HOW THE CANADIANS STOPPED THE HUNS | AT THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES Pratt Se last of the Bloody, Battle Battle of St. Julien Where Do- s Won Ia Datenes ishable Fame in Their Gallant the Road to Calais. [Sergeant B. Outhet, of the pAb description of the secur battle below, enliste Fifth Canadian among the ps to reacl ae inglan' Ypres in July, 1916, he was sent home suffering from shell shock. Out o the driginal 144 men in the battery only twelve were lett Twill never forget marching through lace at we wi pies (open sights: cern ridge in the distance, while our guns were popping away like machine guns. We could clearly see our shells burst- e third: battle of) ing among driving them f | until dark, every minute expecting to a wes 4 o'clock that same afternoot re firing at 400 yard cena gest ‘mans eaead fae as them, scattering them and back. We kept this up ave our ns. y evening, April 25, saw us Ypres to ike pla St. Julien, | again ‘in the saddle waiting for dark- which eo then the head of the sa-| ness to screen our movements while lent. a glorious day in the| we took up a new Soest: about half was ahi ‘ April, 1915, Business was as usual in the city and the fanabitants turne ations oe dropped into Ypr a Deautiful city tien, fe its gifeent churth’ and susolh a8 Tesldences, Byt what a year later, when we were de- talled to tare up 8 postion jn front ot Ypres again. Not a s left peiaiskr ovargintue-wid gation ane “the shells were att dropping, ie ones my's a to their atten “Ypres oxpresses.” Sudden Bombardment Begins. sag Basnbitt or suns Were in position at Julien; the horse and wagon lines at Wiltje, a hamlet between St. Jean and The distance from the guns to the horse lines was about one and one-half miles. Hverything went along smoothly until the evening of April 22, baa 5 oclock. eated at supper, when all at once a arrigd bombardment com- menced. In the distance we could see rolling he reen smoke ng tl ground motiiert tke Ca whist it was at first, and whil e@ wel watching it the Huns commenced shelling ery ad, ammunition dumps and horse lines. Very shortly the Turcos, wha ere holding the Nikon apuedate oo menced coming through ae horse 01 lines in twos and threes, some hel ing along a comrade, and tor, asec) ras if they were scared to it pons @ regular pe ay rer oe where they were retiring. We thought they had ‘cold feet’ and were running dians, but we soon pee de fsa re taken we were a tae a ges officer who was wounded in the arm came along and told a that the Germans were putting over a poison stoke and that the Turcos were lying dead in thousands in the trenches. About 8 tire. All this time the rifles and ma- chine guns as well as the artillery were banging away. The sides of the ¥ were covered with am. we got go r the same Raa ant take up ee same 6 Bastion had we got into Rein the morning of April 24 our range was 2,100 yards—quite a drop from 3,50 it, a8 you will see, dropped a good bit more before we re- ae out of that hole. ere standing to, ready to timber joe eN amy necessary, the horses being saddled and hooked to the limbers, @ peculiar thing happen- ed which wou! Ig We hare un- Jes actually s Strange to say, not a mi not even scratched, but ali that was | left of the near horse was his head! and shoulders Only a Preliminary Calm. it night Was a little quieter, but it was only the calm before the storm, o'clock we got orders to re-| “* a mile in front of Ypres ident Rear ‘that ater ani which will serve to show the hai readth escapes that happen on the battlefield. Our draught horses were hooked to the ammunition wagons ready to take the ammunition to the guns. The men all slept underneath the wagons. ‘Per- jot understand urst among enone attached to the Spine battery wagon, fous outright and wounding y that a was later obliged But strange to say, eis gh for us, and w i ogindite our hivwen acd eeapennitice ie the garden of an Ypres banker. Stabled Horses in : paler med a shame ourselves a grape vines and tearing the con- by any means shell p ‘The gun. the muzzle of the gun, killing wounding th Lapte setting fuses. 