: Berge i : \ Baily » : & PAGES : mn -------- SECOND SECTION © IAPAGES 3 Th » » 3 86. NO, YEAR [WAR PUZZLES] KINGSTON. ONTARIO. SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1919 las I haa heard him' speaking Eng- { lish, I asked him, "Are you English, [sir?" 1 "No," he replied, ican." : "Well," I comginned in English, "ify you are an American we belong to the | same continent; I am a Canadian." He did not appear to relish my overtures, but turned to admire the landscape from the window. "May T Inquire where you are go- ing?" 1 ventured to ask after a short interval of silence. "To Russia," he answered. "But why?" I said; 'my dear man, you will never. reach Russia; Ger- many, is at war with Belgium,.and I. don't see how you Tan yet theom to Russia." "Oh," he said, "I shall go by way of Holland." >= His abruptness and reserve con- vinced me that he had no desire to continue the conversation. "1 bégan to "entertain suspicions of the stran- ger, and my wife, who ocenpied the | seat 'opposite to us, indicated by a significant glance that she, . too, thought there was something extra- ordinary in the demeanor of our tras velling companion: The train was| running at éxpress speed, and a few minntes later we reached Bruges. On the station plat- | form an expectant, excited crowd had | gathered. 5 The passenger I had addressed took up his suit cdse and was hurriedly RUSSIANS TOOK leaving She_Hgin when Aity Yol os 1,061 German prisoners northeast of d together "C'est | ¢ . Ce. . di lui! C'est Ini! C'est Wai!" "it is he! | zernowitz,. three years ago today, It is he! It is he!" 7 January 4, 1916. On the platform the man was im-» Find another prisoner. mediately taken in charge by four | YESTERDAY'S ANBWER or five gendarmgs who asked him Upper right corner down, eye at~ieft abruptly: "Are you German?" shoulder. He made no reply, but nodded his! head affirmatively. He was surrounded by the irate listed srowd and several individuals at- |tilities. tenipted to take him by force from | It was on Angus? 25. if I remem- 'he custody of the gendarmes, who, | per well, that the «first German air 1owever, maintained their guardian- raid was made on the City of Ani ship and protected the stranger wenp, It is difficult to convey an igainst the' threatened assault, idea. of the manner in which tais hough with difficulty and at the risk event filled the citizens with terror. of their own lives. {The Zeppelins were then unknown What happened" to this man, orito the ordinary population. Twelve i where he was placed, I do not know. |civilians--men, women and child-|! Was he the belated trayeller he pre- |ren--were killed by the bombs tended to be, or was he actually a|dropped by the raiders." On the fol- spy? I cannot say, but if he was a lowing morning thére appeared in spy .in the employ of:Germany, and La Metropole, an Antwerp: news- 'f he ever goes back to his country, 'paper; an article advising the burlal one. story he will be able to relate of the vietimg at a certain place in will describe the narrow escape he [the city, and the erection of a ad 'at Bruges from the violence of 'monu..ent bearing the following in- v erowd of Belgians whose righteous scription: #'Assassinated by the Ger- indignation had been arotised. by the man barbarians on the 25th of Au- insult to the nation's honor and dig- gust, 1914." nity by the great Central Empire. | The indignation of the public was' igreat. The presence of German sub- CHAPTER IV. {ects in Antwerp had become jm- YEARS IN N PRISON" Copyright, 1919 Ry ag v Wi of wv v hii "MY THRE A GERMA By HON. HENRI S. BELAND, MD., M.P. New Arrival of - Goodwillie's Pre- ; serves In glass. Haspnerries, Straws berries, Oherries, Penches, Pears snd © Dalley's Stee Cut Coffes In 1 and % Ih own' Belleville Clder, | "1 am an Amer- 4 4 4 1 4 3 3 Aas hairs Aaterks PW Adare we lived we could wateh the crowds. congregate on the beach. From time to time groups would leave the main body and, forming iiito a procession, would march to the front of a. tavs ert, whose owner and keeper was a German. On the front of this tav- ern were three large signs advertis- ing the merits