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I BE 't'A ['GHT? mono risk to Sn mm dere Jon 'tart. out in be A new. kt in the " ubt, tered to a Puee when and have - mummy. " in. a lag. ave a fooling ’ :hrough on. y of the Mre.. , sudden pkg. or failure, to stion of link a “can is. m. an." ned. The W " 0103 And 'nil, rote I ABOUT PEACE Intuit Nam. In looking back on the war the names of many localities associated with pence truths will be recalled. Anxious, that fell temporarily into German hands only In the war, was db town where the treaty bearing its name, after being negotiated in London, was titnod between Great Britain. France. Hound. and Spain. in 1802, ad was the occasion when the Bourdon. the [rut ball in Bruges bel- fry, I'll run; for the first time. Le, Cate“ is also {was for a treat” niqned there. Cambni, of military,! {also going back naturis- hom the' Cindi-n capture, ha also been tho. am of sum! 'teqotinted - at. Tho In: curb-a in what has a... down to us in history a the “Lunar P/see," win it: we“... rittned by Russia and Turkey, was taken to the Appeal Court of the Congress of Berlin in 1878. It is the most notcble instance of this having happened. There wore doubts whether the Treaty of Bucharest. settling the Baikal: Wars of 1912-18. would not be se' ised by the Powers. but the Veni- 2x:lo‘s [ears on this ground were not realized. The maintenance of the bal- ‘ anve of power of Europe has been the, excuse for modiiying treaties made by; individual bellkoronts. It sounds to, the present day reader like a new; theory. eeolving from the concert of Europe, which used to periodically ex- I at pressure on lfurkey and Freeee in _ the latter years of the nineteenth venturing. or resuldng from the,' Triple Ailiamc. which provoked the, creation of the Triple Entcnte. But It: is interesting on looking over the old,' [mace truths. that are now house-j hold words without much meaning or; talus. to discover that the principle of tho balance of power in Europe was, first recognized by the Treaty of : Westphalia. in 1648. and also that iti was under that international act mgl Alsace was handed to France, to I I new from her-after many vieis-l ', .itude.---hy Germany in the imposed i," psaco kid down by mutant at Vor- I 1 traiike. and eventually signed tttl ' Frankfort. l . tori: under the. white Bae on March 23rd, 1902. They said they wanted peace. and Lord Milner. representing the Civil Government, and Loni Kit- chener. representing the military authrr.itier, ”we then a safe-conduct to Trruonxtad, in the Orange River Colony. to consult other Boer leaders. Fighting went on. In May Botha. De Wet. Denney. Smuts, and Betting. who had been allowed to hold tr” peace ernferenees at Vrreenisrintr, aft that little Vaal River hamlet, and took into Pretoria their considered appeal for peace. The Home Government was; consult-4 on it. and their answer wan takvn back to Vereeniging. where, they decided to surrender uncondition- , ally. and returned to Pretoria to sim' the peace document he'ore Lords Mil-,' uer and Kitrhentr on May Slat. This: peat-e. thovmh based on those terribleg military onwlitions of "unconditional) sur-enrfvr.” was a very rem-rolls one,, and \"l' at (rm-t- nmve 13,000000 for the _ repatriation of the people against whom we had been warring. This: tieaimont and the establishment of a Union " South Africa. which speed- ily followed, wttled an unhanny war , in a way Hint made South Africa a _ sour": of rttvtuettt to us in the Great ; War, nor: happily ended. " Revised by Great Powers. l' There have been cases where a 1 Mace treaty concluded by benign-I. unis has been revised by the Great,' Powers. The Peace of San Stefano.