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HINDENBURG'S FEAR.

THREAT OF THE ARMY.

IMMORTAL. HEROISM.

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Parliamentary · Association were the The King last month received the over-obtains moving among the wounded sul guests of the Lord Mayor of London at scas parliamentary delegates at Bucking-diers of all rank, brought back from dinner at the Mansion House last month. haru Palace. The Speaker of the House the Somme battlefield is that of the

The Lord Mayor, proposing the health of Commons presented each member of modesty, cheerfulness, and confidence of of the delegates, said that when the his the party to his Majesty, who delivered the meu, atriking demonstrations of the tory of the war came to be written it the following speech of welcome:- quality of the new British Armies. Of would be found difficult to describe

their own' deeds each man sponks with re- 10 any adequate manner our deep indebt serve, Int all are generous in their ap-edness and gratitude, to those gallant preciation of the achievements of others. troops from the Dominions whose bril Deser bing the work of the heavy guns liant services and snetifices had helped so a young gunner officer said: We had much to cement the union of the Empire. been going strong all the week, but on

The Hon. Patrick Mellahon Glynn, at July, we fairly let go. We routed them.C., M.P. (Australia), responding to the tonst, said that in the opinion of out of the villages with H.Es and Australia Great Britain never stood so armourpiercing shella, and then guten high in the moral estimation of the world TJJBODAS with shrapnel. You couldn't ser hm for as she did to-day. "We think, like you," dust and small stores. Some of the pri he added, "that there are higher things souers told us that their water supply in life than unbreken material prosperity and food supply had been cut off for and continued ease, and that, to have alay's. The smith-gunners did stood by France and Belging in the mo tory one of the finest records left. by Great Britain for the admiration of after times." * ...

During the past wock I have followed the operations of the armies which have beru actively engaged with Marshal von Hindenburg's forces (writes the Times correspondent at Petrograd). According to the words of German officers whom we captured during the first successful rush

It gives me much pleasure to welcome beyond the enemy's line of defences Hin- denburg, told the men of this sector you here to-day, as I fully recognise the importance of your visit and of others of "Nothing remains between us and the

the same kind.

For they promote inter- Russian cavalry except your posis course between the Mother country and Hold them to the last breath, to the last the Dominions, they maintain a constant drop of bloud.'

The remnants of the interchange of ideas, and helps to bridge 12th Austro-Hungarian Corps stationed

the seas which divide the Empire. there were forthwith withdrawn, and Fifteen, years ago the Queen and feesh Gemman Landsturm from General visited the great Dominions which have vou Bredow's former division were sub-chosen you as their representatives. We tressine with abiding recollections the loyalty and affection evinced towards us throughout that unique and memorable

our; we, on our part, greet you to-day some with feelings no less hearty and sincere marvels. We had bags of ammunition,ment of their peril will be found in his- us representing those who, while sepa-man of Lloyd-George's new stuff, and it rated by vast distances, are united by the was damned good tou. The fuses were and who hastened across the oceans 10 messages of love on the base of the shells strongest ties of blood and patriotism. A1. Earlier in the week the boys chalked support the Motherland in the hour of before sending than across to the Bacher danger.

stituted.

Within a couple of days our army had pehetrated into and firmly held the enemy's front for a distance of about 12 miles in breadth and nearly two miles in depth, including one or two of the enery's lines of defence. On the first day (July 3rd) one division drove in the enemy nearly four miles, but had to level

to its Banks.

Dvina, then threaten East Prussia. They

and Huge be forgotten,

The value of trench raids has been em- The Germans were in apprehension of

Uloriously have they fulfilled that phasized by wounded officers and men. A the opening of gates in their line mission, sacrificing their sons in the comprivate in the H.L.L., a regiment, famous through which masses of Russian horse-mon cause and placing their wealth and for its raids, said; A soon as we went resources at the disposal of ourselves and over we knew exactly what to do, where men would sweep into the plains of

our Allies. Never, so long as the Empire to go, and where to find 'en; and we Lithuania, turu the positions on the

talised the battlefields of Anzae, Ypres, coming they hopped out, taking their lasts, will the heroism which has immer

found eu, too. As soon as they saw us cong-ntrated every available man and gu at the threatened point. So far they

1 congratulate members of the Union, machine guns with them, and, chancing have managed to comply with Hinden justly proud of the successes achieved the bombardment, raced hell for leather burg's despairing summons, bat numbers both under the leadership of General for their third-line ternches. I didn't are on our side and must tell in the end.

