YEAR 83, NO. 249 "SURPASSES IN IMPORTANCE MLL OTHER EVENTS OF WAR" How Germany Regarded the Moral Effect~of the Outcome at Verdun--Paris Went Wild With Delight Over tke French Victory. Paris, 'Oct. 25>There is quoted here a semi-official statément made + in Berlin on July 3rd, almost four months ago and since which time there has been little activity at Verdun owing to the demands upon both armies resulting from the Somme offensive. "Whatever may have been' the original importance of the possession of Verdun, and whatever may.be the actual value now, the dogged defence by the French garrison and the equally resolute determination of the Ger- "man besiegers have so tremendously enhanced the significance of the issue] that the moral effect of the final result cannot fail to be of importance sur-| passing that of any previous event of the war. "While all the world hangs on the issue of the battle now drawn out for- more than four months, the people of Germany are confident the fall of the stronghold is already certain are sobered by the donsciousness that costly work is still to be done. tions for the assault were in every those for the great offensive on the Somme; 'but the Crown Prince and his generals had no inkling of what was going on behind the French lines, and when the attack broke the defenders were hopelessly overcome. Their ranks drained by the great demand for men to prevent the Allies breaking through' on the Somme, and still exhausted Verdun, the enemy soldiérs could offer but a very weak resistance to such furious assaults as were launched under the direction of Gen. Nivelle. News of the victory witnessed French capital. went mad with delight. MERCHANT VESSELS ARMED OUNARDER LACONIA ENTERS NEW YORK WITH 4-INCH GUN. Merchantmen Going to United States Had Previously Not Been Armed Becaiiie of Protests Made, Washington, Oct. 25.--The arri- val at New York of the Cunard Line steamship Laconia with a four-inch gun mounted on her stern, the first time she has come into that harbor armed,"is looked upon in Washing- ton as marking the initiation of a new policy of arming for defense British merchant vi traversing the North Atlantic steamship lanes. Very few vessels have entered Am- erican harbors flying the British flag and carrying armament for defense Trin the Tar Wa Bettiah seams ly in the far. i ships, arm- ed for defense, came into American ports, but after an exchange of com- munications between the State De- partment and the British Ambassa- dor the gums were removed from these vessels, - = After that the British Government followed. the policy of seeing "that British merchant vessels eutering American ports should be unarmed, but vessels in the Canadian, African, Australian and Mediterranean ser- vices have been armed for defense. The activities of the U-53, which is regarded by Lord Robert Cecil as having extended the European war area to the American side of the At- lantic according to information in England the question of arming ves- sels for self-defense in the North Atlantic steamer lanes to and from American ports, In view of the American repres- entations no merchant vessels armed had visited American ports until after the Ancona was sunk, and Italian ships began to come in armed. Italian have since come in armed and have been allowed to de- part under an emént made by which the Ialian Govotnnon: guar antees the ns mounted on such Italian will be used only for defensive purposes and will not be used to attack a submarine whilst being L™ . With his wunder- standing the State Department in- formed the ury Department that it had no objection to the clear- ance of the Italian v Is on ac- count of the armament »which they ed, British ships have not been com- hore armed. If they come armed AAAS ALA LL ALLLS CPT TTYTTTIYTYITe i Heit ¥ ; seh ity ga5. iL "Hes etd Took the Germans by Surprise. The French staff took the Germans entirely by surprise. Enthusiasm never waxed warmer, and when the French official report made known the full extent of the victory the entire city Ting them, and inserted a cushion of fu fat taken from another pant of the dge J The statement says: and imminent although expectations "" The prepara- detail as thorough and complete as by their efforts to capture a delirious outburst, of joy in the now the Collector of Custorfls will report each case to Washington, and before the vessel is cleared guaran- tees will be sought that the guns will be used only for defense, pro- bably similiar to the Italian guar- antees, . The case of each ship will be dealt with separately on its own merits, IS THE 95TH DISBANDED? What Camp Borden Hears. About Col. Barker's Unit, A despatch from camp Borden says--From letters received here from officers of the 95th Battalion it is learned that this unit has been disbanded an® drafts sent to France. One letter dated edrly in October, states that a draft of 500 was leav- ing then for France, and a further one of 250 was to be sent about two weeks later. Some of the officers have remained with their men, while others have received posts in train- ing camps. Several joined the Fly- ing Corps, and others transferred to the service branch. It is understood that Lieut-Col. R. K. Barker O, C,, is still in Eng- land and if making strong endeavors to move tp France in some capacity. Nothing is known of the 146th Kingston Battalion, under Lieut.- Col. C, A. Lowe, absorbing the 95th, but in v'ew of the staterhent that drafts from the 95th have already gone to France, reinforcing the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions, it is un- likely that the 146th will absorb it. It is also stated that the 93rd Pet- erboro Battalion, Lieut.