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EXPLANATION OF Here
YESTERDAYS There
CARTOON
General "Statistique"
and I Everywhere.
A BIG SACRIFICE
Major General Charles Dupont) headed the
"Second-Borean”. (French Military Espionage) in
Mr. Wildrid Greene, K.C, makes Paris for many years prior to the a financial sacrifice of about £35,- All communications intended for World War He was so zealous 000 a year. to become a Lard publication should be addressed to in the collection of information Justice of Appeal His annual the Editor, and be accompanied by about military Germany, that he income at the Bar was estimated the Writer's Name and Address accumulated a vast store of know$40,000. He has by far the hot necessarily for insertion, but ledge about the national enemy biggest practice which has ever as a guarantee of good faith.
During the War it was his task been built up at the Chancery Bar
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to keep the French High Away and for years his friends have Command posted about the move been telling him that he has been ments of the enemy. Disdaining working himself to death the use of" written records or memory ziths, he retained the
and colours of every German Com-
He is a brilliant wit and scholar,
a Fellow of AD0 Souls, and regular-1.
HIGHWAY ACROSS CANADA
ALL BRITISH MOTOR
ROUTE
FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC ROAD
OF ITS KIND
(By A. H. Faulkner)
London ¡pletely unsettled region in Oz-
where HAVE just returned to Newtario,
the winding
York from a motoring hol thread of concrete and gravel mame and rank of every officer ly writes the topical epilogues today in Canada, wondering breaks off and the task of the whether English people realise road-builder has yet to be com- stationed in the German Amy on the Westminster Latin plays. |the Western front. He also His sense of humour came out at how accessible and delightful to pleted. It is an awesome thing memorised" "the"number, strength, Versailles during the making of visit this spacious land is. to see a good road run into the Defence Against Gas origin, Itinerary, location, history the Peace Treaty. When Mr. It is its accessibility for the wilderness and come to an end.
Principal Gap Engineer-Commander E Jpany. Whenever he was called Lloyd George said, "I've heard of British motorist with a mont
the Czechs, the Slovaks and the to spare that particularly im-
The principal gap is a few Slavs, but who were the Jugs" pressed me, because this is White RN compressed as upon to report to Joffre or Foch. much
information into his could continue for many homa
Ma Greene wrote down an imag-something so recent that even miles from Sault Ste. Marie, at the south-eastern end of Lake speech on Gas Defence to the rattle of the most circumstan imary and humorous history of the Canadians do not seem to have
Superior. The traveller, who Rotary Club as anyone could al information about the enemy Tugs. It was passed round the recognised its significance rescues it has already seen a expect to get in the time at his rom memory No var prisoner Conference, and
The Trans-Canada Highway,od deal of Eastern Canada disposal, but it would be impos-over misled him. He could paint aiety of nations.
one of the world's most rome If he came from Europe and tic roads, has been brought disembarked at Halifax he will sible to deal with all the aspects almost without reflection,
SECOND C-IN-C. "IN SEA. within a few hundred miles of have traversed Nova Scotia. of this urgent but at the same where the prisoner's informatica Mr. was misleading or incorrect. Af- time repellent subject.
His friends were glad to hear completion this year. For the New Brunswick and Quebec Baldwin said in his famous ter the Way, General Dupont speech in the House of Com-realised the-fondest dream of a that Sir Roger Backhouse had com-first time it is now possible to Provinces, and a large part of
He was appointed Head of pletely recovered from the after travel the 4,000 odd miles from Ontario
Atlantic to Pacific with a car mons that it made him physi-595-
Commission
At present the only way to to effects of recent his mishap, when without entering the United proceed is to take ship for Port cally sick to realise that in this the Interalied
and the Rodney's sexplane, in which stage of our civilisation it Control German Armament
Arthur, on the north western should be necessary to take pre-was now permitted to work openly he was a passenger, capsized while] States during the journey
It is still necessary to take shore of the lake, whence the
warfare "so indiscriminating the enemy...
and painful that it meant a re- turn to the ruthlessness that
mouth roadstenih:
'added to the
Lord Cork as C.5in-C. of the Ecze
cautions against a means of and with authority in the land of slighting on the water in Ports the steamer for 250 miles across road now goes with few inter Sir Roger Backhouse succeeded Lake Superior and to board & ruptions over a section opened Erain for 90 miles in British this summer to Winnipeg, in
but Columbia,
4,000
road Manitoba; to Moosejaw, in Sas- builders are expected to cokatchewan; to Medicine Hat che of Canada's within and Bani,
famous beauty spots, in AI- *berta**
ARRIVE
had disappeared at the very be TWO NEW MINISTERS ginning of man's effort to climb-out of his early savagery. That, however, is a reason for taking timely measures to spread information and prepare refuges, not for closing our eyes to the danger.
Warm Welcome From Local Churchgoers
Fleet about three months agu.
