The Clinton News Record, 1915-10-07, Page 3RECENT FIGHTING HAS CHANGED l
WHOLE :A SPECT OF THE . WAR
They Have Brought Eventual Victory for the Allies;
Within the Region of Calculable Certainty
The London Chronicle's military
correspondent writesunder date of
October 1: "These last • five days have
changed the whole aspect•of the war.
They have brought eventual victory
within the region of absolute and cal-
culable certainty._ They have shown
that mastery in the west now belongs
definitely to the allies' in such a de-
gree that whenever and at rvhatever
point the hammer stroke is now de-
livered it will go crashing through'
the serried lines of fortifications upon
which the enemy has spent twelve
months of anxious attention and scien-
tific ingenuity and upon the security
of which all^his hopes, not of victory,
but of an honorable peace, as he calls
it, are entirely based. Each new
stroke will bring the inevitable end
nearer. After a time it will cease to.
be a matter of chipping deeply at the
surface. Suddenly a vital spot will be
touched. This may happen any day,
and then will come a sudden shrinking
of the German line and the abandon-
ment of a large part, perhaps all, of
the occupied territory. Such a ,point.
for example, is the railway junction
near Grand Pere, north of the Ar-
gonne, upon which the French are
directing their efforts from Massiges,
The moment that railway is reached
the position of the crown Prince in
the Argonne woods will become threa-
tened and the long and costly German
effort to turn the Meuse heights from
the rear will have been brought to
nothing: The abandomnent of the
Argonne' would mean in the long run
a general German retirement along
the whole line, probably to the line of
the Sambre' and the Meuse. Similarly,
the British capture of .La Bassee and
Lens would be followed by a shrink-
age of the whole German line before
Lille. The tale of the booty, gratify-
ing as it is, is nothing like so enheart-
ening as the clear and unquestionable
proof that not merely the clearing of
France and. Belgium, but the definite
defeat of thee enemy,. is within our
power. That is the lesson of the last
five days' offensive.",
SUDDEN STROKE
TO BE LAUNCHED
French Close Swiss Frontier and Re-
strict Other Communica-
tions.
A despatch ileom Paris says:" The
War Office announced that the German
casualties in killed, wounded and pri-
soners are in excess of three 'army
corps, 120,000 on the fifth day of the
fighting on the western front. The
amount of booty is enormous. Already
79 cannon have been dragged to the
rear of the French lines with a mass
of uncounted material, including rifles,
machine guns, ammunition and sup-
plies.
The battle continues without respite.
In Artois the French troopspressed
forward step by. step until they had
reached the dominating height known
as Hill 140, and the extensive orchards
to the south. This hill, the highest in
the vicinity, commands a great ex-
panse of country to the north, and
-once the French guns are placed on
its summit the German communica-
tions for miles around will be imper-
illed.
In Champagne the struggle contin-
ues no less furiously. French troops
are gradually 'making -their way up
the Tahure heights and are closing in
along' the approaches to the village
itself. These heights, like the crest
of Hill 140 in Artois, will afford the
French guns a clear sweep towards
the German communications at the
rear, and will make it possible to so
embarrass the German operations that
a continued defence of that region
will be very difficult.
East of Tahure and north of Man-
siges, whi;re the fighting was as bit-
ter as at any other point on the entire
front, the French made fresh gains
in spite of the furious resistance be-
ing offered by the Germans. There is
no doubt of the character of this re-
sistance. The Germans are doing the
stiffest fighting yet displayed by them
in the west.
Perhaps the heaviest fighting since
the offensive began is now going on,.
for the British are attacking the Ger-
man third line of defence south of La
Bassee Canal, and the Germans have
brought up reinforcements against
both the British altd the French, and
are making every effort to retrieve
the lost ground. Belgium, despatches
from Holland say, has been denuded
of 'troops, while German detachments
are even being removed from the east-
ern front to meet the greatesteffort
t
armies
tee
t
made in the e west since
took up theirpresent
positions fromBelgium to Switzerland.