of a certain brew of German beer. The crowd had to give vent to its indignation in some way, and the German signs were a : Fy tempting target for the irate pGpula- } Ps, ; J i tion. It took but a minuté/to pull 5 ; down the lower sign. The ase of a adder was required to pull down the. one ahove. While this rather comi- cal performance was going on; the surging crowd yelled and 'hollered, and called upon the voluntary wreck- ers to pull down the topmost sign which adorned the front of the third story. The ladder was too short. When this was realized, a delegation wad sent to the tavern-keeper 10 de- mand that he himself go up and pul down the obtrusive sign, At first the man' demurred, but séeing the increasizg excitement he decided to obey the summons. A few. seconds afterwards his rubicund face appeared at a window near the roof of 'the building, and; not without difficulty, he succedded in pulling down the sign, whil+ tae whale beach rang with the échoes of the crowd singing and -a brass band playing Belgium's national anthem, "La Bra- banconne."" t The following morning the proud and noble reply which the King of Belgium made to Germany's ultima- fum was pub ished. A herald read {the royal proclamation at all corners of the streets leading. to the beach, amid the acclamations of the younger folks. Meanwhile "siniffer rumors were circulating. Some 'were to the 'ffect «that Vise was burping; others that Argentéau had heen destroyed; that civilians had been axeéuted; that devastation 'and terror reigned in the region situated east of the Meuse river; that the Germans, without even waiting a reply to their provok~ ing summons-to-Belgium; had invad- ed Belgian territory which fact the ,reader now knows te. be trae--ac- cording to the statement jmadé to me CHAPTER 1. IT IS WAR. it was the 26th of July, 1914, My wife and | were walking leisurely in | the park of a village Th the Pyrenees the sun shedding its warm; quieken- | in® rays in the alley of tha Gave, ee when, suddenly, a newsbo' approach #, RAILWAY | | | SYSTEM IN EFFECT SEPT. TH, 1918, ; Trains will leave §nd apsive at Oty Golag Ny Are, City re, . 12.87 am 10mm. 352am. .. vo Sdb am, 4. 1.15 pom. «x 3.10 pam. East. Lye. Oty , 18 Matt , .. Ji. 140 am No. 18 Express . . 8 Mall i. .. 20 p - T-datern'l Lia 1. «3 , 28 Local |, A 5, * Nos. 1, 18, 14, 16, 18 run daily. Other trains dally excep! Sunday. Direct route to Toronute, Peterboro Hamilton, Buffalo, London, Detroit Chicago, Bay City, Saginaw, Mont 1 MtaAwa, Quebse, Portland, St. Joh Halifax, Boston and New York For Pullman accommodation, tickets and a1] other Information, apply. to J. P ay,» Agent Agéncy for all ocean ines Open Sav and night ed us carrying under bis arms a bun- dle of newspapers, and crying at the top of his voice, "War! War! It is , War!" 3 ! I stopped him, asking at the same time, "What war?" "Why, the war between Austria | and Serbia. «The paper will give | you all the details," He answered | As a matter of fact, the paper he | was se ling, "La Liberte du Sud- Ouest," contained the fext of the now and forever famous ultimatum of rAustria-Flungary to the little Bal kan power. # The following day, at each impor tant railway station we passed through on our way from Bordeaux to Paris, fresh editions of the French newspapers were brought to us, each containing strong," passionate com- ments: on the diplomatic document which threaténed the pedce of Eu- rope. In th~ compartment of the train where we sg the conversation was ' animated. hat Austria was at her perfidious tricks again was the con- sensus of opinion generally, although the best informed ones realized that it was ambitious and treacherous Germany Wileheinepired Austria. We stayed a few days in Paris on] our way to Antwerp. Our lmpres- |. sion of the French capital was that, even in that. diplomatie torment, the city maintained a remarkable icalm- néss. Of course, thgmsole tople of discussion in the cafes, on the boule- vards, in the busses and the trams was the war, but there appeared to be a complete absence of that agita- tion which one who has visited Paris in normal times is well aware of I wished to send & telegram . to Belgium, but was told that all lines had been talien over by the military authorities, and that my message | | 2p. , 18 <y NG up p-- THREE . FULL - LOTS FOR SALE | On Nelson Street CHEAP W: H. Godwin & Son Insurancé and Real Estate. 