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Buy a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at your neared druggist's or, postpaid, by _tail at 50 cents' a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ontario. 1.1s s 11 ihini PINK PILLS "A HOUSEHOLD NAME fl.( S4.;tiOUNTRIES" Further History Of P ssche dae e Latest Discussion of Costly Offensive 'Revives Old Dissensions I• STORY FROM STAFF Director of •13ritisi Military .Operations Su>nrrlar.izes Entire .Movernent Interest continues in the refight- ing of the "Battle of Passcheihcla'le, svlzielh was re-opezi.ed on i rmistiee Day when Gen. Si'iArchibald 1\iac- Douell spoke at a ceremony iu Picton, Otit., anti reealled`tlhis°deadly moment of the war, Sir Arthur Currie made a statement recently confirming what the. Canadian First Division Com- •slander had said in, Picton, Since then he was asked: "Was the real story never,.told until: Sir Archie bald :liacdonell told it the' Other :day?' "Oh, yes, it was toll," be • said. "After the war was over there was who real eeasan for keepisag it secret. t told the Men of the Princess Pets the whole story shortly afterI came back to Canada. I don't just remember the year, bait was at a banquet at Ot- tawa soon fter I returned to Canada." Sir Arthur Currie stated. at that banquet that the Canadian troops had been thrown in at Passchendaele' be - Cause it was absolute] essential to divert the enemy from the French front, whee it wasa known face that the French troops had broken out, order toprevent wholesale surrender. Two battalions of Fr'encli soldiers had Verdun:" in 1916 had exhausted the period of tremendous anxiety.: , . . thrown down their arms the general streegtlh of the French armies. The Besides the loss of from two to four stated A Good 'I ,af Wmr Waste RADIO -CONTROLLED TORPEDO SPEEDS ON TRIAL Hammond torpedo, radio -controlled, is fired during recent United States navy tests off Newport, ILL The new torpedoes cost $12,040 and have six - range. Puff and its gone, th circumstances it is necessary to dorff. About the first two periods the turn back to the early part of the German leader says: year,' _when pile French effort under Nivelie to hveak through the German defences collapsed. He had attempt- ed too much, blind to the fact that "Tlie fighting became more severe than .any the German army had yet experienced. , .. From the 21st of July till well into September was a seriousness oI the situation that arose kilometres along the whole front, it Made Some Furore was naturally concealed at the time, caused 'us very heavy losses in pri- "I remember the .speech -making but in the interest of historic ...fact it sonars and stores, and a heavy ex ay'now be stated. l)enditure of reserves, ... The cost - quite a; furore," said T. C. Lapp, edi- tor of the Legionary. "Gen: Currie told the story in reply to a direct ,question asked by one of the men at- leged costly failure, conceived on a tending'the_banquat. He replied that mighty scale and with corresfionding he was very averse to the Canadians ly abnormal losses, imposed too heavy being used to take Passchendaele, but a strain on a willing and gallant army, Sir Douglas Haig told hits the whole the cord snapped, :and evidespr ead outcome of the war might depend on hnti:tinies of a serious nature broke this action. The action was fought out. The French authorities succeed - nut so hunch for the purpose of cap! ed in hushing the matter up. But it Achieved Objects ' turing the`town but to divert the Ger- was explained. to the British Com- Then there follows an :admission man troops from in front of the slander -in -Chief, and thet'Britisb were fff that the offensive achieved the eb- French army, where trouble had asked to play their part in preventing broken out and mutiny on a large the enemy, from exploiting the situa- scale threatened." tion to his advantage. Views of Generals General Gouraud has expressed his Brig. -Gen. D. C. Draper, now. chief opinion that it was .the: most critical of the Toronto police, who partici- juncture of the war. Ludendorff in pated at Passchendaele, said: "I his "11lemories" remarks that he heard grave misgivings and exceeded all ex -i Schools of beluga whales, which mea - would much rather not be brought in- by degrees about the mutinies and i)ectation. The attack on the Dvina ; sure about fifteen feet in length, often to an argument. Sir Arthur Currie, the losses, but that "only later did we had to be postponed repeatedly." I number 10,000. Such schools are in my opinion is the only .man who learn the whole truth." Russia's Regarding the third period, Ludes -i sometimes mistaken by tourists for powers of resistance after the Revolu- dorff again remarks on the "extremely ` whitecaps. tion hact crumbled and Italy had critical situation, and says, "The me white whales come from the enough todo to hold up the Aus ,];astern ii'ont had to send consider -1 ocean through Cook Inlet into the Be - :beans. able forces 'there. The fourth period luga River. At tidewater, where there "The thought of the possibility of brought "extraordinary. high west - is a maximum high tide of thirty-five a German offensive - on the French age." "Two Divisions that had beenfeet, a long, wide net is laid. One