The. Germans are trying to divert
the allies by- a heavy artillery bom-
bardment north and south of the
havingbeen made
but,
Aisne, plans
by Gen. Joffre, the French are strik-
ing with all their forces at their com-
mand thep'
at points selected. The
re-
port that the -German Emperor has
arrived at the western front is con-
firmed, and he has already dismissed
some of ' his generals 'for allowing
their it lines to bepressed ressed back to al-
most the breaking point.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
DURING MOSCOW RIOT
•
A despatch fro;n Petrograd says:
A proclamation issued by the prefect
of Moscow exhorts the inhabitants of
that city to avoid a repetition of the
regrettable incidents of the last two
days, when five persons were killed
and a number slightly wounded as a
result of unwarranted interference
with the police.
The prefect also requests the peo-
ple not to gather in crowds, saying
that ruffians await opportunities
to
begin disorders wherever people as-
semble, however casually. The p
roc-
I
amation has had the desired effect.
It is universally admitted that the
disorders began 'without the police in
any wise being to blame, and also
that there was no political design con-
neeted with them.
FRENCH GAIN
MORE GROUND
Everywhere in Champagne the Great
Offensive Movement Con-
tinues.
A despatch from Paris says: More
ground has been gained by the
French, and everywhere in Artois
and in Champagne the great offensive
continues.
The booty captured in the first rush
of the forward movement is growing
rapidly as the work of counting is
completed, so that now the seriousness
of the German losses is much more
clearly understood than wee the case
immediately after the first onslaught.
The number of heavy field pieces ta-
ken in Champagne alone now totals
121.
A bombardment of unusual intens-
ity of the newly won positions in Ar-
tois has failed completely to dislodge
the French troops or even to shake
the security of their hold. The latest
entrenchments taken in this sector, on
the heights between Souchez and
Vimy, are being planted with heavy
batteries.
At several points the French troops
have gained a footing in the second
line, and some of them even went
right through, but, encountering Ger-
man reserves; were unable to maintain
their progress. According to the Ger-
man account these latter troops were
captured. The Germans, however, ad-
mit the loss of Hill 191, to the north
of Massiges, where the French are
not far from the railway triangle, the
possession of which has been of the
greatest advantage to the Germans,
as one of the lines has been used for
supplying the Argonne army.
French Wounded in Paris.
The wounded French soldiers now
in Paris say that the system of wire
entanglements built by the Germans
was more intricate than anything they
had dreamed of. Even after the big
guns had literally churned up the
earth many of the stakes and entan-
glements remained as a serious im-
pediment to rapid advance.
It would seem that in thampagne
particularly it was the cavalry that
completed the rout of the Germans
from their first positions. The charge
of the horsemen, say the wounded,
made a fine spectacle, and was the
last thing needed to turn the Germans
to flight.
• Many 'of the men are wounded in
the legs. It was the machine gun fire
n them asthey
playing a advanced
that
made the most wounds. A great
many, too, are suffering from bayonet
wounds.
Already large reinforcements for
the .Germans are arriving on the west-
ern front, and their presence has
already had the effect of slackening
somewhat the allies' offensive. But
there is a possibility of the offensive
breaking out on some other section of
this front. In fact, the correspondent
of the Cologne Gazette at German
headquarters announces that an at-
tack ryas made east of Auberville,
which he says was repulsed.
GREAT BRI'TAIN ISSUES
DUMBA'S SAFE CONDUCT
A despatch from Washington says:
Sir Cecil -Spring -Rice, the British Am-
bassador, personally delivered to Act-
ing Secretary Polk at the State De-
partment a safe conduct under which
Dr. Constantin Dumba, the Austrian
Ambassador, will return to Vienna.
The department asked for the safe
conduct some days ago when Dr.
Dumba telegraphed from the Sumpter
Embassy. at Lenox, Mass., that he had
been ordered home, and requested
that arrangements for r his safe pas-
sage
e
made.
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The Sahara Desert has an area of
about three and a half million square
miles.
The war lance of the Middle Ages
was about sixteen feet long. The pre-
sent day lance rarely exceeds eleven
feet.
