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to" ”EST F AND BRA siritlAlll) and! 'v, A" T, Tho smallmt in stature. Lioyd,ti.nc't attacks after? Georm towers over his Cabinet col- c.d and might have Tennis . r: 'hups not mentally, bu: in sidered himself out power tFt er, and prestige with. the the second nor the prl.-. Hi, critics say that he has any of .his business orden-vl the. Working classes about too the business of an triuch.. but it w likely that none but fwd ty my.eh timazir we whom they had reason to that '9 t,eirtst. displayed ' and thank could have ordered them m" m and the l about in that way " all. It in certain shamed. There is a that none but he could have kept the ' . father's heart and oceanfryr-mistL-wbo have an esve- in . death so noble." hatred of war-oo unnerving II -----t- support of the arbitrary mae- The Honor - for which war time calla. l F int Gent-Come I Boyd. George is the simplest of to-morrow evening, o - . a devoted family man. Second Gens-ah vs the family virtues. Hie going to see Hamlet. old . that breathes an at.. First Gent-Never “who one and high. With with you. " outv’m-r amusements. Indeed, Lords Canon arffd Milner are too serious- mindod for amusement of any kind to loom lrn'go' in their scheme of things. It is, by the way, a decidedly hirsute Cabinet. as all its members. except Lord Curzon, grow moustaches, and, Lloyd George, in addition, is no lax in his visits to the barber's that he [anally grows hair enough for two Ho) Mr. Lloyd George a}; iGiii of is true, but the others are not fl - av: IWICN‘OUIM Of the five, Lord Curzon in the one who belongs. by birth, to “governing class." Lord Milne: the professional class. So is Lloyd George, but sprung from a “or stock. Mr. Bonn Law I: a cessful business man. Mr. Honda is a workinttman. The two Peer the Cithinet are the only two of mem‘w-rs who have received a uni pity education, both of them " been Bahia] men and both favr pupils of the great Jowett. None them an- men who no great sports hr games. Mr. Bonar Law Mr. HM"! Gem-tn an 'A'" _. ., ,_...,. ...,. amoerson in I Wesleyan, Ind Mr. Boner Law is I Presbyterian. The Cabinet will be '%tti-bodae" in It. tendencies. Mr. Henderson and Mr. Bonar Law Ire both lifelong 013-] shim-rs. Mr. Lloyd George was one for Many yes". It In he who do-! clued that drink we: Britain', Thti' out enemy in thin war. The other} two are strong for abstemiousness. ( Of the five, Lord Curzon in a- “‘- than, iii; Ind Mr. B "'"'Nt. nun-WIT" re diluent religious dena tween them. Lords, Cu! nor are Anglicans. Mr. is a Baptist (of the l Cometimea called “Camp than. Mr. Henderson in “A M.. n - remier Canon a37, of this Cal " ' do no ure, of "I Gorgon. It inch) is th George " shortest In feet It incl The average age of the Wu Cabinet of tIve members is 56% "an. The oldest member of it in Lord Milner, who is 622, while Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Henderson are, etch of them, " Mr. Bonn Law i- Kn o..." . I head SOMETHING home‘s Gnome... gt 57. What the 1v. 5 Cabinet in I am an in not know what I] f Messrs. Bonn u, '. But Lord Curxon i., the tallest, and a (5 feet 5% inch. at member. Lord ht l inxhes tall. live "didtators" repn 1t religious denomi' , ftve, Lord Curzon 0 belongs, by him ne clns." Lord I fessionll than. Lloyd George e, hora Uurzon is the only dongs. by birth, to the class.” Lord Milner in of aioml class. So is Mr, re. but sprung from a low- Mr. Bonn Law Is a sue-E was man. Mr. Hendersonj man. The two Peers Inf YG ABOUT T "DNn'ATorts." Mr. Henderson and . Ire both lifelong ab. Lloyd Georor w" on. I. It was he who de- tk “3 Britain's great- k. I. SWFM‘ Cur. Tulut_Au Are “Anti-Boon," rious denominations be- Lorda Curzon and Mil- ans. Mr. Lloyd George (of the kind that is led "Campbeuite" Bao- What no the stat- nu Law and Hen- Cumon " feet 1 n. and Mr. Lloyd inches) is the Lord Milner is ti, r is 58, and Lord) It. he Henge Might; man an unable to say, _', scum '.L_= - " two of its rived a univer. them having both favorite "Present four of golf, it not great The Honor Guest. First Gent-Come and di: to-morrow evening, old top. Second tunb--kfratd I c ibntrtt line. Here he was killed by ttl 5 shell. I i "Thus he organized and led two dis-! tinet