80 Brock St Phone 424 outbreak of soa HON. DR BELAND AS HE APPEARED IN PRISON. An enlarged copy of a photograph of Hon. Dr. Belind, taken in the ison, Berlin, Germany, in June, 1917, after he During that period Hon, Dr. Beland lost Shortly. after the photograph was taken, Dy. Beland tcok "il, and seriousness of his illness led to repeated efforts tha Canadian British authorities to obtain release, which was finally successful a year later. : yard of the Stadtycgtel pri had been in captivity two vears. over forty peunds in weight SD Eh Add ibd at v tae Tera TYETYYYY of and his highest society. They were on thejr * way to Ostend. where they intended taking a steamer for England, where sonal knowledge shows that Germany intended to violate Belgium's neu- trality from the 'outset of the im- would probably be delayed a full day or more. On the day of my leaving Paris for Antwerp ! paid a visit to the Honor- able Mr. Roy, Canadian High Cem- missioner, and asked him hat he The eminent represéntative of Own- ada expressed grave anxisl d said he feared o declaration of war be: tween Germany and Franee was im- minent. w At noon the same day my wife and 1 started for Antwerp on the Paris Amsterdam . fast express, passing through the territory of Franee and Belgium which: within two months was to be the stene of horrors of war that have :ppalled the whole world. Far were we then ffom thinking that those cities----actual beehives of In- dustry--and those fine farm lands, bearing fast-ripening crops and. in- viting the harvester's scythe, would be within a few weeks devastated, pillaged plundered and burned. The agitation was great in Ant- werp: the city yeomanry had heen cal ed to arms, and on this same evening, July 30th; rumors were al- ready in circulation that Germany had sinister intentions and that she was actwally preparing to violate Bel- glum's neutrality. { 2 The "ere mention of suth an act, which . sant trampling upon all in- _ ternational laws, stirred the Belgian ' people to a high pitch of indignation. The same evening we arrived at the vil age of Capellen, situated six miles north of Antwerp, on the Ant- broglio between Austria and Serbia. We were about to. leave Brussels for train when a well-known citizen of Ghent and his wife entered the al- ready. crow.» compartment where Lie sat. "Oo They apelogisgd ror their intrusion, buf in such pressing times one had to travel as bedt one could, and it was with sincerity that we ac- cepted avologics of the douple for in- trading in such a way ih the conm- partment allotted to us. After exchan~ing cards, the gen- tleman related that the day befare he and his wife were returning in an automobile from a tour in Germany, when, near the frontier, they were stopped by German military Their papers were examined, but notwith- standing their credentials as Belgian subjects, and proof that they were on their way home from a holiday trip, their automobile was seized and they were compiled to stay the night in a hotel, #/The room assigned to them was on the ground floor, where they were unable to sleep owing to the tramp, tramp, tramp of German regi- ments marching to the Germau bor der. The troops were singing "Deutschland 'uber alles," and the rumbie of the drums never ceased from early evening until the follow- ng morning. This happened. in a village situated within two or three L kilometers from the Belgian fron- tier, on the night of Ju'y 21st. Ger imany's ultimatum {o Belgium was not presented until two days later, In the journey from Brussels to Ostend and had afready boarded the}: dam, who is ho ding the will direct every move N immoderate ambition." the mother. said her son was a stu- a few days previously on that Ostend train by the Ghent from a trip through Germany. I particularly recall the anguish; of a brave old lady, Mrs. Anciaut, | FWHB dent. The | conversation hetweon the