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The Clinton News Record, 1916-12-21, Page 7• WEIRD LEGEND E RECALLED C-ERMANS WERTI PARALYZED AT YPRES. Frightened by Optical Illusion of Huge Reserves Behind British. ! Captain Norman Thwaites, of the Fourth Dragoon Guards in theBeitish army, now in the United Stater, on leave, describee a recent vi.eit to 11 prisoners of War camp in England. His story, publiehed in the New York World, is as follows: I talked with the senior officer, whose rank entitles him to rule the camp under the British commandant. He had been taken near Ypres dur- ing the 'terrible five days when the "contemptible little army," depleted' by one-third, faced the flower of the German army urged on, to Calais by the War Lord himself. The culmin- ating attack by two whole German divisions was Made against one cav- alry, brigade; which lost 40 per cent. of itctotal in five days. • I was greatly interested when this Prussian officer informed me that he had been separated from his com- rades and had r1.111 into a trench full of British cavalrymen. I was eager for a piece of information. "How was it," I asked, "that the Germans did not get through that day? The British • Were retiring sleWly and stubbornly, and a vigorous pursuit would have made a sauve qui peut of it. We thought we were scuppered, sure." Illusion of Reserves. "Well, I'll tell you," he said. "When the British occupied the prepared trenches outside the town we ad- vanced in force, but the Dragoon Guards held us up a long time. They had a good field of fire and we could not make headway. They spoiled our game. Then when we did manage to get some of the French trenches on the right of the cavalrymen we saw your enormous reserves and had to wait for our supports to come up." I was amazed. "Reserves!" I ex- claimed. "Why, we had no reserves. We had not even any supports that amounted to anything. Several days passed before any considerable num- ber of troops were able to assist us." Puzzling Halt. Itiw this statement of the 'prison commander was of rather weird in- terest. After the pretty but wholly fictitious story of the angels of Mons, which originated in a poetic concep- tion of Arthur Machen, there went from mouth to mouth the_stery of the heroes of Agincourt who had arisen from the ancient battlefields where their bones had lain these 500 years, and in their thousands bad faced the invaders of France and Flandevs. The wise and unpoetic sneered at the fan- tastic conception, but some sort of explanation for the German halt in the midst of their victorious stride during those early days of November, 1914, has still to be offered. My friend the prisoner of war was merely con- firming the evidence given bynurner- ous prisoners of those strenuous days who persistently talked of vast re- serves descried behind our thin and tortuous lines. Still Hold Trenches. Whatever the explanation, the fact remains that by some optical illusion the Prussian commanders were led to believe that the !further advance of their troops was fraught with danger, • and the trendies held that day by the British are still in their possession. Our conversation was interrupted by a messenger. A party of newly - taken prisoners from the Somme front was about to arrive. A flutter of ex- citement ran through the camp. "Now tom shall have some reliable "news," said the prisonevs. They got it. Early arrivals in this camp had fumed and fussed at the ill luck that made them prisoners of war when their fellows were driving along to certain victory. This spirit of confi- dence has received harsh blows in the course of two years as new batches of prisoners arrived with dis- couraging tales of checked progress and steps of retrogression. They were to hear sad tidings from the Somme. A nerve -racked, disheartened group of captives, dusty and torn of raiment, was ushered into the grounds. Slowly and with much shaking of the head, with gestures of despair, outspreading of expressive hands and tears of humiliation, the tale was • told. It was a tale of oveiwhelming, soul and body -shattering shell fire. Of trenches and shelters, laboriously • constructed during months of pa- tient perseverance, blown to :frag- ments in an hour. Of wove upon wave of sunburnt, laughing British Tommies and battalion after battalion of resolute, bearded Poilus that came over the shot -torn landscape to over- whelm the soldiers of the :Father- land, dazed and distracted by the most terrible artillery preparation the world has ever seen. ssea_s, Far into the • night the captives talked. The cheeriest of them grew solemn during the recital. The elder men wept. Thee appeared no gleam of hope of victory. An ill-balance'd compromise was the best to be hoped • for., 'rho "plate in the sun" was • more remote than ever. KrupPs" Works hi Danger. The` Amsterdam cortespondent of the London Times says that since French airmen attaeked Essen a large nennher of anti-aircraft guns which had previously been removed have • been rem ou n fed . Workine n have been • busily engaged in constructing bombs !woof underground shelters, which, it is believed, a re intendedfor storing the most dangerous explosivee, ! Re- garding the reports of (listurbances ali Essen, a atrike \vas threatened, but the workmen's conditions, which it Is believed concerned the food arrange- ments were panted. .