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CANADA'S WARRIORS NOW IN THE WAR ZONE
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part at least of the Canadian contingent is known to be at the front in Flanders and northern France. The
n shows, above, these fighters from the Dominion marching across Salisbury Plain, and, below, some
as Canadian armored cars.
WHAT IF THESE GREAT WARSHIPS MEET?
e i the very latest of the kaiser's dreadnaughts, the Friedrich der Groese, of 24,700 tons, 1,073 officers and
tei 1-inch guns, 14 .inach guns, 14 3.4-inch guns and rve torpedo tubes. Below is the Princess Royal, one of
Brital's newest dreadnaughts, of 26,350 tons. She carries 980 occers and men and is equipped with eight 13.6
gesm, 1 four-Inch gum, five mortars and two torpedo tubes.
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POINCARE'S CHATEAU IN RUINS
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private chateau of Presideat Poincare of France at ChatPgny. after it
bombarded and sacked by the Germans.
TURKISH RED CRESCENT WOMEN
r of the Red Crescent. a Turkish secety that corresponds
of Christian eountries, ae prepariag bandages far the as
of th . They are all harem woman and ae r the ugut timr
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LIEUT. R. L G. MARIX
Flight Leut. R. L. G. Martz of the
British army has been made a com
panion of the Distinguished Service
order for his pert in the aeroplane
attack on the German airship shed at
Dusseldorft His machine was hit fve
times.
KAISER KEPT EYE ON BANKS
Told President of Relchebank a Year
Ago to Be Ready for
Trouble.
Paris.-The Temps says it is a fact
which Is well known to French finan
ciers that a year ago the kaiser sum
moned the' president of the Relcha
beak and asked him:
"In case a grave international po
Iltical event should arise tomorrow
would the German beaks be able to
pay their depositsT
The president replied that such an
event would mean bankruptey. The
kaiser then said:
"Well, arrange It so that if I ask
you the same question soon you will
be able to give me a different answer."
The president of tpe Imperial beak
has ever since insisted that the GeO
man banks keep an active watch on
their liquid assets. At the beginnati
of June he econveok the represents
tives of the geat namelal establi-s.
mas of BeiMa to sindc them e
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ALONG THE FLOODED YPRES CANAL
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First photograph of the flooded Ypres canal where many Germans met death when the allies cut the dikes.
From the shelters along the banks the Belgians, French and British poured out a devastating fire.
HOMES OF BRITISH AT CONSTANTINOPLE
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Crandllla, a suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. occupied as a residential quarter by
the British and open to attack by the Turkish warships.
MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL
New photograph of Mrs. Winston
Churchill, wife of the first lord of
the British admiralty, who is herself
actively engaged in aiding the British
soldiers at the front
TWO ROMANCES OF THE WAR
Woman Adopts Nephew and Niece,
and Long-Separated Brothers
Meet in England.
London.-Here are two romances of
the war:
A boy and girl, Belgian refugees, at
Swansea, were adopted by a man and
wife of Abercynon. The children now
prove to be those of the wife's dead
sister, who went to Belgium as a gov
ersess years ago. A locket which was
found on the little girl led to the dis
covery.
There has been at a hospital In Car
dif a remarkable reunion of two broth
ers who had not seen each other in 16
years. One is Martin Gaffey, of the
Second Leinster regiment, the other
John Gaffey, of the First Connaught
rangers. One of the nurses noticed
the coincidence in names, and this
led to their meeting. When John
Joined the regiment Martin was still
a child. One brother wad wounded in
the right arm, the other in the left
arm.
Canadian Indians Suffer.
Ottawa, Onut-Indians in the north
ern wilds of Canada have been hit
hard by the war situation in Europe.
It was announced that the dominion
government has decided to go to the
reliet of the Indians to prevent many a
ot them from starving as a eons- I
am e tha Mee othe tbr fr I
SIls4Mte. d
FIELD KITCHEN OF THE RED CROSS
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One of the Red Cross kitchens in the field, between Dlxmude and Nleuport.
German trophies decorate the poles of the shelter.
BLESSING THE AUSTRIAN RECRUITS
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A chaplain of the Austrian army bestowing a benediction upon the "suck
Mlgs." as the recruits are called, at the military academy in Vienna.
Captures a Vampire.
Ottawa.-Edward Wicklham. living
north of here, bas eptured a queer,
bat-like creature, of vampire type. It
Mt Mr. Wlkhar's du, eauslng Its
de Is a as aUL a It ihabet
four inches long, covered with thick.
gray fur, mottled with yellow, brown
and white. The membranous wings
measure twelve Inches from tip to
tp. It ha live a, a Mmall meh
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NAN VISITS EUROPE
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.
Lt. p rigLt. lI' :. " th.. Nt tiure News
When Nan wtnt on her first visit to
Europet s!e h'ad not thei slikhtest hint
that shie .ouhil a-ri'e in a lantld thrown
into the horrors of war. She had
taken ],.'r tril, acrss the (locean on a
long delayed hli ltla and had expected
to find only joy and mlerrlmnent, for
Nan had a way of ll't. inel happiness
half way wherever shlit went.
