Daily British Whig (1850), 19 May 1915, p. 8

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A A ME AT MASE ___THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1 1915. ORDER TO MOBILIZE|SAVED BY A MIRACLE | FOR BARRIBFIELD CAMP HAS HOW PRIVATE S. W 8. WILDER ES. BEEN RECEIVED, CAPED DEATH IN BATTLE, ~ I The Advance Parties Will Arrive on | Abont Only Member Left of Machine I Saturday, and All the Troops Will | Gun Section of Second Ba@lion-- i} Be in Camp Next Tuesday. Fought Two Days at Langemar¢ke i | The official mobilization order for Before Ha Was Wounded, i | Barriefield camp was issued on Wed- | That it was nothing less than a mi- | | nesday morning. _ There will be be- | ricle that saved the life of P-ivate! f | tween 3,000 and 4,000 men under | | Sherbourne Wilder, son of Mrs. H. 3. | li canvas at the camp of all overseas | Wilder, Princess street, who lost an' N volunteers, with tlie exception of the | eye in the battle of Langemarcse, 13 | [i { supply corps, such as the Army Ser- {shown in a letter his mother has re- The ad- | ceived from him giving further par- vance parties will arrive on Satur- | ticulars. = The letter was dated Muy i} day, and on Tuesday next every man | 6th, and was written in the Americ: n JOHN LAIDLAW & SON Laidlaw's "Lillian" | SAY GOCD-BYE || To your old Winter Suit. When everybody else is blossoming out in spring things. 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The advance parties will be as fol- | | lows: { thirty- five men and an officer; "38th 1 | Battalion, fifty men and an officer. | i | The 26th Battery of Kingston will aot | | tion gun drill on Tete de Pont Bar- We are still selling linens at last January's low prices, which is less than the manufaecturer's price to-day, owing to the scarcity of raw materiale. \ PURE BLEACHED TABLE DAMABE _Guaran: teed all pure linen, in all the new nd best de- signs, 68, 70 and 72 inches wide, at 60c, 75c, $1 and 195 a yard. | SILVER BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK -- will k launder white in a short time; the best kind for hard wear, at ... ;.....36¢, 406, 0c, 60c and TB SETS OF CLOTHS AND NAPKINS TO MATCH, in all the wanted sizes;-at special. prices. ' SLOTS 50 SERRA SAS Sin | as advance party to the 7th Artillery [home of Mr. 'Singer, the Singer Sew- {| Brigade, Ottawa, of which it is a part. {ing Machine man. | The cooks will be part of the ad- Queen's University i Officers' Training Corps will proceed | to camp on Tuesday. The surplus ! overseas troop now assembled at { regimental headquarters of the fol- 8th Regiment, C. M. R., of! | | Woman' 8 Hospital, Devonshire, in the 'letter he says: "Dear Mother:--I cannot {4s much as possible until the other gets better. This. hospital is the It is a grand place. I am very comfortable and well looked after. - All the Canadian hospitals were filled with Canadians Kingston's BEST Paignton, South |} write | J | much, as I want €o save my good eye | } who were wounded, and I, number of others, was gent here. 1] |am up now, and have been for two | | lowing units will proceed to eamp on | days, 80 you will see I am getting on | | the following dates: 14th, 15th, 16th, | well, | 40th, 42nd, 43rd, 46th, 47th, 49th, | | the base hospital at Rouen,in France | 57th and 59th regiments on Tues {day next. The troops from 1 ment will act as advance parties and | go into camp on Saturday. The { 45th troops, of which there are about { 250, will not go into camp until fur- | ther orders. The 39th Battalion, Belleville, a short time ago received word to hold itself in readiness to go at any time to the front as reinforcements, and. for that reason will not . go into camp. The transportation of the troops is being looked after by Major J. Ham- ilto, A. D, of 8. and T. The officers of the Royal School of Artillery and "C"" Battery paraded to Barriefield on Wednesday - and | worked out a technical scheme. "The | battery were suppgsed to be an at- tacking force upon Kingston and took as-their starting peint Sibbit's Tarm. ferent positions'were taken up. In each the guns were laid in position for firing and 'he horses tiken some distance back of the line. The N. C. O's were engaged in sec- about closing the Royal School of Ar- tillery for the summer, as there is now a large number of qualified of- ficers who haye absolutely no chance for commissions owing to the fact that there are no vacancies. Appli- cations are being received cvery day from all parts of the Domin'on. As yet no orders for a fifth class have been received. » The Remount Depot at St. Jzan Que,, in which are several Kingston- fans, is reported