Botha and more recently by a force come any officers in the trenches--where The dificulties confronting us ATC prising British Regulars, South Africans, they'd gone to, goodness knows.. similar to those experienced in France Rhodesians, East African settlers, and ad Flanders. It would be expecting too native troops from my Indian Empire, much for the Russians here to break in the offensive so vigorously conducted through as General Brusiloff succeeded. During the past year and a half it

We

in breaking through in the south. have a different enemy, different posi- tions to negotiate, and by keeping the for pinned here we ars lightening the task of our victorious legions south of

the Pripot, ..

While visting a regiment stationed in the captured German liner somewhere north-east of Baranovitchi, I had an op- portunity to observe the effect of Russion

General Smuts.

FUN BOMBING.

of the Germans pitched a bomb into the We had plenty of fun bombing. One trenches, we had just taken, and it fel! has been my pleasure to inspect those on the floor. A chap in front of me pick- forces from the Dominions which haveed it up and threw it back where it came partly carried out their training in this from. It exploded, and we didn't get country. I can testify to the splendid any more bombs from that bit of trench quality of the tops and to the spirit of for a long time. Another of our chaps loyalty and devotion of which they have was chasing a bunch of them down a com- given the amplest proof in face of the munication trench. He had

a Mille enemy,

bomb in his hand, but couldn't get the trust that your stay here will be pin out. He couldn't wait, so he let fly both pleasant and instructive, and that with te thing as it was. It caught the

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Sir James Carroll (New Zealand) said: "We are not here to accept high tributes to the courage and valour of our over-seas contingents.. They, only per formed their duty at the Mother's call. They only fought for the old land, but well." The delegates were not here, he they fought for their own freedom added, to dictate the policy of the British ask the Muther-country to work together NETH, Empire but to lender their views and with them, to study the possibilities of closer union, and to see how they could bring about the co-operation of all parts. of the Empire as membera of one family, He hoped they would not be allowed to return without having arcomplished something definite with regard to the future relations of all the component parts of the Empire,

BROTHERS IN ARMS.

Sir Edward Meris, proposing the toast of the United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, spoke of the advantages which the Over- a Dominions had received through the Association in bringing their public men into closer contact, borb by exchange of visits and exchange of information be- tween members of the Parliaments of the Empire. Of all the delegations which had been organised by the association

on

gunfire. Prisoners belonging to the 19th opportunity will be given you to estimate hindmost German plumb in, the ear. He was easily, the most important be Landsturm told me they had served in the efforts being made to keep the Navy let off an awful yell and doubled up. So cause it came at a time when exchange the whole campaign and had never end Army efficient, both inen and we took him prisoer perienced પ્રાર

shell-fire.

equipment, and to bring the war to a an awful

victorious end.”, Breast works were levelled, sheils wera dropping right into our trench, and a curtain of fire cut off vår retreat. Thirty-two survived out of a whole coma- pany. The prisoners expressed the ut- (most „Contempt for the Austrians. "They are no soldiers," they said, All, with one exception, were of opinion that it was high time to sue for peace. These men impresed ms by their firm and dignified Bearing.

On the previous day I was present with one of our regiments during an attack on h important position, and can testify to ther.. retsarkable, endurance under a storm of shell-fire and explosive billet The Germans are evidently utilizing the Abominable Austrian cartridges.

German airwen, as usual, are dropping shells on the wounded

THE WILL TO ENFORCE

JUSTICE

THE FIRST STEP TO PEACE:

Justice, not. Peace, is the first neces sily of the nations (says the Toronto Glabe.) A. Peace that is not founded an Righteousness, and whose morive is not Justice, is itself on the broad road to War. First pare, then peaceable, is the law for nations as for individuals. there is first the Will to Justice, as the coupling power in the minds of the peoples and of their Governments, there need he no fear or hesitation about estab fishing the Peace of the workl

If

In the fighting round Thiepval an off- We can learn much from each other, cer with a few men get into the German The and so it is my earnest hope that such third-line trench and was cut off. visits as this will be both frequent and subalters at once organized his men into fruitful, and that they will be reciprocata bombing party, and they went along ed by not less frequent and fruitful the trench bombing the Germans out. One vixila from the citizens of the Mother of the party, a sergeant, seemed to bear country to the Dominion, These will a charmed life. He walked along the tend to consolidate the union of the parapet for three hours, throwing bombs Empire, which is consecrated by men here and there, ever traverses and into ries of common sacrifice and heroic dug vuta with terrible effect. The party determination to defend it."

