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Port Perry Star, 17 Nov 1927, p. 7

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BREAKS TOWLINE. . Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 13--A barge which broke loose from its tug yester- | day in the storm which swept down on ke Ontario from the west, and a cvustivard lifehont, 'which put out to aid the barge, were safe in port to- night. ~ 5 Answer Honor fl With Honor "Our Enemics Broke It{ Our 40." Crew Luckily Escape in Lif So Boat as' "Wacouta™ ae Sank. | GALES GENERAL + Sault Ste. Mase, Ont, Nov, 18. This lecal passenger and freight steam- er Wacoyta, which plied between the Soo and Bruce Mines, was sunk' if from 30 to 85 feet of water in the line of traffic in Wilson channel, 200 or Tl ou fon the Richards anding ng the blizzard on! 3 i * States © St. Ma's River early ay sw | Feri es Rev. afternoon. The Wacouta had just un- «A Comeron at loaded its six pussengers at the land-| Christie Street Service ing and was tryi ke : on g , hata maka sur in) "Our enemies broke their contract when her cargo of 85 or 40 barrels of ith uma, sou ert $8 ud Jon 'and oil and other frei K Hav. w. Saspline al came an og A. Cameron in his address si the tho hat "to'sink. A life- in, Chips. us Ee only way the dead, the ling and the rn is to Temer hat we must alt. 8nawer honor with honor, unselfish nees with unselfishness, sacrifice with Unless we intend to 'do like that a service like this more or less than a farce; stop building 'war memorials, us stop. putting the names of 1s ey 9 ons! Jabjets. 4 We ( intend to keep faith, the the roughest trips in its history. [Best thing we can do-is to bury our _. The waves in Lake Superior were run- | dead so deeply that they can't come ning 30 feet Mfgh, according to mate back to disturb and haunt us." The 1 Fred Logan, of Collingwood, who said legacy of the dead was both a memor- it was the most hazardous trip he had jal and a mandate, said Capt. Cam- ever undertaken. The boat was blown 'eron, - ; hospital "auditorium = was on io rovks in St Mares River, near| The the Government dock, and was releas- thronged to capaci for the service, ad three hours' strenuous "work | which 0 yo Te o'clock. of the Lakes Towing | Along: 'and back walls were lined Co; 8 or 'doors were stove the wheel chairs of severely disabled in, and and old curved stairway in'men, and for those unable to leave 'the stern of: the boat was blown to their beds to share in the service with matehwood, The steamer Manitoba "and for 'their comrades, it was broad- also reports a strenueus trip on her cast through the wards, - re r-- nian, of the Soo, got away in safety. : The boat sank in five minutes. di fice: : © LINER ALBERTA DAMAGED. |iomething The C.P.R. passenger liner Alberta' arrived at the Government dock last 'and let night in a damaged condition from those % pI William, after experiencing one | Canadian Engihéers Ha | ed to become the most remarkable re- | arrive, it occurred to the Canddian ing to try to locate the famous Grange 'a year, and it is not yet completed. {build the trenches, preserve the dug: | outs, and make the Grange Tunne] a of Line ve Discove the Only Portion left | Intact of all the Battle Fields 'Along the : = Vat wp Western Front: 6 as a Permanent Memorial ae ee s------ » ~~ MOVING SIGHT SH 3 x _ By "A Canadian in France" Vimy Ridge, Monday, Oct. 17 Thousands of 'former: soldiers are visiting the battlefields of France and Belgiuti in the hope of finding trenches, dug-outs, or the exaet_spot where they received thelr "blighties." In the Ypres Salient they see no- thing but flourishing fields of corn; flax, oats, and barley. There !s not a trench left in Belgium except an Tew doubtful examples on Hill 60. - In France the scars of war are mors visible, but a strenuous peasantry has filled the shell *holes and bas rebuilt! Its farms on the frcut line. It is amazing how-swiftly the plough and the buflding ecentractor have wiped out all traces of war, Sniper's Post I foudd to-day the. only spot In municating passages were covered with n, . carved In the chalk or (Written in pengfl and as legible as When they wer® inscribed during the great battle of Arras, -The maple leaf of Canada was carved "with an original variety in a hundred differ- ent places, and on the walls I read at random such inscriptions as these: -- 108234, James Burton, A Com: pany, the Royal Canadian Regi- ment, May 8, 1917. Still allve and kicking. 670080. W. J. Auchincloss, A Company, Royal Canadian Regi ment, May 8, 1917. Untouched by whizz-bangh ag yet, I' canuot describe the feelings with which a man in these days ap- proaches the ini€riptions written be- France whers a man.can feel that he low the earth of the Arras sactor. In is back again in 1914-1918; where, thelr cheery nalvéte we who have sur- Le can stand at a sniper's post and fit | vived and can look back on 1917 with the rotted butt of a rusted rifle to his the calm unconcern of historians, shoulder as he peeps out between seem touch hands once more with 'the bushes towards the German these Canadian boys who, ten years trenches. The'wire is still up in "No ago, crouched In thesa chalk dug-outs, mans Land," duck Poards lle in the still "alive and kicking," still "up. trenches, officers' beds, rotting and touched by = whiszbangs," joking, collapsed, still