The Clinton News Record, 1915-06-17, Page 6Calls on Berlin for Assurances
President Wilson Notifies Kaiser That Laws Must
be Respected.
A despatch from Washingtonesays:
President Wilson called upon Ger-
many for an expression as to whether
or not she intends to abide by the
principles of international law as re-
gards American lives and. American
shire. He has asked in effect for a
prompt response, and on the reply to
this question probably will depend
whether or not the cordial relations
between the two Governments bre to
continue. This demand is regarded by
official Washington as the crux of the
note which President Wilson despatch-
ed to Germany. All other points in
e:he communication were intended to
be subordinate and incidental to this.
Two features of the note, while in
Ao wise modifying the demand for as-
surances as to the future, hold the
door open to Germany for a possible
alteration of her submarine pro-
gramme. One• of these is the Presi-
dent's invitation to Germany to sub-
mit any "convincing evidence" in its
possession that the United• States
officials failed to perform their duties
in examining the Lusitania before she
sailed, The other is the President's
offer to convey to Great Britain or
Germany any intimation or sugges-
iion either Government may be will.
lug to make to the other, and his in-
vitation to the Imperial German Gov-
ernment to make use of the services
of the United States in this way.
This latter proposal is in answer to
the reference in the, German note to
the efforts already made by • the
United States to bring about a modi-
fication of Germany's submarine pro-
gramme through obtaining Great Bri-
tain's consent to importations of food
cargoes into Germany for the civil
population. This effort on the part of
the United States came to naught,
and instead of acting upon Germany's
intimation that it might be renewed,
the President now lays upon the Kai-
ser and his advisers the responsibility
of making any proposals to Great
Britain. •
The kernel of the President's note
to Germany is found in this conclud-
ing sentence:
"The Government of the United
States deeins it reasonable to expect
that the Imperial German Govern-
ment will adopt the measures neces-
sary to put these principles (those of
international law) into practice in re-
spect to the safeguarding of American
Iships, and asks for assurances that
this will be done."
GERMAN AGENTS
FOMENT STIRKES
Aim Is to Render Idle Big Factories
In the United States Who Are .
• . Supplying Arms -to Allies. ,
•
A despatch from New York says:
Agents of Germany, it has `been learn-
ed in reliable quarters, have taken
steps with the aim of starting strikes
In the big factories that are supplying
• • e
arms.,aramunitioh and oeher war sup-
plies for the allies.-
They have worked out with minute
detail a gigantic plan by which they
-hope to prevent the filling of many
of the contracts through strikes of
the employes. While they may net
expect to stop entirely the shipmeht
of the orders that are variously esti-
Mated at between' $300,000,000 and
perhaps $600,000,000, they are hoping
for a breakdown in the immense busi-
ness'now being done in this country.
It was not decided to. tamper with -
labor until many other schemes, aim-
ed to cut oil the war supplies business
In this country, had failed utterly.
Various efforts have been made by
German sympathizers or agents of
Germany, either known or concealed,
.to stop the export of vast quantities
of supplies from the United States for
the eoldiers of the allied countries.
First there was attempted national
legislation; then a personal appeal by
Count von Bernstorff; the German
Ambassador, to Secretary of State
Bryan; next a big scheme of Germans
to buy up the big plants; next an ef-
fort to swamp these some factories
with orders for German supplies that
never would be shipped from this
Country.
All these, schemes having failed,
plans are now being. set on foot to
start labor agitation in the different
plants that have received the greatest
amount of orders. is said now that
money is not lacking for the spread-
ing of the propaganda by which the
Germans hope to 'cause general wide-
spread labor discontent and bring
alemt strikes. The scheme has been
evolved by a master -mind, but the
head worlines in the conspiracy are
net expected to come' in touch with
the workingmen. By working through
varioes channels they are said to have
eucceeded already in influencing local
labor leaders in the different -.cities
and towns unwittingly to formulate
demands on the employers..
