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SIR ARTHUR CURRIE
IS 'CLAIMED BY DEATH
General Sir Arthur Currie, who
led the Canadian Corps to victory '15
years 'ago and for the last 13 years
guided the development of the coun
try's greatest university, died in (Royal
lrietorfa Hospital, Montreal at 2.50
,a -m. November 30th, at the age of 57
years.
The indomitable will which :carried
'him through the dark days of the war
and • an to victory culminating with
rhe entry into Mons on Armistice
'Day, 111916, :fought for Sir Arthur
through three weeks of critical Ul-
u eSS.
:But his gallant fight was not to
succeed. 'The illness was too severe.
His powerful constitution gradually
weakened tinder an attack of pneum-
onia that developed Sunday to com-
plicate blockage of a blood vessel in.
the mid -brain which caused him to_be
taken to hospital November 7th,
Crisis to the pneumonia came dur-
ing the night. His family was called
;to the bedside, Soon word was flaslh-
ed throughout the Empire that one of
her greatest soldiers had passed,
'Hundreds of cables and telegrams
were arriving to express to Lady Cyr -
Tie the regret and sympathy 'felt by
soldiers of all ranks and by leaders of
the country and empire.
The ,feeling of the officers who serv-
ed under him was summed up in the
words of Maj. -Gen. A. G. L. Mie -
Naughton, cihiof of the general staff,
'Department of National (Defence, who
:cfd:
"We shall miss him, but he will.
live in memory as 0 great leader of
men, and as a great example; consid-
erate, resourceful, determined and
fearless."
McGill University, to which .he
gave the last 113 years of his life and
fn ,the leadership of which he wore
himself out during the trying years
,,of economic crisis, was clouded in
grieif. Although ,knowing for weeks
"tat the !Principal and Vice -Chancel -
tor was critically .ill, faculty and ender -
graduates hoped he might throw off
the illness.
Canada'mourns a great soldier, a ci-
tizen who brought her honor. The re-
cord of ,the 'Canadian Corps' series of
victories in the 'hundred days from
'Amiens to Mons is written into his-
tory. With it mast live the name of
its leader, one of the greatest soldiers
the war produced.
Sir 'Arthur took command of the
CCanadiae Corps after Vimy'in 1191117,
won with it the tragic victory of Pas-
schendaele that November and there-
after during the winter and spring
months set himself, to prepare for the
war of the offensive he saw must de-
velop in 1}9:148,
Marvellous organizer of victory, he
brought the Canadian Corps into ac-
tion at the Battle of Amiens, Aug. S,
1119;118-1Ludend'or(f's black day for the
(German array—in such a high state
Of fighting efficiency there was, to
quote King lAlsbent of the Belgians,
no corps in Europe of higher renown,
From the victorious advance that
followed, when the Canadian Corps
broke the (Hindenburg line and start-
ed the enemy root, the Battle of the
'Canal Du Nord stands out as not only
the hardest 'battle the Corps ever
,fought, but as tactically perhaps the
mast brilliant feat of arms of the
whole war, That battle was planned
and carried out by 'Sir Arthur him-
self. The British commander-in-chief,
Sir (Dough's 'Haig, after the Canadian
Corps had suocessifully stormed the
Drocourt-'Queant 'L'ine on :Sept. 2,
1018, asked Sir Arthur to make a
frontal attack on the enemy Who had
fallen back on the apparently im.preg-
uable line of the Canal Du Nord.
Sir Arthur demurred, pointing out
the Corps had been through very
heavy operations in the previous
month but its fighting spirit was still
unimpaired toad should not be dulled
by an offensive that held no hope of
success. He submitted instead a plan,
if given a little time for preparation,
to pierce the enemy line by a surprise
attack and roll him up from the flan(:.
II -Haig consented, Lord Byng, the vic-
tor of Vimy and 'former Corps com-
mander, advised Sir Arthur he was
undertaking a terribly difficult opera;
tion. 111te Canadian Corps might suc-
ceed but no other could.
The canal wa.s stormed on Sept. 27
arid after four days' terrific battle in
which the enemy poured in every av-
ailable reserve, he was thrust back
behind his last defense line. It was the
!beginniatg of the end. It was the be-
ginning 01 the enol. The tactics of this
battle of the Canal du Nord form e
regular study of the Imperial !Staff
:College at C'am'berley, England, a mo-
del to ambitious young officers,
1L1 is no secret that if the war had
.continued (Sir.A'rthur, whose military
genius had, conte to be recognized by
!the Allied (Forces wouldhave had
command of an Army on the west
front, of which there were 'four in the
closing months of the war, the fifth
army being 'broken up after the disas-
ter of \D<rrclt, 101'8. As a unit, the
Canadian. Cot•,ps took no part in stem-
ming the title ofthat disaster, icor
,was it engaged in repelling Ltrden-
clorff's offensives of the three follow-
ing months: It was held' in 'G.JI3.,Q.
