"KULTUR" ae ar -- eer FIRST HAND STORY OF GERMAN ATROCITIES Shows Why Allies Never Can Return Colonies to the Kaiser, Most " SHEN. [S Thus 'did sia eros for voluntarily' placing The foundstions of Germany's | other African colonies was also laid in blood, The Huns now have the supreme | ~ dragged on by their helpless com- Cruel of Slavedrivers. and colossal impudence~ to The return of Germany's African hrough Dr. Solf, their Colonial Min- colonies would not only be the crown- ing cate to " long list of crimes committed by the white man upon <; = ; the African, but it would cause a " brace sig nl ig ay Bee ae meh dscns ee ? ue wane "For Germany's future position as man between, says Ida Vera Simon- ton, African traveller and student,. For Germany's actions in Africa so _ outbarbarized the most rbarous atrocities of the savages that inera- dicable hatred of the German is im- planted in the African, and now that he'is free of German barbarity and versed in European warfare he wil never again voluntarily submit to Prussian rule. This I know from my own personal observations in the African colonies. : I have seen youth and old age chained neck to neck, ankle to ankle, ' and waist to waist, with shackle reminiscent of the Middle Ages, goad- ed with rifle butt and bayonet point, flogged with the sjambok--that dreaded lash of rhinoceros hide--and forced to labor from sunup to sun-, Rheims and Epernay Have Vast down on the land that had been theirs } from time out of mind! I've seen youth and old age drop} dead in their tracks, their bodies gium and occupied France and Al- . . . 'This balance of power cre- ated in the colonial field will, by re- moving future possibilitics of con- flict, constitute one of the best guar- " antees_of-tisting world peace! pedagogue, this mouthpiece G She has given further notice that her idea of a lasting peace is one ihe rest of the world and make it dance to her bidding. as ns Spree ; FAMOUS CHAMPAGNE' CELLARS The German high command is it strategic value. But the rank and panions in agony because the German file of the Hun army think longingly overtords would not let them rest of the hundreds of millions of botttes long enough to remove the dead body of champzgne stored in the cellars of from its shackles and give it burial! the city. : I've seen youth and old age, wo-! The great cathedral is a hopeless men and little children, after a day ruin, but the wine is safe under- of the hardest kind 'of labor--road- | ground. Rheims and Epernay (the making, jungle clearing and working city which Ludendorff tried so hard timber--crowded for the night into, to reach a few weeks ago) are the huge barracoons without windows or principal centres of the champagne- beds, filthy and vermin ridden beyond producing district, and the stocks of ; description, veritable hotbeds of con-. "fizz" kept on han in those two tagion and disease and charnel hous-_ places are enough to supply the nor- es for more wretches than could be mal world's demand for half a dozen counted! | years. The Lash of the Slave-Driver. Once upon a time--it was about the , . | year 1694--a French monk named I've seen mothers, ten minutes | Perignon hit upon the idea of using after the experience of maternity,' cork for bottle stoppers. Previously t | ister, "that the African colonies must | The French people be returned to Germany, even if Bel- ful crop, and ; our victory, 2 bound up with her colonial future. .' dren. | France. They garner with and stumbling feet, and with the Germeny was never moze brutally but everywhere is and frenkly Prussian than when this | scythe, of ihe women following binding Al! Highest and tse rest of the Pots-| with straw plaits, am gang so put himself on record.; mers of Ontario and Quebec a gen- where she ,triumphant, will control | Stores Coveted by the Hun. | eager to capture Rheims because of . "hurry piteously to catch up with the wads of cloth or hemp steeped in oil caravan of which they were a part had been employed for. the purpose. | to avoid the 'sjamboking they knew | In the grape-growing regions 0 would be theirs if they and their France since time immemorial wine | loads did not arrive at a given fac- | making has been the most important | tory.on a given day! | industry of the monasteries: It was. I've known girl children of 5 years perignon's business to attend to the} up the victims of German soldiers: | bottling, and his inventiun.of the cork | 've seen girls still in chi se . disco' adrift in the hope that they-and their |.°y "onentng ¢ mae We ng-eoeke oh courage of his crimes. He feared 4! that the contents were sparkling-and | race of Euro-Africans, a race that | ogervescent--than of course, to. would in time become powerful | fermentation under air-tight stopper- | enough to exact retribution. Any ing. | babies who survived were blinded,; Thus it was that the manufacture mutilated and poisoned for life with | o¢ champagne originated. But for a | . germs. , _ j long time the art of making it was | But the German's bestiality was' yept secret and many fables were not confined to his treatment of his' Giroulated in regard to it. By some it | half-caste children. To overcome the 2. declared that the Evil One had a Euro-African danger the Govern- hand in the production of this mys- | ment, under the pretence of offering terious wine that bubbled and fizzed. | lucrative positions as barmaids, tyP-! + Bottles of champagne have to be | ists and telephonists, lured young | of very excellent glass to resist the ° healthy German peasant girls to the | pressure of the carbonic acid gas gen- | colonies, and, denied matrimony, they crated by fermentation. It amounts, were forced to live with German sol- j), fact, to seven or eight atmospheres diers and, farmers. Many of these and one gets a notion of its power women and children, 3,000 of them, from the explosion that arrives when if memory serves, were deserted by the cork is drawn. ey when gen and Boer in-; The finest champagne is produced WAGER ROULLWER Eve sh the pres- i, the Marne district. where the out- | ey Mae . , | put' is from 9,000,000 to 20,000,000 | Accustomed to the inhumanity of | gallons annually. Much of it is ex-! iy orien uh in C gg Me | ported, of course, but France imports | they put no faith in Gen. Botha's: pore wine (taking all kinds togeth- | stern order, given when his troops) cy) than she exports. Her total year-| occupied Windhoek, the capital, for), output of wines is more than 1-| the scrupulous protection of every | 600,000,000 gallons; yet, to meet the German woman and child. domestic demand, she draws upon Al- | Togoland Town Looted by Troops. , geria and other sources for an addi- | A Colonial official was escorting | tional 100,000,000 gallons. { me through a native town in Togo- land. It was the most poverty- stricken place I ever beheld, the sol- diers having robbed it of everything they could carry away and destroyed what they couldn't. An old woman, however, had sec- | weted a bichi, a small misical instru- ment made of bamboo and cotton-' wood and was playing upon it in her! cheerless hut. ; "You hear?" raged the Hun.' "wThese miserable black hogs, they | claim they have nothing to pay their | taxes with, yet there's a bichi, a/ bichi we can sell for a mark! But) wait--TI'll show these cattle how a' German deals with deceit, treachery, | robbery!" . He burst into the hut; he knocked the old woman senseless with the. ivory handle of his sjambok; he took the bichi, and with what he thought was Chesterfieldian grace, he actually offered it to me for my collection of African trophies! Over the length and breadth of Africa has travelled the news of - many's blackest wholesale crime, striking terror into the heart of every black man, woman and child, and im- planting ineradicable hatred of the Hun. s And that crime was the slaughter, according to Germany's own figures, of 200,000 Hereros, the most cruel, unnecessary and most systematic ex- termination known to history! And while Africa and the rest of the world appalled when they learn- ed of it, it remained an occasion of rejoicing in Germany for a decade, - i] ¢ |B Ahis gunpowder out of wood pulp. P . ' WHERE THE HUN GETS POWDER --_-- -- J - ---- Deprived of Cotton, He Makes Gun- cotton Out of Wood Pulp. When Germany, early in the war, | was cut off from supplies of cotton, ! many people wondered how the Kais- | er would manage to make smokeless owder. Cotton is a very pure form of cel-! Wwlose, and no other material had ever ; been used in the manufacture of | smokeless powder, which is produced, by impregnating cotton with nitric acid and then soaking it in ether and alcohol, or by some equivalent pro- cess. Without smokeless