ji AaTURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG . ad 1920 Daily Journals Office Diaries For 1920 Now Ready at Uglow's 141 PRINCESS STREET. * imachine gun fire and carried in i ¥ at the age of thirty or forty you] say that you can "see almost as you ' should submit to an eye-examination. | When your vision mechanism begins! to weaken and perform its functions in an imperfect manner your condi- tion calls for an immediate remedy. | We will specify thé lenses that you! need, and mount them for you at a good as ever," it is time satisfactory price. OPPOSITE POST OFFICE KINGSTON We show this Gentleman's Open Face Wateh, which is a 17 Jewel Waltham Movement, in a high grade filled case. Complete price, $30.00. This is a thorough dependable time- piece and we can recommend it for the man who needs ac- curate time. Other styles and models. in prices from $15.00 to $125.00. Kinnear & d'Esterre JEWELERS 100 PRINCESS ST. Ne a ------------------ y sight and J overseas began one of | The Canadian V.C.'s How Men From Canada Earned the Empire's Highest Tribute for Bravery in the Field of Battle. For most conspicuous bravery, de- votion' to duty and initiative during the operations east of Arras, from 2nd to 4th September, 1918, \l Ahead of his company he rushed a trench, occupied by a large party of the 'enemy. perfonally bavonetting two and taking 10 prisoners. Later he located with great skill, under constant rifie ifire, an enemy sniper who was jcausing many casualties. He then irushed the section of trench from { Which the sniper had been operating {and so demoralized the enemy by his |coolness and daring that 30 others | surrendered to him. Again regardless of his Isafety he left cover under and engaged personal heavy a badly wounded comrade. His indomitable courage, cool fore- daring reconnaissance were invaluable to his company commander and an inspiration to all ranks, OFFICIAL RECORD By CAROLYN CORNELL. The Canadians crossed the flats of the Sensee and established them- selves on the slopes beyond, by the SERGT. W, IL. RAYFIBLD, V.C end of August, 1918. Monday, Sept. {2nd, when Canada was celebrating ithe national Labor Day, her forces the hardest {pieces of work ever undertaken by Offices to let; frat Soor front; heat- TELEGRAPH BUILDING, .» CLARENCE STREET Apolyi--\ \ C, S. KIRKPATRITK ON PREMISES. See our TABLE LAMPS in the window. These are new designs just received. i H. W. NEWMAN ELECTRIC (C0. TELEPHONE 441 {men anywhere or at any time. The {objective that day was the Drocourt- Queant line, running along the ridge east of the Canadians' position. The Germans had fallen back to this line after the Hindenburg line had been | plercéd the week before. | The British Columbia troops held ila position in front of Vis-en-Artois. | |Between charred stumps of a once ||lordly avenue of trees the Arras. {| Cambrai road ran before them over | |the hill-top. Stiff fighting had been | jehcountered in the lowlands in which the Hun had left pockets of machine gunners to fight a rear defense ac- 'ition in their retreat. The Western Canadians had cleaned out these gun posts and taken up a position en {firm ground for the "kick-of" that | Monday morning. A fog covered the slope before the FURS-- Children's White Coney Coats and Goat Robes. -~Gourdier's ¥8 BROCK STREET, ARE INVITED TO VIEW THE YOU ART TOMN AND WINTER SHOES FAVORED MODELS IN FOR 1919.20 DON'T FAIL 70 SEE OUR DISPLAY. _ Allan M. Reid, A 111 Princess St, : thand. : I : £ i i Ii ay 4 ; fi i ; be 3 attacking troops when in the dim light before dawn they stood ' with bayonets fixed awaiting the moment of advance. At § o'clock the artil- lery opened the attack, the big naval guns far behind the lines exactly! timed so that their shells fell at the | same moment as those of the smaller and nearer guns. In hundred | yard strides the barrage spanned the distance between the.infantry lines and the German line on the top of the hill which was to be taken that day. i At the pistol crack the infantry! sprang from its lines and followed | the curtain of fire, drawing up in| front of it at attention until the curtain lifted, then In the face of terrific fire from the enemy trenches went forward again. » { Ahead of his company ran Pte. i { | ------ rn, ~ Whatever Your Earnings, Save Something BUY VICTORY Vil the wheels of industry--buy Victory Bonds Put your profits into Victory Bonds "7% Victory Loan Meeting, Friday Evening, City Hall Abernethy's Shoe Store PAGE SEVEN a / | { | ! { | { BONDS A AA AA pr NA, WR irr Rayfield, of the Tth Battalion. With | a spring he was into the German trench held in strength by a large number of men. Rayfield's bayonet accounted for two of the enemy, then 10 others threw up their hands and marched docilely back through; the Canadian lines to the rear. : The morning wore on. The fight left many dead and wounded on the hillside on which the autumn sun now shone down with a warm ra-| diance. Unheedful of the beauty of the Artois landscape the grim war- riors, with the top of the ridge be- fore them climbed on, fighting every | step of the way. From one part of the enemy's trench a sniper was taking heavy itoll of the passing