Ll se-- ORTH POLAND INSTEAD OF WINNING A VICTORY, - Russian War Office Makes Empha- tic Denial of Germany's Claim -- Russians Outsteipping the Enemy, Petrograd, Dec. 21---Secornful offi- ¢igl denial of the Germans claims of victory in the east, was made from the war office bere yesterday, The statement pointed out the lack of de- tails in the announcement from Ber- - Hu. ' The €lalme of the Germans are not onty denied, but the defeal of the forces of the enmy in northern Po- jand is pointed oul, and attertinn cilied to the faci that Berlin bas adwitted the withdrawal of the troops which advanted from Mlawa The statement says: "The ebject of such fanfares too evident to make us worry about putting a guard upon European op- «= inlon. "The Germans would like to mould this opinion to their own will, but they are succeeding badly. They think they can make themselves eon querors, wheregs, In reality, they have been driven from Clechanot while Russian troops are on their heels and already outstripping them "From the fact that the Germun staff itself has admitted this, neutral countries will be able to discern the truth." Clechanof, mentioned in the state aaent, Is twenty miles south-east of Miawa on the main railway to War- Saw, along the line upon which the Germans attempted to advance. SAVED INDIAN REGIMENT. is Connaught Réngers Faced Terrible Odds, But Saved Day. { Paris, Dec. 21--A thrilling story "of how the Connaught Rangers sav- ed an Indian regiment has been told by a wounded Interpreter. It was ar ranged that the Indians should make .& surprise attack on the German trenches at dawn. They had gone halt y when the enemy, who had been reinforced Auring ; opened fire violently. ans went bravely on, but were raked by \ infantry fire and had to retire to the trenches, The Germans found the range and bombarded the trenche for twenty minutes. The bombard ment was followed by an infantry at tack in overwhelming numbers. Matters looked serious, when ring- ing cheers were heard and the Cor naught Rangers came up on. the double quick. A desperate hand-to hand battle followed. The Irishmen in the fai: of terrible odds, were repulsed and had to retreat. They reformed and attacked again, but again were driven back before the overwhelming onslought of the Ger- mans. In spite of their heavy loss- e%, the Rangers did not lose cour- age. They reformed a second time and with the remnants of the Indians made a third glorious charge. This time they literally swept the Ger mans before them. The enemy at first made a determined stand, but in spite of their numbers they were powerless before the maddened Irish- men, When all their officers had fallen the Germans threw down their rifles and the Connaughts, stil} cheering, occupied their trenches. UNCLE SAM SITS TIGHT, Bombardment of Undefended Town: Not to Be Questioned. Washington, Dee. 21---Determined that the United States shall continue uninvolved in the controversy which has arisen between the European bel { ligerents over alleged violations of | The Hague Conventions, Presideni| Wilson and Secretary Bryan willl make no Fepresentations to Germany| coticerning the bombardment of the) east coast of England by German!' warships, h : Suggestions from the .British press that the United States should take the initiative in protesting to Ger many for the alleged infraction an article of the Hague conventions which prohibits naval bombardmer of "undefended towns," has met with' no response from government. No formal communication on .{! subject has come from Great Brita but the suggestions in the pre velaped an Informa! discussion : high officials herve as to the cour to be pursued by the the Washington | { Washington | government, after which the p -1 dent and secretary Bryan renewed] their determination not to interfere PERS SUNK. | MINE SWEE | Struck Mines on English Coast Near! Scarborough. London, Dec. 21- Sweepers are reported Two to ha ough and Filey. Ancther i to have been damaged. mines, Filey is sight miles douthwest of Searborough. The sinking of the mine sweepers indicates that the waters or the east const of England are-still sewn with mines dropped by the German ecruis ers after the bombardment of Scar borough, Hartlepool, and Whitby. Born In England. London, Dec. 21--A daughter was ~ born at Lychfield to Captain A. A Névill Hayne, Canadian contingent and a daughter bora in London to W. MeKelvie Rodan, director and gehioral passenger manager of the Allan line. : repo All struck A complimentary, non-partisan re- ception and banguet was tendered to Hon. William H. Hearst, premier, of Ontario, at his old home town, Tara, in Bruce county. GCG, T. Townsend cf the 77th nt Dundas, en gard duty at eanal, died shortly after supper, an investigation has IM 110 be ¥l ag AN ACT OF BARBARISM Not only are the Germans work of KING GEORGE TELEGRAPHS | firing on the led Cross and fla Santa Claus dificult and hazardons.