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Port Perry Star, 29 Nov 1928, p. 3

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7 'teers, some 40,000 men ass grown up since: SLY 4 Inia, echo Robert Borden offered to an expeditionary force for the of the empire? This ofter - was accepted by the British Govern- ment. In response to calls for volun- ~ presun Died of , Died, oth { ured ssassessensrnnsn 176,841 3,870 d 43,436 essrasrinns Trench/mortars sebennne Machine guns captured ...... 8,154 Enlisted in Canadian Expedi- dil y Force 619,636 bled in a few weeks at Valcartier, where land fad been purchased, cleared, drained and otherwise prepared for the agsem: ne au opgaiilsation of the oops. The mobilization scheme prepared in 1911 and revised later was ignored, but gradually the troops were formed. into units prior to sailing for Eng- land. This original contingent con- sisted of one division of infantry and one brigade of mounted troops, to- gether with* lines of communication units. <ia's Canadian Light Infantry was an independent unit, recruited throughout 'Canada. Surplus troops were organized into an additional--Fourth--brigade and also accompanied the force. The con- in the woods must be cooked in one _ tingent, with a total strength of 83,000, began to embark at Quebec on Sept. 22. The thirty-one transports gather- ed at: Gaspe Bay, whence they sailed on Oct. 8 with a naval escort pro- vided by the Admiralty. The contingent remained encamped at Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914-16, proved to be an ex- ceptionally wet one. The First Cana- dian Division proceeded to France in February, 1015, followed in May and June by the Cavalry Brigade (dis- mounted) and tte Motor Machine Gun Brigade. 'Meantime other units were being recruited in Cdnada and passed on to England. The Second Caandian Di- 'England in the The immortal Princess Patri-, How.Jo Keep Many TYPICAL CAMP KITCHEN O# THE DEER HUNTER Stove consists of a few rocks piled on the ground to form a fireplace and cooking utensils consist of tin pails and a' frying pan. What you eat part a did not proceed to France B and Sventually; in February, 1918, was brok and {ts 5 Number overseas from Canada..424,689 Served in France and other theatres of the war .......... 344,596 The principal battles in which Ca- N On the way over Cranberry Carry, N.S, where the heart of the moosebunting country is located. with the guide carrying the canoe and leading the way, near New Gratton, 'nadlan troops took part were as fol- lows: In 1915, Ypres, Festubert, Mount Sorrel; in 1916, Somme, in- cluding Thiepval, Ancre Heights and Ancre; in 1917, Arras, including Vimy Ridge, Arleux and the Scarpe, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Cambrai (cav- alry only), Saint-Quentin (cavalry only), Amiens; in 1918, the Scarpe, Drocourt-Queant line, the battles of the Hindenbure line (including Canal {au Nord and Cabral, 1918), Valen- | elennes, Sang and 'the pursuit to Mons. | In Sep far, 1918, a brigade of Sea Disaster Laid to Delay in Asking Aid number of passengers and crew had to fling themselves into the water. One man told of seeing the ship sink two minutes after he jumped from the {deck and there was a general feeling | that others may not have jumped in time and were carried down with the Captain Remained With Ship captain. in Accordance With Law | of Sea 2 New York. --T1 sank when only passengers and crew ed, after two boatloads of womanand children had been 1 rig into the sea, and while the rest wére leaping from the ship's sides and swimming fast lest they be dragged down with the foundering hulk. Survivers brought here declared that the traditions of the sea had been scrupulously observed as to giving first thought to women and children, and they told an appealing story of inadequate preparation for disaster. | The first two boats were filled with women and children--there were 37 women and 13 children on board-- and the crew started to lower away. Then the sinking ship lurched, the boats crashed against its side and women and children were tumbled into the waves. Reports ha all the éhildren peri: of the womery' wer Begl- to Vestris of its 328 launch- of the palls. artillery and some details were pro- vided from England for the North Russian front, divided between Arch- angel and Murmansk. In January, 1919, a force organized in Canada was sent to Siberia, consisting of two battalions of infantry, a battery of artillery and details; in all, 4,186 men. Four hospital units served in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles (Lemnos) and Sa- lonika, and a bridging company served in Palestine. Forty-one picked Cana- dian volunteers took part in the Bag- dad Mission, kno as the Dunster- force, and practically each man was detailed for an isolated mission in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea. -- ee Defence Against Failure There is no end to the sufficiency of character. It can afford to walt; it can do without what is called suec- it cannot but succeed. To a cipled man, existence is vie He defends himself| against his main design by making road to it right. and no obscurity the immensity of tills men; it is! althy; you can] } a man than he rest upon revolution that] It is not work th 'worry. Work isff hardly put more U ad but the fric-| h 23 Dut many of them bla n, who went down with hi Por indecision which they saw as principal reason for the large umber of fatalities believed to total night, they said, and its condition grew more serious steadily through- out Sunday, and yet no distress call fuing, and as a result no rescue were on the scene until many after the ship sank at 1.30 that noon. Nig Many persons declared that whe the captain did decide to aban' ship, shortly after the first SOS the tackle of the lifeboats was f to be faulty, It took hours to them, the ones with the women and children were crashed, and another was stove in and put away with a gaping hole in its side. Vessel Sank Suddenly Only two boats were successfully launched, although others broke loose as the ship sank and were caught by swimming survivors. 