^• 1, L.•• • _ ^ et le Peeled Day" is the ,day when you work in har-, • many wit.1 law. Health 'comes from Harmony. Get in harmony with Nature's laws by eating Shredded Wheat, a simple, natural, elemental food which supplies the greatest nutriment with the least tax upon the digest- ion. Try it for breakfast with hot milk or cream. Delicious ,with sliced bananas or other fruit. Made in Canada. mrseet=trese. serromersenumemermemeasemon TITE DAILY TOAST OF "THE KING" HOW THEY DRINK IT IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. The Blade "-Watch Regiment Alone Claims Exernption From It. • At the mess dinner of everysBritish regiment, excepting the Black Watch, and on board every British warship the toast of "The King" is given each night of the year. 'Very few people have any idea that this is a custorn dating back to the end of the seventeenth century, when sympathy for the lost Stuart cause was so widespread that it wait 'con- sidered necessary to require officers of the Army and Navy to pledge each day in this fashion their loyalty to William and Mary. Many, who were secret adherents to the Stuarts, used, when toasting the sovereign, to hold their glasses over their fingerbosvls, thus drinking the health of the King "over the water"—that is to say, the exiled James IL, says London An- swers. Hence the reason .why the use of lands, called the "Meadows of Gold," ed beneath the fallen timbers of the finger -bowls was prohibited in most were worked to the fullest extent treneh. It appeared he must die a naval and military messes, and even ender the Abbassirle caliphs, and even I slow and agonizing death, with help so to -day it is considered a breach of until 1258, when the Mongols sacked near, yet so far; with power so close etiquette to have them appear on the Bagdad and brought the rule of the ,to him, yet so impotent. table when any member of the British caliphs to an end. After the Mongo- I "Help! Help! For God's sake, help Royal Family is present Ilan invasion Bagdad was no longer the I me!" he kept groaning. The Black Watch regiment alone claimed exemption from the daily toast of "The King." They were rais- ed to fight the .Stuerts, and they al- ways claimed that their loyalty was thus above suspicion. St4andipg and Sitting. CANALS OF MESOPOTAMIA, Great Irrigation Schemes and Their Destruction. • Great it -ligation schemes enabled Mesopotamia, Armenia and other countries in the near and middle East to become the seats of mighty empires in spite of theiraarid climates, To- day, says Dr. Arthur Selwyn-l3rown in , the Scientific American, they have few cities of any importance. Bagdad, which has a population of about one hundred and fifty thousand, had two million ten centuriee ago. The dif- ference between Mesopotamia the and to -day is the result of the destruction of the canals. In the height of its prosperity Bag- dad had the most remarkable system of irrigation that has ever been con- structed. • The canals about the city measured over three thousand miles in length. They were well built, sup- plied with storage basins, locks and weirs, bridges and loading docks for barges, and were carefully kept in good order. There were others, both north and south of the city that joined the Euph- rates with the Tigris, and there were several that ran parallel with the rivers. The largest was known as the Chos- roes Canal. It was built in early his- torical times to connect Bagdad with the city of Dor, about one hundred miles north. This canal was extend- ed by the Caliph Al -Mansur to the city of Madharaya, the modern Kut el Amara. Later caliphs carried it one hundred and fifty miles beyond Dur. FOR THOSE LITTLE CUTS It is always safer to apply aseline Carbolated Petroleum .5.119l A mild antiseptic. it keeps the cuts cleanand helps thens to heal. Sold in glass bottles and handy tin tubes at chemists and gen- eral stores everywhere. Refuse substitutes. Illus- trated booyet free on request. CHESEBROUGH MPG. CO. (SoneolidoirES IBM Chabot Ave. Pehmtreal BETWEEN THE TRENCHES. French Ceasing Firing to Allow Ger- mans to Rescue Comrades. Sapping deeper, the French engine- ers had countermined •their foes, and very early in the morning, with a thunderous explosion, they blew up the German position. Many Germans Whenever this canal passed through were killed, but some escaped