PAGE TEN continues to arrive from England. There is no ad- vance in price. LUEOE ERRBLELLGEIRRION UOTE BE OOTOINIR OUMOROE LIMEOEE | IMTED ER BO Wouldn't it be worth your while to try a bottle now? '| DIED AS SURELY AS IF THEY DRANK POISONED WATER Examination Of Survivors--S8ix Neu- tral Correspondents Pay a Visit to French Hospitals. Paris, May 18.--Four United Sta- tes correspondents and two from other meutral countries, Holland and Switzerland, have just completed, at the invitation of the French Govern- ment, an inspection of the hospitals where the victims of German as- phxiating gases lie. The enquiry has proved to the impartial satisfaction of all six men that the gases used were absolute poison and that from inhaling a sufficient guantity of thém men died as surely as if they had drunk water from poisoned wells. The invitation was extended as soon as the official English and . French investigators had concluded their examination of the soldiers who had been subjected to this gaze. Some of the men survive and are still suffering from the effects of the gas in various hoapitals. Many, how- ever, are dead. The attending physi- cians at the hospitals visited were instructed to give the fullest possible information regarding the history of each patient examined, so that the results obtained by the correspon dets were quite complete and from thoroughly scientific sources. The first hospital visited was an immense modern sanitarium for tu- bercular consumption at Zudcoote, on the coast morth of Drunkirk. It is capable of caring for 3,000 patients, and has now been transformed into a magnificent military hospital. Out of 756 victims of German gag who were sent to this hospital three died I and 15 have recovered sufficiently to THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Drop a card to 13 Pine street when wanting anything done in the carpen- tery line. Estimates given on all kinds of repairs and work; also hard- wogd floors of all kinds. All orders will receive prompt attention. Shop 40 Queen Street. BEDS... von S50, $8.00 up Te be sent to more distant samitariums for convalescents. The correspondents examined a score of the remainder. Some of them had arrived a few hours alter being poisoned. Prof. Ratheray, one of the most eminent physicians of Paris, described the cases. [tf was he who had performed the aut psy over those who had died. The first ones to arrive at the hospital had turned a violet tinge. They died the next day, and an autopsy showed that they formerly had tuberculosis. ter his arrival at the hospital. He, too, had once had tuberculosis, and the immediate cause of death was tubereunlar pneumonia. Yet another subject, who had been in perfect physical liealth, died from pulmon- ary congestion caused by the gas. Prof. Rathray said that exact figures are not yet available. He estimates, however, that among the French troops alome between 3,000 and 3,500 men were affected, and of this number it is no exaggeration to say that 10 per cent. died on the fleld of battle and that six per cent. died 'in the hospitals. The propor- tion among the Canadians was slight- ly less. Experiments were made with various gases on the mem who had recovered, and all of them agreed in saying that chlorine had the same taste as the gas used by the Germans. Several of the victims were inter- viewed. All of them sald that the effect of the gas had been terrible and instantaneous. Many men were overcome while stopping to pick up their haversacks before fleeing from the poisonous cloud. . Most of them were unable to rise again, hut some 'fwere able to stagger a few yards be- fore succumbing entirely. A few of these were dragged from the poison- ed zone by their stronger comrades. These who escaped arrived-at- the hospitals expectorating blood. They had collapsed utterly in most cases and for days after we racked by terrible coughs. It was a enrious fact that in many cases a fever de veloped four or five days later. Then pneumonia developed. New York Herald. The American people know James Bryce, When the committee of which he is the head finds the Ger- man military authorities guilty of de- liberate flendishness in the occupa- eonvietion, The world has had a surfeit of hor- ror poured out by the exemplars of "kultur." Trom many sources have tome reports which bore the ear. marks of truth concerning the atroci- ties committed in the name of "mili- J tary necessity," but the world has th hoped, for the self-respect of human kind, that they were marked by ex. aggeration. 'With the sinking of the Lusitania land now the judicial findings of the leadership of the author of "The American Commonwealth," hope has vanished, "Military necessity!" To whata recting minds who have used that phrase to justify to themselves the crucifixixon of infants, the violation of women, the of vener- able and the mu n of ess th! < : with a finger does not hurt much, tion of Belgium the verdict carries | ground." committee which acted under the | pinnacle of infamy are raised the di- |. TT _., SWORD-CUTS, Famous General Says They Are Less Terrible Than Bullet Wounds. Of particular interest at the mo- ment is the confession made in "The Life of Gen. Sir Harry N. D. Pren- dergast" (Nash), concerning a sol dier's feelings on being wounded. "lI have often been asked," to quote the words of the general. '" 'How do you feel when you are wounded?" Some people expeet you to say that the excitement of action is such that. you don't feel your wounds till afterwards. A wound in action is like any other wound; the severity of it in a measure depends upon its locality. A poke in the ribs but a poke in the eye ic a different matter. "A man who is shot is generally more frightened than a man who is cut; that is, the nerves are more af- fected by the shock. 