. YEAR 83, NO. 255 ee - 3 The Motto of R. Ne Otiawa, Nov 2.--Whea Pari handed the golden apple to Venus it terned out rather a grim joke but the 'ucident is nai to he compared with the lemon R. B. Bennett, M.P., wou'd have handed Sir Wiifrid Laur- ier if the Opposition leader had con- sented to sit on the recruiting board, of which the Calgary atatesman has been made chairman. - Circumstances alter cases, of course, and there Is no doubt that an invitation from' the non-partisan chairman of a National Service Com- mission, to which Sir Thomas Tait, to * git along with him on a non-partisan board would have received sympath- etic consideration. But an invitation to be part of a seven to five board, consisting of members of Parliament, and others, shepherded by a violent partisan like R. B. Bennett, was an- other story. In vain is the net spread in sight of the intended victim. Whether Sir Thomas Tait himself conceived the idea of inviting Sir * Wilfrid Laurier to his council, or whether the idea had its source in more artful quarters, is neither here nor there. The fact remains that one man, Sir Thomas Tait, pended the in- vitation and another man, R; B. Ben nett, was there to receive the answer. Necessarily the vehement politician received a different answer from that whieh would have been suitable if a strictly impartial patriot, wholly de- tached from party politics, had been there to get the answer. Another fact that presses is that the non-partisanship of which Sir Thomas Tait was supposed to be the symbolo vanished with Sir Thomas Tait. What happened to Sir Thomas is a pithy commentary on the non- partisanship of the commission which he was asked to handle. ' They did not endow Sir Thomas with enough independence to appoint his own sec- retary. When he appointed one, Mr, Murray, who had told one little shred of truth about the Borden Govern- ment, namely, that "it was dawdling away its time on' the recruiting busi- ness"--=in short making a tedious and expensive bluff---8ir Thomas was promptly. told that he couldn't have plain-speakers like that about him and that Mr. Murray had better get out. Sir T felt that he had about as Bs. on of being non-- partisan on a commission like that as a celluloid collar has of surviving the flames of Vesuvius, It is within the bounds of proba- bility also that Sir omas cast an appra'sing eye on the dozen district * directors of recruiting thoughtfully appointed to assist him before he was called on to act as their chief. Fora man who had non-partisanship in his mind, as Sir Thomas Tait did, it must have "been painful to note_that all these district recruiting directors were of one party stripe and that stripe the same color as the party in bower. This fact may also have in- fluenced Sir Thomas's conduct and have led him to believe that non- partisanship wasn't going to have much of a show even before the inci- dent in regard to his secretdry con- firmed him in that opinion. At any rate Sir Thomas quit cold. He saw that a National Service Commission, 'under the direct tutelage of Premier Borden, who in turn was under the tutelage of somebody else, was no place for a non*nartisan patriot who had nothing Wit the good of his coun- try and the British Empire at heart. It was pre-eminently a place and time for disapoearing--and disappear Sir Thomas did. { It was this nervous scene of parti- sanship, made still more palpitant by the nresence of R. B. Bennett, that Sir Wiltrid was asked to countenance by becoming a private member of a convmittee of twelve members of Parliament divided politically seven and five. They didn't even have the grace to suggest, did those party AN NANA Costs Little and Basily Made, bly Effective. at > " h p p p p p ) p b p ly L & Youll , : OW 1 -- 3 Te! BE i Sh We M fe an i it the in cough on of Pinex (50 cents can esa. t never ila. Tomita given co! SyTUD a {Some Ottawa Glimpses | Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. Bae Bottle and A the bottle | * B. Bennett, M.P. J manipulators, that a supposedly non- partisan committee should be evenly balanced by cutting out the partisan majority of two. No indeed. Safety first. That was R. B, Bennett's mot- to, and presumably Premier Borden's, who is behind him and presumably the party managers' who are behind Premier Borden. The Conservative party was not to lose its exclusive grip of thé war. So far as Canada is concerned this is to be a Tory war from start to finish. Even the National Service Commis- sion is to be Tory by a comfortable percentage. All they wanted Sir Wil- fred or his Liberal supporters to share is any blame that may accrue as a result of dilatory methods. Moreover, Sir Wilfrid Laurier was offered no place on this committee commensurate with his importance as leader of His Majesty's loyal Oppos- ition. He was to be a simple member of the committee, an insignificant voting unit, who might give good adyice and then lose it in division. Instead of coordinate authority with R. B. Bennett, what this committee offered him was a subordinate pos- ition in which his wisdom, the weight of his years, and his experience would fous young man from the west who 'has been only five years in Parlia- ment. That was a nice job for Sir Wilfrid Laurier, especially when