TWELVE ENGINEERS SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES, In Order 10, Blow Un » Un a Bridge Across 'the Alsne River, In the Long Re- treat From Mons. Havre, Sept. 18--The blowing up of the bridge over the Ajsne at Sols sons in the long retreat from Mons was accomplished after eleven Bri- tish engineers, one by one, had gi- ven their lives in a vain effort to light t and died, but not until after he had accomplished Bix mission. The story of heroism equalling that displayed at the destruction of the gate of Del- hi was told here by Gaston Bossier, & private in the 6th Cuirasseurs, bet- ter known as "Darino," a singer at ihe Comedic Francaise. "We were together, the Cujraas- eurs of France and the British Royal Engineers," he says, "as we retreat- ed across the Aisne at Soissons, be- fore tho iables were turned by the Battle of the Marne, Tha Germans 'advanced runidly, trying to rush masses of soldiers across. Bridge af- ter bridgs bad to be blown up. The Getman suarpshooters were firing al us from a clump of trees, and the mitrailleuses were working havoe among the allies. "Saddenly a party of British en- gineers rushed toword a bridge. They lost heavily, but succeeded in laying powder sufficient t6 destroy it. Befor they could Mght it all of them were killed. We waited while _.another party of brave engineers crépt near the bridge. They took to cover, but the Germans got the range and continued a deadly fire. "Then we Frenchmen watched what we must remember to our dy- ing day. One engineer dashed alone toward the fuse. He was killed before he reached half way there. A second followed and fell almost up- on the body of his comrade. A third, a fourth and fifth ran in succession the gauntlet of merciless German fire and met the same death. In the same way each followed his com- oo util eleven had been killed, German fire seemed to slacken for an donstant, and in that ins! 'the bridge was blown up, for the twelfth nan, dashing across the spate lined with bodies of his com- rades until eleven had been killed. it. The bridge went up with a roar as the engineer fell before he Ger- man rifle shots." Hossler was a prisoner of the Gernians for some time, but was re- ficued by the British. He told shock- ing details of German 'cruelties which he personally witnessed He hi wounded in the leg, wey dragged on his knees with he ts bande tied behind him, while a ; lance against his Candas Drivers of transport waggons often cut at 'him with their whips as he passed. Irish Compliment. "An' sure, me lady, if yer feet were as blg a8 your-heart, it would- n't be my coins 1 should like ye to be steppin' on." E---------- Mrs. W, H. Levitt, died: in T- yonto on September 14th. Sho was born In Xitley township, ths yonng- est daughter of 1 late €ol. Me- Cred. is survived by th.es sis- ters, two 'in Brockville and one in Toronto, A magatine writer says: "To love a widow 18 a liberal education for any man" Yes, but a little learning is a dangerous thing." 8 With price of meats, Grape-Nuts , « appetiing and-- | * : CANADIAN ros, corn. So, 1D, 2 fuse, A twelfth man tried old, who died suddenly on Tuesday Dr. Beland Wishes fo to be Attaches to Force When it Ardives. Ottawa, Sep. 185.---Hon. Dr. Be- land, M.P,, ex-postmaster-general in the Laurier administration, who vol- unteered his medical services te:the Belgian war office at the opésing of the war and whe is now assisting to look after the wounded at Antwerp, has written to the minister of militia asking to be attached to the Canad- Jan force on its arrival at the front. He will be asked to join she.Canad- ian force as scon as it crosées the Atlantic. Dr. Beland was in Belginm with his wife, who is a Belgian lady, when war was declared. ol i MAY ROBSON 'Martha By The Day," on Thursday, Sept. in at the Grand 24th MAJOR RADFORD DEAD. For Many Years He Was Real Es- tate Dealer Here. Major Isaae H. Radford, 79 years at the boarding house of Mrs, David Paullis at Fort Erie was for many years an extensive dealer in estate in Bufialo. Mojar FEA | survived by Mrs. Radford, Mrs. Maude Radford Warren, writer of magazine stories and the author of Composition and Rhetoric which has had considerable success as a school textbook and twa daughters who reside in Chicago. Major Radford says the Buffalo News, won his military