§ The (one that closed the Boer War was arrived at without the British and Boer delegates rowing to a format mum) ttfrlc. Mr. Schalk Burner and a {on pruanert Boers came into Pre- C q (By Ernest Sam.) The meet important pone center- uce I” that which settled the Bul- ken War. .The delegate: of Turkey Bulgaria, Serbia, end Greece met " St. James' Palace, laden, end, the: Maine terms for some weeks, failed to agree upon the. Tho com [creme wen opened by Sir Edward Grey, who wetcomed the delegetcs in a speech that was given to the public. but Manuals negotiations were con- ducted in prix ate. This is the nearest eppoac'a to publicity that has yet been reached. ind it is doubtful whe- ther own p, “idem Wileon's deter- mination to secure open diplomacy in the future will be strong enough to break through the veil of secrecy with which pence tsournarlera have ever b'een envehwerl. There are many rem; was why day by day stories from tho council-room are dengeious. Give and I take Mays r. Iarib you in em; settles, new, and it in quite conceivable that the doirq of one day published with-' out the full decisions might raise such: a norm of dinpprovel in the country tree-ted that the position ef it! dete.. Katei mum: he fatally compromised in their mum to secure trenerat, peace 2351187 "MTN, THE FAMOUS M'ECLU, CORRESPONDENT A. Atatherity on the Strbieet Meee Dram: on "in Menu, of Some Notable Negotiation. The PM of the Boer War. I Before this war. I was so young ":r That "was made me frown: ', A threatening cloud that overhung , A cherished summer gown; f A handily l forfeited; (' A triding hope out down. I am not old now. yet I feel i I null not turn lulu ' A silly. futile squirrel wheel Nor pee o narrow lane. glows Despite the world's sharp pain! The Itttm tales I used to read. They cannot now beanie: The little loan that Med my nee I to“ them by and smile. The mac troubles? Left behind. on. may a bleeding mile: Such The device is known "tLeia" as a paravane, and consign ot a waterplane shaped like a torpedo with a pair ot large ttat tttta projecting on either side of tho body. Its tall In tttted with rudders that keep it " any depth de- sired while operaute. Device Which Frustrated a German ' Plot Against British Navy. The British Beet in the harbor of Soaps Plow was saved trom a desper- ate, attack by a German U-boat the day before the armistice with Germany was signed through the employment of 'a device when has gained tur its in. ventor. Lieut. Burney. tho gift from the Government of $150,000 and the de. l rotation of the C.M.(l. The submarine, which was manned by a party of German offieera, nttelnp- j ted a feat that never had been triedi before in the whole war. Carrying; eleven torpedoes she approached the" entrance of the harbor, where sho was detected. When she came up to the' tsrtrtace an electric button was pressed “ and she was blown to pieces. Lieutr Bunny's device has enabled the Bri-i tlsh warships to enjoy almost com-E plate immunity in the last three years I from German mines and submarines. saving the lives of hundreds at sailors , and preventing the loss of a large,; number of warships. i ', Finally, when the shells began felling , close, the Dunraven stopped and , abandoned ship by the "panic party.” The ship was then being heavily she]. I led, and on in}: aft. In the meantime the submarine closed to 400 ysrtls distance, partly obscured from view by the dense clouds of smoke issuing from the Dunraven's stern. Despite , the knowledge that the after meg:- zine must inevitably explode if he', waited. and further, that a gun and. 'gun's crew lay Concealed over the magazine, Captain Campbell decided to reserve his flre until the submarine had parsed clear of the smoke. A, moment later, however. a heavy ex-I -plosion occurred aft, blowing the gunI and gun's crew into the air. and acci- dentally starting the fire-ttones at the remaining gun positions; screens were immediately dropped. and the only can that would hear opened fire, but the submarine, apparently frightened ivy the explosion, had already com- menced to submerge. Realizing that a torpedo must inevitably follow, Captain Campbell ordered the surgeon to reniove all wounded and conceal I them in cabins: hoses were also _ turned on the poop, which was a mass l of turues. ' l ed to within 5000 yards, and then, rising to the surface, opened fire. The Dunravern returned the fire with her merchant ship gun, at the same time reducing speed to enable the enemy to overtake her. Wireless signals were alao sent out for the benefit of the submarine. "Help! come uiekly- submarine chasing and.shelling me." Lieutenant Charles George Baum and Ernest Pltrher, o.N. On August 8, 1917, 1131.8. unravel), ask: the command of Captain Gor. don Ctunpbell, V.C., D.S.O., KN., sighted an enemy submarine on the horizon. In her role of armed British merchant shim the Dunravcn con- tinucd he: rig-:2: coarse, whereup the, su'onurrine closed, remaining “bung-1‘ There appears to be no hard and fast rule about a peace treaty to be signed in the capital where the terms have been negctiated. Over a gcoro of States, old world and new, " well as far Japan and China. are entitled to partieipate in the peace conference soon to meet at Versailles. BLOWS U-BOAT INTO PIECES. secret clause in the document having the oiled. of robbing Italy of her Venetian provinces. and handing them over to Austria. Another interesting township with: a new a peace hUtorr that W8 overrun byi “ft: reference to announcements " the Austrian when they made their} tne award of the Victoria Croat P bread: through at Caparette in the _ naval (may: nnd men for services m autumn of 1917 is Campo Formio, not. action with enemy submarines, the far from Udine. The treaty wtu' be- I following we the accounts of the ac- tween Napoleon and Austria, and was] tions for which thesc awards were signed in 1797. It was noteworthy as i made: one of the most barefncal acts of Comttutnder Gordon Campbell, ".S.th, diplomatic duplicity on record. a' KN. . who untied an gum-rol- af m were Louin (lacy; luck of the French King Punch 1., and Banter. of Attotria, mm of Charles V., Empr- or of Germany. The treaty between the Emperor Chutes VI. and Philip of Spain wu also signed here in 1724. The League af Cambrai, a combina- tion with hostile objects, In: formed in the town, which is a war-atricksn ruin today. Pope Julius IL, the Ear. peror Maximili , Louis XII. of France, and Fenrnand of Spain unit- ing their forces against the Republic of Venice. The Main Scale. march by! Such valor WIN THE V. C. need , . _._,......V....., '_- ----'" 7"" “‘ 'w", End No. If hold were immediately' . . I Rooded and the starboard lifeboat was E "The love m you, and faith. that blown to pieces. The weather was? .. glowed, minty at the time, fresh breeze and, '"utett my earth-bound eyes ho see. The " m' rt ,’" Bee-- . 'lcd",',"',',',,, commend J'1'll,'ut."/"i.' i If thus and thus Christ's follower”: Hereford, D.8.C., KN.R., abandoned: showed . m ship, and as the last boat we. shoving j How lovely Christ must bel off the perilcope of the submarine we; f observed close before the port been: I If he should lr,tI,,utyyt that tthore about 400 yards distant. The enemy? One speak so and the 30"" of men. then submerged and the pew re- 3 What joy beyond all words would pour appeared directly eaten, pasaintt to, Ita glory through him then.' the starboard quarter and the round! . to the port beam, Juan it turned ' Row "I“ he vtit hits balmy em: min toward the thip, hrenking "F: New, bend m mum, lowest face about fifty yet-d3 any. The ; mtse. . lifeboat, acting as a lure, commenced l Thet. tttls sweet Mtetl to Pee i to pull round the stern; submarine, Bis ttmtl had helped to “we? faee about fifty you}; GGT' Gil, lifeboat, acting as a lure, command to pull round the stern; mbmarine succeeded in plugging the shot hole, In and keeping the water under with,' E ‘pumps. The Prize then set sail for, the land, 120 miles distant. They were q If t fittally picked up two days later by a' A motor launch and towed the remain..: ing ttve miles into harbor. ("o Lieut. Ronald Neil Stuart, Ds.o.. R.f Y Nat., ttgtd Selma Wm. Willis-38.} R.N.R., O.N. in“, On June T, 1917, while disguised tttr' a British merchant vessel, with nl Y dummy gun mounted aft. H. M. s.l Pargust wu torpedoed at very close l The range. Her boilerroom, engineroom. ' and No. 5 hold we! imthab-Iu' _ ped, and all guns opened fire. A shell i.". ,struck the foremost gun of the sub- _ di 'marine. blowing it to atoms and an- , so nihilatinmthe crew. Another shot de, i' 3h molished the connink tower. and at.’, the same time a Lewis gun raked the ( 3.5 survivors of the submarine', deck. She I a; sank four minutes after the com-g C.'