SUM OF $10,000 WANTED IN BUYING USELESS EQUIPMENT FOR EACH BATTALION, A Returned Soldier States That it is Discarded in England and Then Destroyed. Few people realize what the word "equipment" means to a soldier when he stands dressed for a parade in "heavy marching order," It means that the men are wearing what amounts to h 4s that is made to allow that man'"to carry all of his outfit on his back. It includes waist belt, shoulder braces, water bottle and carrier, a haversack, pack and a pouch to carry seventy-five rounds of ammunition. That equipment costs about $8.50, but the strangest thing is that every soldier of the Canadian expeditionary force receives a new equipment again in England, the lat- ter being the ome he wears at the front. The Canadian jssue is con- demned. "A soldier who has Ween overseas and through to the front has asked the Whig "why is this apparently ex- pense still continued by the Govern- ment"? But it would take more than the Whig to answer such a query. It certainly appears incredulous that sthe department continues to issue $10,000 of absolutely useless equip- ment, but such seems to be the case, and at present promises to continue as one of the Government's useless expenditures for this. war. If the $10,000 that was given to contractors for manufacturing this equipment could be turned over in cash for re- cruiting and organization work, it would be well received, but after two years of war the soldier himself has to pay his shape for a tent floor for his tent and « dining tent to eat, in which co from $1.10 a day, and in spite of the fact that the department is spending $10,000 for each bat- talion to be equipped with an outfit that the men still will not carry for| more than a few weeks in England, after which it is destroyed. \ The patients of the Isolation Hos- pital at the camp have been removed to the Queen street military hospital in the city. ~ Major J. Hamilton is in charge of a school of cookery that will continue until November 156th, Whi Phone CAMP . No."1909 Free Bulletin Service at Press Headquarters, Next IT SHOULD GET RECRUITS QUEEN'S HIGHLANDERS SHOULD BE ATTRACTIVE UNIT. Can Recruit Through Dominion-- . Commanding Officers Should Prove Out Spleadidly--Major Campbell 30ptimistic, With the authorization > a new battalion for Queen's University to be commanded by Major P. G. C. Camp- bell, Kingston, is immediately put into a state of recruiting foment that ought to stir up the patriotic spirit of the district 'and secure a quick stream of men to this battal- fon. Major Campbell is optimistic regarding recruits, and there should be no real reason why 1,000 men cannot be gathered in from this city and 'district and from the Dominion- wide eall for Queen's University men. Both sides will be askéd to contri bute their share, and the Department has certainly sélected two able men for the responsible positions as first and second in command. Ex-Mayor R., D. Sutherland is a popular resi- dent, and should attract large num- bers to the unit. Major Campbell, who was professor at Queen's Uni- versity, is known throughout the Do- minion as one of the university's most popular instructors, and he source. The fact that recruiting may be carried on through the Do- minion has never before been tried in this district, "but others who have have f d it a suc tried it on us' cessful method. NO OTHER OPTION GIVEN MEN ON CANALS GUARD. Fifty Men From Special Service Com- v pany to Relieve That Many at Milleroches--Decision Made Some Time Ago, Major Mclean, Lieut. Crozier (formerly 136th) and Lieut, Mullin (formerly 146th) left on Thursday for Milleroches with the fifty men for the St. Lawrence Canal Patrol, which was selected from the special service comipany on Wednesday. The men will go on duty with. the guard to re- TURKS DUG PARALLEL TRENCH- ES AND FILLED THEM A ~~ With Scrubby Plants--The British Were Ready For Them and the Enemy's Attack Met With Com. plete Disaster, : cil, Bgypt. Sept. 15.-- (Cor- Ne Nn should have an appeal through 'this oe " have front. lieve eligible men to enlist| or lose their positions, The decision to make all eligible men of the Canal Guard either enlist or 'get out" was made some time ago by headquarters here. Because of the fact that other men were not ob- tainable the decision was left in abey- ance until now, when men can be se- cured by transfers from the Special Service Company. Li¢ut.<Col. Morgan and Capt. Wotherspoon, respectively command- ing officer and paymaster of the guard, were at headquarters on Thursday on that and other military business. arn which the British defeated the Turks, the invaders losing some 9,000 in dead, wounded and prisoners out of their total of approximately 14,000 men, as bas been told in cable de- dpatches. The crossing of the Sinai desert with big guns and other war equipment during the heat of sum- mer was an unprecedented achieve- ment. A representative of The As- sociated Press who was permitted to travel over the entire battle ground after the confiict, had been told prov- iously by high military authorities that the feat could not be accomp- lished and that any force along the Suez Canal, would be safe.from at- tack Aitougbaut the summer. One of the few ts, however, was Lieut. Gen. Sir Archibald