The Clinton News Record, 1917-03-01, Page 6MOST OF -THE U-BOATS SINK
BUT SOME HAVE BEEN CAPTURED
Fully 200 Have Not Returned to Their Base, Declares Alfred
Noyes, the English Poet.
A despatch from New York says: ---
England's anti-submarine fleet con-
:lists Of 000 private yachts, whalers
and tithing vessels, manned by 00,000
men, and this force already has des
stroyed 200 Gorman submarines,
Alfred }Noyes, the English poet, as-
eerted in a. statement there Wednes-
day night. '
"Every boat is armed with guns
throwing 12 or 14.,pound explosive
shells, and has 1,000 yards of steel
netting trailing behind," he declared.
"All the home waters are mapped out
in blocks and each block patrolled.
"Imagine 60 trawlers stretching a
steel undersea net from the English
to the Trish coast and you get some
idea of the British Admiralty's apti-
submarine campaign, by which the
German submersibles hate been driv-
en from home waters and forged to at-
tack neutral Vessels on the high eons"
Mr, Noyes said he had spent many'
days with the trawlers, and was in -
termed by their captains that a sub-
marine rarely will attack an armed
vessel.' What becomes of a sub-
marine after it strikes a trawler's net,
the poet said, is a naval secret.
"Some have boon captured and tak-
en to England, but most of them sink,"
he added. It is impossible to save
the crews. What is done to them
when they 'hit the net I am forbidden
to say."
FOOD SCANDAL
IN AUSTRIAN ARMY
Troops at Front Were Delibera-
tely Left Without
Food.
An Exchange telegram despatch
from Amsterdam says it is reported
from Vim= that Baron Hazel has
been removed as Hungarian Minister
of National Defence, Major-General
Von Szurmay having been appointed in
his place. This change and also the
removal from command of the Austro-
Hungarian army of Field -Marshal
Archduke Frederick, who has been
made second in command tc the Em-
peror, aro reported to Iave been in
consequence of a scandal in the army
management which was revealed re-
cently at headquarters by the fact
that large bodies of troops were with-
out food for upwards .of a day.
According to this report. food in-
tended for the troops was misapplied
with full knowledge of the higher com-
mand. The Emperor is said to have
decided to proceed with many addi-
tional cases which are described as be-
ing of a sensational nature.
DUMB SUFFERING
LYING BY THE ROAD
One-third of the Armenian Race
Has Been Massacred.
A despatch from New York says:—
One-third of the Armenian race has
been massacred or Cried from starva-
tion, and disease since the European
war began, and one-half of those re-
maining are homeless and dying in
exile, according to a cable message
from John Masefield, famous Eng-
lish writer, made public here Wednes-
day night by the American Commit-
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
The message said in part:
. "Far away as she is from the main
conflict, Armenia has suffered more
in this war than has any devastated
land in Europe. She is like a'vie-
tim met by troops on the march and
beaten and stabbed and left to die,
There is nothing in her misery to
make a headline of a battle ery. It
is just dumb suffering lying by the
road."
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CAPTURED AT LOOS,
SENT HOME TO DIE.
A despatch from London says: The
following brief item in the Times tells
one of many sad stories: "A. verdict
of death from tuberculosisaccelerat-
ed by privations and unsuitable food
while a prisoner -of -war in Germany,
was returned at the inquest on Joseph
Wright, aged 29, private In a Lincoln
regiment, who died at a military hos-
pital on Tuesday. Wright was form-
erly a butler in Chester, He was
slightly wounded and taken prisoner
at Loos. He was a prisoner -of -war in
Gerniany nine months before being
sent to Switzerland, where he arrived
in a terribly elilaciated condition,"
PRUSSIAN SOLDIERS
- FIGHT BAVARIANS
80 Billed and 200 Wounded at Bever -
loo, Belgium. ' •
A despatch from London says:—
Thirty-two Bavarian and Prussian
soldiers *ore killed and 200 wounded
as the result of a quarrel which re-
sulted in a fight last week, according
to the Maastricht, Holland, newspaper,
Les Nouvelles. The trouble took place
at Reveries), Belgium.
The trouble with the man who loses
his head is that he -doesn't miss it un-
til it's too late.
In selecting laying hens look for a
full, well developed breast and crop,
showing a large pocket in which to
carry the food supply. , This i••'l cater
strength and vigor and ability to con-
sume sufficient food to produce eggs.
ARREST MEMBERS
OF SINN FEIN ORDER
Men Released From Internment
Camps in England Again
in Custody.