Ite in the chalk dug- laughing, walting, quite. unconscious outs. b Hhat they were carving not only their Hundreds of names and many mess: names, but also history. * ages are written on the chalk in in- Headquarters delible pencil, as fresh as when they | We walked for about half-a mile, were written ten years age Mi going deeper into Grange subway, un- bombs With the pins: in them repose ti \o came to battalion rsa. on 'ledges, "cans: of bully beef, tn', iy. "way of a dark, damp. chalk 'hats--all' the familiar debris of those | 1 niher. which had been used as an sad days--are to be seen as they were | jm...' pegy duciug the Canadian left. ¥, erdvance on Vimy, were carved the This amazing spot is the Tamous ; 111, wing HAWES: - + - Suangs Tuapel. on Vuuy ind which Major. HeCaanal: Major Callins, dian Battlefield. Memorial Commis: » Lietutenant ott, ; eutenant Jamieson, Lieutenant H. Cook, May Sion | 100s to be preserved tor the}, 4" 000 "ot on Ceiian benefit of posterity as a kind of text- B C HE y book on trench warfare, and is destin. ompany}, In a little carved shield were the words, "Dick Swift." We stood there, lighting matches in the dark, wondering what, had hap- pened to these men, wondering | Whether they still live somewhere at home in Canada, or whether they fell on. Vimy Ridge, No matter wheather they are allve or dead, their person- alities live beneath the soil of France fo vividly that one expects to meet them 'round the next: corner, While we were going on towards Mine Shaft, which' the Canadians idrove beneath the enemy lines, my foot kicked a smcM object. It wag a tin of bully beef! It had been lic of the war. Living Memorial The project began & year ago as a | sideline to the Canadian memorial on Vimy Ridge, which will not be completed until 1981, The stone for this stupendous shrine comes from the ancient Roman quarries round the 'Bay of Spalato in Dalmatia, lo waiting for supplies of this stone to engineerssthat it might be interest Labyrinth---~the miles 'of underground passages which 'the Canadians pushed' out to within a few. yards of tHe gnaned, but it had not been eaten, enemy's lines. ana it was ten .years old! 1 leave to Map references were taken, and the ihe imagination of any man who entrance tothe tunnel was discover yw... what bully beef was lle when ed choked up with brushwood. 'The .omparatively young ' to judge how this 'specimen looked and smelt. work of clearing the tunnel has taken "See thisY' said Captain Simpson, holding up a queer grey slab. It | Was gun cotton, stamped 1916, . | "Down there; about 100 feet below -our present level," he said, 'we found The trenches have a dump of Mills bombs and also that Sacks of TNT. We have removed rol a at fhe reverently." - y : In the amazing collection of names remain; the duck So interesting were the discoveries that the commission decided to re- yermanent sight. Brn, | written on the walls I came. across AL vo which roused by curiosity. They were: | © Ship No. 7,129, 1st Section, 7th Division, U.8.M.C., Texas Leather |'Neck Corps, } : 2nd Class, _ Ship No. 3,112, @. Fl U.8.8., Sara- | back into the flames | handicapped by a broken leg | unable to mount the windo ~. | upper room from whic {from the fire after she had dropped A We seem to see again In the long '| chalk™ 'passages _ those fight for his 1if ) and was, w sill in an h 'he had pre on wife to save her oe viously pushed his their baby from the window" into a 'blanket being held. for it, The baby was not' injured and the mother's in- juries were slight. 1 Cavalry Brigade, Here in this dark tunnel, and here only, do we seem to meet the men who fought and dled. Here only do and most touching ern front. Engineering Feat well-known | During the early months of 1917 faces; here only can we read thelr signatures--no doubt in many cases thelr last written ' words--written with the indelible pencils with which thoy wrote their letters home. Canada bas, with splendid and cha- racteristic foresight, carved a shrine which 'is sacred not only to her army, but - also to all the Allles. Here British, French, and Belgians will gather In 'years to come and say: "This is how our men lived during the great war" The Grange Tun- nel is, and always will be, the greatest The Final Session Oriental Question Before Con- ference of Premiers at the Closing Session, But Was Subjected to Censor- ad to afd Canadian troops for the attack on Vimy Ridge. The largest was the Grange Tuuuel, bullt mainly by the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Grauge Tunnel had three exists for the troops, and constant streams of «men, wounded and wnwounded, pass: |ed through it during the battle, minimum depth was twenty-five feet, it had electric light and a water sup- ply, and there were numerous dug- outs, dressing stations, and ammunk tion dumps, imperial and other reasons the dis- cussion so far as it went, should not be broadcast. Little else was said about it, and of course, no resolution was adopted, but the case was present- ed forcibly and seemed to create con- siderable impression. ship the conference, only Megsrs. Bracken and Baxter remained here to-day, Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 11.