powder, the Germans could hardly fight. Certain- ly, if deprived of it, they would have had to abandon the war years ago. But the Hun is nothing is not ingen- ious. Being without cotton, he makes | Wood pulp is cellulose. But it is not the pure cellulose that cotton is, and to make gunpowder from it in- volves many difficulties. Also, wood pulp smokeless powder tends to wear out the bores of guns much quicker than the ordinary kind. As a war measure, it has paid to rob the Kaiser of cotton supplies. Probably all of the cotton that Ger- many gets hold of these days is used in her textile mills. But it cannot be much, for a recent German publica- tion of authority states that there is now only one cotton mill in operation for every hundred that were busy before the war began. tt a repay'the Her-| oe Rey PRIMITIVE TOOLS Utter Destruction of Montdidier-- Skeleton of Morevil'-- But French Spirit Unquenched. ." have a wo - they garner it in 'the same spell of fine weather that has enabled us to reap the full fruits of says a Canadian Press But they garner it and women and chil- young women are in the factories, doing" their stunt for ith bent correspondent. war crudest appliances. Here and there is a binder, and more often a mower, | the swish of the and even of the sickle, and sheaves just as did the far- eration ago. There are no blue-coated soldiers working in the fields of France. They reap silently in other fields. The Show at Roye. Our good neighbors, the French, were putting on a little show of their own in front of Roye. One had the privilege to see something of it under the guidance of 'a charming French officer of intelligence. Roye lies low down in the valley, and from | the fiat plateau on which we stand | nothing can be seen but the smoke of bursting shells in its high northern quarter, where already the French have won the railway station. The battle itself is in progress below us in the marshy, tree-studded valley of the Avre, the main attack being directed against the strongly h village of St. Mard-les- Tricot. We can see nothing of it, snve for an occa- sional rocket marking the progress of the infantry, signal for the bar- rage to lift, and for the angry explo- sions of the enemy shells along the trench line, running across the oppo- site plateau, where presumably are massed French reserves. Ardent Voice of France. It does not matter. In these bright weeks villages such as these --so recently impregnable strong- holds--are stormed every day. greater interest is the spirit of the French soldier, the "poilu," from whose soul speaks the ardent yoice of France. guide is -explainit the difficulties. of the attack up says, "bu is aid of our advance further south." He is wrong, for later in the after- noon the good news comes that the village is stormed.- "Yes, they have given us a tough corner, but then, someone has to have it." We have called him captain; no, he is only a lieutenant. "A simple soldier, Monsieur, who at the out- break of the war was a wine mer- chant in Burgundy. I have served my three years, of course, and joined as a sergeant. Now I have charge of the intelligence of the regiment." His regiment is quartered in ela- borate German dug-outs. It was over this very field that the waves of battle surged last March. Only a few miles to the northwest lies the village of Villers-Bretonneux, where the Canadian cavalry and machine gun brigade made their wonderful stand in those bitter weeks. That is a name to be honored in Canadian history. Are the German§ Coming? "You have very gallant men," he said. "You are fresh.and full of go. We have been at it so long we are tired; our hearts are sad, but now we see before us at the last the end and we will see it through. for the poor people of this country, I was at Montdidier then, and the women of the town crowded round us. "Are the they ask. is better that you should move out.' Then come: the question: sh Alas, all we take?" What can they ake? Their men and e all in the ciany They take next to r (tvs. And in a few days the Bot destroyed everything, wortociy, «here their shelling has not ecmo'cted the ruin. ) way back go and see the ribs Moreuil." We are standing on top of an ob- to a plain assassination. The officer , servation post, built by the Germans alfong the trees on the side. of the Of | Several W.A.A.C.'s, and in one quiet »| to his long rest. j i] { mark indifferently es the cme may | "That may be so," he replies, ' "bat | y you have your admirable. perwever- jcry to-a soldier in passing: He lights ;up at once. "That is the 'word, Monsieur," he says [sam --- 9 --__- | TWILIGHT IN FRANCE _The Hour of Prayer Stricken Land. too, the outward | "On to Berlin!" we, THE "M. 8. 