' PAGE THREE we - v J % | 0o0cstteotctotntostotoroos : BHTY, Probe: Wednesday, fair and decidedly cold BEHIND THE LINES Scarttlal So TL Brilliant Career 'The Joys and Sorrows of the Base. SIRES I. -- Work at Canadian Section G.H.O. + Comes From Ancient Im Word ] J "Wilagaut." 'anadians have always recognized | the quality of sportsmanship as being | i an essential part of the fighting man. | The GePman press used to explain | away such remarkable events as Mbns, when the British under terri- | ® i | { T pen Cs ee 3 - wu politics with hbrightéer pros-| EW men have entered British Contributed Exclusively to the 4 When people in trenches. « troops, it is true, in continual danger and aml who are doing the of the work of keeping away from our shores. adians of whom little is heard. is 10 bring this army of the base be- foro the public that this is being | They have thelr duties to and, although they are well they form a very ne- cessdry part of the forces on active) written. perferm, out of danger, service. .. First of all comes the men at Can- These men adian section, GH.Q. the units overseas. quite as comfortable, ways, as happy, at home. Their portant, on the field is kept in- the organization at home. stationed at Rouen, torical city on the Normandy. the staff is almost entirely made and, work touch River who are no longer fit the firing line, suggestion of part, cal. At the offices record of for duty "60d feet" on man the France, Infantry Records. clerk in charge of the of Canadian tell, at a where every man is. mendously busy section, 5% a0 Ee, 0) RS Whig by AMI far-off Canada read of the boys in France they as a rule think only of the army in the The large majority of the are on the firing line, and they are the men who are hardship, | lion's share the Huns But there is also in France a large body of Can-| | tion receives the effects of all men { ~Anothér | postal section, | Jetters and parcels for men who have have, perhaps, the easiest time of all | | been wounded. These are re-add: In fact they are: in many | cation as shown by the records, {sent on to him, is most im-| for through them the army | with | They are a grand old his- Seine, i Here it may be said that up | of men who have been wounded, and on so that there, is no | their ! Their work is entirely clerd | per nr for billeting and subsistence, land can choose thefr own quarters. as though they were { hundred Canadians {| Their work is the easiest of all the at Rouen is kept a very movement made by | them iind lodgings wit? ome Franc) every individual officer, N.C/O, and | family army in| In one big room are the | equal a French cook, and te these There i8 found 2 | yoyg just down from &he-trenches, a records of | real soft bed, with snow white sheets, very infantry battalion, and he can |i, » warm comfortable room, is like moment's notice, just | It is a tre-| especially | only seven hours on week days, and | four hours on 'Sunday. | termoon is devoted to football, and the y brat 0 A Baru ark Wind Customers holding keys for ' the cabinet of silver are asked to return these. at once to be fitted, so the cabinet ¢ be awarded to the holder the Jucky key, and keys mist be returned to the main store. Best' Ss NERY R, KOD0 'Those people the are se po A o (ind, hey ordeal of aw Ye Sanh ation are a I ished to find that, as made us, it causes no pain, d fort, or, insorisen- ience. | E | | | 1 HH | ly aston- hen casualties are heavy, for through it all casualty reports are sent to the home offices. Then. im other rooms 'are found the records |of the other units apd 'services of the C.E.F. No detafl'i$ lacking. A {complete record is kept of all pro- motions, casualties, punishments, furloughs and transfers of all the men in France. There is a depart- ment which repliesijo all enquiries regarding the men. "Another sec- killed or wounded and sends them out either to the man himself or to his next of kin. This section looks like a general store, for all kinds of articles pass through its hands. important section is the to which are sent all +48- ad according to the owner's latest lo- and no matter where he may Le, With all this work "to do a large Raff necessary, and abone two are kept there. units in France, so that positions at Rouen are always in great demand. Not omiy is the work easy, bat the men are perhaps the mest comfoit- ahly hilleted of all the troops in France. They have no camp or bar- i racks, <o they and allowed ¥ dollar Tha result is that the majority of . and live a lite of ease and {luxury. For there is no cook can a foretaste of paradise, The hours at the office are short Sunday af- Canadian team won their league made up of teams {rom the English and Australian Base Depots, two years in succession. In the evening all are {ree, and the men make the most of their opportunities to fraternise with the French people, - Discipline is very strict, especany as regards the personal appearance of the clerks. Every méming a thor- ough inspection isvheld, and woe be- tide the man who comes on duty with dull boots, buttons, or badges or Pwith his hair longer than the regu. lations allow. The Canadian section has the reputation of being the smarest and best-dressed in Roue and the adjutant sees to it that every man lives up to tis reputation But, in spite of this strict gisoip- line, the men are happy and sou em ¢d. * They have dome their 'bit' the firing line, and are carrying on: fat G.H.Q. in the same thorough mai- ner which characterises all the work the Canadians have peen called upon to do in this war. Many of them have had strange and amusing adventures in this old city, and some of these will from time to time appear in these columns. They form a part of the story of our men in France, which is 'seldom heard; but which is, neverthe- 'less, interesting and amusing, and which fs well worth a place in the annals of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. New Bates By Feb, 1. Montreal, Jan. 8.--The Dominion Railway Commission intimated that the new rates, based upon the decis- ion of the commission, may be pu} Mto operation on the rallroads by February 1st, but owing to the large. amount of clerical work to be done in connection with the changes, it is not thought the increases can be de- fined by that date. Rev. Frederick "Sith, ~ Présby- terian- minister 'at Oil Springs, and at Bradford for about thirty years, died in his eighty-first year. BEAUTIFUL HAIR THICK, WAVY, FREE _ FROM DANDRUFF Draw a Most C1 Cloth - Through Hair and Double Its Beauty ] At Once. Save Your Hair! Dandruff Dis. appears and Hair Stops Coming Out, Immediate?--Yes! Coptivin 2 that's the joy of it. 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The answer Dr. Lyttleton pe- fle bombardment, with nothing but their rifle fire, held aff a brigade of Prussian Guards, as being due to the | Englishman's aptitude for .hunting. But nowbere has the shikar or chase i been practised by races more consist- | ently than from ancient times India, day words like khaki, puttee, nummah (the felt saddle that takes the place of a saddif-cloth), and the Jodhpur breeches 'used ~ by polo players, all had their origin in India, where pig-sticking d polo are considered, from a times, tq be ideal training fof airy ofi- cers,' In passing let us note 'two other Indian words that the war bas made familiar. The - famous Blighty- wound of the British Tommy has never en satisfactorily explained this side of the Atlantic. Bilayaut is the vernagular word for Europe, and is derived from the Urdu or north-Indian word Wilayaut, which in turn had its origin with the Arabis Wilayat, meaning a province. In the mouth of Tommy Atkins it readily corrupted to "Blighty." Now the sentimental hope of every English soldier is to return, after his service, to Blighty or England. When the war broke out more than a division of General French's little army" was made up of time- expired soldiers, who were thus cheated out of their well-earned re turn to Blighty. And soon they were to learn that nothing less than a ser- tous wound--a Blighty wound--gave them their heart's desire. The other word is now fortunately less used than when the first trench battles were fought after the Marne. At Dum-Dum, the arsenal in India, it was found necessary to invent a bul- let that would stop Kipling's Fuzzy- wuzzy in the Sudan, or the charge of a lot of ghazis or fanatics gone amuck on the north-west frontier of India-Asia. Sport and thg chase, where the modern automatic rifle is not known, are the backgrounds for India's sol- diers, . An officer once told me how his Gurkha orderly .went out after a man-eater armed only with his kukri, He tracked the tiger as only certain Indidn tribes can, and forced the beast to spring at him. While it was in the air he stooped, and with his keen blade slit it open from throat fo tail. There is no space left to tell of