title in the Crimean war. in which he served with distinction. He-returfyed at the close of that war to Kingston. Ont., his birthplace, engaged in banking business, followed his military bent by enlisting iu the engineering corps of the Union army ju the civil war in. this country and served during the greater part of that war. H¥ had, previously been a nu r of the mounted police of South Africa and the Canadian northwest on the Al- askan boundary. He was § lover of adventure. Major Radford come to this city in 1889 and since had been engaged in business here and in several prin- cipal cities. He was involved in a Chinese smuggling case in 1902, be- ing induced io give bond for a band of Chinese who subsequently disap- peared, he being convicted and fined $2560 for coniplicity in their smug: gling. Worldly Wise. He--Would you have had. I been poor? loved me | culties she will CHURCH MUST FACE CRISIS. Activities Must Be Kept At Highest Efficiency. Toronto, S:pt. 18--The following resolutions was unanimously passed at a largely-attended meeting of the Canadian Council of the Laymen's Missionary Mcvement, on motion of N. W. Rowell, K.C., seconded by Rev Canon Gould: "The Canadian Council of the Laymen's Missionary Movement re- cognized that Christianity is now on trial both at home and amgng the non-Christian peoples of the earth; that the present war is a most ser- ious challenge to the Christian faith, to' the supremacy. of the Prince 0 Unless the ehurch meets this challenge with courage and self- sacrifice and riumphs over all difi- lose her claim to maral and spiritual leadership ng the nations of the earth. "In view of this grave crisis, its effect upon Christian missions and the embarrassment of the work of ebntinental missionary - societies through the ravages of the preseni war a peculiar responsibility rests upon the churches of North Ameri- ¢10 assist ir meeting the situation "not ouly maintaining their pre- sent work at home and abroad at its highest efficiency, but-by strength- ing this work in every possible tion, Years of abounding ma- tertal prosperity in Canada' have turned .the thoughts of many men ay from gion. The present serious atti- tude of mind on the part of our peo- ple, brought rbout by the war, pre- seats the church with one of her manding opportunities to rally Christian forces im support of a movement for quickening the spiri- tual life at home and for the world- wide extension of the -kingdom of the Prince of Peace. "The Canadian Council urges up- on every man the supreme import- ance of the present hour, and res- olves to go forward with its work in the full assurance that God is able to overrule the present distress and make the coming year a turning point in the religions progress of the world." WOMAN SAVES SOISSONS. In Absence of Mayor She Pleads With Germans to Spare City. Paris, Sept. 18.--A story reached here of the courageous action of Mme. Macherex of Soissons. When the Germans arrived there they de- manded to se2 the mayor, who was absent. None of the officials re- sponded to the call, whereupon Mme. Macherez went to the Germans and sald: "There is no mayor here, but I am here, and I answer for every one and dvarythhig, as you will have to do ir dapredations sre committed." After disputing the requisitions and the conditions of the Germans the woman suved Soissons on easy terms. "FIRED ON EACH OTHER German "Regiments Annihilated. lroyes, France, via Paris, Sept. I¥ ~--A Saxon officer, a prisoner of the French, declares that near Malines the Gertfan artillery annihilated a Prus- sian regiment which it had mistaken for French. He says also that m a frontier village two battalions of Ger: man infantry fired upon each other until there was scarcely a man of either left. Two Almost the She--Yes, dear; but I would havegu kept you in ignorance of the faet. 