'The greater nd | o-ship began to list on Saturday was sent until the middle of Monday | ower | Of those who did get into the water and survive the actual sinking of the I ship, the majority of those eventually | "res cued were members of the crew, the greatest loss being among the passengers, This was thought to have some explanation in the theory that the crew were men accustomed to hard labor, more able to withstand the hardship of the long hors in the waves, and not to any general effort on the part of the crew to take posi- tions of comparative safety in the boats rightfully belonging by the law of the sea to the passengers. ------ a lB tess Knowledge is Power "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Does this not sugggfsts the reason why some Aare ppy and why all are not equall bpy? Many have been delinquen, fleveloping their minds and hea b entertain happiness. They kL ano time and no enthu- getting dom, for discov- YES, sls may be equally ATES olds more than the h, knowledge is power, but alone is not happiness. o spends all his time in powledge finds himself at d and standing still, with 'of happiness yet far is pleasure, often acute Pequiring wisdom. There happiness in kno ledge with- out agltion, Hhowledge withcut ac- tion 1% 1jke steam generated, but car- ried Foft on the bosom of the wind, ann ¥nessed and uncontrolled. It is slas od pri, ke blossom in the springtime, for the 'gnoment beautiful, but disap- pointing when no fruit appears.-- Daniel Poling. Hazards All desperate hazards courage do ~= oreaté, he plays frankly who has least estate; | PreNence of mind, and courage in dis- tress, Are ore than armies to procure sticcess. --Dryden. cme mena Blessings The private blessings--the bless- ings of immunity, safeguard, Hberty | and integrity--which we enjoy, deserve the thankfulness of a whole put who is lite.--J. Collier. Education 'What is the true purpose of educa- tion? To make plain to the young the laws of the life they wil} have to enter. For example, that lying won't do, thieving still less; that idleness will get punished; that if they are cowards the whole world will be against them; that if they will have their own way they must fight for it. --Arthur Hugh Clough. special League "Shop Talk" England Fears Commitinss are Active at Leae Newfoundl'd to S. .gue Headquarters--Man: Problems Being ved gated "bey at Although the Assembly of the League of Nations, which brings so many statesmen, journalists and ob- Servers from the four corners of the earth to Geneva, concluded its sittings some time ago, the Swiss city still hums wit hactivity, writes a corres pondent of "Interdependence," month- ly review of the League of Nations Soclety of Canada, published at Ottawa. Commissions committees, sub-committees and various bodies are constantly in session delving into vari- ous abstruse international problems' whose very character are generally so complex and technical that they: baffle the common lay observer. But not a little that is romantic and inter-' esting is buried beneath the mass of "shop-talk" that goes on. The difficulty of collecting taxes from the natives In Western .Bamoa and the work of the secret "Citizen Committee" busy broadcasting false and fantastic news, were described, for instance, to the Mandates Com- mission, to whom report the various nations under whose control various remote and uncivilized areas have been placed. A report upon his stew- ardship was also given to this body by Mr. Werth, Administrator of the territory of Southwest Africa. Rall- ways were functioning, the port of Walvis Bay has grown and prospered, and conditions have greatly improved, he sald. Hoping that the customs authorities of the countries of the world may be encouraged to call a spade a spade metaphorically--in all languages, a sub-committee of exeperts SOCCER IN ENGLAND, A HEAD GOAL Hufton, West Ham's goalle, couldn't stop Dean scoring for Everton at Upton Park. | | Books" Books are friends, and what friends they are! Their love is deep and un- changing; their patience inexhaust- ible; their gentleness perennial, their forbearance| unbounded; their sympathy without selfishness.-- | Langford. HR Ape. Anger To be in anger is impiety, the man who {3 not -- Shakespeare. angry? Recalling Happy Days-in the Wilds IN THE NORTH Woops "PLAYING HOUSEWIFE" : for washing a dishes, and there 1s plenty of it in the hunting dis- | facilitate commercial intercourse be- and | have been sitting in Geneva for some time. Thelr task is to study the ques- tion of the unification of customs no- menclature and bring about a simpli- fled system of tariff terms that will tween nations. The Committee of the Health Sec- tion forms a clearing house for infor- mation regarding every disease, plague or sickness that is affiliating any por- tion of the earth. An epidemic of dengue--also known as aedes aegypti --that is causing many deaths in Greece is at present under invsetiga- tion. Two other committees dealing with involved and highly technical matters are those investigating international economic relationships and double taxation and fiscal evasion. bit ning Daily Life The dally life into which people are born, and into which they are ab- sorbed before they are aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise and to break when the right time comes--when an Inward necessity for independent action arises, which is superior to all outward conven- tionalities.