Reserve TS storm troops on the ortl-
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ers of (loch house'lf, who "declared: Citi Laws front Bosley s? College irielicls called nay attentiurt to the tar -
'A> long as I have my Canadians, 'Sir Sir Arthur William .Currie r'asly raiigration'oi the different species
am not beaten." born in Nap'Perton,-Aliddlesefi CGuu- o1 swallow's the warbled; and tlir•ush--
ty, Ontario, Dec, 5th, 11575, sonof
\\ illiatii' Garner and Jane'; (Patterson)
Currie, and;educated in the public
schools., He w'e.t to the coast iia 1189.1
and taught school in Sydney, B,�C.
The Canadian Corps was ,indeed t114
only reserve left, except troops hur
ried from,l1cglapcl. In those dark`
\larch clays the Corps expected, and
its colnutauder expected, it would be
thrown into the breach and cit was in
:that expectation Sir Arthur address
ed a message to his troq
is: 1od'aY
the, fate of the British Empire hangs
'in the balance. I'place my trust in the
Canadian Corps, knowing that where
Canadians are engaged there can be
no giving way. Under the 'order of
your devoted officers in the coming,
battle, you will advance or fall where
you staittl, facing the enemy. To those
who fall I say, you will not die but
step into immortality. Your mothers
will not ,lament your fate but will be
prone( to have borne suchsolt
s.
(God will take you unto himself."
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This sincere simple Piety was an
essentialpart of the nvan. It was the
:fibre of his being and in that lour of
distress he turned naturally and with'
complete faith to a Higher Power, lr•t
was impossible to be long in contact
with him without .being convinced
that here was a rock of a main, strong
of soul, 'direct, straightforward,
'marching direct to :the goal, abhorrent
of devious paths, yet very 'human,
stern of punpose but with a deep well
of tenderness that suffered with his
men and sought continually to spare
hem on any terms short of tr'eac'hery
to the cause.
!Absurd charges o'f reckless disre-
gard for the lives of his men in pur-
suit of his own ,ambitions, matte first
is the House of Commons by Sir
Sam Hughes, came to a head in the
famous libel action Sir Arthur
brought against an Ontario weekly
newspaper in 19117, when there was
an overwhelming. weight of evidence
that his battle tactics in the final ad-
vance on Mons, selected as the target
by his traducer, were actuated by the
desire to save life now victory was in
sight, so far as compatible with the
order of the supreme command the
Canadian Corps must take and hold
Mons,
tOu October 3, 191148, after the Battle
of Calrt'brai had been won, Sir Arthur
issued a special order to the troops at
his command, in as follows: "The
victories you have achieved are the
fruit of the iron principle you have
accepted freely and of the high stan-
dard you have reached in the techni-
cal knowledge of your arms and the
combined tactical employment of all
your resources. You must therefore
with relentless energy maintain, and
perfect the high standard of training
you have reached and guard with
,ealons pride your stern discipline
iJnrcl'er the lastfttg protection of divine
Providence united in a burning desire
.for the victory of right over might,
unselfish in your arms, you are and
hall remain a mighty force admirer(
by all, feared and respected by foes."
Sir Athur Currie took his life and
,his reputation into his hands when he.
necidecl to attack the Canal Du Nord
at Ischy. 11'1 he had failed he would
have been covered with shame and
obloquy. CISa had been warned by Sir
Julian-Byng at the 'formidable nature
of his' self-appointed task; indeed it
is not too much to say that at that
time no other troops in Europe could
have undertaken with confidence that
astonishing feat of arms. Not only
did the device meet with entire
success, but it saved many thousands
of casualties that must have been
fruitlessly incurred if the Corps com-
mander had stuck by the letter of his
,,rders and thrown the Corps into a
second Passc'hendaele at the flooded
triangle of the Sensec and the Canal
Du Nord.
