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The Seaforth News, 1919-01-09, Page 7Phr • eme- ON THE FIELD OF WATERLOO COMPARISON OF BATTLE W1111 THOSE OF GREAT WAR • Caaadian Theme Reined and Had Lemeiteon on Groundof Napoleon' Lest Stand. D'Arey C. niggles, of the Canadian Headreearters Staff, writes tis ollows to his mother, who lives in Tcronto. nMetene y 3 had a most interesting tei -fl the siglials car. We left Mons about 10.30 a.m. and went via Waterloo to Bruesels, where we wit - Teemed the magnificent reception given King Albert by the city—his first official visit since before the war. I think it eyrie, without excep- tion, the finest sight I ever saw. We had lunch on the famous field Where 'Waterloo was fought 103 years ago, and it is one of the most inter- esting spots I have seen. The most amazing points about the whole battle thatstruck me were the extremely short distance. and the east number -of men involved. Area or Waterloo. (a) The whole area an which Wat- erloo was fought was less than twelve milesin circumference. 0.9 Wellington's front line was only three miles, along which S5,000 troops were concentrated. (e), While the battle was being waged a 'diriance of only 925 yards interim -Semi between Napoleon and Wellington, the two army com- manders. (d) 45,000 men were killed or wounded inseven hems' fighting, of which 8,000 were French, killed in the attempt to take Hoguemont Farm, a very insignificant place de- fensively, but one of most import- ance strategically. These facts to me were very im- pressive, especially when contrasted with some of the great battles of this war, just neighed. All setts of relics of the equipment used for lighting then can be seen at the little museum near Lye. ' Built by Womeu. Another place of the great:at in- terest was the Mound, built entirely by women. It took theta seven years to complete their taskareceiving only four -pence a day. The earth was all carried from surrounding fields in baskets, balanced ea their heads. The Mound resembles a conical Feet; heap. It contains 165,000 cubic T.. •ss of earth, cowed by nice geten grass es and surmountedeby tke 1. glish lion, -carved in stone, this -'being supported by a pedestal containing 3,000,000 bricks. There are 300 ateps up the side, and the view from the top is well worth the climb—Quatre Bras, Waterloo and Brussels standing out iflearly. The town of Waterloo is three miles distant front the field, but the battle was given the name because it was from there Wellington sent his reports. We went through the famous for- est. of Brussels to Bois de Boulogne. We drove down the main boulevard, pat our car in one of the big hotels, and walked down to the Petals de Ville, • where we steed talking. Both of these buildings are very historic and represent the finest architecture In Brussele, There were very few English officers in the city, and we being Canadians, were the cynosure of all eyes. Bands were playing everywhere, the favorite being "Tip- pevary." Everybody was dancing and having the time of their lives. After dinner I went up to the second floor of one of the largest restaurants, -where there were about 300 people. The moment they recognized me as a Canadian officer they gave three zinging cheers, to which 1 responded "Vive la 13elgiurn.". SAFETY -FIRST COLORS War -time Painting of Neatral Mer - 1 t chant Ships. Has the war beautified or disfigured the merchant ships of the nations? Ships of the Allies are either camouflaged or painted grey, and are armed—no beauty about this. It is When we see neutral steamers that eve get something of the colors of ever. With great dignity these ves- sels flaunt their national cam's oe hull and stern. ' The iron -ore ship from Bilbao has *edand gold bars painted en her side, while the timber craft from Inecammen or other Norwegian poets ilkars a large red patch down her hull, on which there stands a deep 'Nue eross. Greece bas her blue and white etripes, and Denmark her red with white cross. Sweden boasts a golden cress on a marine -blue background,. and Holland bars of red, white and ldee respectively. Itt does not seem so long ago that esse . the trim United States wierthientmsui alezoned her identity to the seven seas by means of a mighty "Mar- omangled banner" on her hull. .