_PAGE TWELVE LETTERS FROM 'FRONT TWO WOUNDED SOLDIERS TELL OF EXPERIENCES, Pte. John McCelland, Kingston, Had Two Bones of His Shoulder Frac- tured By Shrapnel, Pte. John MecCelland, 2nd Battal- fon, C.E.F., in writing to friends a * Jetter that was published in the Lis burn (Ireland) paper says: "I expect that you ave "already heard of our heavy casualty list. I could fill sheets with what we came through between April 22nd up (o the morning of April 24th We made two charges with fixed bayon- ets, 1 came through the two charges without a scratch but three hours la- ter I was giving a wounded comrade a drink and I got it good with a large chunk of shrapnel in the shoulder, fracturing both bones But the gas ig worse than their biggest shells. I have had my shoulder X-rayed four times and I think that some of the bores will have to come away as they are all shattered. We lost some fine men and officers but 'more Can- adians are coming and we will aven- ge our lost comrades. "We are scattered all aver Eng- land in different hospitals but I have had the good luck to strike the Ame- rican Women's Hospital whore 1 am getting every attention. The doc- tors and nurses are all Americans and they take a great interest in us for we are the first Canadians they have had. In fact, the nurse that attends me I met while she was on a vigit from her home in Buffalo, N.Y., to Kingston, Ont." Pte, McCelland was formerly in the 14th Regiment and was a shoe- muker in the repair department of J. E. Johnston's shoe store, Brock street. He enlisted here under Capt. George Richardson, and was in his company of the 2nd Battalion Bullet Through Ankle, A Kingston lady has received the following letter from her nephew who was wounded during the battle of Langemarcke. He writes from Torquay, Devonshire, and says: "We are being treated fine here (in the hospital) Have five meals a day and all of the best It was vi- sitors' day yesterday and we had thousands of visitors to see us bring- ing gifts of chocolates, cigarettes, oranges, etc. "Our battalion was in reserve bil- lets south of Ypres. On Thursday the Germans bombarded the town. Later we were kept busy ourselves in pre- venting the Germans from using a hedge as cover. IL got two myself, both on the run, When I went down I did not know just where I was hit. After a few seconds I decided that it would be better for my health if I moved on. I was surprised to find that 1 could not walk and run with- out pain. A bullet passed right through my ankle and 1 have not been able to put . my foot to the ground since." ' C. W. Lott, has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of District No. 5 C. P. R., with office at Smith's Fallg, OLD BACKS NEED HELP When people get to be 50 and 60 and 70, they need a little help some- time to get Mnjough with the day's work. Fheie backs can't stand the heavy loads, the steady strain, of lusty youth. They need : Pi Gis ™e KIDNEYS St. Raphael Ont., Jan. Sth, "Four years 1 had such pains in m back that 1 a not work. T! pains ex tended to my arms, sides and shoulders. I used many kinds of medicine for overa oar, rea Jose and I could keep at taken six other boxes, 1 | feel as stron, a farmer, now ANK LEALAN Oin Pills are "Made in Canada'. B50c a box, 6 for $2.50 atall dealers. Sold in U.S. under the name of "GINO Pills. Trial treatment free if yon write National Drug & Chemical Co. of Canada, as at GET OUR PRICES For plumbl w or a piping: | Have VOR rope! lone by us. Sat- lafac tion guarant A. AND J. JAMIESON, Plumbers and Gasfitters. DR. DeVAN'S FRENCH PILLS {7% 10. sold at al) Drug * are or mle by ay QUEEN TO MAKE GAS MASKS. . Margherita Heads Committee Of 2,000 Italian Noblewomen. Rome, June 4.--The Dowager Queen 'Margiherita has accepted the chairmanship of a committee made up of more than 2,000 ladies of the nobility and artstocracy who are to undertake the task of supplying the army with masks to ward off the as- phyxiating gases used by the Austro- Germans. The mask has been invented by Senator Ciamician, who is professor of chemistry at Bologna University. War Tidings. Col. Carrick, Canadian, of General French's staff, says that French, af- ter the battle of Langemarcke, asked for every possible Canadian soldier in England te be rushed tothe front. The French made further gains in the neighborhood of Arras with the Germans contesting ev ery inch of the ground. Enthusiasm to enlist and get to the front runs high among the men of Rome. The government says it needs no more men at the present time. Applications from several hundred thousand volunteers have already been received, but none has yet been accepted. Martial law has been proclaimed in Vienna as a result of the unrest which has followed the Italian de- claration of war against Austria. At Washington, the British, French and Russian embassies have assured the State Department they will give safe conduct to Dr. Bernhard Dern- burg, former colonial secretary ot Germany, when he leaves the United States. The German army headquarters announce that more than 300,000 tussians had been captured during May Slight gains made by French south- east of Neuville; both sides are mak- ing desperate efforts. Artillery en- gagements vigorous on the Belgian- British front. The Italian fleet spent all of Tues- day in cruising off the Austrian coast without sighting the Austrian fleet. An Austrian hydro-aeroplane has been found floating in the sea near Brindisi, Italy, It is evident that the aviators who manfied it have been drowned. Roumania has demanded cessions of territory from Austria in return for remaiging neutral in the war, but Austria has refused to acquiesce. The Swedish steamer Pan, which sailed from here a few days . ago with a cargo of rifles bound for Bul- garia, is reported to have been seen near Falsterbo, transferring her car- £0 to a German torpedo boat, A British submarine sank near Constantinople the Mahussein steam- er No. 62, carrying Turkish troops to the Dardanelles. HOW LILLE WAS SACKED Woman Refugee Arriving In Paris Tells of Devastation. Paris, June 4.