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A FIERCE LEADEN ST ORM HELD HARICOT Markets Of The World
Graphic Account of Allies' Victory on the Gallit,oli'REP°RTS Fit`WI THE
TRADE CENTRES Ole ANG}elERICA.
LEADI
Peninsula.
the British and French lineson the
Peltipoli Peninsula from the Aegean
to the Dardanelles is confronted by
1 1mg ground that 'culminates i
n the
Aire with a flat summit, Aehi Baba,
6 feet high. On either eede the
hes and dry water courses called
ebund falls away to the sea in ra-
'area, which the Turks have had time
0 snake impregnable to any except
those superb troops that are now
graing to pass over them. There is
6 aeore upon the Gallipoli Peninsilla
§ lind peak points, and we are now in
Ile position of having to storm an
leOnensely strong forteess, the ad -
'Awed works of which by an, amaz-
ilig feat of arms we already hbld and
the glacis of which hag to be crossed
before we move forward -to the as-
ieult upon the bastion of Achi Baba
ehd beyond to the final assault upon
the very walls of that fortress.
On Line 21 it was determined to
Straighten the line upon the extreme
right ahd at 1.30 a.m., the preliml-
Miry bombardment began. All
through the morning the cannonade
Went on. By noon the second division
f French had on the left stormed and
aptured all the Turkish trenches of
he first two lines. Even the Haricot
redoubt with its damnable entangle-
Ments and maze of communicating
e'renches was in French hands. On
r tete right; however, the first division,
iitter reaching its objective, had been
ebunter-attacked so effectively that
they had fallen back. Again they ad -
Winced, again they took the trenches
' and again they were driven out. It
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A. despatch from Alexandria says: began to look as if the victory upon
.the left would• be fruitless. That
position would become an untenable
salient and the Haricot redoubt re-
vert to the enemy. At this monierit
a message was sent to say that the
trenches, must be ceptured and when
recaptured, held'
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A Fierce Brittle.
There were still five hours of day-
light for this battle of the• longest
day of the year. British guns and
howitzers were asked foe and sent eit
oriee, and the bombardment wee re-
euzned throughout the afternoon. At
5.30 it seemed as if every gun 'on
earth were pouring shells on the Tur-
kWh lines. At 6 o'clock the third
assault was delivered. In one trench
there was a temporarer shortage of
ammunition, but the enemy fought
even with stones'sticks and fists. A
battalion came hurrying up from the
Turkish right to reinfoece it, and was
caught on open ground by, the drum-
ming 75's and melted away. Thus
600 yards of Turkish trenches were
takee, and still the bombardment
cvontinued in order, to ward off the
counter-attack that was anticipated.
In the morning we heard gladly that
the eeemy's eounter-attacks had fail -
'ed arid that our allies were indeed
firmly 'established. The Turkish cas-
ualties.', were at least 7,000, cone
trench 200 yards long and 10 feet
deep was brimming over with dead.
They had e been valiant, those dead
men. Freech 'officers who fought in
the west say that' as a fighting unit
one Turk is worth two Germans; in
fact, with his back to the wall, the
Turk is magnificent.
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)10,000 WORKERS
ENROL EACH DAY
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A despatch from London says: The
seven days granted the trade union-
ists by the Minister of Munitions,
David Lloyd George to make good
their pledge that they would prove
they were able to supply the needed
Munitions workers without recourse
to compulsion expired June N.
With respect to results, W. E. Mor-
gan, who is Mr. Lloyd George's chief
assistant in this department of hie
work, said:
"The enrolments are so highly sat-
isfactory that I think I can say that
the voluntary system has justified
Itself as applied to munitions work-
ers. During the last two days the
enrolment has averaged 10,000 a day."
A PRISONER IN AUSTRIA.