--Mrs. Gaskell. (Ruth.) ee meets Thankfulness There is this difference between a thankful and an unthankful man: the one is always pleased in the good he has done, and the other only in what he has received; but there are some men who are never thankful --A. Monod. ------ eit Nobility Englaad's fear that the recent New. foundland election may mean its an- nexation by the United States is sum- marized as follows in the current issue of " Pre A sufficient cause for Royal qualms was the Newfoundland Parliamentary Election of last week. Swept out of power was Conservative Prime Min- ister Frederick Alderdice; and swept in was Liberal Sir Richard Anderson Squires. . The "Liberality" of Sir Dichard is such that his principal Fenchman, Sir William Ford Coaker, has said: "The true destiny of Newfoundland, with her fisheries, her forests, and her | mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Tominion , of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. . . . At present if a refer- endum were taken on this subject it the whole electorate, not because New- foundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to comsider dollars and cents first. +++ Ten per i of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States. . . ." The avowed policy of Sir Richard Squires is to bring to Newfoundland both Canadian ®nd U.S. "dollars and cents," by fostering exploitation of the illimitable Labrador forests, whence comes most of tha pulpwood for Canadian and U.S. 2~ws organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Rich« ord is perfectly willing that the La- brador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada--for a suf. ficiently stiff price. But the exceading. ly harmonlous relations existing be. tween him and the Internatinal Paper Co, with headquarters in Manhattan, suggest that Sir Richard thinks .a stiffer price ean be got from Wall St, The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U.S, Is prob. ably a mere advance guard of publie. ity to prepare Newfoundlanders for U.S. dollar penetration, The recent political upset Is un. questionably attributable to the d@e- pressed condition of Newfoundland fisheries and other industries, The electorate, disgruntled, has elearly been swept to the support of Sie Richard Squires by his clevas "dollars and cents" campaign, Devout Report Recent Miracles in Many Countries Superantural Manifestations Proclaimed in France, Germany and Mexico Some people think the age of mira. cle is past, but there are plenty of others, says "The Pathfinder," in al] parts of the world who are preelaim- ing "miracles" every little while, Mexico, with her religious troubles, seems to be a leader in the matter, On a report that the country's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, had appeared to some Indian workers in a field near the town of Mexicalcinge \such crowds surged over the place, de. stroying crops and property, that feds eral troops had to be called to restrain them, Another report that the patron saint had appeared on the tp of @ hill in the town of Guadalupe Hidalge and had left her image on a great rock caused hundreds. of wemen earry- ing flowers and candles to visit the place, Blasting was going on, buf that did ret deter them, They had to be forcibly removed before the wvecka were blown up, France, too, more recently has had her supernatural visitations, Near the little town ef Remirmont a peasant girl declared that the Virgin Mary appeared to her on the edge of a ¢ and told her to return to the place every day and pray, promising a miss acle, Marcelle returned to the sped day after day and prayed and stated that the vision was regularly repeat. ed, The spet was reped off and the girl was followed by crowds hoping te peo the miracle, It was in a very simw ilar manner that Lourdes, world: ptart in the last century, Germany, too, last year had hes supernatural manifestation in the per. son of a girl with stigmata--bleeding spots on the body corresponding to the wounds on the body of Christ. Crowds flocked from far and near te seo hem, Bupernatural revelation, of cou are by no means limited to Christians, Over in a tropical Hawaiian island certain large stone became accredited with the power to produce miraculous cures. Many natives, Japanese and Chinese, visited it, knelt and prayed petors it and made offerings te it. It bade fair to rival the black stone at Mecca, Content and Discontent Contentment furnishes constant joy. Much covetousu®ss, constant grief. To the contented, even poverty is joy. To he discontented, even wealth Is & vexation.--Ming Sum Paou Keen, Anything in any wise beautiful or noble, owes the beauty to itself, and with itself its beauy ends; forms no part of it. . . . needs no addition, any law, or truth, or kindness, or respect.--Marcus Aurelius, would carry by a 76 per cent. vote of famous as a healing place, got ita :

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