• admeHL;.ee. ..Eneee -.'es"-Sed;...,-,'-edie;"•'ne-!..de. feed gait St 141,16,,,, WISP, woo n 1 nate:, 1 WHAT SOLDIERS WANT, n, suegestion l those' who ere sending girls in I soidins overseas comes from lelsCel. (Cano0 Frederick C.eorge Scoff, Senior Chaplain of -the First Division, in a ceble received by friends in Montreal. He says "The nieen want playing cerds :and chewing tobecco." . 4411 .ei)eente an, d.'-ea'nete? era- tn-arrnem ma ett 11 • ednandereieneiedeieneet.'neeierneeneaternieneteineenneeennannefelleneeettenetemeneeieemeenneseiremereranneemenneneemine'.." TERMONDE A CITY TO SHAME GERMANS T H I IR TEEN HUNDRED HOMES BURNED TO GROUND, • Unspeakable Privations Suffered by - Seven Thousa'al Inhabitants For Four Years. The name ot Termonde Will be a thing of shame to all Germans for generations to come, says a correspon- dent on Nov. 20. The world will never forget the story of the deliberate, sys- tematic burning of more than 1,000 1i011,'S ot, harmless Jellaba:eats. or of the murdering f innocent That has been followed by four years of servitude to the Germans under con- ditions oesueh utter discomfort that I doubt if any pereons ot France or Bel- gium have suffered more than those of Termonde. have been in the place to -day, be- . Ing the Ilest Englislunan to visit it, as I must hare been almost the 'last to see it in its long agony four years ago. Of the 2,400 houses winch composed tee town before the war about 1,300 were destroyed or burned wantonly, Memo by hoes, by the Germans on their first entry after they had been there without molestation from the in- habitants for twenty-four hours. Of the something less than 1,200 houses which remain et the town and the im- mediate environs, nearly all are ot the poorer class, and small, and the great majority of them moreor less dam- aged. A large number would not he considered fit to live In In' ordinary times, but the standards of Termonde are not exacting. Of the original 10,- 000 people nenaly 7,000 have continued to live there, and any ruin of a build- ing which could be patched up to give shelter was accounted good enough. Two and three households crowded in- to one small. cottage, • Rooms' were partitioned off to -make homes for two families. To live thus Su one dark room or two 3,vith, the window filled with planks insteedeof glass and holes in walls partially and roughly filled in, has been the normal condition of the people of Terniontle for over fdur years. When the town was burned, of course, all the furniture was beetled, and there remained not half enough of the ordinary necessaries of life. Reentry of Belgian Troops. Tho last Germane left Terrnonde on Nov. 15 and the first Belgians reached the town the following Sunday. All Flanders to -day has lain under a thick blanket of white' fog, which added to Nearly one hundred. vessels lit • ltrince Rupert D.C. eve_ eccapiell In_ eff halibut, - elelilau. fiehing, efid- during See:fern- aloe 28 fishing vessels arrived, bring- ing In a total catch of 1,094,000 lbs, 6i5 4, ,„‘,, ihe handiest kind of lunch for a hungry. bedor girl, is ish of urapeNtits Eaten direct from the pack- age it doesrh bother Mother - and '1/4;y1+1). milk or rpain delicious. Have you ever, eaten grape:Nuts7 made rood Seed lqviae no 1- 026 the dismalness of the landscape, and the 'pathos of the place Was indescrib- able. ` One is familiar- with towns ut- terly ruined in which no man lives, as Ypres and ,Bailleul, but 'rerntonde, where 7,000 people still einst among the four-year-old ruins, seemed to ine to surpass in sadness even those ter- rible wastes, yet it was not a sad day, fer Selgium trams were passing un- aeasiegly through the town on the way to Brussels to assist at the entry of the King, and the people lined the streets, where a few- poor flags flutter- ed, end tried to cheer them and broke into demonstrations of enthusiasm at the sight of my British. uniform. But 'the four years of privation have left their mark on the population, and never, It seemed to me, did the whole people of a town need pltyand sem- pathy more than they. Suffered for Food. In the course of the four years Ter- .motide has had live commandants, and all were equally severe and brutal. As in most places, it is solely the Inter- national Relief Committee who have been able to furnish the inhabitants with bread and fats enough, and tin- ned milk for infant, at least to keep the spark of life glowing. All the lo- cal agricultural produce, whether vege- tables, meat, or real mulk, was, of course, requisitioned by the Germaus for themselves. Many prisoners, in- cluding numbers of