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The Huron Expositor, 1942-12-11, Page 6cee^etea"7.97,, v. THE RV OSITOR . 0600 , 71s. iv • By ANNII, ALLAN 'Hydro Hama Isenowollet "MEATING" THE WAR EMERGENCIES • • 'Rello Homemakers! -Even: if the • average price of round steak is low- er than a .month ago, today's meat prices still make our eyes bulge like the tally on the cash register. Hence this article with •some welcome stim- ulants for the hard hit pocket -book! Have you ever noticed how people the country over are talking about int expensive dishes? Not rare and cost- ly concoctions or truffles or lobster, • but goulashes, stews, ragouts — these are what make folk smack their lips and 'pass their plates, for more. Appetizing stews that surprise and delight 'the family with their concen- trated goodness may be made from •inexpensive pieces of boneless beef chucks, seared until they are almost burnt, then flour stirred in to make a good, thick, rich -brown- sauce. Tak- 14 the skillet trozu the range, care. NUT pour in one quart of cold water, then put in three cups of diced vege- %hies. ettson, oover, place ou 'High heat' until steaming, and then sim- mer until -done. This stew is delicious served Piping hot or bottled cold for the lunch box. The children have named it Mongoose (my goodness) Stew—it is so good no matter what vegetables or seasonings are used. You will be se enchanted with the success of thie'stew that you will be spurred on to try variations. * * * RECIPES Sunday Supper ee pound weiners 2% cups boiled kidney beans 1 •green pepper chopped Salt. Cut weiners into pieces and corn- biee with beans and green pepper. Cover and simmer 15 minutes. Seat son and serve. Variations: I. Place finely cheppe.d apples In split weiners and hake.. 2. Place a thin, slice of cheese in split weiners. Priority Beef Pie I% cups flour • 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt ,1 teaspoon paprika % teaspoon celery salt teaspoon pepper E tablespoons lard se cup milk onion sliced 2 cups cream soup (left -over) le pound ground beef brisket. Sift flour, baking powder ad gea- sonings. Cut. in 3 tablespoons foe. stir in milk. Brown meat in fat, then add onion. Add soup and cover with biscuit mixture. Bake in oven at 450 degrees about 20 minutes. Turn up- side down and Serve. Thrift Spanish Rice 21, cups cooked, rice (% cup un- cooked) ee lb. ground New England ham ends 2 green peppers or % lb. mushrooms 2 cups tomatoes (5 tomatoes) 4 onions (medium) ye lb. cheese Salt and pepper'. tee 1,Itt • ••• EFFECTIVE NOW This—aCtiriii is' taken intim with the Government's declared determi- nation to stabilize living costs on a basis that is fair to all. It is a developing attack on the menace of inflation which arises out of wartime conditions. The prices of tea, coffee and oranges are now lowered by official order. Plans for reduction in the price of milk to the consumer are also under way and will be announced in the near future. The items chosen have been selected because of their important place in the weekly budget of every home in Canada. TEA and .COFFEE Effective now—the retail price of tea• is " reduced by 10c per pound and the retail price of coffee by 4k per • pound below the recent lawful ceiling prices. The table below indicates how the reduction of 10c per pound applies to less -than -pound packages; and is for purposes of illustration only. Tea formerly selling by the pound at..__ $1.00 90c 85c Must now sell at per pound -90c 80c • 75c per 1-2 pound ' 45c 40c 38c per 1,-4 pound 24c 22c 21c per 1-8 pound 13c 12c llc • BULK TEA The reduction in the maximum retail prices of bulk tea sold in quantities less than a pound should correspond to the reduction in retail prices for the small sizes of packaged tea. , TEA BAGS Reductions m retail prices of tea packaged. in tea bags must correspond to those made on packaged tea. ORANGESOranges must be reduced to give consumers the benefit of the reduction in cost to retailers brought about by lower prices for the new crop, by seasonal removal of import duty (effec- tive December lst, this year) and by the removal of the War Exchange Tax. Oranges should -sell at or below the September - 'October 1941 retail price levels. _ . BE SURE THAT YOU GET THE FULL • BENEFIT, OF THESE REDUCTIONS ..•• SPECIAL *NOTICE TO RETAILERS: .