God IS On Our Side,
Read German Orders
A 0 -watch. from Petrograd says:
The Russians have obtained copies of
the,follewing German staff order is -
stied to the troops on the River Haim
hi Central Poland:
"God Himself is on our side and
;fights" for us in our conflict against
the whole world. We, by the Will �t
.the Almighty, have had put into out
'elarele a, new and /nighty weapon -
"those gases wherewith we have de-
feated our enemies ' The pewee and
:domination of Germany over all
'Europe are our only aims in this war,
:end we must allow nothing to stop us
in gaining a final and now, assured
'victory. Eve two menthe have passed
our foes will be beaten into the dust."
To Punish Murderers,
A despatch from El Paso, Texas,
says: a C. Myles, British Vice-Con-
telegrephed Ge,n. Villa demanding
puniehment of Villa soldiers responsi-
ble for the recent killing of four and
the wounding of one British subject
at Tuxpam. The message was sent
on instructions of Sir Cecil Spring
-
Rice, British Ambassador at Wash-
ington.
She Talked Freely.
"Did she say anything when the
traffic officer made, her back up her
"I should say eta) did, She couidn't
have said more if She had been man
ried to` the policeman."
RUSSIANS TAKE
THE OFFEN,SIVE
Attack the Invader in Both Galicia
. and the Baltic Pro-
vinces.
`..A. despatch from London says:
Russian reinforcements arrived in the
Baltic provinces and in Galicia, and it
became their turn to attack. Accord-
ing to the German official report, part
of the German force on the Dubyssa
River, in the Baltic provinces, threa-
tened by an encircling movement,
were obliged to withdraw, although in
the region of Shavii and on the Nie-
men they claim to be making pro-
gress, despite a stubborn Russian re-
sistance. •
More important, in the belief of
military observers here, is the appar-
ent change that is taking place in the
Galician battle. Here again, accord-
ing to the German account, the Rus-
sians are advancing to the south and
south-east of Lemberg, and also are
attacking Gen. Linsingen's force
which crossed the Dniester near Zur-
awna.
In Eastern Galicia and Bukowina,
however, the Russians are falling back
between the Pruth and Dniester rivers
with the intention, it is believed here,
of making the Dniester their line of
defence from the Roumanian frontier
to the south-east of Peremysl. They
have very strong positions along this
line, and military experts say that if
they can drive back the Germans who
crossed the river near Zurawna, Lem-
berg will remain in their hands, and
they will be in a position to deliver a
vigorous offensive, at any rate as soon
as the Austrians and Germans begin
to withdraw troops for their western
and southern campaigns.
LOST 258,000 MEN IN 10 MONTHS
Premier Asquith Gives List of Casu-
alties in the British Army.
, A despatch from London says; Pre-
mier Asquith announced in the House
of Commons that the total of British
casualties from the beginning of the
war to May 31st was 258,069 men in
killed, wounded and missing. Divided
into categories of killed, wounded and
missing, officers and men, the list
shows the folowing:-
Killed. Wounded. Missing.
Officers .... 3,327 ' 6,498 1,130
Other ranks. 47,015 147,482 52,617
-- -
Total .. 50,842 153.980 53,747
The losees in the naval division are
not included in this list.
Mr. Asquith's statement of losses
was for the Continental and Mediter-
ranean forces of the Empire. He pro-
mised to give the losses in the naval
division later. Neither did the list in-
clude.the forces of Great Britain en,
gaged in the various small wars in
Africa and the Near East.
Planned the EScape of
Zeppelin Prisoners
A despatch from Copenhagen says:
It has been established that two Ger-
mans arrested on Sunday at Saeby,
Denmark, who described themselves
as C. Gumprecht and T. Hauff, of New
York, are not Americans, although
they had visited New York. These
men, with H. Haan, of Copenhagen,
were arrested on the charge of hay-
ing been concerned in a plan to effect
the escape of the interned German
officers of the two Zeppelins wrecked
last February off the Danish coast.
