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z . THE NEWS, NANTON, ALBERTA, . MUCH-BOASTED GERMAN FLEET IS strsy sess: tress ; Sates 2 Report Presented at Ottawa for Year the . Ending June 30 Last c amo i ; The operating mileage of Canadian 5 A It railways during the statistical year we ae ; ozen : . ended June 30 mane increased by Aue Seases Fe a sree lt; SATs ED Miles, although eleven months of the . y ree - Boy KAISER S AMBITION WILL NEVER BE REALIZED (iy vere included in the war period. SAVAGE DOGS EMPLOYED TO.TERRORIZE VICTIMS, ng The mileage now stands at 35,582. foe ec Sa : : The -statistical report of the de- - e a eae Huge Sums of Money Spent by Germany on Practically Useless partment of railways, prepared by Released Medical Officers Bring Harrowing Tales of the Cruelty ae, ; Fortifications, Which Now Only Serve the Purpose of Mi Jobn Lambert Payne, comptres Of the-Fiendish Huns to Prisoners Held in the Witten- : OL Protecting the Bottled Fleet in the Harbors mous by the Hon. J. D. Reid, acting berg Camp, and Particulars of Sufferings Endured + minister, + CON- 3 vs crease . ; 3 OF vred T, Jane, a well known British haven asa, further protection to the Jt slows milenge. nenenses, 10 At qyje government comilittee on the to ear in the matter of burial, says naval historian, who died recently, Iclel Canal. ; Pinude the heaviest inerences being featment in Germany of British pris. the report, were the Jeers with which writer of the following art The exact location of them was, of Soh) Sry r, of which the Hon. Mr. the coffins were frequently greeted-by npany course; known to everyhods- interest. 00 tnlles InOntario arhere- th Tistice-youngerls chairman, his isthe inhabitants of Wittemb rg, who Had-we spent every mark in the same way that you English spent y shilling, our fleet would be as yours. So said to me a German. naval of ficer . not long before the war, and pound, he was literally true. German nay- al estimates have nominally never tae equalled British ones; but the sum Street a, No. dy ty total expended on ships and coast No. 3, defeuses in the two countries was ey el for years about the same. cuakeeoe Phe resuit, of course, is. different. se. Fret : Acting on a thousand years of ex- eas: : perience, we, who are 2 nayal peo- ICINE ple first, aud military afterward, put a 19 shillings in the pound on ships, and the remainder on shore defenses at a few essential places. Our argument tits exponents are aotistated known as the Blue Water School ) Bleue atthe was,and is, that if-you have ships eared enough to prevent the enemy leaving Taggrancee harbor, it is waste of money to build eee i forts to defend a:coast which he can- d Gatien not attack. We have, of course, cer- ry, CAL, * tain defenses at certain places, but ov LiCeMee yi these come mainly under. the head 7 nag * of pretautions against odd raiders ... Who might chance to elude our block- ade. s 'Madete 5 The Germans, on the other hand, a. Good are primarily soldiers. Soldiers at imples, : sea, they used to be called, and the phrase is correct. Roughly, ns priginal-policy can be summed yp as f Fi follows: We have only small coast 2 . js easily made impregnable. We therefore, need no navy to speak of. This in its day was quite correct, But presently there came a time when the German merchant marine Kaiser maybe much in the ry Britjsh ad- conceived, naval polis. s js expanded and. the fancying himself er; uniform of an honor miral of the flee ambitions. For aught I Know, something one can read in any old navy list may also have started him off. The state- ment I speak of is in the alphabeti- cal list of. names, and two of these, one following the other, run: German, James L..H., Fleet Pay- master, . seniority, oth November, 1901. German, Emperor and King of Prussia, His Imperial Majesty W gt; lam Ih, KG, G.C.V.0., Hon, Admiral of the Fleet, 2nd August, 1898. One can never tell, alphabet or n alphabet, how the Al Highes would take the fact tliat common clay in the person of the editor of +the Navy List put on top of Him an- other bit of common clay. There is no saying how far a blameless old ysP, (Fleet Paymaster) may, on ac rount of his godfathers and godmoth- ers having given him a name which alphabetically. precedes W. have un- wittingly contributed to the present great war. e I write this perfectly seriously. 