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Bn } Two. of the Batnalions 'gun crews pt firing their guns against the vancing Germans, and went down man after man, until- Sergt. Gardiner lone was left. = After he had used all} This ammunition, he Smashed one of the guns. The other had been silenced me time before by the enemy's fire. [his done, despite seven wounds in jis body, he went out after Captain { Hooper, who was dead when the Ser- geant arrived. = Gardiner got back ithout additional wounds, despite the il of shrapnel. It is rumoredin the attalion that he has been recom- fl mended for the Visworia¢ Cross. | Pte. Edward. Gray The Casualities lists of May 11th leone the information that Pte. 'Edward Gray, of England, who went . The most successful tospp the: following mixture: 3 pounds. | Arsenate of lead and one gallon § | Lime Sulphor-to 40 gallons of 'This mixture should be applied after the leaves come out and just be: | the blossoms open, Miss Brent has gone: to Chicago. It makes one down-hearted to lose young ladies of this character, but we wish her every success. * Remember the Ladies' Aid, May 26. Don't overlook the date. Mrs. J. Barker is ill with. la grippe. - Owing to the rain, League was poorly attended on Sunday evening. fll} Quite a number from' 'here are at- : tending the Evangelistic meetings at "Me Clarence Hodgson, of Oshawa, 1 is i old sequibianes, lion, 2nd Brigade, etc. with the 2nd Bat. of the 1st 'contin- gent had been killed in action. This 118 certainly Edward Gray of Scugog. "I who was one of the first to enlist at Port Perry when war broke out and who wrote the "Star" from Salisbury 1 Plains, asking for letters and giving 2nd Battal- Teddy has '+ ~~ one Af the first from this district his address as no. 8544, "to lay down hus life for his King and untry iff the great war. He will be eriroliedamong the hetoes of Canada | He was eager to Udo his bit" and was ne 'of the khaki dressed Canucks who 'as General French stated "saved the situation" at Langemarch. Edward Gray was born in London, England, where he went to school un- til he was fifteen, and in his spare time working at a market, where his father earned his iiving as a' teamster. Teddy came to Canada and found a good home with Mr. and Mrs. John Milner of Scugog, where he worked for a few years. He also worked for Mr. C. Hardy from which place he enlisted. Ele was seldom absent from the Centre S. S. and church and was a good boy. ~ Casualty List The following are among those whose name we have seen reported as missing, wounded, killéd, who belong [ wotnded i Campbeliford, killed . munications, PORT. PERRY BRANCH G. HUTCHESON, Manager. rai Be tock (D.F. MacF: A Look Ahead A very remarkable article, entitled "The War Boom," appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, of May 15. Briefly outlining financial con- ditions caused by the war, the writer predicts an era of wonderful pros- perity. He bases his prediction upon the following reasons: All factories have been running on short time and short handed. Consequently stocks are very low. The public has been economizing, so that they will be eagér to buy There has been such terrible destruction of property in Belgium, France, Poland, Austria, and much yet to be destroyed, that when the war is ever, building will have to be done from the ground up. Factory wheels will be compelled to work at greatest speed so' that the orders may be filled.» The savings of the people during the past year have been very great so that a tremendous amount of money will be at the disposal of 'the banks so soon as confidence is restored and buying begins. In fact the money is already there, but it is simply béing saved. There 1s no tens dency to invest at present. : "A financier of England, trying to account for the enormous savings deposited in British banks from the time the war broke out, figured that enforced economies of table and dress and luxuries represented ten pounds a head for each man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom "Phe United Kingdom spends eightiumdred million" dollars a year on alcoholic drinks, three hundred and fifty' millions on 'non-alcoholic drinks, one hundred and seventy-five millions on tobacco, and three hun- dred and and seventy-five millions on pleasure motors. In all, without economizing at all on food or dress, seventeen hundred million dollars; almost as much as England spent on the war in the first eight months. These represent some of the things eliminated by the general population of the United Kingdom to meet the expenses of the war. - "Is war a producer of prosperity, instead of wanton, criminal waste, as Mr, Hill regards it? Far from it! War is a total destroyer; but the she shock, the brace, the purging, the steeling to highest effort, the speeding upto the nth degree,--which war gives to the human spirit-- produce the prosperity. Psychologists say that the human spirit is normally about ten per cent. slive. The remaining ninety percent lies dormant, or frivols, or idles, or grouches, or rests easy. = War's shock brings the whole human spirit one hundred per cent. alive, and concentrates that hundred per cent. in one swift hustle, It is the hundred per cent. effort that piles up the prosperity--not the hundred per cent. waste of war." Germany's Peace Terms Dr. Bernhard Dernberg is the man whose business it has been to "say things" since the beginning of the war. One is inclined to believe that these'little' speeches of Dernberg's have been made just to see how they will take with the people of the United States. Evidently the result has not been altogether happy for Dr, Dernberg, for he is making pre. parations to leave the United States --before he is told to go, His "'ex- planations" and justificatien of the sinking of the Lusitania have been badly received. A letter from Dr. Dernberg was read at a pro-German meeting in Portland, Maine, which outlines the terms upon which Germany would be willing to agree to peace. Briefly they are: . 1 'That the sea and all its narrows shall be free to the shipping of the world." 2 That all nations shall have equal use of cable and mail com- This would make joint ownership by the interested na- tions necessary. § 3 While every nation must have the right, for commercial and fiscal purposes, to impose whatever duties it thinks fit, these duties must be equal for all exports and imports, for whatever destination and from whatever source. 4 Germany. to retain Belgium, 'Briefls means that Germany demands unrestricted opportunity fort the developmen: of world wide trade. lingly granted to the German world does not trust Ger- intention. World-wide free- ori wide tying which ; German: