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The now line of defence, as indicated by
includes the Schoppdonck Canal for cover The enemy has been forced back stilling the extreme right from a point due further towards Lichtervelde, on the line north of Maldeghem, one mile from the of the Dixmade-Thielt railway, which Dutch frontier, southward to Deynze, and they are destroying as they go.. thence along the road to Audenarde, from According to reports reaching me from which point there is a continus line to the frontier, the Allies' offensive is gain the eastward of earthworks of the usual ing momentum, the retreating enemy being substantial description, covering the subjected to persistent and extremely Audenarde-Brussels high road and the accurate shelling.
railway line.
A heavy cannonade leard on the frontier yesterday is said to be the work of German howitzers placed in new posi tions in the woods between Thourout and Lichtervelde, whence the Germans are bombarding the Allies in the direction of Cortemarck.
HARASSING ATTACKS.
Nederbrahel, Lierde, St. Mary, Ophassell This portion embraces the towns of Voorde, Ninove, Ruysbroeck, and Wavre.
RETIRING BY STEPS,
They declare their confidence that they will not have to fall back to this line, but its preparation so close to the present positions plainly shows their resolve to Constant day and night attacks on the retire from Flanders a step at a time. eneny are having the expected effect of The inevitable and widespread destruc wearing down their resistance. If they tion of towns and villages entailed by a are given a chance to rest they will hotly contested advance of the Allies will, undoubtedly cling to the trenches with all
of course, be ascribed by the enemy to the the greater. tenacity
latter. M
The troops arriving at the depots at Bruges are unable to give any connected account even of their own part in the operations or of the purport of them They appear to be wholly bewildered by the present situation and the consistent shifting between the depots and the advanced lines, the spasmedio offensivo and the constant retirement, as well as by the fury of their officers, which is being vented on the men in many harsh ways, because of their inability to stem the progress of their opponents,
Already the inhabitants of the towns in German occupation are being told that they must prepare themselves for whole sale devastation and ruin, as the Allies assaults in South-Western Flanders re- sulted in the demolition of many historic monuments," and the Germans cite Ypres as a notorious example.
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GHENT AS A DARE. HOT These reporta show that it is thê infen- tion of the enemy eventually to take up a well-fortified line north of their present centre in Flanders for the purpose of still further protecting the capitol, while using Sunday, December 20th.
Ghent as the base for their extremo right ON THE BELGIAN FRONTIER.
While the character of the country pre Following their latest retirement from vents the preparation of a strong a 2008, under the most extraordinarily do the message. He says he really must 808 Western Flanders, the Germans have prevision as that on the Meuse, entrench- moralizing influences that ever became your lordship, and he will wait in the operative among a free people. The Donald library at your convenience. Broning transferred theirments and emplacements for heavy guas A. Smith (Lord Strathcona) syndicate is visitors, after this experience, were barred momentarily greatest activity to the area south of are nevertheless, being constructed with entirely responsible for this state of affairs. for a long time at 17, Victoria Street, but Ypres, where several counter-attacks of great care and thoroughness.
It is evident that the German Staff hope To rid itself of the accumulated evils to the Lord Strathconn gave instructions that there exceptional severity, but, attended by the that these defences, with, the assistance body politie, resulting from the continual must be no difficulties raised by the official euins futility as heretofore, were delivered of the canals as an additional barries prostitution of a legislative body, which he to provent those people from seeing kim on Friday and yesterday..
along a portion of the line, as in the case been left without a single bismish by the At the same time, the resistance on the of the ser earlier, will enable them to earlier statesmen of the country, is the prob- extreme right is still very marked in a make a long and stubborn rosistance fem now to be solved in Canada."
My Own Story. By EMMELINE PANKOUDST number of places, but nowhere do they before being beaten back from Central which the author of this life of Lord These are the arresting sentences with
Illustrated. London: Eveleigh Nash. Beyond the few supporters of the Suffra appear to have been given the alighest Flanders. advantage, and the Allies are still pross
Strathcona closes a work well worth roading gette cause who reside in our Colony, Mrs. towards Thourout.