.,' mence ment of the action in clouds of i (.1: smoke, the glare of in internal "tiii,""" being visible through the rents in her I hull. The captain of the Ittmtarinec' a warrant offleer, and one man were : picked up and brought on board the! Prize, which was then herself sinking I If, fast. Captors and prisoners. sowever, , A '.,l bow. The enemy came down the port ie' side of the ship, and fire was with- h I held until all guns could hear at point- os' blank range. The iirst shot beheaded clthe captain ef the submarine, as he fl was climbing out of throwing tower l” and the submarine finally sank w.ith e _ conning tower open and crew pouring J) out. One other and one man were e ' rescued on the surface and taken pris- y l oner, after which the boats were re- ' I called and all hands proceeded to do [,7 their utmost to Kas, the ship Moat. -9 A wireless signal for assistance had ' , been sent out when t but not until) the 1 / fate of the tsubmarine was assured,) _ . l {and a destroyer and sloop arrived ai ' couple of hours later and took the i .' Q5 in tow. She was finally beached: .7 in safety the following evening. Thel l" action may be regarded as the 3m, .'prcme test of naval discipline. The' _ chief engineer and engine room watch 5 /remained at their posts to keep the; 'dynamo working until driven out by,! _the water, then remaining concealed“ on top of the cylinders. The guns'; crews had to remain concealed in their l own houses, for nearly half an hour,) while the ship slowly sank lower inf the water. i j Lieut. Wm. Edward Sanders. new. 3 ' H.M.S. Prize. a topsoil si-‘lxooner at 200 tons, under command (Lieut. William Edward Sanders, R.N.R., U sighted an enemy submarine on April 30, 1917. The enemy opened fire at“ three miles range. and approached l, slowly astern. The "panie party." in " charge of Skipper William lienryll Brewer. R.N.R. (Trawler Section). im. 1 , mediately abandoned ship. Ship's head l was put into the wind, and the mans' t crews concealed themselves by lying? face downward on the declz. The en- 3 t emy continued deliberately shelling" the schooner, inflicting severe damage , f and wounding a number of men. For' twenty minutes she continued to an- I t proach. tiring as she came, hut atjl length. apparently tsatisfied that nail one remained on board, she drew out _ il on the schooner": quarttr seventy , C' yards away. The white ensign was _ li immediately hoisted, the screens drop- _ h t On February 17, 1917, 11.M.S. Q5, 'under the command M Commander lCampbell. DS.0., R.N., was struck by a torpedo abreast of No. 8 hold. i Action stations were sounded and the 2 "panic party" abandoned skin. The en- ; gineer oMeer reported that the engine- ,' room was ftoodintt, and was ordered to _ remain " his post as long as possible, iwhich he and his staff. seven! of jwhom were severely wounded, most l gdhntly did. The submarine was ob- istoittd on the starboard quarter 200 turd: distant, watching the proceed- rinn through his periscope. He run but the ship on the starboard side Ho e1oaely that the whole hull was sisibht beneath the surface, tinn1trl emerging about soo yards on the port; Commanders and Crews Battle as Long as Ship is Aloat--iteeitat ' of Heroic Deeds. UNPARALLELED l ALOR WINS CC. FOR NAVAL OFFICERS " torpedoed at very close I The worldly train you Bnerifieed [er boilerroom, eneimtrooml To follow We He led; hold were immediatel I ' it“ starboard lifeboat weir?“ love in You, and faith. that Pieces. The weather wuj .. glowed, . he time, fresh breeze and. 'ttelf my earth-bound eyes r . Th " . ,": "er--- :mmande J'11fut.'T."i.' f tf thus and thus Christ's follower”: IN 11-80“ FIGHTS "Your If then tt hand should take his hand, ' A voice that thrills with gladness bi Bloch of Lyons. who was shot at the battle ot the Aime while holding a crucifix to the lips of a dying Chris. tian aoldier. o watched-for, to this glorious land You showed me-you-the way; : JV“. ”1: Then in a lurid moment he realized ,' stream u that he was dying, and he began to t Bresluu la may, "Ave Maria. Are Maria"; but have captu the poor, tired brain could remember: nothing more. lie turned to me to" ' , continue; but I could no longer trusti Lrriir: myself to speak. and it was the Mo-l " hammedan who took up the Chrietian ! Tells Cd. prayer and continued it while the sol-' H diet followed with his lips until his: A letter soul passed away into the valley ot I ford Black shadows. i' litle Freud I think this story is only equaled in ; dated Nov its broad tolerance by that at the Rab. frnnalnénll- liman wounded has always been con-I ‘:splcuous. One of my neutral friends i'),',',',',"'?,",' through Germany heard from! .one ot the prominent German surgeon“ l that they were well aware of that fact. I l and knew that their wounded received , lover-y attention. There is a storyi t knnvm throughout