20 PACES YEAR 83, NO. 205 a - qd KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBFR 2, 1916. ily Brit \ = a w -------- y AE PAGES 13-20 es ---- THIRD SECTION TERRE THE RECRITING RETR WITH EVERY MONTHLY REPORT. Many Sweepstakes on the -Results-- Practically Impossible to Forecast What Next Return Will Be. "What are the causes of the con- stantly varying figures of the recruit- ing return?" is a question that is seemingly difficult to answer. Every two weeks this mibkitary district -- No. 3--~g'ves a report of the number of men who. have joined Canada's fighting force in the prior two weeks. Every district does the same. The result is a mass of figures that can , only be equalled to stock market quo tations and are just as hard to fore- cast, ° The gambling chances of the re- sults are taken up by many people and jt is certainly an interesting study to find the reasons on which many base their guesses, For the last two weeks the total Is small---down to 297--and the low- est yet recorded for this district, The highest, which was in December last, was over 2,000. In taking up the causes various reasons are assigned. The principal one ds the harvesting conditions which keep would-be recruits on the farm, The cities, it should be re- membered, have been better drained than has the country and it is to the farmers that the recruiting forces are turning, . During the last two weeks the har- vesting has been brought pretty well to completion, that is, the summer harvest. The fall harvest time has has just arrived. The hay and grain crops were heavy and much help was demanded. This explanation of why recruiting ds slack would tend to chow that recruits are enlisting more at their own convenience than when the country's call is heard the loud- est, The fact that few new units have been authorized is thought by some to Influence the result, Five are " now recruiting and little ground is left open. ~~] The whole question is a difficult one to decide, and the many sweep- stakes, which fake advantage of the "gamble involved, are interesting to watch, Lr $0 VARY SEMI- ee') 277) / : 0 TH: . "Whig Phone BARRIEFIELD CAMP r No. 1909 Free Bulletin Service at Press' . Headquarters, Next YMCA / REACHED PARROTT'S BAY AT 1.15 O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY AF- TERNOON. Soldiers Had Lunch at Collins Bay , ==Gireat Sight of Over 2,000 Men Taking a Swim. The soldiers of Barriefield, to the number of 2,600, who took part in the route march to Parrot's Bay on Friday, arrived at their place of bivouac at 1.15 p. m., which made an average of about two miles and a half ag hour for the thirteen miles from the camp. The march was taken "by slow de- grees, and arshort distance from Col- 'ins Bay a stop far lunch 'was made. This seemed to be the break that started the falling out, and the fgw men who had to leave the lines wére all straggling from that place to the point, The column Was followed by several transports, and 'two motor transports thoroughly cavered the road and gave rides to any men who through tight puttees or any other trouble found it necessary to leave their sections. Because the other fellows are only too ready to laugh if one fei out, those who did take advantage of the transport number- ed very few. The grounds are located on a point jutting inte the Bay-of Quinte WHERE RUSSIANS AND FRENCH LIE SIDE BY SIDE. GEN.T.D.R.HEMMING ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE CAMP DAILY BY OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ) Pictyresque corner of a military graveyard in Northern France, where Russians and French who have fallen on the western front are buried. are crosses--the Russians being distinguished from th bar--the Qreek Church Cross. These "monuments" ' and facing Amherst Island. The ground is a stubble and the pasture used by the troops is quite grassy. There is a low place near the lines of the 154th Battalion, but this is the only suggestion of any part that is not high and dry. The horses were camped in a small grove to one side and on the opposite side of the lot is headquarters. In an "LY sape between are the sites of the 154th, 166th and 16th Battalions. As soon as the troops arrived and were informed that the next few hours could be used for resting up, there were cheers and cheers, and then after dismissing a run for the lake. Officers, N.