hi 8 PAGE SIXTEEN The Canadian V.C.'s | rebomn How Men From Canada Earned the Empire's . : Highest Tribute for Bravery in the Field of Battle. I'his company in the advance over the ridge suffered heavy casualties from shell and machine gun fire. Pte. Young, in f PTE. J. ¥. YOUNG, VC: plete absence of cover, without the least hesitation, went out and in the open, fire-swept, wounded Having exhausted his stock of dressings on more than one occasion, é returned under mtense fire to his company headquarters for a further supply, This work he con- tinued for over an hour, displaying throughout the most absolute fear- essness. i To his Courageous conduct wiist be ascribed the s: g of the lives of many of his gomrades. Later, when™the fire had somewhat slackened, he. organized and led stretcher parties to bring in th: wounded whom he had dressed. All through the operations of Sept. 2 8 and 4, Young continued to show the duty. ya-Official Record. By CARQ{N¥, CORNELL. The Drocourt-Queant switch line in the German defense system of Cambrai lay along the high ground between Queant on the south. and Drocourt on the north. fortified and protected Before the Canadian attack opened Sept, 2 2, 1918, the brought up large with = wire. numbers of ma- chine gunners and when the assaults | ma troops started. up the slope at 5 o clock that Tirst Monday in Septem- ber, they were met with steady fire from hundreds of machine guns. Thé tenth and twelfth brigades at- tacked north of the Arras-Cambrai road. running north and the village of Dury. Fhis position Was. to be reaéhéd dt zero plus three | hours, or at 8 o'clock. At that time the 87th and 78th battalions of the eleventh bri; 4% were to pass through and 0 ¢& to Saudemont and Ecourt St. Quentin. So strong 'was the resistence met by the at. tacking battalions that they had not reached their objective at the tine , set out in orders. The 87th battalion cane on in the second wave of the attack. When it reached a sunken road running south from Dury it was met by intense ma- chine gun' fire from the high ground "on either side of the valley leading | THE MAN ON watch | Music is, Bridge has time being. dents now the rage mn Napanee. been discarded for the Grocers will be glad to learn that they are to be permitted a profit of twenty per cent. on bacon. Few Kingston grocers have been making "this margin. Farmers found trying to sell eggs ai ten cents'apiece Should be handed 10 the tehder mercies of Principal Taylor's rush boys. It will feel more like winter when we know there is to be a fuel com- nuissioner, : A few hot sermons might keep the people of St. Paul's ureh warm while "Bob" mew furnace. the only political party At present i City Couneil is the active in the labor party. The first thing Toronto has secur ¢d under the new UFO. Govern. ment is eggs At $10 p pite of the com-! ground dressed the | greatest valor and devotion to! It was well! which | Germans | Their objective lay on a lige soulit just east of | Elliott is installing their down to'Saudemont. In a very short ne German heavy artillery got the ange and shell fre, th shrapnel and high explosive, wire ided to the achine gun fire. The 87th definitely held up. One company n the right reached an advanced slope, but was badly cut up. ""p" company was on the left. It, too, suf- fered heavily, but a cut bank gave some shelter to the reserve platoon and company headquarters. One pla- {toon swung off to the left in an ef- j fort to outflank the enemy gun posis tions, and reached the south-east corner of Dury. An old brick wind- {mill beside the road formed an ex- cellent ranging mark. for the Hun, and several sections of the battalion which liad taken shelter behind it, paid dearly their lack of fore- sight, Private * Y for was a stretcher- carer attached to "D" company, 87th battalion. During the time that lis battalion was held up, when the leading troops were dug in, from about half-past 8 to 10 o'clock in the morning, he went about dressing the wounds of his comrades who had fallen in the attack. The work had to he done in the open and usually | without any cover. Pte. Young's sup- | ply of dressings ran out several times and he had to return headquarters in the shelter of the cut bank.. In doing this he passed over several hundred yards of fire-swept prairie, and back again to his wound ed comrades awaiting him in the open. He continaed this work for more than an hour during the heavi- est part of the enemy shelling. When the men's wounds were all dressed Pte. Young went from one to the | other, giving help wherever he could. The injured men,' 'aiter their [wounds were dressed, had a greater | chance for their lives by being left in| whatever shelter could be found on the field during the heaviest of the | shelling. Pte. Young went from o {man to th | lessness, and in the afternoun, the fire