A despatch from Dublin says; A
number of Sinn-Fetncrs, who hart re-
cently returned from internment in
England were arrested on Thursday m
Limerick, Galway and Skibbereen, as
well as in Dublin. The arrests wore
made under the defence of the realm
act. Altogether about fifty members
of the Sinn -Fein and the Gaelic
League had been arrested and arrests
are continuing. Thirty-five men were
taken into custody in Dublin alone. In
Galway on Thursday night a promin-
ent member of the Oughterard Dis-
trict Council and a prominent Athonry
merchant were arrested. Among
those arrested in Dublin, the despatch
says, are Councillor S. T. Kelly, J. J.
O'Kelly, editor of the Catholic Bul-
letin; Darrel Figgis, a well-known
writer, and Captain Liam Mellowes.
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HUN PROFESSOR OOZES HATRED
Says French Are Cruel Madmen and
British Cold Criminals.
The German paper Illustrirte Zei-
tung gives special prominence to an
article by Professor Otto Gramzow
entitled "The Situation and the Na-
tionaI Soul," which abundantly proves
that the German professor has learn-
ed nothing in all the course of the
war, that he remains the same intoler-
ant, unteachable and brutal fanatic
which he proved himself to be in the
early weeks of the war.
Gramzow, in discussing Germany's
enemies on the western front, speaks
Of the French as follows: "The
French are a nation of madmen, of
preverse cruelty, a nation abundantly
deserving the doom which is clearly
its fate. To feel sympat v with this
people is for us Germans my a lux-
ury which we cannot /permit our-
selves. It must be our duty to see
that everything which the French
still possess of strength bleeds to
death before the throats of our can-
non and machine guns."
Turning to the other western en-
emy this truculent professor writes:
"The English are not mad, nor are
they hypnotized. What they do is
done with cool consideration and
recifening. But there can be no peace
or reconciliation with them. The man
who believes this possible is neither a
psychologist nor a student of history.
Behind the English nation lies a his-
tory of 700 years of crime. The old
Norman pirate spirit has never per-
mitted a rival. The ruling caste in
England lives and struggles alone for
its money bags. Righteousness to
unknown to it, and moral considera-
tions it has thrown to the winds.
"The British ruling classes are
versed in every wile and knavish trick,
and practises unexampled persistence
and cruelty. If the power of these
people is to remain they will never
rest until they build up fresh coali-
tions against us. What hate and greed
can do will be done by them. We will
not therefore risk future wars. This
must be the last, and the political in-
stinct of the German nation says,
'Down with England; this is the solu-
tion.' Few war utterances have found
so lively an echo in our hearts as that
of the Crown Prince Rupert. who cried
'out to his brave Bavarians,''Up and
at them.' "
PLYMOUTH HARBOR
CLOSED TO NEUTRALS
•
Port is One of Britain's 13iggest Naval
Bases and Dockyards
A despatoli from London says :—
It is officially announced that the port
of Plymouth has been closed until fur-
ther notice to all ships except those of
the allies. Other vessels entering
the harbor are punishable tinder the
defence of the realm regulations and
liable to detention
One of 'War's Strangest Romances,
Through the myriad of strange tales that have wandered :front the bat-
tlefront comes this fateful story. A Pole serving in the 'Russian brigade in
France, in an attack on the enemy's trenches, captured his own brother who
had been pressed into the German army, ,
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ONTARIO TO MD VERDUN EFFORTS
BRITAIN IN WAR SERIOUS REVERSE
The Government Will Brorow
$17,000,000. to Retire Bonds
Held in England.
A despatch from Toronto says: ---
The British Government has appealed
for financial assistance from the
Province of Ontario, and in respond-
ing to that appeal the Ontario Legis-
lature this session will pass legisla-
-tioh authorizing the`Government to
borrow $17,000,000 to retire Ontario
Government bonds now held in Eng-
land. The announcement was made
by Iron. T. W. McGarry in the Legis-
lature during the course of his bud-
get statement on Thursday.
"Probably never before has the Pro-
vince been faced with a more serious
question, financially, than we are fac-
ing now. I am not referring now to
our receipts or expenditures. I am
referring to a matter that concerns
the whole British Empire. From the
day the war began' the British Em-
pire has been endeavoring to build uP
and finance the other nations fighting
with her. She has been financing the
war and financing it successfully, but
the strain on Great Britain has been
treint ndous, and she has been forced
to ark the people to deliver tip their
securities.
