re Whig } | OVER WOUNDS| -- RE- -s ' 12 PAGES PAGES 9-12 The Daily British SECOND SECTION 1917 YEAR 84. NO. RAPINE AND RU ~~ MARK RETREAT The Whole Arca of St. Quentin Has Been Brutally Devastated. A shone He WORKS OF ART PILLAGED fi sri i ite 1 ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 25, i rey h | | After TODAY it will be useless to Won in the sel |\ write for the booklet describing iriibaswiun} IN the Encyclopaedia Britannica To get this booklet, read it, make itable Per-) + up your mind and get your" order in in time "ONTARIO BABY MADE STRONG wr. Cassells Tablets Child When No- Could. ox 286, Pe VICTORY SOLDIERS' DESCRIBED Cured Her Delicate THE. thing Else Hard-Won Victories clusion of the Hospi Spirit, Pluek and Indo severance, | ('anada should be as proud of her! over their | the glorious fights h they fell. Their struggle up the depths of disablement as hard, and 'even as heroic, as desperate defence ™of Ypres or dashing capture of the Vimy is a pl When only and though m he 1 ial foods them would stay on his o thin that got soldiers' victory as she is of in wi from 1s thought he could live. But chancing| to hear of Dr. Cassell"s Tablets I got -- some for baby, and am thankful I did He i€ a bonny eighs 25 ARCHITECTURAL BLOWN E&P. NOBLE PILES ARE AND int ow old » =» | Houses of the Poof Are Bak ned -- rhief Become 3 cents for n German Officer and Synonymous Words 10, M'Caul-st. \ Headquar : Asse AT wih » thoroughly 15, not from contempt, and the last but cause at the yt hat Sole Proprie the area rec enemy, and Quentin that cathedr in Ww ribabl » and wan ls one with » havod ton bru the are - me the an teau of Caulaincourt t a lying 1d and cely ourt london, hollow of had ling ide is a fine vherein on tablets 3 to the tom to the f 1 the stream 51 question Lord Robert Blockade the French have re rea con e reads m tary honors paid denied re armed Duke 10Use hi of Vicanza I'he dadies of t 15 ane re daughter 1 int seizneur . to Josephine, Mari and Louise They read stately, thesr Half them wrenched out of place by Hu! and lie floor. exposing the tombs, within which von the coffins and imperfectly secre So noble a se "Marquis €Caulaincourt reads, we n tobe 'neh had ssioner very high ver ining in-wait comm tablet of recently ties for ave been the Fr ession about poss on the in Se where have been opened n again s the chateau new every age in tier irmed nodern explosives could de and the amount of acres of jumbled brici the bullding wed dow that the ruins make alm Thessaly, as Colisseanm It was destroved wall, stable, outl ge and Belvidere, as Utterly a with 1 1st a cott was rage sttuation stroy how massiveness of every Whence one looks over the sweeping park or loyely 'artificial lake finds fragments of statues, carved lons' heads, great vases brok en and overturned It tills with bitter anger and contempt one Difficulty one April 25 the military Salonika were in possession of proofs guilty that ghands of lists in Greece ms on Venize organized rt found police at Kiponago, arrested by French authori tatements had in his written orders from offi- making committing Ib A free sample of Pr. Cassell's Tab- lets will be sent to you on receipt of ailing and packing. Ad- dress: Harold F. Ritchie & Co, Lud. '0€ 3 , Toronto. Tablet tors: Dr, Ltd., Manchester, Eng. KING CONSTANTINE STILL PLAYS FALSE Bands of Irregulars Which At- tack Venizelists Armed . From Athens. House Cecil, the firmed a irregulars and also that of ench army, Constantine lar well the to deal LEMENT COMING TO CAPE BOAT TROUBLE Will Be Shortly and Service Re- commence. boy nowg quite cured, | at twelv Cassell's Co., Replying to a | of Commons Minister report authorities stated that the assistant false s bands which depredations as rifles munition of the Greek army pattern The commander of taking steps Allied forces with the ear little altogether too little, hard-won victories won by men because they are 1 the seculsion of a hos- the theatre of war with world looking gn: But such equally deserve public re They show the same spirit, stlil more in e¢ months disabled fought pital t who! tories ition 1 same pluck, and domitable perseverance A pre 1 Easter morning thanked » inspiring sermon he had jus d, on the rgsurrec- tios He "I had my text Jit- ting in front a man in khak!, | with no empty He has had resurrections already He was by a shell explosion, and was dug out only: just in time 10 "save his life That was the first He | spent months in hospital, fighting his w back to health. That was the second "Doctoring ard id much for him; ypations that ache Vas for preach sald of me sleeve 1 two une. | buried A nursing of course so did the exercises they provide perhaps the best part of But the man himself his own resurrec- putting his own Now he is and occ nowadays the treatment was working out tion, by resolutely will-power into the task almost ready to go out into the world, says, than a better and abler man, he just he was before, in spite of his arm ° "While the rest of us -are thinking of a ressurrection beyor<d the grave, he has won a resurrection this side of it, to a life of activity and independence among his fellow-coun- trymen." Authentic cases resembling that are not rare in the records of the Military Hospitals Commission. Here are a few that have just been communicated to us A mechanic who enlisted in Princess Patricia's Regiment was wounded, returned to Canada, spent three months in a convalescent hos- pital, and now