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The Clinton News Record, 1915-11-18, Page 3541 NSP1RT4SCAPES. ER FIGHT WITWUBAT About loo of Those on Board Killed or Wounded by Gunfire -A Number of Others Missing A despatch from London says: Twenty-three snen. were and fiftr wounded in aneattack by ' guna fire. On, the -BiltIsh transport !Mercian, in the Mediterranean. The Mercian' escaped and reached port. Announce- ment of the attack on the Mercian was made by the British War Office as follows: "The outward bound traneport Mercian was attacked by gunfire from an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean. She reached harbor safely with casualties of 23 killed, 30 missing, and 50 wounded, who were landed and are in l hospital." The Mercian is a veesel of 6,305 'ions gross iind 400 feet lohe -was -built in 1908 anaje, owned. .inr Liverpool. Although some of the German IJ - beats, the number is not known, puc- ceeded in getting through the Straits, two more which attempted to follow them were sunk by a British cruiser off Gibraltar, according to a despatch received ,from Algeciras, received at -Madrid. The Leading Markets' Duluth Nov 16 -VVheat-No 1 hard, $1! . 0314.; No. 1 Northern, , $1.02%; No. 2 Northern, 0714 te, 98140; No. 2 hard Montana, $1.0114; " Breadstuffe. December, 981/2 c; May, $1 . 02% ; Du - Toronto, Nor. .16. -Manitoba wheat rum, No. 1, 96c; No. 2, 92c; Decem1 -New crop -No. 1 Northern, $1.1214; ber, 94%c; May,•99c. Linseed -Cash, No. 2 Northern, $1.091/4., on track $2.081/2 to $2.09; December, $2,05; lake ports, -immediate shipment. May, $2.07. Manitoba oats -No. 2 C.W„ 48c, on track lake ports. LiVC Stock Markets. American corn -No. 2 yellow, 74e, Toronto, Nov. 16. -Best heavy on track Toronto. steers, $8.25 to $8.66; good heavy Canadian corn -No. 2 .yellow, 73c, steers, $8 to $8.15; butchers' cattle, on track Toronto. choice, $7,45 to $7.60; do., good, Ontario oats -New crop -No. 3 $7.10 to $7.35; do., medium, $6.50 to. white, 39 to 40e; commercial oats,. 38 $6 . 75 ; do., common, $5 to $5 .25; to 39c, 'according to freights outside. butchers' bulls, choice, $6.25 to $6.50; Ontario wheat -No. 2 Winter, per do. good bulls, $5.75 to 86; do., rough car lot, 97 to 99c; wheat slightly ". bulls, $4.75 to $5.25; butchers' cows, sprouted, 92 to 95c, and tough accord- choice, $6 .30 to $6 .50 ; do., good, ing to sample; wheat sprouted, v smutta $6 to $6.75; do., medium, 35 to 35.50e; and tough, according' to sample, 7a . do., common, 34.25 to $5.75; feeders, to 88c, all according to freights out- side. good, $6.50 to $7; stockers, 700 to 900 lbs., 36.25 to $6.75 canners and Peas -No. 2 nominal, per car lots, cutters, 33 to 34.50; milkers, choice, $2.10; sample peas, according to each, $65 to $100; do., common and sample, $1.25 to $1.75, according to movurn freights outside. 1 , each, $35 to $50; springers, Barley -Good malting barley, 56 to 350 to $100; light ewes, 35.50 to 60e; feed barley, 47 to 52e, according $6.50; sheep, heavy, $4.25 to 34.75; do bucks, $3.50_to $4.50; yearling to freights outside. e Buckwheat -Nominal, car lots, 78 lambs, 37 to $7.50; spring lambs, , 38.85 to 39.25 to 80c, according to freights outside. cwt., ; calves, medium Rye -No. 1 commercial, 88 to 90c; to Choice, 37.25 to $10.50; hogs, fed rye, tough, 75 to 83c, according to and watered, $8.75 to $8.90. Montreal, Nov. 16. -Choice steer's sample, and according to freights out- side. sold at 37 to 37.25; butchers' cows and bulls, $4.50 to 36; cows, $3.15 to jute. bags, $5.86; second patents, Inn $3.35; bulls, $4 to $4.50. Ontario Manitoba flour -First patents, lambs sold at $8.75 to $9, and Que- lute bags, 35.85; strong bakers', jute bags, $5.15, Toronto. in bec lambs at $8.25 to $8.50; sheep, $5.25 to 36 per cwt. Calves, milk -fed Ontario flour -New Winter, 84.10 stock, 7 to Se per lb., and grass-fed at to $4.40, according to sample, sea- 3 to 6e. Hogs, selected lots, $9.15 to board, or Toronto freights in bags, for $9 .25 per cwt., weighed off cars. prompt shipment. Millfeed-Car lots -Delivered Mont - QUEER MISSLES USED IN WAR. English Troops Fired Penny -Pieces Instead of Bullets. real freights. Bran, $21 per ton; shorts, 323 per ton; middlings, $25 per ton; good feed flout, $1,45 • per • bag. .. Country Produce. The reports that the Germans at Butter -Fresh dairy, 27 to 28c; in- some points are none too well sup- •ferior, 22 to 23c; creamery Prints, 32 plied with ammunition suggests that to 33c; do., solids, 30 to 31%c. they may, in time, be driven to such Eggs -Storage, 30 to 32c per doz- straits as our own troops in past en; selects, 35 to 36c; new -laid, 42 to wars. For instance, when the Eng - 45c, case lots. lish garrison at Nimeguen in 1794 Honey -No. 1 light (wholesale), 10 ran out of shot, they fired penny - to 111/2e; do., retail, 12% to 15c; combs (wholesale), per dozen, No. 1pieces instead, and the ill -disciplined , 32.40; No. '2., 31.50 to 32. French troops ran out of their ranks Poultry -Chickens, 14 to 16e; fowls and offered -themselves -as targets in 12 to 13e; ducks, 15 to 16e; geese, Jai order to "draw" the coins and collect to 16c; turkeys, 20 to 22c. them. One Frenchman is said to have Cheese -Large, 171/2c; twins, 17%c. got together as many as 287 of these. ' Potatoes -Car lots of Ontario quot- Small copper coins were also fired at ed at $1.10, and New Brunswicks at the combat of Sassiah, in the Indian Mutiny, by the rebels, and the Hun- zas used pure gaimets as bullets dur- ing one of our Indian frontier cam - $1.15 to $1.20 per bag, on track. Provisions. Bacon -Long clear, 15 to 151/2e per polgeo, Ib., in case hits. Hams -Medium, . When a handful of soldiers of what - 18% to 19c; do., heavy, 14% to 15e; is now the 1st Wiltshire Regiment rolls, 15% to 16caliteakfast bacon, 21 to 23c; backs, plain, 24 to 28e; bone- were besieged by the French in Car- less backs, 26 to 28c. riclefergus Castle in 1760, they soon Lard -Pure lard, tubs, 131/2 to ran out of bullets, not having ex - 13%c; compound, tubs, 11c; do., pails, pected the attack. First, they took 11%e. stones -from the crumbling walls and - flung them at the enemy, and, finally, Business,in Montreal. even fired away their tunic buttons, 'Montreal, Nov. 16.-Corn-Ameri- in memory of which they now wear can No. 2 yellow, 77 to 18c. Oats- .on their buttons the well knewn No. 2 local white, 46 to 461/2c;splaSh.” When the mutinoas • Se - 8 local white, 45 to 45%c; No. 4•1oea1 o s besieged Arah they -used weights white, 44 to 441/2c. Barley -Mani- P 3.' toba feed, 65e; malting, 66% to 67c. taken from t e slops and roughly Buckwheat -No. 2, 75 to 80c. Flour beaten into balls, as projectiles for a Manitoba -Spring wheat patents, finsts, small four -pounder gun mounted on $5.95; seconds, $5.45; strong bakers', a roof. $5.25; Winter patents'choice, 35.80; Even more astonishing missies have straight rollers, 35.10 to $5.20; doe been used, for Private Brotherwood, a bags, $2.40 to $2.50. Rolled oats- Leicestershire man of the Rifles fired labls. $5.20 to $5.25; do., bags, 90 his razor after the French at the bat - lbs., 32 . 45 to 32.55. Bran, r1. Shorts, $23. Middlings, 329 to , 30. tle of Vittoria, whilst the 1st Glouces- Moailliea$30 to. $32., Hay -No. 2, per tershire Regiment, during the desper- ton, car lots, 317.50 to 518.50. ,ate hand-to-hand fighting in South Cheese --Finest westerns, 16% to 17cs Carolina, in 1776, discarded their finest easterns, 16% to 16%. Butter regular weapons in favor of the huge, -Choieest creamery, 32 to 32%a; razor-edged knives used by the ne- seConds, 31% to- 3111c. Eggs -Fresh, grOes1 or cutting sugar -canes. • .5. 