| roadside hi £ IT "» time to bury th 'THE GREAT A AR AS I SA \ ° A Chapel Altar ! P-- . dirty, and there was no lamp to lighten . watch-night id we By Oanon F. G. Scott, 0.M.G., D.8.0., of Quebec, Senjor Chaplain of the First Canadian Division, Rumours were abroad that with the opening of spring we were to begin an offensive, and it was generally believed | that towards the close of the next year we might hope for the end of hostili- ties. Our men were being when weather permitted, in open war- fare, and the time of so-called rest was really a period of constant activity, The chief hotel in the place became an offi- cers' club, and very pleasant. were the reunions we had there. I was glad we were going to spend Christmas out of the line, and determined to take ad- vantage of the theatre as a place for Christmas services. The 8th and 14th Battalions were quartered in the town, besides some similar units, so we had a good many men to draw upon for a | congregation On Christmas Eve at half-past eleven 'I had a celebration of the Holy Communion. We had a splendid band to play the Christmas hymns, and a large number of men at- tended. The stage was made to look as much as possible like a chancel, and | the service was very hearty. Many made their communion. I also had a service on New Year's Eve. The theatre was almost filled with men--there were rows of them even in the gallery. It was an inspir- ing sight, and we all felt we were be- ginning a year that was to decide the destinies of the Empire. I told the men "that somewhere in the pages of the book which we were opening that night lay hidden the tremendous secret of our success or failure. At ten min- utes to twelve we sat in silence, while the band played Chopin's Funeral March. It was almost too moving, for once again the visions came before us | of the terrible battle-fields of the Somme and the faces that had gone. Then we all rose, and there was a brief moment for silent prayer, at midnight the buglers of the 14th Battalion sound- ed the, Last Post, and at the close, the band struck up the hymn "O God our help in ages past," and a mighty chorus of voices joined in the well-known strains. After the Benediction, I went down to the door and shook hands with as many of the men as I could and wished them a happy New Year. one who was at that service will ever forget it. 'As we found out, the trail trained, | No | lour starting point in Abbeville station. { Having been eighteen hours without food or drink or the opportunity of a shave, 1 thought it was about time to | retire; and told my companions that life was tao short to spend it in railway journeys of that description. So, with a feeling of superiority and independ- | ence which made them green with envy, {1 bid them good-bye. I never heard | any more of my friends, but, although the war has long since ended, I have a | sort of dim impression in my mind that they are still travelling round and round and coming back to Abbeville |again. 1 went over to the officers' | club and had a good wash and luncheon, | and there meeting a very nice engineer officer, I asked him if he could tell me where I could find any lorries going North. I told him my railway experi- ence, and it so moved him that he very kindly sent me off in his own car to St. Pol, where I was picked up by one of | our staff cars and taken home in time { for dinner. Railway journeys in France | were riot things to remember with plea- | sure, and they were bad for the offi- | cers, wh&¥ must they have been for the poor 4 the crowded third-class carriages? NS N Part of the Game. At the end of January, our pleasant {life at) Bruay came to an end, and we moved off to Barlin, which was to be our headquarters for a month and a half. It was while we were there that I had an attack of trench-fever, which, like being "crummy," is really part of |a complete war experience. Barlin was not a bad place of residence. There | I had an upper room in the Town Hall {for use as a chapel. The presence of a | well equipped British hospital also gave | jone opportunities of seeing our wound- |ed men. We had come to know by this | time that the first task which lay before {us in the opening of spring was the {taking of Vimy Ridge, and our life be- {came filled with fresh zest and interest {in view of the coming attack. { On_the 15th of March our Division moved up to place called Ecoivres, | where we were billeted: in the old | Chateau. The~Count who owned the were many men within easy reach, and | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG for ia no one having It was perf i place in wh | vices, so, w | family who 0 little Gothic which + stood « was a r t ectly impossible to get any to hold Communion ser- permission of the it, I made use of a near the church, er a family vault, It » chapel, and had an altar in it glass in* the windows {had been | it we replaced it by lcanvas. I hu ipon the wall outside | the board w I carried with me, with the words * George's Church" upon lit. In th building every mornin, at eight o I had a celebration i ithe Holy ¢ ur 'on, 1nd I always had | some to atte | Our. trenches were tolerably quiet, and lay beyond the Arras-Bethune road. At a place called Maison Blanche there was a large cavern, which was used as a billet for one of the battalions in re- serve. I went down into it one even- {ing when the 16th Battalion was there. {It was a most picturesque place. The | walls and roof were white chalk, and {the place was cut up by