and ran loose soil it was over two hundred feet for their nearest trench. The French leaped their embankment and dashed in width and six feet deep. Where the ground became rocky it was reduced forward to occupy the crater that the explosion had made: but the enemy's to a width of forty or fifty feet. This trunk Canal carried a large boat traffic fire drove them back. So, now, and supplied water to hundreds of French and Germans faced one oan- mules of lateral canals and irrigationther not thirty yards apart, with the demolished treoch between them, neither army able to occupy it, None dare show his head above the trench, for sharpshooters watched with keen eyes and ready rifles from the ditches. It served Many thousands of miles of most splendid farming country. South of the city of Kerbela, on the Eurphartes, three -were „reat irriga- tion works on what is probably the opposite positions. A great silence richest agricultural land in Asia. The reigned, broken only by the agonizing Euphrates has since shifted its bed cries of the wounded, who were unable about thirty miles to the eastward, and to crawl back to their lines. the vIch canal lands are nothing but Gradually the cries, of these un - unwholesome, reedy swamps, the fortunates ceased, all except one haunts of water buffaloes, cranes and whose piteous wails filled .the other animals and birds. "Hilfe! Hilfe! Um G•ottes willen!" he Betteeen Dur anti Hasson there repeated over and over again.. But were over fifty trunk cnals between i none dare go to him. the Tigris and the Euphrates, and theyiThe'hot sun shone down mercilessly irrigated thirty-seven thousand square upon the half -buried, suffering mart. miles of rich farming lands. These !He was severely wounded and pinion - In the Army the toast is drunk standing, but in the Navy, as is well known, the officers honor it while seated. The reason for this, it may be re- called, is that cabins on warships in those days were far less roomy and ceilings much lower than is the case on inodern dreadnoughts. It was William IV. who, when dining on board a battleship at Portsmouth, no- ticed the difficulty officers present ex- perienced in standing erect without bumping their heads when honoring the toast of his health. So he accord- ingly gave out the order that all naval officers should remain seated when "The King" was given on board ship. It used to be the custom in our Navy to dole out a double allowance of spirits to the crew when going into action, but now., commanders have strict instructions that not a drop of alcoholic liquor is to be allowed among the officers and men when there is any fighting to be done. Few people have any idea of the terrific heat, exertion, smoke, and noise inseparable from a naval com- bat. Naturally, when working under these conditions, a man gets a big thirst which has to be slaked in the capital of the Mohammedans and the holy city of Islam. ST. VITUS DANCE His voice became weaker and weak- er. "Water! Water—oh, give me water!" he moaned. But none dared to help him Suddenly, with utter disregard of CAN 13E EASILY CURED the danger, stall,slim,. youngFrench captain leaped to the top of his trench. A shot sang past him instantly, but A Tonie for the Blood and he fearlessly held aloft Ids hand to command attention. Then he shout- ed to the imprisoned German. "Tell your comrades to come and fetch you! We will not fire. We give our word." Many a child has been called avek- , Ile jumped down inside again. ward, has been punished in school , The wounded man heard. Sum - for not keeping still or for dropping moning his lost remaining strength he things, when the trouble was 1,'ea1lY raised his voice and cried the message St. Vitus dance. This trouble may aloud to his comrades, appear at any age but is most often There was a short conference inside met between the ages of six and the German trench, Then four tall fourteen. The most frequent cause soldiers in the uniform of the Prus- of the disease is poor blood, aggra- sian Guard climbed over their parapet vated by indoor confinement, or men- and advanced boldly into the open, tal strain at school. Under these carrying a stretcher. They faced a conditions the blood fails to carry hundred rifle barrels, but there was nourishment to the nerves and the no shot. The word of boner had child begins to show listleasness and been passed, and men were acting as inattention. Then it becomes rest- humat beings, saving instead of de - less and twitching of the muscles and stroying. jerking of the limbs and body follow. Quickly the Germans reached their A remedy that cures St. Vitus dance comrade. A heavy beam of the and cures it so thoroughly that 110 demolished trench had fallen upon trace of the disease remains is Dr. him and crushed both legs. Work - Williams Pink Pills which renew ing with a will, they soon had