SECOND SECTION YEAR $3, NO. 262 N. W. ROWELL'S VISIT T0 FRONT Hie Tells the Kingston Women's Club of His Experience. AEALS 10 THE. WOMEN TO HELP IN THE EFFORTS BE- ING MADE BY CANADA To Provide New Men to Take the Places of Those Who Fall in the| Fight. | On Thursday afternoon N. W. Ro- well, K.C., M.P.P., Toronto, address- ed the Kingston Women's Canadian lub on his gecent visit to the western There was a large attendance Mrs. John MacGil- At the clos2 of the addhess Mrs. H. A. Lavell boved a vote of thanks, which was seconded by Miss McAuley, and enthusiastiecal- ly carried. In his address Mr. Rowell review] ed the outstanding events of his re- cent visit to the battlefront, where he had every opportunity of witnessing a. portion of the stupendous task as represented by the gigantic struggle an the western front. Men and more men is the need of the hour, and Mr, Rowell unhesitatingly challenged. all eligible young men to get ont and assert their manhood in the defence of the Empire and the liberty which is involved in the issue. "During my visit this summer to the front I crossed over to France on a transport, carrying South African troops. No finer tribute could be paid to British institutions and tra- ditions than the sight of those South African troops, whoafter a victorious campaign in Africa were going for- ward tg reaffirm their loyalty to the British Empire. My first taste of warfare was experienced the marning after I arrived at the Canadian front. 1 was aroused by the sounds of rapid firing, and upon investigation learn- ed that an aerial attack was in pro- gress. A few of our men were wounded and the enemy repulsed. At that time Canada had three divisions in the field, comprising' every branch excepting an 'aviation corps. Over three hundred Canadians are en- gaged in the Imperial Aviation Corps and I was informed that Canadians were. preférréd 'for this particular branch of the service, as they showed unusual skill and' daring. The di- front at the meeting, livrav presided, , ;ades with four battalions to a hri- ide, Two brigades hold an assigned ection of the trenches, and the third | brigade is held In reserve. There is {a complete transition of all forces 1 | from one point to another every few days. The 18th and 21st Battalions were holding the front line trenches { when I arrived on the scene The evening of the second day of { my visit to the front I was permitted | witness a bombardment from a located between the first line and the batteries. The cessation of the hombardment was followed . by a significant silence broken only by the singing of the birds. It was a remarkable contrast. Mr. Rowell described the nature of the trenches and the many devices used to facilitate the work of the soldier. The speaker was surprised to find so few men in the wing trenches. The General said there was no object in keeping large forces in such expos- ed positions." The men who were in the trenches were made up of snipers, machine gun men and sentries. Mr. Rowell told of one sniper who had seventy-six nicks on the stock of his gun, indicating that he had accounted for that many Germans. The Can- adians are credited with being ex- cellent bombers, due it is said to their practical knowledge of the science af baseball, The speaker did not meet a single Canadian but what was cheerful, despite the fact that death lurks on every hand. The engineers represent a wonderful branch of the service. They are responsible for the construction of narrow guage rail- ways, bridges, trenches and innum- erable other things, common to pres- ent day warfare. The motor trans- port service also represents a gigantic task. | to point trenches The Medical Corps, Mr. Rowell referred to the excel- lent work accompanied by the Army Medical Corps He said people should not be disturbed over the con- troversy that has arisen in connection with this branch of the service, but should leave that in the hands of the proper authorities to straighten out. . "I can assure you," said Mr. Row- ell, that all that medical skill can do is being done, Slight cases where & man may recover within three weeks and return to duty are treat- ed in France likewise; serious cases where a man is too seriously wound- ed to be moved. All other cases are treated in England, The nurses are also playing a conspieious part in the war and are doing noble work at con- siderable self sacrifice. "I visited some of the last resting places of our Canadian soldiers," said the speaker and I could not help but think that-- 'Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends,' "When I asked some of the men if there was anything 1 could do for them upon my return, they réplied: 'Take care of the wounded that go visions are made up of three bri- home," We must fulfill that com- mam ; a e BT is right food. is tifically comp nutriment of whole flavor, a 'The Big Thing in Every Home is health. And the biggest factor in health cluding the vital mineral elements for Shiling the of body, baad nerve. Besides Grape-Nuts has a wonderful ; ht to young le should have its daily mission, said the speaker. They also said: 'Send us men and more men.' They are uncer so delusions as to the ultimate issue, but they realize.that a great many more men are required I wish I could think the war will be over in a couple of months, but that would not be true to anything I saw. We can maintain our superiority so long as we can make up for the fear- ful wastage. Think of the Princess Pats which had been wiped out a great many times. We must not un- der estimate the magnitude of the task and the urgency of the need for more men., Every young man should 'ask himself the question: 'Why should I