the famous deeds of these troops. But in 1857, when the mu- tineers were besieging Delhi, the loyal Guide Corps, three troops of cavalry and six. companies of infan- made a forced march from the Afghan frontier to Delhi, a distance twenty-two days, during which they turned off the road twelve miles one night to attack a force of the enemy. This record has never been equalled by aly modern body of men, At the relief of Pe- king, according to Sir Claude Mac- Donald, the first of the Allied regi- ments to enter the Legation quarter was the 7th Rajputs, closely followed by the 1st Sikhs. Accustomeéd to per- sonal, hand-tochand - conflict, " ta charging home in the open with the bayonet and the lance, these troops were forced suddenly to adapt them- salves to the néw western trench war- fare.. They knew nothing of gas, of overwhelming shejl fire, of air bom- bardments, and, together with the cold, they were seriously handicap- ped. But in Egypt, when.théy re- pelled the attack on the Suez Canal, in Mesopotamia, in East Africa, and at Gallipoli they have proved their mettle. And, in conclusion, there is no more magnanimous action on the part of the British during the pre- sent war, than the tardy recognition of Indian bravery by the award of the coveted Victoria Cross. Hither to it was limited to European regi- ments, but a Pathan infantryman first won it in 1914, and since then it has been awarded to other Indian Soldiers.' At last the brave men' of East and West have stood side hy sice. sSareastn Fell Flat. A good story is being told of Lord Bowen by Mr. Austin. Dobson in his recently published "Bookman's Bud- | get." The judge was one day sum- ding fp a case, and he was caustic. ~1f, gentlemen," he said to the jury, 'you think it likely that the prison- or was eicrely indulging an amiable fancy for :idnight exercis¢' on his aeighbor's roof; if you think it was gindly consideration for that neigh- por which led Lim (J take off lis bouts, and ledve them behind him be- tore descending into the house; and if you hetieye that it was the. infio- cout clrfosity of the con nr brought. Him to the ver pan- is ee Fort ota: | men, Jou a po 3 "To the gges. oh may the jury did acquit t ' ane that instaitly, The oh made out too 4 case, and t inry bad no idea that his remarks were "intended sarcastic." Ta he Happiest Day. . We. plways insisted un w that e Buman word or Alconstitutes a point of view. We confirmed dn this by reading an er Eton L hope some thirty-five years ago by Dr. Lyttleton. The question; ey wihog frankly ddmits was intend- ed to give scape to the Sreateet IS mus amongst them, was been the happiest day 'of your culiarly treasured was that of a boy, tion, who replied, "My baptism. " l , bects of eminence in ve lite; than did Charles W.| { 3 a | Dilke. sonal charm. How many realize that every- gymkhana, | that had "contemptible . (in In dia. ars Bwer 10 @ question set to some s pr 4 Ra determined (o give satis' | He was endowed with talents { of a high order, including literary gifts of rare quality and rare per- Hid failure in early middle life to continue in the course opened 30 auspiciously, while due to perfectiy natural causes, was a bitter disappbintment to his many and influential friends. Descended in direct line from three ancestors of the same name as his own, Charles Wentworth Dilke was a highly favored youth. Educated at Cambridge, he began, as early as the age of twenty-three, to attract atten- tion. In that year (1866) he wrote 4 book called "Greater Britain," which was the fruit of a tour around the world. In Boston he met Emer- son, Agassiz, Holmes, Lowell, Gray, and ,others of eminence, In his book he wrote of these men as "unddubtedly the most distinguished then collected in any city in the world," The young man's idea of a future "Greater Britain" is express- ed as "a conception, however imper- fect, of the grandeur of our race, already gird ug the earth, which it is destined perhaps eventually to overspread."" But political ambitions were soon to absorb the young man's thoughts, At the age of twenty-four he entered the lists for election to - Parliament and spoke vigorously and persistently in his own behalf. As a radical he was elected by a close votn, less than two hundred votes over the next highest eandi- date In a total of four, coptestants. His parliamentary service was not conspicuous, He disregarded party allegiance in many notable instances, His