passages and |openings which led into other caves. { The atmosphere was smoky, and 'a | multitude of candles lit up the strange {@bode. The men were cooking in their | mess tins, some were playing cards, and |some were examining the seams of [their shirts. I told them I was going {to have a service at one end of the cay- fern and I proceeded thither with a | good number following. Some of the card players seemed too interested in { their game to care to attend, so I called out to the men in a loud voice, not to make too much noise, lest they should | disturb the gamblers. One of the men {who was playing cards responded, "If tyou will wait till we have finished this hand, Sir, we will all come too." So I {made the announcement that the ser- | vice would not begin till the players | were ready. The result of this was that in a very little while all the men |came and joined in the service. Some {strange stories were told about the | fighting that had gone on in that cave {between the French and the Germans jat the beginning of the war. The possession of the Ridge gave the | Germans a great advantage, because it | commanded a view of a very large piece of country and several main roads. Fur- {ther up the road from Maison Blanche {there was a place called Arraine Dump, {where the Engineers had stored ma- | terial in preparation for our attack. A |long plank road connected it with the {Anzin-St. Eloi road. On a dark and | rainy night, that plank road was an un- {pleasant place for a walk. Lorries, before us was longer than we had ex- | Chateau kept some downstairs rooms | Wagons, limbers, transports, horses ahd pected, and the next New Year's Eve found many of us, though alas, not all, in that theatre once more, still await- ing the issue of the conflict. Round and Round and Round. | for himself, but we occupied all the rest | of the building. In the hall upstairs we had a large model of Vimy , Ridge, which all the officers and men of the battalions visited in turn, in order to study the character of the land over men crowded it, and the traffic every | now and then would get blocked. No flashlights could be used, and it was {hard to escape being run over. Yet to | step off the plank road meant to sink |almost to your knees in mud. The In January, I paid a flying visit to [which they had charge. In the garden |language that one heard at such times the Canadian Cavalry, Headquarters at Tully near Abbevillgyand saw many old friends. On my r , I had a ¢urious experience which throws a light upon railway travelling at the Front. A friend had motored me to Abbeville that afternoon, just in time to catch a leave-train full of men returning from England. I only wished to go as far as St. Pol, about thirty miles off, where I hoped to get a car for Bruay. T got into a carriage with four other officers, one of whom was a chaplain who had just been decorated with the D.S.O. 1 d crossed the Chagtie] with him once re, so was glad to renew old ac- Br. The train left Abbeville about four o'clock. We found ourselves in a second-class compartment, The windows were unglazed, the floor was r darkness, By pulling down the i we tried to keep out the cold wind, but the draught was very un- pleasant, and we had to trust to the ac- cumulated warmth of our bodies to keep from freezing. Instead of going direct to St. Pol, for some reason or other, the train started off to the South. We travelled on-and on at a snail's pace, and had frequent and lengthy stops. When the light died away, we should have been in complete darkness if one of the officers had not brought a candle with him. Hour after hour passed by and we began to get hungry. Somebody had some sand- wiches and a piece of cake, and this * was shared by all the company. It serv- ed to stimulate rather than soothe the appetite. About 'midnight, to our as- tonishment we found we had got to Canaplies, where 1 had stayed when we were going to the Somme. Someone said there had been a railway accident and we had to travel by branch lines. In spite of the cold, we tried to sleep. i sat between my parson friend, who was inclined to be stout, and another officer who was remarkably angular. When 1 leaned my head on my corpu- h friend, his frequent fits of cough- BE it bounce as though it were resting on an air-cushion. When I got of this and leaned against my an- friend on the other side, the jolt- of the carriage scraped my ear t his ribs. I spent the night by first on one companion, and on the other, The morning found us still travelling, and finally at half- ten the train drew up once more at 56 YOUR BOWELS REGULARLY, OR DO THEY There is no medium through which 80 often attacks the system as ; the bowels to become and there {8 no other which flesh is heir to that is Hable to be neglected, because inconvenience may not be at once, from irregular action action the retention of the and effete matter, with its gases, soon poisons tho ho system by being absorbed into causing violent sick and bilious aches, internal bleeding or pro- piles, heartburn, jaundice, Tegulate the flow of bile to act ow e to rly on the bowels, thus making active and regular, and remov- constipation and all its allied ef. | and {were numerous huts, and in a large | building in a street to the right of the { Chateau was a billet which held a great {number of men, It was almost entirely | filled up with tiers upon tiers of wood- { en shelves, on which the men made their beds. They were reached by wooden stairs, Nearly two