of the week."' themhut was proud of his ntembership I remembered his emphasis upo in the Suleide Club. this point afterward when I saw one he officers' . quarters were on a riskang. their lives in order to procur much more generous and elaborate firewood. Without his tea Tomm scale than those of the men. This I was a wretched being. I do not re gathered from Shorty'e descalption of MeMber a, day, n� matter how seriou them, for I saw only the exteriors as the fighting, when he did not fin We passed alongathe trench. Those both the time and -the lneans :for mak GOING "OVER THE TOP" •A'/VAr'K IS PLANNED TO , THE DprArt, gaeli Man eergerms Sfeelal Task With' Olocirwoek , . •• Peet:isle/a , , "The battalion will pared° outede hillete tot 3,00 pau, on the 12111, 504 move up to its positioe eti detailed. And The field kitehene. will psis the batta- as tio» on the toed, and all Men will be 4,11 serVed with a ration d'ai settle" to nn , „ ecaniS talls"colsiteigtloltmec‘l taln-ledflanielwinjnat°ratiedlele- 114 twhSa eael el bide elflaa•rla ben expecting °f year° kome time, ty, Great preparations had been inede 81-* for an- attack. At first the command- ,°,rl hog oflieers, then the sebalterns, and, qle. lah`C.0,'Ci -*ere taken into er confidence and as an N.C.°, Myself I an, soon found that in the game ot, war, there existed 'far inany more moves • than I could have realized to be pos.- ye siblo, ee. All -Important Glades. ial • It le- absolutely wend-erful the es amount of information we are able to me gather about the enemy's movemeote, he 4/24 from. time to time/snaps are dis- plaired showing the placement of the 4 entire German forces along their line. ne at We had maps showingmuo own and -the of Hun trenehes, although no names.are to et he he eilicer in Contrnand, we started. All our tweemild'bernp Into one position, • . If wee avith Mixed feellegs thot tweryeina-Made tide jeUrifey,,arr We be* gen to Bee the Berithe side of elle busie nesS, end the exclitement wee getliing anon intense 'mime/ few nelnetes, . lapegress weifl . very slow now,. and ove Mail to pith- our way care/Pity through barbed wire, ammig shell era - tore, and over small laidgee whielo hod been specially prepared acrese trenchee for tie to pees over.a At. length We reached ouv"posildon, and beg.an 'to aseemble 'in our waves along white tepee, which had been pegged to the ground in a elmilee manner to -which the Engineers Pile*. pare ground for barbed wire. IIere, of course, everything. was kept. quiet,' and we commenced tho nerve -strain, ing period of waiting for the signal te go over,• • Au Awe-Insp'eing.Selence, For five or six houre weahad to wait lying huddled close. together fo warontla, and haring this time watch° were set to brigade tinie, the, hem! o zero was made known, and then 1-43 of us. adjusted our watches so tha zero fell on twelve oidlock. Towards the end" of our waiting the bombardment lessened to nail a great extent that it almost swath quiet. This silence •whieh sometimei.pervades parts of the line is awe,inspiring. • The Gerineri flares bectime more ac tive, and their trench -molars %tette their menet ,early-rnotning strafe. Me were fwaked, 'equipment was ad justed, and we -a)1 passed our over coats aloug the line to haye, them dumped; as they would, have made to much pf a load for us -to 'carry. 'W »ow had. Only a few more inn -totes given. Each trench'is known by a col Wait, although it seemed an eternity. At last tlie hour canoe, and the atteek pia the "plain green line," perhaps, b-At commenced. *- ing our firing line, and the "dotted red Instantly guns boomed out in every line ' denoting a German trench. , cbrectaan, and the morning mist was itiiites are .given bona -the ettarting illumined by the hursting shells. _The ine, and we had a view of aeroplane were whine and shrieks of bullets and shells photegraphs of the objective we a and the erash of explosions shook the WAR AND POW) SERIES, No: Via -BACON. aa°01)-4-911I" is the, skeane .0! the , we most not buy it except in very