Two other Germans have been ar-
rested on the same charge. It is as-
sorted -the men had arranged to con-
vey the interned Getman officers in
automobiles to the coast, where a
steamer was waiting to take them to
Pleat Figure : Are you a pillar of
the church Second Figure ; No,
I'm a flying buttress -I support it
from the outside.
New German Army on way to France
. 'A despatch from London seys: A
new German army of about 500,000
men some of them first-class troops
is moving west, according to the cor-
respondent of the Daily Mail at Aix
la Chapelle. Dutch correspondents
also report the arrival of large num-
bers of troop trains „ in Belgium.
Along most of the French front the
fighting is of a character similar to
that which has been in progress for
many menths.
‘1.
Turke Confined Behind Netting on 1110 Deck of a British warship.
Particulars are lacking (doubtless fpy censorial 'reasons) as to the exact eirourrustances or locality in
which these Tusks Is :prisonees were taken, butt the phetharn,ph came from a oeteain place in, the Medi-
terranean. Pre,sumably, therefore, they were captured daring the naval operations in the Near Fast.
.:The photograph is inteeresting an itself as Showing the ingenuity of the Bribed) sailor in arranging an
emprovesed prie.ten on board Although -I there may be a certain loss of personal dignity in being confined
behind netting, yet this open ass prison is decidedly More hfiniane than would be some dark coalmen
below deeks, and we may be sore that the prisoners are treated with the custornarSe humanity and
courtesy which the men of the Brielth navy invariably display towards their foe.
NVIIS ACROSS THE 801101 4,5.00,000 CALLED TO THE COLORS
WHAT IS GOING ON OVER- IN
nil STATES.
Latest Rappenii-igs in Big Republic
Condensed for Busy
Readers.
Thirteen banks in St. Louie show
aggregate deposits of $252,605,592.
New York and New Hampshire
again fear a grasshopper raid in
the fields, •
New York police carnival will
have its own aviator Showing by
Patrolman lei:tirphy.
One. 'hundred pupils of Iola,
Kan„. high school -said they had no-
vel. seen a salon bar.
Wanamaker has bought build-
ing at Atlantic City .as a sanitarium
for store employee.
After the review of the fleet at
New York, three U.S. submarines
went on the crippled list.
jelin Sperandee, of Collineville,
Ilk, though without hands, has
qualified as ii sehool teacher.
A Minneapolis man, to show be-
lief in' Union wages, left $5 in his
will to each of his pallbearers.
Pittsburg magistrates refused to
convict for gambling some Syrians
playing 'cards for beans.
Former financier Addiehe, once
-political power inDela.ware, it 74,
has been jailed for debt.
Excitement . over the wedding of
her son caused the death of Mrs.
Elias Lyman at Burlington, Vt.
Some tourists cencelica their pas -
Sagas on the Minnehieha, as shb car-
ried munitions to England..
A German 'glove firm ie being
sued by linked States for $$52,367
fraud in customs undervalhations.
Affee 20 years in Sing Sing the
jail tailor, John Emmen., has. been
released; he was a murderer.
Jonathan Huber, of jassanittville,
Pa., 'has Completed his. forty-second
term as nubile school teacher.
Ida. Woods,of Pangburn, Ark.,
while at. a picnic was bitten by a
rattlesnake-, walked 60 yards, and
died.
Chas. Frohman, play producer,
lost nn the Lusitania, was once a
newsboy on Philadelphia streets.
A hobo told Chicago judges that
the city could not he prosperous as
cigar ends now thrown away are
shorter than Usual.
The convicts of West Virginia
pen, at Moundsville, 1,227 in num-
ber, are to have Saturday half holi-
days in munmer.
Mrs. S. Vandeveer claims to pies-
sese the axe with which Abraham
Lincoln once 'split rails. She lives
at Montgomery, Mo.