(His passion for the cause so fired
hint he spent himself for it to the ut-
most, but though his health came
near breaking down under the tension
eel the cloning months of the war he
'never abated, Though he ''night' be
seen at midnight studying battle
plans, he wa's afolot again at dawn; di-
recting and encouraging. He was in
command Of a larger army than Wel-
lington led at Waterloo. Alt could
not know him, but he was loved and
oyered by those with whom he was
in close contact, including his devoted
stay%s and divisional and brigade com-
manders:
Currie received 'the First Order of
!I<tanghlthoocl, the Companion of the
Bath, in 19s15 following the Second'
Battle of Ypres, and received his title,
H:C.\CG„ i•n' 19117 o11 appointment as
Canadian Corps contntander. He was
nacreK,C,B, ii1"1191118 and G.0:M.IG, in
OW, and pionvo•ted General 'after the
Armistice.
From foreign governments he re-
ceived the 'following honors: Com-
mander Legion of Honor, Croix De
Guerre with Palms, France; :Grand
Officer De L'Ordre De La Couronue.
and Croix 1)b Guerre, Belgiumt;Ani-
eri•can D,istingbiched (Service Medal.
He had the honorary degree of Doc-
tor of taws'from the Un'iversi'ties Of
Cambridge, McIGi'ld, Toronto, 'Univer-
sity of the State of (New York, Arcadia
also Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, West-
ern, British Columbia, Middlebury
'Harvard, Queens and Umlon College.
,and` the honorary degree Doctor of
,Although classed In, the war •.asi; a
civilian , soldier Arthur Currie had
so dr :
Lem boyhood a neural flan for mili-
tary history, and life. At the age of 22
he joined the 5th Regiment, Canadial
Garrison Artillery, at Victoria, was
commissioned three years later and
gained comntaird of the Regiment in
19110 Tae transferred to the infantry it
1912' and went overseas as contm,end
cr of the 2nd Ctnaddan Infantry Bri-
gade with. the rank of Brigadier Gen-
eral. In September, 101115, he was ap-
pointed commander of the I st Cana-
dian Division, which post he held urn -
til he .succeeded Byng in command of
the Canadian Corps.
',When he rebutted from thewar
he
'w•as for seven months Inspector -Gen-
eral at Ottawa, highest military office
under ,the government, but he relin-
quished the office he June, ;19'2'0; to ac-
cept the principalship of McGill Uni-
versity, ,Montreal, to which task he
devoted the remarkable organizing
ability he had displayed in France.
'FTe married Lucy Sophia, youngest
daughter of William Chawortlt-Mus-
tern of Nottingham, !England, in '119011,
an:d there were one son and daughter,
Garner Ormsby, a student of Mc-
Gill, and Mrs. A. T, Galt Dunford,
wife of a well known Montreal archi-
tect.
CURRIE'S WAR HORSE
L-IVING NEAR STRA'THRO'Y
Two utiles west of IStrathroy on No.
22 ''highway stands the farm home in
which General 'Sir Arthur Currie was
born just 58 years ago, :his funeral
taking place 'on the anniversary o'8 his
birth. There on the same farm anoth-
er warrior—the general's own charg-
er—spends his days mulling, perhaps,
the times when he carried the :com-
mander of the Canadians along the
battle lines or amid pageantry with
kings.
No other white folks than the Cur-
ries ever owned or lived upon the
Currie 'homestead on the 'fourth line
of 'Adelaide. There, not only 'was the
general born, but his yeoman father,
also, his grandfather 'having obtained
the 'grant direct from the crown more
than a century ago.
'The general's boyhood drays were
spent on the 'farm his 'grandsire had
developed as one of the 'finest in 'the
prosperous countryside of \Vest Mid-
(lieses, His father died iu boyhood but
there his two sisters and his 'brotiter,
former .Wardell 'John A. 'Currie, stilt
reside. There bus mother lived through
the war and post-war days, proud of
the distinction won by her son and
of the service rhe 'had given to his na-
tive land.
WEATHER PREDICTIONS
With the recent change in lweat'her
the prophets may wish to revise their
earlier 'forecasts. However these are
signs of winter as told by Mark .Rob-
inson of the 'headquarters' staff in Al
gonquin Park. According to these
leep snow and severe, cold may be ex-
pected. Be says:
The fold -:timers have been promis-
ing us an early and severe winter
since early autunnt I will endeavor
to give a few of their reasons for an
early winter of deep snow and severe
cold.
One old -tinter called my attention
to the 'height the :black hornets had
built theft nests- from the ground dur-
ing the past season. This is certain to
be followed by deep snow and big
floods.