42c; selected, 33c; No. 1 stook, c, No. 2 stock, 26c. Potatoes -Per bag, car lots, 95c to 31.15. Dressed hogs -Abattoir killed, $13 to $13.25. Potk-Heavy Canada short mess, bbls., 35 to 45 pieces, $28 to $28.50; Canada short-cut back, bbls., 45 to 55 pieces, $27 to 327.50. Lard -Com- pound, tierces, 375 lbs., 101/2c; wood • ails 20 lbs net 10%c; pure tierces 375 lbs., 12 to 12%crpure, wood pails, 20 lbe. net, 13 to 1314c. United States Markets. Minneapolis, Nov. 16. -Wheat -De - °ember, 98c; May, $1.01%; cash, No. I hard, 31.03; No. 1 N,ertheiM, $1 to 11.02; No. 2 Northern, 95 to 980. Corn -No. 3 yellow, 66% to 67%c. Oats -,-No. 3 white, 34 to 341/2.e. Flour unchanged. Bran, $18.25. • His Reply. "Joheny," said the father firmly, bed now." "Don't Johnny mutinously, the chair, "Oh, but ' persisted father. that 'Early to bed "you must go to want to!" replied sinking deeper in ypouonmtust, sonna y i " you mow and early to rise • makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,' my boy." Johnny eyed the old man in silence for a moment. Then he said, with a wise shake of the head: "You didn't go to bed early when yeti were a boy, did you, father?" _ This is the first war in which sub- marines have been used. TiORTH- gEA. nalaseutssee notera'eeeeSte. sunk. ItL AM5TEROP „Koos; [MK tlAID0.5TIPS ;4 Sale Ir ti° • • • BERLIN •-,easett./ • sweeefse soaat • • , ' eaa \wawa a-. • '. ceao* scu0ew- elZ2ft1/4 BRUMELV. #4A Soissans oRIEttis* PARIS .4ty0 • 4-1 to. •,Lgli(EMBURG 113 .,otilTZ •-• STRASSOUrq. eCOLMAR 0 MUNICH' • MOWN Marl? -'\-\\)-4) RIEST; ,r uB LGNV"P% 1 2 GERMAN e0‘ de-stuir.,-"SpALTAQ x Liorir"FttICONA 2'ERZ4JY.E1:1.71-7' c5E,A.gtrgyEZ5rino The Week's Developments in the War. Except in the Balkans, which best opinion repeatedly says is at most •a "side-show," both the initiative and the offensive have rested during the week with the Entente Allies. There have been ,actions near Lille near Arras, east of Rheims and between Verdun and Nancy on the Western front begun by the French. The Ger- mandattacked in the Champagne without success, but the French determined the nature of the fighting and al- ways had the upper hand. Italian troops were successful both in offensive aml,defensive actions, Neat Riga and Dvinsk and in other secpers far to the south on the 1,000 -mile Eastern front, the Cznr's troops were "nib- bling" with some success; av all events showing the enemy that to reduce his force there for the benfit of the Balkan front was a mistaken policy. In the Serbian campaign the Teutons and Bulgarians were successful, but not continuously so, in the north: They also occupied Nish and reoccupied Veles. But French and British troops were winning ground as rapidly as their strength and transport would allow. In the Baltic British sub- marines were "top -dog." In the Mediterranean the civilized world had one more objective lesson in the Hun campaign of murder on the high seas with. the sinking of the Italian liner "Ancona," scores of women and child- ren being drowned. Unofficial reports told of two German submarines which had accounted for several small Allied ships, near Gibraltar, themselves being sunk. Shaded portions of the map illustrate the diminutive sec- tion of Central Europe which remain neutral. 0.,1 A eBoRGHAS VOHSTAHTI ea -eta o es- CYPRUS ONE MAN BATTLES IN WAR TIME A LONDON 'BUS DRIVER CAP- TURED FIVE UHLANS. COMPULSION AFTER NOV. 30 IF YOUNG MEN FAIL TO RECRUIT Lord 1).7.rby, 'With •Aurthority of • Prinle Minister, Serves Notice on fledically Fit of Great Britain A despatch from London says: A strong intimation of compulsion at an early' date Is ,contained in a statement by the Earl of Derby, Director of Re- cruiting. This statement is made, Lord Derby declares, with the author- ity of the Prime Minister. It says: "If young men medically fit and not indispensable in any business of na- tional importance or any business conducted for the general good or the community do not come forward untarilY before November ,30 Government will, altar that dat the neceesaey stps to red Episodes in. Which Brave -Britons Have Single-handed Held the Fort. He was not a fighting inan at all - merely a London 'bus driver in charge of transport at the front -and when he proudly artived in camp with five large Uhlans in 'his van, the com- manding