you consider how non-partisan R. B. can't which is most of the time, Viewed in this light, Sir Wilfrid's refusal to sit on a committee headed by as vehement a partisan as R. B. Bennett, acting under the direction of a Government with such a violent repugance to facts that it fires a pri- vate secretary for telling one small iota of the truth---viewed in this light, I repeat, Sir Wilfrid's refusal to sit on the committee is both nat- ural and commendable, The only thing ahead of this National Service Commission with R. B. Bennett as its pilot is strife and engine trouble. Besides, there: is much force in Sir Wilfrid's contention that a committee of business men and manufacturers would be of more use than a commit- tee of parliamentarians in advising a National Seryice Commission where and how to lay hands on the man power that is not being used to the best advantage in this war. Meanwhile the registration scheme languishes. Nothing is done about it. The public doésn't even know whether the registration is manda- tory or optional. If it is optional it will probably amount to nothing. If it is mandatory it will dig up a lot of information about the workers which may ultimately be ultilized if the Borden Government decides on conscription, as Sir George Foster would 'have it do. At all events that is the way registration worked out in Australia where Premier Hughes is now utilizing the facts unearthed by it in his arguments for conscription. While the National Service Com- all be subject to the veto of a bumpt-} bé when he gets his Tory dander up, |. KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, row orvonce caxcmazn [A TERRIBLE JOURNEY For the Sake of the Child--Parents ) Both Dead. New" Y6rk, Nov. 2.--Little Fred- erick Augustus Heinze, 4 years old, has a brand néw papa and mamma by adoption, : Toe By permission of Surrogate Fow- ler yesterday "Fritzie" was adopted ®y his unclé and aunt, Mr. and Mrs, William M. Fleitman. He has been supported by his aunt since the death of his mother in 1915. The boy is the son of F. Augustus Heinze, former millionaire "copper king,' and Bernice Golden Hender- son Heinze. After his birth Mrs. Heinze started divorce proceedings against F. Augustus Heinze and won an interlocatory degree on her deathbed she called her husband to her and he promised her to have the divorce cancelled for the sake of their child. He died shortly after- ward himself. - THE VILLAGE CROSS OF SACRIFICE Memorial erected at Daldenby, Lin- colnshire, a village of 300 inhabitants, which sent 72 per cent of {ts available manhvod to the front. Not to Be Pitied. In a letter to the Rev. Alex. White of Renfrew, Lance-Corp. Oliver Den- man of Sault Ste. Marie, who recent- ly received the Distinguished Con« duet Medal for rescuing an officer mission under Mr. Bennett is mark- ing time, Premier Borden is issuing calls for the last hundred thousand. Sir Robert is some caller. That's his way out of it, When there's noth- ing else to do he calls. I hear you calling me. He calls this way and that--but never angrily. No menace ~=no sharp words--not even a slap on the wrist---just calls. He calls on the people to do their bit to save the empire by enlisting .just as Sir THomas White calls on them to save the empire by being thrifty and turn- ing over their savings to him to es- tablish a Canadian war credit for the British War Office which will defray the ten million dollars a day now being spent in this country for war suvblise purchased from our manu- acturers. Quite right and proper in both cases. But the call sl further, i 4 ould 50 it the people of this country do their bit by enlisting and also by 'handing thelr money .to the Finance Minister to meet the war expendi- turers, then the Government should fiteers to disgorge, on the army oon- tractors of one kind and another to have a heart, and on its ally and old- time side-partner Henr! Bourassa to stop preaching sedition in Quebec. If Henri doesn't heed the first call t Douce opal Quaver aad. would oy wou. displease Henri, i vot bition is to become a martyr also do its bit by calling on the pro-| 8°! | warrant: issued whose highest am- under rifle fire, on the western front, says in part: "I'm glad you write so optimisti- cally. I like letters like that. I hate the 'pity-you-poor-boys' stuff. We aren't to be pitied, rather to be en- vied, by the unfit and too old. What wouldn't some of the old boys give to be able to lie their way through a recruiting station and be on the way to this row? Not that the pace and manner of living doesn't soon eliniin- ate the weak; it does. "The survival of the fittest, the law of the primeval, is the law of the land. But although physical strength is a great boon mental strength is the mainstay. Control of nerves, im- perturbability under terrific shocks and sudden surprises are worth more than tons of muscle. Samson, with all his muscles, couldn't get out trom under the falling buildings. 'Get out fror. under'--that's the main ps. You hear the drone or whine a shell coming, then its 'get out from under,' and heavy muscles will not avail if you baven't ect control. " ve what Kitchens sald: 'Three years." - ---- -------- . 'Wanted in Belleville. Belleville, Nov. 2.