not go," and answer it in a way satisfactory to his conscience and his God. At this crucial, when on the battlefields of Europe is being decided future civilization, every eligible young man should go. We have only one life and what better way could we enter a more glorious life than by laying it down on the field of honor in the defence of lib- erty, justice and truth, Canada's Alternatives, ° "The most important question fac- ing the people of Canada to-day is this: Are we going to maintain throughout the war our present div- isions at the front, or are they to drop out of the battle line at the most critical stage of the war for want of adequate reinforcements? "We have two alternatives, (1) We can maintain them at the front by the necessary reinforcements; or (2) we can say to the British government when our present reserves are ex- hausted that we can no longer main- tain them, And they must ejther drop out of the battle line or be rein- forced by British troops, '" May I again repeat what I have sail elsewhere, so that we all may realize the urgency of the situation, thdt scarcely at any time during the past summer had we a sufficient number of men in Great Britain who had Zompleted their training to re- inforce our battalions at the front. We had plenty of men in Canada; but either they had not enlisted in time or their training had not been suffi- ciently advanced or they had not been sent over to England in time to com- plete their training so as to be avail- able for reinforcements. What was the result? The fourth divigion which should have gone over to relieve the first division and to give them a greatly needed rest was broken up on more than one occasion to provide reinforcements for the front. But even this did not meet the situation, and we had to send over to the front men who had not completed their training. Men insufficiently train- ed were drafted into our battalions at the front to meet the best train- ed troops of Europe. One only needs to state the facts for everyone to ap- préciate all that is inwelved. But evan with these reinforcements a number of our battalions were not reinforced up to full strength; and during the summer, and even during a portion at least of the Somme offen- sive, because of lack of reinforce- ments battalions at considerably less than their full strength were called upon to do a full battalion's work. Would anyone say that this is fair ta our men at the front? "While we have in recent months sent thousands of men across the sea and so soon as their training is com- pleted we shall be able to provide reinforcements for the next few months, what will happen next sum- mer and next autumn if our troops are engaged in heavy fighting? For there is no apparent indication. that the war will be over by that time. "The troops must have months of training before it is fair to them to cause to put them into the battle line; and if we are to provide rein- forcements for next summer we must set about the business at once. Let me repeat. The question which we must all fairly and squarely face, and face now, is this: Are we going to reinforce these divisions to keep them in the battle line, or are we going to withdraw them from the battle line when our present reserves are ex- hausted? . If we are going to keep them in the battle line, then there should not be one moment's delay in devising the necessary plans to en- sure adequate reinforcements. Every- one recognizes that the old haphaz- ard, unsystematic and "umorganized methods of recruiting are no longer effective; and we should call to the task of dealing with this question the best organizing and constructive ab- ility we have in Canada. "I had ap apportunity when in Great Britain of learning of the or- | ganization created under Lord Rer- by for securing recruits under the voluntary system. If we had taken up the matter of recruiting in Can- ada in the same vigorous, business- like and thorough way we would not find nual ves in tle present Position. : regrets. the past not solve the Problem for the future. bave returned to Canada with a famed the world around for its scien- wheat and barley, in- per- food values the'entive © In HYPHEN VOTE AGAINST HUGHES Although He Was Genman-Americans' Choke Ul Few Weeks Age. HE FALED TO MEASURE (P CLAIMED ROOSEVELT WAS A DETRIMENT, Appears to Have Failed Wilson, Particularly in New York State--Figures Given. New York, Nov. 10.--The Ger- man-American vote, which cut such a large figure in the campaign, dis- appeared on election day. The cen- tres of German-American population, with the exception of Cincinnati cast their votes against Hughes, who was almost the ubanimous choice of the German language press, Hughes lost Milwaukee. He Jost St. Louis. He carried Cincinnati, but by far less than its normal Republi- can plurality. Wilson carried Hud- son county, the German centre in New Jersey, although losing the whole state by a wide margin. There was evidence that 'Wilson had been knifed by German-American Demo- crats in some of the districts of Ho- boken, but this was hardly percepti- ble in the state returns. The Demo- cratic vote slumped in all parts of Greater New York, but the slump was but little more pronounced in Queen's and in the districts in Man- hattan, where men of German birth Or ancestry were numerous. Qer- man-Americans probably eontributed their 'mite to the Hughes landslides in Illinois and Pennsylvania, but probably did not make up more than a small fraction of the total Hughes vote in these states. A close analysis of the vote pre- cinct by precinet in German-Ameri- can districts may make it appear that ballots were cast naw and then to publish Wilson for not favoring