6 Boches had been ing to sora our guns irplanes. At last they succeeded, and then it became hot. For two or very busily tr; what they had been previou: again pee ‘a Agog the Boches made an- other Kk. ‘This peels for the first time, and never will I foi get the tanner) vee of the Sikhs, Gurkhas and Lancers march- ing past, penny is es cis the nt. Charge of the Indians. il these troops were fitted ou as well as a ton curved knife called the "ek, ssh ee ti us, chant were ‘© considered as brave as any troop: in the world when it comes to makin, a charge and fighting at Bhore ssa ‘They cannot endure shell fire, no: are They cannot be persuaded to shells screaming over their h ‘They want to be up and doi I learned the kukims with the right. A Narrow Escape. nm times the number of guns we had you can imagine what e went through. uw Canadians ‘lost about 18,000 ten out of a total a4 30,- 000 all told ate very materially help- he Germans from petting tion, and the last time, cake at dusk, 1 se ied a pretty tight we lis started dropping all Pot us and the fleld was soon full ate Asner beautiful pet breaking ervatory all to pieces; as a matter h ping him up ot tact, we placed some of our horses }the back with aurora He crawled in the conservatory; it was the only| to the ditch, and in his sects and thing to do. We dug a large number | Wounded condition he was unable to les. The men slept in these| attract the attention of ee rhe ant, holes, resembling graves, ee just | buance drivers. While he was lying large enough for o1 n. We placed , there another shell huris cS and old lumber on th Pa covered | #dded to his injuries. them over with about three feet of | Picked up, and he found ‘himself eight r dirt. This was bad i Seine but not t mete abet 7 o'clock we got the first direct hit on B section The shell burst directly over tj ed slleae times since one gunner who happened to be on his lous to this by the aid of ‘hree days things went along rather fitetty spared. with Then uated for trench fehting. stand still doing\nothing while apes a ing. From an eye witness of this charge that they no sooner got to the front line trenches than they went vers and bayonets to fall from them and throwing away their rifles. All a ve is they had to depend upon, and ‘ich ee a pe Sena ae 3. They went through es ae mans like a pack o! ets, and time they swung oe baka: "ot charge 1 met about two thousand of foreign lands— them coming back ‘er e ‘me | Uneasy is, so Pilate when they wend route. The majority of them had the| Their way to him again: “My hap- left hand bound up in bandages, ani less hands Il were sh 1 and appeared to be | Fate still doth lead! Ah! must I then quite-happy. I found out afterward decide thet they had caugh eneniy’s | What to this wondrous stranger shall bayonets with the left hand and used betide?” The next day the Huns came back mander of the Belgian The Com ee like a rainbow across his tie Belgian Arm: chest, ie toe anew aig Liege, taking the salute of the 3rd Battalion veterans as they entered ‘ity. ff holes. A shell burst about twenty bed in aoe of us, killing the eee Lh Which w: abowt ten ate to the left of the ae hors You can imagine what happened 8 tee at. a fh dese your horse inder—you go sling oe ie ae » Luckily I had 0 bones broken in the fall. Shells were dropping-and bursting all around ceived a x from a nurse in one of the Hospitals cP Land the Ragl aies was there, d, doing ea while riding Jong a shell had killing his horse and ri pans later is still carrying three bullets in his body. By the way, ms ees Serres) ‘aptain now, and has been wo The next day I got a shrapnel bullet rse it made me limp around eh a while, but it was not a hospital c; couple a Pinte my leg was a alate stiff, but I