officer at first refused to be- lieve that they were his very own prisoners, says London Answers. But they were. His rifle was quicker than theirs, and lie had bag- ged the bunch. This war is full of similar epi- sodes, illustrating Mr. Kipling's line that "ten to one is always fair." You pledge made on November 2." - On the date referred to Premier As- quith announced in the House of Com- mons that if young men did not come forward voluntarily and enlist "other and compulsory means would be ta- ken before married men were ealled upon to fill their engagement to ser by adds: "Whether a man le or not, to his business by the man or his npetent anthori- are being set There was no stopping the savages. Mr. Sutherland picked un his heavy elephant -gun. It was a No. 12, with expanding bullets. He aimed at the heads of the advancing savages, and each shot told with Tearful effect. To put it plainly, every man who was hit was left practically headless. Flesh and blood :could not stand it. Brave as the Wangoni are, they fal- tered. Twice more they came on but each time Mr. Sutherland's terrible •weapon unerringly picked off their leaders. At last they broke and ran. WHEN SLEEP COMES NOT. It isn't the thing you do, friend, It's the thing you leave undone That gives you a bitter heartache At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The comfort you did not give, friend, Are haunting ghosts to -night. The stone you might have lifted Out of a brother's way; The bit of helpful counsel find them in every newspaper. 1You were hurried too much to say; Odds hardly seem to count; and The loving touch of the hand, friend, past history, too, is full of similar The gentle winning tone, exploits. One of the finest of such Which you had no time nor thought stories came to England a few years for, ago from Northern Nigeria.1 With troubles enough of your own. In June, 1966, the British post at Yo was surprised by a band of mask- For lifeas all too short, friend, ed Tuaregs, the dreaded raiders of And sorrow is all too great, . the Sahara. The white resident was To suffer our great compassion, away, and the place was held by six That tarries until too late; native mounted infantry, of the West And it isn't the thing you do friend, African Frontier Force. They were commanded by a corporal. Rush After Rush. The raiders were five hundred strong. They looted the town, then It's the thing you leave undone That gives you a bitter heartache At the setting of the sun. .14 SAVED BY MOTHER'S LETTERS. turned their attention to the tiny garrison, who has posted themselves on the top of a low hill, behind a small breastwork of mud. For two hours the Tuaregs made rush after rush, but the six shot so well that every rush failed, and the hill Was littered with dead. At last the Arabs, having lost over forty, drew off. The dauntless 'Six at oncesprang upon their rhorses galloped after, and turned the retreat into rout, killing neaaly, a score more, and recovering most of the loot. Two years later, in 1908, there was another astonishing battle against odds in the French Sahara. In April ther, who was with him at the time, of that year three thousand Wadaians and he is now doing well in hospital started on a slave raid. A French force, consisting of Cap- at. tain Jerusalem, two lieutenants, a sergeant,and eighty Senegaleee esharpshootemwent outboldly to meet them. They • met at Dogotchi. ,In spite of the odds being, roughly, forty to one, the Wadai people were abso- lutely smashed. The French lost ten, the enemy over four hundred. The Waidains collected reinforce- ments. They came back with twelve thousand men. Near Abesher they were met by a force of the French Legion, two hundred strong, with two guns. Total Loss: 2,000. • • Bullet Strikes Packet of Them in Soldier's Pocket. The life of Private C. Mutrell, of an English regiment, who has been wounded in the Gallipoli fighting, was saved by a packet of his mother's let- ters in his breast pocket, Ile was picked