carried on until they fell in with an officer and three men from another balta

Sir George Faster, Canadian Minister

of Trade and Commerce, on behalf of the lion. All the time the Germans were try- delegates, thanked his Majesty for hising to bomb them out into the open. The kind word of welcome, and said that the

their best in the great contest, and could give no better than the brave and gal- fant sons of the Motherland, alongside of whom they have been proud

amt die for the common cause, fight darkness, with both officers badly wound-

of views was so vitally necessary -all

questions. Mr. Lewis Harcourt, replying, told the delegates that they would see in their travels through Great Britain the gigan the provisions which we had made and which we were making in men, in money, and munitions. You will nate,” said, the sacrifies of much that miny of as hold dear and the readiness to sacrifice of much that many of us hold dear and the readiness to sacrifice all on the altar of triumph and of liberty.!! (Cheers.)

he

One of his most treasured memories of the Colonial Office, he added, was that troops from overseas have freely given of little band finished their own stock of at the outbreak of the war, and even bombs seen after midday, but they got before it, he received cables offering men hold of rifes, some British and some Grand material assistance from every Domi- which he at once accepted on behalf of man, and still held out. Under cover of nion of the Empire (cheers)-offers the Imperial Government. They would ed, they managed to get into touch with a battal on on their left, who gave them regard it, and rightly so, as an insult if he were to offer them gratitude for their a great reception.

patriotism. It was their war as well as ours. Eternal principles were at stake which were as much the basis of their lives and liberties ours. We were all in to maintain what was to as more than a policy-it was a creed and a religion." His sole word to the Dominions was. "We greet you and we meet you, as brothers in arms." (Cheers)

THE FOURTH AUSTRIAN

WAR LOAN.

METHODS BY WHICH IT WAS RAISED.

enormous

In the Asault between Thiepval and Ovillers many of our wounded found shelter of a kind in the sunken road, and here they were tended by a German doctor. One officer, who was suffering from a bad face wound, said that the German was doing splendid work. He spoke English fluently and told him that the British soldiers were wonderful and the artillery terrible, but, he added, the Germans have plenty more men.

"'CRUMPS.***

ENEMY LOSSES EIGHT AND

The Austro-Hungarian Press bas, says the Nation Tcheque (a periodical which voices the views of the Bohemian Nation

A HALF MILLIONS. list Party), recently created a great stir

The men were simply splendid,” said over what it describes as the magnift-

ALLIED EXPERTS ESTIMATE. cent success" of the fourth Austrian Wara young officer whose battalion took part which brought in altogether in the assault on Thiepval *All the loan,

A rommunication from New York,. 6,000,000,000 kronen, of which 4,300,000,000 time the Germans were putting ever all dated August 2nd, states that the losses.

(Crump is a' gew kronen was subscribed in Austria and kinda of erumps."

of the Teutonic Empires up to the pre-i the balance in Hungary. In order to aptrench word, and is used, it seems, to deserit are now placed at 8,500,000 en by. preciate the real value of this success it note heavy, shells as distinct, from whizz military experts and statisticians in the But if the motive of such a league, or

These figures include is necessary to bear in mind three circum bangs. Crump," the officer explained, Allied countries. of the natious or rulers that would or

and exactly represents the sound made by the killed, wounded and prisoners. ganize and dominate such a league, istances namely, the

The German Government admits that Shortly after we mere absence of the trouble and the less the population to make it buy the War and the discomfort caused by war--a stock the extraordinary high rate of in- tinued, "I got shot through the lung. 1ning of the war have reached 4,000,000, negative and selfish peace whose motive terest promised to subscribers; and. couldn't go on, so I lay near the bank inut the Allies' statisticians state that the Germans have understated their losses There is the desire for Prosperity spelt with a finally, the essential fact that the amount the shelter of the sunken road.

and that the figure, including the losses capital P., and that brings fatness to stated in the newspapers was only obtain were.e'ght of us altogether, and then the

for June and July, not included in the those who wallow in it-if that is theed thanks to the considerable help of Germans turned on their barrage and German report, is fully 5,000,000. peace men want to enforce," and that German capital which came in during searched every yard of that road. One

From the beginning of the war until its motive, it is a vain thing, and all talk the last days of the issue and helped to by one the shells found the men and kill

the end of September, 1915, the Austrian about it is empty and blighting: as the fill a void.

Jed them. Some of them, too, had been

louses are estimated to have been 2,500,000. east wind. It cannot he. It must.not The pressure that the authorities talking of · Blighty.” I experienced no These were increased by pearly 100,000 in be. It would be a mockery of Justice, brought to bear on people in Bohemia sensation of fear I lay there and was the last three months of 1015. The total another crime against humanity, a deeper can only be qualified as partaking of that tremendor ly interested in the whole losses of the Austro-Hungarian armies insult to God.

since the beginning of General Brus of a régime of terror, The Statth-thing:"

siloff's offensive cannot be less than 680.00, says the Allied experts, and the total losses must now be shout 3,500,000.

