The Clinton News Record, 1917-11-29, Page 3Yes, they are girlsl-working as coal haulerin the London Hydraulic
Power Company's pumping station, thereby releaeing men for the fighting,
FRANCE'S WHEAT ITALY HOLDING
E LESS BY HALF HER BATTLE LINES
Other Crops and Live Stock .Are Resist Fierce Attacks Launched
Muck Reduced Compared by Invaders.
With 1913. A despatch from Headquarters of
the Italian Army in Northern Italy,
A despatch froin Ottawa says: The
says: -The fourth Italian army under
Feed Controller's office on -Thursday
made public figures of food production
in France -which aro far below the pre-
war average. The moeteserious de-
cline is in wheat, the 1917 crop being
short 53.3 per cent., of 176,000,000
bushels, as compared with the produc-
tion of 1913. The potato crop is short
33.1 per cent, or 165,000,000 bushels.
The sugar beet crop has fallen off by
• 87.9 per cent., or 148,000;000 bushels.
The number of cattle has declined 16.5
Per cent., or 2,435;000 head. The mem-
ber of sheep has been reduced by 36.6
per cent., or 5,535,000 head. There
lies been a.decline of 40.2 per cent„ or
2,825,000 head, in the ntimber of hogs.
In order to conserve its much -re- CANADIANS IN
oduced supplies of 'evheat, Prance re-
TANKS FOR BYNG
quired that not more than 80 per
cent. of wheat flour may be used A despatch from London says:-
the making of breadein
The Associated. Press has received the
, the remaining
20 per cent.• Consistinof rice, bar- following telegram from France: e. g
"Canada will be_intensely interested
ley, oats, maize, beans anti .ground
nuts.
BRITISH TROOPS. ACHIEVE GREAT
VICTORY OVER FRONT OF 32 MILES
General Byng's TrooPS AdVance Toward Objective, the Ruilroad
junction of Cambrai--Take 9,000 Prisoners.
A despatch from London say: The
great Hindenburg defence line, upon
which the German commander -in
bad builded his 'teepee of holding the
British from inroads into the open
territory beyopd, has been smashed,
and the task apparently was an easy
Attericing over a front of 32 miles,
extending from the Scarpe River east
of Aries to St. Quentin, with his Eng-
Seottish, Irish and Welsh troops
General Sir Julian Byng, wbo planned
and carried out the attack, hae made
one of the moot rapid and spectacular
delves of the present war, catching
the Germans completely by surprise
jn the onslaught, capturing numerous
positione which. were eonsidered
pregnable.
vimmooloros,v7.
1":10V
The Britisb manoeuvre which has as
its objective the enciveling and can-
ter° of the 'important railroad june-
tion of Gambrel, in Northern Fraiye•
Cavalry, tellies and infantry are %nye
ating along a line running from 'west
of Cerebral to emeth of the town, An
of the vast area (mattered the past two
days has been retained and console.
dated with the exception of Fontaine
Notre Dame, a village captured this
morning', but subsequently lost ae' the
result of a counter-attack,
,In addition to heavy loses in men,,,
killed or wounded more than 9,000.
Germans bad been made prisoner up
to midday Thureclay. The British
casualties aro declared to be consid-
erably less than the number of pris-
oners taken by General Byng's men.
Markets of the Worlil
Breadstaffe
Toronto, Nov, 27 -Manitoba. wheat -
No. 1 Northern, 92,239; No. 3 do,. 121209;
No. 8 do„ $2.171; 'No. 4 wheat, $2,109, te
store Port William, including 29c tale
Manitoba oats -No. 2 0.1W.,.76o; No•
3 C,W., 719o; No. 1 extra feed. 720; No,
1 feed, 01/9c, in store 'Fort William, '
American corn -No', 3 yellow, nominal.