'No. War Prices On This Food rand all ather foods elimbing by leaps and flour, sug: hounds, "it is. well to remember the economy and better health in -~ rape-Nuts Made of 'choicest wheat and barley, this food is fully cooked, easy to di- gest, and full of rich nourishment. With eream or good milk, an economical, delicious dish for any meal. You can be independent and live well--with rkB La Packed dust and germ proof in wax-sealed packages--always fresh and There's No Advance in Price ! Grocers everywhere sell: Grape Nuts Crxmeon. ONT. any a sermon that touches Spot is wordless. ---- me, Y v- the supreme claims of | "All's Well --No Blue Ruin could not be otherwise, have been altogether in vain. tyrannical oppression; iain in twain, home life removed; should be no more vast world. Europe shall no longer be Even to-day, embroiled in war and many are working overtime. the products of the soil and of the shatl must necessarily scene of strife, gain by avenues of trade So there fore us. Canada Is sending her hest to aid Britain's cause. We cannot troops. Those who, many extortions of by heart and trusting in Providence, want, Peaceful Prosperity. ap. ALL'S WELL: "WHY IS BRITAIN AT WAR" ? An Article In the September Nation- al Drug News. In the National September , a very organ issued by the National Drug company, appears' an interesting ar ticle entitled . "Why Is Britain at War?" It iy from the pen of L. W. Bole, president of the company, and sets forth very clecrly the position in Ewrope and the incidents leading up to the declaration of war hy Great Britain. It was pat, he point- ed eut, for the reason of ' material gain, nor was it because England was bound by treaty to defend the nevtrality of Belgium oF to helg France. It was hecanse her honour demanded that shé'do both: . these things. : - The article ologes as fol- lows : "But the kaiser reckoned without his host--Britain did mot barter her right to defend her honor or her in- terests. Her people at home, and throughout the empire, closed rank and stood as one man ready to assume the terrible consequences of war rather than that the flag ishould suffer dishonor, or that it should be lowered in the markets of the mar- kets of the world. "Great Brigain, the little _.jsland nation, no than one _of own provimees, whose ports and, mar kets are dree to the whole world, whose army and mavy 'are manned without a single comseript, and whos government is as frée and de tic as Jer ing for the J tween pluck, industry and en world over, shall not > before the unbridled lust of & military auto erat. To Canadians this is an iin- spiring spectacle. "Tt is t¢ wypintain her place in the empire and to share with ithe mo Drug News attractive hopse for of divilization, that Cepada offers in thisscrisis, so ungrudgingly, the flower of her young- wmnhood and the first fruits of her industry." A ---- i ---- FOUGHT BEHIND CORPSES. Germans Erected Grim Barrier « Resist Charges. (Contributed by Geo. H. It is the very irony of fate that, just as we were preparing to cele- brate a ventury of peace, thé nationg of the world should be dlutched at each other's throats--destroying, wounding, slaying, slaughtering. The deadly conflict was Inevitable, for conditions had arisen that if The appalling sacrifice of life, devastation] and the wanton loss of priceless treasure, however, shall not . Mighty consequences may result. Stricken Poland will regain nationhdod after a century and a half of The persecuted Jews of Europe will have their full rights restored; Home Rule, which until war broke out, will re-unite the Motherland; Woman will be given the suffrege, and a fearful menace to Britain's And, above all, the nations must unite squandering of gigantic rival fleets and colossal epposing land fighting forces. wealth expended in hon-produciive war material--for armament® destroys and does not produce--cowld be profitably spent in the betterment of the an armed camp. happier conditions will naturally' arise, in the better times that are to cone as she is--for when Britain's 'anada is at war---comparatively few Never were factory in such God forbid that we should build others, but it is the concensus of opinion that the new wonid, far from the the terrible disruption of the old. be with a great demand for our products is no cause for despair blood and all Canadian has a duty just as sacred, unwillingly, by not being stampeded with the panicky ery.of hard times, up and down despairing of the country, unscrupulous price-raisers, lessening the number of the by when the Dove of Peace once more descends upon earth, place her first among the nations of the world as a land of Ilimitable Opportunities and While mourning the ploring the desolation of fair\ lands, homes, and the utter ruin of countless peoples--it