12 PAGES i & She | Daily British Whig | PAGS 12 YEAR 83, NO. 302 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY Ni ---- 28, 1916 SECOND SECTION DOES: NOT PUT STOCK IN PEACE German Commander o Sas Australians Are Brave But Lack Yasaiae SCOFFS AT PEACE MOVES SAYS HE IS STILL THE ANVIL IN THE WEST. Teuton Armies Paying More Atten- tion to Preparing for Next Off ive Which Is Expected in Near Fu- ture, Times ( ern York th the Brown responden Armies Headquarters of the Crown Prince Dec. 26.---""Wait and see I per- Net Bavaria, anything, take any it." This was regarding the Germany's peace offer, expressed by Prince Rupprecht to me to- making it clear that he spoke of what, if comes of it too much the prospects of sonally do not stock opinion in canny Crown night, A Pr rata ir reat RR A = With a whimsical smile, .| mer. | coldier whose | uret his d thought o fight ul ulitid orasieg | | I | | the anid Hien he commander in-chief of ail German armies between $erdad Flanders thinks the as {r in the trenches on the subject of peace Both use almost tical words, and the same vonservativeness of prince and private regarding all peace, with no unreasonable epti- cism regarding the immediate or practical results of Germany's peace offer. After the Allied Sommé ex- perience they look sooner for a re- | newal of the murderous struggle. | With a flash of friendly recognition Field Marshal Rupprecht said, "We have met before," recalled that' I had last been with him in June, 1915, just as he was meeting one of those numerous Joffre offensivas, which then seemed the non-plus ultra to commanders and correspondents, he recalled | that he was the anvil while Macken- then, at 4he height of his great | drive through Galicia, Was the ham- History is again Tepeating it- the Crown Prince playing west front, on | | | ale 1 | sen, self to-day, the hard anvil role on the while the sledge hammer is busy Rumania. "YI am still the anvil, but the anvil is holding out pretty well," he said. "How much longer?" I asked. "I don't know Rupprecht smil- ed. 'As long as is necessary The battle of the Somme is over. It may begin again. At any rate we are . | Eive niy | Somme: le begins again, the En | n- lish wii i that | them Lat we aye ITOLEET Tred Let's see, we are ready roi prepaied tol eption it bean oo iid has lasted nll now | fely say that there were monrents at the ! ning the enemy ly stro er than we artillery and HW the tr than | | ever be June We os 80Te al hegin mense. | Marly "in| | » | " Wits part aig," Allies' Afr Ascendancy. The German military patiently works out the cause of re- verses with even greater thorough- ness than of successes, reached the conclusion that the averwhelm ing aerial ascendancy the French and English on the Somme was prob- ably the principal factor in the ir su ce the theory apparently being borhe out by the ract that the troops of the Somme offensive slowed down to a complete stop as the equilbrium in the air was restored "How much stronger in were the French and English beginning?" I asked Rupprecht turned to his chief telligence officer, who said: "Very much so." The Crown Prince "Ten times stronger least eight times. | tween eight and ten, but all that has now changed. In artillery, too, in every respect in fact, we have been growing slowly stronger from oie} to month, and we shall continue to| grow stronger. In the last few months we have shot down many mind, which has 868 filving at the in- cautiously himself said than we at have to say be- having an intermission. If the more enemy fliers than we have lost | Prince ! court, 2 i Sale-Bo Unfortunately, we lost our best one, Boelke, through a stupid accident' Despite this heavy loss, the Crown intimated that not only restored equilibrium, but had virtually regain ed the ascendancy on the Somme Tue field marshal asked where had already heen wilh his army When | answered that 1 had | just come in from the Butte de Warlen- beyond Bapaume, famous as the scene of a desperate struggle be- een the Grenadier Guards and the 1stralians, he said: 'That's pretty near the front (the English lying than a hundred vards away). That's a decidedly draughty corner of the front." (Draughty is German military slang for heavy shell fire) had i less 5 on a whaling voy- to lick some- Aswarship gos age when it body -- mm © arts out cm