Ontario oats-No..2""whits, 71 to 720,
nominal; No, 9, do., 70 to 710, nomIn'al,
General Robilannt is meeting the full according to freights outside
Piave and Brenta Rivers. In author- 9213Enitternirtrair it4tli' a?. Winter'
Peam-No. 2, 13,70 to 93.80, according
91.23, 00.
force of the tremendoes shock the
enemy has concentrated between the
toBlel:•yhtsivi.oiluattpliide.
itative quarters the corresponclont was cording to frellitge o9t1itifilet.o
toltrhiga=a4e5 to 51.00. according
told that the enemy farces delivering
this blow are in the proportion of Ryeg— No. " 2, $1.72, according to
three to two as compered with .the freights outside.
Manitoba flour -,First patents, in jute
Italian forces, and this is practically bags, 511.50; 2041, do., $11.00; strong
the relative strength on the two wings bake,-' doe Wee, Toronto.
Ontario flour -Winter, according to
west of the Brenta, where general sample, $9.90, 13 bags, Mentreal; 19.70,
Pecori commands the first Italian Toronto; 19.70 built, seaboard, pronint
army, end the right wing along the shiptnent.
Millfeed, car lots, delivered Montreal
Piave, where the Duke of Aosta holds freights, bags included -Bran,• per ton.
the enemy as in a vise. 073, shorts, do., 942; middlings, do.,
$45to $46; good feed flour, per bag,
"115a:3, -No. 1, -.new, per ton, $16 to 517;
mixed, do., $13 to 515, track Toronto.
Straw -Car lots, per ton, 11.50 tr. 93,
track, Toronto,
. in the splendid'l. successful attack on
the River Scarpe. • The credit of the
122 BRITISH SHIPS. victory goes to General Byng, the
LOST WITHOUT TRACE Canadians' format Commander. With
him are some Doniiiiion•Staff officers
"' . A despatch from London says:- who elea.t1 to go with him when he
In the _House c,P Lords on Friday Ad- left the Canadians. ' One unit was led
rniral Lord Beresford, retired, called by a Canadian officer, who, since the
• attention to the inceasing 'lumber of Passchendaele battle, joined Byng's
ships that are "missini without trace" splendid army. The tanks Which broke
and to the disclosure in the com- through the German defences have
inunications of Count von Luxburg, hundrede of adventurous young
former German Minister to Argentine, Canadians. This service is becothing
• of goennany's plans for the sinking of as popular with the Leminion troops
'vessels in this manner. Lord Lytton, as the Flying Corps.
Civil Lord of the Admiralty, replying ---..e —.
to Lord Beresford,. said that in the TEN THOUSAND TONS
three years, ending with October last, OF SUGAR RELEASED.
%.--
122 vessels , had been lost "without —
e 'Arne," The normal average in peace A despatch from New 'York says:
"times, heiadcled, wasiofiveesels yearly. Ten thousand tons of sugar, which had
As the remelt of careful enquiry, Lord been purchased for the Imperial Rus -
Lytton added, he had me reason to be- sian Government before the revolution
lieve that such disasters were increas- and stored in a warehouse here, was
ing. seized by Federal Administrator
George IlL Ralph. It will be placed
U. S. TRANSPORTS upon the market immediately.
HAD EXCITING TRIP ,The sugar was bought for the Gov-
. — • eminent of Former Emperor Nicholas
• A despatch from a French Port, by the Marine Transportation Service
iays:-The latest America:. trans- Corporation. After the overtimrow of
ports to reach here had an exciting the Russian dynasty there *-as no
' trip through,the submarine zone, The claimantfor the sugar. The trans -
first night in the zone two transports portation corporation attached it as
collided. One was slightly damaged part of the personal property here of
while the other had .a small hole torn Nicholas Romanoff, the depoged sove-
' in her bow and a few projecting guns reign, in a suit to recover 92,800,000
damaged, The temporary repairs for alleg_v_edbreach.,,,,,Lco_mract.
'were made and the ships Proceeded.