A despatch from Berlin says: A
Bavarian courier reports that among
the prisoners of war at Lerchenfeld
'(one of the quarters of Vienna) is a
member of the Paris branch of the
Rothschild family, who was captured
'011ie driving an automobile. The
bourier declared that efforts made
through the Spanish Embassy to have
Special treatment accorded Mr. Roths-
child resulted in his being compelled
to go to work in the hay fields with
Other prisoners at 4 o'clock the next
Morning. ,
YUKON QUICK -FIRING SECTION.
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Force of Fifty-six Men Training at
Shoritcliffe.
A despatch from London says:
Fiety-six men, comprising the quick -
Bring section organized in the Yukon,
iafye arrived here from Dawson City,
hder J. W. Boyle. They are now
eining at Shorncliffe. Further re-
orcements tire expected shortly, .
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; SUSPENDED BY CENSOR. .
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A despatch from Amsterdam says:
Several Socialist papers in Germany
have been suppressed for reproducing
he Socialist appeal for peace, which
r
Was originally published by the Bar -
lie Vorwaerts, resulting in that pa-
per's suspension. The papers sup-
pressed for reprinting the article in-
clude the Koenigsberger Volkszeitung
And the Goerlitzer Volkszeitunm
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ACQUIT GEN. WESSELS.
--
Bloemfontein, June 80. -General
Barend Wessels, ex -member of the
Council of Defence of the Union of
South Africa, was acquitted at his
second trial' on a charge of treason,
He was convicted at his first trial,
but secured a new hearing.
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15,000 MOTOR SLEDGES.
A despatch from Berne says: It is
earned from private sburces that
ermany recently issued orders for
6 000 ,
motor sledges in view of the
e
poesibility of nother winter cam-
peign.
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I PROTEST LIVING COSTS.
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A despatch from Paris says: The
Geneva correspondent of the Haves
Agency says the Munich Neueste
Nachrichtan announces that advocates
of worlcmen's compensation and social
democrats have organized a demon-
stration against the increasing cost
of living.
' Otherwise He Goes Without.
"I worider who it is that puts up
the ,price of meat?"
, "That's easy. The man who wants
to get it."
Sent to Prison
For Treachery
IMPRISONED FOR TREACHERY.
General De Wet, former Minister
of Agriculture in South Africa, and
ex -Boer leader, who was given siee
years in jail and a fine of $10,000 for
treason..
Two Ways of Measuring.
Mr. Lloyd -George's wit on the plat-
form is well known, but Pearson's
Weekly says that the following was
one of the neatest retorts he ever
made: A
He was ;addressing a meeting in
South Wales when the chairman,
.thinking to be witty at the chancel-
lor's expense, remarked to the audi-
ence that he was a little disappointed
in Mr. LloYd-George's appearance.
eI had heard so much about Mr.
Lloyd -George," he said, "that I na-
turally expected to meet a big man in
every sense.'but, as you can see for
Yourselves, he is very small in sta-
ture."
Many an orator would have been
grievously upset by such an unfortu-
nate beginning to the proceedings,
but not so, Mr. Lloyd -George.
"I am grieved to find," he said, with
mock 'seriousness, "that your chair-
man is disappointed in .my size'but
this is owieg to the way you have
here of measuring a man. In North
Wales we measure a man from his
chin up, but you evidently measure
him from his chin down!"
After that, the chairman made no
more personal remarks.
Put Soldiers on Land.
The extensive location of Canadian
soldiers on western lands after the
War, is foreshadowed by letters re-
ceived at Ottawa. As yet, of course,
nothing definite ‘has been arranged,
but the suggestion is that the British
Government may conclude an agree-
ment with the Canadian Pecific Rail-
way whereby great numbers of re-
turned soldiers may, be aided to take
up C.P.R. or other lanes and become
homesteaders. This is regarded as a
practical way of assisting men to
whom the Empire ie indebted but who
themselves would not have the capital
required.
He Explained It.
Wife -John, I saw in the 'paper
that a nautical mile is nearly a
seventh more than a lend mile. Why
is that, I wonder? • '
Husband-Well-er-eou know, my
dears that things swell in the water.