France of a French (doctor who was attending a wounded; jam-man on the "attleiieht. The man,‘ fwho was probably halt delirious, i, j snatched at a revolver that was lylltgI (near by and attempted to shoot the' fdoc-tor. The doctor took the ret'olvcrj 1 from hlm, patted him on the Lead and‘ i Enid: I Everywhere you hear accounts ot '. brotherly love and religious tolerance. [ I x'I-nmmher kneeling once by the hide of P. dying Frcnrh soldier who was tenderly supported in the arms of in famous young Mohammedan surgeon. an Egyptian who had taken his degree at Edinburgh and ms new attached to the French Red Cross. The man's mlnvl was wunderlng, and, seeing I wumeu beside him, he began to talk to me as to his betrothed: ( F "1 his war cannot lust always, little one, and when ft is over we will buy. a pig and a cow and we will go to the _ cure, won't we, beloved '." 5 Your card in His blest steps to ', when the gates of death are passed And one lifts up his happy eyes t rapture that at last, at last, He stands in Paradise; is him on the battlefields the Madness of the French medical men to the Gets "ugave, a son who [a a. proGer in their land; let us hope that some Gets man woman would do as much for it. on and gave it to ond ot the Get; mans to carry. When the guards tried to remonstmte she replied simply: we named a group of German prison- ers, and among them was a wounded m.cu who was lying in a small cart. A hand but had fallen new“ his leg. and none of his nommdm attempted to remove it. A Preruehwotaan, push- ing her way between tho sands, mud Acts of Brotherly Love and Religious Tolerance. ' in all my travels through France. any: Mira Kathleen Burke in “The Wltibtttotut to Verdun," I hare never seen any bitterness shown toward the prisoners. I remember once at Nevera ape in the mist. Five was reopened until ehe sank: one mam clinging to the bow as she went down. The boats, after a severe pull to windward, BUC- ceeded in saving one tMeer and one man. Ameriean destroyers and I British sloop arrived shortly after- wprd, and the Pal-gust was towed back to port. As on the previous occasion. oMeers and men displayed the utmost. courage And conihlence in their cap- tain. and the action serves as an ex- ample of what perfect discipline. when coupled with eonfHence. can achieve. '"Now then, now then, dou't be child- '.mtortemeaosetr, a_ayd Lint. that“ with c.mtirlete trim of Wetlanm incurred from the ttre of either ship or submarine (who had trained . a Maxim on the lifeboat), continued to decoy her to within fifty yards‘of the ship. The Pnrtrmst then opened fire with ttll mane. And the uabmarine with oil squirting from her side and the crew pouring out of her conning tow- er, steamed slowly across the bowrt with u heavy list. The enemy crew threw up their'hands in token of sur- rendcr, whereupon tire immediately ceased. The submarjnc then began to move away " a gradually inereasine spmd. apparently etrdcnvorintt to ee- life on earth, your work for Christ, MINOR MERCIES OF WAR Harvest TORONTO . 3' am about your age. I am eleven and ihave a little sister of seven, who is l, very turbulent and wishes the war [would end so that her father might come buck. ( Therturuuiians came and brought us something to eat and, believe me, i l we have been very hungry for four' 5 yearn. Many children died of hunger.; ' I have just can u piece of twice. i, cake your father gave me and found i,' lit very good. I hope, that you will. {answer as soon on you have halved , my letter and that you will (in me, fthe new: of your éountry. Momma i sends her compliments to your mum I Ima, and y litle ttinter send. hers tof l your brother. I shake your hand and a T also your other’: and brother'.. ! t JULES RUFIN. '. th. Want In hot. 3 Posse do Temple. i (W . " Volencionnu. ! To mend a hole in the spout of your tea-kettle, take a cork and cut I small piece to iit (be hole, tightly force It in and your kettle is may. C0rrd's father. Sort Eadie. in with the 18th Raihny Troops and bu France over seven months. ' Dear Comrade,--) give you that iname because I am a great comrade of your father. He is at present in "raierliieGisr. The Canadians have fined us from the eemy, whose pris- ;oners we have been for four years. Aow we are inupeace and I believe :the war will noon end. I would like :to have new: of