GERMANS ADMIT 47 SUBMARINES. SUNK
No News Has Been Received From Crews of This,
Number for Some Weeks
A despatch from London says: The
Daily „Mail learns from its correspon-
dent in Copenhagen that a Berlin re-
port states no news, has been received
in well-informed naval circles for
some weeks concerning the fate of 47
submarines and that. they are there-
fore. supposed to have been lost. The
Admiralty hitherto admitted only the
loss of seven submersibles:
GENERALS FOCH AND FRENCH.
,CONFERRING ABOUT' ' THE. WAR,
Gen. Pooh, French commander of the army of the north, and Field
Marshal Sir John French con ferring at the headquarters of Gen.
Poch. Gen, Foch, consldcred ono of France's greatest, strategists,
in absolute charge of the I! renal' army of the north.
GERMAN DEAD men were ordered to dig in about a
hundred yards from the summit.
"Fierce fighting continued around
PILE. FOUR DEEP the hill on Sunday and Monday. The
D OU new army battalions played an impor-
tant part in the attack; men who had
no experience in real fighting sprang
forward to the sound of the officers'
whistles with a dash andgallantry
which nothing could stop. Paying no
heed to the terrible fire poured on
them from the hidden guns, they
pressed forward at a steady pace,
making their way through the barbed
wire entanglements, forcing the ene-
my's trenches and bayoneting the Ger-
mans in them.
"Germans caught hiding in cellars,
from which they kept up a steady fire
on the men dashing through the
streets of the village, ' were hauled
forth; machine guns firing through
holes in the walls 'of cottages were
charged and captured.
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AUSTRIAN AEROPLANES
RAID SERBIAN TOWN
A despatch from Nish says: The
following official statement has been
issued at the Serbian War Office:
"IIostile aeroplanes flew over Pod-
jervatz, dropping 22 bombs and kill-
ing three men, but doing no damage
of military significance. On the sec-
ond' visit they again dropped bombs,
killing one man. The same day enemy
detachments tried vainly to cross the
Drina near Resnik. A similar attempt
was made near Porachnitz."
Capture of Loos One of the Most
Glorious Exploits of the
• British Army. •
A despatch from London says: A
correspondent of Reuter's Telegram
Company sends the following despatch
from British headquarters describing
the fighting in the great offensive of
the allies on. the western, front:
"The first charge made by our men
from the Vermelles trenches in the
grey light of morning, which carried
them right through the village of Loos
and to the summit of Hill 70 and be-
yond this, will rank as one of the
most glorious exploits of the British
army.
"Nothing could stop them. Two
German trenches defending the village
fell first; then a race across some
open country and they were in the
streets of Loos.• Some hand-to-hand
fighting with bombs and bayonets,
and then out of the village to the
slope of -Hill 70, about half a mile to
the east. The last desperate rush
took them to the summit, some going
even beyond until checked by a strong
earthwork defence with numerous
machine guns.
"The enemy's batteries had by this
time begun to concentrate on the
slopes of the hill, and therefore our
Markets Of The World
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, Oct. 5. -Manitoba wheat-
New crop -No. 1 Northern, 97c; No.
2 Northern, 95c, on track lake ports,,
immediate shipment.
American corn -No. 2 yellow, 72c,
on track lake. ' ports.
Canadian 'corn -No. 2 yellow, 74c,
on track Toronto. -.
Ontario oats -New crop -No. 2
white,; 37 to 38c. No. 3 white, 35 to
37e; rejected oats, 31 to 34c, accord-
ing,to freights outside.
Ontario wheat -New No. 2 Winter.
per ,car lot, 88 to "90c; wheat slightly
tough, 80 to 850; sprouted or smutty,
65 to 80c, according to samples and
freights outside.
Peas -No. 2, nominal.
Barley -Good malting barley, 52 to
54c; feed barley, 43 to 45c, according
to freights outside.
Buckwheat -Nominal.
Rye -No. 2, 85c, nominal, according
to freights outside. _
Manitoba flour -First patents, in
jute bags, $5.75;, second patents, in
fate bags, $5,25; strong bakers', in
jute bags, $5.05, Toronto.