was able with aes os quired attention. One af 3 o'clock the Huns shelle@ us out of our garden; they had eedehy lo- cated us by eens. for they simply about thisky horses and five men, ing an ammuniti own to pieces. got that about ten horses were killed out- right. By this sg ihe Segue Lee niet of : | stopped ‘ond bat! Ypres was pranealyy 2 over. Evasion. (“Pilate he sac unto Herod." St. As ee a Teed ae ich baying dogs re- ard maketh an opening, and is soon So Pilate thought. “Good Iuck! this Sica ese ign te Skreet ob In Salem's Used and then, with elgned ri oraered theta inher, for he doubt- Er But his fictitious peace full soon was marred. As one who meets by chance an in- jured friend— One he had’ hoped dwelt still in Alexander Louis Fraser. a Ses How to Keep a Velvet Dress. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. end hile we were hastily aajartne our horses, but we managed to Scotia. evar successfully without mailte Sean itaty see eee Th the midst of our duel with the| Sarded to Captain’ J. Laing, "7th enemy an 8 Os ea Serie Sie Botta Borers son*of Mrs. J. to r ammunition. fe Parent Mae He iia corporal was ‘the. aitry Medal has been Bot ready a8 soon as the divers were, awarded Lance-Corporal Colin 0 I took the wagons up while he rode | Haxton, . Glasgow Highlanders, He the column. That’was the last I Ba saw of him, for he never came back| Lie A. Elder, Canadians, to us. who died ‘ot naeie was a’ grandson About no weeks afterward we re- of the Rev. Ne ew T; The deat one of artists. of — The it | awarded to Lieut. Henry presented tion Green The deat funds of diers’ and ton. he Ins' Shipbuilde ided to Ther eee result of What fs Going On in the Highlands Paisley Red Cx 1918 was nearly gier, Morocco, of the Five guns captured from the Ger. Lanarkshire for the funds of the Red Cr ‘ohn Stirling Maxwell las: van of Thomas time served on Lavery Jasgow corporation his painting Shipbuilding on the Clyde. as been a big patie i : = <The DSi Lieut. James Clouston, MM, a ks —— Lowlands of Auld th is eee at Tai best-known of Scottish] , Ha mie on m exhibition A Tribute to the Memory or. r.the Brave. Boys of Co.’s red and “py | “The Fighting Third.” Shine April sun, blow April breeze, —O'er the fields ‘Where the wai For a nation’s ee of Flanders r-god’s st, a1 trodden wine-press trampled out, { and d of our sons in their fair Race We Fall softly, showers, along Where friend an But softly, too, w! pat dead lie Sioee: ae their ir common gi the rift: are common du last. ee Rl oe @ common t! e gap lay wide for a thousand pte pports are coming, but 1 Tee wen’ hold till then.’ ” “We're holding nicely,” the major said, The shriek of the shraj . To hold the line lest the enemy pass. And how they held + zit to the foe, ater of two. “long days, “The thin line” aes antl they knew, They stood with Death in that bloody Danek Wounded and spent the ee limped, Bel From man to man of the d row— “Your bayonets, boys, let a ir ais like men, Back to back with our face to the foe! “Remember ou boys fait ve got to avenge, “Brave Bill ‘Al, And the British troops pile, must come w) God grant they do e’en the r ‘Mado’ and ‘Med’; y find us dead.” And brave lads fell as brave men should, ” Though the Huns.in hordes opposed them so, And “Somewhere in France” the eee bei eee And somewhere at home 0 a the as ae ’ companies quite wips Some wounded and minsiag—sost of. ian dead.” Low lay the shadows o’er all the 1 The smoke of guns, where fan our dead lie slain, Though the noises quicken, the shadows shift Into blacker shadows, they See! Now comes the dawn! now must li the East is alight o'er Judea’s plain. To the land of graves, watch and wait. back the stone ‘0 longer alone— Welcome our heroes returning in state. mument in Hill Head school who hays ie res supreme sacrifice in the war. During the Scottish Red Cross week nearly £50,000 was raised in rs. William McConnell, | secontly celebrated has to the Glasgow corpora- bank Parl th is announced from P. Logan, who at one the Govan Parish cei mance given in Hengler's| co d £665 for the cot Sailors’ Hostel at Newing- a i titution of Engineers iss th rs in Scotland have ive the “James Watt” year. has presented to famous | ©” th of fruits in Glasgow increased shipm 0. has been aad to well- ade officer of Leith. History Scholarship of Corpus Chris- ti ee Megs ly — Countess of years na gor, s ae greaer, Swareender Pane vad, Bites syatded to Lieut. Alex. W. Go.) bur t.