Daily British Whig (1850), 21 Oct 1916, p. 11

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YEAR 838, NO. 245 SN Dail y wommetorrb % io Wi KINGSTON," ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916 Whi Phone IELD CAMP No. 1909 Free, Bulletin Service at Press Headquarters, Next do.. Headquarters moves to the city v Comm -- GEN.T.D.R. HEMMING 2 ~ ; 3 G2 - ) ALL THE NEWS ~ OF ALL THE CAMP™ DAILY by OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE 3 oe gl to PAGES132) | ub THIRD SECTION | (HAS A SPLENDID STORY some day next week, and that is as Brig.- JCOMMANDANT INSISTS THAT EV- ERYTHING BE PUT IN SHAPE. _ The Sanitary Office? Is Superintend- ing the Work in Vacated Battal. Jon Lines--=Great Change on the Grounds, Barriefleld camp, whichyopened in all its glory with over 117000 soldier inhabitants, is slowly dwindling down until in a very few days there will be nothing left but the buildings on the bleak plains to remind oné that it was the home of the largest camp ever held on the historic camp grounds, The camp is losing in num- bers every day, as some unit leaves for the winter quarters in the city, There is mud on the ground. There was much mud when the troops first came, but it has been a fous sum. mer and with mach weather, which made it possible for the camp to send overseas some of the finest batialions ever Imohitized. ~ ggest ) 'now. is to see : at Sars Y "be leit in ship A or er. Beginning oe the § ily oceupled by the 156th and 1 Jattalions, there is a squad of men from the Special Service Company, working away un- der Lieut. Weller, piling tent floors and gathering up bits of wcod and paper and everything that would mar the appearance. There was a huge fire deni a the 166th vacant gro . An the men were farryig oot ha all kinds of discarded ma- terial to be destroyed and vut cat of . the way. feut.-Col. MeCanamon, Camp Sanitary Officer, is very strict at his work, and the men are doing'a splendid job na r his watchful eye: nged thé appeéar- ~He-has- great ance of the grounds, and will make an equal improvement in the rest of the camp. When units move out, however, it requires time and labor near as it is posible to say. Gen. T. D. R. Hemming, G. 0. C., insists that everything be left in pro- per order if the men have to stay out all winter, and with this "ultimatum" it will be completed in very short or- Wer. x The Y. M. C. A. grounds are great- ly changed, with the disappearance "of the big tent that went down under the recent storm. The men are pack- ing up, ready to move, and most of this equipment will be out of the way soon. Generally, the camp is taking on a deserted appearance, and King Win- ter will soon hold sway of what was but a few days ago a big camp grounds. OVERSEAS DRAFT DIRECT TO R. C. H. A. [Next Draft From "C» Battery Goes Direct to Old Bri- gade in France. The R.C.H.A, depot is sending overseas in a v days a draft of 100 men, who with 300 from other bastertes, will go under the com- d of Lieut. H. Brown field; Kings~ ton and Lieuts, Morton and Clark. This draft will be trained in Eng- land for service with the R.C.H.A. at the front, and will have!the honor of being the first to do this since the first draft of fifty marched out of Tete de Pont Barracks. The depot will be coming tn the city from Petawawa with well over | 125 men, and this, with about fifty | here, will make is a-strong unit. | Lieut. Porter has arrived to assist | Lieut, McCarter, battery commander | here. Lieut, Sheppard, who has been [on "duty with Lieut. McCarter, is | reporting for immediate overseas! service, | A lot of people call foolish manage- ment hard luck. ig to clean up, and this the colonel will r ~ Some Ottawa Glimpses Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. Omens of Defeat. 3 - 3 'Ottawa, Oct. 21.--The Borden Government is ih doubt whether to 11 off ral election in Decem- ake it a coomskin coat cam- .puign, as it were--or to postpone the day of wrath until next April. The chances favor the later date. The April date suits better : be- cause many of the surprise packages ~ that found the Ives supporting a Conservative Go ment after the _ lection of 1911 realize that their _ present sojourn in the House of Com- ons is their st. If the people. at 'had had ony idea that 'ware going to be elected fever have received the these (allows nominations. ny ks forlorn ve been put in those last-chance states- RIE ON as long as pos- y Smoney. It's money thoy will §e8- means a die, they ant I 48 another will make them. friends, the trusts, tiee boosters and favor the Anril ly believe that the [ can be given 'wo iets in that thine ent has been Costs, never J countries. No indeed! Let them take their fill, said the Borden Gov- ernment, and we will take ours. Which was done accordingly. The Borden Government is. willing. may- be, to continue its kindn to the {High Costers, but the 'High Costers' themselves are the first to see that the