Ontario flour -New Winter, 90 per
cent. patents, $3,80, seaboard, or To-
ronto freights in bags, prompt.ship-
ent. •
Millfee --Car lots, delivered Mont-
real freights -Bran, $24 per ton;
shorts, $26 per ton; middlings, $27,
per ton; good feed flour, $1..80 per
bag.
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the British aided :in the great victory, and Souchez, which the
French recaptured;
Country Produce.
Butter -Fresh dairy, 25 to 27c; in-
ferior, 22 to 23e; creamery prints, 30
to 31c; do., solids, 28 to 29%.
Eggs -No. 1, 26 to 27c per dozen,
in case lots; extra at 28 to 30c.
Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale) , 10
to 11%c; do., retail, 12% to 15c.
Combs (wholesale), per dozen, No.
1, $2.40; No. 2, 51.50 to 52.
Poultry -Spring chickens, 20e; fowl,
16 to 17c; duckling, 17 to 180; tur-
keys, 22 to 24c.
Cheese -14% to 15c; twins, 15 to
151c.;
Potatoes -The market is quiet,
with car Pots quoted at 65c per bag,
on track.
Provisions.
Bacon, long clear, 14 to 141/4c per
lb., in case lots. Hams -Medium,
181/4 to 19c; do., heavy, 141/2 to 15c;
rolls, 15 to 16c; breakfast bacon, 20
to 23c; backs, plain, 23 to 24c; bone-
less backs, 25 to 251/4c.
Lard -The market is easier; pure
lard, tubs, 12 to 124c; do., pails, 121/.1
to 124c; compound, tubs, 9% to 10c;
do., pails, 111/4c.
Baled Hay and Straw.
Baled hay, new -No. 1, ton, $15 to
516.50; No. 2, ton, 513 to $14; baled
straw, ton, 56.50.
` 'Business in Montreal.
Montreal, Oct. 5. -Corn -American
No. 2 yellow, 79c. Oats -No. 2 local
white, 43% to 44c; No. 3 local white,
42% to 43c; No, 4 ocal white, 41% to
42c. Flour -Manitoba Spring wheat
patents, firsts, $5.85; seconds, $5.35;
strong bakers', 55.15; Winter pat-
ents,
choice, $5.50; straight rollers,
$4.80 to 55; do., bags, 52.25 to $2,35.
Rolled oats-Bbls., $4.90 to $5; do.,
bags, 90 lbs:, $2.25 to 52.30. Bran,
523 to 525.. Shorts, $25 to 527. Mid -1
dlings, $30 to $31. Mouillie, $30 to
$34. Hay -No. 2, per ton, car lots,
517 to 518. Cheese -Finest westerns,
14% to 15c; finest earsterns, 14% to
14%c. Butter -Choicest creamery,
81% to 31%c; seconds,.30% to 801%.
Eggs -Fresh, 35c; selected, 32c; No.
1 stock, 28c; No. 2 stock, 24 to 25c.
Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 65c.
Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, 513.75
to 514. Pork -Heavy Canada short
mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, 528 to
528,50; Canada short-cut back, bbls.,
45 to 55 pieces, 527 to 527.50. Lard
-Compound, tierces, 375 lbs., 10c;
wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 10%c; pure,
tierces, 375 lbs., 11% to 12c; pure,
wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 121 to 13c.
`I'I1ERS FLEE UP THE TIGRIS
PERSUED BY BRITISH FORCES
Additional Details of the British Success Against
the Ottoman Forces in Mesopotamia
A despatch from London says: J.
Austen Chamberlain, Secretary for
India, gave out additional details of
the British success against the Turks
in Mesopotamia, in which the previous
report said that the Ottoman forces
were in full retreat toward Bagdad,
with the British in hot pursuit.
The statement says the British cav-
alry entered Kut-el-Amarna, 90 miles
south-east of Bagdad, on the Tigris
River, last week. The town was found
to be degertecl and the Turks in flight
toward Bagdad by road and river,
Along the river gunboats and steam -
ers with an Indian brigade aboard in ,
pursuit. An aeroplane dropped
bombs on one of the Turk steamers.