' The feller/big night a submarine CANADIANS TO CAST VOTES
attacked the transports. The wake of AT POLLS IN UNITED STATES
a torpedo was seen off the bots of
—
one of thefrom- vessels, but no conning tow- A despatch Ottawa says:-.
er or periscope was visible, The trans- For the first time in the history of the
ports, raced plead and succeeded in Dominion Canadian polls will bo es -
reaching 'port safely, where the col- tablishecl in tie United States. Many
lision damage was repaired. Canadians have joined the Royal Fly-
ing Corps and are stationed in one of
CANADIAN TROOPS _ •the Southern States. For these, mill-
•, ARRIVE IN ENGLAND. tary polis will be established, and the
men will cast their vote in the elec-
A despatch from Ottawa says: It tions as though still in Canada. Fur.
is all:ally announced _ through the .they, once a soldier leaves Canada his
Chief Plass Censor's Office, that the' female relatives are entitled to vote,
following troops have arrived' in Eng- Therefore, female relatives of Cana -
land: -236th Battalion, Montreal, diens in British or Canadian units in
Drafts: -Royal Canadian Regiment the States will vote as well as the sole
from Halifax; 5th Royal Highlanders, diers themselves.
Montreal; C.M.R. Depot Hamilton; A.
ee ' --, -
M. C., Montreal; Cyclist Platoon,
KERENSKY'S TROOPS
Quebec; Naval, Quebec; Artillery,
HAVE SURRENDERED.
Petawawa; Forestry, Aldershot; '
Royal Flying Corps, pilots, Totanto; ---
details. A despatch from Copenhagen says:
' ' "The Bolsheviki press agency official-
.
• RUSSIANS IN CAUCASUS ly reports from Petrograd that all of
Premier Kerensky's troops ha Ve sue
-
vendevedICTORYr-
vendeved and that the Bolsheviki also
. — have gained k complete victory at
A despatch from Petrograd
The Russian Caucasus armies have
'saYs: Moscow," says a despatch to the Ber-
lingske Tideride from Hiparanda.
won a marked success against el,e "The Ukranian Government has
enemy along e the River' Dyal, accord-
---
Gen-
ing to information teaching the army sent an army of 150,000 against eta' Ifaledinee head man of the Don
and the Workmen's and Soldieies
Delegates. The Russians initiated an Cossacks, and at the same time Gen -
attack and overcame the enemy, cap- eral Krasnoff, .a member of Ker -
tering 1,600 of them, of whom 184 ensky's staff has gone to Kaledine's
headquarters to open negotiations
Were officers. The morale of the with him"
troops is said to be excellent,
.1,:oriort4c
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"(00 Go Two '
BLOCK'S UP, AND
Tiletsi Sffitel Glfr OUT' ee
THAT STRet_1"
TO t44 Hot.i6b.
Oeuntry Produce--Witoleiale
Butter--Cree.inery. solids, per lb., 424
to 43e; prints, per 1b., 43 to 483c; &Uri',
per Ib., 36 to 38c,
• liggs-Prosh gathered eggs, 47 to 41o.
Potatoes -Wholesalers are paying
growers and country shippers $1.86 to
91.95 for first-class stock, f.o.b. Toronto.
Wholesalers are selling to the retail
trade at the following prices: -
Cheese -New, large, 23 to gilie; twins,
281 to 2390; early cheese, 254 to 26c;
large twin, 26 le 2610.
Butter-lrreslr dairy, choice, 40 to 910;
creamery prints, 45 to 46o; solids, 44 to
46c.
]Oggs-New laid, in carton's, 58 to 600;
No. 1 storage, 48c; select storage, 47 00
460.
Dressed poultry-Stiringchickens, 24
to 26c; fowl, 20 to 22c; squabs, d
abs, Per oz.,
$4 to 94,50; turkeys, 28 to 320; ducks,
Spring, 20 to 23c; geese, 18 to 20c.
Live poultry -Turkeys, 25e; Spring
chickens, lb.. iflo; hens, 13 to 190;
ducks, Spring, 11 to 13o; geese, 12 to
14c,
Honey-Comb-rixtra tine, 16 or,
$3,50; '12 oz., 93,00; No. 2, 92.40 to
92.60. Strained -Tins, 25's and 6's, 19
to 193c per lb; 10's, 183 to 19e; 60's, 18
to 1610.
Beans -Canadian, nominal; importedhand-plokeci, hand-picked, $6.00 to $6.15 per bush;
Limas, per Ib., 1710 176c.
92.25.