goose that lays the golden egg is near its last squawk They recken | that next April will see a limit to the people's tolerance of their extortions. After that, the Borden Government will go out 1 full feeling after {2s I sald before, th deap public a cou The Government April as a des lic feeling for {In the first To dissolve writs ret tof a month, a and adjournm iraary, A gf | largely wit] Frtgns wt ! much ob pl the National THERE HAVE BEEN MANY BAT. TALIONS TRAINED HERE. This City and the Camp Has Been the Training Centre for Thousands --=New Page is Opening. Since the war broke out in August, 1914, Kingston has had a military history that is in keeping with its military reputation of many years. With the closing of Barriefield camp another chapter will be added, and a winter's campaign for recruits to its next battalion is already being planned. Since the war started there have been all branches of the service rais- ed here and sent overseas. Th first, of course, was out contribution to the battalions and artillery brigade at Valeartier, and in this way Kingston is still represented in the 2nd Bat- talion. The next was the 21st, which spent a memorable winter here, Then followed the 59th, which was at Bar- riéfield camp with the 38th and 80th Brigade. The artillery was followed by three batteries, 32nd, 83rd and 34th, which gradually grew into the establishment of the 45th and 46th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, and again the 72nd, 73rd, 74th and 75th--a long list. : 2 The 59th went overseas, and then in the district there was authorized the 93rd, 108th, 130th, 136th, 139th, 146th, 154th, 156th and 156th, and now a Queen's University Battalion. Besides these large units there have, beén Army Service Corps, Army! Medical Corps, Engineering, Signal- ling, . and other branches supplied with' trained men. There is no truth in the rumor that the American Association will re- League in the series next year. ! | have enough 'scandal to remember already. Frank Carvell and his com- | rades. must not be allowed another last word to the jury. The verdict is fatal enough right now. up hope that a great victory by the Allies will cause the Canadian people to forget its long list of sins, because it realizes that no victory, however great, could do that. Even if the Allies could show a victory for every sin the Borden Government has com- mitted, the people would not forget their grievance. It has been accumu- lating ever since the Borden Govern- ment took office five years ago. It didn't take the people long to see which way the Borden Government was headed. All the war did was to grease the skids. Howevér, the Gov- ernment will hesitate as long as pos- sible before taking the plunge next April. Yes, and then some, of the Govern- ment can bring it about. It will ask for another extension that goes without saying. But it will not ex- it, because it Is quite the country doesn't want old excuses are all played trained here with the 7th Artillery : Curfew Shall Not Ring To-ni The Borden Government has given | has that the horse is on the Borden Gov- a great deal is the omens. the country they will need to neglect ' jthe omens. | | cause he pooh-poohed. the hlack cat | that crossed his 7 'What thinks he can tating prediction which kee out. What the country wants is to get rid of the Borden Government the sooner the quicker, Armageddon or mo Armageddon, the Borden government realizes that it got to go. The mil- lennium won't get a fair start until the Borden outfit of listless lingerers is out of the way. However, that won't prevent the Borden Goverp- ment asl for another year's re- prieve, the idea being to put the onus on the Liberals for refusing. Truth to tell, this onus is only a bogey, Nobody takes any stock in it. The citizens of Canada, the honest patriots on both sides of politics, are ready and willing to assume any onus that will put the Borden Government on the blink., One onus is a good as another, sh long as it does the trick. A million onuses won't save the Governmefit's bacon. It will put an argument-----sure it will. | It will say: "Don't swap horses while cros- sing a stream." Yes, it will say that, even -if the horse is broken winded and spavined--the kind of a horse, in short, that Arthur DeW{tt Foster, M.P.. used to buy. The voters know CURFEW. particularly annoys Lieut. et a'better view from the bel Ps going through his head, 'The g ht.' "--dLondon Bystander. all about that. They will see to it ernment, not on them. What bothers the Government a! To go to} \ r Spite of which J, C. got hs - simply he- path, the hen that Borden srand ud doesn't { { only goes to show how a simple act wrong. | ter Jones, R- F. A., (who fry) is that irri the later omens are still fresh in their memory, For instance, there was the Mani- toba election omen, with its after- math of accused Cabinet Ministers who escaped punishment simply be- cause there were