attacks after he was first wound- _ ‘ed and might have honorably con- sidered himself out of action. Neither, the second nor the third attack was: any of his business. But they werey the business of an invincible heart;', and by such amazing tenacity, which ' is being displayed on all sides, wei, shall win and the doubters will MiI shamed. There is all that may quiet J a father's heart and a mother's heart J in a death so noble." l Splendid Courage and Bravery DU. played by Young Officer. "The very gallant death of Mr. v. [ ie, T. Ilarmsworth, Lord Rothermere’s son, is an instance of the tragedy and Iglory in which much of our youth is Ieink eclipsed." says the London Spectator. "This boy of twenty-one recently refused a Stat? appointment, saying: 'The greatest honor which an odieer can receive is to lead his men over the Parapet.' I "in a charge across No-Man’s Land' the was wounded in the throat. Thlsi ievidently delayed him, but it did not! stop him. We next hear of him rally-, 'ing a party of another battalion. With I ithem he advanced to the German see-l, ond line, where he was again wound-I ed, this time in the right shoulder. f He was in bad need of a breather. He sat down and lit a cigarette. but in a t moment he began collecting the men L' near him, and he led them on to the, third line. Here he was killed by a 'a shell. mgner than the 'tood-plaid iiiiU and Ithen abandoning them to make a new ‘channel at a lower level. and ---9e.r. luau“, turning into Mississippi and Mis Arkansas, building its be higher than the ftood..nui Years the lower tionably flowed i wide flood plain, ‘vwnae. and an inch deep, and the tom's on top." The larger ri such as the Mississippi, the Mia: and the Arkansas, are overloaded to a less degree. As they ca carry the sediment delivered to tl they drop it and flow round no " of oare heaviiy overloaded wl lthit is, or was, wind-l Wears ago a driver thus d Platte: "You won't know gettin' 'eross it, son, for wide. and an inch deep, a tom's on top." The lar such as the Miqseus,t.,.,: " it, Remarkable Alteration In the Sur- one face of the Earth. do.. , A correspondent of the Geographical mt-iJournal describes the remarkable al- her terstions in the surface of the earth k Fiiii2G' by i1yintr dust. The power My. of the wind to transport even moder-. the l ater coarse rock, he writes, is almost of; incredible. Many of the broad valleys " I between the eastern and the western rw-fslopes of the great Cordillera are fill- Ie-led with such deposits to a depth of onj hundreds of feet. "The wind has no- 1 in [ thing to do but blow, and the sand its‘ nothing to do but fly," is the way an 1 Pr- j old Prospector put it. In some places mg the formation of a dune many acres ( to in extent and several feet high is a of, work done in a period of time that is t " i measured by days rather than by "rmonths. In many comparatively s it 4 small areas blinding dust storms blow te, It nearly half the time. The old south- - (l';',' mail stage-coach line had a sta- p tion in Arizona that was almost un- “ inhabitable on account of the flying ff, dust. The men employed there rare- 2 fly remained any considerable length l,', (of time; occasionally all of them d? .would leave in a body. In northern 'C }Mexico flying dust and dust deposits ty. (are on an even greater scale, and the g]: [boundaries of the belts of scoured-out . and built-up land are less definite than 2"] I in the dry region of the United States. on , At times the ilner dust ls blown acress gel [lowlands of the coast far out into re (the Gulf. Many of the smaller anc lg'Tnnma " st., 1n _ FIVE _ -- nu; anuIHEI' reams of the West and Southwest 'e Heavily overloaded with sediment at is, or was, wind-blown dust. ears ago a driver thus described the atte: "You won't know when you're ttin' 'cross it, son, for It's n mile do null n- k" . THAT MA Y ttt'rEi A HEART. rr, “we negmnmgs, a make himself "i what he is to-day-che first real .1 Child of the People to hold the oittee Cot British Premier. He is generally I. regarded as the man of the moment--- ” the indispensable man. And the curl-i 3.0m: thine about it all is that this in-l I dispensable man in Great Britain's; , greatest war is pretty well the maxi ' foundest lover of peace in the British g Isles. Which goes to show how pas-l I sionate is his conviction that the pre-' Gent war is a righteous one on Great] Pritain's part. charge across No-Manu Land wounded in the throat. This I delayed him, but it did not . We next hear of him rally- rty of another battalion. With advanced to the German sec- where he was again wound- :lme in the right shoulder. 