troops. spotted hini and shot him. rushed the trench from sniper had been operating. His dash and cool courage demoralized the garrison and 30 of the men surren-| dered to. the Canadian. : The wave of battle swept over the hill. Rayfield had come through un- scathed, but the voice of a wounded comrade reached his ears. In face of machine gun fire he left cover and carried in the w#unded man. He seemed to bear a charmed life, for again he returned unharmed. For his courage and great service dar- ing the three days of attack his su- perior officers recommended him for the Victoria Cross, He then | which the Waiter Leigh Rayfield was born at Richmond-on-Thames, Surrey, Eng. ! He came to Canada in 1881, when! quite young, and five years later went to New York state. Since that! time he has travelled extensively] over the United States, making his headquarters most of the time on the | Pacific coast. He spent several! years in Washington state and dur-| ing the two years previous to his] enlistment was employed on the; "Lucky Baldwin" estate in northern California. Sergt. Rayfield enlisted | with the British recruiting mission | at Los Angeles in July, 1917. On | coming to Vancouver he was first] put into a forestry corps. At his! own request he transferred to the! fighting ranks and left Vancouver, December, 1917, with a draft to the 7th Battalion, reaching France in| April, 1818. sgl (Registered agéording to the Copy- : WHER! of Canada. Book right reserv- | pd.) 5 i ] i CHILDREN'S PRIZES Won For Writing and Drawing at | Kingston Exhibition. i The folowing is the lst of prize winners in the children's department of the recent Kingston Industrial Ex- hibition: Writing, 4th Class--1st, Carrie Morley, . Woodbine school; Mrs. Saunders, teacher. 2nd Edna Cliff, | Palace school; Miss Scarlet, teacher. 3rd, Dorothy Potter; 4th, Mabelle | Burnett, Woodbine school. Writing, 3rd Form---1st, Helen , {| Trudell, Woodbine school; 2nd, Wil- | fred Cassell; 3rd, Helen Burnet; 4th, Percy Cropp, Palace school. | Writing, 2nd Book---1st, Helen | Bradley, Woodbine school; 2nd, Clif- ford Sly; 3rd, Harold Cassell; 4th, Winnie Ribbons. Writing, 2nd Part--1st, May Tru- dell, Wi ne school; 2pd. Albert Babcock; 3rd, Florence MacCrow; 4th, Vernon Burnett. Drawing, 4th Class--1st, Carrie Morley, Woodbine school; 2nd, Helen Bgott; 3rd, Margaret Grass; 4th, Mabelle Scott. Drawing, Colored, 3rd Class---1st. Helen Trudell, Woodbine school; Rayfield |B THE GENUINE "BORSALINO ITALIAN HATS New Shapes and Colors Just OUR GLOVE DEPARTMENT is proud of the range of Gloves it is showing. This is the glove store of the city. NEW FURS Now is the time to make your selection. CAMPBELL BROS. Kingston's Largest Hat Dealers. "SYRUP OF FICS" IS LAXATIVE FOR CHILD Look at Tongue! Remove Poisons From Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Accept "California" Syrup of Figs only--look for the mame California on the package, then you are sare your child is having the best and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach. liver and bowels. Children love its delicious fruity taste. - Full directions for child's dose on each bottle, Give it without fear. Mother! You must say "Califor- nia." " 2nd, George Hull, Palace school; 3rd, Dorothy Gardiner; 4th, Percy Cropp. ~The $5 prize offered by R. Conley, of Long Island City, New York, to the boy or girl awarded the first prize in the children's competi tion at the Kingston Industrial Ex- hibition wes awarded to Roy Watts, So ol 1 David Waits, Wolfe Island. the second prize of $3 offered by the Abernethy Shoe Company, City. Pay Principal $3.000 a Year. Deciding to establish a continua- tion school, which will result in all Walkerville pupils being gradually withdrawn form the Windsor Coi- Waen there Ts work ri baz saw is abway: ¢ be done the en0 lo take a {at 8.15 o'clock Saturdsy morning to "jaged. a 1 of the p o Mr. Meade is a graduate of Queen's Uni- versity. - Techni¢al singatios, until . Any, and machine shop classes will be accominmodated at the Ford factory. An spyropriation of $35. 000 to equip different technical clas- ses was authorized. Antomobile On Fire, The gre fighteers received a call the yard of Charles Andre at the foot of Ring and Princess streets. where an adtomoblle was on fire The machine was pretiy badi¥ dam. | Every hor shewld learn {0 write. and 8% a man anol oowrite i Robert Windsor | chase KINGSTON EVENTS 25 YEARS AGO. During the wesk butter in sold from 16¢. to 18c. per a to 25c. per pound: eggs, per dozen A. BE. Moreland was on the steamer Pass Willlam Phillips, caretaker of the city parks, says he planted a : Sallad the hstrglian Prolific Bean." i eveloped had pods on it fifteen inches long and bore 340 A. Maclean had a today, when he made a record pur of hogs from farmers, Wallace Montgomery played a s'a- game for Queen's second team. ---------------- : Holdup st Oampbeliford. - Bellvilla, Nov. 8.--At the villags of Campbellford on Seturday, the of a Chiness cafe was manner pursed by the bold-up men was similar to that followed. at the Br, Co Be shoul learn what! Soars ou ------ "ET badly scalded! 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