off by a sniper, the bullet striking him on the right breast, and he must have been killed but for the fact that the letters in his breast pocket diverted the bullet which went down his ribs and came out of his thigh. First aid was•rendered by his bro- The slavers were absolutely smashed, with a total loss of nearly two thousand. Five years ago Mr. Sutherland, the well-known elephant -hunter, was up country in East Africa, when his lit- tle patty was raided by a force of eight hundred Wangoni, who, at • the first rush, got • away with several rifles. There were two white men and thitty-two, natives ovith Mr. Suther- land. The saVages swept down upon them again, but wete driven off by a well -directed fite. Night came. The Wangoni began using the captured rifles. Mr. Sutherland saw that this would never do. He took forty cart- ridges, packed them with high ex- plosive, and, stealing out, left them in a spot where the enemy must find The enemy did,and, using them, of course, burst their stolen rifles. Next morning, however, they came Oh again in force. Things looked very ugly. necessary, is no .t. ASKS FOR ARMISTICE FOR • • BURIAL OF THE ‘DEAD. A despatch from London says: An appeal for taucee to allow the burial of the dead and acquaint rela- 25 AMERICANS ON- THE ANCONA SEA SIGNALS. How' Messages Are Sent From ,ghiP to e Means of comintiiiation. between one Air, and anether, or between a ehip. end the ,shore, of however crude a nature, are known to hare been in existence from the yery eguaieet day'a •of navigation, , many, parts of the world watch towara were utilized by night, and the Method employed 10 to this very day practised in uncivilized countriea. • The 'Strength and titility,added to , Out Navy by virirelese telegraphy can hardly be iniagined: 'At th'e same time, it has its" limitations. , In clear weather wireless tele- graphy is sufficient, but in thick weather, although it can be need for summoning help, it will notgive the exact position of the boat in danger, and the rescuing ship may be within a' few miles of the wreck, but unable to locate her for many hours. • Another method of communication Is the use of fog -horns, steam - whistles and sirens, but thee are not always reliable, for the atmosphere performs some curious tricks with sound. . A noise made under water, how- ever, is an extremely reliable guide, and can be heard at a greater dis- tance than the same sound through air. The best way to recover a watch which has dropped into the water is Lor the swimmer to be guided by the sound of the ticking. This is a scientific fact, the ex- planation of which, would entail a long, highly technical treatise, which would not enlighten or entertain the average reader. But it is a fact which makes out a strong case for signalling by bells under the sea when safety is being considered. The instalation for receiving bell sound consists of two cast-iron water tanks fixed against the skin of the ship on each side, as far below the water -line as possible. Hanging with- in the tanks are telephone transmit- ters of special .construction. The bell sound passes through the skin of the ship and is communicated through the water in the tanks, and thence to the receivers. The sound is then conveyed _by telephone wires up to the bridge or chart -house so as to be easily accessible to the officer of the watch. There are several means of des- patching signals under water. A lightship, when her light is of no use, can perform just the same duties by means of her own bell. Where a lightship or a lighthouse is not practicable, a bell -buoy can be anchored at a desired spot, and con- trolled from the .shore, or from a lighthouse, by means of an electric submarine cable. Submarine signalling is as yet in its infancy, but there can be little doubt that, sooner or later, it will be almost universal. At present it has to combat certain arguments used against it. The chief of these is that in the hope of picking; up a submarine bell a