"The total prisoners captured ag-
gregated 1,650,' says the statement,
but more are coming in. The Turk-
ish force, which is commanded by
Nureddin Pasha, is estimated at some
8,000 regular troops, who are assisted
by a considerable number of tribes-
men.
"The captured positions showed the
trenches had been constructed with
remarkable thoroughness, having com-
munication trenches extending for
miles and a system of contact mines."
ENGLISH NURSES
IN FRANCE
.ARE VERY 'POPULAR WITH THE
FRENCH PEOPLE.
Over 200 Have Been Working Since
Last December Along the
French Line.
We have grown as used to the uni-
form of the English nurse in the
streets of Paris as we have to the
khaki of the British soldier, and al-
though they are to be seen in fewer
numbers now than during last winter,
when the British Red Cross had so
many hospitals in the city, the nurses
have not left us altogether, and we
still speculate on the meanings of
their different' uniforms, writes a
Paris correspondent.
The French people speak well of
the "Nurses Anglaises," and in the
hospitals behind the line where British
or American nursing prevails the
French soldiers consider themselves
lucky. The comfort and cleanliness
please them, and they grow accustom-
ed to the hospital etiquette. But
there are some British nurses of•
whom we have heard very little, al-
though that little is of great account.
They are the nurses oh the front, the
French front, who are working in
French military hospitals under direct
orders of the French military authori-
ties and who are ,paid by the French
Government.
Very quietly an Englishman offered
to organize a staff of British nurses
for this purpose, and as quietly the
French military authorities accepted,
so that since last December 200 Bri-
tish nurses have been working hard
all along the French line. They have
been in bombardments, they have
fought with disease, they have tactful-
ly made their methods of nursing ac-
ceptable to the French doctors.
Hardships and Dangers.
United States Markets.
Minneapolis, "Oct. 5, -Wheat -No.
1 hard, 99%c; No. 1 Northern, 93%c.
to 98%c; No. 2 Northern, 87% to
95%c; September, 96%e; December,
914c. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 65% to
66/c. Oats -No. 3 white, 32% to
33/c. Flour and bran unchanged.
Duluth, Oct. 5. -Wheat -No. 1
hard, 961c; No. 1 Northern, 95%c;
No. 2 Northern, 93%; Montana No. 2
hard, 97c; 'September, 96c; December,
92140. . Linseed -Cash, 51.82; Sep-
tember, 51.82; December, $1.771/zc.
New
York,5.-Flour �.-Plottr e
asier.
;
Spring patents, 5.75 to , 6.15
Spring clars, $5.40 to 55.55.5Rye
.
flour quiet. Hay steady. . c y Hops quiet.
Hides steady. Leather firm.
Live Stock Market.
Toronto, Oct. 5, -Best heavy steers,
$7.75 to $8; butchers' cattle, choice,
$7.60 to 57.75; do., good, 57.10 to
$7.50; ,
do medium 56.50 to 57; do.,
common, $G
to 55.40; butchers'. bulls,
choice, 56.25 to 57; do,, good bulls,
$5.75 to 56; do., rough bulls, $4.75
to $5.25; butchers' cows, choice,
56,45 to 56.75; do., good, $5.25 to
56; do., medium,. 55 to 55.75; do.,
common '4.50 to $5; feeders, good,
56.50 to 57.25; stockers, 700 to 900
lbs., 56.25 to 57; canners and cutters,
$3.25 to $4.75;" milkers, choice, each,
565 to 595; do., common and medium,
each, 5$5 to 555; Springers, 550 to
595; light ewes, $5 to $6; sheep,
heavy, $4,25to $4.75; do.,
bucks,
$3.50 to $4.50; yearling lambs `57
to 57.50; Spring lambs; cwt,, $8.50
to 58.75; elves, medium to choice,
57.25 to $11;; hogs, oft cars, $10.10
to 510.25; do.,fed and watered,
$9,75; do, f.o.b., $9.40.