1." -of Military Sanitary Inspector. © chief fac- si- cal condition 'of our soldiers. ~~ ~ | is a small unit, consisting of one officer | nd twenty-five other ranks, known! sanitary section. Every man of ; little unit is invariably a trained | sanitary r, and has to under-, go a thorough training in general field sanitation before he is permitted to take up his duties as a military sanitary i inspector. in a War-| The duties of the military sanitary inspector are many and varied. He jis responsible for providing an ade- Through the magnificent rose win- qunt: water supply for drinking and | dow of the old French cathedral won- , derful rays of color pierce the dim- | ness of the lofty aisles, stealing to' bes altar, shedding a glory _there.' All through' the" day come women. there. to pray. Morningtide sees women kneel in | the little side chapels, many with | laden shopping-baskets by their sides, ' ie sper their devotions, piously | | cross themselves, then out again into the sunshine of the cobbled cathedral | | square for the work of the day. There ,is a happy freedom from self-con--- sciousness about their worship. One sees them at morning in the flower-market buying little gifts of flowers. Sometimes it is an exquisite | posy, often it is a few sous' worth of | | blossoms. Madame, the florist, knows 'for what it is intended as she deftly | arranges it with a spray of fern. | cult and dangerous. man retirement in 1916 Fritz system- ' stieally poisoned all water eupplics cooking purposes, and here his knowl- edge of water annlysis is of para- mount importance. During: an ad- vanee-or-retiremert, the work of ob- taining good drinking water is diffi- During the Ger- fur example. When the troops have finished their spel! in the trenches, the 'a- spector, in co-operation with the di- visional- sanitary officer, has to ar- range a bath and a clean change for each man. In the early days of the war the baths werc invariubly breweries, he-, R. cause of the nearness of water and the usefulness of the large vats as tubs. Another very important item'in the work oc the sanitary inspector is the | But sunset is the popular hour for , prevention of the spread of infectious prayer. I have just come from the cathedral. |. Old men are there, workmen with | i world, unable to divine the meaning' of such suffering and sacrifice, yet | with a blind faith in' ultimate mercy. | quaint white caps lead in grand- | children, and in the shadow of the | great grey pillars they tell their beads and plead for their sons. Girls are there praying for lovers, wives for husbands. The blue uniform of the poilu shows among the lark | garb of the women, and here and there the khaki of our own men. ' Among the kneeling women are | corner sits an English mother, a rela- tive of the wounded, who arriv some hours after her boy had passe light ; ee as THE ROMANOFF MYSTERY. Various Versions of How Late Czar ~ of Russia Was Killed. All the materials for the myth or legend of Nicholas IJ. cre at hand. When the Czecho-Slovaks captured Yekaterinburg they searched for the | pit is | roof consisting of corrugated disease. ere he is responsible for | civilians as well es soldiers. ' and its environs. and drenched with the sorrow of the, of the patient are then placed in the special army fumigator. One of the military sanitary inspector is the ex- Wrinkled peasant women in their termination of vermin. At each large - camp a single yet most effective ex- terminator is constructed. A large dug, and converted into an air-tight underground chamber, -- the iron, covered with the earth taken from the hole. Two stoves, with vertical chimneys, are placed in the chamber. The fires are fed through the chim- neys outside the chimber. Vermin- ' ridden clothes are placed inside the chamber, and the heat kills all the pests, without. damaging the clothes. as ---- . ae g where it and fro; All the clean scents of flower and a and eart Wet with the downpour of straight summer rfin; Day's flaming death, cool Dawn's