al " HHH 1 HHH HHH A CONSERVATIVE EXPRESSES THANKS TO THE WHIG For Standing up as a Friend of That Unit in Its Need--Objects to Send- ing It to Valcartier, Kingston, June 26.--(To the Edi- tor.) --Permit me to. congratulate You upon the splendid letter signed ""Anti-Bilingual" which appeared in your issue of Saturday. The letter certainly covered the ground in a thorough and consistent wanner. Congratulations are due to your pa- per because you have not deemed it expedient to sit still and "quit" when you saw a duty to perform. Thanks for your refraining to "let Ottawa down easy' by endeavoring to choke down your readers' throats that "It's all for the best" and "we must bow to the Minister's will." Can such expressions and lack of aggressiveness on the part of the "of- ficial 'organ™ be due to the fact that a new battalion here will mean more shekels for recruiting and therefore it is not advisable to offend the "powers that be," forgetting most ungraciously that the time a man needs friends is when he is in need. as the 146th Battalion appears to be at this writing. You state that your letter written by a prominent local Con- servative, Wel} Sir, as I am one also, it wopld appear as though yours is tigghlia inel one must steer for if we are to get the unprejudiced views of the present military situation that the case demands. Like many others I am confident that Dr. Edwards will be able to ad- Just the matter satisfactorily and that our boys will not go down to Billingualville. If they must go some- where why not send them to Camp Borden, where they will at least be amongst congenial surroundings, But why on earth must they go anywhere until ready for overseas ?--CITIZBEN. was Good Reason to Resent It Kingston, June 24.-- (To the Edi- tor): In a despatch from Ottawa Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia, is reported as saying that it is the best interests of the 146th Battalion to go to Valcartier, as they will re- colve betler training there than they can receive at. Barriefield. Well, that's & nice slur e officers and non-commissioned ers training the men at Barriefield camp, and 1 am not surprised that they resent this latest hot-air effusion of the Ot- tawa War Lord. Why is Sir Sam so anxious to give the 146th this effi- clent training and leave the 109th of Lindsay, his home town, at Barrie- field to complete its training? It doesn't seem consistent, does it? What kept the 93rd and 109th at Barriefield but political pull? Capt. J. H. Burnham, of the 93rd, the tory M.P. Tor West Peterboro, knows something about this. If Barrie- field camp 1s good emough to train the 93rd, 109th, 154th, 156th and hing of the pay records will be done * ; 3 ¥ oe re I I TO BE DONE AT THE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS BEIRUT Instead of at Ottawa--This Will Eli-| | CAIRO « minate the Delays That Prevail at | Present | Gradually changes that promise! even more improvement are being | made in the various branches of the Government military system of Can-| ada. An innovation has come in the pay office that should bring this de-| partment to a position that will eli- minate unavoidable delays at present. | It has been decided that the audit-| egypt «MEDINA ASSOUAN* *TAIF in future at the district headquarters | instead of at Ottawa. ! At the present time there are three! steps in the chain from the paymas- ters of the different units to the Aud-| itor General. The first step is the battalion paymaster"s office, the sec-| ond is the district paymaster"s office | and the third the headquarters | pay and record office at Ottawa. | These last two, however, wil] be loc- | ated at the one place in future to avoid the delays of forwarding mat- ters through them returned. sovds™ KHARTOUM brit is AbY EXTENT OF ARABIAN The Arabs have sickened the mall and having the cor Capt. €. Turner, District Paymas-| | urkey, and the revolt agains! | mad tribes, and other sub- | government are in the hands Mecca. | of the rebel forces. i ter, will have as the auditor for his| the latter has assumed pay and records Lieut. W. H. Smythe, | stantial proportions. Ottawa, who is now at the camp. His | | BAGDAD JMECCA Per Sia a A REVOLT AGAINST TURKEY. of | the "Holy City" of the Mussul- rupt and bloody rule of man, has been seized by the 1 10- seats of being located at the camp will stop | ~- ~~ the delay incidental to sending all the documents between the two 148TH ELD SERVIOE ink DO . cities. . Now only the final state- ments will be sent through to Ottawa to the Auditor General, The plan is being adopted all over Canada and should prove of value, particularly in other districts which have ihe name of being very slow wl and inaccurate in their returns. What may prove to be the final Under the efficient management of | appearance at Divine service for the Capt. Turner, the jJocal pay office runs | 146th Battalion in Kingston was as should any big organization. | held at It is likely that the office of the | morning ed the Open=-Air Military Congregation. pay office, although this is not nec- essary. 1. | and lon parade, The occasion was a mem- | SOLDIERS QUALIFY [ orable one and will long be remem- | tents prove very popular with bered by those present, FOR HIGHER RANK. 4 | The 146th band furnished List of Officers and Men of Va-| music and Capt. G. IL the NES TENT FOR TE 156TH STEPS OF The Price of Tents Advancing--Tent | Offered a While Ago for $400 is | Now $500. Thousands of People Augment-| WHICH FOLLOWS IN THE FOOT. | .| chain goes until the duties of the THE 146TH | The 156th Battalion is now falling the men will be brought i | ranks for recreat There seems to have never suffered Macdonald park on Sunday | into line to the extent of getting a when thousands of specta-| big mess tent for the men. auditors will be in the headquarters | tors furnished an open-air congrega- ! tion to hear the words of Capt. G. | the lack of it, the commanding offi- Campbell and see the Kingstion |cer is determined that Frontenac overseas volunteers possible for the comfort of the men Though from everything nto use. The big all ion , purposes, be only two firms Campbell, | in Canada making these tents and chaplain of the battalion officiated. | the price is rapidly advancing. One rious Units Who Passed Ex- aminations. delivered and proved very appropri- ate. His text "Be of good cheer and tl battalion has yet to face. He dealt the recen | with the necessity of men always | conducting themselves as men should opposite their names, at examinations at Kingston: Lieut. G. R. Long, for rank of captain; Pte. 440 even in the face of adversity and J. G. McCord, for rank of sergegat; | ¢ : . mplored them to a credit to the Pte. J. A. Mather, for rank of | Dlore be a 31 20 the SOr~1 oy i : | Empire by their actions. After the geant; Pte. A. W. Ansley, for rank p y a short of sergeant; Pte. R. W. Robinson, | service the battalion took D 3 route march through the city. for rank of sergeant; Pte. A. A. McGory, for rank of sergeant; Pte. > S, H. Dunster, for rank of.corporal. APPOINTMENTS MADE Units Barriefield Camp LA Capt. J. Moffat, 130th Battalion is appointed Senior Major vice E. J. > ... To Various at The undermentioned N. C. O.'s| qualified for the ranks set opposite their names on the termination of| 156th, surely it is good enough to train the 146th. Officers who have . been at the front for months and are home on furlough say it is and they surely should know.--VETERAN. «© : ; let the Sheep Alone Information has been. received that sheep, at the rear of .the rifle] range at the north of the camp, are being interfered with. It is publish- ed, for the information of al} con-: cerned, that all troops should be noti- | fied that any soldier, found interfer- ing with these sheep, are liable to come to bodily harm at the hands of the owners, ip addition to receiving military punishment, The 93rd Battalion has new sweat- | ers for the use of the football and | basebal} teams of the battalion, The | | al. the School of Infantry, Barriefield | 4 camp on the 1¥th June.: Sergt. H.| Watt, transferred. , J. Latimer, 109th Battalion, as ser-| Appointments to 235th, Battalion: geant; Pte. J. G. McCord, 156th| Lieut. C. S. Stewart, 47th Regiment; Battalion, as sergeant; Pte, E. G. Lieut. A. B. M15 %7th Regiment; Murdock, 154th Battalion, as ser-| Lieut. E. W. Moss, C.8.C.1.; Lieut. goat; Pre. J. A. Muther, 156th | F. H. Reed, 95th Regiment: Lieut. Battalion, as sergeant; Pte. A, W.