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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1918. yade? ort THE BRITISH 'WHIG SSTH YEAR y ceed in their aims. Géneral Staff and Council must have realized that | these offensives are imminent, 'and myst have made their dispositions | adeordingly. The great hope of the enemy is that they wil break {through the line before the Ameri- cans are present in sufficient num- {bers to turn the scale. Therefore, jand Belgium, And to comb out their | | every day and every week which divisions so' "a8tto pave their bes' |papsds leSsens the possibility of a | troops there." "Fhere can be no doubt | |Ggr mat, success. and culture are! will it} all would it end? perishing being 'destroyed. Where end?" [That's Ww we to know is net as strong as it co aid: ar, however, what from last two years. The wqubl been warned to expect a strong t man offensive while few for apy Alligdidmive in the early part of the Whe Russian debacle has enabled thie enmy to transfer a large number Of. divisions to France The Impexial Allied. 'War the like : Ger- LINEN. | COLLARS 4 for 25c. ye y jook AN IMPOR1 TANT DECISION. ¥ An impor 1¢ on has just : been rendered by Just ice Duff, the Central Appeal Judge. He has re- -fused exemption to ember of the | International Bible Students' Asso-| | ciation on the following grounds: OVERCOAT SALE ISON. year: Bibbys fT] | Sh LE | i, by BRITISH WHIG PV BLISHING CO. LIMITED. 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Another good result of this war Is that the world is independent of the German dye monopoly for all time, serene eet in Storing away a few of the glant icicles that now hang from the eaves might solve next summer's ice pro- blem. The Government thas removed the _ duty on cattle and tractor engines ®oming into Canada. May the list Tree articles grow. One sweetly pleasant thought Comes to us o'er and o'er: We're nearer the warm spring days Than ever we have been before. A New York newspaper puts facts in a nutshell: "If Britain is not supplied with food, Britain will lose the war; if Britain loses, we lose." the If this sort of things keeps on, our food and fuel controllers will be- come just as important personages as Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pick- ford. Dr. Wiley, food expert, says that 'mince pie ahd plum pudding will not injure a healthy person. But perhaps the strenuous effort to lo- feate them might. ? Sir Adam Beck favors taking over the G'T.R. and 'C.N.R. and electrify- ing them, thus saving 3,600,000 tons of coal per 'year. But is the electri- cal energy available? Clothing designers are mow advo- cating the elimination of the vest as a means of conserving cloth. Please postpone this till the advent of one of those "rare days" of June. No fewer than twenty-eight Vie- toria Crosses have so far been won iby Canadians in this war dor "the performance of some signal deed of devotion in the enemy's presence." These are days when a million- aire's money is frequently of no use to him. A carload of coal intended for J. P. Morgan's house has just been seized and distributed among the needy. "Three hundred society women fot New York have organized to teach the poor how to economize. The poor know more about that subject in,a month then the society women could hope to do in a millenium. The British Government is supply- ing male citizens with an excellent suit of clothes for $12. Lots of ous citizens up at the county jail are get- ting 'em for nothing, &nd think of the distinctive character of thier ap parel at that! "Some day," says a returned Cah- * adian officer, "Canada should erect on the heights of Vimy Ridee & nument to the Canadians who fell 'in France--q4 monument that would sting out for ever and be seen from afer, * wr Ao ! Ganon) Sukhonulinoff, former Russian minister of war and a sup- porter of czarism, who is mow lan- _ guishing in imprisonment at Peiro- laments: "The whole world is. i by reference to so f The Statute p implies c¢haracteristic 9 tions, falling wi there should be' ¢ 1 bership, compliance or ance with which can be as a; ts scope, ons of non-compli- ascertained yractical citer~ tions there is, on hearing, are no indicia guides for the ion, and of such ¢ although 1 pressed no evidence, and the: to serve as reliable tribunals, EXOTS AND THEORIES. Charles' M. Schwab, of Bethlehem, Pa., is much better qualified to {of the social conditions { from the war. {are inclined to ignore his theory that 8.00 | 2.50 | 2.89 | of irresponsibles, 1005 Traders Bank Slag. speak of steel and its products than to result For that reason we the werld is certain, on the conclu- sion of peace, to pass into the hands however named, whose chief inspiration is hostility to property and thrift When, how=- ever, Mr. Schwab announces that he employs 100,000 well-paid men he 15 war contracts in hand amounting to $750,000,000, and that within eigh- teen months the United States will have ready for use more torpedo- boat destroyers, which are the one successful weapon against. submar- ines, than all the, navies of the world put together, he is thoroughly understandable, and we know that he knows what fie is talking about Mr.