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Many a patent 'leather shoe hides
an aching corn.
GERMAN EXPORTS TO US. SHRINK GREATLY
A,, despatch from Berlin says: Der -
p the first six months of this year,
eye was exported to the United
,etes and America possessions from
r ainburg, Luebeck and Kidl. goods to
f.he value of 1,153,000. Statistics on
this trecle for the first six months of
1914,shotv the export of goods valued ITcAry H. Morgan, of Hamburg.
at $14,994,000. The decrease in 1915
thus amounts to about 92.3 per cent.
This information is taken from the
first 0 the American Conular re-
ports on trade from Germany to the
United States izieued this year. It
was prepared by Consul -General
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, July 6. -No. 1 Northern,
1.35; No. 2 Northern, $1.32; No. 5
Northern , $1.29, track, lake ports.
Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W., 630;
No. 8 C.W.,,62c; extra No. 1 feed, 62e,
track, lake ports.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 79c,
tracic, lake ports,.,
Canadian corn -No. 2 lyellow, 78e,
track, Toronto.
Ontario oats -No. 2 white, 55 to
56c; Nm 3 white, 54 to 55c; according
to freights outsiie.
Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per
car lot, $1.11 to $1.13, according to
freights eutside. .• •
Peas -No. 2,,nomina'1, per car lots,
nominal.
e Barley -Good malting barley, 70
to 75c; feed barley, 65c, according to
freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal, ear lets, 74e,
according to freights' outside:
Rye -No. 2 nominal, $1.05 to
$1.10, according to freights outside.
Manitoba flour -First patefite, in
jute bags, $7; second patents, in
jute bags, $6,50; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $6.30, Toronto; in cotton
bags, 10c name.
Ontario flour -Winter, 90 Per cent
patents, $4.70, seaboard, or Toronto
freights in bags,
Millfeed-Car lots, delivered,
Montreal freightse-Bran, per ton,
$26; shorts, $28; middlings, $29; good
feed flout, per bag, $1.85.
Country Produce.
Butter -Choice dairy, 21 to 23c; in-
ferior, 18 to 20c. creamery prints, 27
to 29c; do., solids, 26 to 28c.
Eggs -New -laid, 21 to 23e per doz-
en in case lots, and selects, 23 to 24c.
Beans -$3.10 to $3.15 for prime,
and $3.20 to $3,25 for hand-picked.
Poultry -Chickens, yearling, dress-
ed, 16 to 18c; Spring chickens, 25 to
27c; fowl, 14 to ltic.
Cheese -The market is firmer with
a good demand; quotations, 17% to
18c for large, and at 181/4c for twins.
Old cheese, 22 to 22S1c.
Potetoes-Ontario, 55 to 60c per
bag, out of store, and 45 to 50e in
car lots. New Brunswicks, ear lots,
65 to 00c per bag.
Business in Montreal.
Montreal, July 6. -Corn, American
No. 2 yellow, 80 to 81c. Oats -Cana-
dian western, No. 8, 61%e; do., ex-
tra No. 1 feed, 61.14c,• do No. 2 local
white,61c; do. No. 3 local white, 60e;
do. No. 4 local white, 59c. Barley -
Manitoba feed, 72c. Buckwheat -No.
2, 79 to 80c. Flour -Manitoba spring
wheat patents, firsts, $7.10; do. sec -
orals, e6.60; do. strong bakers', $6.40;
dowinter patents,„choice, $0.30; do,
steaight rollers, $5.90 to $6. Rolled
oats -Barrels, $6.25; do. bags, 90
lbs, $2.90 to $3.' Bran $26. Shorts
$28. Middlings, $33 to $34. Metallic
$36 to $40. Hay, No. 2, per ton, ear
lots, $20 to $21.50.
Winnipeg Wheat. -
Winnipeg, July 6. -Wheat -No. 1
Northern, $1,281,4, No. 2 Northern,
e1.25%; No. 3 Northern, $1.2114;
No, 4, $1.18. Oats -No. 2 M.,
58%c; No, 8 C.W., 55%c; extra No.