Almost every 'farmer in Winne-
gomery County, Alabama, has stop-
ped work- to look for a hoard of
train robbers' buried gold,
A dying nieseage Was sent from
Margate, Eng,, to his sister. at
Hublielk *A, by Herbert, Tho-
mas with the Canadian contingent.
A Pennsylvania man was fre,ed of
a white slavery charge because he
conveyed his victim into. the State
by auto and not by mil.
MOST 'VULNERABLE CITY.
• -
Venice Has Poorest Chance in War
of Italy.
With Italy in the war, a spot dear
to the tourist, the traveller and the
levee of the artistic and romantic is
in peril. Venice of all the Italian
coast towns is the most vulnerable.
When she was mistress of the sea and
her merchantmen sailed the waters of
the known world, while her colonies
spread over the Levant and her war-
ships humbled the Turks, the lagoons
and the long sandbars were effective
protection. But 16 -day these waters
are too shallow fer the Italian fleet,
and her 'protectors must come from
the'nearest naval base at Taranto to
save her front the modern long-range
guns of the Austrian ships that could
attack from Pole, less than 150 miles
across the Adriatic,
'All the world that travelled fo
pleasure or instruction went to Ven-
ice. The continental "tour of every
American or Britisher was incomplete
without a sight of the Piazza of St.
Mark,' and the` honeymoon of every
prosperous German couple was lack-
ing in true sentiinentality it it did tot
include a gtindola ride on the Grand
Canal. The 'city's situation, art and
romantic history, told in the winding
waterways and palaces, mate her
uniuqe among all resorts.
Joffre Has now in Hand the rlost Formidable War
Machine Ever Existed.
A despatch from Paris says: Of the
allies fighting against the Austro
German block, it is certainly the
French who, in proportion to their
population, have thus far made the
greatest effort. After nine months of
war the French army is more redoubt-
able than at any time heretofore. The
troops have passed a hard appren-
ticeship in war; they are well equip-
ped and their morale is iii general ex-
'cellent: Tools, artillery, war material
and provisions have been massed in
unbelievable quantities.
The Germans' great fault has been
their seven months' stagnation on the
banks of the Aisne and the Yser. Af-
ter the defeat of the Marne they
should have tempted fate again at all
costs. They preferred to entrench
themselves in their mole hills and
wad for some vague favor of destiny.
These seven months have allowed
the French, and also the British, to
perfect their armament and to drill
their new units. The commander-in-
chief of the Franco -British armies has
now in hand the most formidable
war machine that has ever existed.
Certainly the French have suffered
losses which, if smaller than those of
the Germans, are yet heavy. Since
the start of the campaign 'about 1,-
300,000 French have been put hors de
combat. Of these there have been
about 360,000 killed and 230,000 pri-
soners or missing.
Of the total French loss of 1,300,-
000, about 180,000 have been dropped
out, either for wounds causing perma-
nent infirmity or for serious illness.
Front 800,000 to 400,000 men cured of
wounds or illness have returned to
their places in the ranks.
BRYAN ATTACKS
WILSON'S NOTE
Hands Out Long Statement, Compli-
cating the Already Critical
Situation.
A despatch from Washington says:
While the President's note to Ger-
many was being handed to the news-
paper correspondents at the State De-
partment,Wm. J. Bryan was passing
out at hi.s home a statement attack-
ing the communication sent by Mr.
Wilson on behalf of this Government.
In the statement Mr. Bryan de-
scribes the President of the United
States as an exponent of the old sys-
tem in dealing with disputes between
Governments, the system that has
war as its cornerstone. Not only in
this assertion, but in others, Mr.
Bryan showed that he fears the pos-
sibility of war between Germany and
the United States as the result of Mr.
Wilson's note.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, issued
a statement which was interpreted by
Washington to mean that the Federa-
tion of Labor, while doing everything
possible to maintain peace, will stand
firmly behind the President in his in-
sistence that American lives shall not
be unnecessarily and unwarrantably
jeopardized on the high seas.