may be that the end of this Age of War and Death and Destruction will be followed by a brighter and-better Era in which she Dominion shall play no inconsequential part. All that Canadians have to do is to stand pat! and keep their courage Our | ther country the burdens of this war Ham, Montreal.) the widespread was ominously rending Pri- in policing the world. There countless billfons to maintain The untold and share Entirely new and Canada must naturally at war, of our own industries are suffering, these s0 busy. Never were heavy demand. ur prosperity on the misfortunes of ' New opened, new markets spring up-- no gaunt spectre of Blue Ruin be- and munitivns but as precious, as our. gallant hér best food be in the firing line, every if not remain at home can help Canada by not going by not tamely submitting to the by unemployed, co-operating in minimizing and, for Canada which will, with a staunch doing that appalling sacrifice of life de- the awful annihilation of peaceful [ nr ------------------------ VEVER BEFORE! NEVER AGAIN! Wounded German Dragoon Has Res- pect for British Cavalry. A wounded German dragoon gave a picturesque Jdescription at the Wa- terloo Station in London the other day, of the British cavalry charge by which he was unhorsed, accord- ing to the London Daily Express. His languagze showed that he was still vividly, impressed by what hap- sened when! the Scots Greys charged it Mons. "Mein Gott, it is hell let loose vhen your English lancers charge," 1e said, 'and I will never Tace them \gain, never again! "We were oatside Mons in open country with a clump of hills be fore us, and 't was 'as we neared them that a troop of howling, yell- ing devils wita lances, but no jac- kets or hats, came racing round a hill and then: straight for us like what you call a blood typhoon! "Never before have I seen any- thing like them: in our army or in my sleep. Your artillery. and your infantry, yes, they. are like our- selves, and. we can fight them; but these lancers -- ach Himmel! "We were four to one of them, but in a flash, paff, they were on us and through us. And there were not more than fitty! Every one.of them speared = wman---I got: this iin * the shoulder=-and some of our horses went over. "Before we could reform or get ready they came dashing back, yell- ng like furies, and they were through 1s again. Ach; it awful, horrible; ind they, by Gott, they turn about wd do it again. This time they tayed with us longer, and then in- deed we thonght that afl the devils if hell were let loose. Every nian )f us was now unhorsed, and yet I loubt if these Jlancers lost more than en. I will never meet thom again Jlease you!" Animal Intelligence Some men at the club were telling log stories after a day's shooting. After some time, when the tales had jot very tall'. one little man: who 2ad been quite silent, said: "I have a dog that makes all yours seem fools. I erally Sood um myself after dinner, but sther day a friend 4 in oa the poor beast slipped my mind. Af- ter the meal we wont Ita; fhe. 34 d= m. The dog scratched up a flow er, | gigeases. and laid it at my feet, with the most yeasntny look in his eyes-- it was a forget-me-not." Nobody told any more stories Pony that evening' ~--Pearson's The home of Mr: ana Mrs. W. Li Way, Thurlow, was the = Scene, Sept. 9th, of a quiet wedding their Saughter Annie was aited artiste +t apie {The German saw the adversary and A DUEL IN THE SKIES, In Which British Aviator Defeats German Foe, London, Sept. 18--The Times has the following irom Havre: "I learn- ad to-day of a combat waged up] among the clouds, during the battle of the Marne, ome of the most .re- markable which this war of wonders has hitherto disclosed. A German aeroplane fiying high visited the Bri- tish lines with the object of recon- noitering. As the machine hovered overhead well out of reach of fire a British airman shot up to attack. tish plane, which skept 'in a wide attempted to stack him from above. Shots were fired, but missed the Bri- tish plane, which swept in a wide semi-circle around his adversary. Mounting steadily the German tried to swoop in order to open fire at close range from above, The sudden, giddy manoeuvring of both machines showed another swift change in the position, The German and British planes were almost at the same