1 feed, 5514,c, Flax -No, 1
$1.60%; No. 2 C.W., $1.47%.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, July G. -Wheat -No.
1 hard, $1,3814; No. 1 Northern'
$1.28% to $1.37%; No. 2 Northern,
$1.25% to $1.34%; July, $1.25%;
September, $1.03%. Corn -No. 3
yellow, 7214 to 73c. Oats -No. 3
white, 4514 to 46c. Flour unchanged;
eaney patents, $6.70; first clears,
$5.50; second clears,$4. Bran, $21.50.
Duluth, July 6. -Wheat -No. 1
hard, $1.401,1; No. 1 Northern,
1 1.3.5% to $1.3914; No. 2 Northern,
1.33% to $1.351/e; July, $1,32%;
September $1.00%. Linseed -Cash,
$1.72%; July, $1.7231; September,
$1.76%.
Live Stock Markets.
Toronto, July 6. -The quotations
were: --Butchers' cattle, choice,
$8.40 to $9; do., good, $8.10 to $8.36;
do., medium, $7.35 to $7.90; do.,
common, $6.50 to $7; butchers' bulls,
choice, $7.25 to $7.75; do., eve('
bulls, $6.35 to $7,• do., rough bulls,
$5.50 to $6; butchers' cows, choice,
$7,25 to $7.50; do., good, $6.50 to
$7; do., medium, $5.10 to $6; do.,
common, $4.50 to $4,75; feeders,
,good, $6.50 to $7.25; stockers, 700
to 1,000 lbs., $6.25 to $7.75; mu -inert
and cutters, $4 to $5; infikers, choice,
each, $60 to $95; do., common and
medium, each, $35 to $45; springers,
$50 to e85; light ewes, $6.50 to $7;
do., heavy, $4 to $5; do., bucks, $3.50
to $4.50; yearling lambs, $6 to $7.50;
Spring lambs, cwt., $10 to $11;
calves, $8.50 to $10.50; hogs, fed and
watered, $9.25; do., off ears, $9.50,
Montreal, July 6. -Choice steers,
$8.75; good at $7.50 to $8.50; fair,
$6.75 to $7.25,and lower grades, $6
to $6.50. Butchers' cows and bulls,
$4.50 to $6.50 per cwt., as to quality.
Old sheep sold at $5.50 to $0.50 per
cwt., and lambs at $5,50 to $6 each.
The supply of calves was fair, and
sales were made freely at prices
ranging from $8.50 to $10.25 each, as
to sem and quality. A weaker feeling
developed in hogs, and sales of se-
eected lots were made at $9.25- to.
$9.60 per cwt., weighed off cars.
A Novel Prescription.
The' Celebrated Doctor Abernethy,
who lived more than a hundred years
ago, not only loathed circumlocution
in others, but avoided it himself. The
Rev, Doctor Tuckerman of New Eng-
land had all tbe self-absorption that
seems to have been a trait rather
common in the last century, and on
these two bits of chtieterization hangs
an amusing story.
When Doctor Tuckerman was in
London for his health, he consulted
Doctor Abernethy, and, oblivious of
scowls and jerks f the body, expa-
tiated on the importance of health to,
him, as the pastor of ,"a little parish
in Chelsea, Massachusetts," until the
physician lost his patience complete-
ly, and cut him short with:
"No matter about, your little par-
ish; go home and build a barn!"
And now coulee the proof of the
crusty doctor's cleverness 'as a diag-
nostician. /Although inclined at first
to regent the abrupt and unsympathe-
tic dictum, Doctor Tie:Iceman follow-
ed the advice, and found it perfectly
adapted to the case!
He got plenty of outdoor exercise
and a mechanical employment that
occupied his mind. When the barn'
was finished, his health was restored.
The demand for sincerity is far in
excess of the visible eupply.
11HIONOR FOR COMMANDER OF
THIRD INFANTRY BRIGAD
• BRIG,-UEN, m. S. MERCER.
