OVEMBER 23, 1916 SECOND SECTION WHICH WAS S80 DESPERATE AT BEAUCOURT. No Big German Dugouts in Grand. courté--Average of Prisoners Tak- en Recently by British Is Twenty- Six Years. By Percival Gibbons. With the British Army on the Somme, Nov. 22.--Slowly by little ad- justments and the enterprise of patrols our new line to the north and south of the Ancre becomes definite. The bombers, who have held the out- lying ruins of Grandcourt, lying out there among the brickheaps waiting for counter-attacks to come rolling down on them, are now the foremost point of troops who yesterday and last night made good their footing upon ground which extends up to and into the village. The men to the south end of Puissieux trench, upon the ridge of that name that runs down to the channel of the Ancre, are pow linked with our forces be- of a Canadian officer. when the man is sniping. | WAS ADMITTED BY JUDGE | WATERTOWN CASE. GERMAN SNIPER'S HELMET. The new pattern German sniper's helmet, now the trophy The front attachment "is Krupp steel, a quarter of an inch thick, and is o TANKS NOT LIKE PICTURES. EVDENCE OF DEAD SOLDER," 22 "7 pers Can't Publish Photos, London, Nov. 23.--On being asked made of nly put on! nobody forced him) crept up to the LIKE THE RUSSIANS. Slav Writer Gives Highest Praise He Knows to Canadians. | The following is a tramslation of |'part of an article contributed by a talented young Russian author, Mr. K. Chukovski, to the London Times after a visit to Ypres: ~ We drive by roundabout ways over footpaths s0 as to avoid shells. Here is Poperinghe. A hospital. At the threshold in a leather jacket stands a handsome Sister of Mercy and with halfclosed eyes gases at the spring sun. : : "Here gas-poisoning cases were sent," says an officer. He pointed to a field where amid wooden crosses was visible an entiré forest of cres- cents. Here by the side of the Chris- tian Canadians were interred the Musulman Turcos, On each crescent was the inscription: "Ci git un brave mort pour la France." I asked the colonel if we might not see the Canadians, and soon we saw Russian dug-outs, straw (and not on blankets as is the custom here), lay men in grey coats greatly resembling our own soldiers, On their shoulder straps were the cop- per letters "Canada." 1 felt myself among my own people as though at home. Even the mapner in which they rolled their cigarettes remind- ed me of Riazan or Tula. "Quite like Russians," I said to the Canadian general. Thank you for the good word. As Russians among us. Only yesterday one of them (of his own free will, German positions and destroyed the wire entanglements. "It's dull sitting in the trenches," he told his com- rades, and of course he didn't re- turn; he was killed. "l remember him," said the lieu- tenant. '""He chummed up only with the Redskins." a matter of fact there are several PEACE EFFORTS Maximilian Harden Desires They Are Both sincere And Useless nn ARE OUTLINED BY THE LEADING TEUTON WRITER. Harden Urges the Germans to Get] an Understanding of the Real Ob-! jects of the Allies. London, Nov. 22.--The Amster- dam correspondent of the 'Lon- don Times writes that in a new! article in Die Zukunff, Maximilian! Harden condemns German efforts to| provoke peace discussion as insin- cere and useless. | He argues that for Germany to say, 'We do not want annexation," but to reject the independence of! every state is meaningless, because | annexation nowadays is possible in| forms not covered by the ordinarily accepted meaning of the word, and under the appearance of independ- ence of a state may, nevertheless, he handed over to the power of its strongest neighbor. Moreover, the statement that Germany fears no tri- bunal of inquiry does not mean that Germany is willing to submit her case to an impartial jury for trial of all, | { | RHEUMATISM SCOTS EMULSION Sastes. Its rich sitiond enlivens whole system strengthens the organs to throw off the injurious acids. Many doctors them- selves take Scott's Emulsion and you must stand firm against substitutes. Scott & Bowne, Toronto, Ont. "THOMES COPLEY Telephone 987 wanting anything done in the carpen- tery line. Estimates given on all kinds of repairs and new work: also hard- \ 16-21 | wood floors of all kinds. All orders will | recelve prompt attention. street. Queen socal Branch Time Table IN EFFECT JUNE 235TH, 1916. Trains will leave and arrive a: Uepot. foot of Johnson sirpet West. Ly. City L230 a.m 268 am Ciey Ar. Ci No. 19--Mall No. 13--Fast .e No. 27--Lel. to Tor. $.20 a.m . L4l pm No. il 30ipm Shop, 60 "And are there Redskins among ou." "Rather! {in the House of Commons why Eng- yond Bois d'Hollande. At a score of lish papers were not permitted to|Y points lonely little groups of British | causes of the war. Harden urges Germany to understand the real cbh- Of course there are. We . 