rentosny 121615 SOME FAMOUS RAIDS sisi PAGGE TEN KAISER WAS T00 LATE MS a | could do, and this unweicome know- {ledge is all théy gained in the past | three months. it would have been cheaper tp accept the lesson learned APPEAL TO KITCHENER. Ls BRATISH WHIG, FRIDAY, Not To Select Amateur Pefore Pro. IN CALLING COUNCIL OF WAR IN| BERLIN. . Lik { Germany ~ Underestimated Russia's Fighting Power, and Failed to] Benefit by Lesson Taught Last Oc- | tober. | London, Feb. 12.--News has reached here that another of those fateful councd of war has been held | in Berlin by Emperor Willlam. It is 100 late, for ncither the Russian | commauder-in-chiel nor the Anglo-| French commanders will give away | any chances, and nothing else ean | How repair matters for the Germans. They are mastered on this side, | aid further proceedings for another | few weeks will go as Russia wills, | purpose. The Germans, confident | in their arrogant supremacy, despls- | '8d this fundamental truth months | ago, namely; when' they slackened | if their atempts to crush France in! order to save Koenigsberg and. clear! ile Russians out of East Prussia. | There was just a chance of success | ii France in the early days, eveu though the French were supported | : 3 ritain's Inadequate numbers. | There was never any chance of suc- Coss in Russia with Britain for ally, if only for geographical reasons. The unity of the strategic: plan was abandoned months ago by the Ger- mans as regards the whole war on both fronts. Weeks ago the Ger- mans abandoned the unity of plan #4 regards the Russian front alone. Those in a position to know here do pot believe the Germans have any possible surprises to. spring upon their enemy. Their bolt is shot and the campaign lost. It probably is political necessity which has broken up the unity of the German plans for this war, but political necessities are a factor in every war, and are nuly found iphinical to the strategy | of the losing s'de. THe really great strategist makes allies of these poli- tical factors; which are always pre- sent in every war. Russian success- | 8 are in no small degree due to] this fact, # | a -- Galicia The Key. "The grand duke from the outset of the war based the-strategy of his; scheme upon the importance in every ! sense of Galicia. -~ Whether advan-| €ing or retreating, marching or fight- | ing, the grand duke never lost grip on that strategic scheme. It is now! being put into execution in the Car-. pathians. The Germans sent thiih-} er three army corps to stiffen the | Austro-Hungarian main attacks, but the Germans, if they bore the brunt of the fighting, likewise suffered the worst defeat in the battle. North of the Tukholka Pass the Russians were distinetly inferior in numbers to the Germans. Unquestionably Russia has many more men under arms than Germany, but she cannot dodge them about from front to front as the German comamnders do. In the fighting line the Russians have no superiority in mumbers, and in many a memorable battle they have heen largely in the minority. The grand duke's numbers are mostly | standing ready for use when the proper moment comes, In the actual fighting no more men are employed than are necessary to effect the pur- * pose of the moment, and these men are not wantonly wasted. But the Russians, unprovided with the close network of strategic railways speci- ally' designed in every way for mili- tary purposes, must have numbers to hold all the points of their seven- hundred-mile front. The Germans have hammered at every link of that chain and have broken none. It cost them three-quarters of a milllon men to learn what the Russians Thorse races in the southern | national War can only. be won by unity of | 1 iona during the first invasion of Poland in October, and thus avoided sacri- icing the unity of their strategic scheme, for the sake of learning what everyone else already ksew, namely, that Russians are fighting men of the best stamp. MUST TAKE WAR SERIOUSLY, Dr. C. C, James Scolds Pasers For Reporiing Hockey Matches Napanee, Feb. 10 not' yet realizé she. is at war. will very shortly. The paperg are full matches nd of states. Canada on Feeding the people of such stuff as sarace."' x. C.J. James' words at triotism and production held here this evening Speaking to the armers, James said that. thosé who the pa stayod "Canada does | She | that in time of war is Such were | meeting | br. i | at home on the farm had moré re- | | sponsibility on their shoulders than | Produc: | those who simply enlisted. tion of "more foodstuffs .s patriotism Those western grain growers who promised to grow more wheat if the government of Canada