„ . i Ritailers wdl be compensated for any loss on present gtoeks—in order that these reductions may be enjoyed by the public immediately. Retailers should take :inventory of their floor stocks of tea and coffee as of the - t 4 let ' ‘“, tilaie,O'biltiness, t todo, December Sth. They will shortly'receive forms rni ' 040hithAtf0 „ itlms for carapeastition for losses onAinveatary �H* T wAkTim E PRICES N'D TRADE BOARD, Arms And The Maple Leaf (ContInUed from Page 2) up about 6.30 a.m., and set out over the ret in frpnt, bumping over shell hole and uneven' ground. About us other field batteries were trotting ov- er tbe slope, one or' two tanks were lumbering Letting and the groups of lightly wounded infantrymen, were 'making theiaeway back; while a few black spout of earth, their shrls and explosions drowned in the eel e, warned us that Fritz was still in ac- tion. Through the mist, soldiers were hastening forward, like the fig- mes in a moving -picture show. The battery in front of us was surmount- ing the crest; a sharp shriek pierced the /wise and a column of earth rose beside a wagon. The shell was only a whizz -bang but had wounded a gun- ner, and soon two more arrived, a little distance away. The gunners stopped, attended to their comrade, remounted and rode away at a trot, We_ followed the "aPprehensive of more shells, but one came and in a minute we were Over the crest. There we saw' a great valley full of tanks, batteries and men and across our front in its midst was the eleva- tion which marked the Canal du Nord. ,At the top of the far slope appearee 'a wood, the celebrated one .of Bour- lon; and on that Slope and over the wood were rolling masses of smoke and cloud that shone red and gold in the morning sunlight, a magnificent spectacle. But we could not stop to eujoy scenery that day. We halted a few' minutes to permit the forward gun to join our, column, then raced down the slope over an earth track and turned to the right and the south. We caught •a glimpse of a wounded man in dire extremity, a sight which hurt us much more than that of a corpse; we wished we could do some- thing to help 'him but were obliged to go to our work and leave him to the stretcher-bearers. , We glanced hurriedly about the valley and saw few dead, which was a cause for' re- lief. Suddenly we noticed spouts of earth a hundred yards ahead of us, directly on our road. We thought that the major would at least swing around that spot, but he led us straight -to it while we exchanged looks that needed no translation into words. Just as we arrived ,at the holes, the shelling ceased and we went by in safety, having had a great piece of luck. In a minute we came to our allotted position, about a hun- dred yards short of the canal. There we unlimbered, the drivers retired, and the gunners put the guns into position for more firing. Other bat- teries pulled in beside us : ana soon all were in action, firing from what had been Fritz's Plant line early in the morning, reaching bis back areas and embarrassing his .retreat. No shells came near us and we breathed easily again. Ahead of us on the oth- er slope was the dark mass of 13-our- lon Wood into which our infantry were making ,their way; the wind was, fresh and the stin shone clear. Our gunners leeethenedetheir ranges ac- cording to 'sheddle and for hours a succession of cracks and flashes arose from the line of field guns behind' the canal while reale behind us told of the presence of our respected med- ium and heavy guns, the 60 -pounders, six-inch and 9.2's. Things seemed to be going well, we said. Late in 'the morning . the noise be- hind us' decreased as the heaVies "stood down", to move forward in their turn; but' on the left a lively bombardment: continued and to the northeast we saw a line of thick lit- tle white cloeds, our shrapnel bursts protecting the fan-like adyance along the canal in that direction. Soon we too ceased firiag, our schedule finish- ed, and yet without retaliation. from the' enemy. ,At noon a long whoop and a pop a?' htindred yards to our left, reminded us of Heinie's six-inch, long-range shells, and" a 'dozen more spread themselves about. We watch- ed the spurts of earth with boredom and contempt and thought that Heinle must be "hard up" to make use of that weapon.