end front was almost too serious to con- held in readiness in the East, and I is staler -.1 ou the mud flats and along template. In the existing conditign of affairs it would certainly spell immedi- ate disaster. Oue thing was certain, Vindication' of French.... ly August battles . . . imposed a "Thea\tive]le attach, with its al -. .heavy strain on the Western troops. In spite of all the concrete protection, they seemed more or less powerless under the enormous weight of . the enemy's artillery. At some points they no longer displayed that firmness which I, in common with the local commanders, had hoped for." Keeping Them Busy Honduras Pips Idle Generals. to Work as Road Over- seers Tegucigalpba, Honduras. Road betiding as a cure for • "revolutionary lever" has been a .seems this year In Honduras. It bas also answered a question as to what the government should do with its huge crop of gener- als. Honduras needs roads and the gen- erals are good bosses. So the super frons commanders were detailed to oversee road gangs. They did good work, too. Nine of them were as- signed to the north coast road, about 120 miles long, and among those who made monuments for themselves in the form of smooth highways were Generals Angel alatnte, Bias Domin- gees, Pedro Trinhinto, Francisco Val- :adares, Rueben Barahona and Ric- ardo Lardizabal. Some of the working generals were liberals and some were conserva- tives, but they realized that good roads avould ielouud to the credit of their political parties and there was much rivalry among thehn., Cu'r'rie's statement that the Battle of Paseehendaele'has been opett history fOh';a decade. KEEP THEM HAPPY BY1 KEEPING THEM WELL It is natural for children to be hap- py, active and full of fun. When they are fretful, fussy and disinclined to ' Play you .may be sure something is wrong. .A.lialost invariably that same - thing lies in the digestive tract: It Is to meet the need for an abso- lutely safe corrective of,cihildboorl ments that I3aby's Own Tablets have been .designed. They gently regulate the stomach and bowels and thus drive out constipation and indigestion; break up coldsand simple fevers and allay teething pains. Concerning them Mrs. W. E. Forsyth, Dover, N.B.., writeele—"I would not be without Baby's Own Tablets as I know of noth- ing to equal then' for fretful, fussy babies who are .troubled with colds or sour stomach." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers . or by mail at 25 cents a box Elwin The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co„ Brockville, Ont. iiiiilard's Liniment for Distemper. Harpoon Replaced By Trap in Hunting Of Beluga Whales Alaska Company Sets Nets in Inlet ` to Catch Runs ; of Big White Mammals Anchorage, Alaska. — An Alaska company near here has devised a method of trapping beluga white whales without tate bother of harpoon- ing them at sea. The capture and killing of these whales is most exciting, as well as a profitable sport. European manufac- turers are willing to buy every pound of hide produced here. The expensive skins are salted before shipment. They finally will evolve. into razor strops, belt lacing, waterproof leather articles, hunters' sporting goods and similar high-class merchandise. ' The blubber is compressed for oil. An extract from the jaws. is valued by jects aimed at. i jewelers to lubricate watches and "I was myself being put to a ter. docks. Meat is dried for dog biscuits rible strain. The state of affairs in and the heavy bones are crushed for the West appeared toprevent the exe- poultry feed and fertilizer. The pearly cution of our , plans elsewhere. Our teeth, which are small, but- of pure wastage had been so high as to cause ivory, are sold to curio makers. 'OOassified AciveriisOtnents liXVIITATXONS V4P4NT'T 11,r Ultt7 MEIN W'.N"1'L1y' 'C1r- 0 1:v1 pay, easy work Barn while leurn-. Ing barber trade under fermis Molekr an orlean plan, avorid'smost reliable barber school system Write or . immediately for free catalogue. /Violet. Barber College, 121 Queen West, Toronto b' YOU DO ANY K ITTXNG, SEND far our special offer end tree <,arplea. English 'Wool Co„ 1' 0. Box 601, DDept, W, Montreal. should give out a statement of that kind. I tlhililc that den. Macdbneil is put- ting it rather strongly," said 13rig.- Gen. C. H. Mitchell, who served, on the general staff of the second army, "But there is this I can say about it. At the end -of that 3'ea.r it was found necessary to put fresh divisions in that part of the line near Passchen 'ciaele. The British were bringing up that for the sake of the Allied cause prevented from helping in an attack all the division they could in order to as a whole the British must do their on Italy, and the debacle of Caporetto i and the whales come in. ensued. But the British diel their best) dust as the tide turns, the air pump %lnish the campaign. The usual way utmost to prevent the Gershon army was to bring them one at a tune, but from regaining the initiative; - by a sudden attack at Cambrai to in- I inflates 'the rubber tubing and the the Canadians wanted to come' as a other words, the British must attack crease tbe, enemy's difficulties, al- I huge net floats to the surface, com- corps—very rightly so, d think—and that was the reason