-Col. T. J: Johnson O. C. has also been broken into drafts and a great number of the men are already in France. The 93rd have been temporarily attach- ed to the 97th (American Legion) unit for rations in England, so that Some of the Americans are in Eng- nd. "NOTABLE SURGERY FEAT Jaws, Rigid for 20 Years, Now Work Freely . Philadelphia, Pa. Oct.26--A pa- tient whose jaws had been rigid for twenty years who had never learned to talk, and who has been obliged 'to obtain all his nourishment through a tube, was the subject of one of the numerous operations performed at the various clinics here today as part of the activities of the clinical con- gress of surgeons Gf the United States and Canada. 'The joints of the patient's jaws had hardened following an attack « soarlet fever when he was only one year old. " Today Dr. W. Wayne Babcock laid open the stiffened joints scraped awdy a hard bony substance, which was found cover- was involved. Many other notable feats of surgery were performes at the numerous clinies. , ; MORE CRITICAL EACH DAY | -- 26--La Liberte's cor- 26, 1916. IN OBSCURE GRAVE. p Story of Death and Hurried Burial of Prince Maximilien of Hesse. The circumstances of the death and mysterious disappearance of the body of Prince Maximilien of Hesse, whose relatives invoked the aid of the Poperfn an effort to obtain this information, are disclosed by a writ- er in the Petit Parisien. The writer asserts 'that the Prince was shot in the groin during an engagement be- tween a Saxon detachment and 'ah English patrol near Godgwaersvelde, in Northern' France, early in the war, The Prince was found by Trappist monks and taken to their monastery where he died soon after. The monks were ordered to evacuate the monas- tery, and Father Bernard Visiting the cloister on the following day, found the body of the Prince was missing. Later the Prince's family appealed to the Pope to obtain information as to the disposition of the Prince's body, but without success. The Petit Parisien writer says the body re- poses in a humble cemetery in Haze- brouck, that it was kept two days in a house there, was once interred but exhumed at night, and finally buried in a coffin, costing thirty francs, which were advanced 'by a poor man out of pity. Prince Maximilien was 20 years of age, and the son of the youngest sis- ter of Emperor William of Germany. Previously it had been stated that he was fatally wounded in an engage- ment. hear Mont Descats, on Oct. 12, 1914, and that the body was buried in a monastery. He was a sub-lieu- tenant in an infantry regiment, and was a nephew of Alexander Freder- ick, the Landgrave of Hesse, the se- cond and non-reigning branch of the Hesse family. ; Drake's Name Out of Baronetcy. Drake is no longer represented in the baronetcy, His namesake and descendant, Sir Francis Drake, leaves only a daughter, Lady Seaton. t will become now of the historic drum so jealously preserved at the family seat im Devon? When Sir Francis was dying on his ship in the West Indies, he desired his comrades to take home his drum, telling them that, if at any time great danger threatened England and the drum were sounded, his spirit would return and help to scat- ter the enemy, as he had done the great Armada. So the drum was brought home, and hung in Buck- land Abbey, near Plymouth. Twice dire danger has threatened Britain, and twice has the great sea hero's drum been tapped! On each occasion the spirit of t™ famous sea- fighter entered the British admiral, and enabled him to vanquish the foe. The first time was when the re- doubtable Van Tromp" ed a broom to his masthead and announced his Intention of sweeping the British from the seas, The drum, however, was tapped, and Blake turned the ta , definitely settling once and for all the Dutch ambition of being supreme at sea, for Drake's spirit entered into that of the Northum- brian-admiral. Drake's 'drum was tapped. for the second time when the country was menaced by France, and, the spirit of the Elizabethan sailor responding, Nelson beat the French fleet. So, at least, runs the legend, and should the 'existence of the British Empire be threatened the drum will be tap- ped again. : Ewell Castle. Ewell Castle, which had recently been the subject of some ridiculous questions in Parliament, has had an existence in its present form of about a hundred years. The chief interest attaching to this fine old mansion is the fact that within its grounds are still to be found traces of the founda- tions of one of the banqueting apart- ments of the famous Nonsuch- Palace, the favorite resort of Queen Eliza- beth in the spacious times of three centuries or so ago. . To this day a fleld adjoining the site of the celebrated palace, which in its day cclipsed the gaieties of even Hampton Court, is known as Diana's Dyke from an old tradition that it contained a bath used by Queen zabeth, embellished with appropriate statues of Diana and Actaeon. Ast now stands Ewell, Cagtle is remarkable for its Japan- ese garden, which is stated to be unique of its kind. Studied Treason Law. Mr, Justice Atkin, who, in an extra judicial way, made a personal study of the original copy of the Statute of Treason at the Record Office for the purpose of the Casement appeal, has the distinetion of being the youngest I CERMAN DEFE ON THE SOMME Is Primarily Machine Gum Strategy, Ac- cording fo J. W. Grigg. GERMAN WIL BE BEATEN ALTHOUGH HE HAS NOT YET BEEN CRUSHED. The Huns Fight Like Tigers--Have Placed Their Best and Bravest Soldiers in Charge of * Machine Guns. New York, Oct. 256--The New York World publishes the following from Joseph W. Grigg, its correspondent at | the front in, France: "Moving bodies of troops on the bread plains just back of the firing line show impres- sively the superiority of the British air service over the German. Oppor- tunity has been afforded me for .a closer