1 bad need of a breather. He and lit a cigarette. but in a :e began collecting the men and he led them on to the . could “up. Mr. Lloyd George, on the ‘other hand, um chiofIy learned in his younger days in Welsh Noneontorm, ity, Walsh buds, Welsh village life, 1nd the intricacies of Welsh politics. inn childhood was Ipent in the ro- '.mantie region about Snowdon. All] (his educatinn m-- -..-= -- ' .. (his education wan fChurch of England 1 the only available a lace. It was gall at "tint to have to atto school, and partake trinal teaching. It must have been a man that, from such r, scure beginnings, ct what he is to-dnv_r 11"f5 us With so any of his com- ‘patriots, piety is inltinctive. Life In roam. mm E . ugh destiny md I: a ttttst discipline. It tt bean said of one of his pre- sent colleagues that he was trained for public life almost as soon " hel could lisp. Mr. Lloyd Gears» M n... and flow rod/i yy! dine with me nave to attend an Anglia} Ind partake of Autumn doe- n..-l.:._7 mind, bring Mm - _V. -.. "not. r Mississippi unques- in every part of its 1, turning Arkansas and Mississippi into FLYING DUST, avnilable sdiiriT,i Iii; vi]: was ttall Ind_wormwood to , put it. In some places i of a dune many acres several feet high is a a period of time that is Ire overloaded, but" As they cannot delivered to them, ain't. I 'm larger rivers been a really great such humble and ob- and banks ' Satan " the eltmtntary school, f. In pasf Missouri “Size iiidrui"iiiii',tiie, girl more money outfitrured her." bot- “Germany's hosts through Rumania, a days the bells of th The Providence upon the decline 0 follows: A merican Paper When he awoke to consciousness, heard voices round his bed, and open- ed his eyes widely to see nothing, notk'ng, he knew all. He had gone through without a scratch, but thel veil was gone. l uwn-IUUK well; gaze attentivelyi even on this desolation, this wild ruin,l this poor broken village street; even: on this preposterous little stone devih Iwith its insolent eyes; for these are', ; the last things you will ever see." Or Ae might simply have shrugged his _ shoulders and smiled. As it was,', when the blast caught him full and l flung him savagely against the stones: he knew little save that the veil was q somehow torn; his hands went ‘quick- l ly, pathetically to his face. There 1 came a great star-prickod blackness! and then oblivion. q Had he high-n the truth t before he might have said to "Look-look wen: zaze n l He heard the scream of a shell that seemed to spin a thread of sound straight towards the spot where he crouched. . . . It came nearer, near- er; it struck the doorway of the church. The little stone devil fell at his feet, grinning in his face even, as it fell; it touched, he thought, the? veil and tore it, and chilled him to the bone. The shell exploded with a fear-, ful concussion. I street. Where were the other fer. lows? The silence was strange. He did not know (nor did those uncom- fortably accurate gunners) that the message had come to retire till night- fall, to leave the place empty, unoc-i cupied by either side, since no forti-l fiention or entrenching could be pro- perly done under the enemy’s heavy fire. 80 he moved close to the wall and the din grew louder every min-l ute. “may a oaueries. Weeks ago they had "retristered" on this village, as a precautionary measure, and now it was lost to them their chance had come. A couple of shells went over, bursting far down the roughened street. Where were the other fer. lows? The silence was strange. He did not know (nor did Hum- _-__-_--, HERMAN CREDIT WE Although during the whole attack the veil had been with him, and was still there, he knew, for the first time, fear-cold, horrible, ominous fear. l The sun had risen, and in its plus-i ' ant warmth he sat on o heap of rub-i 'bish by the north wall of the church to rest and eat a morsel of food; but he felt, somehow, queer. I A Little Stone Devil. 