my father, because il" have not had any and I do not 'lmow whether he is still alive. I ;have seen your photograph and I A letter has been received by Clit- ford Blackie, a Toronto boy, from a litle French boy in St. Waast In haut, dated Nov. II, which reads when translated: Tells Cliitord Buckie How His Fuller's Cake. "I have even more terrible news for you," he said. pointing out to the stream where the Goeben and the Bresluu lay anchored. "The Germans have captured Turkey." The Belgian. a huge tltrure of a man, more than six feet tall, put his arm soothingly upon the shoulder ot the diminutive Turk. "I have terrible news for you." said the sympznmetc Turkish statesman. "The Germans have captured Brus. sols.“ A few days after the Goeben and the Breslau had when up permanent quar- tem In the L'osporuts, Diaved ue..c, Miuirster of Finance. happened to meet a distinguished Belgian Jurist, then in Constantinople. anchor. The. olilcers and men lined') the deck in full View of the enemy-l ambassador. All solemnly removed] their Turkish fezzcs and put on Ger; man cans. The band played “Deutscli- land uber Allen" and other German songs, while the German sailors snug; loudly to the accompaniment. After, an hour or two ot serenhdiug the RUB. 3 sian ambassador, the ottieers and crew I removed their German Cara and put on their Turkish tezzes The Goeben then picked up her anchor and returned to her station. '; um”: FRENCH BOY wmms ‘ MM: The German omeerts aml crew: greatly enjoyed this farcical pretense that the Goobmx and the Brcalau were Turkish ships. One day the Goeben lulled up the Busporns. halted In front of th Russian Embassy and dropped The German government made no real pretansion that the mile of the ships had been bona tide: It least, when the Greek miaistor at Berlin pro- tested agatmt the bummed!!! as un- friendly to Gmecc~ naively [urge-tun; the American ships that Grown had recently mtrrttitsr,d--the German ot. fuiau 'soothed him by admitting sotto was that the ownership still resided in Germany. Yet when the Execute ambassadors at t'otmttutt'atop4e con- stuttly protested against the protein“ ot the German vessels, the Turkish o.mcials Manny kept up the pretense that they were intotral mate of the Turkish navy. l "It Anyone here wishes to qnestlon this purchase." he said quietly had my, "I am ready to meet Mm." There were men in the 1mm 01le net who perceived that even then. The 's, story is told in Constantinople that; the 'tbi-ure mating at which the mo. f mentor" decision had been made was not altogether harmonious. The Grand I Tir.ier and manual, Minister ot Murine, ' it was sold. dumbed to the (latiiioun‘ sale of the ships to Turkey, and ttl minded that it would be mule tt ml one. When the discussion hid reached its height, Kstver, who was playing the German game, announced that he had ', already computed the tgtirattgttou. Pl the silence that followed " tsutlhnettt l tho young Napoleon pulled out his trim 1 tol and laid it on the table. I pm Incident Whisk an a mm “at Upon the Wars. Wbel Germany. by breaking inter- national tor, mcceeded in getting the Goeben and the Bree-lea hat: the Der- aneliee. the best line of commutin- tion between Rustin and the Allies was out. and Raisin military oolleple was the inevitable remit. The Arrival ot the cruisers the.) mule it inevitable that Turkey should join forces with Germany when the proper moment came, and Mr. Henry Morgentheu. I former as. ttrtttrttmrttdor ta Turkey, writes in the World's Work that he bo. lieves that the ”new; of the strait by them, German ehlpe touted the doom ot the Turkish Empire. 1 PMYING m GERIAN ltAME. He Ate In work with ttik layout. Lo, tho _t"trtoemsathatsodr.anduapt to receive the wear: rouateruthruat. i, The Minnedosa took 500 on Doc. 9. ;Mo-t of these travelled with their :hullumds. Many of these wives will {we Canada for the Itrst time. for. {during recent months, Canadian sol- idiers have been marrying English i.womettaithemteofay0-eek. Thu instinctively, when I the" bum. I nun hut turn: tor safety. and he nearly always lam to the right. than exposing In. loft. nae. too. when newton drill and the can; come- “About turn!" he mm. "tT the right." The explanation given by an old sol- dier It Dimple. It II the Instinct of I. "htor--atoticettt" In harem-{o pro. tect " ‘body with