Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Apr 1916, p. 9

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SEVEN TIMES Howard Jowelt With Black Wath t Yes, BROTHER IN R.C.H.A. WHICH JOINED THE FAMOUS SCOTTISH BLACK WATCH. Howard Jewett Participated in One Attack in which Only 17 Men Out of 15,000 Came Out Unscratched. Watertown, N.Y., April 4.--How- ard Jewett, recently returned from the trenches in France, and one of the few survivors of the Black Watch | at Ypres, Is in Watertown visiting ! relatives, He has seven wounds | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916. PHOTO SHOWING NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD WRECK. from shrapne] in his body besides | acid burns an tches., } *"The acid burns and the scratches | are called souvenirs by the boys," said Mr. Jewett to-day, "and the | holes are counted as wounds.' Joseph Jewett, a brother, is also | in the city, back from the war. He was employed on construction work ' in the building of the Y. M. C. A. in| this city, but left to join the first | overseas contingent. Ry Seven Brothers in Army. There are seven of the Jewett bro- | thers who are soldiers in the Cana- | dian army, and the eighth is soon to leave for the front. Three sisters are serving as Red Cross nurses, None | of the ten children inthe war zone have been killed yet, Joseph Jewett at one time receiving a shot clear through his body below the left lung. "My mother wears the said Howard Jewett. that she is proud to give freely, and that her children are fighting for the country." = colors," ficer in the English forces in the Boer war. Howard Jewett spent four months at Ypres, and was wounded in the leg and in the side. One finger is now twisted as a result of a wound. His , right arm is scratched from a shell wound, and an acid burn still shows its effects near his right wrist. "I was in the Black Watch at Ypres, when out of 15,000 of our men at.one place only 17 remained, It rained shot and shell. You have That deseribow J ok al an a tin roof. etly, Even now although the boys have been seriously wounded, | "That means | | mans. The father of the boys was an of-! killed and 33 wounded. The smashed cars of the east-bound{lyer and the. Twen- |tieth Century Limited after the wreck at Amherst, Ohio, on March 29th, when 26 persons were killed and 40 injured. +I can hear the rumbling of the noise soldiers carry shaving utensils and of battle. | shave every day. "The French people are very { . iriendly to our troops every time we i Canadians Better Than Germans. | visit a town. With one dollar of | "The Germans are deathly against | money the same things that' would the Canadians because the Canadians | cost five dollars here can be pur- are holding so strongly. They are | chased. The French girls carry better man for man than the Ger-|lunches to the boys in thé trenches mans. In bayonet charges a Cana- | when there is no firing, but some- (dian is worth five Germans. The | times they get killed by shell. Two reason is that they are more supple | girls used to come to my trench ev- than the Germans. ery day, and they tried to jeach me "It is no trouble for the Cana-|their language. dians to hold the Germans, although the Germans use acid and shells. They can't break through a Canadian regiment. "At Fallen Hill we. held the trenches 24 hours for the French. There were 800 of our men against an estimated force of 133,000 Ger- Only 18 of our men. were The Ger- mans couldn't dislodge us, for we were under shelter. We mowed them down with machine guns. The Wounded Many Times. "My brother, Joseph, was in 'B' Battery of the Kingston artillery, which later joined the Black Watch. The other brothers were in the Black Watch also. Joseph was in France twice. He came back the first time with part of his hip shot off, but he recovered and went back. He has been wounded a great number of times. The hip wound was received Scotch fell in with the Canadians; in a fight in Flanders. The other; and we took"three German trenche: wounds were from- rifle shots of Ger- "I came over this spring on hos-! Hal} sharpshucters. One shot went pital service, caring for the wound- | thr ugh his body below the left ed We saw a merchant boat afire | lung. in the sea and saw Jt sink. The] "My offfér brethers are in sea was high and men from our boat | trenches now, and my sisters could save only a few. The sea ser- vice for transports is practically safe | where, doing 'hospital work. now. "We have found a way to escape "Our men call the Germans 'Phiz. | the acid (gas). When the acid zes," because they wear beards. Our'starts falling we lay on the ground the are somewhere over there, I don't know face downwards. Unless a man has a strong heart, the acid gets him It falls from shells, and then turns into gas the way alcohol or gasoline does when left exposed." The two brothers will return to France with a younger brother soon. This will then make eight of the chil- dren fighting as well as three sisters in service also. DEATH REVEALS MYSTERY. Denver Bookkeeper Was Scion or House Of Kelver, Denver, Colo., April 6.--To those 5 liam Clayton, bookkeeper and cashier i of the Standard Meat & Live Stock | Company, died yesterday in his room | at the Denver Athletic Club. But to! one man, and one man alone, who! knew the mystery of his life and of | his past, the greatgrandson of Lord | Kelver, of England, passed away af- | ter shielding his identity as a mem- | ber of one of the greatest and most | influential families in England, the lords of which have made English history. To one man it. was known=-to Judge John A. Perry, who adjourned court and left his bench to go §o the room where his best friend lay dead, then later to file one of the strangest wills éver written in Denver. For it was in that will that Sidney William Strutt, scion of the House of Kelver, | revealed the mystery of his life and became in death what he had con cealed from the world in life--a life in which he had .become known so- cially and in a business way as Sid- ney William Clayton. Nor did the strangeness of the will end in the revealing of the mystery of the personality of the man who for y®ars has been known in Denver as Sidney William Clayton. For when Judge Perry carries out the provi- sions of the will, he will see first that a knife pierces the heart of Sidney William Strutt to insure his death. Then the body will travel to a cre- | matory, following which the ashes | will be sent to England, with the last | request of Sidney William Strutt that | they be scattered by sisters, Flora, | Edith and Georgina, from the towers | of the historic Tuttbury Castle, at | Staffordshire, England. Treasurer Is Charged. London, Ont., April 6.