captain will enter dangerous waters when, otherwise, he would take no chances and give the place a wide berth. This is based on an entire misconception, of the purpose of coast -warning signals, which are simply aids to navigation and to enable the captain to verify his position when close to shore. If, in order to do this, it is necessary to pick up a signal, he should lie te- net go hunting for it. WAR FORETOLD BY GORDON. Predicted Conflict Now Raging in a **Letter to a Friend. . Believed the Majority Went Down With the Submarined Liner. A despatch from London says: The Italian liner Ancona, sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean, had on board 83 first cabin passengers, 60 second cabin and 339 steerage, the majority women and children, intend- ing to make their homes in America. The owners of the Ancona at Naples have received advices that 320 of those aboard the Ancona have been landed at ports in Tunis. Of 161 brought by a .mine -sweeper and tor- pedo boat to Bizerte four died. Forty-one members of the crew and lour passengers have also been land- ed at Tunis. The survivors include Cecile GTO, 143 Italians, 16 Greeks and one Rus- rian. It is asserted that 24 of the Ancona's passengers were naturaliz- ed Americans. Berlin was quick to send out word to the effect that the Ancona's de- stroyer was not a German submarine. The first despatch from the German capital was one transmitting a mes- sage by the Overseas News Agency, a bureau enjoying the special atten- tion and censorship of the German Government and 'generally regarded as the official mouthpiece for over- seas news service. This statement said: "Information from a reliable source is to the effect that the steamship Ancona was sunk by an Austro-Hun- garian submarine. She attempted to escape and thus compelled the sub- marine to use her guns." There is no report from any source, however, indicating thalt the vessel was warned previous to the attack. Rome and Milan despatches allege that when the submarine gave chase, the Ancona increased her speed, but t1ie. submarine slowly caught up to her and began firing, repeatedly hit- ting the stern of the :vessel. Scenes of panic occurred aboard the Anemia, when " eventually the captain gave up his attempt to escape, whereupon, after further shelling, the submarine fired a torpedo. The Ancona listed and began to sink. ' There was no time to lower all the boats. . Many of the passen- gers, who were.rescued, jumped over- board with life belts. A wireless .call for help brought the French steamer Pledan (Plaidan) and several launches to the rescue. They made many rescues. It is thought possible that the same 'submarine sank the 'Marseilles steam - tives of the fallen with their names er France, which had disembarked a is being made to the rulers of the thousand French troops at Maros, warring powers by the International Lemnos Island, Red Cross. The new trans-Atlantic liner Gin - "The most elementary feeling of seppe Verdi left Naples a few hours charity, the most imperious appeal of after the Ancona and has arrived Pity," it oayo, "dmand alt useful safely at Gibraltar. measures to acquaint families with the fate. of the fallen." The appeal asks that positive in- structions be eent to military com- manders with a view ;to the mitiga- tion of needless aggravation of the as the steamer saw it, an attempt was • sufferings oa -war. A Timis despatch to the Giornale gives a dramatic, ;though brief, account of the attack,. • . "A, submarine approached the An- cone," says this account, and as won SWITZERLAND'S ARMY • • TO BE DEMOBILIZED A despatch from Basel, Switzer- land, says: A coneiderable portion of the Swise army will be sent home from the frontiers, as it appears that the Government is convinced no dan- ger on a large scale of territorial vio- lations by the belligerents now ex- ists. The expense of maintaining up- wards of 200,000 men under arms has been a trying tendert. However, am- ple forces will be retained