1 A level glow of sunlight illuminated _ 'an ancient carved atone gargoyle, re-'1 presenting the conventional grinning t devil with horns and an arrowhead t tail, on a pinnacle above the church door, It seemed to watch him mali, s ciously with its hollow, evil eyes, and C he shook his fist at it. 3 n - ""V -..- -.'.__. anvy [of a big British engineering and ship- ‘:building firm, moving constantly l Iamong huge lsthes and cranes ttttd, [whirling Pullers and belts, he ran ttl Ifew more risks of accident than his ifriends who chose to take their pre- 'liminary views of life from the trate. 'elevation of an oMee stool. ' I Even in his first spell of front-line duty he became noted as 1 man who bore a charmed life. There was hard- 'ly I moment when he was not aware I of what he had come to regard as _I his birthright-this soft, invisible, " im.ierrnealui, garment. 1‘ of Paper Comments on De, cllne of the Mark. Sensation of humanity From Physical Harm Had Accompanied Hill From Boyhood. ALWAYS. new THAT A MAGIC van Pitdrrixmm am. ope and smiled. As “it" wgls, blast Pustht, him full and If agely against the stones. I save that the veil was ; his hands went ‘quick~ The Veil Torn, e Journal comments of German credit as - ,,_ -- r-V nder the enemy’s heavy moved close to the wall grew louder every min.. - _ mum saewrotmmasosts- tr A w”, 'C,?,':,?',":';'-:-?-.'-':,',':-:,.',,"::.-," mmmm insoaat m... rrible, ominous fear. he heard a familiar ound, and knew that news had reached the trpph an instant l AK. ---_-_ - war as a Dene- " as they have more money to spend than ever before. Consequently this i on class is kept from making trouble. l Metals and rubber are ht, scarce, with and many motors use w eels with; l steel spokes and wooden tires. himself.. , _ “Mm...” I states, in the Ipzerne Tribune, that the food supply of that country grows :worse every day. Neutrals living in Berlin have determined to leave be- .fore'spring brings additional priva- , tiona. Fat and butter is moat necded.i [Workman in the munition factories are paid high wages and are well fed, I and rather regard the war as a bene.. m .. um- L-w A, Food Scarce in Germany and Neutrals 5' Leaving. ' I; A Swiss) recently from Germany Atates, in this, Iataerne Trihnnn a.“ Food Scarce i _ "The belief is very strong in Hand that when the Teutons fwith Roumania they will tu; Italy. When they do this, it is ed, they will receive a big surp i He said there can be no qu whatever as to who will win, b war is only about half over. Germans are putting up a won fight, but they cannot win," ht dared. GROWING WORSE EVERY DAY, H Great Offensive Has Blasted Fertile I i Country. 9; "The country around the Somme , battle front is like a blasted world. , Instead of the rolling, fertile plains of , ' former months it has been transform- l ed into a sea of mud." r: This graphic epitome of the great- _ est battle in history was given by Will Irwin, who has returned to New; York from a trip to the French front.', f Summing up his observations Ott' ithis battle ground, he said: "The British completely dominate the air. The last week I was there I saw only one German observation balloon as- cend. I "The French army is the most de- mocratic, yet the most effective in the world. It will be a great mistake if the United States models its army after that of Germany. q ed No one thought of retin the first to' think of attacl sergeantand a man who a bomb and shoot their was along the left trench. Tom ran a marvellous race. Th: leaped into a machine-gun ment, killed the crew and the gun. By mere threats the two took a bunch of pri: Finally these valiant nlsttrs, r men- weapons were thrown down and t their hands held up. Seventy prisoners a were taken. The trench was won. r:' Nevertheless the day's fight had l hardly begun. Behind the captured '. position the German barrage fell like, I a portcullis, quite impauable. No at-g [ tempt could be made to send back: even the prisoners, and on the ghoul-i‘ ders of the storming party lay the; whole burden. Everyone with a spade , began digging against the moment; when a eounter-attaek should develop' or the shell fire "shorten." As the,' ;work went on it was