"Great Britain has been obliged to
ask her colonies to contribute toward
the success of this great war. The
province has in the hands of inves-
tors in Great Britain $17,000,000 of
our stock. That stock went to Great
Britain several years ago, when we
required money to built the T. and N.
O.; it extends over a long period, 35 or
40 years, some of it as lenge as 43
years. Great Britain is desirous of
building tip on this side of the Atlantic
a reserve from which -she can draw in
order to provide munitions and sup-
plies and other necessaries to carry
on the war on this side. Great Britain
has asked the Province of Ontario,
among others, to come lo her aid and
take charge of these securities and re-
sell them, and to the extent of our
financial ability help in this war. Are
we going to do it? Is not the answer
of every patriotic man, Yes, we will
make this sacrifice? If we are to
mike that sacrifice tlton the carrying
of that $17,000,000 becomes a first
'charge upon the resources of this
province. It becomes a first charge
this year and it becomes necessary
that those who desire Largo expendi-
tures on the part of the Government
should wait until the end of the war.
I want the members to realize the ab-
solute necessity of our continuing to
build up the financial condition of the
province in order that investors on
this side of the Atlantic may give us
theright to say to Great Britain that
we can advance the seventeen million.
"During the session I hope to bring
down in the House a bill to enable us
to purchase all these securities we
have in England and rebortow money
on this side of the water, and endeavor
to that extent to help Great Britain
h. this war."
750,000 PRISONERS
AS FARM LABORERS
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
—Germany is employing 750,000 war
prisoners as farm I, borers, according
to a Berlin despatch to the Rheinische
Westfaelische Zeitung, which quotes
General Greener, head of the Army
Feeding Department. General Gree-
ner's statement was made before the
Riohstag committee which is co-oper-
ating in carrying out the provisions of
• the ,national civil service law. Ile
stated that additional war prisoners
would be put to work- in the agricul-
turai districts and that in occupied
territories the garrisons would do
I Suring sewing and harvest work.
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OltISiNF,N IN PIRA
START FOOD RIOTS.
An Athens despatch to Reutcr's
says that food riots among workmen
Piraeus has leve to the closing; of
p
LONDON LOYALLY KEEPING a+ �iF TO all ahaP s and the Custom house. The
VOLUNTARY RATIONING SCHEME rioting biont04 at a d meeting raised
for the
�° distribution ed a fund raised by Dube
lic subscription for relief of the unem-
ployed. The mob looted a number of
grocer and hatcher shops, and a large
number of arrests were made before
order was restored.
'
Supplies at Smithfield Market Have Fallen p Off
Week, or 27 Per Cent.
A despatolt flronl London says:—
A retern from the London Central
Market6 states that tiiowook before
tho introduction of the vetted:o y ra-
oiing scheilo the 8u
plie
s Sftritlr
-
field agg'e ated 0,895 tons,Last
1 reek. of voluntary 1'a-
waek the second t+ v .
tiening,'the :supplies totalled 6,037
toils; a decrease of 1,336 tons, nearly
1,836 Tons a
27 per cent. "The result, e0 far as
London lo concerned, must," says the
retu7.`n, "be considered satisfactory,. as
is indicated a diminished demand. The
principal distributive centre shows
that a; largo section 0± the populace
of the itteiropolls is loyally restricting
the const77nptlon of meat within the
lilnti;s laid tlotvr1 by the Feed Con-
troller."
HUNGER CLOSES WAIL PLANTS.
Six i.
. Thousand ilils�t' .r,lMunition
Miition
Workers Reported Out.
A despatch from Londoe-satyst Re-
ports from Neutral sources tell of in-
creasing sufferitig in Gerinany find
Austria as a result of the shm'tege mf
coal and food, Six 1110(9saltd muftis
tlolt worker: in Austria have been
forced to quit work because of'hungor,
Hindenburg Issues Statement
Censuring German Losses
in Memorable Conflict.
Reuter's correspondent at British
headquarters in France says a copy
of an order issued by Field Marshal
von Hinderberg has come into the pos-
session of the British forces, Tn part,
the order says:
"The operations et Verdun from
October to December resulted in seri-
ous and regrettable reverses. Incap-
able officers must be ruthlessly remov-
ed. The number of prisoners, which
was unusually large for German
troops, some of 'whom evidently sur-
rendered without serlous resistance, or
without suffering heavy losses, shows
the morale of some of the troops en-
gaged was low."
The order adds, according to the
correspondent, that the reason for this
requires a most careful investigation,
and that steps must be taken to re-
vive the old spirit of the German in-
fantry.• .
A THEOLOGIAN'S REVENGE.