It stated that the Austrians available for the Russian front cannot exceed 600,000 at the present time.

not Justice but Peace, a peact that is a scandalous pressure brought to bear no fall of a big sheil. Got over," he con- the losses of the Germans since the begin :

And on this point all true Canadians alterei caused a number of special THE IRISHMAN AND THE' ROCHE. are of one mind we are paying the price societies to be founded for the express A young second lieutenant of an Irish of war, paying it in the burden of our taxes, paying it in the toll on our blood, purpose of furthering the success of the regiment told how during the advance and we must pay it in full: having peida. The inhabitants were divided up his platoon was reduced to five men, but so much for the sake of Justice and into districts and the members of these that getting together a number of scatter Liberty and the rights of the little societies were systematically visited. All ed units a little force of 100 men, was peoples, we must pay to the uttermost in a position to subscribe who showed any collected, and they started again for their farthing, until Germany is driven out of hesitation were threatened with severe objective" 0" trench. Belgium, and the world's resolute Will punishment, to Justice vanquishes forever Germany's arrogant Will to Power,

Says he phwat the divil are ye do." "I suppose the Beche spotted us, or in' there beside my officer? Get up,' says The entire Press, regardless of opinion, | maybe it was chance. But we got a rather | he, "an be off with ye out a that """ And was requisitioned by the Issue Bureau, hot fire. I was knocked clean out for a he poked at him with his bayonet, so the and every local economist of any repute,start-got it through my thigh here. But follow squealed and plucked up enough as well as the leading politicians, were the boys were all right. I told 'em they'd courage to get upon his feet and run for requisitioned to write articles in favour get all the glory and wished 'em Inck; our lines.” of the War, Loan.

and on they went for C, I was a hit Attempts were made to deceive people queer, but started working myself along by promise of a exorbitant profit. Cal- the ground towards our own lines; not culations were published in an unofficial | being able to stand, you see. By and by manner to show that the State would pay a Boche corporal came crawling along the extraordinary rate of interest of after muc. He shouted some gibberish, and 10.0 per cent. The price of issue was fixed I waved him on towards our lines with

SEVEN MONTHS WELL SPENT. Some of the men talk about the mine. which went up at Beaumont Hamel with great glee. A hefty sergeant said it re- minded him of the picture you sometimes ace in cinemas of petroleum stores blow- ing up, always in America, “The ex-

And Canada, as a nation, is earning the right so to speak-to speak for Jus tice as the only sure foundation of Peace and so to speak before, the world in the name of the strongest conviction and the truest sentiment and the most an: during purpose of the Democracy of the North American, continent. Of all the national heritors of Americans Liberty, Canada alune stands up at the baitle fronts of Europe and speaks the word of

at 92 kronen 50, and the State Bank my revolver. He wasn't wounded, but be ploding.charaber was as big as a picture} a united national Mind, of an uncom- guaranteed to each subscriber the imme was devilish anxions to inske sure of be palace, and the loag gallery was an aw promised national Conscience, and of an undivided national Will, Canada alone, diate loan of 75 Fronen on deposit of a ing a prisoner. Begad, you don't get our ful length. It took us seven months to in the world's Assize of War, gives the 100 kronen bond. It was, therefore, only chaps paying them the same compliment. build. Of course, we used to be working trae American vote that Belgium and necessary to pay in cash 17 kronen 50 They'll take any risks sooner than let the under some of the crack Lancashire every other free people shall have the to cure a War Loan bond producing Boahs get them as prisoners. So this miners. Every time a fresh fatigue party right to govern themselves. That Capa interest at the rate of 5 per cent. As the chap lay down close-besidu-me I told came up they'd say to the miners-Ain't dian vote is written, indelibly written, in State Bank only charged interest at the him to be off out of that, but he lay your damned grotto ever going up!' But the Canadian blood that soaks the trenches rate of 3 per cent. for the 75 kronen bor-close, and I'd no breath to spare. That it went up all right on 1st July. It was round about Ypres these very days.

the sight of your life. Half the village royed, it stands to reason that the 17 crawling is tiresome work. And that Canadian vote, and every kronen 50 of cash capital paid for the "Presently I saw a man of ours com got a rise; the air was full of sta other vote so written, has the right to be stock brought in 1 kronen 75, or 10 perig along, poking round with big rifle wagons, wheels, horser, tins, boxes, and counted as in favour of a. League to En-cont. This rate became increased to 10.6 and bayonet. He'd been detailed to Germans. It was seven months well spent, force Patos, because in the judgment hall per cent. if it were taken into considera shepherd in prisoners. He was surprised getting that mine ready. I believe some of-the astion it represents a Will-to Ention at the State guaranteed there to see me. Then he saw say Boche. of the pieces are oming down now.”— force Justion."

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