Another close observer mentioned
the large numbers of naw !flies (IA:ph-
is) on the tag alders. These are very
plentilhil and indicate creep snow, se-
vere cold and early sprits„, with many
black 'flies, ilany in the north woods
believe the white Aphis to be the lar-
va of the .black Illy. ,However, this is a
mistake, as the black fly breeds in
shallow, swift -running water where
they may be found in millions from
about the VOA of May ,to 1st of J'u13'.
Another .panty referred to the height
of the deer mils :on the tree's—"much
higher titan usual, deep snow and ze-
ro .weather for sure." I ventured to
suggest that a big deer might have
been responsible 'for the '(ugh deer
marks he ,had seen. The old fellow
fixed his eye on me and said. "You
drill darned well believe it before the
winter is over."
Another narty recalled the 'squir-
rels anal slice COI:Ping ou't'to the buil-
dings iia nttnrbers: "Sure sign of hard
winter, deep snow and all the rest' that
gees aa'ith a real hard yyin'tcr," Tliis, iT
believe, is the result of no ants or seed
in the coni'fer's. Animals, 'Pike birds,
follow their 'food ,supply,
One of .my friends interviewed some
of his 'Itedian friends. Their rview was
"'Big winter, goalie early; much .floods
titer on; heaver stake 110 fuss. for put
'n big stock of feed—they cut l'efa
"ed=:'feed in New Yea,. "ood year ,for
hunt, snrittg ,canto early,"
In 1Augitst one. of my naturalist
es all ,mo virtg south front tw'u to, three
weeks earlier than usual, He consid-
ered i'", ad Vallee information of .alt ear-
ly and severe :winter,
17 recall the observations of ,one of
our French Canadian rangers,.Be
caul •'Mice you see flat tittle bird
that .walk tip de tree, then waik'do'wn
de tree, on top the linab, under the
limb, all de same."'0 mentioned' the
red breasted nuthatch and described
its notes and actions—"Yes dot's the
little fellow. When he play an de tree
the snow may be deep :and the weath-
er colt( but the winter not very bad,"
\\'e have plenty of these valuable
birds with ers 3 -et and it Will be inter-
esting to watch results.
A'no'ther observer says the taniarac
et turned leaves tt
a tr yellow early this season.
and fell nearly 10 days earlier than
usual, `This means all early winter
witdi big January thaw, severe Feb-
ruary and early spring," he says.
Another party points to the trees.
"No leaves hanging on a clean win-
ter; thaw in January and early spring,
(One thing I am certain of—there
will be plenty of snow and if January
and 'February and early March days
fail to be clatd it will be different to
most of our winter seasons. After
years spent in the forests with ample
time and opportunity to study bird
and animal Wife, I find the migration
of birds depends on the supply of
food. About the 20th of August we
had a couple of cool nights that avould
destroy millions of insects on rot'iatch
our swallows feed. There was a shor-
tage of food, they moved farther
south. This season there are no seeds
in the cones on the conifers, The
many species of birds that feed on
these are .not .with us this winter, Ev-
en grosbeaks that raised their young
here left as s000 as the young were
able to stove to sections where there
was more food. There are no nuts or
seeds on ,'hick squirrels and other
small rodents feed, it's depression
year with then, and this accounts for
their appearance around the farm
buildings in the open country. There
is an abundance ,of woodpeckers, blue
and Canada jays,nuthatches and chi-
cadees. These valuable birds feed
largely on the Parva a 'nal 'cocoon of in-
sects that attack 'our forests. 'Evident-
ly. there is an abundance of their food
to be •founld, Bears migrated out into
the settled parts ,of the country where
food was more plentiful, early this
autumn,
:LYNCHINGS
The spectacular 'lynchings in the
United States have caused comment
and discussion. The :New York Times
points out that since .the beginning of
the cesltury there has been a gradual
drop in the number of cases where
lynch law has held sway, In the first
rfive years o the present century
lynch law took an average of more
than 90 persons a year. Ian the live
years preceding 1133 the annual av-
erage was 115 and it would have been
lower if not for one bad year, 1.930,
which registered 2'5 victims of mob
murder. That year was the first of the
depression and there lnigh.t have been
a feeling lowered morale 'would be
responsible for a new wave of lynch-
ings. The opposite has been the case.
The year 1931 had 13 cases and the
year 1932 had 111 cases, exceeding by
only one the all-time low record of
1929, and equaling the record for
19118.
The Times is optimistic that as be-
tween Governor Roilp'h and the civil-
ized instincts of the American people
the chances are still good that civiliz-
ation will twin. The most encouraging
feature ofthe present 'situation is the
unan'ianou•s opinion of the American
press in condemning Governor
Roiph's a'maziag statement condon-
ing the California lynching, The
Christian Science Monitor says:
'The world has yet to see a civilized
comnniuity based' upon mob late or
governed by it, Lynchings may av-
enge' one crime but It is far ir'", es-
tablishing a social order that will sup-
press crime in general or that will as-
sure justice in the detection of crime.