--Arthur Dia- in Torouto on a neay, wes arrested HAL uve 'by the Chief theft. He will be brought 4 STORY OF OFFICIAL STUPIDITY COMES FROM INDIA. 1 4 Body of Territorials Who Were Sent Across One Thousand Miles of Desert in the Heat of Summer With Inadequate Hospital and Train Service Suffered Untold Agonies From Thirst and Heat Stroke. N amazing story of the tragic death of British Territorial soldiers landed in India has 1 been revealed in London Truth. -It appears that the men were despatched on a journey of more than 1,000 miles through the desert without proper medical attendance and with nothing to protect them against the terrible heat. The story which, in Truth, is en- titled "A Troop Train Tragedy," is as follows: ¥ "Indian military administration has not covered itself with glory during the war, hut none of its blunders has been more inexcusable and more shocking than the recent tragic jour- ney of a troop train from Karachi to Peshawar. Not all the facts have yet been divulged even in India-- indeed, so far as I have seen, the newspapers there have only publish- led short and colorless reports eman- ating from official sources. "But the numerous letters that I bave received, many of them from army officers, testify to the horror the alair has excited among ail ac- quainted with the details, and but for the preoccupationiof the press and the. public with the war the story would assuredly raise a storm of indignation here at home, "In the month of June the rail- way journey from Karachi to Pesha- war, a distance of over 1,000 miles, is one of the hottest in the world. | For some hundreds of miles the line goes through the baking Sind de- sert, where the shade temperature is anything up to 126. Mail trains perform the journey in twenty-four hours. Troop trains take from two and a half to five days for the sam? journey because--the health and comfort of soldjers being of the Jeast importancé--they are drawn by the slowest engines and have to lace to all traffic. "On this journey, a severe ordeal even for acclimated white men, the military jackasses in authority at Karachi despatched about a thou- disem- sand British soldiers just barked from the transport . which had conveyed them from England. The men were sent out as drafts 'for various different units in India, territorial and regular. As. usual the troop train was made up of old third-class carriages which, with the exception of .he wooden seats, are little better than good trucks. Into these vehicles the soldiers were packed like sardines. "One correspondent says they were _ still wearing English clothing. There were no punkahs or fans, Ice was supplied at Karachi--nominally one pound per man, but half of ik melted before they received it. I am assur- ,ed that the only water for drinking was what was carried in the men's water bottles, and that there was neither water nor any accommoda- tion for washing. "Three doctors traveled with the train, but, like the men, they were new to India, and so, devotedly though they worked, they 'were hope- | tessly handicaped by their lack of experience as well as by their own sufferings from the Intense heat. Two second-class carriages, each with lying-down accommodation for two patients, had been set apart for use as a hospital. "The train pulled up - at Rohri, 229 miles from Karachi, 23 hours after it started. | By that time a number of men were sick, dying or already dead from heat strokes. Seven corpses were removed from the train at Rohri and 32 patienfy in a critical condition were taken across the River Indus to the Civil Hospital at Sukkur, where in spite of everything that could be done for them five more died. During the halt at Rohri a meal was served in the station shed, where the troops were shielded from the rays of the sun only by an iron roof. When the journey was resumed more heat strokes occurred and a carriage had to be turned into a mortuary, "As the result NOVEMBER other passenger 2, 1916 THE JUGGERNAUT TANKS, They Have Brought About a New, Kind of Warfare. : The accounts of the operation of the new British juggernaut "tanks" from the sane, reliable war corres- pondents on the Somme battlefield might well have come from the pages of a. scientific romance by H. G. Wells or Jules Verne. Nothing more dramatic or &nore startling in the evolution of war methods has ever appeared. The huge siege howitzers by which the Germans broke down the Belgian steel forts ~ and the enemy gas machines are mild ter rors beside these uncanny engines of war. The new moving forts will mean an immense acceleration of pressure on the German lines. The "contemptible" army and Kitchen- er's raw staff have beaten the Ger- mans at their own much-advertised specialty. Never before did moter-engine, or set of engines, develop anything like the power required for the new land battleships. Twelve-cylinder auto- mobiles, the biggest yet made, can develop up to 100 horse-power, in moving a car of about two tons. Geared low, the power would be suf- ficient to climb at an angle of 45 degrees provided the wheel grip were sufficient. The weight of the "tanks" is said to be about 400 tons, and to move in depressions some- thing like 20,000 horsepower would be required. Turbine and even re- ciprocal engines in big ships can de- liver, from