The announcement of the honor of the Companionship of the Order of
the Bath to the fokmer commander of .the Q. 0. H. is received with
great satisfaction in Toronto, .particularly by the members and ex-
membors of his old regiment. He joined the Queen's Own- over a
quarter of a century ago as a private in the 'University Company
and rose step by step, as has been the time-)aonored custom In that
corps, until be succeeded Sir Henry IN:Matt as commander. Rd left
here with the Queen's Own ,Rifles' First Contingent in the Overseas
Expeditionary Force, and at Valeartier was . made Brigadier in
charge of the 3r6 Infantry Bri-gade.
TORPEDOS MADE
IN OLD ENGLAND
THE WHITEHEAD IS THE MOST
POWERFUL.
German Type' Midway Between Eng-
lish and American in Size
and Strength.
The torpedo is a living, self-con-
trolled instrument of destruction
and death. And England is the home
of the torpedo. Whitehead torpedoes,
the most perfect, are made at New-
castle -on -Tyne.
German naval experts are great
believers in the efficacy of the tor-
pedo, and were quick to adopt it. The
German type is larger than that used
on. American ships. The Germans
also. plan to make more use of tor-
pedoes than either the British or
American ships. The big German
battleships have from four to six tor -
pea!, tubes. The maximum number
on the new United States dread-
noughts is four. Sorne'British ships
have five tubes.
Every torpedo released during the
present war costs from $5,000 to $8,-
000, and the great majority of them
never find a victim, but go to the
bottom after their motive power is
'
exhausted.
The United States Government
.owns a big torpedo plant at Newport,
and the result has been to reduce the
cost of torpedoes there to $3,200
each.
The maximum range of British tor-
pedoes is 11,000 yaeds. The German
torpedoes have a range at best of
7;000 yards, and the American torpe-
does are limited to 4,000, according
to the latest figures compiled by na-
val authorities.
The most modern torpedo, .without
doubt the type which sank the Lusi-
tania, .is fitted with a gyroscope con-
trol. It is doubtful if any other type.
could have hit the Lusitania ,except
by the merest accident, because of
her speed and the consequent tre-
mendous displacement of water.
- The gyroscope -controlled torpedo is
the most improved type. The British
torpedo of this type has a range,of
more than six mike. What range he
Germans have developed in' this war
is not known. The average speed of
the torpedo is 40 knots an hour.
Steer Themselves.
Its motive power is exhausted at
the end of its range, and The Hague
convention required that it be so
constructed it would sink when its
propellors stopped. Otherwise it
weuld float until it collided with
some substance to explode it. The
'Victim might be 'a neutral or Mere
chant ship.
This latest torpedo has a vertical
rudder controlled from within its
own body, and, directing its own
course. Before such a rudder was
fitted to torpedoes they were aimed
according. to a eecognized speed and
distance scale and the rest left to
chance.
In the engine -room of the modern
torpedo is a small gyroscope which is
set spinning in the plane Of the
cofirse determined for the torpedo.
Once launched this gyeoseope keeps
the torpedo on its course. The slight-
est -inclination to swerve from that
course is checked by the rudder mov-
ed by the gyroscope. "
, The cigar -shaped case of the , tor-
pcqlo is divided into three compart-
menee. The forward comparting4t
contains the explosive -in the case of
the modern torpedo about 300 pounds
of guncotton. Here also is the trig-
ger machinery that explodes the gun-
cotton when the torpedo strikes its
victim. The seeond compartment is
‚known as the secret or immersion
chamber. Stored in it is the hydro-
static piston which regulates the
depth under watee at which the tor-
pedo -runs. ,
. Self-propelled.
Before it is launched the torpedo
officer determines at what depth
under the water it is desirable to have
the torpedo strike the target. De fixes
a control screw that operates the
hydrostatic piston. Inside the piston
is a spring which tresses the Piston
against a leather diaphragm in the
bulkhead of the chamber.