--The Lon- don Orient Club swore out a warrant | for the arrest of Boyd De Wolfe, Treasurer of-tie club, who is charged with appropriating $500 of the er- ganization's funds. De Wolfe a form- er employee of the London Public Utilities Commission, is taking an of- ficer's course at the Royal School of Artillery, Kingston, Grand Trunk Barnings. Montreal, April 6.--Grand Trunk earnings for the period ended March 31st were $1,592,442, an increase of | $146,478 with the corres- ponding period last year. NEW SALVATION ARMY who knew him casually, Sidney wil. | is Commisisoner W. FAR NORTH PATRIOTISM. Eskimo Chief and Indians Patriotic Fund, Toronto, April 6.--The Canadian Give To | Bank of Commerce has received a| letter from its manager at Dawson, Y.T., in which it is stated that the police patrol returning from McPher- | | son and Herschel Islands has brought | { back $401 subscribed to the Patriotic Fund by loyalists on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. A number of Indian names are on the list, including an Eskimo chief, Chikchilaook, who is| down for $20, to the Patriotic Fund, and $2 to the Belgian Relief' Fund, More than $62,000 has been sub-| | scribed to the various patriotic funds by the .peaple of Dawson and vici-| nity. --ep---- WESTERN GRAIN EMBARGO. Congestion At Head Of Lakes Causes | Reinstatement, Calgary, Alta., April 6.--Again an | is placed on all grain ship-| embarg ments to Fort William and Port Ar- thur, This affects all three of the western transcontinental railways. It is now effective, and is to remain in- definitely. The congestion at the head! discuss the holding of of the lakes--in fact, at all points east of there--is the reason for the latest embargo. J. Richards, of the Salvation Army in Canada, is shown laying the cornédt stone of the new William Booth Memorial Training College in Toronto. A ------ A ---------- MEMORIAL COMMENCED. ra ea Pt a et Ontario Easily Leader. Ottawa, April 6.--An addition of 4,787 miles was made to the operat. ing mileage for the statistical year | | ended June 30th, last, according to | the annual report presentqd to the | heuse. The greatest increase was in the Provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. Ontario has still a railway mileage more than double that of any other province, with 10,703 miles in | operation. Saskatchewan comes next with 5,327, Manitoba, 4,898, Quebec, | 4,677, Alberta, 3,174, British Colum- bia, 3,300, New Brunswick, 1,962, | Nova Scotia, 1,367, Prince Edward' '| Island, 275, Yukon, 102, and Cana- dian lines in the United States, 398. There was a decrease of four miles in Prince Edward Island. The mile- age in the United States relates to | lines which merely form, operating SECOND SECTION BRODER VOTES Old Honest Andrew Breaks Vi Fis ay WANTS FULL ENQUIRY INTO THE HANDLINGS OF MUNI- TIONS CONTRACTS Declares Tht the Grafters Should Not Be Allowed to Hide in the Shadow of This Great War. Ottawa, April 5.--The Hon. An- drew Broder, Conservative member for Dundas, a life-long friend of the late Sir James Whitney, and known in Parliament for twenty years as one of the most honorable and up- right of the people's representatives, felt constrained to break from nis party's allegiance by speakin| ng ond voting in support of Sir ifrid Laurier's motion for a wide-open Parliamentary inquiry into the op- erations of the Shell Committee. In the House of Commons last night he said: "My name has been made a sub- ject of controversy. I do mot wish | any great publicity, but I desire to say that I never gave any authority for an interview, nor any statemént to anybody, to be made public. While I am on my feet I to state how | I intend to vote, for I do not wish to give a silent vote on this, occasion, A good deal has been said of the wis- dom or unwisdom of investigating the Shell Committee's business. The argument largely used ds that the money spent was British money. Now, I look upon this war as a part- nership between Great Britain and her colonies, and I think we are just as much interested in the outlay of British money as we are of our own. "1 do not think the people of this connections between points in Can- | ada like*the short line of the C.P.R. \ across the State of Maine. 1 | A meeting of the Canadian Asso- ciation of Oarsmen is te be 'held shortly when a decision will he] reached with regard to the holding of the annual Henley at St. Cath- arines this summer." The Canadian Canoe Association meets here the | first Saturday in May and will then the cham- | plonship regatta. If it takes place | this summer, it will probably be | held at St. John's Que. { am glad to see tH ceuntry will be satisfied unless they feel assurance that there ja to be a rettya thorough investigation. 3 he 2 #"Hight Hon. lead- er of the Government (Sir Robert Borden) go as far as he has gone, | but we wish he would go farther, I do not think that anything shont ot the fullest investigation will satisfy the public feeling of this country to- day. The Grafter in the "I 'dosmots tink -.graftors should be allowed to Hide in the (Continued on page 10.) Nm nt 20% To 40% DISCOUNT SALE ing Thursday, April 6th,and Ending April 29th While wholesalers' and manu- facturers' prices are" daily ad- rancing, these discounts are bas ed on old prices, as we anticipat- ed the increase in price and laid in heavy stocks. All papers have advanegd 40 per cent. or Jere. Metal goods are unobtainable a any price. 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