English, were in the neighborhood, and during the last few weeks there has beon a constant stream of parties et all sizes arriving from the near front to be quartered for a few days and moved on again to Germany. A local soup 'committee, of which Anne. Bruninex, the Bargomas- ter's wife, was presideut, has minister- ed to these with German consent. The prisoners, while In the neighborhood, all received a good bowl Ge soup each day: without which they must have starved. The church of Notre Dame of Ter - monde contained, with other paintings, two gather famous Van Dycks, both of which were hurried oft to safety be- fore the Germans entered the town, and have been preierved, as, in a similar Way, have been the Pictures from the ' Town Hall, including the mammoth canvas, representing the in- auguration of,Mr. do Keyser, who was, one of Tennonde's most famous sons, en Lord Mayor of London. Of the pd. - nate collections in Tertuonde, however, and, it was-. a town of considerable wealth, predict:My nothing remains ex- cept such things as endividuals man- aged to hide. I described the criminal wreckage of the fine houses and- of the Museum and Art School in 1914, and what little escaped then has since been requisitioned or looted. Termonde was a pitiable sight as I saw It four years ago, when the ahs of the first burning stilt smoked. As I saw it to -day, with the old ruins grown cold but unrepaired, the wreck- age of the big iron bridge still lying in the river where the Oernfans blew it tip after their drunken carousal on the first night of their entvy, and the poor skelton 'of the old Town Hall still dominating the Grande Place, it seem- ed to me sadder Mill. 1 do not think the gaunt people in the streets who cheered their returning soldiers with such an enthusiasm know how sad a sight they aye, or how dreadM1 has been the environment in which they have grown accustomed to live. OXYGEN FOR AIRMEN Artificial Supply of Gas Needed at - Great Altitudes. , The mechanical difficulties that in the early days of aviation prevented the reaching of heights as great as 15,000 or even 20,000 feet were over- come, but another difficulty had to be solved before such ascensions became eradicable. At extreme heights, especially after a rapid ascent, the human lungs do not function properly. They cannot adapt themselves to the sudden cliange of air pressure, and the aviator is treatened with suffo- cation. But this difficulty also wait over- come. Each aviator was provided with an extra supply of oxygen upon winch. he could draw in case of need. The apparatus consists -of an Arson - vat vacuum bottle enclosed in a metal baeitet. The bottle is • filled with enough liquid oxygen for two per- sons for one hem. at a height of 15,- 300 feet, Thee the itopeocle is opened the oxygen passes in gaseous form through a tube counected with the bo Cold produced by the evapora- tion of the liquid gas is so intense that the gas, if breathed in as it comes froni the bottle would congest the lungs and cause death. To make it breathable it is fleet conducted through a long pipe coiled around the basket containing the bottle, and then into 'a rubber bag, from which a tube conveys the gas to tbe aviator: A. second coil with a rubber beg and service tube, is. provided for the use of the passenger.. There is no danger of an explosion should the bottle containing the liquid oxygen be struck by a projectile, but the heat from the burning of the air- plane would be disastrous. It would cause -the gas to expand and burst the container, and the liberated oxygen would air in destroying the airplane. The entire equipment for two per- sons weighs only about eighteen pounds and occupies but little apace in the fuselage of they airplane. In the American army it has recently been ordered that every pilot who goes aloft must carry enough oxygen for from.six to eight houre. . How necessagyoxygen is to an aviator was demonstrated by the ex- perience of Capt. R. W. Schroeder, U.S.A., on his remarkable flight of Sept. 18, 1918, when he broke all alti- tude records by ascending to a height of 28,900 feet. ARMY PIGEON LOFTS Novel War-tinte Use for London Motor Busses in France. One of the many uses to -which Lendon meter buses are put in France le as a home for pigeons. The out- side of the omnibus is roofed in to forts a cage, while the men occupy the eiside—or rather, three-quarters of the inside, because the front part is stet) part of the