PAGE SIX THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. 'FRIDAY, JULY Lom = (Special to the Whig) received a4 tremendous popular ova- tion when he appeared at Guild Hall this afternoon and addressed a great Mass meeting. £° The hall itself dour Pefore was the war packed an lord. arrive? and a crowd of 50,000 jammed the! Streets outside. Throngs were neil back by city and 'territorial rggi- ments and many men from fhe tien- ©hes were in the Fines. i ali] "The recruiting system Is measurably better than it was { months ago," J "KITCHENER CALLS FOR MEN AND Lord Kitchener sami. | MEN MORE London, JRly 9%--»Loré Kitehener' "But let me emphésize the fact that! We need men, more men, and soll more men. Make no mistake --tails war will be a long one." Lord Kitchener interposed in lis #ddress a tribute to "the gallant | work of the Canadjans in Flanders," | that started an outburst of cheers. While the war lord was speaking! hundreds _ of recruiting sergeants Wworkgd through the erowds and se-| cured many enlistments. Inside the ball were Ambassador Page and many other diplomats. | * "Our position to-day is as serious as at the beginn'.g of the war" continued Kitchener. 'Australians and New Zealanders at the Dardan- elles have performed brilliant feats! of arms, South Africa is offe: ny#| large forces to the Empire. It be-| hooves evéry Englishman to do his duty." Re a WITH UNDERSEAS' VESSELS Wonderful and Unique Record Of a British Submarine. Brantford Expositor. | 'The week has been a fairly im-) portant one for the undersea boats. 'fhe British torpedo-boat destroyer Lightning was torpedoed, and some members of the crew killed. The fast little boat was able to run to port under her own steam, however, 80 that it is likely that repairs can soon be effected. During the week the Germans have sunk a large num- her of British boats, the total for Friday alone being three steamers, # schooner and a barque. To date the total tonnage sunk by the Ger- mans amounts to abeut $0,000. The British mosquito fleet showed dur- ing the week that it also cold work when it had an opportunity, The E-11 went through the Dardanelles one morning at 'daybreak submerg- ed, spent the first day resting at the bottom near Gallipoli, rose at dusk entered .the Sea of Mormora and cruised around for several days with- out sighting a vessel. 'The first vie- tim was a big gunboat just outside of Constantinople. She was sunk, and just as she was going down a shot from her hit the periscope of the E-11, but, fortunately, did not destroy it. The next vietim was a steamer which hag on board a six- inch gun, several gun mountings, and some 16-inch ammunition for the Dardanelles. She-was blown up. The next vessel sighted refused to stop, and was chased into a harbor, whether near Constantinople does not appear. She was torpedoed as she tied up alongside a pier. Vic tim number four was beached to avoid being torpedoed, and when the E-11 drew up to board her some cavalry came along and opened fire. The E-11 replied, but she is not amphibious she could not\follow the cavalry up the beach. 1 dived and torpedoed the sh pext day Comstantinople was visited, and a trangport laden with 'troops was sunk in the harbor, A second torpedo which fired exploded on the shore and caused 4 panic. Three days afterwards five transports were seen, rted by destroyers, The biggest of the transports was tor- pedoed and sank in about three min- uted. Three other transports, a supply ship and a German vessel us- ed as a transport were next on. the lors list. The final victim was se- oured on Monday the 21st, just be- for the E-11 dived to run through the Narrows on her return trip. She sank another transport there. The trip almost ended in tragedy for when, outside the Narrows, the boat came to the surface, it dragged a mine up with it, this fortunately not exploding. © Austrians during the. week claimed to have torpedoed an Italian destroyer. % At The Front: Westminster Gagette. Rev, L aclean Watt, of Edin- burgh, has; been describing some of his experiences at the front. He illustrated the heroism of the men by the story of a sorely wounded Gor- dom with whom ~hé commisserated. "AN, well," replied the Gordon, "it's all in the day's work, and we are not here on holiday, ve ken," "And do to you expect to win?" he Gordon looked Stim wits astonished eyes, and said: "That's what we are heve or." My. Watt found a goog Meal of hu- mor in the letter-writing experiences of the soldiers. They were eager to write, but Net always fluent. There was one man whom he watch- ed puzzling his brain for an opening, nd who did not get beyond the ad. dress. His Christian name was Wil- Ham, and Mr. Watt suggested that Be should write, "I am quite well, and en my iD have a bang a) said it was the very ting he wanted Say, and other men of the name of took the epistle A a - model. Imaginative, KE the man native, Hké the man tam nia to the in seven feet of mud." The diets have apparently a fondness o YOU dear count' Was 'wounided? | AGE Ww NN ' % 'She--Yes, but his picture doesn't got ; That's a front view. _.The Provinefal License Commis- LORD KITOHENER. GERMAN WAR RULES FOR SOROOL BOYS, Berlin Authorities Lay Down Rules For Preserving Food Supply. The following ten have been laid down school children: 1. Everyone must save, for if all save our provisions will hold out. 2. Waste no eatables, even tha smallest piece. 