hg, SWEEPING THE is - a py MONDA TURKS OUT OF PALESTINE Boyptian Official Photo (Copyright) (1) Festivities at Jaffa on the birthday of King George. (2) Oamel Transport Corps--Work at the saddlers' shop, (3) The best of the selected stock camels, (¢) Observers at their post. (6) Prisoners receiving kindly treatment at the hands of their oaptors, (6) Sandbag defences on the coast at v front line (7) Indian troops bringing in their prisoners after action. (8) Sikh Pionders removing the growth in the water on the banks of a river to exterminate the malaria which it there, FAMOUS CAI By- ROLAND HILL Former Official Canadian War Co HE German line in France and Belgium from the Channel been swept backward in the wonderful fighting of the last few weeks. The undulating barrier have now complete- ACCRA NADIAN pondent dated. Piles of blistered stone and Canadian troops ly broken will never again year it- self af' a menace to divide the forces of Britain snd France. The coveted Channel ports are safe and it is al- most certain that the Germans will Bever again be able to strike at any point in. enough strength to. regain those battlegrounds of France and Flanders where history has Leen in the.making for the last four years. * Those scores of towns where Car- ada bas shed her best blood will from now on be inviolate. German guns will never again pound the ruins of Ypres and Souchez and Cour- celette and the brave Canadians who He in the shadows af thése monui ments to the fallen will rest in peace. The little graverards among the poppy flelds of Flanders, some | of them unhappily torn by enmewy| be silent and at peace. Now and again some comrade will steal back / to find the resting place of some friend; the kind old padres will visit and tend the little white crosses: but the thunder of the guns that drum- med, the great funeral! march when those Canadian lads were laid to rest will for the rest of the war be bat distant echoes. The great victories of these weeks have sav shells In thin last great fight, Wieltze and St. Julian ~ where In 1815 Canada "saved fhe Troops day" are mere rubbles of brick and stone. Along the main road that rulis-out from Ypres there are little clusters of Canadian graves that have warvellousiy survived the cy- 'of War that dave swept by her [But an & the mangled disto who as iad Huse is 1 ie oF Oi jo Canada may see when war is doue. E thmt meant comparative saféty in those anxious days bf 1915, and the station where scores of wounded were rescued by train, are badly damaged . but still proudly: in evi. denice, their battle scars making them look wonderfully dignified. Poper- inghe, the happy hunting ground of the lucky battalions in rest, is shell . torn but will be salved for already the Flemish shop keepers and the restaurateurs are flocking hack. Further to the south Bailleul and Armeatieres and Hazebrouk \are standing and the old hotels snd eat- ing places where officers aud men found change from rations in French dinners when out for brief rests ure optimistically replacing their boarded windows with glass. Bailléal is the something | worse for war wear. The old square § that those who had to stay at home tower of the Hotel de Ville has been nas been won back from the range |but the historic points The be traced. The twe {Quiet pictyresque, well-tended plots | that helped The big hostel, which &l- Ways was "out of bounds for British '* has been burued by acei- dent or design during German oOc¢- cupation: The station is a mass of twisted steel and shattered glass but already the French engineers sre at work and soon the leave trains will lhe runuing again as of months ago: | Hagebrouk has suffered asst: "Ar- mauled hy shells, es blown up by Hen have [iy smell of potson ho | Ras. i Around bistoric Vimy the Or. mans are pressed back Huy 'as yet Lut from Bethume to battered 'Atras, those little towns that hava 'Been the Yappy Hunting Biduad for 'men from Halifax to Vietorid, are mow safe. Vimy's sombre cemetery { BlaBt cross marking the ightly | of the largest German guns. Eve 53 $i % z by : SHLD ast a > a & a LE , hs 2 5g TREE ¥ wy Fe rns ; ; go Ee Po LW the Cabadians in their that mark the graveyards of scores | successful ; onslaught agai: what thought an fmpregnadls position, fof Canadian battalions around Sou-| was | chez, side by side with those of) the * Rouge | France who fell at the first great | de {assault of the Ridge, will never again | sugar (be disturbed by Hun 'shells. | Befors Albert and on tae Somme land 4 ithe line bas been rolled back too, [tangled > bloods A: Ix Bolsells and Mougret Farm 03 'thete are. scores of white crosses | wrested f Bere is will toe sick: poder which slicer ths fghtng men! Bapume ily All aleng the Bep-| Peromas algo. They are. {fromm Canada, .aume rodd Sou. come aeTOSS them |age of war 4 The: fie winds sat] rou rexen Conrcelette. 'German has not hsrmed them since 'mow many wiles wm bis lest advance. Sometimes'a stray 'nons of the Cignity 'sei! bas obliterated a rose but them but they sind gazeraly these little picts, screened sn a skyiine 3 "and the "Creme are still there The 1s of wire sad v en: bes will tell voi whers Zgllern Redoyht wns of ? by fences of bathed wire torn Sotshwerd seals. feo om melghioting trenches, have there ate Jit en reswected by the sfiomy. tie towne | thére are clusters of graves {there and respected by the | Where gallant mén ? rh of The Cathedral at Arres. . are sttll to! Motor tanks | made history, "Machine Gun Brigades > Outside of Amiens, n Roye and Nestle, even to i i ¥ from | hve been buried. They from thelr comrades who Firndcrs and around where alfan Corps mn' thelr other vietories, dat is one grant bute tp them don, that binds th bengs «f bravery, They saved the day." Scuaral Qc hud, Ede 43 smashing 1 Tae Gapaoaren. told those rurvived published It In 'rerich urddes Cans have ve! tha Gay." Genersl wieurdod, @iih- them beve 2s capetully "these Lraves er they Dave i. They are thers gloneside "¢f France sud again in § ie i