DAILY BRITISH WHIG, M INDAY, APRIL | '~ PAGE ELEVEN . > In the Vicinity of the Big German Drive=Allies Steadfast YRTESY OF GC.AR 77 (1)70n British Western Front in France--Re pairing shells at a dump. (2) On the British West ern Front in France--View of a square in Arras, showing the wrecked buildings and a band playing. (3) On 'the British Western Front in France=--One of the entrances to Arras. (4) Men of the Wilts re- turning from the trenches wearing captured German trophies. (5) On the British Western Front in France--Watching the Germans--a British lookout man at the end of & small trench in front of the British front line--The periscope through which the soldier is watching the enemy's movements is covered with rough canvas to disguise it. (6) On the BritishWestern Front in France--Moving up the guns and an idea of the ground conditions at the front. (7) Fusing stokes trench mortar shells before going into ' the line. " NS HW : LUTE BY COURTESY OF CAR § oar i 5 5 ARN rs 2 aA Poh mit : EL Fi SPHAGNUM MOSS DRESSINGS FOR WAR PURPOSES School in the -autumn of 1916, and | developments have been very rapid | coast, and equally good moss grows from that day until this has been pre- |The demand:for dressings has increas. | plentifully in: the far West --- as, for paring moss and shipping dressings. ed to'such an extest that the Canadige example, on the west coast of Van- "Another imporwnt function of this or-/ Red Cross has decided to start pro- |couver Islabd-<but Mttle or no first ganization has been. td make up ex- duetfon on 'a large scale, and the class surgical material has been found perimental sphagnum, dressings of Americuns are organizing for an im- far from the sea, although there are any sorts to try out the different mense output for the use of their own imemnse areas of Sphagnum bog in grades of Canadian material Under {and the French hospitals. | the foterior both of Canada and the varying conditions. : : | "No moss can of course be procured Usited States. The: best qualities: of During the winter of 1917 amother in the east until the smow melts, and | moss &re likely to be found close to Work room was started at Dathous'e 'the bogs thaw out: but excellent |the margins of the ponds, and some University, Halifax, and the Canadian sphagnum is also found on the Pacific times considerable areas of clean high: Red Cross definitely adopted sphag- coast. Mr, Smith, with the help of the grade material fill what was once a num for hospital dressings and pre- Canadian Sphagnum Committee, pro- small pocd., Before any aitempt Is pared to open working centres on &|cured a car of Vancouver Island moss made to collect moss in quantities all large scale. Unfortunately the changes 'early in the winter, and this carlcad Of the bogs in the district should be in es Atlantic shipping situation | (which Mr. Sm' paid for out of hi- [examined with a view to locating. the " whi ulted from unrestricied sub- own pocket) proved se satisfactory jiatgeat Sroplies at ood Home aud ; _--_m. A hr i . : marine warfare necessitated a tempor- | that he went to Seattle early i= Match | this preiiminary" examination . should = ; 4 ' ' we 8) ~ PHAGNUM Moss, to which atten-| The first effective work on this side 'ary check: but the work of explora: to organize the industry in the north- be msde by persons who nave had pre-| Union was organized during the Wret'!the Union was Mra, H. Walter; since by the of the Atlantic was initiated by Prof. tion and development was continudll, | western Stages, and incidentally tc vious experience in' collecting Sphag- weeks of the war from among the then the clair hax been filled ' sue- Harry | Porter of McGill University, who se-] The late"Mr. Harry Jamies Smith of Mook into the situation Sin Britigh nom, Hh * (families of the Goyernors-and staff of cessively by Mrs. EE. Howard. Mrs, ' Owing to the great variations fn [the University. Its original purpose J. B. Porter and Mrs. J."W. ho he! i possibilities of sphagnam last spring wis unable to £0 west at the time Usefulness of different kinds of Sphag- | was to help provide "soldiers" com. present President.r The Sphagnum! nate resources, one great value early in 1916 'and then explored the'and after Spending 'some time with As a matter of fact Mr. Smith met, 0um, aud the fact that different spe- forts" for McGill graduates and Committee of the Union was orgas i of Raich has. been brought 'to bogs of Eastern Nova Scotia vntil he | Dr. Porter to familiarize himself with his death while cearching for moas for cles grow very much intermixed, the students on setive ./ervice, and sé In 1916 under the chairmanship of light by the war. The usie of mosses was able to locate supplies of material | the technology of the subject, estab. the Canadian Red Cross, and thus set Materiaj-hss to be collected by peoplr these now number over 2,204, the pos. | Lady Gordon, and ite present. Chairs! Mn surgical dressings dates at least which the same authorities accepied }Mshed a sphagnum organization at bis the seal to a life of except] gener- | Who have been trijmed to know good | sibilities of its work may be lfuagined man 18 Mrs. Porter. The Treasurer! moss /ot Sphagnum Moss did not materialise this moss in the autumn of 1316 by amount of moss. Success in the 'use 'Blaces, aid can be found i almost al! SHIY Tn deciding just what to take Nearly $5,000 on the pErchase Of high Tespondience residing the Work of the "Nas become the de-| Since then the industry has devel- and f Le has | ; Be floxtsle, ar [136 work of the MGI Vemen's a total of about 9,600 articles of cloth. dressigs shouid he addreseed to Migs > i t in & large laboratory | Hartwell of New York ss teehnical to cauee Irritation. : Red Crops RBoclety, care MeQil} Uni. t +the Napoleonic Wars. |as "perfect" Phe first sphagnum dress- | gwi expense at Aricha:, Caps Breton |081%¥ and nobility ) from 'bad, ahd even an experi: During the three and a half years of of the Union is Mrs/k MeGloun: and ia Ts use iugs sent oversaas were made up from and collected and prepared a large | Eptagnom grows in molt and bogey | ented: collector will often have diffi. | existence the Union has expended the Secretary Mrs. A Wiley. Any cor- i % en in the Spring of [the Junior Red Cross of Guysboro, of this material led to the adoption ut parts ofthe country. But the moss t= 20d What to Jeave when he first vikits grade materials, which Have been !'nion should be addressed to the ins. Juni 1315. ands tn aap imental | Nova oF : : um by the American Red Cros; 'be useful must buve Exceptionally ful) 8 NeW locality. = ¥ imade vp by its merabers Into socks. iter; hut auestions relating Yo the Sir g ; the formation of a department 'and soft foliage, and the stems while | The accompanying photographs show Caps, mufflers, primus. «bits, ste. to nology. of Splisgnam and Sbhagnum Great Britain fs no longer oepd steadily. The McGill University { which was placed under the control of tough aiid elastic mut § X ! ! ks \ and the | Women's Union established & sphag- | Me. Smith as organizer and Dr. I 'A otherwise the dresclng would be Hable UBiON. No. 8 flustraies tas Pregury. ing alofie. to say, nething of an im- 5 MM. Dainbeidge, Hor, Sue. Commitee a : er {on and drying - Spbaguum and she) manse number of Sphagnum dresings on Sobagwem Dressings, 'Canadian y- absorbent very generously placed at thelr dis-| by : | First ciass waters] has been | manuiacture of drosrings. Xe. 8, the ete. ater ; Apssal by 2 Nniversity Medical | During the last two or three months me ae a ae the' Apne | eeneral soldiers' comforts werk, The! The organizer and fist president of versity, Montreal Sane Sanh og "ameiioan Sphax- [cured samples of various qualities os vome York becams interested im thc!Coumbia for Professor Porter, whe | um Moss expert, is one of Canada's moss 'from. the British authorities