1 have met the Kaiser and spoken to him more tian once. It was he.who pointed ont to me the thing. quoted - above. He made no comment be- yond drawing amy attention to the British Navy List. Then he laugh- ed that laugh which once heard ts never. forgoiten. It was long ago, and in those days he was -our dear Triend. Be. all this, however, as it may, the Kaiser himself conceived the idea of a powerful German fitet and talk- ed largely of Our future lies on the water. To his intellectual credit may be + placed, the fact that-he seems to have been the first German to realize that In case of hostilities only warships could safezuard his erowing mercant- tile marine on the higi) seas. So far so good.. But here the es- sentially military, idea of an impres nable. base to work from obsessed both the Kaiser and his advisers, and proceeded to spend millions of pounds in making Heligoland inio a fortress at least tenfold stronger than necessary and in blissful disregard of the fact whic sailors have ever recognized that (save in exceptional circumstances skips-eannot compete with foris tt is simpler to. go else- where outside the range of fort guns. Z The-Germins did manage to recog- nize-this, so having but a small front- to the North Sea they, pro- ceeded to ptit still more and more guns along this front, until at pres ent there are rather more git posi- tions than spaces in between, In theory these forts. were secret. In practice itis about as easy to ms build? a secret fort of the Gernrary pattern. (heavily armored turrets containing big guns long time to fix up) as It would be f eretly-to build a big hotel inthe centre of London. In front of these forts-they placed secret minefields about as secret lt; ES-woutd he the hajl porter at the kypothetical big hotel In question. The crowning absurdity was reach- da with a secret submerged fort armed with torpedo tubes. One or two-of these were installed off. Cux- which take a their another +have destroyed enough of our dread- line, and its waters are. shallow, It/ Was . sheer fed in knowing. Any tourist could see this defense being placed. 1 m self watched one being got into pos tion. Whether or no they are still there I do not know. But it really does not matter, for the simple rea- son that being fixed defenses any at- tacker would carefully keep clear of them, Behind all these defenses lies th German fleet. These defenses 1 call the Kaiser's. folly. They must one way and another have cost as much as Would 30 dreadnoughts and their nec- essary auxillary ships, and nearly every farthing an utter money, waste of German dreadnoughts in Canal, these German dreadnoughts, inight just as well, be there as under the water. They cannot do any mis- chief in either case. And the second thing is that to build a lot of dreadnoughts just to He secure behind impregnable forti- fications is merely an expenditure in dreadnoughts suggestive of a lunatic asylum. Of what use the dread- nonghts? 2 Of course, the Germans trusted to a Der Tag, when in one way and they would by attrition noughts for theirs to be able to come gut and offer battle. But here again fatuity an assumption that Admiral Jellicoe and the British navy were born fools unable to think of precautions: However, ft. is not for as to com- plain. Britannia, rules the waves. and what the Kaiser's dreadnoughts do behind his vast defenses matters to none of us so long as we keep them in and retain our heritage of the seas. That these ships could have been nursed for a tiny frae- tion of the actual expenditure on that. nursing, that the money spent on that protection would have pro- on numerically equal terms, is not our concern now. I believe that when the end does come the German fleet will come out and that its officers and men will do . and die heroically. And somewhere at the North Sea will be piled a mighty men, a monument to the tery of th sea can only be fought for on the sea and only on the sea out of range of. ail shore defenses. the German sailors will learn to the Kaiser's foll To Study Noxious Weeds tors and Councilmen of Sas- katchewan : eil for the appointment of six field re- presentatives of the weed and seed summer months, will travel over the province, ineeting municipal weed in- spectors and councillors regarding the best methods for enforcement by municipalities of the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Wet. The men are. Neil Gilmour, Moose Jaw Thompson, Veregin: J. S. Naylor, Ha- warden; and L. E. Kirk, T. M. Tullis and W. E. Walker of Saskatoon. While it is generally admitted that sa Jong as the present methods of farming are continued, noxious weeds will pe serious problem, it is expect- ed that the infltence of titese special coincident with naval expansion they representatives will bring about a sub- ianiial improvement in agricultural methods and. tendencies. producing animals must be raised en grain farms if nos controlled. This will mean. fenced farms, smaller farms, a greater ya fety of crops