cage, which is entered by a doer from the men's room,and also by a door at the top of thback staircase. There is an opening in the front of the cage cleverly arranged to let the birds enter when they return from their flights, but not to let them escape when they are inside. A board is deftly poised just inside the open- ing, so that when a bird steps on it an electric bell rings inside the om- nibus to toll the men that a pigeon has come home. The pigeons are taken out in bas- kets to the trenches to bring meg- eages back in case the wire communi- cations should be cut by the enemy's fire. If not wanted fox this purpose they are sent flying back after tweny- four hours with a message, just for practice. Each pigeon has a ring put on its leg when quite young, and is known by the number on the ring. As soon as the bird arrives at the loft a man creeps into the cage, cat- ches it, reeds the message, writes it down in duplicate, and sends an orderly at once with a copy to the signal officer, 'whence it is sent forth like an ordinary telegram to its des- tination, Birds are. always sent in couples, each with the same message, in case one should be shot by the enemy. o 0 • Ugh When People step On Your Feet e Try this yourself then pass It along to others. ame-0-0--o--0-- 0 ? 1 ? 1 This kind a rough talk win be heard less here in town i People troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Olacinuat au I hority, Nebo claims that a few drops of a drug called: freezone when applied to anender, aching corn Mops soreness at once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts -right off without pain. He says freezone is an ether com- pound 'which dries immediately and 110 -ver inflames 01 even irritates the surrounding needle or skim .A. quarter oe an melee of freezone will cost very 1141e :M any drug stove, but is BulfF cient to remove every Mimi or soft corn or canes from one's feet. Millions of Ameelean women will welcome this announcement since the Inauguration of the high heels, It works! Sixty per cent. ofthe work on a ship is in coestructing the hull, and the remaining 40 per cent. is install- ing mechanical parte, deck furnish- inga and other equipment that goes 0 make the finished Yeeeel. ALASKA IS MISUNDERSTOOD I, More Than Three -Quarters of Area,. ' Is In Temperate Zoite. Alakica is the' most misunderstood and misrepresented section of the contitiente Peepla zenerally end, sin- cerely ,,helieve that the, name Alaska is synonymous with snow and ,ice and couple it accordingly with ice cream freemrs and cold drinks, eays an Am- erican writer. Yet the arineipal, eijje of .Alaska along' its southern coast line—Juneau, Ketchilcan, Cordova, Valdes -and Se-teazel—do not average as cold hi midwinter as New York, and are seldom as cold as Baltimore and 'Washington: - Alaska is the size of the whole United States and its prodig- ious area of about 600,000 scinere inilee, nearly three times the size of the German Lrepire, spreads from the temperate zone to the Arctic Circle. Notone-quarter of it is in the latter. Below the' circle lies a magnificent belt of fertile soil. It is estiniated her Government, authori- ties that the great agricultural area of Alaska's fertile valleymand plains, on many of which cattle can be wintered without feeding, aggregate 80,000 square miles, with a climate like that of northern Europe—Nor- way, Finland and Sweden. This land is richer and more pro- ductive than that of any other coun- try in the ceded, well watered, fairly well timbered, and 320 acme are open free to any settler if he wishes to take up a honiestead. In the great Central valley of Alaska the coldest days of winter are not as cold as reported from time to time in the prairie states of -the United States, like Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota. Stock raisers and farmers are going into Alaska on every steamer to look the country over. Vieitoes to Alaska are 'surprised at. what they find when they reach the interior. Nor do they need to suffer hardship in making the trip, for first-class steamships to the principal porta, with unusually reasonable ratee, are running out from Seattle nearly every day, and railroad and automobile lines to the interior are readily available. Nor is it neces- sary to go far, for every valley lead- ing from the coast is waiting for the husbandman. /ilinard'a Liniment sett.ree Dinittheria. 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