|P. O. Thompson, 46th Regiment; Ansley, 156th Battalion, as sergeant; | Capt. W, L. Mac¢Donald, C.O.T.C. Pte. R. W. Robinson, 156th Batta-| Lieut. B. Kennedy, 14th Battery, lion, as sergeant; Pte. A. A. McGory, | C.F.A,, is attached to the 73rd Bat- 166th Battalion, as sergeant; Pte. G.| tery, C.E.F. Dionns, 136th 'Battalion, as sergeant; Capt. F. W. Hall, 42nd Regiment, Pte. L. J. Jetts, 230th Battalion, as |reésigned his appointment to the corporal; Pte. ©. O. Summers, 154th | 130th Battalion. : Battal'on, as corporal; Pte. 8. H.| Captain J. H. Edwatds, Dunster, 156th Battalion, ag corpor-| Regiment, resigned his appointment | to the 130th Battalion. i | tery, C:F.A., is attached to "C" Bat- Capt. Hagar, 156th Battalion, con-| tery, R.C.H.A., from May 21st., 1916. ducted the Divine service on Sunday morning for the Third Brigade] The 130th Battalion ténts have all . 1 42nd | Lieut. Coningsby Dawson, 5th Bat- | His sermon was one of the best ever | battalion had to pay $500 for the tent which was offered the week be- {fore for $100 less. Much criticism " ' " acquit yourselves like men' was sug-|of this "hold-up" is being expressed Hon fe 150 Bata gestive of the thrilling times that the | at the camp by the men who feel it is an | overseas, injustice to take any money from soldiers who are going) extra f THE INFANTRY SCHOOL Probationers Who Reported for In-| struction Last Week The following | | ported to the Infantry School of In-| PE during the past week: H.| F Clarke, 235th; A. B. 154th; Cumming, W. Ma Finlayson, E, J. 155th 235th; 130th; Cameron, probationers F. H. Stewart, cMinn, 130th; W. L. I J. Pitt, 156th; K. i We A. Shaw, 155th; W. J. Wilson, 139th; E. Mar- shall, 139th; A. Regiment; C. OC E. L. Sellwood, & Weller, 155th; 154th; L. B. Irw Thompson, 139th; 109th; 8S. Aseltine, 109th; 109th; A. M. Scho R. Wilson, 139th 109th. R. Cross, H. Cameron, 57th aq. FG; JE EGT RD. W. "J. Franklin, in, 154th; A, G. D. F. Bissionette, 109th; A. W. W. H. Campbell, field, 235th; W. S. 3 80d Lieut.-Col R. W. Smart has ap- | plied for permission for the preseut- | {ation of the colors to his 186th Bat- talion to take place on Dominion Day in Port Hope. The colors are being purchased Hughes, and will battalion by Mrs, Henry, of Orono, | by Col. James L. be handed to the i a i bat-{ aud Capt. Dodds, 155th Battalion, | been levelled and that portion of the | daughter of General J. Hughes, and sweaters bear the crest of the "Miss Percy, of Bowmanville, talion, foi re- | Downey, | OFFICERS ARE WELL VERSED | IN THE IMPORTANT SUBJROT OF | "INTERIOR, ECONOMY" | The Taird Division is Sending Out Best Qualified Officers--=Greater Efficiency the Result. | As in many other branches of mili- { tary training, Military District No. | 3 is taking an advanced step by hav- { ing all officers who leave from here | well versed in the subject of "Inter- | for Economy." Advices from Eng- { 1and are to the effect that an all too | Breat number of officers on reaching | England do not know even the rudi- ments of the great system on which the organization of a unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force de- pends, | The chain of responsibility goes directly from the Militia Council to the District Officer Commanding. The headquarters staff look after the work for the district and see that the unit commanders properly look | atter the work and carry out their | responsibilities correctly, Every battalion or other unit has one officer | appointed for its command, He is directly responsible for every thing | that happens in the organization un- | der him, to the District Headquar- | ters, { As in every husiness in which | there is a responsible head the work | must be divided so that every man will have a certain thing to take care of. The battalion work has two dis- tinct parts, One is -the executive control and the other the administra- | tion. Each branch is in charge of a | senior officer Down the line the | quartermaster, medical officer, com- pany officers, etc., are outlined. Then the N.C.0.'s work comes in and every one of these has separate duties to perform and certain things to be in charge of and responsible for. This vast subject is called "In- terior Economy" and the trouble in too many cases in England is that officers are not thoroughly enough acquainted with it to know just the correct way in which to "do their part. To remedy this, M.D. No. 