and surer returns. area tniles from Aberdeen. He re- cently visited London, and on start- ng Wis homeward journey found. he had lost lis pocketbook, containing. over fifty pounds. So he telegraphed to the London that it should be kept tl his next licurney south, a month later. In due cours he tirned up and the pocketbook: was handed oye -to-him. The fiider, a young port r, stood by expectantly while Sandy counted his nione; Then the Scot gazed long and tsearchingly-at-the clerk in the inquiry office. What's the trouble? asked the lat- ter, anxiously. Isn't it right? it s richt. enough, replied whar's the duced a ffeet capable of meeting ours 37 the bottom of and ghastly monument of ships anda yital bre fool who not difficult to see a parallel in Ger- could not understand: that the mas- many today.- The heart of a country full the meaning of the phrase, The spear must quiver and fail when the Field Representatives to Meet Inspec: react Hon. W. R. Motherwell has arrang- Seople who eat no meal that has not branch of the Saskatchewan depart hears a double J0oK at us, it seems ment of agriculture, who, during the equaily so to a people who have been who have heen engaged for this work yas WM. jeaten without re Meat- your, ious weeds are.tobeltnre has Singly MacGregor Jived not one hun: the co-operativ station, stating his loss, and asking led by the department this year will jinfleage 8 now 10,702 Approximately 1,600 miles were un- der construction, apart from surveys and projections, wien the year end- ed. Including double tracks, yard tracks, sidings, etc, the total of all tracks In Canada comes to 45,885. 66,990,1274 801,101; consolidated debenture stock (C.P.R.) 176,284,882; . bonds, : 724,905. 2 lines. under truction, stocks amounting to 2 of 52,224,004. an increase of nineteen mil- italized, ate covered in the report under a statement of cost amounting to 293,542,201. - Cash , subsidies given during the year amounted to 5,0) Which the Dominion contributed 644,604, bringing the total up to : Total authorize the Dominion ainounted to .063, and from all sources to 409,869,165. There wag a decrease of 380.245 in the number of passengers and 14, 189;151 in the tons of freight carried. average haul was 212 miles, Mine products led. in th classes. of freight, with agricultural products second., 1 Gross earnings feil from. 243,083,- 539 to 199,843,072, a decline of 17.8 per cent. due to the dividend condi tions created by the warvand fol- Towing.a sustained upward movement in traffic and revenue. Operating expenses also Weereased by 31,244,159. ployees was reduced by 25,000, while, though the av rage rates of remuneration, the total salaries and wages bill de- clined from 11,762,972 10 90,215, * The Iilusion of Victory The Business of Germany to Create a : False Hope Napoleon fell through overlooking chin his armor. It, is is no longer the vital centre of a nation. This is to be found solely tion. They are the nation, and the civilian shank weakens and wavers. Therein Mes Germany's oversight. She did not visualize a long war. She had no comprehension of - how the- country and its people would to a long and incfeasingly Stringent blockade. The war-wear- iness which bites deeply into: every heart grows intolerable to German its seasoning ofan enemy's Sea su- premacy. If the face of the war. encouraged for so long with the . irresponsible have hel, owt that hope to the allies. When we tend to look askance upon a war of attrition, it is well to remember that if Napoleon not. beaten py it, he was not . When.the enemy makes.a new advance, we not take it to mean that he has still a prepondering force. It isehis busi- ness to produce the iHasion of Vie- it is ours to win it Kondon Na- Marketing Wool Product of Sask. + :The marketing of wool in Saskatch- ewan promises to be interesting (his The co-operative organization branci of the depariment of agricul- just circularized ail the sheep owners inthe province whose names are. available, intimating that their wool can be marketed this year as in.the previous two years through branch. of the wool clip of this prov - wool was not sold: by grade: an mrrangtment with the Dominion live stock branch all the wool hand- ce, the be graded and sold by grade. Tit order to afford the department oppor- tunity to-hold the wool for receiving vance payments will be sent to wool owners pending. sgfes, The advance p vi will partment disposes of the wool (M1 have you underst: the bustling little chap, self-made man. All right, old man, said Robinson, Now run along home and finistr the , sir, said that Iam a - Job,-and then-I'N1 talk to you. 1, released officers named are the only su There are also outstanding against Of six Britis doctors sent to the Sr s0U and bonds take up, says the report, the pla Stock dividends in 1915 were 32.