3. Kat slowly a thoroughly. : 4. Avold eating anything between meals after dinner. : 5. Bat rye instead of whedten bread, 'and be careful with the bread. ~ : 6. Bg saving with butter, but eat cheese, stewed fruit --and marma- lade. 7. Bat heartily of fresh vegetables, 80 as to economize on meat, fat and bread. « 8. Ask at home tp have potatoes in their jackets, : 9. Buy chocolate, cocoa and sweets and send them to the soldiers in the field, We will gladly do without these things. 10. Remember, in all you do, that you can take your modes. share in creating the new fatherland for which we hope, These are hardly the regulations which would be proseribed for a starving péWple. Walking A Lost Art. Walking must be in danger of be- coming a lost art among us when the United States Government, through its public health service, is- sues a bulletin urging the people to walk more than they do--to walk, in fact, all they possibly can. "Walk to your business, to your dréssmaker's; walk for the sake of walking. You may not burn the family carriage, as Benjamin Frank- lin suggested, but at least, as he ad- vised, walk, walk, walk," So runs the bulletin. Everybody knows that walking, the right kind of walking, is one of the most healthful and for most per- Sons, one of the most agreeable of exercises, yet our walkers o health's sake are dwindling in nu bers and threaten to di ae. The automobile is largely to blame for this condition, but st card and other conveyances are equally guilty. But the greatest hindrance to walking is the haste and the rush so characteristic of the times in which we live. Everybody appears to be rushing get somewhere at breakneck speed. The fastest vehicles. are all too slow. ; What has becomes of the walking clubs that used to be #0 po- pular a dozen years ago? Are any of th¢m yet in existence?--Jersay rules" Berlin "war for nd chew your food Journal. aids Remonstrated With, PH A minister of a. rural 'paris. Scotland found one jot ) shooting a hare on the Sabah 3 remonstrated with him, = * &h who | 4 brighter and Woe city people, Hy?" mer boarded. 5 "Why, right here in my's ee Far, 1 4 lof denner tricts."'--Ju Four quart baskets for sion will investigate. the : ll invest) sonduct of EERE ed - 2,000,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS | | Conscription Far From Being a Nec | i essity Yet--Military System i Has Failed Only In Sup- i "ply Of Munitions. Lable. despatches. fram Country--many of 'them the very | and again are telling wus that --{s about to be introduced in United Kingdom. Mr. Asquith, on the has' stated quite recently that there is, as yet, no necessity for it, though, to be sure, he did not definitely shut the door against the possibility of Lap ultimate adoption before the close of | 4 But the adoption of con- the 'war, scription at this juncture would be a "swapping of horses while crossing a stream," | ied on the ground of urgent neces- sity. It is true that the same thing {| might be said of | the coalition Government. urgent necessity required to justify | that step certainly existed in that | case, on the testimony of Mr. As } STILL TRAINING IN BRITAIN Qld | ob-| viously expressive of that wish which! is father to the thoughi--every now con- | scription--by which term I mean mi- } Aw "y 7 ro ing i {ents, Dr. and Mrs. S. litary, not "industrial", --epvrion 100 Prosteoce stocet From Eamon. ther hand, whe should know, which could only be justi-| TELLS OF THE FLOOD SCH DAMAGE EDMONTON. [THAT DID | AROUND [ Mrs. W. E, Jenkins Writes to Her} -Parents, Dr. and. Mrs. 8. A. Ayk-| City's | royd--Flood in History. Mrs. W. E. Jenkins, formerly Miss | Lillian Aykroyd, writing to Ref par- A. Aykroyd, Greatest jten, Alta., tells- about the - recent { great flood there, through which {over two thousand inhabitants were | rendered homeless and much prop- | erty destroyed. .. The rising of the Saskatchewan river at Edmonton is an annual af- fair, caused by the melting of the | snow and ice in the Rocky Moun- tains. The flood was later this year than usual, and the greatest in the | history of the place The river rose in a few hours twenty:five to the formation of | thirty feet, sweeping all before it in But the | the low-lying flats and doing about | | a million' dollars" worth of damage. || { Fortunately no lives were lost. | ' The river began to rise about.mid- | quith himself, who asserted that it! night Saturday and reached the maxi- | was necessary to the successful pro- | secution of thé war. Does a like urgent necessity for a swapping of horses" exist in the ! case of the British military system? { In other words, has the voluntary | system failed? Let us see how this matter stands as regards numbers. | Mr. W. E. Rundle, the general man- ager of the National Trust Company, recently. stated, on his return to To- ronto from a visit to the Old Coun- try, that it was said, in quarters whieh should be well informed, that the British had two and a half mil- lion men under arms. There is lit- tle doubt but that even that number. is greatly below the actual figure. At the beginning of the war Lord Kit- thener called for a million men for what has come to be called "Kitch- ener's Army." These obtained with marvelous ease and rapidity-- in fact, so easily and rapidly that the recruiting standard had to be sud- denly raised because the War Office was unable to cope with the enor- nous number who simultaneously flocked to the colors. Then a sec- 'ond million men were called for and these, too were gbtained--at least it may