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GREAT DAYS IN THE WAR.say that there is no break through, and A story of German brutality is told
by Private Watts, a lad of about nine- teen, who was with the first Canadian Contingent (his home is at Port Arthur, Ontario) and was captured two and a half years ago, during the second battle
SLAVERY.
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will conclude that it does not matter. It matters, a great deal or, at least, if Four fighting days in the British we had prepared such tremendous posi- campaign of 1917 stand out conspien- tion as those fram which the Germans cusly above the rest-namely, those of has been four times driven by us the April 9, June 7, July 31, and Septem-year with immense loss of prisoners and
guns, we should think that mattered, of Ypres. ber 20 (writes the Military Correspon-for it would have proved our inferiority. dent of the Times). These have all been It is not a question row of whether days of grand attacks, intended and German Armies in our front will be destined to prove the supperiority of beaten, but only when they will be 'beaten, and the harder the resistance the British over the German arms in the greater the defeat. Would peace battle. This last battle of September be the dominant interest in Germany 20 only differs from the others in that were there a belief anywhere that the coke a day, whether it took them all§ it is a continuation of the day of July Germans could wig? They cannot win, and well they know it. But one can 31, and the completion of the Com-win a war and less a peace, and "bere mander's plan for that operation. diplomacy steps in to make or to mar August weather prevented it from being the vintage of victory.
fought out to its logical and inevitable consequences lotgega In the sodden TEL. 1399 field of Flanders an Army is dependent, and too mach dependent upon the weather. In this particular case of the
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On one occasion a man who was ill with fever, and was unable to work, was compelled to stand at attention with a guard standing over him. When he fell down from exhaustion. he was kicked until he stood up again. He was eventually removed to hospital | Private Watte states that no madieni treatment was given to men who com- plained of illness. *)
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Several of them belong to the Can strong places provided with every adian Mounted Rifles, and were taken defensive and offensive apparatus known prisonera near Ypres on the same day to man, was created, sad in rear there June 2, 1918 that Major-General was an unusually large number of divisions held in reserve, and obviously Mercer was killed and Brigadier-General retained for counter-attacks of more Williams was captured. than ordinary violence. All the more One of these Lance Corporal credit is due to commanden and troops McMullen-was recaptured on his first
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be alive now bat for the food parcels sent to them. Here is the diet of men who were working in mines or digging potato land.
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The Germans, called the Canadians
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