'S has established a precedent by having Major P. E. Prideaux give regular lectures on.the subject. In a yery interesting way the major is hand- ing on to the officers at the camp the knowledge that a great amount of study and actual experience has given him. Officers are very enthus- lastic in their praise of his lecturing ability. On Monday evening, Major Pri- { deaux will address the officers of the | 154th and 155th Battalions, and on | Wednesday he will address the offi- cers of the 155th Battalion. " : THE WAY | DIDN'T i -- | Kingston Crowds Received the Sol- diers in the March | "I have been in cities from Halifax to Vancouver, in places where there have always been soldiers and places where boys in khaki are novelties. AFTER THEIR IONG ROUTE MARCH SATURDAY MORNING The Parade Numbered Forty Per Cent. of Kingston's Population-- Col. Hemming Pleased With the Troops Just as fresh as when they left the immense military parade of the 9,200 soldiers of Barriefield camp marched back into camp shortly be- fore noon on Saturday after giving the people of Kingston the greatest military sight ever viewed here, Thousands of soldiers have march- ed along the streets of the city of Kingston during past years but never in its history have 9,200 khaki clad men marched by in one great body. A number almost equal to forty per cent. of Kingston's population was in that parade. It was certainly a wonderful sight and from a spectacular point of view all that could be desired! There is, however, a more far-reaching value. Col. Hemming now knows that the soldiers at Barriefield have within a few weeks graduated from being re- cruits into real soldiers who are able to act as worthy representatives of the C.E.F, 83RD SOCCER MATCH The Men's Soccer Team Defeated the Officers by 7 to 0 ed in defeating the officers of the battalion on Friday. evening by a score of 7 to 0. The line-up was: Batttalion Officers Pte. Griffin Capt. Munro Right Back Pte. Cridland Lieut Dupuy Corpl. Norman Capt. Neilson Right Half Lance-Corpl. Hardie .. Centre Half Lieut, Richardson Left Halt Sergt. Gower Lieut. Milburn Outside Right Serght Hartshorn ..Capt. Widdifield Inside Right Lance-Corpl. Stockdale .... "hse vess sass «Lieut. Gardiner Centre Forward Q.M, Sergt. King ... Lieut, Ketchum Inside Right Lieut. Outside Right Q.M. Sergt. Williams ..Lieut.. Crisp Referee, Capt. Bygott, Capt. Mowat Pte. West Pte. Stevenson ' ) SIGNALLERS INSPECTED On Saturday by Major Mundell, the School Commandant The signalling sections of the vari- Ous units at Barriéfield camp were inspected on Saturday morning by Major D. E. Mundell, Commandant of the School of Signalling, to de- termine their efficiency and the pro- gress they have been making since jorganized. The work has been going The 93rd Battalion team succeed-| ENUSTED AS A PRVATE Major C. A. Cooke Enlisted With the 40th Regiment at Cobourg in Au. 'gust, 1914--Was a Farm Hand. Cobourg Star. A rather remarkable story came to light a short time ago, when in the Illustrated London News page of no- tables killed in the war was shown the picture of Major C. A. Cooke, Royal Berkshire Regiment (if we re- member correctly the regiment), killed in action. Major Cooke's story appears rather interesting. When the first draft of the 40th Regiment was recruited here in Au- gust, 1914, one of the first of those offering their services was Pte. C. A. Cooke He had been working on a farm near Colborne, and as soon as war broke out he at once volunteer- ed his services, even though at the time be was negotiating for the pur- chase of a farm. Pte. Cooke was a well built, | straight-as-a-die soldier, and by his soldierly abilities was made a ser- geant-major by Major Bolster before he left Cobourg. From