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"‘5 Brawn, Davis, Percy Davis, Cecil 2 Dewar, A. C. . Drumm, H. G. Dunbar, Lachlan Dyre, A. i Eccles, Hoy Z Edwards, Elmo ' Edwards, Ivan - Elvidge, Vernon Ervin, Harry : Ewen, llth 1 s Falkingham, Harry . Falkingham, W.R. (killed in ac'n) Findlay, Alex. 3 Fluker, Ray Gray, Thos. s Greenwood, J. W. I Grundy, Wm. Grierson, Nathan Gun, Dr. A. Giles, R. Gun, Gordon Gun, Cecil Hall, Richard Halliday, George (killed in action) ‘ Harris, Lillie (Nursing Sister) ‘ Hay, Alex. Hazen, G. C. Hazen, R. Havens, Ed. Havens, Chas. Hamlet, Jos. Hartford, 8. J. Hazen, Wm. Hillis, Sam Hoy, Murray Hopkins, W. J. Hunt, R. Hughes, Jesse Hutton, Ed. Irwin, Duncan Kinnee, Calvin Kelly, Eric Kelly, Fred Keith, Roht Knisley, W. H. Knight, Major E.L. (killed in ac'nl Kress, George Kress, Lieut. H. Lake, Wilfrid Lake. Wm. Laidlaw, A. N. Lamerson, J. W. Langrill, James Lauder, W. A. Lauder, T. A. Lawrence, John A. Ledingham, John Lloyd, Edith (Nursing Sister) Ledingham, Geo. Legge, C. L. Leeson, Fred Lindsay, E. G. Lindsay. R. G. Lloyd, George Lloyd, J. A. Lloyd, Anson Lucas, J. N. Harshall, C. A. (killed in action) Harshall, Walter W. lountain, Lorne Hartley, John Ieade, _E__arl Morton. W‘ Mather, T- Iatheson, 3 Durham and District FAG. 3. y "‘ lLl' L\J t',‘ "Hpnryir‘vdemanded the mother, ‘ lookmg from one boy to the other. 1"What is the matterfijith _\V:i'llie‘?" Ramage, Chas. G. Bamage, James Renwick, James H. Renwick, John W. Renwick, Alex. Renwick, Edgar Robb, Robt. Ross, Clarence Ross, John Ross, Percy Saunders, Alex. Saunders, Mack Saunders, Alister Saunders, J. F. Saunders, Wm. Scheuermann, V. Seaman, S. Smith, Flight-Lieut. J. Harrison Smith, J. Fred Smith, James P. Smith, Andrew Stedman, John Stewart, Thos. Stewart, Corp. Standen, S... Styles, Wm. Torry, Fred Thompson, David Thompson, Walter Thomas, J. B. Trafiord, George Trafiord, Seth Trafiord, John Trafiord, Edward Vollett, James Vollett, Harold Vollett, Harry Warmington, y.Jas (killed in so ’11} Warmington, Jos. Wall, James Watson, Ferguson Watson, J. Wehber, George Wallace. J as. (died Aug. 30, ‘16) Weir, J. Weir, John (killed in action; Wells, Alex. (killed in action Whitmore, W. N. White, Alex. White, B. J. Willis, Stanley Willis, B. R. Wolfe, Capt. C. R. Wolfe, Bsdon Wright, J. Wylie, W. J. White, Archie White, James R. White, B. B. Whitmore, Robert. Willis, Wm. Zimmer, Norman Why Willie Wailedo. Yell after yell rent the stlll after- noon air. Mrs. Nokes, who was washing. fled out into the garden where her two small sons had been 8911}; to play: “ â€" .‘A4“LA“ H “(1L 1? Lux, llo'“‘v\t\¢ ..---- .- __7 - “He’s crying.” exclaimed Henry. disgustedly, â€"-â€"“crying just hgcagse I‘m eating my cake and won‘t glve him any.” ‘ h . ‘ ‘ 3.. “x.“ u â€"“v'v Yes} answered Henry, with a A man who has something to say despairing sigh, "and the little hegâ€" always knows when he hasc said it zgrtcrtied all the time I was eating â€"then he shuts up. a 00” "And is his own cake finished? asked Mrs. Nokes. THE BRITISH ARE EVERYWHERE (New York Times.) 3 General Maurice. Chief Director} of Military Operations at the Bri-i tish War Office. says he has re-5 ceived "a remarkable number of; letters from the United States, showing how widespread is the be-! lief that the British have let thei allied and colonial troops do most. of the fighting.” It is one of theI features of the German propaganda! here. 'l‘o-day you meet a mysteri-l ous stranger who has it on good‘. authority that a battle has been? ‘fought in which a thousand Amer- icans have. been killed. but that the; tWar Department and the newspa-i lpers are concealing it. 'l‘o-niorâ€"' [row you will meet a statistical istranger who will tell you confi- i dentially that the average life of a isoldier in the machine gun corps is ‘ only four weeks. that of a man in the aviation corps only three, and that, to enlist is certain death. But "the man you meet oftenest is he lwho tells you that the British are holiiling their. army at home and letting the French and Canadians do all the fighting, so as to step in at the last moment with a fresh army, and reap the results. The German propaganda is efficient. highly organized. and doubtless reaps great harvest among the ig- .norant. and credulous. 1‘ As for the allegation that Eng- land is keeping an army of 3,000,000 men at home, so that the French have to do all the fighting, She has between 2.000.000 and 3,000,000 men in France now, to say nothing of those in the Italian theatre, in Sal- onica, in Mesopotamia, in Palestine in Galicia, in Africa, and whereyer All. \-“~‘.VA\- a.