slackened, he ' took when out | stretcher bearing parties and gathers | ted up his wounded and carried them | back 'to the regimental aid post about 500 yards in the rear, in the captured { Drocourt-Queant trenches. The men {remaining of the attacking compan- | ies of the 87th battalion were relfev- ied that evening about 8 .0'¢lock by ithe reserve companies. The night {was clear and quiet. Next morning. {early, the advance was continued and { Ecourt St. Quentin was occupied. The 87th battalion remained in line juntil the night of Sept. 4th, during {which time it endured héavy shell and machine 'gun fire from the {Strongly held defense fine of the Canal 'du Nord. Pte, Young continu- ed his heroic services of ministering to the wounded under fire, during the whole &f the operations. For his bravery and for the great number of lives saved by his efforts, the British authorities confgrred its highest mili- tary decoration, the. Victoria Cross, on Pte. Young. \ John Francis Young was born at Kidderminster, England, in 1803. He was a tobacco packer in Montreal | before enlisting in the 87th battalion {in October, 1915, He 'won the Vic. {toria Cross in the attack on the Dro- | court-Queant line, Sept. 2, 1918, and | was wounded, Oct. 2, 1018, The King {presented "him with the Victoria {Cross at the investiture which took place at Buckingham Palace in April, 1819, Pte. Young is one of the few originals of the 87th battalion. He has returned tp Canada. (Registered according to the Copy- right Act of Canada. Book: rights resetved,) housed 'a goodly company, but what would the Kingston Woman's Coun- cil and. the "Poor - Relief Committes hint of the sanitary conditions of the ark? The forcing" of aldermanic ¢l2c- tions in every ward is not going ; to result in putting the best man in the City Council by. any means. Don't get away with the~idea' that polling contests 'yield the best men. The biggest dub in the town may head a poll. Congregational singing is not go ing to he improved by some of the tunes 'inflicted upon 'us by certain new hymuals. Some of the tunes [are about as cheerful as a dark day in winter, and likely to become as popular as the high cost of living. Back to the old tunes which we all can hum. ~THE TOWN WATCHMAN. Well Satisfied With Baby's Own Tablets - Mrs. Emile Malette, Montpelier, Que, writes:---"T have used Baby's Own Tablets for some time and am well satisfied" with them. They are urely the best medicine T know of for little ones." What Mrs. Malette says thousands of other used the 1 battalion | to company | el e other, with absolyté fear- | THE DAILY SHARING OF PROFITS. » Se -- = . [Capital and Labor Should Become Loyal Partners. Speaking at Dockhead Working- men's Association, Bermondséy, Eng- i}nd, on lessons from the recént {Strike, , Lord ' Morris, former Prime | | Minister of Newfoundland, said that i It was a mistake to imagine that be- | {cause Great Britain had overcome | | the present industrial difficulty, there | would be an ji his judgment, the) labor war had { only just begun, and ft would be un- {assumed normal conditions. = At the { fram the fact that both sides in the | recent iustrigl war felt they had | Won, and therefore no bad feeling | {bad been left behind. | The recent strike was more than { 4» ordinary labor trouble; it was the | North Sea at the beginning where | [ the Grand Fleet cbuld lie in safety, i and where carefully planned expe- | beginning of war, not merely on ac- count of 'indfistrial unrest, but against the social and economic con- | ditions generally affecting the work- | {Ing man. The strike had beep made to appear as if it was a wil ul war inst the public: io fact {t- had been so. described, an attempt to win rights by public menace, 'and an at- | tempt, by threatening supplies, to | bold up the public, and in that way | | increase wages, The methods adopt- | | ed by some might give justification | | for such atonclusion, but in his judg- | {ment he belleved the working men | | of the country did not intend to gain | | their Qbiective point by any such | | policy | As a body they were in the hands | { of the leaders of their unions, and | | they said in effect: "We follow these | men blindly, we leave it to them to | | 8teer our course and we think right- | | ly so, as all that we have gained in the past in wages, hours, "improve- | ment of surroundings, has been won | | foe us by them at the point of the | | bayonet." When the working men | of the Gountry spoke like that they | were not speaking of what occurred [during the years of war, in which { Sonditions had ceased to be normal, I but they contrasted the condition of | twenty-five years | the year before i | the workingman ago and his condition the war. "Even to-day," continued Lord | | Morris, "with all-the unrest and all the agitation and bad feeling, if the | whole question could