First Steamers Built on the Clyde.
This year marks the centenary of -
the establis hm ent of steamboat
comentin ice ti on be twee n. Glasgow
and Rothe -say. . The Dumbarton
Castle, built in 184:5 lbyeArchilhald
McLachlan & Co., Dumbarton, was
the first Steamer to take up this
'service, and the magistrates of
Rothesay marked the occasion by
presenting the master of the ship,
Captain James Johnston, with a
punch bowl. The Dumbarton Cas-
tle was a vessel of 108 tons and of
30 n. h. p.; the engine was built by
D. McArthur It Co., of Glasgow.
When aboard this steamer in 1816,
James Watt, during a conversation
with the engineer, di covered and
p,ersonally demonstrated the prac-
ticability ' of reversing the engine.
A Memory Aid That Isn't,
Within 41 little book I write
The dates that I most keep,
The way my` memory takes flight
Would make an angel weep.
"Now be there," firmly say,
"On me it's safe to bet,
For I have written down the day,
I'm sure I won't feaeget."
And smooth, indeed, would be my
wan
Without a turn or meek,
Did I not quite forget each day '
To see what's in the book.
War Closes Night °bib&
The PAW has played havoc with
the night clubs in London. At first
the young bloods, of Eitchener's
army patronized them to such an
extent that they went along with
mach of the oild swing and vim.
But early cloeing meet Kitchener'e
interdict with refere'nee 'to officers
in uniform, proved the final blow.
One after another the niglht clubs
put up the shutters.
MEN BURIED ALIVE*
UNDEli SHELTERS
The Terrible Effect on the Enemy of
The French Artillery
Fire.
A despatch from Paris says: The
French official "eye -witness" in an
article on the fighting in the vicinity
east of Tfacy-le-Mont gives the de-
tails of the capture by the French
forcesseveralfarm.
days ago of the Qum-
.
"Throughout the day there was a
heavy bombardment of the entire
German position, which was cvontin-
ued during the night by aerial torpe-
does and musketry. Our fire was very
effective, the two battalions which
held the position suffering heavy loss-
es, many of the men being buried
alive beneath their bomb -proof cel-
lars.
"We attacked with four battalions,
composed of Zouaves, Tirailleurs, Mo-
roccans and Bretons, Who, without
haversacks, carried three days' ra-
tions, 250 rounds of ammunition, hand
grenades and a sack filed with earth
to serve 45 a temporary shelter in the
captured trench.
"When the command to charge was
given, the whole line, as one man,
rushed across. Slight opposition was
encountered, Only one tit -rick -firer was
used by the Germans, which occasion-
ed small losses. The attack was be-
gun at 10.15 o'clock, and half an holm
later the first prisoners were brought
to the officers' headquarters.
`The 'clean sweep' ordered had been
rapid and complete. Two hundred and
fifty prisoners were the sole surviv-
ors of the two battalions. The rein-
forcements which the Germans endea-
vored to bring up were mown down by
our 75s. Two thousand of our ad'-
-
Versaries were placed out of action.
"The Zouaves continued on past the
second line of trenches toward Tout -
vent ravine. All at once the patrols,
which were ahead of the main body of
troops, were seen to sway and fall,
although no shot had been fired. The
Germans had placed a low barbed-
wire entanglement in the high grain
field to stop them. Our men soon
severed the barbed wire arid succeeded
io capturing three German 77 -cannon,
which had been effectively hidden be-
neathe bomb -proofs a few yards far-
ther on.
"The whole position was captured
and quickly fortified to withstand
counter-attacks and communicating
trenches with the main position were
prepared. Our aviators reported that
fresh reinforcements had been rushed
up from Royal in ,auto -busses. Dur-
ing the night the fresh troops attack-
ed, but were repulsed each time.