al- titude, but out of range of one an- other, Each was fighting for a high- er place. Rushing together the two machines far up now looked exactly like great birds in combat. Then there was the distant sound of shoot- . Darting hither and thither each rman determined to win the ad- vantage over his foe. A machine would advance and retire. Suddenly the British machine swings above, the German reels dnd seems to stag- ger, and then travelling more siowly the German descends, The German is wounded. There have occurred to my'know- ledge many such encounters, in which the amazing pluck of the air- men has been revealed times almost without number. I record this story however, as being the most thrilling which I have ever listened to, and give it in the words of an eye-wit- ness. OFFIC ERS C. APTU RED. Fleet Leaves Syduey to Co-operate With China Squadron. London, Sept. 18--A dispatch to the Times from Sydney dated Tues- day, says that Rear Admiral Sir George Patey, commander of the Austrian fleet, reports that the Ger- man losses at Herbertshohe, in the Bismarck archipelago, were 20 to 30 killed and 17 German officers and non-commissioned officers, made pri- soners. "Considering the dense bush, trenches and the marked ranges," says the report, "our casualities were slight." The Australian fleet left Sydney immediately following the outbreak of the war, according to the dispat- ch, and co-operated with the China squadron: It searched for the enemy cruiser's, put out of action the ene- mys. wireless stations in the Paci- fic, covered the New Zealand expedi- tionary force to Samoa and the Aus tralian expedition to Herbertshohe and patrolled the trade route, The cruiser Melbourne, it is stated, cov- ered over 11,000 miles, mostly in the tropics. SWISS WITH ALLIED FORCES. Tributes Paid to Work of British Expeditionary Army. New York, Sept. 18.--A London Standard despatch from Basel, Swit- Z¢rland, published in the Tribune, says: '""The Swiss press comments very freely on the defeat of the German army in France and displays very conspicuously its profound sympathy for Great Britain and France. The Gazette de Lucerne states that the German army lost all the fruits of its former offensive movement. The German aviators, it says, instead of indulging 'in spectacular bomb- throwing o'2r Paris, should have ex- amined the 'lines of the Fronco-Brit- ish armies, full of fresh forces and burning with zeal fo attack the in- vaders. Wasm tributes are paid to the part taken by the British expedi- tionary forces in defeating the Ger- mans. "Germany in the future is on the defensive everywhere, says another Swiss newspaper." ---------- GERMANY WAS PLANNING To Enter Switzerland, and the Swiss Are Angry. Geneva, Sept. 18. ----Important doe- uments just obtained show that Ger- many planned not only to violate the neutrality of Belgium and Lux- emberg, but that of Switzerland also, 80 as to turn Belfort. The speedy Swiss mobilization in forty-eight hours defeated the German projeet. Swiss offirers to-day are discussing the plan with indignation. It is stated that Swiss troops to the num- ber of 250,400 are ready to prevent any future attempts, TO CLEAR THE BATTLEFIELDS. Hundreds of Firemen Leave Paris on a Sanitary Mission. + London, Sept. 17..--Reuter!s Paris | correspondent says that 800 firemen | left Paris yasterday to carry out, under direction of the army medical service, such sanitary measures on the recent battlefields as will free the capital and the region round about from all danger of infectious Uhlans Plead For Food, Paris, Sept. 18--A detachment of 40 uhlans who had been wandering a the woods of Fontaineniess since engagement at Montma was surrounded by a company | of the territorial infantry, They were! \38arly famished and their first re- the | ry WHO WON FAME IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. Valcartier Commandant Has Been Extremely Interested in Mounted Infantry.--Son of a Soldier, , Col. 