railway system known familiarly to us as the appen here: Novertheless, anyone who are personally wishes to make a study of one of the most CPR and many more
equainted with the magnificent steamships extraordinary palitical movements of our time could not do better than road this compact which connect Hongkong with Vancouver butt zot many are versed in the history of volume from beginning to end. Mrs. Pank that grant imperiai.highway and the men hurst divides her subject into three parts: responsible for its inception and completion. The Making of a Militant, Four Years of Mr. Preston has been in Hongkong, so that Peaceful Militancy, and The Women's With the two latter portions his books will have a personal interest to some Revolution. of our readers. He was well-known in Lon-most of us are familiar, for until the English don as the Canadian Government's Commis. newspapers agreed amurg themselves mot, to Dominion's Commissioner of Trade to South gettes we had them served up every morning stoner of Emigration, and he has been the chronicle the doings of the extremist Suffra Africa, Japan, Korea, Holland and Scandina at the breakfast table. In the first portion, via. The opportunities. Je has had for however, Mrs. Pankhurst cadeavours to give travel in distant lands, coupled with personal & coherent statement of the aims of the participation in the party politics of his Suffragettes, that is to say, sho indicates native land when he was behind the what parliamentary and administrative" scones .cn numerous historic occasions; reforms she believes could be best effected anables him to write intimately and broadly by giving women the parliamentary fram of his subject, though not always with the chise. It is possible to agree with much that calmness that one looks for in a philosophic she says in this section of the book withoud historian. His partis tendencies are tran approving of the methods sho, her daughters sparent, but they only add piquancy to his and the immediate following have adopted narrative, and the reader need not be misled with a view to coerce the parliamentaria to by then.
give them the vote. It is amusing to find It is quite evident that Lord Strathcona that she claims credit to the Suffragettes for is no hero to Mr. Preston. Indeed, it may every defeat of Radical candidates at bys be gathered from the sentences tre quote at elections since the present Government came the opening of this notice that Strathcons into power, and there are numerous passages was something of a Machiavelli in Canadian which show that Mrs. Pankhurst's reasoning political life. The story has been told else powers are not quite equal to her enthusiasm where of Donald A. Smith, who left his and personal devotion to the cause she has The enemy has everything to gain and northern Scottish home while yet a lad to espoused. Still, es a statement of the nothing to lose by clinging desperately serve the Hudson Bay Company in the Suffragette aspirations her book, commands to each town until it is reduced to a shape barren, solitary shores of Labrador, who respect, though, for our part, we could do less mass of ruins, and many features of acquired enormous wealth and a soat in the with less of Mrs Pankhurst and her family, The book has evidently been written for their preparations of the new defensive British House of Lords, and now reposes 21 position show the same cynical disregard a grave in Westminster Abbey. Mr Presto Amerieau consumption in the first place, and for property as they have shown in the does not concern himself much with the this doubtless explains the occurrengo af country they have already pillaged.
́enrlier period of Strathcona's history. It is several mistakes such as should not occur in All along their new front in Flanders of his correction with the railways and a work of standerd importance. On page they are equipping church towers as firo politica of Canada that we get an illuminat 60, the leader of the Irish Nationalists: is control stations, well knowing that such ing pleturs, and we must confess that the referred to as Mr. James Redmond; Mr. posta of observation are exposed to the picture is not a pleasant one, either of Keir Hardie's name is sometimes misspelled enemy's guns and are subject to the usual Strathcona or the political celebrities of and Mr. Tim Healy's always; on page Bows penalties of war.
| Canada. Doubtless much could be said on find it stated that "the women's cause yas the other side, and probably will be said at fighting for its life under George V and his a future date; but Mr. Preston's narrative Liberal Government 1908, when, as a is supported by quotations from authorita matter of fuct, King Edward, then sat upor tivo sources on some poists that ought to be the throne, and on page 232 we are informed incontrovertible. We have been accustomed that in consequence of the cutting of the to hear so much in eulogy of Lord Strathcona telephone and telegraph wires " for some as an Empire Builder that some of the hours all communication between London revelations in this volume conso us, painful and Glasgow were suspeniled. On page 246, surprise. It is the lot of Empire Builders, smaller methads" appones instead of however, to have to withstand criticism, and similar methods, which seems to indicate those of us who have had to listen to per- a mistranscription of shorthand notes, and astonishment at finding Rhodes and Strath- Alfred Mend. It is easy to believe Mrs. sonal criticisms of Cecil Rhodes may expros surely Sir Alfred Mondell" should be Sir cona contrasted to the disparagement of the Pankhurst, dealing with the imprisonment of It is also stated that the medieval town fatter. In one place, Mr. Preston writes as the Suffragettes, when she writes:-"Bit of hall at Audenarde, one of the glories of follows:-
all our hardships the ceaseless silence of our Belgium, has been mined by the Germana, It has been suggested that a marked lives was worst." But was it wise to anko who have threatened the inhabitants of similarity oxists between the lives and the confession? the town with its destruction in the event characters of Donald A. Smith and Crci! of any of the inhabitants showing a dis-Rhodes at this point of their Parliamentary position to rovolt at the prospect of an careers. A careful, survey of the situation,
YARMOUTH.” AN early entrance into the town of their own however, shows no resemblanco whatever troops..