would gua antee them $1 per bushel at ther farm were in error If patriotism has got to be bought, thet we Gana dians don't done so far?" Div. James asked "Lf the farfuors do not work harder ni 1915 than they 1914, but work their means to bei ter advantage, production will, iu crease 25 to 30 per cent. 1915 is the year to adopt better farming meth: ods. Farmers know these better methods, all patriotic farmers must apply them this year as never b: fore. If vou farmers do not heed the call of duty I will call in the farm women to help The Women's Institutes have responded nobly in the Red Cress call. Women have an important place in increased - pro duction, which the cmpire's cail It ¥s utterly any 1s ' impossible for Canada the coming year to produce, much food," concluded D. Jalges Dr. Ji Lockie Wilson gave a stir ring address on the duty of the {fr- mers to increase production. FRENCH NOT BRUTAL. serman Women Just Released Con. tradicts Enemy Stories. Paris, Feb. 12.--A German Fraux W., has written an account of her internment in France, at the outhreak of the war, which has been published in a Swiss newspaper reprinted in the Figaro. She em phatically contradicts German stories of French brutality towards German non-combatants in France, Saying she received the most courteous treat- ment. exerywhere. After a nominal imprisonment was allowed to stay at a hotel Cabors. She left the. country Germany with "'sincere regret." and she ant for TO PO WITHOUT SAUSAGES German Schoolboys Make Sacrifice 'or Fathorland. : Amsterdam; Feb. 12.--The Lokal- anzeiger of Berlin tells of a volun- tary movement among Germa schoolboys to forego the which they usually take to schoct for lunch and to eat only black bread, to show their devotion to the fatherland. Philadelphia, Feb. 12.--Ruch or- ders have been received by Baldwin Locomotive Works from the French government for 100 locomotives. It Is estimated that the contract will Rinbunt to approximately $1,000,- want it. "When have you | did in. too ! woman; | sausa'e | 5 MARY In the noted play of theatrical (FRUIT LAXATIVE | | | 1 | Mamma, Datldy and Children. If you're headachy. constipated, billous or stomach ig disordered and you want to enjoy the nicest liver and bowel cleansing you ever exper- ienced, take a tables iful of ""Cal- fornia Syrup of Fi to-night and in. the morning all .the constipation poison, bile and = vlogged-up " will gently move out of the syst without griping and you will splendid mvery member should use thls f casion demands tive for grandpa as It simply can not t as effec for baby re. Ever PICKFORD. life "Behind the Scenes". Five reels of pafimonnt pictures, at the Grand the last three days of this week. Aa, IF CONSTIPATED, TAKE "CALIFORNIA SYRUP OF FIGS; A Best Liver and Bowel Regulator for j Cross, sick, feverish children just love its pleasant taste and mothe {edn rest easy after giving it, Dbe- use It never tails io eftecy a good 'inside cleansing." | For thirty years "Cal ia Syrup of Figs' has been recommended by Iphysicians as the ideal stomach, liv- jer and howel cleanser. Millions of families who are well informed use inothiing else, but recently there has} | come a flood of spurious fig' syrups, 0 we warn the public to ask plain- at drog stores for a 50 cent hot- of "California Syrup Figs," {and see-that it is prepared by "'Cali- jlornia Fig Syrup Company." We make no cheaper size. Hand back 1any "counterfeit" with contempt. of BARBED WIRE IN WARFARE. | Sheer Necessity Taught Boers Its De. feasive Value, i #1 $s News Chance, quite is the mother of invention It romantic surmise, but res sonable, that = some prehistoric cave dwellers threw what he thought Just a curiously colored stone into his camo fire and saw a strange molten substance flow from it, which later hardened and made a better. weapon than any of his fints. So began the Iron Age. In a later day a hard-headed farm- ing people, fighting against the en croachments of an outside nation, anc thort in the knowledge /of chevadx-de |frise and abattis and other big sounding things in scientific fortifica tions, 'impeded the approach: of th epwny with barbed wire. The farmers had been building fence | atound new land when the war start jed. and the wire was the ofily hand, | thing they had. 2 To-day, in the European war, om {of the most effective of all defenses i | the .barbed wire entanglements, whicl { military collegians have adopted as ar | indispensable part of 'modern warfar after the Boers, ouf of sheer nscessity taught them its value. as much a3 petess ty IS n A was Mme. Koudachef, well known a an explorer, has been attached to th | Russian scout