PIut :n I:.elgium shi h:ad tied from
the iadvance of the commoitin n tieneimy
I ito Paris and fromn the gay cit: she
had enjoyed a (cant three wetks when
aitll hullndredl s of other Americ(ans
slit' had scrambled onto safer Eng
ishu soil.
Lolldon w;as a haven of refuge to
Nan. whi h:rd an el!ed the smoke of
a ttle and ha.;rd thte hotn of dis
tant tire. ShI. i ad seen pitiful little
fami ilies of I;:eltian rtfut,esr fleeing
along the roads froiil devastated
honmes. hlaing behitnd them all beau
ty andi all hope andt going they knew
inot where.
tuiit Londotlnl ass na:ting with open
arms to rteceive all of thlie wteary refu
gees from thet cour:ttctous little coun
try, and Nan flound hIrself again face
to face with the realities of war.
There \were no less than; a dozeln of
these Ilelgians shel!tereid in hospitable
Shomes in Norland sullare.
It w\as in tiihe acre of cretin park
beltonging to the square that Nan be
came acqtjuaintetd w\ith little Jean
Leman. it a elgian child w ht had been
brought over front the devastated city
of Louvain.
Jean's mother was a French lady.
who was sleeping beneath a flower
garden in lBelgiuml. lier father was
a soldier. Maj. Albert Leman.
Front that moment on lean and
Nan became fast friends. They
romped and played and went on long
'bus rides through the city and out
into country lanes.
When the wounded soldiers began
to arrive in trainloads. Nan could no
more have left the city of london
than she could have cut off her own
right hand. She simply had to re
main. Something held her, she knew
not what.
It was during the sixth week of the
war that Nan discovered little Jean
Leman's photograph on the front page
of the Sketch. Major Leman was
anxiously seeking news of his little
girl and had asked the papers to as
siat him in the search. Nan did not
wait to have her breakfast but went
quickly into the boarding house next
door in search of Jean.
Nan explained as swiftly as possi
ble in her improved French that Dad
dy Soldier was in London and that he
was looking for his little girl.
"We will go down tlis morning
when you have eaten your nice break
fast," Nan told her and went off to
ascertain the location of the King Ed
ward VII hospital and the quickest
way of getting there.
Jean chatted incessantly on the
journey down; she was so excited
that Nan felt her own calm engulf
r her as if for the purpose of steadying
the child. Consequently, when they
arrived at the hospital and ap
proached the big Belgian officer
whose head was swathed in bandages
and one arm pinned in like fashion
to his side, it was Nan who displayed
a most wonderful calm. Major Leman
broke down emotionally - perhaps
more than he had during the entire
weeks of fierce fighting-when Jean
was swept into his uninjured arm.
Over her head, which he held against
his breast, he looked at Nan and made
swift apology for having conversed
in a foreign tongue.
"One is apt to forget convention In
moments of great emotion," he added.
"In a moment I will thank you for
having cared for my little Jean."
"You are not going away from me
again, are your' Jean was asking her
father.
"Yes, dearie, as soon as this arm in
better, and the more often Miss Nan
ny brings you down to see me the
sooner I can get back to help the so.
di.rs at the front."
So it was that during the long houars
of convalescence Nan came to know
love. The emotion was so great and
wonderful that Nan was shocked at
her own weakness before the attack.
Jean did not know what her father
and Nan were talknlag about, nor why
her father swept Nan so suddenly into.
his arms, but she smiled for the plie
ture was pleasing and Jean knew that
all was well.
Light "4umor.
In the latter half of the eighteenth
century one of the members of a little
scientific society in Lfverpool, Eni,
land, laid a curious wager. He beta
brother scientist that he would read a
newspaper by the light of a farthing
dip at a distance of 30 feet. The B. 8.,
finding the feat difcult at even a sixth
of the distance, cheerfully accepted
the wager.
The layer merely coated the Inside
of a shallow wooden box with sloping
pieces of looking glass, so as to form
a concave lens, placed behind his farth
ing dip and readily deciphered the
small print at the stipulated distance.
The experiment was witnessed by a
Liverpool dockmaster. lie was a thblnk
ing man and saw great possibilities In
this h-arned jest. He straightway
fadapted the principle to lighthouse re
quirements and forthwith the modern
reflex light, with its miles of reflected
range and untold life-saving powers,
sprang into being.
Copying Mother.
"Did your playmate enjoy her visit."
said a mother to her small daughter,
who had just bidden alllu to a little
friend. "W'hy, yes. mother; I think
she did," replied the child. "I called
her 'my dear' very often in that dresyt
tone you use when you have co.
pany."-Youth's Companio.
Such Brazen People.
I wasm't shocked in the least at the
play, onIly at the attitude of the aud
es, whlh retsd to be shkoce.
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