How a Russian Student Got Even
With His Teacher.
Thirty years ago, Alexander
Schmidt was dean of the university at
Dorpat in the Russian province of Lie'
vonia. "The Bloodsmith," as the
students oallod him because of his
researches eencerning th.e circulation
of the blood, was noted for the sever-
ity of his discipline. An amusing in-
cident is told of him by an army chap-
lain in the Zeitung der 10. Armee.
A certain theological student once
wanted to get leave from the univers-
ity to attend his sister's,'tvedding. The
dean refused the necessary permission
On the ground that the reason was too
trivial, The student was greatly of-
fended both because he wanted to go
to the wedding and because he sus-
pected that Doctor Schmidt had not
believed that his excuse was a true
one. Accordingly he was determined
to get some kind of revenge.
It chanced that on the day after the
affair he was reading St. Paul's sec-
ond letter to Timothy, when Ire aud-
den, y saw a very clever way to get
satisfaction. .Laying down the Bible
he wrote to the Dorpat newspaper and
ordered an advertisement inserted in
large type =that skid simply, "2 Tim.
iv, 14-16a." Every reader of the
paper, surprised by that line, reached
for his Bible and looked up the verses„,
Imagine the amusement of the unit'er
sity students when they found that
the passage was, "Alexander the cop-
persmith did me much evil: the Lod
reward him according to his works; of
whom be thou ware also."
USING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
Steel Hands and Legs Respond to
Human Muscles. ,
Some of the wonders of physical re-
construction that are being achieved
in the treatment of disabled soldiers
in France are described by Captain
Sir Henry Norman, M.P., in a special
report to the Seeretaty for War for
Great Britain. Particularly success-
ful is the work of Professor Jules
Amor, to whom, as he goes down the
street ,Hoar his hospital in Paris, the
women smile, and say: "Thai's the
loan that gave my husband his arm
back,"
On the day of Sir Ileney Norman's'
visit there were in the laboratory
three one -alerted men, who are earn-
ing as. 8d. a day as fitters. One of
them while waiting amused himself
by turtling on a lathe little brass
shells, as souvenirs, Its well as any
turner could have done.
Professor Amar offered a cigarette
to one sten whose arra had been am-
putated below the shoulder. Sir Henry
Norman was about to take a cigarette
from his own use in order to heed
et to the man, who, saying,: "Pardon
ale, I cern help myself," proceeded to
take alio with his steel hand. Placing
the cigarette in his mouth, he sc-
lected0 patch from 0 box, struck it
on the box in his sound hand, and
lighted the cig trette, bolding the
lighted match in his steel hand.
A second nun, using his artificial
hand, grasped the hand of Sir Henry
Norman, and shook ;it Morally, Tire
third, whose arm was amputated
above the elbow, WW1
up it needle
from the table wrt11 a email pail. of
dissecting forceps, Afterwards the
men gave an exhibition of turning
and filing metal and 'wood -drilling
with a sensitive bit.
The motions ofi theso wonderful'ar-
tificiel limbs at'e controlled, through
stripe and cords, by movements of
the muscles of the chest and basic,
Every feel knows lime to attend y at dt<i
other peoples hhsi11ese.:
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LEADING MARKETS
840pAMtat:a
Toronto, li'ob 27-TManftphu wheat• '
No. 1 50.O UIet'n $1,D55; No, 2 00„ $1.838;
11w'3 doe $i,5$; Vs. 1 wheat, 11.7u,
trivet Ray ports.
Manitoba oats --'N0, 2 G,W„ 7t4n to
Vigil No. 8 CSN„ '008 to 72o: extra No. 1
reed, 406 to 720" No, 1 teen, 005 to 710,
ell raft dolleered en route, 16,
American : ours—No, 2 Sellow, 21,
subject to embau gO,
Ontario oats*No. 2 white, 02 to 65e,
nom11104;No, 8 white, 52 to Ono, (101010"
at, according to freights outside,
Ontario 7Vheal No, 2 Winter, per car
lot, 51.75 to 21.77; No, 3, 00., $1.10 to
51..16, according to freights outside,
1.'ees-^N0. 2, 22.45, acoordma to
freights outside,
Barley—Malting, 51.20 to 51,22, 00-
eprdiug to freights.outside.
Buckwheat -41,28, nominal, accOrdtng
to freights
2.t41.40e to $1.42, aoocreing to
freig�hts outside,
lutinitoba flour•-1yrst entente, 1n lute
bags, 80,50; second patents, in ,:uta bags,
80.00; strong »otters'. In jute bags,
48.00 Toronto,
O0tarto dont---yylnter, aotordntg to
sample, $7,26, to 57.80, in bags track
Toronto piwinpt shipment; - $7.00, intik
Seal -lofted, export grade.