tioure, air, Hamm hits been coesist, ; quantities. _In order to main - tautly- urging. upon Canedians the need. tainthe necessary supplies to tile Al - for increased hog pro/Motion, Bacon :lies two emerges are open: (1) to ree hiti prime nthessary im Europe ovhich due° the consumption 'of pork pro- aCrorarlitedsaupaporlyd, o. TInited States con I decte; (-2) to increase prodection. An- • inetease in themoduction of pork fats A pig. ineane bacon for idle men at can be accomplished much more the front. Bacon has , concentrated rapidly than in the ease of beef or food vales in the highest clegroe, and dairy products- As Mr. Hoover bes. is better a-dapted for shipping than salcIT "It appears to ire that aye meat eeYeether held of meat, •concentrade on the ilocrease thew/at Wiltshire sade, winch is the (Mame 0. hog e wo at to anawei r trade nento for huff a split hog /trees- the world's craving for fats." a ed, With haedebone removed end ready The deapised Pigtwala never in, the t to ehip, hae only 7 per sent bone as whold course a hre-exiettinee ea much t compared With 20 per cent, lithe in to the fere as at mreseat. The n eed t droned beef, 30'' per etent. 'in mutton for lohn has raised him in the secial and 25 per cent, veal. Thus it is scale- of animate, His ueefulness has readily apparent that, with oceon ton, beep recegnized Dever before. Any - liege At a premium, bacon is espeCially one who keeps a pig at thin time, desirable for shipment overseas, whether in the city or the coentry,,is More vital heat and energy are cell: rendering useful service ate the Em- cent:rate/I in a pound �f 'bacon than in pire. The British soldier is allowed a poen of beef, voal or mutton. The four ounces of bacon a day. Canada's d fat constituent of bacon is valuable to expert of bacon in 1918-1914-•ebefere , men -working and fighting io Hoe out- the war --to Great Britain was 28,620, - doors andfabsare by no means plenti.. 861 pounds of bacon while in the last • . fiscal year 'ending March 31, 1917, it , That is why. the Food Controller 11 nuts 207,284-,673 pounds. . 0/ -urging an increase in hog production But the :number of hags bas not in - e and a decrease in the hoine consump- crwseclan Canada. Better, that 'we tion of bacon. go short than the soldiers who are de- , Again it is a question of individual fending IS with their very lives. , sacrifice and the- ingenuity of the Beef is -second to- bacon in food housekeeper. There are many sub- value, percentage at shrinkage, per- stitutes for bacon. It is true that it contage of bone and economy of handl- ing. This is the amansw-erable argu- ment, them for the insistent demand for the conservation of bief and bacon. Canada rnust send 25 per cent, more to buy it. It amounts to t1114 -that beef and bacon to the Alloes. 'WHAT CAN'T UNDERSTAND. - I can nut sea why it -is neces- The ice -water pan was always rum /Sty to spend So much time drying Moog over and it was a back -breaking dishes. So I have made a detaining job to empty So I fastened a board from a piece tif grooved plank, piece of rubber loose to the drainpipe, two feet long, (Inc inch thick and the boreci a hole in the floor and let the n, length of the sink, I attached it to hose run through the floor to the eel, the wall at the side of the sink with lar. brackets, with one.,end reaching over Here is another "diecovery." If you. and sloping a little toward the sink, use gas or oil for coolcing get a piece After washing, the dishes are scald- of sheet iron large enough to cover the top of the range. One burner lighted, will send °rough heat through it to keep several things cooking at one time. Less heat is distributed through the house and fuel is thus saved. Why is it that kitclien sinks a0E1 al- ways too low? Because a "mere num" plans and puti"thein in, of course! He does not have to break his backwash- ing dishes over them. If he did, he would be more mindful of the height. I could not change the ;ink but I could and did change thetwork-table. 