1928-03-31 — Page 11

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928

PRINCE'S JOKES.

SIR JAMES BARRIE'S "DARK SECRETS,"

ON WORCESTER.

The Prince of Wales was

the

HILL: 60.

BRITAIN'S "MOST SACRED BATTLEGROUND.”

THE YPRES FIELD.

Last autumn my wife and I

THE

and blackened beams. The re- treating Germans fired the beauti- ful building during the first months of the war, and from then on through the years shell after shell had completed the work of destruction.

CHINA MAIL.

MR. L. C. BOBBITT.

DEATH OF FORMER SHANGHAI, MAN,-

QUEER THINGS.

OCCUPATIONS OF

WOMEN...

TURNS TURTLE.

THREE MEN DROWNED. IN THAMES DISASTER.

A POLICE RESCUE.

Three men log their lives and

LATE OF ASTOR HOUSE.

A SKULL 'ÓLEANER: Beyond the Cloth Hall lay the Death has claimed Mr. Lester Mr. Elizabeth Pratt, of the great square of Ypres, bathed in Columbus Bobbitt, former Shang- Royal College of Surgeons, Lin- another had a narrow escape when ground area around Ypres (writes

the tug "Harbour Light," owned by morning. Minister, at the second London Herbert P. Lee in the Empire

Ten years ago the of the Astor House Hotel for a 10,000 add skulls and skeletorin dinner of the Worcestershire Asso- Review.") I had worked at vari-square had echoed to the tramp number of years, according to in- the college.

Limehouse, capsized and sank in ciation, held at the Hotel Victoria, que intervals in the mines be- of marching battalions, moving formation. received

under cover of darkness, winding Nevada, Missouri,

from

Just now she is giving her the Thames at Wapping. tween Armentieres and La

where Mr. collection" a spécial dusting, in

All the drowned men belonged to and lie made a witty speech, which Bassee, and had always wanted to snake-like between the deep shell Bobbitt died in a hospital. honour of John Hunter, the sur- Gravesend. They are:- Harry

d roars of laughter, when resee the great crater at Hill 60. craters to the rattle of endless

Familiarly known as "Bob" to geon, whose bleentenary is being Laming, mate, Christchurch-road, tosal toast. He We reached Ypres early on a Sun-supply waggons and the rumble of thousands of residents of Shang-celebrated at the college, which he Harry Vinton (40), engineer, Wel

moving guna.

hai, and to visitors from many founded, by a special exhibition. day, after travelling across an

lington-street, Harry Watson, fire- in the course of my researches area which, in spite of the truly casional automobile, a bicycle or during his six years as an official ing with a little hair brush the The skipper of the tug, Capt.

And now there was only an oc- parts of the world, Mr. Bobbitt, She goes from case to case dust- man, Brunswick-retreat. and unfortunately they have been: miraculous work of reconstructwo, a buggy bringing in a Flem- of the hotel attained a wide crevices in the cranium or the teeth, send, was thrown into the river, rather hurried ones because I have tion, still showed the ravages of ish farmer and his family to

George Wella, East-terrace, Grave- His death will be and finally polishing the akull with but was rescued by policemen on popularity, elsewhere innoted with deep regret by his duster. been rather busy in the last few war. Patches of new brick show-Mass. Here, as days-I started to jot down some ed everywhere in the farmhousesYpres, the work of reconstruc- many friends and admirers. of the things for which your great which dotted the green country-tion constituted a new wonder of

"Does it upset me? Bless you Mr. Francis,

one of the river patrol boats. News of the death of Mr. no," she said.. "I have done was received by this for 12 years. I have grown' little hotels. Deputy Marshal, and by Mr.

guest of Mr. Baldwin, the Prime visited Hill 60 and the old battle the warm sunlight of this autumn haflander and Assistant Manager coln's Inn Fields, has to keep clean Messrs. C. and A. Etheridge, of

pand anid-

county is famous. But I began by side. New red tile-roofed cot; the world. The square was lined Bobbitt putting the word "sauce" right outtages which before the war had with new stores, and there were Mr, Van Buskirk, United States quite fond of some of them.

In several excellent

"A Bit of A Turn.” "But I did get a bit of a turn one a skeleton's

a pilot, told an

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bf my mind-flaughter)--because been covered with that. 1 was determined that whatever every farmyard lay a huge mass which, if less picturesque and Thomas Dixon, of the Astor else did or did not do I was not of rusted iron, barbed wire, shells, historic than those wiped away by House Hotel, both of whom have day. I was dusting going to make a single joke about Waggon wheels-all the debris of the German' guns, were the last known the deceased for many feet and its hand caught in my turning round to take hold of the

Worcester wayed,

seen

dignor

war,

It was surprising to see what

stumps showed above the tangled

years.

hair.