an embargo .on munitions, but a survey of the returns by states fails to dis- close where the hyphenate . vote threw a single . electoral vote to Hughes. Either there was no hy- phen vote or it was cancelled or more than Sancelled ja, its own territory by anti-hyphen "Votes, Wilson had something less than the normal Democratic pluralities, but he ran well ahead ot Hughes all bi two of the Manhattan Congressional districts, where an active campaign was made along German-American lines. Generally speaking, the Presi- dent did about as well in the district wheré the German influefice was strong as in the other districts, In the eleven Congressional districts in which the German-American news- papers and propégandists made their principal campaign in this eity Wil- son received a total of 50,495, against 39,160. In the twentieth distriet for instance, where the Germ#n-Ameri- can influence was so strong that Isaac Siegel, the Republican incumbent, made a campaign partly on the issue that he had favored the McLemore resolution, while his Democratic op- ponent, Rosenblatt, carefully consid- ered German-American . susceptibili- ties, President Wilson got a large plurality, his vote being 3,876, to 2,872 for Hughes. The Labor - Vote How They Explain it. Different explanations of this are offered by German-American leaders, but the leading one was that Hughes in the latter part of his campaign had failed to measfire up to German- American expectations in his speech- es and had been much injured with that element by the association of Colonel Roosevelt with his campaign. George Sylvester Viareck, editor of The Fatherland, said that a eareful analysis of the results showed him that both candidates had been rebuk- ed and disowned by the German-Am- ericans. Viareck, who wil- son bitterly, did not support ghes through the campaign. He and his followers took the pesition that the Republican candidate's endorsement of Colonel Roosevelt and some of his utterances as to foreign policy show- ed him to be as unsympathetic to Ger- man-American sensibilities as Presi-| i {dent Wilson. Mr. Viareck said that certain other | {influences counied gut in the Middle! west, principally the support of the) Gérm@n-American bréwers in Mil waukee and St. Louis and the Ger- man aupti-prohibitionist element, who had constructed a theory from some of the utterances of President Wilson that he was an ardent advocate of personal liberty and would not suffer any federal agency to be used in fur- therance of the crusade of the "drys." | eien-- Labor Vote Failed Wilson. New York, Nov. 9.--President Wil- son did not receive the united sup- port of organized labor which its leaders promised him, and that fea- ture of the election was much dis- cussed to-day by politicians of both parties, as well as by officials of trade unions, The labor vote failed the President in New York, where the Democrats expected its aid to give them a ma- jority of 75,000 or 100,000 in New York City, and a majority in Buffalo. It failed the President in Illinois, which the Democrats had claimed in the hope that the great industrial centre of Chicago, normally Demo- cratic, would give the President a big margin. Instead Hughes carried Chicago and Illinois. The Democrats had based their hopes in Indiana, largely on the prospect of a big De- mocratic labor vote in Indianapolis. In northern New Jersey, where there is a large railroad and general indus- trial vote, the Democrats had expect- ed the labor vote to help them carry the state; but in Newark, with its great labor population, the Republi- can majority was larger than normal. It wag in New York City that the returns point to the greatest failpre of the force of organized labor to follow the direction of their leaders in supporting Wilson. Practically every labor organization in the city had gone on record in favor of Pre- | sident Wilson, because of the Adam-| son Law and the other humanitarian | legislation of his administration. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, came here on Sunday to urge united sup- port for Wilson. GOVERNMENT VERDICT AGAINST BERLIN FIRM Karplus & Herzberger Taxed $160,000 for Undervaluing Shipment of Leather. New York, Nov. 9.--A verdict of $150,000 in favor of the United States government was returned by a jury in Federal Court in a suit in- stituted against Karplus & Herzber- ger of Berlin, Germany, exporters. They were charged with under- valuing a shipment of $480,000 worth of glove lesther sent to their agents at Gloversville, N, Y, Funds of the firm here are under attachment by the government to ap- ply on the judgment. HEAVY SENTENCE. Two Years for ; Stealing, Nov. 10,--Two years in tentiary was the sentence ed in the police court on Frank alias Frank Glasser, convicted last week of horse stealing. Glasser stole a horse belonging to County Constable Renaud, of Belle River, about a month ago. He was captur- ed in Chatham two days later after a chase over several townships. Congressman Mott Re-elected, Oswego, N.Y.» Nov, 9.--Congress- man Luther 'W, Mott of this city was re-elected to Congress in the Thirty- cond congressi 1 district, com- prising the counties of Oswego, Jef- ferson, Lewis and Madison, defeat- ing Otto Pfaff or Oneida, Demo- crat, by an overwhelming plurality. Minister of Pensions. London, Nov, .9.--Arthur Hender- Son, leader of the Labor party in the House of Commons, has been appoint- ed Minister of Pensions, a post re- cently created. Frank Dale impos Dale, Animal Isles. London Chronicle, There is the Isle of Dogs ahd Whale Island, Pewijt Island in Essex and Crane and Gulf wiaga on the coast of Cornwall. 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