Potatoes, ontrack-Ontario, bag, $2.15
Provisions-Who/esale
Smoked meats -Hama -medium, 30 to
31c; clo., heavy, 20 to 270; cooked, 41 to
42e; rolls, 27 to 28c; breakfast bacon,
33 to 42c; books, plain, 40 to 41o; bone-
less. 43 to 440,
Cured meats -Long clear bacon, 273
to 26c lb; Meer bellies, 263 to 27c.
Lard -Pure lard, tierces, 27 to 2730;
tubs, S'15 to 278c; pails, 276 to 28c;
compound, tierces, 23 to 233e; tubs, 283
to esec; mins, 236 to 240.
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Nov, 27 -Oats -Canadian
Western, No, 2, 85c; do., No, 8. 03c; ex--
tra No. 1 feed. Sic. Barley -Malting,
$1.88: Flour -Man. Spring wheat
patents'nrsts, 911.60; seconds, 911.10;.
strong bakers', $10.90; straight rollers,
bags, $6.20 to 95,36, Rolled Oats -Bags,
DO lbs., 94.223 to $4,25. l3ran-136,
Shortsr-110 to 941. 1Vilddlings-94.1 . to
$50. Mouillie-956 to 956. Hay -No. 2,
Per ton, car lots, $12.50. .Cheese --Finest
westerns, 2190; do., finest easterns, 2110.
Butter-Choioest creamery, 45 to 461c;
seconds, 433 to 440, Dggs-Presh, 63 to
55o; selected, 40 to 470' No. 1 Stock,
42 to 48c; No, 1 stock, 39 to 40c.; Po-
tatOes-Per bag, car. lots, $2.20 Lo 92.25.
Winnipdg Grain
Winnipeg, Nov. 27 -Cash prices -
Oats -No, 2 C.W., 75e; No, C.W., 7196;
extra. No. 1 teed, 72e; Na. 1 feed, 609c;
No, 2 teed, 661e. Barley -No. 3, 1.1.229;
No, 4, 91.1091 • feed and rejected, 91.07.
Plax-No. 1 N.W.C„ 92•32,
United States Markets
Minneapolis, Nov, 57 -Corn -No. 8
yellow, 92,06 to $2.10. Oats -No. 3
while, 66 to 07c, Flour -Fancy patents,
unchanged; in carload lots, first clears,
$0,60, jute; second clears, 96.76, Jule.
Bran -533 to 931.50,
Duluth, Nov. 27 -Linseed --$8,339 tn
11.354; to arrive, $3,223 to 52.242; to
arrive in November, 92.304; November,
93.279 bid; December, 93.22'7;
93,111.
1.815 0t001c Markets
Toronto, Nov, 27-I6xtra choice heavy
steers, 911,30512;
to do.. good betty:v.
10.75 to 91.1.411; butchers' cattle., cholco,
10.26 to 910.50; d�.. geed, $0.50 to
9.76; do., medium, 51.76 10.19;
common, $7,50 to 98; batchera' bulls,
choice, $8,60 to 90; do., good bulls, $7.40
to 17.55; do., medium bulls, 5035 to
97.10; do., rough bulls, 96 to 56; butch-
ers' cows, choice, 91.50 to 59.; do., good,
57,60 to 98;. do,, medium 96.00 to $6.76:
stockers, 97 to $9,26; focriers, ISO to
92.75; canners end cutters, $5 to 06,06;
milkers, good to choice, 596 to 9150; do„
oom, and med., 976 to 585; springers,
905 to eiso: light ewes, 511,50 10 k51.50;
bucks and culls, 90 to 910.50; sheen,
heavy, $5.76 to *7.60; yearlings. 912 to
$13: calves, good to choice,: $10 to 16;
Spring, lambs, $10.26 to $16,76; hugs, fed
and watered, 915.25: 00.. weighed off
cars, 910.50; rlo., f,o.b., 577,26..
The grated rind of a lemon is a de-
licious and thrifty flavoring for a
NEWS FROM ENGLAND
NEWS 13Y 'MAIL ABOUT JOHN
BULL AND HIS PEOPLE
, •
Occurrences in the Land That Reigns
Supreme in the Commer-
. • tial World.