steam propulsion, 70,000 and 80,000 horse-power, but their size and weight would make them impossible for land-car purposes, even if oil were used for fuel. The ships driven by Diesel engines are motor-propelled, and can develop 4,000 horse-power. The Selandia, the first of the kind.to go into prac- tical service, had a tonnage of about 5,000, and travelled at 12 to 14 knots an hour. But nothing in the motor industry was ever before put together to possess enough power to move 400 tons on wheels up and down craters, gulleys, through brick walls, over fences and trees, and 'even through buildings. The building of these mechanical monsters was organized during Lord Kitchener's administration of the War Department. It is representa- tive of the real Britain Germany has to fear. The British were slow in coming, as the French said, but when they came they came with force and skill no other "country could evolve. It is too early to appraise the "tanks" at their proper worth as a military arm. Maanifestly, they bring about a new stage of warfare. They put trenches, emplacements, and other field works such as barb- ed-wire entanglements, far down in the scale of values. Future wars will find them as much a ot army equipment as cavalry or artillery. Instead of mainly ma- chine. guns, they .will have mechani- cal bomb-throwers, if, the present machines do not carry them, They will probably carry heavy guns, too. Traps for the stéel 'monsters, all mined and at. vill be a counter- measure. But Germans cannot imitative construction for months, and even if they got plans inte their hands they could mot pro- duce ed machines in less than a year, By that time the Allied troops will probably be fighting in German territory, and the war. will have been won, if not finished. There will doubtless be a rapid develop- ment of the manufacture of these moving forts for use on the Eastern front also. Combined with the Allies' superiority in men, artillery, aeroplanes, and ammunitop, they will bring the end much closer. They have solved, in part, anyway, the most difficult problem of the Allies' offeisive. s od Roumsnia in Line. Roumania's action in = prohibiting the sale and consumption of alco- bolic liquors follows the lead of many of the European countries now at war, including Russia, France, and Great Britain, Russia, the first belligerent coun- try to place a ban on alcohol, abol- ished the liquor traffic by Imperial decree at the outbreak of the war. As a result of this prohibition the sale of intoxicants in Russia fell within a year and a half from near- ly a billion to approximately four per cent. of that sum. The four per cent. consisted largely of the sale of! liquors for medical purposes. The Latter Must n pein. Feed he Teuton Armes ie bakas. CHURCH BELS TO KOUPS THE PRODUCERS ARE REPORTED TERROR-STRICKEN. Berlin-Constantinople Rallway Is Continually Congested With Ger- man Ammunition Waggons and the Committee of. Eighteen. London, Nov. 2.--A whole commit- tee of Germans, Austrians and Hun- garians is permanently on the road between Sofia and the Central capi- tals. An immense number of agricul- tural machines is being sent to Bul- garia, with the purpose of extracting as much out of the land there as pos- sible, and thousands of German scientific agriculturists are staying in , provincial Bulgaria, giving advice to the peasants there how to grow more and how to feed the German allies in a most ' satisfactory manner. The Bulgarian land, like all Balkan land, has been cultivated very primitively up to now, and the Germans consider that with more rational cultivation the crops can be increased to a great extent. This they have'been trying to do since last autumn (1915) with all kinds of agricultural methods which are employed in Germany, and they are lending agricultural ma- chines to the Bulgarian farmers free of charge if they promise to sell their crops to them in exchange. Owing to the high prices they offer this is ar- ranged without much difficulty, and in consequence all the surplus stock and a little over is going to Germany. Teuton *'Corridor's" Menace. The inevitable fate of the Berlin- Constantinople railway is causing great irritation in Germany and among the military leaders of the German-Bulgarian forces in the Bal- kans. It would seem that there is a much greater irritation in this direc- tion in Germany than is commonly supposed in Entente quarters, for iso- lation would be nothing less than a disaster. Apart from the military consequence of the cutting off "of communications between Bulgaria and Turkey with Germany, the econ. omic effects would be indeed serious. The available medical stores would not last for more than a few months in Turkey and Bulgaria, unless Zep- pelins and mules were employed, as vehicles of any kind could not mdve twenty miles within Serbian territory during the winter, although the roads have been repaired in many places since the occupation. The ammuni- tion of the Turks and Bulgars, and naturally of the German forces who have remained there, would also soon give out in spite of the organiz- ed industry the Germans have built up in both countries since they first arrived. . That they are still far from being able to produce sufficient quan- tities