1 have seen brave men cry about bullet-wounds, and others laugh at sword-cut prob ably quite as severe. When I was shot in the body at Mundisore, I felt the same sort of sensation as if a man had hit me hard with a stick. It 'was not very painful, but the wound was close to the heart, and [ was very anxious to know whether it would kill me." Another of the stories told in this interesting biography also bas a topi- cal interest, inasmuch as it touches on. the question of "funk" when in action. Gen. Worster, of the Artil- lery, used 'to relate the following story concerning George Broad vot, of the sappers, who was the mo . dis- tinguished of the illustrious garrison of Jellababad in the first Afghan War. "A friend had asked him how it was that he who was not a great swordsman, and had been in the thick of so much fighting, was still alive, His reply was, "When two men meet in real earnest, one always funks, and I never do." "" Germany Plays Unfairly. Of the 27,200 male Germans above the age of seventeen years in the United Kingdom, only 8,600 have been interned in the concentration camps. The remaining 18,600 are, save for having to report to the po- lice at certain periods, quite as free as the neutral aliens in Great Bri- The Dritish Government allowed German subjects to leave the coun~ try in the early days of the war as follows: 'Women and children, males under sixteen and over forty-four, and persons between these years not liable to military service, providing they would give an undertaking to take no part, direct or indirect, in assisting in the operations of war." Persons who were not allowed te leave were: "Those under duty of naval or military service in Germany. Persons held in custody for crimes or on a definite suspicious of espion- age. Persons between the ages of sixteen and forty-four whe, although free from military or naval duty, would not give the undertaking re- ferred to," An agreement was accordingly |' made between the two Governments, but elderly invalid British officers who were taking cures at the Ger- man baths at the time of the out- break have not yet been released. Britain allowed retired German of- ficers to return home, but Germany now demands an equivalent number of German officers captured in bat- tle in exchange for the invalids. Mrs. Pankhurst Cheered. "Patriotic fervor draws thunder- PIRATE AT OLD BAILEY. Story of the Flowery Land Recalled by - Lendon Barristers. As an old lawyer 1 can remember a gang of foreign pirates and mur- derers being tried and hung at the Qld Bailey in 1864. ---Mr. Frederic Harrison, in The Times. A correspondent writes to The London Times thus: The gang were the crew of the ship Flowery Land, which, under the command of Capt. John Smith, a Scot, left London for Singapore on July 28, 1863. Twenty men, mostly for- eigners, sailed witn the skip. When she had been at sea about a month, ong of the crew, a Greek, was tied to the bulwarks by order of the mete, John Carswell, for refusing to turn out with the watch, This was the beginning of trouble with a des- perate band of ruffians, and on Sept. 10 they mutinied, and, in cireum- stances of appsiling ferocity, mur- dered the captain; George Smith, his brother; a passenger, and the mate Carswell. The bodies were thrown in- to the sea and the assassins com- manded Taflir, tLe second mate, to steer them to port. In about three weeks the Flowery Land sighted land on the east coast of South America. During these weeks the mutineers had a drunken orgy, the supplies be- ing champagne and other liquors that were part of the cargo. On sighting land, the pirates determined to scuttle the ship, to make for the shore in the boats, and represent that the vessel they had left was bound from Peru to Bordeaux and had foun- dered at sea, several lives being lost. Holes were bored in the bottom of the Flowery Lanc, and a Chinaman went down with her. The steward, too, was drowned, so the victims numbered six in all. The pirates landed, but were ar- rested, and eight of them, all young men, were arraigned at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of mur- dering Capt, Smith. Seven were found guilty and sentenced to death. The eighth was acquitted, but was sub- sequently tried for scuttling the ship, found guilty, =nd sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Two of those sentenced to death were respited, and the other five were hanged outside Newgate on Feb. 22, 1864, in the presence of one of the biggest crowds ever Hook's Big Hoax. Hoaxers exist in every and walk of life. They flourish every dge and clime. 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