- We ventured to belieye that there would be no repe- tition of September 2nd and that our luck was "in." Long before this time, our engin- eers had made a gap in the canal for the passage of vehicles, and late in • IMCE1111011i 11, 112 the afternoon we got 4. the drivors, harneseed the liorses to tht!F and Passed- through the gap. :We set dawn the guns e Uerterealle trent of the canal end behied, laourlen od and the drivers retired to the neigh- borhood of Imlay, We fired a few. rounds, on a target indicated to us by brigade headquarters, and did no more that day. Toward dusk a ser- ies of short rush -bangs with Jets of dust a hundred yards in front of the guns gave us a good night ' from our friend ,Fritz. The air was cool with a touch of, frost, for the first time that autumn, and we dug rectangular holes to place or bodies below ground level, safe from splinters. In these holes we lay down to sleep, happy that the nest and worst day, as we thought, was over, and the canal se- curely in our bands. Wp had four men slightly wounded, our Major, Lieutenant Moffat, and two men, Ren- ison and Norris, but this was a light' price to pay for the success., We ad- mired the efficiency with which our guias had been brought forward and used in the later part of the barrage and thought the arrangements a credit to the corps artillery staff and an improvement on Amiens. Morning arrived with a dull sky— September 28th. After breakfast the drivers came with the horses and we limbered up and proceeded forward, skirting the wood and village of 13our- lon. In an -open field to the left of the wood we stationed five of the guns while the sixth went off to act in - :close 'support of the infantry. About 11 a.m. I was standing in rear of the guns and not twenty feet from me was Corporal Onyett, an English - mate who had come to us. in March, 1917, from a section of the 54th Bat- tery. Suddenly I felt a swift rush between us, ending in a bang thirty feet away. I, was unharmed, but Onyett doubled up and fell with a groan. We rushed to his aid, exam- ined his clothing and found that two or three fragments _had entered his abdomen. Four of us carried him on a stretcher to the dressing station near the village, while he moaned, "Oh, gee, it hurts!" and we tried to comfort him. As we set ,hine down, we saw that his face was of a deadly pallor and we feared the worst as we said good-bye. Later we learned that he had died in the field hospital. A marble -engraver by trade, he had left a sweetheart in Cornwall, Ontario, and he had been a good N.C.O. and a good comrade to us, and we were de- pressed at the occurrence. That shell was the only one which troubled us at the guns that day, but another fell near the horse lines and wounded Bombardier Merritt, while our staff Bombardier Halverson was slightly wounded at the O.P. We fired at 'times during the day, with what suc- cess 1 cannot say. In the ..afternoon our forward gun: returned, having wandered about for several hours and done nothing, not firing a single shot. At night we lay- down again in holes in the earth, listened to the bombing around and went to sleep, forgetting for a while the battle, the casualties, the war. Morning came, September 29th, and. again we fired in a barrage for an- other attack. A bright sun rose and shone over the battlefield; and a .warm wind swept over us, laden with the breath of autumn. After the bar- rage, we had orders to fire some rounds at extreme range, and our gunners dug holes forthe trails to permit of 'maximum s elevation, re - Marking that we looked like an anti. aircraft battery. The rounds fired, we received instructions to move again. The drivers came up and soon We were approaching a village identified by a German signboard with tall black lettering as Haynecourt. Four hundred yards in front of the village was a great road running north, lined with stately trees, the road from. Cambrai to Douai. But we did not go. so •far; we turned to the right of Haynecourt to a' sunken road running toward Cambrai, and here we placed the guns in position while a fewshells dropped in front and one on the slope of the road, without do- ing damage. • The drivers and 'horses. retired to the rear and we settled. down. In front of us loomed Heinie's balloons, so .cloee that our gunners thought they could see the observers, although perhaps some imagination was at work here. At any rate, we were not far from the front. That We had .not seer,', such shelling since evening we registered the guns, and Pa, sschendaele; it came' continuously while 'we were doing so, more shells on the crest in front of the village, in dropped near and one put a gun out the village and i/i the depression be - of action, compelling a recourse to .tWeen, us and the 60 -pounders, and ordnance. We