€.O.'s and men made the dive to the lake and that distric? never before had so many naked men running around and en- joying the refreshing coolness of. a dip. It was a unique sight on thos little used shores to suddenly find over half of 2,500 men wanting to go in for a swim at the one time. Ther was lots of room and the hard bot: TRANSYLVANIA 1S THE TOE Of Hupgary And Is Rich But Little y Developed. Transylvania is the Hungarion toe thrust deep into the centre of the Roumanian kingdom. "With the. re- with Rome's war policy, Transyl- vania, like all of the exposed fron- tiers, is guarded by a difficult moun- tain' system. Roumanian territory bends like a drawn elbow around Transylvania, from the southwest to far in the northwest." Along the entire boundary run the rugged Car- cent Italian expression that _Rou- mania is ready fo act in accordance trees. ---- AAA A A tom found many strange feet Fri- day morning. Due 'to the excellent management on thé part of Major Hamilton and the staff of the Army Service Corps, every man was welcomed at the camp with a hot meal. It was cook- ed and servetl by members of the School of Cookery. Wireless at Bivounae. The wireless under Lieut. Munsie and Sergt. Hicks 'was on duty at the camp. Due to a breakdown of.the waggon carrying it, the equipment was not immediately ready for use, but the men worked hard all Friday afternoon to put_it in readiness for communication to. the camp. The portablé aerial was erected a short distance from headquarters. Capt. Henderson, Engineers, was with the headquarters staff, and he also took part in the erection of the apparatus. junction with the Blue Danube, in Hungary, opposite Servia. Shaped like an irregular {ircle Transylvania, 'with its 21,000 square miles of area, is a high plateau, naturally a distinct land division; and cut off from Hungary, as from Roumania and Bukowina, by a defi- pathian Mountatns, returning to their a A i a It's Getting so a Guy Has to Work For a Living 2 CAWS US Has Gora WORK, JusT @¢€ LANDED an NE CAN STALL afFAy HE LIKES! NOY =oR > BLL G0 Frs S008 WR N GET BALK Tp €Capse an HIS CHEST He Ming au PMole THIN Long ~> RIBS were IT SHouLD SAY NOY Y T mmio-- BuT, BoYS Do You . J REALIZE THAT My JAW, MY NOSE and BROKEN AND -- nite line of mountain barriers. . / " "SAv! TaTg VS UP BEVERY DAY (N THE AAD WE Dov ceT No [RECRUTING 15 VERY SLOW CHART IS AT ITS LOWEST POINT JUST NOW. Irregular Dro in Figures Since April 1st--Numbeér is Taken Every Two Weeks. It is interesting to watch the ever changing chart at headquarters which shows how recruits are enlist- ing or are not enlisting, which is more to the point. Since April 1st, which is the beginning of the present condition of affai in recruiting circlés, the number has dropped to 297. The chart reads as follows: April 1st to 15th April 15th to 30th May 1st to 15th .. May 15th to 31st ... Roumania, at present the larg- est of the Balkan States, with 54, 2) 00 square miles, would, with such additional area, form a country con- siderably more than one-third as large as Germany, or one as large as any other two Balkan countries com- bined. It would, further, mean a gain of 2,600,000 in population, of whom NG Y UNG iD) YOU GET U§ SHOT uP BY SHRAPNEL y DROP us OUT OF 4 STORY WINDOWS AND SMASH Year SYmpatTny You B16 Goo! at The marks on all the graves e French by crosses with a. double are made of the preity French birch June ist to 15th June 15th-t0/20th July 1st to 15th ... July 15th to 31st August 1st to 15th August 15th to 31st Headquarters Staff. headquarters staff was Brig.-Gen Lieut.-Col. 8. A. Thompson, Lieut.- Col. W. J. Brown, Lieut.