be placed be- | fore a permanent, independent ftri-| | bunal in which the laboring man had confidence, we would, I believe, see | the ghost of industrial strife laid to rest. forever. Omnge we can convince®| | the laboring man that he is getting out of the concern in which he works all that it can legitimately bear, he | will not alone be satisfied, but be- | come a loyal partner in the york | | | All the evidence around by which the working man arrives at a conclusion ! j.on the point of his share is all of a | | character to convince him that he is | not getting his share. He argues that in the production of wealth, labor is | as essential as capital. Money and | bare-armed labor are bath required | to produce wghlth, whether it be on the land or sea, the factory or the | | mine, whether it be wheat or fish, | | manufactures or minerals, and conse. quently the division of profits should | | at least be equjtable and not, as it | | too often happéns, all the profit on | | one side and mere | on the other." ; {In conclusion, starvation wage | Lord Morris. said that he did not despair of the Ld of the industrial world, but they, the | Dockhead Working Men's Associa- tion, were handicapped by excessive taxation, arising out of the great war, and unless a pglicy not alone | of national, but of individual re- trenchment, were adopted they might find the words of their public men of to-day tortelling national bank- rupicy realized in their own time. ieimm---------------- Whithy Jet Again. A local industry has picked up in | Whitby, 'quaint little old-world | town," { east coast of England. Whitby makes ornaments of jet, and before the war i "Whitby jet" was the word of excel- | lence. But the war reduced and prac- | tically pliminated the demand for jet | ornaments, mining for the petrified | wood, which looks like a poor quality of coal until the jet worker has cut'| and polished it, practically ceased; and the younger men who had been working in the red-tiled stone houses of Whitby laid down their tools and went to the trenches. Whitby was left a town of men, trained 19.2 temporarily useless craft, with 6ne absorbing local topic of conversation, the discovery that the makers of imitation jet who had got into the town and had come figdr to doing lasting injury to its reputation had been incidentally financed by man money. But now the demand for Jet is greater than Whitby can pro- duce. Pew of thetyounger men are coming back, for some' t and others are finding the- world wide and attractive outside of Whitby, and the older men have resumed their tools, and are trying both to meet the demand and restore the town to its old-time reputation. ee s---- Mentioning: the X Unmentionable, married (0 an earl's daughter, ashamed of the trade end to industrial stpife, | ; { Pants on both sides, the late war in-| wise to be lulled into a false security | Stead of definitely settling new naval | because matters at the moment had | Same time, comfort might be gained | "probably afraid of the moral effect | Japanese, taught at Port Arthur was | or have awaited ; should have deployed to the as a traveller calls it, on the | ha, 'and has proved A millignaire jam manufacturer, | whereby he had : piled up his fortune, One day he wrote to & neighbor an impudent Jetter complaining of the way in which the other's servants were on his grounds. The neighbor wrote back: Dear Sir, am very sorry to hear that my servants have been poaching on your preserves. J; *'P.8.--Bxcuse my mentioning your 'preserves."---London Tit-Bits. 5 Kiritimati 'language has BRITISH War Criticisms Based on Hindsight POLIT OLILOIPIODO TOTS TOODD | TWITHSTANDING the many | naval engagements, the large { number of ships that took | part in these€ batties and the | terrible havoe¢ wrought to partici- | types may be said to have merely un- settled old ones without destroying them and to have indicated new ones | without thoroughly demonstrating | their supegiority. "This was largely | due to the fact that the British did | not have a secure naval base in the | ditions could be initiated at once, The Germans may have been invile nerable in Heligoland, but it iS |g... josie "doubtful, and this was the time to have found out. Similarly, both Ad- miral Jellicoe and Admiral von Tir- pitz think that this was the time the Germans should have tried their luck, but the German Government was of a defeat on the German people. The Tesson of speedy attack that the lost by both sides. The battle of the Dogger. Bank taught little, as it was inconclusive because the Germans retreated, says a correspondent in the New York | Herald. The- battle of the Pacific taught nothing, as the German figet | was a little newer and superior in | strength. The batile of the Falkland Islands taught nothing either. The Germans found the British in the! bay and promptly fled. pursued