11111110(1 blocks to the legs, making'it high enough so my wife need not stoop as she works over it. Also I provid- seemed to be m the way if left attach- beadckfala-nhderofatiloceiterhigelnit ellilethht aLitl•Igthae ed to the table. I screed the prole- tahle. In this chair she sits to pre- lem by making a strong shelf about a pare vegetables, mix cakes and go foot square, fastened securely to the forth._ Sloe also sits to do most of her wall at a convenient height. ironing. a to take. • earth and aiv, so that it was impos- er Perhapg the barrage time, table is sable to hear the shout that was rids., he the most Important document retlaotatthige Ile to an attack, and "Keep well 'up led as the leading wayeadathed up the eidge and across No Man's Land to or barrage!" is dinned into Our ears more • ,the Goat Beyond: r, than any other order we get during ' • our entire training. The mode of at- - - *— tacking by means of a covering bar- • LEM?' 1,00S -E _ rage fire has been dismissed e good 1 i THE "DOGS OF WAR 31. deal hately, SO it W..111, be unnecessary tii-go _into that. 13et a slight descrip- tion of a barrage tithe %able might prove of interest to -the reader, When the Band Plays. Thb clay before the intended attack is -known as "X /Mi." "The day" ie "Y'day," and the day after is "B day." Of course, the actual dates are not known. until shortly before -actually HoW Kaiser's Men 'Trained late on -"X clays." . the hour of the attack is known as "Policie; Dogs. / t • "zero " and all times on the barrag s time 'taele pi„e and maws In re_ Letting loose tloe "dogs of war" is ton expression which this struggle his aril to "zero," In out Instance' r t , zero! was oioly,known to a few el. tbryaimmolarteedtfiltaenealolyn,eaBsrmitiasyh,beyveesr,isthfiedd f. Coes for any length of time before - a hand, and was not generally known • Possibly Canadian, prisonee who has tietil a few ininetes before the actual ttltintelcate rtehaeteGr eiii•uninmannc-bain.uhtleesa 'brsgtisllagf - time. stich as the following: '1.• A -Toronto ladyofa'our correspond - The time table gives information 50 bite. o' _ The,barrage Will play fifty.yards ; ent's acquadntance tells an noteresting ri front of the Gertnan front line for story in this connection:-"Sev.eral e three minims, pause two minutes and ; years before the war,", stated she, "I y lift to the front line trench, where it -was spending a few months in Ger- - willeplay for five minutes, end then act- many. One day at the small town s vance twenty-five yards a minute to where I happened to be ktaying, a d the Gernian second line.. German lady whom I had met stopped L has enjoyed unreersal popularity, ap- owing on the table of the rich and ; the poor. But it ih not now a ques- on of whether or not we can afford AS LITERALLY TRANSLATED BY - TEUTONS. ' Toronto Lady Living in England Tette me on the street and asked me to come , _Wave After Valve. to tea. She had a huge dog anon - for platoon and company commanders Mg i . were built along the travelling trench, •• The colthel, majoround adjutant lived. Shorty:was a Ph.D. in eery subject This is elf given in tabular form, inlaying her, and us we stopped to in a luxurithe palace, about fifty yards in the thrriculum, including domestic and can be easily followed. I hi preparing breakfast he talk, this beast trotted up, suddenly 'down a communication ton& Naa,r gave me a practical demonstration of This time table is learned 09 111001)1 stormed,- and springing from the • it was the' officers' mess, .a cafe ue tbe sot of conserving -a /limited re- y 110101 (1 as possible, as no documents grouild, rested its forepaws 0.11 my luxe with glassnanels in thdoor, a , source of fuel, bringing 00131 two ea05!)-b are allowed to be taken over th the top. eulders, I drew back in alarm and - - 'e _ cooking stove, a long wooden tante, ; hut hot teens to a boil with it very meager So much for the attaek .o paper, it retreated. ' (Una -everything, in fed handful of sticks; and while doing so the -more important part of preparing "'CM, don't mind, Fritz,' exclaimed - and cold eunning water. ' he delivered an ei.al thesis on the best the' men being the great task. The the German haus frau with a half eYou knew". said Shorty, "the of.