the early stages of the public life of these
-GERMAN SAILOR'S STORY........ Similar action is being taken with two great Colonials. Cecil Rhodes was Seemingly there are people in Germany regard to other historic towns, where the dreaming of an Empire with no personal who firmly believe that their fest bom enemy is making hostages of ancient advantages to himself; Donald A. Smith was barded Yarmouth two months ago. It monuments as well as of burghers. dreaming of the development of an Empire will be remembered that number of The extensive mining of the principal that might be turned to his personal aggran warships appeared off the const, but after buildings in Brussels, of which details dizement; and as their dreams developed into firing at the patrol vessel Halcyon with have already been transmitted, is intended experience the ultimate ends each had in out dropping their abells anywhere near as a similar menace in order to guarantee view became still wider apart. Cecil Rhodes the shore they mado off as soon as English the continued passiveness of the popula was a born leador of men in parliamentary cruisere appeared. And yet judging by tion as the position of the invaders government Donald A. Smith was not, but the following description from a German becomes more critical.
he had no peer as a shrewd manipulator of sailor, which appeared in a Swiss paper political leaders for his own purposes. Ceelt (and was reproduced in the Farmouth Rhodes always stood for the national Mercury), oven the crews were allowed to interests, personal considerations being believe that Yarmouth was actually shell- secondary Donald 4. Smith's personal ed The morning was misty.
About eight o'clock in the morning of interests were paramount. The contests of Tuesday, November 3rd (writes. the one were fought out in the noontide glare
the
opponents in the croning shadows of secret of a public career; the other discomfitted his conferences and behind carefully-guarded doors."
While the enemy has not yet reverted to the use of cavalry to any great extent in Western Flandera save for reconnais sance work, in some of the unflooded dis
tricts there are signs that they are about to employ lanters and hussars to assist the infantry entrenched in the dunes between Ostend to drive back the attacking force Several cavalry regiments recently arrived at Bruges and other towns in Northern Flanders, and since resting after their long journey from the Prussian frontier are now proceeding by detach ments along the roads converging on the German extreme right.
Some wore billeted in Ostend on Friday, where there was great difficulty in finding sufficient forage, while small bodies of cavalry have also been seen moving among the dunes near the sea, apparently watch ing for signs of another sudden onslaught from the direction of Nieuport.
ATTACK EXPECTED.“
The Germans evidently anticipate & strong effort to dislodge them from the strip of coast between Middelkerke Bains and Ostend for the purpose of forcing the evacuation of the latter town, and so bending the line still further towards Bruges.
DESECRATING CHURCHES.
In some places the Germans have stored ammunition in the churches, and have also fitted up wireless apparatus and tele phones. This is particularly the case in Courtrai and Audenarde, where the dese cration of the ancient church of Notre Dame, near the east bank of the Scheldt has evoked futile protests on the part of the priests and the local authorities... of the direction in which the Allies must The church tower commands a wide view
advance from Courtrai. '·.
PEACE TALK.
GERMAN OPINION"
ROUND VEERING
“ BOMBARDMENT OF
This meagre stretch of sand humanocks, interspersed with summer villas, has been literally honeycombed, and mitraillouses have been concealed in scooped-out hollows, among tufts of coarse gross, and on the roofs of buildings commanding the roads and open spaces behind the coast line,
Owing to the uneven ground and the character of the danes, which in some instances are thirty or forty feet high, the enemy has been enabled to put up a good fight against heavy odds, and claims to have repulsed a number of infantry charges by the concentrated and deadly fire of machine-guns, even after the Allies had succeeded in scrambling up the sides of the dunes, where they were concealed.
A number of wounded Germans were: brought to Bruges on Friday from the scene of the severe attacks by the French grad oorrespondent of the Daily Mail in
English coast near Yarmouth, with the The belief is spreading, says a Petro
sailor) our oruisers, under the direction of the flagship Sayulita, arrived at the They were suffering from bayonet thrusts, a despatch in December, that the Kaiser
intention of bombarding.
This was which they explain by the allegation than is anxious to propose peace while still in
commissioni full of honour for us, because their opponents, after swarping among possession. of Belgiums and a large part of As if to emphasise the contrast, Mr. until that day not once had an enemy' the dunes which sheltered many machine Poland. This is strengthened by the Preston returns to the subject later on, ship bombarded the English coast A gun sections, were eventually repulsed semi-official statements appearing daily saying of Rhodes, amongst other things, dark we had left the German coast with with fearful loss, leaving the Germans still to the effect that intelligent German And when an untimely end cut short a four large and four small cruisers to tak masters of their fortified sandhills.” opinion realises that the longer the war brilliant career, he left the Parliamentary a north east course. Towards morning When the Allies cross the Ostend lasts the more disastrous for Germany areas in South Africa, with all its associa a south-west course was taken. Through Bruges canal they will continue their must it bo.