him re - the blood thus feeding and strength- leased, and, placing him on the ening the starved nerves. This is stretcher, they bore him away to the the only way to cure thelrouble, and safety of their trench. parents should lose no time in giv- A tnomont later some sixty Prussian ing this treatment if their child helmets were hoisted enthusiastically seems nervous or irritable. Mrs. Wm. on rifles above the trench, and in a mighty chorus there mune the shout, "Thank you, comrades, thank you!" The French captain climbed upon the trench bowed courteously, and re- sponded, "It was our pleasure com- rades. Now to our duty again." And pitiless war reigned once more between the lines. Worried Him. - "I'm a little worried about Mabel." "What's the trouble? Wouldn't her father consent to your marrying?" It is not generally known that when completely cured, and is now a fine, "That's just it. He consented, and thelate King Edward came to the healthy girl. 1 firmly believe we seemed so glad about it." ewe this to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills throne, he caused a notification to be quietly issued to the officers of the and are very grateful for her regtgra. *Ward's Liniment Mires nipeniaria two Services that he should consider tion to perfect health." You can get these pills from any No Disappointment Here. himself just as much honeyed by thoir drinking his health in watee ss defiler in medicine or by mail at 50 A inan who Was convinced of steal - cents a box or six boxes for 52.50 ing was brought before a certain from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. judge, well known for his tenderheart- Brockville, Ont. • edness, to be sentenced. Overhauling the Liners. The C.P.R. is going to overhaul its trans -Pacific liners at the beginning Nerves With Rest All That is Needed. most effective way possible. • So sup- A. Squires, Cannington, Ont., says: plies of oatmeal and water are placed em - y only daughter, now fourteen years of age was treubled for several years with St. Vitus dance. She was so "bad that at times she would lose -control of her limbs and her face and eyes would be contorted, We 'lad all over the ship for Jack to help him- self. On Teetotal Lines. It was Lord Charles Beresford who said that the prize gunners of the Mediterranean Fleet, who, when under medical advice and medicine, but it his command, made such a sensational did not help hir. In fact we thought record in gunnery, were all men who the trouble growing worse, and final - did not drink, and were therefore ly we had to take her from school. able to shoot with more precision About a year ago we began giving her than those whose pulse Was in the Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and by the least degree quickened by stimulants. time she had taken five boxes she was in wine or spirits. Perhaps the most notorious ex- ample of heavy chinking and its disas- trous consequences in any naval er- gagement wile that which handicap- ped the armada of a certain Russian admiral, when it started on its memor- a;nle voyage from the Baltic. 17 No small share of the responsibility of the new year. The boats will be was due to the widely -known and laid un at drydock at Hong Kong for • . widely -discussed ietempera!nce of renovation and repair. • The Empress most of the officers of the Russian Fleet. The Vital Point. A beautiful young lady interviewed a fortune-teller on the usual subjects. "Lady," said the clairvoyant, "you will visit foreign lands and the courts of kings and queens. You will con- quer all rivals and marry the man of your choice. He will be tall and dark, and aristocratic -looking." "And young's?" interim pted the lady. "'Yes, and very rich," The beautiful lady grasped the for- tune-teller's hands and pressed them hard, - "Thank you," she said, "Now tell me one tbing more. How shall I get rid df my present husband?" of Asia will be the first to be laid up. She will be out of --commissien for about a nionth. The Empress of Rus- sia and Empress of Japan will be laid up in turn—the former having a month and the latter 28 days at Hong Kong. The big liners are kept in the best of trim, being all thoroughly overhauled once it year, The Empress of Milt and Empress of Russia have not been completely overhauled since they were released from the Admiral- ty service, toward the lattee part of last; year. The Monteagle, which is now on her way across the Padfic, was recently overhauled et Hong Kong. For every ailment there are a dozen cures that don't. eginarma Liniment Cures Colds, atm "Rave you ever been sentenced to imprisonment?" asked the judge, not of houses laid bane ali old Roman wall unkipdly.the existence of which had been un - "Never!'" exclaimed the prisoner, suddenly bursting into tears. "Well, well, don't cry, my man," said his, Honor, consolingly; "you're