- 'Rem think they 'as to rough it, h 1.- methods of food preparation. For ex- meti have to pe 'trained m to theinch- dloology, `he is half wolf, and has' no they got it Soft, I'm tel 114' eile ample, there wag the item, of corned vidual parts in the -job, Some are town manners. He won't hitt you.' Y°1-11 beef -familiarly called "bully." • Wooden bunke to sleep in, batmen to wag the piece de resistance at every -- 11 off t ut w're eome to preparemBut I did mind Fritz, and resented his to a o o, c 1 , - bleed 'eni '61 Water ter savin' in the 1 familiarity• I nd then and meal. with the possible exception of bombs, °fliers to cattY picks and s niv- limy mch, a mornini; all the fags they wontsa- breakfast, when there was usually 'a, els to consolkiate. captured positions, there determined _hot to aecept the ' Minty, I wonder wot they calls limn' strip -of Macon. Now, one's appetite and after all these details have been German lady's invitation to tea. But VI?" for "bully" becomes jelled in- the told off the "waves" are made up. ' she would not be denied. If I was en - I agreed that in SA far as lilting 000000 of a few weeks or months. To Our Scheme was for each battidion gaged on Tuesday pethaps I could go quarters are concerned, they were use the German expression one doesn't to be formed pij into four waves. The on Wednesday, and If eot on Wednes- ' roughing it under .very leledsant 'cir- eat it germ But it is not e gees-etunstances, HoWever, they were net Hon of liking it. One mat tat it or first twg were known as fighting day, then Friday would suit her equal - always se'fortunate, as later experi-So go hungry. Therefore, said shorty, : , waves, an the as toro .1.s mop d 1 t t . " ping- ly well. So, in the end, I was practic- ' ence proved. Here there -had been save carefully all of yew.. bacon 10' - ' ••• n nal ties " The former were to go on ally forced to accept. little serigus fighting for months and grease, and instead of exiting your straight ahead at„ al cos -s- eav ng 1 t 1 1 a Kept as a House Pet.. the trenches were at their -best Else-, "bully" cold out of the tin inix it with thetriekover dug -outs' encountered on "I simply dreaded going . to her where Hid 'officeta' dugouts were of- I bread crumbs_and grated' cheese and the way -rig -In close up to tho bate house," said the Toronto lady. "That ten but little better than those of the by it in the- ' grease, lit ' . horrible dog:load given me the creeps. However, there was nothing for it but to go, amrat the time appointed I ar- rived at her fesidence. I was usher- ed into the drawing -room 504 simply felt,a shlidder at the prospect of that fierce-loeking creature of hers spring- ing out at me again. Sure enough, in a • cotnev of the well -blemished draw- ing -wool -at, I spied a basket, large as a wickerwork clothes basket, sun as NV0 else in Toronto back yards - when hanging out -the washing, It wrie lin- ed with 0 Mee toft, covering, if you please, and wag ostensibly the bed of this hulking big beast to which I had taken math an hitense. dislike. Imag- ine such a nasty brute in a drawing- yooml I sat there in impreheesion, g y 1 o en tat the dog c would romp in and repeat Ms unpleae- i ant attentions of our first encounter. Then lily hostess appeared, and point - leg to the. empty basket, exclaimed in O loartial voice:" 'Ab, goer, Eritz; ehe -will not hother you to-choy.• ' ` Taken by the Milithry. " `The intlitary authorities have telea en him away for his six Months' tralin- ingetts a police doe " . Such is the derman militatv sgstem tage, and- the latter were to follow on men. a- 1 some in RUB way, and I thought it a about thirty yards behind and "mop The first-line treuelies wereconnecte: most delectable dish. Another way up,,, or, rather, bomb dug -outs, -with ed with' two lines of support or re- oii stimulating the, palate was to boil smoke and explosive-g,renacies, and serve treuthes built in precisely the. the beef in a solution of bacongrease saine fashion,: and each heavily wired. and water, and then while eating it, e„,,„ „. 