-- rtoo MORE IRISH SINCE DEC.1 Assurances of Friendship to New | Recruitingtin Ireland Exceeds That Egyptian Sultan. In England By 28 Per Cent. London, Dec 21.--King George New York, Dee. 21 telegraphed to Sultan Hessein, { of population, Lgypt, England's assurances of | ed the allie friendship and unral support in|with twenty sates rding the integrity of bis | than has country | tistics recently published in Dublin "Your I {and made public here to-day by Col. undert: responsibilities in aiyM, BB Kelly, of the Texas Nationa rave the national life of | Guard, a passenger on the incoming $1 ge stated. | steams 1 ou will he Col. the co-operationfof your |five month ministers protectorate Of {try was ext: Great ain to successfully ove ion he come ull influences seeking 'to des z troy the independence of Egypt, and the wealth, liberty, and happiness c its people." 3 The establishment of orate over Egypt, it is to-day,» removes the threatening leading in t 0 Ireland up to has furnish- Decemberlst, ss has been called to Jaltic ible, with He said that the loyal, the only dis ving from certain or en SE PATRIOT. the protect believed he danger ol I Egypt to he holy war declared. hy 3. Sultan Hussein, formef khedive Abbe of the royal house, w xert the greatest infl ent to the call; like He came obedie He might his mate Who w their comrades fight ar have shirked, well the football ga ror in flag have a your prime, hist 8° lie high AS | And you, a pa ! You v ved | And 'hoped he'd time 1 above ; t And slapped h GUNS | said: sylvania and Weigh! 105 Tons Each, | , Wash, I 21---America 1 will be ide in 'You'll show are, Give us your hand, hake; § army ir iand 3 ¢. him Ra bar gorod, And make him ym Var land's sake. | ca ! lege | That's how day, Clear-eyed hard, te held himself the soldier's way Aud. now they've got Him under! liner guard { Van- { December Jlst. That doesn't hurt you; you're all n are using French right: 1 are reported to have| your easy conscience takes Japar guns recently blame: ould see these guns test he, poor boy, ipetitiof with those manu light. 1 Germany, France and Ja- He eats his heart out, sick with shame, 'em what we | Jeo n old pal, ery tried! round from bar n now on the| couver drunk--for to; you helped him. Yester ind proj § i n Pennsylvania, weighed 1035 each, Other train 1H tons | and earnest, keen and load 3 are on t loaded or An Fambova, which will arrive at ver ie no ¢ 1656 ar with d I J | 1 1 morning' | { | Workmen' Compensation | What's that tq you? You understand] ve notified manufacturers! - Nothing of all his bitter pain; | essment rates to be charged | You have no regiment to brand; { ir the new compensation act, ' You have no uniform to stain. { H. Martel has been nominated | N.S., liberals for the!No vow of service to abuse, | of Commons No pledge to King and country thousand troops were gquick- due; | in Toronto by the use! But he had sométhing dear to lose, + And he has lost it--thanks to you. AAA se AAA oe if truce, On the basis| ight per cent. more men | gland, according to sta-| as been in Ireland for coun- | { there was no regular British | territory. | combined three qualities. | that his country's drumbeat but ghey me rendering the 1 by James Frise, FIRENCH AIRMEN KILLED Death When Caught Fire. Dec a Machine I---=Lient Grueger. r DesTouehe, military avia met death Saturday during a it from 1 a suburb of Paris. they were fiying over the neigh- sorhood town of Vaungirard their bi- ght by a gust of wind ageable and dashed, into a cattle aeroplane cdught fire, and were incinerated. The Weak Spot, A woman, wearing an anxious ex- | pression, called at an imsurance of- | ice one morning. "I understand," she said, 3 I can insure my house 1,000 in your company?' "Yes," replied the agent, "that If your house burns down you 1,600." continued the woman anx you make enquiries of the fire?" ' was the prompt reply t careful enquirie "that for | $ pay 'And, 1 ly. "do any rned to leave The British Soldier. York ld ace) Tommy Atkins back until army, and then trace the English soldier back nearly a thousand years to the time of William the Conqueror, and the record reveals him nearly constant- ly. fighting and gripping and holding He is upequalled for these Soldiers of other nations have fought nobly and valiantly and often, but the results of the English soldier's fighting is circles the world, and the sin never sets on her dominions. as Clty Journal Do you love me, Ingomar?" she inquired. "Um." "There, you don't love me." 