The piston is connected with the
horizontal rudder. When first launch-
ed this piston meets no resistance
from. the leather diaphragm and
the horizontal rudder is elevated and
the torpedo dives downward at an
acute angle. As it sinks water passet
through a valve and pressure is ex-
erted on the diaphragm. The hy-
drostatic piston is thus 'forced back
until the horizontal rudder with which
it is connected assumes a normal po-
sition and the torpedo then goes for-
ward on the level which it has found,
The last of the three compartments
contains the engine which drives the
torpedo forward, It is operated by
compressed air.
When the torpedo is forced from
the tube, usually by compresed air,
triggers on the outsire of the shell
are caught and these set the inter-
nal machinery of the torpedo going.
When the torpedo strikes, another
trigger is released, which explodes
the guncotton in the forward cham-
ber. There is sufficient powder to
sink the big battleship.
A WONDERFUL -
HEALTH RECORD
A despatch from London says: Sir
William Osler, speaking at a meeting
of. the Research Defence Societe., said
the fact that there had been only
1,000 cases of typhoid fever during
the period of war among the forces
of' the Empire was something which
only those who understood the history
of typhoid in other wars could appre-
ciate. It was a matter of much satis-
faction that at least 60 per cent, of
the wounded return to fight. "We are
going for the first time to have a war
in which the bullet will be accountable
for the larger number of deaths, and
not disease," he said.
THRIFT COMMITTEE
NOW ORGANIZED
A despatch from London says: The
Parliamentary campaign for national
war thrift will be carried out under
the auspices -of a large committee, of
which the joint presidents are Pre-
miet Asquith, Andrew Boner Law and
Arthur Hendereen. Its members will
inelude some of the leading members
of the House of Lords and the House
of Commone. Public meetings will be
held, a personal canvass will be made,
and pamphlets bearing on the subject
will be distributed.
Problem.
GERMANS FAIL TO SMASH FRENCH EltONT
Attack by 4o,000 Germans in Argonne Checked at
Second Line.
A despatch from Paris says: The
French forces in the Argonne have
survived another great onslaught
against their lines in the region of
Four de Paris, with the result that/
the front is firmly established about
200 yards in the rear of the former
first line trenches, which were com-
pletely destroyed by German high ex-
plosive. shells of large calibre.
This German attack, which was the
foueth in two days, was delivered by
a force estimated by the French War
'Office at two divisions, or 40,000 men,
The French front trenches had been
previously obliterated by bombard-
ment, and the troeps who clung to the
ruined position were forced to fall
back by the employment of asphyxi-
ating gas, shells. When the German
infantry rushed forward, however,
and crossed the first French line with
the intention of piercing the main
Little Elizabeth and her mother
were having luncheon together, and
the mother, who always tried to im-
press facts upon her young daughter,
said:
"These little sardines, Elizabeth,.
are' sometimes eeten by the larger
fish." s
Elizabeth gazed at the sardines in
wonder, and then asked:
"But, mother, how do the large fish
get the cans open?"
- Better Than Nothing.
"I'll be pretty 'busy on this trip,"
he began.
"I know," interrupted his wife.
"Here ace 40 or 50 love letters you
wrote me when we were engaged.
Take them ,almsg and, mail me • one
every day." „
Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown -of false hair;
The really smart man who has
money to invest in a sure thing is
too smart to do it.
The Royal Irish Rifles have the re
pntation of being the most athletic
regiment in the British Army.
Every week brewers and distillers
in the United Kingdom use up 73
million lb. of grain, 3 million lb. of
rice or maize, and 915 Million lb. of
sugar or sugar equiyalents.
positions on the second line, they
found themselves facing an immova-
ble obstacle. The French second line
nowhere yielded 'ground, and counter- "
attacks were immediately delivered
and the enemy driven back to within
a ehOrt distance of his original posi-
tions.
On the rest of the Western battle
front the fighting has been confined
to artillery duels, particularly to the
north Of Arras mid on the Aisne
front. Two German attacks against
the new French front in the Vosges
were at once repulsed.