A large number of counterfeit half-
crowns arid florins are in circulation o F
roar Erin's Green Isle
in the eity of London.
A night guard of St. Pancras Volun-
teers has been furnished for the local
workhouse and infirmary.
George Brand, of Canning Town;
has been awarded ±200 for the loss
Of two sons, one was toreed64)d in the
Dover Castle and the other in the Alm.
wick Castle.
A royal warrant has been issued
granting the honorary rank of major
to all commissaries of Indian army de-
partments. r District Inspector Riordon, Royal
The Electrical Trade Union have' Irish Constabulary, has been trans -
asked the Ministry of Labor for a ferred from Ballymote to Kilkehny.
forty -eight -hours week and an advance The maximum salaries• of surveyors'
in pay. • assistants in the County of Wexferd
Brigadier -General F. W. lumsden, have been decrease(' from g100 to
V.C., D.S.O., awarded the Victoria 42120.
Cross in June last, is e 'ported wqund- T. 'Crane, a jarvey belonging to
ed. •
et Claremorris, was fined twenty shil-
A divisional commander in the Pun- lings for driving a horse with a sore
jarib has sent 42100 for the upkeep on its breast.
of a Church Army recreation hut in
B 1 alnbch a isetitkoielving aiflaarmmaliatbidodreerrts havaet
France,
returned to work at their original
Street lamp posts In Chiswick are
all being painted white by female wages.
labor. The first prize of g25, given at a
Philip Brandon Jones has been bazaar in aid of the New Schools,
appointed headmaster of the Sbar-
borough School of Art.
There is a movement on in St. Pan-
cras just now to build a new town
hall after the war, to cost 42100,000,
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NEWS BY MA IL FROM IR&
LAND'S SHORES.
Happenings In the Emerald Isle of
Interest to Irish.
men.
Navan, was won by the Mercy Con -
vont, Navan.
Sergeant-Major Byrne, son of the
late Patrick Byrne, Bullring, Wexford,
has been awarded the 1/C.M. and the
The representative of the County Military Medal.
S. Tomkins, a general dealer at 25
Education Authority has stated that
Hill street, Dublin, was fined g5 for
juvenile crime has increased enorm-
failing to label a quantity of lead
ously since the beginning of the war.
On the anniversary of the death of which he had for sale.
Mrs. O'llehir, of Claremorris, was
Lord Shaftesbury a wreath of white
sent to prison for cruelty to her chile
lilies was placed et the foot of the
dren and the children sent to the in-
Johnstatue in 1Vestininstee Abbey by Sh
dustrial School. •
Kirk.
Word has been received of the death
The Navy League demands from
in action of Denis Higgins, R.D.F.,
the enemy ton for ton compensation
and e former member of the Royal
for mevehant ships destroyed and
reparation for loss of men before Irish Constabulary.
poace 5'OO6ftl5 000 coidered The Wexford County Council have
The Town Council of Preston have stated that the allowance of war bonus
asked Alderman Cartmell to con-
to road contractors in the county will
tinue in office as Mayor for the fifth amount to ±1,204.
time, and he has agreed.
Sir Cyril Jackson, K.B.E., has been CATCH OF SEA FISH
appointed a member of the Central SHOWS INC'REASE.
Tribunal for Greet Britain under the - •
Military Service Act..• A despatch from Ottawa says: A
A potato grower of Leverngtoni report on the results of sea -fishing
'Cambridge, was fined 4280 for have operations in Canada for the six
ing sold seed potatoes at more than months from April to September, and
the maximum price allowed. •lalso for the month of October, has
Frank Etheridge, a Hoxton grocer, , been issued by the Department of the
was fined ±95 for selling vinegar con-
1Naval Service. It is stated that in
taining too much water. comparison with a similar ,periodlast
The eastern transept of Liverpool year the landings of cod and halibut
Cathedral is to be built as a war on the Atlantic coast have increased
memorial. ' by over half a million hundredweight.