for bringing the ,Caht)adian troops as a whole. to Pass- chendaele. "What Gen. Macclonnell says about conditions .in the French line and about the views of the people in Lon - volt asxz. T.'1S713EO MINK. $126 PAIR; 'BLACK Raccoons, $300 pair; Silver Faxes, $400 pair; Cross Foxes,$200 pair; Isar- altul Persian Lambs $120 trio. 7roe howl Is. $15 each. Ohas, Iteaebecic, ,"an - Week. 12111, Ont. COX.LXBS WlIITB, 6 WEEKS TO 3 'YPA:RS, Also sable and while. Spotless white rubs,, excellent pedigree, 6 weelcs, $100 each: W. A. Elder, Bon Air, Ont- " THE VITAL FORCE .. The one fatal thing in life is to lose one's interest in it, and this Is where the specialist, the man of one set of interests, only seriously handicapa himself in life's . adventure. The Humanist alone, taking the term in its widest se'hse, seems to me to have the key. The vital force that keeps 'man going is not solely physical and material, it is spiritual • as well, a certain ethical and intellectual atti- tude to fife,—Sir Reginald Blom- field. "I would like to know what my wife thinks of me." "That is easy to ilnd out." "How?" "Sit on her new hat" arafQ were already on their way to Italy, were diverted to • Flanders." Unfor- tunately the Germans could not be the top runs a thin rubber hose, con- nected with an air compressor on shore. The net remains sunken on the river bottom while the tide rises "He must be a religious man -he studies the prophets a great deal." "Yes; but it's the profits usually mentioned along with the losses, my friend." on their own front, pin the enemy to though that operation was seriously his ground wear him down, and if interfered with by the dispatch of possible prevent him from lauiiab ng British troops :o Italy. It was de - e, serious offensive either on the Rus cided to continue the Flanders offers- swan or French (or Italian) fronts. General Petain realized this, he Paid a hurried visit to British Headquar- don is probably correct," he went ort, .tees, begged the British Commander- "but we knew nothing about it. in -Chief to continue attacking right "We knew it was necessary to re- through the summer, so that the ],leve the French by putting as much strength as possible into. the north of the lice and naturally it was the fresh His Hearing Restored The invisible ear drum invented by A. 0. Leonard, which . resembles a 'Miniature megaphone .fitting Inside the eat, entirely out of sight, is help- ing the hearing of a great many pee.. pie. Mr. Leonard Invented thiel clruin to relieve himself of deafness and head noises, and it does this; so sic- cessfully that no one could tell he is a • deaf man, A request for inforntatlon to A, O. Leonard, 70 Fifth Avenue, Stzito 437, New York City, will be given a prompt reply.--Advt. French Army might have time to re- cover; and he himself carried out a methodical mission of propaganda to divisions that were used. That is wily' urge his officers to show greater the Canadians were there." steadfastness."` Only One Course So there could be no question of what', was the right course for the British command to pursue, It was impossible to say that we should pre- fer to wait another year; instant ac- tion was called for; and if it had not been taken, disaster would assuredly' have followed. The possibility of tlie need for such a course had been fore- seen, and. plans had already been drawn up for an offensive in Flanders, the recovery of which was desirable for many reasolts,''of which the most Pressing was the 'activity of the IJ - boats •from their bases at Zeebrugge, "Revelations" Not New The Scotsman, of Edinburgh, was interested in the Passchendaele ante nlent in 1020 end 1927. as well as all other papers and people, and publish- ed the following regarding it, showing clearly that the "revelations" of the last few days are merely an old story .revived. The whole thing was gener- ally known then. The article follows; Fireside strategists have expatiated upon the autttuin offensive in Fland- ers in 1917 as a series of quito useless and tremendously 'costly .operations persisted in pig-heatiedly. Ifad the British Army been content to remain on the 'defensive at that ,period, the Ostend, and Bruges. The Arras fight- inentors twee said, it would have been Mg was broken off, the capture of the in a better position to•meet the Ger- man attack in the following spring. Ititherto their views have been wide- ly echoed in Parliament Mid in the: Press, and Passchendaele has been used as a word of reproach to British generalship and as a symbol of waste and needless suffering, But an.article, which Major-General Sir John David- son,. M.P., has' contributed to the February (1921) issue • of the Nine- teenth Century ,now Puts a very dif ferent cotnplexion on the matter and convincingly demonstrates that Pass ehendaele was not only worth while, Messiuee ridge was soon effected, and preparations were under way' to de- liver the Flanders offensive early in Jtily. We asked the .French to take over part of our defensive front, but instead they desired to have a small part in the offensive. It was cola sidered advisable.to acquiesce, but the cohnmencement of operations was thereby postponed, involving the loss of days of summer weather which would have been of