wondered whether Fritz were registering on us- and -could - Foresee a bad time if that were so, but Ire was not so engaged, and we were safe for the moment, Yet the sunken road by Haynecourt was cer- tain to prove a "hot place." About fifty yardi further along this toad toward Cambrai there was a deep German dugout, occupied at that time by the headquarters of the 75th Battalion, and here our officers also took their abode with the telephon- ists on duty. The rest of us dug funk holes in the side of the road toward most of the da y 1.11 tanaport-of tbera. A battery of siattypoendeee took sta- .tten on otle left, over depres- shin of grOtind, and, they Were a wel- °MO et4d. poWerful reieforcernent. All Viet day dropped over the whole area of Haynecourt and the Douai • road, i.e. our artillery region, but our luck held well, although one or two stens alighted on the edge of our road.. That afternoon a company of infan- try were lying in the road with us, and some !prisoners who were on their, way back of the line. A dozen enemy planes appeared low, two comitie di- rectly over our road. Soon whistles, pit -pate and, drones warned us of their machine-gune' bullets. I had been standing by the Lewis' gun and had tired at the planes continuously. I now wished I could fire at the whole dozen instead of only one at a time. I felt a trifle annoyed at the drones and buzzes around and was glad tb be able to reply. Tile infantry help - d me by handing out drums of bul- lets, and in a nainete the hostile planes went on their way, apparently undamaged by my -fire. But 'one of our gunners, Fraser, .was dead, shot through the heart; • he had uttered a faint sigh and collapsed. Malcolm, Farley and another were wounded lightly and were able to proceed to the dressing -station in good spirits. Another Man, Pawson, was killed that da; but I do not remember in what manner. This was the only occasion pia which our guns were targets for hostile airmen. We ex-pected that the corps com- mand would '601 the battle off in view of the, stiff opposition, but that night orders arrived for another bar- rage and attack in the morning. Ac- cordingly we fired again on October fired 1st, and again Fritz red back, bit- ting chiefly the depression between the sixty -pounders and us and miss- ing us by a sufficient margin. For thirteen hours our gunners ,hardly left. their seat, till by evening all were weary 'with toil and black. with burnt powder from the most strenu- ous firing we had ever done. Our Saute onions itNiaking fat. Stir in slieee peppers. --Adeatiee, ham ends, tomatoes and sprinkle, with cheese and seasonings. Cook. Note.—Rice may be cooked with ov- en meal days ahead. TAKE A TIP Don't waste fat. Millions of pounds are needed for conversion into glycer- ine for explosives. All you need do is to strain used cooking fat—bacon grease, meat' drippings, frying fat (ex- cept from fried lish)—into a clean, wide mouthed can. (Do not, use glass or paper container). When you have Fayed a pond or more, take it to your meat dealer. If your community is not actively supporting this, drive, contact your aounty Salvage CoMmittee. THE QUESTION BOX Mrs, J. E. ,F. suggests: "If you break your plastic knitting needle and you cannot get another one immedi- ately, just use an ordinary peneti sharpener to put on a new point" Mrs. L. I. suggests: "Try using bandy lemon drops instear of sugar in hot tea. They give a nice flavor. and add a. novel 'touch."Mrs. R. G. save: "It's a good idea • to keep a package, of pipe cleaners In the kitchen. They are very useful far deeming and drYing tiny hard -to - get -at places, etteh ,around the el- ectrical element; parts Of the can op- ener 'and the -.-%riives in • electric boater bantla,.:!•Xitrhteli,! by. the...way,-- shod& :verY dry before re- InSerted into tIO. *Aline), 'elect tha deo 'of the lover heater" :Mine Albin ifOitea Yeti to Waite to hee 4/0 The ttete.e4iitiositep.: soot .,4tteq:lop'4,04,,,Iiikeenteichit .; .,P0010. f0f, • CONTAINS VITAMIN 51 silence strange to us after the noise of the ten dahts'. battle. We attended to the horses as usual and took break- fast in happy mood. The staff found .a brazier, built a fire in it and placed over it an old tin hat to beat water for a wash. The same water served for four or five of us and Nixon was moved to dictate en imaginary letter: "Dear Mother: The war has improv- ed and we are washing =in hot wa- ter." The fire was welcome, for we now had time to realize that Octobet nights *ere 'bringing frost. Our cainp. was by the side . of the Arras-Cambrai road. near the shatter- ed village of Vis -en -Artois, and there we. of the artillery remained three days while our infantee (of the Fourth , Division) went to Arras for a rest. 