sportsman and the {three ladies turn- ed on the tensencas of the situation then exigting between. Ausiria apd PSerbine The nian Was very oulspod ken in his denunciation of Austria, The elder: lady, naturally, defended her country. . "The Serbians," the man replied, "may not Fe abore suspicion, but there are other things equally suspi- cious," and this war which you are about to declare on a!'smail country may be the aet of the Austrian Gov- ernment directed to extend its terri tory in the Balkans. . It is dictated above all by the Autoerat at Pots stakes and satisfy his The lady, I'must say, while moder- ate in' her retorts, wis nevertheless obstinate in denying that Germdny had gnything to do with the Balkan imbroglio, Mit the racing man was also obdurate, apd with what turned out to be extraordinary 'accuracy he predieted that within a few ' days France, Rossia and Great Britain would take up thé cudgels on behalf of Serbia and enter the fray. The conversation was still going on whan the trainman announced Os- tend. | i ~ CHAPTER II. THE GERMA' TAVERN-KEEPER AND THE BRABANCONNE. } "Taken at 'he rear of gium. } - at Middelkerke, but who resided in -the suburbs of Liege. She had for mained at home in Liege. We then resolved to leave Middel- couple «peturning to to insist here upon f displayed by the Belgian nation. All iwith me to the Rospital a copy uf Doing Hospital Work. Tt is unnecessary for me, T't x GWE and war staying ut a villa classes of the population; rich nd ihe London ' the patriotism | |possible. Most of them, hink, (portion of the city. Every morning I vsed fu Times, -and When ad a few other physicians would around to hear the translation the principal items of news. nfans on August 18; seat of general resistance; + the and the gins' conception: of the popularity however, thad by. that time left the fortified Oring moments of leisure the gather of Brussels was occupied by the Qer- Antwerp had now become the centre of the Bel- h staff of the" ag@ny had been transferred work in 4 pared, and saves abaut $2. oe Beal hes ie ds le ae ih ihe ih 8 a a SALAS ESS as ass TETRReSeeY TEReTTeeYYeE You mi the Ser ie] you cough, is a remedy we 8 ours. Tastes pleasant, t like it--and it is pure and- Pour 215 ounces o worth} in a 16-oz bottle; then fill ib with plain granulated suger syrup. use clarifie syrup, instead of sugar syrup, hus you make 16 ounces--a *Supply--but cost no more than be of among theif subjects. ing mall bottle of aay cough #TAnd as 0. cough mamdieing ih really nothing bettef to, he ght bo the King Albert and of Queen Elizabeth y Very few sovereigns enjoy to such a largesex- tent the love and confidence of their '» price, It 8 tbe suryrised to know that ean use for a severe edy which is easily pre- ared at home in just a few moments. t's cheap, but for prompt results it beats anything else you ever tried. - Usually a the ordinary cough or chest cold in dren f Rinex (50 eents up lasses, honey, or -- mo! 5 if desired. famil, y a ere a any pot an TETIPITIIPIOITY PHOTO OF MRS, BELAND Sterrenhof, her residence in Cappelica, Del-! poor, young ahd old, of all ages an of both sexes were anxious to help {severa: days been without news of lier 'thé national cause of their country husband and children who had re- threatened by the Germanic 1 ter. . During t people, and was towards wharves on running hearing by the Belgians was to pass way. tacle offered on that occasion the entire populatibn .of crowding the main sireets invaders <of German soldiers, And {sacred soil' of Belgium. BONS n One day I had left the hospital -the "that detache ment of Gérman. prisoners captured that 1 shall never forget the spec-. "the city and 4 (avenues to gef a glimpse of these the i¥as while wending my way throuzn tthe streets to gt nearer glimpse of 4 , {the captives thai more than ever I first. days of August,i ..iized- how the Belgians resented ri 8) Fives quick ata relief, It cals the inflamed membranes iy the throat and air stops ahhoving' hroat tickle, egm, and soon your stops Bret * Splendid for roa whooping cough and bronchia AP a highy concen nd of Norwa or its beating To avoid