Ms left arm. Then. Home you noticed how frequently talcum. are wounded tn the ten um: or utt leg? Then special sailings foe women And children will be suspended di- rectly demobilization begin". Striking scenes are witnessed now- adays " the British Columbia House, where Canadian military authorities have opened a special bureau for wo- men and children to secure passages. The crush is so great whenever a sailing in imminent that mny no compelled to wait for hours in queue; Many Wives of Our Soldiers Witt h"ee Canada Fur First Time. The Canadian Press learns that a reliable estimate shows that 50,000 women and children dependents of Canadian soldiers are in Englund. Roughly speaking. they qt: be tramp. ported " the rate of 500 each sailing. How many sailings will be available in tho near future it is'irnrrstsibie to say, but in any can: it is obvious that the whole number cannot possibly reach Canada before demobilization of the army. _ icut into this country. 'The German Jprintera were subsidised. and their .traveliers had instructions to under- 'seil the British tIrma. They reduced their price one shilling per thousand. Homing home producers to nu Into f line. But down the German came on- (other shilling, boas-ting that this pro- ' cess would be continued until they put their British rivals out of business. And they very nearly did until the far intervened and saved the native l producers. _ The war had an adverse effect upon (Ute business. Tottristai were not so _ plentiful. People had other things to think about, and the picture-postcard {looked like passing out of existence. .But the lighting forces came to the rescue. Literally millions of cards are pass- ing to and from the Front every week. and are in a very wide sense doing a national work. They save time and material. compared with letters. which require envelopes. But there is the human " well as the commercial as- pect. Our on tiettting forces, and particularly tho men from over tho seas. and our American Allies, have developed quite a craze for sending their greetings on these little curds. 'a it can go through the post for a haif- penny, the dounmd for these cards in tar exceeding the anppiy. The PM.” Hug. Tho modern ttttttttmr-troster' was really initiated during the Franco- Pruasian War ot 1870. and. from pie. tum ot towns and historical objects. quickly developed to birthday and other greetings. It soon became a very substantial British industry, until bs tore the war one firm ot printers alone had an output of 50,000,000 annually. But the wily German was on the track, and he sent his agents broad. Thousand. of :oldloru have a rooted disliko to with; long letters. much u .they my like to receive them. Marry ot than ennui" mac cards hue short “not. or a few “not! ot trrihse, which might be scanned ot being on the meiodramatie “do, but which ex- press Juirt the sort of sentiment do- sind. Andfov that the new postal regulations permit of a card bell; treated as a “printed paper," so that, tith five words of “formula. of court- vrtm.V, or of a tut'nTetttiotgttl character," tor tattitctegtt "applie- of paper to meet the etxtrtuirutuary demand which has urban “ace the wnr. For picture- wizard: hare been accepted by our "tttltstt force. and their friend. at home an In "err-ready-to-ttsad henn- of communication. possessing may taunt-(es ovor a letter. the can] about" would imagine; Ind their importance In. been moo;- nlud by the “than!” In may way-u. an In MI: new-pup". Not only have the pond anthems" grinned facilities tor their tumult-51m: at the old rate or one hulfpeuuy, but the threatened Impositum of a luxury tax Aes basin averted; while. most impar. taut of nil, names are to be granted Pk~ture~poatcu~dl phy'Sd 3 much 'ttomit-rt-ttr-tinthe-tttnn Come hen About An Enormous True . Captured From the Hun by the Irkhh. Q Wound. and the Lett Side HAD ORIGIN IN THE FRANCO- PRUSNAN WAR OF 1070. ulllBiilBmiiat 'r' Suddenly I notice that the roar of d.‘ the engine is not so smooth as it ”should be. " pilot “no is used to n- ," long petrol "ltts can hear immedi- IF ' etely there is the slightest ammo.