earns double his for- mer pay, having taken full advar- tage of the mechanical drawing and arithmetic carried on there { Writing to the hospital instructor, he says: . "When I enlisted, I was | abbut $3 a day at my trade. At pre- sent, and since my discharge from military service, I am, technically, a better man all around; I am atle now to hold a job as foreman ir. a ma- chine shop. with more than'twice the salary I was getting before. This benefit to me is greatly due to your practical information, and my only | regret is that I was uimrable, after my of that in of new from 9 the to the in and am- classes earning Settled | Thieving Officers fugees one hears liow each batch of German officers upied chateay what plunder they could from price- less furnishings of tapestries, pie- tures and bric-a-brac which their fancy Layer by layer the old chateau was denuded of evervthing fovalve till the lagi day came when the lyddite torch did ignoble work It is only the same as a hun- dred other things all over this coun try, but none seen them will fail to remember as the most, brutal outrage of all the vio- the tombs and wreckage Chateau of Caulaincourt In Vranges, although a church tot- tering still stands, each building, even the cottage, was sep arately burned remains but the From re successive who o¢ the took its of us who have lations of the poorest little bricks of the tall crucifix at the crossroads out- side the village. The ancient earth ramparts of Vermand enclose only of ruin Attily is non-existent St. Quentin looks reasonably but that is no indication be when it again French Reports through civilians say of the value were long eres vixo intact yet, of what it will houses the most off pleased Of Poeuilly nothing things of 4g0 removed from (Congressman Brown, Cape Vincent district, went to Washington | last Thursday and has since been | actively werking for a settlement of he trouble which has kept the Cape Vincent-Kingston boat from running. Transportation authorities have also taken the matter up through Ottawa asking for their action to Washing ton and it is now felt that an agree- ment will be arrived at shortly. The objection raised by the trans- portation people that of having to expend $5,000 on an immigration shed at Cape Vincent . The erection of this shed by the transportation company was called for by a clause in the bill introducing a head tax of $8, against aliens who entered the United States to take up residence. o. ine discharge, to continue instruction with you as you had advised." Another letter received from an ex-private inthe 13th Battalion. Be- fore enlistment, he was gettirg $12 a week as driver on a city milk round "I always had a liking for drawing." he says, "and felt that if ever I had the chance 1 would take up a course in mechanical drawing." This op- portunity came to him at one of the Commission's. convalescent hospitals After six weeks' application to the work there, he was able to secure an appointment witht a salary begirning at $75 a month, with good prospects of advancement. A locomotive fireman enlisted, was severely wounded, and had to have left arm amputated. Under the Commission's scheme of re-education, Which is offered to all men incapaci- tated for their former work by ser- vide, he received special training in telegraphy and railway routine. As a result, he secured an appointment as station agent and despatcher, at $110 a month Still another patient, mechanic, passed the Civil Service qualifying examination after instruc- tion in hospital, and has got a Cus- tom House position at $900 a year, rising to $1,500. is his DRIVEN OUT OF CAFE. Refused to Stand During Playing "The Star Spangled Banner." , New York, Aprill 24 An indica tion of the awakening of the spirit was observed in the early hours of myrning at the Ritz, a prominent uptown cafe known as a distinctly German-American gathering place. | Nearing the close of the performance the orchestra struck up the Star The audience rose formerly a)" \ \ \ oO J : WN The remaining sets of the "Handy Volume" Issue of the new Encyclopaedia Britannica, printed on genuine India paper, are so few that the last one will be sold before you can send for the descriptive literature, have time to read it, decide about buying and get your order back to us unless you sign and send the coupon TODAY. for one of the last sets You Must § Send This § Coupon TODAY For ten days we have been saying that after April 25th there would be no use in writing for information. Today is April 25th. 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The crowd ordered them to stand, but they refused, so they were order- ed out of the cafe by the proprietor, who is a German-American. hats ana hustled exit by several American sailors who Amid cheers the Some measure of disgrace ought to | three German sympathizers received be made personal to those respon- | their hats and coats thrown-to them A man who had been a guide and trapper, ard had never handled tools, returned from the front with one eye destroyed by a wound and the sight of the other eye impaired. In spite of all these old and new disabilities, by putting his mind to it he became a first-class carpenter after three months in the hospital workshop. Equally remarkable is the case of a Polish labourer. He came to Can- ada six years ago, and worked in a coal mine till he enlisted. At. _the front, he was both gassed and buried. 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