inspection. of part of the battlefield and to traverse dishevelied Fricourt, as well as obtain a closer inspection of Mametz Wood. "The Somme battles have dcmon- strated that the German strategy in the west is primarily that of a ma- chine gun defence. Fricourt is an example of this strategy. It seems al- most impossible that such craftily built trenches and undergfound fort- resses could be taken but they have[ been, and the German dead still lie in their dugouts on this battlefield attesting to the fact. "Poisonous" is the sign placed at| the entrance of such dugouts. Al-| moet on the lip of one of the big caters made by British mines are the niniature graveyards of 'many brave Britons who wrested this shell-torn kill from the Cermans, "Flowers growing in the crater holes indicate that nature is taking a hand in cover- ing up as soon as possible the scenes of desolation. " "The German is not beaten, will be' is what I found to be the opinion of generals as well as men in the ranks. If Germany hopes tc win by machine guns the British are just as determined to win by smashing such a defence, vhaiher they do it by the big guns, of which I have had a good view or the now famous 'tanks' of which I have had fleeting glimpses or by a combination of these implements of war and the superb soldiers who have since July 1 consisently and relemtlessly push- ed their way over flat ground swept with a hail of lead to the crest of the hill which brings them so perilously «close to Bapaume and the plains be- yond. : "I have of German strength and spirit. found no under-estimating fighting Fight Like Tiger '" "They fight like Tigers," is an ex- pression I have heard out here more frequently than ones of a derogatory character, equally true of a certain element running Fr "The Germans have placed their best and bravest soldiers in charge of the machine guns, In one of the most recent engagements one German gunner continued his merciless ma- chine gun-fire on the British troops until he was bayonetted. He had been bayonetted seven times before he was knocked out. As compared with this sample of ferocious tena- city much light is thrown upon the waning spirit of some other units in the German army, by the discovery of an order by von Bulow to his offi- cers warning them that they would be court-martialled if they continued to leave their posts when attacked. "What the forward movement of such a great army as this British one is on the Somm& means is indi- cated by the ceaseless tide of sup- ° Norm: Folks in town and adjoining | are the with of XW gl muscles, and b a bec ey wom bp = fon? an but| Te ------------------------------------ | plies which flows constantly to the very line of battle. "One Tommy said to me that a British general on his way to the battlefront in his motor car often was only a blur, but it is a more persist- ent,.stejdier pace which carries sup- plies and munitions to this advanc- ing army, or equips these vast patches of khaki clad men who are ready to be moved up into the actual fighting sector. ocd "ine Canadian Fighters. 4A€ 1 with several others worked my\way past this endless chain of lorries we came in viéw of the Cana- dian division which had been in the fighting line and was now returning for rest. The day before a German in a hospital had said to me: 'The Canadians are fine fighters and brave fellows, and so are the Australians.' He had been fighting against Cana- dians at different intervals he said, for many months. "This Canadian division went along the road whist]ling, singing and mud- stained. They were fighters and no doubt of it, as were also those Scotch troops we niet later at the point on hillock of empty shell cases. "Whatever troops Germany re- moves from the western front must be replaced by others. To hold her gains around Verdun she will be com- pelled to maintain intact her troops already there. In the meantime Bri- tain piles up her mountains of shells and supplies for the day--Britain's Day, as her vast organization in France believes absolutely." <Cartying a chip on your shoulder may denote foolishness instead of bravery. In the hands of some young men a dollar will develop five dollar's worth of style, Fools usually tell the truth at the wrong time. ' - How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- ward for any casé'of Catarrh that can- not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Hall's Catarrh Cure has been taken by catarrh' sufferers for the ' past thirty-five years, and has become known as the miost reliable remedy for tarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts rough the blood on the Mucous sur- faces, expelling the Poison from the Blood and healing the diseased por- ons. . 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London, Oct. 25.--The British are saying that if the Germans had ordered the weather it could not have suited their purposes better than during these past two days of persist- ent rain, which has turned shell craters into bowls of porridge, made trench sides fall in, kept every stitch of clothing of the men in the front line saturated dnd made the field across which charges have to be made as slippery as glass where there are not mires. Sunday and part Qf Monday; with clear cold weather which det the gun- ners see their targets, the soldiers were swinging their arms to keep warm. Now the gunners start out in the walls of mist and of the soldiers who have been in the trenches look like balls of mud. Artillery prepaga- tion necessary for attack is impos- sible without visibility, and, as one "gunner said, the visibility is so low that the "tanks" will have to use fog orns to prevent a collision if they o wandering across the uncharted shell craters. 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