to be very busy. Lieut. <Col. Pichie is in command, +hé. has men from all over the There are some hundred ys (rom Western Canada in the unit. It was reported on Tuesday that one company had already gone overseas. In the latest General Orders re- ceived is the following notice: - "The sum of $10 is to be withheld, for a period of six months, from the pay of every man enlisted in or after the 1st of March, 1915, for overseas @ervice. This amount is to provide for the cost eof civilian clothing to men discharged within six months of their enlistment, and also to partly compensate the Government for mil- itary issues made to men who subse- quently desert. "After six months' service, or x termination of engagement, the amount may be repaid and civilian clothing issued, free on d wk F, Burns, 1 14th Regiment, P. W. O. R., has been awarded the Col- goiat. Aniiiary Forces Long Service Meda Lieut. J. M. Ashby, 47th Regiment, has been granted a provisional Meu- tenancy in the 4th h Hussars. a ariok pit 2 Regiment" Lieut. ey, "No. 2 Detachment Ca been appointed adju- tant and quartermaster at' field. J. Walsh, now in Belle- ville, will likely take 'over 'the com- mand of No. 3 A. 8.C. understood that two hotels in tne d riet will be put out of bounds soldiers because the bar-tenders oo" Serving Nuor Before six Major K. C. Folger, C.0 Phus has been AIL _Heutenancy in the Bt ho 1a ~ From there to the bridge rary Derg wound o was a very close shave, and a won- the bullet had not glanced off my left | eyeball and went through my nose 1] would have lost both eyes. I was very lucky when I did not lose my nose. "The bullet went right through the nose and never touched the bone and left a little hole, which has healed up. My stomach is healing, The bullet went across my stomach, but did not puncture it. The doctor who attended me sajd that it was the luckiest thing he had seen yet, and that it was a wonder 1 was not kill- cd. . The third' bullet made a great scratch on the calf of my leg witheut breaking the bone. "I em done for the war now, and I suppose that you are glad of that. 1 cannot tell you anything about the battle or the pain which 1 sullefed [after being wound : It will ek two months yet before I get home, They are going to get a glas eye for me. "I think I am the only one left of my machine gun section of the See- ond Battalion as far as I can see. I have only seen two of the battalion since I was hurt. I took part in the battle of Langemarcke for two days before getting wounded." REVOLUTION LONG IN Plans Laid as Far Back as last March, AIR. Paris, May 19.--A despatch to the Havas Agency from Lisbon sayg the projeet for the revolution in Portugal was formed three days after the con- stitution last March of the Cabinet, of General Pimenta Castro. Dr, Al) varo Castro, the correspondent says, k charge of the military arrange- ments Antonio Maria Silva undertook to organize the civilians, and Cap- to command the naval forces. The Lisbon newspapers state, says the Havas correspondent in the Por- luguess. capital, that eral Pim. Castro, the President of the Cab nét, declared that when the re- volutionary movement broke out Tn offered the collective resignation of the ministry to President De Arriaga. It is added that General Castro as- sured the new cabinet of his loyalty. Two hundred persons killed and five hundred wounded are the report- ed results of the fighting.! Most of the killed and wounded belonged to the Republican Guard. Admiral Javier Brito has been im- prisoned on a charge of having or- dered the submarine Espadarte to sink the boats bombarding Lisbon. War Tidings. bound for Gedsor with a cargo of coal, has been seized by a German warship in the Baltic and taken to Stetlin, The cruiser Breslau, now part of the Turkish fleet, shelled and sank the Bulgarian steamer Varna in the Black Sea while she was enroute from Sulina to Varna. ; for in Ge man South-West Afri an unbroken series. ment was defeated at East Wind- heek, losing 140 men and tw Jonty- five wagons of supplies. The t- ish casualties were three wounded. FIND HAVEN AT EMERSON, . ee in the ity en So far alia, Bb. fiw eisdos, 29th Bat with a [ji They took my left eye out at | ji and the hole is healing up fast. if § der ! did not lose both of them. 1f | tain Leotte Rego, of the Navy,agreed fi The Danish steamer Rimfaxe,| $1 CORSET A popular priced Corset which gives the style and service ¢_ a higher priced The Lillian is skillfully made of. fine garters; model. throughout coutil; four bust and $1.00 strong medium hips; sizes from 19 to 30... 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