battalions were crowded into the building. On the ground floor beside the door, there was a high platform which commanded a view of the whole interior. On this, one of our bands lived and gave us music in the evening. Every night af- ter dinner, I used to go to the cinema, as we called the place, and have either a | service or a talk with the men on gene- |ral subjects. At such times outsiders | would crowd in, and we have had very hearty singing when the band struck up a hymn. I always tried to have some piece of good news to announce, and would get the latest reports from the signallers to-read aloud. The men were in splendid spirits, and we were all buoyed up with the hope that we were going to end the war. I used to speak about the war outlook, and would [tell the men that there were only two | issues before us: Victory or Slavery. { When 1 asked them one night, "Which | shall it be, boys?" a loud shout of "Vic- | tory" went up. When Will it be Over? fs News was not always plentiful, and it was a little bit hard at times to find | anything particularly interesting to say; | $0, one night I determined to make a variation. I told the men that on the next evening, if they would bring in questions to me on any subject which had been troubling them, I should be very glad.to try and give an answer. iy thought that an entertainment of that kind might be both attractive and help- ful. On the next evening, therefore, I ascended the platform as usual and found the place crowded with men. ad my acetylene lamp with me to fur- nish light for reading any questions that might be sent up. I called the meeting to order, and then. asked if any man had any questions to ask. To my great delight, someone at the back held up an envelope above the crowd, and it was passed up to me. I tore it open, and holding my lamp in one hand, without looking over the letter first, I read it aloud to the men, who were hushed in the silence of anticipation, I give it just as it was written: -- Somewhere in France, 3, 4, 17. Dear' Sir: --I am- going to ask you a question which has been a load to my little bit of mental capacity for a period of months. Often have 1 woke up in the old dugout, my hair standing st t up and one eye look- ing straight mto the eyeball of the other, trying to obtath an answer to this burning question. I have kept weary vigil over the para at night, with my rifle in one hand and a couple of bombs in the other, and two or three in each pocket, and still I am Jondering over this burning question. will now ask you the jon. When do you think this. God damn go will be over, ¢h?" . nevér was so completely taken aback in all my life. -- of laugh- ter burst from the men in which I join- ed heartily. From the tiers of bunks and every part of the pailding. cheers went up, and we kad one of t pleas- antest evenings in that old cinema that we ever experienced. I do not know who the boy was who sent the r, or whether he is alive now. If he is, I wish he would write to me. I want to thank him for giving us all a good laugh at that time of preparation anxiety. I keep the letter among my ost treasured wa souvenirs. e winter rains not improved the roads, but still day' and night, through mud and water, a constant stream of vehicles of all descriptions passed up towards the front carrying ammunition. jin the darkness was not quite fit for | ears polite. It is well that the horses | were not able to understand the uncom- | plimentary speeches that were address- { ed to them. | _ There was a tremendous concentra- {tion of artillery in the back area. The | town of Anzin, on the bank of the | River Scarpe, was filled with heavy ar- {tillery. To ride through it was to run | the risk of many unpleasant surprises {from the sudden firing of big guns by {the wayside." Once, I was approaching an apparently harmless hole in a brick wall, when all of a sudden Dandy and I found ourselves enveloped in flame and almost" stunned by a huge report, | When we passed the hole, I saw a large {gun moving up and down under ths | force of its recoil, and with smoke still jcurling out of its mouth, | The siege battery in which my third |son was a gunner had now arrived and taken up its position in a field behind {Anzin, where a 15-inch howitzer sent {forth its deadly missives to the Ger- | mans every fifteen minutes, and in re- {turn drew' their fire. One day a shell {burst in a hut used by some Railway Troops. A large number of them were wounded and eleven killed, whom ' I buried in a row on the hillside. America Comes In. On the 4th of April we received news that America had declared war upon Germany. I thanked God in my heart that at last the English-speaking world was being drawn together, and I knew that the effect upon the Germans would be disastrous. I rode out that after- noon to give the good news to our men. I met a British battalion coming out of the line, looking very tired and hungry. They were resting by the roadside, and I passed along and, cheered them by tell them that the United States had now come to definitely as one of our Allies, and 'that I thought the effect would be the shortening of the war. America's decision could not hate come at a better time. The year was opening out before us, and the initiative was coming into our hands. The prospect was bright, and our men were keen for the encounter. April 6th was Good Friday. It was impossible to have service at Ecoivres, everyone was so busy, so I rode over to Anzin and had service for the 7th Sie Battery in a Nissen hut. Most of the battery were present, and I had forty communicants. 