service. She ride | the same horse upon which she mad: her famous trip|from Viadivostok tc ! Petrograd. p | stated to have i ZEPPELINS, | What They Are And What They Can | Do. London Mail The large naval Zeppelius, which were probably those employed on this raid over the North Sea, are ci- gar-shaped craft, about 525 feet long and 50 feet in diameter, with a ca. pacity of 775,000 to 1,400,000 cubic feet. They are divided into eigh- teen compartments, containing the hydrogen gas which sustains them in the air, and have outside those com- lartments a ring-shaped double bot: tom containing air or non-flammable gas, the whole enclosed in rubber- oated fabric, which is of a silvery- white appearance in the air. They are fitted with a wireless In- 'stallation ¢apable of sepding messa- ges 150 miles ang have a gpeed of forty-five miles in fine weather. They ire propelled usoally by three May- bach petrol engines, which jointly :xert from 500 to 900-horse power. They re capable of rising to a height 'f 8,000 feet. and in good weathes ave a radius of action of 500 miles Tr Amore. In bad weather they are ery liable to injury, as numerous nishaps have shown. The framework of these vessels is )f aluminium alloy and wood, main- aining the rigidity of the vast gas ARS. They have two or three cars ir gondolas slung underneath. It was riginally intended to fit them with 1 platform on top of the gas contain- rs armed with a quickfiring gun to 4eep off aeroplanes, but it.is believ- j ed that this part of the design has | been modified owing to risk of fire and explosion. The powerful Zeppelins can carry explogives to the weight of at least 'wo tons, and some estimates go as high as seven tons. They employ se veral kinds of bombs, the largest yet used in this war being about 250m. in weight and filled with a high ex- plosive which also acts'as an incen- | diary composition starting fires. The | explosive is contained in a steel case, | and' sometimes bullets are mixed | with the netonating chatge ag in shrapnel. Bombs of 504th. are said in the German Press to. have been manufactured for use against Great | The bombs used at Antwerp are been dropped from a 'cage. which was Tet down by rope | from one of the gondolas, =0 as to | bring "the bomb-throwe™ mneurer to | the earth without exposing the air- {wip to fire from the city. It is be- lieved that the latest Zeppelins are fitted with. special sights, ts enable the himbs to he dropped with great- or precigion. 3 / The total of effective German Zep- Tea kite up to the Naruifal effects of the and coffee, uch poisons the system, hiliousniess and e outbreak of war was at least fourteon. Since: then they are said to have been turned.out at the rate of one every three weeks, so that at least another eight have been added. It is believed that others had been IROIEh oan. et all hor * ave NOTABLE ATTACKS oN swores| |. '% a idiet Lil a of » SS WONIL ERE we Loudon, Feb. =. alter ong OF "MERRIE ENGLAND. made a spirited appeal to the gov ernment to exercise more care m se lecting officers to fill the high com. | mands. Mr. Lopg said that there ! had been too great a tendency to ignore the professional soldier and to | select the amateur, whose claims, however great they might be, were | | in no way comparable to those of the « professional soldier. The feeling of the house was strong. ly with him and the members cheered loudly whilst Long was imploring "Tennant, the undersecretary for war, to convey) to Lord Kitchener the opinion of the Commons that it was not right that professional soldiers should be passed ov > The. Possibility of Them Have Played An Important Part In History -- Struggle Between Britain and the Nétherlands. The last raid on Great Britain prior to the recent Germ@n"bombard- ment of English coast towns, took place in 1798, when a small French force landed in Pembrokeshire and was cdpturéd, but the possibility of raids have played an important part in its history. Te it is due the exists ence of the territorial force and the Yeomanry, the advance guard of Kit- chener's army now crossing to the continent, and to it is also due the supremacy of the British fleet, which would never have been developed as it has been if it had net been that the most pacific of British statesmen has recognized that without the com- mand of the seas the very life of the nation was in danger. In the earliest days England was the' natural prey of the German tribes, the Norsemen and Danes. Raid followed raid, and the English of to-day are the amalgam" of the peoples who settled in 'the British| Isles. Then came the Norman in- vision, and during the mnext couple} of centuries there was enough pass: ing to and fro of barons between 'he continent and England in the course of feudal turmoil to justify on one or iwo occasions the cry of invasion. Thus Matilda in 1139 tried to wrest the throne from Stephen, and in 1216 Louis, Dauphin of France, made a very serious onslaught on British soil * When the Parliamentary strife broke out there was mo European power interested in fighting England, but after the execution of Charles 1, his son, Prince Charles, was able to land in England with 16,000 men | CROSS POND AS "STUDENTS." Three Japanese Naval Officers Sail For London. News York, Feb. 12.