'some men of the 9th Battery lit a fire in a shell -hole and suddenly,evoked. an explosion from a butied dud; ode man was wounded seriously, another sl!ghtly. Ip the evening of the„ 8th m I was able to visit e.,cousin again, much pleased that he had come safely through another battle, the third in luck held good save• that a batman, two months, which was something of Rheaume, climbed on the bank of the a record for an infantry officer. 'To - road and was hit by a shell fragment; gether we felt rather optimistic aboutandand all day crashes anclouds of the war, and the news confirmed our diist • Ascended from Haynecourt, ' opinion. On October. 4th 1 had writ - which was ;being reduced to heaps of ten that it would be only a matter of days until we had Cambrai, and on the 9th the major announced to us- that the Second Division had taken it, which- caused us mach satisfaction. We learned that Bulgaria had sur- rendered and thought that great. things might happen in the east. In the afternoon of the 10th I wrote home once more. "We are taking life easy for a couple of hours around a.. stove, writing letters. !and, reading newspapers, waiting for supper and hoping the battery doesn't have to move tonight, wondering when we go out on rest next and what the latest"- - news is . . . Good news is coming in all the time now and we hope it won't gunners lay down to seize what sleep be long before Fritz holds his hands they could. Fortune was with us ; up. There are still six weeks of cempaign weather and almost any- thing may hapen. in them." I was confident that trench warfare was a thing of the past -and that we would not again live knee-deep in med. ..I had begun to think it barely possible• that- the war would end in 1918, but feared- that the enemy, fresh from his showing at C-ambrai, was stil too formidable for us to count on an early victory. In spite of the, losses, brick. • That • day our infantry fought a fierce battle with the Germans, who used their reserves in counter-attack after counter-attack. After one such affair, our guns were firing at 2,000 yards, and from the parapet 'of our road we could see a portion of enemy ground. Dark came at long length and we knew that the struggle in front of us had 'reached 'a deadlock. We expected an during the night and we even speculated about the possibility of moving the guns back 'a little. But orders arrived from Corps and Division for yet an- other barrage in the morning, and our we were not disturbed by S.O.S. or In the morning of October 2nd our battery fired for two hours in the re- quired,, barrage. Its purpose, how- ever, was not to covert another attack but to break up any offensive which Heinie might have had in mind. As the morning passed, it became clear that he had no such intention, and soon ,;the report spread that our Carps vvould .. .aetempenp,..mere,..adetet.theeCorps, ae _heavy for- the -infante- vancei for Seine time. The battle of try as those: of Passchendaele, we' Cambrai came to a halt with the en- were in good spirits, for we were emy still in possesion of the city. making That day, Octoner 2nd, and the next ingweE lheadway and things were go - two, we of the lith Battery remained in the sunken road by Haynecourt.• Appendix—The 27th American We fired sometimes at targets discov- . Division At Cambrai ered from our 0.P.. but no more bar- In December, 1918, an Australian rages. Behind us .the heavies con- sergeant gave me • an account of the tinued their work, their roars often battle near Bony and Le Catelet on attaining a steady roll, The enemy September 30, 1918, in which the 27th replied with 5.9's falling everywhere American division was to alternate over the plain, bet never long in one with an Australian division. This place. Once he strafed us with a was the first serious affair for the short barrage, proceeding methodical- men pf the 27th and everybody was ly from our front line to an earth filled with the desire to do some - road • a quarter -mile .in - rear of the thing. When zero. hour approached, battery, then from the road back all made a rush toward the enemy. again ' to the line. My friend, Serge- Divisional and brigade headquarters ant Overs' gun