seen that the'; danger in front was not the only dun-l , gar. Something had gone wrong one the left; and the continuation of the] trench westwards was still held by the enemy. I One of the two Mio escaped was leading charge; and as he reac i' pected trench he knew his men held vengeance For a minute or two bombs were busy; and rison had no more spiri Their weapons were thr their hands held up. Sev were taken. The trend unen- wuh. It was denied them be- fore, and ever since "Remember July l" has been the battle-cry of nll New- foundland. Desire of vengeance for their fate on that day arms every ac- tion of the regiment. l SUMME A SEA OF , The appointed time for the attack! was three in the afternoon. The goal! had the exciting name of F89C2.5 to 49A132, or some such hieroglyphic of the map-makers, which the regimental) officer must translate into n recog? nized object of the landscape. What mattered most was that the objective, whatever it might be---n strong place, or a string of holes. a topographical term, or a smothered trench--hw ati" a distance of 400 yards. l I A great little fhrht has been fought by I‘company or two of Newfound- landers. and the tale has this human and historical value that it will (in lthe exact likeness of a thousand and ‘one struggles enguged in by unnamed, phtoons, companies or battalions in: the later part of the Somme battle,' says the London Mail. As these menf fought, thousands have fought since! July L my around the Sommetree. Church, EdiBbJ is like a_blasted worhi.tho 'I with thir Indian . _..- u.- null] t was indeed full of Get-mam!“J .eal delight of the storming“ A hand-to-hand fight was all? iah. It was denied them be-! d ever since "Remember July; een the battle-cw of All Noun‘ :ought of retirement, think of attack were I a man who set off the V Teutoiis -__ GG, story was given by has returned to New p to the French front. his observations on busy; and iii','; the gar- more spi_rit left in them, 9 two oftieers who thm leading this Oetobe as he reached the tlnexr ill win, but the f over. "The ID a wonderful Win." he de.. strong in Eng- will turn on impatisable. No at- de to send back and on the shoul- 18 party lay the Tone with a spade inst the moment, ack should develop! L, A .. - Blasted Fertile . surprise." no question ' - -- ----, - -- u=C=.TrCr_tT---- "'ovm'hyurrrrts. Widiii 'r"'---,--- ------- thha and " Victory . V II "M Bnttie. I ' _ mun RAH-I ' thrht has been fought way laterally TOgether they The sergeant -trutt emplace- and captured tale has this human.' INF., In that it will (in; l of a thousand and Iged in by unnamedI " or battalions in, - the Somme battle/Birth Gil. As these men) M UD. that he and in their hands. byyoneu and stat- off to in; 9.A%'.'ters..s, "Yes, I heard trom him ’ing, and he's a-knocking nuns down like nine-pins, a expects to have Charing 1 "You stupid! Yon men tori; Crou.” “Will, anyhow, I knows of then there big statims “Well, Pal, iGri,, you heard from your "Yes. I heard {nun whose son W; thtfyywine i' 0ne.night _ eight mar detected crawling on knees near the "wiris lik snakes, and for a few camp was treated to 5 ment with rifle shots and One of the Arabs WIS k others escaped. . . - ~...vw. nut, nun make [his way into the tents where the men '[are sleeping to steal what may be married off easily. He khews the per- ils, the sentries will shoot on sight, gand if caught the thief will be shot at 'dawn as a Spy. knowing that there is, lno merry for him, hrtitushoiuidii, ,and if anyone stirs’in the tent Twhere he is wprking he will uge, . his "one (knife with murderous intent. '0né7 soldier was stabbed recently, and his life at the time the clergyman wrote,, was hiiUing try a thread. _. 'et but , Force in Mesopotamia . 3 his congregation says pre daring thieves, l . ones as well, for they , . to kill rather than be ‘Krniding the tents of al, " um.- ma- 'hxf‘lrtshman I _ Higher Death Rate. ( On the other hand many cities (showed a much higher death rate for infants. In Koniesbertr, for example, it was 19.6, in Mndgcburg 19.5 and in Danzig 19.2 per cent., and the cause is perhaps an unfavorable influence of the war. But other cities again compensate for the loss. In seven the figure was less than 14, namely, Dres-, den, Hanover, r'Pnyort-G-snii, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburg and Bremen. The figures as a whole seem I on La M'....