tions, as free from stain and reproach as ⠀ The most
out the ship preparations were made for sweeping operations along the coast to
interesting of these the Parliament at Westminster; while he the fight, and that night we slept at our Ostend and Zeebrugge, where they will statements relates to remarks made in pri- ends a cathing paragraph on Strathcona a posts. find still more formidable opposition rate conversation by a member of the follows: And when he withdrew from
Beichstag, a
...About six oclock the air và among the dunes, which are there of
who spoke as followe greater height and extent, in some places back Germany half a century at least. No phors thoroughly vitiated
If the war continuos for yours it will put public life, he left a Parliamentary atmos, suddenly given, and as quick as lightning
and corrupt,
all were at their nosis. The couray was resembling miniature Alps, with a variety doubt we shall have to pay, not only our own through the influences of a great corpora- the ship suddenly turned west.
still south-west. Towards seven o'clock of peaks and valleys and s maze of foot war bill, but also for the damage done to the tion, which he had brought into existence phone in all eyes. The ship turns south ways between.
And again, To call Lord opinion, which is shared by a large propor-influence." here for a stubborn defensive on an evention of middle-class Germans, is that wo
Surely not back home with Strathcona an Empire Builder is a misnomer. out giving the English a souvenir ! That greater seale. Marines have burrowed should seiso any favourable opportunity of If others follow in his footsteps they will be is the wish of owry one of us, and scor like rabbits, and the dunes have been offering terms of peace before we are in the Empiro-Wreckera." pierced everywhere and provided with condition when we have nothing to offer. I It is pleasing to note that Lord Strathcona zigzag course of our ship.
there was an explanation of the strange From the shelter pits, tunnels lined with boards and am aware that the army is opposed to this had a few characteristics of which Mr. bridge cars the order, Keep a good look covered with sand, some with apertures view, but feel certain that it will shortly Preston can write amiably, and there are out on all sides, as the ship is passing for machine-guns skilfully concealed in openly expressed.
several personal episodes which one would through a mine-field.” the grass..
If this were published in the ordinary like to quote, were not this notice Tong Suddenly at twelve minutes past The enemy claim that little damage has way, adds the correspondent, one would enough already. When the corps known as eight the first shot was heard. We hat hitherto been done by the gans of the war not pay much attention to it, but since Strathcona's Horse was coming to London not long to wait for the next. A bollin ships to these troglodyte dwellings, many it is issued to the newspapers from a
from South Africa on its way back to Canada, explosion arose. Bulkheads arl of which are connected by galleries to Government office, the case is altered.
many of the men's wives came over to meet machinery shivered as if they had the facilitate the passage of the men in charge
them. They were not all well-off and some agne. Our heary gúria were bombard- of quickfirers, and are also linked up by
A Singapore resident, who has lately went to Ford Strathcona for monetary helping Yarmouth, and where our 28 centi- telephone,
arrived from England, mentions that he was then High Commissioner in Londen, metre gune reached it is certain the ap- Wires laid underground to minimise the under Admiralty orders the P. and O.
and used to work very late, and the Canadian petite for breakfast would disappear destructive effect of the shells give a field Egypt, in which he travelled from Tilbury matrons, knowing this, sometimes called in Soom also our lighter guns were in astion. Then an enemy's cruiser, torpedo, boats, telephone service between the coastal to Colombo, was preceded through the the evening. The story goes on:-- positions, and form part of the plan for Channel all the way to Plymouth by a One evening, when Lady Strathcona Lad and a submarino attacked us; but after a holding Zeebrugge as long as possible pair of mine trawlers, working as a con- come down from Grosvenor Square with the short time they had to quit without any during their gradual backward movement nected couple, sweeping for stray mines, object of taking Lord Strathcona home at success. On board delirious joy possessed .us. At thirty-two minutes past eight the atross Flanders, as well as for using if There had been three of these reported as 4 more reasonable hour than he was accu firing coased, and with the greatest skill as a base for submarine attacks in the floating about, and it was to protect the tomed to leave his office, one of these evening we shaped our course towards the German Channel. 4.
Egypt that this, trawling escort was provisitors entered. She informed the official harbour. vided. Nothing happened, but the trip in the outer office that she must seo Lord The sailor does not add that one of the through the Channel as necessarily. a
Strathcona The official explained that Lady German craisers, the Torck, was sunk by tedious one.
Strathcona was with him, and, also, he was striking one of its own mines,
Similar préparations are being madallied countries, especially Belgium. My and of which he had been the controlling the south-east, and continuously changet.
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work east of Courtrai and south of Brussels is now made possible by the aid
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