here the men went to Valcartier. At Valcartier a call was made for men for the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and Cooke at | once stepped out and went to Eng- | land with them. When the Dragoons | were being reviewed at Salfsbury by | King George and his staff, Cooke was at the right of the line. At the con- clusion of the inspection an orderly {came to the dragoons headquarters | with an order for "Captain Cooke to | report at headquarters," signed by {the King himself. There did not |appear to be a Captain Cook on the | Dragoons roll, so the orderly asked | if there was a private by that name. | Yes, there was, and Cooke was sent | for. He was given the order from {the King, and admitted he was the | one referred to, and the order stated he was to rejoin his old regiment at once, and take his former rank. One of the aides to the King was the old colonel of his regiment, and though the recognition was mutual, neither showed it. Capt. Cooke rejoined his old regiment as a lieutenant, then | went up to captain, and soon after | wards to major, but did mot enjoy his promotion long, being killed in ac tion in one of the big engagements in which hid regiment su sd heavily. { THE MUSKETRY STAFF At Barriefield Camp Is a Very Strong { One { The ranges at Barriefield are in | constant use giving valuable musk- | etry instruction to the soldiers sta- | tioned at the camp. The staff this | year is a very strong one, being made | up of able instructors. Capt, W, E. | Swaine Is in charge and is assisted | by Capt, W. T. Kirkconnell, Sergt.- | Major- Inst. Godhouse, Color Sergt. | Dawes, "Sergt. George Practchett. { The 93rd and 109th Battalions are | now on the ranges, although mus- { ketry 1s being taught in every unit | under the supervision of these in- Never in all my experience have I!ahead very rapidly and should be en- | structors. | Seen a colder body or spectators that | tirely satisfactory to the command-| | the people of Kingston at the parade on Saturday," was the expression of |an officer on Saturday afternoon in | commenting on the magnificent turn- | out. Kingston never had such an | immense body of troops - passing through 'the streets and yet while | the stores should have been deco- rated and the people out enmssse there was hardly a cheer and never { a show of flags as the soldiers march- ed by. It is the farewell march of four of the nine battalions and yet there was hardly a show of welcome | that they were in the city or regret | that they are leaving from the crowds that lined the streets. Sergt. Thofaas, 230th finishing a week of instruction at the jcamp pay office, ant. This important branch of the work requires the most intelligent of | men and the work is watched by headquarters even more than that | of other branches. 93rd Battalion Concert A splendid concert was given in the 93rd Battalion mess tent on Fri- {day evening by talent from the bat- | talion, I {and every number was heartily re- | ceived. Pte. Farr, Sergt.-Major | Hartshorn, Corpl. Hartshorn and Pte. | } | Hartshorn, the last three having had | extensive experience in en'srtain- ment work, furnished many numbers. | of Militia and the | Sergt. Leader presided at the piano. | be a very important as Battalion, | returned to Ottawa on Saturday after | W. B. Coulter, L. Rushlow and N. | Barnes have enlisted in the 155th | Battalion i | | have the presentation of colors made | at. Port Hope. The battalion will go {to that town for the big event and There was a big attendance | 136TH GOES TO PORT HOPR For Presentation of Colors and From There to Valcartier Lieut.-Col. R, W. Shaw has re- ceived the necessary authority to to the 136th Battalion on July 1st will mot stop at Kingston on the trip to Valcartfer camp. The goods of the battalion will be forwarded dir- ect from Port Hope. : The colors have been donated by Col. Hughes, brother of the Minister event promises to well as & most impressive one, Pte. Hunt, C.A.8.C,, is in the Gen- eral Hospital with a sprained ankle. | officiated at the first brigade service. | camp looks very deserted now. 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