-.----- _., TORONTO battle,l‘lirth and Death Rate tqttBenatt ' Pen! Front War Economist Point since I of View. {may A decline of the birth rate a in . ago: ‘epecial manner the work of war; it '. g has not the feature of accident but the 2d , inevitable character of life and death. len a iAnd to the belligerent nations living Gl'; branches, the source of new -iaiiiiir) ctive have become a subject of intense so-l Tiii.' licitude. An Amsterdam. deapatch hicai tells ua that infant mortality is m- at l creasing on account of lack of sugar. i y ‘which is a fair specimen of the non- mrr,l,tftentific reports. In England and I rest-mun“ the true state of t e Teutonl t Girhat been a theme of ranch inquiry, l But and the nilnde of physicians and pub- a norn _ lie authorities have been listless .in r lin&;followmg out the interior intricacies!F over of the living birth rate In Germany" sd “and Its no less important problem it :one , of inferior vitality. me Ltrine Birth Rate. ti ea- The living birth rate and next to it W lap- the infant death rate are full of six- ttl nifleanee from the point of view of d! on: f the war economist. Hence the "ures ma,;given by Dr. Mamloch in the last insinumber of the Deutsche Mediziniache, alliWochenschrift have a special internrth be-lest, for they disclose the two things-'11 'lypthout which so much has been writ-[m w-‘ten, the actual birth rate throughout"! for‘ Germany, and not in some large eityl ed tc-I like Berlin, and the effect of the war , Pr on the death rate of infants. In the n01 en I second quarter of 1916 the number of an er living births in a total of 1rtt1ty-stl:r'the x- _ German cities of over 200.000 inhabit- , Ge 1d ants fell from 66,032, the 1914 fltr- pla Cure, to 42,723. For the whole year: l id, 1915 the total was 49,749 less than in nar r-,the previous year, a reduction of 19.3 nor n. (r per cent. The loss was greatest in C rocl {certain cities, 27.2 per cent. in chem/ho,, 'sl‘ni'tz, 27 per cent. in Nurnberg and deft "23.6 per cent. in Hamburg, while in ticu d ‘ Mannheim the loss was slight, or 14.2 vidr , per cent. In Berlin the reduction of D trthe birth rate was proportionately imp -;trreater than in the yar years 1870- ine CTI. Some of the loss was made good ed f ",'by a reduction of the infant death diet: , rate, though the figures here are very ', all 1 ejunequal. Thun, on a basis of 100 liv, whie ding births, the death rate in 1915 They was 14 per cent, as compared with mom I 15.8 in 1914. Such a low infant mor- tality rate as that of the war your, :1915 had never previously been oh-) Be: (served in Germany. thes. DANGEROUS 'rm EVES “3:"..- _.. - - -v wuuvuxluy th "ttitttit--c MM!!! $953221 One of Tm INFANT MORTALITY IN WANT [S INCREASING h, 2"? v. eight marauders r a few minutes the tted to some excite- shots am) 'ture rockets. trom him this morn- knocking them Ger. ine-pins, and he quite Charing Cross." t'f.keeir. 'wir'e likg . th In Merlin the reduction of rate was Proportionately an in the Far years 1870.. of the loss was made good mean the Vic killed, buGiil' it he hands and be one raids they aiaii be go- No pntfajiom have I many were l "oFom.tt1anddy is proudii. 'af his ‘men_.than the commander: prhe “Bantams." "They are particularly good at scouting," said one of their 6fheers. "There is no limit “their nerve. It is nothing for them to: crawl out in the dark new" Nol Man's Land no to the a...“ “A” . ___ _,_V- w nun! mm W 16 the 'phrapet "to dirty.' Instead . (if Awning to hold them up, however, the _tiiirkutt, is to keep them from "ow. ine their h6ads.' They have the ad- vantage of being small targets, and they are completely sheltered in a} treth. where. moan-r man's he“, would Se ‘W- " . . ti, . May 50k85,have,heez them. It was mien s when they went into 5mg one would have to - _- ....... l Tor their country, the right should not I be denied them. So he began to or., "rartize.,th"e little men. - L A correspondent at the Britb,h 'headquarters in . the field says of, I them: , 1 . No marry! five feet three inchcsyus . yNrerieiVytti/riiiii'rt who had been! 