Montreal, Oct. 5 =`A feature of the
cattle trade to -day was the increased
offerings of canting stock, and an
active trade was done in bulls at
53.75 to 54.25.and 'in cows at $3 to
$ P
3
25 et cwt. The best steers offer-
ed sold at $6,.50 to 56',75, and the
lower grades from that down to
55 ,.50, while cosatc bullsbrought
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from 54:50 to ,>,.per cwt. • The trade
in small meats was. active, Lambs,
Ontario stock,, at 57.75, to 58, and
Quebec at 57 to 57.50 per cwt. Ewes,.
54.76 to 55, and bucks and culls at
$4 to 54.50 per cwt, Calves, $3. to
$13 each, as to size and quality.
Hags, choice selected lots, $9.75 to
10, and rougher and poorer lots
8.76 to 59.60 per cwt:, weighed off
cars. m •.l;cw I ,..,t,.. '
DUTCH AGAIN COMPLAIN
OF ZEPPELIN VISITS
A :despatch from' The Hague says?
The Dutch Government has -tirade a
serious protest to Germany concerning
the passage of German airships over
Dutch territory. Holland declares it
expects, Germany' to,take adequate
measures to avoid vilation of Dutch.
territory' in the future.
They are"paid at the rate of 5200
a year, and they pay all incidental ex-
penses themselves. If they fall ill
they fall ill they are sent home, and
that is all that is done for thein. They
rank as officers and have their own
mess and whatever privileges for per-
sonal comfort may be going. But
comforts are rare in the clanger zone
of the armies, and the position of the
British nurses has often been peril-
ous. They work in bands of five or
six, and they have orderlies to help
them and a certain number of French
professional nurses. Their first heavy
work was among the typhoid patients
and their value in such work may be
easily imagined, particularly when we
learn the dearth of modern conven-
iences in the hastily -installed hospi-
tals where they were called upon to
do their 'best. One nurse writes:
"This is certainly a weird place at
night. One hundred and fifty patients
h
in this block, and only three orderlies
ourselves
and' one ofon duty.Several
men are delirious, and it is a constant
chasingfrom' one ward to the other to
stuff them into their little beds."
From another part of the line we.
get French tributes to British nurses,
and hear of their splendid courage carried theiryun-
The.
der bombardment.
patients into the comparative safety
e
of cellars, they stayed by those s whom
it was impossible to move, and in all
cases they showed a calmness and
cheerfulness which proved of immea-
sureable help to those in authority. A
nurse who had been nursing typhoid
for manY weeks, eeks, •and who was tired
beyond description, tells how, one
day, after some difficulty with an or-
derly who did not understand her very
broken French, she sat down on the.
foot of a soldier's, bed and said with a
sob, "I must go .home. I can't stand
it any longer. It's too awful." At
which the soldier just put his head
down on his pillow and cried like a
child, "So, of course," said the nurse,
"I couldn't go. If they find ns as use-
ful as that, no sacrifice is too great to
make for them."
Difficulties of Language.
The difficulties of the language
have caused many nursesto have ex-
periences
petiences which are both comical and
mi under'-
as theys
serious make for
standings. To translate from English
into French is evtracrdinarily danger-
ous. "Je veux," saysa nurse to an
orderly,
and he bristles with ti -
o b s
nacy; whereas, if she only knew
enough to use the verb in an-
other tense the orderly would be as
obedient as she could wish,' The food
is yet another drawback, for there is
nohuman'being alive -who app ars to
at ach more impo}tante tg en c'T!{ng-
14.eh brealfasti than the hospital
nurse.
Great praise is given to the Scotch,
the.- 'Ose aclian and the Provincial
trained , ngl3sli iims'es for their power
to adapt themse(veslq; anything and
everything, and it seetnd `its if r'c-
sonrcefulness were of greater value
to the French front than perfect tech-
nique. It is, indeed, rather hopeless
06 be technically perfect in.your work
if you have not the necessary tools,
and how often do not the English
nurses in the military hospitals . find
themselves forced to do medical nurs-
ing and su?igicaldressing with the
minimum of hospital necessaries.