'Of course, 1 love you, Parthenia he retorted. "But it's no {ime to bring the matter up when I'm trying to read the paper." » Those Queer Girls. He--When you accepted Mr. Much- gold did you mention our engage- ment ? She~0Of course each we ? not. We promised other to keep it secret, didn't commission Tlie members are authorities on international law, and their pictures shown, the committee includes Sir Frederii Pollock, Sir BUYING THE STAMPS. A The Sir Oliver Mowat Memorial Hos. pital Seals. $5--8. Anglin & Co. > $4---C. 0. C. F. No. 35, Harrow- smith. $2--Rev. G. 1. Campbell. Mrs, A. Haas, Prof. A. L. Clark, Prof. L. Malcolm, Mrs. W. 8S. Ellis, $1.50--Jas, Power & Sons. $1---J. H: Hooper, Miss Elsinere, Taylor & Hamilton, Mrs. A. E. Rob- inson, T. H. Stewart, W..J. Drysdale, Knapp, Mrs. William, McQuaid, Willlamson, A. Glover, Mrs. . Murray, 8. M. Mills. G. Laturney, Mrs. L. C. Duan, Mrs. ££. T. Steacy, ¥, W. Bpangenburg, Miss Ida Adams, br. RB. J. Gardiner, Mys. F. Dobbs, J J. Steacy, 8. F. V. Campbell, Rev. G L. Campbell, Jas. (tedden, Miss OC. Beard, Mrs. W. H. Derrx, Mrs. T. G. Bishaep, Mrs. Mowat, } A. Daly, Mrs, A. 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Presi- dent Poincare and Alexander Ribot, ister of finance, both of whom ie "lmmortals," and 'william Gra- Yeq Bharp, the American ambassa- dor, attended. lenne Victor Lamp, perpetual secretary of the academy, delivered a brilliant address in which he i the revival of the national He declared her enemies had regarded France as a declining na- tion, owing to the existence of wide divergencies of opinion, but that the had shown that France was suf- fering only from growing pains and that the contemporary intellectual niovement had restored, éxtended and made healthy Fraoce's culture Maurice Donnay, the dramatist, also of the regeneration of France, which, he said, had proved lier torruption was merely su- perficial. The war, M. Donnay de- clared, had replaced this corruption by sentiments of honor, patriotism, faith, duty, courage and hope, not only among Frenchmen but among French women, -------- The annual meet- Academy held to- the spoke Tea In the Trenches. Water sterilization by heat in South Africa was impossible by rea- son of the lack of fuel on the high veld In France, an army surgeon at 1he front tells the hospital, there is abundance of fuel everywhere, and those commanding officers who take a lively interest in hygiene are prohibiting the consumption by their men of any water except that which has been boiled--e.g , by beiag made inlo tea. In the trenches this x cellent rule may he g counsel of per fection difficult to carry out in its strictest letter. But the fact re mains that hitherto the army has been extraordinarily fre from water- borne diseases. A Combination Name. A new teacher found that a negro girl . was named Johnson. "Are you sure that Fertilizer your right. name ?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am," replied the girl. "Well, tell your mother here," said the teacher. The mother caifie the next day. "Yes, Fertilizer is right," she said. "You see I named her after her fa- ther and mother both. Her father's name is Ferdinand and my name Liza, so we call her Fertilizer." little Fertilizer is little to come 18 Loeb to Be Roosevelt's Neighbor William Loeb, Jr., secretary to Theodore Roosevelt when the ¢olon- el was president, is going to be a neighbor of Oyster Boy's most wide- ly known citizen, having purchased the Colonel Robert Townsend place. and about five acres with short The property consists of a house dront. Since: Mr. Loeb left the White House he has been collector of the rort of New York, and is now a di- rector and active in the muonage- ment of the Guggenheim properties. --New York Tribune, ~~ Give The Discount. h A a tish terrirorial Wi having is first experience of night duty, and wad feeling a little a The pass- was "Discount." 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