1. send back priaoners, and then to fol - The temmunication trenches which "kid yerself that A's Irish' Stew," "'",," --.' the lea( mg waves 'as soon as 'joined them were.from seven to sight This second method of 'teen ards between ate , the curse did not appeal to me vety taking away Ihr§eible• Fit , y first two, -thirty yards between the sec- . feet deep and wide enough to permit • the etiliVentent passage of inconnog and outgoing troups, and the transport, strongly, and Shorty admitted that he mut and third, and 'about tweuty be - practiced such self-deteption with tween the third and fourth were the of' the aveunded hack to the new dress-, vevy indifferent success; for after alla distances aimed at, with the leading ing stations.. ' From the last teshrve, /chile was "bulb' in whatever wave never more than fifty yards line they- woned'on baeltward through. form you ate it. ' •the 'fields until ''' beeps - might leavel , (To be continuedai kiWaN,, from our barrag,:ae. • o them 'well eut of range of rifle fire. Undet Shorty's guidance I saw the: ------4.---l--- ' davoyeyS' Ratione. -, the reserve ?inmunition supply and I • -field Viteesimastations, the dugouts foe • MAKING TRENCH CANDLES, A nothet battalion 'eovered the sante ground As "us; and we were to centirm- the sthres o 'bombs' and hand gren- Convalescent Soldiers Eager to do tally pass thiough onmanother, thus ides baithlion and brigade trench' • , more for the war, having as much rose tie. possible be- head 'miters W I • 1 • one pelt ef the line to anothet. tihrottgh: .-Propped up with pillows in bis trenched, all of which Were -kept pita] cot, many a Wounded Cenadian amezingly net and clean, The walls lad, rot:tattled -from the front.es onfit wore stayed • With fine -mesh wire tor farther militarY service, is doing hold the earth in plaee. The floor la, bit f f.1 Were levered with board walks care, rollingapaper candleeawhicff light the dugouts the 'coml./nice In. left behind or brew their telt In the convalescent hospitale of, the fully laid over the drams, which tan elong thecenter of the tench and emptied into deep wells, NAB in 00" CeSses• in the walls. I felt very mnell encouraged. when 1 seav- the garetel Military 'Hospitals Corinnisitioe, candle provisions for sanitation Mut drainage, snaking has become, a • poimicur ocetma- On a fine June morning it. seemed tional work for the mon ,,civ, ',p ri. 1, no probable that living in ditches was toot worsted by ha ttl e 't o In - 1 ...1 : ' , ' e so anHieas4nt' as I had miagthsti stroneoue tot this time. 11 cheers the , , It. Shinty listened to any tram/fleas :With a smile. •• , Men 10 think that they (.111) still (le to "Don't pat Verself on the baclf.yet 1111.1 1 I n' " 4'4 f h '''' '''. ' )4 1 -...e tionieta ea, a do , a o to, a 1,s lew'iler Mate," he said,' "They °okra' HuneiXeels el the new trench carallert light enough -Mow, but with till you'v-e Are "being turried.p01, weekly, t n 'eon atter a 'eavy rain." They ate Made of sttips of nowe- t_ had this opportertity Mealy timee paper folded and rolled tightly led to overflowing, mid th? trench luring the slimmer 'and autumn. into 'A different eked tandies, They ate then ore avretched'exietence than that of 0 imagited.. The -walls of tho trenchem Apia 'Into paraffin and . allowed te" el/tiering In wet weather eould herdly dry, They are then very hard VI ex. ved.ia in great me,asea, The drab,a Megiddo and so teeist drattighte well, They Mee give off more heat than the Usual WRX Candle and burn longer, i11,1/to: l'aw.freS;la 11°,•;71:clof (taasio, /rearm:oil( 'omfortable tteinclies beeanie a gouge lo;e, and We Were kept betty for days terward !repairing the daniage. Ait a riltteitintt, pellet I wee perti- '11. lorTy fatetested no the constauctidu tee »a/ 11 Molt» ono placeMerite, red battle positioe were IretY okelidiv i ',C, The roofe were SUP - "Siete yen Worked ;vole. 0X/or/mine las nicely," the ptetag feather, "I shall give you a kiss," „ "Teachcoe, I didn't know there Was to be a etaWard/". respooded the honeet urchin, 'We only Lair to tell you that my big lirolattie did them thins, Wen the rushes, expectm evet t tI Each man copied his equipment mithe pack, with haversack on back and ilVO days' talons, 'or as much as could be obtained beforelitted, as one never 34)140434'11)intaffair thie When the next ration will make an Impor- tance, hi addition to the usual load, we Milo each carried a .rcd grottecl-flare, Vevey lights, and twO bombs. 'rios•I•oci flares ate used in conjunction with the obeervieg aeroplanes, mid are 111 Men titne to thaw otder am show oelowe the ilefantvy hits reachede And is with mentioeing that the sae- Ce8t4 Or 1111 /attack largely depends on u 'ate observing and signalling 'to artillery by our Airmen, Sometimee the atthelt eomes -off without any prolinlinarar liombard- hardened.; but more often than not a we:olds heavy "strafe" lakee place he- fotehand, order_to out down wive, and thi dismantle gune. cm trench -mew - 14i08, Whif:11 firt, liable to hinder the ad- vance. Awaiting the Signal, 'These preparations being conopleted inatoccotdance With the Orders isetied, theshattalion aseendlicd, draW11 UV 111 erder Wetves otrtside the billets, and after inspection, and after wet:de of encouritgentord and pralee front the Beth man laid beast must serve'their turn, end the dureb Meath would have many a cruel blow and whip-strolte ere ho learned his lesson of pulling down prisonets tond dummies arrayed 1)1 ninfornig different from 'the Hun field -grey. "Truly the Kt -deceit - state- ment that Ile would enrol avety cat and dog in tiOnland WAS there than a Mere figure of speech. Simple Hoye) Meals. The King mid Qneen eat velar :4,011,. Ingly in these War clays, Al luncheon they have no egg SUP la plat, -followed by a boiled or road joint, etelved in season, and a rice pudding, Diener is ;Mgt as,,ahmile, and Her Majesty has athictly ordained' that man member of the royal Imesthold Meet keep well the Facet Controllerla mimic of tathene: ed and 'stacked on this to dry. . The neat thing 111)011104,, is the num- ber of steps taken from'the work -table to a drawer on the opposite side of the room for cooking -spoons, paring knives, egg beater and the many little articles used in cooking.. I have set my wits to work and naff- ed e strip of wood three-fourths of an incli thick over the work-tiible (which stands next to the draineboard) and inserted small sash -curtain hooks about three inthes apart, the entire 1 lengthaof it. Here the kitchen imple- ments are hung close at hand. :: The meat grinder is used in the- pre- paration of almost every meal but ON A BOMBING FLIGHT IN FRANCE riated Bothe pilots at may take the air with some idea of revenge." - A 'Background of Low Clouds. Flying above -the clouds, the party pursued its way eestwards. Occasion- / — ally, through a gap, anti-aireraf t guns THRILLING A.DYENTURE IN MID- fired at it, but without result. No German aircraft interfered With the AIR. -jaunt. At last 'they reached a big, wood, ba- . lieved to be a favorite bivouac ground. A Raid Over the Enemy Lilies is "Now the bombers drop below tho fere clouds to a height convenient for their 1 Graphically Described hy job. As the wood covers an are , of British Aviator. • severalasquere Xnilcs, ancl almost any part of i(1. may eontain troops, there is Some:few million people England no need to descend far before taking have knowledge of 'what a bombing aim. Each pilot . his raid is like -from below. Whether it sights on the target, releases the is as unpleasant. for tloc men above is bombs, and watches for Cigna of au ; a point which they can only vaguely interrupted lunch below." surneise. Naturally, as the writer pointh out, "Contact," a young fighting airmail, there was sortie difficulty in finding out who prefers for the moment to thms the extent of the damage; but there veil