--One feature ' though other ministers are staying. of the concluding session of the Do*! Premietw McLean and Brownlee, who minion-intsrprovincial conference last are making side trips, will return to ovening was subjected to censorship the city before going home. Theyare | and cut out of the Federal announce-! scheduled in the next few days to have ment. . It was the discussion initiated an interview with the .Minister of iby Hon. A. M. Manson, Atlorney-Gen-| Railways respecting the development eral of British Columbia, regarding of the Peace River district. | the Oriental question. pe Mr. Manson, who was instrumental 2 2 in'having the subject placed on wel Heifetz Rejects $3,750 for a agenda, took very strong ground in 8 favor of Oriental exclusion. He gave, News comes that Jascha Helfstz, statistics to show how tha Oriental | the violinist, because of comcort con- population is increasing in British | tract restrictions, turned down $3,760 Columbia owing to the fertility of the ' offered him by the Broadcasting Com- race and how the number of these pany of Australia, for a microphone | children attending the schools is only appearance of twenty minutes at Sta- | 8 Sampatutively ual distance in) tion JLo, Metpourne. white pupils, r. Manson stre ,| Whereupon a listener wrote: "If | particularly, the danger of inter-racial SLO can afford to pay Heifetz a big marriages, stating that, if something fee to broadcast, why can't they af- were not done, that would soon become | ford to give us better artists than a great problem. Already it has miadejihey do?" | ! | its appearance with white and Orien-! "Complaints are made of monot- tals going to school together and the ony," was the station's rejofnder, "but latter speaking perfect English and | no sooner does 3LO determine to acquiring English customs, it was | meet criticism of musical starvations readily conceivable = how relations | by such a succulent dish as one of the might develop that would later lead to j8reatest violinists in the world than marriage. From such alliances would ; back comes a 8tene, and a stentorian be an issue of a kind that would ser- yell of 'Give us dur old friends, but iously 'affect the social structure of Pay them more ahd they'll sing bet the province. ter,' as if a singer sang mezzo voce The general effect of Mr, Manson's | for a guinea and fostissimo for-two." argument was for the banning of | font, ny eed Orientals and the maintenance of a| All that stands between the col white British Columbia. lege graduate and the top of the lad- Some view was expressed that for der is the ladder. "If It Could Have Been! Cochrane | Matheson : royed, to two couples married on Christmas Capt. Bull left Canada in late 1916 with the 170th Batt, of Toronto, and again served in France with the sight on the west- Ity Of the nine premiers who attended eleven large subways were construct |' the concentration of the + A Fins Trophy From the hunting grounds of northern Quebec's forests. ein sme Carol Conspiracy To Be Laid Bare Ex-Finance Minister on Trial for Share in Plot Bucharest, Roumania. -- Former Crown Prince Carol's effort for the restoration of his rights to the Rou- manian throne will be laid bare dur- ing the coming weeks so far as the Roumanian Government can do so. Former Under-Secretary of Finance M. Manoilescu went on trial on "Wed- nesday before a court-martial charged | with conspiracy to bring Carol back to Roumania to replace the little King Michael, his six-year-old son, Seemingly all Bucharest clamored around the little whitewashed court- room when proceedings opened, and within ita walls were more than a hundred able lawyers willing and ready to defend the accused official. The colonel, two majors and two cap- tains comprising the court-martial ap- peared. somewhat overwhelmed at this vast array of legal talent. On his part, Manoilescu appeared blithe and debon- air, with no conscious display of fear at the outcome. The documents seized at the time of Manoilescu's arrest, including letters written by the former Crown Prince, which it fs the intention of the prose- cution to submit as evidence, are held in abeyance, for the entire time was given over to arguments by the de- fenco that the court-martial had ne jurisdiction, that it was not competent to proceed with the case, because mar- tial law had been decreed only for the period of war, The members of the court rejected this plea, and the court adjourned after the defence had announced its intention to challenge the court's com- petence on the ground that the crime for which the defendant is about to be tried was committed on foreign soil, and that the defendant was arrested in a district not under the jurisdictio of the court-martial. : Per to bring Carol from Paris as a witness will be asked by the defence, but it will probably be refused. Who Owns Them? Mysterious Diamond Deal With Russian 'Govern- ment Revealed London.--A mysterious $2,000,000 diamond transaction between the Rus« plan government and Bolly Joel, dia. mond king of South Africa, was re- 'vealed "In court proceedings here. Au alleged representative of Joel seeks to recover a share of his coms | mission in the purchase of Russian Jewels, to the testimony of Cape Acool tain J. D, Cohn, prominent race horse: owner and Col. Wm. Hill, they went to Reval and purchased jewels of fm. mense value in behalf of the diamond king from a representative of the

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