"At dawn the enemy again attacked
desperately our two wings'but by
rain or hand grenades his fire was
effectively stopped.
"We counted on the ground where
the counter-attaclee toole plane ap-
proximately two thousand deact. The
total eetunate of the enemY's losses is
three thousand dead, not counting the
wounded. We lost two hundred and
fifty men killed and 1,500 wounded.
We captured 20 quick -firers and also
a great quantity of trench materials."
When wind travels a hundred miles
an hoot or over, it is called a hurrie
cane.
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
REPORTS rROM THE LEARIND TRADE
CENTRES OF AMERICA.
, 13readstuffs.
Toronto, June 15. -Manitoba wheat
-No. 1 Northern, $1.31 to $1.32; No.
2 Northern, $1.29% to $1.30%; No.
3 Northern„ $1.26 to $1.27, track
lake pinta.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 58 to
59e; No. 3 C.W„ 56% to 571/; extra
No. 1 feed, 56% to 571/e, track lake
ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow,
75%c, track, lake ports.
Canadian corn -No. 2 yellow, 76e,
track, Toronto.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 55 to
56e; No. 8 white, 54 to 55c, according
to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, $1.20 to $1.22, according to
freights outside.
Peas -No, 2 nominal, per .car lots,
$1.50 to $1.50, according to freights
outside.
Barley --Good malting barley, 70
to 73e; feed bailey, 65e, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, 77
to Vic, according to freights out-
side.
Rye -No. 2, nominal, $1.10; ac-
cording to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $7.20; second patents, in
jute bags, $6.70; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $6.50, Toronto; its cotton
bags, 10e more.
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 per cent.
patents, $5.20, seaboard, or Tbronto
freights in bags.
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered. Mont-
real freights -Brae, per ton, $25;
shorts $28; middlings, $29; good
feed flour, per bag, $1,80.
Country Produce.
Butter -Choice dairy, 21 to 23e;
inferior, 20c; creamery prints, 29 tp
300; do., solids, 27 to 28c.
Eggs -The market is well sup-
plied, with prices firm, and sales at
22c per dozen, in case lots.
Beans -The market is quiet at
$3.10 to $3.15 for :prime, and $3.20
to $8.25 for hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, yearlings, dress-
ed 18 to 20c; Spring chickens, 45 to
c, fowl, 13 to 15c.
Cheese -The market is easier, be-
ing quoted at 19% to 20e for large,
and at 20 to 20% for twins.
Potatoes -Ontario, 56 to 60c per
bag, out of store, and 45 to 50e in
car lots.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, June 15. -Corn --Ameri-
can, No. 2 yellow, 78 to 79c. Oats -
Canadian Western, No. 3, 581/sc; ex-
tra No. 1 feed, 581ec; No. 2 local
white, 61e; No. 3 local white, 60c;
No. 4 local white, 59e. Barley -Man.
feed, 724te. Flour -Man, spring
wheat patents, firsts, $7.30; seconds,
$6.80; strong bakers', $6.60,• win-
ter patents, choice, $7.50; straight
rollers $7 to $7.10; straight rollers,
$3.30 to $3.40. Rolled oats --Barrels,
$7; do., bags, 90 lbs., $3.25. Bran -
$26. Shorts --$28. Middlings -$33
to $34. Mouillie-$35 to $38. Hay
-No. 2, per ton, car lots, $19 to
$20.50.
Winnipeg Wheat. -
Winnipeg, June' 15. -Cash quota-
tions: -Wheat, No. 1 Northern,
$1.25; No. 2 Northern, $1.22%; No.
3 Northern, $1,18%; No. 4, $1.15%.
Oats -No. 2 C.W., 52%e; No, 3 C.W.,
511/4,e; extra No. 1 feed, 511/1c; No, 1
feed, 50c; No. 2 feed, 49c. Flax -
No. 1 N.W.C., $1.62%; No. 2 C.W.,
$1.59%.