his identity, has shattered much was the certainty of getting on the of the mystery of aircraft Work in the nerves of the troops in the wood. But Great War in a brilliant book recently tl 'd • • t • published. Through hairMeadth ex- away unmolested.41 ploies and thrilling, dare -devil esca- "The go ktS get busy at once, for the. , Odes in the clouds, he takes us -with a wood, contains a neat of Archies. Ugly ; vivacious nonchalance that provokes a black bursts surround the bombers, mnile even when the heart beats quick and fase. One of the most entertiliating chap- ters in the book deals with a alight of bombing machines to which he was at- tached in a fighting. aeroplane as part who swerve and .eigzag as they run. When well away from"the wocia they climb back to us through the elouds." Ettemy Refuse Battle. •Tlaitt finis les the iinMediate work in 1' of an escort. He explains that out ale hand for the bombers, tylio set off force is divided into specialist squad- steadily foe home, leaving the fighting room, There aro reconnaissance two-seaters to beat tp and fro on a squadvons, screedrons used :tor artil- lonely sohtry-go above theclouds, lery registration, defensive Squadrons, That Afternoon, at any rate, the Hun hunt of the fighters met with little 1 success, "Twice we see enemy machines through rifts inthe cloud, but each time we dive towards them they re- fuse battle, and roma% at a height of eome thousattel feet, ready to drop evep lower if they can lure us down thiough the barrage 61 A. -A. shells." So the afternoon passed. As the fighters ot last flew Immo-vat/cis "two Mims come to sniff at us, and We dive below the clouds once more. But it is the old, old dodge of trying to salt the ,biters tail. The Hun decoy g make themselves scarce -and ILE. bursts make themselves plentiful. Archie has got the tango of those cloetliCto a hey feet, and since we ate a little beneath them he has got; our range, tool We dodge with difficulty, for Archie revels in a backgrotind of 10AV eicluds. Not' body is bit, however, and otn. party croeses the linee, and so bonne," Inaention. "Pe, who tves the\ (test, inventor?" "Adeot, tatar son," . • "What, dal he moodol.?" "The poor exemase." , The Allieetit Govetimient Ions ex- tended the <dose season for antelope, which expired this mad', il 'Pee, I he. species 114 ell o met, Sat 51014 '130441111 Mae 8 tIvino , "tHe 401,5011 tomelope. MADE IN' CANAD,L1/41 NO RUBBER FOR HUN MASKS GERMANY IS IN A BAD PLIGHT AT PRESENT TIME. All Soutces of This 1Vlucle 'Needed Material Vat oci, But Allies Heve Plenty, Rubber, Which is mo eesential in -.gas /attach and defences, is. praetie- ally unavailable in Germany, and the recent disclosure in Nev ,York, which falloVied the arrest of some sailors in the Steedish ship Heine Olay, strew that -German agents 'are Irantia in their endeavor to, procure smugglers .who will carry the pre- cious material through neutral- coun- tries to 'Germany. The statements have been made that sinegglers haVe pound, dental rubber in phonographs ,purchased.on this continent for eh' a poand for the rubber *Melt can be and that they have received $1,00 a 1 Since the army started to care iot ' the teeth of every soldier there loas been an increased, demand for 'dental .i.tibber, but this 'material, which is l'Said to be Germanyer sorest need, Only - I contains six ounces of rubber to the ;pound of material, and the increase 1)1 • cost is due not to the shortage of rub- ber ;bet to the difficulty proeoring , colorings such as oxide or sulphide. ;While Geamany. has a quantity of !these substances• yet, without large mundities of yebber thehe WO be no production of box . respirators (gas - maks) 4 or any of the needful trench !supplies without which the Preamt• :warfare cannot he continued, Allies Have World Supply. --Enquiries sheer that the Allies Intae the whole world supply at their dise posed, the only hindrance being ship- ping. Flea who have fought in the , benches state that modern warfare 1 dentin -Ids unusual quantities of this I ma ema . admitteda. smug- gling dental tubber would be eaeter than hiding crude material. at can be placed in almost any- place and rolled ; into any shape, But the chances of Germany getting contraband supplies from Canada are said to band. When it returned soldier was aeked what use rubber was to the aeldier he declared that the new box-easpirator and trench', waders seemed to him to 'demand most. The gas attacks are fended mff by means of respirators to- day which need nearly half a pound of rubber in making. The old mask or .