- an ally needs her help. Besides; the lines which she officially holdsi in France. she furnishes men at' every threatened point in the line held by the French, whenever they are needed. She is sweeping the Germans out of Africa and has two armies engaged with the Turks and Germans in Asia Minor. So far is it true that England is “making others fight for her“ that England is not only holding her own line, but furnishing troops on demand of others. It is not true that "when all other nations are exhausted she will step in with her fresh army and navy and get all the spoils”. for her army and navy are not fresh. They have been decimated in many frightful battles. As a single instance. the Goldstream Guards has been wiped out and reconstructed no less than twenty-one times since the war began. Sumvtlmos these (relmun propaâ€" gzuulists in disguispg, 0 ‘111‘med \xith A ALA 9” a nowspapor showing that tho Ca- nadians have just fought, a battlo. and ask their unsophisticatod hoart-rs: “Where are tho British?" Naturally. thorn are other battles in which tho Canadians bear tho hruut. as thoro are others in whirh tho English boar it. The battlo of tho Somme, which lasted from July to Novomhor, was the most. torritir hattlo in which tho British army was t'engagt‘rd, and in tho 500,000 casualtios which it sutt‘orod tho number ot’ Colonials was almost. negligible. Not more than 3:30.000 tlanadians have yet. gone to tho front. 'l‘ho British troops in Franco outnumber tho (Joltmials six to one. and their casualties sinco tho war hogan ‘dI‘t‘ 6.5 British to .l tlolonial. In tho rocont lighting around Ypros and Lens, in the ro- ports ot' which the ("Janadians have ’ ttgurod so largely, there have. born 9 British casualtirs to t Colonial. Not ono-t‘ourth of tho lino is hold by Canadians and other t1t_)lonials. The reason why we hear more of tho Canadians than of the English is 1mcause the Canadians are. in a sense. our own people; just as when our American soldiers are engaged we shall hear more of them than of the French and Briâ€" tish. who fight by their side in that engagement. It is the home folks in whom we are most interested. “Wl‘iere are the British?“ asks the. German agent of the gullible American. They are. everywhere. They are holding their own line in France and Belgium, rendering a1d to the French line wherever need- ed, helping Italy hatter her way to Trieste, cleaning Germany out of Africa, furnishing the bulk of Sar- rail‘s army in Macedonia, fighting their way through Mesopotamia, aiding Russians in Galicia. battling Ewith the Germans and Turks in Palestine. There is no nation aâ€" mong the Allies whose troops are so ubiquitous. __- ~n-\fln\ mn‘vno DU LlUlLiULLUuuo The German propaganda makes much of the fact that the French hold a larger part of the line than the British, but omits to mention that the British hold that part where most of the lighting is going on. The extent of territory each army shall hold is determined not. by Cabinets, or even by Generals in the field. but by the Allied General Staff. according to the military needs of the moment as it sees them. Eng and. like the lfnited States. was.unprepared for war. she had no army. She built one under lire. her little regular army having been wiped out in the first year of the war. Her little force could hold only thirty-one miles at lthat time. Now she has. an army, 'and as fast. as the French have lfound it, ('uan‘l‘liCIlt to relinquish a section of the battle line she has ltaken it tipâ€"138 kilometers to date, and is still increasing it. A battle line cannot be handed over like an orange. The decision on this matâ€" ter has not been allowed to rest with the French, and the extent of the line the British hold is deterâ€" mined by their wishes. At this point, the German propaganda genâ€" erally point to the condition of "poor exhausted France." “Poor exhausted France" now has more men in the field than at any pre- vious time in the war. and the kind of men they are is shown by the news from Verdun. If Petain has not answered troubled minds on that point we fear the task is be- yond our own powers. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. . . . . 1.» ‘W ..............u.u:~, o o Died for Empirc ’oeoofufuzuthxuzufi-otufnfa.