'turned maria-the early days of the r 1 new a.rtitt.trttt.td tlus.6rst battalions KS it'wn's a success: others followed; At the. front theyrwere brigaded it? gather, and a visitor to certain parts; " the line sees thousands of sturdy, l short-legged ,menumarchlnz along‘the 1 road; and keeping guard in the "anthem .‘ q .. ,J Before the recent French attack {these hills were trenched. Now they (are an unbelievable mess of shell {craters 20 feet deep. The town is . full of arriving shells. The main bat- ' tieiuhi is on the ridge rising from the' '1 Meme and dropping to the Woevreq i on which ere Forts Douaumont and, Thiaumont, their well: now complete. ly buried under the dirt thrown up, by bursting shelll. .1 i The village of Fleury, between, is 'so knocked lpnrt that we passed it 'eytout.knodine we had done so. I [When the ridge was held by the op- l "rotting forces its trenches, had barbed 1 wire entanglements, communicating t trenches and all the paraphernalia I of modern trench warfare. Now there l il'not a vestige of this; no sign where [ ( the trenches once were. I ucullrly at. Michel, on the hills di.. viding the Meuse from the Woevrc. Douaumont is the highest and most important. The Germans began charg- ine the hills in February, and charg- ed for six months, capturing half the distance to Verdun. They captured all the height. eze'ept M. Michel, which rises abruptly opposite Verdun. They dominated Verdun from Douau-; mont. i F Vin.“- "" wuccnbril- fed artillery tire, loosening the Crown l Prince's hold on the foothills to the north. The temper of the French army at Verdun makes it evident that 'they never will be content until the fGermens are pushed out on the water ' plain of the Woevre. 3' Verdun is simply n town in the narrow valley of the Mensa, running north. The famous citadel is but I rock in the town, a rock I entered, however, with relief. Verdun's real defences are in the line of forts, par~ ticularly St. Michel, on the hills di-, viding the Meuse from the Wnaurn I THE BRITISH "BANTA MS." I the ttteaiiiy -iiii i "pid-flee guns, of We passed along the from I the French army facing north Thinumont and Don-ammo - --.e mu.- w in the dark .mg. No d up to the German urbed one of the meet trench ' I have just been over most of the ground lost by them in the past ten days. I visited the region of the outer forts, Douaumonl, Thiaumont and Vaux, as one of four lucky cor- respondents given the extraordinary _liii'lr'i7e'i': by the French Government) 2t went at night, as by day it was impossible. l We were under steady shell fire for twelve hours, and I can say that neither the Germans nor any other army can advance again toward Ver-, dun over the wrecked mum... . - -"".. DWI spandent of the New York l {cable- from Verdun, France, an Germans an never come back I dun. They have been vanquish the new heavy French artillery the thte supporting picked arm Verdun. and Are steadily slippir the hints to the Woevre Phi" ,gu mu oeep. The town is arriving shells. The main bat- is on the ridge rising from the and dropping to the Woevre, oh .. nun n HUN saunas mu. nave: (in Nu: m AGAIN. Short Mature l'rox . Soldiers. ,meuuman'hing alohi‘jt‘he keeping guard in the Arno ver the wrecked country?“ [Mill German Hold. passed along the from line Fleury Levellcd. tHt Mowilyorh; into the - W- "yum, Forts Douaumont and ir walls now complete- r the dirt thrown up ,n_ Prth-rne rot, qtatt - new; north from and Douuumont, seeing advancing line of French na, backed by concentrat- tire, loosening the Crown _ on the foothills to the temper of the French iun makes it evident that I Had. the Famou- City Fir-Ir Held By the lit Cen Ml __ intl GG." s“interned that hold the made_ about steadily slippin'g oi Woevre Plain. He trenches vanquished by lhe" fire for n "ty that lny other toward Ver- York Worm, Fine Ta"iu -ilritiibiiiol d number: and distances. each .man would be. that hour, for he woul his Jewel!“ in a up: glad would'no loo-é: Times, why the civil not enjoy the..sneci vice which the m;- désirable. e.. in In tery and army of ' that the ck " Ver- ""'h"'l'Prr1te" on {inlay by errlqeatt (or Public Service. Plain tor' improvinijgenernl r, all sorviee after the war are I seriously cgnsidered, any! the Lo Tihies,"whith will be available to poor," well.