•-• P. IL helmet was simply a cloth ()over with e rubber valve for respiration. This was no use against tear -gee and so rubbea goggles load to be made. These aphlienceS needed very little rubber but overe clumsy and often de- fective. The German. box -respirator re/Mites for more rubber than theee because -they have a rubbertube and a valve through which the chemicals are inhaled and anothev o.alve fur re- 8Piratic'aill. Much Used Material. a Without ileac masks no gee -attack or defence.can be made, .Tho new re- spirator, which is now used by the al- lied' troops, has a round tubber valve at the bottom of the chemical box and a rubber valve for rospiratiom Them rubber used for the long thick tehe Whith connects the mouthpiece to the box, and again, the face and the bawls of the mask aro of the same matethoi. Rubber waders -which rraih to the Trips of thy eoldior are also sm-vcd lo men in the -most watery linee, Then again the increase' of motor trunsport whore motor trucks with large solid libber tires eequire a huge emote» 01 the material is marked. Tho Brh vie:tortes in Africa have procured for the /With the natural rubber resourees, Germany cannot get thim heieetae .or the "iron lioe" 'mound tha ratediter• .anean, and other highwaya oe • Seas,-- Hence the attempts 61 Gomm. .agents to procure smuggleve, • Unithrl States are vigilantly w-atchina for smugglers of supplies and furtive disclosures are promised. All shipe leaving Canadian -ports fly the white ensign of the Admiralty unit so tiler., is too chance of Germany procuring rubber from this cointim or England. fighting squadrons, bombing squedrook and many others, Fighting mochines often 'evert the bombers. A Bombing Trip. "Our bombing madhines in France," explame "Contact," "visit all sorts of Places -forts, gartison towns, -railway towns, railway 3005110115 and rail- heads, bivouac grounde, Staff head - /matters, factories, an-ranti ni lion de- pots, aerodrome, Zeppelin sheds, and naval, harbdrs. Some objectives 'are ;just behind the lines, some are a Mtn- ,cfred miles away, There are also free- lance exploits, as when a pilot Ivith mole eggs to spare dives deem to a low altitede and drops them on a train or 11 column 1411 troops," • The bombing trip of which "Con- tact," writes began at midday. One by one, the bombers bad climbed te peedorranged height, and circled about till the forination Wets cornplete, The scout, nutchittes. 1101, the eseort rise to Ft fear hundred feet above the botithere, and the strips for "Carry on" wore eta% on the georroil. 3.`1,Ve ate to follow the bombing mortar, foul ttct es a reargnard until the eggs have -fallen. Afterwards, avheo 1110 of:here have finished thole Rile bit am1 get home to their tea, it will he our pleasant Melt to Ming Mont between the Home and the scene of the raid, end deal With such Mtn- • C Radian Airplane Old iau I, The factories operated ;no Mist ern Canada by the Iniperial Munitione Board for the manufactuve ot ate - pieties now has 'a monthly output of _ well over a hundred maeloines, aceord. ing to wordJtecently reeeived here, 'De gpruce used in making the airplanes is (71111 10 British' Columbia, mul 11 MP- ket .for a considerable grand:Hy of British Columbia Coast eninace, which otherwise might eat be lima rer com Inertial purposed', ha e 11045 been found. Expreateed in terms IIF wheet, the value of the- field e.rops destroyed 1111 Mially ill Canada by thecae pests Is sufficient to feed our entire popti. holden for a year.