"Indeed, though I find the collec-

in the maelstrom, but there was no

Boats Search.

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"The "Harbour Light" had just the Regent's Canal Dock, between towed the collier "Parkhill" out of Limehouse and Wapping. She was word in comfort and modernity. And in the same kind of way use the thrifty Flemish farmers sior, and started out for Hill 60 China, coming to this country them. That one over there I call she appeared to heel over,

We lunched at the new Excel-

Mr. Bobbitt spent 20 years in "We have nicknames for some of

bows of the "Parkhill," which had decided not to say very much about had made of the old German dur-passing out of Ypres through while in the American Navy. At Mussolini. It's such a fine hend.

been brought out stern first, when your good River Severn, because it outs, and how they had used huge the magnificent Menin Gate the time of his discharge from seems to me that its main functius quantities of elephant iron, for then under construction-which the navy he held the rank of Chief

"People ask me if I get night-were thrown into the river. They "The two officers on the bridge is to keep your county almost in a merly utilised as roofing for dug was to be a permanent memorial Commissary Steward. He was mares from working here, I have were caught in a whiripool which state of permanent

inundation.outs, for sheds and outbuildings. to the legions who had marched born in the State of Indiana in never even dreamed of them.

As the train neared Ypres the out along the Menin-road to death 1879 and was the youngest son of have been allowed here but for the over, lifebelts were thrown into the (Lainghter.)

was set up by the sinking tug." "Of course, a woman would not And then I remembered having countryside became detted with and glory in the Salient.

When the tug was seen to turn the concrete pill-boxes, overgrown

his parents. He grew to manhood a recent reference in

Hill 60's Glant Crater. a Worcestershire with weeds and used now as pig. newspapers to

in the town of Lamonte, Missouri, war. I joined the staff during the river by men We trudged along eastwards, where he received his education. war, and have been kept on, but no and a police patrol boat which wis on the dock bank, farmer who was reported to have ties and store sheds. In the Ypres following the Menin-road through in 1894 he joined the navy, serv-more women are being engaged. found grass growing on the back area the sword had been trans the outskirts of Ypres towards

"The authorities do not think the scene. For a second or two fon duty in the vicinity rushed to sume of his sheep. (Loud laugh- formed into the ploughshare with Zonnebeke. One kilometre from age he was married to Miss Adele the place auitable for women's Wells and Lamming could be seen

ing 14 years. About 12 years ter. I was compelled to put that a verity.

Ypres we turned to the right Magnee, No Trees.

Mrs. Bobbitt died on nerves, on one side rather reluctantly, he

aeross the railway, in the direc-May 1, 1927. Yet amid all the ghastly evid-tion of Zillebeke, passing on each eanse thought that would be a

Deceased is survived by four tion friendly enough by day, I can't sign of Vinton or Watson. marvellous new theme for after-ces of war the most obvious sirle of the rond huge cemeteries brothers, Messrs. Milo, J. H say I should enjoy their company

Speeches. But I felt be-note of all was the total absence filled with countless white crosses Harry and Fred Bobbitt, all of at night.” fore it was put on the market that trees. Here and there scarred the graves of British dead. it would need a little more investi-weeds; now and then a few dead graves in the Salient alone!" our

"There

are 265,000 British! gation, although it obviously points limbs rose to the sky like the up host of the Excelsior told us, and io corollary-that Worcestershire lifted arms of a skeleton. Just out here on the road to Hill 60 it farmers do not let grass Krow these remained of the once pretty seemed that there must be far under their feet. (Laughter.) green copses which had been more than that. One great ceme- So my list of a few days back of swept away in the rain of high ex-tery alone contained 30,000. the noted products of your county plosives. Of all the impressions graves, side by side in orderly was not progressing very favour of war, that produced by the rows amid the waying grass. ably until Buddenly inspiration dearth of living trees around An hour's walk and we reached came to me and I noted down Ypres was the most vivid.