Mlltraed--tJar lots, delivered Montreal
freights bags lnoluded-33rRn, Per ton,
$27; shorts, per ton, $40; good heed
flour, per baa'. 52.70 to 52,80,
iiav—Nxtra NR, 9, per ton, 612;
mixed, per ton, 50 to 51100, trade To-
ronto.
Straw—Car iota, per ton, $0, track To-
ronto.
Country Proanoe--Wholeaaie
Butter-44resh d try, choice, 04 to SSo;
creamery prints, 49 to 45e; solids; 42 to
4Se.
10ggs--Naw-laid, in cartons, 66 to 500;
out of cartons. 52 to 60.
Dressed poultry--Chiokons,.23 to 28o;
fowl 20 to 22o; ducks, 22• to 26o; suuabs,
per dos, 54 to $4.50; turkeys, 25 to 830;
geese, 18 to 20e.
Live poultry—Fowl, 11,, 17 to 10c;
ohlokene, 11,. 1,5 to 300.
Cheese—Now large. 268 to 250: twins,
20 to Mot triplets 205 to 2050; old,
large, 270; tWins, 273 to 272e.
new—white clover, 25-11. tine, 14,.
to .1450; 5-11. tins, 135 to 140: 10-11, '1#
to 1980' 00-11„ 12e to 120 buckwheat,
80 -Ib. tits, 0 to 05. Comb honey—extra
fine and heavy weight, per dos., 53,75;
select, $2.50 to $2.76; No. 2, 22 to 8225.
Xotatoes—Ontario, per bag, $8.60'
New Brunswick Delawares, per bag, 2i
to14,25;'Albertas, her bag, 8850 to $8.76.
Roans—Imported, hand -peeked. per
bush $0.25; Canadian, ha picked, per
hush $S7.00; Canadian -7 , meg, $6.00 to
50.60 Limas, per 1b., 171 to 120,
Provisions—Wholesale
Smoked meats--Natns, medium, 20 to
27e; do, heavy, 23 to 24c; cooked, 87
to 38c; rolls, 21 to 22c; breakfast bacon,
27 to 290; backs, plain. 28 to 30e; bone-
less, 31 to 28or
Lard -,Pure lard, tierces, 215 to 219c;
tubs, 219 to Ole; pails, 22 to 225e; com-
po4tnd, 102 to 170.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon. 18 to
185o per ib.; clear bellies, -19 to 183e.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Feb. 27—Corn—American
No. 2 yellow, $1..30 to 51,82. Oats—
Canadtan Western, No. 2 75 to 760; do.,
N0, 2, 79 to 74e; extra 1,0, 1 food, 73 t0
740. lrlour—Man. Spring wheat patents,
Rrsts, $0,00; seconds, $9.10; strong
bakers', 58.90; Winter patents, choice
59.26; straight rollers, 58.60 to $8.80
straight rollers. bags, $4.10 to 54.35
Rolled oats—barrels, 50.75 to $7,16; do.
bags, 90 lbs„ 59.26 to 50.45. Bran, 95
Shorts 528: Middlings, $40 to $42
MouIille, 546 to $50. flay --No, 2, per
ton, car lots. 513, Cheese—truest west-
erns 26 to 206:; do., finest eadterns, 26
to 2GR,. Bettor—choloest cremarey. 43
to 48o; seconds. 39 to 410. Eggs
fresh, 55 to 550: selected. 48c; No.
stock, 45o. Potatoes—pec' bag, car lots,
1e�.00 to $3.50,
Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg, nnipeeg, Feb. 27—No, $
1 Northern,
Northern, 091 Northern,658;;$1.665;. No. 5
51.888; No. 0, 87.,10$; feed, 98e. Oats—
No, 2 C.W., 5810; No, 8 C. W., 6650; ex-
tra. No. 1 feed, 5660; No, 1 feed, 660;
No. 2 feed. 555x.. Barley—No. 3 C.SY„
87c; No. 4 C.W., 930; reileeted, 80e; feed,
80c. 5rhta--.No. 1 N.W.G„ 83.698; No. 2
C. W., 22.005.
Vatted States Markets
Minneapolis, Feb. 27Wheat, May,
$.1,50; July, $1.743. Cash—No. 1 hard,
$1.90 t0 $1,94; No. 1 Northern, $1.82 to
41.88; No. 2 Northern, $1,78 to $1.87.