- " in the thrnb of his engine.) My oh. B. l, server also marks the difference. And IO now we have whet is Lnown among re I "ttte-meat as “wind ap." Still, we {keep on. hoping that the slight defect Itt 'will rieht itself. But presently the " "grumble" becomes more noticeable, " and lestly the engine begin: to "miss" d altogether. Now we have vertical B. "wind up" there is nothing for it but e [ to plane down and try tn " things 1up. Accordingly, I shut the throttle, _ and stick her nose down, and finally r, _ Nomi" on the water. After tinkering 'l ' around for s bit, the defect " discov- h ered and put right. All repairs have a to be accomplished by balancing one- ‘_ self on the Bottttt, or crawling alone '1 l the plane to the engine. 1, I The Pilot's Engineer. if Once again I atsrt the engine, and r it works smoothly. Of course, by now most of the six hours have passed, land We put our nose towards home, thankful that we got out of that mess (:l.lil,i"o'li' anything Worse than "wind ., up." But our troubles are not yet 'over, for presently we chsrge into a Fii"-ici,. the bugbesr of seeplsue npilots. When once in one of those I tleecy blankets one has to ttr entirely l by instruments, which in time becom- e ', es a very nerve-racking job. or course, ‘git is possible to climb out of s for, _ but the climbing capabilities of a ses- §piue m -- me said! But, luck- ily, this is only I small one, and we I soon emerge into the deer air min. l Nothing further occurs, end we leech " the mother ship st tt on. After s hot bath and a good meal we sre I ready to write our report. l This only ems-terms sane of the museum“ encountered in one iliettt, ,There sre my others-ear., rain, (hail, and snowstorms, which often spring up while one is on a long lpstpol. l About forty years 130' an epidemiv in! grippe nvcpt over the world that found ita victims not among bun-n being: but among otimala, dimly home. Grout numbers of horns died of it in this emmtry--a for more an" om matter than it would to to-day, ‘numucli u at that period the squint brute furnished Illinois! the only moon: oftnction in cities and rural districts. Strictly speaking. an epidemic can. corn: human being: only. When u plague of (linen. Attacks Animals it in In 'Urtaootie." By the people at largo, however. the latter tor- In. tl'emeud on the an. of the new and Incubus horn My. They co.- mouly 1?e.tti-iuuiioiiii,u in {our syllable: w of live. It on. was“, nothing in the {rot-Id but ietth-aa-.U um um. " - -_-... “II-\Il, U, the my, u of haiku origin. big-Ry- in; . tar-idly tiara-45a; infectious disease of the respinbry organs. The woodland. a GL of min cover about 865,001? .'-"| net ', t or has been mining his bombs and , Imam gum, m tuning his “melee: , set. we use hoisted from the deck end gently lowered on to the utter. slings 1 I sre out ", sad we ere now a aper- ,nb unit. Md to the “mother dip” by wireless our. When the ob- I server Ilse signaled his rcadinems, I _ start up the and». ht it revolve for a few seconds. then shove the We wide open. The urine met-s. sad the 'plsne quickly ache:- speed. Boon [we on dusting dong at shout twen- tr knots. Twenty chumps to thirty. seamleessUatail-skidoutotthe Inter; the sir-speed now shows forty, ave, end I heave her out of the water. We leave the ocean, not to touch it 'Igsin tttttil we return to thir spot site (hours henee--we bore. l Us Before Dawn. 1 Up we soar, into the cold, grey Ar, as yet untinged by the ruddy blush It dawn. then away to the cast'nnl. (And who knows what the next few hours hold in store for us? And none. but those who have experienced them I know of the monotory and dancer of those lone patron. After three hours, during which we have had several drinks of chat coma (vacuum tuso are nlwnys carried). ate n few cakes of chocolate, ctr., we right the Catirt of --'--. We can north to look for trouble. When Norm Were the Helium I Them Mn been no CC.', given to l the Inn-pub] bunch of the and sir i um. at other downtim- nre few _e'nnttfurtmt-,rottttetrorkeoe. i,strdilr on. Pilots so out Ind an to ;retum. Nobody knows why, but. we ,who have “who“ none of the ite?::': of the lea-patrol have n l"frue Men of what has happened. Let us take n trrieat day in the life of a suphue pilot. I In tirrt urem- ed from my peaceful slumber: at 8.M Ratt.. and half An hour later l mu on the “pl-MM. Afar letting the engine. during which time my abun- Running "to a Fog-Ink In Chit! Di-tee Experienced by the MED BY AN ARIAN OF BRITISH NAVY DAILY TRIP - INASEAPMNE tical) I1