Zillebeke, where many farms still quickly china, eider, cricket, and The train rumbled lazily lay in ruins, and where, for Lord Coventry-(cheers and laugh-through several small stations, acres, the whole earth was red ker)-who was playing a promin-shell-scarred, and in places glar with shattered brick. Piles of ent part in your county before most ing with new masonry. From the debris taken from the battlefields of us were born. Lord Coventry Windows of the smoky little com- lay in each farmyard.

partment we could see overgrown will be 90 in May.1

At last we reached Hill 60, and trenches, shapeless and covered spent an hour wandering about with tangled weeds through its slopes, crossing the railroad to which red strands of rusted wire where the giant crater, now filled bled concrete. Here and there the letter peeped here and there. Now and with inky-black water, yawned on half-filled mouth of a dug-out when the human pupil distends earlier in the alphabet, and then the train passed the wreck the further side. It was a stupen-showed under the tall weeds. most." Women who are particular HINKLER'S SHORTS.

age of a concrete pill-box, built in dous hole, more like the crater of should have hended my list with the days when the food and a volcano then a man-made pit. more ghastly than the littered three.

There were other things, too, about their looks generally have| another product of Worcestershire, munitions of an army passed) And

BORROWED PAIR BELONGING no volcano for which we all have such affee-

ever spouted implements of war. Stuck down

Cunning. more death than this black hollow in the side of a deep crater we

TO WOMAN MOTORIST.- tionate admiration-my host, Mr.

But in spite of it all it was dif- at dawn on June 7, 1917.

"Almost every false eye can be Baldwin. Cheers,)

saw a little wooden cross on made to move in life-like manner. ficult to realise that we were pass- The slopes of the hill were which had been roughly inscrib- This is done in the same way as airman,

Melbourne.-Mr. Hinkler, the ing through the most sacred covered with shell craters, linked ed "A un Allemand"-"To a Ger- artificial arms and legs are fitted to Port Darwin, borrowed a pair

when he nrrived to the battleground in British history so closely that there was practic-man." That was all. As late as stumps."

the famous "Salient" of Ypres, ally no level ground. Debris lay the summer of 1925 a vast num-

of motoring shorts. They be Miss Millauro, who has made longed to sanctified by the blood of half a feverywhere unexploded shells, [ber of German dead were found in many eyes "Wor-million dead. Around these little tattered equipment, water bottles, a buried dug-out beneath the hill. began to draw and model before Northern Territory.

Miss Nelson,..daughter for ex-Service men, of the Federal Member for the knolls the tide of battle had ebbed machine-gun belts, and, the end-No doubt there are others..

Her brother Recret," (Laughter.) He con- and flowed. From these blocks (less rusted barbed wire and crum--Ex.

Now the realisation that all of these items began with "C" sud-

denly reminded me that of course

I should have started one

Sir James Barrie.

Sir James Barrie, replying

toast of the visitors, said he had in his notes a reference to cester's Darling Son-his dark

tinued —

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down this very railway.

I think it would be beat to make had spurted death to khaki-clad of ugly concrete machine-guns clean breast of it. The Prime infantry surging up through the Minister's dark, secret is that he mud from the pit of Ypres. absolutely abominates pipe smok Short years ago this green lands- ing. Have any of you ever seen cape had been blotted out by the him smoking a pipe-trying to black bursts of high explosive; smoke a pipe-not even able to these blue Flemish skies flecked hold the thing properly? (Laugh- with exploding shrapnel....

This, then, was the Sallent!

ter.) And it all arose out of an

unfortunate 'nowspaper mistake,"" The train rumbled to a halt in and then all the public liked it. Ypres, and we dismounted. It and rather than disappoint them he was surprising how little the sta goes on smoking this horribletion showed of the effects of war. thing.

Much of it had been rebuilt, and it bore a singularly peaceful air i on this November morning. We checked our bags, and, declining the services of a guide, walked through the miracle that was re-

But if you want to see the Prime Minister at his best, it is when he hears the hundred nightingales and when he has thrown that rank thing aside and lights his beloved

cigarette.

I.

You all have dark secret, all the men, among you, and evon (Laughter.) I should like to tell you my dark secret. When

WON

built Ypres.

lieve that eight years ago nothing It was scarcely possible to be- existed here but a tangled mass of brick and shattered concrete,. with hardly one stone standing at school in the south of Scotland upon another. No city in all the -it was a mixed school-one day aveas of war had sustained the the girls took a plebiscite about terrible battering to which Ypres which boy had the sweetest smile. had been subjected as the pivotal It came to my ears that I had won. point of both Allied and German Think of my elation. But the fortunes in the West. It was tragedy is that it made me self- astounding. It was miraculous. conscious, and I have never been Everything was new, of course, able to smile since. (Laughter.) even the cobble stones on which Mr. Baldwin, replying to the we walked. Houses, factories, toist of his health, said of Sir churches, stores, all were as new. James Barrie:

and shining as a new pin. Some where bells were tolling, and the sleepy streets of Ypres were filled with black-clad burghers and their wives on the way to Mass.