at strate- gic points. These will be capable ef delivering a hard blow while a general mobilization, lfuch should become ogress, made to escape at full speed. The An- cona was• overtaken and stopped. Then the submarine recl on the An- cona, sinking her amid the desperate cries of the passengers. "The lifeboats were next attacked, the submarine likewise • firing' on them. A Woman, a man and two 01111- ,dren vvere killed; their bodies are at Bizerte." A New Way. A furrier, wishing to inform cue- tomers that he Would make up furs in a fashionable manner, out of old furs, which ladies have aChome, app.ended the following to one of his adverpiee- Ments: "N.B.---Cepes, • victorines, etc. made up Inc ladies in fa'shionable styles out at their own Odes!" RUSSIANS NEARING PERSIAN CAPITAL , • Germane, Austrians and Turks Art Now Preparing to Leave the Clty, A despatch from Petrograd saysk According to the latest advicea ceived in Teheran, Persia, accordinst to s deVAtCh from that cit',:' a Bus' elan force is within 45 mileof Te4 herari; and the indications are that the Germans, Austrians and Turks in the city are. preparing to leave, re, moval of the archives of the German and Austrian Legations to the Ameri.4 can Legation, for instance, rbeing in progress. At a secret session of Parliament/ the despatch states, a majority of the( deputies expressed -the hope that art aernicable arrangement of the difflcule ties between Russia and Persia would be reached. The Cabinet Ministers' had been in session for 24 houre, it 14 added, trying to forrhulate conditions acceptable to Russia and Great Bri/ tain. 1VInch excitement is reported in the city, according to the despatch, over the energetic action of the Entente' allies, and it is reported that the Shah will retire to Ispahan in the event' that the Persian proposals are not acceptable. CHURCHES IN WAR. Always Suffered Since Cannon Were Introduced. General Gordon, of Chinese fame, who met a tragic death in the Soudan foretold the present war with Ger- many with smne degree of accuracy ih a letter written to a friend 33 years ago. Arguing for universal military service in Greet Britain, he wrote: "So far as England is concerned, she need not, for the next quarter of During the heavy fighting on the fiat lands of Flanders the church towers have been used as look -out Places and signalling stations, a use to which they have been put many times in the pelt, including our owe Civil War, says London Answers. In very ancient times churches were used as hevens of refuge during raids, and the massive towers with few openings which may be found here- and there on the borders of Wales and Scotland, the coast, and parts of the Continent, show plainly htlaitsthey must have made fine strong - Churches have always suffered- in, war -time, especially since cannon were first introduced, and as one rambles about the pleasant roads of England he will hear tales of churches' which have been peeked with wool to, prevent damage or to hinder a com- mander from using the sacred edifice as a barracks. At Chedzoy, on Sedgemoor, may be seen the relics of that battle which was disastrous to the welfare of the Somerset men. On a stone outside are still visible the marks made by Monmouth's soldiers when they sharp- ened their swords, scythes, and other rough weapons. In a ruder age churches were no more respected than they are by the modern Huns, and many suffered during the Civil War, though they, were not so horribly defiled. THE DESTROYER'S WORK. Most Important Office Is That of Scouting. Torpedo-boat destroyers, as the name implies, were first built to en- gage the small torpedo-boat, which had become a serious peril to the big battleships and large cruisers. So serious was the menace that searchlights and rapid-fire guns were regarded as unreliable for the pro- tection of these big ships against this smaller craft. It was thus that the the destroyer was born, and, with graduation, its duties were extended urrtil