incalculable acl vantgae In view of the exceptionally bard weather experienced in August. Thestrategic object was to pin the but that it virtually paired the way to Germans to the British front in the final victory General Davidson was then Director of Military •Operations on the Head- quarters Staff; and is, therefore, In a Position to give an authentic accent north and to draw their reserves in that direction away from. the French. The locality was the best that could be chosen; indeed, it was the only 'one practically possible, Tactically, to of the actual situation axed of the me- dr y@ the enemy from the ridges east tines beirtb f>1ici'atiolt,s, it is a o1 Ypres by gaining 'Passchendaele hil ' decisive in influence, Unselfish in narrative that alfards::occasion for re- and tlhreateniitg his 'hold on the coast character, and unostentatious In exe- newed ride in, and gratitude for, the would; be advantageoles to ourselves, cation." pride forward in that expellee of meld and vincingly how each ofThis ends the article. '11. does not splendid heroi.sni of the soldiers of General Davidson separates the opera- refer hart ouTai'ry to the • Canadians theor ptalls, but beare out Sir Arthor Empire, who. struggled manfully della into five periods, and shows con- . them was justi•. pletely fencing the outlet to the ocean. Many whales swim up the river, but numbers lie stranded on the muddy flats. One shot in the brain with a sive iii a modified form. Ludendorff's 20.30 rifle is deadly. The ton -and -a - description of this, the final period, is' half whales are floated to the render - misleading. Ile says the' British ing plant near here and hauled up the "charged like a "wild bull against the iron mall which kept them from our s'thbmarine bases." But; General Dav- idson replies, "The truth is, that in the mammals are hunted on the Si - all this period of fighting the number of British divisions which actually de- livered an attack was approximately the same as the number which as- saulted on one single day, the 31st of duly." General Davidson does not pursue. farther the tactical zcesults of the battle. Ypres was freed; and the Passchendaele ridge was gained, but the hoped for result—a German re- treat along the Flanders coast—did not follow Considering tihe" difficul- ties nf'teerain; what•was achieved was As consistent Marxians, the Bolshe.1 wonderful, and the various operations � yips believe that the 'world rovolu-; were undoubtedly most skilfully plan- Won", cannot occur until Capitalism ('( neer and executed. But it is the broad fails in Britain. They watch with skids in the same manner as logs go to the mill saws. In addition to Beluga in Cook Inlet, OFFICES $25 Per Month Up $1.00 Per Foot Up Bay and Adelaide .District Excellent Light. Passenger Elevator, Janitor Service WILSON BUILDINGS ELgin 3101 73 ADELIADE W. & 62 FRONT W. berian coast and int the Anadyr River, Manchuria. The meat of beluga is ranch of a luxury with Eskimos and the Aieuts of the north. 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The Flanders offensive saved the 'Allied situation at the moment; it was also anxiety for the withering of the Com- munist branch of the British Labor movement, They do what they can to revive the drooping plant, but their a material factor in saving the situ_- failure liar been so complete that their tion in the spring oe 191S. Ludes -i propaganda can be safely disregarded. dorff admits t1ant "tile Army diad been 1 The advocates of Socialism by vio-. fought to a standstill, and was utterly lelhce area hopeless minority in Bel - worn out." The spring offensive was tain, in the nature of a gambler's throw, for Ludendorff confesses that the German Army oould,not have endured oiother defensive calnpaigu. "These results," General Davidson justly says in his summing-up, "were due almost entirely to the great Bri- tish offensives of the Saonime and Flanders. They were not'spectacular victories, but they wore the enemy out, reduced his power of resistance, saved the Allies, and paved the way to final victory, for without them vic- tory could never have been gained ,. The British ' nation may` justifiably be proud, for probably no otb''er nation could have borne so great a strain or successfully performed so great 'a tall[—e task' of the first importance, hire, not knowing themselves what fled byr es r u its. In doing this lie makes ftNirtarcre Li,1.., nt for Chapped Hands. . Ludes was at stake. In order to understand effective use of quotations rons L,U X FOR THE HAIR Ask Your Barber—He Knows ASI COOLDS an�G +�� BUGKLEY / ChfS%Jia: o flasi S,,rnPAovf'sM "I have to work in the store and do my own housework, too, and 1 got nervous and ruts -down and was in bed nearly allsummer.Theleast noise would make me nervous. l was told. to take Lydia B. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound and 1 have taken seven. bottles. it has shade tae strong er and put more color into my face. 1 am looking fret m a - store and y housework and my four children and I am getting along nicelx,saaw.,` —Mrs 1 Malin, R. R. No. ,s, Nem Sr. East, Hamilton, Ontario, Caui4cTRa Vegiffable:brtiinvi� lydia E. Pin'khditt• Med 'Co : tyrfnM *i D.1, a, and h6onrg„Onterid, Canat: - ISSUE No. 49--4'.2g„ati o,.