by the British, apd, as the | latter had the greater speed, thicker | afmor and heavier guns, they were | disposed of with apparently little ef- | fort. It is now the opinion of com- | petent officers that the Germans should either have entered the 'bay the British fleet | outside. The (German guns were of | lesser calibre, but more rapid fire, | and ample for penetrating their op-| ponent's armor at short range, and the difference of ship' speed would have been neutralized. The battle of Juland was the most instructive, | although it also was inconclusive. | There will always be a controversy | as to whether Admiral Jellicoe | right or | the left in the afternoon, or tried to iptercépt the Germans in the morn- ing. It appeared that the Germans | possessed the best system of gun sighting and of searchlights and a| better armor-piercing projectile; but | the most important lesson taught | was the necessity' of thicker deck | armor, | Submarines appear to have been | very little used in sea battles, though | early in the war they were quite efl- | cient against single fighting ships, | but it was only a matter of time | befor® the particular conditions under | which they were dangerous began | to be understood, and during the latter part of the war they were sel. | dom successful. The destroyer Screens about the battleships were always ample for their protection, But for attacking commerse, Ad- miral Sims, in his article in World, Work, holds that Germany might have won the war before the end ot) 1917 had it been able to keep up the increasing rate of sinking of April, | May and June of that year. In due | time the submarine danger to ship- | ping was met in a large degree by | troop and freight ships fn groups | and escorting them through the dan. | ger zone by\destroyers. Airplanes were not jused in: sea | battles except to a small degroy as | scouts, put Admiral Jellicoe Dianned | a much larger use for these machines | d the war continued. The air plane moves so fast that it is dim- cult to hit with anti-aircraft guns; on the other hand, owing to its speed, it is not accurate in its bomb | dropping. Airplanes cannot move | slowly, because, being heavier than | air, they must keep up their momen- | tum to keep from falling. Accuracy in bomb-dropping, even with speed, | can be much improved with suitable methods of sighting and experience, amiss) Fiske of the United States Davy has avoided the difficulty in his torpedo plane, by which a locomo-~ tive. torpedo is dropped into the water from an airplane, near a ship the most reliable ate tack from the aip, = « History shows that the fleets of | fighting ships' developed from the | necessity of convoying merchant ships to protect them from the at. tack of pirates and freebooters. The attacker hay become 'the sube marine and defender the destroy. er; The old fighting ships have de- veloped into modern dreadnoughts and armored Cruisers for sea. battles and for blockading and bombarding | coast cities. But and mines, assis and aircraft, have blockades and vast defence guns 'by "submarines WHIG They were' WESTBROOK ugrrenives Death of Mrs. BR. Smith; an Old Resi- dent of the Village. Westbrook, Nov. 25.---One. of the most highly respected residents this. place, Mrs. R. Smith, died at her home on Nov. 13. Deceased had not been enjoying the best of health for some time, but her sudden death was a 'great shock to her many friends. She was a deeply attached member of the Methodist "church, where she was always a willing wor- 'er. She leaves to mourn her loss, besides her husband, one daughter, | -uella, and one son Melville. The fun 'ral was held dt her tate residence Monday afternoon. The service was 'onducted by Rev. Mr. Kelly. The igh esteem in which she was held vas testified by the many beautiful floral offerings. Farmers are getting along with heir fall plowing. ow ing to the ex- ceptionally fine weather. Mrs. P. M. srass, in the general hospital the ast two weeks' is slowly improving. The many friends of Miss Nellie imith are pleased to learn that she $ recovering from her recent illness. Babcook, Who spent the mummer with her pareats, Mr. and firs. George Cadott, left on Monday ast to join hre husband, Mr. Bab- ock at Watertown, N.Y. Miss Edith Vaiker, eldest daushter of William Valker, of this place, became the wide of John Karl, of Kingston, on Yov. 17th, . Mrs. B, Fallon, of Kingston, spent ast week with the Misses Sheehan, ind Mrs. Kenny, Miss Jennie How- e spent last week end renewing ac- iuaintances here, Archies Howie 18 purchased five fine cows. F. J ates' garage was entered on Sat- irday night and most of the acces- ories of his automobile were car- 'ied off, $7 . = ---- Suddenly Owns a Coal Mine. By a sudden turn of fortune's wheel Gegrge Morgan, working in a colliery /in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, if