--Northern France behind the German lines resembles a sea strewn with wrecks. Castaways from the ruins of the towns and vil- lages scattered over this unchartered ocean of misery are now and again thrown upon the hospitable borders of Switzerland and eventually find their way to France. 5 One of these castaways brings here the latest stories of . Lille. She came to Paris to find her husband, a soldier invalided out of the service, and the two were full of the adven- ture which had brought them togeth- er again. Lille, it would seem, is a town of dull and hopeless monotony, Its in- dustries have been obliterated by the invader. There is not, according to the woman witness, a single factory or mill among all the hundreds in Lille, Roubaix and Turcoing-- the textile centres of France-- left in condition to resume work. Many were destroyed by the bombardment which preceded the entry of the Ger- mans last October. Incendiary bombs were thrown into others when the Germans arrived. At first it seemed to the inhabi- tnats as though the whole industrial quarter of the city would be burned. Then the Teutonic mind conceived a more profitable plan, for afterwards the process of looting and stripping the mills and warehouses began. Everything was taken away in motor wagons. First that that was ready for market, then the raw ma- terial, cotton, wool and leather stocks of every description. Finally the machinery itself was dismantled and packed into cars and taken away to enrich Germian manufacturers who hope after the war to sell to the world goods made on the looms of Lille. Day after day, month after month, this doleful procession of mo- tor cars went om, draining the .life blood of the Manchester of France. In this systematic looting the shops were not forgotten. There is not a piece of saleable jewelry left in Lille. Every article: of value has been cart- ed away. Never was a city more Systematically and thoroughly sack- Those who are without work or money in Lille are allowed a daily pittance of a shilling each. The dis- tribution is organized by a commit- tee, headed by the Mayor and the Archbishop. Lille people. cannot say toe much. Their courage, wisdom and firmness in these agonizing days are beyond|' 'praise. They have also organized a bank' which lends money to the ex- tent of thirty per cent, of the value on all reasonable securities, thus that the Lille woman who came here was able to ance, and she showed with words of praise for the Mayor and Archbishop her receipts for securities and some of the paper money of ten franes three francs issued by the city in exchange for her Food is naturally iE and is so a eg g aD : THE DAILY (THE. LATEST TIDINGS PRESENTED IN THE BRIEFEST POSSIBLE FORM, The Whig's Daily Condensation Of The News Of the World ¥rom Tele graph Service and Newspaper Ex- changes. Charles E. Sebastian, chief of po- lice," is mayor-elect of Los Angeles. The Caer Howell, an old Toronte landmark, is in the hands of the wreckers. St. Catharines public library board has debarred the London Times from its reading room European diplomatists express ap- proval of President Wilson's plan for the pacification of Mexico P. W. Ellis, Toronto, was appoint- ed chairman of the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commission. Clinton Keech, Thamesville, in jumping off a freight train, had both legs severed and died a few hours later. Archangel, the only large seaport on the north coast of the Russian, Empire, is officially declared open to! navigation. The Saskatchewan Licensed Vie- tuallers' Association asked all hotel- keepers to close their hotels when the bars are closed. A Buffalo tug and sandsucker, worth $50,000, held at Bridgeburg, Ont., under war ruling for not re- porting arrival. Oliver Jodion, aged 104, though to be the oldest resident of Ottawa, died Tuesday night. He was born at St. Eustace, Que,, January 20th, 1811. Great Britain has announced its willingness to expedite exportation of sugar beet seed from Germany to the United States under certain condi- tions. | Rev. Dr. Chown, who was to have represented the Canadian Church at the sessions 'of the Methodist Com- ferences in Britain, has postponed his visit until next year. Joseph Guiry, an aged resident of Ennismore township, died as the re- sult of injuries received when an au tomobile in which he was riding col- lided with a mailbox post The despatches announce: Wound- ed, Pte. Homer Casselman, Morris- burg, Ont; seriously ill, Pte. Ralph Inman, Yorkshire, Ont; Pte. Osborne Montgomery, Lakefield, Ont. WAR A VAST WHIRLPOOL All Nations Being Sucked In, Says | Rosebery. | London, June 4.--Lord Rosebery, speaking at Bath, describes the war as a vast whirlpool. "Beginning with five nations in Europe, it is gradually sucking in all those who would even willingly remain outside, first Japan, then Italy. It does not seem probable that the Balkan Stat-| es will long be able to refrain from joinig in a war which must ultimate- ly settle what is called the Eastern | question, and which, if they do not join, may be settled to their disad- vantage. The United States seems sometimes hovering on the brink,]| though that country is so remote that it may well be spared the agony of this contest. Wherever you rest| your eye, you see that this war is | gradually sucking; in every nation, | ever much it may Wish to remain out-| side." | | | JOINS ADVERTISING AGENCY. | Newspaperman Becomes Toronto Manager of A. McKin, Limited. | Toronto, June 4.--Charles T. Pearce, until a few weeks ago gener- | al manager of the Toronto News, and | who at that time dispoced of his hold-! ings in the paper, is to be the new | Toronto manager of A. 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