“ the rich. There "urtioueaadu why. says Thun- '-L“ “I . .- "hsliei..er, rnira errlqertt (at Plath tor" iritpn cal srrviee after t seriously cgnsidere Tiines."whiph um I “Fume has paid when debt inclined,” he eotttit spite of'thc- apparent din-n tween the appropriation: ll 'ée'lbtl, we need have nii an tholuture." , . i The resources Mr. Peret putts Ptrajhst the expenditures made and -authorized amount approximately to 64,000,000,000t. ff1'2,800,000,am", as follows: ylJP?,000gmot., tax receipta; ?8,h)0,000,0oot.', short and long term bonds of France; _tr,000,000,00of.", loans from England and the United States; 9,000,000,000f..' advanced by tho Bank of Frank; 200,000,000f.. advanced by the Bank of Algeria. This, loaves an apparent detieit of 8,000,000,000f. "rc-, I - V This statement drew excl: from the Deputies, to the we "Great Britain is thus proved collaborated cordially and u lr." i, Raoul Pent, formerly Minister of 9ommeree, dilcuuing in the French {Chamber of Deputies the budget for ;the first three months of 1917, ob. (served that France will have incurred ‘expenditures to the amount of 72,- 600,000,00ot. f$u,ti'20,0tr0,oom be- tween the opening of hostilities and the end of lurch next, while Great Britain will in the nine period have had an outlay of 90,000,000,000f. g.aet Ann Ann MIN-is ".yyroo,ooo,oiii) corn - War Finances Healthy. But Carrying Henry End I E. A. Melt-tar, recently divisional freight agent for in Edmonton, hll resigned of tion. The total nine of the min! produeta of the province of All this your will resell the imposing ure of $174,000,000. This eutimnt eludes grain, live stock. dairy prm and poultry. Last you“: valuation $t86,000,0tio, making a total incr of $38,000,000. ,, - wan“ .. .3"'"Bot"5M3rt for distinguished conduct .on the bet.. "lefUhi. I Thomas Tollit. of the lnniufuil dis. Hrict, was committed for trial at Cal- .¢ary on the charge of treason for forwarding money to his wife's sister in Germany, through the United States. sr'ktru.aets FOR - w--. vuu Ill- 1.11“. William M. Scanlan, a well-known Saskatchewan newspaper reporter, has been awarded the Military Cross and has been granted a commission r..- )L.:, ' . _ Mr. Erickson, a Prop, southwest of Warner, grain u lone as he den built a hne elevator on FRANCE PAYS EVERY DEBT yen the}: Pere tii,itiiiiii'.G, nun-mm: Hunt Agent for the G.T.P. Int Edmonton, In: resigned his pmsi- tion. In response to request by local clergyman. after Sund-y the 249th Battalion, Saskatoon, will cease to hold Sunday evening concerts. The Edmonton bank clearings for the week ending December 7 are $3.- 772,584.46. F or the name I'Mlt |--0 tera $187, city. The Welsh Choir of Lethuridtre add. ed $50 to the local Red CHIS! Fund through a concert held recently. Lifutmnnt-Gove/a.' Lake of tus. kntehewan was murmured at York- ton, But. by the Canadian Club. A Lethbridze society. the Daugh- ters nnd Maids of England. railed $187.06 for the Patriotic Fund of that nil" "ered _to tutsrntoii' The "Wild Cuts," has Hen strttitmra, A children’s com ye, new tt2t for doe, Sank-toot: Red Cross Society mliz- ed 8160 through railing of I bull. A“ The and mu at Tuber. Alta., have not yet returned to work. Two utriotic concerts held in the Hand Hills dutch-t, Alberta, rained 81.194. ‘ “hwmm Minna-1mm -- .......... I "rrecittluttmediedi tter- '.t.trntse Iinring into u- the dupe 'reuon that I;.4,,,‘I ha, iiiiriiiiiiii' West appropriation arid "I: need have nii anxiety M, 2 civil 'yrrruGioTiioiiii' arteeitlist medical ser- ore, another the Bur, m heart work, and " iion dOpending upon knees. The vein. of Id be harmed trm? e qrouid add My 9 i . 't.ree.Utkts and u. btiir At dim paid when tioeurer, l L _. - "ntxeneral medi- e War "e being ' In)" the London , available to the due of the agricultural te province of Alberta reach the imposing fig- M ONTAlIo " ml comma; Wariser," cm as he desires Warner, can hold his as he desires, He ha- mster on his farm. Scanlnn, I well-known italluned at to. This dumb}; ltocls. dairy produce, continued w--. . m Tor" thy-me week In: the efreet that proved to have Neatly appointed A Ll ‘plncy KC'amntionu vummon was total increnu tyres-iv: farmer I battalion which But Britain complete ior tho re- for "In tugina, has