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Easter Day was originally. intended to be the day for our attack, but it had been postponed till Monday. We could not do much in the way of observing the great feast, filled, and men were lying out under the rubber sheets in the fields. I had two Celebrations of the Holy Com- munion in the Y.M.C.A. hut, the floor of which was covered with sleeping | men. I managed to clear a little space | on the stage for the altar. Of course, | not many attended, but at one of the services was an officer who had won the V.C. and the D.S.O., and had a foreign decoration as well. In the af; ! ternoon 1 visited and gave an address | to one of the battalions moving up the | line. I also had a service in the cinema | that evening. It was a time of mingled anxiety and exhilaration. What did the next twenty- | four hours hold in store for us? Was | it to be a true Easter for the world, | and a resurrection to a new and better life? If death awaited us, what nobler passage could there be to Eternity than such a death in such a cause. Never was the spirit of comradeship higher in | the Canadian Corps. Never was there ' a greater sense of unity. The task laid upon us was a tremendous one, but in the heart of each man, from Private to General, was the determination that it should be performed. On that Easter | night, the battalions took: their places in the line. The men at the guns, which had hithergp been concealed and kept silent, were ready to open fire at zero, and all along that front the eager heart of Canada waited impatiently for the dawn. (Copyrighted in Canada by F. G. Scotl; book rights reserved.) (To be Continued.) Latest Verona News, Verona, «April 8.--Rev. Dr. Daw- son has returned home from a visit to Ottawa where he went to meet his son, who is sailing for England. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Martin have been on the sick list for some time and are just about the same. Mrs. G. Childs, Kingston, also Arthur Martin, Kingston, spent a few days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. El- isha Martin. There is quite a lot of moving as usual this spring. Wm. Clow has purchased Lorenzo Good- bury's farm. Mrs, C. E. Hartman and two child- ren are visiting her mother, Mrs. J. Irish at Yarker. Mr. and Mrs. BE. L.. Martin motored out from King- ston on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. BE. M. Yorke spent a couple of days in Kingston this week. William Car- rol has returned home after spend- ing a couple of months at the Oak Flatts. Mrs. F. M. Pepper and children Every room and shed in the town was | ER -------------- FINE FOOTWEAR ALL THE SMART SPRING STYLES in Ladies' | or 2 Strap Pumps with high or low heels, in Black Kid or Brown Calf. Well made Ladies' good taste for all out-of-door oc- casions--just the type of Shoe for well-dressed women. Men's Tan Grain Brogue Ox- fords. Oxfords in Oxfords, Men's Brown or Black Calf The Sawyer Shoe Store 184 Princess St. | Phone 159 mother, Mrs. A. Ryder, one day this week. Mrs. 8, B. Merrill, who has been very ill for the past three weeks is able to be around again. F. Pep- per, painter and decorator, has changed his mind about leaving the village and intends to remain with us for some time yet. At Perth Road, Perth Road, April 4--Many have taken advantage of the late snow in hauling logs to the mill, E. Stokes attended on Monday the funeral of his sister-in-law, the late Mrs. Chas. Stokes, Glenburnie. Mrs. Boyer 'who has been the guest of her daugh- ter, Mrs. A. E. Duffield, bas returned to her home at Bracebridge. Rev. Mr, Duffield is writing his examina- tions at Queen's, Kingston. Miss R. Miss Jamieson. Mr, and Mrs. F. Lake were the recent guests of Mrs. R. Ritohde. The M.L.M.C. meets at Mrs. W. Ennis' this week. Miss Win- nifred Wallace was the recent guest of M¥s. J. Middleton, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Sears spent Sunday recent- ly at J. Guthrie's, Mr. and Mrs. R. Guthrie entertained a number of friends on Friday evening. J. Mid- dleton has been adding to the appear- ance of his residence. The cheese factory will open this coming Mon- day. Adolphustown News, have returned home again after spending a couple of months at To- April :6.--The snow storm of. last week rendered the roads almost im- ronto and Stratford. The farmers are busy with their syrup making. Syrup is selling $1.25 to $2.00 is plenty of it. Girl Guides gave a coacert on Friday evening to raise funds for a building to keep the fire apparatus in. passable In places, but the bright sun of the last few days is drying them up nicely. The sugar season is ended after a lengthy run. Mrs. H. Gallagher _ continues quite poorly. Stephen Mack is confined to the house and under the care of the doc- tor. All are glad to see Robert Fos- Buck spent Sunday afternoon with | -------- & meeting on Saturday evening and appointed officers for the coming season. The W. M. 8S. which met at the home of Mrs. Carr on Wednesday afternoon was well attended. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. George Magee are glad to see them back, Where it's thread breaks, Wild and stout never want a stafr. A A ce i roi, TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIPS St. La te, 1 weakest, there the Ne RAILWAY SYSTEM GRAND TRON AGENCY FOR ALL OCEAN STEAMSHIPS For particulars apply 10: --= J. P. HANLEY