-Col. W. E. T. Chri ported “dead in tanstien: was. five times mentioned in despatches, re- eae Soldier Brothers Survive War. ond Contemptibles,” one five times in the lists, and one was in two aeroplane “crashes?-—all__ eight fevered without loss of life or limb. club. of nurses from overseas minions and Americans was recent- opened in Soe by the Dow- e death took Pisce recently at Dambmann, : In ihe: latest list of V.C.’s is the me ot oe Das pare Sear avid Mi ‘The Military Cross has” been ‘David son, an the Rey. A. P, Davidson, Edin- sae Christie, re- five ived ae mee in 1917, and the BE. Ser; a Se hs Cooper McLean, Roy- Scots Pusiliers, has been awarded he Croix de Ne: of the Order of ie Golden ost fortunate family qwar re- vd is that astenaing to the credit of e eight sons of Mr, J. Broome, egaate (Rutrey): hatchery m have participated in t fought battles among the e es has figure official casualty pri Although STREET CRIES OF OLD LONDON Flower Girl is Most Flourishing of All the Vendors of the Curbs. Ithough most of ie cries of Lon- don are tices hawkers” ans es forth have definitely betaken them- e shop, some writes an English writer. of the anv nin may 8 m the first uf October ey first ne March. The ordge ells oranges outside Drury ie and the umbrella pile may a be found plying his cra‘t in some luded corne! cat the city. The most ng ofS the old callags, Gowen tndovitedls thn: of the ower girl, he most, Populus place for “4 ubtedly Hie Circus, a the se Seon soup thems ves round the tesbury memorial foun- tain, one preservi special pitch, and Sealine oF thee di leges of a Piccadilly Cire very ote at "the Londoner gets his first pring. ~ Dat ol, Steitacrpial nareissi, viola s, in March; lat tid seallfjowéra.; then car Of Jutetand Oitough the ber, e to, rasenaes of short November ays. Les Se eee A teakettle is a true optimist. Even when it is up to its neck in hot water it keeps singing away. at s again. Every one was kept deal be ‘oid obtaining and delivering ammunition weit, im velvet garments by hang- | to the guns. That d up |4p& carefully when they are!not in to the even times with ammuni- | USe- fen os ahi they swing | a at walls and and shelves, | that 1 no hier pte touch | had un toate, “ine last = Eheis a ery weight will often | ose rae shells and had just got on | Pull smooth their wrinkled surface and | danger | their freedoni from contact with any: thing will keep them froni getting new! wrinkles, about ar 000,000! An elaborate system of and cross PL EROADSTAIRS x ICHBSROUGH ~HARGOUR oF Daa TRAIN PERRY WAL NBR CALAIS, Zp TUNNELS NORE eave Dae ies %j iy! Baring England to France in 45 Minutes by Proposed New Tunnel Under now been revived at the Ministry of Ways and-Communications in Channel Tunnel scheme, mn the English shores. e cost nn ould be built at 600 which bi England, will enable passengers to be carried to by -- CowRse on TRAN FERRY BETWEEN EVOLANO AND FRANCE 2) STRAITS of Dover cS Ts fer France from Bngland in 45 it of the tunnel, which would take teet intervals. drawing ‘our or. fiy drainage would remove water that mile Parscliih into the font: clearly explains the proposed English Channel eel ate Paris would be but six ars to build, would be els Ww tunn: gush voila indged he the greatest and fastest method of transportation of men and materials between upland ind France and would be alike of inestimable value in peace or war. a . wee SP 6 om % BY ey AMES! U ‘kL SEND FOR NGER-AN' STEAL AW, MIS CLOTHES} LAST A ROLLIN’ -Bint {OMES IN HANDY FER. ill. ME» THERE'S THE BELL NOw- AT. RING FOR MESSENGER, SIR? \ j| asked that oi be able for the protection e er ON)! mat mn NEWS BY MAIL AnOUT JOHN. BULL AND HIS PEOPLE ae . Occurrences in the Lung That Reigns- Supreme in the Commers lat World. Many large mines were destroyed. off Ramsgate Bat the explosions badly shaking the The Chelmsford Town “Councti have cecided to buy a farm near the town. tl thousand six hundre; three cattle exported from Teelba reat Britaii me re is a plague of rats at New. Monmouth, atid professional =e aise have been appointed by the corporatio: e Mortimer and Washington Singer, Abingdon, as £80,000 in turning 8, Tesidence into a Red G. C. neat vicar, and Rev. M. 3 ers, curate of All Saints’ Church, carey eo have each won the Military Cro: Th le res “Bray, Berkshire, have protested to te Couneil azalnit the burial of erman officers in. Cleverien etiatirs: 5 ie death has cane place. at AR of Thomas James Baker, born in a ey shop, Pic- rie 106 years ago. i 8 British Columbia, on sg graves of Canadians at Folkeston sO} istice Ag enes in ‘lm: in Lon. don Sree: taken by derppland too aue ‘rom ia ndon. Arm which had been removed from the Tower of London during the war has been returned to the Armor- ORAical Se its and Lady Beat- = were giv using welcome when they cothatee to their home at: Beaty. ant Leicestershire. one thousand ee we haps “oe ee bie nae were entei ae Sorineseld 1 Hall, Wandeocea: yOu Many horses are being sold by auction at the Army Remount Depot, pea and are realizing from $50. to The Sanat ot West Sussex have: low flying of aeroplanes of The King has told the Football As- sociation that he hopes it will not be efore nal. game is School, Aston, has of the old boys a huni and fifty British ship-masters attended a “Victory Dinner” for the British Mercantile Marine st the Station Hotel, Liver- fhe King of the Belgians has cre- ed R. Cross, stationmaster at Til- y, a Chevalier of the Order of ee IL. for kindness to his sub- Spiess of the late Charles Froh- oh who los! of the Lusitania, are rotting ing pieh tain at a morial, ‘A woman applied for a fresh bal- lot paper at a Liverpool polling booth as her child had chewed up the first iven ‘i It sting Westminster City Cae ‘nearly £600 to dismantle the aid shelters and remove direction Grosvenor mally opened siktibe centre for ae House, Jin te en thousand British red and sicieaed to oe yunee 1917, and the One hondred and twanty boys from the London Police Miss fava been fighting at ie pee ane ‘© have won the V.C. tee eet The Story of the Bristle, Art of Brush Making Has Reached a High State of Perfection. da few hogs live long enough e of hog- In Canat to reach even the middle aj dom; while still young they become por acon, hi nd tend: in the process they shed: their bristles, ‘They sed as curled att ee ‘lling pers mobile cushions, The people of” Russta are the true epieures of the world in rogard to pork, which, to be truly appetizing, must be three or four years ng. Hogs of that age produce the best ee in the world for hair brushes 4 for paint, varnish and calcimine. orisha: Russia stiff, elastic bristles that are exrteme- jy le. Northern Germany fur- pane bristles anand to those of Rus: e grow shorter ha finer bristles of splendid quality, They are the kinds used in tooth brushes and in artists’ brushes. Of. late years brush manufacturers have gone to China for immense quantities of bristles, Before the bristios are put into the brushes they receive much attention from fa) brush makers, hing with 5 Seer brani sorting colors and aun ing lengths a mat 4 get etiehiees are som state of perfection; thero exactly adapted to all sorts of pur- of them, © com) manufacture and the diffloulty of ob- taining hated discourage others from going into the business. ~ [NEWS FROMENGLAND- . E Bs ’ ee. 4 ne | x i.