1 have nursed about him for many yeara à darker secret than he betraycil to-night, and all time for reticence is past.

•

Sir James Barriq was a teetotal- ler and a non-smoker-originally.

The Ruined Cathedral. We reached the ruins of the (Laughter.) In his early days he cathedral, still lying in a litter- wrote a story, or an essay, which ed, untidy heap, though on one ran 'round the world and was call-side the work of reconstruction ad "My Lady Nicotine." An en scaffolding surrounded the chan- had commenced, and a trellis of terprising tobacconist felt there.

cel. We stopped to marvel at the were possibilities of advertisement painstaking care with which there, and wrote to Sir James those in charge of the work were Barrie and asked what was the orf-putting back each stone in its ginal of the "Arcadian Mixture." original place, rebuilding the

whom reside in the United States. Lamonte and the remains burled The funeral was conducted in there beside those of his wife. STANDARD TIME.

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March 81

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Ten Thousand Snowshoers Meet

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3.--Noire. Dams, Church at Mentrest, an Around ten thousand snowshoers and their friends visited Montreal on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian" Snowshoers". Association which was feted in that city February -8-0. The convention takes on an international ekaracter by the fact that the American Snowshoers”- Association, with over 1,500 members in the

vention. In addition there were representatives from the Manitoba alates of New Hampshire and Kassachusetts, also attended the con- Snowshoers Association and large attendance from the St. Henri Canadian Club, which was celebrating at the mame, time its fiftietin nary abllo unattached snowshoers from parts of Canada -2 and 156 United Staten went to Montreal, for the Sanctionedale

Sir James knew the names of no beautiful edifice to look as nearly tobacco manufacturers, but going as possible as it had done before for a walk he saw a little advertise the first German shell screamed meat of Craven misture, and he into Ypres. The Germans, of wrote at once and said that the course, would pay the billing The convention was held under the auspices of the United Snow- Arcadian mixture was Craven mix-Behind the cathedral lay the ture. Its fame was made, and, as ruins of the famous Cloth Hall, its fame was made, for very shame once one of the finest specimens Sir James Barrle took to the pipe of mediaeval art in Europe, and that night and he has kept to it now, like the cathedral, a gaunt, shapeless mass of tumbled stone

*shows", Glabs of Montroul and was fantored by a carnival, during which the grand snowshoe tkäniplonship of the world was decided. His Wors ship Mayor Martin was the, patron of the convention, and in its celor

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It was surmised that they had gone down in the engine-room. As the police boat apprenched The Girl of the Eyes.

Lamming disappeared. A shout Then there is a little

room in from the police boat apprised the Fitzroy-square haunted by sleep-watchers on shore that the captain less eyes. There are scores of had been rescued. them.

The police and other boats They are all of them the eyes of cruised in the district for some a Rose-Miss Rose Millauro, a girl time in the hope of picking up any of 27. She has made them out of of the three missing men, but at glass, redeeming by her art the dis-dawn it was realised that it was figurement of the surgery.

Miss Millauro'a greatest triumph have escaped.

impossible for any of the three to is the false eye that moves like a real one.

When Captain Wells was brought ashore at Wapping Police "I make eyes for each patient's Steps he was in a dazed condition. needs," she told the "Evening "It was all so swift," he said. Standard." Some have three The mate had been to the pic eyes-one with a small pupiltures and seen 'The Trumpet Call.'| for outdoor wear by day; one for Poor chup, he didn't know how ordinary wear, slightly larger; and soon it would be for him."

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she was ten years old. Her father, lent them to Mr. Hinkler and a medical man, decided to use her telegraphed his sister in Mel-1 artistic gifts, and set her to study bourne: for a craft in which talent was "Hinkler left here wearing your lacking.

shorts, Hope you don't mind.” Picking up a plain piece of glass, She replied: "I am thrilled. Miss Millauro rotated it, cunningly hope to get the shorts back when in a flame before an "Evening father meets Mr. Hinkler at Can- Standard" representative, and pro-berra. I shall keep them as an duced a perfect eye in a matter of heirloom," minutes.

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