Murray, commander i-ehfet of jhe British orces in Egypt. Immediately upon his as of command here last January he such an , and the victory at Romani was due to his foresight. n to prepare for just | re very practicable road for the guns. In some places where the sand was too loose and deep for this track, planks were laid lengthwise under the wheels. Progress was necessarily slow, and long before the Turks reached the watered positions which they took up some miles in front of Romani the British were ready and waiting for them. The defenders did not at- tack, for it was the plan to draw the invaders in to an assault if possible. | General Murray desided that he would wiit a certain Jength of time and then force the issue if the Turks had not advanced. As he hoped, at it on August 3rd the Turks Those New "Bran Foods" --a new orfe is born: L sls baffled by the greatest mystery | that is the ed their worth, fairly demoralizing the Germans. erm STH BATION BAND LEFT ON THURSDAY KOR PETER- BORO FOR FIRST CONCERT. Bandmaster Hinchey Now Takes Orders From Major 6. I. Campbell, Chief Recruiting Officer of This District. The 155th Battalion, under Band- master Hinchey, was nn the city on Thursday after being on leave at their homes for the hst few days. SR a ALL THE NEWS OF ALL THE CAMP DAILY by OUR SPECIAL HERE IT IS--THE GREAT ARMORED "TANK" OR CATTERFILLAR. An authentic picture of the famous British "tank" which crosses streams, climbs hills, leaps trenches and spits out death from rifles, machine guns and small cannon. With their increasing activity onthe battlefield the world has been of the war, and everyone is asking "What do they lod like?" On the Somme the steel monsters proved The Canadians' frst great offensive in Picardy was successful with the aid of the "tanks." "Accordiag to the German report five "tanks" have been destroyed oh the west Bandmaster Hinchey now Jader of military district No. 3 brasspand, which is to be used for recygiting and other patriotic purposes "4 this district. Peterboro on Sunday, when a rjeruit- ing rally is being held to stat the 247th Peterboro Battalion ag the road to get recruits: = The retaining , of this bad by headquarters is indeed 'a slendid plan, and it should work of very satisfactorily. It is a splenid or- ganization, and will be mordappre- ciated hefe than in England where many others are passing a useless existence, in began the attack, wlich ended in complete disaster for taem on August 6th. 1 POOR IN GERMANY SUFFER FOR FOOD Rich People and the Soldiers Well Fed, Wiile-Poor Go Short. Washington, Oct. (9. How the scarcity of food in Gurmany and the Government directios of food dis- tribution are working out is describ- ed by a prominent min who recently returned from there. He said the burden is falling on about 25,000. 000 of the German people. The diers at the front, tte munition fac- tory workers, with means, and persons on enough to eat. A the classes persons who raise food products ufttzal part of the £% a pres nm + of law, according to the Daif News, are: Registering by dumples of names from old polling lists despite the fact that the households; Rave movéd months ago; registr of men and women who have fived in the state only a few monts, com- mitting perjury by sweariig to a legal residence of one yea in the state; promising of inducepents in The first work it ape in Camp Notes Major G. I. Campbell, C.R.O,, left on Jhursday for Peterboro. The rain came down in torrents at the camp on Thursday morning, mak- ing it very uncomfortable for outside work. -- a: Capt. Fleming, son of the late Sir Sandford Fleming, Ottawa, and a graduate of Queen's University, is at- money for votes next month to men and women who register fraudulent y. " The News points out that of 3,500 negroes in East St. Louis, 2,000 are said to have come up the Mississippi River from the south during the last]. fout months. A year's residence is necessary in Illinois to vote. Many of the {:aported negroes, it is 'tached to Queen's Field Ambulance Corps. The men of the Queen's Field Am- bulance Corps draft returned from their last leave on Thursday. "Pte. E. Montgomery has been trans- ferred from the Special Service Bat- talion to the 154th. Capt. R. B. McQuay, Q.F.0., re- turned on Thursday from Napanee. Though known widely as an ath- lete, few people realize the splendid: business ability of Capt. N. Bawlf, paymaster of the 154th Battalion, which brought him much praise from Lieut.-Col. J. J. Mills, who bas just completed his inspection of accounts, ete. ' DEPARTIRE OF THE 154TH JUST A WEEK AFTER THAT OF 155TH AND 156TH. reais Missed by Camp Staff. ; The announcement that the 154th Battalion would follow overseas the 155th and 166th by just a week in- stead of four days as received with and ane being worn, and now the bat- talion has nothing to do in Canada but wait patiently for the day of leaving. : Before leaving Lieut.-Col. A. G. F. by the pleasure on those who will having to say good-bye to A known, have been given eniployment in the.big packing nouses of Chicago and East 8t. Louis. : ---- A photograph as others see you might not be at all pleasing to you. The man who in not dis- couraged by one or a dozen failures The plans of the grim reaper are never changed by the use of dollars. A Lt