His involuntary immersion put
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the Commanders-in-Chief of both plete the missing links the main British fleets-the Home the next 12 months and the Mediterranean-on the Work For 12,000
A short distance beyond same footing
Many sections of the high-Banff, at Golden in British the Trans-Canada way form part of the road sys- Columbia, tem of Provinces they traverse, Highway again peters out for a and have been in existence for few miles. A train now takes years. Canadians are proud of motor cars across the 90-mile the fact that there are only gap to Revelstoke, whence driv- three countries in the world, ing can be resumed, to Vancou the United States, Great ver, on the Pacific.
A road, which will be 180 motor-cars are owned than in Canada
straction between Golden. and Naturally, . Canada! has miles of first-rate roads. Revelstoke. It goes round the
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True Enough
think
For in July Sir William Fisher, C-in-C in the Mediterranean, was
There is still always-- a
The Reverend D. Maclean and swept overboard from his barge. chance that the cynical theory the Reverend KM Dow, may be justified that when the the
Your Daily Smile! two ministers of the nations realise that nothing can Kowloon Union Church snd the civilian population the Hong Kong Union Church. isave
Your Husband: “Don't you from the incursions of bomb-respectively, were accorded a warm we ought to get some shoe trees?"
Bride: "Oh let's do! It will be so Brinin and France, where more miles in length; is under con- carrying planes, and that their welcome when they arrived to take much cheaper to raise our own!" danger will be as great or even up their new duties by the sa greater than the danger of the Naldera this morning. combatant. fear will do what}
Among those present to greet The sexton had been laying the humanity has failed to do in making them adopt the opinion the two clergymen, who are both new carpet on the pulpit platform Since 1930, when the idea of "Big Bend in the Columbia and had left a number of tacks seat a continuous motor route from River, where landslides have accompanied by their wives, were: tered on the foor. "See here, James" coast to coast first took definite caused considerable delay. The that no war is worth while. It is a matter of calculation. That Messrs E Himsworth, Noble, said the pacson, "what do you sup shape, the huge task of joining Department of National Defence attitude to war would be both Taylor, A. W. Ingram, S. V. Boxer, pose would happen if I stepped on up appropriate portions of Pro- has been helping the road- quickened and strengthened J. L MacPherson, N. Currie, one of those tacks right in the mid-vincial highway has been ac-makers on this stretch since last it had become certain that all Bev. and Mrs. F. Short, Mesdames, "Well, sir," replied the sexton, tively encouraged by the Do year. the civilised peoples would com-gram Watson and Scott, Miss reckon there'd be one
A. T. Hamilton and Miss Steven-wouldn't linger on." bine to resist or to avenge such an attack, by the short and son
Oh, Yes! simple military-sanction of "an
Teacher: Who was Homer?” eye for an eye that is. by there was reserved for the Student: "I am not sure, but I think combing the cities of the at-main arena.
wrote the That motive he was the fellow whe tacker. To obtain that result might have some influence, but lied and the "Idiocy'." the retaliation must be certain it would not be safe to reply an and immediate, for so long as it Aviation" has made - great there is a chance of the other strides since then, as well as nations disagreeing, or of delay chemical science.
I such as would enable a strong The question of policy as it air force to prostrate its enemy would appeal to an enemy is before anything was done, there rather different. It was fully will remain z likelihood that discussed in Berlin before the some adventurer would take decision to resort to the "un- the risk. The military sanction restricted" submarine ·WEI- coming into force automatically fare. That plan was at first re- is, of course, far in advance of jected on the Kaiser's minute. anything that has yet been at which has been published with tempted by the League so far, other confidential papers, in and would probably need as a which he said that the resent- first condition the universallment it would kindle would be membership which was the Fatal unless the Naval Staff ideal aimed at by the founders could guarantee that it would of the League, but opinion has be successful in a short time already made a big advance, Admiral van Tirpitz gave the and these things_more quickly required guarantee. The Kai- nowadays. It will not be long ser had shown a sound pre before more distance will be dis-monition, and it is a sign of missed from calenlation as se how far we have gone back curing any immunity. that it should be taken for
The present war in Ethiopiazzanted now that all methods: indicates that in fiture' aerial of attack would be unrestricted bombs and flame-throwers and from the start. But there is all the other weapons that used stall the question of -motive.] to be forbidden by the varions why use planes that would be humane agreements that have wanted elsewhere to attack a now been abandoned will be‡port which could be attacked by used. because it has been prov- gunfire? Neither attack would ed that an army, with its back be possible without at least a to the wall will use any weapon, temporary command of the sea. [no matter how many “swaps and plane carriera" "would be |of paper" would be signed. It much more vulner than is actually rather a good thing warships. The object of any at- that all pretences about tack would be the neutralisa- “humane warfare? have been tion of the
ong her. dropped There neither is nor bour as a base can be any such thing, and it is not be the for us to make our plans, ac- of attaining cordingly.
appear that
A different question together is the com
whethe
be
dle
of my sermon**
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point you minion
Government, which
Gravel Surfaces usually contributes 50 per cent. Although parts of the high- of the cost. Work has been way, and notably 460 miles provided in this way for as from Quebec City to Ottawa are paved with many as 12,000 men at a time and beyond,
These facts come to life when concrete, most of it has a one visits the wild, almost com-1 [Continued on Page 11)
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