“'- 5 " "”f’fi‘fl‘fl‘ : T was in the hour preceding the dawn that a British regiment relieved the Australians and took possession of the trenches which the southern soldiers had taken from the Germans on the day before. The Germans were 10th to part with their trench, but an argu- ment conducted with bayonet and bomb impressed them with the earn- estness of Australian desires and the Germans withdrawing according to plan (ride Sherman officials) took up ‘YAA j‘l‘__ a position further back. Needless to say, all the enemy soldiers did not withdraw, numbers of them, who had lost all interest in the doings of man for evermore, lay out on the field, their faces white beneath the stars. The Australians had gone, and the British took stock of their surround- ings. As a rule a recently contested trench is grimly interesting, and the one in which they found themselves was no exception to this rule. The Germans had made a big fight and paid the penalty; their limp bodies in field-grey uniforms fringed para- pet and parados, lying there as they tell when flung out by the victors. Mute, impotent things they looked; well in keeping with the wreck of war, the shattered dug-outs, the ruined machine gun emplacements, blood-bespattered parapet and par- ados. The Australians have nothing to learn in the art of taking a hostile trench. "vDéwn was almost breaking and white mist lay over No Man’s Land when two Tommies, stretcher-begr- era, turned towards their own trench- es alter the night’ 5 work between the lines. As they went they stumbled. in a fold of the ground, on a number of corpses piled together in a con- fused heap. . “fly Ged! There was some fight- in: here,” said one of the man. ‘That is a heap, seven of them.” 213.11 but oné'are Germans,” add the other. “I think this Austnlian did for them all.” He pointed to the one dead man who was not a German. He was a big, well-knit soldier, who now lay face downward to earth, his body across his blood-stained bayonet and one hand gripping the throat of a lifeless enemy. “This man’s all alone here. He must have engaged all these singleâ€" handed. Ah! these Australians. They’re beggars when they’re rous- ed." “We have just time to bury him before it’s light,” said his compan- ion. “We'll hurry uh with the job, get his papers and identity disc and cover him up. It seems a shame t0 leave him lying alone out here.” They got the man’s papers, then looked for his identity disc, but 1 found that it had gone. They buried 5 him, and then went back to their ’ trench and looked at the papers. Two books were objects of great interest to one of the stretcher-bearers, who had a taste for literature. Both were books of verse, one was Adam Lind- say Gordon’s poems, another was a. miscellaneous collection of Austral- ian poetry. Both dog-eared volumel were annotated and pencilled, and showed that the dead man had do- voted much study to their contents. One verse struck the stretcher-bearâ€" er’s attention; all the words were un- lined in red ink. It ran: “All creeds and trades will have sol- diers thereâ€"â€"give every class it! due, And there’ll be many a clerk to spar. for the pride of the jackeroo. They’ll fight for honor and fight for love, and a few will figh't for gold, For the devil below and for God above, as our fathers fought of old, And some half blind with exultant tears and some stifl-lipped, stern-eyed, For the pride of a thousand after years and the old eternal pride. The soul of the world they will feel and see in the chase and tho grim retreatâ€" They’ll know the glory of victoryâ€" and the splendor of defeat.” At the bottom of the page In. written in red ink in a strong firm hand this sentence: “The whole world sees the German as an enemy now; may he never be seen other- Further along in the book was written this: “We must judge this war not by the good it may bring, but by the evil it has averted.” “I wonder who this soldier has been?” the stretcher-bearer asked himself, “who his people are2f’ As it to answer this question n photograph dropped out from be- tween the pages. It was the likeness of the soldier and under it was writ- ten: “An Australian soldier who has no next of kin.” ' That night the stretcher-bearer, who in addition to a taste for liter- ature, had a sense of the dramatic. opened the grave again and placed the two books on the brmst of the dead soldier. Then he fashioned a wooden cross and placed it over the dead man’s grave. On the cross he scrawled in big black letters, this epitaph : Twelve Species of Oak. Twelve species of oak reach tree size in Canada, ‘but only red and white oak are sawn in commercial quantities. The bulk of this lumber is used for furniture and interior fin- ish for houses. It is also used in the form of veneer, and in the manufac- ture of tight cooperage, agricultural implements and other articles that demand a heavy, strong, and durable wood. 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