BRITAIN'S SHARE IN THE WAR.
Has Done Far More Than Was Ever
Promised.
To read some of the jeremiads and
the diatribes that •are almost daily
making their appearance ire a section
of the British press one might be
tuned to think, if he did not know;
that the facts'are all the other way,
that the country had fallen far short
of its duty in relation to the carrying
on of the war, says the Ayrshire
(Scotland) Post. That we were un,
prepared at the start was not our
fault. We may have been too optim-
istic -indeed, the facts have proved
that we were far too optimistic -in
assessing the real meaning of Ger-
many's intention, but that was only
to the discredit of Germany which
went on playing a lying game over a
long series of years. But from the
clay the war broke out down till now
we have done our share, and far more
of our share than we ever promised.
As Mr. Balfour reminded us the other
day we never promised to send more
than 160,000 men at most to fight on
the Continent: That offer, as he said,
was "most gratefully accepted," and
and the Expeditionary force that we.
did send proved itself a tower of
strength out of all proportion to its
numbers in the early and the very
dark days of the campaign.
But for the navy, and it is not too
much to say that Europe would by
this time have been under the heel of
Germany. Whatever has failed in the
war the British Navy has not. Fam-
iliarity with its deeds may have blunt-
ed us to their towering importance,
but the facts are there to speak of
for themselves. We have brought our
troops safely from the ends of the
earth and have landed them in France
and in Egypt and on the Gallipoli
Peninsula without the enemy ever
once daring to challenge the right
of the sea to them. We have kept
both ourselves and our Allies in ample
stores of food and of raw materials.
And never once since this time last
year has Great Britain looked back.
Her 160,000 men on the Continent
have swelled to over a million, and
there are larger armies than these
at home ready for action or in course
of preparation to take the field. Then,
where would the Allied cause have
been but for the power of British fin-
ance? The facts are to well known
to call for any emphasis; they offer
the flat contradiction of self-evident
truth to any suggestion that Great
Britain has failed in her duty, or that
she is failing in it at the present time.
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FRENCH HERO FAINTS
IN RECEIVING MEDAL
A despatch from Paris says: The
ceremony of decorating a large of num-
ber
um-
b r officers and soldiers assembled
e
mark-
ed
Rotel Des Invalidcs was ma
at t
ed by several incidents. Second Lieu-
tenant who, had been badly
Pr h
Praquins,
wounded in the head, •fainted in the
arms of his nurses as General Cousin
pinned the war cross on Praquins'
breast.
Another soldier whose leg, had been
amputated and who was carried by
comrades received the military medal,
co - u ,
the bestowal of the medal being greet-
ed with applause by the numerous
spectators.,
LISTED POTS AND PANS
IN THE KAISER'S HOME
A despatch from Geneva says: The
Emperor's palace in Berlin was visited
recently by the commission having in
e the seizure eizure of metals for Gov-
ernment use and a list of the metals
at the Count was demanded. The
Court chamberlain ordered all the
members of the royal family to make
individual lists. By the order's of Em-
peror William all metals not in actual
necessary use will be seized.
Many Curious Idioms.
English, "as she is spoke" in Gies.
London contains man •
gow and,y curi
ots idioms.
A lady writing
from
London to a friend the other day, said;
"Grandmother died last month and
n accedence ee with the will the house t
sold. I am sorryauntie
wt's so for , as
she has lived with her for so malty
years, and done for her.!" The receiv-
er of the fetter was talking the same
daylto a soldier home from the front.
Being asked if he had killed any Ger-
mans he replied -"Oh, yes, I've done
for a few:"
240 GERMANS KILLED
IN MUNTTIONS I AC7.ORT
p,M,-
A despatch ,from Stockholm sayst
The newspaper, Dagens Nyhetcr, on
the authority of a business man, who
has just returned .from Germany, says
that a great explosion occurred in au
ammunition factory . at Wittenberg,
Prussia.' Two hundred and flirt •tw
y o
workmen werekilledand many in
jurod,