The Geemans are believed to be
tranderring large forces of troops
from the Russian to the French
front, as the closing of the Belgian -
Dutch border several days ago now
has been followed by similar mea-
sures on the German -Swiss frontier.
The Swiss -Baden line has been closed, '
also the Wurttemburg border.
GERMAN PRESS
HAS BEEN MUZZLED
GERMAN PEOPLE ARE HYPNO-
TIZED BY RULERS.
News; Manipulated in Such a Way by
the Authorities as to Make
People Confident.
A jounedist belonging to a neutral
nation gives this description, of the
manipulation of information by the
authorities in Germany:
When I entered Germany I believ-
ed myself able to take a detached
view of ...the war, Careful study of
the different official communiques
had, I imagined, enabled me to get at
the truth in its essential features.
Nothing, I was convinced, could influ-
ence my deliberately -formed estimate
of the relative value of the informa-
tion officially and semi -officially dis-
seminated from the various belliger-
ent countries. Constant reading of
all the.large newspapers published in
belligerent and neutral 'States had
made me confident of my ability to
distinguish the realities behind news
and opinions, and had made me proof
against "atmosphere." After a month
in Germany I found I was mistaken.
It. was a remarkable experience.
Before many days had passed I made
the disagreeable discovery that I was
being influenced by the Germen war
atmosphere. The confidence of the
people in the invincibility of their
armies, the smooth working of the
State machine that seemed to leave
nothing to chance, the determination
everywhere noticeable beneath the
subdued expressions of feeling, the
daily outpourings of the press, the
contemporary literature -everything,
in short, combined to entice me into
a different mood. This strange in-
fluence grew stronger as the weeks
went by. My previous conceptions
of war news, of positions, and condi-
tions along the fronts, and behind
them, and of the general outlook for
the future underwent a perceptible
change. I. began to understand the
'workings of the German mine, which
had before seemed mysterious to me.
It became possible 'to gauge the soul
of the people and to comprehend to
sense extent their confidence, their
outward unanimity, their spirit of
self-sacrifice, and their faith in their
leaders.
The chief agency in the creation of
this state of mind, apart from the
direct influence of the thorough mili-
tary organization of the State, is the
shrewd management of the press. It
will be remembered that, on the out-
break of war, the whole German press
was turned against England over -
eight.
Press Influenced.
Twenty-four hours after having
praised the vigorous efforts of Greet
Britain to prevent war, it denounced
Sir Edward Grey as the moving spirit
in a conspiracy to assail Germany.
None but distorted views from abroad
were allowed 'to be published. The
German people were told only what
it was desired they .should believe.
All unfavoimble information was
treated as "lies," and a thordughly-
organized press campaign was carried
on in neutral, countries in the. Same
sense. The "neutral" opinions thus
inspired were reproduced in Germany
as evidence that impartial 'foreign
opinion supported the German view.
By these means the war -mind of
the German people was created and
fashioned. The process still goes
on, though, as I have before remark-
ed, the French, Russian, and British
communiques are now regularly print-
ed in the larger newspapers, and are
frequently eriticized in :the communi-
cations from the Ger'm'an headquar-
ters staff. But foreign reports have
no influence whatever upon the Ger-
man mind. The German's are so con-
vinced. of the accuracy of their Own
Official eersions that no other reports
count.
It is the same with enemy news-
papers. In the Victoria Cafe at
Berlin liiI Was able to read, day by (kW,
the French, Italian, German and
to be bought in the newspaper kiosks
made when I asked for them; hut I
noticed a pitying ensile on German
faces whenever they saw others read
them,
neutral journals. They were also
of the large towns. No remarks were
It is not the big papers of inter-
national repute that exercise the
greatest' influence in Germany. In
the smaller towns and agricultural
districts it is the local press that
counts. In that press none but Ger-
man reports are to be found, with
German , explanations and, German
accusations against enemy countries.,
No attaek upon the enemy • is too
gross for this Press to reproduce,
and nothing in,Germany's favor is too
absurd for its readers to sWallevv.