trew had taken refuge nen, signallers, cooks, stretcher -bear - in a funk -hole, and they heard a dia- ers, left their jobs, grabbed rifles and bolical shriek and gave themselves up rushed over the top. The 'mopping for lost. The explosion came, !five up parties could not see the use of ff et away, but it damaged only a gun. being left out of the fun, and they too ca,ughteup with the front line. Soon a dense mass was running to- - ward the !Germans, with no one tizi control innd no one in rear to clear he' out tdugouts and the machine-gun missed, the' vulnerable spots. Our tuc_a'e nezt. Sue -e aelene' offered-- a-• fire -tar, -wasestila -but-W eaThifffered a little,get to Fritz's machine -gunners and from shrage of supplies and were soon the Americans were falling in reduced o searching the mess -tins heaps. The Germans presently em- end haversacks of dead . infantrymen erged from dugouts in rear and start - for the quarter -loaves issued to them ed shooting. The consequent confu- before the attack. sion was increased by the sight of Hour after hour passed in fine some of our own smoke shells which autumn weather. -Our guns 'flashed were ' unfamiliar and terrifyieg. Some and roared at intervals while fro in of the Americans retired until they the plain around us clouds of dust met our tanks, and the crews of these - sprang suddenly, hovered and slowly persuaded them to term line. The . 'vanished down the gentle wind. Pres- Aussies corning up in support found ently the shelling lessened, and the themselves fired on from occupied ... fourth of October was fairly quiet. ground, and they had to spread out the enemy, and prepared to take Toward evening we caught a familiar and hunt out the machine -gunners , what sleep we could. Reports from sound, the whoop -puff followed by a systematicelly, delaying their schedule the front had it that the German re- thin jet of earth from Heinie's six- considerably. My informant said sistance was stiffening hard. But our ineb long-range. , That could mean that never in his experience had he , own battery had been rather fortun- only that he was preparing to retireseen such masses of dead men. It • ate, and eo far, so good, was our We climbed on the bank and walked seemed that the American officers thought as we crawlee into our holes about securely, looking at the subur- had made the right arrangements, but that autumn night, disturbed occasion- ban houses of Cambrai to' our right. ally by whines 'and crashes on the To our left there was yet much shell- , of enthusiasm and suffered accord- Dotai road, on our flank near Hayne- ing and one tremendous cloud as if ingly. court and far irl the rear where we from the explosion of a mine, but that were better pleased to have them. was far from us. Suddenly a most surprising rumor Next merning, September 30th, we s arose early for another barrage, and spread, that we were to go out of the line that -night. We could not imag- soon the plain of Haynecourt was, ire any good reason for thig, we were alive with flashes and resoun,ded with yet free!). apd ready for OM work, had the roar ;of guns: Soon too came guttered little and wanted to reMain other noises, visious crumps as Fritz and take part in the imminent cap- distribeted explosives over the area. ture of Cambrai. But the report About -seven a.m. we noticed bursts in pairs, one pair in front of our road, Proved correct, and after dark the the next in rear of it, then short ven- horses and wagons arrived. We pack- omous growls and sickening crashes ed the equipment on limbers and ons, departed from that stniken road, wag - right on the road itself. Gunner Dur - scenes of our greategt efforts, and ant in the leg. In a moment he realized the location of the wound marched back to the Wagon lines. and called his riends to bind the There we spent the night, disturbed A .ffileeitti • • f but not harmed by enerny bombings, OM thigh and prevent loss ei blood, They hastily wound a tourniquet about the thigh and n'earried him to the dress- 4" and next day were back at our brat tosition. On October 6th, at V MATE) Witik ,19.00611116 • • night, ive moved to the rear along Ing -station and safety. We, finished the 'barrage Withatit ",,more %fermi). the Mira Work. Our infantry Were deify hilt that was wily the start of in the 4arkness, not far froth the mitt, Ptit. Up otir tents and *etit to deep, 7141C2altviimiamic the great Arras road. 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