-- Among the pas. sengers sailing for Liverpool on the steamship Adriatic were three officers ol the Japanese navy, who declined to divulge the nature of their mis sion other' than to say that they were "students." They were Com mander Yamasaki, lieutenant-Com- mander Y. Otori and Lieut. J. Mori moto. Commander Yamasaki, who thad gray hair, said the party from the naval acgdemy. at dnd that its destivation don. © came Tokio was Lon Boy Looters at Brockville. Brockville, Feb 2. Edmund Noyes and Edward Ranger, two boys convicted of looting steam ba 8 in winter port here, were given in determinable sentences in St. Joh's Industrial school, Toronto. WHAT CAUSES COLDS? his question and "How to Prevent attempt to overcome the protector Then began the momentous struggle for sea supremacy J ween Britain! Colds" is asked a thousand times and the Netherlands, and in 1652 ate Yas A roid is al Foy Van Tromp, by his victory over Blake] CVery day. A cold 1S really a fe ver, in the Downs, felt himself entitled to| Not always caused by the weather but hoist the broom at his masthead in| due to a disordered condition of the token that he had Fwept the channel; blood or lack of important food clean of British ships. amen ts I NOINg SEASONS oT he ar veally' Wesine elements. In changing seasons fat the history of the royal navy, and it ended in the establishment of Brit ish supremacy, although it was mark- ed by the most disastrous incident in all the annals of that service. Charles 11. bad permitted the navy to run down so completely that on June 11 1667, Admiral De Ruyter sailed up the Thames to within 20 miles of London, destroyed some ships, and burned Sheerness, the naval head quarters. At the moment that he was doing it, historians say, the King was engaged in chasing some of the ladies of his court round a table in a game known as the "Moth." t In 1689 the last successful inva sion of England took place. William, Prince of Orange, landed at Tor bay and proceeded at ance to London. His coming was in accordance with an arrangement with a large party in England, and it was less significant of the weakness of England on. the seas than was the success with which James II., the deposed king, invaded Ireland in the following year. He failed at the Boyne, and it was his decisive defeat, rather than British sen. powers, which saved England at this critical time from a French in- | vasion. The battle of Beachy Head showed that Louis XIV. could have pressed an attack home if he had desired, but he held off when Eng- land was almost at his mercy. Far more serious were the prepar- ations made by Napoleon to invade England. In 1804 he formed the great camp of the army of England at Boulogne and prepared a flotilla of flat-bottomed boats to carry his veterans across the straits. Trafalgar crushed his hopes, but his attempt left a marked effect on England. Nearly every able-bodied man joined some kind of militia organization and the yeomanry, or militia cavalry regiments, which exist to-day, date from this period of stress. So when in 1859 the relations between Great Britain and France became strained and the unprepared condition of Great Britain was realized the volun- teers were formed, which a few years ago were transformed into the Terri- torials upon whom Kitchener has been largely building up his new army. tribute heat by enriching the blood and so render the body better able to withstand the varying This is the underlyi the medicinal fats in Scoit's Emulsion | quickly overcome colds ~and build strength to prevent more serious sick ness. It contains nature's lements, reason why medicinal blood profits from every drop, and it is totally free from harmful drugs. 14-57 Soott & Bowne, Toronto. Unita tio. A et oA Made from the choicest cabbage, 10¢ qt. or 8 qt. pail for 40¢, Halibut Steak Salmon Steak Piekled Pigs' Feet Fresh Tripe - J. R. B. Gage, £54 Montreal St. Phone 549 | SAGE TEA PUTS LIFE AND COLOR IN HAIR i Darkens | Don't Stay 'Gray! 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