Not only is the victorious progress of
the German Austrian, and Turkish
armies constantly celebrated, but the
financial, industrial, and social condi-
tions in Germany are declared to be
far superior to those existing else-
where. Dissensions between the pow-
ers of the Entente are reported, and
disturbances furlong their people are
invented and dwelt upon. '
THE MENNONITE STOVE.
A Most Economical and Efficient
Heating Apparatus.
About forty years ago the Men-
nonites immigrated and settled in the
Dakotas and in Manitoba, where the
Canadian Government set aside for
them a great block of prairie, forty
miles long by twenty wide. Here
they laid out their curious villages,
which had only one 'street, and that
often a mile long, with log houses set
back from the roadway at the tOwn
ends of the long, narrow farms. Here
they lived and waxed fat, following
their old -country customs, and became
solid and progressive citizens. But
while the old people still lived, they
ruled, and the old ways were strictly
followed in the household. I remem-
ber, writes a Youth's ' Companion
reader, how curiously their method of
heating the houses struck me 'when I
obseried it for the first time.
A blizzard was shrieking vows
the prairie When I drew my cutter
into the black shed and stumbled into
the great living room of the long,
low, leg dwelling of the "kaiser" of
the community. The instant the door
was closed I could feel my ears and
nose tingle and burn as they began
to thaw. My host, a tall, angular,
bearded man, and his "vrouvv," who,
was short and dumpy, were very soli-
citous in helping me out of my half -
frozen buffalo -coat and woollen mitts,
and inquiring through the medium of
a buxom daughter, after my health.
The daughter, after a few gruff
words from my lost, asked me to be ,
seated, and she eyould pring voode'
So I looked about me for_a hearth or
stove where I could sit arid toast my-
self comfortably; but there was ap-
parently nothing of the kind in the
room. And yet the air was stiflingly'
warm. It was the kind of heat that
makes one feel almost sticky. A pe -
culler pungent odor also filled the air,
and this, with the extreme heat, was
almost sickening to me.
When the girl arrived with the
steaming bowl of stew, I asked her
where the heat came from. She
pointed then to a long, narrow, box-
like structure that ran the entire
length of the room, I touched it, and
hastily snatched away my blistered
hand.
That was only another ancient
Mennonite custom. These Mennon-
ites have one stove for cooking, at the
end of the groat room, and another
for heating. The latter is really a
leng clay flue,' whitewashed like the
rest of the interior. It 'extends the
full length of the house, about four
feet above the floor, against the wall.
It ends in a chimney at one end, and
at the other in a clay furnace box.
When the house is to' be heated, a
fire of sticke is kindled in this box,
and stoked until the flames roar the
entire length of. the flue. Then half -
dried stable refuse is heaped on the
flame's, the door ii• sealed, and the
dwelling i's warns, or rather suffocat-
ingly hot, for the rest of the day.'
For a country that has such cold
winters as have Manitoba and the Da-
kotas, it is a most economical and -
efficient heating; apparatus. But it
has one drawback. The clay is just
porous enough to allow part of the
fumes of the slowly burning refuse
to seep through, and consequently, '
when the heat is at its greatest, the
air is fairly saturated with their'pune
gent, sickly seveet odor.
Work for Mother.
"What's on the carpet to -day, my
dear?" asked Mr. Wombat, who is
flowery.of speech.
"More mud that Johnny has track -
ea in, I a'pose," responded literal, Mrs.
Wombat. '
Interested.
"I guess I must have made an an-
pressioe on that man."
"What makes you think so?"
"When you introduced us he didn't
catch my name and he took the
trouble to ask a second time fog etel
ALLIES HAVE C T, REI) KRITHIA
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the allies have talcen the Turkishwhich Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton's report
stronghold of Krithia, on the Gallipollcarried hM (:)rces. J