they included all that was for- merly done by the small torpedo-boat. and much more besides. It is a 'fact that the modern de• stroyer is three or even four Eines as large as one of the earlier type, which naturally renders it much more seaworthy, and obviously increases a century, be under any apprehension its radius of action, seeing that it is of serious difficulties arising with any capable of carrying much more fuel, of her European neighbors; but in The objects of a modern torpedo - 1910, or thereabouts, there will have boat destroyer flotilla are many. Per - arisen a naval power which may prove haps the paramount duty of every mightier than she, and should she vessel in the flotilla is to discharge (Germany) gain the supremacy, Eng- its torpedoes, should it get near land will soon become extinct both as enough, at the enemy's big battle - a sea and land power, and all her de- ships. But a very important office to pen•!encies, including India, will fall fulfil is that of scouting, which com- into Germany's clutches. You may prises locating, and reporting the posi- tive to see this, I shall not but, when tion of the enemy. the time comes, remember my words." Should the enemy make a night ab - tack, the destroyers are relied upon GERMAN WASTAGE. to locate and report the position of the attacking fleet's torpedo craft, as Losses of Some of the Regiments En- well as sink or drive them away be - gaged With the Russians. fore they can force an attack against The frightful cost of the German the bigger battlesh,,1.ips. victories over the Russians are frank- ly admitted in the official casualty TWO BELGIAN WOMEN REP lists from the German War Office as • RIEVED BY KAISER to the lessee of some of the noted, regiments engaged: A despatch from Arneterdam says:, They are as followsA despatch to the Tiki from Belgium : confirms the report that Emperor William has commuted to penal servi- First Foot Guards Second Feat Guards Third Foot Guards 'Fourth Foot Guard's Fifth FOO Guards Kaiser Alexander Grenadiers . 2,19 Kaiser Franz Grenadiers 1,62 Fusilier Guards2,57 Koifigin Elizabeth Geehadiers. 1,52 Konigin Augusta Grenadiers 1,63 Fifth drenediers • 9 11 25 - -- 14,19 1,386 841 473 990 479 4. 6 1 5 2 Jager Battalion Sehutzen Battalion Total A German regiment has about 3,500 fighting men, so it shows that during the two months of active oper- ations of Gen. Von Meckensen, 35 of his best regiments lost on the average two-fifths of their strength, ovhile two or three regiments were almost anni- hilated. No naval secret is more emefully guarded than that of the code -book. The box in which this volume is kept Is weighted with lead and perforated, So that it will sink on 'being taroayn overboard -the last act of a captain when a ship is taken into action. $o far back as 1878 the first Dread- nought was launched. 5 3 1 tude for life the death sentence pro- nounced by a German contt martial against the Countess Johanna De Belleville, Mlle. Louise Thulier, a school teacher, and Louis Severin, chemist. These three persons were mentioned in the official proclamation announcing • the execution of Miss Edith Cavell, a British nurse, as hav- ing been sentenced to death by the German authorities in Belgium. Boy Soldiers. With to view to delaying, as far as possible, the inevitable day when she must bow to the avill of Einope, Ger- many has decided to put her boys of sixteen to nineteen years of age through a course of military training, Great Britain, too, when driven ,ale most to desperation by Napoleon, sanctioned the enlistment of boys to the extent of ten per cent. of the strength of the regiments. Mane and various were the drastic steps taken to resist the mighty forces ol Napoleon. One historian tells us that "the hulks were drained and the pris, one emptied inoi•e than once to sup. ply the want of soldiers. Each man who enlieted in the arrny in 1807 cost the country nearly $200 in bounty and levy money. These men signed for anlimited service,