Corn, No. 8 yellow, $1.908 to 91.42. Oats,
No. 3 while, 580 to 575o, Flour-s`aney
entente, 59.45; first clears. 58.25:- other
grades unchanged. Bran unchanged.
Duluth, Feb. 27—Wheat. No, 1 hard,
51.528; No, 1Northern, 51.828; No. 2
a'thern, 51,078 to $1.902, Linseed, on
track, $2.819 to 92.02; to arrive, 92.818;
May, 92.885 asked; July, 82.831 asked.
Live Stook Markets •
Turonlo, Feb. 27—Choloo heavy steers,
$10.85 to $11.251 do., good, 510.86 to
$10.60; butchers' cattle, eholce, 510.15 to
510.68; do. good, $9.00 to 210.10; do.,
medium, '$$.75 to 59.00; do., common,
7.50 to $257; butchers' bulls, choice,
9.26 to 90.76; do., good bulls, 98.40 to
8.86; do., medium bulla, 87.15 to $7.80;
O., r s 5 0 6 2; butchers'
rough bulls, t $ . 6.
g
cows, choice, 92.00 to $9.86: do., good,
58.40 to 28.80; do.. med5uru, 87 to 57,25:
stockers, $8,25 t0 28;" oholce feeders.
58.26 to 55,76; canners and cutters. 55
to 56.59; milkers, good to choice, $56 to
.5110; do, coin. 000 med., ea,. 540 tn. 560•
springers. 450 to $110: light owes, 9t0
to 510,50; sheep, heavy, 58.50 to $9.60;
calves, Rood to eholce, $12.76 to 514,75;
15a913168,
eholce, 214 to 215; do., medium,
$9,76 to $To,25; hogs. fed and watered,
$'(4,75; do., weighed 0 ears, $15; do„
f,n.b„ $14.00.
Montreal, Feb. 27 ---Choice steers,
eholce, 97 good,$8
58.50: good.; 25 'to 57;.
butchers' bulls, eh010e, 27 -to $8.60; good:
40 to 1,7; canners' cows, 95; canners'
bulls, 3o.50; calves, 912 to 574; hay -fed,
26 to 57; sheep.,$0 to So; lambs, $13 to
518.60; hogs, choice aclects, oft cars,,
214,00 to 216; 001'0,$12,50 to 213,
LOPPING -OFF.: PROCESS
• ON OFFICERS BEGUN
Large Number Struck From Pay List
Till Needed or They Revert
A despatch from Ottawa says: --..A
large number of commissioned of-
ficers of all ranks in the Canadian Ex-
peditionary Forces, both in Canada
and in England, are now being struck
off the pay list and temporarily retir-
ed to civilian life until their services
as officer's are needed or until they de-
cide to take non-commissioned rank
and are willing to fight aS privates.
There is a surplus of several tihcu-
sand Canadians officers at present
either in Canadaor in Great Britain.
The Militia Department decided some-
time ago that war economy demanded
tt stopping of the creation of new of-
ficers and the retirement 0± a. large
poroentage 0'f the supernumerary of-
ficers, many of whom have been draw-
ing pay for months without any im-
nhediatc proept:ct of getting to tate
front. It is stated that there are
moretime enough officers now avail-
able in England to meet all expected
drafts for the spring and summer
catnpaign.
17,000 KRi11PP WORKERS
ARE OUT ON STRIKE
A despatch from Amsterdam says;
-The frontier correepo.edeet of the
Telegraaf says that it strike in the
Ifrttpp works at Essen involving
17,000 workmen, has been in„progress
for a fortnight. The men, the dor.
respondent declares, are demanding
higher watrestand fncreaseod food ra-
tions, Many of strikers he adds,
have been eerie to the front,
0the
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Pressing n button 01petnle:i a eve
ezeitainer for sell. or pepper that is
claimed to be moisture pt'ecf.
CANADIAN RECORD FOR RAIDS
BEATEN BY THE LONDON TROOPS
New Zealander's Entered Germult Lines South of Armentieres
to a Depth of 000 Yards. ,
A despatch from British I•leed-
quarters in France says: --Further
dotaile regarding the successful raid
made by the New Keetand troops
south of Armentieres show that they
entered the German lines to a depth
of 800 yards and remained there for
half an bear, wrebking dugouts and
various trench works,
They found the enemy stipport linos
full of dead front the bombardment
wiriell preceded the laid.. Forty-four'
prisoners were brought batik by them,
This is but one of the sueeessful
side parried out. Tho London troops
set ty ahew high record for raids by
bringing back 120 in'isoners near
Ploegsteert, The Canadians pre-
viously hold the record of 100. The
men from Canada say they aro de,
tormined to exceed the bag of the
Londoner's before the raiding 9ea50n
is ended.