+Schwab's steel works are more important to-day than any dream or apprehension he may have of a wonld given over to Bolshevikism. AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE. Major W. L. Grant, the new head- master of Upper Canada College, in very eloquent terms makes clear Canada's position in regard to the war. In his inaugural address, he said: "Canada has played a splendid part in this great war. No nation could enter or prosecute a war with cleaner hands than we. What have we to gain? Not increase of terti- tory, not tariff concessions; only the consciousness that we have played the man. We did not hesitate; we threw in our all; we lavished our noblest, we imperilled our matenial future to save our spiritual heritage; we showed the deep self-sacrificing ideals which lie at the heart of the Canadian democracy. "And if our cause is spotless, if we fight for freedom and tolerance and the cleanness and sweetness of the] world, our soldiers have been worthy | of our cause. 'Boys, brag of your| country,' said the great Nova Scot- ian, Joe Howe. We need never! again brag of our country; the deeds of our soldiers have told her great- ness to the world. We are but one corps out of many, and there is glory enough for all. But tholg we claim only our share of the credit, that share is immortal. I have been writing of late a monograph on a dear, dead friend of mine who fell on the Vimy Ridge, and I do not scruple to say: . " 'When the men who barred the path to Calais, the men who took Re- gina Trench and Courcelette, the men who swept the ridge at Vimy, go down shell-torn to meet the great ones of an elder day, I think that the men who died for liberty at Mara- thon and at Thermopylae stand side by side with the crew of the Ré- venge, and in proud humility greet them With uncovered heads.' " THE WESTERN FRONT. The opening of the year 1918] found the Allies on the western front faced by an increasing num- ber of German divisions, and with the prospect of an early German of- fensive. A month has passed and still no movement has been made on either side. Both armies are marking time, no doubt owing to the weather conditions, and beyond the usual raids nothing of importance has taken place. But this inactivity on the firing line does not mean that there is a complete cessation of ac- tivity. Both sides are working feverishly in preparation for the terrific fighting whieh is sure to commence when the weather condi- tions became more favorable. in 1915, 1916 and 1917 the public look- ed forward expectantly to great Al- lied offénsives, which, it was hoped, would break the German resistance and finish the war with an Allied victory: But owing to various causes, which cannot as yet he de- finitely stated, these offensives did not achieve the great success expect- od of them. A certain amount of territory has been reconqueted, huge losses have been inflicted upon the enemy, but the line still holds. True, the great ridges, which give great advantages of Observation, have passed Inte the hands of the Allies, and will be of immense. hélp: to them in this year's operations)" But the enemy still have a solid deféace line resting on the Ostend, Lille, Cam- us deriomina- | that | mem- | {third of { than half of | concentrated | Somme Brai, St. Quentia line, afd it is quits. whatever that the Germans are pre- paring a final smash at the Belgian, | British asd French lines, and on ac- count of the gun power and man power transferred from the Russian front, they are confident of success. | At the present moment they have a slight superiority of man power. Al- though the British only hold one- the western front, more Gernian troops are there, so that it is more than probable that a . great the drive will be made somewhere along | their front, of the as well as on some part French front. Belgium will undoubtedly be the scene of terrific fighting. The enemy will be most anxious to remove the menace their submarine and aerial 'bases of Osténd and Zeebrugge. Then the prize of succes in a great there is the seaport of Calais, which is a dazzling bait to the German war So that one drive would along the and through Ypres region toward Calais. Another sector might take Arras and German lords. probable be coast the offensive is betweer Cambrai. attack there would - mean the outflanking of Vimy Ridge and | the retreat in order to protect their lines of communication, and the loss of all the territory gained by tha and Arras offensives. On