now suddenly the ywnerw! a steany coal sedm having' an esti- mated Field of 20,000,000 tons. He | is a man of 58 years, living in' hum- ble circumstances. Mr. Morgan was born at Lane End, in the Forest of Dean, a mile out of Coleford, His family had occupied common land in the district for gen- erations past. Abeut forty years ago he and five others pegged out a claim to certain land. Morgan has outlived a rival claimant, and is the sole sure viving owner, The Government has at last acknowledged his claim, and for- warded him title deeds with the bene- fit of all mineral rights and turnout. The only stipulation as to royalties is that he pay four cents per ton on all coal worked. The land forms part of the Trenchard seam, which varies in thickness from three to severfteen feet, -------------------- . Comestible Coal. "What kind of coal do you wish, mum?" "Dear me, I am so Inéxperienced in these things. Are there various kinds?" "Oh, yes. chestnut" "I' think I'll take egg coal. have eggs oftener than we chestnuts." ------------------ Kind-Hearted Man. "By the way, George, what shall we get Mabel for a wedding present? She gave us that plush upholstered chair fon in the attic, you know." We have 'egg coal, We have "I Yon't think we'd better send her anything, dear. Why not let by- gones be bygones?" i SATURDAY, NOVEMBER $0, 1919. KEMPTVILLE CITIZEN DEAD | STO How to the Blood "Fifteen to thirty drops of Extract of Roots, called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrep, way be taken in water with meals and at bedtime, for the cure of indigestion, consti= pation and bad blood, Persiste ence in thistreatment will effect @® 2 cure in nearly every case." Get the genuine at druggists. IBID T LT ETAT OT o4 tt ISTHE UA Late John Sanders Actively Jdentifi- | ed With Business Interests, ] Kemptville, Nov. 28. --John Saun- ders, a prominent and much respect- ed resident of Kemptville, died at bis" home here. He was born in Martintown, Glen- | 'ry County, in 1843. and came, | with his parents. when he was seven years of age to Kemptville where he resided until his death. : During' his life-time he was ae tively identified with many of the | business interests of Kemptville and Chestervill ! For man} Years he wus one of the largest deals in farm products in Eastern Ontario. When the McKinley Bill became effective in the United States, it de- stroyed the principal foreign mar- ket for Canadian eggs and poultry. | The Dominion Government, of that | a day, sent him tg Great' Britain to | Investigate the possibilities of a mar: ket there for those commodities, and | from that business trip our Present | large exports of those goods to that | country have resulted, if Ha 'was president of the Sanders, | Soule ' & Casselman Company, Ltd. | Since its incorporation about twenty- | five years ago; he served, for a me. | on the Council Board and was al Th member of that body when the pres./ a ent town 'hall was built in Kempt- ville. | NEW DISEASE ? Reappearance of Epi= demic Leads to Discus- sion on Subject \ * reappearance of 'fly at many 8 brings up the old question as to *r it is a new disease or a new . very common ailment. consensus of medical it is a germ disease of a > which first attacks Membranes of the nose and throat ahd Morton, Nov, 27 -- Miss Murial | Len spreads to some vital organ w ere + i it develops very . - Wiltse ja spending a few days with | or ojos yery Quickly, and does fear » friends at Athens, Miss Addie Mul-| Th. about the vaugh has returned to her home 'at| Same the head, 3 . : € rth it 4 1 Vi Athens afters spending the past | 219 for oe Rasen It is vale couple of weeks, the guest of Mr. attention. 'Treatment should be started and Mrs. F. F. Booth. Mrs. 8. Taber ee un 38 the head slarts closing up. has gone to Brockville to spend the Saris sneesing. Let hose Tutorer winter with her son, F. Taber. rum for 24 hours and acute trouble is J. Kearney had the misfortune to Yable 12 develop, Possibly resulting in lose two fine pigs. Mr. H. Sly is on kindred ailments. oY: Pheumonia _ or the sick list. Miss Estella Sly spent If Grip Fix is taken when the cold A couple of days last week with 3s Sains relief may iE anavected in g o > e night. ¥ven the col a Athens, "Spent he eek ong. or | SACRE hE Origin Gh v8 reek-end a er home here. J, Coon, Brockville, is spending a few days in the village. -------------- Morton Happenings. | Symptoms of "flu are As those of a cold in treatment is usually effective, Fix containg nothing 'but, the drugs your | physician would order, a full lst of which is given on ever box. It comes in capsule form, and in a night will relieve the closed up condition of the head, overcome the fever, allay the muscular soreness and tone up the system. Pe prepared. Have Grip Fix in the Reid's Grirr Fix. 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