-Col. G. H. ie, Major R. D. Ponton, Capt. ~ MgManus, Lieut. Johnson, Migney and others. The bivouac on the Hemming, Lieut Y.M.C.A. on Bivouac. The YM.C.A. was "there" on the bivouae and had tons bf ice cream for sale to the soldiers, It was rapid- Iy gobbléd up, and Mr. Wilson: and his staf® had to return to the city before nig "tfall for a second load. cn, 1,400,000 would represent a gain in nationals. The Roumanians, con- stituting more than fifty-six per cent. of Transylvania's people, have been vigorously oppressed during recent years through determined efforts of their rulers to Magyarizegthem, Five railway lines. penet¥ate Tran- sylvania from Roumania, joining the v Capt. J. M. Wilson was warmly congratulated on Friday on his birthday anniversary. Major J. Hamilton was one of the ictims selected by an: industrious Lut vindicative bee at the bivouac C. M. Hamilton, who has been qualifying as a paymaster, has been recommended for an appointment with an overseas battalion on the completion of his course. Capt. F. Houston, Queen's Field Ambulance, returned on Friday from Ottawa, where he was on. recruiting duty. Capt Finlayson, Q. F. A., was medical officer for the troops on the route march. Lieut. Miller will be in charge of the advance party of seventy-five n and five officers of the artillery to leave on Monday for Petawawa. They will prepare the camp for the remainder of the brigade. Lieut. Williams, 73rd ttery, is in the General Hospital, receiving treatment for blood-poisoning in the brand. A captain's course for the next two weeks at the Infantry School will be followed by a field officers' course. The headquarters. staff has the usual large red flag erected to mark the location of its quarters. There is indeed notlving else but some grocery boxes to mark the spot. A Touching Reminder. Coubourg, Sept. 1.--This week a rather touching souvenir of the bat- tle front was received in the shape of a photograph of three gpuerations tof a Cobourg man killed at the front, the picture being of his wife, daugh- ter and granddaughter. The shell which killed the man had struck the photograph, badly multilating it, yet' the pictures of the parties are not disfigured. lately developed Hungarian systems. The Hungarian province is rich land, little developed, and it 'would largely compensate Roumania for her loss of Bessarabia te Ru%sia, ® Some of the valleys are exceedingly fertile, and the summer heat is such that the 97 RECAUTS ENTE IN MELITARY DISTRICT NO. 8 IN LAST TWO WEEKS. Lowest Number on Record--All the Unites Are Low--"O" Battery, R. ©. H. A., Secured Record From Montreal. . The recruiting returns for the last two weeks in August as issued by headquarters give a return of 297 recruits, making a total of 6,245 men on the roll in this military dis- trict. The return is as follows. "C" Battery, R. C. H. A. 62 re- cruits; 361 strength. 72nd Battery, 9 strength. 73rd strength. 74th strength. 76th strength. A. Column, 2 recruits; 26 strength. Cobourg Art, 12 recruits, 19 strength, > recruits; 72 Battery, .10 recruifs; 131 Battery, 8 = recruits; 68 Battery, 10 recruits; 8¢ 155th, 4 recruits, 1.081 166th, 8 recruits; 1,005 207th, 28 recruits; 708 230th, 32 recruits, 574 235th, 32 recruits; 332 strength. 240th, 31 recruits, 122 strength. 247th, b recruits; 7 strength.' 8. 8. Company, -~recruits; 119 strength. > D. Signal strength. "QF: A; >» C. A, strength Unattached, 4 recruits; 4 strength. strength. strength. strength. strength. Co., 36 recruits; 272 13 recruits; 144 strength. D.C recruits; 21 Recruiting for A, 8, CO. Lieut. M, Keith Lennox fk fn Co- bourg recruiting for the Army Ser- vice Corps. One hundred drivers for the horse transpott for immedi- ate service are required, This fur- nishes an opportunity for horsemen to do their bit, Recruiting has beén good for the new draft from Cobourg Heavy Battery this week and eight have signed up. Sergt.-Inst. Brown, C.A.8C., cut way out while handling a large butcher, knife, and had ta have it dressed at the General Hospital. ---------------- my of agricultural promise. It has a little industry and some mining. It possesses the richest gold mines In Europe and many of its people live by gold washing, Transylvania is a country whose value has hardly been realized and most delicious of European fruit can be raised there. Transylvania is full that is because it is a twisting mass of hill and mountain ' By Bud Fisher WORK, YOu [Sump WORK! | pir "Uw 154th, 1 recruit; 1,063 strength. - % his finger almost to the bone on the -- =