the French section of the line there is a probability of an offensive in the region of Nancy. The Am- erican troops are holding this sector, and it would only be in accordance with the psychology and strategy of the German high command to make a supreme against green troops. It is hardly likely that ans other drive will be made against Verdun, as the Germans must long ago have realized the hopelessness of these expensnve attacks on this fortress. These are the probable points of the @erman woffengive, . either of which, if completely 'successful, would be disastrous to the Allies. But, in the light of experience gain- ed during this war, it is quite reason- able to expect that they will not sue- effort to | drive | st and the | the | in which the enemy | A successful | 3 : 1 formetion of a dangerous salient | ip the British line at Cambrai. That | might cause the British to make a | | (The Allies have all the advantage {of position now. All the important {ridges and points of observation are {im the hands of the British and French! and it is not too much to expect that every move on the part of the enemy will be observed and | proper précautiong taken. The pub- {lie must be prepared for large casu- {alty lists, and for losses of ground. The great feature of both lines on the western front is their elasticity. | Bither side can retreat a certain distance without having their lines | broken and without lessening their defensive strength. "Either side can lat any time advance a certain dis {ance, but the hard part is to hold these gains. Past experience shows {that the British have held almost every gain, while the Germans have held 'but few, and one can quite reasonably hope that this experi- | ence will be repeated. | The advent 'of large American | forces into the field will once again turn the scale in the Allies' favor. { Little or nothing is being said 'about the prospects of an Allied advance. {The Allied War Council are quietly but surely making their plans and these plans will certainly include some provision for a strong offen- sive. As offense is the best defence, the public can rest assured that Haig and Petain «will not content themselves with waiting for the Huns to attack, but they will at the first opportunity deal series of smashing 'blows upon t enemy. But the fighting will be fiprée and ganguine. There may be lpsses and gains of territory. The ) German armies may make slight buf costly advances in the .early part of the year, but they will not be able to break through. The tremendous Al- lied artillery power, and: the 'huge British army will hold its own; the French will give way but very little if at all, and the latter part of tha summer should find the Allies strongly reinfpreed by an American army, once more driving back the invaders. The western front is se- the decisive battle of the war. It is hardly probable that 1918 will bring the final victory, but it will at least see the defeat of Germany's final hopes in this theatre of war. Rippling Rhymes DON'T SPOIL IT The man who lives nine doors from me hag hustled since the war began; and it was truly good to see the way he boomed each helpful plan. me buy another stand; said, He made bond, although I'd bought all I could " "I'will help our boys across the pond," he "to get the Teuton canned." For Red Cross funds he humped around, and made me dig a guinea more, though I had just coughed up a pound and owed much money at the store. "Here is a man," I often said, "who does as much to win the fight as one who leaves a swath of dead to shock brooding sight." patriot whom I admired, hour or three, he left me feeling pretty tired. he said, doubt," the kaiser's But yesterday he came. to me, this and when he'd talked an "No "you've marked my curves, you've seen me boosting worthy things; and every patriot deserves the guerdon of his toil, by jings. This year IN I'll be a candidate for congress--for I need the dimes; PE YO you'll keep your hair on straight, and vote for me at least six times.' Hy idols with their feet of clay!® Still whited sepulchres we find! this broad land produce a jay who has no cheap john ax to grind? A a THINGS THAT Can't --WALT MASON. NEVER HAPPEN By GENE BYRNES Teasonsble to expect that this line cure, and on this front will be fougnt A First Showing of New ok pring Suits NEW BELTERS -- TRENCH STYLE. BEAUTIES FOR $20.00 SIZES 34 TO 42. Try . Bibbys FOR MEN'S UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY BOYS' SUIT SALE IS ON. on MEN'S RUBBERS, 69c CASTORIA'{ Nujol For Infants and Children. £ Mothers Know That SONSTIPATION Genuine Castoria A refined, clear mineral oil-- Tasteless and odorless. Pleasant to take. Does not upset. digestion. Absolutely cures Constipa~ tion. DR. CHOWN'S "DRUG STORE 185 Princess Street. . 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