18--Mall ue FOR FRESH PUS | Deputy Minister of Marine | small vessel foreign trade is over. cient vessel is now one whose capac- The total number of vessels on the sels and of 3,110 in the number of were wrecked, fourteen lost, twenty- 1915; soldiers are hanging to strings of] shell holes out in the open. 1 have London, Nov. 23.--The Times un- rather a process of isolated, obscure| moral Castle and Sandringham, no has set an example where military | ONLY LARGE VESSELS Department. , | Ottawa, Nov, 23.--In the annual Tie nt jZoport of the Marine Department, ly : Consequently, Mr, Johnston recom- mends that in any Governmental scheme of development for a purely Canadian mercantile marine chief consideration should be had for the ity ranges from 7,000 to 10,000 tons. No. other specific recommendations are made in the report as to the line Canadian marine registry at the end of 1915 was 8,757, with a tonnage of 929,312. This is a decrease as tons. The number of new vessels built last year was 246, with a ton- nage of 18,832 tons. During the four burnt, seven foundered, and 215 condemned or broken up. It is estimated that 45,461 men KING'S ATTENDANTS MUST JOIN COLORS All Those Unmarried and of seen the line crawl up toward them| garstands that King George has giv- and make them one with itself. en orders that every unmarried man Again it is not a battle, it is not|of military age in his Majesty's heroism working like strenuous yeast| matter what the nature of his em- in the mud and fire. Out of it grows| ployment, is to report himself to the to sight a new, firm front, a spripg-| military authorities for service with service is concerned, When war was declared he allowed as many men as could then be spared to go to the YEAR 83, NO. 273 SUIT FOREIGN TRADE Alexander Johnston, Deputy Minis- construction of a gross tonnage of governmental encouragement of compared with December 31st, 1914 year six Canadian vessels were sunk and boys were employed on ships re- Military Age Are Ordered even fighting on a scale of attention, household establishments at Buek- board for fresh victories, the colors. "From the outset of the front, continuing their full pay." No Big Dugouts in Grandcourt. There are reported to be no great dugouts in Grandcourt . The German engineers found the ground there too wet for subterranean barracks, but as many as 900 men have been hil- leted in the village. Miraumont, farther back and bigger, held 2,700, and there were 1,200 in relatively re- mote ways, Prisoners in ones--very wet and humble and stiff about the arms, through the exercise of holding them up while walking---and twos still come trickling in from hiding places among the reeds of the river- side. Those from the neighborhood of CGrandcourt are nearly all Hessi- ans, fine physical types enough when they have been cleaned and fed and have lost the droop of their fear and weariness. The average age of the prisoners whom 1 have seen is about twenty-six. The poorest hysieally and in point of geweral quality ar the Saxons. The others are, general- ly enough, cannon fodder as regards youth and strength. They say that being in the line insures at least good food and plenty of it, as long as our shell fire allows them to bring it up. advantageously situated, being near Waiting on Burial Parties. the new tunnel line. The total cost If evidence is needed to prove the [is estimated at $700,000, flerceness of the fighting upon the Ancre it is furnished by the ground towards Beaucourt, where every step was forced by the bayonet. Here are yet bodies of many who fell in that superb advance . Germans as well as Fixed at Eighteen. British are waiting till the overwork-| 71,6010, Nov. 23.