more tender birth, - blue; and ex-Czar's body, but found no trace of it: so one of their officers reports to Ambassador Francis. The rumor most generally credited at Yekaterinburg was that the body had been taken to is enough. with there destroyed. That Nicholas will take his place all the other historic characters who never died. For the next forty years at least he will be seen one day in Siam, the next in Mississippi, a day or two later in South Africa, and for half a century or more after that old men will confide on their deathbeds the fact that the schoolmd&ter of the tele- graph operator, the farmhand, who died in their towns some years before was the ex-Czar "The late Dauphin," him, welcomes Nicholas to a journey as lengthy as that of the Wandering Jew. The version of Nicholas' death ;Which the Czecho-Slovaks sent to ;tish fir' that in curn refused to fire, and that | thereupon the Soviet commandant, a sailor, "drew his own revolver- and yout shot Nicholas dead." If this is true, | it, accor of the Bolshevist account was invented | to which it is exposed. The delicate adjustment of Prof. Dalbe"s device allows of an easy dif-| }jontship, making, like the Flying | ferentiation of letters by the varying, & Ps : 'sounds in the telephone reeciver as! to give some appearance of regularity | who made the report to the Ambassa- \dor, however, merely gave the new ver- the deepest pit in a coal mine and Louis XVII., Nero, Marshal Ney, and | as Huckleberry Finn's King described | And Noon's unchanging in the lane 1s , Tall foxgloves, roses and the singing rds; | The whispered music of the river- side; The pleasant milky smeil of evening j erds; And, over all, the jade hills windy, wide; These will I seek, that they may shed on me --Dyneley Hussey, Lieut. 13th Bat Lancashire Fusiliers. hae SEEING BY EAR | French Scientist Invents Machine of | Great Benefit to Blind. There is a machine, the invention . ae greatest problems of the, wills; The brook's light lyric straying to The peacefulness of their security. | E te» aac é a the ; bs a is = mieel ws mi senoning ete oor of the A.S.D.--the Salvage Department--bu written anything about the ships that engage in this work, says a London journalist. ' The Powers-that- Be seem to have gone out of their way to commandeer the tiniest of ships for salvage work. ; Tiny. they must be, for as much of _ the salving is done in shallow water a light draught is necessary. Some e steamers engaged in saving stricken ships displace no more than twenty or thirty tons. | Before the war their working area was the canals of Great Britain, or they were ferry-boats. It.is some- thing of a surprise to see one of these boats coming. into port adver- tising round her hull a famous brand of candles or soap. But there they are--small, dirty, and slow. No more than forty or fifty feet in length, one tall mast in- the fore part of the vessel, winches and hawsers galore, an open bridge, and stumpy rm. Their bows are blunt, so that they literally tramp through the seas. Their crews are a motley lot, drawn from all sorts of maritime pursuits. The skipper takes the rank of Lieut. N.R.; his first mate of Sub-Lieut. | RLN.R. His crew rank from warrant officer down to A.B. They go unarmed, but are protected generally by a more stately trawler, which with knife-like bows, leaves her charges in the lurch many a time. | The decks of these little salvage craft,, many of them well-nigh half a century old, are dirty and wet, and there is very little protection for th crews. But there are other salvace ~essets, bigger ones, and specially constructed for the work. They are a floating mass of derricks and raising machin- ery, and proudly boast of a stern gun. , Their work, however, would be con- siderably hampered were it not for , the aid of the auxiliary craft, as dirty and disreputable a lot as ever run from port. And though they seem |; poor little things, with their tiny funnels and lurid advertisements on their hulls, they are really doing some excellent work in keeping clean the seas. 1 | . | THE CAPE HATTERAS BUOY | Wonderful Mechanism That. Almost Seems to Have Human Intelligence. | To take the place of the~Diamond Shoal lightship off Cape Hatteras | iam be pIMmariz . & , . 