The- death took place recently_ at The herring catch for the six months
Pertslade, near Brighton, of Dr. this year, however, was far below that
Charles Wells, for twenty-five years of last, amounting to only 645,844
translator of Oriental languages in cwts. as compared with 046,487 cwts.
the Foreign Office, I The quantity of sahnon taken on the
. -- oie--------. Atlantic coast during the season of
• 1017 was 1,578 civts. short of the ;me -
The' 13oy and, the Bull .
The flying hero of the hour is Cap-
vious season's catch.
tain Lau -math who flew from Turin to
Londe?). One who has known him in-
timately tells me that he WAS an ex-
tremely delicate boy, put a very cour-
ageous one,
On one occasion, when ho was about
MANY GREEK DIVISIONS
HAVE JOINED SALONICA ARMY
A despatch from Washington, D.C.,
says: Greece is rapidly preparing to
take her part in the war. A gable -
ten years old, he was walking across
gram received here 011 Thursday from
a field, with a governess and two oth-
.A.thens, via Switzerland, says many
er ladies, when Me party were attack.
ed by a bull, who lame rushing, to- neW divisions of Greek troops swiftly
formed have. taken their places at the
wards them bellowing and tossing his
head, The party were fortunately front. The morale of the new troops
close to Is gate opening on to a lane;
the gate, however, was" locked, end
the ladies had to climb it. The :future
aviator stood calmly facing the ap-
proaching bull whilst the ladies climb-
ed the gate, over which they thee
helped little Marius Laureati, just as
the bull made his charge.
Another second's delay and there
would 5,,,y° been no Captain ',emeriti
is declared to lie excellent.
AIRPLANE BOMBED
CONSTANTINOPLE
A British Machine Blew 2,000
Miles in Series of
Eight Fliglxts.
A despatch -frons London says: The
Adn\iralty announces that a success-
ful air attack in the vicinity of Con-
stantinople has been fully accomplish-
ed by a large British bombing aero-
plane which flew from Engl.-and to a
British base in de.Mediterranerin in
a series of eight flights, 'The stopping
places included Lyons and Rome, and
the total distance covered was nearly
two thousand miles.
The machine was actually in the air
thirty-one hours. This is believed to
be a world's record for a cross-country
journey, and for the weight carried.
During some parts of the flight strong
winds and heavy rainstorms were ex-
perienced, and there was one stretch
of 200 miles over a mountainous coun-
try, where it would be impossible for
any machine to land.
BRITISH NEAR
THE HOLY CITY
Capture Village Within Five
Miles of Jerusalem.
A despatch from London says:
British troops marching on Jerusalem
were on Monday last within five miles
of the city and carried at the bayo-
net's point a village almost in the
shadow of the Mount of !Olives. It was
,on the top of this elevation that the
Kaiser endowed -what ostensibly was
a hospital, but this "hospital" has
turned out to be a fortress with guns
commanding the surrounding region.
AIRMAN'S92,:00PER WEEK.
Usually Receive One Hundred and
Twenty -Five Dollars for Trial Trip.
Big fortunes have been made by the
„airmen who test new airplanes. There
have been instances where a single
aviator has drawn a check 92,500
for a week's work.
It is seldom that these highly train-
ooi ascii less that 9500 a week, for
they usually receive 9125 for every
trial trip they make. They are re-
tained and paid by private firms on
government contracts, and from the
nature of the rislts they run their re,
ward is not extravagant.
Every time they go up in a new ma -1
thine -even though it has passed the!
severe factory tests -the expert flyers
take their lives in their hands, and
more -than one has cone to grief ow-
ing to some structural. defect in the ,
machine that could not be detected
until the etriLn of flying brought it to
light. •
Not For Hint.
An old femme wile by hard work
and parsimonious habits had got to-
gether a little fortune, decided that
the time had at length arrivedewhen
he tvas justified in ordering a family
carriage.
T1SH DRIVE
r
150 T 2.1.1.00s ETDA NINKSBin
Anzeiger as saying that the British
used from 150 to '200 tanks on their
t d • advance OD Cambial,
CAREER' OF THE.
LATE GEN. MAllDg
WON RENOWN IPOR STRATEGY IN
THE PRESENT WAR, .