RUSSIA IS OPENING 'FROM SUNSET COAST
OFFIO+ O b
CE IN g AWA WEAT THE WESTr,Rrr PEOPI579'
Wife Purchase Supplies in Can.
ARE DOING,
ada, Not Through Pro ern of the Great West Told
New York. In a raw Pointed
-A despatch from Ottawa says :—
The ij,ussian Govornnient, which has
hitherto conducted its war purchases
on this continent from New York
headquarters, has, on tate suggestion
of the Canadian Government, decided
to open up an office at Ottawa, to take
charge of the purchasing business in
Canada. Col. Iiovaleff,, of the Rus-
sian army, has arrived at the capital
to take charge of the new office, Rue-
sia"'is now buying several million dol-
lars' worth of various war supplies
in Canada, and it is expected that the
ostlers will be increased darting the
present years.
A CAPE BORN STRATAGEM.
'low a Brave Commander Won Over
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but he was severely handicapped by
his lack of men. In the morning twi-
light, however, the appearance of five
soldiers mounted and three on foot at
the crest of the cliff by Beta Brook
caused a wild rush of bandits to their
barricades. A fusillade of lead was•
concentrated on the five mounted nien,
who sat like stoics, while the Wren on
foot replied effectively. The sudden
uproar achieved its purpose, and tits
bndits' horses stampeded up the
ri ser bed, leaving the enemy helpless.
Rumors soon spree,d that reinforce-
ments had come to Popper, for squads
of soldiers had been discovered riding
by, and for many weeks El Paramo
was left in peace.
At last seventeen a Popper's Chil-
ean'lavanderos attempted to desert.
Fearing that they would reveal the
true state of affairs to the enemy,
Popper promptly put them under an
armed guard.. When three of the ban-
dits rode in under a flag of truce, Pop-
per know better than to allow them to
return and report conditions' or to
unite with the lavt nderos, so he locked
them up in the guardhouse,
When at last Governor Paz arrived
with reinfoicements to relieve the
half-starved garrison, he was receiv-
ed Ilj, a stoical guard of honor lined up
on the shore.
"But where are your sixty soldiers?
These look sick: Why have they their
faces bendagod?" continued Paz.
"If His Excellency wishes to look
them over, I will 'bring him 11 sample,"
replied Popper.
The governor's guard of honor were
the live heroic horsemen of the Beta
Brook raid, the same"reinforcontents" 1
seen by the bandits. They had no legs; I
their arms wore sticks of wood; their
bodies were stuffed with stalks and
dried grass, and their heads were bun-'
tiles of old rags. Dummies of stray i
were Popper's last recourse, $us gar-'
liege had been reduced to three- menl
besides hintsif1
Prince of Wales on Leave.
the Rebels.
'8E1 Rubio," Senor the Engineer Don
Julio Popper, "The Red Rover of
Fireland," as Mr. Charles Wellington
Furlong calls him in Outing, was an
Austrian who with a little following of
faithful Dalmations, went to Tierra
del Fuego in search of gold. The
"Gold Washing Company of the
South," of which Popper was chief ex-
ecutive, obtained legal and military
authority over twenty-five hundred
hectares (or about ten square miles)
of Fuegian coast,
The majority of Popper's men were
a wild, rough lot of Argentines, Aus-
trians, Frenchmen, Englishmen and
Chileans, to whom free life appealed
more than the harsh regime of Pop-
per's camps; and desertions and mu-
tinies thinned their ranks. Popper
himself was the only stay of law and
order, alid he was beset by difficulties
of every kind. At last, when his crew
was sadly depleted, the men who back-
ed the expedition were demanding
gold, and dissatisfaction was every-
where increasing, an overwhelming
force of bandits began to attack his
outlying camps. Escaping men rode in
from the north and reported Rio Cul-
len in ashes; one by one the settle-
ments were abandoned. Popper with-
drew his few remaining men to El
Paramo, and groups of invaders set-
tled down in the hills near by like
wolves waiting to spring at the throat
of their weakening quarry.