U. S. Markets,
Minneapolis, June 15. -No. 1
Northern, $1,24% to $1.32; No. 2
Northern, $1.21 to $1.29%; July,
$1.24. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 66 to
66%c. Oats -No. 3 white, 43% to
44c. Flour and bran unchanged.
Duluth, June 15. -Wheat -No. 1
hard, $1.29%; No. -1 Northern,
$1.25% to $1.28%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.20% to $1.25%; July, $1.23%.
Live Stock,
Toronto, June 15. --Butchers' cat-
tle, choice, $8.10 to $8.35; do., good,
$7.50 to $7.80; do., medium, $7.15
to $7.40; do., common, $6.60 to $7.10;
butchersbulls, choice, $6.76 to
$7.35; do., good bulls, $6.25 to
$6.50; do., rough bulls, $5.25 to $6;
butchers' cows, choice, $6.75 to
$7.35; do., good, $6.25 to $6.50;
dm, medium, $5.25 to $6; do., com-
mon, $5 to $5.75; feeders, good,
$6.50 to $7.25; stockeds, 700 to 1,000
lbs., $6.26 to $7i 25; canners and cut-
ters, $4 to $5.50; milkers, choice,
each, $60 tg $100; do., common and
medium, each, $35 to $45; springers,
$50 to $95; light ewes, $6.50 to $7;
do., heavy, $4.50 to $5; do., bucks,
$3.60 to $4.60; yearling lambs, $7
to $8.50; spring lambs, cwt., $10.50
to $12.50; calves, $4.50 to $10; hogs,
fed and watered, $9,60; do., off ears,
$9.85 to $9,90.
Canadian Nursea Off
-For Firing Line
A. despatch, from London says:
Mme. Casault, daughter of Judge Gas-
ault, and 35 other French-Canadian
nurses, have proceeded to France for
service in the British base hospital,
where their pioficiency in the dual
languages will make them exceptima
ally useful.
War Materials Burned.
A despatch from London says:
Buildings covering three acres, 100
Red Cross motor ambulances and 200
army motor vans, all ready for deliv-
ery to the Government, were destroy-
ed by fire Friday when the motor
works of Brian, Hughes and Strachan,
at Park Royal, went up in flames.
The damage is estimated at $500,000.
Troops had to be called in to assist
the firemen.
Grampian Arrives With
Canadian Troops
despatch from Ottawa says: The
Militia Department was advised
Thursday of the safe arrival of the
Grampian at an English port. 'She
carried 1,038 officers and men from
the 48th battalion of Winnipeg, 500
from Winnipeg and Brandon, rein-
force/merits to the 79th, and a party '4
23 doctor.
Needless Labor.
"What is your reason for believing
in the nebular hypothesis?" asked
the man who is always seeking in-
formation.
"I don't know that I exactly ba•
lieve in it," replied the scientist.
"But after a man has gone to the
trouble of finding out what it Is, it
seems a shame to contradict it."
What a Million?.
MOthd1Aiold '
•lrr_tiMore thc,,, i,e
j
nothors ate an
eeeen the dangers e1 ous ty destroyers.I1aIinVn that stchrepred
contain arsnin inieadIP'kI4i
'
ot
Willi . 'They have realizedtn
peill. to little, chntlign that •a04
companies theuse of flypolsou
But for those lo have no
leailled of these angers, WI
Quote from a recent issue 8.
eases of children being poison
which comments upon thitty-fl
the Child Betterment Magal
last year:
"Th 0 danger to children is
great, and the dangerto adult') ,
is hyno means inconsiderable,.
In the December issne of ths
Michigan Slots Medical Iournale
an editorial on the seam subject
cites 47 cases and goes on to state' '
"Arsenical fly poisons are as
dangerous as the phosphorus
match. They should be abol
ished. There are as efficient
and more sanitary ways of
• catching: or killing flies, And
By Poisons, if used at all,
should not be used in horned
where there are 'children, or
where children visit."