Captor of Bagdad Parried Away On
Novetnber 113th, After a Brief
Lieut.-GePeral Frederick Stanley
Maude, C,B., (1915), C.IY1.0, (1901),
D.S,O. (1900) was an Irishman, born
June 24, 1864, the youngest son of
the late Gen. Sir F. Maude, G.C.13.,
V,C. Ho' entered the army in 1884,
was attached to the. Coldstream
Guards, became Major, 1899; Lieut.
Col., 1907; Colonel, 1911; Major-Gen-
eral and Division Commander, 1915,
He was a eolonel on the general staff
of the War Office when this war broke
out, was one of "the first hundred
thousand" -the original British Army
-in France and was one of the first
officers 06 be mentioned in despatches
during the retreat from Mons, Ile
commanded, as Brigadier -General, the
fawns 14th Infantry Brigade, the
first /moss the Aisne River in the
Venizel sector' in the epoch-m'aking
battle, when the . German onrush to
Paris was hurled bath. He had
neither boats, pontoons nor bridges,
but he got his men across under
heavy shell fire, on rafts improvised
out of wooden fance rails and barn
doors, bound together with oeiers,
and followed this up by capturing at
the point of the bayonet the strongly -
held %village of St. Mfirguerite. Later
on in the campaign he was severely
wounded, and was invalided home, but
directly he recovered he returned to
the front and was on the staff of the
3rd Amy Corps at Festutiert and else-
where. .
Mesopotamian Successes.
He had been several times mention-
ed in despatches before he was sent' to
retrieve the fortunes of the British
army in Mesopotamia. For some
months after Townshend's surrender
•'' eeette,
The Late General Maude.
at Kut -el -Amara in April, 1916, the
British campaign was at a standstill,
until Gen. Maude assumed command
late in the year, and in December be-
gan his attack on the Kut defences.
On Feb. 24 Kut was recaptured, after
a brilliant campaign, and so relentless
was Maude's puesuit of the fleeing
Turks that 15 days later, on March
11, the British lend occupied Bagdad,
having covered 110 miles and crossed
the Tigris three times. Subsequent
operations directed from Bagdad ad-
vanced the British lines a considerable
distance. With the opening of the
new campaign this fall he had push-
ed up the Tigris more than 100 miles
beyond Bagdad, his operations being
designed primarily to defeat the ex-
pected attempt of the enemy to recap-
ture the city.
Served in South Africa. _
General Maude had seen previous
i
active service n the Soudan (1885)
and in South Aftica (1899-19 1) n-
eeding the advance on Itimberley.
Subsequently he became well known
to Canadian's as military secretary
(3001-4) to Lord Minto, when the lat-
ter was Governor-General, and had
charge of the arrangements for the
Canadian tour of the present King and
Queen in 1901. He was private secre-
tary to the Secretary for War, 1905;
DAA., Q.M,G., Plymouth, 1906-8; cm
General Staff, London Divisiom 1908-
9; Assistant Director Territorial
Force, War Office, 1909-12; General
Staff, 1912-14. He WOO married in
1898 to Cecilia, daughter of the late
Col, , Thos,•
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tones of resentment. "My folk ain't
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want to know it."
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Capacity of the Twelvc-Inch Gun
'Piero Dtheribed.
"A twelve -inch naval gum" says
Hudson Maxim, "throws a shell weigh-
ing half a ton at a velocity -newly
three times the speed of sound, For
a single charge it requires 375 pounds
of smokeless powder, strong es dy-
namite.
"The quantity of heat absorbed from
the powder gases in the discharge of
such a projectile is sufficient to melt
, 75 pounds of cast iron, which' is
enough to heat the projectile white
hot,
"When the projectile strikes a
twelve -inch armor plate its energy is
reconverted into heat, and it literally
fuses a hole through the plate, the
hardened and toughened steel of the
armor flowing like wax from its path."
The projectile from a fourteen -inch
eget travels at the rate of 2,600 feet
every second, or a mile every two ace.
onds1
Good farming eoneiate in, taking
large crops from the laud while 4,5 the
same time leaving the soil in hotter
condition for gucceeding crepe,
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