'will be so intelligent as to amaze-the untutored 1 Upheld sixteen feet above the waves is a lantern with an arrange- ment of lenses to augment its light. |Gas is compressed in a reservoir in i the body of the buoy, passing up te the lantern through a small tube. | The buoy lights itself when night ! comes and puts itself out at daybreak |this being accomplished with the 'help of 2 bit of selenium wire, which |metal is a conductor of electricity lin the daytime and a nonconductor jat night. | The whistle is operated by the /waves. A twelve-foot tube of stecl lextends vertically down. into the j water, the rise and fall of which \forces air through the whistle and makes it toot. The submarine bell (likewise ac- , tuated by the waves) is suspended be- ;neath the buoy. It has a striking | mechanism, and its ringing is heard aboard passing vessels by the help of specially contrived port and starboard microphones below the water line. These connect with a telephone; and | by switching the instrument back and forth the listener learns on which {side the bell is. All United States j i t few as yet have the other day by a Hun . a buay of newest st pattern ; of Fournier -- a French scien- | warships, and merchant craft quite } ae = a -- odinacy Telaned generally, are now provided with this i oe apparatus. ' ; page of a book or a newer oe | Diamond Shoal has been called the different 0 ue pager oY e y | "graveyard of ships." It extends thir- the reader through a telephone re- teen miles into the ocean, and experi- hill. Below in the valley lies a shat-| .io, i ed bright- e ; as the best account he could get. | the detector is moved across a Orig tered village and its ruined church. \mvidentty Yekaterinburg knows little | Wy illuminated page. Very liftle prac- "Jt is horrible td see all this," one Says, "and to think that we in Can- ada have escaped scot free--only the lives of our men." "Ah," he says, "but is not sorrow a strength to the character, a completion of experi- ence. Shall we not emerge a strong- er nation for it all ?" - - "On To Berlin!" are in a trench examining a bayonet, a beautiful rapier-like piece of polished steel. "Hoy much more artistic you are," one cannot help saying. "This weapon is equally ef- fective as our own, but what a thing of beauty it is. And your. camouflage is art, suiting itself perfectly to the changing aspects of soil and country, while' ours is monotony of rule of thumb, which hits.or misses the about it; evidently, too, the actors In the crime will from time to time issue various and: conflicting memoirs tell- ing irreconctlable stories and the world may never learn how, in truth, the Czar died. ------_@--__-- A Matter of Taste. 'Can any little boy," asked the tea- cher, "tell me the difference between a lake and an ocean?" "J can,' replied Edward, whose wis- dom had been learned from experi-. ence. "Lakes are much more pleasant to swallow when you fall in." pe ee ae ae As a result of unfavorable weather in June New York's hay crop is.a fifth less than expected, a a it is said, is necessary for pro- the use of the instrument "type reading | | tice, 1 ficiency in 'which is known as the octophone." --___--__-- About All He Did. He was a mine sweeper and was home on Jeave. Feeling a little under the weather, he called on a doctor, who gave him a very thorough ex- amination. "You tell-me you are troubled with your throat," said the doctor. "Aye, aye, sir," answered the sailor. : "Did you ever try gargling: with salt water?" The mine sweeper let out a "J should say: so," he said. groan. | "T've teen miles, vast quicksand. ~ ' Above this quicksand, beset by :!- most perpetual storms, floated many a year, the recently destroyed Dutchmen, an endless voyage without. a port. She was a steel vessel 118 feet long, with two hollow steel masts carrying wires-for powerful electric lights which, 100 feet avove the water could be seen at a distance of eigh- ae Se Salt Mountain. Palestine possesses a remarkable salt mountain situated at the south end of the Dead Sea. The length of the ridge is six miles, with an aver- age width of three-quarters of a mile, and the height is not far from feet. There are places where the overlying earthy deposits are many feet in thickness,-but the mass of the mountain is composed of solid rock salt, some of which {s as clear as _------o-- The most powerfal been torpedoed seven times." crystal. animale art vegetarins,: Raine } " for ~ Pere mera UT a ae Oe Oo Oe a we