going to be new." • CURED BY EMOTIONAL SHOCK MANY STRANGE CASES OE SOL- • DIERS' RECOVERY. It Is All a Question of Nerves, Says a London Hospital Physician. Of all the phenomena of the war 00- ti4ng has aroused more curiosity than those cases of soldiers who, stricken deaf and dumb by Ethel shock or wounds, have suddenly recovered their speech owing to violent emotion. IGreat interest has been created arnong the medical profession by those cases which have accidentally cured themselves after other means have failed. Scores of instances have oc- curred during the war of dumb Sol- diers recovering their speech under the stress of strong excitement. Emotional shock often works a !wonderful cure. Some trivial acci- dent or peculiar set of circumstances may arise which causes the dumb sol- dier suddenly to ejaculate a few words, greatly fis the surprise of him- self and those around him. These accidental cures have been brought about by Violent exertion Fear Apprehension of danger to others Joy Grief A joke Indigntion Keen interest and other strange causes. A few days ago a remarkable case was reported in the London Daily Ex- press of a soldier at Greenock who re- covered Ids speech while endeavoring to catch a gramophone record which fell from a table at his bedside. The shock of the Sudden exertion caused him to cry out, "Oh, it's back," and restored to him his speech. The Explanation. What is the explanation? The house physician of a London hospital who has a number of shell shock patients under observation threw some light on th esubject. "These cases of deafness or dumb- ness are functional not anatomical," he said. "Just as a sudden shock in battle may cause a main to lose his speech, so will an emotional shock bring about a cure. "The nervous system in such in- stances may be compared with a tele- phone wire which suddenly becomes disordered through some unseen Monsieur; cause, but which may be cleared and For 1 5 days In the Inoll fit of January I in lite foot. I tried all Ictede or retne- it'US suffering with unlit og rheumatism righted by an electric current. man may suffer more from a narrow 1M IONT; titt s'XnatlITT „It is all a question of nerves. Aiamietelmnisiiutti7ital iia • aPtaxi- byctrlod 11 151, Salir- easebtheaonfknoovelfecblyadown bbye beingngtlln it. It is just the same with these'fireo,t;rc,,t,iV,eate MO' 0:11 Volt 1V,A.1 ffi cures, in which shock is more eca- cious than anything else. The shock may be administered electrically or through the emotions. • Hearing Restored. "I know a case of a soldier who was rendered stone deaf by the noise of the guns. You could drop a ton weight just behind him and it would have no effect; nor was an operation of any use. Yet the mere application of an electric battery had immedi- ately the desired effect. The shock to the man's nerves restored bus hear- ing." Quite recently a soldier recovered his speech after a flashlight photo- graph had been taken at a theatre, but it is believed that Continuous laughter was responsible for it. In- deed, there have been several in- stances where speech has been re- stored by means of a joke. Other cures have been attended by uninten- tional humon—such as the case of the indignant Scottish warrior who re- covered his speech in a vigorous manner when he was overcharged to the extent of a few pence. Apother soldierr sat Bristol last yea was cured by an apology at a concert. When searching for a cigarette he in- advertently placed his hand in a com- rade's pocket. "I'm sorry," he sud- denly ejaculated. •ROMAN WALL OF VERDUN. Only One Building Remains Intact In City. Verdun has not suffered as Yprea has suffered, says a Paris correspond- ent -of the London Times, but the work of making the town uninhabitable has has been thoroughly accomplished. 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For unlese Britain can main- tain for another two years or theree abouts an uninterrupted flow of man power to the western and southern fronts our valiant neighbor across the silver streak will find it humanly im- possible to maintain the struggle which has in the last two terrible years involved the depletion of the flower of her manhood. This was whispered many months past; now it is being openly discussed wherever thinking men get together, whether in dugout facing the unspeak- able Hun or snatching a few hours' leave in the bosom of their families. "Men; more men," "England must send more soldiers," are the common expressions of opinion in the fair land where already so many of our khaki - clad heroes sleep. Old Jim Keen's Observation. "Real friends," says old Jim Keen, . "are the ones who guess you're in need 1352.3212=1 WIWI= of help before you've even begun to holler." SIRED POTATOES S DED POTATOES, ' 1R35}1COB,. i. biers, Delaware, Carman. 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