'T'he hanging of the two confessed
kidnappers of Brooke Hurt of Cali-
fornia is one to test the scrapies of
any 'critic of such violence. But it
does molt alter the fundamental rule
that the calm and considered verdict
of law is preferable in its ';heial effe'ct
to the hysterical and bestial unleash-
ing of indignation. The brutality of
the execution may n0 111010 than
match the brutality of the crime'; but
it is far from proved that brutality is
its own antidote. The emotional effect
on the lynchers and spectators of
such glOrilfrcation of savagery may be
in the aggregate as deplorable as the
effect ,on the, lynched,
lin this instance there appears to
have been little doubt that the ordin-
ary processes of trial would l,:a.v'e re-
sulted in the reasonably prompt con-
viction and punishment ,of the rio''i 1-
erer!s in a'ccordan'ce with I•aiv. What
the mob determined was to make its
sun law to fit the revo''hting nature of
`1,e ease and to hasten the execution
of vengeance. If ,there is any :favorable tinged 1
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meaning to be drawn from the action
it is the indication that Americans are
resolved to have done with kidnapp-
ing and to make it thoroughly unat-
tractive to any who might be tempt-
ed,
Such a resolution, extended to ail
kinds of racketeering, might well be
applauded. That is evidently what
Gov, James Rolph Jr. had in view
when he characterized this flouting of
law as "tire best lesson California' has
ever given the country." But the "les-
son" would better not be taken ton
literally. It would be a dangerous
community to live in that would leave
the suppression of kidnapping or the
enforcement of other lad's to the kind
of passion the chief custodian of Cal-
ifornia's laws condones.
DAYLIGHT SAVING SLIPS
The Western Ontario Chamber of
Commerce has issued the following
information in regard to daylight sav-
ing.
Transportation — Transportation
.companies, airway, highway, railway,
waterway, serving communities in the
Province of Ontario operate all year
on Eastern Standard Time.
Tourist 'Trade,—Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, including the city of Chicago
in the Central Standard Time Zone,
'from wa•'taich region most tourists trav-
elling via automobile come into 'West-
ern \Ontario, operate on Daylight Sav-
ing Time. 'By so doing they place
theit• communities in the Eastern
Standard Time Zone, in Pine with all
communities between the Western
border of Western Ontario and a line
drawn between 'Brantford and
,Guelph,
The latest !figures available for a
complete calendar year-11932—show
that over 1,347,000 United States own-
ed autonrohilies entered Western Ont-
ario through ports of entry between
iSarnia and Windsor—(Sarnia and the
Border Cities included,
'According to the Dominion Census
of 10'31 the total population of West-
ern Ontario with the exception of
[Guelph, operated on 'Eastern Stan-
dard Time all year during the Year
1936,
Detroit and the (Border Cities in-
cluding 'Viiadsor, A'Vaikerviile, East
Windsor, etc„ Port I-Iuron and 'Sar-
nia, operate 00 Eastern Standard
Time all year.
1London' by being placed in the
Eastern Standard Time zone actually
has 215 minutes daylight saving time
each day'` all year. 'That is Eastern
Standard 'Time is 25 minutes ahead
of actual sun time at London,
In Western Ontario Eastern Stan-
dard Time 15 about 20 minutes ahead
of sun time at Brantford and Guelph
,to about 30 minutes et Sarnia and
'Windsor.
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Fort William, Ontario, liecnuse of
its situation between the Eastern and
Central Standard Time Zones had
,passed, a number of years ago, legis-
lation placing Fort William in the
Eastern :5'tandand Time Zone all year.
Confusion is caused by lack of tin-
. on 'tire subject within com-
munities, and on the part of res'idents
of rural districts and school teachers
because df the effect on their pupils
who are generally opposed to Day-
light Saving,
Othercdntmun dries complain of
complications which take plaice
through lack of uniformity through-
out the province.
In some communities considerable
ill feeling developed over 'tate' ques-
tion of observ'an'ce.
Of 96 'communities in Ontario 77
operated on Eastern 'Standard Time
,the year round daring ''11980.
:D,ayligh,t Savings seems- to be los-
leg grnttty iudgisg by the number of
00 to vie, iItettnicioalicies th'st discon-
by vote during '1933.
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