T"ANGLEFOOT
ThoSsehery Fly/Name?'
lion•Poisoness
Catches the Germ With the Fly
Made h; Casella lir
THEO. & W. THUIV1 co.
Dept.283 Wancerville, Oat.
American Addresei
Creed Replete, Mich.
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WARNEEORD WINS
LEGION OF HONOR
France .Bestows .Decoration .on tht
AirMan Who Smashed the
Zeppelin.
A 'despatch from Peels says: A. J.
Warneford, -the young Canadian avis'
tor in the service of the British bevy,
who destroyed a German Zeppelie
from his monoplane while the airshig
was flying over Belgium, has bees
given the Cross of the Legion of Ho.
nor for his exploit, on the veconimen.
dation of Genoal. Jaffee, commander.
in -chief of the French forces:
Warneford was given the Vietorit
Cross by King George for his achieve,
men
-Relatives of Lieut. Warneford,
who single-handed destroyed a Zeppe
lin in Belgium, have been discoverd
in New Brunswick. Rev. Mr. Warne.
ford, of Johnston, N.B., is a cousin,
and .Dr. P. H. Warneford, of IlainSe
ton, N.B., is an uncle. The latter says
that Lieut. Warneford is the son of
military man, ana was born in. Eng.
land. The doctor does not know whe.-
thee Warneford had been in Canada,
though despatches relating to the
young aviator referred to him as s
.Canadian.
SCORNS WAR'S ALARMS.
itn Amusing Story of Sir John
The SvenskaFDrealplebILladet, of Stock-
holm, tolls an amusing story which
it received from correspondent
at the front, showing that.. Field
Marelleal Sir John French, com-
tnandor of the British foroen in
ri:sn.ce, will not pee -suit the war to
interfere with his personal corn -
forte.
,
The Story was told to the curse-
Spondent -by a young lieutenant
who was on duty with his regi-
ment one night on the outskirts of
Compiegne,. where the Field Mar-
shal and his staff had their head-
quarters. At six o'clock one
morning a heavy bontharcimene of
the town wat begun by the Ger-.
mane. The lieutenant was hurried-
ly sent to inform the Field Marshal
that the German -s were in front of
the town.
At the door of the castle the lien -
tenant was, stopped by an orderly.
The young officer told the oedeel,y
of his mineion, adding that the sit-
uation lenked critical and he must
see Sir John French at once.
"The Field Marehal is in bed and
must not hie, distuebed," *Aoki the
orderly calmly,
In the street automobiles were
standing with alert ohauffers ready
to take Sir Sohn to .a place of eafee
ty, After a wait of an hour the
lieutenant was again ordered by
leie superior officer to see Sir John
Frenoh and advise him of his thief=
ger.
'The Field Marshal is now in his
bath," said the os -dimly. Mean-
while the sitaff officers, of the
French. and English forces had
taken their plates in the autom,m
biles ready to Start, but Six johe
was not worried. At eight o'clock,
when it was m-omentarily expected
that 'the Germans would march into
the town, the lieutenant was re-
ct`m4aretedth,e teloinadeictilleelet: itory
to
hits
British commander.
"It is .abeatettely necessary that
see the Field Marthall," said the
lieute neut. •
"And it is absolutely inmeeeible
for you to sea eeplind the or-
derly firmly. "The Field Marshal,
is now taking his breakfast."
Only at Mlle o'clock did Sir John
enter his automobile toleave the
town, and at that hour the Ger-
man troops had alenoee reached the
Ine,rket PO:s1..0g_Leimiefe.
Slow Fathers.
"Mamma, I'm afraid papa was
pretty slow when, he was a young
than!'
"Perhaps he was. De always paid
his debts and used good English and
knew nothing about cigarettes' and
never saw a taxitab and hadn't ally
clubs, and- was able to support a wife
before he married. I guess he was
pretty slow.
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