fairly be. assumed that they were, as a third call for 300,000 has been issued, and this also is meeting with an adequate response. No. Failure Here, Now, there is every reason to be- lieve that none of these 2,300,000, all belonging to Kitchener's army have yet been to the front, save a comparatively small number most of whom have been employed to make good a certain portion of the casual- tles. . The King's troops at the front have so far beén composed mainly of British regulars. British territor- ials, together with troops from India, Canada, and other overseas Domin- {0ns--troops which have probably foiplied, since the war first began, more thdn a million. If we assume that 300,000 of Kitchener's army bave been used to make good a cer- tain portioh of the casualties, and that a comparatively small number more have actually gone to the front, that gives us 2,000,000 men who have not yet gone to the front, and who, when they go, will mark the turning point in the war. Where, then, is any failure as re- gards men? Failure, or partial failure, of murvitions (using that word In its widest sénse,) there pro- bably has been. For it is a noter- fous fact that there are large num- bérs of artilley and infantry, form- ing units of Kitchener's army, which have not yet been properly armed or equipped. At the moment, in short, it is munitions, and not men---or, at any rate, munitions far more than men--which are needed. Under such circumstances, what reason can be urged for justifying, as yet, the introduction of a compul- sory system of military service? Lord Kitchener has not said--he has not even hinted--that the voluntary system has failed. Far be it from nie to argue that we have all the men or anything like all the men, at the front that are needed there. We have, of course, nothing like them. But that is not due to any lack of response on the part of British man- hood to their country's call, It is due to Great Britain's state of hope- less unpreparednéss for war when the war broke out. But finding them- selves in such a pickle, the manhood of Great Britain responded nobly to the call to the colors. They res- ponded in a spirit which will carry this terrible war to a triumphant conclusion, when their chance comes. BH Five of the passengers on board on her last voyage from Montreal to London. Four werg buried at sea and. one taken ashore at London. . The plant of ternational Har- vester Company, nilton, after sev. months of idleness, will soon be lu full operation again, - the Allan liner Sicilian died at sea | {mum height Tuesday afternodn. On | Wednesday i was flowing in it® nor- | mal course, | Mrs. Jenkins watched the flood for {hours while her husband worked {hard to save th¢ plant of the Bitu- lithie Paving Company. She writes in part: "Foi hours they had the low level bridge weighted.down with a coal- loaded freight tram with engines at each end ready to pull off every time a hotise or barn or pile of lum- ber came crashing down the foaming torrent, It was a frightfil sight. The bridge w'thstood it all. Every- thing went to pieces and came out {on the other sidé a wreek. Several {times the way was blocked a two- story house or a barn or an unusual- ly big pile of lumber would stick. 'they had to dynamite some, and wie poles and all the available means of | pushing the stuff on. All the aj.er {noon I sat on a pile of sravel on the {far side of the road from the river about sixty 'or seventy fect away. A most terrific thunderstorm and hau- ricane came up. Althouzh i hal a rain coat and an umbreiia | was soaked. I thought it time to mean- der 'home. "On arriving home I found both the water and electricity off. These plants are right at the river. The men kept the machinery going till It stopped of its own account. They worked in water Up to their necks. The newspapers used gasoline mot- ors so we didn't miss the news. The filter at the water station is out-of order, It will be some time next week before we have filtered water. At present it is muddy soup. Myst people are drinking -1fthia water. They tell some funny stories about it too--some people saw chickens on top of houses floating down the riv- er and a cow was seen with ith head out of a barn window floating down stream. As "The City Welfare League is look- ing after the destitute. People are giving liberally to them. 'I Hope we never have another flood like this but we may have next year." THE ONE WORD: "MUNITIONS." Impressions Of Officer Back From the t Front, ¢ Sir William Rebertsen Nicoll, writing in the 'Britishi Weekly,' says: An officer who 'has been at the front for ten months assures us that dur- ing all that period he has not wit- nessed or known of one single ease of cowardice among fhe British troops, The men at the fremt, however; have one word on their lips and in their hearts, and only one, and that word is "muniticns.'"' We are not free to give the actual proportion of their 'équipment and fhat of the en- emy, but suffice it, fs to say that the position.is one which makes decisive attacks impossible and defence very hard. ; Nevertheless, all are in' g60d hope and straining their eyes for evidence of that additional supply of muni- tions which will ergble them to go forward vietoriously. They are not disposed to lay the upon any individual. They are fully conse- ious of the difficulties that have to be faced at home, and peculiarly im- patient at the news of Strikes. 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