--An order in ed burial parties can put them out of |. nci} has been passed raising the sight, There has Jin the arm age of qualified moving picture helmets out either in their hands or |oPerators in the province from efgh- on their heads, and where a hang-to- WAS Dar ad Toyeas he hand struggle took place many of |2E¢ Was nhs spec! or: al the therh are still lying as they died when |20ts, that will be eighteen in the future. It ia not regamded as likely the shell or bullet killed them. The weather continues to improve, |that operators who were hitherto The newly-drenched ground is dry-|considered qualified and have not ing, and the trenches are sinking to [reached the age of twenty-one will their level. Opposite to us the Ger- |be affécted, but that the change will man, in his' prepared positions, is [only apply in future cases. The rea- shovelling back to its place what our [son for thé new arrangement is shells overthrow. The better he understood to be that it is desirable works the better for us. - We shall be n ng going amiss or to needing those trenches of his before , ively with anything that long. : h . to have a person of than eighteen years | The Recommendation of the ter, points out that the day of the not less than 3,000. The most effi- £hipbuilding in Canada should take. of fifteen in the number of ves- by the Germans, fourteen vessels gistered in Canada during the year to Enlist. in the official communiqué. It is| ingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Bal- ---- war," adds the Times, "his Majesty GRAND TRUNK BUILDS Big New Car Shops for Western Lines, Montreal, Nov. 23.--The Grand Trunk Rallway has undertaken the construction of a new plant at Port Huron, Michigan, for the repair of freight and passenger cars. The principal car repair plant for the lines west of the St. Clair river has been at that point for many years, but was destroyed by fire during the winter of 1914-1915. The old plant was of limited capacity and located at what was the old terminus of the line previous to the construction of the tunnel under the St. Clair river. After the fire negotiations were car- ried on between Port Huron and the railroad, resulting in the acquisition of the property recently vacated by the Port Huron Thresher Company, which property is very much more OPERATORS MUST BE 21. Moving Picture Assistants' Age is i Tonal, Bd a sere, in the past = 5 Against R. J. Curtis for Violation of State Highway Law----Late €, W, of Kingston. R. J. Curtis is on trial at Water-| town, N. Y., for violation of the state highway law. He was convict-| ed once, but got a retrial. first trial C, W. H. Lattion gave| damaging evidence, but it was under- | stood he was dead, and it was thought his evidence could not be introduced, as no one could prove his demise. The district attorney, however, had a coup up his sleeve." He produced Lattion's wife, having found her in Kingston, and she testified to wity nessing her husband's death. She told of a secret marriage, the chang- ing of their names, and later when the war broke out coming to Canada. In Kingston he enlisted in the 21st Battalion as an instructor, and of his appointment to the position of sergeant-major, of her leaving for England in January, 1915, and her husband and his regiment leaving in May and arriving on May 17th. On the way across he was stricken with appendicitis and on May 20th died. She testified that she saw him after death, he having died at the Devon- port Military hospital. She attend- ed his funeral the following day when he was buried in grave 3,616 in section C-of the D&onport Corpor- ation cemetery. She also testified that he was with Curtis on the night of the accident and that he was sub- poended in the case. Witheut any hesitation the judge then admitted the stenographic ac- count of Lattion's evidence. DEATH-BED MESSAGE TO END DEPORTATIONS Dying Austrian Emperor Im- plored Kaiser in Behalf of Belgians. New York, Nov. 23.--A report current in Switzerland yesterday had it that on his death-bed Emperor Franz Josef complied: with Pope Benedict's recent plea to him and messaged the Kaiser urging against 'the Belgian deportation scheme and resumption of unlimited submarine warfare. The Vienna Fremdenblat says it learns that when the Austrian Em- perior died all the members of the Imperial household who were in Vienna were present in the death chamber. Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungar- lan Poreign Minister, and Dr. Von Koerber, the Austrian Premier, and all the court dignitaries also were there. Archduchess Marie Valerie read the prayers for the dying. WANT SUNDAY PAPERS publish photographs ef the British have frontiersmen as well, We had armored motor cars, H. Lattion Was in 21st Battalion, |as appeared in American newspapers. | David Lloyd George, the War Secre- tary, "I have seen some of these photos, {and they bear absolutely no resem- said: At the |Dlance to the acutal machines." pedic treatment. G. I. R. GROSVALET or tanks, such declined to take them because there were no places in the cavalry, and they wished to join the cavalry, But they engaged a train at their own expense and came to Ottawa with their horses. 'If you don't take us to the war,' they declared, 'we shall immediately equip a cargo steamer and go to fight for you!' "And who is this Princess Patri- cia? Where does a princess come from in Canada?" "A rich merchant, Mr. Hamilton Gault, of Montreal---a millionaire-- fitted out an entire regiment at his own expense and sent it to fight for Europe." "But what has the Princess Pat- rieia got to do with it?" "She is the honorary colonel of the regiment. She's the daughter of our Governor<General." "And what about the merchant? 4Did he send soldiers to the Oh no! He also went to the war." "And what then?" '""He was wounded at Ypres, bere and there. Apparently by shrapnel fragments, And all his regiment perished." "And how about the families of the slain? Their mothers, daugh- ters, wives? Dijd this merchant take care of them?" "Of course. Every man Was in. sured by him in casé of disablement and death. Each man received an insurance policy for $500." Red Cross and x "The Red Cross Society is deliv- ering to every Canadian prisoner in Germany one or more parcels each week," said Hon. Colonel Noel Mar- shall, President of the organisation, in an interview recently, "It does not matter whether the soldisr bas a friend or relative in the world. He gets his parcels just the same." Colonel Marshall spoke of the Distinguished French soldier who has mplish ed been sent to Canada for special ortho- He was awarded two medals by order of General Joffre for particularly brilliant work About $180, has been subscribed at Brockville to the fund to be sent to Lt.-Col. Christmas dinner for the men of the 21st Battalion, Ordinarily a young man takes a girl's hand before asking for it. BE ae E. W. Jones !1t distresses you as much as her! if Flanders. for the that coal asking if posed to allow ten shill from their pay for extra | This, however, was entirely ro he me 5 thelr Dares them r elt Jike po selves or not. 'e have thousands of letters from prisoner soldiers war and himself trade in Montresl as before?" jects of the Entente and say that they are, first, to bring Germany in-! to line with Ahe political sysiem of Western Europe and to end what the Entente Powers certainly consider ta be a survival in Germany of belli- cose feudalism; secondly, to intro- duce into Germany parliamentary government so that the people shall really have something to say in the policy of the country; thirdly, the es- tablishment as the central idza of German preparation the determina- tion to keep the peace and not as | hitherto the determindtion to be ready for war; fourthly, to restrict armaments in proportion to popula- tion; and, fifthly, to establish real international arbitration based upon | such guarantees as will insure the punishment of the rebellious. Harden indicates that an offer to endeavor to fulfil these conditions would find a fruitful response before Christmas. Meanwhile, himself that the German preparations for a spring campaign are following the lines which he 'recommended | "immediately after the disaster of! thé Marne and Kitchener's sober three-year prophecy." { GETS MILITARY CROSS Lieut. H. Bruce Chown Rewarded | For Bravery. Word was recéived that Lieut. H.' Bruce Chowr, son of Dean Chown, of the medical faculty of the Univer- sity of Manitoba, has been awarded the Military Cross. The award, it is Ria. is made for cutting wire and nging in valuable information and directing the fire on the German | supports when Regina trench was captured by the hy Lieut. | Chown was graduated in Arts at Me- | Gill in the class of 1914 and went to the front with the 37th Battery from i Winnipeg. 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