three invincible doubters on the Jury. That was fol- lowed by the Bob Rogers omen, which is the most dreadful of ail. Circum- stances and the evidence closed in on the Honourable Bob to the extent of obscuring his judgement and shatter- ing his temper, with the result that he started out to purify the Mani- toba bench, which was quizzing him too hard. Bob purified it to the ex- tent of getting four newspaper men put in jail, two of whom were fined in such amounts that they will prob- ably have to issue debentures to pay them. That's Bob's way--he doesn't care how many newspapermen go to jail so long as he gets the right kind of Judge to run the show. And the right kind of Judge is a Judge that will stick by Bob, right or wrong, Patticularly wrong, because who needs a Judge to stick to him when he is right and everybody kn it? The Honourable Bob's predicament of kindness can get a man in He telephoned to Contractor that he wasn't getting enough $8,700 for the new powef Rousé the Agricultural College. Bob exercised power in Manitoba for $8,700 shy and contractor Carter ac-| cepted the suggestion, although he vent any such possible thing - In Belleville on Friday arranging for _} the reception of the 235th Battalion, draft. am atin KO MORE RAISING CHEQUES A TYPEWRITER TO BE ISSUED THAT PERFORATES PAPER. Capt. C. Turner, Camp Paymaster, Has One Which Should be Semt to All Paymasters in the Country. In 'all probability the Militia De- partment Will soon make an order absolutely prohibiting hand-written cheques, and will issue non-raising cheque typewriters to every unit mo- bilized, and such should have been done long ago. Capt. C. urner, camp paymaster, has just received a new machine which perforates the paper, being written on in such a way that a forgery or attempt at raising the amount on the cheque is an absolute failure. Fortunately there have been few cases of tampering with cheques here. When there are thousands of cheques being issued every pay-day, some men with doubtful morals are bound to be found, and it is to pre- Br | pening in the future thai the chines will be issued. 235 TO BELLEVILLE. This Battalion Arrived in Winter Quarters on Friday. Capt. Palmer, Camp Engineer, was which arrived yesterdaydy train af- ter a most successful k through Durham and Northumberland. Lieut. Slinn was camp engineer in the ab- sence of the captain. Capt. Allen to Belleville. Capt. Allen, Canadian Army Dental Corps, has been dethiled for duty as dental officer with the 235th Bat- talion at Belleville, relieving Capt. McGirl, who goes 3 overseas with a ~ ar Or if he didn't say that he prob- ably remarked: "Paul may plant and Appollinaris water, but Bob taketh the increase -- all except $1,200." _At all events, it was an omen. --H. F. GADSBY. TO OPERATE SUBMARINES. . Off the American Shores, .a German Paper Says. Amsterdam, Oct. 20.--The Volks Zeitung of Cologne says: "German submarines will operate in the future in the western Atlantic. They will visit the well-known shipping routes around the eastern point of Nan- tucket island and will sink British merchantmen after giving the crews opportunity to save themselves. The newspaper believes this activi- ty will influence the supplying of jally grain, bacon and had already figured in his campaign ANOTHER ON WAY "EAST" THE 154TH BATTALION HAS SPENT ITS"LAST SUNDAY HERE. It Leaves With the Best of Wishes ever sent by Barriefield day afternoon. For a Grand Career at Barriefield's First Highland Unit. The 154th Battalion has spent its last Sunday at Barriefield camp, It leaves at the first Highl talion to Eng- land, for the present , and it takes away the best/of wishes for its success overseas. glories of the Highlands ere coming to the 154, and the first step in the direction is being made. * The 154th Battalion was organised last winter in Dundas, Stormont and Glengarry counties under the com- mand of Lieut.-Col. A. G. F. Mac- Donald, son of a formar Lieutemant- Governor of Ontario, and one of the truest of true old l set taking overseas 1,000 Os wear the tartan and the who will join as & unit ot land units in the field. Broke His Arm. x Pte. Jones, orderly at headquer- ters, had the misfortune to fracturé his arm while walking through the Engineers lines at the eamp on Fri- He fell over a tent rope, and the fracture had to be set by Capt. R. M. Fiison at the Field Hospital. Bight men were transferred om Friday to the Convalescent Homes here. t Lieut. Graham, '230th Battalion, 'was at the camp on Friday on mili- tary business. -~ Denies the Report, Newport News, Va., Oct. 20.--Cap- tain Beck, master of the British steamer North Pacific, has positively denied published 'thet bis ship received information from g Bri- tish warship to the effect that the German submarine U-53, which ratd- ed allied and neutral shipping off Nantucket on Sunday, October 8, had E 1 man amin A SEEN EP

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