Popper finally decided on a desper-
ate blow at the Beta Brook rendezvous
where the bandits were assembled;
The vacation'wihirlr the Prince of
Wales is enjoying in London le the
.first leave of any length that ho • has
had since laps spring, Since his pre-
vious visit home, he has been on ser-
vice errands to 1+"muco and Italy ante
has spent a censiderable bine in khaki
in Egypt.
'Itelrewnble Heels,
Interchangeable rubber heels have
been invented that can he attached
to chess mat r cpleced when 'worn by
nen, or metal Pasterns permanently
ivatall ed,
Paragraphs
The Nanaimo City Council passed
the school estimates for 1917 at $36,-
802.
No less than 40 Vancouver women
have been taken 011 the staffs of local
munition factories,
-Mr. Henry McDowell, Vancouver's
first druggist, died at Vancouver re-
cently.bee was a pioneer of the pre -
The fishermen of Northern British
Columbia have received 40 additional
licenses, 28 of these being given to
Indians.
The I. 0. D. E. at Victoria has enc
dorsed the resolution to care for the
tubercular patients re the Tranquille
Sanitarium.
Vancouver's share was $4,109,728
for harbor improvements since the
advent of the present Federal Gov-'
ernment authorities.
-At Victoria the miners got their de-'
sired increase at the Canadian Col-
lieries (Dunsmuir) Limited, at the Ex-
tension and Wellington Collieries.
Work on the new car plant of the
C.N.R. at Port Mann is progressing
satisfactorily, and should be in oper-
1 ation by the end of March.
There was an immense cut of timber
in the Province of British Columbia,
this year; the value of the cut is
thought to be about $83,000,000,
In the County Court, before Judge.
Lampmen, Cliew Kie, a Chinaman,!
who has resided in Victoria for: up-;
wards of twenty-five years, applied,
101' naturalization.
All American citizens residing at;
Vancouver have been asked to make
application for registration, as that
U.S. consulates have been instructed
to see to this.
At Vancouver at a meeting of the
committee in charge of financing the:
new military hospital, subscriptions
to the amount of -$21,044 were re-'
ported.
It is proposed to hold a rose -show
at Vancouver this coming summer to'
raise funds for patriotic purposes.
COMMERCIAL FORESTRY.
Its Adoption By Great Britain Must
Follow The War.
The assignment of several battalionsi
of Canadian woodsmen to cutting tin=
be'r in Great Britain calls renewed at-
tention to the great shortage and de -
pietion of local timber supplies there.,
Relatively little attention has been,
paid to the practice of commercial
forestry in Great Britain, due in part,
to the existence of -large mai-Tate.
estates and inpart to the ease of im-'
tportation from other countries. It!
is; however, to be anticipated that the
present denudation of Britain's for-,,
ests will result, after the war, in the
adoption by the Government of a nom-
prehensive plan for the reforestation
of the millions of acres of non-agri-
cultural lands which are now produc-
ing relatively little i11 the way of for.,
est products. '
Exact statistics are not vaiiable as
to the total amount of standing tim-
ber in the United Kingdom, but the
timbered area: has been estimated al
3,000,000 acres out of a -total of 77,,
, 000,000 acres. Prior to the war, this
, timber was valued at $155,000,000. In
time of peace, England's timber im
ports were valued at $215,000,000 an -1
nually, se that if imports were cut off,'
!the total local supply would be insuf
flcient for a single year's consumptions
So great is the demand for timber for;
war purposes that, 01 spite of the gen-!
era] cossation of building operations,
the consumption remains practically.
normal.
Before the war, large quantities of,
timber were imported from Germany'
as well as from Russia, Sweden0
Franco, Norway, Portugal and Spain,
With the complete cessation of im-
ports from Germany and the difficul,
ties in securing adequate supplies
from the other countries named, thel
way has been opended for a great hi -
crease in the amount of supplies ;from.
the North American continent. Can-
ada, for instance, during the year end
ed July, 191e, exported to the United,
Kingdom, wood and manufactures of
wood to the value of nearly $16,400,-,
000. Were adequate shipping facili'.,
ties available, the exports of. Canadians
supplies would l?ave been much groat.,
00
. While, Canada's forest resources aro
groat in proportion to her population 1
the tremendous possibilities for the,
development of the export trade in the
future plaice it imperative that these
resources he conserved to the fullest
possible extent, that the raw material
may serve as the basis for the great-
est development of Cenadilen industry.
The first essential is that the heavy
mutual loss from forest fires be re-
rltreed to a minimum. Very patch
still remains to be accomplished in
this direction.
Wireless. station, almlg the 'Lillie
Sea arc Used by Russia to transmit
weather reports to Petrograd.
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