campaign was boisterous, and even threatened by riots. Labouchere was led to warn the young man of his political perils. He suffered social isolation but gained the renewed friendship of a young woman, Miss Katherine Shell, whom he married in 1872, The marriage was unfor- tunate. And his diary expresses sub- stantial agreement with the judg- ment of a mutual friend, a Miss | Courtney, that "though neither of them _was in lové with the ther, they would get on admirably." Whe- ther or not they did so is not re- corded. Lady Dilke's - health was poor, and after giving birth to a son, she died in 1874, Like many other public men of his time, Dilke was a persistent and pro- | lific diarist. An interesting glimpse | of the lighter side of Gladstone's| character is revéaled by Dilke's bio- grapher. known tendency of Gladstone' s mind | at infrequent times. impossible to give a true account of | Mr. Gladstone without recalling the | manner in which, however absorbed | he might be in his subjéct, he would | break off fo discuss some amusin teiviality. once of the real inner wiews of | French statesmen with regard to our occupation of Egypt, some chance ex- pression suddenly directed Mr, Glad- stone's mind to the: subject of row- ing, and he began recalling in the ar When we were talking | An annual évent that predominates with special value giving a and one of the 'most important of all January sales. ' FORBOYS FOR MEN Sale price . . 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Sale price 49¢ 25¢ in light ve to rt Few Blind Hcroos, 'In the face of general 'horror of blindness it is interesting to note that the assumption in many quar- ters that the war will turn back into Canada hundreds of sightless men is without foundation, The records of the Military Hospitals Commis- It reveals a not generally | sion, under whose direction all dis- abled : soldiers come when they re- "It would be! turn to this country, show that of the 400,000 Canadians sent overseas, only 31 havé been blinded to date. Nine of these men have been re- turned to Canada ready to carry on { in professions which they learned at St. Dunstan's School for the Blind in London, Englagd, and are making good; the | re in England, still in ng ¥ There have been several cases in which the men have become blind | after their return to Canada, and most amusing way incidents of his! provision for their re-education has own. Eton days of some 68% or 69 + Years. previously, shivering at the thought of his seulling in cold wes- ther against strong stretches of the stream néar Monkey Island. - But it was Disrdell who really fas- cinated Dilke, as he did so many other men, "Lord Beaconsfield told me that he had been very anxious to meet me, since -hé had taken the lib- erty of writing about me without my leave in his novel, 'Endymion.' " At dinner, "Dizzy said a good many rather good things--as, for example, that he should like to get married again for the purpose of comparing the presents that he would get from his friends with the beggarly ones that be had gof when he had mar- ried." : . As president of the Local Govern- ment Board in Gladstone's Cabinet, Dilke Served for two wears and eight Amonths, being only thirty-nine when he entered the dabinet. This was really the climax of his career. - In 1884 he became privately engaged {to Mrs, Mark Pattison, widow of the réctor of Lincoln College. In the fol 'lowing spring they were married, not in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxfo as originaily planned, but in the pak. ish church at Chelsea, with Joseph Chamberlain a8 hest man. Between the dates of the ngatement | and the | marriage the blow fell whic practi- (cally entéd Dilke's political career. |The wife of a Liberal member of | ParHament bad confessed fo her hiue- | band that she had been unfaithful to him with Sie Charles immediately Thine eeoverng rot Fitness ; ° Iiness Dilke © protested a his § inno- cence, and in t Sha i jetter pri A rah aval. {ty aud trist 'znd at rv ne tints "What WB 'tem, been made in the School for the Blind at Halifax, under the direction . of Sir Frederick Fraser. i "Sir Frederick is'planning a new 1n- : stitution now which will a¢commo- date any further cases of this kind, and rival the St. Punstan's School and the Light House established by Miss Winifred Holt in Paris for the re*education of the blinded soldiers in France. 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