of munitions is evidenced by the fact that the Balkan railway lines are continually crowded with ammunition waggons going south- wards, with aeroplanes, gun material and industrial stores of all desecrip- tions. An offensive on two fronts for Bulgaria and a defensive war on an immense front for Turkey need much more ammunition than either country can produce. Bulgaria Must Feed Armies. The victualling of the whole of the Bulgarian army and a great part of the German and Turkish armies on both fronts is the task of Bul- garia. Besides this she has to feed her own population and send every- thing to Germany that the Germans can lay hold of. The consequence is that Bulgaria almost breaks down under the burden. been just as bad this year in Bulgaria as in Hungary, and the only hope re- mains that the rice crops in the Strip, Kochana, Philippopolis and Plevna districts promise to be good. Food-stuffs in Bulgaria are under the control of a Parliamentary committee of eighteen members of the Sobranje, M. Kosstoff being the president. He, The harvest has| { | however, is surrounded by German i advisers and German experts, repre- sentatives of M. Batocki, the German food dictator, and by the buyers of the Zentral Einkanfs Gesellschaft, the German institution for buying 4 up the last ounce of bread from the allies of Germany, which snatches up everything from no matter where, and at any price. This committee of eighteen are authorized to distribute the foodstuffs, to make requisitions, to send men to jail if they charge more for some things than the Ger- mans are inclined to pay, and to take away the land from any person who cannot produce on it as much as he is expected to "produce. They con- stitute a dictatorship of the worst . kind, a kind of Balkan a ra- tive body, with Balkan riiles, al- though all the time German greed is the petrol which drives them. The Austrian and Hungarian food agents, who creep everywhere behind the Germans, are laughed at, for by the time they arrive at a place they find that the Germans have already bought up everything. 3 Producers Terror-Stricken. The peasants and the producers in general are simply terror-stricken when the representatives of the lat- ter approach, for they always come with the authorization of the com- mittee, and the committee isa very serious matter. In order that the Germans might be able to buy at a comparatively cheap rate in Bulgaria the committee have fixed prices which seem almost ridiculous under the present food conditions. The peasant has to sell his cattle, tor in- stances, at a price ten times less than the Germans get for them in Ger- many or than they could buy them for in Hungary. SHACKLETON'S . SISTER FREED Man She Married Divorced, But in United States, Montreal, Nov. 2.--An interes- ting marriage case has just been settled in the Superior Court here by Mr. Justice Allard, as a ult, of which Kathleen Shackleton, a sister of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Arctic exployer, is freed from her marriage to Wilbert Earle Edmondson, The suit was instituted several weeks ago, and in the meantime, pending judgement, 'Miss Shackleton (the Court decrees she shall retain her maiden name) is visiting rela- tives in England. According to the evidence the plaintiff was married in Montreal to- the defendant on March 31 last, the defendant being degeribed in the marriage certificate as a bachelor. Subsequently the plaintiff learned that the defendant had been married in Winnipeg in 1908, and that his first wife had obtained a divorce against him in one of the western States, which divorce, it was estab- lished, was not y the law of Canada. Judge Allard based his judgement on article 118 of the civil code, which provides that a second marriage can- not be contracted before the dissolu- tion of the first, The Soldier's Kiss (Description of an actual incident on the road to a battery position in southern Flanders.) Only a dying horse! Pull off the gear, And slip the needless bit from frothing jaws, * Drag it aside there, leave the road- way clear-- s The battery thunders on with scarce a pause. Prone by the shellswept highway there it lies With quivering limbs as fast the lite tide fails, Dark films are chasing the fafthful eyes That mutely plead for ald where none avails. Onward the battery rolls, but one there speeds, Heedless of comrade's voice or bursting shell, Back to a wounded friend who lonely bleeds Beside the stony highway where it fell. Only a. dying horse! He swiftly kneels Lifts the limp head and hears the shivering sigh, Kisses his friend while down his cheek there steals Sweet pity's tear: "Good-bye, old man good-bye." . No honors wait him, medal, badge or star, Though scarce could war a kindlier deed unfold; He bears within his breast, more précious far Beyond the gift of kings, a heart o'er of gold, Children Had Eczema h Doctors Failed to Cure Twa Letters Which Prove the Efficiency of Dr. Chase's Ointment as a Cure for Eczema. Fortunate are the mothers who know the virtues of Dr. Chase's Oint- ment, for there is no treatment so suitable for use after the bath to hé- for Pale. nervous women." Maat, River , Chase's would not tive Mrs. George N.B., writes: --"We use Ointment in our home, wish' for anything