'Vietor Arthur Seymour Wil- liams, A.D.C., adjutant-general . of the Canadian military forces, and commandant of the camp at Valear- tier, is a son of the late Lieut-Col. Arthur T, H, Williams, commander of the Midland "battalion in the North-West rebellion of 1885. His father died of 'sunstroke on a stea- mer on the North Saskatchewan ri- ver on the way to Port Pitt, 'above Battleford,.a short time after the victory at Batoche, at which he had distinguished himself. His mother was a daughter of the late Canadian Seriator Benjamin Seymour, He was born in Penryn Park, Port Hope, June, 2nd, 1866. His early education was obtained at Trinity college school. Port Hope, and the Royal Military collage, Kingston. He en- tered the Royal School of Mounted Infantry as a provisional lieutenant, and qualified in 1890, Previous to that he had seen ser- vice in the North-West Mounted Po- lice, of which he became an inspec- tor, in 1887, and in the Mounted In- fantry corps of Winnipeg, in which regiment he was appointed a lieut- enant in 1889. He has, therefore, the advantage of an early association with the West--=that school of hard riders, After some years at Winni- peg he was attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons at Toronto as captain, with which rank he served in the South African war in 1898, He rose to the rank of major in 1901, brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1904, was given full rank in 1907, and was made a colonel on July 16th 1912. His office is to be distinguish- ed from his rank. As an adjutant- general he has to do with the ad- mipistration of business at perma- nent headquarters, Ottawa, His coloneley refers to his rank in the field, In 1905 as Brevet Lieut.-Col. Wil- liams was removed to Kingston as senior officer commanding<the Eas- tern Ontario district, and was ap- pointed honorary aide de camp to the Governor-General. In 1907 he moved again, this time to headquar- ters at Ottawa as inspector of caval- A While in Toronto = he was the commandant of the Royal School of Cavalry. Mounted infantry, however, such as was found so useful in the South African war, is, strictly speak ing, his special branch of the ser- vice, Colonel Williams commanded the Canadian troops when they went to the coronation ~~ of the present king in London in 1911, and stayed nt England" to 'witness the antums manoeuvres. While there he had the honor of being presented to King George. Colonel Williams' active service is confined to the South African war, in which. he served as captain of the first regiment of Mounted Rifles. His active service record includes ac- tions at Vet River and Zand River, in the Orange Free State, and Johan- nesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill, Reit Viel, and Belfast, in.the Tran- syaal. He was twice mentioned in despatches, and received the Queen's medal with five clasps. A big handsome, seldiery-looking man, with a dark complexion and & brown moustache, Colonel Williams is a dashing commander of mounted rifl emen, as he showed in South Af- rica. As adjutant-general he is the second military member of the wili- tia council, of which Colonel Hughes the minister of militia, is chairman, He has been president of the royal military college, and.in 1904 was the first president of the Eastern Ont io Polo association. His place as "a further recognized when he was el- further recognified when he was el- ected president of the Toronto Hunt Polo club and honorary president of the Canadian Cavalry association in 1911. He is an Anglican, 4 member of the Toronto club, and a warm friend of Col Sam Hughes, minister of militia. Military mon expect that Colonél Williams will be retained a Val: cartier to look after any further mo- bilization, while a British officer pro- pably Lord Dundonald, will com~ mand the Canadian forces in the field. - 2x GETS "OLD nD) LUNKERS® Senator Lands Pickerad Weighing 21 and 35 Pounds. Clayton, N.Y., Sept. 18--The gest catch of fish which has : seen at this place in some time was brought in by Senator ¥. H, Gates of Chittegango. Senator. Gates heen at this place for some time ing, and this: i. the first ME he has made. It consisted 3 maskinonge and fifteen a maskinonge wel; wenty-five . averaged about seven making a tial wi matély 150 younds several maskihon season 314 a} have \ to 30 pounds in weight, ception of a sixty pounds o ted to have been caught near 4 er to mat ator Gates also a of about tén and he had the entire cateh of two days on exhibition before Hubbard House. was for something to eat and k. Another d:stachment of uhlans, red near Auberge, said when | * [ken by he French 'troon: what you like with us after. give