- Te Lines owned and operated by the the British officers government, and which are not cap- them before their departure from Ger- which is the longest in any country. men were insufficiently various overcoats having there was no reduction in cleanliness made While the department has, during drugs ani the last two years, marketed the arlk and extreme bed sores were common. Through graneous. pids, and thus getlarge prices, ad- saw ea sudstintial one, and the of the hospital and wih Be sent when the- de- tee ing the typhus epidemic of last year. The report is based on Information from repatriated l es- pecially from Major Priestley, Captain Railway capitalization increased by Vidal and Captain Lauders of the army bringing the total up to medical corps, 1,875,810,888, jncluding stocks, 847,- C mp shortly who were sent to the after the outbreak of and who were recently Germany. The three the epidemic, from Wittemberg camp by the Germans to of duty abandoned by their own medi- aff when the presence of typins fested itself. iv were taken from many, but the report gives in detail the condition of the camp. and the treatment of prisoners and patients, which the United States ambassador, og4, of James. W. Gerard, in his report last November, said was even more un- favorable than I had been led to ex guaran- pect. According to the released officers ther are 15,000 and sometimes more prisoners in the camp, which the com- mittee says is an enormous jopula- tion for so restricted an area-is.ten and a half acres. There were no proper heating arrangements and the lothed, their been taken ftom other clothing being in rags. Many had neither boots nor ks. There was an insufficient sup- of water and soap, and Major estley says .he found the men gaunt, of a peculiar gray palor and verminou.s The supply of food ficient, even in the hi them, their s also insut- . until sup- The number of em- plies arrived from England. The only prov ion for persona for the men, says the report, as one cupful of soft soap issued at intervals of many weeks. to a room containing consequence, the men became ingly verminous, and coupled with cold and want of proper nourishment, was undoubtedly the ereas- principal inducing cause of the ept- demic. The epidemic broke out in Decem- ber, 1914, Thereupon, says the re- port, the German. staff. military and medical, precipitately left the camp and thenceforth until August, 1915, no communication. was held, between the prisoners ang their guards. except by means of directions shouted from the zi 2 in the heart of a nation. Armies can + ; sid Muisaacthey. dle, they piuckicsbsot lg lonwerine detechad from ther aa: eec eyo eee eee rae ontside the wire entangiements. a Ail supplies for the men were pust ed into the camp over chutes. No medical attention during the whole ime was provided By ane German staff. 3 Captain Laurer reports that, while Hin the bungalow, there was normally. one mattress for three men, in the im- provised hospitals there being no mat- tresses at all. In consequence, he says, there were many typlius patients scattered over the compounds who were defer- mined motto come into the hospital if they could help it In one compound he found 40 hid- den cases of typhus during the first promise of speedy victory, Only the month. The food ration for each patient was half a petit pain (roll) and-half a cup of milk per day. The only soup obtainable came from the camp kit- chen. and, as it was brought in open wooden tubs, it was full of dust and must dirt, In truth, gays the committee's re- port, the tation was not a ratjon at all, It was a pretense. It was not even possible to sive the patients warm Water with their milk - Four. British doctors were infested and three died. It was then Major Priestley and Captain Vidal went to the hospital to join Captain Lauder, who was down with the typhus. Major Priestley says that the patients, alive with yermin, lay so close to one an- other on the floor that he had to stand straddie-legz across them to exarhine them, There were otter con- ditions that are indescribable. There was difficulty in obtaining sufficient dressing for a long time In several cases the, toes became gan- The washing of patients: was out of the questioy until a supply of soap was obtained from England. The shortaze of necessaries was-not due to latk of supplies, sa tors, . for on a yisit to the town they an abundant supply of every requisite. im Dr. Aschenbach, who w: s In charge 0, the commit nnderstood, reecived the Iron Cross tor combating -the epidemic paid only one visit to the: camp, ac- cording to ie-repott, Wid that after some order was evolved. ty deaths Occurred among the British dnd the victims were buried outside, ). In that condition, ia.jittle in time and money, but it jis time and money......well invested. Without considering the increased lt; the dee+Beter's priv What the prisoners found hardest: maid or the cook? gt;. ee sued a report on the conditions pre- stood outside the wires, and were per- yailing in the Wittenberg camp dur- mitted to insult the dead. After the middle of April the con- ditions comm nced to -improve and with the arrival of warm weather the cases rapidly decreased, and by the middle of May li the British were convalescent. Adequat provision was made to deal with any future out- breaks, improveinents being etfected, according to the committee, as a re- sult of the visits of Ambassador Ger- ard and members of his staff. The committee condemn the reten- tion of Dr. Aschenbach as head of the camp and as evidence of-his attitude cite an. incident. When one of his staf supported the request of Captain OF Ai y requisites, he eurtly refused the request, with tho words, Schwein Englande: The report continues: The cruelty of the administration of the Wittenberg camp became not- orious. Savage dogs were habitually, employed to terrorize the prisoners and flogging with a whip was frequent. Men were struck with little or no provocation and tied to posts with hands above their heads for hours. Captain Lauder reported that manyof - these men went so far as to look on the typhus, with all its horrors, as a Godsend. They preferred it to tho presence of German guards. Gain From Cow Testing Held to be Largely Responsible for Improvement in Quality The keeping of dairy records was started in Canada about 1901 and at that.time the average yield of milk per-cow was 2,850 pounds. The number of record entries has been cradually increasing and so has the milk production. By 1911 the aver- age production had increased to 3,805 pounds, or an increase of 955 pounds per cow. This does not seem much but the figures begin to look impressive when we consider. the number of cows kept. In 1911 there were 2,594,174 cows, an increase of 185,502 compared with the census of j1gol. The increase in the number ot cows during the ten years was only 7 per cent,, but the total in- lereased production for the same period was 43 per cent. The keeping and study of records is held. to be largely responsible for the improvement im quality and in view of the excellent results -it is. regrettable that more dairymen ldo not keep tab on the individual production of his cows. It costs number of cows the production was still increased during this period to the value. of about 25,000,000. This is sufficient to warrant considerable time being spent on testing. Hog Pastures : Pigs make the cheapest gains on pasture. Trials at the North Dakota Experiment Station indicate that broods sows running..on good pas- ture and nursing litters will do as qwell when receiving one to two and a half pounds of grain per each 100 pounds live weight of sow, as sows in dry lot receiving 212 pounds erain per day per-each 100 pounds flight weight. The pasture just about cuts the feed cost in two. The pas- Jture alone does not furnish enough . feed for either the brood sow with litter or for the weaned pigs. They should be fed some grain, so as to make a rapid- growth, inthis the spring pig can be ready market Before real cold weather sets in. - ; Alfalfa, clover, hromus and wine ter rye make the earliest pustures. When these lave not been provid- ed early spring seeding of such grains as outs and barley or rapo are the next best thing Farm and Ranch Review, u j Little news has emerged into tho outer world-about the condition of in- vadea Serbia and the conduct of the jinvaders, But fromy. information re- ceived in Serbian quarters in Lonipn would appear that the exploits of Kuitur in this unhappy country 7 have been carried out with the same rufhlessness and rapacity-as in Bel- m and Northern France. The ene- had hardly entered the city of Bel- grade before they ransacked King te Hbrary and the price- less collections found in the Royat (Palace. As-soon-as the Bulgars had Joccupied northeastern . Serbia, they despatched the vice-director of the Na: tional Library in. Sofia, to seize all lyalaubtle bodks and manuscripts thfoughout the conquered territory. A stately old aristocrat, on being requested by a rich and yulgar young fellow for permission to marry one of nis girls, replied: Certainly; which Would: you preter th . x
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