ff Toledo, makes oath of the firm ng busines i nty and state af Wd firm will po NDREDR DOLLA each and e r 1 of Catarrh cannot be . by the use of HALL: CA' Li > t FRAXK J CHENEY e me and subscribed 6th day of Decem- W. GLEASON, Notary ube ire iy taken r Worst the Blood on the of the System. Send that he of F ity of Toledo, « said, ely nar sum of ONE be (Beal) Hall's nal Mico for te A inter- free. Y & CO, Toledn, O IER ists, Pills for constipation all d amily Sold b Hal the Germans | the aerial] CANADA'S ARMY SPREADING OLD OVER THE FACE ENGLAND ITSELR OF Marvellous ization at New The Command at Administrative Camps--A\ Brighton -- Stafr, London, Dec. 28.--The Canadian Army gradually spreading itself over the face ¢f England. The com- paratively spall force which make history at Salisbury has grownsinto a tremendous army. On every street of every city in the United Kingdom and along highways throughout all parts of the country soldiers of the Dominion are to be seen. There are camps in England, sion at Shorncliffe, | known to the people Training Area at Bramshott, which we have occupied for over a year, and a new command at Brighton, which has just recently been estab- lished Commencing the latter, al- though it is probably our finest camp, toe people in Canada know very little The Brighton command consists of four main camps, located at Crow- horough, Hastings, Shoreham and Seaford. These camps are organized and administrated by Major-General J. C. MacDougall, C.M.G., and his | headquarters staff at Brighton | Lieut.-Col. D. W. B. Spry, Assistant- is the training divi- which is well in Canada; the now three great training! the || v Adjutant and Quartermaster-Gener- al, is Chief Administrative Officer, and the Administrative Staff TE ponsille for concernin tlie mranteudnce the troops It will he Administrative busy i everythin 2 ana care of » understood that Staff ex- ceedingly wlhien this command was formed. Large hodies of troops had to be transpqrted to the various areas, supplied with food directly on their arrival, and at once organized into camps The average person does not realize what it means to handle troops in camps, which, com- pared with Camp Borden, are twice its size Occasionally« 5,000 or »0,- 000 people are seen gathered at some funetéion, but there are very few places in the Dominion that can mus- ter a crowd of these proportions. If one stops to think it wil] be readily realized that to handle expeditiously and without confusion an army of thig size, perfect system is required. As a matter of fact it is no small task to keep a body of men of this size in a perfect state of discipline and health in ordinary camp routine. The Administrative Staff consists Lieut.-Col. D. W. B. Spry, Assis- t-Adjustant and Quartermaster- ral; Major M. K. Greene, Depu- sistant-Adjutant-General; Ma- jor G._A. E. Bury, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster General; Captain H F. Walker, Deputy-Assistant-Adju- tant and Quarmaster-General The capacity for work of quarters Staff can be judged be easily were in Canada Head- © from / O eleven week nt the fact that hours'a day f and are frequently when umstances a called up at nig demand, ALBERTA WiLL TAKE POLICE DUTIES OVER R.N.W.M.P. 'to Come Under Federal Authorities for Military Duty. Cire Alta, Dec Bowen Perry, C.M.G., commissioner §t royal northwest mounted police, stated today that so soon as the Al- berta provincial authorities can take over the stations in the 'province now held by the RN.W.M.P., this famous unit will be réfruited to full strength and will come under the federal authorities for military duty. Commissioner Perry says, .how- ever, that owing to the difficulty there would be apt to arise if various stations in the province were immediately withdrawn from the control of the RN.W.M.P., the order in-council cannot actually take effect until such time the provincial government can provide suitable men fill them. Edmonton, the as to Piano's Fall Kills Boy. Vancouver, Dec. 28 Thomas Me- Intosh, aged sixteen was killed when a piano fell on him, He was trying to lift the piano out of a wagon when it toppled over and the lad was in- stantly Killed. ; ks Tonight, Friday an Saturday Latest 1916-1917 Fiction Mr. 'Britling Sees It Through, by H. G. 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