di ru, ic by sappoin hy ions. and "don't a else. Guaranteed to give it - 1 ine th korke and return to Antwerp and|1914, on allsides I was asked the the insult inflicted upon them by y e "asthma. com: ¥ pine extract, eect on the membranes. for "2% ounces pink, ith Anything % question: "Mr. Beland, what do you think England will do?" And I had from~the outset a sincere convietion, Great agMation reignea on the | Capellen. beach at Middelkerke on-August 3rd, Ostend. waich was mue delayed * werp-Rotterdam highway. )s Bavarday, | owing 10 the throng which, mroved to On the-following day, 'the barbarian hordes. The pri- CHAPTER III. | oners looked tired and haggard; Just August 1st, we 'started for Brussels, en route to Ostend, and thence to Middelkerke, a charming seaside re- fear by all kinds of wild . rumars, were enger to reach home, angther incident occurred: 1814, The newspapers had published the text of the-Kaiser's ul- timatum to the Belgian Government. [THANK YOU." that if | they were covered with dust and which I expressed freely, Germany dared - to execute hoe Md; the sight was piHiable. When returtiinig. to the hospital I Bh rnd left Middalkerke, Far threat to violate the. neutrality of , as say in French.|Belgium Great Britain would de X g 5 When 1 say arms and baggage it is|clare War on the invader. *34Tow Steet leading othe cathedral, Seto Ayre of speech. as our fowi-| I recall most distinctly a demon. 5 E0UP of Smal boys who were a few months previously, who had ing'guns had been confiscated by thelstration which took place on the | hh neatly dressed. aid ais 'heen thE guest of the King of the Bel- | munteipal authorities at Middelke: bat Middelkerke, on the day outs Ihdg, meally drossed, claht or glans aml the Be gian nation; cout and had been placed in the town hal anys ultiotatum was puablish- iten ite of oi "The boy Ee stoop soi low as 'to insult both King This precaution was taken in al} com! In the North Sea in tie offing Hornet is sr Who contnned fo and. peaphs Frou 'Hie villa where munes of Belgium, to avoidsuntimel the" people could se' 'wiat, 'eireer: . Quiee dnd the Yeince as : intervention of a naked eye, looked like a bank of '% oy pads: Brough the Place "ie Slouds, Thro ihe, Slasudy, dow. Mein towards the royal palace. For roy plainly perceive @|;¢ was the Queen and her son wagk- The 'indignation was at its highest pitch, The population could not coriceive 'thet the German Emperor, who had been eéntertafied in Brussels In the sdetion of the train where my wife and | were seated were four other passéngers in addition to the couple I have already referred to. They were three Austrian ladies--al mother and her two daughters--and a mana well-known owner-of rac- ing horses from Charleroi. The three Tadies apparently belonged | to the' sort, where we were to spend the rest of the summer season... Middol kerke is situated half way between Ostend and Nieuport, recently evacu- ated by the Germans, and which has been the division. liné between the German and the armies for . 'An incident of which I have @ per- iencountered half wavy down a nar- SPECIAL -- The Model ' Shoe Store - "four yi a ton Of Bri warshiee won i 'British w. ps. When | Fas gn iy > . . [ing unostentiousiyow le streed io EWS Nag anuounced the Peas-ip., li yore dons aid every Window 32 "men, 'women and children continunad 'cheering: "Vive la reine Elizabeth! i Vive le petit Prince!" = om, In the last weens or August andy ti dufing the three firdf weeks of . [Septembier, the Belgian troons cone vay ioentrated in the fortified - pesitions | { {of Antwerp, apa made several de-|Y monstrations against. the German: : lwho then occupied Brpssels. and s IMalines. . At the hospital we were notified in advance of these sallies of all. by the Belgian army, so that = we 10 Ants ISH Yrevate ourselves to receive id my services as 8 Somlingent of wounded the 2 ay. «The wounded brought inte St. Elizabet ta h y } Injured, and at first sight believed them mor- this 'municipal sin their an aba feted dh Sl bh hia daa a ada isuiting from artillery fire that are he miost Jangerons and the most Trighttu) Josh APOR, oN